Up® WTCHii
CABSWlfc^
Why Is it that women so seldom
think of house management us a
business? A business which needs
training: and adaptability. Why
should we expect all women to be
successful housekeepers? We would
think it absurd to limit a man to
any one business or profession re
gardless of talent or equipment; so
let us bo as charitable with the
women.
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR DIN
NER?
Where fresh mackerel Is not to he
obtained, those who are fond of fish
will like baked mackerel
occasionally, which Is a
favorite breakfast dish
in many households.
Soak until freshened a
good thick meaty fish,
getting It lie in water
skin side up. When suf
ficiently freshened place
In a dripping pan with a
few tablespoonfuls of boiling water.
Cook for ten minutes; then add hot
-cream poured over the fish and bake
for ton or fifteen minutes longer.
Serve with the sauce poured over the
fish. Milk may he used with butter,
hut nothing tastes quite so good as
cream.
Dinner Salad. —Use a few sections
of grapefruit with all membranes re
moved and broken In small hits ar
ranged on lettuce and sprinkled with
Jinely shredded green pepper. Serve
"with an oil dressing, using corn oil.
Beat the yolk of an egg. add salt,
sugar, mustard ami lemon juice; when
well mixed mid a little corn oil, heat
ing well. Continue heating until thick
and creamy. Use about three-fourths
of a cupful of oil to one egg yolk and
a tablespoonful or two of lemon juice.
This dressing will keep Indefinitely if
kept cold.
Fried Onions and Apples.—Slice two
onions very thin and cook in a table
spoonful of hot fat until yellow, then
add half a dozen sliced tart apples;
cook until soft, adding a hit of water
and fat if needed, .lust before serving
add a teaspoon fill of sugar. Serve
with roast pork, pork sausages or pork
steak or chops. If one does not like
the* onions or desires variety core the
-apples without peeling, slice in half
inch slices and fry carefully not to
break them. Serve with chops, mak
ing an overlapping ring of the apples
around the chops.
Add one tahlespoonful of cornstarch
tc each cupful of flour In making cake.
1i improves the grain greatly.
THE
KITCHEN
CABINET
“Cookery must be studi.-U thor
oughly these days, for it must be
r« membered that the less food there
Is the more important it is to know
how to utilize what is available to
the best purpose."
OUT OF THE POTATO BIN.
The common vegetables of mother
*»nrth may he served In a variety of
ways, to avoid monot-
ony.
Stuffed Potatoes.—Se
lect good, even-sized po
tatoes. cut oil the ends
and hake. When baked,
scoop out the Inside
wit hot.t hreukiitg the
shell. Add butter to sea-
«on, with salt and red
pepper and sweet cream enough to
t*nt them light and llulTy. Fill the
skins with this and place in the oven
■to brown.
Farm Potato Dish.—For a good
adzed family, take a milk pan. cover
tlu> bottom with sliced potatoes, filling
the pi ii nearly full; sprinkle over the
sliced potatoes one, two or three finely
shredded onions, the number depending
upon the amount of potato or the fam
ily taste. Cover all w i l l l well-seasoned
pork chops which have been cooked
4*n one side. Place them cooked side
next to the potatoes, and place in the
■oven to cook until the potatoes are
done and the chops brown. This is a
in cal which is good to prepare on a
busy day. and is very appetizing.
Hot Potato Salad.—line quart of
t oiled potatoes diced, one minced on
ion. chopped parsley and green pepper
to taste. Take two slices of bacon
diced, and fry until brown; remove
the hits of friend bacon and use as a
garnish on top of the salad. Add a
tahlespoonful of flour to the hot fat,
and when smooth stir in a half-cupful
of vinegar, half-cupful of hot water,
one teanpootiful of salt, a tcnspoonful
of sugar and a little |N>ppcr. Stir and
cook until smooth, then pour hot over
the vegetables. Serve hot.
Potatoes, Spareribs and Apples.—
Place seasoned spareribs In baking
dish and cook one hour. Place quar
tered potatoes under the. sparerilw and
■quartered apples on top. Bake one
hour more. Keaso.i well with salt and
pepper before baking.
Hot Potato Balls.—Take a pint of
mashed potato, seasoned well, add two
beaten eggs, a tahlespoonful of flour,
a half cupful of grated cheese and
milk to make a soft drop hatter. Drop
by spoonfuls Into hot fat. und cook un
til light brown.
