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The Winslow mail., 1908-08-22
MANY WAYS OF SERVING TT
POPULAR POTATO.
Easy to Avoid Common Mistakes in
Preparation - Three Recipes
That Are Used in Public
School Glasses.

are due more to errone nus habits OF
diet than to the use of u cohol, great
as I know the latter evil to be-
Sir Henry Thompson.
After the first potato lesson, says
Mrs Mary Williams, instructor in do
nestle science, the girls have learned
what mistakes are commonly made IN
the cooking of this vegetable and how
to avoid such mistakes. They will
not serve potatoes that are soggy
and waxy instead of mealy. They
know that potatoes should be left un-
covered to allow the steam to escape,
instead of recondeSsing and soaking
into the starch.
The practical work in the second
lesson on potatoes has to do with va
rious ways of serving this vegetable
Potatoes appear on the table so often
that this variety in serving is most
important The girls learn that with
little trouble and expense they can
prepare creamed potatoes, equal to
those served in the finest hotels. The
use of starch in thickening liquids for
sauces and gravies is explained when
making white sauce for the creamed
potatoes. The important point IN
this is to keep the starch from lump
ing when it is used as a thickening
material There are three ways by
which the Jumping may be avoided.
First, by mixing the starch with lit
tie cold water before adding it to the
hot mixture; second, by rubbing the
starch with the butter or other fat
before adding the liquid; third, by
mixing starch and sugar together
Before leaving the subject OF pota-
toes it will probably be of value to
housekeepers who dearly love rec1-
pes) to give some potato recipes
which are used in public school
classes.
Creamed Potatoes.-Cut freshly boil
ed or cold boiled potatoes into one
half-inch cubes, put them into sauce
pan, nearly cover them with milk, and
cook gently until nearly all the milk
is absorbed Add white sauce, stir
for one minute, sprinkle with finely
cut parsley duu SSl FO
White Sauce (for Vegetables. But
ter, two tablespoonfuls; salt, one-half
teaspoonful flour, two tablespoon
fuls; pepper, one-eighth teaspoonful:
milk, one cupful Rub the but
ter and -four together with spoon
in a small saucepan. Add the milk
and stir steadily over moderate heat
until the sauce boils. Add salt and
pepper For richer white sauce use
part cream. Cream sauce is white
sauce made with all cream instead of
milk. Use one and one-half teaspoon
fus of -four to one cupful of cream
Mashed Potatoes.-Mash potatoes
In the saucepan in which they were
cooked, using a fork or wire pota
to masher When free from Jumps
add one-third cupful of scalded milk
in which has been heated one table
spoonful of butter, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, and One-eighth tea
spoonful of white pepper. Beat all
together until light and creamy
Heap in a dish without smoothing
the top, or it may be put into
baking dish, the top brushed with
milk and Drowned in a hot oven.
Riced Potato-Press boiled pota-
toes through a strainer or vegetable
press into hot dish. Serve pota-
toes uncovered.
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.fter all thew are not essentials, and II
NAV well be argued that laiiiiiiai
letters should not be punctuated win
the elaborate care that one gives 10
the punctuation of a literary essay.
Good letter writing Is much IKE
good talking: the best takers are ho.
those who have the most important
message to deliver; they are Rather
those who know best how to present
what they have to say. Now the curse
of domestic conversation is the IN
ability of most takers whether men or
women, to distinguish between the
essential and the non-essential. Ihere
are Well-meaning men and women VINO
will take ten minutes to sketch the piot
of a play or of book and that WITH
out adjoining their sketch by means OF
a selective intelligence which excludes
what has no essential relation to the
thing in hand These are other VINO
will relate a trivial incident in mercl-
less detail, apparently without a
thought that narrative should have 1t
lights and shades. There is no excuse
for relating domestic or rather IN
cidents in conversation unless they are
distinguished by some trait of humor,
some genuine touch of pathos, some
revelation of the human heart or nina
We are seldom deeply interested in the
progress of other peoples children at
school, the taste of ladies' husbands or
mems wives in gastronomics, the
idiosyncrasies of the speakers heart.
or liver, or stomach.-Vogue.
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Uncle Sam as an Advertiser.

