Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1918 — Page 2

THE AUTHOR

By MILDRED WHITE.

V ** JBS <CopyrlKht. IMS. Weatern Newspaper Union.) When Janice stepped from the train, she looked about in dismay. Evidently the station agent had but waited for the 8:30 to arrive, before closing his office and departing. One solitary light shone from the window of the deserted watting room,' and no village bos or auto, was in sight. When last she had visited this picturesque country, it had been summer (time and the coming of the evening train a signal for the outpouring of autos and various gay carts, to meet evening guests. Janice had not stopped in her sudden resolution, to consider the difference between summer and aero weather in the country. It was characteristic, that as soon as her purpose was formed, she had followed it out. The managing editor had been first to suggest it - “Why don’t you," he had said, “seek out some noted author and ask a trial at illustrating his work? You are too igood for a syndicate.” And aglow with enthusiasm, Janice had picked out the author-victim, and 'hastened on his trail. A mere notice ifn the society column of the morning (paper, directed her to the isolated spot where she had been wont to go for nature study during an earlier and more .prosperous time. “Doq MacDougall,” the noted Scotch author, so the paper said, “had retired jtohis bungalow in Wayne county, to d. •vote himself to his forthcoming book." The bungalow in Wayne county, Janice iweli knew. Janice picked up her suitcase and iplodded to the rear where showed the •dim light of a lantern attached to a rough sleigh wagon, upon which a cloaked figure was loading certain broad boxes. "Are you going up hill?” Janice ask- ■ <ed him. Without ceasing his work the man gruffly answered in the affirmative. “I expected to find the village bus,” the girl went on, “it isn’t here. Could you carry up my suitcase?” For a moment he paused. “Going

to walk up yourself?” he asked. Janice laughed. “Why, rather than try that,” she said, “I’d ride up with you.” > The man was not encouraging. “There’s no seat in the sleigh,” he objected. “I have to drive standing up.” 1 Such surly dlsobllgement could be settled but one way. Lightly Janice followed her suitcase Into the wagon. “I will sit on this box,” she said. < “I will pay you for your trouble,” ehe added. “S-all right,” the driver mumbled Before her old-time boarding place he drew rein at her direction, Janice pointed to the suitcase. “Carry it in the hall, please,” she said, and pressed ■a coin into his palm. Early upon the following morning ishe was up and on her l way to the glistening wood. Janice’s hands were too cold to make (more than a rough outline of her study, lt>ut she stood silently committing its to memory. Presently through ia break in the trees came her driver’s 'tall figure. Be wore a red sweater and [his face showed a day’s growth of heard; in his arms he carried some flogs. “Morning,” he nodded, and stood dejliberately looking at the sketch In her lhand. “Pretty," he said at last. Janice smiled, “Well,” she agreed, i“it will be.” A sudden light flashed into his isombre eyes. “You do this often?” he The girl nodded. “I make my living •that way,” she said. “Do you know anything of Mr. Mac;Dougal the author?” she asked. “In .carrying things back and forth from the station, have you met him at any itime?” The man answered slowly. “I was carrying his books and his typewriter np there last night,” he replied, “and these logs are for his fireplace.” “Perhaps you can tell me, then,” she •went on, “when I should be most likeily to find him at home. I wish to see

(him —on business.” “Business?” the man repeated; his tone was perplexed. “He writes books, while you—" he pointed to the sketch —“draw those.” i Janice nodded; musingly she spoke jas though answering her own thought: j“He requires pictures for his books, bi hd I—” she threw out her arms to ithe fir trees, “I understand nature as jhe loves it” The man said quickly: “MacDougal •will be at home at three this afternoon." He hesitated. “Now, if you’d care to ride back—" And once again Janice rode through the wintry landscape, this time with a fur robe for a cushion. It was ft subdued excitegnent that she raised, that afternoon, the knocker of the white bungalow door. This quest meant so much to her. Excitement gave place to surprise as ■the slelgh-drtVer’s face appeared at the door. Yet could this correctly garbed and deferential person be her companion of last night’s adventure?” “I wish to see Mr. MacDougal,” she The man bowed. “At your service,” Then at her wondering gaze he smiled a transforming smile. “I use my own sleigh to take care of my own belongings," he said. “Now, if you will let me look at those drawings—” And this was the beginning of the romance, which culminated tn the marriage of Don MacDougal and his illus-

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Six -feet of bathtub make all men equal. Everybody expects everybody else to set a good example. --. d ’■ • - "• The road to success is slippery and he who travels thereon needs a lot of shnd. Nearly every piece of jewelry a married woman owns represents a peace offering. Accidents will happen and a girl might as well get used to having her heart broken once in a while. Our idea of a wise man is one who Isn’t foolish enough to try to convince a woman by arguing with her. ■ < J And many a poor man has gone broke because his wife gazed too persistently into the glass of fashion. When a man refuses to argue with a woman she considers It is a sort of acknowledgment of her mental superiority.

