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WONDER WHY NOW! The lobby of the Blackstone was reposing in awful, dignified Silence the other afternoon, while the fireworks were popping over at the Coliseum. Suddenly a bellboy ambled in and. out among the marble corri dors, shouting: "Mr. W. J. Burns! Mr. W. J. Burns! Mr. W. J. Burns!" By actual count, 14 men grab bed their hats and beat it. Three of them were U. S. senators, two were Taft delegates and one was a member of the Illinois legislature. ' Cherry Shortcake. This is a sweet shortcake. Pre pare the cherries. Let them stand "with the sugar over them while the cake part is baking. Mix and sift (twice) two cups of flour, J4 cup .of sugar, 4 level teaspoons of baking powder, a pinch of nut-, meg and teaspoon of salt. Rub in 1-3 cup of butter; add 1 egg well beaten to 2-3 cup of sweet milk. Mix on a floured pastry board. Roll out layer-cake tin in a hot oven 20 minutes. When done spread with soft butter, then with pitted, drained and sweetened cherries. Cover the top .layer also with" cherries. Sprinkle generously with sugar. Top the cake with whipped cream. o o "Why are you throwing those, hand-bills on the pavement?" "Well, thats what the people I give them to do, so I am just sav ing time." and bake in a imp wMnri jy- c EeHINO THAT j V D,Ilf S COFFEE SUBSTITUTES. Coffee substitutes are all right if you like 'em. A good many people don't. They are mostly merely hot water flavored with roasted grain just like the "rye coffee" that folks used to use in the north during the war when real coffee couldn't be bought for any price within the reach of the ordinary family. - o o The United States has become the world's chief tinplate pro ducer. In 1892 the mills of thd country turned out 18,803 tons. In 1910 the amount had increased to 725,000 tons. The United King dom comes next with 600,000 and Germany follows- with 50,000 tons," THERE MUST 1 if