Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — Page 3

13 Month Year, New Calendar Idea

Scheme Launched by American Equal Month . Association

A plan to save $50,000,000 a year in time and $15,000,000 in coin by the addition of 'a month to the present twelve month calendar has been launched by the American Equal Month association, according to an announcement made by that organization. The idea is to divide the year into thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, making each month begin with a Monday. This, of course, will leave oiie day lying around loose in an ordinary year, so it is proposed to make that day New Year’s day, an independent legal holiday, located between the last calendar day of the previous year and the first day of the following year. In leap years the. extra day will also be made an independent holiday and will be slipped in between two months, where it will not be noticed. ' The thirteenth month, or rather the extra month under the proposed system, will be called “Liberty/* to make the calendar more American, the officials of the association say. Thus, the calendar will read January, February, Liberty, March, etc. —_ The saving in money will be through the abolishment of printed calendars. That is where the saving of time and labor will come in, it is averred. The officers of the association state that the bill has been very carefully drawn for presentation to congress, and provides that the change will take place on Sunday, the first day of 1922.

Boys’ Working Reserve Extended

Plans Would Place 500,000 on Farms This Year

An industrial unit of the United States Boys’ Working Reserve, the aim of which shall be to maintain the agricultural training of all American boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty who are engaged in industry, is the plan of the Reserve for 1919. This unit is already partly organized after the plan of the Farm Unit of the Reserve. Other plans for 1919 which the Boys’ Working Reserve has announced are as follows: To enroll and place on American farm* 500,000 boys. To afford all these boys training in farm practice before they go to—the farms, by means of the central farm training camps and farm-craft lessons. “To help them raise enough foodstuffs to feed Europe in 1919. “To maintain the education and welfare of all American boys of high school age.”

Brains Necessary to Make Prosperity and to Prevent a Stagnation of Business

The Latins had a motto, “First live; then be a philosopher.” Business is the thing which enables us to live. The workman of today, asserts a writer in Forbes Magazine, enjoys more comforts than the rulers of former ages solely because of the development of the vast, undeflnable, a’lcomprehensive thing we call business. Civilization can only reach its highest levels where business flourishes. Where business stagnates, the people stagnate. In regions where business l« undeveloped, there the people live rude, unrich, ignorant lives. What would be the value to China or Rus81a of a hundred, men of the caliber of Davidson, or Ford, or Du Pont, or Vanderlip. or Farrell, or Schwab, or Edison, or Coffin, or Rockefeller, or Replogle, or McCormick, or Thomas IS. Wilson, or Woolworth, or Heinze, or Patterson, or Baker, or Bush, or Doheny, or Gary, or Keith, or Perkins, ar Ryan, or Shedd, or Speyer, or Ste<--tinius. or Stone, or Vail, or our totvertng railroad giants?”

WORDS OF WISE MEN

Providence is noiseless as it is irresistible. Rev. S. C. Logan. ’ A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles—to pieces.—Henry Ward Beecher. But he who knows and knows that he khows, is a wise man. Follow him. —From the Arabian Proverbs. All high and grand emotions scorn the tongue, that lies as helpless in the mouth as would be artillery to express the sound and grandeur of mountain thunders in tropical storms. —H. W. Beecher. - . .

First Home of the Aztecs Was in Colorado County

Cortex reported that the Aztecs stated that they originated “in the North,’’ and it is believed by reputable archeologists that this place "in the North” was in wljat is now Montezuma county, Colorado. This county is the home of the Mesa Verde National park, containing the ruins of the cliff who are considered by some authorities to have been Aztecs, or, perhaps, the ancestors of the Aztecs. «

Bible Mentions

, There are mentioned In the Bible the names of nineteen different precious atones, six metals, 104 trees and plants, thirty-five animals, thirty-nine birds, aix fishes, eleven reptiles, twenty insects and other small creatures.

