Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 July 1918 — Page 7

Demonstrators Teach Vahle of Potatoes

By the U. 5. Department of Agriculture

Thirty million bushels of potatoes, the estimated surplus of last year's crop, must be eaten before July 1 or they will rot. Potatoes are a cheap food now in most places. At two cents a pound they are equal in

food value to bread at eight cents a

Fifteen hundred home-demonstration agents of the United States department of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges are ready

to push the potato along a well-paved way. They are teaching how to use mashed potatoes as a substitute for wheat flour in breads and pies and cakes; they are giving instructions in the making of potato loaf and scalloped and baked dishes. They are showing women how they can train

their families to eat potatoes cheerfully three times a day.

In the cities the gospel of potatoes for patriotism is spread through

the war kitchen, tho neighborhood

onstrations in settlement houses, talks before Eed Cross auxiliaries, etc.

Potato booths are being arranged in stores and the schools and clubs are In the country the work is not through the county organizations voluntary workers the potato idea women in their own homes.

These home-demonstration workers are dedicating their time and energy to the work of aiding the women of the country in their war-con

servation problems and are proving is the most direct and practical route and homes of American women. IT IS TO LAUGH Bears It Manfully. Lady of House Don't you ever get tired of doing nothing? Tramp Oh, yes, mum: but I never complains. Necessary Expenditure. j. any, juiuw u, luu l yuu iijunuge to T nnrr "T O. pay me that ?10 you owe me? I need the money." "Awfully sorry, old man, but I can't do it." "I notice you manage to go to the theater two or three times a week, though." "That's just it. The thought that I owe you money is worrying me so that I have to do something to help me for get it: His Wife's Fault. t "This man says you owe him money, Sam," said the judge. "Dnt's right, judge, I does." "Well, why don't you pay him?" "Why, I hain't got nothin' t' pay him wiv judge." , "Well, why haven't you?" "To tell de hones' truf, judge, s'pects my wife has felled down on de job !" Enough Ced! Alfred Francis, composer of "The Loe Mill," was examining girl applicants for places in the chorus. When he asked one her name she re plied, "Minnie Sota." "I took the name of my native state," she said. "Why?" "Well, my real name is Skoopey nnd" "Sufficient!" said Mr. Francis. 4 Your apology is ample." Just One Word. "Henry, you ought to know a little German before you go abroad. Suppose you are captured? You will want to know what the Germans are saying to you." "Don't worry about that," said the khaki-clad hero confidently ; "all I ever expect to hear from a German soldier is 'Kamerad.' " Occupation of the Hour. "I suppose your motto is business before pleasure." Not now," replied Senator Sorghum. A fight takes precedence over both of them." Their Dilemma. May Dick weiies torn me last night he loved me, but did not ask me to marry him. Bella And he asked me to marry him, but didn't say a word about love. Few Senators Present to Hear the Opening Prayer Some time ago, when the archbishop of York, primate of England, was in Washington he prayed at the opening of a session of the senate. Most of the senators were present. They all listened devoutly and attentively and when the archbishop wound up with the Lord's prayer they joined in with him. There Is nothing very extraordinary or striking about this incident until it Is considered in connection with the attendance of the senators on ordinary occasions when prayer is offered in the senate chamber. Often there are only a handful of senators and a few youthful "pages present. On one occasion only one senator and a few pages were on hand when the opening invocation was delivered. Pathfinder.

