Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Page 3

Food Which Will Provide the Most Protein at Smallest Cost

(From the United States Department of / Agriculture.) Because protein is so important to, the health of the body, it is not considered desirable In diets consisting of the ordinary combinations of food materials to cut down the quantity in the dally food below 3% ounces per adult man and proportionate amounts for women and children. How then can the housekeeper reduce the cost of food and still provide enough of this necessary but expensive material? The best way is to learn how much protein Is provided by different kinds of food and then choose the kinds which will furnish what the family needs for the lowest cost and with the least waste. This task will be easier if the housewife will group In her mind the foods which are rich in protein and then consider ways of substituting less expensive % for more expensive ones. The lists given below include some of the more common foods in which protein Is abundant and show in a gen- • eral way the amounts and proportion of protein in the different kinds as they are purchased; that is. Including refuse, such as bones and gristle, egg shells, etc. Approximate amounts of protein in common food materials: -—“Fresh meats: ~ Beef contains from 2 to 3 ounces of protein per pound. 'Veal from 2 to 3 ounces of protein per pound. Mutton contains from 2 to 2% ounces of protein per pound. Lamb contains about 2 1 A ounces of protein per pound. Pork contains about 2 ounces of protein per pound. Poultry—chicken, duck, goose, turkey, etc., contain from 2to 2 1 4 ounces of protein per pound. Game —squirrel, rabbit, wild birds, etc., contain from 2 to ounces of protein per pound. Prepared meats: Corned beef contains 2*4 ounces of protein per pound. Dried beef contains 4 ounces of protein per pound. Pork sausage contains 2 ounces of protein per pound. Canned chicken contains 4 ounces of protein per pound. . Fresh sish —cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, perch, salmon, shad, etc., contain from to 2% ounces of protein per pound. Dried fish contains from 2% to 3 ounces of protein per pound. , Eggs contain 2 ounces of protein per pound. Dairy products: Whole milk contains about 1 ounce of protein per quart. Skim milk contains about 1 ounce of protein per quart. Buttermilk contains about 1 ounce of protein per quart.

Wise and Otherwise.

When the boss is away the clerks get gay. Too many touches will harden the easy mark. Better an impediment in the speech than in the brain. This world remembers the man who dies game—for a day. It’s advice when you give it and a lecture when you receive it. • A man doesn’t have to wear good clothes if he can afford them. Too much cannot be said in favor of the person who hasn't ' much to say. A woman’s idea of economy is to buy a 5-cent loaf of bread instead of a dollar sack of flour.

Window Boxes, Which May Be Started at Small Cost, Make Home More Cheerful

Window boxes made up of flowering plants, give an added touch of brightness and pleasure to the home life and may be started at a small outlay, according to M. F. Ahearn, professor of landscape gardening in the Kansas State Agricultural college. “Both indoor and outdoor boxes may be used to good advantage,” said Professor Ahearn, “and the most satisfactory outdoor window box may be had by using evergreens such as red cedar, arbor vitae, and white and blue spruce. “These plants should be from 6 to 18 inches in height? and may be arranged effectively by keeping the taller ones in the center and back, and the smaller ones in the foreground. Such a bpx, after being well started, will require little attention and need not be protected from wintry weather. “For the indoor window boxes, Boston fern, German ivy, variegated periwinkle, red geraniums, nasturtiums, snapdragon, and vinca alba may be used with good effect All the flowers should be removed from the plants as soon as they begin to fade. In order to obtain the best results the box plants should be given an application of fertilizer once or twice a month. An east or south exposure will be found best for most window plants."

Optimistic Thought

Quiet mildr are generally the most happy.

