Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — Page 2

Mammoth Orchid-Flowering Canna

Giant Eleven-Inch White Blossom Developed From a OneEighth Inch Canna Bloom of Dark Red

Fifteen years’ time has been required to produce the Immense flower. A famous expert of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington fancied that the small spike of red blooms of the canna might be cultivated into something beautiful, and his experiments, supplemented by those of Antoine Wintzer, resulted In this superb bloom. Every shade of pink, red, yellow, and all the lovely tints of the orchid, as well as the variegated varieties, have also resulted. The cost of producing a white lily-canna was about $30,000.

Mother’s Cook Book

The people people work with best are often very queer; The people who are people’s kin quite shock your first idea; The people people choose for friends, your common sense appall; “ But the people people marry are the queerest folk of all. Milk and Milk Dishes. The value of milk for the growing family can never be too often expressed. In these days when feed for the cattle costs so much more than formerly, when labor is higher and very scarce the dairyman must raise his price of milk or go out of business. Milk at 12 to 15 cents a quart is cheaper food than meat. Cut down on other foods but never on the milk for the family, for hi it are the growth determinants or growth stimulants which are so essential for a good body framework and healthy blood. The yolk of egg and good butter are also rich tn this growth stimulant. A growing child should have if possible three glasses of milk per day, even when eating the usual amount of solid foods found in vegetables and cereals, milk is not a beverage, tt is. a food. Milk with eggs in the form of custards is one of the best, most wholesome and easily digested desserts for young people. Skimmed milk may be bought cheaply and is a most nutritious food, lacking only in fat, which may be supplied in other ways. For cream soups skimmed milk may be used, and egg added to supply the lack of fat with butter and flour used in the binding makes it is as good as whole milk. Cold skimmed milk may be given the children at meals for their drink in summer and hot in winter. If plenty of good butter is supplied the child will be well fed. Cheese in various forms may be used tn the place of meat; as souffles with macaroni in cream sauce over toast, in cream potatoes or escalloped potatoes and in many other dishes which will occur to the house mother. A simple and wholesome supper dish which is easy to prepare is the following: Spread the required number of slices of bread with butter, place tn a shallow granite baking pan, cover each slice with a thick layer of finely cut cheese, or grated cheese may be used if it is dry, then pour over enough milk and eggs to cover the cheese. Use one egg for every cupful of milk used, add salt and a dash of cayenne pepper, then bake until the custard is set Serve hot A glass of hot milk for the restless child upon to bed will often prove most soothing. Milk is too valuable a food to be slighted or cut out of the diet because of its cost It will be far better to cut down on the meat and *buy more milk.

Home-Made Solution Makes Pasteurized Cream Whip.

People who use pasteurized cream often have trouble in getting their cream to whip. This is due to the substance called viscogen, being destroyed by heating. This trouble can easily be remedied by adding a small amount of homemade vlscogen, which can be prepared as follows: First dissolve two and a half parts sugar tn five paits water. Second, dissolve one part of quicklime in three parts water. Mix the two solutions and let stand a few hours. Siphon off, or pour off, the clear liquid, and what is left is an excellent substitute for viscogen, which with proper care, will keep for a long time. Use about a tear spoonful for a pint of cream. .

More That 1,000,000 Pairs of Shoes Needed for ArmyMany for Pershing Warriors

Although the war department now has on hand and contracted for a total of 15,437,000 pairs of shoes, Secretary Baker announces that more than 1,000,000 pairs of shoes will have to be obtained for the army this year. This is made necessary by the building up of adequate stocks of reserves, both in France and in this country. General Pershing, having in mind the length of time shoes are expected to last the men in France, has reguested shipments of 18,590 pairs of shoes for each 25,000 men monthly, or approximately nine pairs of shoes for each man annually. This quantity is in excess of actual consumption, and when a reserve supply is built up the quantities will be reduced. For troops in this country after the first issue of 100 per cent, 17 per cent a month is required for upkeep, and 72 per cent as a reserve stock. At the embarkation concentration camps 150 per cent is the equipping a given number of men with 325 per cent as the ration for reserve stock. In France the upkeep is placed at 75 per cent for a given number of troops, with 75 per cent for the reserve supply.

Wise and Otherwise.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and we’ll admit that the farther off some men are the better we like them. In the days before the telephone how did father manage to get word to mother in the afternoon that he wouldn’t be home for dinner. A lot of valuable time is •wasted in boasting. One of the" things most of us need to make up our minds to is that the other fellow is just as patriotic as we ourselves are. How tender home-grown lettuce looks in the catalogue pictures !

