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baffied. The trouble is that her list is
too small. There ought to be more
meats to select from. The man who
raising hippopotami in the
swaupS of Louisiana for conversion
into commercial meat had mental
vibration: so did the man who proposed
muskrat as steady and current article
of food The list needs widening. am
plifying We get tired of the meats on
the little list all too quickly. all too
oftenly.
And the STANDARD" meals-they be-
come dispiritingly monotonous.
There are American folks who nave
bacon and eggs for breakfast every morn
in. of their lives. It is a miracle they DO
not become first the victim of hXed
ideas" and then rankly insane. The only
people fitted by nature and stubbornness
every morning are the English. The an
swer is that the English have no imagl-
nation. The English eat orange marina
lade for breakfast. That indicates ap-
normal stolidity of mind, abnormal lack
of ina gination, doesn't it? Likewise, they
euzzIe tea seven or eight times day
Nothing but climatic influence saves them
from the consequences of this hideoslty.
There ought to be list OF about SO
different things to be had FOR breakfast
so that we wouldn't have to have the
or three years. IT'S a dreary round as
the matter stands. Bacon and eggs today,
boiled eggs and toast tomorrow, ham
burger steak the next day, ham and eggs
the day after that lamb chops the next,
and so on It's treadmil eating. Why
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petaled life he had partaken Of no less
than 1867 different kinds of drinks, in
GLIDING shellac spiked by wood alcohol.
crimson writing fluid preparations of
ginger from the veXed Vermouthes, elixir
of sweet chewing tobacco fortified by
gasoline, and thus on.
We dare anybody to rise up and state
that there are 4.567 kinds of dishes served
at the average or common or garden
variety of dinner table. here or anywhere
else And why shouldn't there be as
many sorts of foods as there are kinds
of drinks?
The cook books don't help.
Maybe the cook books themselves are
all right; but when she energies from
submergence in the mysteries of cook
books, the things that she produces and
places on the table are Messy. Measiey
and Murderous.
The cook book preparations that she
slaps triumphantly in front OF you taste
like nothing that ever was on land or
sea, only 345 per cent worse.
IT'S not to be cured by any study by
Her of cook books this crying and linger-
ing evil of Monotonous Grub.
1t is only to be helped by the inven-
ton Of new forms of fodder.
Instead of concerning himself with the
extraction of solar heat for power
plants it's sure wonder that Mr.. Edi-
son-who. himself, must eat-doesn't ap-
ply himself to this big one.
Give US new eats. or else stake US to
the Asphodel Meadows of Euthanasia!
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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car. fastens her wearied mind upon the
problem of the Dinner Eats.
Steak?
Nope. No steak You've told her you
were tired of steak. Anyhow. to get
steak that's worth while, a big one must
be bought and that forces the inevitable
Irish stew on the following day. and how
around the place about the sloppiness of
Irish stews and about how you didn't IN
tend to tolerate such Outrages In your
own home any longer and Somebody bet
ter watch out and all like that?
Certainly. no steak.
Roast beef? 1t lasts too long. You
get sick of 1t. She herself gets dog
tired of it before it makes it's final get
away The wind-up OF roast beef. after
three or four days. usually is roast beef
hash for breakfast, and she knows full
gives you a peeve that often lasts for
about as long as forty-eight hours; so
it won't be roast beef. 1t won't be. in
fact any kind Of a roast-wait until
Sunday for that: for roasts. in our little
family of two, will not behave and get
rid Of themselves when their boresome
presence becomes a nuisance.
Lamb chops? Had EN- two days ago.
Pork chops? Getting too late in the
season for pork chops. Veal outlets?
Veal outlets she knows. are prussic
acid to your internal economy, although
she likes 'em herself and often longs
for em, but is too unselfish to get EN-
when she knows that you can't use
them. No veal outlets. then.
