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ffIEPOTATO, THAT MOST POPULAR VEGETABLE Many Cooks Are Very Careless In Their Preparation And Serving Of It IT S HISTORIC INTEREST 'I h. potato harvest is now going on, a . j ;h:-i is the time for those who | proper storage space to buy their w n .,. r -apply as soon as the new late , r pis fully on the market. 'j-).,. potato (Salanutn tuberosum) is, doubt, our most important w .bio. This seems strange, too, we consider its chemical analy- Water, 77 02 per cent.; starch, !. jn-r c<*nt.; fiber, .66 per cent.; P ,in 216 per cent., and ash, .91 i eiii A vegetable so largely com j , ~i of water, with the small solid j„, r r ~ii simply starch, would not seem , i„. worthwhile cultivating, but its , , t solid starch content, after de li ul rating, is what gives it a real value ~ ~ < arbonhydrate. The further fact ilir it (;m be shipped and stored to MJ( li good advantage makes it exceed ingly valuable as a dependable vege i.ibli- for our daily use. The introduction of the potato as an , m of our daily food only goes back p, tin- latter part of the eighteenth century. It is, therefore, a modern food and orginated in America. There a difference of opinion as to what part of the American continent it was tii i found in, and also who its dis coverer was, hut it is generally agreed that it is a native of South America. It was brought to Ireland by Sir John Hawkins in 1.665 and to England hv Sir Francis Drake in 1585, but it did not come into general use until the dose of the eighteenth century. ( iililvation In Ireland Ireland led in its cultivation at first to such an extent that, to distinguish it from the sweet potatrf, it has been often called the Irish potato. To such an extent had its cultivation spread in Ireland that It became the principal food of tlie people, and when the crop proved a failure, as it did on two or three occasions, notably in 1848, fam ine spreda through the land, and thousands died of starvation. The potato today is chiefly a product of temperate climes, Northern Europe, England, Scotland and Ireland and the Northern Unites States and Canada. It reaches its best growth and qual ity in a gravelly, sandy loam, and where the rainfall is sufficient for continuous growth. It is a vegetable susceptible of great improvement, and the fine, large, well flavored potato of today is so superior to the small-sized potatoes originally taken over to Ireland and England as seed that there is scarcely any re semblance between them. Another thing, the potato is constantly chang ing by further improvements, as well as by deteriorations in such varieties as have been cultivated for years. The varieties that were held in high esteem 30 years ago deteriorated to such an extent that they may have been en tirely discarded, and newer and better varieties have taken their place. Prince Edward’s Island, off the northeast coast of Canada, raises very fine potatoes, so does Maine, New York. Michigan and Wisconsin. The irrigated valleys of the Northwest raise very large potatoes of excellent flavor and quality, and these potatoes find a ready market at the mining and lumber camps in the region. In selecting potatoes for family use, care should be taken to select medium sized white stock, such as is free from defects caused by chilling or freezing, sunburn, etc. Cut a sample into and note if there is too much water, if the " iter drips off from the cut surface | •he probabilities are that it is too j soggy to make a good cooking potato. | Careless Cooking If is surprising how much ignorance and carelessness is shown by many; * Us in the way they handle, prepare,: 1 k and serve potatoes, probably no l; fher vegetable is so ‘often spoiled in 1 ‘ king as the potato, and this is all | !iu ‘ worse because it is our principal vegetable and the one in dally use. 1 li- cook who can properly boil, bake, 1 <sh. hash and fry potatoes should 1 " given a citation and a medal like < '■ French Government bestows on ehrated cooks. Potatoes to be sfored should be l >, d in a dark, cool, well-ventilated where the temperature would between, say, 38 degrees to 45 de cs Fahrenheit, and the humidity high or low, say, about 70 de- K s Uest of all Is to put the pota- J n pits, dug in the grouund, where is good natural