The St. Charles herald. [volume], June 08, 1918, Image 5

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BACKYARD
POULTRY GROWING
The city or town man who keeps a
nail flock of hens not only is saving
lotiey but is helping his country,
very pound of poultry raised and
iery egg laid releases just so much
ark ami beef for our armies and al
es, according to L. W. Rurby, poul
•y hu.shandnian stationed at the ag
cultuigd college by tint United
fates department of agriculture. '
Poultry will not prevent one's grow
ig a garden. Twelve hens confined
l a pen big enough for exercise and
rovided with green feed will furnish
goodly number of eggs for food. A
ticking box and a little poultry net
ng are all that is necessary for build
ig a house and run. ,
For egg production a rooster should 1
ot be kept, as he is noisy and lias
large appetite, but has no influence
n the number of eggs produced.
The poultry grower should not de
end too much on table scraps for
?eding his poultry, points out Mr. l.ur
y. Enough feed should ht* given to
eep the birds in good condition and
ufiieient excess to produce eggs. The
ens will eat vegetable peelings
nd fruit scraps if these are put
hrough the food chopper and mixed
.itli a little mash. A good mash eon
ists of four parts of bran, two parts
f shorts, and one part of high grade
ccf scraps, by weight.
Plenty of green feed should be used.
'his cuts down the amount of grain
ecessarv. It is desirable to feed to
he poultry the green weeds and thin
lings from the garden, also the nus
hapen and wormy vegetables, and
„„gh corn, unlit for human consump
itato Menus Provide for
Breakfast, Dinner, Supper
Use potatoes, urges the United
ites food administration, making
l.lic a menu which provides P<>ta
, s from morning until bedtime. Here
is : _
BREAKFAST
Cornmeal mush with dates,
tatn and meat cakes (very little meat).
Coffee, with milk for children.
dinner
, tton ste w. Macedoine of vegetables.
Boiled potatoes and lettuce salad.
SUPPER
Soup with t ato crotons.
ffv omelet with tomatoes.
oaieiei w B aked potatoes.
Scotch fancies and chilled fruit.
Potato crotons are made this way:
, one eupful of mashed potato add
e yolk and beat well together
half an inch thick on flat oiled
utter nml when cold cut in two-inch
u , re s then each square diagonally
form' triangular pieces [°\Z
t h milk and brown lightly in me
-remuer*, in them
g pan. _
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Lemons Yield Citric Acid.
•he production of citric acid on a
nnercial scale from cull lemons has
''"solved by the United States «le
tment of agriculture. Citi
.pared in .Ms ww l»» f !
)riC e several cents above the mar
. Orange pulp for the munn a
marmalade has been prepared •
thods for preparing citrus f>' '
merket developed by the^ 1
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bureau of ctemistry. >
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1 tuml UW .lifter,-nt
Optical Glass Playing a Big
Part in the World Conflict
—Needed by All Departments
That every field of military endeav
or depends upon the supply of optical
glass is the statement recently made
by I'rof. Edward \V. Washburn of the
department of ceramic engineering at
the University of Illinois.
•'The war could not be conducted
without optical glass," said Professor
Washburn. "Telescopes, binoculars, of
ficers' lenses and photographic plates
for army and navy observation pur
poses, X-ray bulbs and microscopic
lenses for the medical and sanitary
corps and many otiier necessary im
plements of a modern army would he
struck out. if it were not for the cera
mic industry," explained the lecturer.
"Previous to the war," Professor
Washburn said. "Germany manufae
kinds of optical
glass, an assortment which supplied
the whole world. England boasted
about twenty varieties of glass. The
United States produced none whatever.
England's product was not nearly suf
ficient to meet the demand of the al
lies and Britain found it necessary - at
the beginning of the war to collect all
field glasses.and small telescopes own
ed by citizens."
Doctor Washburn then told how
America is meeting the same problem
under the direction of a special com
mittee on optical glass manufacture.
"As a result of activities of this
commission," according to Prolessor
Washburn, "American industry is now
supplying all the optical glass urgent
ly needed bv the army and navy."
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± Wise and Otherwise. X
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J Many a worthless man has n ^
jH good disposition. J
4 . All typewriters are not types .5.