OLD ROSE SHANTUNG COS
TUME
Of delicately colored, beautiful old
rose Shantung silk is this charming
“Palm Beach” outfit. The blouse is
plum-colored satin brocaded with sil
ver, while cords of silver emphasize
the waistline of both the blouse and
the coat.
HOW TO CLEAN YOUR SILKS
Remove Grease Spots by Holding O\or
Fire; French Chalk and Press
ing Recommended.
A good way to get grease spots from
-ilk. writes a correspondent, is to hold
the spotted part over n warm tire,
not hot enough to burn the silk, hut
hot enough to melt the grease; put a
piece of blotting paper over the spot
and then put a warm Iron on the
blotter.
A good method for cleaning black
silk is tills: Mix strong coffee and
ammonia. Brush the silk thoroughly
and then nth the liquid on with a soft
cloth. Wind around a hoard to dry.
French chalk will remove some
spots from silk. Rub the chalk thor
oughly In the garment and lot It stay
there for a day or so. Then brush It
out with a velvet brush.
Water spots can sometimes he re
moved by pressing ilie silk on the
wrong side, with a piece of thin mus
lin between the Iron and the silk.
If silk has lost Its body and stiffness
follow the method of a renovator: 801 l
an old, clean kid glove in water and
sponge the silk with the somewhat
sticky liquid resulting.
Whenever silk Is pressed a sheet of
tissue paper or a piece of thin muslin
should he spread over the silk to pre
vent glazing. The silk should he
placed with Its right side toward the
ho.ml, ironed on the wrong side.
SCARF MAY SUPPLANT CAPE
New Dress Accessory Promises to
Gain Popularity as Sporting
Garment for Spring.
Although the sweater innnufactur
its have not us yet given much pub
licity to the garment, the success
which lias attended the launching of
the scarf cape Is regarded as an omen
flint <Ms new dress necessary will be
come wiv popular. As a rule, the
scarf Is made of brushed wool. Light
tans and greens are eotishlered the
!• ading colors. Hy arranging the
scarf properly. It heenmes practically
a gai t ill place of a cape. A wide
sale is unised the novelty as a
sporting garment for skating and
other w inter sports. It Is also being
ordered for retail sale In tin* early
spring.
Trinket for the Workbasket.
A quaint and useful little novelty
for u work basket run lu* made with a
tiny doll, half of a colored birthday
candle mid a quarter of a yard of
baby ribbon. It represents a dressml
doll, whose skirt of wax is meant to
serve a familiar purpose in the work
basket. Melt the candle In a small tin
and pour it while hot Into a thimble.
When the wax is almost hard, press
the tiny doll Into It. feet llrst, and
hold it there until the wax hardens.
Next, place the thimble In hot water
for tin Instant, and pull until the
molded wax comes out wrapped
round the doll In the form of a skirt.
To llnlsh the trinket, cross the ribbon
over the doll's waist and tie It at the
hack.
If You Want a Straw Hat.
80 used have we heroine to seeing
straw hats In midwinter and furs in
summer “that we think nothing of it
when the smart hat shops offer straw*
and sports things in midwinter as the
only things entirely new. A new hat
is of rose colored hemp, faced with
rose georgette, and attractively em
broidered iu wool und silk.
LED TO FORTUNE
Pierre’s Long Trail of Silver
Tip Rewarded.
Determined Hunter Trailed Bear Over
Miles of Snow, and Finally Stum
bled On and Killed Valuable
Arctic Fox.
Of all fur-bearing animals, none Is
so highly prized by the trapper and
patron as the silver fox of the aic-tlc
circle. So rare are they that hunters
do not devote themselves exclusively
to the pursuit, but the story of Pierre
Baptiste of that far country Is pe
culiarly thrilling, as It recounts how
one of these vdmals fell before his
trusty rifle while he was on the trull
of a marauding bear which had been
devastating his traps. The Ilunter-
Trader-Trapper of Columbus, ()., tells
the story, as repeated by Robert E.
II ewes.
“When Pierre Baptiste swore to trail
Silver Tip down, he did so with a full
realization of what lie was swearing
to do. But the fiery blood that rnnjn
Pierre’s veins tvlien aroused knew no
cooling till justice was done,” says
Mr. Ilewes. “And so with his lips set
firmly and a light of determination
burning in his eyes, he took up the
trail of Sliver Tip—the sworn Nemesis
of that outlaw of the North.
