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Camouflaging Mutilated Faces
Wonderful "Work Being Done to Hide Hideous and
Shattered Fsalures the Surgeons Cannot Help
''Camouflage of Morey" is the term
by which many describe the work be
ing carried on by Anna C. Ladd, the
sculptor, under the auspices of the
American Rod Cross. It is a wonder
ful work for soldiers whose faces have
been hideously mutilated by German
In the studio of Mrs. Ladd of the
American Red Cross in Paris. Mrs.
Ladd is shown working on a mask for
a soldier whose face was mutilated in
the war, his bravery having cost him
his eyesight.
shells. Mrs. Ladd Is the Wife of Dr.
Maynard Ladd, medical adviser of the
American lied Cross, hut her work has
nothing to do with fnedlcine.
In many hospitals, of course, plastic
surgery Is doing much to build up shat
tered faces. Mrs. Ladd, lpiwever, finds
her subjects among those whom the
surgeons cannot help. They are sol
diers whose faces have been so shot
to pieces that they present a hideous
spectacle, one which their friends and
relatives prepare to shun. The suf
ferers realize this and become very
unhappy and sensitive and are inclined
to hide themselves away from their
fellow-beings. Mrs. Ladd has become
greatly interested in the work of Cap
tain Derveut, who improved on the
gelatine and rubber formerly used, and
made metal masks. To make these
masks, Mrs. Ladd takes a plaster cast
: FOR THE POULTRY :
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When the first cold weather of the
season comes there is a temptation to
close the poultry houses quite tightly
In the belief that the fowls confined in
them need that protection from the in
creasing cold. It is true thut the fowls
must he protected, but if they receive
so much protection thut fresh air is
kept out of the house they will suffer
more from breathing bad air than they
would front a little lower temperature.
The nlr In a tightly closed building
soon becomes laden with Impurities
front the breath of the fowls and front
the filth that accumulates. To breathe
this nlr over and over again is to take
back Into the system many of the Im
purities thnt the system is trying to
throw off. As the oxygen of the air
becomes exhausted it can give less and
less heating elements to the body of
the fowl and gradually the fowl's pow
er of resistance to cold Is reduced.
Unless there Is sufficient ventilation
to keep the air reasonably pure the
house becomes damp and In time
moisture collects on the walls, which
In cold weather turns to frost. These
are some of the reasons why sufficient
ventilation should he provided at all
times and why the hen houses should
not be closed tightly at the approach
of cold weather. Drafts, however,
must not be allowed to blow on the
fowls, particularly when they are on
the roosts at night.
Montana Farmers Are Badly
In Need of Water on Land.
''Water on onr lands during 1917
und 1918 would have meant thousands
of dollars to this country, to the farm
ers, and to the city people," the ex
ecutive committeeman in charge of Ir
rigation In the Flathead county farm
bureau, Montunn, writes. The Flat
head county farm bureau ks deter
mined that the drought conditions of
the present season shall not be repeat
ed and has made Irrigation one of Its
major lines of work for the year. Dif
ferent localities will handle the prob
lem In different ways. Irrigation In
this valley will make It possible for
the farmers to change from straight
grain farming to the practice of a di
versified system employing live stock
as well as the necessary crops.
Boy Scouts Locate Walnut
At the President's Request.
About 15,000,000 feet of black walnut
timber has been located and its exist
ence reported to the forest service by
the boy scouts since they were called
upon by the president to assist the
government In locating this timber for
gunstoek and propeller material. The
boy scouts send the reports to the for
est service, where the information is
compiled and then forwarded to the
war department. The government it
oelf is not buying the walnut, but
u«euds out the information to manufac
turers working on government con
tracts.
of the mut ile's face, and then from
pre-war photographs, or descriptions
furnished by friends, builds up in day
or plaster the missing parts until the
cast is a good likeness of the man as
lie was. From this cast a tliin copper
mask is made and then plated with
silver. This is fitted perfectly and the
camouflage is held in place by a pair
<>f spi'Ctacles. The final stage is to
paint the mask so that it is practical
ly indistinguishable.
