Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1918 — Page 7

Everyone His Own Chauffeur at N. Y. Zoological Park

To release the men, who heretofore furnished propulsion for wheel chairs, so that they might find essential work in helping the government, the New York Zoological park has installed the first of a fleet of electric storage battery-driven chairs. Now, every visitor to the gardens may have the pleasure of driving one of these chairs. The chairs will be installed on all board walks at summer resorts and In hospitals for the use of invalids.

Mothers' Cook Book What to Eat. Thare ain't nobuddy but a butterfly kan liv on buty and git phatt. Josh Billings. Bananas, like everything else in the food line, have soared in price, but when they can be bought by weight they are not very expensive in the average market. Variety is the spice of food as well as life, and we need to vary our menus as much as possible. Baked Bananas, Belgian Style. Remove the peeling from eight small bananas and scrape each to remove the coarse threads. Lay them side by side in a baking dish suitable to serve from. Grate over them the rind of an orange and half of a lemon; mix the juice of half a lemon, an orange and a half cupful of honey; pour over the banana; bake in a quick oven until soft. Serve from the dish. One banana will make a serving. Baked Bananas, Sultana Sauce. Remove the banana from the skins, scrape and return to its original place in the skin. Set bananas in an agate saucepan to cook until the skin is well blackened and the pulp is soft. About 20 minutes will cook them in a moderate oven. An hour before preparing the bananas put three-fourths of a cupful of sultana raisins with a cup of boiling water on to cook, adding l .ore water as needed. Mix a half cup of sugar and two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch, a teaspoonful of butter and a grating of lemon peel with the juice; cook until smooth and pour boiling hot over the peeled bananas. Bananas added to a custard pie or rieed bananas put on top of a fresh custard pie and served at once make a very tasty pie. Mashed bananas in whipped cream for cake filling is delicious, adding sugar to sweeten. 1 Bananas Fried in Crumbs. Remove the skin from six bananas, scrape and remove the coarse threads ; cut in halves lengthwise, then crosswise. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, lemon juice, dip in flour, egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat Drain on brown paper and serve garnished with lemon and parsley. Serve with lemon sauce. Bananas as a salad are so well known that it needs but a reminder that rolled in nuts and served with a good dressing they are well liked. The peeling itself may be used for a nest when serving. G. A. R. Organized in 1 866. The Grand Army of the Republic war organized in Illinois in 1SG0 by Dr. B. P. Stephenson of Springfield. He was surgeon of a Union regiment during the Civil war and aftenrard librarian of congress for several years. The object of the society was to promote the interests of veteran soldiers and maintain the principles, memories and associations of the Union army. The first national convention of the order was held at Indianapolis November 20, 1SGG, the second at Philadelphia in 18GS, and later ones annually In many other cities.

Uncle Sam Is to Conserve Gold Only by Distributing It For the Essential Uses

Need a new gold tooth? Going to wed during the war? Better order that ring right away. Expecting to invest in gold luxuries? Better forget that it can't be done during this man's war. For our Uncle Sam has decided to keep a little red book on the gold supply. The gold administrator may not come to rival the fuel administrator, the food conservator and the gasoline checker. But gold the commodity will hereafter be distributed in bullion as the wholesale manufacturing jeweler and the dentist and other finer craftsmen set forth their absolute requirements. Use of gold, the commodity, will be restricted to the essentials. An ofiicer of the assay office explains as follows : "As far as we know, first instructions to stop exchanging gold bullion for gold coin or cash has been rescinded. We have resumed the exchange in a modified or restricted way. The future course will be governed by the drain that is made on the supply. It will work out as simply as the cam paigns to conserve sugar, wheat, fuel and gasoline. And in a close way the plan follows the same general purpose. The government will keep track of its gold supply, see who needs it and who gets it, and will stop any at tempts to hoard it." Food for Thought A woman would be mighty unhappy tied up for life to a man she couldn't find fault with now and then. A woman is always wanting something her husband can't afford and a man always seems to enjoy telling her that he can't afford it The best way to win vthis war is to send our soldiers so manv suns and shells that it won't be S necessary for them to have to rise to superhuman deeds of bravery The fourth Liberty bonds should go as fast as the Yanks are going along the German frontier. How the German Laborer Is Chained to His Job Control of labor power in Germany is absolute, according to information obtained from that country. Just how each workman is chained to his job may be realized when it is known that he cannot change positions without the written consent either of his employ er or of a board of seven members appointed by the military authorities. The boards of seven include an army officer as chairman, two government officials, two employers, and two workingmen. The workingraen, therefore, not only have small representation on the board, but are denied the opportu nity of choosing their own representatives, for that is undertaken by the war office.