Thus she goes over the list. puzzled,
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keep a ten-thOuSand -doitdf N
out of Normandy, Touraine or Gascohy;
us do but all OF us cannou
Most of us pay our chef from TOUR TO
five bones a week, with THURSDAY ano
Sunday afternoons off. and very often. in
1a0dition TO the cinnamonesque or ebon
hue of her, she possesses a skull OF solid
ivory.
Plenty of us don't hire even skirted
chefess but pass the Eats Matter up 20
the chatelaine of the plant
Be that as ii may. the preponderatins
majority of us find. sooner or later, that
there isn't suficiency OF switching the
cut. SO to speak in the matter of the
home table board.
We weary OF the monotony OF the home
cookin' The choice of things 10 eat is
too pent-up- Ctica-like. The weekly round
of fuels for the average human engine
is too restricted and hemmed IN.
In the first place. there are not enough
different kinds of meat.
Figure il: There's beef veal, mutton
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A TYPICAL PUBLIC; PLAYGROUND

specialists directions as to how you can
make one for yourself.
Years ago the Norwegian peasants
devised scheme by which their
women. after working all day in the
harvest fields. might be relieved OF the
labor of cooking supper after return
ing home aweary of the days toll. Sup
per and breakfast were cooked at the
same time In the morning. and the
evening meal placed in tightly closed
and packed round with hay. This insu-
lation kept the heat from escaping. and
a night when the kettles We're opened
the food within was steaming hot and
ready for serving. And at once it be-
came esteemed for it's superior flavor.
all of the aroma being saved instead of
being allowed to partly escape in steam.
knowledge of this invention gradually
leaked out through Europe. whose
armies experimental with 1T as a
means of serving soldiers with hot
rations on the march. and lately the
Italian army adopted it for all of it's
regiments
And recently Commlssary. Gen. Sharpe
of our army has experimental with 1t
and he tells me that he has adopted
enough of the HAY boxes to feed 1000
soldiers. ! am also indebted to Miss M
Van RENSSELAER,, in charge OF Cornell
University's department OF home econom-
les and its Reading Courses for House
wives for a report on her experiments
with this device. which was recommend
ed to housewives as a means OF saving
fuel and securing good results in cooking
cereals. chicken, macaroni or anything
recurring long, slow cooking or steaming.
The various fireless cookers now on the
market are little chests lined with thick
LAYERS OF felt, asbestos. cork and other
non-conducting materials. They hold one
or two kettles with clamped lids and In
these vessels the food is not thoroughly
cooked upon the stove, but merely
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lamb and pork: pork. lamb. mutton. veal
and beef AS a side issue-about forty
cents per pound a side issue now
there's poultry.
IT'S narrow field. We get tired Of
circling that field.
For example:
What shall l have for dinner" She
10 make the car for the office in the morn
ing.
"Oh. any old thing" say you. biting off
the end of the stogie.
You see. when you make that reply you
are replete. not to say satiated. with
breakfast pabulum: the bacon and eggs
and the coffee and stuff.
So YOU really feel as il you never want
to eat anything more as long as you're
atop of the chart. The Eats is matter
with which you have finished When She
submits that problem to you you don't
stop to prefigure or TO forecast the acute
raverous even ferociOus hunger that
going to consume you along toward /,
O'clock that afternoon. So you say TO her
'Oh. get any old thing YOU like for din
ner." and blithely whistling. you go your
way.
This leaves it up TO Friend Spouse.
(Nota Bene.-Maybe you've noticed how
many of these matters we Jauntily leave
I'D to Her without airy word OF advice
or suggestions; and how, without ever
making the slightest effort to help her In
srcb nroblems we hold her strictly anC
horribly accountable for results, all the
sameD
Well. She. with finger at lip. watching
you wistfuliy as you trudge toward the
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comforts caused by excessive heat. by
dust, street noises and insects. Against
all of these bugbears organized agencies
are now battling with a success which
will interest every family in the land
have spent the past few days visiting
among long list OF government special
lists who are promoting these reforms.
and 1 have also been for some time in
specting new houses now in course of
construction. and noting with admiration
the novel devices which their builders
are installing with a view to relieving
the housewife and her family from the
discomforts of the season which We are
now entering.
