The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 July 1928 — Page 5

— • ’ *1 Eastern Michigan Octogenarian Recluse Solves Economic Problem By Evading All Rent and Taxes L (E. M. T. Service) .—J Copyright, 1928 (By JOE DERMODY)

Henri Rabiteau, aged 82 years, is the "Robinson Crusoe” of East Michigan. For thirty years this old Quebec lumberjack has maintained his hermit cloister on False Presque Isle, near Alpena. Here he has “made a solitude and calls it peace.” He is that paradoxical individual, p sociable hermit, but no one has ever penetrated his easily donned cloak of taciturnity and learned the reason for his life of celibacy and seclusion. Henri himself explains it in various ways Rabiteau and His Homely Habitat and there is something about his gentle-voiced loquacity on this point that gives birth to the suspicion that Henri resorts to garrulity as a smoke screen to evasion. He has never married. One of his pre-eminent distinctions is that of having solved the problem of living expenses. He never pays rent or taxes. ! Isle Becomes Peninsula False Presque Isle received the first 'third of its name because, before a ,beneficent government erected the /big lighthouse to guide ships on their -iway, mariners often mistook it for ■the real Presque Isle —which is somewhere else. Another logical reason [for thii? name is due to the fact that |the lowering of the lakes and rivers !has caused* what was once an island 'to Be a peninsula, connected to the [mainland near Bell by an isthmus so marshy that only a man with rubber ’boots [w ould be able to pass it. Henri’s sociable attributes are seen lin his demeanor toward visitors. He •will come for his guests if one drives ■to thb end of the beach road and ’then lustily yells for the recluse. .Scores of tourist visitors to East Michigan seek out Mr. Rabiteau. Afiter the visitors’ throats are hoarse — r__ ————-

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V Save yowr pennies, count with care, Soon you’ll be a millionaire. rr-iHIS modern version of BenI jamin Franklin’s admonitions -*■ is one that the housewife of today heeds. For he knows that she, who spends the household’s money, must also save it. She is the saver of the family (if not the savior as her forebears thought). Economy in food is one of the itaost efficient ways to conserve the pennies. Among the foods which can be bought at moderate prices, if chosen with’a due regard to local markets, are both salads and desserts. Low Priced but Popular For a family of five, two adults and three children, it is estimated that the following dishes can be made at costs ranging from sixteen to twenty-six cents. Os course these prices will vary according to localities, but, whether you live in a high or a low priced territory, these will still be economical foods. And what is more, they will be popular with your family. Pineapple Whip'. Beat three egg whites until stiff and gradually add one-half cup sugar. Fold in one cup crushed Hawaiian pineapple from which all the syrup has been drained. Pour' into a greased baking dish and bake in a slow oven twerrv-five to thirty minutes or until puffed and slightly browned. Serve either hot nr cold About

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which may be the hermit’s test that one really wishes to see him—he emerges from the otheft side of the water, goes to the mainland beach, and gently inquires, “Did you happen to be calling for me?” Rabiteau lives in a two-room cabin set amid pine trees and his only companion is a cat, as black as Poe’s Raven, which immediately seeks the top branches of the tallest Norway on the place when the visitor appears. For seven of the thirty years he hrs lived on the place, Mr. Rabiteau had a man “Friday” to break the monotony of solitude, but the pal died. A Millionaire’s Meals Henri gets to Alpena once a year. In explanation of his failure to marry, he says: “I never cottoned to women much. When I was young I wouldn't have them and now when I am old they won’t have me.” Rabiteau thinks that he got used to being alone when he lumbered the I woods near where he lives. As a boy i he worked in Quebec lumber camps, ' then followed the trail of the pine to | Michigan. After thirty years in lum- j ber camps he settled to a luxury j that he had anticipated for a life • time—the satisfaction of fishing. For I the last thirty years that is all he • has been doing. That he is given j to the philosophic meditation of the ; orthodox anchorite is manifest in his ! talk. “Man can think out things for him- j self while fishing,” he says in his gentle expressionless monotone, “and when fish are breeding I have just as ! good a meal as any millionaire,” This East Michigan recluse leads his life of simplicity unharried by the disagreeable alternatives that < confront residents of the densely pop- j ulated communities. Speaking of 1 rent and taxes, he declared without feeling: “I don’t pay either. No, I don’t , own this place. They ‘jest’ let me f live here. I guess they think an old , chap can’t hurt the landscape any!” , 1 False Presque Isle is situated on [ Lake Huron near Alpena, the bustling ■ metropolis of Northeastern Michigan. • r Alpena is located on U. S. Highway 'I 123 and is the center of a great fishing i and hunting section. Good trout. [ streams are located nearby and a r number of large lakes. Black bass, ‘ green bass, pike, perch and trout are i the leading species of fish. Three [ golf courses are located in the city, r Alpena and the section thereabouts r are popular with the vacationist and' L motor nomad, who call it “Summer’s [ Comfort Zone.” ~ [ —■■ - r

, Pineapple Isles’. Place five, slices I of pineapple on a buttered tin and. | sprinkle each with few grains of salt. Add one tablespoon water to I whites of two eggs, beat very stiff, | then beat in four tablespoons ■ sugar. Heap in center of pinej I apple. Bake in a slow oven (300° F.) for twenty minutes or until delicately brown. This will cost approximately twenty-two cents. ■ Economical Salads Cabbage and Pineapple Salad: Mix one cup crushed pineapple, two I cups shredded cabbage, one-half . teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon I pepper, and salad dressing. Dec- I orate each serving with a bit of crushed pineapple sprinkled with paprika. Cost seventeen cents. Carrot Salad: Grate two raw carrots, or run them through the food ! chopper. Add one cup crushed • I Hawaiian pineapple, and one-half | cup roasted peanuts. Moisten with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce leaves. Twenty-six cents. Shamrock Salad: Cut the stem end off two small green peppers and remove seeds. Cut the peppers I into fifteen rings and place three rings in the form of a shamrock on lettuce arranged on individual plates. Heap the centers of the rings with well drained crushed Hawaiian pineapple, and in the middle, where rings come together, put a spoonful of mayonnaise. Sprinkle with paprika. Twentysix cents

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