Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24
White Ribbon Badges

White Ribbon Badges
Are worn and white ribbon banners waved
with telling force by the housewife when
she achieves variety in the bill of fare as
well as abundance and nutrition The
scientist, w Mattieu Williams, illustrates
this principle-now made the battle ground
for temperance and other kinds OF moral re-
form-by a trip taken through Norway
many years ago. After telling of losing
the track while crossing the Kjolen field
alone, of struggling twenty-three hours
without food or rest, and getting In sorry
plight into rough quarters in still wilder
region, DIR. Williams says: II continued
through this rough country to the great
Jostadal lakeland, an unbroken glacier of
500 miles and then descended the Jostedal
itself to its opening on the Sogue ford. 1t
made FIVE days of extreme hardship, with
no other food than fiat bread, which IS a
coarse oat cake, and bilberries gathered on
the way varied occasionally with the lux
ury of raw turnips.
Then / reached a comparatively lux
urous station where ham and eggs and
claret were obtainable. The first glass of
claret produced an effect that alarmed me
craving for more and for stronger drink
that was almost irresistible. I finished
bottle of st. Julien, and nothing but a vio-
lent effort of the will prevented me from
ordering brandy. 1 attribute this to the ex-
haustion consequent on the overwork and
insufficient, unsavory food of the previous
five days"
That the main cause of the craving for
drink is work which become overwork when
combined with tasteless food, of which
there can't be enough eaten TO obtain sur
ficient nutrition, Is the conclusion reached
by this scientist. 1t Also Is the one upon
which is based all advanced philanthropy.
From his practical work among the poor
of New York, Darius Ogden Mills long ago
reached the same conclusion. he says tnat
the coarse, unnourishing food, lacking
either good flavor and variety, eaten by the
poor, simply is impossible for them to digest
without alcoholic stimulant, and that the
beggar who spends half the dime given TO
him for drink Is only getting the neces-
sary aid for his systems accepting the bad
Iy prepared and monotonous food from
which most of the nutriment has been elm
mated.
Furs Are Freshed-
BY treating them to a good brushing and
shaking first and afterward giving them
one of these several dry-cleantng processes.
which can be done at home with any but
the worst soiled furs.
Heat bran, and with flannel rub 1t well
into the fur. Leave 1t wrapped UP for a
day. and then brush every piece of bran
from the fur and give 1t a thorough shak-
ing. Use for gray fox, squirrel. chinchilla
and caracal
Cover the bottom of a frying pan with
-four and leave 1t, stirring continually until
1t becomes a dark brown color. when 1t is
ready to be rubbed into the fur. Brush
well afterward and comb If the fur Is long
haired. Use for sable, sealskin. bear or any
of the brown furs.
For white furs use the -four treatment as
hot as possible without browning the -four
Rub 1t in with a piece of white flannel,
which must be renewed as soon as it be-
comes dirty, aud reheat the -four often.
Ernine Is harder to clean than most
white furs. and 1t is necessary to treat 1t to
the above process first. and then to rub 1t
with powdered nnagnesia. using a piece of
white muslin. When not soiled but merely
crushed, they may be made to look like new
by wetting the whole coat with a hair
brush. brushing the fur the wrong way.
Leave 1t to dry in the air about half an
hour. Then beat IL well with a rattan, and
after beating comb 1t with coarse comb
the right way of the fur.
In repairing furs the skin sometimes will
be found wrinkied and shrunken after tax
ing out the lining Get some one TO hold It
out straight for you. and then saturate il