In the accompanying illustration it
will lie noted that the mutilation has
not been so general and the pair of
spectacles with eyes painted in disks
behind the glasses serve to change this
French soldier whose face was muti
lated in the war, wearing the mask
made for him by Mrs. Ladd of the
American Red Cross.
man from a fearsome evidence of war
into a pleasant-looklng Poilu whose
friends easily recognize him. Of course,
when painting the eyes on the disks
great care was used to get the exact
color and to get u nuturai appeurance.
The masks, of course, do not restore
the -functions, they only camouflage
these poor faces so that their owners
will not hesitate to go about umong
their friends.
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Great Demand in Vienna for
Watchdogs and Prices Have
Been Raised in Proportion.
The increasing Insecurity of life and
property in Vienna lias brought about
a great demand for good watchdogs,
according to the following interview
with an official of the Vienna Animal
hospital, printed in n recent issue of
the Neues Wiener Journal :
"It is a fact thnt persdps frequently
come here early In the morning seek
ing dogs before our office hours begin.
Most of them are wives of business
men, foremen, professional men and
others, who have been called to the
colors, but there are also women who
have learned that we have nice dogs
for distribution and, consequently,
come looking for these faithful and
trustworthy guardians, especially in
view of the wholesale robberies and
the sinister activities of numerous
gangs of youthful thieves. As you
know, a close watcb has to be kept
over the power belts In the factories
to prevent their disappearance, as Is
also the case with lumber in the yards,
and all kinds of goods In the stores
and warehouses.
"Many women, whose husbands are
at the front, are afraid to stay alone
and wish at least to have a watchful
animal with them to give warning of
the presence of strangers at the door,
through growling or barking. So the
clog has become a much desired ani
mal. People willingly pay the 84 tax
and dou't seem to worry about the
problem of supplying the dog with
food if they can thus get a keen-eared
and loyal guardian. Such dogs are
very dear now. A -.'Doberman' costs
from $90 to $200; shepherds, up to
$120; coachdogs, up to $40; fox ter
riers, from $15 to $20, and pure-blood
'Dackel,' from $12 to $20. Greyhounds
and poodles, on the other hand, have
gone out of style."
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Words of Wise Men.
Man Is the glory, Jest and ridi
cule of the world.—Pape.
I admire the coarse arts full
as much as the fine arts.—Anon.
His steps were taken with the
deliberations of destiny.—Hol
land on Lincoln.
Words, at the touch of the
poet, blossom Into poetry.—
Holmes.
An acorn cannot make much
headway In a flower pot.— G. F.
Train.
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Whale Meat Has Been Used
In Japan for Many Years.
For hundreds of years whale meat
has been used for food In Japan. In
the earliest books of Japanese history,
there are accounts of the capture of
whales, with nets, and the ceremonies
which followed a successful haul.
Nowadays the whale fisheries are con
ducted on an elaborate scale with
modem fleets and expensive equip
ment provided by the government. ;
Whale meat looks and tastes like beef.
—People's Home Journal.
, Fruit Fils Make a Highly
Porous Charcoal Which Acts
as Fiitsr in War Gas Mask
''now does the government make gas
masks out of peach stones?" is a ques
tion that every school pupil lias asked
of puzzled parents since the schools
j have begun the collection of peach and
I plum stones to fight German gas.
I The answer is that the stones are
i not made into masks, but are trans
I formed into charcoal that is used in
! the masks.
i The American Chemical society in a
bulletin explains the matter in this
wa y :
"Peach stones are used as the raw
material for making the best grade
absorbent charcoal ever produced; and
the charcoal is used in the respirator
for absorbing the deadly gases in the
inspired air.
"IIow does charcoal act? In the first
place, it is exceedingly porous. It is
produced, by roasting wood, dried
blood, or other organic material, and
this roasting decomposes the material
into.two parts, one of them gaseous,
which passes off from the retorts, and
one of them solid, which remains be
hind as charcoal. Every minute cell
of the wood and every part of a cell
gives up some of the gas during the op
eration and thus leaves minute pores
all through the material. Thus the wood
charcoal that we know is very bulky
for its weight and contains innumer
able fine pores. Now this highly por
ous charcoal has a remarkable prop
erty of absorbing certain kinds of sub
stances.
"In the gas mask contaminated air
passes through a layer of highly ac
tive carbon before it reaches the
mouth, and the poisonous material is
absorbed. It is apparent that the more
active the charcoal is, the more the
absorbing power can lie packed into
the small box on the front of the mask.