Probably the largest class of sufferers
from summer heat are our women. wh&
must toll in kitchens to prepare the food
of the day. In a number of new dwellings
find, already installed by the builder,
an invention wherewith she can, in the
cool hours of the early morning. do all of
the cooking needed for the remainder of
the day This is the hay box Nor
wegian nest or ''freless cooker neat
chest which slides under the kitchen
table when not in use and which many
builders are cleverly providing without
extra charge and which go with the
house just as does the bathtub or heat
er. a number of dwellings in which I
find these inventions sell for around $3.50
and are therefore within reach of the mid
die classes. And in mentioning these ap-
pliances / am not Haunting a trade name
or advertising any particular industry.
Many different makes of hay boxes
and "fire1ess cookers are on the market
and presently will repeat a government
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PEING Waged Against
l. Indoor Heat, Unconfort-
able Clothing, Dust, Street
Noises and Other Pests That
Despoil Heavens Best Sea-
son-Inventions That Reduce
Kitchen Heat Favored by
Government and Adopted by
Army-Government Showing
Isolated Country People How
to Have Cheap Bath Tubs
With Running Water-Cheap
Houses for Middle Classes of
Cities Now Have Three Bath
Tubs and Other Cooling In
ventions-
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sulting from the "anti-noise" crusade
that is last growing over the country.
The police department of New York
lately issued order forbidding scissors
grinders to ring bells or blow horns, pea
nut men to use whistles on their roast
ers. cries Of street hawkers. ''old clothes
men, etc: shouts by carriage bankers at
theaters and hotels, unnecessary shout
ing OF any kind upon the streets. Inc
barking of dogs. the unnecessary Blowing
Of whistles on steamboats, and factories
or of horns motorcycles and autono-
biles, and the kicking of tin cans on the
streets The traction companies are also
forbidden to allow fiat wheels on cars
and automobiists are required - use
muffers preventing the noise or ex-
hausts Another strenuous anu-noise
crusader is Maj. Richard Sylvester in
charge of Washingtons police force. VINO,
in addition to suppresSing such noise max
ers as the above. is waging warfare
against noisy bread wagon drivers milk
men. back alley denizens. garbage men
who bang the iron lids of their wagons
ard vain chandeliers. which have not YET
learned from Rostand's latest drama that
. the orb of day would rise despite their
morning song Other cities are fighting
such nuisances as well as the apartment
house musician who keeps his nelgn-
bors awake until the wee small hours
AT the same time science is taking up
the problem of reducing indoor noises.
the pace having Just been set for them
by Prof. Nussbaum of Hanover. who has
lust reported upon elaborate experiments
made in his laboratory and in private
houses to learn what building materials
are best for deadening sound. He hnds
that the more bricks are burned tne
more noise they transmit: that lime NOR
tar is more soundproof than clay mortar
and that ceilings lined with a layer OF
zinc or lead will exclude the sound o.
The ciano in the fiat overhead.
And inst few words about some new
nhsses of the nationwide warfare That is
being waged against that arch foe or our
summer peace, the pestiverous insect.
Popular science writer's have squeezed
the mosquito and the fly dry OF new lore
as to his habits of life and disease-breed-
ing propensities. What the summer sur
ferer now wants is a word as to how best
to. get rid of him. especially the mosquito
and the fly, who from the American
householder is now exacting an annual
tribute of $4,000, 600 invested in screens
alone.
For the following mosquito deterrent
1 am indebted to the governments chief
mosquito expert. DR.. L. o. Howard, CHIEF
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early spring. Some OF these girls asOo
play at the Chevy Chase Club. Miss
Schroeder. who has now left town for
the summer. took part in the tourna-
ment there last month and was men
toned as an especially skillful entrant.
The courts there are always in prime
condition. and such unusual interest
is being evinced in the game that there
as of those who play. This is one
game, however. in which the spectator
does not see the most. for to the casual
observer it would appear that tennis
is but recreation and golf hard work.