A writer in the Washington Herald
finds a striking demonstration of the
supreme value of newspaper advertis-
ing over all other kinds in the exper-
fence of the bureau of navigation,
which spent last year $4,000 in adver-
Using for recuits for the navy. 1t was
determined to spend a similar sum this
year, but before letting the contracts
the bureau thought it advisable to find
out where it had received the best re-
turns for it's money. An investigation
showed that all magazines and periodi-
cal advertising produced from one
fourth To one sixteenth the return In
enlisted men the daily newspaper adj
vertising did. The most profitable line
of advertising was that under help
wanted" BY using the daily news
papers the bureau of navigation got re-
cruits at an advertising cost of 1886
EACH as against Sis to s65 each through
the medium of certain magazines and
journals.
There is in this investigation by the
bureau of navigation and it's results
most striking lesson for commerce and
industry, which depend for their profits
on being known to the people. 1t is
obvious why the newspaper offers so
much more profitable field than any
other medium. Part of the people may
read this magazine. part may read
that, but in this day and age practi-
cally the entire population of the coun-
try reads the daily newspaper, and
goes to it for advice and help. We
merely cite this case of the bureau OF
navigation, which hereafter will adj
vertise in the daily newspapers for the
sailors it needs, as a modern instance
pointing anew the old and tried mor.l:
1T paws to ADVERTISE
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ADD TO CITY'S BEAUTY.
Birmingham's Society to Look After
Back Yard Reform.

Birmingham is already distinguished
for it's natural beauty and for it's
beautiful homes and beautiful streets.
Red mountain is in itself a thing Of
beauty and within the city limits are
landscape effects of rare charm. But
if the people will support Mayor Ward
in the movement which he is starting
for improving and identifying all sec
tions of Birmingham, the city will be
made still more attractive as place
of residence. The mayor desires the
women to take the actual lead in this
matter and organize societies for en-
HANGING the appearance of such blocks
especially as have been neglected.
Much has been done in an educa-
tional way to stimulate in the public
taste for the beautiful. But in order
to give this work concrete form the
mayor suggests that society with
the city beautiful in view be orgaii-
lied in every block. Cleanliness and
the disappearance of ugliness should
be first in mind After the back yards.
as we'll as the front yards. are put in
clean condition, then fences and side
walks and trees and gress plots should
receive attention.
In the more elegant sections the
premises are kept in model condition
all the year round and the lawns are
marvels of beauty. With the organiza-
ton of block societies, all Birming-
ham could be brought easily in line
with THE city beautiful idea. Such a
movement would result at once in a
spirit Of emulation; and in carrying
out the proposed scheme the expense
to the individual would be next to
nothing. -Brmingham Age Herald.
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ART OF LETTER WRITING.
Telephone and Postcard Aid Decline Of
Epistolary Style.

De Quincy said that to see the best
current English style we must rifle the
mails and read the letters of well bred
women under thirty years Of age The
stipulation as to age merely reveals De
Quincey's own limitations, for there
seems no good reason why women
should write less well after thirty than
before. 1t may be doubted, however.
whether women Of today, whatever
their age, write as good letters as those
of De Quincey's day, for between the
daily newspaper the telephone and the
picture postcard the art of letter writ
ing threatens to become atrophied
from lack Of use. There are still, how
ever, good letter writer's, and now, as
ever, the charm Of clever women's
letters usually comes from the fact
that they are the self expression of in
teresting persons. Such letters are
often inaccurate when judged by rigid
literary standards: feminine epistolary
punctuation is apt to be largely a
matter of commas and dashes, and
nicely observed paragraphing is not
characteristic of women's letters.
These details might be bettered, but,
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When He Went lceboatinq.