Condensed milk contains about 1 ounce of protein per 12-ounce can. Whole-milk cheese contains about 4 ounces of protein per pound. Cottage cheese contains about 3 ounces of protein per pound. Dried legumes: Beans contain 3 ounces of protein per pound. Cowpeas contain 3 ounces of protein per pound. Peas contain 4 ounces of protein per pound. Peanuts contain 3 ounces of protein per pound. ■ Nuts: Almonds contain nearly 2 ounces of protein per pound. Walnuts contain a little over 1 ounce of protein per pound. Cereal foods: Wheat flour contains 2 ounces of protein per pound. Cornmeal contains 1% ounces of protein per pound. Oatmeal contains 2 2-3 ounces of protein per pound. Bread contains 1% ounces of protein per pound. In considering the amount of protein supplied by certain foods, one must make a distinction between the cooked and the uncooked state. Dried legumes and cereals, for example, usually-take up. considerable. water, during cooking, and thus become more bulky and dilute. A pound of baked beans supplies the body with about one-third as much protein as a pound of raw behns. Oatmeal takes up so much water In cooking that a pound of boiled oatmeal has only about oneeighth the food value of a pound of raw. A pound of raw beans or oatmeal would have practically the same total food value after cooking as before, but their weight woufh be greater. In the same way, a cupful of raw beans or oatmeal would make several cupfuls when cooked.

When eggs are beaten, as in making omelets and meringues, air is forced Into them and they become more bulky. In this way a given number of eggs cas often be made to serve more persons than if they are prepared without beading; but each person gets less eggs. If meat is made into stew, it goes further, because the water adds to the bulk of the dish ; but the finished dish has much lower protein and fuel value than the original meat. When meat is cooked without water, as in roasting, broiling or frying, there is not much change in its composition. A housekeeper in choosing foods at market rightly compares them in their raw state; but when she Is considering them as they are actually served at meals, she must remember these differences in cooking. They should also be considered in choosing dishes at restaurants. Changes in cooking cereals are discussed in another bulletin of this series.

FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

Cockerels for Breeders. The specialty of an Eastern backyard poultrykeeper is cockerels for breeding, which he sells for $2.50 each and up. His flock is small, seldom numbering more than 75 hens, and his houses represent a small Investment. By occupation a brickyard owner and manager, he started keeping Rhode Island Reds several years ago, utilizing some .idle land back of his residence. He had good success in egg production, and being interested in the fancy side, also, bought stock from winners at the shows. In breeding each spring, he uses eggs from selected hens mated with good show cockerels, Beginning in late winter, all the available broody hens are given eggs. Sometimes as many as 25 are sitting at once. All the eggs he cannot handle with

MOTHER’S COOK BOOK

From too much love of living. From hope and fear set free, We think with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That, dead rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.. —Swinburne. Roquefort Celery Sticks. Wash and dry short stalks of celery. Mix a half pound of Roquefort cheese with a tablespoonful of olive oil, six. drops of Worcestershire sauce, a fourth of a teaspoonful of paprika, and a tablespoonful of butter. When smooth, fill the stalks and serve with hot toasted crackers with coffee, for dessert. Oatmeal Macaroons. Cream one tablespoonful of fat with half a cupful of sugar, add a beaten egg and a cupful and a. half of rolled oats, mixed with a teaspoonful each of salt and baking powder. , Cornmeal Fish Balls. Mix a cupful of shredded fish with two cupfuls of cornmeal mush, add a beaten egg and a teaspoonful of baking powder, mix well and fry in deep fat. When using salt .fish It will need to be freshened.

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hens himself, he "lets out,” as far ■* possible, to farmer friends. They pay him no cash for these, but the understanding is that in the fall he shall visit the farm and take his pick of the hatch, one cockerel or pullet for every egg setting furnished. He sells as many as 100 cockerels in a season. Most of them are sold through newspaper and farm periodical advertising. He ships on a satisfaction guaranteed or monev back basis. The shipping cases ari> boxes 2 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot, and are bought at a store for 15 cents apiece. One of these cases, which are light but strong, will carry two cockerels. Big, good-looking cockerels are ths kind sent away. This man has a good laying strain, but he does not claim the cockerels have extraordinary records back of them. Cockerels which do not come up to his standard he sells as rodsters.

AN EXPERT ON POTATOES

Lou D. Sweet

Farmer in the Crystal river irrlgatee district on the western slope of th€ Rocky mountains near Glenwood Springs, Colo., who is now potato expert of the United States food administration. Mr. Sweet is president of the Potato Association of America and the Colorado State Potato Growers’ association.

