Fashions and the Household
Traveling Object Lessons For
Housekeepers
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© Household science department, University of Illinois.
The household science department of the University of Illinois has just
.completed the equipment of a demonstration car that it will send out to wom
en's clubs and organizations on the fulfillment of certain conditions.
The car is a regular Pullman without the seats or berths and is being
equipped with all sorts and kinds of materials for the home. It will be possi
ble for householders who visit this car to lenrn the best methods of running
power washing machines, various methods of heating the home, possible ar
rangements and kinds of kitchen utensils: color schemes in bedrooms, living
rooms and dining rooms will be illustrated, as well as the kind of turniture
suitable. These are only a few of the many things ihat the car will include.
The department will endeavor by means of this car to emphasize the unity
of the farm home, fine Holds of alfalfa and wheat, great herds of cattle and
swine are no lunger the whole thing in making up the farm home. The house
where the family dwells, with its power equipment and its water supply, is
an integral part of the whole and must be so considered.
A UTILITY BAG.
A utility bag which answers the pur
pose of a laundry and shoe bag. with
two other pockets for various articles,
will lie found very convenient when
traveling. This.bag can betaken from
the trunk or suit case and hung up
•wit bout disturbing its contents.
Cretonne is perhaps the best mate
rial for such a bag. It would require
two pieces for the foundation of the
bag. One piece should be a yard long
and twenty-one inches wide, the other
a yard and one fourth long and twen
ty-two inches wide. He fore joining
the two strips attach pockets to the
longer piece. Turn up one-fourth yard
at the bottom for the Hap of the laun
dry bag. Slightly round it and bind
the raw edges with tape. When the
bag is completed this Hap will snap or
button over the back of the bag.
Across the bottom after the Hap has
been measured off attach shoe pockets.
Kind a long piece of material witli tape
across one side, then lay it into four
tiox plaits, dividing them by means of
a stitched piece of tape: also stitch a
piece of tape across the bottom alter
the pockets are basted in place.
Above these pockets attach another
bag the width of the strip underneath
and any desired depth. I'.ind top edge
with tape divided into two sections
a:id stitch tape acorss the bottom.
Now lace the long strips to a depth
of live inches with satine and stitch a
easing for double drawstrings. Stiteli
the two pieces together on the right
side and bind with tape.
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SUPPLY OF TABLE LINEN.
The farseeing woman always man
ages to be a dozen ahead of her needs
in table and bed linen. Thus she al
ways has an extra dozen of napkins
laid away in her chest l'or a hurry call,
so that if she finds the dozen in ac
tual use suddenly giving out she has
some presentable ones ready for unex
pected guests and to keep her going
until she has been able to buy. hem
and mark a new dozen.
It always seems a large outlay to
stock the linen chest, and it pays to
take advantage of sales and to buy
ahead when possible. This is just as
true of bed as of table linen, since ex
tra sheets are often needed in a case
of illness or guests, and it is a com
fortable feeling to know that there are
some extra sheets laid away when
rents appear and money is not forth
coming with which to buy new.
The Workbaçj.
Whenever you lind an attractive de
sign for a centerpiece keep it on hand,
even though your supply of center
1'or the table is more than your
piei
demand, for there are various uses to
which you can apply the newly dis
covered design.
For instance, it might do very nicely
for a doily pad to be placed under hot
dishes. To make such a pad you will
need a second pice of linen for the
back of the protector. There are sev
eral ways to leave an opening so that
a piece of asbestos can be slipped into
WAR BRACELETS A PARIS FAD
Frenchwomen prize highly these
days lieav.v bracelets made from tlie
rings of shells fired liy the French
"75's." Mlle. Sorel, a favorite of the
Paris stawears constantly one of
these liracelets, which is largo enough
to slip up the anu above the elbow.
Uin^s made lip of metal which once
formed part of m emu; h is shells are
also in favor and are worn outside of
the glove.
Copper and aluminum jewelry is
fancied more than ornaments of gold
and precious stones just now, for all
Paris is going in for economy and
economical effects, and any ostenta
tious display is discountenanced.
lilit the war jewelry tile massive
bracelets and the ungainly rings are
regarded as treasures indeed, for tliev
may no' be bought, but come as gifts
from the very trenches themselves,
where the soldiers occupy their leisure
hours in fashioning these rude but val
thick
lied gifts for sweethearts at home.
Pineapple Shortcake.
One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of
powdered sugar, three cupfuls of flour,
one cupful of milk, the whites of four
'eggs and a little salt. Cream butter
and sugar, add milk and beat hard be
fore putting iu the whites of The eggs.