“Two hours later Pierre stopped.
The last blur of tlie timber line had
melted nwny behind him and on the
north and on all sides stretched in
terminable snow. Pierre was sweat
ing from ids superexertion and during
the momentary rest # his clothes froze
to hoard!ike stiffness. Ills legs were
dog-weary and even the weight of his
rifle seemed tons, but still the bear’s
trail led on and on into those God
forsaken regions.
“After a while, Pierre began to lose
sense of time. He just plodded dog
gedly ahead, his eyes glued to the
bear’s trail. He knew he was getting
far, far into the arctic regions. That
a hear should wander so far—again
he marveled.
Pierre halted, dropped to Ids knees
and staml at something. Ilairs, ho
saw, that the jagged edge of the ice
had pulled from the hear as lie clam
bered over —but they were white!—
white ns the snow itself! He, Pierre
Baptiste, was trailing a hear that ’
knew no boundary of snow and ice. A
chill wind began to creep over the
snow wastes, and Pierre’s- snow
shoes seemed to be tugging to drag
him down. But had he not sworn to
trail down Silver Tip?
“Within an eighth of a mile, Pierre
saw something moving, a lumbering
figure plodding over the snow, n figure
brown-haired and with a silver nose —
ami a splash of wldte on the bc!!v as
tlie snow-dragged. A smile of grim sat
isfaction cracked Pierre’s frosted fea
tures as he slipped off his mitten and
raised his rifle to Ids shoulder.
“As Pierre pressed his cheek against
the stock of Ids rifle he thought he
saw something out of the corner of
Ids eye that made him turn. He low
ered Ids rifle and scanned the snow
field on all sides, hut as far ns eyes
could reach there stretched only the
white barrens. The only living thing
besides himself was that lumbering
hall of brown. Something, the barest
hit of a glimpse, had drawn Ids atten
tion, hut he saw no moving thing other
than the hear.
" *Eet ees so ver’ funny,” muttered
Pierre, and prepared to raise his rifle
determinedly. Then, on a ridge, and
the color of the lee it moved against,
he saw something move. One moment
he stared, and his keen eyes distin
guished the sliver fox from Its Icy
background,
“With steellike steadiness Pierre
raised Ids rifle and sighted. A spurt
of Maine cracked the frosty air and
shattered the white silence Into a mil
lion echoes. The next moment Pierre
was stumbling madly across the snow
to where a growing red blotch showed
clearer than the fox. The trapper
fell to Ids knees by the dead anlmnl
and examined It most reverently, run
ning his Angers through the silky fur
with the tenderness of a connoisseur.
Fortune of fortunes! There was not
oven a blemish ; the bullet had passed
Into the brain through the eye.”
Explorers Will Travel Far.
IT. A. Snow. Oakland (<’nl.) natural
ist. accompanied by his son. Sidney
Snow; Donald Keyes, a writer, and
Frank S. Wilton, a camera man. ere
on their way from San Francisco to
collect big game specimens and films
of obscure native tribes In Africa and
Asia.
They will join Leslie M. Simpson and
Kenneth Qunlnan In Africa, both Oak
land men. who have been on that con
tinent since May, preparing the expe
dition that the rest will Join In Pape
Town.
They purpose to traverse Africa from
the Cape to the Sudan, terminating
their Journey by a boat trip down the
whole length of the Nile. Thence they
expect to enter Asia, returning to the
United States byway ol‘ Siberia. They
hope to old; In specimens of the Man*
churlan tiger.
Yakima Indians Run a Bank.
At Wnnato, Yakima county, Wash
ington. Is perhaps the only hank In the
United States owned and controlled by
Indians. The American Commercial
hank In the center of the Yakima In
dian reservation, was established
about a year ago and Is on a solid
financial basis, doing an exceptionally
good business. All of Its officers and
directors, with the exception of tb«
cashier, ore lodlar*
►US ftXLPXV OBSERVER
SOME FACTS AND
FANCIES ABOUT
THE PHILIPPINES
There Has Been Much Misrepre
sentation in America About
People and Conditions.
By MAXIMO M. KALAW,
Secretary of the Philippine Mission.