Credit for Telescope Given to Dutch Spectacle Maker

The first telescope has been attributed to various scientists and inventors of the early part of the seventeenth century, including Galileo, Jansen, Jacob Adrianz and Zacarias Tausz; but documentary evidence points to a Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey, as the man who discovered the germ of the idea. In the archives of Holland is a petition, presented October 2, 1608, in which Lippershey asks for what would now be called a patent for an instrument for seeing at a distance. The senators were given a demonstration of the contrivance in the turrets of the prlnce’& palace, and the committee was so much Impressed that they gave an order for three telescopes. The price paid was 900 florins, or about .$370 each. A few months later the senators refused to give Lippershey the monopoly he desired on the ground that “it appears that many other persons have a knowledge of this new invention.” The lenses of these first telescopes were made of rock crystal.

War Surgeons Work Wonders.

Maj. J. E. Goldthwaite, a surgeon of the United States army, has been touring the war hospitals in Europe. In a London hospital, out of a batch of 1,350 wounded soldiers who had been crushed and fearfully mainted by shells, he said 1,000 were so skilfully patched up they were able to return to duty. —Capper’s Weekly.

Curried Chicken. Take one three-pound, tender'chicken, six small onions, one clove of garlic, half a pound of any good shortening, two teaspoonfuls of curry powder, a teaspoonful of salt, a cupful of cream or rich milk, either sw’eet or sour, and half a cupful of shredded coconut. Chop the onions and garlic very fine and mix with them the curry powder and salt. Fry the chicken in the hot fat and when half done add the curried onions; let all cook until the meat is tender. Add the cream and the coconut and cook slowly. Serve with boiled rice. —— F Economrcal Dishes. Griddle cakes for breakfast may be prepared by using a cupful of bits of bread soaked over night In sour milk. Add enough white flour to thicken to a griddle cake batter, soda and salt In the amount of half a teaspoonful to a cupful of sour milk. A little cornmeal may be added to give variety and when nicely browned on a hot gr&dle the cakes are most appetizing. —’ . «

GREAT BRITAIN FIXES PRICES OF FOOD

Rules Less Drastic Than Germany’s, But Less Lax Than Ours. EXPLAINED BYLORD RHONDDA Chief Alm Is to Safeguard the Interest of Consumers First of All—• Imposes Little Compulsory Rationing. Washington.—Three general policies In food saving are now being maintained by three great nations, the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The German Idea is strict rationing of the consumer, and recently the United States food administration Issued figures showing the present German ration, which Is meager as to variety and far below average dietetic requirements. The American idea in food saving is to secure voluntary co-operation, as far as possible, from both the public and the producer and handlers of food articles.

•The British idea lies between the two. As little compulsory rationing as possible is Imposed upon the general public. But there Is a farreachlng and rigid supervision of all food articles by regulating the manufacturers and merchants, by the establishment of maximum prices, and after December 30 rationing cards are to be issued for sugar. What Lord Rhondda Says. A statement just Issued by Lord Rhondda, the Brltisji food controller, describing the British system of food control gives a succinct and a clear picture for comparison of the food-cav-ing measures which are now being followed in the United States. Lord Rhondda says: “My aim Is to safeguard the Interests of the consumer, to do away with profiteering altogether, and to prevent excessive profits t of any kind. The framework of our machinery Is formed on the civil service. They ace the administrators, but in all cases we secure the best available business men to advise ’ them, as well as a number of expert committees dealing with almost every food commodity. The policy Is to limit profits at every step from the producer to the consumer, and at the same time to regulate supply. “A costings department under the direction of chartered accountants has been set up, through which the profits made by any manufacturer or retailer of food can be ascertained. The country has been divided into separate areas, in each of which a leading firm of accountants has been appointed by this department to do the necessary work. Reasonable profit based on prewar rates Is added to the present cost, the price limits agreed on that basis, after consultation with the representatives of the trades concerned. Sixteen Food Divisions. “Decentralization is obtained by dividing Great Britain into 16 food divisions, consisting of so many counties. Each division is under the superintendence of a commissioner appointed by the food controller. In ?ach of these divisions the borough, arban or rural district councils, or ather local authorities, appoint local food committees, with limited powers and certain discretion, to carry out meh regulations as regards price and distribution as may be Issued from headquarters. “Local tradesmen are registered with their local committees, and if any tradesman does not carfy out regulations and orders he may be struck off

