Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — Page 2

Vegetables Save Staple Foods

Uie Products of the Garden and Orchard in Place of Wheat, Meat, Fats and Sugar.

“What am I doing to feed the world?” This question is being asked and answered by every true American. Some have the privilege and responsibility of producing food from the fields or the home garden, while others have the less picturesque but no less responsible part of standing guard over this food supply, to see that every ounce possible of the wheat, meat, fats and sugar needeiHJy our soldiers and allies is saved for their use. There are many substitutes for these things, but “there is no substitute for freedom.” Ono way to save important staple foods, according to the United States department of agriculture, is to use fresh fruits and vegetables In as large quantities as possible while they are abundant. Potatoes may be used to A'* j »•'.«-

Saving Vegetables by the Drying Process. A Simple Homemade Dryer in Use.

save cereals, and shelled green beans and peas to «av'e meat. All ripe fruits contain sngar, so that melons and other fruits may be used for “desserts” or a fruit salad may replace this course entirely. Vegetables are savers or conservers of other staple foods, and also have their own particular part to play in the diet which neither meats nor cereals nor sweets can play. Besides being appetizers and furnishing fuel, protein and mineral matter to the body, they supply other Important substances of which we know but little as yet, but which play an important part in promoting growth in the young and bodily wellbeing for everyone. All kinds of vegetables should be used. They are at their best when fresh, and may be prepared in a variety of ways.

TO SAVE FUEL IN HOT AIR FURNACE

Rules Given Out by U. S. Fuel Administrator for Illinois.

Joseph Harrington, United States fuel administrator* for Illinois, has issued the following rules for handling hot-air furnaces, steam and hot water plants in the interest of fuel economy: 1. Check draft in stovepipe near the turn damper, as this controls largely the rate at which the fire burns, depending not at all upon the opening and closing of the coaling door. 2. The turn damper should fit loosely within the pipe, same to be kept partly closed in all mild periods — opened wide in the cold. 3. Use slide damper in coaling door only for elimination of gases from soft or bituminous coal after the addition of fresh fuel. « 4. Turn extra air Into pipe for checking of general draft, same furnishing necessary oxygen for the consumption of gases. Open only draft in ashpit door for more rapid burning. 5. Heat pipes in cellar thoroughly wrapped to prevent loss by radiation. 6. With grates flat a short, quick stroke of shaker for sifting of ashes, with glow only to be shown in most severe weather. 7. Avoid poking of fire bed to save the causing of draft holes. 8. Additional coal to low fire before shaking. 9. Storm windows and storm doors for economy.' 10. Temperature generally at 68 degress or less, except for invalids or children. Unoccupied rooms cooler, with use of thermometers recommended. 11. Wasteful to allow unusual drop of temperature at night 12. Bedrooms should carry lower temperatures than ones used for general living. 13. Two pans or jars of water at registers or radiators for .moisture in. home. 14. Study system foF your home, fuel economy serving to warm the shivering boys In France.

What It Costs Uncle Sam to Draft Men Into Army

Figures compiled from the records of the last drafts show that it cost the government almost exactly $5 for each man drafted. All but seven cents of this amount represents the expense of the draft boards. In comparison with this it is interesting to learn that the volunteer system of recruiting cost $24.48 per man in 1914; $19.14 in 1915, and $28.95 between July, 1916, and April, 1917. These latter figures, however, Included the recruit's traveling expenses and the cost of his subsistence prior to acceptance. •

Highest Radio Aerial.

The highest radio aerial in tfee world, the cables of a captive balloon, is Id use at the New York navy yard. It was announced that the yard had I een to communication with the wire-.

