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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
What the Market Affords

Tomatoes done into preserves is an
old-fashioned process. But "tomato
JAM as an accessory in serving meats
sounds rather "'new.' Wash the ripe
tomatoes and throw them into boiling
water for minute or two. Then re-
move them from the water and peel
them. Put them in a preserving pan
and cook them slowly until soft. Then
rub the pulp thru a sieve. To each
pound Of pulp add q pound of sugar,
one cup of water, the juice of a lemon
and a half-cup Of cider vinegar. Boil
these ingredients slowly until as thick
as any fruit jam. ,... -..-..
When this jam is cool, put it in Jars
and cover the jars. Use glasses if you
prefer. This condiment is good to serve
with cold or hot meats.
An exceedingly delicious and season
able as well as simple salad may be
made from pears. Cut large Bartlett
pears in two, and combine the inside
taken from the halves with mayon-
naise. Place it back into the halves
and tie them together with ribbon. =
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

had convinced Of the error of my conception Of
finance. It's wonderful the way women figure things
out'' -... ~'", ;" -" - :
"Come back to the bet,'' said the man with the
cigaret case, ''who right?'
fsWe both looked the thing up the next day and
when we met soon afterward she was jubilant. She
made bluff Of getting out Of it, but she insisted on
having her quarter and handed it over.'
"Well, is that al9'' queried he of the red tie i'm
patiently. *s --.- ?, r. - =. ~
'tNo. The next day got little package from her.
Women funny. She had sent me white wash silk
tiea mighty pretty one, too and she had left the
price mark on it. It was so cents - - ,@> F."
He arose and threw away his cigaret, looked at the
clock, said good night, and went out. .@'. ''
'Humph!'' CALCULATED the red tie man. NGuess
there s another chapter yet to that story, %'
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
When a Girl Wagers
I'D ETTING with girl Is a funny proposition"
* began the man in the gray suit.

/ \ OOSnA Ilo Hldu III Cne gray suiL
You bet 1t isi'' assented the with
the red tie. I'll never try it again.
It's just another and more agreeable phase Of
the gold brick game chimed in the with the sill
yer cigaret case as he passed it around. What did
you get stuck for, William9',
"I won this time replied William, lighting his
cigaret H<
eyes, the man nearly always wins, but the girl
never pays. You don't mean to tell us that you have
run across phenomenon9n 49,, E.
''Well here it is. This girl and had bet about
some fool thing or other. didn want to bet in the
first place for was sure right but she insisted
that her idea was the We couldn't refer
to anybody or anything at that time to decide, she
was determined to bet, and finally made the magnif-
cent declaration that she would bet me quarter.
laughed and said would be ashamed to take the
money and then she proceeded with truly feminine
proposition.
quarter. If you win, will pay back to you the
quarter borrowed the other day. ~
If course, laughed and told her couldn't see
where won by any figuring FOOLISH don you get
your quarter back9 she asked with irritation.
Il ought to get that anyway retorted. 'Well, you
wouldn she said conclusively. THAT was only car
fare, and woudn t insult you by returning it,. Of
course, subsided then and she considered that she
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
A String of Good Stories
SHE GAVE HERSELF AWAY.
'l cannot tell how the truth may be;
say the tale as twas told to me-"

p oBERT WATCHoRN, the well-known commits
y sioner of immigration, has made sympathetic
and thoro study OF the immigrant types that reach
New York
Discussing these types the other day. he said:
"The most naive the Germans from the small
or and remoter states. They have the charmingly
simple and quaint minds of children.
"a beautiful German girl disembarked here the
other day. She was tall and strong, blue-eyed and
yellow haired. She wanted to know at once if there
any letters for her.
s'The postmaster at the pier, after getting her
name, said, by way of a joke:
"'Is it business love letter that you ex.
pectf'
''The girl faltered
"EA business letter.
We'll, there's nothing here said the man. after
looking the assortment.
''The girl hesitated. Then, blushing red as a
rose, she said: ...
9 Would you mind just looking among the love
letters now, sir7'"
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
NATIONS GREETINGS

