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rift- 1 iff. 1 I I MY if I 1 1 jiy. fi i 3 1 i H'i jvi .Si! rt- I: fi lion i turn out Your Toes Or You'll Get Flat Feet High Heels No Guarantee Do you turn your toes out farther than necessary when yon walk? A good many people do, asserts an ex pert, and there are two reasons why the practice Is a bad onefor one thing. It gives an awkward and affect ed gait, which may even be a mincing gait if the habit is very pronounced for another thing, it Is apt to produce flatfoot, that unsightly and often pain ful disability. One hears a good deal about flat foot these days, and it Is shocking bow many otherwise able and efficient 'candidates for the army have to be turned down by physical examiners because of this disabilityflatfoot. So much attention is being paid to the welfare of the foot now that flatfoot is likely to be far less prevalent in the next generation, but those who have been fortunate enough to escape the trouble so far in this generation should be very careful not to let it come upon them. The common causes of flatfoot are Improper shoes and faulty ways of walking or standing. Flatfoot will not be prevented, as many women seem to fancy, by the continuous wearing of high heels. There are people who wear healless tennis shoes all summer long without injury to the arch of the foot. It all depends on the way one steps. Barefoot people for the most part walk with the toes pointing straight forwardif anything a trifle inward. The Indian always walks in this way soIf you will notedoes the barefoot lad in the country. The toes in this method of walking get a firm grip on the ground and help to propel the body forward. To avoid-flatfoot wear supple, roomy shoes and take care not to toe out ex cessively. Make all the toes do their Work in propelling the body forward. German Birth Rate Shows a Drop of Forty Per Cent Since Beginning of War The birth rate in Germany for 1910 fell off 4*0 per cent from the figures for the year 1913, according to Dr. Charles Greene Cumston of the University of Geneva, writing in the New York Med ical Journal. Doctor Cumston's figures are taken from a report prepared by the Intelli gence department of the local govern ment board of Switzerland. 'Doctor Cumston says in part: "During the war there has been a heavy fall in the German birth rate. The first three years of the war alone reduced by more than 2,000,000 the number of infants who would have been born had peace prevailed. I would add that the infantile death rate has been kept well down, but Is 50 per cent higher than in England. The birth rate, which had risen from 86.1 per 1,000 inhabitants in the decade 1841-1850, to 39.1 in the period 1871- 1880, fell in the succeeding decides to 86.8, 36.1 and 31.9. The rate for the last year of the decade J901-1910 was 80 per 1,000 Inhabitants, and the con tinuance of the fall brought the rate as low as 28.3 In 1912. In 1913 there were 1,839,000 live births. In Ger many, In 1916, there were only 1,103,- '000, a decrease of 40 per cent as com pared with 1913." MMMWIMMMMMI Musical Notes. Some musicians have sharp eyes and flat feet. Of course the sharp eyes are the more essential. Unless a fellow can natural he may play off key. Most any musician can pass a double bar without stopping if he is pressed for time. Bill Shakespeare must have been at least af dub musician or he couldn't have written "Meas ure for Measure." Man Is like a violin. Some body Is always stringing him. And he is also like the string soon broke. MMWWMNMMMMMMMMMM Must Purchase Sugar Every 15 Days Instead of Weekly Approximately 20,000,000 pounds of sugar will be saved per year by a new ruling of the food administration which will prevent anyone from ob taining more than two pounds of sur gar per month. Many people were un consciously breaking the regulations regarding the distribution of sugar by purchasing their sugar on the basis of one-half pound per capita per Week. On this basis of four weeks to the month there would be only 48 weeks to the year, or 336 days. This would leave 29 days, or practically another month, during which sugar would be consumed on a basis of two pounds per capita. With a population of 100,- 00,000 people this would require about an additional 200,000.000 pounds of sugar. The new regulation requires consumer to purchase his allot ment of sugar every fifteen days, or etnt-monthly, rather than every week. Increases of Food Prices. Retail prices of food Increased 4 per cent from August 15 to September ^5 14 per cent from September, 1917, tn September, 1918. and 72 per cent from September. 