Those who have tried both insist that.
while tennis is easier to learn, in a
hard-fought set of tennis there is far
more fatigue and call for sustained
endurance than in a battle on the
links. The play to the gallery. ever
latent in normal women, is most potent
on the court. too. She is always IL
sight and conscious of the admring
throng. This does tend to bring out
all her innate grace and coQuetry.
Mrs. j. d. CaSsels has Just won the
tennis championship OF the club, having
beaten Miss Helen Downing in vary
close match. The latter and her three
sisters play a great deal at Chevy Chase.
for the matroEs closely contest any su-
premacy the girls may wish to hold In
tennis. Mrs. Charles III. l.. johnston,
daughter of Senator Newlands OF Nevada.
is an adept frequently seen On these
courts and Mime. Henri de Sibour ia
Washington girl who. Miss Rita Clas-
aett, played tennis for a number OF years
so we'll that she was always considered
a preventative player.
Mrs S. S. Paschal of Chevy Chase IL
great enthusiast Of the game, and Mrs
q. r. Fortesque, better known to Wash
ingtonians as Miss Grace Herbert Bell.
daughter of c. j. Bell. used 20 be q
daily freauenter OF the courts out tnofe
June.
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MISS SARAH SCHROEDER.

Marshall: Miss Nathalie briggs: Miss
sarah Seaton Schroeder, daughter of
Admiral Seaton Schroeder; Miss Kath-
crime Crane Of the Washington resident
set; Miss Vera Downing. who is one
of four sisters, all popular in Wash
ington, and all tennis enthusiasts;
Miss Marthenia Harrison, granddaugh-
ter of the late President Harrison.
and Miss Winifred Davis form coterie
who have been playing there since
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dwellings,. built for the middle classes.
with as many as three bathtubs, one on
each sleeping floor and one in the base
ment for the servant. that aH-iInportant
cleanliness has been most loudly con-
demned by those families who denying:
her the family bath, have yet affordn.
her no means whatsoever for getting
next to goodness"
That the poor may cool their skins
and cleanse their bodies on summer
days. more and more OF our cities are
establishing free public baths over
forty cities have fallen into line in this
crusade. although It was only few
years ago that the federal bureau OF
labor called attention to our lack OF
such facilities as compared with for
eign countries. Boston dong ago estab-
lished model public bathing beaches.
where the children receive free IN
struction in swimming. and many OF
our cities maintain public pools. Where
men and women. boys and girls may
refresh themselves with the greatest
of God given balms against summer
tOrtures-pure. cool water. NO city
without it's public bath can now call
itself progressive, or. indeed, humane;
Nor can a city without its pubic
Fairgrounds now hold up it's head with
a good conscience. To afford summer
relief to their thousands of youthful
heat sufferers ten of our large cltles
last year spent 81 1914 900 on public
Fairgrounds for it's children. and now
nearly every town of 5000 population
or more thus gives the children of the
poor these means of healthful enjoy
ment in the open air.
Cincinnati spent $4,000 and chi
cago 100000 for this purpose and
New York maintains 261 such FRESHMAN
resorts Boston. in addition to its %
school Fairgrounds supports "a PARK
Fairgrounds. where there are story
tellers employed TO amuse the Young
ms
dren are nearly everywhere being
tempted from the cutters of the Sums.
the city dumps and the dark recesses OF
the tenements.
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'R the elimination
of summer dis
comfort m an V
new enterprises
are afoot. and not
Il few of these are
being fathered by
the government at
Washin gton.
7 h e w a r m
months Of the
year are the ia
vorite season of
2 AOn1A RIB -
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MISS NATALIE briggs.
tPhoto by ClincdinstD.

thing about it sort of suggests daintlneSs
and femininity, you know-and they know
II, too, you can wager.
Anyhow. makeshift costumes are not
considered correct. and no matter how
Indifferent to public opinion the golf
woman may be, when she steps onto a
dirt court she wants to look her best.