"How do you, dot" That g English
and American.
"How do you find yourselfs' That 3
French. -H@ .. .....sr
How do you stand9" That's Ital-
ian. = .s..S.
elbow do you find yourselfq" That 3
German. -..
"How do you farea" That s Dutch.
"How can youY" That Swedish.
"How do you perspire9" Egyptian.
e "How is your stomach9 Have you
eaten your rice9''z That's Chinese.
"How do you carry yourselfs'
That 3 French.
"How do you live on9' That Is
Russian.
"May thy shadow never be less.''
That is Persian.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
With the Long BolD
-"Eye natures walks. shoot folly 1t files"
The Difficult Question Of Art and the Clothing Trades
Was Mr.. Comstock Justified in Pinching Art
Suggestion Of Modus Vivendi for Art and the
Popular Thought Pending the Time when the Lat
ter Ceases to Think Evil. n%S f.
~ INCE ANTHONY CoMsTOCK pinched Art in

~ INCE ANTHONY COMsTOCK pinched Art in
New York, most of us who are not accustomed to
~ the public library and are not hardened to art,
have been wondering what it was all about
The eastern papers have ntmated that in the pres
ence the Students league publications, the peek
aboo waist stands in the position of battleshps
armor plate.
Lately the publications of the league have drifted
into the art department of this paper and people who
have never before visited the sky parlor whore,
very high plane this papers art league does its work.
have toilsomely climbed the stairs and cussed the
elevator for not being there to -,
Entirely in the interests of truth and to be
able to write nteligbly the subject, clomb the
aerial stairway of the office, ducked under the flying
buttresses Of the composing room lodged the Dweer
on the Threshold who strains out the book agents and
collectors and so reached the art winded, but
determined There dust scattered about, and
million pamphlets and papers and 700 to 1000 smells
from the engraving room. There we saw the publ
cations of the Students league and not par
ticuarly shocked. 49,
Fact is you wouldn't think much about the matter
If fuss had not been made about it, The cuts could
not be used in dry goods advertisement, first because
there was dry goods and second because the paper
printing them would be pinched by the police But
s'aht - of course it is supposed to be different.
Just why aht" demands pictures or stetuary that
makes the police department question what 1t ought to
do we do not fully understand. -:
All ask for "Aht'' is few good Rogers statu-
W to put around +a our Psro There is the
bashful couple standing before clergyman, who is
reading his paper. Then there is the group called
"Going for. the Cows in which horse
must be confessed, depicted in the nude that poss
bly, it would be better to conne oneself to the Com
ing to the Parson' group. The bride is young and
beautiful-and clothed So is the groom. And so is
the excellent and kindly clergyman. And why not9
Is there any conflict between art and the dry goods
and clothing tradess We claim that there should not
be. Both should work together In harmony for the
betterment of the race.
It is every mans business to keep evil out of his
thought When he does this he will not offend much
with his art. But until all people have accomplished
this somewhat task, it may be necessary to
hold up finger at art and advise her to just
fair ordinary amount Of discretion in her selection Of
subjects.
Speaking Of art, we have not foul of anything
that shows any artfulness than good stout gas
meter. Take it in the when the family sits
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
CIVIC PRIDE INDEED,

XCIVIC pride,' said Lincoln Stefens, the noted
~ reform writer, ''is all very well in its way.
Humility tho and discomfort usually lead to better
things than pride and compacency do, and whenever
I hear any man boasting overmuch about his city's
excellence think of the civic pride of old resi-
dent of PEBBLES.
''To this old man, who regarded PEBBLES finer
loaned. The old read the immortal plays
for the first time He enjoyed them nightly, and,
being asked what he thought of them, he slapped
his knee and said in loud, enthusiastic voice:
=" They're fine! They're glorious! They far sur
passed all my expectations. Why, sir there not
twenty in PEBBLES who could have written thoss
playsp'
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
TITLED AMERICAN WOMEN

A remarkable list, collected for the
first time, shows that American women
have, within few years, gained
twenty-six German titles, fourteen
French, seventeen Italian and six Rus.
sian. It is further estimated that 160
American heiresses have brought to
Europe in dowries no less than $780,
100000, or an average of 1897 800 each.
In Great Britain the American wives
Of British husbands help to control
about 100000 acres Of land.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
WORK FOR WOMEN LOVER so''

