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Our Way—Not The Only Way.
it would really be pathetic, if it
weren't so irritating, to eonsider how
:much
people lose in this world .by
their refusal to learn, Really, the
:riumbor of people who are perfectly
satisfied with their own meagre
knowledge, and most contemptuous
of any effort to enlighten them, is
amazing. Especially, if the person
who offers to help is someone they've
always knows; The avcrago human
being seems just: 'laterally incapable
of comprehending that a person with
whom they have grown up may have
learned something worth imparting,
aml from the days of ,Tes us, down to
our own time, we . find- men and wo-
men saying,
"''Whence hath this man this wis-
dom? Is not this the earpeuter'e son?
Ts not his mother called Mary? And
hie brethren, James mid Joses and
Simon and .ludas? And his sisters,
are they not all with us? Whence
then hath this man all these things?
So the masses close eyes and ears
to things .which might make life
easier and better .for them, fearing
that by admitting they can still be
taught their- are confessing their in-
feriorty..• And, strange as it may
Seem, it is the moot ignorant who re-
fuse to learn, who think they have
nothing to learn. And the wiser the
person the more humble he becomes
and the more willing to learn from,
everyone.
Rolling 'bandages in a -.Red Cross
workroom the other day, two women,
evidently old friends, were chatting..
"I was up half the night with
13111y," yawned one, the fat red-faced
one. His temperature tan up to 102,
and this morning he's as cross as a
bear. I 'delft see how it is your
children never keep you up. They're
always well," she added fretfully. "1
can't see why a skinny lltLle mite
like you should hate such stgong
children, and a big strong woman like
me has. puny ones."
"The skinny little finite" flushed
and bit her lip. But she said plea-
santly enough, '.It doee seem rather
strange doesn't it?"
"Strange," echoed leer friend, "I
should say it. is. George and. I were
talking about. it this morning. You
and Jack don't either one look as
well as we do, and look at your chil-
dren. Flow do you do it?"
"You wouldn't do it if I told you,"
said the friend, considering critically
a bandage she had just finished.
"If you mean high-priced special-
ist, I couldn't afford it," said the fat
one.
"I don't mean doctors at all," said
the little woman, "I haven't had a
Boerne in the house for two years,
and the specialist never came after
he opened my eyes to the sins of
wrong feeding. It'e all in the ehil-
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t estate ese til Atearcearatst T Liesse'3'eseat
(Inn's diet uncl reg;-ulahabits, going
to bed early and no exciting night
movies;,"
"Well, I can't afford four quarts of
milk a day at twelve cents a quart,
why there's $3.50 a• -week right there
for milk alone," said the sleepy nio.
thee. "And eggs for custards at
present prices are out of, the ques-
tion."
"No," said the little one tartly,
"But you can afford a couple of
pounds of fifty -cent chocolates a
week and movies for the four of you
two or three nights a week, and
socias every day for Billy and Dot.
You spend. $3.50 a week for things
that are a detriment to you all and
then complain because tho childiren
are sick. I couldn't afford to do
that." The name "skinny little mite"
still rankled, it was plain.
"Oh, I suppose if we wanted to be
tightwads like some folks and never
take the kids to a show not buy them
a sundae we could support a cream-
ery, too," flung back the "lady friend."
And conversation languished.
I wanted to congratulate the little
woman for her courageeand common
sense, but that Iast shot scared me
out: So I could only muse on the
queerness of human nature. Every
paper we pick up is filled with the im-
portaece oil properly feeding the
children, every place one turns are
helped. suggestions from the clinics
provided in the citiee to the bales of
free literature went out by tlia gov-
ernment to rural readers. And yet
hundreds of mothers are going on
still, creating perverted appetite% in
infants, feeding chocolate candy to
bathes only a few months old, giving
fried potatoes and salt pork to little
children who should be having cereals
and whole milk and eggs, and then
complaining because the children are
not well. And worst of all they
scoff at the very things that would
hely, them and back up their mistake
with the argument that mother al-
ways fed the things they are giving.
Mother did, because she didn't' know
any better. The subject of correct
feeding had not been touched upon
when mother brought us up. • And
look.at our disordered digest%on • and
jangling nerves. Read the statistics
of people dying of diseases caused al-
most entirely, doctors will tell you,
from wrong habits of eating.
Let us get out of the idea of think-
ing our .way is the only way. Let the
be open minded and willing to be told.
The woman next door may have some-
thing we don't, Let's learn it, even
if she is "skinny." The government
is asking us this year to save 100,000
children. We can do it if *e are
ready to learn.
