Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Page 3

Use Cooking Box as a Refrigerator

The fireless, cooler can be used to keep things coM as well as hot, because heat cannot pass In from the outside to warm the contents any more than it ran pass out to cool them. In this respect it works very much like a refrigerator. In fact, both the cooking box and the icebox are constructed on the same principle, namely that of supplying a constant-temperature chamber with nonconducting walls. Well-constructed ice boxes are made with some insulating material or dead-air space between the inner and outer walls, «nd~the covers and doors close in such a way as to prevent heat escaping in or out through them. Of course the more often the doors are opened the more heat passes in and the more quickly the ice melts and the temperature rises throughput all parts of the box. Fortunately this is less serious than the loss of heat when a fireless cooker is opened. When the cooker is used to keep things cool they must be chilled to the desired temperature before they are put in. The more nearly heat proof the walls the longer the material keeps its original temperature. Ice-cream put in a wdtl-made fireless cooker ought to remain firm as long as packed In salt and ice in an ordinary freezer. Many cooks prefer to pack such half-

Home-Made Fireless Cooker, Showing Outside Container and Cushion for Filling Space Above Cooking Vessel.

frozen desserts as mousse or parfait in the receptacle of a fireless cooker rather than in a freezer because there is less danger of their getting too cold and hard. It is often convenient to make cold drinks, like lemonade or fruit punch, some hours before they are used. By chilling them and then putting them into the cooker they can be kept cool without ice. Sometimes a little ice is put into the box with the food to make it cooler, just as hot Soapstones or'"bricks are put in to make it hotter. Because there Is less space to keep cool much, less ice is needed than in the chamber of an icebox. The ice in the cooker melts very slowly and so keeps the temperature down much longer than if it were used in an open pitcher. What receptacles it is best to use for things to be kept cool in the cooker depends on their kind. The material can often be put directly into the pail, just as if it were to be cooked. For liquids it is sometimes more convenient to use a low bottle or a fruit jar which will set into the nest. If ice is to be used it is usually cracked and packed around the bottle or dish.

Duets Are Common Between Pairs of Birds of Various Species Authorities Say

The singing of birds is taken for granted. Yet there must mave been a beginning of t>ird-song and some real reason for it. Nothing merely happens. It was not beneath the consideration of Darwin, who held that the discovery of the voice first came from fear and pain, the agony compressing the muscles of the chest and forcing the air through the glottis so as to create a sound. What originated tn fear afterwards developed into an art or accomplishment, so that gradually, during the ages, many birds developed “calls” to others of the opposite sex. I Ornithologists say that any bird-cry which induces one bird of a species to approach another of the same kind is a “call note,” whether it be a combatcry or an alarm, w’hich were the earliest, to be followed later by the love-call. At the beginning of the breeding season birds of opposite sex call to each, other, and this vocal exercise is especially performed by the males. Songs were actually mere repetitions of call notes, and only later came the development of pure song as understood by men. When nightingales are courting they utter a gentle, subdued warbling. Duets are common between pairs of birds of various species. Real song, however, does not seem to depend upon the breeding season at all.

Newlyweds’ Fortunes Are Told With Oil in India

Among the Kherrias of India, a curious marriage ceremony is reported. Taking a portion of the Hair of the bride and bridegroom in turn from the renter of the forehead, the priest draws it down onto the bridge of the nose. Then pouring oil on the head# he watches it carefully as it trickles down the portion of hair. If the oil runs straight onto the top of their noses their future will be fortunate, but if it spreads over the forehead or trickles off on either side of the nose, ill luck is sure to follow. Their fortunes told, generally to their own latisfaction, the final part of the ceremony takes place. Standing side by Bide, but with faces strictly averted, the bride and bridegroom mark each Other’s forehead with “sindur” (vergiilion).

By U. S. Department of Agriculture

Apes as Farm Hands

Prof. Richard Lynch Garner Plans Nation of Gorillas in U. S.