TAKE IT FROM FATHER

Son, I haven’t much to tell you. I have learned that good advice is A prescription which but few of us will take. And my long and windy arguments might forsake You in a crisis— And besides 5 you’ve got your own career to make; I have just this bit of counsel which may help you go the distance With no useless or, unnecessary stop, As you mingle in the melee of the struggle for existence ’ Don’t you ever try to argue with a cop! There are plenty of adventures which a man may get away with, Though the world proclaim them hopeless from the start; You may find a whirring buzz-saw is a pretty thing to play with, And at times a Bengal tiger has a heart; Youth is always doing wonders .and forevermore achieving While the sages sneer and prophesy a Hop; But there are some final limits, it’s a fact that’s worth believing, So don’t ever try to argue with a cop! You might swim the Whirlpool Rapids, you might butt your way through granite. You might set the Mississippi all aflame; But debating With policemen—take a tip from dad, and can it— For the issue is infallibly the same; You are licked before you’ve started with your futile protestations. So just do the way he tells you, on the hop, And unless you have a fancy for a jail’s accommodations Don’t you ever try to argue with a cop! —Berton Braley, in Saturday Evening Post.

Great, but Not Up to Date.

Old Colonel Eve positively refused to wear corset-covers. Hannibal did not use tobacco in any form. Peter the Hermit never spent a cent for phonograph records. Gustavus Adolphus would not patronize the parcel post. Goliath absolutely declined to don B. V. D.’s. Genghis Khan preferred the steps to the elevator. Doctor Johnson would not put his foot in an automobile. Moses had an unconquerable aversion to motorcycles. Nero couldn't be persuaded to buy an electric fan.

Pay of Y. M. C. A. Men.

The pay of Y. M. C. A. men in the cantonment service depends on their previous earnings. It is not greater than they have previously been receiving and does not exceed $2,100, even though they have been earning more than that There is an allowance of $75 for their own expenses and an additional allowance for their families depending on their previous pay, but not exceeding SIOO a month.

Searchlight Penetrates Fog.

Great fog penetrating power is claimed for a" 1 searchlight that has been invented ifi France with a greenish yellow glass in front and backed by a reflector that also prevents moisture collecting on the glass.

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Stellite, Metal That Will Not Rust—Hardness and other Qualities of Steel

Everybody knows that metals under go changes through the influence of oxygen and moisture from * the air—these two bodies being always ready for chemical business. Therefore, as everybody also knows, steel knives and other familiar utensils require continual cleaning because they rust so easily. Steel is eyen more susceptible to rust than Iron. The chemists’ problem In this case has been to make a metal which is permanent and will not rust, having, at the same time, the hardness and other qualities of steel. That is, a metal as “noble” or permanent as gold and as herd and strong as steel. Elwood Haynes, a member of the American Chemical society, relates in Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering of a long series of experiments which he made during a period of many years, especially In alloys of cobalt, chromium, tungsten and molybdenum. He finally succeeded in making some of these metals so hard that they can scratch any steel in existence. He has given the name stellite to the series. Stellite may be Indefinitely heated without showing oxidation, except for the fact that the surface takes on a permanent blue color. Lathe tools, milling cutters, saws, drawing dies, boring tools, drills, etc., have been made from stellite as well as surgical and dental Instruments which have been placed on the market. Tablespoons and small spoons of stellite have been in use for six years and they may last, it appears, for a thousand years more without tarnishing.

Mother’s Cook Book.

Age is another opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress; And as the twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. ■' What to Eat. If a cupful or more of noodles ar ( e left from dinner save them and in a day or two prepare Ham and Noodles. Butter an earthen dish, put into the bottom a layer of cold boiled noodles, add a layer of cold boiled ham, cut in bits, then another layer of noodles and so on until the dish is full. Beat an egg with one cupful of milk and pour into the dish. Cover with crumbs, dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven. Deviled Chicken. Make a sauce of salt, pepper, dry mustard, paprika, grated lemon- peel, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and a few drops of tabasco sauce. Add a tablespoonful of butter and cook all together. When the sauce boils add cubes of cooked chicken; serve when well cooked. Oysters a la Creole. Chop fine one clove of garlic, a green pepper and a small onion. Season with salt and paprika and cook in two tablespoonfuls of butter. Add a cupful of tomatoes and a cupful of parboiled oysters. Serve very hot on toast, or cover \frith buttered crumbs and bake.