Sure, I've been acknowledgements.
The Detroiter to whom the inquiry
was addressed having served notice
that the sport was not entirely I'M
known to him, proceeded to leisurely
light a cigar and send few rings of
smoke into the air of the clubroom be-
fore he vouchsafed further information
on the subject.
Used to own an iceboat-once," he
continued, at length. Funny expert
ence. that Some years ago l had a
bunch that l was cut out for the
skipper of one of those ice swimmers.
About the same time a friend of mine
began suffering from a similar belief
regarding himself. We used to ride
out to Crosse Pointe. stand around in
the cold, and watch the fellows clip
off miles in a manner to make an ex-
press train look as If it were backing
up, and figure how much pleasure there
must be in the game. The germ had
US right, so we pooled issues, laid in u
stock of lumber consulted one of those
self-helps to carpentry and got busy
All our evenings and what time we
could spare besides were given to con-
structing the craft. We had gathered
a lot of pointers from watching others,
and incorporated a number of improve
ments that we felt certain would
enable us to throw snow in the face of
any rival.
After weeks of toll. during which
we spoiled more lumber than we used,
battered our fingers, and did numerous
other things not mentioned in the self
help book, the boat was finished. 1t
surely looked good, with it's graceful
lines and it's every indication of great
speed. We hadn't confided our plans
to a soul, preferring to spring a
surprise that would be worth while.
One cold morning we loaded the boat
on a truck before daylight, and started
for an up-river point to give it tryout
before announcing our achievement.
The boat had set us back pretty sum,
but all that was forgotten in anticipat-
ing the pleasure that was to be ours.
We didn't even notice the cold, until
when our destination was reached Bill
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TYRANT'S TOMB NOW STABLE.
Curious Memorial of Solano Lopez,
Who Once DepopuIated Paraguay.

A curious memorial of the tyrant So
lano Lopez, who wasted and depopu-
lated Paraguay between 1852 and 1910
stands in the city of ASuncion, the
capital of the republic. 1t is the large
and imposing mausoleum that he built
for the ultimate housing of his body.
But it was never used for that pur-
pose. When Lopez was overtaken and
killed as he was fleeing, his enemies did
not care to give him decent burial
DIR. Eallentin, the German geogra-
pher who has just written book On
Paraguay. says that it puzzled the peo-
pie to decide what to do with the
mausoleum. 1t was finally turned into
a stable, and is still serving that hum
BILE but useful purpose.
Grass is growing upon the lofty Gu
pola and weeds protrude from every
crevice in the walls. 1t is monument
to the ruin Lopez brought upon MS
country and himself.
Lopez has been called the Nero of the
nineteenth century, but some histo-
rians say that he was worse than Nero.
DIR. Baez, the historian of Paraguay.
says that the tyranny of Lopez was
the most barbarous that history re-
cOTuS. Inc only excuse ever lIt'e ioi
him is that he was insane.
He was President of Paraguay
and intended to make himself king. He
provoked and waged five years war
with the united countries of Brazil,
Argentina, and Uruguay. He had
crown made in Paris to be ready for
the coronation just as soon as ne couid
declare himself king of more than han
of South America. His idea was 10
build up a great kingdom, not by de-
veloping it's resources, but by found
ing a military despotism.
IIe became a despot wholly unrc-
strained by law. All his countrymen
who opposed HIM were shot or impris-
oned. He had his own mother and one
of his sisters publicly fogged in the
street. Another sister was kept prls-
Oner in chains.
Every boy and man who could carry
a gun was impressed into the ariny,and
as the end drew near he compelled
many hundreds of women to fight III
the ranks. The whole country was IN
ruins when Il bullet ended his life. In
1861 Paraguay had population Of
more than 1,0)0.000 There were on'!
about 100000 human beings in the
country in 1872. The land was nothing
but a waste.-New York Herald
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MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Mr.. Gardeners Distrust.
portland Advertiser.)

