Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1916 — Page 3

MAKING RAPID STRIDES

Canada Improving In Every Way —Agriculturally, Commercially and Financially. The reports coming to hand every day from all branches of industry In Canada speak highly of the constructive ability of that country. ■Recently the managing directors of the Canadian Credit Men's Association gave out the statement that business in Western Canada was good. In every branch it is better than in 1913, and everyone will remember that in that year business was excellent He says: “The beauty of it is the way in which payments are coming in. Merchants all over the West are taking their cash discounts. Such a transformation I never saw. “From the records in the office I knew it was getting better. We clear here every retail merchant in the country every three months, and we are therefore In the closest touch and have intimate knowledge of the way trade is going and how payments are being made. Conditions at the present moment are better than I had dreamed it was possible that they should be. “The statements which we are receiving with reference to the standing of country merchants indicates that there will be very few failures this fall. It is quite remarkable. Men who have been behind for years and In the hole are actually paying spot cash for everything, and taking their cash discounts. Banks and loan companies this fall will have more money than they know what to do with. “This is about the condition of trade, and I am glad to say there is no exaggeration in what I have, said. The business of-the prairie provinces is in splendid condition.” Crop reports are also good. From all parts comes the word that the crop conditions were never better, and the situation at the time of writing is that there will be fully as great a yield as in 1915, when the average of wheat over the entire country was upwards of 30 bushels per acre. The harvest therefore will be a heavy one—and, following the magnificent harvest of last year, the' farmers of Western Canada will all be in splendid shape. Old indebtednesses, much of which followed them from their old homes, are being wiped out, improvements are now being planned, and additional acres added to their present holdings. During the past year there was a large increase in the land sales both by the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern land companies, as well as by private individuals. A great many of the purchases were made by farmers who thus secured adjoining quarters or halves, the best evidence probably that could be had of the value of Western Canada land when those who know the country best are adding to their holdings. A number of outsiders have also been purchasers, but very little land has changed hands for speculative purposes. An evidence of the prosperity of the country is found in the fact that such a large number of farmers are purchasing automobiles. Alleged hard times in Manitoba have not dampened the ardor of motorists or prospective ones. The automobile license department reported a few days since that there are 1,600 more private owners of cars in the province this year than last. The number of licenses issued this year was 10,400, as against B,SOO last year. At an average cost of SI,OOO each the newly purchased cars represent a total outlay of $1,600,000, ‘while the total number of cars in the province are worth approximately $10,000,000. The new cars are of modern types. Many people, for some unexplained reason, have feared and continue to fear that this country vylll experience a period of industrial and business dullness after the war. There seems to be no justification for such a speculation. On the contrary, there are sound reasons for belief In the prediction of Mr. Kingman Nott Robins, vice president of the Farm Mortgage Bankers’ Association of America, who. In the Monetary Times, declares that Canada will experience her greatest proportionate development in production Immediately after the conclusion of the war. The country will certainly have exceptionally favorable commercial conditions to take advantage of. There will be the great need of Europe in the w-ork of reconstruction,