Clam Cutlets. Take a quart of clams, chopped fine and a cupful of dried breadcrumbs. Season with salt and pepper, a teaspoonful of tomato catsup and "a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Bind with raw egg or with a very little cream sauce. Shape into cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. I Deviled Crabs. * Take one can of minced crab meat, add the yolks of two-hard cooked eggs, mashed fine, a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, salt _ and paprika, the juice of half a lemon, a teaspoonful of dry mustard, and a few drops of tabasco sauce. Add enough dried breadcrumbs to make a paste. Fill crab shells with the mixture, cover brown. Ramekins may be used if the shells are not at hand. Panned Oysters. Cover the bottom of a baking dish with oysters and with enough of the liquor to steam them well. Cover tightly and bake from five to ten minutes in a hot oven. Serve on buttered toast and pour the hot juice, over the toast. Sour Cream Pie. Take one cupful each of sour cream, raisins, and honey, one egg, a tablespoonful of vinegar, a half teaspoonful each of salt, cinnamon, and nntmeg, with a fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves. Bake in two crusts. UtLUc

They Run on Peat

A Norway firm is advertising engines that can be operated 'with peat gas instead of benzine or gasoline. The alterations have been made in accordance with a Danish Invention, which makes it possible to use this fuel. It is claimed several thousand engines are being used in Denmark successfully. The new system is stated to , consume from one to two kilos of peat, 2.2 to 4.4 pounds per horse power, according to the quality of the peat.

All Men Must Do War Work

U. S. Employment Service Serves Notice That Able Bodied Citizens May Not Continue Working at Unnecessary Jobs.

The United States employment service is “getting down to cases.” in finding unskilled labor for essential war work. It has served notice that employment that is simply personal service or for personal pleasure will not be regarded as war work. Also the employment service makes an appeal to automobile owners to release chauffeurs, whenever possible, and to consider well before they buy accessories for their machines, whether they need the work required to produce them as muoh as the country needs it to help win the war. In an authorized interview. Nathan M. Smyth, assistant director general of the United States employment service, gives the program and purpose of that department as follows: “The community labor boards are .charged with the responsibility of determining the methods which shall govern the employment service in attempting to recruit for war work men from industries which are not directly connected with the prosecution of the war. The power to determine priority among Industries and to close up nonessential industries by shutting off supplies rests with the war industries board. , “The United States employment service ■will follow the priorities determined by the priorities board of the war industries board, and the employment service through all its agencies will keep in systematic and constant co-operation with the man power and material program. “It is within the province of each community labor board to list those nonwar industries in its community which will first be called upon to contribute men to war work. . “This does not mean-that such Industries will be compelled to close up or to discharge their rryde employees at once, but that with as much speed as may be necessary to national emergency, they will release male workers. ' “We may as well face the facts. Much work essential to our program is being seriously retarded by lack of unskilled labor. In this- situation it is obviously wrong to have able-bodied men continuing to sell candy, cigars and like articles, to be doing work in shops and stores which might with reasonable effort on the part of the employers be intrusted to women, and to be dancing attendance in clubs, barber shops, soft-drink establishments, bowling alleys, dancing academies and elsewhere. “Our war Industries are suffering severely for lack of skilled mechanics. It therefore becomes a burden upon the conscience of every person who employs a chauffeur to determine whether such employment is necessary or merely for the gratification of personal pleasure. “Moreover, evefy owner of an automobile should realize that every time he spends five dollars for automobile accessories, supplies or repairs, he is in effect determining whether the working energies of the country shall be devoted to winning the war or to his own personal uses. “The time has come when, from the standpoint of conservation of labor, we must all of us limit our expenses to those things which are essential.”

