Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — Page 3

Advantages of Fireless Cooker.

HoTto to make a very satisfactory device at home at low cost :: Directions for its use

jm VERY satisfactory fire-' less cooker may be made at relatively flight expense, accordWk/cS ing to specialists of the office of home econoZaS> mlcs of the department *'■'* of agriculture. The outside of the cooker may be a tightly built wooden box, an old trunk, a small barrel, a large butter or lard firkin or tin, or a large galvanizediron bucket with close-fitting cover. In general, a well-built, conveniently sized box is perhaps most satisfactory, though the cookers entirefyTmfffSCd in metal have the advantage of being fireproof. If a box is to be used, its size wiU depend on the size of the cooking kettle to be used in it and on whether there are to be one or two compartments. It must be large enough to allow for at least.4_inches-of packing material all around the “nekt” in ■which the cooking kettte is to be placed. For the sake of cleanliness and convenience the nest should be lined with metal and should be a trifle larger than the dttoklng utensil. If an extra source of heat, such as a hot brick or plate, is to be used, a metallic lining for the nest is imperative. For this purpose a galvanized iron or other metal bucket may-be-usetl or, better still, a tinsmith can make a lining of galvanized iron or zinc which ■can be provided with a rim to cover the packing material? In case no hot stone or pla t e Is to be used in the cooker, the lining Can be made ofstrong cardboard. For the packing and insulating material a variety of substances may be used. Asbestos and mineral wool are good and have the additional advantage that they do not burn. Ground cork (such as is used in packing Ma-

Longitudinal Section Through Fireless Cooker.

Showing details of construction: A, Out-, side container (wooden box, old trunk, etc.) B, Packing or insulating material (crumpled paper, cinders, etc.). C. Metal lining In nest. D, Vooking kettle. E, Soapstone plate or other source of heat. ]■'. Pad of excelsior for covering top. G, Hinged cove# of outside container, laga graces), hay, excelsior, Spanish moss, wool, ami crumpled paper maysatisfactorily. Of the Inevponclvn niiitoeinhi tloii i nil Im hli~ tained easily, crumpled paper is probably it Is dean and odorless and. if properly packed, the heat better than some ofyfine -others. To pack the contalner with paper, crush single’“sfieefs'’ of newspaper between the hands. Pack a layer at least 4 Inches deep over the bottom of the outside container, tramping it in or pounding it in with a heavy stick of wood. Stand the container for the cooking vessel, or the lining for the nest in the center of this layer and pack more crushed papers about It as solidly as possible. If ■other packing, such as excelsior, hay, •or cork dust, is used, it should be packed in a similar way. Wher.e an extra source of heat is to be Used, 1t is much safer to pack the tireless cooker ■with some non-inflammable material, such as asbestos or mineral wool. A cheap and easily obtained substitute is the small cinders sifted from coal ashes, preferably those from soft coal, which may be obtained at the boiler house of any mill. The cinders from hard coaTUurned inHWkltchen range will do, however. Experiments with this material made by. home-economics specialists of the department of agrlculture showed that It is very nearly as satisfactory as crumpled paper as a packing material. If a flreproof packing material is not used a heavy pad of asbestos paper should beput at the bottom of the metal nest and a *»heet qr two of asbestos paper should be placed between the lining of the Tte§rgnd~The' packlng-Tnatertar. Whatever packing material is used, it should come to the top of the cojitain-

