Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1917 — Page 2

IF YOU LIVE IN A BOWL GET OUT OF IT OR AT LEAST LOOK OVER THE RIM

Do you live in a bowl? .** If you do, move out; and while you are preparing to move out, look iover the rim of the present. That is what ails so many of us. We live in a bowl and never look lover its rim. We grow smaller and narrower and peskier until we are an affliction to ourselves and an added burden to an already overburdened world. Nobody need live in a bowl. He can live on a plane, and the high iplaces are always within sight, if not of his eye, of his mind. A fly struggling up the sides of a bowl, and slipping back at last to |be drowned in a flood of milk poured into it, typifies many men and j women. The fly invited his own milky fate. He could have gotten out of the (bowl. He had wings. They were given him for escape from bowls and other narrow spheres. We should blame ourselves, none other, if our lives are narrow and unproductive and disappointing. We may have been born in a mean and narrow environment. The fly may have been hatched in the bowl. But we can get out because we can think. So long as a man thinks he will grow, and so long as he grows there is hope. Every man can travel far, for his thoughts may roam the world. The newspapers, the public libraries, put a compartment in a train at his disposal and give him a round-the-world ticket. • Every woman should give some thought every day to matters outside lher home. Every man should send his thoughts traveling in some channels besides those of his work, for a few minutes a day. In time the woman will become a better housekeeper, the man a more skillful workman, for those mind excursions out of the bowl of their own affairs of 'today.

Mother’s Cook Book

Reduce the cost of living by utilizing all leftovers and having meatless dinners at least three times a week; Summer Dishes. Delicious as the cucumber is to the jpalate it has little nourishment. Its ivalue lies in its mineral salts. cellu-_ ilose and the cooling properties o£ its iwater content. The salad dressing or jsauce with which the vegetable is iserved does make it a nourishing dish. The bitter principle even when pot pronounced is especially good for the complexion taken inside or out. Cui cumbers peeled and cut in half lengthiwise are boHed and served with butter ias a vegetable. After being parboiled (they may be dipped in egg and crumbs iand fried. They are also well liked as (fritters and stewed with a cream sauce Ils another favorite method. Cucumber Sauce for Fish. The favorite method of serving cu|cumbers is to keep the delicate crispiness which is so refreshing on a hot iday. Cucumber chopped fine and 'mixed with half as much chopped lonion, seasoned well with salt, pepper iand vinegar, makes a fine sauce to .serve with fish. ' Tomato Ice. Take the pulp and juice of a quart iof tomatoes, rubbed through a sieve do remove the skin and seeds, add the Juice of three lemons, sugar to sweeten and a cupful of finely chopped can•died ginger.’ Add a quart of boiled water and a half-cupful of chopped maraschino cherries, and freeze. Hot Stuffed Tomatoes. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add a half-cupful of bread crumbs and enough stock to moisten the bread. Stir over the fire until a paste Us formed, then add three tablespoonjfnls of chopped chicken, a tablespoontful of chopped ham, grated onion, ceP ery salt and pepper to taste. Cut round pieces from the tops of firm, leven-sized tomatoes, remove the tenders and turn on a plate to drain. ■Fill with the mixture and put into a (buttered pan to bake. A few minutes before taking from the oven cover each with a little white of egg beaten stiff, then when brown, serve at once. Cheese and Olives. Beat two tablespoonfuls of sweet cream into one cream cheese or the equivalent of cottage cheese, add salt and paprika to make it pink and a tablespoonful of chopped chives. Roll and chill and serve on head lettuce or cress with French dressing.

How Many Deaf Mutes “Hear” And Are Thrilled by Music

F Deaf mutes love music. It thrills them. They feel it by placing their hands and elbows on a piano while the teacher plays it. The vibrations not only give sensations which enliven the body, but they actually stimulate them. The parts most sensitive to vibrations are the chest, head, lungs and feet. “An exciting feeling comes up through the floor,” is the way-one deaf !boy describes it, according to the Popular Science Monthly. “Without music I would be lonesome,” wrote a little Italian deaf mute. "It gives me a strong shock through the fpet to the head,” stated another. Others when asked to explain their sensations, said: "I feel it in my temples and in my legs,” “I feel it through my body,” and "I feel It in my chest and lungs.”