We wish to be among the first to
extend our sympathy to the Hon. Geo
NJ. Hanson of Calais. and condole with
him in the loss of the esteem of the
Maine Democracy.
We had always supposed that Mi
Hanson was one of the bright and
shining lights of the Democracy. In
deed We had been inclined to place
Mr. Hanson in the class with some
other misguided individuals against
whom good Republicans allege nc
more serious offence than the posses
sion of Democratic beliefs. The fact
that Mr.. Hanson had been made mayor
of his city and had been named as his
party's candt late for Congress
strengthened this belief and the belief
was made almost Il certainty when the
Democrats chose him as their preS.d-
ing officer at the recent State conven-
ton.
But it seems We were in error and
that Mr.. Hanson is not a citizen to
te trusted in public affairs. Dur er-
ror is pointed out by no less person
than the Hon. Obadiah Gardner, Who
is the nominee of the Democracy for
the governorship and therefore sup
posedly qualified to separate the De
mocratic sheep from the goats. In
his recent >. speech at Rockland. ac-
cording to the Democratic tsockiand
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Opinion, che expressed well-founded
distrust of the efficiency Of the present
tax commission"
TIE Hon. Morrill, N. Drew of Port
land and the Hon. w. H. White OF
Rockland. being Republicans. might
expect such rating by Democracy
candidate, but it is hard on the Hon.
George M. Hanson of Calais, who Is
the leading Democratic me nber of the
commission, to say nothing of Mr.
Deerirg of Saco or the Hon. Milton N.
Merrill of ST. Adams, one Of whom Is
a good Democrat and the other
Granger who has been tdx-reform
worker with Mr.. Gardner himself.
well founded distrust of the eff
cheney" has harsh and cruel sound
when applied by Mr.. Gardner to a
man of Mr.. Hanson's standing, ana as
we said in the beginning, we wish 70
extend our sympathy. Moreover. We
go further and say we don't belleFe
it's justified for we believe That MT
Hanson and every other memper Oh
the commission has taken up the TAX
problem with sincere intention 10 get
to the bottom of things.
Perhaps the Democratic candidate
for Governor will plead that he quail
fled his remark by saying uhder
present legislative and executive con-
ditions' But even there he slahders
his party and himself o. else ne a"-
mits that neither he nor the o'her
Democratic prophets Of victory nave
been meaning what they have SAD
for he must know that the report Il
to be made to the next LEGISLATURE
and. if the Democracy is to carry
eighteen of the sixteen counties, con-
troll two-thirds Of the legislature ana
place obadiah in the executive cha'r'
as the minor prophet has predicted
why should he distrust the leeisia'ive
and executive conditions to when 'ne
tax commissioners report will be SUD-
nitted?
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An English Turf Tragedy.

The death of ST. Simon, perhaps the
greatest racehorse of his generation.
recalls an almost forgotten tragedy OF
the turf. Half an hour before the race
for the Two Thousand Guineas of 1889
Prince Batthyany. who bred st. Simon
and who was one of the most popular
racing men Of any time, was talking
With Lord Cadogan in the luncheon
room Of the Jockey Club stand d,
Newmarket when he suddenly reeieu
and fell. He was carried to Weather
by's Office and doctors were sum
moned; but the prince was beyond d.,
human aid, and just before the oe"
rang for the race for which. his co't
Gaillard, brother of ST. Simon was
first favorite he breathed his last. 1.
few minutes later the clear blue shy
rang with cheers and shouts as tno
horses come laundering along, WHICH
rose into a roar as Gaillard won by
head, while behind the drawn bllnds u
Weatherbys Office Galliard's owhe,'
who had been looking forward ~
eagerly to this moment, was E,ns
dead. 1t was owing to the death OF ms
owner that Galopin's great son coulu
not run in the Derby Of 1884, "hiom
he would almost certainly have "oh
Westminster Gazette. @N7
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A we'll known Connecticut Democrat,
Mayor S. Ashbel Crandall OF Nor
witch writes the Bulletin of that town
that he has no hesitancy in announc-
ing that he will vote for Taft. 'The
teachings of Jackson and Jefferson
he says. compel me to believe that the
country at present demands substan-
tial. useful citizen rather than pollt-
ical fakir." Richard V. Lindabury, a
leading Democrat of Newark, tells the
New York Tribune that he thinks IL
would be unwise to elect Bryan. he
saws II would unsettle business, and
"there are too many idle men and idle
factories at this time to make any ex-
perimeat with new theories of govern
10Y Sni1u inv anmp!op % -
ule1its 49, - l-AA 49, -
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Thus far the campaign has not In
spired much campaign poetry but oc-
casionally we are given sample, just
to show what may be expected when
the poets get down to business. Here
is a gem-with more truth than poetry
in it, however-from the pen of Gen
eral d. E. Cornell, mayor of Kansas
City, Kan. He drops into literature
when the cares of business are laid
aside as easily as Eugene Ware or
William Allen White or any of the
other Kansas knights of the quill. The
other day a Kansas City Journal COM
missioner invaded his sanctum and
asked his opinion as to the outcome OF
the presidential race. Quick as flash
he scrubbed the following:
Maine vert hill bent for Governor
Kent"
This rhyme somewhat profane,
Was sent to tell how lection went
Some wears ago in Maine.
Like Marie. which went SO hard for Kent
TO boss that Yankee craft.
This country will for President
Go Just as hard for Taft.
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Fog Nuisance.