CHEAPER RATIONS FOR THE HENS

(Prepared by the United States .Department of Agriculture.) Beef scraps or some other animal protein feed has been shown by a number of experiments to be essential to good and economical egg production, especially during winter. In the 18 months preceding January, 1918, the price of meat or beef scrap has Increased 100 per cent, while, in some places, it has been difficult tb secure it at all, making it advisable ,to use something in place of this feed. To find satisfactory substitutes was the object of experiments conducted by the poultry specialists of the department. Rations fob laying hens containing peanut meal, soy-bean meal and velvet-bean meal have been used with good results since the first of November on the government poultry farm. Half of the beef scrap normally fed in the mash has been replaced by these feeds, making the ration as follows: A scratch mixture of two parts cracked corn and one part oats, and a mash of nine - parts cornmeal, five parts middlings, four parts bran, two parts beef scrap, and two parts of either peanut meal, soy-bean meal, or velvet-vetch meal.- All of these parts are by Weight. A similar ration containing cottonseed meal has been fed with good results for over one year. The percentage of protein In these feeds was as follows: Beef scrap, 50 to 55; soy-bean meal, 44; cottonseed meal, 38; peanut meal, 28; and velvet-bean meal, 19. The egg yield for the first three months has been fairly good with al) of these feeds, but not quite as good as has been secured from the use of a normal amount of beef scrap. The highest egg yield was secured from the peanut meal; nearly as good results from the soy-bean meal, but only a fair egg yield from the velvet-bean meal. It would appear that all of these feeds are worthy of a trial, used with beef scrap, in sections where they are easily secured. These tests will have to be carried through a considerable period of time to accurately determine the relative value of these feeds.

Winston-Salem, N. C., Great for Tobacco Manufacturing

Although 200 miles from the seaboard in North Carolina, WinstonSalem, a dual city of 17,000 inhabitants, has been designated as a port of entry by the custom officials, because its imports of sugar, licorice and tobacco are enormous. Since 1910, according to Popular Science Monthly, the manufacture of tobacco products has increased more than 370 per cent Indeed, it is believed that Winston-Salem now. leads St. Louis as the chief tobacco manufacturing city in the United States. Eight days after the government had given Winston-Salem a $250,000 post office building the city had paid for it Ip tobacco revenue.

Force of ’ Niagara River.

The enormous force ol Niagara river in its descent from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario represents a descent of 334 feet in 36 miles, while the average height of the falls is between 154 and 162 feet, representing, according to different estimates, from 1,750,000 to 7,000,000 horsepowdh

New Faces, Including Cheeks, Noses, Lips Jaws, Provided In Great Hospitals of Paris

Some miracles of modern surgery are being performed at a hospital in Paris. The surgeons here, writes a correspondent, have become sculptors in human flesh. They reconstruct a man who otherwise would have to go through life hideously ugly, but who is able to leave the hospital practically a normal man. A man whose face had been blown away by a shell has a new nose and lips grown for him; new chins are no longer a matter of comment. The simplest method is that of removing a scar. An incision is made and the arteries bound up; then a piece of skin is cut from another part of the body and the surgeon’s scissors clip it to the desired shape, and very speedily the scar disappears. To construct a nose a piece of gristle Is removed from the region of the ribs and “put out to nurse,” as the surgeon describes it, under the skin of the forehead. The gristle continues tb live, and when all is ready the surgeon romoves it and the protective skin and skillfully manipulates knife and scissors until a new nose is put in its place. The lower portion of the organ is sewn to the upper lip and skin removed from the thigh is used to cover up the scar on the forehead. A man who could not eat because he had no lower jaw was given a new one constructed from his hip bone. New lips are with flesh removed from the neck; broken bones in the cranium are removed and fresh bones put in their place and kept there by a few metal supports. A soldier who had lost his upper jaw, Ups, cheeks, palate, nose and inouth came to a hospital to ask for a new face because he wished to visit his mother. He was accomodated with new cheeks and lips, and in a comparatively short time he had the rest of his new face.

French Soldier Wrote Song “Won’t Go Home Till Morning”

That most celebrated of drinking songs, “We Won’t Go Home Till Morning,” found its inspiration in war. The air was composed by an unknown French soldier after the battle of Malplaquet, which was fought in 1709. The French troops suffered severely in the battle, and when night came a cold, drizzling rain and a shortage of food added to their discomfort. The trooper-composer wrote the song on a drumhead, and it was designed tb cheer his unhappy comrades. It immediately attained popularity and spread all over France, and thence to England and America.

Tricks in the Kitchen.

