Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1918 — Page 2

Anti-Skid Chains for Shoes

Planned to Obviate Accidents on Slippery Pavements

Chains for shoes as a protection against slippery and icy sidewalks is the latest device being used by. men, women and children. Antiskid chains are to the human what the heavy chains are to the automobile, and may greatly reduce the number of accidents. Cut shows close-up view of the antiskids and the contrivance In position.

War Bread

By Dr. Samuel G. Dixon

Omtnwinner of Health of Pehuylvama

Facing the great economies that must be practiced in the time of war and in the future as the population increases and the natural productions of the earth become depleted, it will be necessary for us to adjust what we have in the way of essentials. Especially is this so of foodstuffs.

wife’s co-operation. They use corn flour, which heretofore has been almost unknown in our domestic bakeries, and it would seem to open the way for a very large sav- a ing of our wheat flour. It must be distinctly understood first that there is a great difference between corn flour and corn meal. The corn flour In composition is practically the same as the corn meal, but it contains a little more protein and starch, and a little less moisture and fat, the shortage of fat being due to the fact that the germ is extracted before grinding. It must be further understood that you cannot replace all of the wheat flour with corn flour, as the corn contains no gluten, which is the constituent in wheat flour that makes it possible to obtain a raised dough. However, bread and rolls made with 20 per cent of corn flour have little or no corn taste, and this is the percentage, which has been found after long experiments, to produce the best bread. The same proportion can be used also for griddle cakes, pastry and cakes. To make bread as it is made in the average household, where a sponge is set and no accurate measure of the flour is made, the better plan is to mix a quantity of the two flours, keep it on hand and use the mixture instead of wheat flour. ' For a 20 per cent mixture, take one quart of corn flour and four quarts .of wheat flour, mix thoroughly, preferably by putting through • flour sifter three or four times. Of course, larger quantities may be mixed at one time, keeping the proper proportion. In pastry even larger proportions of the corn flour may be used. In making bread, pastry, etc., use this mixture in exactly the same proportions and treat it exactly as you would ordinary flour. Tn nutritive value the difference between the mixed flour bread and the all-wheat flour bread is very slight Their food value is practically the same, and if white corn flour is used the bread has the same appearance as the all-wheat bread. This bread has a decided advantage for every-day consumption over most of the war breads made of whole wheat, oat flakes, bran, etc, by being free of the roughage, and consequently

It therefore becomes important to know what combinations can be made and the relative food value of such combinations with our standard foodstuffs. One of Phlladelphia’s able I chemists has given me a bread combination, which he has (worked up with his

it is not irritating when used meal after meal, and day after day, and one would not be apt to tire of eating it every day. Corn flour can be obtained from grocers, or they can get it for you, as it is regularly on the market and is being made by a number of milling companies and in cost should be cheaper than wheat flour. It should be ground as fine, or nearly as fine, as the wheat flour which you are in the habit of using. This bread makes a 20 per cent saving of the wheat with no practical loss in food value and without any of the objectionable features of the coarser meals.

Life of a Baby Depends On Care and Decent Home Conditions Given Mother

Reports made by the federal children’s bureau show that the chances for life of a baby grow appallingly less as the father’s earnings grow smaller. Some of the figures quoted in the report are pathetically eloquent. The report is made upon studies of infant mortality among 13,000 babies in eight American cities, typical industrial cities of the East and middle West. Here are some of the statistics: One-fourth of all the fathers earned less than $550 a year. It was found that in such families one baby in every six died. Only about one-eighth of the fathers earned $1,050 or more, and it appeared that in'this class only one baby in sixteen died. It is asserted that the rise of prices and the disorganization of social and indusrial life on account of the war accentuate the importance of this persistent relation of income to Infant mortality. The final deduction seems to be embodied in these words: “These studies show that to provide mothers’ care and decent home conditions, the fathers must have adequate incomes. In Manchester, N. H., nearly onefourth of the mothers whose husbands earned less than $450 a year were gainfully employed; only about a tenth when the husband’s wages were sl,050 or over. The babies of mothers who went out to work died at more than twice the rate of more fortunate children.” —Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Pithy Points.

. Beware of people who never get angry. Every man has a right to keep his opinions to himself. Success seldom comes to the man who is not expecting It Nature hardly ever hides a massive brain behind a pretty face. How many times have we w’on out when asked to play another man’s game? ’ , One swallow may not make a summer, but a bent pin in a chalAwill make one spring.

Spectacles for Divers.

Spectacles having double lenses with air spaces between and with pneumatic rings to make them water tight have been invented by an Englishman to aid divers under water.