Thrift Recipes.
Mock Duck. -3n cup chopped wal-
nuts, buternuts or beechnuts, 1 cup
bread crumbs, 1 cup boiled rice, 2
hard boiled eggs, aa cap chopped cel-
ery, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1
teaspoon salt, Ya teaspoon pepper, 1
tablespoon fat, 1 raw egg,
Goose Stuffing. -1 cup masher pot-
ato, 33 teaspoon each thyme and sage,
salt and pepper, 4 apples, 4 onions.
Cook the apples and onions and rub!
through a sieve. Add the potato and
seasonings and mix well.
Chicken and Rice Scallop. -1 cup
} chicken, Ye cup boiled rice, aa cup
thin white sauce, 1 egg yolk, beaten,
gravy, 1 egg white beaten very light,
bread crumbs, bits of fat, salt and
pepper. Mix chicken, rice, gravy,
seasoning, and yolk of egg. Make
white sauce. While hot add chicken
mixture. Cool slightly, fold in
White of egg, put into greased bak-
ing dish, cover with bread crumbs
and bits of fat. Bake half an hour.
Blanquette of Chicken.. --2 cups cold
cooked chicken cut in cubes, 1 cup
medium thick white sauce, 1 table-
spoon finely chopped parsley, yolks
of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons milk. Add
the chicken to the white sauce and
when well heated, add the yolks of
eggs slightly beaten and diluted with
milk. Cook two minutes. Then
aced parsley.
Squash Pudding.---1ta cups cooked
and strained squash, IA teaspoon eiti-
namon, 1-8 cup sugar, 2 eggs, l tea-
spoon salt, Vet cups milk, grated rind
half a lemon. Gradually add the
milk to the strained squash, then the
eugar, salt, seasoning, slightly beaten
'eggs, and grated lemon peel. Pour
into a greased pudding disk and bake
in a moderate oven until thickened
like custard. Sere. very cold,
Apple and Carrot Conserve.—Car-
rots, deed, 1 quart, tart apples, sliced,
1 quart, oranges, sliced, 2, .syrup, 2
eups, salt. Cookthe eaI•rots in suf-
ficient water to cover them until they
are tender: do not drain them. Add
the other ingredients, and cools the
n7ictuf'e until it is Clear,
THE SURPLUS
STOCK OF WAR
WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH
WAR'S LEFT -OVERS?
Problem of Disposing of Vast Quan.
titles and Varieties of Military 1
Equipment.
With the end of the war comes 4
new and very puzzling problem. It
relates to the disposal of vast quan-
tities of all kinds of military supplies,
What shall be done with them?
Suppose, for a guess, that the War.
Department has on hand 10,000,000
pairs of unworn and undistributel
soldiers shoes. Inasmuch as a fight-
ing man in the field wears out frori
live to seven pairs of shoes per an-
num, this is probably not an ove -
estimate,
They are the finest men's • shoes
ever made, 'built of the highest -grade
material, waterproof and scientifically
constructed for comfort. Who is g
ing to wear them?
ProbabIy the b
ii_ of them will
sold in great Iots to the highest bid-
ders in the wholesale trade and wi'l
find eventual use by civilians.
The
is
will be no trouble in finding' buyex�
But about the millions of new and
unworn ttnifoi•nrs? There will be no
i market for those.
Much Valuable "Junk."
An army officer owns his uniform
and equipment; he is obliged to pay
for them out of his own pocket. The
enlisted man, on the other hand; owns
nothing that he wears or carries. His
rifle belongs to the Government; like-
wise the contents of his "pack," in-
cluding his mess -kit, and every article
of his clothing down to his socks.
All this stuff must be turned in
Scotty and The Lost Knife. orchard. `A little later she heard him
Many a time Scotty had hunted for barking' in the pasture beyond the
the .knife that Lawrence lost. That barking'
is, he lead been out with Lawrence "That's wuadchuck number fifteen!