Now, all charcoal from all sources i ;
not equally active. Hence, before char
coal was used successfully in masks n
very active form had to be produced,
And it was found that the hard, dense,
compact substance of nut shells and
fruit stones formed the most con
densed and actively absorbing char
coal. The pores of the charred mate
rial are infinitely fine and numerous
and hence a given volume of the car
bon will do far more work than the
same volume of other kinds of char
coal."
Mother's Cook Book
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof," and also the good. It is our
faithless reaching after tomorrow's ills
and blessings that makes today unbear
able. •
Food for the Family.
Macaroni, rice and spaghetti may bo
served in various ways out of the or
dinary. A cup of cooked macaroni
may be combined with other foods,
niukiug a good substantial main dish.
Codfish and Macaroni.
To one cupful of cold cooked maca
roni add a cupful of flaked codfish
thnt has been arboiled if salt fish is
used, or boiled if fresh codfish Is
used. Put into a baking dish, sprinkle
with salt, pepper and crumbs. Dot
with bits of butter, sprinkle with a lit
tle grated onion and moisten with a
little milk. Bake until brown in a hot
oven.
Macaroni seasoned with a little
chopped green pepper and chopped
onion, with a cupful of white sauce;
bake until well heated.
Deviled Chicken.
Make a sauce of salt, pepper, dry
mustard, paprika, grated lemon peel,
lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and
a few drops of tabasco. Add a large
lump of butter when the sauce begins
to boil. When very hot add some cubes
of cold cooked chicken and cook until
heated through. Cold cooked veal,
pork or beef may be used in the same
way.
Soy Bean Loaf With Tomato Sauce.
Pick over, wash and soak for 12
hours one-half pound of soy beans.
Cook in simmering water until tender.
When done, mash and cool ; add three
teaspoonfuls of salt, two cupfuls of
milk, one small onion chopped fine,
one-fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper,
two well-beaten eggs and two cupfuls
of dry bread crumbs. Bake in a mod
erate oven for half an hour. Serve
with plenty of well-seasoned tomato
sauce.
Irish Stew.
Cnt two pounds of meat in small
pieces ; fry one sliced onion In a little
fat; when brown add the meat and
brown that; then add boiling water
and seasonings desired. Add two cup
fuls of chopped vegetables, using car
rots, turnips, tomatoes or other vege
tables. Cook slowly until nearly ten
der, then add a few sliced potatoes
and cook until tender. Thicken with
a little flour before serving, if desired.
Banks Suffered No Great Loss.
In the great fire at Chicago, October
8 to 11, 1871, the buildings of 18 na
tional banks were totally destroyed.
It was feared the banks would sustain
in many cases an almost total loss, but
after the safes recovered from the«
ruins were opened it was found that
the books, papers, etc., were in a con
dition to permit the recovery of debts
and the banks suffered no loss on that
ground.
ACQUIRING A
HABIT
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Probably nothing could humiliate us
more than t<> be forced to admit any
superior quality in a race for which
we have a profound loathing and con
t •nipt. And yet It is a fact tint the
rational habit of thrift in Germany
is one secret of its prolonged resist
ance to the combined might of the civ
ilized world. It is quite true that lie
fere the war the Germans were gross
eaters, Hut they wasted nothing. The
moment the civilians were ordered to
eat less and save the scraps they drew
in their belts and did as they were told.
It might be difficult to control the
cravings of their distended stomachs
but to scrimp and save involved no
long apprenticeship, cost them practi
cally no effort whatever.
The same may lie said of France.
Midie England—as wasteful a nation
as our own—was issuing repeated and
almost frantic warnings to her people,
devising constant new methods to con
trol their natural extravagance, and at
one time thyeatened with starvation,
the French simply went on economiz
ing and never were in danger for a
moment.
I never sluall forget my first visit to
Paris. It was to friends, who lived in
great style, hut if I happened to feel
hungry during the day or when I went
to bed late, I either had to go hungry
or satisfy my healthy young appetite
at a confiserie. There is never an ex
tra roll in a French household. Ex
act rations are bought every morn
ing for the day. If there are children
in the home, who must tie fed between
meals, that is provided for, but noth
ing whatever for eccentric appetites.