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Efficient Arrangement of Kitchen Will Eliminate Many Steps for Busy Housewives

“Woman’s work is never done” Is an expression which could be banished forever if efficiency were faithfully practiced in the homes, according to Miss Margaret Haggart, professor of domestic science in the Kansas State Agricultural college. Poor arrangement of utensils in the kitchen is an important cause of waste. Many women double the time of making a cake because they do not group the ingredients all on the table at once. Instead, they cream the butter and sugar, then stop to get the flour or run to the Ice chest for a cup of milk. - Only small kitchens can be really efflclent. The large kitchen found particularly in the. country, necessitates hundreds of extra steps. If stove, sink and tables are in the right relation to each other, much energy can be saved. In preparing a meal one should not have to retrace one’s steps from sink to table and back again. To make‘pancakes for breakfast in the efficient kitchen the housewife takes the materials from the icebox, turns a step to the right where she beats the ingredients on the surface of the cabinet, one more step to the right for the stove. With the last step to the right she lays the cakes on the serving table, and then carries them to the dining room. Washing dishes becomes an art when labor-saving methods are used, points out . Miss Haggart For a woman five feet two inches tall, the proper height for sink, work table or ironing board is 29 inches. The ideal arrangement of the sink provides a drain board on each side of the sink. The drainer does away with all wiping of dishes. The glass must be wiped, of course, because hot water cannot be poured on it. Hot water gives to china a polish which will be destroyed if wiped with a cloth. Energy can be saved if the woman will sit down to work whenever possible. When one stands there is a strain to keep the body erect.

Mother’s Cook Book

Let the household hold together, though the house be ne’er so small, e Strip the rice-husk from the rice grain And it groweth not at all. GOOD ECONOMICAL DISHES. Dishes that are reasonable in price and good in food value are more popular each day. Carrots With Rice. Cook a dozen small carrots until tender in a very little water, season with salt and pepper, then place layers of the carrots with cooked rice in a wellbuttered baking dish. Over each layer spread a rich white sauce made of two tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter cooked together, a cupful of rich milk and salt and pepper to season. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake in a hot oven until the crumbs are brown. - Cabbage and Cress Salad. Shred a small cabbage and mix it with watercress or make a mound of the cabbage with a ring of cress surrounding it, garnish with radishes and serve with a boiled dressing.

Eggless Devil's Food. Cream four tablespoonfuls of butter substitute with a cupful of brown sugar, add a half a square of chocolate melted with four tablespoonfuls of boiling water, add two tablespoonfuls of molasses, to take the place of two eggs, a cupful of sour milk, a teaspoOnful of soda, a tablespoonful of baking powder, two cupfuls v>f flour and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix and beat well, bake in a sheet Pear Salad. Take canned pears well drained, remove the core, if whole, after cutting in halves, turn them cut side down on heart leaves of lettuce and place a large spoonful of mayonnaise dressing at the side. Serve with toasted crackers. i Salmon croquettes molded around a teaspoonful of cooked green peas and served hot with a highly seasoned sauce, using some of the oil from the can of salmon with chili sauce for seasoning make a tasty dish. Salt mackerel soaked long enough to remove the salt, then baked in cream or rich milk, is delicious as a breakfast dish with buttered toast Fish flakes in white sauce on toast or served with baked potatoes is another, favorite dish to help save meat.

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Antidote for Gas Poison Is Injected Into Patient’s Arm

A newly discovered antidote for gas poisoning which succeeds where old methods fail is being used at the Cumberland Street hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., according to announcement Dr. F. H. Platt superintendent of the hospital, said it had been tried “in a number of cases” with gratifying results. The antidote is injected into the arm of the patient and is a solvent “of sodium hyperchlorite in sterile water, prepared so as to isotonic with the blood.” It was discovered by Dr. Wilfred G. Frallck of Manhattan. Its use Is being continued under careful examination. Data are being gathered. Stimulants and the inhalation of oxygen are generally used la gas pot spn cases,