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loaf. Every potato eaten saves wheat.

centers, the clubs., the churches, dem the local food shows and in the retail being enlisted in the big drive. so spectacular but just as telling, for and the home-demonstration agents' is carried directly to thousands of more and more every day that this for carrying an idea into the hearts 4. I Mother's Cook Book. $ T 1 .T..T..T..Y..T..T. i n n vi T..T..T... . ,tt. Little cubes of sugar, Little grains of wheat Save them with the bacon And other kinds of meat. Every dinner table Wherever people eat, Will help decide the verdictVictory or defeat. Cherry Time. Cherries, like other small fruits, may he canned without cooking. Crush the fruit well and mix with equal parts of sugar; stir until he sugar is well dissolved before canning. Care should be taken that the jars are sterilized, and that they are perfectly sealed; then keep in a cold place. A few preserved cherries to use as a garnish for various dishes are quite an addition to the fruit closet. When canning cherries, if a kernel or two of the pits are udded to each jar, the flavor of almond, which is most delicate, is given to the fruit. The Royal Ann, which is a sweet, juicy cherry, makes a most delicious salad. Sprinkle the cherries, after pitting them, with a little lemon juice and sugar. Served in a fruit howl, garnished with cherry leaves, one has a most refreshing breakfast dish. A pretty garnish for cherry jelly or other desserts is the fresh cherry left in bunches with the stems on, dipped in powdered sugar. Arrange around the jelly or molded dessert. Cherry Fritters. Make a batter of xi cupful and a half of flour, barley or corn flour, mixed with equal parts of wheat flour; sift with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspoonful of salt and one half cupful of milk, one beaten egg. At the last add a cupful of pitted cherries that have been covered with sugar and allowed to stand for an hour. Drop by spoonfuls into hot fat, and fry to a golden brown. Serve with a sauce made from the cherry juice and sugar. Cherry Conserve. Chop one pound of raisins, two pounds of cherries, three oranges, (juice and rind), and cook with four pounds of sugar for 20 minutes. Seal in small jars. This Is delicious. Cherry Salad. Remove the pits from large, dark cherries like the "Bing," and fill the cavities with blanched filberts. Ar range a few on head lettuce and serve with French dressing. City Boys Keener of. Ear Than Are Country Fellows English army doctors, finding city boys keener of ear than country boys, adopt the theory tliat the quietude of rural districts explains the difference, says the New York World. Urban noises, they argue, keep the aural nerves in a state constantly responsive. Looking across seas, these savants may discover that the keenest human ear ever known, those of the Indians and the frontiersmen, have been developed in the silences of American forests and prairies. It seems probable that hearing, like many another faculty, depends for its active strength upon the exercise due to necessity. It is need, rather than noise, which keeps a listener's nerves on the alert. The New Beginning. Almost everyone believes in the principle of making a new start. When we fail we comfort ourselves j with the hope that we can try again. "But we must not forget that in starting again one of the most Important j considerations Is just where we should make this new start and how to bein itExchange.

Hans Wagner's Idea of Size Was Right When It Came to v Building Golf Ball Mound Barney Dreyfuss always delights in recounting the tale of Hans Wagner's first golfing experience. "Some years ago, while the Pirates were training in Hot Springs,? declares Dreyfuss, "some of the enthusiastic golfers tried to get Wagner iuterested in their game. But for a long time Honus would not enthuse. At last, however, they succeeded in luring him to the links and armed him with a driver and a golf ball. "Honus grabbed a handful of earth and built himself a huge mound, on which he placed the ball. Just as he was about to drive off, one of the ex-