I rebelled vigorously and denounced
the French as a mean, stingy, economi
cal race, my opprobrium extending to
the Americans who drifted supinely
Into the national habit.
Easy to Follow Hoover's Rules.
Little did I think in those days that
the national hatiit of thrift and severe
economy In France was one of their
greatest sources of strength. The na
tional debt of France before the war
was subscribed to almost exclusively
by the peasant class and lower bour
geoisie, people who periodically dug
Into their stockings and bought a new
bond. Nothing can exceed the self-de
nial of those classes. It was for this
reason that Le Bien-Etre du Blesse,
which was formed at the request of
the French government to provide del
icacies for the wounded soldiers in the
hospitnls of the war zone, was a pri
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What Are We Going to
Do About It?
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By E. E. HARRIMAN
Of Th a Vigilantes
This war will end some day. Some
folks are already planning what they
will do after It is over. Are we?
I rend the other day that the German
and Austrian prisoners now in Russia
had resolved, almost to a man, that
they would not go back to their former
homes when the war ended, but would
emigrate to the United States and Can
ada. What will our twin countries say
to them?
"Come right along, brother! Make
yourself at home. Take this chair.
It has a higher back and thicker cush
ion. Have a glass of ice-cold beer with
me. I ll tell the wife and she will cook
tip a mess of sausages and make some
biscuit and open her best canned fruit
for you. Let me adjust this stool under
your trench s'ioes and offer a cigar
to while away the time till the dinner
Is ready."
Will we talk like that? Oh, will
we?
If we do I shall start out on a hike
Into the frozen north and begin to live
on whale steaks and seal blubber.
Isn't it about time for us to begin to
plan? Should we go on with our Job
of licking the Hun and never look
ahead to the time when he is going to
become an economic question? Should
we let things slide till he Is on the
sea, coming over in any old bottom
that he can rake up, prepared to grab
off a lot of New World coin aud land
and help us make our laws nice and
easy for the Hun at home?
Or shall we tell the Hun in Europe
to get inside the Hunnlsh lines and
etay there, while he works out his own
salvation? Shall we say to the Hun
who, being in America and enjoying
Its advantages, has elected to go back
to Hunlund and Join In the frightful
ness that has been the backbone of
Kaiser Bill's plan, thnt It was no more
than should be expected and he is wel
come to come home to us?
Start With Clean Slate.
Shall we open our Internment camps
and let them spew out upon our lnnd
the rotten messes they now hold? Hav
ing a clean dish and wholesome food,
shall we defile it with propagandists
and spies and enemy agents? Having
made our bed with clean sheets and
pillowslips anti blankets, shall we turn
the covers back aud let the wallowing
swine from the roadside mudhole
creep within?
There is only one line of conduct
that we can follow with honor and
commonsense, and that is the line that
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vote organization, the funds to be rats
.■■! by miI'-it;;.» ii a. The men ni r ist
have th * tempthig anti delicate fn-.us
or die. but if the government had tak
en over the task itself, that would have
meant another tax, to be followed im
mediately by a popular outcry. To !hy
average French mind delicacy rhymes
with luxury, and it would have been
impossible to convince the million.!
drudging at home that wounded men
needed what they never had had be
fore, ili or well.
When I lived in Munich I had a
Swiss maid in whom I had implicit
(and justifiable) faith. She would
come t.i me periodically and say,
"Madame, je n'ai jtlus d'argent." and 1
would hand out several hundred marks.
That was all I had to do with the
housekeeping during my seven years'
residence in Germany. And yet my in
comparable Elsie would never give me
anything to eat between meals but
zwiehach, which in Germany is as hard
as the thrice accursed national heart.
I have found it comparatively easy
to follow most of the Hoover rules, for
I have always eaten meat merely as a
matter of duty, and took kindly to
Graham biscuit with my morning tea.
Moreover, the bread and butter habit
at lunch and dinner I have always
thought vulgar. But to eliminate waste
has been a different matter. Still I
have in a measure succeeded. There
is nothing in the bread box or any
where else (except the inevitable boxes
of Graham biscuit) but the daily ra
tion; so that now when I come home
in the afternoon hungry I either for
get it or eat a few more Graham bis
; mit —which I shall never look at again
J after the war is over.