Lawrence was grunting, sa cried Frances'
and straightway sh
alert and so eager to he of heap that 'stopped helping her mother get sup
you gauge be sero he .knew- just what per and ran oft' to the pasture to se
he was hunting far. Lawrence did about it.
not doubt that Scotty knew all about She. found Scotty barking loutll,
the lost knife --for had he not told beeule the Pastore wall, and by peer
Scotty ail about it? 'I'lte tarn hacl ing in between the rocks she coni
py
been the closest friends ever since sno the w•oodchudr. Scatty ha
Scotty had come to the farm from caught ]t away from its I;.alo, prob-
Tarant.o, a eturnay, excited little pup- ably inkling a raid on the garden
' z baa:, five years before; and in
Axil it had taken refuge in. the wall
ime a else • 0a. eourr,e F anew felt sorry for th
waodchucic, but it was never':;lieles
her duty to help %tatty catch it. Sh
gegen to pull away the stones of th
wall, whi1'e Scotty danced bt:aide he:
andpawedd'r',ruder
ther, k
t
i andb1r eti I
t
he knife.
r n _e, His Aunt Blaiaedie had Suddenly, as I''ra2lcas tugged at is
,gin eu it to hint the Cerin mss befarr.,
and it Wae a wonderful knife—with
a gimlet, a file, a hook and a screw
driver, besides the three sharp blade:;.
Few boys had a knife like thate--and
then to lose it!
Well, it =•
was Scotty that finally
found the Iost, knife. The way he
found it makes a story that any lover
of dogs will enjoy—one those is
something wrong wan the person who still, eagerly narking, with his nose
in not l� Invtr of (legs. The knife at thea hole where If" large ro6': had
was los,, in the middle of April and bEeti.
it was late m July when Scotty Pound "Why, Scotty, Scotty l" cried
it. Lawrence had alniost forgotten Frances. "Are yeti blind? Are you
about it, ----not unite but almost,—but going to let that veoodchu: ;et
no boy ha3 so good a memory ne a away?"
dog like Scotty. Scotty steed right where he wee,
But the story of the woodchuck except that he pushed his nose a 'bit
hunt really comes before the story farther into the hole in the stone wall.
SU ENDER OF
LINS MIMES
111.61.0.6
I3RJTISI{ SAILORSItECEIVE GER-
MAN LT -BOAT CAPTIVES
mem
First Twenty Boats surrendered Just
Equalled Number of British Sub-
marine Craft Sunk in War.
" The business of actually accepting
e the German eubznari:nee in surrender
- was perfarrned by officers and men of
e the British submarine force, who for-
mere
or
mere than four years had maintained
3' a tedious but relentless vigil of wat-
ers of the British Isley, says a dea-
d patch from Harwich, England, can
admiral in a light cruiser commanded
the fleet. to which the 1; -boats Bur-
✓ rendered, but it was a submarine oft:-
cer whu first stepped aboard each
submarine, curtly went througb the
es brief formalities, and it was a ceew
e of hien who had fought the tJhcate
by under -water methods that nlu.enlrod
that t dog like Scotty and a
boy like Lawreirco come to know all
that there is to be known about cauls
other.
Law'renee felt badly about Peeing
larger rock. the woodchuck slipped
out of the opening that she had made
and ran toward a pile of states es near
by. Probably its hole wars there
As the little brownish -red creature
ran, rather clumsily, through the
grass and weeds, a vary curious thing
happened. Scotty, the famous wood -
cluck hunter, paid no attention what-
ever to his escaping prey, but stood
or aceounted for in some way. What ;,f ftrdang the loot knife. The wood- ; Could it be possible that he had not
its to be done with it? 1t will be, shuck hunt was one of many that r,een the escaping woodch'ick? Na
of course, in all stages of duapida- ,Scotty enjoyed that summer. The wonder Fraime was bewildered!tion---in effect, so much junk. Yet, weesehuckaa mere a peat in the gate Then Sere stepped neater and lookedin the aggregate, it will possess a { deli and in the cloverpatch, and into the bole herself. What do you
very large value. their holes made danger for the think she saw there.? It was the
How great this .value may be is horses working in the fields. Thu knife that Lawrence had least more
suggested by the fact that one. huge Scotty had a let of extra work to do than three months before!
"salvage station" in France, dealing in addition to hie usual chores.1 Frances forgot about the wood -
with military exuviae, produces there- Frances, Lawrence's sister, kept a chuck as quickly as Scotty had, She
from $100.00 words of ntilie Ne record of the woodchucks that Scotty seized the knife and, -with Scatty
Material a day. Every scrap of ave :1- proudly brought to the house, and the leaping along beside her, man back to
able leather is turned to fresh ^k score stood at fourteen when the the house, where they were just sit -
.count, and so With all sorts: of of r parties lea. taunt that we are talking ting down to supper.
.things;. frame. Werle. blanlsete ' about i tk.,llaee, _ Lawrence was the 'onl;,: oi;3 not
hats. 11 eves on one of the hottest days' amazed at' her story.