drainage. I <■ thrifty family who has a proper ' vg<> place cannot help to reduce l! P of L. better than to buy good. *' es sufficient to last them' r ‘ ugh the winter and store them as al)ov ’ suggested. (aiming Peaches 't > r removing skins cut in half remove stone. Pack in sterilized Make a syrup, allowing for ' ixe pint jars of fruit, twelve cups' -ar and five cups of water. Boil •rd about five minutes, or until hea ik'iir boiling syrup over peaches. : rubbers and tops and partially 1 jars. ! ate j n boiler (with rack to pre hreaking). with warm water up *' flecks of jars, allow water to ‘ a- to a boil, then remove from r c. seal jars, but return them to wa- i ier and leave until cool. i _____ ITEMS FROM IGLEHAKT U The froat is on the pumpkin, and the rain is on everything. The roads in the county, none the best at any i time, are now mud and then some more mud. After the rain last Satur day night and Sunday, it was thought there would be a few clear, sunshiny days, but it rained again last night and promises to do business a; the same old stand today. The roads are in such bad condition as to make riding in automobiles anv thing but pleasant, and with winter coming on, the outlook for any road repairs is not very promising. We are not pleased with the result of the hospital drive In this section There are many who have been pa tients at the hospital not only once, but two or three times, who have not contributed a penny. It does seem some people are willing to give to all other “drives” away from home, but when it comes to donating toward the upkeep of a home institution, they are remiss. Quite a number of the Sherwood Forest summer colonists came over for , the week-end, but after the rain of Sunday, they appeared only too glad , to return home. W. S. Smith spent the week-end at . his bungalow at Sherwood Forest. Walter Harvey was the guest of his , aunt for the week-end at “The Vine yard. ’* Eric KubJtz spent the week-epd with. , his parents at "The Vineyard.” , Mrs. Hamilton Polk, of Ilafnraond’s Crossing, was sent for Sunday to at , tend Mrs. Roland Brady, who Is a pa tient at the Emergency Hospital. Mrs. I Polk is a nurse. Furnishing Fads The enamelled wicker is one of the I latest fads for the sun parlor. A rose Shaded lamp with crimson electric ■ light bulbs and tall rose' candles placed on a little wicker desk show up this color scheme to advantage. New fruit bowls are of china in lattice-work designs, with tight fitting 1 covers. Think how alluring would 1 be bright colored fruits such as cher -1 'ries, rosy cheeked apples or golden | oranges shining through the lattice work of a zlue latticed fruit holder. 1 In glassware there is a charming combination punch bowl and flower holder that would be most decorative 1 on the tea table. Oilcloth luncheon sets still continue t popular for their attractive as well . as labor saving qualities, and there is i a fad for yellow ones made of sanitas cloth decorated in blues. These can • be decorated to order and are sold bj l the dozen usually. • The new table phonograph Ms not of course, a phonograph that sets or : a table anywhere, but instead a beau . tlful table which may be had in vari ■ ous designs of Queen Anne, Williair and Mary or Louis XVI. periods, oi I special models to match one’s living . room furniture, with a disappearing r drawer at one end, which eontaim . the playing equipment of the instru I ment, and at the other end another j drawer in which to keep the collectioi } of records. " For the needlewoman to embroider t the newest fad is henna or tan col lored library sets, which consist of i scarf, table cover and soft pillows al to match. Perforated zinc work is the newes ! arts and crafts bric-a-brac. Baskets [ for ferns, wood, paper, fruit or flow ers are very pretty. i + + Utilising Left-Overs True economy consists not so much i in denying yourself the food that yoi : want as in knowing how to use it to the best advantage. One can be sav ing in the kitchen and still have gooc food and plenty of it. At present, when over in Europe many thousands are starving to death, it seems especially sinful to waste food. One can make reallx jgood dishes of scraps. Let us assume : that you have a few- spoonuls of dif ferent kinds of vegetables left ovei {and some gravy in a bowl that