X of feminine beauty. X
? That man is generous to a 4
f fault who never corrects ir. X
* Laziness isn't exactly a crime, j*
X hut it is the next thing to It. X
+ A double wedding might prop- >F
X erly he called a four-in-hand tie. X
F It would he pretty tough on +
X some men if others did the rinln ^
F thing by them. t
X Discretion is the salt that pro- J
*F serves life and fancy is the J
X sugar that sweetens it. •$.
Ten "Kultur" Commandments
Now Prevailing in Germany
1 . Thou shalt make thy God a craven
thing and use his name to Justify thy
own baseness.
2 . Tliou shalt take liis name in vain
whenever thy people show unrest.
3 . Remember thou. October 12 . 1916 .
thi' glorious day we shot Edith Ca
vell.
4 . Dishonor thy father and mother
by the cruelties to the aged.
*5. Thou shalt kill for "me und Gott."
6. Thou shalt make a light thing of
all virtue and innocence.
7 . Thou shalt steal and pillage all
that thine enemy values.
8. Thou shalt hear false witness
against all, so kultur reign supreme.
9 Tliou shalt covet thy neighbor's
wifo Jinil possess her.
10 Thou shalt covet thy neighbors
» goods and seize or destroy them. Salt
j Lake Tribune.
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; Prison Labor Bill Provides
For Use of Inmates of Pena!
Institutions in Road Making
Many state nml county administra
tions are utilizing prison labor in road
work.
Governor Brough of Arkansas ha-!
annnumvd that 7 Ô to lut) convicts will
ho ust-d continuously on road work in
his s'aîo. A sentiment is growing in
favor of imprisoning all vagrants and
placing t! • m at work on county high
ways. This method of utilizing pris
on lahtir, w here it is comluci.-d under
proper ta c.dithins. has always h: d the
Indorsement of the natioiia! ooniniiiioe
on pri>oiis and prison lahor. ami a pro
vision for road building has hooii in
corporated in the prison labor hi!!.
An imjiortant featum is that of r -
quiring tin - payment of a wait" to the
prisoivr. Such a wage will make it
I» s-itde for th* 1 priseiioi- to
to the s|i|iport of las dependents
at the same time will prev. at un
competition with free lahor. The
sage of !iio 1 dl 1 will ai ve inipctu
rho move;-: nt for tin* employ! -,en
prisoners in road work and in >.
oceu' ri ' !• ais affecti d hv the nati
■d.
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Ev, r since the 1
ni
ed States ,
nt
red
Th
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!« "Til;
m
for utiii.fi
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e minted
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gauizati.m
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ted
To
îllt» pro>r<
•lit ion
if the wmi
Na
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tale
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oil. ftlel.
rri
cht,
fa
rm ami tU
1 CO
(unissions are s
•ek
in
_r prison !;
ilior.
state and
< «Minty
munissions
are
11!
■eting to
IK.
•iiss
th
e problem.
Many of th
- pr.
posais made will
m»t
1»
realized until
th
■ passage
in
•oil
gi
e.-s of the
prison
labor bil
i ntro
duoed by Sen
it or
I I'
ke Smith .
f G
ror
gi
a and Bt
•nt
ifive Glia
•les
F.
P.
>nher of Mi
ssouri.
This hill h
is 1
iron
il
treduced throng
h
the efforts
of
thr
national committee on prisons and
prison labor und the American Federa
tion of Lahor to promote the us»' of
prison labor in the war emergency and
also to prevent exploitation of the pris
oner.
• Mother's Cook Book
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The people who indulge in honeyed
phrases s- Mom have any tear of eating
tko.r own words.
I.i-ntcn dishes this year have no
worriment for the hoiiscwite who has
been keeping lent all winter by meat
less, wheatless, porkless days. Eggs
are at present so high that when using
them the frugal cook tries to extend
them by adding something to the dish
which will give hulk and not detract
from the attractiveness of it.
< )ne good dish may he made by using
rice with egg. Put a quarter of a cup
ful of rice well washed into a frying
pan with a little sweet chicken iat;
fry it until yellow, then add some
chicken broth or. lacking that any
good vegetable liquor which has been
saved because of its mineral content.
Cook until the rice is tender, season
and stir in three eggs, carefully cook
ing. add butter, salt, paprika, ami
serve as scrambled eggs. This dish
will serve five or six people, saving
two or three eggs.
Tomato Rarebit.