Red-Haired Heroes Numerous Among Men Wearing Military Decorations Denoting Nerve

“Ginger for pluck” is an Old saying which would seem to be confirmed in the bestowal of military decorations for bravery. “It was in the ruined square of demolished Ypres last Christmas Eve,” writes a British officer in London Answers, “that I was first impressed by the large number of redhaired men who were receiving the military medal. “Since that afternoon I have noted the complexion of every officer and man wearing a military decoration, and the impression made at Ypres has been strengthened in consequence. There must be something in the old saying, for wherever soldiers are gathered together there is a red-haired; 1 beribboned man in the midst of them. “Take our most famous fighting division—the Invincible Fifty-first. This is composed almost entirely of Highland troops, and the Highlanders are nearly all full-blooded blondes. Of course, there are dark-haired heroes in plenty, but nevertheless red hair and pluck would seem to be synonymous. Red hair is common among our most daring airmen, and although I cannot say how many holders of the Victoria Cress sport ruddy loeks, I am prepared to wager that they form a large percentage. “Scientists say that red hair is caused by a large proportion of iron in the system, and certainly carrots and freckles have been worn by men of iron while doing the work of men in the devil’s own war.”

Mothers’ Cook Book

The first requirement for food nutrition is an adequate supply of .fuel for all body activities. This must be accompanied by or include those substances which serve to build up the organism and maintain it in repair, constituting a so-called “balanced diet.’

Simple Dishes, Good for the Children.

A delicious and easily digested dessert is: ' =- Fruit Tapioca. —•- Soak three-quarters of a cupful of pearl tapioca in water to cover for one hour. Add one-half a teaspoonful of salt and put into a double boiler; add four tablespoonfuls of sugar and cook until transparent and soft, stirring frequently. Add a little more water if too stiff, then add one-half cupful of currant or grape jelly and stir until dissolved. Serve cold in a glass dish with cream. Pineapple Dessert. Spread rounds o£hread with butter and cover with rounds of pineapple; set in the oven, adding some of the juice to soften the bread. When well heated serve with a spoonful of jetty in the center of each pineapple round. Rhubarb Betty. Spread butter on small squares of bread, line the bottom of a pyrey dish with the bread arid cover with canned rhubarb that has been properly sweetened. A few raisins finely chopped may be added, with a grating of nutmeg or spice, such as cinnamon. Candied Yams. Parboil three medium-sized Weet potatoes until nearly tender, then peel ►and slice lengthwise. Lay in a shallow pan of pyrex or earthenware and cover with one to one and a half cupfuls of canned peach sirup and dot with bits of butter, using two tablespoonfuls. Bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven. . Brown in a hot oven or under the broiler flame. L— _ ; ■■■■—. Tomato and Barley Soup. Put four .tablespoonfuls of sweet butter fat in a saucepan and add two medium-sized onions finely chopped, and fry until tender. Then add two quarts of boiling water, one quart of canned tomatoes, one cup of pearl barley and seasoning of salt and pepper to taste. Cook for three hours over a slow fire. •

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Strychnia Most Useful and Most Used Stimulant to the Heart and Nervous System

Ask any physician “What- is the most useful and most used stimulant to the heart and nervous system?” and he will answer ’’Strychnia,” notes a writer in Milwaukee Sentinel. Strychnia is an alkaloid found originally in the seed of the strychnos nuxvomlca, the poison-nut tree found in India, Bhrmah and Siam and growing also in Cochin China and Australia. The tree is of moderate size and has a fruit the size of a small orange, with a hard shell and a bitter pulp inclosing one to five seeds, less than one inch in diameter and one-fourth inch thick and shaped like disks. It is the bitterest substance known, and when one has heart failure, or nervous exhaustion, or is. run down or needs a tonic, some’doctor is sure to give him the alkaloid from one of these peculiar Indian trees. Text books on medicine frequently refer to “emergency heart stimulants,” meaning by this drugs used, by a hy- - podermlc injection to produce prompt stimulation of s weakened heart. Some of the most valuable heart stimulants require a good deal of time after being given to produce their effects, hence the need of emergency heart stimulants. Strychnine, we know, Is a splendid emergency heart stimulant. A tree which has various species—several hundred, in fact—throughout the world, and is of some medical interest, is the aqaeia. The acacia Senegal is the type of tree which fornishes gum acacia, or gum arable. While acacia is,not possessed of any marked curative properties of itself, it is a constituent of many important preparations in pharmacy, as, for instance, in the making of emulsions, where its heavy mucilaginous qualities make it a valuable vehicle for oily and resinous substances. It is also widely used in the preparation of pills and troches. Gum catechu, a substance containing tannic acid and used in dyeing, which was at one time used as a edy in colitis and dysentery, comes from the acacia catechu and acacia suma, both native to India.

