Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1918 — Page 3

Our Part in Feeding the Nation

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.! - £ ijfc- .. ' .-J •—— —•----- ——.* -* GETTING ALONG WITH LESS SUGAR

The Pulp Left After the Juice Has Been Extracted May Be Made Into Pastes and Sauces.

WOMEN COOK AND CAN WITH SIRUPS

Plan to Make Fruit Juices, Butters and Pastes Without Use of Sugar. MANY OF FRUITS ARE DRIED Over-Sweetening of Tea and Coffee Is One of Our Greatest Faults —Home Demonstration Agents Use Substitutes In Recipes. « Instead of letting the sugar shortage hpther her, the resourceful housewife is bending all efforts to learn the best ways of using Less sugar in her cooking and preserving and of canning without it or with sugar substitutes. She is drying many of the fruits; she is learning to put up fruit} juices and butters and to make sirups at home from sugar beets, quinces and apples. She is substituting, corn sirup, molasses, maple sirup, and honey for sugar in her canning and general cooking, and she is making sugarless candles, fruit pastes and confections. Bulletins telling how to carry out these methods may be had free on application to the United States department of agriculture. Sugar saving not only means cutting down on consumption, but it • also means preventing waste. Americans have allowed their fondness for sugar to increase to the point where it has passed extravagance and become actual waste. Over-sweetening of tea and coffee is one of our great faults, /lore than this, too often a good part of the sugar is not dissolved and is left in the bottom of the cup to be thrown away. Every housewife should enforce the rule of "one teaspoonftil to the cupful or none at all.” The children as well as the grownups must be willing to do without some of the sweet things they want and every one must be satisfied with much smaller amounts of sweetening in general cooking. Serve fresh fruits without sugar instead of sweet puddings; have salads often in.place of desserts; use sweet dried fruits like dates, raisins or Acs ' with the breakfast cereals, or a little sirup in place of sugar. Use cake sparingly and make it from recipes that call for molasses or sirups—in-* stead of frosting spread it with a little jam, fruit butter, or paste. Canning Without Sugar. Fruits canned without sugar keCp perfectly but will not have the fine color and flavor which they would . have if packed in sirup. They are very good, however, when used in salads, desserts, pie fillings, ices and in fruit punches. Fruit juices take no sugar and their uses nre just as varied during the winter months as are the fruits put up unsweetened. In this way, the juices are kept available, for jelly-making at a future time when sugar may be more plentiful. Many, home demonstration agents have already substituted sirups successfully for sugar in their recipes for canning and presetting. Very satisfactory results may be secured* if when one pound of sugy is called for in a recipe two-thirds of a pound of corn strop is used and one-third of a pound Of sugar. Where sorghum and cane sirups are used without first clarifying the sirups the product will be darker. These strops, also, impart a flavor which destroys the natural fruit flavor, so the addition of spices to the recipes is sometimes advisable. Honey has been used successfully with cherries peaches; in such cases the amount of liquid called for in the

sirup is reduced one-quarter cupful for each cupful of honey. The following ‘are some of the best recipes used by the agents: Blackberry Jam. 3 pounds crushed blackberries. % pound New Orleans molasses or sorghum. % pound sugar. Cook all together, stirring carefully until it gives a good jelly test Pack hot into hot jars and seal. Peach Jam. 2 pounds peaches. Mt cupful peach juice. H teaspoonful allspice. 1 cupful corn sirup. 1 cupful sugar. 2 teaspoonfuls broken stick cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful cloves. 1 inch ginger root. Tie spices in cheesecloth bag and cook all together until bright and clear. Pack hot into hot jars and seal at once. Apple Pulp and Corn Sirup. Take one quart of apple pulp, from which the juice has been extracted for jelly making, and cook it yvith one cupful of corn sirup until the mass brightens. Pack while hot in hot jars and seal at once. Grape Paste. Add one cupful of corn sirup to two cupfuls of grape pulp from which juice has been extracted for jelly making. Cook together until the mass is rather dry, then turn out on an oiled surface and place where a current of air will pass over it. Dry for two or three days. Cut into squares or roll and slice. Pack in glass jars, tin boxes or paraf-fin-covered containers. Apple paste may be‘made in the same way.

Left-Over Cereals. Remnants of cereal breakfast foods may often be utilized to make palatable dishes, to thicken soups or other foods, and in similar ways. Small quantities of cooked cereal left over from a meal can be molded in cups and reheated for later use by setting the cups In boiling water. Another way to economize cereal mushes is to add hot water to any mush left over so as to make it very thin. - It can then easily be added to a new supply. The practice of frying the left-overs of boiled hominy, or of cornmeal mush is as bld as the settlement of this country, and the nursery song about the “bag pudding the queen did make" from King Arthur’s barley meal shows us that for centuries other cereal puddings have been treated in the kame way. In oatmeal oysters, leftover cereal is dipped in eggs and cniimbs and frfied. Left-over rice and other cereals are commonly used in croquettes and puddings/ ( f ,, Fruits so? Children. Fruits should be served in some form to children at least once a day. Fruit juices and the puh) of cooked fruit, baked apples ahdj pears, and stewed prunes are safes/ Whether the skins should be given dependsipartly on the age and health of the schild hnd partly on the way the fruit is prepared. If the skins are very tender they are not likely to cause trouble except with very young children. When apples and pears are baked the skins can be made tender by frequent basting.