Melt a tablespoonful of butter in a
saucepan ; when bubbling hot add a
tablespoonful of flour; when smooth
add a cupful of strained tomato and
when cooked smooth and thick add a
half eupful of grated cheese, a half
eupful of milk and a well beaten egg.
Stir until the egg sets, season well and
serve on graham crackers.
French dressing made ns follows
with thick sweet cream added is es
pecially good with sliced cucumbers:
Use three tablcspoonftils of olive oil.
one of vinegar, a halt teaspoouful of
salt, a teaspoouful of powdered sugar,
a dash of cayenne pepper, and when
well mixed and blended stir in three
taMespoonfuls of thick whipped cream.
Sour cream may lie used.
Rye Popovers.
Mix and sift together a third of a
cupful of rye meal and two-thirds of a
cupful of wheat flour; add salt, two
beaten eggs and one cup of milk; mix
and fill hot buttered pans; hake 4 b
minutes.
Mexican Rice.
Fry three pieces of salt pork or ba
con until crisp, then add a third of a
cupful of rice, four tomatoes, one large
pepper and a medium-sized onion, all
cut up, and pour over the rice and fat.
As it cooks add vegetable water saved
from draining potatoes or other vege
tables; season well with stilt and pep
per, add a few dashes of puprika and
serve very hot.
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Spectacles Indicated Riches.
Spectacles were invented in Italy,
about 128 .*). They were at first very
expensive, and so were worn only by
wealthy persons or noblemen, and so
came to he regarded as a mark of
rank. The larger the spectacles the
higher the rank, and so the glasses
grew to a prodigious size. There are
two or three busts extant of Italian
gentlemen wearing "specs." and in
j one of these cas-'s the lenses are tiirei
i inches in diameter.
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Unpatriotic Hoarding
Sufficient Food Is Being Held in Reserve to Take Care of
Home Needs First
of shariiiL»'. not hoard.n;
national peril.
mh j needs at this critn al
No
an it 1
( >ur ow n
.ill h
.Vtneri'-a w
barr.-I
•nnittoil t
ill e.\ci -s nl wil l t a !. • I'l
! AU t!.'- is .0
no 11.i for i in ! i \ i.Usal !
.nable ri-ijuir. iimnls lo
to protect ti." irilici.il
mupling am! no r. -.1 An;
back more than In- a' tim
!<'.-member tii' -e nr
■mal How of I'-.o.i Mipjili. -
illv needs for hi- 1 urmit
c .'la - of sharing. A <•
■Th.' winning <-f thi- war
j' il i'l'!.'
itning in tilths im-ams mu
.sharing not In ir.lin;.: on.
-• from tin.* .fiber.
Make Your
Own Sugar
By tha U. S. Dept, oi Agriculture
By
the
use <
f or.li
nary kit
«•hen
equipment
nnny
'copie
ire in a
post
ion
to mu
ke ui
the 11
venure »
f si
poun
Is of S
u;xar.
will' ll i
S the 51 V«
r:t- r e
oîU'h
person
in th
■ Fuit)
.! Slat«-
U>e«i
lust
venr.
A few
MiL r ai
maple t
Fees.
well
iept <•
»lonie*
of he
■s. a In*
deed
f< et
Of Sl!L r
11- bee
ts rais»
.1 in the
rar
<L*n,
or a
nnall
patch
>f sweet
<«»r
irliuii
1. nml
siirplu
- apple
which might
w » 1
» wast
e unit
>ss ma
le into
ipi'ii*
sirup may each be made to contribute
to the sugar supply.
The present limited sugar supply can
he increased if many more families, in
regions where the sugar maple grows,
wot Id each make maple sirup or sugar
from ten or more maple trees. Ien
trees, under ordinary conditions, can
he expected to yield about four gal
lons of sirup or thirty pounds of sugar.
Maple sugar making is an art the
pioneer settlers of America learned
from the Indians and for years it has
been a home and farm industry. The
process is not so complicated that any
one who has the opportunity need hesi
tate to try it. Find a sugar maple tree
ten or more inches in diameter; bore a
lrnle three-eights of an Inch or slightly
more in diameter; insert a metal spout
or one made by punching the pith from
a section of elder; set a bucket under
ii that the sap may collect; boil this
down in
a kettle or shallow pan on a
kitchen
stove to the pro]
1er density for
maple si
run. If sugar is
preferred, boil
it <lown
further until it
is quite ttli.-k.
taking c
an 1 that it does
not burn, and
let it or.
ystallize.