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and along with thia, the natural tendency of the allies to trade among themselves, and perhaps special trading privileges. Mr. Robins points out that the greatest development in the United States followed the costly and destructive civil war. Mr. Robins, in an address before the Bondmen’s Club of Chicago, expressed the opinion of a far-thinking mind and the review of an experience of the last of his numerous trips through the Canadian West When he said he regarded the spirit of _Jhe Canadian people, as he found it, the most admirable and encouraging feature of the entire sltuatloh. They are facing the sacrifices of war courageously and with calm confidence as to the result and in similar spirit they face the economic future, confident, but expecting to solve their problems only by dint of hard and intelligent effort An important part. of Mr. Robins’ address, which invites earnest attention, is that in which he refers to the land situation, and when his remarks are quoted they carry with them the impression gained by one who has given the question the careful thought of a man experienced in economic questions, and specially those relating to soil and its production. He is quoted as saying: “Agricultural Canada was never so prosperous, and immigration of agricultural population both during and after the war seems a logical expectation, finding support in an Increasing immigration at present from the United States, in spite of numerous canards spread broadcast throughout the United States to discourage emigration to Canada. The lands of Western Canada, however, as long as they are as at present the most advantageous for the settle? of any on the continent, must continue to attract, despite misrepresentation, and on the increase of its agricultural and other primarily productive population depends the economic future of Canada. All other problems are secondary to this, and the large interests of Canada, recognizing this fact, are preparing to secure and hold this population both during and after the war. They are content to let city development and other secondary phases and superstructure follow in natural course. This recognition of the true basis of economic development is an encouraging augury for the future.” “The war has brought the United States and Canada nearer together economically than ever before. The total investment of United States capital in Canada doubtless exceeds $1,000,000,000, of which $300,000,000 has been invested since the war began. Except for Great Britain, Canada is the United States’ best customer. Our exports to all of South America in the last three years were less than a third of our exports to Canada in the same period, although Canada has been rigidly reducing her imports since the war began. Even France, a good customer of the United States, bought $70,000,000 less than Canada during 1913, 1914, 1915. And yet Canada’s purchasing power is in the first stages of development only. It has been estimated that the United States can support a population of 600,000,000. Using the same basis of calculation in reference to natural resources, Canada can support a population of 400,000,000. “Canada is potentially the most populous, and, in primary production, at least, the richest unit of the British empire, and it behooves us in the United States to know our Canada.” The social conditions throughout Western Canada are everything that could be desired. Schools have been established in all districts where there may be ten or twelve children of school ;ige, and these are largely maintained by liberal government grants. A fund for this purpose is raised from the revenue derived from "the sale of schoolland, one-eighteenth of all lands being set aside as school lands. All the higher branches of education are cared for, there being high schools at all important centers, and colleges and universities in the principal cities. The different religious denominations prevail, each having its separate church, and religious services are held In every halnlet and village, and in far-off settlements the pastor finds an attentive congregation. The rural telephone is one of the great modern conveniences that brings the farm home nearer to the market. It is not saying too much to state that In matters of social importance, in the most remote settlements they carry with them the same influence as is to be found in the most prosperous farming districts of any of the states of the Union. —Advertisement.

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EXPERT WRITES OF MISTAKE MADE IN THE KITCHEN. Constant Use of Strong Alkali Bound to Destroy Linings of Pots and Pans, to Say Nothing of Ruining the Hands. If I had my way I would go into the kitchen of every woman in the land and confiscate her entire supply of washing soda, writes Mrs. Christina Frederick in the Chicago Daily News. That one misused article is responsible for more sore, red hands, more pots with worn-out linings, than any other one thing. I do not exaggerate when I say that in many kitchens washing soda is put into the pots after every meal. Then how can we expect to have utensils that are bright and shiny if w-e subject them constantly to so strong a chemical? Washing' soda is the crystal of soda ash, a very strong alkali. Washing soda should never be used in a solid form, but should be dissolved separately and the solution be used sparingly. When I say that two tablespoonfuls of dry soda are sufficient for a large tub of water, you can readily see why “a handful of soda” is absurdly too much to use in a poor, harmless kitchen utensil. If foods are cooked with care there need be no scorching. If no scorching then the particles which adhere to the bottom and sides should be easily scraped off with a round-pointed flat wooden paddle, and not a metal Instrument. If one is so careless as to scorch a utdnsil, plain water will dissolve the food as well as any water with soda. Now as to actual cleaning: Our modern pots are made either of en- , amel, aluminum or retinned ware. In any case, the outside should never be scoured with an alkali. Enamel is the easiest to keep clean of the three because of its cfiinalike surface'. The worst thing we can do to enamel ware is to let a soda solution soak into it, as this eats off the porcelain and lessens the life of our pot. So many say to me: “Oh, aluminum" ware is so hard to keep clean!” In my own home we have used alutuinum for three years and it is still bright and silvery looking outside. The inside of some pots has become discolored through cooking certain foods. All we ever use on aluminum is whitd soap and water daily, and then we polish it weekly with a good silver'polish; No alkali or powders such as are on the market and commonly used should ever be allowed to touch aluminum, as it is the alkali in the water ■that turns the aluminum dark. Never rub an entire cake of cleanser on a pan or utensil, as this makes scratched and streaky places. Scrape or use a very "fine powder with as little sand as possible in its composition, and apply preferably with a soft brush rather than a rag, which is an unsanitary procedure. There are special “pot brushes” oh the market with bristles that look like a lamp chimney brush, also a very good kind made of corn fiber in compact, squatty shape which could be easily scoured on the inside of the pot. It is a great mistake to use metal pieces and scrapers on any kind of a pot, except a frying pan, which is iron and can stand it. Dump heaps with monuments of enamel pans, and rubbish piles with discarded utensils would be smaller if more housewives exercised a little common sense in the cleaning of pots and kitchen utensils.

