Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The foe is always spieling in loud, majestic tones, and hopes he is congealing the marrow in our bones: in language high-falutin he twists the truth askew; the Austrian is tootin', the Teuton tootin’ too. Old Hindenburg was boasting, in Ijis fat Teuton way, through Paris he’d be coasting upon a certain day. Th> certain day was cheery, though rather cool and wet, but Hindenburg was leary—he hasn’t got there yet. Big things theyr’e always, planning, the Prussians in command, and we take pleasure canning the mighty things they ye planned. It’s always been a habit of chesty Kaiser Bill, to think the foe a rabbit, whom sounding words would kill. “Your Uncle Strm ..had better,’’ he said to B?er Gerard, "lie low, or, donnerwetter! I’ll jolt him pretty hard!” Forever, always bluffing! 'Twill be the Teuton way, until we knock the stuffing from him, and eke the whey. Big words and scowls tremendous may scare a sheep, mayhap, but they will only—lend us amusement while we scrap. “I’m feeling pretty skittish," said Bill, “so, dead .game sports, let's clean up all the British, and take the channel ports.’ To bragging he is given, he’ll brag the long months through, he’ll rag until we’ve riven the tootin’ Tent in two.

Soap is almost unobtainable in occupied Belgium ' and the housewives are accordingly seeking possible substitutes. To them a chemist, through the medium of a Brussels newspaper, gives this advice: -‘Pour the hot water in which peeled potatoes have been boiled over the linen to be washed. Allow it to soak until the following day, then rub it as you would in a lather, but without adding soap or anything else. The linen a ill come out of the tub perfectly white.” . During the severe part of the last .winter, when the fuel shortage became critical, a coal thawing plant at South Amboy, X. J., performed valuable service in relieving the situation, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. In particularly cold, stormy weather it is of the rule rather than the exception that coal reaches northern cities in such solidly frozen masses that it has virtually to be mined out of the ears. The last winter was especially, favorable for this condition, and thousands of tons of fuel destined for New York reached Jersey badly bound with ice. Many such coal trains were thawed at South Amboy. The new plant there consists of a long concrete shed divided into thfee longitudinal chambers, each of which spans a separate track.