1913. to September, 3918. the bureau of labor statistics an- *IHIW*M1. Tli** Increases were deter- ii---".' frrvn r*-r-+ by retail dealers MMa nuWnuuunWuul Potatoes Feed die World Different Ages and Sizes of Tubers Demand Special Prepara tion and Aid in Keeping Body Tissues Alkaline The general use of potatoes in the average family and the better customs prevailing in many homes in preparing the tubers for food are based on sound economic and dietetic reasons, according to specialists of the office of home economics of the United States department of agriculture. Potatoes are easy to cook in a variety of ways. From the point of view of dietetics, they furnish starch in one readily digestible form, contain mineral substances of importance to the body, anda fact less generally known tend to make the tissues and fluids of the body alkaline, so counteracting the tendency of meats, eggs, fish and like foods to create acid conditions. Since the body does its work, best when its condition is either neutral or slightly: alkaline, potatoes, like most vegetables, perform an important function in the diet besides furnishing energy-producing material. This scientific fact justifies the custom that is prevalent in many families of serving a goodly supply of potatoes or other vegetables with each helping of meat. Potatoes, however, while a valuable addition to a mixed diet, alone are not suited to meet the needs of the body because of their poverty in proteins and fat. Of these latter important elements protein Is furnished in meats, eggs, fish, milk, beans and similar foods, and fat in butter, bacon, table oils and the fats and oils used in cookery. Greater care than commonly Is exercised should be taken in peeling potatoes. Very often 20 per cent of the potato is pared away. This results not only In the waste of considerable potato but also in the loss of one of the most valuable portions of the tuber, since the soluble mineral salts are present In the material near the skin, which should be removed and thrown away. These salts can be preserved by a more careful removal of the skin, as by shallow paring or rubbing, and also by boiling or baking the potatoes in their jackets. Paring before boiling, however, may be the most desirable method of cooking potatoes, which through an undue exposure to light may have ac- quired a bitter taste, or those which have been kept until late in the spring, since in this way more of the disagreeable flavor is eliminated. Such potatoes may also be soaked before cooking. While these methods may be desirable with potatoes which have been exposed to light, they result in the loss of considerable food value without compensating advantages when applied to new or well-matured potatoes. If such potatoes are boiled after paring, they should be dropped into boiling water instead of being placed on the stove in cold water. By the latter method there is twice the loss of protein, or tissue-building elements, result- ing from the former. The loss of mineral matter is about the same by each method. There is no loss of starchy material in boiling unless portions of the Practically the only loss when potatoes are baked In their skins is of the water which escapes as steam. The more or less common custom of pricking holes in the skin of baked potatoes or breaking them is explained by the fact that unless the steam which Is formed Inside the skin is allowed to escape it will change back into water and produce sogginess. Potatoes which have turned green and sprouting tubers have present a considerable quantity of solanln, an acrid poisonous substance which, though not" dangerous In the quantities ordinarily met with, gives a disagreeable flavor.' It is best, therefore, to avoid such potatoes or to cutout green or sprouting portions. Balloons and Pigeons Were Used to Carry Mail During Siege of Paris in 1870-71 Although airplanes were unknown in 1870, balloons played an important part in the siege of Paris, relates a writer in New York Evening World. So closely were the Prussian lines drawn about the city that communica tion with the odtslde world was cut off. The military authorities called upon the aeronaut Durouf to make a balloon flight from Paris. Carrying 250 pounds of letters, he made the at tempt, and after flight of three noun* landed at Bvreaux, far beyond the zone of Prussian control. A regular mall service was then established, and though many flights ended in disaster, It continued until the surrender of the City. It was in this way that Gambret tu, the statesman, made his escape from Paris to Tours, where he recruit ed a new army, which offered a des perate but vain resistance to the in vaders. The balloon service was maintained throughout the Investment, from Sep tember 23, 1870, to January 28, J871. Letters to be sent "par bablonmote" were written on very thin paper, and among the most interesting