Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 3

THE AMERICAN HOME W[?]A.RADFORD EDITOR

Mr.' William A. Radford will answer qL-stlons and give advice FREE OF COST qn all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address- all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 178 West Jackson, boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.

The joy of home building for a great many, especially for those, living in our larger cities, is to get far out into the country, in Borne of the numerous pretty little suburbs that are within easy commuting distance. Most American cities are fortunate in their suburbs. If the home builder wants a wooded homesite, a marine view, a beautiful river cottage, picturesque scenery where nature has scooped out ravines and built hills, or if the tastes run more to agriculture and poultry raising, a suburban community can usually be found that pretty exactly meets the requirements. There are two kinds of suburbs, those that “just grew” and those that are the outgrowth of plans laid out by men of foresight. “Give me good transportation, electric cars every ten minutes, and let me have a hundred acre farm fifteen miles from the business section of the city, and I will show you a thriving suburb in five •years,” recently said a veteran in the art of promoting suburban development

This gives a valuable tip to the man who wants to build himself a- home and at the . same time realize a good profit on his investment in the event of sale. Pick out a likely looking suburb where the land values have not gone up too high, and pioneer it for awhile. It will be worth doing without some of the extreme conveniences of city life for a time, if by so doing you can sell your place in ten years’

time for two or three times as much as you paid for it. Invest in acre property and enjoy the pleasure of a nice garden, green lawns, shrubs, trees and flowers with plenty of Bunehine and open air all around, and all your own. -Then after a time when the suburb has developed, you can sell off a lot or two and be practically independent for life. It is natural for the prospective home builder to aßk, “What is the best kind of a house to build? What ma<terial should I use?” The best advice in answer to this is, “Place your case in the hands of architects who have made a specialty of home planning, and get their expert advice as to just the kind of residence that will best meet your needs; and next, more important still, “build well.” There

is no wisdom or economy In putting your savings into a structure that will be tumbled down around your ears by the time you have it paid (or. Substantial, construction, using good grade, permanent building materials, costs but little-more than the temporary sort. \ It Is well to have an eye to the flreresistlng character of the house, especially when built in the suburbs or smaller communities where there Is very little Are protection. The Unresisting materials, brick veneer, co-

.ment, etc., with slate or tile roofs are exceedingly popular and help to make the best sort of building investment Tixe design illustrated herewith is a cement plaster house, the cement applied over expanded metal lath. This is a method of construction that has attained great popularity the last five or six years for suburban buildings. At a cost of very little in excess of ordinary clapboards or shingle siding this cement plaster is put on, making a house that has all the advantages.

so far os substantial appearance goes, of a brick masonry structure. , The cement plaster is applied in three coats, completely imbedding the expanded metal lath and building up a covering about three-quarters of an inch in thickness. This is thoroughly waterproofed with special waterproof*

ing paint that has been developed for this purpose, so all difficulty from this source is removed. It is said that houses built ih this way are just as warm in the winter time as houses of brick or stone, and at the same time are much dryer, being in this respect equal to a substantial frame house. As to artistic appearance, nothing is finer. Prom the Illustration it will be seen that ornamental pahel strips of wood are used in connection with the cement plaster siding to break up the large surfaces and produce an attractive “English half-timber” effect The interior of this house is arranged both conveniently and to get the greatest amount possible of desirable living space. The living room is a very large apartment, extending clear across the front of the house, and is well lighted. The reception hall is so placed as to be an attractive addition to the living room. The dining room and kitchen are well situated. On the second floor there are four large bedrooms, with clothes closet space. The bathroom Is on this floor. The total width of this house is 34 feet, ltß length, 48 feet 8 inches. It Is stated that this design can be carried out complete for 84,000', using a good substantial grade of material throughout. For a substantial suburban home it has many points in its favor.

Life at Sea Is Uneventful.