Japan’s Urban Population Rapidly Increasing as in Other Civilized Countries

>, When we speak of Japan mainly as an agricultural country this gives an inadequate conception of the great strength of the urban population which is increasing in Japan as in other civilized countries, writes H.M. Hyndman in Asia Magazine. Apart from Tokyo, with its 2,000,000 inhabitants, and Osaka, with 1,400,000, there are five other cities which have together a population of 2,000,000, and there are in all 66 towns with a population 6f over 30,000 each. Moreover, the greater part of the larger cities and towns are collected close together in comparison with the total area of the| Japanese islands. Railways now connect the main industrial and agricultural centers, supplementing the admirable water communications by sea and canal. This concentration of industrialism and improvement in transport combine to give Japan a focus of material influence which can scarcely fail to increase her pressure upon China in time to come. A glance at the map shows how this long procession of islands from Sagh&lieirtu-FOf-mosa, lying of wharves along the coast of eastern Asia, with its outposts and inlets at Corea, on the Liaotung peninsula, at Kiao-Chaou and now at Fukien, gives Japan an enormous commercial as well as a strategical advantage in the competitive war of the near future, as compared with her rivals in Europe or in America. Never in history was so Remarkably favorable a geographical situation in the hands of one nation, controlled by men capable of taking full advantage of It and looking to the future of Asia as in some sort the heritage of the Japanese race.

THE PINES

Couldst thou, Great Fairy, give to me, The instant’s wish, that-1 might see Of all the earth’s that one dear sight known only in a dream’s delight, I would, beneath some island steep, In some remote and sunbright deep, See high in heaven above me now A palm tree wave its rhythmic bough! And yet this old pine’s haughty crown, Shaking its clouds of silver down. Whispers me snatches of strange tunes , And murmurs of those awful nines Which tell by subtle spell and power Of secret sympathies, the hour When far in the dark north the snow Among great bergs begins to blow. Nay, thou sweet South of heats and balms Keep all thy proud and plumy palms, Keep all thy fragrant flowery ease. Thy purple skies, thy purple seas! These boughs of blessings shall not fall, These voices singing in the gale. The vigor of these mighty lines: I will content me with my pines! —Harriett Prescott Spofford.

Problem in Feeding Cow Is to Satisfy Appetite

V The problems involved in winter feeding are usually distinctly differ* ent from those of summer feeding. Pasture (oc green feed), usually the basis of summer feeding, Is not available. Broadly speaking, there are two factors Involved in this problem, first to satisfy the needs of the cow and, second, to suit the pocketbook. The coW must have an, ample supply of feed of a palatable nature, ind this feed iriust be supplied at a price which will permit a profit on the feeding operation. ’ • , . s .

Home of Women War Workers

-Interior of- war workere’ room, furnished by the government, showing the type of bed and the convenient cedar shirtwaist box which rolls under each bed. Each room in the government dormitories has a wash bowl and two closets. The furnishings of the rooms and the woodwork are attractive.