By ADA PATTERSON.

FAVORITE OF FILMDOM

Pretty star who has won high place in the world of the movies.

Suggestions for the Patriotic Housewife

Specialist in Horne Economics, Colorado Agricultural College. Use cheaper cuts of meat, cooking them thoroughly and seasoning them carefully. Use dried, salted and pickled meats and fish. Use, in a variety of ways, meat substitutes such as cheese, (commercial and home-made) nuts, beans, peas, milk, eggs. Use milk in all forms for it is a nourishing and cheap food. Don’t scorn skim milk. , Use corn products in diet, such as cornmeal dishes, hominy, corn grits. Use rice and starchy pastes (macaroni, noodles, etc.), as potato substitutes. Use some dried'fruits as desserts, peaches, apples, prunes, etc. Wash fruit thoroughly, soak in cold water and cook fruit in that water. Use carefully every bit of fat. Render out suet, chicken fat, save ham and bacon drippings for gravies, shortening, dressing, “greens,” etc. Use all vegetables in the large variety of ways so well known to every housewife. Plan meals carefully, order wisely, store carefully, cook and serve food properly. Feed your fowls as many different kinds of food ,as you can. A bright red comb on a fowl may be generally® taken as an indication of health. A few hens in the back yard well cared for will help reduce gh cost of Alving. “v-Xy 0

Pearl White

By MIRIAM M. HAYNES.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN*. RENSSELAER. IND.

Hit and Miss.

Woman’s line of least resistance is the clothes line. 4 The turtle is an optimistic chap—to him everything is a snap. . Oh. yes, we often see a man who is public spirited—thdtTsT takes his spirits publicly. It’s a wise father who knows his own son —a silly son who noses on father. ~ So loqg as the family jars are confined to the flivver and the pantry all will be ■well. Never tell a woman you are afraid you are unworthy of her. Leave her alone; she’ll find it out for herself soon enough.

Great Lesson Is Taught by Old Legend of the Hindus

The familiar mustard has a moral tale told in its connection by the Hindus, a story whose moral is as pungent as the flavor of the plant. A mother, the legend runs, had lost her only child, and, distracted, she carried the little body from door to door, from temple to temple, crying out to priest and doctor, to wise man and scholar, “Oh, master, what can I do to save my child?” Everywhere she was greeted by pity, but no help came until one old sage answered, “One thing will bring him back ’to you, and one only—a handful of mustard seed from a house in which no child or loved one lias ever died.” With hope she hurried out on her quest, but everywhere as she put the question, “Has any loved one died in this house?” the Inmates would answer, “Of a surety, for countless are the hosts of the dead, and never was there one so desolate as to leave none to mourn the passing.” And as she went the lesson sank into her heart that her loss had but joined her soul to the universal soul of humanity; that there was none in all the wide world to whom sorrow was unknown, and, going hack to the wise man, she laid her little dead child at his feet, crying out: “I have learned my lesson. Mine is but the common lot, for death is the end of all.”

Old Memories.

A quaint little pathway that twisted and turned -——- And passed from our sight at the mill. Then wandered away where the wild flowers burned Their gold in the slope of the hill. How silent It led, with the alders above. Till splashed by the sun streaming through. It ended its way on the threshold of love. Of an old fashioned cottage we knew. Each flower that bloomed ’round the lattice way there Came down from the gardens above— Each new opened blossom gave out on the air Fresh tokens of tenderest love— Each sigh in the trees of the breeze passing through. Each call of a bird for its mate. Befitted this old-fashioned cottage we knew And the old-fashioned folk at the gate. The gourd at the wall, the bucket and sweep, The something that whispered of home. The warmth of tire welcome they treasure and keep To greet a son given to roam; Aye, each little thing, each joy and care That passes in distant review; May we find the old-fashioned cottages there And the old-fashioned couples we knew. —John D. Wells, in Buffalo Evening News.