Prof. Richard Lynch Garner has announced his intention of establishing a nation of chirrjpanzees and gorillas in the United States for the ultimate purpose of uplifting the entire ape race, says a New York correspondent. Professor Garner has just returned after two and one-half years in the French Congo gathering specimens for the Smithsonian institution. The apes today, in their uncultured state, are second only to the human family in point of intellect, the professor said. He believes that apes, if given the advantage of modern education and environment, would develop into a race that would sow and reap and toil In the mill, hi refined young lady apes the professor sees a possible solution of the servant problem. “Sam, a boy ape that shared my home in Africa, learned to fetch things I called for,” he said. “He became as particular as I about bed sheets being smoothed out, and he couldn’t go to sleep without a pillow. If a man could train a dog to herd sheep, man can make a farm hand out of an ape.”

Casein of Milk Makes the Best Enamel Covering for Wings of the Airplanes

Scientists recently have discovered that the casein of milk makes probably the best enamel covering for airplane wings. The paint from casein dries quickly, is as smooth as enamel, and in a few hours becomes impervious to weather conditions. Casein after being extracted from skim-milk and dried has four principal uses: L In the preparation of plastic masses and galalith as a substitute for horn, ivory, celluloid. 2. As a painting material. 3. As a mucilage and cement 4. As a dressing and color-fixing medium in textiles. It is used in plastic masses for the making of combs, collar buttons, imitation linoleum and leather, and bone and electrical insulating. material. Galalith, meaning “milk stone,” Is made from casein into imitation marble, colored furniture decorations, electrical insulations, and the like.

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HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

Cholera and blackhead, a common disease of which many kinds of domestic poultry die, but most commonly chickens and turkeys, has no real name In poultry annals, though on making a diagnosis of the dead birds often it is called cholera, blackhead and a few other names, when, after all, it is merely acute inflammation of the intestines caused by feeding constipating food, says one person. It Is true that fowls after eating drastic poisons, will show up with the same intestinal inflammation, but it is more commonly due to feeding a too-heavily concentrated ration. It is the riysterious disease that so often kills hogs, calves and sheep. In the first it is, as in poultry, too often attributed to cholera, and the owner goes on feeding in the old way instead of giving the flock? or the herd, plenty of pure water at all hours to quickly pass the concentrated food on to quick elimination, helped on by regular doses of Epsom salts. Tfais neglect is more apparent with I poultry than other stock. Corn is one of the feeds most sure to bring on this condition, if fed in large quantities to any kind of stock. With poultry, as with other stock, and especially in spring when frost lies on the new grass the trouble at times will bring abput great loss.

Dawn as It Is Welcomed by Animals, Birds of the Air and Posies of the Field

The dawn that dispels sleep, in nature is only welcome. The cows that have drowsed since evening twilight, crouched in ungainly comfort on the ground, like half-produced sphinxes to the night-wanderer’s vague vision, with now and then a moment’s munching of the cud in their dreams, wake at the first gray tints, upheave their clumsy bodies, and fall to browsing daintily near the pasture bars. The birds stir in the high boughs and the bushes, call and twitter to each other, preen their ruffled feathers and shake slumber from their joyous throats in song. The fragrances of herb and flower, the rose’s charm and the balsam of the firs, exhale upon the dewy air. The east’s perpetual miracle, coursing the globe forever from its-source in the mid-Pacific waters, is at the verge of revelation. The riddle of the night’s dream opens its mystery as the lighter tints are absorbed into the splendid heraldry of morn. Earth with a rich expectancy awaits the new revealment —always at hand, ever withdrawn, going on with the dawn to new days.—• Charles Goodrich Whiting.