There are three methods of dealing
with the incubus of fog; one is to take
steps not to assist artificially in its
formation: another is to oppose the
natural causes which lead to it: and a
third is to dispense it when formed
The first is by far the best and most
economical plan, and in respect to
town fogs is quite the most hopeful
and feasible. A fog which consists
solely of condensed aqueous vapor
ought to be evaporated and cleared up
by the general warmth of a great city,
so that jewellers in well-drained town
should be freer from the nuisance than
those who live in open country or on
the seaboard.-Sir oliver Lodge, in
London Times.
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found he had pair Of frosted ears.

found he had pair OF frosted ears.
I'VE selected spot in the lee of an
immense icehouse above owen Park.
and while Bill rubbed snow on his
ears to thaw them out | rugged up the
spar and sail so everything would be
in readiness for our trial spin. Then
we hoisted the sail, pulled down our
earmuffs, buttoned up our coats and
began specializing on how quickly we
could reach Windmill Point, the ice
along shore being like glass, although
further out there was open water.
with mighty tug and push we
slid the boat off the bank and out on
the ice. Quick as flash the wind
which was blowing a gale. caught That
sail. and it bellied out with snap like
a whip.
"'Stop It, yelled Bill.
"'Stop it, echoed.
but it wasn't any use. Away that
boat went like a shot out of a gun
Travel? Say. it was just streak OF
white Straight for the open water 1t
went. with Bill and l standing on the
shore conjuring up new eXpletiVeS APP
propriate to the occasion. ON 1t Went
There was a splash, as the pride of our
hearts plunged into the open and
slowly settled from view
Yes. I've been iceboating
that is, almost. l also owned an ice
boat-once That's all. But every time
anyone mentions the subject l can see
the look that came over that truck
mans face that winters morning when
Bill slipped him an extra five spot, and
told him to forget all about what ne
had seen"-Detroit Free Press.
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Little Of Everything.
Vacation.
Bonneville Journa

Bonneville Journal)
This is the glad vacation time.
When dainty Doris rests.
Shes staying at beach hotei,
With some six hundred guests.
She COLTS. and swims. ana dflVes' a''''
walks.
All day without stop.
Ard every night she firts TIL lwciVe'
Or dances at hop.
She's having just a quiet time
To rest her tired brain.
Her work all through the college year,
You know, was such a strain.
But nows she's resting-gaiIllng strength
AS all girls ought to do.
She's up each day at eight O'Clock,
And gets to sleep at two!
How blessed is vacation. when
Your brain is tired out.
To rest your nerves, and give you CAIN,
And make you strong and stout.
Ana Doris will return refreshed.
Her brown eyes bright and clear.
To look ahead to peaceful days
Of rest another year,