Some Observations.

Beauty may be only skin deep, but a lot of fellows can’t see through it. The reason so many people kill time is because time/never puts up a holler. There isn’t much to the fellow who doesn’t get mad enough to fight once in " a while. To live a decent life is not all that is necessary; a man can be decent and not be particularly useful. The bees have a way of dealing with the drones. When food gets scarce they kick them out of the hive. The man who thinks he knows it all is always running into something that wasn’t in the book when he studied it; Of all the foolish notions in the world the notion that you can avoid war by getting married is the foollshest. , The great trouble with this world is that too many people are leaving it to somebody else to keep them out of trouble. Better the fellow who brags about the kind deeds that he has done than the fellow who keeps his mouth shut’' because he has never (lone anything for anyone else to brag about.

The Geography of Japan.

Until Ino Chukei finished his labor Of love in 1821 nothing like an authentic map of Japan existed. His career was remarkable, for it was not until he had reached the age of fifty--11 ve years—having heen a sake brewer from boyhood—that he turned his attention to surveying. His maps were found to be so good and so free from errors that they were adopted as the. basis of the trigonometrical survey of Japan. During his work he surveyed 137,000 square miles, using instruments which he made himself; but he met with no reward during his life, for on the termination of his undertaking he was thrown into prison by the Shoguns, and he remained there ‘until he died. He has since been honored by a monument, erected to his memory in Tokyo.

When her auto Injured a. tramp dog, a New York woman carried the animal eight miles to a doctor. “

AVERT EROSION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND

BRUSH DAMS BUILT FOR CHECKING EROSION.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Field surveys disclosed that fields with graded terraces where the grades varied were in better condition than were any having uniform graded terraces. The profiles of the grade lines of these terraces showed a tendency of the grade to increase toward the outlets, a short distance at the upper end of the terrace being level. This practice possesses much merit. The grade is increased at intervals along the terrace to accommodate the continually augmented discharge from the increasing size of the drainage area. A lesser grade may be used at the lower end of a variable-graded terrace than is required for a uniform-graded terrace of the same length. This is due to._the_fact that a smaller rate of rain-, fall can be used, since with the lesser grade of the variable-graded terrace, the time required for the water to flow the length of the terrace is greater than for the uniform-graded terrace. Studies and calculations show that the lengths of a variable-graded terrace that can be used, for a grade of 0.5 per cent at the lower end, are 1,570, 1,280, and 1,100 feet on slopes of 5, 10 and 15 per cent, respectively, as compared with lengths of 1,210, 970, and 820 feet for terraces with a uniform grade of 0.5 per cent. In laying off a terrace with variable grade, the grade should be increased at intervals of 200 or 300 feet and at all sharp bends where the terrace crosses a gully or depression in a field. For example, if it is desired to lay off a terrace on a 10 per cent slope, 1,200 feet long and with a vertical spacing of 4 feet, and the grade of the terrace is to be changed every 300 feet, then the grades would be as follows:

Station. Grade In feet per From— To— 100 feet 0 300 0.05 300 600 .14 600 900 .27 900 1,200 AF It is seen from the above that the grade for the first 300 feet of terrace is almost negligible. This portion coulcUwell be laid off level. If a terrace with a uniform grade were used, a grade of 0.77 per cent would be required. Both practice and theory show that the variable-graded terrace is superior to the uniform-graded type. Outlets. Wherever’possible terraces should end at natural drainage channels. The absence of a suitable drainage outlet within the~limlls of a field often necessitates ending the terraces at fence lines, depressions or draws. The volume of water which is discharged from the ends of a system of graded terraces often erodes unsightly and objectionable ditches along the ends of the terraces to the foot of the slope. Erosion in such channels can be reduced greatly by lining them with stones or seeding them to grass. The channels and banks of graded terraces should not be cultivated for 20 to 30 feet from the Outlet channel but should be permanently sodded. Breaks commonly occur and erosion is most active near the ends of graded terraces, owing to the usually large volume of water passing. Some sort of •protective covering of stones, boards or other hard material should be employed to prevent this washing. Where a terrace discharges Into a deep ditch a box trough is used sometimes to -give the water a free overfall Into the ditch. This prevents erosion in the 'terrace channel. Sometimes hillside ditches are constructed as outlets for terraces. Such idltches should have a fall two or three times , that of the terraces and should be located so as to cross them and discharge into the nearest available drainage channel. Often wooded strips s os land are left iri fields to afford a place for the discharge of the water 'with a minimum amount of erosion. Mdny of the failures of graded terraces may be attributed, to irregjjlqrlYtes in grade. Breaks occur often with abrupt; reductions in the grade. This 'causes a piling up of tlis water and a •consequent overtopping of the terrace by reason of the inability of a full