Maximo M. Kalaw.
I am a Filipino,” he replied.
“How’s that?” asked the lady. “1
thought they were nil savages living in
the woods."
“Well, I’ll toll you how I came here,”
he said. “A month before 1 left the
Philippines I was living in the woods,
bi.t the American Governor decided to
< atoll ns many wild men as possible,
train them and send them over nere.
So here I am, just as you see.” And
the St. Louis lady actually believed
him.
That is what you would call faneies
about the Philippines. The fact is,
however, that the 11,000,000 Filipinos
and their ancestors have been civilized
and Christians for 000 years; that the
non-Christian population, according to
the census of 11)18, is only 500,000, and
even these are not all uncivilized.
Another fancy Is that not until the
coming of the Americans were school
buildings seen in the Islands, roads
built, or substantial houses erected.
I)o you know that for hundreds of
years the Filipinos have had colleges
and schools and that the University of
Santo Tomas is only twenty-five years
older than Harvard? That as early as
18(50, out of a population of 4,000,000
people, there were 841 schools for hoys
and 833 for girls? That In 1892, eight
years before the coming of the Ameri
cans, there were 2,1.37 schools?
“To grant self-government to Luzon
under Aguinaldo would be like grant
ing self-government to an Apache res
ervation under some local chief." Thus
spoke a former President of the United
States during the Fillpino-Amerlcan
wur. Exaggeration could he an excuse
at a time when the dignity of the Am
erican people demanded the extinction
of Filipino opposition, hut do you know
that the Philippine Republic, before the
American occupation of the Islands,
had the approval of prominent Ameri
cans who were on the spot—like John
Barrett, Director of the Pan-American
Union, who compared It favorably with
the Japanese government? That Ad
miral Dewey considered the Filipinos
better fitted for self-government than
the Cubans? That they had drafted a
constitution at Malalos which elicited
the approval of distinguished Repub
licans like the late Senator George F.
Hoar? That before the coming of the
Americans they had produced nutionul
heroes like the martyred Jose Rizal,
pronounced by a Republican congress
man, Representative Cooper, as the
noblest victim that has ever fallen into
the clutches of tyranny?
And do you know that the Filipinos
have not had for hundreds of years any
caste system, blood distinction or royal
families, and that, unlike their oriental
sisters, they are the only Christian peo
ple in the orient?
People have pictured an Ignorant
mass of Filipinos, illiterate, poor, liv
ing a life of servitude for a few
wealthy land owners and foreigners,
with no houses or farms or property
of their own. Do you know that 70
per cent, of the people above ten years
of age can read and write and that this
percentage of literacy Is almost as high
as some of the states of the Union?
That it Is higher than In any coiyitry
of South America, higher than the lit
eracy of the Spanish people, and un
questionably above that of any of the
new countries recognized in Europe?
Do you know that there are a million
and n half fnrtns in the Philippines
and that Pd per cent, of these farms
are owned by Filipinos. In other words,
that out of the 11,000,000 Christian
Filipinos, 8.000,0(X) of them at least live
on their own farms, with houses of
their own, Independent of any absentee
landlord or foreign master? That 91
per cent, of the urban property con
sisting of houses and lands is owned
by the natives of the Philippines, and
only 9 per cent, is in the hands of for
eigners? Yet these are facts cabled by
Acting Governor Charles Emmett Yea
ter to the War Department from the
recent census estimates.
Having solemnly promised the Fill
ppios their independence and having
gone before the world ns the champion
»f self-determination, the Filipino peo
ple cannot understand how America
-an consistently refuse to make good
hose promises.
CLIMATE OF THE PHILIPPINES
The Philippine Islands have n mild
ly tropical climate. The nlrhts uru
cool ami sunstrokes are unknown. The
temperature record for the past thirty
years shows un average of 80 degree^
This, ia the message from
James (Cardinal) G.bbons read
at the big meeting in Washing
ton in aid of the Near East Re
lief. The venerable primate of
the Catholic Church in Ameri
ca is intensely interested in the
appeal which the Near East Re
lief will make to the country in
February for funds to support
its work among the starving
peoples of that stricken land.