This summer the fad among the younger
women is to wear MILDLY blohses Genu-
inc MILDLY blouses. No department store
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MISS JULIA HitHL.
Copyright by Harris Il Ewing

ttOIIIIISHt W fIdIIIS N 1@F''I's'7
or dressmaker- made ones will do The
maidens with brothers at Annapolis fno
it, to use nautical term, "easy sailing,
but she who is not thus favored must beg
or borrow one from some friendly mid
shipman.
Where debutante's popularity was
once known by the number of college pins
or uniform buttons she displayed. just
now it is the MILDLY blouse. And GER
tainly they are attractive enough when
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Hat the W orl d
needs. far more
than exhibitions of
aeroplane diving.
far more than Il
new and even more
maniacal way for
women 10 do their
hair, Is this:
Some new kinds
of everyday foods.
Not all of US car
l. 4
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But there is an element whose interest
beneath the comforting shade OF para
sol or the club verandas. Scores are kept.
plays commented upon, errors noted by
these women as faithfully as though they
were in the thick Of the game. Mrs
Murray A. Cobb has been constant at
tendant this spring. and Mrs. Walter g.
Andrews, although not q contestant, has
been noted at most Of the tournament
games as well as fer many informal ones
played in the mornings. Mrs. T. j. ID.
Fuller and Mrs. James F. Mitchell add
to the interest of these spectators by
their pretty plays in morning matches.
Miss Alma RuggIes, daughter Of the late
Gen. George G. Ruggles. U. 8. A. plays
with a great deal of vim, and Mrs. Or
mund Ovey. wife of Secretary Ovey o.
the British embassy. is an ardent devotee
of tennis and frequently plays out at
Chevy Chase.
spring this year has been the setting up
of tennis courts. Along Columbia road
and the various tree bordered streets OF
Mount Pleasant and in many sections OF
Capitol Hill tennis courts are greatly IN
evidence.
Girls play morning and early afternoon
sets and when the twilight settles gently
down like a mantle ii conceals the sour
rying forms of players who have recently
braved rain and defied mud i'm order to
enjoy the only game whose rulings are
Just as they were when first perfected
for the enjoyment of French royalty.
Very many of the numerous boarding
schools for which Washington is re-
nowned have tennis courts. and the girls
have, until the very recent stress of eX-
aminations interfered, been daily seen
enjoying the delights of outdoors while
perfecting themselves in. serves and
strokes" for the summer campaign
Southern girls especially have ever taken
more kindly to tennis than to any other
athletic game-possibly because of its
romantic atmosphere-and il is to be noted
that at the Union station nearly every
sweet girl graduate leaving via the routes
going toward DiXieland is equipped villa
a neatly encased racquet.
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MISS MAITLAND MARSHALL.

women of the city spend the winter mas
ample space for tennis courts. and those
who are enthusiastic devotees of the sport
are not content just to play at the coun-
try clubs. but fit gayly about WITHIN
their private Enclosures quite early IN the
morning For. like bathing suit ten
mis- frock while delightful in its proper
environment, is not always pleasing IN
street cars or open machines, so that the
lucky possessors of such courts are es-
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The matter of cooler summer clothing
is another with which government as we'll
as science is beginning TO deal. After
making thorough study of the subject
the army has adopted new kind or
underwear to relieve the burning skins OF
soldiers serving in hot climates. like That
of the Philippines. Experiments showed
that certain colors next to the body pro
tect 1t more than others from the violent
rays of the sun, which cause the most
serious results in summer. 1t was found
that the Aim of our skins was, like the
finn of the photographers plate, sensitive
to these rays and just as the photograph
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MISS MARTHENIA HARRISON.

worn by fuffy-haired clear-eyed, rosy
checked tennis girl to tempt any Annapo-
lis man into looting his carefully watched
wardrobe With this goes short. very
short. skirt of khaki. or linen, or some
other dust-rejecting stuff. tennis shoes
and a MILDLY cap-if possibe-or else just
a band of ribbon about the Greek coifed
head.
More than one old-time washington
home wherein the well Known young