I Sift two nfuls of cream of tar
tar end. one of soda in the Hour, bcat
i m g light ly.
filling and Icing.- I'.
granulated sugar and one-quarter of a
I cupful of pineapple juice, strained,
! for six minutes, after adding one tea
spoonful of lemon juice. Beat the
white of an egg to a stiff froth, add
the boiled sirup gradually to it. whip
ping the mixture as the sirup is added
with the egg whip. Heat six minutes
longer and ice the cuke thickly. For
tilling add enough finely chopped pine
apple to the icing to make it moist and
Candy Apples on the Stick.
Select nice apples that are not too
large. Mount them 011 thin stic ks—
meat skewers will do. Have them
ready so that by the time the sirup is
ready for dipping no time may be lost.
Sirup.—One pound of sugar, one-half
cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of
water, one-quarter of a teaspoonfu! of
cream of tartar, one tablespoonful of
butter. Cook until when dropped ill
cold water the sirup is hard, or to "00
degrees F. on the candy thermometer.
Keep hot while dipping the apples.
Coat thoroughly. T.ay in a greased
dish, and then they will harden imme
diately.
A reliable candy thermometer can he
bought for $1. As an investment it
will pay for itself time and time again.
I.earn to make jelly by using the ther
mometer.
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at the goal, while the other party
'•RUN. SHEEP, RUN."
An Interesting Game Which Is Best
Played Out of Doors.
The following game, which is "Bun.
sheep, run." is an interesting game it
played right, it is best played out of
doors. Two captains are chosen, who
alternately choose players until all the
players are divided equally. One sale
becomes a searching side and remains
out with its captain, who tinds a hid
ing place.
While all are hidden the captain
goes back to the searchers, who at
once start out on their hunt under the
direction of their captain. The cap
tain of the hiding place remains with
the searchers, calling out signals to Iiis
hidden men.
.Neither party may run for the goal
until its own captain shouts, "linn,
sheep, run!" The following are the
signals: Bed. "1 »anger:" green. "Un
around the house to the right;" blue.
"Co around the house to the left:"
purple. "Stand still:" yellow. "Keep on
going in the same direction and go
nearer the goal."
St. Bernard Dog a Hero.
Brown is a big St. Bernard dog of
Boston, famous for his intelligence, li
was his habit to go with the nurse
when site wheeled the baby out for an
airing. There was a high embank
nient with a steep incline going down j
at a sharp angle, and on one occasion j
tlu> nurse, going in to pay a visit to j
some of her friends, left the carriage, j
with the baby in it. perilously near
the dangerous spot. Something start \
ed the wheels in motion, and the car j
riage rolled down toward the danger
ous e.,lge. In a moment more it must
have gene over, when Brown threw
himself before tin» wheels and lay
there, holding the carriage back b.\
the weight of his body until the truant
maid returned.
"Deerstalking."
"Iloci-stalking ' is a game in which
only two players take part, but it i*
very exciting to watch. Both "deer"
and "stalker" are blindfolded. They
then are placed at opposite ends of a
;e table.
At a given moment they begin to
move around it. The stalker's bu-i
ness. of course, is to catch the deer,
and the deer's to avoid it. But licit I er
must run out of the room. Absolute
silence must be kept by the audience
and players, and. if felt slippers can be
worn by the deer and its stalker, so
much Uie bettet *
The Message In the Wound !
By GEORGE V. CAPSTICK
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I'UING that period of the pnn
Kuropean war when Servia
was being overrun by the Uor
iniins. when the allied troops
were pushing northeastward from Sa
loniki io form a junction with the
Servians, the hitter desired to send a
message to the French, who were en
deavoring to get in touch with tlieni.
One Poris (install, a Servian private
soldier, who had done some good se
cret service work and knew the coun
try well, was willing to undertake the
tas'.. I.at he was only a peasant and
wit! the intellect or education to
understand or remember what, he
would lie required to say to the allied
commander. The message must be !
written and ii' captured by the enemy i
would result in disaster both to those !
who sent it and those for whom it was ,
ilit"iided.
Poris, (hough uneducated, was in
genious. He confided to his general his
plan for concealing the message,
win h was a long one, full of details
for contingencies, it was written on
the thinnest paper. The next day
Boris started to work his way across
the mountains toward the allies. He
walked with a cane, for in the battles
t he Servians had been lighting with
the Hermans he had been wounded in
the calf of his leg. Iiis danger was
not from being captured by organized
armies, for such did not lie in his path,
Wll:l1 lea red was the people whom
he would meet on the way. whose
sympathies were with the Bulgarians
and who were on the lookout for spies.