DID YOU KNOW

A rubber plant doesn’t stretch when it wakes in the morning? It doesn’t affect an elevator’s health when It’s run down? By removing its shell, a safe can be carried much more easily. While just the opposite works with a dozen of eggs. And still more with a bucket of water. And it's quite a job to get a well up In the air. We can’t say whether a ball of yarn that gets tangled has that feeling of being all balled up. To remove crispness from a $5 bill, hang bill on lamp post at night and crispness will be gone In morning. In 62 A. D., when the sailors wanted to stop the boat, they ran up a mosquito net sail and lowered the full sail.

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

A frame has been invented to enable one man to operate a saw. In Iceland codfish are dried and ground into a flour for use in bread. A walking stick has been invented, that can be converted into a camera tripod. A substitute for absorbent cotton has been made In Europe from pine cellulose. Immersion in a solution of carbonate of soda will restore the color to turquoises. Deposits of potash that promise much have been discovered in two qf Spain’s provinces. An attachment to be filled with oil to quiet rough water features a new lifeboat anchor. Widely separated settlements in the Kongo Free State have been linked and connected with civilization by a system of wireless telegraphy which covers 3,000 miles of African jungles.

IN OTHER CITIES

Underwood, N. D„ population 422, furnishes 40 Soldiers. St. Paul will in 1918 entertain 15 national conventions. Washington, D. C„ notes rush of aliens tor naturalization. New i York finds one-eighth of public school pupils underfed. Cleveland will mobilize school boys for farm and garden work. Brooklyn, N. Y., Baptists are to dedicate a new temple in Third avenue. Omaha residents buy $52,000 worth groceries dally, 65 per cent on credit.

TEN YEARS AGO

Skirts at shoe tops were indecently short. Women who wore only one petticoat were talked about. People were just beginning to believe wifeless telegraphy was impossible. They were saying that eggs would never be a nickel apiece. The Hague Peace Tribunal was mentioned on the first page. The “Divine Sally” was making her “farewell tour” of America. The automobile industry was staggering on its last legs. Thlrty-cent porterhouse steak was called an outrage. Some foolish women were talking about demanding the ballot. The little Singer building was ths tallest in New York.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) ■ POTATOES, 42,536,000 BUSHELS—EAT THEM.

New Ways May Help You Consume Your Share of This Plentiful Food—Try a Potato Pie (Left) or Potato Puffs (Right) as Described Below.

EAT LIBERALLY OF POTATO CROP

War Duty to Save Large Yield of Tubers by Eating Them. HOW ALL PEOPLE CAN HELP Heavy Lose of This Perishable Food May Result If Americans Do Not Use It More Liberally—Less Bread Is Needed. You may know it already, but It will' bear repetition now when it is Important that everybody eat liberally ofthe big potato crop; that potatoes are an excellent food for your body; that they are good fuel; that one mediumsized potato gives you as much starch as two slices of bread; that, like other vegetables, they give you salts which ‘you need to build and renew all the parts of your body and keep it in order. Potatoes furnish starch which burns in your muscles to let you work, much as the gasoline burns in an automobile engine to make the car go. When you have potatoes for a meal you need less bread. Potatoes can save wheat. An old king is said to have tested each cook .before hiring him by asking

SAVE A LITTLE SUGAR TODAY.

I Use Sweet Fruits. • Sugar consumption in many households can be easily lowered not only by giving preference to dishes which contain little sugar or with which sugar is not usually served, but also *by the use of sweet fruits. For instance, fresh fruits or baked apples may serve instead of sweet puddings, or a salad in place of dessert. Sweet, dried 4» fruits such as dates, raisins or T figs served with breakfast ceT reals will reduce the sugar •• J needs.

him to boil a potato. Even the best potato can be spoiled by a poor cook. To boil them so that they will be “fit for a king,” drop the unpeeled potatoes into boiling salted water and cook 20 to 30 minutes. Drain the water off at once. If they are cooked too long or allowed to stand in the water they get soggy. Peeling Is Wasteful. If you peel the potatoes before cooking them you will waste time and potatoes both. You may throw away a sixth or even a quarter of the good part of the potato with the skins. Also, If the potatoes aren’t covered up by the skins while cooking, some of the valuable material' will soak out into the water. Even very small potatoes can be economically used, if they are boiled in their skins. For best mashed potatoes: Peel the boiled potatoes, mash and beat until very light, adding salt, butter or oleomargarine and hot milk, a half cup of milk to six potatoes. Potato Sausages. 1 cupful mashed po-1% teaspooonfuls tatoes. »alt. 1 cupful teaspoonful pepnuts, fish, or meat. per. 1 egg, well. beaten. Salt pork, bacon, or other fat. Mix the mashed potatoes and seasonings with the ground nuts, fish or meat. Add beaten egg. Form into nttle cakes of sausages, roll In flour and place in greased pan with a small piece of fat or salt pork on - each sau-

POTATOES 28 WAYS—DO YOU KNOW OTHERS?