'Over 300 and "not under 3Oo are
business requirements which are be-
coming more and more frequent where
the services Of a woman are required.
The characteristics usually demanded
in such instances are Executive abil-
ity, " tact" and "good judgment. !"
The head Of New York establish.
ment making a speciality Of supplying
business women for all sorts Of work,
in speaking Of this subject recently,
said:
i have more applications nowadays
than ever before for thoroly competent
dignifed, mature women, trained and
experienced in aome line Of business
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

of Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, the tai.
ented daughter of the late John Hay:
How shall I hold you? By scimitar
OF flashing wit suspended Ger your
head,
Oh, my beloved? Or with lips rose red
Lure you to Lethe? Shall I stand afar.
Pale and remote and distant as star,
Challenging love? Or by a scarlet
thread
Jealousy's wiles, beguile by scorn and
dread?
Wounding the heart love with hateful
scar.
Nay, can take no action, play no play,
All my wit falters when I hear you
speak,
All my wise guile with which your WOO
- ing strove
Vanishes as the sun of yesterday.
can but lay my cheek against your
Love me or leave me. can only love.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
POSER FOR MEAT EATERS.

AMEs B. REYNOLDS, famous in the packing house
y exposures, said of vegetaranism in Washington:
"Vegetariansm is the logical well the
more comely and humane dietary, isn't itf
''Vegetariansm's superiority from the humane and
the logical point of view indicated to
by child in New York
''While was engaged in settlement work in New
York little child in one of the classes asked:
"'Why do kill lions and tgersa'
"sOh,' said 1, that is because the bad lions and
tigers kill the dear little sheep
why, then,' said the child, don't we kill the
butchers7'D -
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
LINEN BAGS

Linen bags, either in white Or COL
ors, and: embroidered in the E.owner's
monogram, are one Of the latest +whims
Of fashion and a very sensible one it
is, for these bags not only give q fin
ishing touch to the linen costume, but
can be put in the tub almost as often
m the. gown itseH. --...,s
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
MONKEYS AS NURSES.

s.M oNKEYs make poor nurses,'' said a zoo keeper.
lA ''When they live near stream of water and
of the colony falls SICK they invariably toss him
overheard. They don't want him around His sighs
and groans annoy them, So, 'Psst! Off the dockln
@'Here in captivity have to at sick
monkey from his comrades reach. Otherwise they
would soon kill him. When they can we'll monkeys
take strange joy in tormenting invalid. They
bite the end of his tail, they drag him about, they
pinch him. Finally, when he dies, many find
sit his body, close together very solemn,
tho engaged in some religious rite.''
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
THE SUMMER BACHELOR

The house is, big and empty
AS a barn; $3.50
And it's master doesn't hardly
Give a darn
Whether he stays there at all,
Where the phantom voices call;
It's a long, long time till fall;
That's no yarn. ...
He can't find the poker bunch
Any more. :.
He can't go the lonesome ways
. AS Of yore.
He has lost the old know-how,
Lost the wish for rowdy dow,
Lost the old companions now,
-. And he's sore. !.
Baby voices lifting, laughing,
Call thim, call!
Baby footsteps seem to patter
Down the hall!
It's a lonesome time O. year,
It's a long, long time and drear,
When the babies are not here!
Darn it all!
Houston
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

out on the porch
of an evening and
does not use gas,
when the house is
often closed for a
few days and the
lights turned off.
Does the meter
take cognizance of
these pat e n t
facts? If. it does
we never obtained
pecuniary ev i
dence of the same
In that delicate
little chrome yell
low pastel known
as the gas bill.
.f"NO one who
studies this de-
lightful bit of art
full art can feel
very much wonder
that the dividends
On gas were for
merly so enor-
nous that 1t was
necessary to water
up. with a bond is
sue so that the
{ stockholders could
J pass one another
on the street witht
j We once had a
gas company and
4 was on the square.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
AMBITION.

g AM SMALL, the eloquent evangelist whom Dr..
Torrey reconverted, was talking in Atlanta about
human nature.
"Human nature,'' he said, ''has lot of cussed-
ness in it. Men like to do bad things rather than
good things They even take pride in being bad.
They boast about their wickedness. They seem TO
be born that way.''
II once saw handsome, bright little chap of 8
or 9 sitting under an appletree reading book.
g There's fine little fellow I thought "a clean
minded manly little chap. I'll what his am
bition is.'
"And I approached the boy, patted him on the
head, and said:
well, my young friend, what is your ambitions'
"'I'd like said the boy, ito have people trem-
BILE like aspen leaves at the mere mention of my
name.' -
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

The sample inclosed is white vel
veteen, just cotton velvet, and it will
make up into a charming waist. Make
it quite plain in either Gibson or Peter
Pan style, because 1t can be laundered
in the usual way just as you would a
cotton waist, and ironed on the wrong
side while damp. A plain style is pref
cradle to anything .fussy, because it
takes quite q little time to dry, being
80 heayys Elizabeth Lee,
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
IN HOLIDAY TIME.