Boris was hobbling along southward
when he encountered three Bulgarians
who were picketing the road, and he
was stopped for examination. He told
them that he was a Uotiinanian who
had been in Servia when attacked by
the Hermans and had been impressed
into the Servian army. He had been
wounded in the leg and while in the
hospital had found a way to escape,
lie was on his way home.
The men refused to let him pass
without a thorough examination, for
they had been stationed on the road to
make sure that there should be no
communication between the armies try
ing to effect a junction. They took off
every bit of his clothing and. after
examining it thoroughly, burned it. in
cluding Iiis hat and his shoes and the
staff on which he leaned. They even
combed his hair. When they were sat
istied that he bore no message they
procured him clothing from a farm
house in which they made their head
quarters and. cutting him a cane from
a tree, let him pass on.
This stoppage confirmed his belief
that the enemy were impressed with
the importance to their cause id' pie
venting any communication between
the Servians and the allies, lie lia I
passed the tirst picket, but felt sur.»
President Wilson's Granddaughter
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This baby is Miss Ellen Wilson McAdoo. and she is a granddaughter of
the president of the Fnitod States, quite a distinction to tie born to. To be a
princess of the royal blood can be no greater honor. She is here sitting on the
lap of her mother, Mrs. William McAdoo, whose husband is the secretary of
the treasury and whose father is the president.
winter and
Behead what falls
leave the present time.
Behead a boys' toy and h
thing.
Behead that which is rowed
leave a cereal.
Behead the entire and leave a tear.
Behead a testament and leave not
well.
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that it was not the last. True enough,
while descending a mountain which
lay between the two opposing armies
lie met a guard of Bulgarian soldiers
who had been ordered to look out for
spies, or, rallier, for any one who
would be likely to carry a message.
Again Boris was stopped and order
ed to give an account of himself. He
told the same story as before. He
was stripped and his clothing exam
ined, but it was returned to him.
They even unwound the bandage about
the \\%uiid in his leg to see if there
was anything concealed in it. They
we. about to let hint pass when one
of tliein suggested that he might have
s< allowed a paper ball with a message
on it and proposed to give liim an
emetic. Procuring some mustard from
; house near by. they forced him to
drink some of it mixed with water.
He threw up everything on his stom- !
ae h. but nothing in the nature of it j
message. Then they gave him a piece j
of rye bread and bade him proceed ou j
his journey.
A third time he was stopped not far
from the French lines and put through
an oral examination by the officer com
manding an outpost, before whom he
was taken. This man plied him with
so many questions that he contradicted
himself, and. although nothing incrim
inating was found on him. he was held
and placed under guard. During the
night he began to groan as if in pain
and presently lay s t i If and stark, as
though dead. There was no medical
man at hand to examine him. so"they
covered him with a cavalryman's cape
and betook themselves to sleep
As soon as Boris heard their snores
he rolled into some brush near him
and. getting up on his legs, proceeded
on his journey. At dawn from a height:
he saw the French Hag Hying below
and, descending, reached the picket line
at sunrise. He asked that the com
manding officer be called and when
ushered into his presence told him that
he was the bearer of a written mes
sage from the Servians. When asked
for it he said that he must have a sur
geon. <»11»' was sent for, and when he
arrived Boris removed the bandage
from his leg and told the surgeon to
probe into 'lie wound
From between the muscles the sur
geon drew l'ort ii a Hat capsule and
handed it to Boris, who broke it open
and took out some carefully folded
thin paper, which he gave the general.
I 11 ™"tained ~'0'» words so closely writ
I Ml "^ M "''' diniimuhe letters that
noli diminutive letter
a microscope was needed to read it.
Boris' wound was not improved by
the insertion, but it had been done by
a surgeon and the capsule had been
medicated and oiled, so that the dam
age was partly balanced by the heal
ing substance.
BEHEADINGS.
Behead a part of a window and leave
a Scotch maiden.
Behead a piece of furniture and
leave an exclamation of pain.
Behead a low seat and leave a car
penter's necessity.
Behead a hurt and leave a part of
the human body.
Answers,—S-now, b-all. b oat, w-hole,
w ill, c lass, e-ouch. s-tool. h arm.
! Religious
Salaries of Episcopal Ministers.
The average pay of clergymen of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States is $1.200 a year, accord
ing to Bishop William Lawrence of
Massachusetts, who announced recent
ly the result, of a careful census of
salaries paid ministers of his denomi
nation in this country.