Dainty Cocoa Wafers.

One cupful of sugar, one tablegpoonfut of cocoar. a small lump- of butter, one-third cupful of milk. Boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in water, then put in flavoring and beat until it thickens enough to spread. Spread between crackers and spread the tops with the mixture. After they are cold put a marshmallow on top of each, and place in the oven to brown. The oven must be hot enough to brown the marshmallows before the filling melts. Chopped dates or nuts may be added to the filling after taking it from the fire.

Mutton Cutlets a la Italienne.

Cut off cutlets from the best end of a neck of mutton, trim them, and remove all superfluous fat. Make a seasoning of finely chopped mushrooms, bread crumbs, chopped parsley, a sprinkle of mixed herbs, a little shredded shallot, and a grate of lemon peel. Dip the cutlets in egg, then mask them with the mixture, dip them in egg and bread crumbs and fry them. Drain them on kitchen paper, place them on a hot dish round a mound of mashed potato, and pour a well-flavored brown gravy round them.

Lyonnaise Eggs.

Peel and chop fine two medium-sized white onions and cook them gently in quarter of a cupful of butter until they begin to color. Stir in one tablespoonful of flour, then add gradually one cupful of hot milk, chicken or veal stock, and stir until smooth and thick. Season with pepper, salt and a speck of powdered mace; add six hard-boiled eggs cut lengthwise into quarters, heat thoroughly, turn out carefully on squares of buttered toast, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve at once.

Tea in Your Starch.

When starching holland pinafores put a little strong tea into the starch. Chis keeps the garments in good color.

MAY HELP OUT HOUSEWIFE

List of Menus That Glvs Variety With the Use of Only the Standard Foods. The following menus were worked out by a class in cookery at the Connecticut Agricultural college, the problem being to plan 12 dinners, usijjg only four common foods, beef, potatoes, cabbage, and apples, without repeating a dish, and to select appropriate fodtl combinations and attractive ways of serving these. These menus could be used in winter or summer, and it is hoped that they may suggest an answer to the housekeeper’s oft-repeated question. “What shall I give my family for dinner today?” 1. Roast beef, potatoes roasted with the beef, creamed cabbage, apple pie. 2. Broiled beefsteak, French-fried potatoes, hot slaw, baked apples and cream. 3. Corned beef, boiled potatoes, boiled cabbage, apple Brown Betty. 4. Beefsteak pie, baked potatoes, cold slaw, apple fritters. 5. Minced beef with gravy, browned mashed potatoes, scalloped cabbage with cheese, Dutch apple cake. 6. Beef croquettes, creamed potatoes, cabbage and celery salad with French dressing, apple tapioca. 7. Pot roast, scalloped potatoes, sauerkraut, apple dumplings. 8. Potato soup, browned hash, cabbage and olive salad with boiled dressing, apple charlotte. ■ 9. Cold beef loaf, German cabbage with sour sauce, potato salad, apple snow. 10. Baked beef liver, stuffed baked potatoes, fried cabbage, apple sauce and apple sauce cake. 11. Creamed dried beef, hashed —browned potatoes, cabbage and green pepper salad with sour cream dressing, apple slump. 12. Rolled stuffed steak, riced potatoes, steamed cabbage with drawn butter sauce, apple and date salad. —Maud E. Hayes, Department of Home Economics, Connecticut’ Agricultural College.