Life at sea is as uneventful as selling groceries, according to Capt. E. J. Smith, who commands the Olympic, the largest steamship in the world, which reached port recently. He doesn't find the romance or the thrill or the sustained excitement in his life’s work that tellers of sea tales do. Of bis forty odd years on the ocean he only remembers that the work was hard and the responsibilities great ‘T have been fortunate, I suppose,” he said. "I have never been in a wreck, I have never even seen d wreck, I have never seen but one ship in distress, and I have never had a serious accident to a ship under any command. Of course, there are storms and calms, fogs and bergs, but they are the Incidents of every-day life on an ocean liner. My life has been com pletely uneventful." ,

WOMAN WALKING AROUND THE WORLD

MRS. Harry Humphries has set out to prove that woman is the equal of man in endurance by accompanying her huband on a pedestrian tour of the world. They started from the New York city hall and propose to cover 48,000 miles, visiting nearly every country on the globe. Both are of English birth, but are naturalized American citizens. Mrs. Humphries used to be on the stage as Elsie Kelsey. Mr. Humphries served in the British army.

KISSING AS A PERIL

Mustn’t Do It, Even If About to Marry. Officially In Chicago Osculation la Forbidden at Marriage OfficeLeads to Divorce Court and Must Be Btopped. ; Chicago.—Kissing in public parka, at bathing beaches and in darkened theaters leads to the dlvorcq court and makes a mockery of love. The kiss is the symbol of sacred Jove, a token of the tie that binds man to woman for life. When a woman grants a man a kiss It means that she has given her heart of hearts into his keeping for all time. Talk all you please about spirit kisses, friendship kisses and soul kisses—that is just something to call a crime. If a man wants to kiss the woman hp is going to marry, let him kiss her at her home and not in front of the marriage llcensd window. Many suppose the reason people do so much kissing before they are married is that they know there will not be a great deal of it afterward. The kiss in the marriage bureau is doomed. Lewis C. Legner has drawn the line on kissing in front of his window. A big sign bearing the words "No. Kissing Here” appeared above the window the other day. Two Chicago sweethearts, however, declared they did not believe in signs and defied the order es Legner. “Kissing and cooing is going to be stopped in front of this window,” said Mr. Legner. “The great majority of prospective brides and . bridegrooms are dignified and sedate. They seem to. prefer to cherish their love in /Silence, and although I frequently notice an exchange of loving as they are handed their clearance papers to matrimony, there is no other manifestation. “Some couples, however, seem to forget everything when their eyes fall on a license. ,1 cannot explain it, unless It Is the power of suggestion. It Is not uncommon for a man to kiss a girl as both look at their license. “I do believe promiscuous kissing ought to be stopped. Chicago seems to have gone kissing mad. “1 was walking through Lincoln park the other evening about sunset Scattered through the park op almost

every bench was a pair of cooing sweethearts. I caught several of them kissing, but they seemed to care little about It Many of them, I know, will appear later at the marriage license window. “Kissing has its place, but the public park, the bathing beach and the marriage license window are not the places for it “The kiss Is sacred and should be considered the symbol of love, the token that binds man and woman together for life. “Silly girls and men who like- to .flirt cause more trouble in the world than all other forces combined. “Promiscuous kissing leads to *the divorce court. I do not believe in sending people to prison for kissing, but I do believe in sounding a warning; That is why I decided to begin here and draw the line even on tbe betrothed."

Aeroplanes tor Germany.

Berlin. —Admiral Von Tlrpitz, German minister of marine, has decided upon the purchase of a number of aeroplanes for use in the navy. The trial will take place off Kiel.

White Stockings Rile Cat

Big Black Pussy Mistakes Young Girl's Footwear for Felino Enemy—She Tells Btory.