It is said that there are more than 100 ways to cook potatoes, from the primitive (and still probably the best) methods of boiling or baking with the skins on, to the most complex and seasoned dishes. Here are some of the ways known to the United States department of agriculture. Have you tried them all, or do you know about as many more? Boiled Plain fried Chips French fried Lyonnaise Gauffre Mashed Souffle Pan browned Riced Salad In hash In chowders Biscuits Baked Saute Shoestrings Creamed Hashed brown Croquettes Mashed fried Au gratin Stuffed Soups In fish cakes In stews In light bread In meat pig crust » a * a a..*..#. AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA.

sage. Bake in a fairly hot oven until brown. Scalloped Potatoes and Cheese. Arrange a layer of sliced raw or boiled potatoes in greased baking dish and sprinkle with grated cheese and a little flour. Repeat until dish is nearly full. Pour milk over the whole, about one-half cupful to every three potatoes. Skim milk is good. Bake in a moderate oven until done. The length of time required depends upon whether the potatoes are raw or boiled and whether the baking dish used is deep or shallow. Boiled potatoes baked in a shallow dish will take only 20 minutes. Raw potatoes in a deep dish may take as much as one and one-half hours. Potato Puffs. >4 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful hot mashed and a dash of pappotatoes, well sea- rlka. eoned. % teaspoonful pars1 egg. ley, chopped fine. Beat yolk Into the mashed potatoes and add seasonings. Beat the white of egg very stiff and fold into the potatoes. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake until a> golden brown. Shepherd’s Pie. Grease a baking dish; cover the bottom with mashed potatoes. Add minced meat or fish seasoned well and mixed with the thickened meat stock or with white sauce. Pile the mashed potatoes lightly over the top to cover. Bake In oven 20 to 30 minutes until a delicate brown on top.

RECORD POTATO CROP MUST BE CONSUMED OR WASTED

Our potato crop last year is-; estimated to have been 442J>36,- J 000 bushels—the largest ever ; produced in the United States. , This crop cannot be carried over J the 1918 season. It must be consumed or wasted. The food situation throughout the world de- .< mands that It be consumed es- J fectively to relieve the existing strain on the supply of cereals. J It is the one great food resource of the world upon which there is ' now’ danger of a heavy loss. The department of agriculture ' is of the opinion that the situation demands that farmers sell freely; that the larger dealers ; move their stocks rapidly; that . the retailer content himself with ; the smallest possible margin of < profit, realizing that he is now J the most important factor' in < speeding up potato consumption; j and that consumers buy and eat < liberally of this plentiful food. !

CULTURE HERE BEFORE 1492

Did Amsrlca’s Pre-Columbian Civilization Come From Egypt? la Now Question. Prof. Elliot Smith developed in an extraordinarily interesting manner the thesis that the pre-Columbian civilizations of America—or at least many important features In those civilizations —Were not truly aboriginal, but came in a cultural wave from Asia across the Pacific ocean, the original starting point of the most remarkable characteristic being Egypt. Professor Smith believes, says Science Progress, that the extremely twculiar culture of Egypt was spread eastward by mariners, mainly Phoenicians, for several centuries after B. C. 800. To quote the author’s own words, he thinks that “the essential elements of the ancient civilisations of India (the pre-Aryan civilizations), further India, the Malay archipelago, Oceania and America were brought in succession to each of these places by mariners, whose oriental migrations began as trading Intercourse between the eastern Mediterranean and India some time after 800 B. C., and that the highly complex and artificial culture which they spread abroad was derived largely from Egypt (not earlier than the twenty-first dynasty), but also included many important accretions from other sources, and that after traversing Asia and Oceania and becoming modified on the way, the stream finally “continued for many centuries to play upon the Pacific littoral of America, where it was responsible for planting the germs of the remarkable pre-Columbian civilization.”

WAYS OF KEEPING YOUTHFUL

Man Who Is Determined Not to Grow Old Really Has Only to “Make an Effort.” I see it In my changing hair, I see it in my growing heir. My growing thirst for early news. It is a fact, I am growing old. And so growing old is just a case of finding what one’s looking for, observes the Minneapolis Journal. A man decides that the time has come for him to be old, and so instead of bracing up, ignoring the symptoms and finding some other explanation for the change In the color of hl’s hair, he neglects his dress, walks with a stoop, uses a cane, stops taking exercise, eats too much, Indulges in reminiscences, retires from business, and in general acquires the foolish habit of growing old. He should remember that it is possible to keep a youthful spirit, an active mind, an interest in current events and a purpose to serve his fellows, and that he who does these things will always be young. The fact that women generally decline to contract the old-age habit and that some men have also resisted the temptation to fall Into It would seem to Indicate that If those who do yield to it would, only take the advice of Dombey to his wife, and “make an effort,” they would learn how foolish and how unnecessary it is to grow old.