channel to carry the same amount of water on a light grade as on a heavy one. With a variable-graded terrace there is less likelihood of overtopping because the grade Is increased at short intervals along the terrace. Again, breaks in graded terraces are very frequent where gullies and depressions are crossed and at abrupt bends. Such breaks are due to sudden changes in the direction of flow or to a change in grade, and often to both. The usual practice of crossing depressions at a low elevation to avoid abrupt bends, results in an increase of grade to the middle of the depression and a decrease beyond the middle. In order to avoid a break due to this diminution in grade it becomes necessary to maintain the top of the terrace at a uniform grade. This necessitates the building of a high and broad embankment across the depression similar to the one described for level terraces. Wherever It can be done without increasing lhe gr/ide to such an extent as to cause serious erosion, it is advisable to make the grade greater for that portion of the terrace Leading away from the middle of the depression than for the portion leading to the middle. Use of Graded Terrace. The graded terrace is adapted particularly for use on Impervious and worn-out soils, and on shallow open soils with an impermeable subsoil foundation —in general, soils that are incapable of absorbing much water., Since the object of terracing is to prevent erosion, and as this is accomplished best by securing the least movement of the surface water, it can be seen readily that, within limits, the efficiency of a graded terrace varies inversely with the amount of fall given to it. The greater the fall, the greater the velocity and, hence, the greater the erosive power of the moving water. The embankment of a graded terrace, being subjected to the erosive action of the water on its upper side, is often washed considerably, particularly at bends. The deposit of soil in the terrace channel reduces both the grade and the cross-sectional area of the channel and renders the terrace extremely susceptible to overtopping during the 'nett rain. Also the finer, lighter, and more fertile particles of soil remain suspended in the moving water and are carried off the field. In such cases, by the use of excessive grades, the .very cream of the soil Is lost. Where erosion of a terrace takes place no attempt should be made to cultivate th e ter race. It should be seeded to grass. The result that should be attained by a system of terraces and proper farming methods has been expressed in this way:

The primary object is conservation of both solid and fluid parts of the soil through a balanced distribution of the water supply. The ideal distribution is attained when all the rainfall or melting snow is absorbed by the ground or its cover, leaving none to run off aver the surface of the field or pasture; in which case the water so assorted is retained Iq the soil and subsoil until utilized largely or wholly in the making of useful' crops, while any excess either remains In the deeper subsoil and rocks as ground water or through seepage feeds the permanent streams. These conditions are fulfilled most nearly by the horizontal bench terrace and the broad-base level-ridge terrace, since the movement of the water Is redbced to a minimum by both. The graded terrace lacks much in meeting the requirements. 1 In general it is recommended that the broad-base level-ridge terrace be used wherever Conditions of and topography will permit —that Is, where the soil absorbs a portion of the rainfall and -the slopes are not tbo steep. The broad-base level-ridge terrace supplemented by efficient tile drains suitably located would afford the most ideal method for preventing soil erosion on any type of soil. Often the yields obtained "and the saving resulting from the absence of soil erosion would justify, in a financial way, the installation of tile.

LIFTS THE SHADOW

By DOROTHY BLACKMORE.