Will Be Greatest Nation.
; I mention this personal experience
j because it is no doubt that of many
j others. In a short time it will he the
I experience of everyone in the United
j States; for the way this nation has
, waked up, denied itself its customary
luxuries in order to put the money in
j to the Liberty loan and War Savings
j stamps is the most significant thing in
i Its history. And as there is something
very fascinating about thrift and econ
omy after it lias been practiced for a
time no doubt the habit will lie a last
ing one, and this nation will reach
heights of wealth and strength of char
acter that its most ardent native ad
mirer never would have ventured to
predict. More than any other single
cause does a national habit, If It Is
a good one, knit a nation together
prevent the disintegration which conto«
from the softness of over-indulgence.
And for the formation of this habit
of thrift, and the lucid exposition ot
what thrift means in the winning of
the war, we must thank the War Sav
ings stamp campaign. I doubt if any
individual in this country, barring tha
traitors who call themselves pacifists
and I. W. W.'s, has failed to buy hgn
self at least one War Savings stamp.
will keep our bed and food and home
clean. The line that will maintain the
purity that we have attained through
the refining by fire. We must say to
the Hun in Europe, in America, in Asia,
anywhere he may be found :
"Get to work within the confines of
your own country! Build up and puri
fy your land. Purge It of the filth
that clogs its spirit. Wash It clean of
the evil it has clung to so long. Re
fine It with years of sacrifice and earn
est work for the right. Then, after
the leaven has worked and passing
decades have carried away the last
grain of the old devilish doctrines and
beliefs, then it is possible that thu
nations may grant you amnesty and
let you go out through the world at
large once more. It is up to you. Get
to work on yourself."
Letting the Hun wander at will after
this war is over will be like leaving the
line of fuse burning and merely cutting
off the dead end after the spark had
crawled inward toward the magazine.
Allowing him to have the same old
freedom to come to our shores w*iuld
be as foolish, and as disastrous in th«
end, as it would be to smother a fir«
with cotton loosely piled.
No Room for Traitors.
President Wilson and his advisers
have a great many matters to hisndl«
and many questions to decide. Let us
not leave them to do all the thinking
or all the talking on this question. Th«
American people are concerned to such
a degree in this matter that they
should not delegate to any man or body
of men the task of thinking for them.
They should do their own thinking and
when they have had time to formulate
a plan that looks feasible aud
thoroughgoing, they should say to their
servants at Washington, from the pres
ident down:
"Here ! You put this through along
the line we have laid down. It is no
time for fooling or for doing party
politics. Put up the bars and spike
them fast so no one one can slip them.
We have a stomaAful and we nuwt
have time to digest it before we swal
low any more."
Then get busy with the American of
foreign birth and Americanize him or
throw him over the bars to the mill
that bore him. We have no room In
America for the man who shouts
"Hurrah for America!" and follows it
with a whisper of "Gott m l dunk, Ich
bin Deutscher."
OUR BOYS
By MARY ELIZABETH RODHOUBE
of the Vigilanten.
God make us worthy of mo l-ny«,
Fearless and true an they nnlal I.«,
Clear-eyed to rum reality,
And blithe withal ami Mlud of ternit
Help us each one to
With faith Mtii iifi it
As they who le o I,
God mal.« un w.uii.v
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A small bottle of "Dandcrine"
keeps hair thick, strong,
beautiful.
Girls! Try this! Doubles beaut*
or you; hair in a fevi
moments.
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Within ten minutes after an appih
cation of Danderine you can not find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a few
weeks' use, when you see new hair, fine
and downy at first—yes—but really
new hair—growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine immediately dou
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with Dan
derine and carefully draw It through
your hair, taking one small strand at a
time. The effect is amazing—your hair
will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have
an appearance of abundance; an in
comparable lustre, softness and luxu
riance.
Get a small bottle of Knowltoc's
Danderine for a few cents at any drug
store or toilet counter, and prove that
your hair is asjiretty and soft as any
—that it has been neglected or injured
by careless treatment—that's all—you
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
of it if you will just try a little Dan
derine.—Adv.
Rough on Pa.
Father—What does the teacher saj
about your poor arithmetic, work?
Willie—She says she'd rather you
wouldn't help me with it.—Boston
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