Female War Workers Among Cardiff’s Busy Night Throng

At no hour of the day or night is it now possible to walk along the main streets of Cardiff without meeting women war workers. Even in the small hours of the morning they can be seen trudging through driving snow or sleet or groping their way in the thick fog, states the Cardiff Western Mail. Some of them do not get home until well after midnight. Others, such as tram conductors and drivers, set out for their day’s work soon after four in the morning. By sa.m. a large number may be seen in any part of the town walking briskly to their allotted task. Postoffice employees finishing work after midnight are taken home in a taxi', but the others cannot even get a tram ride.

Suez Canal.

One of the greatest engineering projects of the world, the Suez canal, was formally opened 48 years ago. The canal cost $100,000,000. The festival given by the khedlve in commemoration of the opening of the canal cost $23,000,000, or a fourth as much as the canal. Cairo was gaily decked for the event, which was attended by the emperor of Austria, the empress of. France, and many other high personages. The engineering work of the canal was under the direction of the great French engineer. De Lesseps. The canal is 88 miles long. ~.

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“Lord of the Sun and Moon, Great Magician and Great Thief"—A Monarch’s Title

The youthful shah of Persia has an amazing array of titles, ranging from shah-in-shah, (king of kings) to such poetical attributes as “The Rose of Delight,” “The Branch of Honor” and "The Mirror of Virtue;” while his majesty of Arracan used to be proclaimed as “Emperor of Arracan, possessor of the white elephant and the two earrings, and in virtue of this possession legitimate heir of Pegu and Brahma! Lord of the twelve kings who place their heads under his feet.” Somewhere in the wilds of Afghanistan there is an Ameer who boasts of as many high dignities as there are days in the year, among them being: “The sovereign of the universe, whom God created to be as accomplished as the mopn at her plenitude; whose eye glitters like the northern star; a king as spiritual as a ball is round, who, when he rises, shades all of his people, and from under whose feet a sweet odor is wafted." But perhaps the most remarkable title any monarch was ever proud to own was borne by the king of Monomotapa, whose praises were sung by his court poets and musicians as “Lord of the Sun and Moon, Great Magician and Great Thief.” Another striking example of royal dignity is that of the 'former emperor of China, whose recent coup d’etat ended in such failure. He was haiied by his subjects as “The protector of religion, whose fame is Infinite and of surpassing excellence exceeding the moon, the unexpanded jessamine buds and the stars, whose feet are as fragrant to the noses of other kings as flowers to bees, most noble patron and God by custom.”

For the Poultry Grower

We have in this country 104 varieties of domestic fowls which have been described and recognized as standard breeds. There are various classifications. Among these are such terms as fancy and practical; eggs and meat; according to their place of origin, etc. For instance, all of the recognized breeds are said to be practical except the bantams and games which are said to be fancy or ornamental. Under the so-called egg breeds are grouped most of those that originated around or near the Mediterranean sea.

Barred Rock Prize Winner. He was fourth exhibition cockerel at the 1917 Missouri Slope Poultry show, at Bismarck, N. D., with 22 cockerels in his class. Owned by W. W. Davenport, McHenry county, North Dakota.

They are active birds, largely non-sit-ting, and do not as a rule do well in close confinement. •The Mediterranean breeds are Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Spanish and Andalusian. They are small, of excellent type and noted for the large number of eggs they lay. The Leghorns are typical and the most popular of this group. They are hardy; feathers lay snugly to the body; weight Is three to five pounds. The American races contain what is generally known as general-purpose fowls or dual-purpose fowls. The Orpington is an English breed, the others are all of American origin. <A mon £ the most popular are the Plymouth Rocks and other Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, etc. In the Asiatics, we have the Cochin China, the Brahmas and the Langshangs. These are generally speaking the meat breeds. The French is represented by the Houdan; the Dutch, by the Hamburgs; Indian, by the Cornish and White; the English by the Or* pington, the Dorking and Red Caps.

Do Not Hoard Canned Foods if You Have a Large Supply.

What a difference a long row of canned foods in your fruit closet makes in your state of mind. It answers the question, “What am I going to have for dinner tonight and how am I going to get it?” It also does away with the terrors of the unexpected guest. Your problem is solved, the row of canned foods has simplified life for you. Last summer the entire'country was smitten with the healthy contagion of canning. Women who had always delicately avoided even speaking of what went on in their kitchens, rolled up their sleeves and spent hours studying and putting into effect the “cold pack” method, other women who generally only “preserved,” last, summer canned vegetables, meats, soups and, some of them, even fish. Mow that we have all .this canned foodstuff on hand, don’t board, use it!