WHY SUGAR IS SHORT.

There-is a greater shortage of both the sugar-cane and sugarbeet crops than was expected in the early part of the season. At no time since the beginning of the war has there been a normal output of sugar because of the devastation of foreign sugarbeet fields. There has been a serious loss of sugar at sea due to the submarine warfare. The government requires a generous supply to meet the needs of the men in the service. ,

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

SOLDIERS’ SWORD ARM OF NATION

If We Fail in Our Duty Boys in France Carinot Achieve Victory. LOAN MONEY TO UNCLE SAM ,v I i-■ , j Buying Liberty Bonds an Investment In Lives of Americans “Ovey. There" and an Insurance for Safety of Our Country. By pORRA HARRIS, (Author of "A Circuit Rider's Wife,? "Eve's Second Husband,” Etc.) Daring the Thrift Stamp campaign in July, 1918, a prominent citizen was sent into a backwoods farming community to arouse the people, and if possible sell Thrift Stamps. He was not expected to have much success with the sale of stamps because the people were very poor and illiterate. ‘ The effort was to be chiefly educational.

The speaker found a dingy company of farmers and their wives waiting for him in an old field schoolhouse. He began his address with arguments for the support of the government reduced to the simplest forms.. No one seemed to listen. The men stared straight ahead as if'they had something else op their minds. The women fanned themselves and looked out of the windows. He Changed his manner of speech to an impassioned appeal; no one was moved. He paused perspiring before making a last despairing effort. But before he could go on a tall, gaunt farmer stood up in the back of the house and waved his hand beseechingly: “Mister,” he said, “if you are done talking, give us a chance at them Thrift Stamps so we kin sign up and get back to the field.” . He gave them the “chance.” They bought nineteen hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of stamps, although there was not a man among them who owned property to the amount of two thousand* dollars. “We own thia land,” the farmer said, addressing the prominent citizen grimly as he passed up the last pledge card, “we own all this country. The government at Washington belongs to us; we made it and It is ours. The army < in France is ours, too; they are our sons. We sent sfrxty-two boys there from this district, and I reckon we know it is our duty ’to work for them and take care of them while they are busy whipping them Germans.” This is the best most serviceable and Intelligent definition of patriotism I have heard since this war began. Victory at Any Cost

This is the most expensive war ever known, still beyond our imagination to conceive of. The enormous destruction wrought by the submarines, the terrific sums spent for , war materials, the loans to our allies, none of these things account for the incredible expense. The real explanation is that, civilization demands that it shall cost everything. Never before has any nation spent so much to insure the health of its soldiers, never before have such provisions been made to safeguard a great army morally. More is being spent to equip hospitals, provide ambulances, nurses and doctors, to care for the wounded than whole campaigns cost in former wars. Never in the :hlstory of man has such provision been made to insure widows and orphans and soldiery from the after effects of wounds and poverty. Formerly when a man entered the army to fight for his country, his country took his life, and that was the end of it if he was killed. Now the government pays, and pays enormously, for every man who lives or dies in this struggle. All this is so because as a nation we have developed a sense of justice and honor that regards any and every expense as secondary to the one tremendous obligation to its citizens Our allies were compelled to fight Germany to Reserve their very existence, but we chose to fight her When we might have made a shameful treaty with her that would have Insured a shameful peace, because we are not; a craven grasping nation, but a nation built upon Ideals, and it costs more to preserve an ideal than it ever costs to preserve peace, because you cannot buy them—you must/achieve them. Nothing stands between the world and this catastrophe bqt the American people, their honor, their energy, their fidelity and their wealth. Our troops in France are only the sword arm of the nation. We. the people at home, are th.e body and life of that army. If we fail at all, they must fail entirely. We are about to make another loan of six billion dollars for war expenses. It te net a gift, but an investment we make in the lives of American soldiers and an insurance we take out for the safety of our country.

To Put Out Fire.

If a 7 lamp Is accidentally upset and the burning oil spreads, do not dash water oh it, but throw upon it fldur, meal, sand, salt or ashes. ‘

The Real Trouble.

They talk about people’s “biting off more than they can chew’’—but the trouble often is, that they do not chew fast enough. - -

Words are daughters of earth, but ideas are sous of heaven. —Samuel Johnson.