you have placed in the refrigerator, no knowing quite what to do with it j Put your vegetables, some of th< |gravy and a little piece of bread, pep j per and salt, with w-ater on the stove and let simmer for an hour. Rub through a sieve, return to the fire, add a teaspoonful of butter, boil up and you have a good soup. You can put cooked rice with chopped meat, seasoning to taste, covered with t bread crumbs with a little gravy to moisten in a baking dish and bake un itil brown on top and have an appe tizing dish from your left-overs. With a dressing added you can make a good salad of your cold and string beans. By experimenting you will be surprised at the ease ir which humble leftovers may be made the pride of your menu. Byron’s Tribute To The Dog Familiar as this may be, It Is worth repeating many times: “Near thi; spot are deposited the remains of on. i who possessed Beauty without Vanity ! Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity. snd all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise which w-ould be unmeaning Flattery it inscribed over human ashes, is but a i just tribute Jfl the Memory of Boats wain, a Dog.” Mosqnlto Bites Just as soon as you feel the effects of the Malarial Germs after being bit ten by Malaria Mosquitoes, It is ad visable to take GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC to destroy the Germs and remove the Impurities. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle. Married life is monotonous only to the woman who marries a man with nc bad habits. THE EVENING CAPITAL AND MARYLAND GAZETTE, AN NAPOLIS, MARYLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15,1919. =~ ■' fe' - - ■ - - —" _ .. t \ew Game For Berlin Women—Miniat ire sfeig without the snow or ice surface —yet they afford an abundance of fun, according to the chronicle—just hard enough to handle to make it interesting; the long poles help bal ance, the wheel-like arrangement preventing the pole from sinking too far into ihe ground. (e) U. & l'. FLAGSHIP OF PERRY IS ALLOWED 10 ROT Famous Old Niagara Is Falling To Pieces At Presque Isle Harbor, It Is Said NEGLECT A DISGRACE Patriotic organizations of Erie, Pa., are endeavoring to have some perman ent plan made for the care and preser vation of Commodore Perry’s flagship, the Niagara, which was raised from its resting place off the port for the Perry Victory celebration of 1912. The boat needs some repairs and paint now, anchor davits having brok en down and planking showing signs of wear and tear. Most of the time the boat lies at its mooring in the Presque Isle harbor against the fish eries station, neglected and locked up so that visitors cannot go below to see the frame of this famous little ship. Thousands of automobile tourists from all parts of the Union follow the Buffalo, Cleveland and Toledo high way or Its parallel, the Lake Shore road, and stop over to look over the >oat at the foot of State street on the Hied way street on the isle. All trails coming into Erie strike zltate street for Parade street. Turn ng north to the waterfront, and go ng out on the paved fill that leads to he ship as it stands with tall, slitn nasts and yards, the ports of its gun leek open to show the black muzzles if the cannonades that were cast in .812 and hauled overland to the Pros iue Isle yard to arm Perry’s great Jmber fleet. Much Photographed Relic Probably no feature from Buffalo to Toledo has been more photographed ir oftener printed on postal cards than he old ship. The patriotic organiza ions demand that the boat be given iroper care and that it be swung clear >f the shack environment unworthy >f the dignity of the monument. The harbor swarms with little mo orboats and other small craft, sail >oats, catboats. i “What the patriots don’t like is the uakeshift plank landings, the shakl less generally, that surrounds the ighting ship. They want one side of he ship clear and free and convenient o the eye of the spectator and the ens of the camera. “The idea of having Erie represent 'd ail over the country by photo ;raphs that show the Niagara tied up o a fisheries dock, with a rank rough dank landing in them! Anybody vould think Erie hadn’t any pride in ippearance-!” said an Erie Daughter >f the Revolution. “It is positively a disgrace to the •ity. One side of the boat, at least -hould be wholly unobscured. If, be ond the boat, there could be a view if the Erie park, with its tall trees, he photograph would give some ade juate idea of the prettiness of Erie’9 vaterfront. As it is, any photograph aken of the boat shows sheds, shacks, amshackle small boat landings and a vholly unbusinesslike waterfront. Improvements Suggested “I should say that the proper back ground of the Niagara would be one showing trees, woods or timber that .