SCRAPS

In a recently patented double jointed pen either a tine or stub point can be projected for use. A tree shat is IQO feet high is used as a wireless station mast in a Central American city. Veils are of plain mesh with one huge embroidered motif that is placed to fit amusingly over one check or eye. The greatest crater known Is t,hat of the Japanese mountain, Aso-an. It ranges from 10 to 14 miles in diameter;

e? for the.ketHe, and the box should lack about 4 inches of being full. A cushion or pad must be provided" to fill completely the space between the top of the packing and the cover of the box after the hot kettles are put in place. This should be made of some heavy goods, such ae- denim, and stuffed with cotton, crumpled paper, or excelsior. Hay may be used, but will be found more or less odorous. The kettles used for cooking should be durable and free from seams or crevices, which are hard to clean. They should have perpendicular sides and the covers should be as flat as possible and provided with a deep rim shutting well down into the kettle to retain the steam. It is possible to buy kettles made especially for use in firefess cookers; these are provided with covers which can be damped on’tightly. The size of the kettle should be bvlhequanflfyof food to be cooked. Small amounts of food cannot be cixjked satisfactorily in large kettles, and it is therefore an advantage to have a cooker with compartments of two or more different sizes. Kettles holding about (5 quarts are of convenient size for general use. Tinned-iron kettles shouhl not be used In , a tireless cooker; for, although cheap, they are very apt to rust from the confined moisture. Enameledware kettles are satisfactory, especialTynr the covers are of the same material. Aluminum vessels may be purchased in shapes which make them especially well adapted for use in tireless, cookers and, like enameled ware, they do not rust. How to Use the Fireless Cooker. Obviously the tireless cooker must be used with Intelligence to obtain the best results. It is best suited_lft. those foods which require boiling, steaming, or long, slow cooking in a moist heat. Foods cannot be. fried 4n it, ides cannot be baked successfully in the ordinary tireless cooker, nor can any cooking be done which requires a high, dry heat for browning. Meats, however, may be partially roasted in the oven and finished in

the cooker, or may be begun in the cooker and finished in the oven with much the same results as if they were roasted In the oven entirely. The classes- of food best-adapted to the cooker are cereals, soups, meats, vegetables, dried fruits, steamed breads, and puddings. When different foodjs are cooked together in the tireless cooker they must be such as require the same amount of cooking, since the cooker cannot be opened to take out food without allowing the escape of a large amount of heat and making it necessary to reheat the~contents. It would not do td put foocrs Vvhich need about one and one-half hours to cook into the cooker with a piece of meat which would stay several hours. The size of the container used in cooking with the fireless cooker should be governed according to the amount of food to be cooked. Small quantities of food cannot be cooked satisfactorily in a large kettle in the tireless cooker. If a large kettle must hb used, better results will be obtained if some other material which holds heat fairly well is used to till up the empty space. This may be accomplished in several ways. One is to put the small quantity of food to be cooked into a smaller, tightly closed kettle, fill the large „ketUe-with-boiling water -aftd-pttfr-fhe-

CHILD IS INJURED BY NAGGING

This is the conclusion reached by a physical trainer after years spent in trying to restore abnormal bodies to normal condition. A child that is nagged at never holds itself well, he declares. Its deportment betrays its mental attitude, and to the trained eye of the physical-trainlug instructor the round shoulders and apologetic air tell their own story in the case of a child whose physique otherwise reveals no sign of constitutional weakness. The attitude of the body discloses. In a marvelous way, that of the mind; and many parents would be astonished to learn that the bearing of their children reflects their home influences in a very unflattering light. While lunching with a lady the other day, he says, I listened to a tale of distress about her little boy’s flat chest. Presently, the child came in from school, running excitedly to show his new “Jography” book with colored pictures. “Oh, yes, d(>ar, but don’t* start with it now; go and wash your hands, and get tidy.” The child’s enThusiaStic little face fell, his fiat little chest seemed flatter still, and he resignedly put away his book and left the room. There will be little chance for that child’s chest until his mother learns to express her affection more positively in the form of active and ready sympathy, not merely negatively, in the form of anxiety. The glow of enthusi-

The largest maker of __paper fasteners In the world is an English concern ‘which annually manufactures over 100,000,000 of these articles. The flying squirrel, in leaping from tree to tree, often clears 50 feet. This animal also has a broad fold of skin or membrane connecting its fore gnd hind legs. A factor Jn the ultimate relief of the paper shortage may. be the action of the Chinese government, which has decided to have papermaking taught in governmental schools.