Scientists Assert That Brown-Eyed Men Are Far in Lead as Bigamists

Eminent doctors, scientists and criminologists say that brown-eyed men are dangerous. They have estimated that more than 75 per cent of the world’s bigamists have brown eyes, and in explanation say that it is due to the fact that brown-eyed men generally have a dash of Southern blood in their veins. They are more passionate, have stronger and deeper emotions and consequently are more fascinating to women. Eyebrows that droop and eyes that are close together are found among the worst rogues on the calendars, says one detective. Those who have madw a study of characteristics also tell us that the snub-nosed man and the man who yanks his mustache down and the man with steel-blue eyes are selfish and melancholy, and have no steadfastness in their make-up. Out of 24 murderers, .specially selected for the brutality of their crimes, no fewer than 15 have steel-blue eyes.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

The trouble with spending all your energy now is that there’s no way to borrow any after yours is all gone. . f Many a man is liberal with advice, but stingy with assistance. Silence may be golden, but notwithstanding that every now and then a creditor writes that he would like to hear from you. It’s a wise father w r ho lets his own child know him.

Windmill Drives Dynamo for Forest Fire Alarm

The windmill is a new addition to the forest ranger’s station on the mountain peaks of the West, says the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Its purpose is to drive the dynamo that supplies current for a wireless telephone. The telephone has long been the chief aid of the lookout in fighting fires in our great national forests. -Often, however, when most needed, the Wires would be lying useless under a slide of rocks or snow or fallen tree, so the'wangers are to have wireless telephones, whose functioning cannot be disturbed in these ways.

Every Great Life.

Every great life is an incefitive to all other lives. —George William Our* tis. ' ' ' .

Greatest Wheat Crop oh Record

Based on Government Guarantee of $2.26 Per Bushet Will Be Worth $2,793,000,000

A Wheat crop of 1,236,000,000 bushels and a yield of 3,021,000.000 bushels of feed grains, wheat, oats, rye and barley, the largest on record at this season, is estimated by the June report of the department of agriculture. The aggregate gain of the four grains is 223,000,000 bushels, or 8 per cent In excess of the harvest of last year. The report shows that practically one-third of the world’s wheat crop will be raised in the United States this year. In previous years the United States has grown about one-fifth. The wheat crop alone is by far the greatest on record, Increasing 319,000 000 bushels, or 34 per cent, over last year, and 210,000,000 bushels, or 24 per’ cent, above the record in 1915, and 445,000,000 bushels, over the five-year average of 1913-’l7. Based on $2.26 per btishel at Chicago, the wheat crop is worth $2,793,000,000, and on $2 the valuation is $2,472,000,000. This means prosperity for the farmers and business interests and railroads. The crop is so large ’that it is to be handled by the railroads on the permit system. Enough wheat is in sight to give Europe 600,000,000 bushels and leave 636,000,000 bushels for domestic consumption. Winter wheat crop of 893,000,000 bushels was cut down 7,000,000 bushels in May, largely by rust, the loss being 5.6 points from last month and condition for the country left at 9-1.9. The damage, of which more is expected, is mainly in the central western states, and is extending eastward through the states south of the Ohio river. The heaviest loss in condition 10 points in Kansas, although that state has a showing of 93 and a crop ofl9V 647,000 bushels, a loss of nearly 7,000,000 bushels last month and 15,000,000 bushels over its record of 1914. Missouri dropped eight points to 93, but shows nearly 72,000,000 bushels. Illinois lost five points, with a condition of 96. Nebraska dropped six points, showing 95, with a crop of practically 70 000,000 bushels. Oklahoma is off six points and Oregon seven points. Texas Washington, Ohio and Pennsylvania improved slightly, the former having a condition of 101, while Ohio has 106 and Pennsylvania A surprise was given in spring wheat returns, the estimated yield being 343,000,000 bushels or 15 000,000 bushels short of last year, while early estimates were that farmers would strain every effort to put in an immense acreage. Unfavorable weather in the Northwest, however, prevented It, except in South In the central West there was a big Increase. The total acreage for the country is 22,592,000, an increase of 186,000 over last year’s harvested area. In the three northwestern states there were 14,905,000 acres, compared with 15 150,000 acres harvested last year. The condition is 104 in South Dakota and 94 and 95 in North Dakota and Minnesota. Indicated yield for the three states is 197,000,000 bushels, or 51,000,000 bushels under last year. In the nonspring-wheat states a big acreage has been put in, which helped to make up the loss in the Northwest. AARnnnnnn Oats crop is above an average with a yield estimated at 1,446,000,000 bushels a decrease of 92.000,000 bushels from last years final returns, and an increase of 115,000,0 W bushels over the five-year average. The acreage decreased 2,035,000. Condition of 93.2 is the same as last year and 3.8 points over the ten-year average. ooonnnmn Barley acreage decreased 780,000 and the crop is at 232,000 000 bushels or 24,000,000 bushels short of last year’s reCord. A new nrnrk is set for the rye crop at. bushels, or the same as last month and W.0W.000 Apple production Is estimated at 166,000.000 bushels, and peaches 60.300.000 bushels, against 39,000,000 bushels last year, while the apple crop is 8,000,000 bushels short of 1918.