Hans Wagner. pert golfers, horrified, hurried over and grabbed the club of the Dutchman. " 'Oh, my dear fellow he exclaimed, 'you never can accomplish anything with such a high mound for your ball.' "And then the golfer lifted up the ball, kicked Wagner's four-inch mound to dust and built another about a half inch tall, placed the ball on it and then, turning to' Wagner, ejaculated: "'There; that's about the proper height.' "Wagner surveyed the new mound and then said: "'I think I like the higher one better,' and at once rebuilt the mound to its original four-inch size. "And then, while the veteran golfers sadly shook their heads because of the 'fool idea' of Wagner, the Dutchman swung, caught the ball fairly, and made the longest drive ever recorded on Hot Springs' golf course." Bread From Cotton Seed; Provides Salad Dressing anc! a Butter Substitute. The cotton plant, upon which the world depends so largely for clothing, is rapidly increasing in importance as a food producer. Oil from the cotton seed, formerly almost monopolized by makers of high grade soap, now appears upon the table in the form of palatable salad dressing and also as lard and butter substitutes. More re cently the seed has been made to yield a flour from which bread pleasing to the taste and as nourishing as lean beefsteak is baked. A bakery in a Southern city is selling 400 loaves of it a week. The annual value of cotton seed products is placed-at $250,000,000, onehalf the output being used for food. Farmers are now receiving $40 to $50 a ton for the seed, as compared to $6 or $7 a quarter of a century ago. The yearly crop is about 5,000,000 tons, a great asset to the consumer at this time of extreme high prices for pure lard and dairy products. Interesting Facts Less than two in every 10,000 & factory operatives meet death from accidents connected with their work. A recent 12 per cent bonus to British munition workers is costing the "country $700,000,000 a year. Two thousand four hundred College men hnvp hppn f.nrnllofi for work in shipyards for the j duration of the war. The federal bureau of mines reports that there were 2,696 fa unities in tne coal mines of this & country last year. Canadian unions want a labor representative on the committee to aid vocational training among returned soldiers. Dimensions of Capitol. The entire length of the capitol building at Washington from north to south is 751 feet 4 inches, and its greatest width from east to west is 350 feet. The area covered bv the building is 153,112 square feet. The dome is of cast iron ; its height above the base line of the east front is 2S7 feet 5 inches ; the diameter of its base is 135 feet 5 inches. The bronze statue of Freedom on the top of the dome is 19 feet 6 inches high and weighs 14,9S5 pounds. The rotunda is 96 feel G inches in diameter and its height from the floor to the top of the cancpv .180 feet 3 inches.

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Boy, Look Up Present Address of Joe Mulhatton N TJAYANA, CUBA. Natives of a small island oft the west coast of Cuba 14 were recently thrown into the highest pitch of excitement and terror when a gigantic animal of the dinosaurus or diplodocus species suddenly crawled forth from the sea and con

and probably the only living remnant of the gigantic reptilians that prevailed in the western part of the United States in prehistoric times, the bones of which are still being unearthed from time to time by scientists and archeological explorers. The monstrous specimen that has almost depopulated the island alluded to through hasty flight of scores of natives by small boats to a neighboring isle, broke down fences over which it crawled, knocked over small outbuild

ings, uprooted palm trees and cut big -ITTl . 1 1 I 1 - . wane it lias been pronounced to the thought-to-be-extinct giganticus

ana wiiue it disappeared after crossing the narrowest point of the island, those wl saw it and so far recovered from their fright as to be able to discuss it, declare that it wag" the most terrifying thing they have ever seen or wish to see again, and all agree that it had eyes that shone like searchlights, huge teeth and mustaches exactly like the kaiser's. Its whinings and other noises as it passed over the island were not as unnerving to the natives as was its mammoth size, which was awe-inspiring. Some of the natives declare they will never return to the island.

Minister Saved Money BIRMINGHAM, ALA, it was related that

ALA. A very interesting story came to light Sunday, when that a very distinguished minister of the Methodist church, hnri hppn hoiri ,m hv ?f u

Dr. Plato Durham, had been held up trom a car and started toward the place where he was stopping, he having just returned from a session of the state Sunday school convention at the First Methodist church. The minister got off the car, and as he walked half a block away and the car vanished he was confronted by a man who thrust a cocked pistol against his stomach and demanded that his hands go up. "No, I won't raise my hands. But what do you want? There is no need to shoot; just tell me what you want

have," said Doctor Durham. "I want money, and I need it badly, and I am going to have it." "Well, I have $9, a five and four ones, here," replied Doctor Durham, "and I will give you the four and I will keep the five, for I am a Methodist minister, and you know that we preachers don't have much money, so I think you ought to leave me the big end of it." "Well, I'll be d ," replied the amateur road agent ; "ain't this a of a business for a white man to be engaged in? Why, this is a nigger's job; but I tell you I need money, and I need it bad, so give me the five and keep the four ones." "No ; I think you ought to leave me the biggest pile, for I am hard up, too," replied the preacher; "so here are the four ones, and I will keep the five-spot," and he handed the nightman the four one-dollar notes. "All right," said the unknown masked man; "but you won't shoot as I walk away, or you won't report this to the police, will you?" "No," replied Dr. Plato Durham, and he has up to this hour kept his word.