SPOTS SUBMARINE ON BED OF OCEAN

Seaplane Has Important Part in Hunting Down German ILBbats. | ~v ; l SNARED WITH STEEL ROPES Enemy I* Given Five Minutes to Rise •nd Surrender, Then Is Blown 1 Up—Vivid Description by English Writer. London. —One of the methods by which, as the first sea lord. Sir Eric Geddes said recently, the submarine menace is being “held,” is vividly described by a w’riter in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce. A seaplane had “spotted” a submarine lying* on the sea bed. Instantly the observer’s finger commenced to tap a key. Ten miles away a. long, lean destroyer and four squat trawlers detached themselves like a pack of hounds working a covert, and hastened to the kill. Meanwhile the seaplane circled around. When the surface ships arrived, her instructions, delivered by wireless, were curt and precise. Acting upon them the trawlers stationed themselves at the four corners of a wet quadrangle, while the destroyer kept her guns ready to talk to Fritz should he appear above the surface. The trawlers at the corners got out their sweeps—long wire hawsers, with a heavy “kite” in the center to keep their bights down on the seabed —and commenced to steam toward each other. As the pairs of vessels met, their wires simultaneously engaged themselves under the U-boat’s bow and stern, ?md commenced to work their sinuous way between her hull and the sea bottom. Then the strange thing happened. Two round, black objects Seemed to detach themselves from her hull and float surfaceward, to hover a second and then to commence bobbing down the tide. “Minelayer, eh?” called the seaplane’s observer. “That’s it, lad,” came the telephoned

HOHENZOLLERNS DOOMED

According to an ancient German legend the fall of the house of Hohenzollern will come when the statue of “Christ on the Cross,” a relic of the seventh century which stands in Kaysersburg, decays. The statue has been fastly decaying in the past few years, and since the war the authorities have been continuously repairing the damaged parts because of the effect of the destruction of the statue would have on the people familiar with the ancient legend.

SAVING THE INJURED

Red Cross Is Doing Heroic Work in France. Georgia Soldier Says, “They All Worked Like Dogs in That Hell Out There.” Washington.—“ Test the nerve of those Americans,” evidently was the order given to the German soldiers facing the sector held by our boys in France, and gas shells andvaU other methods were used. Completely repulsed as the Germans were, the test must have been anything but reassuring to them! A correspondent talked with some of the American soldiers wounded in the attack. One youth, whose home is in Savannah, Ga.,- and who looked to be not more than eighteen years old, made the following highly complimentary reference to the American Bed Cross stretcher-bearers and ambulance iriven: .

answer, "but her eggs can wait for a minute.” Theo the trawlera crossed their dependent cables and thus held the Üboat in a kind of wire cat’s cradle. She seemed to suddenly awake to her danger, for with a bound she tried to disentangle herself from the meshes which held her. But it was no use; the trawlers had been too lohg at the game and the submarine was doomed. “Got him,” signaled the seaplane. “Thanks,” responded the destroyer. The End of the U-Boat. At a flag signal from the destroyer the port foremost trawler and the starboard after one clipped a small red tin of high explosive to the bar-tayt wire, and allowed it to slide down till it touched the U-boat’s hull. It was the seaplane’s turn to wave a flag, and immediately there followed ’the fall of two fists upon two firingkeys; the uprising of two gray mounds of water and a rumbling, muffled explosion. The seaplane circled twice above the patch of rising oil, ascertained that Fritz had been destroyed, and notified the destroyer. Then, with her observer slipping a drum of cartridges Into his machine gun, she sped on after those objects bobbing down tide. A burst of rapid firing—and the first of the devil’s eggs, Its buoyancy chamber punctured, sank with a gurgle; the second gave a better show, for it exploded grandly—and harmlessly—as the bullets reached it.

SHOVEL IS HIS WEAPON

Thrilling Story of Trawler Skipper’s Exploit. Third Blow of Flaillike Implement Puts Out U-Boat’s Eye and Allied Crew Escapes. London.—When one’s vessel is In danger from enemy submarines anything will do as a weapon of defense, as is-shown by the story of a captain of a British trawler who used a coal shovel with good effect against a Ger-man-U-boat. The trawler, according to the story told by one of the crew, was in the North sea in a stiff breeze when the Skipper saw a periscope crawl through the breaking surface of the sea about a hundred yards off. There was no gun aboard and the trawler’s best, speed was less than eight knots. * • “It was a situation to dismay most men,” said the seaman. “Our skipper, however, has a fighting spirit. A touch of the wheel sent the trawler’s blunt bows pointing at the submarine’s whaleback, and we wallowed menacingly toward the pirate. “The U-boat swung round to avoid the impact and the sides of the trawler scraped along the sides of the submarine. The periscope still was well out of the .water but was beginning to slip down as the submarine dived. “The skipper bawled for a hammer, a crowbar, anything that would hurt. One of the crew thrust a coal shovel into his hand and he scrambled on the bulwarks and leaned over, two of the crew hanging on to his coat so that he wouldn’t fall overboard., Backward and forward he swung the heavy scoop at the fragile periscope, and the third blow reduced it to fragments.