Mother’s Cook Book

I know not why, but I am sure That tint and place In some great fabric to endure ' Past time and race My threads will have. —Helen Hunt Jackson. Sandwiches. For the picnic basket there is nothing so important as well-made sandwiches with a cup of coffee for the grownups and milk or lemonade for the children. Meat of various kinds chopped and well seasoned, eggs, fish, vegetables and fruit may all be used to make sandwich filling. Sardine Filling. Mash sardines which have been Skinned, add a little prepared mustard and spread on toasted oatmeal crackers or bread. Butter lightly before adding the filling. 4B Tuna Fish. Remove the fish from the can and mix with it enough salad hold It together. Season with salt, paprika and spread on nut bread. Tuna fish has been called the turkey of the sea as the flavor is much like fowl. Lobster, crab or shrimp as well as salmon carefully shredded and mixed with a good salad dressing are good spread on any kind of bread. Honey and Nut Filling. Take six tablespoonfuls of honey and three tab!espoonfuls of chopped nuts. Mix and spread on thin slices of white or brown bread. Spread the bread first with butter. Date and Nut Sandwich. Cook a cupful of dates with a half cupful of water. When thick and smooth, cool and spread on buttered brown bread. For those who like figs they may be substituted for the dates, or better in flavor than either are raisins. Cheese and Jelly. Mix cream cheese with cream to soften, add enough grape or currant jelly to color and flavor and serve between layers of brown and white bread put together layer-cake fashion. "Hcu/c. Tyu-ntirtffi.

When Buying Chairs Always Figure on Getting Service

When people buy chairs it is a good .Idea to pick them for the purpose of 'being sat upon—that is the chairs. Measured by some wares being shown and purchased a chair is either an ornament or a mere space filler .observes the Los Angeles Times. At least a lot of them indicate no especial use or comfort. And yet it is just as. easy to buy service and strength. Some of the spindly things being shown hardly look as if they would stand up under the strain 'Of a plug hat When a fpllgrown man is shown into the presence of one of them he begins to wonder if his accident insurance is paid up.

“Babe” Ruth Drives Out a Homer Credited as Longest in Philadelphia’s History

During the activities at the Athletics’ ground at Philadelphia on Memorial day, “Babe” Ruth, who pitched in the morning and played left field in the afternoon game, delivered two of the longest drives that have ever been made at any ball park. In the sixth inning of the morning game Ruth drove the ball not only over the right field Wall, but over the roofs of the houses on the opposite side of the street, the ball going about ten feet foul, and then in the eighth Inning of the afternoon game, with the score tied at one run each and Strunk on first, Ruth drove one of Scott Pery’s

"Babe" Ruth.

pitches over the roofs of the houses on the opposite side of the street a fair ball, the ball striking on the rear of the roof of one of the houses and bounding into the back yard. The longest hit at Shibe park previous to this was the one George Burns hit over the left field wall last season, when the ball cleared the back bleacher wall and struck on the opposite side of the street Ruth’s long hit traveled a considerable distance further than Burns’ drive and stops all argument as to the longest hit ever made at this park.