SELECTION OF EGGS FOR HATCHING

Set only good sized eggs uniform in size. Set only good shaped eggs uniform in shape. Set only good colored eggs uniform tn color. All this you can do with a little care in selection. It Is worth vvhile, as eggs of good size, color, and shape and uniform are a marketable product at higher prices than small eggs varying in color and all shapes. Eggs weighing less than two ounces should not be used for hatching. The large sized egg hatches a larger chick. This larger chick grows faster than the smaller chick. This larger chick will be marketable as a broiler sooner. This larger chick matures younger. This larger chick begins laying sooner than the smaller chick. The Income is received sooner and they are more profitable. These facts apply to all breeds. The comparisons are made between small and large chicks in the same breed. Careful selection of eggs for hatching pays. Don’t neglect it. —H. W. Sanborn, Colorado Agricultural college.

Canned Goods Will Stand Little Freezing Without Any Appreciable Change

In answer to numerous inquiries as to the Injury which freezing does to canned goods, the bureau of chemistry of the United* States department of agriculture states that cold, unless it goes below the freezing point, seems to have no bad effect. In. regard to the danger of eating canned goods that had been frozen, the bureau of chemistry says*: “Most canned goods will stand a little freezing without appreciable change. Repeated freezing and thawing cause the foods to become flabby and gives a flat taste. Such a change, however, does not alter the wholesomeness or food value of the material, but it may change the texture, appearance, and palatabillty. The actual damage varies with the different kinds of canned foods and in general is somewhat similar to damage done by freezing the same food in the fresh condition. “'All canned goods whether frozen or not should be inspected for evidence of spoilage, due to leakage or insufficient processing. Such spoilage is indicated by swelling of the cans and by an unpleasant flavor or odor of the contents.”

Birth Stones—Supposed Meaning of Various Gems

January—Garnet, means constancy. February—Amethyst, rest and contentment. March—Bloodstone, wisdom and majesty. April—Diamond, purity and majesty. May—Emerald, matrimonial happiness. June—Pearl, peace and prosperity. July—Ruby, removes care and fear. , August—Moonstone, good luck. September—Sapphire, strength of mind, OctoberOpal, emblem of hope. November — Topaz, true friendship. December — Turquoise, success.

Waterproof Soles

If the soles of walking shoes are dipped in melted wax once in three or four weeks they will last twice as long and be waterproof. A small sum will bay enough wax for a dozen pairs.

Grain Sorghums Are Found Worthy of Use and Furnish Desirable, Wholesome Food

Although the protein of the grain sorghums is less digestible tiian that of corn or wheat, all of the sorghums except kaoliang furnish a fairly good source of protein and practically as good a source of carbohydrates as the two grains in most general use. Specialists of the United States department of agriculture, in experiments found that the grain sorghums are worthy of use in all sections to give variety to the diet. Ih regions where other cereals are not so successfully grown,' it is pointed out, the grain sorghums may contribute materially to the supply of substances suitable as human food. Tests were made with kafir, feterlta, mllo and kaoliang, both in the form of bread and as mush. Check tests also were made with corn and wheat as breads. All six of the grains were ground into meals of the same fineness in the same mill. In the experiments with the breads, the average digestibility of the protein of the wheat was found to be 77.3 per cent; corn, 59.9; kafir, 51.2; feterita, 50.6; milo, 40; and kaoliang, 19.8. In the experiments w’ith mushes made from meals of the four grain sorghums, the digestibility of the protein was about 48 per cent for feterita and kafir, approximately 34 per cent for milo, and only 4 The dlgestibllity of the carbohydrates was high for all six grains,, ranging from 95.3 to 98.6 per cent.

Halcyon Days Mean Any Term or Period of Tranquillity

Halcyon days are days of peace, happiness and prosperity; properly the seven days before and the seven days after the winter solstice, December 21, the shortest day of the year. Halcyon is the ancient Greek name for the kingfisher, and this bird was fabled to build its nest upon the sea, lay its eggs and hatch them during 14 days, about December 21. The sea was said to be calm during this period and the nest floated safely upon it. Halcyon days now mean any term or period of tranquillity and happiness. — — ———„

Japanese Razor With Blade as Narrow as a Wire Nail

Ancient Chinese shaving instruments, shaped like a coin and mounted in a stick, and others like a glazier’s putty knife, are rubbing edges with modern safety razors in an exhibit in New York. The various styles of razor remind one that the prehistoric Adam must have shaved with the sharp edge # of the razor clam. There is a harrow-bladed Japanese razor no wider than a nail.