Helping the Neat and Milk Supply

Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) - ENCOURAGE USE OF FISH.

A Suburban Pool Capable of Putting Fish on the Table Many Times Oftener Than Usual.

EAT FRESH FISH AND SAVE MEATS

Sport of Fishing May Be Made to Serve Nation's Food Needs ' and Give Exercise. MUCH CRAIN IS CONSERVED Seas, Lakes, Rivers and Ponds Offer Practically Unlimited Quantities of Fish Living on Food of No Use to Man. Every pound of beef, veal, mutton or pork that goes on the table represents a consumption of many pounds of com or other valuable grain fed to the- cattle, sheep or hogs from which the meat was taken. The more of these red meats you eat the more cereals you are taking out of the supply that is so greatly needed for the nation’s war needs at this time. To a large extent, too, these statements apply to all kinds of poultry. The one kind of meat, the production of which does not require the consumption of other human foods, is fish. The seas, lakes, rivers and ponds of this country offer practically unlimited quantities of fish that live on food which is of no use to man. When you eat fish you. save meat and save grain, b<|th of which your governmtent asks ybu to conserve. Ordinarily it is possible to secure good, fresh fish at the meat market, but whether justly or not, fresh fish is always more or less under suspicion in the meat markets of cities ahd towns that are distant from the sea coast or the lakes. The suspicion in most cases is not justified, but evjen if it were it would not follow that people of inland towns and cities must necessarily refraih from eating fresh fish.

Fish for Family Use. There are a large number of streams i and ponds from which one may take the fish needed for family consumptlon, and there should be very many more such ponds. A fish pond does not necessarily take up much space and need not be confined to large places. Practically all country families, and very many suburban families, could have, without any greiat difficulty, a fish pond or pool in which enough fish could be grown at minimum expense to supply the. table and to save large quantities of other meats and cereals. „|t ' There is a great deal of pleasure and recreation, too, in catching the fish. And there is a decided satisfaction in knowing that the fish you eat have been taken from your own pond or stream within a very short time before being prepared soy the table. The United States. department of agriculture has long urged a more general adoption of the family fish pond, and It points out the exceptional need for such practice at this time. It would be a genuine national service if several times more people than nefw indulge in fishing for sport or otherwise would, by devoting a little of their spare time to it, take enough fish from stream or pond to place this excellent food on the table several tidies oftener than is now the general practice. The hour or two that, every man should devote to some form of recreation. if intelligently applied to fishing, would afford the same rest and rejuvenation that is to be had from nonproductive sports and would, at the Mme time, be not only a domestic but • public economy, Thej-e is another source of meat

supply native to ponds and streams of which much fewer people avail themselves than of fish. That is frogs. There is no'more delicious meat than frog legs. Yet with the exception of a few hotels widely scattered along the lakes and a few of the streams, frog legs are rarely served. Around practically every pond of any considerable size there are enough frogs if properly utilised to. furnish an occasional meal and to furnish a very fine sport in shooting or otherwise taking. More attention to fish and frogs would result in the saving of much food and would be of personal benefit to those who might become interested In it.

FISH FOR YOUR SECTION.

Probably every kind of fish has some peculiarly attractive qualities. The following species of fish are native to the sec-., tions indicated: New England—Alewife, cod, 1 cusk. flounder, goosefish, gray- i fish, haddock, hake, halibut, . herring, mackerel, mullet, pollock, salmon, scup, seji trout, shad, smelt’, squeteague, sword- i fish, tilefish, whiting. : Middle Atlantic —• Alewife, , bass, bluefish, butterfish, carp, catfish, cod, flounder, goosefish, : halibut, mackerel, perch, rock, : salmon, shad, smelt, spot, tile- . fish, weakfish, whiting. South Atlantic - Alewife, : bass, bluefish, carp, catfish, i drumfish, mullet, perch, shad, , Spanish mackerel, spot, squeteague. Pacific Coast Barracuda, : bass, flounder, grayflsh, halibut, herring, pike, rockfish, sable fish, salmon, smelt, trouL Mississippi Valley Black bass, bowfin, buffalo, burbot, carp, catdsh, crappie, drumfish, pike, red snapper, rock bass, sturgeon, sucker.’ Great Lakes —Bass, bowfin, burbot, carp, catfish, drumfish, lake herring, lake trout, porch, pike, sturgeon. .. Gulf Barracuda, buifalo, carp, catfish, croaker, drumfish, mullet, Spanish mackerel, squeteague, sturgeon.