relics of the siege are the letter journals, in vented by Le Petit Journal. The news of the besieged city was printed in very small type on one side of a thin letter sheet and the other side of the sheet was left blank for personal com munications. About a score of Paris papers issued these novel sheets, and practically all letters were written on them. Getting letters into the beleaguered city presented a more difficult problem, but this was partlaly solved by send ing carrier pigeons out with the bal loons. Letters and dispatches were photographed and so reduced that a single pigeon Ittmlng Its way to Paris often carried thousands of dispatches in a quill attached to Its tall. One pigeon carried to Paris dispatches rep resenting 300,000 francs in postage. Why Troops of the Kaiser Were Given Title of "Huns" I Because of the Germans' brutality and wanton de structiveness in the present war they have been called Huns. Gives $1,432,374 for Belgians. For relief Work In Belgium during the ten months ending last June SO, the American Red Cross appropriated $1,432374 and it has set aside S1.947.- 325 for the remainder of the present year. Salt From Salt Lake. iki'iV i ,ii IT IT IS TO SMILE Working Friend Wife. Jinks was always complaining of his wife's memory. "She can never re* member anything," said he. 'It's aw- ful." "My wife was Just as bad," said Brown, "till I found a capital recipe." "What was it?" asked Jinks eagerly. "Why," said Brown, "whenever there's anything particular I want the missus to remember I write It on a slip of paper and gum it on the looking glass." Jinks is now a contented man. Old War Sharpened His Wit* Tommy (just off train, with consid* erable luggage)-/Cabby, how much is it for me to Latchford? CabbyTwo shillings, sir. TommyHow much for my luggagel CabbyFree, sir. TommyTake the luggage. I'll walk. In the Making. BoardOThis tea is very weak. LandladyI buy only the best tea, sir. BoarderDoubtless! Its weakness is wholly structural, I believe. In Right Class. "So your friend the baker has en listed. What part of the service has he joined?" "I don't know, but I guess he's gone with the doughboys." The- Huns were a, brutal race of savage people who Invaded Europe about 350, slaughtering the Inhabi tants and destroying property. When pnraglngly at that man? He stood np the kniser sent his troops to China. July 27, 1900, he said to them: "Use your weapons in such a way that for a thousand years no Chinese dare look upon a Gorman askance. Be as terri ble as Attya's Huns.v Inconsistency. PatienceWhy do you look so dls for you at the meeting the other night when you were being abused. PatriceYes, I know he did. But I came up on the same trolley car with him tonight and he wouldn't .stand up for me there. May Find Priceless Tables With the Ancient Furniture There Is.a tremendous demand to day for old mahogany or oak tables. If there are any historic associations attached to these tables they brtof fabulous prices. There are plenty of tables in the country possessing real historic interest, but none of them is ia the least likely at the moment to come on the open market. The table on which Napoleon signed his_al Hon may be priceless. In The inhabitants of Palmyra get all there Is a mahogany table which, fcrj- ._ .,it K. .llnnlni Hnolrats. ntr thf 1 dlttOA SSyS, WaS Washed UP OS their sal, by. dipping, bucket into the dltion neighboring salt lake and allowing the, coast of Clare after the wreck of water to evaporate. {Spanish THE TOMAHAWK, WHITE EARTH. MINN. Familiar Faces. "Did you ever have the feeling that you have met a person before and perhaps had an unpleasant ex perience in the dim past?" "I often have that feeling In hir ing a cook." The knife blade of this electric cutter revolves at the rate of 6,000 times a minute. With an efficient, modern machine of this kind garments can be cut so rapidly that hundreds of workrooms can h* supplied with materials for sewing. Up to August 81 of this year, the American Bed Cross had sent to France 10,637.201 hospital garments made in Bed Cross workrooms through out the country and by Bed Cross workers. That such a great number of these Important garments were turned out in just about a year, is due large ly to the use of machinery, not only in the sewing, but in the cutting. The accompanying illustrations show the machines used in marking nnd cutting the patterns, and which are operated by electricity. The gar ment material is placed, layer upon layer, several hundred deep, then an electrical perforating machine marks Be no longer a chaos, but a world. Pro duce! Produce! Were it but the pitiful est infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it! in God's name! 