Pepper Mangoes.

Cut off stem ends of large green sweet (Bell) peppers and remove seeds. Soak in strong brine for three days. Then take eight tablespoonfuls of chopped cabbage, four tea spoonfuls of English mustard seed, one tablespoonful mustard seed, two tablespoonfuls chopped onions, one teaspoonful each of grated horseradish, whole pepper corns and ground mace and a heaping tablespooriful of brown sugar. Moisten to a paste with salad oil and stuff the peppers, tying he tops on with cord after the peppers have been filled. Pack in a stone jar and cover with scalding vinegar, to which has been added half a cupful of brown sugar. Let stand several months before using.

Baked Onions.

Peel as many good, firm mediumsized onions as the size of your family will require. Put them into a saucepan and parboH until tender, not done. Remove and drain water carefully off. Then place in a deep baking dish, close enough together so that they will just swell. Season with salt, pepper and a few tiny pieces of butter. Cover with a layer of finely rolled bread crumbs, drop two or three pieces of butter on these, pour over all one cupful of cream or rich milk and bake until the crumbs are a rich golden brown. Bake in a moderate oven. Remove and serve in individual dishes, either plain or with a white sauce.

Fricatelli.

Pass through a meat chopper enough pork tenderloin to make two cupfuls and season with pepper and salt, one teaspoonful of grate(T6nT6n and a quarter teaspoonful of powdered sage. Moisten one cupful of bread crumbs with boiling water, squeeze dry and add to the meat with one beaten egg. Shape into small cakes, dredge with flour and brown on both sides in hot bacon fat, cooking slowly in order that the meat may be thoroughly cooked without burning.

Parsnip Balls.

One cupful cooked mashed parsnips, one-half cupful cracker crumbs (scant), one egg yolk, one-half cupful coarsely ground nut meats. Combine the parsnip, cracker crumbs and egg yolk; salt to taste. Shape the mixture in balls, roll them In the nut meats, and fry them in deep fat hot enough to brown a bit of bread In forty seconds.

Cream Pudding.

Stir together one pint cream, three ounces sugar, the yolks of three eggs and a little grated nutmeg. Add the well-beaten whites, stirring lightly, and pour into a buttered pie plate on which have been sprinkled fine crumbs of etale bread to about the thickness of an ordinary crust. Sprinkle over the top a layer of bread crumbs and bake.

Fig Sandwiches.

Cut thin slices of buttered bread in “fancy shapes with fig filling between each two. Prepare as follows: One half a pound finely chopped figs; one half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful -boiling water and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Mix these ingredients and cook iri a double boilet until thick enough to spread. \ 7., ■

Use Potato Water.

Potato water is excellent for cleaning spoons and knives and forks. Apply it with a soft cloth. All stains will disappear immediately. Polish .vith a thamois leather after this treatment.

No Comeback.

“I received % letter from Aunt Matilda asking If we would like to spend our vacation out on her farm.” “We can’t possibly accept her Invitation. George. If we do, we’ll have to ask her to visit us next winter.” “That wiU be all right. We can move into a two-room apartment In the fall, and then there won’t be room for her.”

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SOMETHING FLY COULDN’T DO

Robbie Was Able tft Point Out Its Limitations When Called Upon to Admire Insect. In the opinion of some persons, the new teacher was going almost too far in her attention to nature study. However, the children appeared to enjoy It all, and, so far, no parents had made open objection to the little talks on birds. Insects, and flowers with which the teacher diversified the routine of school work. So all went along quite comfortably until the afternoon when the fly and the flea were up for consideration. Following the teacher’s lead, the children had all grown enthusiastic over the astonishing acrobatic abilities of the fly—all except Robbie May, who for some time had been staring moodily at his desk, casting only occasional glances at the teacher, and those unmistakably sullen. It became so noticeable by the time they were all admiring the fact that the fly can walk on the celling, that the teacher paused and turned to the boy. “What Is the trouble, Robbie?” she inquired. “Aren’t you listening? Aren’t you interested in the talk?" “Ye-es,” granted Robbie, reluctantly polite. Then, warming up, “but I bet a fly ciw’t hang 6y its knees, and every boy in school can do it, all ’cept Laurie Lee, and he’s had the dlpthery 1” —Youth’s Companion.