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small kettle into it, standing it on an inverted bowl or some other suitable support. 'This boiling water will take up and hold the heat better than air would. Several smaller dishes (if tightly covered) may be placed in the kettle surrounded by boiling water. Baking powder or other tins often are foiled USeffil for this purpose.. Another way Is to place one food In a basin which just tlU»lwto the top~bf‘a 'large' kettle and/to let some oilier material, some vegetable perhaps, cook in the water in the bottom of the kettle. Two or more flat, shallow kettles placed one on top of the other so as to fill the cooker, enable one to cook small amounts of different foods successfully. Such kettles, made especially for use in tireless cookers, may be purchased. Time Required for Cooking. The time which each, kind of food should stay in the cooker depends both on the nature of the food and on the temperature at which it remains inside the cooker, and before recipes for use with the tireless cooker can be prepared one must have some means of knowing hbw temperatures are preserved in it. In experiments made to

Metal Lining for Nest for Fireless Cooker.

A. Rim to co ver packing material: B. Container for cooking kettle ’'anti Hot stone. “/ the office of home economics a 6-quart kettle was tilled with boiling water and put into the cooker, the packing, of which happened to be newspaper. The temperature of the water, which was 212 degrees F. when put into the cooker, was found -to be 172 degrees F. after four hours had elapsed and 155 degrees F. after eight hours had elapsed. This shows the advisability of the common custom of allowing -feed-te-remald—undlsturbedinthe cooker for at least six or eight hours, or in some cases overnight. If a soapstone, hot brick, or other extra source ■uf“ireHt'is -used, less time will be required. Materials- which aredenser than water (sugar sirup as used in cooking dried fruit), and therefore can be heated to a higher degree, will keep up the temperature longer when put Into the cooker. Thus the density of the fpM material, as well as the amount and the length of time that the apparatus retains the h4at, must be taken into consideration in determining how long different materials must be cooked in the cooker. The recipes for dishes to be prepared in the tireless cooker differ somewhat from those for foods cooked in the ordinary way, chiefly in the amount of water or other liquids called for. Less liquid should be put into the food to be prepared in an ordinary tireless cooker, since there is no chance for water to evaporate. The cook must be guided largely by experience in deciding how long the food should be heated before being put into the cooker jmd how, long tt-shoHld-be--Httoweirfo"remain there.

asm which was swelling the child’s heart, literally as well as metaphorically, was quenched by the chilly reception. The expanded chest, which accompanied the movement of enthusiasm, collapsed at once like a pricked bubble. Give your children encouragement rather than criticism, sympathy rather than reproof, and, while they are in the awkward age, do not add to their self:cojisciousness by drawing attention to their faults.—The Continent.

Lightweight Southerners.

The average weight of men south of the Mason and Dixie tine is from four to six pofinds less than the average weight of men north of it, say United States marine corps recruiting officers operating in the south. These recruit! ngofflcers haveasked that the nffnimum weight for recruits tn—the -gJoutti be reduced from 124 Jo 120 pounds, stripped. "The large, raw-boned Southerner” is seldom seep, theZrecrulfnig^ _ bfflcefS' aver, and whlle Jim m enZof Jthe -Shuihare as sound and fit as the men of any other section, they are usually small boned and light in weight, i The officers point out fn their recommendation that some of the best “hikers”anil fighters in corps are the lean, Xiry.men from the Southland.

Took It as a Joke.

On six-year-old Frank’s birthday he was nadghty and had to be whipped. His mother attended to the punlshment. striking him lightly with the brush three times. Without a tear 4n his eyes he said: “Say, ma, give me three more. I’m six noir.”

Unlucky Jude.?

Jude Johnson, one of- our prominent henpecked men, is sure that if he took the time he could trace his wife’s ancestry back t<> tile Norman conanest.—Atchison Globe. ; z .■ — .»

BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEMS

Written Especially for This Paper by the Fapous American League Umpire.

PLAYERS INTERESTED IN UNIQUE DECISION.

Never does “Connie” Mack protest a decision of an umpire. When his players kick, they do it in a manner that wins consideration rather than ejection from the umpire. When Mack does not agree with the umpire he debates and reasons rather than protests. He will talk the play over with you on the bench the next day, or argue it out with you on the train if you happen to be making a jump with his team. A few years ago a play came up in Cleveland over which “Connie” disagreed with the official, but he did not make known his grievance until the next afternoon. Mack’s team had the game sewed up at the time, a new official was judging balls and strikes, and a word from Mack from the bench sent his players, who intended to protest, back to their positions. Mack desired to see the new recruit get a good start; he knew that to advance any argument that might cause the umpire to reverse his' decision on a point of rule would tend, to weaken his mastery of the field, and so Mack accepted the verdict as given. The play came up with Chief Bender pitching, Ira Thomas catching, and “Joe” Jackson was at the bat. Knowing Jackson’s ability to hiUalmost anything Bender decided he could do the least damage to a slow one; Jackson had just fouled off two fast ones into the right field stand. With two strikes on him “Joe” took a healthy swing at Bender’s most deceptive slow ball. His effort was a little foul tip that struck Ira Thomas high on the chest protector and bounded into the air. Thomas managed to catch the ball before It touched the ground, and contended that Jackson was struck out. The young umpire refused to allow the out, claiming that Thomas had been aided in making the catch by the protector. Answer to Problem. The play seldom comes up, and In a way was a rather peculiar one. The umpire would have acted more wisely, however, had he allowed the strikeout” Since the ball struck the protector and bounded squarely into the air, Jackson really was struck out. Had the ball stuck in the protector at the neck momentarily and then rolled out, Thomas making the catch before it struck the ground, the umpire would have been right to not allow the out, as the protector would have aided in making the catch. The rebound must be direct for an out. Mack, to illustrate the play to the young umpire the next dav put the following question to him: “Say that a fly ball knocked to the outfield was lost in the sun and struck one of the players on the ohest, bounded off and was caught by the other fielder who was backing up before the ball touched’the ground, whaf would you do?” The umpire said he would declare the man out. Mack finMly made him see the game (Copyright by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.> .

RETIRED TWO PITCHERS

Did you ever hear about one pinch-hitter who retired two pitchers with one swing of his mace? His name is Tom Clark, the Rhinelander backstop. On June 13, 1916, the Reds and Braves battled to a 16-inning scoreless tie. Toney started the game for the Cincinnatians and Rudolph did likewise for the Bostonians. But neither finished it, because Clark finished both of them in the twelfth. The Reds got a man on the bag in the twelfth session and Choliy Herzog, theß.pilotlng the Red stiff, decided to send Clark to bat in place of Toney. That removed Toney from the field. Rudolph served up a twister to Clark.and the catcher at once whaled it right back to Rudolph. The drive hit th* bald-headed flinger on his oper-' a ting fin —and be went away in search of a doctor. ‘

CANAL FOR TRAINING CAMPS

Fans of Isthmus of Panama Want Major League Teams to Train There —Conditions Ideal. Baseball fans of the, isthmus of Panama are booming that section as ,a location for training camps for the big league teams. It is claimed that the sanitary conditions of the Canal zone, under the care* and direction of the army and canal officers, are excellent, and that, with the dry season extending from December to April,’ the major league baseball players could not find a more satisfactory, location for rounding into shape. Baseball is exceedingly popular there, and the teams would be sure of good gates at any exhibition games that might be staged during their st ay i n the Canal zone.