"Sugar weather" öfter
\ starts by Hie
middle
of February in
tin* southern
I .art of
the sugar maph
» region. The
first sap
1 i> sweetest. Tlier«» i> m> time
to lie 1
-.st in talking;
get ready to
take a.
'vantage of tin
a first warm.
« tinny <1
a\ s. "1 >h'l tinier;
s" say the out
look is
good for a go
..<1 sugar sea
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Prediction That Whiskers
May Be Fad After the War
-papers are predicting
will come into fashion
■ and America as a re
% War always has in
lluetieed the style
of whisk
a-rs. ob
serves the Louisville
Courier.
even in
the time of Aiexnmlt
■r the Gr
eat. who
re.]uired his soldiers
ro shav«*
off their
h.-nrds because a be:
ard was
11 handle
whicli an enemy could scizi
The Crimean wa
r in th
•••ought the full be
ard into fashion
gain. In the camp
aign Bri
tish sol
spent months
in the
trenches
win re they had no chance to shave.
Their beards grew and grew and they
wore them when they returned to
England.
The English papers say that many
soldiers coming home from the
trenches arc bearded, and. unless pre
cedents fail, the full heard is go
ing to come into fasliLin again. Should
our American troops return from the
war with beards, we may look for that
fashion to become prevalent again in
America as it did after the f ivil war.
Coal Gas for Motor Fuel.
Probably the lir-t motor car in
America to use coal gas as fuel is a
New York machine that has an 8 by
40 -inch steel tank mounted on one
of its running hoards, says the Popular
Mechanics Magazine. The cylinder,
' lien charged to a pressure of .about
2.009 pounds to the square inch, car
ries sufficient fuel t<> drive tin in..
• Iilne about one hundred and twenty
.,,;ies. For automobile propulsion,
•on.crossed gas at v " emts a tl. iti
-aid t" he about 2." per
ent el 1 n gasoiln at 2 s » cent
. lion. This cmm nri-m is has-si
an mileage rallier ih.m vhermai units.
How Red Cross Workers Are
Now Knitting Two Socks at
Same Time for Army Boys
Knitting two socks at one lime is an
achievenwni every war knitter would
like to he equal to. Some of the Red
(Yoss shops are passing tie- news
around that it can he done. Tin* dis
covery was credited to a Sydney, Aus
tralia, workshop. This shop increased
its output from 0(1,000 pairs of socks
one month to Tb.ooo pairs the next by
knitting "twins." Mi-s Brown, who
came to this country to impart the di
rections to our Bed Gross. give- the
following instructions on knitting twin
"Tlie purling for the top of the socks
is knit separate. When one is finished
take it off with a darning ne"<lle on to
a heavy cord. When (lie otiier is fin
ished slip the first one inside the sec
ond one, from the top. and with the
knitting needle take up from first one
and then the other, alternating, begin
ning with the first stitch from the
needle and ending with the last stitch
from the one on the cord. Hold the
sock toward you, purling the first
stitch, which is from the sock that was
on the needle, and knitting the second
stitch from tiie one that was on the
cord; proceed with the first pur! and
then knit, holding tlie thread over the
first finger for knitting, and soon you
will acquire u rhythm.
"When you get to the heels take off
as in any sock. As you turn your heel
always purl the one next to you and
knit the other. To narrow take first
and third stitch, purl them and slip
! the needle out. which leaves one stitch
j from the opposite sock, which slip onto
! your needle and narrow knitting. There
is no slip and hind in this sock. When
finished slip the needles out and take
up your separate socks and hind oft.
In purling never put your thread over
—always keep it toward you, as if you
are purling hack on your heel."
The teacher said that after knitting
three pairs one would become as etli
cicnt as in knitting the single sock.
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X Notes of Interest 4
F - t '
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is the aim of
•b
clans wlm a
j;
with a para sit
?
sects.
Clothing made of pressed +
feathers as a substitute for wool +
lias been invented by an Italian j.
priest. X
A gasoline blow torch supplies 4
the heart for a new cooking £
stove for campers that cannot F
he blown our. j.
A pneumatic latch with which F
a door may he opened from dis- 4
tant points has been patented. j*
A new mop for washing auto 4
mobiles has a hollow handle 4
through which waiter is fed by
screwing it to hose.