Absent-Minded Governor Almost Got Stranger's Hat NEW YORK. Governor Whitman, at the meeting of the National Union at the Garden theater, didn't know his own hat and sought to grab another man's. And the two lids didn't resemble each other in the least, for the governor's was of the stovepipe va

the governor was escorted to the platform, where he spoke at length on the issues of the war and the Liberty loan. Pausing at length, he cast his eyes behind him. Though still under the spell of his own eloquence, he realized that he needed a hat in order to go forth. The man who sat at the right of the speakers' rostrum held a likely appearing one in his hand. Calmly, abstractedly, the governor possessed himself of it. The bereft man was a good sport and made -no protest. But Mr. Hersh

fleld was not going to see a fellow member of the National Union who, by the way, happened not to possess much hair getting a cold in the head through losing his hat, even if it was to the man who had been introduced as "our great war governor." So he tactfully thrust his hand forward, and Mr. VW f -m . m

whitman, rememoenng that he ought droppea the hat to do it. By this time nana itn tne right Hü anü all was well.

When Will Folks Recognize Boys Crave Excitement? JOHNSTOWN, PA. The two very young disciples of Diogenes who are looking not for an honest man, but for the worst boy in America paused in their

search to meditate on conditions here. a disadvantage. The T. M. C. A. will not take them in as members because they are afraid the bad boys would make their boys bad. The young men of the church have been good enough to organize a Big Brothers' club. But the Big Brothers try to make good boys out of them by teaching them a lot of the Bible at one time, so they have let the opportunity of a swim and other enjoyments go. A group of 12 organized a regular boys' club and called it the "Gut Gang, They found a cave in one of

chairs and a table, and then decided to take a few meals there, reports a correspondent of the Baltimore American.

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so they decided to get their own meals. They raided a few ice boxes, taking bread and butter and other things. At one of these raids they trod on war gardens. It all ended when one of their bonfires caused a forest fire, and they were arrested. Their parents paid the fine. Now, these boys are not bad, only young lovers of excitement. If the juvenile officers would have a man take charge of them and use the same cave as a clubhouse, the boys would become better citizens. But the juvenile ! officers played their hand wrong. Those boys will become great lovers ot

excitement, and become more desperate

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tinued to make its slow and destructive way toward the principal village on the island. The island is not more than 20 miles in circumference and Is mostly given over to the cultivation of grapefruit. The monstrous creature, described as being more than 60 feet in length, according to its imprints in the soil over which It passed, and weighing many tons, has been pronounced by scientists of this city to be a genuine swaths through fields of crops. . - be the only known livins specimen of

amphibl dlploüocidae, so far as is known,

by "Dicker" With Footpad by a young white man as he alighted COME ACRCXSS and I will give you any tiling that riety tall and very shiny and the other one was a derby. The governor, who was announced as the speaker of the evening, came in while Isidore Hershfleld was opening the meeting, and was ushered to the stage bbx, where his military secretary, wTho followed him, received his tall hat and his overcoat and carefully deposited them in a corner of the box. As soon as Mr. Hershfleld finished, to shake hands with the chairman, the useful military secretary was on The poor boys in Johnstown are held at the many near-by hills, stole a few just asking their mothers for the meal, to get It The juvenile officers will ,

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TAKES PLACE OF REAL' EYE " Invention of French Oculist Invaluable to Soldiers Who Have Suffered Disfigurement.