New York.—The color white has been as a red flag to the big black cat of Frank Bits, ever since a large white cat came to live next door to the Bits butcher shop at No. 922 Columbus avenue. But not all of the customers of the butcher shop knew this. Among them was eleven-year-old Catherine Owens of No. 106 West Ninety-ninth street. "I didn't know anything about the cats,” said the girl, "and 1 went to the butcher store for mamma wearing a pair of white stockings. "I noticed that a big, White cat went Into the shop with me. After a little time I came out I was standing on the sidewalk when the white cat ran out Then the black cat ran out. too, and the moment he saw my whits stockings he Jumped at me. "He tried to put both his feet on one of my stockings. One of his feet —I mean paws—sort of slipped and Then he put his five Ungers right

JESTS BY EPICURE

German Makes Many Joke* About American Cooking.

Criticises' Our Sweet Tooth and Declares Our Roasts Are Tasteless —Tells of Chickens as Big as Storks.

New York—Ernst von Wolgozen, who came to New York last winter to study social conditions, is a man of letters and in his own country ranks higher in a literary sense than many of his countrymen who visit the United States. It was to be expected, therefore, that he would carry home valuable impressions of life here, but! he seems to have been impressed chiefly by the crudities of the cuisine. To him American cooking is so gro-' tesque and naive a gastromonlc system that his ridicule of it lies in the least serious fields of burlesque. As| a conclusion to all be observed here, he thinks Americans want everything so sweet that a frequent visit to the dentist is Inevitable. From the coffee in the morning until the late supper he finds that Americans must have their sweet tooth satisfied or they are unhappy. It is not easy to say in what kinds of homes Herr von Wolgozen studied life here, since he finds that the domestic service In the best houses is bo poor that it is difficult to get the dishes washed and the result of this is the necessity of getting along with one knife. This condition he says makes it difficult to eat roast beef, as the silver knives will not cut it and there are no houses in whihh both kinds of knives are found. A / Ho remarks that of all the/roaati served on New York is alone possible to eat, since lamb chops and veal cutlets are tasteless. Perhaps the most astonishing statement he makes in reference to the roasts is that at a certain house he received "for dinner honey as a compote. Surely this is unique not only In his experience, but in that of most New Yorkers. Compote or stewed fruits are seldom served in American families, but are to be found on the tables of Germans, so Herr von Wolgozen must have had this experience in the house of some of his compatriots. “Game," he says in one place, “is much more eaten in the United States than it is with us. Poultry grows to the most improbable dimensions her#, haye seen chickens as tall as stores and as fat as a poodle dog. “The flesh of these abnormally large beasts is, however, not tender; and the limbs in particular acquire an entirely different character fronl the flesh on the breasts. It turns brown and succulent in the roasting, while the white flesh remains dry and flavorless. It is evident that what Herr von Wolgozen describes as a chicken must have been a turkey. Some of his other experiences at table were more remarkable, but they probably hap pened in a boarding house —if the}, happened anywhere. He says tha. young chicken is even served with sweet flour sauce, which he finds very disagreeable, since even in the finer houses the servants will not wash the dishes and it Is necessary to eat everything on the plate with the chicken and the sweet sauce. He says that in his boarding house after soup a piece of fish was served to him. About this plate from which he was supposed to eat the fish were lair many small dishes containing vegetables, chicken and various combinations of vegetables and meat He was compelled to eat these on the fisff plate and liked only potatoes, which, baked in their skins, Jie found delicious. He observes with the air of an authority that all the fish from the Atlantic ocean are so poor that only the river and fresh-water fish are re garded as worth eating.” “I do not think," he said, “that there is in the three kingdoms of nature anything that is not to be found in an American salad. The groundwork of this is composed of two or three large! green leaves. On these is poured oil mixed with vinegar, and there arises a more or less striking structure of all Impossible sours and sweets, salts and bitters, toughs and tenders, liquid, edible and inedible objects."

into my leg. The clawp went in and left marks. 1 was so frightened I fell down and began to scream. A lot of ladies in carriages—you-know, those high-up ladles—began ts shout: 'Kill the catj kill the cat* "They didn’t kill the cat, and I went to our doctor’s. While waiting there n policeman came and took me to theGeneral Memorial hospital In One Hundred and Sixth street The lady there said I ought to go to the Pasteur Institute, but she's have a doctflr look at ms. He washed the cuts dnd then the policeman took me home. The policeman told me that thorn* ladles in the carriage had heed around to the station house and complained because he didn't kill the cat."