Some Extraordinary Names Are Occasionally Fastened Upon the Innocent Babes What extraordinary names some people are compelled to bear or choose to assume! I hestitate to call them "Christian names," because they aren't Christian, very often. "Given names" is perhaps the better way of describing them. Perhaps you have heard of the Irishman assisting at a baptism, who, when he heard the godiriother answer "Hazel" to the question as to the child's name, broke forth: "For the love av hiven ; the whole calendar is full of the names of blessed female saints, and they do be callin the baby after a nut!" I thought of that when I looked through the catalogue of a girl's col

lege the other day and noted these labels: Golde Mae, Eura Arvilia, Kathryn, Blva, Melba, Izer, Neva, Ramona, Mabelle, Vida, Esta, Millis, Mayme, Mable, Arthetta, Lilyan, Bulah, Arbita, Narmie, Ara, Jonnie, Roxa, Zurelle, Zuliene, Vanja, Mote, Corenna. It was a comfort to get back to Bridget and Margaret! Names are not arbitrary combinations of vowels and con sonants; they have, or should have, significance, a historic setting, a personal and family relationship, that dignifies them. To invent fantastic labels for pet dogs may be allowed ; but human beings ought not to be put on that level. So, misspellings of familiar names, Christian or family, seem either undignified or ignorant, no.w when fixed spellings have been accepted. Can some one explain Ga Nun and U'Rell, both of which variants intrigue me? Living Church. THE FUTURE What may we take into the vast forever? That marble door Admits no fruit of all our long endeavor, jno fame-wreathed crown we wore, Nor garnered lore. What can we bear beyond the unknown portal ? No gold, no gains Of all our toiling life; in the life immortal No hoarded wealth remains, Nor gilds, nor stains. Naked from out that far abyss behind us We entered here: No word came with our coming, to remind us What wondrous world was near, No hope, no fear. Into the silent, starless night before us, Naked we glide: No hand has mapped the, constellations o'er us, w No comrade at our side, No chart, no guide. Yet fearless toward that midnight, black and hollow, Our footsteps fare: The beckoning of a Father's hand we follow His love alone Is there, No curse, no care. Edward Rowland Sill. JESTS AND JINGLES Partly Right. I don't like your heart action," the doctor said, applying the stethoscope again. "You have had some trouble with angina pectoris." "You're partly right, doctor," said the young man, sheepishly, "only that ain't her name." In the Dark. sir, has referred me to you." "Well?" "Can I have her?" "I dunno. She hasn't given mo any instructions, young man." The Missing Link. Algernon (excitedly) Oh, Miss Docring, half an hoür ago I was just a minute too late to assist in rescuing a man from drowning! The crowd formed a human chain and Alice (interrupting) You were the missing link? Dogs of War. "Some of these war devices of the Prussians have proved clumsy." "Yes. They were the sort of thing to be ex pected from a nation that regarded a dachshund as a n improvement on a regular dog." Easy Proposition. "Whatever induced her to marry the man she did?" "I think the principal inducement was because he asked her to." A Father's Disappointment. That was a fine letter Josh wrote home," commented Mrs. Corntossel. "Every line of it was jes' as grammatical as it could be." "That's what worries me," replied her husband. "He ha9 spoiled his style. T thought at first he was goin to have a great future as one of these natural-born comical dialect writers. At the Patent Office. In 1903 there were G7,9S6 applications for patents, and 35,025 were granted ; in 1914, there were 69,311 applications and, 36,276 granted ; in 1915, 66,497 applications and 42,734 granted; in 1916, 67,34S applications, and 44,155 granted; in 1917, 63,690 applications, and 52,328 granted.

HEARD anaSEEN

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Outdid Soldier Son in WASHINGTON.- The Union station the day and night, going to camp or back from them; the raw recruit, and the man who never has felt a bul let's sting all of them are there. It is the raw recruit that interests me most. Catch him either when he is entraining for camp for the first time or just getting back on his first leave. Then the wromen are in the picture in large numbers. When he goes away to camp with tearful eyes and apprehension. But when he returns ah, then, there is a change. The woman folks come with faces beaming pride and hearts thumping martial music. After he has been in going across ceases to be as interesting

rounded by a crowd of proud or apprehensive women, and he Is not half as

interesting as lie was when he first forsook the civilian life. 1 saw a striking illustration of this on a recent day. A senator who is well along in years came to the train with his son, a husky youth of twentyone, perhaps, who reared his shoulders back in grand style and carried a general air of confidence that he could whip all of the Heinies in the world. It was evident from his new suit that he had not been in the service long, but this fact was evident by the manner in which his father carried himself. If there ever was any doubt in the father's mind as to the final result of the war it evidently had been wiped out by the admission of his son to the army. As they swung down the huge train shed the father assumed a far more military air than his son, and when I last saw them the senator was clicking his heels along in a fashion which fairly shouted: "Here we are, Huns; what are you going to do about it?" They had no woman folk with them, for the senator is from way out West, but through the actions of the father I could visualize the proud bearing of the entire family.