Henry Clay’s Diplomacy.

The following is an Instance of Henry Clay’s readiness in getting out of a difficult situation. On one occasion a vote he had given in congress offended one of his constituents who unbraided him for it and declared he would never again support him for congress. Meeting this constituent on the court green Mr. Clay said to him: “I am sorry you will not again support me for congress because of a vote I gave on a certain measure. When your rifle misses fire do you throw It away?” “No," replied the constituent, “I do not throw it away.” “What do you do with it?” asked Mr. Clay. “Why, I pick my flint and try it again,” replied, the constituent. “Well,” said Mr. Clay, “are you going to throw me away because I have missed fire once? Won’t you let me pick my flint and try again? Won’t you treat me as you do your rifle when it misses fire?” This ready reply satisfied the constituent and completely won him over, and he was ever after one of Clay’s most faithful supporters in his candidacy for congress.

Man Has Copied Nature’s Work.

Marble, in nature, owes Its crystalline structure to volcanic heat But Ingenious man uses heat to counterfeit the volcanic rocks. By such means, with suitable materials, he makes bricks and crockery, which are artificial rstones. The processes employed in-the manufacture of chinaware are merely workship imitations of those need in the laboratory of nature. Volcanic rock —granite, trap or what not —is the very symbol of imperishability; but the artificial stones (such as brick and chinaware) produced by the fusion of particles under the action of heat are among the most enduring of known substances.

For Those Fond of Parrots.

The voyage by steamship is very hard on parrots, which are stored In the hold, commonly in close proximity to the engine room. Consequently they are apt to reach their final destination in a sickly condition. Ope should be careful to make sure in buying an African parrot that it is a healthy bird. There are hundreds of species of parrots and the most beautiful of them all are the cockatoos, native exclusively of Australasia. The giants of the tribe are the American macaws. Neither the macaw nor the cockatoo® is ordinarily much of a talker, but occasionally specimens are very clever at conversation.

LIFE'S LITTLE JESTS

SOME REALLY NEED THEM. On Johnny’s first day of school he was given a registration slip, on which mother was to write his birth record. The following day he came tardy and without the registration slip. Hia teacher said: “Johnny, . you must bring an excuse for being tardy, and don’t forget the slip about when you were born.” All out of breath, next day, Johnny rushed in, holding out a note from mother. “Teacher,”^ 1 he gasped, “I brought the one about being tardy, but I forgot my excuse for being born.” Lonely Eminence. “Did you ever try to uplift the drama?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Stormington Barnes. “I uplifted the drama to my entire satisfaction. But the public was so well satisfied with my attainments that people didn’t feel it necessary to come around and supervise my demonstrations.” His Reason. “Your wife gave us a splendid lecture on cooking last night Why weren’t you there?” “I was home with a terrible attack of dyspepsia.” The Result “Did your new dressmaker give you a fit In that gown?” “I should say so! They had to call in two doctors when I saw myself In it." HIS IDEA.

Oldwed —I’ve been married for 20 years. Notwed (absently)—Any time off for good behavior? Close. My rich relations seem to be Not up to par. For none of them have handed mo A cast-off car. Hla Margin. “My broker tolii me I must give him something to put up on this deal.” “Well, did you put up anything?” “All I had —my umbrella." Got Cold Feet Mrs. Newedd —Oh, James, l.’ve fallen in love with that beautiful n acklace. Mr. Newedd —Come on; you’ve no business to fall In love with anything —you’re married. ■ Force of Habit “The man you sent to work here gave-me such pointed replies.” “Well, you see, he used to be a knife grinder.” A Cruel Separation. Author—This, article is the child of my brain. Editor—Parent and child never should have been parted. ■■ 1 ■" "■ i ■ Right at Home. “Are you going to the debate at the club tonight?” “No. A debate ia something I nuver have to leave the house to hear.” >. As It Looked to Him. Church-rßeally, the people of the whole world are our neighbors. Gotham —Well, it looks that way from the way a lot of ’em are fighting. The. Difference. The pessimist says things are wrong. And loiter* as |> e >eek* to blame. The optimist can sing a song And keep on working, just the sama. Not So Grieved After All. Marion —I do hope that poor Harald does not grieve too much at my having broken our engagement. I’m sure he’s very unhappy. What did he say, dear? Estelle—Qh, he said what a lucky thing you broke off this week Instead of next, as it saved him from having t» buy you a birthday present