•alls to mind the great oak trees the mmmodore used in making the strong odes of this ship. “But if no such background could he provided, lest somebody think Erie i backwoods place we might at least have a. trim and businesslike back ground. I should say that the great •oncrete elevator to the eastward of •he present mooring would a line background, a most conspicuous •nd certainly graceful structure, but he only way U> get this building into ’he picture is along the port gun deck from the stern. “The elevator is so far distant that : t does not photograph well. The starboard gun deck can’t be photo graphed without a gasoline pump, a watchman’s shack on the deck, com monly locked up at that, and serving I * ] jno useful purpose, unless to play j : pokcr.'iti or something like that. Anel,| j mercy.knows, people don’t have to go: ■ J away dawn to the lake front to get a j ; game ot poker. Neglect A Disgrace “I t ’.ibk that the people of Erie dis-: tj -efves in permitting the n■ -of all local mounments t< T-ihiiin in i‘s semi-neglect. The acorn ami oak leaf figurehead should be brought into relief, either In white , paint lilies or in some way. so that the ornament that Ruskin would have' loved would show clearly and plainly in the photographs taken of the boat. “As -it is now a homely landing stage put up in the most inconvenient , angle 'and position possible discour- ages any timid woman or child, and e even endangers the visitors if they seek to go aboard, while it is quite ini j possibm* to obtain a picture of the figurehead without showing the fish s house or wholly irrelevant things. e “The value of the ship is its faith- 1 e fulness do the original craft. Any change fnade, is a detriment to the p monument. As it is some Whittier e might -vsry well write a poem to this neglected old ship, and one need not he a sailor to love these long, graceful e curves^ “How did those old ship carpenters e do it with thpir adzes and their jack pi thumb 'shaping? It’s a perfect shame e to neglect this grand old craft, with its warts and excrescences of modern e additions, sheds, shacks and mussi ness. iKifher take the old boat out and sihk.it again in its ancient grave, n or else give it an anchorage and an approach and a background adequate a and beattiful 8 “Erfe has in this ship something , that i| ; 'a trust, an obligation. We _ permit a perfectly disgraceful auto t mobilefrend detour to stand for years, annoying and even dangerous ta our thousands- of visitors. But we might at least prevent every photograph of 3 our befct-jfamed feature from revealing 1, the patutity of local pride and the i rather decrepit character of our waier . front.”* ? 1 r "* : r Mugfcinj*—“There is nothing more ,■ positive (han a woman’s will.” Bug gins—“Unless it is a woman’s won’t.” CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria a i M Always M • J Mty/ m\ Bears the /yf Signature f It * Ji _ #i\alt of m k \\ -1/^ UA llcp fir "vU vjr r nr flyor Thirty Years CASTORIA fY* Copy of Wrapper. - . nnn 1 l i, A Touch Of Color The fashion of facing the long and j übiquitous panels which accompany j every frock these days w ith a bright j and contrasting color is an interest ing one which finds most unusual ex ! pression. As it is a fashion which will go ; w r ell into the w inter one may give it some thought. Sorrmtimes this in troduction of a contrasting color is i very well done, indeed, as. for exam ple, in a dark blue radium silk after ;noon dress which has not one spot of color about it except a bright jade green shopping hag. a silken parasol of tlie same intense color and a wide brimmed hat of the same shade. Nothing could be more artistic, for instantly the dark background afford ed by the blue dress sets off tl > rad jiant color of the other things delight fully. For Good Fudge Put a teaspoonful