The quartermaster's departm t, of the whole summer. Most of the! "Of course Scotty :et the wood -
which divides and distributes all i e time Scotty slept at the entrance to chuck get away," he said. "Be can
personal belongings of our soldiers, the cellar rollway behind the house. get that fellow some other day. It
will have nothing to do with the set- Between the shade of the great eizn was the knife that he was after this
tlement of the question here discussed tree that towered overhead and the time. Ile had been thinking about
It is the general staff. that will con- cool oir that came up from the cellar, that knife all these weeks, and lie
trol the whole affair. The business that was the most. comfoetab:e spot just happened to remem'aer that I
of that governing committee of the he could find. Once in a while he might have lost it there wheu I wile
went down into the cellar it -,elf, where helping father repair the wall last
it was much cooler; but don there it spring. So he went and looked. The
was hard to bear the men when they woodchuck just happened to bo there
came up from the liege with a load --that's all!"
of hay, and of course he had to be' That explanation might not. have
round to help in the unloading. satisfied everyone, but it satisfied
'Usually he went into the field with Lawrence, and he saw to it that Scot -
them after the loads of hay,—al- ty had an extra good supper that
though he never went in the morning night. But Frances, who was rath-
when the mowing machine was dick- en glad that for a change one wood -
mg away through the tall grass,— chuck got away, sometimes has a
but it was too hot for that to -day. feeling that perhaps Scotty really
Late in the afternoon a cool breeze went woodchuck hunting and founr
came up, and then Frances saw Scot- the lost knife by chance. Who can;
ty leave the yard and go off into the say?
dust about, it will be best to give the
baby his airing indoors or on a pro -
fleeted porch. Dress him as for;
going out, open all the windows wide
Health r F and let him remain in the fresh air
for some time. Very young or deli -1
,mate babies require much heat and
must be very warmly covered to pro -
Fresh Air For Baby.tett them against being chilled, and
a baby under three months of age
Keep the baby out of doors, Jx- { should not be taken out in severe
cept in winter, begin when the baby! weather; but plenty of fresh air is
is two weeks old to take him out for essentgal to all babies,
a few minutes every day in mild, When the weather is excessively
pleasant weather, increasing the time het the baby should be taken out
gradually until he is staying out early in the day and kept indoors
most of the time. Probably no oth- until the late afternoon. From that
er thing will do so much to ensure a time an until the rooms have cooled
healthy babyhood as this, and the re- in the evening he should be kept out,
stilt will well repay whatever trouble beim well protected from mosquitoes.
is necessary to .secure it. Wleth It a screened porch is available the
the exceptions mentioned below•, a health and comfort of the baby will
baby may spend practically all the nae g really Lnereaed.
time out of doors, both •sleeping and . •;«- ----..
waking, if them is someone to look Origin of Khaki.
after hint to see that he is protected Several years ago in India, a eom-
against sun, wind and dangerous in- pany of English troop; grew weary
sects. or exposing themselves in white cot -
A youing baby
may stay in his car ton uilifome to the fire of the enemy
riago or crib on the pariah, on the snipers, So they adopted naturo's good
roof, under the trees, or in the back- old law of proteetive coloring and
yard, evhere the .busy mother can daubed thele utzifoems with mud .from
army is to make war plans, and 'al-
ready --though nobody is permitted to
know what it is going to do—it has
talten gravely into consideration the
dianosal of the left -overs of the great
conflict.
Ask an ordnance officer what is to
be clone with all the hundreds of mil-
lions of shells, bombs and other pro-
jectiles remaining in stock at the
war's end, and he will tell you that
he hasn't the slightest idea. The
general staff will decide.
Costly Material in Question.
Projectiles are• costly to make. For
big guns the manufacturing price runs
up into the hundreds of dollars apiece.
It would never do to destroy them,
and doubtless they will be stored—in
the hope that no use for them will
ever be found. But they are ready.
loaded with high explosives, or with
gas -producing chemicals, It is a fair
presumption that their bursting p
gas charges will be extracted, if only
for the sake of precaution.
Again, there is a question of dis-
posing of thousands of artillery guns
of all calibres ----not to mention rna-
chlne guns, trench mortars, etc. What
is to be done with them? Big guns
are enormously expensive to manu-
facture. We can hardly "scrap" them
for their high-grade steel. Doubtless
they will be stored for possible fu -
tune use. Likewise the rifles turned
in by soldiers.
