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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Make Your Milk Dishes
With Whole Milk.

You don't get the whole milk when
you buy from the milkman. The reason
is this:
Milk that stands awhile separates.
The butter fat rises and the solids fall.
So you get all the butter fat only when
served from the top of the can.
Thus you are surprised, when you first
cook with Van Camps, at the delicious
flavor it gives to a milk dish. You Won
der what we have added--what we have
done-to make the milk seem SO good.
We have added nothing at all. Van
Camps is simply the whole, rich milk,
just as it comes from the COW. You get
all Of the butter fat, all of the solids.
You never get them all in raw milk.
That flavor belongs to your cooking.
You will get it every time in milk dishes
made with Van Camps.
We issue a Cook Book-free. 1t tells
how to make all sorts of milk dishes,
and gives the whole cost of each Ask
us to send it to you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Van Camps Milk
Evaporated- Sterilized-U nsweetened

nished all the fittings Of the fashion,
able new Colony club for women in
New York city She goes abroad
every summer to purchase hangings
bric-a-brac and ceramics for Alner-
can families of means. She declares
that there is moro money in interior
decorating than in the stage
If the largest Merry Widow hat
worn by woman We're ripped apart
and the braid measured with a yard
stick it would take 120 measurements
of the stick to come to the end of the
braid. Thousands and thousands Of
yards of this braid, which is made BY
the peasant women Of the mountain
Gus countries of Europe and Asia, are
shipped to America every year. 1t
comes in its natural color and the
manufacturers dye the straw in the
leading shade Of the moment After
this dyeing is done the braid is sent to
the sewing room. where BY skilled
workers it is fashioned into hats.
They are then blocked and receive
their first attempt at a correct shape
and after they are glued and dried
they arc ready to be sent by the hun
dreds to Wholesale houses. that sell
them to the small milliners ready to
be trimmed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
Conscience. Stricken.

Well, anyhow, the things I said
To make the babies go to bed
Were well deserved! They romped and
played
Until their mother seemed afraid
They never would turn in and go
Away to Sunderland, and so
did speak sharply to the two;
When I tell them what there to do
They are supposed to do ft-yet-
Why Is it that can't forget?
Why can't Danish from my view
The way they looked. the grief that grew
In their two faces, overspread
Their countenances? Curly-head
Stuck her wee underlp way out,
And sister girl stopped as in doubt
If dad had truly said the word
That she imagined she had heard;
Ard then they slowly backed away.
Too grieved for goodnight, kiss or play.
Darn this months magazines! not one
Of all the stories that they run
Are worth the paper and the ink!
Don't people who write stories think.
Have they no brains, have they thought
That they can dish this sort of rot
Out to the public all the time.
And always get the nimble dime:
I'll show them-wish I hadn't said
The words l did to Curly-head.
wish I'd waited for awhile!
My babies hroken-hear1ed smile
When they understood their dad
Had scoided them makes me feel bad.
1t wouldn't have hurt Inc to do
A rOmp and played at peek-a-bOO
With them awhile-it would beat thisi
I gues I'll go and sneak kiss
If they're asleep in their white beds
Lord bless their tousled curly heads.
Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

this is as follows: Put the cold fish
into fairly deep dish with a little of
the water in which it was boiled; add
an equal quantity of vinegar, pepper
and salt, and a little herbs, let the
fish remain in this pickle till breakfast
next day. 1t should be turned several
times to insure it's being thoroughly
saturated.
II the family is large it is better to
have two or three substantial dishes,
one or two hot and the others cold.
rather than large quantity Of one
kind. Fruit, fresh or stewed and
tomatoes and Watercross should APP
pear at breakfast every morning in
Summer. these being not only
suited to the season. but
also good from a health standpoint
and they render attractiveness to the
table, matter well worth considera-
ton.
Toast buttered and dry, and freshly
made rolls and hot cakes; preserves
or marmalade, with the usual coffee
and tea, hot and cold milk, brown and
white bread and butter would COM
plete a meal certain to give more
in every way than the
average embarrassing breakfast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Concerning Women.