r HE waves broke in the summer night with mourn.
full sound and the moonlight on the sea made
highway as Of shimmering silver. =.
"Darling'
The voice of the youth vibrated with deep feeling
Darling, swear that you will love me forever''
The young girl sighed softly.
"Forever? Forever is long time, ism It its' she
murmured. "I dare not to love you forever''
''Swear, then,' he pursued in impassioned ac
cents, 'to love till the end Of my vacation six
days hence.' ..... 49, -
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

the bills honestly made out But just the same we
would like to know what goes inside the meter and
feel assured that honest meter does not sam
little and then.
Once we saw clock that had lost some cogs in one
of it's wheels. Every time it ticked it off twenty
minutes the face. Time flew.
To our lives could not help thinking of the
gas meter.
A mine has been improperly defined "a hole in
the ground owned by scoundrel." This is very
wrong because friend Of sold his stock day
last week for $4,000 than he paid for it! You
may not believe this but it is claimed to be
statement Of fact. *. .. .
We trust that it is true, for if it is claimed,
has at last made money out Of mining stock
It is all very well to- smile in superior way and to
hang out that increduous look but the party in ques
tion shows you his handbook with the money tucked
away in five figures in one Of its columns When the
who wanted to buy his stock up with the
money, the Of the stock dizzy and held to
his chair. The desk flew around and the gas jet ap
peared to him to break out into pyrotechnics But he
held himself gathered in the money and turned
the stock.
But it shook and the doctor has intimated
that he is suffering from weak heart.
Wouldn't that be glorious death, to die of max
ing 1000 without work sometime9 "A. j. R.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
CONTEMPT TO BURN,

I Ohm PHILIP SOUSA was condemning the law that
allows certain talking machine companies to make
records OF his famous marches and sell them broad
cast without paying him single penny for the privi.
lege -.
II have only contempt for such law as that :"
said the great bandmaster. 'EWhen I think of the
injustice OF it boil with contempt. I remind
myself OF Washingtonian who was hailed before
magistrate for committing nuisance
1.-The Washingtonian had committed nuisance,
but nevertheless the decision went against him. and
he was naturally incensed. Forgetting himself, he
told the magistrate what he thought of him. and was
fined $5 for contempt.
"He produced $40 bill to pay the fine with.
The clerk took 1t, searched his drawer, then made
as if to hand the bill back again.
% Il have change he said.
"'Oh, never mind about the change snorted my
friend. Keep it. I'll take it out in contempt
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

rounded out, by. the announcement that
the audience will not be required to
applaud before the end Of the concert.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
FROM ELIZABETH LEE
Name for Sample.

Dear Miss Lee: Will you kindly tell
me the name Of this sample and if it is
suitable for a waist for lady whose
age is 45f Also how to clean it from
ordinary wear, such as dusts
Underwood, MINI. Mrs. G. s. B.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08

Sleeps kidneys, s cents each.
Rutabagas, 10 cents a peck.
> Rhubarb, 2 cents pound.
Tomatoes, homegrown, 10 cents a
pound. ..
Butter, 10, 20 and 20 cents pound.
. Pears, 25 cents a dozen.
A dish that some persons like in the
evening, altho it has breakfast or
luncheon sound, is kidneys with to-
matoes.
Skin and slice six sleeps kidneys,
and season them with salt and pepper.
Melt in the blazer Of chafng dish
one-half ounce of butter, and fry in
1t a small, finely minced shallot; then
put in the kidneys. Stir them quickly
over full flame, sprinkle over a des-
sertspoonful Of -four. Stir well until
slightly Drowned, then add two peeled
and sliced tomatoes, small glass of
sherry and half gill Of good stock.
Cook together for another five minutes
and serve with sippets Of toast or Gel
cry biscuit. :
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

Milk Fed Chickens. A correspondent
asks II milk IL proper food for chick
ems. All authorities say not. No fowl
will live on fluid food. Chickens have
gizzards which alone proves that nature
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

intends them to be eaters Of grain ana
other hard foods which need crushing.
Milk Is utterly unfit for poultry and Is
likely to give poultry what 1t gives to
numerous human belngs-tuberculos
Milk Is the food Of calves and animals
horn alive. But not Of any animal that
Ii Matched.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