NOTES OF SCIENCE

According to their inventors ( bricks made in Europe from . furnace slag Increase in strength 1 with age. • An inventor has patented a ( parachute to enable persons to < escape from high buildings in case of fire. ~ ’ The Panama railroad has used < ties made of a native hard wood ( . without renewal for more than half a century. * • An inch of rain falling on an < acre of ground would fill 600 J 45-gallon barrels and weigh I more than 110 ton®.

Small Stove Is Dangerous As a Source of Fire When Overheated or Overloaded

Unlessproperly installed and nsed the smalfsfove is dangerous as « source of fire, according to the United States department. of agriculture. Some people expect too much of.s small stove and overwork It. . If ■ stove is too small* for the space it is expected to heat it is liable to be overheated or filled so full of fuel that fire will fall out on the floor when the door is opened. The pipe also is liable to be overheated and the resultant danger is cited as a great source of farm blazes. Stoves should not be placed close to papered walls or woodwork unless proper protection is provided. The floor near stoves or fireplaces also should be covered with some nonInflammhble material. Screens, to prevent coals dropping on the floor, should be placed. The door leading to the fire box on a stove should never be left open to check the draft, as the small explosions constantly occurring in the fire are very apt to throw out live coals and start a fire. Open fireplaces should not be used unless provided with effective screens. Chimneys should be cleaned regularly to remove soot and any other inflammable material. This is best accomplished by means of pieces of metal (such as scrap tin), limbs of an evergreen tree, or a bundle of brush attached to a rope, chain, or wire and worked up and down in the chimney from the top.

Bodies of Americans Who Died in France During the War to Be Brought Home

Bodies of Americans who died in France during the w r ar will be transferred to the United States ‘if their nearest relatives so desire. Otherwise the dead will remain undisturbed. Already a large number of relatives have informed the war department of their desire to have the bodies returned. In the near future a letter will be sent to the nearest relative of every soldier or civilian whose body rests in France, asking their wishes with regard to the transfer. A memorandum on this* subject, drafted by Lieut. Col. J. C. Ashburn of the adjutant general’s ‘department, says: “It cannot be stated just now when the transfer of bodies will begin, as it must be deferred until conditions, including that of transportation, warrant the undertaking. Due notice will be given through the public press. “It is not deemed advisable to grant requests for relatives, friends or undertakers to go to France to superintend the preparation and shipment of, or to accompany bodies back to the United States. Organizations have been formed, known as grave registration units, whose duty it is to look, after burials, care of cemeteries and preservation of identification records so that there will be no question as to identity.” : I

HAVE A LAUGH

High. “Does your butcher continue to explain why things have gone up?” “Not any more. He simply makes the high sign and lets it go at that.”

1 • Its Class. “We had a sensational case of kidnaping at our house last night.” “What was that?” “The baby slept all night.” Woman’s Way. “She’s gi vi ng a very elaborate party.” “Gotten up solely on my account.” “I thought you two were on the outs.” '“We are. And that’s the reason she got up the party.”

Hard Words. “Why did you hit this man?” “Your honor, he grossly insulted me.” “But how?” “He said I didn’t have any more fight in me than the German navy."

Keeps Buzzing. “rm troubled with a buzzing noise in mjr ears all the time.” “Haye you any idea as to the cause?” “Yes, my wife wants an auto.” We Know. “What has become of eawmill drama?’’ “Eh?” “You know. The kind. that was written by a stage carpenter.” ' Had to Hand Out. “What did pa say when you told him * you wanted to marry me?” “Asked me to lend him ten dollarpA

Looking Ahead. K a t h r >n — “What do you think of Katie Pflapper, the latest society bud?” Ki 11 ye— “1 think by next season the bud will be a full blown wallflower.”