Quite a Simple Matter, as Auntie Explained It A CERTAIN gentleman, who has among his real estate holdings a little house which he has rented for some years to a colored "auntie," has been experiencing difficulty recently anent his weekly wash. The colored woman has always done the washing for this

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he smiled, good naturedly. But when he received notice that he would have to pay ?2.50 next week he got a little riled. 'Til just go around and see auntie about this," he said to his good wife. "Auntie," began the man, "how is it that you keep on raising my laundry bill every week?" "It's the wah, boss," returned auntie. , The war, of course," said he, "but don't you think you have been raising It a little more than the war demands? Here I haven't raised the rent on you " "You cain't," grinned the woman, sweetly. 'Til admit it," smiled the man in return. "But don't you think the law works hardship on us poor real estate owners, sometimes? Here I am letting you have this little home for the same modest price that you have always paid, while you are raising the price of our washing week by week." Auntie grinned peacefully. "I don't know about dat, boss," she said. "I guess Ts protected an' you ain't, dat's all." Bee Really Deserved Feast That He Finally Got HAVING written stories of a mouse that sings, a sparrow that takes to. shower bath, a kitten that attacked a pigeon and a bird that waits on a tree for the master of the house to come home every evening, and not having

been branded "nature-faker," I feel at liberty to tell the following tale also true : "Bees must have marvelous noses," he said. Ignoring the noses, I asked him why he attributed marvelous powers of smell to bees. "Well, you see," he said, "it's this way. I went down to the corner grocery store the other day to buy a bottle of grape juice. It was one of those warm days, and on my way home I had to pass a yard surrounded

by a hedge. There were quantities of bees buzzing through the hedge. One of them must have seen me coming across the street, for he immediately left the society of his mates and began flying around my head. "That bee followed me up the street as foithfully as any dog. After a few steps I saw that what he was after was the bottle of grape juice. As far as I could tell there was no way on earth that bee could know there was sweet grape juice inside that bottle, since the cork was In tight and had never been removed. "But that fellow knew sugar was near. He never left me. Across streets he accompanied me. He was a faithful as well as busy bee. Into my home he came, and the door closed behind him, but he never faltered. That evening my family drank the grape juice." "And gave your bee a special cup," I said. "Well, not exactly that," he replied. "But we set the empty bottle out In the yard, and the next morning we found the bee asleep in the bottom of the bottle."

No Doubt at AH About Future of "Soldier Man" IT IS possible that you have observed the cars so many sausages stuffed with humans flash by because of inability to accommodate the proverbial one more, but the chac es are that you missed the fine thing that happened Tuesday morning, a few minutes be

saw the crowd he made the chauffeur slow up and take on six people. He said he was on his way to the state, war and navy building and would be glad to carry any one going that way. Among his passengers was a small woman in black who came home that evening from a long day's work to jubilate over her ride like this: "You know I am not of the pushing kind, so I thought I would stand back and let some one else get in, but ihe officer beckoned me, and -it was the finest big. shiny car I ever was in, and it flew as smooth as glass. Tve been thinking about It all day; how kind it was of the soldier man. I tell you, if he keeps on doing helpful things like that for people all the time h surely will go straight to heaven when he dies."

His Military Swagger is filled with soldiers at every hour of or coming from it, off to the battlefields the doughty officer, the wounded man TRAINS the service long his coming to town or as it was at first, and he Is not sur man's family, and has always received a good price for the work. Living in the man's property, there was a sort of understanding between them about the washing, and the man little dreamed that the war would affect the state of his shirts, etc. But the war does a lot of things. The first thing it did to this man's wash was to advance the price from $1 to $1.50. The man cheerfully acquiesced. "The high cost of living," IftfllTTii fore nine o'clock. It was at that curve at Second and the Avenue southeast, which jerks the life out of you when the conductor stops short to let you out, and the corner was crowded with clerks waiting for a car that didn't come. After waiting and waiting, with every second trimming off the time to get to work, a big automobile whizzed into sight carrying only a chauffeur and a big military man nil blue nnd cold. When the officer

THIS WOMAN SAVED FROM AN OPERATION

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