Mrs. Booth Harrington, wife of the
famous Indiana novelist, is one Of the
literary and social sensations of Paris
this year, where her poetry is much
read and her dinners much liked. She
is said to be beautiful type of
American Womanhood. Her maiden
name was Louise Fletcher and her
father is Stoughton Fletcher, president
of Well-knnwn Indiana bank
Miss Ida TarnelI, who wrote the IA
nous "History of Standard DIP and is
row regarded as the most brilliant
woman historian of modern days. is a
woman of simple tastes and metnodi-
cal habits. She lives practically
alone, in order to follow her study and
work in absolute seclusion, occupying
small apartment in New York dur
ing the winter and q quiet farm in
Connecticut during the summer.
Miss Elsie De Wolfe. for the past
ten years known all over America as
one of the most skillful portrayers Of
the American society woman on the
stage. has definitely retired from the
theatrical profession and has become
professional decorator and art con-
noissaur. She designed and fur
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Aouseh old Hints.

Pumpkin seeds are attractive to mice,
ard traps baited with them will soor des-
troy this, little pest.
If black stockings are washed in warm,
soapy water and rinsed in clear water
with little vinegar they will keep their
color until worn out.
10 quickly cream butter and sugar use
the wire potato masher ard have the in
gradients in a thick. round bottomed
crock If the milk is added it creams
more easily.
When a cake Of soap has been used I'M
til it becomes 50 thin it is liable to break
put 1t and a new cake iE hot water for
two or three minutes. then fit thin pieces
onto the new calc- and press firmly with
fingers; it will adhere and become a part
of the new cake.
Damp shoes are difficult to polish: try
putting drop or two of paraffin in bla ok
ing and YOU will find they will polish up
at once. Leather that has become dull
and shabby looking may lie improved in
appearance by being rubbed over with the
well-beaten white Of an egg.
Every houSekeeper has found il difficult
to Keep berries overnight for Sunday din
ner. IT you put the berries in glass Jars
as soon as they are at hand and put a
rubber and cover on, and screw the latter
OH tight the next day the berries will be
nice as when put in cans provide you put
them in the refrigerator or other cool
place.
If rug is placed on the dining room
pushing back Of chairs will wear out the
carpet or scratch the floor. 1t is best to
purchase rubber tips and have them tack
ed to the chair legs. 1t will cost about
81 to get enough tins fer half-dozen
chairs and the 81 will save many dollars
IL Wear on the floor or rug.
To clean wall paper, use pulvericd pum-
ice stone four ounces. -four one quart
mix thoroughly ard knead will, water
enough to make dough. Form into balls
two by six to eight inches; sew in a cot
ton cloth. boil forty minutes. or until
firm. After cooling allow them to stand
several hours. Then remove cloth and
use. This formula was given by pro-
fessional wallpaper cleaner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
The Summer Breakfast Table.

The breakfast table, as we'll as it's
contents, often receives less attention
than it deserves. Spotless table linen
and shining silver and cutlery do their
part, if permitted, but care and taste
in the decoration of the table must be
added, if breakfast is to be a pleasant
and attractive meal. In hot weather,
especially, the breakfast table should
receive it's full need of care and
thought, for with Summer comes the
Discrimination to eat substantial food
during the day, and breakfast ought,
therefore, to supply good foundation
meal of suitable and appetizing
character.
The chief dish, or dishes, should be
varied from day to day, and all should
be in keeping with the season. Cold
ham, for example, might be served on
two separate mornings in the week,
and on the others one or more Of such
dishes as the following: Fried or
broiled fish; eggs boiled, poached or
scrambled; scallops or crOquettcs
from the remains of any cold meat:
fish cakes or kedgeree all prepared
from the remains of cold fish, savorr
tomatoes, or, occasionally, on cooler
mornings. fried bacon and fried
tomatoes; sardines on toast; cold
tongue or other cold meat.
The croquettes and scallops could
be prepared on the previous day, and
would then only need frying in fat be
fore breakfast, or warming if
already cooked. None of the other
dishes mentioned will take long to
prepare.
Cold fish or cold meat salad is
another suitable Summer breakfast
dish and the remains of cold ham
might be utilized either in such form
or for a change in the following way:
Fry some very thinly sliced onions in
little hot butter; add to this the
cold ham, cut up into small pieces,
and a little boiled rice; season with
a pinch Of cayenne, and. if liked, two
or three spoonfuls of grated cheese;
stir all together over the fire, taking
care to avoid burning. and serve hot
with toast. Home made potted meat
made from either fresh or cold
cooked meat can be made but with
little trouble and is much appreciated
for breakfast in hot weather. AS an
alternative to the fish cakes or other
hot dishes, prepared from fish left
over from previous meals, picked
fish might be served
One of the best ways of preparing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