of cornstarch in ingredients before cooking when mak ing fudge and it will come out nice and smooth and never sugary. The average man is apt to go to ex tromes. He is either his own worsi j enemy or his own best friend. I Will Ym Be One OFAMillionWbrkers j lb Secure Members fir [ TheAmericanßed Cross : + Volunteer NowAt\our Chapter Headquarters i Third Red Cross Roll Call I November 2-11 Modish Kars If you are thinking about furs— and nowadays autumn is the season for summer fur sales—what are your I thoughts on the subject of muffs? The general feeling is that muffs are, if ! not back numbers, at least not by any | means necessary in your new order with the furrier. There are even women who have i their fur renovating done in the sum jmer—and that with admirable fore- I thought—who are having their rnufTs 1 used in some other way. If they are part of a used set they 'are having the good fur of the muff used to eke out the old neckpiece. If there is a single muff then this is being turned to advantage to make a small collar and cuff trimmings for a suit that is to be ordered at the j tailor s. ! For those who like to trace every j thing to its cause it may be interest- I inf to conjecture over the reason for I this decline of the muff. The reason has been given that sinee women ' i drove their own motors they didn't | want to be bothered with muffs. Still. !few women drive their own curs at. jihe time, and many women have no ears to drive. | Possibly last season's mild season in he vicinity of New York accounts for he fact that feV muffs were bought .hen. It may le that the universal hal.it of carrying our bundles home ,vi h us and the fact that we almost , never returned home > with empty hands had something to do with it. - because with a "knitting” bag full of groceries and dry goods rt was not , an easy manner to manage a muff be ' sides. y Possibilities Of Salt Dip a piece of flannel in salt and whiting to clean knife handles, stain ed teacups and glasses. ’ Salt scattered on the carpet before 1 sweeping is very good, but be sure to sweep it all up, as the dampness s might make it run. # By adding a un; ptnen of salt to ( milk when fresli it will keep a rnueh * longer time. I Make a little salt lag and rub the e griddle with it instead of grease. , Pancakes will not stick and there r will be no smoke or odor. Egg stains on silver can be remov i- Pd by rubbing with a little salt and - damp eloth. Hbo Know What | Prevents Vibrations If Severe vibrations are a warning that I IK lubrication is faulty. To prevent this I trouble and the repair expense it causes, I Ip use only the highest grade oil—oil that IBf flows freely and lubricates correctly at I Mf all temperatures —that lasts in good con- *.'? 9 ® f dition for hundreds of miles —that gives I minimum carbon trouble— I'wf rine | & FOR MOTOR CARS 1 H Look for the sign—the sign of a reliable deuler. I "jfe : ONE UNIFORM QUALITY I B THREE CONSISTENCIES I S Polarine Oil m H §l. Polarine Oil Heavy I V Polarine Oil Extra Heavy I Also, Polarine Transmission Oils and Greases % for the lubrication of Motor Cars; Motor I fU' T rucks; Kerosene and Gasoline Tractors; I -raP Farm and Stationary Gas Engines; Motor- I sHf cycles; Motor Boats, etc. I , fp‘ For Sale by all Reliable Garages, Acces- j ? sory and Hardware Stores, etc. I jHP i For quick pick-ups and steady, dependable I ,J|t power, buy clean-burning Standard Motor I raft Gasoline. t STANDARD OIL COMPANY (NEW JERSEY) 'Jm Tilings To Remember \1 Bananas combine well with blafW mange Wet the spoon before serving jolly with it. Kitchen linen should he kept in the kitchen closet. itrend and butter is more nutritions than biscuits. Picturg wires to fasten sash car tains surpass tape. When ironing stand on a cushior One does not tire so. Work along the grain of the wood when staining floors. Keep Last fresh in a glass jar w a tightly fitting lid. Warm lemons before squeezing. Yot will get more juice. Discolored knife handles may Im rubbed with brick dust and vinegar. Now that rttth has ratified womai suffrage, some of her Moruran citi sens are in danger of being outvote< in their own houses. Charlestol News and Courier. To abort a cold and prevent com plications, take The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. | Price 35c.