More Sheep Needed. That mutton and wool production iff this country can be increased greatly admits of no doubt. This can be accomplished by developing sheep hus- , bandry on farms, especially in the Eastern and Southern states. Steps should be taken in the East and South to do away with the sheep-killing dog menace by state or local action. Large results can be secured by improving methods of breeding and management on the range; by securing the restocking of improved farm lands with sheep; by the larger use of forage crops and pastures; by encouraging sheep and lamb clubs; by the elimination of parasites; by protection against • losses from predatory animals; hud by having lambs ready for market at from 70 to 80 pounds weight, thereby requiring a minimum of grain to finish them and making possible the maintenance of larger breeding flocks. Feed for Next Winter. Far-seeing farmers may advantageously plan to secure their winter supply of feed in September and October when danger of spoilage is past and avoid the uncertainty of deliveries during the winter when the demand for feed usually exceeds the output of the mills.

The velvet bean may be utilized by grazing In the fieid with various kinds of live stock, especially cattle.

THE LIVING MEMORY

By MILDRED WHITE.

John Ruggles swung about in the re- , volvlngchair before his- desk, to gaze qver the high roofs beneath the glaring July sun. There it was again, that evasive memory of something sweet and half forgotten! What had happened to him in his heretofore satisfied middle age, that vague longings should reach but from the past? Business and its success had for years absorbed him, blotting out all that had been before, making wealth alone his goal. Now, wealth waa achieved, whnt had it brought him? Lillias had dropped out of his life so long ago he had Tost regard for her when she had chosen in preference to himself a sort of wandering nomad for a husband. Will had been a dreamy Idealist, while he. John Ruggles, even in that long ago. Showed unmistakable business promise. It was in his youthful engineering capacity that he .had visited the little village almost buried beheuth Jts encircling hills. Lillias had met him in the quaint flower garden of her home, and it had been Will who took him there. Will, who, lazily curious about John’s work, had mode friends with the engineer upon the highway. Win had been kind to the strangef, had made it pleasant for him in the lonely village, offering the hospitality of his own small home. John Ruggles had been glad to accept. There were valuable books on the crude shelves of Will’s one roomed habitation —interesting curios from all parts of the world—and Will had taken him to see Lillias; when the engineer looked into the girl’s rare bluebell eyes, he decided to remain indefinitely in the village. Decided calmly, to win her from the man whom she loved and make her his own, and John Ruggles had failed; that was all. Then he went back to the great city where bluebell eyes and fair faces are ‘‘but a thing apart,” and not “man’a whole existence.” Many women had come and gone in John Ruggles* life since that youthful time, and he had been content to let them go; without companionship of women his life seemed complete. But now— Across the tall chimney tops romance called to him, flaunting a memory not unmixed with pain, of a grassgrown village stheet, a quaint old garden set back behind * cedar hedge; and about the garden in his memory

dream moved the girl Lillian. John Ruggles turned abruptly to press an electric button. He would humor his fancy, satisfy this clamoring Impulse, by a walk down that same village street, a peet> into the old garden which upon actual observation would undoubtedly lose its fanciful Charm. Lilllas had married Will; -poverty then mnst be her dower. Uncared for women do not as a rule grow in attractiveness. Reality should forever silence this tormenting memory, so inexplicably awakened. But first he must dismiss the new stenographer whose work his secretary had pronounced hopeless. Again John Ruggles pressed the electric button. II was the secretary who responded. "The new stenographer had not reported that day for business," he explained, "and her dismissal would be unnecessary. Realizing her own unfitness for the position, the girl had telephoned a resignation. Unbusinesslike to the last in method,” he added smilingly. The great man paused reaching for his hat. "I recall the young person." he said “She possessed at least the quality of respectful courtesy.” The secretary bowed. “With a personality quite too diffident for office work." he replied, “as one could tell from a glance of her eyes.” "Her eyes,” the casual remark came to John Ruggles like a flash of inspiration. Here was the solution of his awakened memory, the eyes of the little stenographer he suddenly recollected were strangely like the bluebell eyes of Lillies. “Life was unsatisfying,” he told himself as he crossed the marble floor of the railroad station, “wealth, power, what had they to do with happiness the elusive? Where might it be found?” The village street was unchanged, the familiar houses too, like those of yesterday Suddenly the man drew in his breath while his eyes widened as If seeing a vision. For about the garden moved gracefully a girl in white, and in her hair a rose. As he lingered unbelievingly, she came toward him, her bluebell eyes searching his across the hedge, then she smiled. “Oh I Mr. Ruggles,” his recent stenographer exclaimed, “you came away out to see me? I was obliged to resign my position,” she added flushing prettily, "because I had too long Imposed. My business education was too brief to he efficient. I have not been long alone in the world.” Across the face of John Ruggles flashed an understanding light All at once its lines of care seemed erased by some great inner Joy. “You,” he murmured, "are the daughter of Lillian ?” “You knew my mother?” the girt asked quickly. He smiled. “It is,” he answered, “as though Lillies herself were here beside me again.” The girl threw wide the gate. “T also am—LUllas.” she said, and John, Ruggles entered Into the garden. (Copyright, 1313. Western Newspaper Union*