You who still cling to the milkman-
let us show you what you lose.
Try one can Of Van Camp's-a ten
cent can. Then Judge what it means to
have such milk all of the time.
Try cooking with milk that has all
the butter fat in it. Try drinking
milk that is sterilized.
See what you gain in convenience
see what you save in money. Then see
what you get-the richest, purest milk
in the world.
Can YOU think of a reason for using
raw, germ-laden milk when you can get
Van Camps?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Left-Over Eggs.

Eggs that have been hard boiled and
sent to the table and untouched can be
sliced and dressed with mayonnaise.
Fried eggs can be run through a food
chopper, mixed with potatoes and
cooked in potatoes balls. Poached eggs
should be relocated and cooked done
and run through a ricer to add to sal
ads. Boiled or fried eggs if run through
a ricer and mixed with finely chopped
meat make good croquettes. If the
yolk of an egg is used and the white is
left, beat it and stir into apple sauce.
A broken egg can be covered with wat
er, placed in the refrigerator and will
keep good for several days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
It's Economical.

Van Camp's-with all of it's good
ness-is cheaper than milkman's milk.
It's as thick as thick cream. SO thick
that you add one part water for coffee.
Yet it doesn't cost half what you pay
your mikman for cream.
Add two parts water and you have
rich milk The cost of such milk, when
you buy Van Camps by the case, runs
about six cents per quart.
Then YOU have no waste-no milk left
over. That saving in year is enormous.
And Van Camps means COW in your
kitchen. Rich milk or cream always on
tap. And always fresh-always the
same.
Yet such milk, in such shape, costs
you actually less than raw milk bought
as you want it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
No Germs No Danger.

But the great fact about Van Camps
is the fact that it's germless milk.
Our cows are inspected; so are the
men who milk them. There are no tuber
cular cows, no diseased milkmen. to con-
vey their infections to Van Camps Milk.
Our diaries are sanitary. Our fac
tories, where the milk is evaporated, are
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
See What 1t Means
Rich milk or cream fresh always hand when want it,
No waiting the mnan shortage waste Better mcheape
miuk-eemless milk is what Van Camps means to

built without wood We make a bust
ness of cleanliness.
Then the milk is stcriliZed after the
cans are sealed. Not a germ Of any kind
can remain in it.
Please think what that means.
In Washington, ID. G., it was recently
found that IL per cent of the dealers
were selling tubercular milk. Seven per
cent of the milk, taken from 400 sam
pies, proved fatal to guinea pigs. The
pigs died of tuberculosis.
That's but one of the risks you take
in using raw milk. Any disease germ
that gets into milk breeds millions more
like it within few hours.
A great deal of illness is known to be
due to infections conveyed by milk. Can
YOU think of a reason for taking such
risks when you can get Van Camps?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

It is not like condensed milk, which
is half sugar. You can't use condensed
milk in cooking.
In Van Camps, nothing whatever is
added-no sugar, no starch, no pre-
servative. And nothing is subtracted,
save part of the water, which you can
put back when you get it.
1t is simply pure miIk-nothing but
milk-put up in a convenient and ster-
ilized form.
Analysis shows about 80 per cent of
solids, of which per cent is butter fat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
A New Use for Old Bottles.