'Tis the ut most thou hast in thee out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand And to do, do it with thy whole might.Carlyle. Cranberry Frappe. This is especially good with a tur key dinner. Stew the berries and add the sugar as for sauce or Jelly. Cool and add the Juice of two lemons and freeze to the consistency of mush. Serve in sherbet cups with chicken or turkey. Baked Cranberries. Machineiy of Mercy1 Helps in Production of American Red Got* Garments Choose a wide earthen dish to bake the berries, large enough to take a pint of berries to cover the bottom. Pour over them a sirup made with two cupfuls of sugar and one of water. Place In a slow oven and bake until done. Take from the oven but do not stir until cold, when each berry will be coated with Jelly and when piled in a pretty glass dish look like candled cherries. These may be dried on waxed paper nnd used in place of cherries as a garnish. Mock Venison. Lay a leg of mutton in a dish of di luted vinegar, one-fifth vinegar and four-fifths water add two small sliced onions, six peppercorns, six cloves, dozen allspice, four bay leaves and a tablespoonful of crushed Juniper berries. Roast the mutton after it has laid In this solution four days. Use the vinegar to baste the meat while roasting. Veal Kidneys With Cider Sauce. Remove all fat and fibers from three veal kidneys. Add a tablespoonful of hot fat to. a frying pan with a heap ing tablespoonful each of chopped parsley and onion then drop In the kidneys and steam, well covered, for fifteen minutes then pour over a half cupful of dder. When hot add season ing to taste and serve. Cape Cod Pudding. Cream half a cupful of butter sub stitute, add gradually one cupful of sugar and three well-beaten eggs. Mix and sift three and a half cupfuls of flour with two teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder add a half capful of milk and one and a half cupfuls of chopped cranberries. Turn Into a buttered mold and steam three hours. Serve with thin cream and powdered sugar, flavored with nutmeg. An electrical stencilling machine burns little holes to mark the pattern so quickly that with it and the cutting machine the department Is able to cut garments at the rate of 70,000 yards for every 5l/2 days' work. the pattern, burning tiny holes into the* cloth. After this stencilling machine, as it is called, has marked the pat tern, the chalking machine comes Into use. This contains either white or black chalk, to contrast with the mate rial in use at the time. It is moved over the holes burned by the stencilling machine to accentuate the outlines of the pattern. The cutting of the material is done with a ten-inch blade. It is estimated that this machine saves from three to Seven cents on each garment. The knife blade on the cutter revolves at the rate of 6,000 revolutions a minute. The combined machinesstencilling, chalking and cuttingare able to con vert 70,000 yards of material into gar ment sections, ready to% sew, every five and one-half days. 2,399,000 18-45 Men to Be Called Before July 1Over 2,000,000 Will Be Fighters Draft calls for men who have passed their thirty-seventh birthdays are ex* pected to begin about March 1. Plans for bringing the older class of new registrants into camp have not been completed, but the approximate date of the first call was recently disclosed by publication of testimony by Provost Marshal General Crowder before the house military committee. In all, General Crowder told the committee, 2,399,000 newly registered men between eighteen and forty-five, will be called before July 1, and of that number more than two million will be physically fit fighting men. The calls for general service will be di vided as follows: October, 345,000 November, 204,000 December, 197,500 January, 147,500 February, 244,000 March, April, May and June, 344,000. These men will supply both the army and the navy and the marine corps. In addition, 20,000 men for limited service will be called each month. General Crowder said the work of classifying new registrants Should be completed by January 1. Do You Khow That No Jew may purchase land in Russia. The only maritime country in Europe without a navy Is Bel glum. Out of every hundred of the population In England and Wales seventy-eight live in towns. An Englishman used to eat more butter than any man of any other nationality. His year ly average was thirteen pounds.' Important Improvement in Snow Sheds for Railways Important improvements were intro duced by the Southern Pacific rail road in the design of their snow sheds, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. One of these consists of telescoping unlfs having a maximum length of 96 feet which make it possible to divide long sheds into Isolated sections as a means of protection against the spread of