X. Jaques ut the meeting Of the Chlca.
60 Medical Society ut the public II.
brary. DIR. Arnold G. Klcbs expressed
Endorsement Of DR.. Jaque's sentiments.
After the broad assertions above
quoted DR.. Jaques continued as fol-
lows: 1.-THE condemned carcasses Gun
be sold by the consent Of the law after
they have been branded on the quarters
Of beef or mutton or pork, marked
with the condemned jag and returned
to the owner. The latter Is not forced
to destroy them. He may sell them
and the only thing required II that he
furnish q monthly statement. under
oath, as to the disposition Of the
meat"
"Where does this meat go which has
been condemned. ana redeemed by the
OwnersY' asked DIR. Klebs.
"In answering this question should
open up a new field Of discussion" an.
swered DR.. Jaqucs.
"That Is easy to answer" replied
DIR. Klebs. 1T goes to the American
consumer. 1t can't 20 to the foreign
market"
DIR. Jacques further stated that the
system Of having the inspection made
In the interest Of the owner and thu
producer to enable them to sell their
products In foreign markets was wrong
"rhe inspector should have the power
to render the condemned meat absolute
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07
Beet Trust, Medicine Trust, Pure Food
Foes, Patent Medicine Fiends Con.
troll State Legislation.
illinois Is the Only State in the
Union Where the People
Are Asleep.

Beef Trusts and other Corporations
that are crooked or that want much
from the Legislature without letting the
people get on to the fact; and patent
medicine trusts that are afraid the
people will learn that they are selling
poisons have discovered new way Of
controlling public opinion without
showing their own hand. They do
their business through professional
advertising agents, who claim to be
able to handle the daily and country
press. In turn the advertising agents
put In large ads. for the Beef Trust,
the Medicine Trust or some other trust
as the case may be, always stipulating
In their contracts that all contracts
for advertising are void II the State
Legislature passes any law inimical to
the Beef Trust, Medicine Trust. That
Is about as comprehensive, as frank.
~ impudent a scheme OF controlling
legislation as It Ia possible to imag.
irA. And so the Patent Medi.
cine Trust Of America, for one,
maintains lawyer In Chicago. and a
permanent secretary, Office and stan.
In every State capital In the United
States It maintains an agent whose
business It Is to watch during the ses.
sion Of the Legislature each days
batch Of new bills, and whenever Q
bill affecting patent medicines shows
Its head to telegraph the bin, YER
batlm, to headquarters. There some
scores Of printed copies Of the bill are
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

"Niilk.fed chickens" would be good
name IL applied to calves. canned and
sold to the public as pure article Of
poultry.
Immature veal, bad meat, slices
from Gamers and tid.bits from dead
pork are nicely fixed up in the Trust
laboratories with chemicals that give
them 1.-THE natural flavor" and are
then canned and sold to the public as
chicken, turkey, geese, ducks and
game Of various kinds.
The Beef Trust employs an army
Of chemists whose main duty Is to sup
ply the proper taste, smell and up.
pearance to the misbranded products.
No attention whatever Is paid to
the effect Of this kind Of food on the
public health.
The representatives Of the Beet
Trust have been In Washington for
months fighting the passage Of a pure
food bill which will prohibit this
.frightful fraud In the misbranding Of
food.
The following telegram from its
Washington correspondent, RAY.
mond," was printed on the first page
Of the Chicago Tribune Jan. 20. 1905
"senator ,McCumber the other day
gave to the Senate hint as to the
reason for this opposition by the
packing house people. He quoted a
report from the food commissioner Of
his own State. North Dakota, which
hit the packers between the eyes, and
which apparently explains why they
have been opposing the pure food bill
% vigorously.
"This North Dakota commissioner
had the indelicacy to make q special
examination Of all the alleged ported
chicken and potted turkey he could
and. II was all put up in cans and
oil came from outside States in orig
inal packages, 20 It was clearly ar
article Of interstate commerce and n
such could be regulated only by thu
federal government. This North On
kota commissioner went through car
after can and could not find the slight
est trace either Of chicken or turkey
Furthermore. It was put up by
packing establishments which have NJ
facilities for killing fowls and which
do not provide them. The cans, how
ever, were labeled 'potted chicken and
.pOtted turkey and this thing the
pure food bill proposes to stop.
Everybody knows this pOttcd tur
key and chicken and the various kinds
Of soups prepared by the packing