THE NEW YOUNG-OLD MAN AND HIS COUNTRY

He stepped so silently into the room, advanced so silently to his place at the tatyle that for the moment not all turned to look at him. He had not been invited, was not now announced. But he seemed assured bf welcome. j j He seemed fit for welcome here. He was tall, hardy in figure and In face, with deep lines showing effort of body and of mind. His hair was not gray, but there was steel in It even now, though he yet was young. His attitude was easy, simple, not assuming, carrying not the least trace of braggadocio, as he stood before this company where he had not been asked, and took that place which to himself seemed fit for blm. , His figure was that of a young man. ‘His skin, smooth and harddrawn was that of a young man. But his eyes, clear, deep, and bright, bespoke the man who had thought and who held himself competent to think. His face, astonishingly high bred and lofty, attracted the attention of everyone at the great table. Men turned one to another, whispering: “He looks like my grandfather!” exclaimed one. “I was about to say the same of my own,” was the reply. They both had ceased to laugh and jest It seemed to others that the eyes of the young man himself turned now and again to the pictures that hung upon the wall—pictures of men of another generation. But his own eyes passed on and beyond the wall, as though he looked into another day. "Who Is he?” asked one man of another, now. That question went all about the board. He seemed not arrogant, save as youth and ability always are arrogant. But what did he here? 9 f Strangely men began to look into the great mirrors at each side of the banquet table. Yet more strangely the eyes of the young man also turned to them, somberly, questloningly, as though he saw himself. He did not speak at first, had not been asked to speak. None the less it seemed that when finally he raised his hand to command attention all were waiting for his voice. He raised his glass, empty. But, as though it had been full of some strong wine, something was giving his voice carry and clearness, his brain directness and composure. “I have come from another country,” said he, simply. Once I lived at ease as you do. I played with life. I valued not the great things of life. I amused myself. I cared for the small things about me. “I sought riches because some men called supermen by their fellows had attained riches and were praised for them. I was concerned with the things material of life, the things perishable, that is to say, things having to do with luxury and ease. This made my horizon. I knew no better. “Now, I come from a far country, my brothers, while yet It is very near lam a new man, but lam old. lam a stranger but lam your brother. It is as though I were your son, yet also your father and your grandfather, though I am young. Do you read this riddle? “I come to take you into a new country. I shall speak to you so that in time you shall be as I am now, and I shall be as you ought to be and are not now. “I am the new man In the world. I came to your table—and I came from your table. I come to__your family—and I came of your family What was my country was yours or is yours now. As my vision is, so yours must be. As my history has been so must yours be —you must put away the little things, you must see the truth and mee «*You a ask, What is my country? You ask, Where is the country to which I summon you? Look about you. That country Is’AmericaJ “I myself am born out of it-I am the new man—the American! They looked —and he was gone. Does what he said remain?

POULTRY MAN GIVES ADVICE

The incubator should be ordered six or eight weeks before it is expected to start the lamp going, said a successful poultryman. Many delay ordering until a week or two before the machine is wanted, and are usually disappointed because it does not arrive at the expected time. During the rush season, incubator manufacturers sometimes have more than they can promptly attend to, and some delay in filling orders is unavoidable. The safe way is to order in advance of the breeding season. Another advantage in ordering is that one can take plenty of time to adjust and regulate the machine, and to study the directions for its proper operation.

The kind or type of Incubator to buy will often puzzle the beginner. Two systems of heating are employed in the manufacture of incubators —the hotair system and the hot-water system. In general, it may be stated that either system of heating is satisfactory. I have three hot-water machines and one hot-air machine, and find that one system of heating is not superior to the other. Each system has its advantages, and It may also be stated that each has its disadvantages. In case the lamp, for any reason, goes out a hot-water machine would hold its heat much longer than would a hot-air machine, but with proper attention the lamp will not go out. I have had a fairly good hatch in a hotwater machine after the lamp was out for ten hours. The hot water In the pipes cools slowly and the heat is retained in the machine. In a hot-air machine, the eggs would likely chill were the machine kept without heat for a few hours. The disadvantage of a hot-water machine is that there is always the danger of the tank or pipes springing a leak and thus ruining the eggs in the machine. The danger from this source is not great, *however, if the boiler is kept full of water, and the machine leveled before starting.

In purchasing Incubators, many of those who have had no experience in artificial incubation, make the mistake of purchasing machines of small capacity. It is very little more trouble to operate a machine of two-hundred-egg capacity than it is to operate one of fifty-egg capacity, and the cost of fuel in operating the larger machine is very little more. Where one has several large machines a small machine comes in handy in that it enables one to run the large machines at full capacity. I have three machines of 240-egg capacity, and one 50-egg machine. My small machine never hatches an egg. It doesn’t get a chance. During the hatching season I fill one of the large machines and the

By EMERSON HOUGH.

little machine at the same time. In a week, the eggs in the machines are tested, and usually sufficient Infertile eggs, and eggs with dead germs are tested out of r the big machine that it can receive all the good eggs from the little one. When this testing is completed, another big machine and the little machine are started simultaneously and the operation repeated. The little machine enables me to run my big machines at full -capacity.