To tlie Washington meeting he
wrote:
“Advices and Information
coming from the Near East
cannot be doubted. There is
great actual suffering and
famine. These people, recently
become independent and re
leased from biltor thraldom,
cannot support themselves. And
the Christian and common in
stincts of humanity which have
prompted the people of the
United States during the last
two years to relieve the dis
tress and needs, especially of
the Near East, must not lie al
lowed to grow cold and be di
minished.
“I hope we shall nil unite in
this present emergency and he
able to collect sufficient funds
to enable these pebples to live
and work until next summer
brings them permanent relief
and subsistence. I call upon all
to respond generously to the ap
peal now being made and trust
that the committee will be grati
fied with the results.”
A certain lady
at the St. Louis
Exposition saw at
a ballroom a
brown complex
loned man in fault
less evening dress
and accosted him
with the Inquiry,
“I suppose you an
Japanese, sir?”
The man ad
dressed replied,
“No, madam.”
“Then you must
be Chinese,” she
said.
“No, 1 am not.
AMERICAN WOMEN STIRRED BY
ARMENIAN HORRORS.
“Merciful God, it’s all true! Nobody
has ever told the whole truth ! Nobody
could!”
Thus Eleanor Franklin Egan, In the
Saturday Evening Post, quotes How
ard Heinz of Pittsburgh, Herbert
Hoover’s representative in the Near
East, on the real conditions in Arme
nia as he saw them with his own eyes.
Mr. Heinz has been one of those who
had believed the stories of starvation
and death in Armenia liad been exag
gerated. Not until he went himself to
the Caucasus did Ills views change.
Then he was shaken to the foundation
of his soul by what he saw.
“Fearful! Awful! Horrible! Unbe
lievable!” are some of the adjectives
Mrs. Egan says must be used in speak
ing of conditions in the Near East,
where Near East Relief, 1 Madison
avenue, New York, supported by con
trihut ion v from the American people,
is conducting the only organized effort
to save the lives of these utterly desti
tute millions. Everything she saw and
heard justified the necessity for quick
and generous aid from America. Her
story of what she witnessed re-enforces
the call of the Near East Relief for aid
for stricken Armenia.
“ ‘The Hunger grin’ is everywhere
evident,” Mrs. Egan writes. “The piti
ful hundreds seemed to me to he weep
ing constantly. Not profoundly as in
grief, hut whimperingly, appealingly
as in unbearable physical distress. A
terrible population. Unspeakably filthy
and tatterdemalion throngs; shelter
less, death stricken throhgs milling
from place to place, children crying
aloud, women sobbing in broken inar
ticulate lamentation ; men utterly hope
less and reduced to staggering weak
ness, heedless of the tears rolling down
their dirt-streaked faces.”
That is her picture of the Armenians
most in evidence in Armenia. These
are the throngs. Then she turns to the
mobs. “Lnrgv numbers here and there,
wide-eyed, eager, hands outstretched In
wolfish supplication ; teeth Imred in a
ghastly grin that lmd long since ceased
to smile —an emaciated skin-stretched
grin, fixed and uncontrollable.”
“Is It any wonder,” she asks, “that
I could not swallow my food? I threw It
to the children In the ravening hordes
and started small riots. The children
fought together, snarled and clawed at
one another for small hits of army bis
cuit or morsels of bully beef.
“And then I was told that many of
them were so starved that solid food
was likely to kill them instantly. This
was too terribly true. Yet In the whole
length and breadth of the lond there
was not an ounce of food of the kind
necessary for stub cases. At Kars I
saw one man die with bread in his
teeth. And if you will consent to look
with me upon a too awful thing I will
add that he showed evidence of having
eaten too much grass.
“I went hungry in Armenia, and I
associate remembered pangs of my
own with all my recollections of the
terrible land. I had plenty of food with
me, hut for days on end I could not
eat. It was a physical Impossibility.”
Of her first sight in Armenia of the
terrible condition of the people Mrs.
Egan writes of the scenes on her way
to Kars:
“Everywhere In the fields there were
people down on their knees searching
for grasses to eat. Those near the rail
road lifted their heads and gazed at
our train as It rushed past, and I
caught glimpses of terrible faces. An
old mnn sitting on the top of an em
bankment waved a handful of grass at
me where I stood at the ear window,
then threw his head hack and laughed
n maniacal laugh. 1 began then to feel
the cold chills with which I was to
shiver for days on end.”