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT

Peter Scott (2:05) will not be raced this year. • ♦ • Harvard has a squad of 80 track and field candidates at work indoors. * * * A fellow can't train 'for a footrace in a motor car, which explains why a number of once promising boxers have failed. ♦ * * The annual California vs. University of Southern California football game will be played on Thanksgiving day this year. Alaska and Panama have baseball clubs, whicji makes it pretty near unanimous so far as North America is concerned. - “Than whom there is no greater batsman,” writes a eulogist of Ty to 1916, Tris Speaker was a wee bit than wbomer. ’ ,,.■■■ Well, you’ve got to admit that Jess Willard is neutral, strictly neutral — he doesn't care whom he gives a benefit for so long as it is for Jess Willard. * • • Kansas City (Mo.) amateur boxers may take trips to Memphis, New Orleans. Denver and Boston to take part in tourneys held in those cities this fall. ■>— - -*- ♦ ~ .Many reasons have been advanced why diamond stars should be ruled out of literature, but nobody has expressed a fear that they might acquire writer’s cragip. A ' ♦.»*"' * ? Two Chinese, Y. C. Lee and L. HL Yip, are among candidates for Columbia university’s wrestling team. Lee is competing in the 115-porfnd class and Yip in the 125-pound class.

JOKE ON J. I. TAYLOR

Ed Spencer tells a funny one i on John I. Taylor, former owner ( of the Red Sox. On one of the Red Sox’s western ,trips several years ago It l was brought to Taylor’s atten- | tion by sortie well wisher who ( was very badly informed that Frank Arellanes. then a pitcher 1 with Taylor’s dub, was thinking , seriously *of getting married. ( Immediately Taylor got on the trail of the Santa Crpz hurler. 1 ••Here’Sssoo for yon. Frank.” ' said the Red Sox’s owner, “and , dt’s all yours if you don’t get married Just at this time.” Arellanfes accepted the money I and said nothing. | “Why shouldn’t he have done ( so?” asks Spencer. “Frank didn’t know anything about his 1 coming marriage until Taylor I told him about it.”

AFTER QUARTER-MILE MARK

Bob Simpson, Missouri Athlete, to Be Groomed to Go After Record Set by Ted Meredith. The latest athlete to be groomed to go after the record of Ted Meredith, the former great University of Pennsylvania flyer, is Bob Simpson, the University of Missouri athlete, who shattered the world’s mark for the 120-yard high Ijurdles during the past season, setting it at 14 3-5 seconds. Though the fact is not generally known, Simpson has run a quartermire In 49 seconds on his college relay team. Missouri Intends sending a one-mile relay team to the University of Pennsylvania' carnival in April, and Simpson Is to run anchor in the race. The great hurdler is expected to show enough speed in that event to warrant sending him out for the quarter-mlle.

Bob Simpson.

If he does not -give enough promise he will confine his attention to the hurdle events. Simpson is six feet tall, heavy and rangy, and possesses great speed and power, and may make a good try at the wonderful mark set by Meredith.

HONUS STICKS TO DREYFUSS

Wagner Has Worked for Only One Man in Twenty Seasons in Major League Baseball. —Hmrus Wagner 4s-"Un4que 4n--basebalL™ in several ways besides being the only man who ever batted for .300 in 17 successive years, and, never being a hold-out, he has worked for only one man in his 20 seasons in major league baseball. " . He went to work for Barney Dreyfuss in Louisville In 1897, and he is

Honus Wagner.

still drawing his pay from the same man in Pittsburgh. No other active player has worked for one man anywhere near the same number of years.

FRANK SLAVIN IN TRENCHES

Famous Old Australian Heavyweight at Front in France—Fought Big 777; Men in His Day. —"'>777B Frank P. Slaving the famous Australian heavyweight of two or three decades ago.lsnot too old to fight in the trenches. Although fifty-five years of age, Slavin enlisted with the Canadian contingent,And has been at the front in France for some time. In his time, Slavin fought such men as Charlie Mitchell, Jim Hall, Jake Kllrain, Frank Craig, Joe McAuliffe and Buffalo .Costello. i.