Catherine’s father took her to the Pasteur Institute for treatment The cat was still in the butcher shop.. Its owner maintained that It was perfectly normal, but the board of health has been notified ot the exrarrened by the poll*

SOMETHING NEW IN FORKS

The Latest Has an Attachment far* Pushing Things Off the Tines —Handy In Kitchen. A fork with an attachment for rfrj moving things that may be stock out the tines has been devised by an Illinois man. The attachment consists of a piece of wire ifoand around! the tines and doubled upon Itself tot form a long shaft that runs up the handle of the fork. By pushing this device down the wires scrape off anything that may be clinging to the points of the fork. Only the cook will appreciate the usefulness of this implement, hut there are many occa-

sions in the kitchen when it wfll come in handy. For instance, In transferring a piece of meat from the dish to the pan, or vice versa, the clean cook does not touch the meat with her hands, but lifts it with s fork. Sometimes it sticks to the fork and then the attachment here shown comes in handy, as it can be pushed off without looking around for some Other Implement

TWO WAYS TO COOK POTATOES

Methods That Possibly May Be New to Bome of Our Housewife Readers. i First—Take fresh, new potatoes, about the size of a marble, and boQ them about 20 minutes. When done, pour off water and let steam evaporate. Have boiling lard In skillet; fry about five minutes. lift out and drain Quickly, then put them into a saucepan with two tablespoons of butter, into which you have rubbed a teaspoon prepared mustard. Add dash of cayenne pepper and two teaspoons vinegar. Cook three minutes, shaking constantly. Add' yolks of two eggs, well beaten. Serve immediately. Second —Boil, peel and mash line six potatoes. Add one tablespoon batter, minced parsley and half an onion minced very fine. Add. yolks of two eggs, beaten very light; then form tbe potatoes into balls and throw them for two minutes into boiling water; take out, brush with the whites of the eggs, roll in powdered bread crumbs and fry in boiling lard. Drain and serve with fish or meat

The Housekeeper

The cleaning of tbe kitchen rang* will be made much easier if all grease Is rubbed from it or the gas stove with a newspaper while still hot. When light oak trays have been badly marked, wash well wad rub with warm beer until the stains have disappeared. Polish in the usual way. When sweeping carpets always remember to sweep the way of the grain. To brush the wrong way is not only bad for tbe carpet, but it tends to brush dust in instead of out. Traces of mud may be removed from black materials by rubbing.with slices of raw potato. Stains in table linen may be easily removed by plunging the articles in pure boiling water. Soap and water would have the effect of fixing the stains.

Scalloped Macaroni and Beef. Take tke remnant# of any fnesh roasted meat and cut in thin slices. Lay them in a dish with a little plain boiled macaroni if you have it, and season thoroughly with pepper, salt and a little catchup > Fill a deap dish half full, add a very little finely chopped onion and a'layer of sliced tomatoes, having previously covered the meat with stock or grav>. Make a thick crust of mashed potato, and bake till this la brown la a not too hoi oven.

A Cleaning Hint.

"When you are cleaning your sewing machine and cannot reach parts or It with a doth, try using a bicycle pump. The suction 6t the pump will drive away the dust and threads. Use the pump first, then wipe the more accessible parts with a soft cloth and end with a thorough oiling. - ■ .'Bl \ . 4

Summer Drink

Mix in a Jub one-half ounce cream of tartar end one <ft&H of boiling water, flavor with lemon jpeel or «n| sence of lemon U>d.a*?!*t?US to taste. This la a pleasaai»r and* refreshing '"-TTrar *'#Sra ~njt* i,'!,.' ....Em ■ sftnH Current To one pint o* currant juice add om|| pound of sugar, one pint of water; When partly froaen add the whites ot two eggs well beaten and freest.