Taken tis a whole, the problem is
big. John Bull, on the eonclusion of
a final peace, will find himself in
much the same position as a man who,
after putting in a large stock of cost-
ly furniture and goods, is driven out
of business. He Belle his stuff' for
what he can get—a small fraction,
presumably, of its original cost, and
makes a philisophieal best of the
situation, look after him; older babies who need the banks of one of Inc sluggish
In this case, John Bull has had the exercise maybe kept in a creeping streams, Thoce who direct the affairs
sati.ffaetion of driving his sole ton'1 pen culler on the porch or in the of the ;army in India heard of this •
petitoz' eutiaely out of business, yard, 7f it is.zztit feasible to provide camouflage and proceeded to make
- --- - out -of --door sleeping places for nicest- *mine interesting experiments. What
Old waallpaper can easily bo reznov» older babies at least the windows of they' discovered evidently pleased
ed by applying to it freely with a the nureery should be kept wide' then, for eventually a uniform of this '
heaping tablespoonful of ealtpeter to When the weather
color a a s
tandand
was adopted
iuropen most of the year,brush a liquid mace is uIiin one z:ti,,v eal�,all the troops in rimtIy, service in the
a gallon of hot water. The water -when the snow is melting, ox w•hc'n East. I' h<aki, the niznax: given 1'hc
should be kept hot, A whitewash there is a heavy storm in progt'e i , t,e lar cif the ileh.v tnilfc erns, is tlic'
brush is best to use« or a high wind 'blowing quantities of • Hindu word for muddy.
ii: aha took it to part.
Timm men had uncomplainingly
stuck t s a lob that was recognized by
the Admiralty as one of the most un-
attractiee in the navy, but it wa.s
ended by participation in Da event
unique in naval history and a fitting
ending for service performed.
r
AAlthough British u 'i ,.nniarinee al-
waye were on the lookout for IT -boats,
their emes.ess in the war was not Incas-.
used `by the number they destroyed.
Nevertheless, it was coineident that
twenty U-boats have been sunk by
Brits. h submersibles during the war,.
and it was the same number first sur-
rendered to the British submarine
crews on the day of taking over of
the German fleet was inaugurated off
I, this port-
{
Distributed the Honors.
As far as possible the Admiralty
distributed the honor of taking 'ttvur
the IJ -boats among all the Iian of
the submarine fiottila. Fourteen hien
were placed on each surrendered
I boat, and as they . urrcnde, ed in bat -
Idles of twenty, a total of 280 officers
and men were allowed to participate
!each day. Ev.ry man looked forward
tri it eagerly, all of them wanted to
be :selected for the first day's work,
ibut when they boarded the beaten
craft, they maintained excellent dis-
cipline, and orders against any de -
1 monstration Were. so carefully obeyed
that it was. almost with,an air of e ; „:.,_,
intere3t that they went about their
•
{ duSo tiesm.
uch had been ::aid of the in-
tricacies of the German submarine
that there were marry misgivings
among the British officers of their
:ability to navigate them soon after
they had received them. They were
it soon reassured, however, as nothing
so far different from the other sub-
! marines was found. Among the first
twenty brought in it was the 1T-135,
Which is 27t1 feet long, was eompleted
three months ago and had never been
!to sea until she crossed the British
.. Channel to he surrendered. Her type
attra^.tod Commodore S. S. Hall, who
has been at the head of the British
submarine force since the beginning
of hostilities.
Ile ys as taken to the vessel soon
after she was placed in her berth, in
the River. Stour. and inspected her
with the young British lieutenant who
had taken her over and brought her
into port with the aid of the German
engineers. Commodore Hall, about
to leave, smilingly asked the lieuten-
x rt when he would be randy to "shove
off." But the young man took the
question seriously= and promptly re-
plied :
"I can take her to sea in a cosine
of hours. She is frightfully dirty.
but the engines are in good shape and
my men can operate them."
Home Attain.
Over the sea aur Laddie will come,
For the bottle is over and won;
And the boys who iousht on the ri.alas
of Prance
Will lay aside pack and I0&i,
Oh,lthe s, ca has nee ti eggs=gltl ,1ne
`Pour laddie sailed,
And beneath it no longer hialve
The menacing crew of the sub iait e
To deetruy the ship ,-s star ri 3 r.t,
S;as, our htudie has stuie,.i on tTo' in'ltla
11110,
l" ace'' tri fac,, with death and d epair,
But the good hl. God �ctlre Iris
et ong#� defenseand, a
In that /tenting hell out th c
c
Over. the ,tea our laddie will : ,.
To laic home and friends and
So sift tonic met ;cntilee and .;
ling heart
eemot r,•ait •1111 the ,.hip ,• m . ,,..
Barry's First CFirt i na s.
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