The high velocities and high explosivencss of "the present-day projectiles often result In facial wounds of. most horrible appearance, in the repair of which the surgeons meet with extreme difficulties. In particular, soldiers return from the line of fire not merely with an eye shot out, but with the entire lid and eye socket destroyed, and the absence of these foundations has often made the insertion of an artificial eye impossible. Until the present moment there has never existed any means for concealing this disfigurement and restoring to the unfortunate victim the appearance of a normal man possessing two eyes. But quite recently a French oculist, Henri Einius, has made it possible to do this even when the eyelid is entirejy missing In its essential features the apparatus consists of an artificial eye, equipped with a lid of any convenient plastic material paraffin or molding paste, colored to match the subject's complexion. This eye is furnished also with lashes, to give to it to the fullest extent the appearance of a natural eye. It derives its support from fine I - . . vj un.uv.iltu X.KJ CJ VnlilOO III snorrt pine en orHncfrtfl tlifta teptaced n tT ""T iZ placed upon the nose, the artificial eye falls accurately into its cavity. The eye may easily be separated from these attachments for cleaning. BODY MAKES ITS OWN HEAT Comes as Natural Result of Chemical Changes Which Are Constantly Taking Place. Tlir Ii nn f nf nur Viz-wrlto 4-1 .it resu Z 1 r? 1 uw U V, I pHc in ThfttZT, T take p ace m a11 üle tlssues and or gans of the body. Brubacker's Physi ology says that "each contraction of a muscle, each act of secretion, each exhibition of nerve force is accompanied by the evolution of heat. "The chemical changes," it continues, "are for the most part of the nature of oxidations, the union of oxygen with the elements, carbon and hydrogen, of the food principles either before or after they have become constituents of the tissues. "The ultimate source of the bodv heat is the latent or potential energy A I t- 4-1-.. ,"1 ... iu uie iuuu principles, WHICH was ab sorbed from the sun's energy and stored up during the growth of the vegetable world." When the food whether this be directly vegetable or vegetable that has been transformed into meat by being eaten by an animal is digested in our bodies it is "reduced by oxidation to relatively simple bodies, such as urea, carbon dioxide and water, with a liberation of a large portion of their contained energy, which manifests itself as heat and mechanical motion." English Hereditary Offices, Conventional epithets have once more been used in the English newspapers about the late Lord Londesborough's hereditary office as vice admiral of the Yorkshire coast. In reality there are many similar appointments in force elsewhere. The lord mayor of Bristol is vice admiral of the channel as far down as Holmes and possesses an ancient silver oar, which he is entitled to have borne before him in virtue of his office. By a fiction of .medieval law all dead persons washed up by the tide were considered to belong to the parish in which the Merchant Venturers stand, and births at sea were registered there. Before the organization of the royal navy had been fully developed it was convenient to intrust the interests of fu crown in regard to the duties of the admiralty to local gentlemen, like the Denisons of Scarborough, from which the earls of Lonsdale derive, of sufficient standing to be Immune from sympathy with smuggling, which was the chief difficulty in early times. For handling maritime questions special qualifications were necessary, which the lord lieutenant, If he were sealed Inland, might not possess. Art. Here are quotations from some or the examination papers submitted by Indinrmnniic cnhnni iui u.a. 11 A.VSA. V Lk in the art courses at the John Herron Art institute: "His way of working was very 'technique.' " "There was a picture of St Catherine receiving the crown from aa anßh2.' Michael Angelo has many paintings in the Renaissance, which is a building In France." "The 'sargent did the 'freeze' in a room in the Boston Library." "Hoffman painted most of the Prima Donna. The most famous is the Sistine Madonna." "One of the greatest painters of all times painted beautiful pictures on the ceiling of a church somewhere in the United States, and this great artist' name was Michrel Angelo." Heavy Demand for Rubber. The world discarded 183,000 tons of automobile tires during 191G. Addin to this the large number of bicycle tires thrown away every year by their owners, it appears that the world spends every year at least $000,000,000 for pneumatic tires alone. Nearly 5,000,000 automobiles are now in use ia the United States. To supply these with tires nearly SS.000 tons of India ruober are needed every year, and the American automobile owners pay every

year as much as $200,000,000 for tire.