S-S-S-SURRENDER? C-C-CERTAINLY NOT!

New York. —About to be re- ; jected at recruiting hea'dquarI ters of the Marine corps here | because he stammers, Solis Solt omon O’Hanna said: I “L-l-look here, d-d'-d’you ? w-w-want a t-t-talking m-m-man I or a f-f-f-flghting m-m-riian? t I’m a f-f-f-flghtlng m-m-man, f b-but I c-c-an’t g-g-get my words ? out q-q-q-quick enough to it s-s-s-sriy s-s-s-surrender if the ! whole ’<* d-d-d —>d G-G-German t army’s on t-t-top o’ me.” j The recruiting officer was f greatly impressed and took the ! case under advisement.

“I’ve sure got to hand it to those men with the Red Cross on their arms. They all worked like dogs in that hell out there. They seemed to have but one idea —to do their duty—and apparently cared nothing for their own lives while doing it. They were game right to the core.” In this connection it may be said that there are a certain number of men who wear the Red Cross whose names are on the casualty list. If anyone has thought that a Red Cross worker goes out on a battlefield only after the firing has ceased and brings in the wounded, this statement by a soldier will correct the wrong impression. Stretcher-bearers work under fire—and the Germans have not hesitated to fire upon Red Cross workers. Tfie knowledge that the,Red Cross workers will be at his side almost as quickly as he falls wounded, to take him to the first-aid station and subsequently to the hospitals, has given great comfort to the American troops.

IS WIRELESS OPERATOR

Miss Elizabeth Duval, wireless op-' erator on the steamship Howard whichi plies between Baltimore and Norfolk and Savannah and Jacksonville. The young- lady is the first of her sex .to hold that position on an ocean-going steamship. She has just obtained her certificate as an American seaman, ;

“The submarine commander, hearing the noise and wondering what new andl horrible device the enemy had invent-, ed, crept tq his periscope to have a look, but all was black. He was blind,' and the trawler got away in safety.”

FOOD COSTS 9 CENTS MORE

Student Who Has Been Living on 23 Cents a Day Finds He Must Pay More. Greensberg, Pa. —Roy R. Momma of Jeanette, Pa., who, while a student at Carnegie Institute of Technology has beert living on 23 cents a day, has had to Increase his budget. He is now living on 32 cents a day. Since he graduated from Tech last June Mumrna found a job, saved S4OO, took unto himself a wife and has just been accepted as a private in the radiomechanics branch of the aviation service. Mumma’s- diet program includes bread, milk, cereals, cocoa, rice, peanut butter, fruit, eggs, meat, gelatin, oleomargarine and even pie.

TEACHES SOLDIERS TO ACT

James K. Hackett, the Actor, Is Di* rector General of Amusements, at Camp Devens. Camp Devens, Ayres, Mass.—After five months in bed, five months on crutches and five months walking with the aid of a cane, James K. Hackett, the noted actor, is today enjoying army life at this big camp teaching the boys how to act. He is director general of amusements for the Knight§ of Columbus, arid Is to .make a tour of all the big army camps. He is showing the boys how to put on shows and how to amuse themselves by acting. “We don’t need scenery—Shakespeare didn’t,” declared Hackett. “These men will learn the trick.”

LIKE HIS FAMOUS ANCESTOR

Israel Putnam of Revolutionary Fame, Had Nothing on His Great--1 Great-Grandson. Boone, Colo. —Israel Putnam of revolutionary fame, who cut his horses loose from the plow and hurried to engage in battle against the British, had nothing on his great-great-grand-son, Ralph W. Putnam, a farmer near Boone.. When the “war urge” overtook Mr. Putnam he hurried from the farm to the nearest recruiting station, enlisted and left for a cantonment camp, then sent word home by telegraph: “I’m off to grab the German goat”

DESERTER RETURNS TO FIGHT

Says Country Needs More Men as Ha Surrenders to Police at Connellsville, Pa. 4 Connellsville. Pa.—Saying the “country needs more, men,” William V. Curry of Marysville, Ky., gave himself up to Police Lieutenant Thomas Motion-, aid as a deserter from the United States Marine corps. Curry says he ran away from his division at Newport News, Va.. In August, 1916. Since the outbreak of the war with Germany he said that he has been constantly tortured by remorse, and when he heard of the sinking of the Tuscania he could stand it no longer. “The country needs more men,” he said, “and I might as well be back if Uncle Sam will have me."

Indian Chief Enlists.

San Francisco, Cal. —Chief Beit; Newman, who, by the Indian laws, is. next in line of succession as head of, the Piute nation, is today a full-fledged member of the Coast Artillery Corps, U. K A.