Did you ever make a doll of a
bottle? 1t is very easy, as all you
have to do is to take a stone beer
bottle, fill it with sand. and cork
securely. Draw over this an old
stocking. Stuff the upper part for a
head and below this for the body. OF
course, the head projects above the
bottle. Tie string for the neck and
waist. Make hair of black worsted
and sew on the head. Work the eyes,
nose and mouth with white thread.
Make a shirt and waist OF plaid
gingham, and a white apron with
strings. Put a small sunbonnet on
the head and rufile around the neck.
This may be used to put against a
door to keep it open. and look very
much like a CONGRATULATIONS
Life"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Cocoanut Macaroons.

Add to a scant cupful of sifted flour
one cupful of granulated sugar and
two cupfuls of the best shredded
cocoanut. Mix thoroughly, then fold
into the mixture the whites of three
eggs whipped to a stiff froth. Make
into small fiat cakes and bake in
slow oven until crisp and delicate
brown
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup

Mas been Used for over sIxTY-FIvE YEARS By NIL
LIONS Of MOTHERS for their CHILD Rem WHlLk
TEETIfING. with PERFECT SUCCESS. II SOOTHEs
the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAfS all PAIN
CURES WIND Collie and 10 the best remedy for D1Ak.
RHlEA Sold by Druggists In part OF the world
BE and ask for Mrs. Winslows Soothing syrup
and take no other kind Twenty Ave cents bottle e0uaf
anteed Food and Drugs Act June Sth 1900 s.A
Nuui~r IONA AN C-.'' 'sp ~cL'- TRIED REMEDY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Van Camp Packing Co.
Indianapolis, Ind.

At Il ball in Bermuda a wonderful
dress was Worn and in the making Of
it over 10000 stamps We're used. Years
were spent in collecting the stamps
and three weeks in the making of the
dress. which was OF the finest muslin
The woman called upon her friends to
to help her and the dress was covered
with the stamps of all nations They
We're not put on anyhow, but in an
elaborate design. on the front of the
bodice was an eagle made entirely of
brown Columbia stamps. Suspended
from the birds talons was globe
made of very old blue revenue stamps.
On each side of the globe was an
American flag, having stripes of red
and blue stamps. On the back OF The
bodice was Il collection of foreign
stamps in the form of a shield. in the
center of which was portrait of Sir
George Summers, cut from old rcve-
nue. stamps. A picture hat, covered
with red and blue stamps was worn
with this remarkable dress.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

Add little soda to the water in
which you are going to wash greasy
dishes. This helps to remove the
grease and keeps the dishcloth in good
condition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Nothing But Milk.

Van Camps is simply rich, Holstein
milk with two-thirds the water evapo-
rated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

We cook our wheat in pure Vermont maple
syrup, to make this perfect food enticing.
To make children like it better than fad foods
better than foods not half good for them
Once let them taste Mapl-Flake and they
win never again be content with inferior cereal
foods.
Whole wheat is the ideal food for hot weather.
Il is the food Of the ages. Nothing can take IT'S
place
1t gives the maximum nourishment while pro-
ducinE the minimum heat. In summer. wheat
should largely take the place of meat.
But wheat must be prepared rightly, else
much of it fails to digest. The particles must
be separated, by cooking and heat, 30 the diges-
tive juices can get to them.
So we, steam-cook our wheat for six hours.
Then we cure it for days. partial digestive
process.
Then each separate berry is faxed . thin that
13,e full heat of our ovens attack every atom.
Then those thin fakes arc toasapd - aainseo
h a heat Of 400 degreeA
Fszind foods can Be made II uuefomth OF
xhis time. The making cost Is ks1 bue Tie ooss
% 3ou = mare.
!. For A.d cooked food Only 6ldf dguta TIE
uGhr haa epes to vasae Il SeEzsaas and d.
tzis digestion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

Scrubbing brushes should never he
put away with their bristles upward,
for thus the water would soak into
the wooden part and the brstes would
soon become loose
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
One Package Free

We want you to know Map1-E1ake
it from the food itself So we offer to buy the
first package ourselves. rather than have you
wait.
These are Map1-F1ake days-the time for
wheat and fruit. Don't longer 60 without it.
Please send US this coupon-now before you
forget it. We will then send you an order, good
at your grocer's, for a full-size package free.
See what it adds to breakfast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
For Children.