"There are 4,4 - 20 clergymen actively i
devoting their lives to the service of
the Episcopal church, sometimes called
the richest church in America," said
Bishop Lawrence. "Yet 2.522 of our
clergy, more than one -half, are paid
less than $1,000 a year; 727 receive less
than $1.000. and only 118 earn $5,000.
or more.
"The highest average salary is earn-;
ed at forty-seven years of age."
Bishop Lawrence said the Episcopal
church had determined to develop a
self supporting pçnsion system. To
Imt the plan into immediate effect
j>j s i, op Lawrence said he would teni
porarilv give up his active duties as
,, Jsho ,," of Massachusetts and devote.
his entire time to the work of raising,
a fund of $0 .000.000.
Church Advertising Pays.
That it pays to conduct a church on
modern business methods, advertising
liberally has been conclusively demon
strated at Greenville. Pa., by the First
Baptist church.
With the coining of the Rev. .T.
Earle Edwards as pastor new anil to
some persons radical changes were
made in church, affairs. The newspa
pers of the town wore full of the do
ings of the Baptist church, anil posters
were used also. The Sunday congre
gations began to increase, and with
this the membership began to grow.
The congregation was placed on a
strong financial basis, even though a
vast amount of Improvement work
was done about the church. The un
used basement was transformed into
classrooms, dining rooms, a reading
j room and athletic quarters.
j Then came the .nonsectarian vaca
i t ion school, attended by several hun
[ dred children and taught by half a
j hundred instructors. Now the congre
! gation has voted $.°.,000 more for the
remodeling of the church, made neces
sary by the increased congregation.
Itev. .!. Earle Edwards lias church ad
vertising methods that are original and
unique, and the results are being noted
by church workers all over the coun
try.
The Grand Teton.
The view of the Teton peaks from
Asliton, Ida., ;s superb and doubtless
has been the inducement for many a
tourist and sportsman to leave the
main line for the Teton range and the
Jackson Hole country in pursuit of
elk. sheep, trout and unsurpassed moun
tain scenery. Owen Wister's "Virgin
ian'' was glad to get out of these moun
tains because, as he explained, "they're
most too big."
The average American, who has only
a vague conception of the natural beau
ties of the Kooky mountains and imag
ines that real alpine forms are found
only in Switzerland, must be surprised
when he lirst sees the lofty peaks of
the Tetons. Even a man who lias
climbed the Matterhorn would think
twice before daring to try Grand Teton.
According to local report, this peak
has been ascended only twice, in 1872
and 1804. As the snowclad mountains
along the Alaskan archipelago, rising
to cloud reaching heights, stand with
their foot bathed in the ocean, so from
a viewpoint near Asliton the Tetons,
towering to the sky. rise from the bil
lowy surface of a sea of golden grain.
—Geological Survey Bulletin.
How to Tell Parcel Post Charges.
If you know the zone in which is lo-;
cated the postoffice to which you desire
to send a parcel post parcel you may
ligure out the postage required by a
simple method.
If the office is in zone Xo. 1 or No. 2
add to the figure or figures represent
ing the weight the numeral -i. If the
weight is ten pounds the postage will
be 14 cents, if it is live pounds the
postage will be 0 cents, and if it is one
pound the postage will be 5 cents.
If the oliice is in zone No. Ö multiply
the weight by - and add 4.
Ii' in zone Ni
4 multiply by 4 and
No.
multiply by C and
• i multiply by 8 and
7 multiply by 10 and
it in zone
add 2.
If in zone N\
add 1.
If in zone No
add 1.
If in zone No. 8 multiply by 12.
This scheme is good for packages up
to and including twenty pounds. It
was worked out by an ingenious at
tache of the Chicago postoffice. —Farm
Life.
A Literary Coincidence.
"My father. W. ('lark Bussell." said
Herbert KusseH in telling of a literary
coincidence, "had finished maturing
the plot of his novel. 'The Death Ship.'
which is version of the legend of
Vauderilcekeu. I was his amanuensis
at the lime, lie said to me, 'Tomor
row we will begin the story.' On the
following morning when I entered his
study io take his dictation of the open
ing lines lie showed me a letter he had
just received. It was from W. S. Gil
bert. the well known dramatist, asking
him why lie did not w rite a novel about
the Flying luitchnian."
In Court.
"Do you know the nature of an oath,
madaiu V"
"Well, I ought to, sir. We've just
moved, and my husband has been lay
ing the carpets."—Philadelphia Eveil
ing Ledger.