MARATHON RUNNER DISPATCH BEARER

Henri St. K Yves, Famous Sprinter, Now Carries Messages for French Army. HAS MANY NARROW ESCAPES Spotted by Germans While Carrying Orders, He Remains in WaterFilled Shell-Hole for Five Hours—Wants to Fly. Paris.—Henri Saint Yves, the former marathon runner and now a dispatch bearer in the French army, has returned to Paris sor 1 a special 24hour furlough, granted him because of a particularly perilous mission which he carried out in the course of his duties in the trenches in front of Saint Quentin. While trying to carry orders from the advanced French trench line to a French machine gun crew which had established Itself in a slatfl hole In the middle of “No Man’s \and” half-way between the opposing lines. Saint Yves was “spotted” by two German machine-gun crews, also holding shell holes. They opened a cross-fire on the former long-distance runner and he dropped into the nearest shell hole, which was almost full of rain water. Saint Yves remained in the water, with Just his head above the surface to enable him to breathe, for five hours, or until after darkness. Then he crept out and msfle hts way to the French machi.’;e-«un position, delivered the -orders to the lieutenant

the register and prevented from further trading. The various orders fixing or amending the maximum trice# of meat, milk, potatoes, bread, etc., are communicated to the local committees, and the trades and public are Informed through the dally and trades press. A staff of Inspectors Is kept at headquarters, and a number of sentences have been Imposed by magistrates throughout the country for contravention of the regulations. The general penalty Is a fine not exceeding SIOO, or a term of six months’ imprisonment, with or without hard labor, or both. This punishment may be inflicted for every several offense. I purpose to make the penalties more severe. -"While the prices of practically all essential foods are now under control, no compulsory rationing is imposed on the general public, although all public eating places are rationed as to the amount of meat, flour, bread and sugar which may be used in every week on the basis of an average for each meal. After December 30 only half a pound of sugar per capita will he permitted. This will be obtainable through a system of each consuming householder or consumer registering with a specified retailer, and securing from the local food committee a card entitling his household or himself to the ration. The retailer will keep a record of his deliveries to insure his not supplying any one customer in one week with more than the proper allowance. Arrangements for the issue of these cards are In progress, and they will form the groundwork should it become necessary later on to ration other foodstuffs. Restrictions in Manufacturing.

“There are many restrictions in manufacturing. Flour made from wheat must be straight-run flour, milled to 81 per cent extraction, and it is compulsory to mix in 20 per cent of flour from other cereals and pulse, and permissible to mix in up to 50 per cent, while no bread may be sold unless 12 hours old. Following on restrictions of 50 per cent and 40 per cent, manufacturers are now restricted to the use of only 25 per cent of the amount of sugar they used in 1915. Speaking generally, the use of foodstuffs for industrial purposes and for the feeding of animals has been either restricted or prohibited. 'Waste of bread is a criminal offense.

“Appeals for economy in consumption have been made, and a new campaign is being organized to this end. The maximum price of the quartern loaf has* been reduced to ninepence for cash over the counter. It was found possible to do this by subsidizing flour. I find it necessary to control practically all essential commodities. The danger that In reducing prices we may restrict supplies and increase consumption is obvious, but I think it can be largely overcome. “It has been suggested that our recent fixing of meat prices will lead to excessive slaughtering. If it does, we are in a position to control the transport of meat, and we are taking step# to license the slaughter house. A condition of the license will be that ao more than a certain number of cattle are slaughtered per week. We also propose to control the sales through the auctions, and we can limit the quantity there. In the course of a month or two we hope to be able to determine approximately what quantity of meat might to go to each industrial area and to limit the quantity if necessary. Maximum wholesale meat prices for the whole kingdom have been fixed independently of the cost of transport, but we hope to meet the danger that producing areas, because of this, might get more than their fair share of supplies by fixing a flat railway rate.

in charge and made his way to the trenches again. Sent to the Hospital. Saint Yves had to go to a hospital for ten days, however, as the shell hole water in which he had been immersed so long was, “gassy,” having asiini fated the poisonous properties of the gas shells from both sides which had been rained down in "No Man’s Land.” Several hours after Saint Yves emerged from the shell hole the poisonous water got in its effect Saint Yves was wounded in the leg last May, but tias entirely recovered from that and asserts he will be able to run as well as ever if the war ever ends and he gets back into civilian life. The marathon runner has applied for a transfer to the aviation? and his superior officers have indorsed his request He expects to be called to an aviation school to begin his training at any time. Saint Yves will try to be brevetted as a fighting pilot for flying in single-seated machines. z “I hear that poor old Tom Longboat has been killed with the Canadians up near Lens,” said Saint Yves. “Well, Tom was a wonderful runner, but no man ever lived that can run as fast as the Boche bullets.