Lorna gazed pensively out over the vast gardens that surrounded her faNeither artistic endeavor n<’fr money had been spared in making the place one of exquisite beauty. , . , But Lorna’s eyes were shadowed and her lips petulant. «I might Just as well never have been born,” she often told herself. “Mamma and papa would have been spared much trouble if I had been left out of the world.” In this last thought Lorna was right. She had been the cause of anxiety and worry to her parents. They had done everything to make her happy. But they had failed to soften the steadily darkening shadows in Lorna’s eyes. Nothing in the world seemed to suit her, because she was satisfied with nothing that had the midutest imperfection in it. At times she gave way to fits of weeding. Now she had begun to weep softly as she sat on the fallen tree trunk in the forest of her father’s estate. A young man came whistling through the woods. He stopped and listened; he heard her sob. Lorna then looked up without attempting to hide her tears. “Wh —what’s the matter?” asked Bobhy Lake of the stranger, sympathetically. Lorna flashed a glance at him through the tears. “Everything!” she said, wrathfully. Bobby looked wise and nodded. The sympathy had left his expression and instead a suppressed smile lurked in his eyes. Lorna saw the twinkle and thought It brutal. “I am a very unhappy person,” she said. “Love affair?’ Bobhy said, sagely. “No! Certainly not,” Lorna retorted. “A pain, perhaps, from eating green apples?” Bobby ventured. “I haven’t even seen a green apple. . I am just unhappy,” Lorna said pensively. “I can’t find anything perfect. I find something to criticize in everyone and everything.” “Yourself included, I hope?” Bobby suggested. “I suppose_you realize that you are a little chump to sit on a fallen tree bawling for nothing at all?” Before Lorna could retort, Bobby Lake had turned on his heel and left her.

The next day when she was in the garden she tried to tell herself that she was not constantly on the alert for a sight Of the strange and impertinent young man. When she heard his whistle she felt her pulse quicken. “Has your disposition Improved?” he asked, without preamble. “My disposition is as good as your manners,” Lorna retorted. “I doubt even that,” Bobby said. “And what do you do with yourself besides sit out here and bawl?” he asked. “Wouldn’t It be better for a young woman who seems to have so much Idle time to go about the village visiting the poor mothers and offering them cheery hours. Or, maybe, it would suit you better to invite swarms of orphans to your lovely home —bring them out her and tell them fairy stories?” Lorna bit her lip. “I have never thought of—those things,” she admitted. “Of anything—but yourself, perhaps,” Bobby added. “You would be a peculiar person if you were happy under those circumstances. I see now why you weep. You are selfish; you are sorry for yourself. You are tired of your own personality. You are so wrapped up in yourself that you have failed to see the beauty of all this.” "You are rude,” Lorna said. With the words she turned and left him. Day after day the two met in the secluded corner of the garden. Day by day Lorna’s parents saw the shadows lifting from her eyes. One day Bobby told Loma that he was going back to town. She looked as if she were ready to weep. “Now—w'hat’s the matter?” h© asked. “Where is the sunshine I have been helping you to find?” “You are taking it all with you,” she said, choking over the words. Bobby took her roughly in his arms. *‘l am going to town only long enough to sell some canvasses in order to have enough money to buy a ring or two. Then I*m coming back to telt you I love you.” “Tell me now Bobby,” Lorna begged. “Tell me now. I don’t deserve to- hear such wonderful music, but, oh —I’ll promise to deserve all the happiness you have’ Sh'own me.” (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Sudden Transformation.

An amusirfg 1 Incident occurred recently on an Edinburgh tramcar. A. small boy, who looked about eleven years old, but whose face bore a frown of world-weary ‘cynicism, * climbed to the top deck of a traintar. When the conductor appeared the, small boy affected a retfiarkable Change in his facial expression. The disappeared, the lines of experience, and cynicism smoothed out. In a juvenile squeak the boy asked for a “children’s” half-price ticket. The small! boy waited until the conductor had descended, and then came another quick change. The world-weariness returned, the lines that come from a life in the,’ money market and the lack-luster dullness came back. The small boy then pulled out a large cigarette case, selected a fat cigarette, and laconically, afjced another man for a light.