Add apples to the rhubarb pie; it will be less sharp. Food should look attractive as well as taste well. Mashed potatoes left over may .be made into biscuits. Fruit sandwiches must not be forgotten for the picnic. Orie pint of milk makes twoand one-half ounces of fat soft . cheese. Pastry and. fried foods are both expensive and indigestible. The best cheese is made from milk before it has soured. . 4 .. Cheese should always be. served with corn bread. - < Frankfurter sausage are good ‘'to boll with cabbage.

Commercial Supply of Fats and Oils Other Than Retail Stocks in U. S. July 1, 1918

Stocks of fats and oils In commercial channels, other than retail stocks, an reported to the United States depart* ment of agriculture in the comprehensive food survey for July 1,1918, were as follows: Lard, 114,693,782 pounds; lard compounds (including substitutes other than purely * vegetable substitutes), 50,410,780 pounds; solid vegetable cooking fats, 42,636,551 pounds; oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow, 30,770,747 pounds; cottonseed oil, 41,718,674 gallons; olive oil, 901,995 gallens ; peanut oil, 4,839,931 gallons;" com oil, 2,891,457 gallons. The figures given above in<|iiSfe; stocks actually reported as on hand by manufacturers, storage houses and wholesale dealers, and also quantities reported as in transit from these stores. The stocks of retail dealers, as'reported for July 1,1918, are not included, -since these reports are still in process of being tabulated. In a similar survey made by the department for January 1, 1918, the retail stocks constituted the following percentages of fche total commercial stocks of the commodities here considered: Lard, 20.5 per cent; lard compounds, 38.3 per cent; solid vegetable cooking fats, 28.9 per cent; oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow, 2.2 per cent; cottonseed oil, 2.5 per cent; olive oil, 44.8 per cent; peanut oil, 4.8 per cent. In the case of lard and lard compounds, the stocks reported as on hand on July 1,1918, were slightly less than the corresponding stocks for July 1, 1917, the percentages being 96.3 and 98.4. respectively. The holdings of oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow were 87.8 per cent of those reported a year earlier. The greatest decrease is noted in the case of olive oil, where the holdings on July 1, 1918, were only 35.8 per cent of the holdings for July 1, 1917. In the case of the four remaining commodities, the stocks reported represent an increase over the corresponding stocks of a year earlier, the percentage of increase being as follows: Solid vegetable cooking fats, 14J5 per cent; cottonseed oil, 8.2 per cent; peanut oil, 194.8 per cent; corn oil, 56.6 per cent.

LAUGHS FOR ALL

No Thought of Self. “Josh writes that he’s fighting hard for a speedy victory,” remarked Farmer Corntossel. “Yes,” commented his wife, “that boy’s got the right spirit. He’s going to do his duty and wind up the war, although he knows perfectly well that as soon as it’s over he’ll have to go right back to school." ,i Wants Credit.

he wants to give the people the impression that it does. The Death Rate. Statistically Inclined Tourist—What is the death rate here? Native—Same as it is everywhere else—one death for every inhabitant. His Class. “Do you think your father will agree to our marriage, dear?” “I am afraid not, Henry. You see, father is a conscientious objector.” Close Fisted.

Edith That dreadful looking old man her husband? I don’t see what she married him for. Marie I don’t < think she sees much of what she married him * either. *

How True! She —Wijl you love me as much to December as you do in June, dear? He —More, darling. There’s one more day in December. Worse. She —Are you sure that we are living beyond our means? He—Worse than that, we are living beyond our credit.

Jealously Guarded Secret of Making Eau de Cologne

Cologne’s toilet water Industry was established at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At that time the city numbered about 50,000 inhabitants, while the present population is 450,000. The inventors of eau de Cologne were Paul Femins and Marla Clementine, Catholic nun. They began on a small scale - with few persons employed, whom they did not initiate into their secret Of the whole process, the last most important mixture being made by J he* inventors themselves. Paul Femlns left the secret with the Farina family, while the nun bequeathed the secret to o one Peter Schaeben, who had been her assistant for many years. *

Bacon What’s old Closefist hollering for? Egbert Someone told him he must give until it hurts. Bacon —Well? Egbert—He just gave up z a dollar for charity. Bacon —Well, $1 doesn’t’ hurt. Egbert—No, but