When immigrant babies arrive in New
York they are fed on Van Camps Milk.
Their food is prescribed by physicians
by men who know the dangers that Turk
in raw milk.
Twothirds the mortality of children
is due simply to germs in milk.
Raw milk, like raw meat, is an unfit
food. There is too much danger of germ
infection.
Let your children drink Van Camps.
They will come to love the slight almond
flavor, due to sterilization. For that
flavor means that the milk is pure Not
a germ Of any kind-harmlpss or harm
ful-exists in Van Camps Milk.
Van Camps Milk comes in ) and 10
cent cans-at your grocer's. The first
can will convince you. After that. get
the discount allowed when YOU purchase
by the case. Then you'll have it always
on hand. '''''
Produced in five states, by the dairies
Of the Van Camp Packing Co., Indian
apolis, Ind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11
Tell Us Child
That Lacks It
We want know the children who are not getting Mapl
Flake. We will buy package for them Let them tel
YOU how they like it and you'll buy it for them next

Mapl-F1ake is the one food that's all food
the one food that all digests. To make it SO
we spend o6 hours in the process.
A whole wheat made wholly digestible-made
enticingly delicious. The first package will
make YOU a convert forever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-11

The healthy woman; strong men.
tally and physically, whose ambi-
tion and magnetic influence urge
1nen to deeds Of grandeur and hero
ism; such women are all-powerful
Weak, sick and ailing women
have little ambition; their own trou.
bles occupy all their thoughts. They
dwell upon their pains, suffer from
nervousness and headaches; often
are extremely melancholy, and
avoid society. For thirty years
LYDIA E.PlNkHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
has been saving women from this
awful condition.
Mrs. Louise Jung, of 1892 Chestnut
st., Detroit, Mich, writes:
~ suffered from very severe female
weakness for q long time. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, re-
stored my health. hope it will do other
women as much good as it has me-"
Mn. Emma Wheaton, of Vienna,
W. Va, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 was walking shadow. My hus-
band insisted upon my writing to you
and trying Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound, which l did. It re.
loved all my pains and misery, and
made Of me very different woman"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, irregularities, periodic pains,
backache, that bearing-down feel
ing, dizziness, or nervous pros
tration. Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-10-08

handling the animals after killing. l
riSged up a simple arrangement so
that l am able to handle heavy hogs
without assistance. | built a fire
box with flue, b, OF three Joints of
old stove pipe. The vat was made
of heavy galvanized iron four feet long
by two feet wide and Is inches deep.
over this / erected a frame of two
by-four.inch strips, upon which placed
an old traveller from heavy hay car
rier. With the winilass arrangement,
a, and the tackle, e, to which were at
tached the four feet of the hog, | can
convey it from the vat to the bench.
A rope, C, passing over the pulley at
<, serves to pull the carrier, d, over
the bench from the vat. | have seen
arrangements that were more simple
than this, but never used one that was
easier to work.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-10-08
NO CHANCE TO euNko HIM.
City Youngster Too Well Aware of the
Wiles Of Grafters.

The baseball evangelist, the elo'
quent Billy Sunday, said during the
revival services at Sharon, Pa:
Keep good company. Nothing does
the young more harm than bad So
ciety. Only yesterday farmer told
me about youngster of six or seven,
little country weeker, who had as
suspicious and mistrustful a heart as
some old miser or crook.
This boy was sent by charity so
ciety to spend week at the farmers.
The farmer set out to meet him, but
was late. He ran into him halfway
to the farm, trudging along the white
road, big burlap bag of luggage on
his little bony shoulder.
"The farmer held out his hands fol-
the burlap bag.
"I'll carry it, son. he said. It's toe
heavy for you
"'Go on,' said the little boy fierce
ly. Clear out now, or I'll call a cop