fire, or for other purposes. Each unit Is made with removable outside braces and Is mounted on rails, so that a locomotive can draw it into the adjoining structure, purposely made larger to receive It Portugal's Former Name. Portugal was formerly known as Lusitania. The present name Is de rived from Port Callo, the ancient name of the town now known to us as Oporto. A DOUBTING HEART Where are the swallows fled? Frozen and dead Perchance upon some bleak and Stony shore. O doubting heart! Far over purple seas They wait, in sunny ease. The balmy southern breeze, To bring them to their northern homes once more. Why must the flowers die? Prisoned they lie In the cold tomb, heedless of tears or rain. O doubting: heart! They only sleep below The soft white ermine snow While winter winds shall blow. To breathe the smile upon you soon again. The sun has hid its rays These many days Will dreary hours never leave the earth? O doubting heart! The stormy clouds on high Veil the same sunny sky That soon (for spring is nigh) Shall wake the summer into golden mirth. Fair hope Is dead, and light Is quenched in the night. What sound can break the silence of despair? O doubting heart! The sky is overcast, Yet stars shall rise at last. Brighter for darkness past, And angels' silver voices stir the air. Adelaide Anne Procter. PAPER ECONOMY HINTS Don't Be Ashamed to Carry An Unwrapped Parcel The good American housewife should go shopping with a basket. It's the fashion! No longer can you be ashamed to carry an unwrapped par cel, thinking perhaps the market bas ket will mark your snobbishness. The war Industries board has made an ap peal for co-operation to the American women to help the retail stores comply with the recent order for discontinuing the wrapping of package merchandise so do not protest when your dealer asks you to carry home your.cabbage, your beets or carrots, your fancy cracker box or lurid sirup can unwrap ped. Put your pride in your pocket and your unwrapped parcels in your basket and trudge home cheerfully with them. It is the fashion! Disdain the paper bag that you real ly doi not need. Only bread, pastry, sugar, tea and such things are entitled to be wrapped Just now. Save paper and help gas,the Hun, for it means more gas for Fritz every time you say, "Don't wrap it." At no time has It been more impor tant to cull the flock carefully than now. A good hen is returning to its owner a good profit a poor one, a cor responding greater loss. With the gen eral purpose breeds the pullet year is the most profitable. In fact, It will take two pounds more feed to produce a pound of eggs with hens than it will with pullets. No farmer can afford to keep any hen of the general purpose type after she has passed through the second laying season. All females which have passed the first year of laying should be marketed unless they arelo be kept for next year's breed ers. If the farmer cannot tell the age of his hens, he can avoid future guess work by putting a ring on the legs of the pullets. Some features that will help the farmer distinguish hens that have been good egg producers have been noted by the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. In October the poor layers will have yellow shanks, a small dull comb, pin bones close together, and will have com pleted molting. The good layer, will be In the molt, will have pale or al most pink shanks, will be ragged in appearance and, if laying, the pin bones will be well spread apart The good layer, even though in the molt, will start laying just as soon as the early molter. The good layer will have a' soft velvety skin while that of the poor layer will be thick and coarse. It will pay to cull the flock If the culling is done right One of Several Theories as To Origin of Wedding Ring Among several theories as to the origin of the wedding ring is one which is to the effect that before the time of mints and coinage the gold money in Egypt was made in the form of a ring, usually worn on the finger as a convenient method of carrying and safe-keeping. The men and wom en, therefore, had all their gold or wealth made into rings, and for the majority of people these rings were no larger than the plain gold bands of today. Thus, when the groom placed the ring on the bride's finger, he meant exactly what the modern service makes him sayhe did exactly endow his bride with all his worldly goods. Amber and Jade Mines. It is at the sources of the Cbindwen, or western branch of the-Irrawaddy, that the famous amber and jade mines are which have supplied China with these much prised stones for centuries, Microbes on the Screen. Apparatus with which it is possible to make motion pictures of living mi crobes has been perfected by a Cali fornia scientist ,M M._