“Our sector at the front—opposite Saint Quentin, where the Germans retreated to the Hindenburg, line—is supposed to be quiet ail the time, but we had a little fight up there a few weeks ago that was pretty lively. I was assigned as dispatch-bearer, carrying messages from the colonel up to the line, because the German bombardment had plowed up all the ground behind our first and second line of trenches and torn up the tela-

graph and telephone Wire*, and their artillery had also wrecked a lot of our wireless. Had Narrow Escapes. “I had several close shaves in crossing out in the open, with the German snipers potting at me from 1,000 meters away. A couple of big shells dropped pretty near me, too, but then you get used to shells, whereas machine guns and rifles always annoy you. “Pretty soon I hope to be tn the aviation service and after I get brevetted as a pilot and have some experience of flying at the front. I’m going to apply to be sent to America us an instructor for United States army aviators.” The wife and family of Saint Yves are now at Dieppe. Contrary to general belief. Saint Yves was never a waiter In a Paris case. Born in Rouen, he lived and worked there as a bicycle repair man prior to going to the United States eight years ago as a long-distance runner.

LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE.

Satisfying the large appetites of oar boys in France is a tremendous undertaking and hundreds of men are detailed to this duty alone. Sammy is “ without doubt the best fed of anyone in France. White bread, a luxury unknown to the French for a long tinje, is served to him dally. Thousands of loaves are baked and thousands of sacks of flour are consumed in supplying his daily needs. All the flour transported from the United States as well as most of the other foodstuffs he uses. Enlisted men detailed to the field bakeries which accompany the army look after Sammy’s wants as far as . the staff of life Is concerned. The picture shows a big hunk of the kind mother used to make, and a hungry soldier.

SURGERY CAN CURE CROOKS

Michigan Judge Declares Half th* Criminals in the U. 8. Might Be Saved. Chicago.—“ Fifty per cent of the criminals In this country under thirty years of age can be restored to good citizenship under proper surgical attention.? , Judge George W. Bridgeman of Benton Harbor, Mich., made that statement at the dinner Msf the American Association of Oriflcial Burgeons in the Hotel La Salle here. "Seventy-five per cent of the crime Inals brought into the courts of this country are between tile ages of fifteen and twenty-four years and 80 per cent of them suffer from physical disability,” said Judge Bridgeman. “In most of these cases this disability Is responsible for mental disability, manifested in crime, and it.is capable of correction.”

U. S. FORCES WILL BE ARMIES OF SPECIALISTS

Camp Taylor, Ixmisville. Ky. —General Pershing’s injunction to make the American army an army of specialists Is being car- ■ ried out among the 30,000 Ken- i tudcy, Indiana and southern ; Illinois men in the National , army in this camp. ( A board of examiners quizzes < each drafted man Ire to his busl- , ness in civil life. It is the alm - of the officers to assign every man to the post for which he is most fitted. Chauffeurs have been assigned to the motor truck division, telegraphers to the signal corps, clerks and business men to the quartermaster’s corps and athletes to bomb-throwing pla-. toons. A board of nine psychologists is investigating mental fitness of all men.

TO CURE DEMENTIA PRAECOX

Form of Insanity Hitherto Regarded as Incurable Conquered by Physician. Huntington, W. Va.—Two patients formerly afflicted by dementia praecox. a form of insanity hitherto regarded as incurable, have been discharged from the Huntington State hospital as cured. Experiments devised by Dr. L. V. Guthrie, the superintendent having proven successful. The cures were effected by the use of an intravenous infusion of normal salt solution. Other cases sinjlfarly treated are showing Improvement. The treatment is based on an analysis - of the Mood of afflicted persons showing a deficiency of sodium chKrida.