Of Kars she writes:
“They were n multiple Lazarus, nnd
the train was the rich man's table
CARDINAL GIBBONS ASKS
AID FOR STARVING
ARMENIANS.
MINISTERS COST
LESS THAN AUTOS
World Survey Figures Reveal
How Badly United States Is
Paying Its Pastors.
MANY LIVE ON S6OO A YEAR
One of the Aims of Present Protestant
Co-operation Is to End Disgrace
of Underpaid Preacher—Pen
sions Also to Be Provided.
What are the chances of a young
man who intends to he a lawyer of
making $3,000 a year? What are the
doctor’s chance? What of the minis
ter or the manufacturer?
The lawyer has exactly one chance
in five. The doctor’s chances are one
in seven. It is ten to one against the
manufacturer. The modern minister,
however, who formerly ranked with
the doctor and lawyer as a member of
tlie “learned professions,” has fallen
hopelessly behind. He is a 100 to i
shot.
These figures are part of a mass of
astonishing facts brought to light by
the world survey being made by the
Interchurch World Movement and
whose sources of information are
such that many economists and sta
tisticians are availing themselves of
the results. This survey puts Ameri
ca’s minister at the bottom of the
ladder of the nation’s income re
ceivers and with responsibilities
which equal those of any captain of
industry.
Not four ministers in a thousand,
according to the survey, receive $5,-
000 a year. In no instance, whatever
tlie denomination, does a majority re
ceive SI,OOO.
Cotton Pickers Better Off.
Are you a Congregationalist? In
2,783 churches the yearly pay to your
ministers lias been less than SI,OOO.
Are you a Presbyterian? You are then
on the less than SI,OOO list with 0,415
ministers. 11l the event that you are
a Methodist tlie charge is that 4,719
pastors are trying to exist on the S2O
a week that you pay them. Episco
palians do a little better, yet half of
their rectous receive less than the sl,-
500 a year avliicli government econo
mists regard ns the minimum on which
a family can be decently maintained.
The initial cost of the cheapest
“flivver” on the market is less than
$G()0, but a very good, conscientious
pastor, it is shown, can be hired for
a year for that sum.
Ministers in the South are preach
ing to fifty or more cotton pickers
who individually are paid more for
picking cotton than their entire
neighborhood pays to the preacher in
a year.
One of the aims of the present co
operation of tlie world’s Protestant de
nominations is to end this disgrace of
the underpaid minister. With univer
sities, business houses nnd municipali
ties daily taking action to provide for
t lie comfort of their workers, the
church is to keep pace with the times,
and to arrange not only for adequate
pay for its workers, hut to provide
pensions for those no longer able to
work.
OYSTER, OLD STAND BY
OF LADIES AID, GIVEN
HONORABLE OUSTER
Interchurch World Movement Will
Put Church on Business Basis
Where Won’t Need to Beg.
Tile little oyster, once such an es
seiitinl money-making factor in eliureh
circles, Is henceforth to he taboo. It
will he regarded by the I-allies’ Ahl
Sorlety as a thing lo he shunned. Its
help to pay the preacher’s salary or 10
plus' the hole In the cliureh roof or to
send a missionary to India or Afrv'u
will no longer he needed. The Inter
chnrcli World Movement Is to put Ihe
Christian Church on u business man’s
haded basis.
Of course the oyster will eel an hon
orable discharge from the service, for
h did not desert, hut was ihe standby
of the Ladies’ Aid Society until the
women found u better way of financ
ing their obligations for promoting
church work. Thai better way Is now
being studied 111 practically all the
women’s church societies In the United
Stales, according to Miss l.ama J.
Wrlgld, superintendent of the wom
an’s division of the Stewardship De
partment of the Interchurch World
Movement.
“There will no longer he any need for
the women of our churclu-H to resort
to nil sorts of services for raising
money for church purposes when they
have learned of the better way which
Ihe Stewardship Plan provides," said
Miss Wright. "The acknowledgement
of the principle that God Is the owner
of all things nnd tlinl men nnd women
are the stewards makes church financ
ing easy. Wherever the Stewardship
Plan Is put Into operation, oyster sup
pers, haxanrs, rummage sales nnd the
like In churches become a thing of the
past. They are not needed. We owe
God all that Is given to us and we
must acknowledge this principle In or
der to get the most out of our re
ligion.”