CLEANSE THE PORES

Of Your Skin and Make It Fresh and Clear by Using Cuticura. Trial Free. When suffering from pimples, blackheads, redness or roughness, smear the skin with Cuticura Ointment Then wash off with Cuticura Soap and hot water. These super-creamy emollients do much for the skin because they prevent pore clogging. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept L, Boston. Sold everywhere. —Adv.

Most Profitable “Ad."

Do you know what was the largest harvest ever reaped from an advertisement? It was the settlement In Pennsylvania of 100,000 German colonists. We know that at Germantown, this city, was made the first German settlement in America. We also know that in fifty years double that many thousand Germans came to William Penn’s colony. Furthermore, history tells u's that wars and religious persecutions in Germany caused this then unparalleled exodus of men and women. But what brought them to Pennsylvania and so made of this the German commonwealth? An advertisement written by William Penn himself and distributed among the Germans along the Rhine who had been stricken by a thirty-years’ war.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

What She Wanted.

Lydia Virginia was having her fifth birthday prepared for her. Grandma baked her birthday cake and made her a little sample cake. Lydia Virginia, on breaking the sample apart, exclaimed: “Why, grandma, this is not the kind of a cake I want.” Questioned what kind she wanted, she answered: “Why, I want my cake when you cut a piece of it to Look like a spotted cat.” Her grandma baked a marble cake and when cut Lydia Virginia was delighted, and said: “Tills is it, grandma; this is the kind of a cake I wanted.”—Cleveland Leader.

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Got What He Was Looking For.

Jack —Mr. iff oedict Is married. Belle —I>o you mean It? Why, no used to say he would never marry unless the girl was Just so and so. jeck—Well, he struck one who sewed him up all right.—Judge.

Explained.

Tommy—Why do the ducks dive? Harp—Guess they inhst want Ml liquidate their bills.— Exchange.

Obstacles.

• Father—What are the relations b* tween you and Miss Darlington? Son —Her father and mother!

INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE

Writer Asserts Women Are to Blame for the Variations of Styles in Clothes. Women want something new to wear every few months. The absolute truth of this statement is what puts the world of women against reformers. It Is easy to read and write reams of theories as to why women should noC indulge in the caprice Of new, clothes; and, with delightful ingenuousness, these dress reformers put the blame on the style-makers and shops. Ignoring the fundamental truth that the blame should be placed on the women. Those who are sincere and those 'who are insincere but want to be heard crying aloud tn the market places, do not go far enough Into the clothes question when pleading for dress reform. What normal woman wAuld want to be robbed of her privilege of seeing new clothes and buying them whenever it Is possible? What healthyminded woman would want to ge through life wearing the same gown, cut on the same lines and preserved, or copied, from season to season? Mary Garden, the opera singer, answered this whole question once in an Interview on the deck of a steamer, when she was sailing for Paris. It was at the height of the great hubbub concerning the question of American clothes only. The reporter called up from thn gangplank. “When, In your opinion, will American women wear American clothes only and show thulr patriotism?” “When they’re dead,” she called out over the rail. “They can’t protest against an American shroud.”—Exchange.

Forget to Pay.

Patrons of Winchester barber shop* seem to have a mania for forgetting; to pay their tonsorial bills. In many; cases it is done unintentionally. One evening, recently, a former Winchester resident who.now lives in California entered a barber shop for a. haircut and shave. He was in a hurry. His business for the evening included, a lodge meeting and most Important c£ all, catching a train for his home. Many of his old-time friends wefe In the shop when he stepped from the chair. He bade them all good-by and started to leave the shop. He had not yet paid his bill. “Did you forget something?” the barber asked as the customer was leaving the shop. “Oh. yes, 1 beg your pardon,” the customer replied. “Good-by, good-by.” And the bill still remains unpaid.— Indianapolis News.

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