The extermination of all flies
co British physi
> experimenting
that kills the in
Soldiers Find Texas Cities
Quite Like Those Back Home
Texans are greatly pleased to find
ilnit Fnited States soldiers from the
North and East have so readily fall
en into the way of tilings in the Lone
Star state. The battalions encamped
there are said to express grout ad
miration for Dallas and other Texas
cities, and to admit that they are
"something like the cities back home."
And they are. That is one of the
first discoveries made by anyone who
goes from one place to another in the
United States, observes the Christian
Science Monitor. It becomes monot
onous after a while, to find the towns
and cities are much alike, hut mod
ernization has largely done tile same
kind of things in Europe. Borne is
every year growing to look more like
London, Paris, and New York. Dal
las. Tex., might he situated in Massa
chusetts. Illinois. Colorado or Gaii
'V.niia. without exciting (uniment. And
.•■! there was distinctive architecture
a the different -tion- of th Ameri
can Lne-u not su many years ago.
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AS WE GROW OLD
Her Complaint.
Your .1
augliter. ma. hit:
u
.-ling from c*i
is;i;utiomil im-r
be Girl Tiler.
-, ma ! Ami y.
»;i"t»
, saying I was
simply !- zy.
Wild
Guer.s.
A?
"Why do
refer to a
Th«*y
man as a sol
« u:"
I 1 $
-rfy
l n\ - ' A
\ w ; X .
derived from
dead lnngun
answered the
who assum.
'hn
until
-
LvT
know event
hi U-C,
in
state- mail
Mini tiw desire to
I ',ot on a plat form
and d■ * mi oi.tior
^ ^ leal -lo."
Where He Was.
Angry Woman My husband at
tempted to strike me. I want to have
him arrested.
Polie** Gaptain—All right. Where
will we find him?
Angry Woman
hospital.
-In the emergency
Deference.
"Iio you think it is proper to use pro
fanity to a male?" (
"So far as my own foldings are con
cerned." declared the expert teamster,
"it is highly improper. But when you
are trying to get along with as sensi
tive and exacting an animal as a mule,
you've simply got to humor him."
It Depends
Mrs. I'lathush—
What docs your
husband call your (
Mrs. Ben son
hurst—When he's
calling him in the
house, do you
mean, or chasing
him out?
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Information Limited.
"Is this a bureau of information of
is it not?" asked the caustic person.
"It's a bureau of information to a
limited extent," replied the clerk. "We
are not trying to tell anybody when the
war will end."
war
Tc!escope and spirit Level
p ar t of Air Raiders' Outfit
If a bomb lie dropped from an air
plane 1P.niit 1 feet up, and traveling at
a speed of PM) unie- an hour, it
reaches 1 he ground a considerable dis
tance ahead of (lie point at which it
wa- reh i-ed. ami the difficulty of
judging how to hit a particular build
ing is enormous.
A machine invented to assist the
raiders ha- been found on a captured
Gotha. The main feature, says the
London Tit-Bits, i- a tele-cope hung
on gimbals and pointing through the
floor of the bomber's compartment. In
connection with this is a form ot spir
it level which brings a bubble into the
eennr of a glass did; when (!■• telo
scope is vertical, so that the bomber
knows when it is in the position that
can be trusted. Below the telescope
is a prism, so that the image seen is
not an object directly underneath, but
at any desired distance ahead, accord
ing to the angle at wlicti it is set.
For instance, if the airplane is lu.ooO
feet up. and the speed is such that the
bomb must be released half a mile
from the object, the prism lias to he
set at an angle of If. degrees. Even
then the calculation is liable to error,
because the density of different layers
of air may vary.
About the Sun.
"Sun" is among the words contained
in the latest issued sections of the
Oxford English dictionary. Eleven
closely printed columns are devoted to
if. It is quite interesting to find that
tin 1 kaiser's famous phrase, "Place in
the sun," originated with Pascal, who
used it to illustrate the beginnings of
tyranny. Yet another well-known
phrase, "On which the sun never sets,'
was apparently first 11-1-1I in connection
with tim Spanish empire 300 years ago.
Its firs! application to th" British em
pire was made in th" way of n joke
by Thm-leray in tii" pages of Punch,
i —Christiuu Science Monitor,