Order 1920 Spring Suit Now—They May Cost $75

Ordinary suits for men next spring will cost the wearer from SSO to $75 and the public is ready to pay that for a suit, Ludwig Stein, president of the National Clothing Manufacturers’ association, declared before the Midwest reconstruction conference of retail clothiers, held recently at Kansas City. Mr-- Stein said cloth was and would be scarce because of labor shortage. He said that the tendency, in men’s styles is turning slowly back to plain models.

HOPE

Gate that never wholly clone*. Opening' yet bo often In vain! Garden full of thorny roses! Roses fall and thorns remain. Wayward lamp, with flickering luster Shining far or shining near. Seldom words of truth revealing. Ever showing words of cheer. Promise-breaker, yet unfailing! Faithless flatterer! comrade true! Only friend, when traitor proven, Whom we always trust anew. Courtier strange, whom triumph fright eth, Flying far from pleasure’s eye, Who by sorrow’s side alighteth When all else are passing by. Siren-singer! ever chanting Ditties new to burdens old; Precious stone the sages sought for. Turning everything to gold! True philosopher! Imparting Comfort rich to spirits pained; Chlder of proud triumph’s Pointing to the unattained! Timid warrior! Doubt, arising. Scares thee with the slightest breath; Matchless chief! who, fear despising. Tramples on the darts of death! O’er the grave, past Time's pursuing, Far thy flashing glory streams. Too unswerving, too resplendent, For a child of idle dreams. Still, life’s fitful vigil keeping, .Feed the flame and trim the light; Hope’s the lamp I’ll take for sleeping ■ . When I wish the world goodnight. —E. C. Jones.

SUMMER SMILES

Methodinit, Farmer (to new help)— Why do you always ring that small bell after ringing the regular dinner bell? Irish Cook —That’s to call the children, sorr. Poor Support.

Wouldn’t Stand for It. A “Met your husband in his car. E* said he was going downtown to get a siren.” “Just let me catch any hussy of that kind riding with my husband.” Not for Him. “Play poker with a dentist? No, sir!” “Why not?” “He’s too blamed expert at drawing and filling.” Slightly Mixed. A prospective juryman, of foreign birth, was being questioned. "What is perjury?” he was asked. “Having more than one wife,” the man answered. His Smoking Habit.

‘Tour husband denies It,” said the doctor, but isn’t it- true that he smokes between meals?” “Naw,” replied the patient’s wife. “He eats between smokes.”

Not to Be Borne. "Henry, Mrs. Flibbers next door says she Is going to get a new electric runabout.” “That’s good. Maybe she’ll take you out for a little ride.” "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” “What’s the matter now?” “You can sit there and calmly talk about your wife being subjected to public humiliation 1”

WORDS OF WISE MEN

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. \ Good manners include not merely pleasant things said and done, but unpleasant ones left undone. , The gold of our best motives is so mixed with the dross of selfishness and unworthiness that we can neither take too much credit to ourselves for any of our good deeds nor afford to throw discredit upon any performed by our neighbor.

Army Officers’ Salary $141 Month to $10,000 Year

United States army officers are paid according td the rank held by them. A second lieutenant receives $141.67 initial pay a month; first lieutenant, $166.67; captain, $200; major, $250; lieutenant colonel, $291.67; colonel, $333.33, with an increase of 10 per cent known as longevity pay, for each period of five years of service, provided that such increase shall not exceed 40 per cent The pay of a brigadier general is $6,000 a year; major general, $8,000; lieutenant general, $9.000, and a general, SIO,OOO. These officers receive no increase for continuous service. While on foreign service officers receive hn increase of 10 per cent of their base pay and lorn gevity pay. _ _

“Why is your wife no longer your leading lady?” “She couldn’t support me in the style I had been accustomed to,” replied Yorick Hamm, the eminent actor.