We Applaud the Under Dog Because of Our Experience

Our sympathies naturally travel the line of likes; that is, the things we feel in ourselves, we feel in others. We applaud the under dog, because we so often have been the under dog. We like to lift the other fellow up when he is down because we also have been down. Sympathy starts at home —or else it isn’t sympathy. Your periodic moods of failure and disappointments are your Under Dogs, in the opinion of George Matthew Adams, a writer for Good Housekeeping. So instead of walking past these Under Dogs of yours and casting no sympathy their way, pause to give them your heart and your hope, and soon the picture and fact wiU be your Over Dogs—your victories and your genuine achievements. Courageously cheer the Under Dogs of your experience and stay proudly by them until their fight becomes a factor of your kingship.

For business as well as patriotic reasons, many national banks bearing the word “German” in their titles have recently applied to the controller of the currency for permission to change their names. Their requests will be granted. Most of the institutions known as the “German National Bank of want their new name to be the “American National Bank of

In a new electric photograph printing machine an automatic switch shuts off the light at a set time, insuring even prints. Carbonic acid gas is used in a machine of European invention to spray mortar or plaster on a wall, and hasten Its setting. A new attachment for fountain pens holds them up at an angle and prevents them spilling ink when laid on horizontal surfaces. * So that a smoker can see what, is occurring behind him an English inventor has patented a pipe with small mirrors on the bowL

Drop Word “German.”

Worth Knowing.

Beaver on the Increase in Wisconsin, but Extinction Feared Within Few Years

Although beaver are apparently! doomed to extinction, Wisconsin gamewardens report an increase in the LakeSuperior country, in spite of the worlci of poachers. A year or so ago state conservation' wardens received orders to trap that beaver from the big Blbon swamp, which covers the bottom lands fort miles between Mason and Grand View._ Some farmers, complained that thedams built by beavers turned theswamp upon their lands, and the wardens were finally ordered to trap theaniinals in ordinary steel traps, wound with doth, in the hope of catching them alive without the infliction of, serious injury, they to be taken alive and transported to a state game preserve. A few beaver were removed in thlsway, but there are still quite a number of beaver in the Bibon swamp. In three Wisconsin counties, including Sawyer and Rush, the season wasopen during December, but it is not reported that beaver in any large numbers were caught, for it was illegal toset traps within 500 feet of beaverhouses, and trappers who confined their operation strfctly within legal limits, did not report much success. The poachers, however, levy constant tribute on the beaver, still remaining in the country, and in spite of increases reported during the past year, •will cause extinction within a few years.

A FEW SMILES

A Stay-at-Home. Mrs.- Flatbush—Saw your husbands in a khaki uniform today. Mrs. Bensonhurst —Yes; he belongs to the Home Guards. “Good! Doing his bit?” “Well, he’s dissatisfied, because he’s; all dolled up and no place to go.” MM* Required Coal at Home. Church —You and your wife spend 1 all your time in your car, don't you? Gotham—Pretty near. “What’s the big Mea?” “Oh, you see we don’t require anycoal in the car.” The Only Way. ‘Smith gave me a couple of seats forthe theater today.” “Topping! I’ll get ready immediately.” “Do; and p’r’aps you’ll be in time foronce. The seats are for tomorrow evening.”

His Order Meatless.

' His Case. “I know a man who knows perfectly well how to manage a wife in-every particular.” “He may know how, but does he do it?” “No, because they won’t let him out of the insane asylum long enough to try.” Those Girls.

“Jack, said my face was a poem.” “It is, dear — like one of Browning’s.” “How do you mean?” “Some of the lines are so deep."

Very Likely. “They tell me Jones is dead.” “Ah’ That’s probably why we see him so seldom.”

Should Set Brains of the Country to Conserving Coal

It requires 2,300,000 tons of coal for the dally needs of the United States in times of peace. Just how great has been the Increase in consumption due to war conditions is not authoritatively stated, but the country must be burning nearly 8,000,000 tons of coal each day. One-third of this fuel is not consumed in the stoves and furnaces but goes out with the ashes. One-third is used for purposes which: are of no real value to the nation and confer no benefit upon the individuals who burn it The other third of the coal used in the United States is the necessary amount which is vital to the conduct of the nation's affairs. And the individual and the official and the power plant should set the best brains of the country to the task of conserving the two-thirds of the nation’s coal which now are wasted.—Houston Post.

Properly Stacked Lumber.

In order to be sure that every piece of lumber Is straight and true before being used In a building it is necessary to pay particular attention to the way it is stacked on the building site; Lumber may be dry and well seasoned when leaving the lumber yard, but unless it ip stacked in straight piles and covered with boards to protect it f r °to ■ the weather it is liable to warp and twist.

*T say, waiter!”’ “Yes sir.” “Is thirr a meatless day?” “It is, sir.” “Then give mea double portion* of grilled bones,, please.”