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back the bakers we're stationed at Il
convenient point and 5000 pounds of war
bread were baked daily and sent in wag-
ons to the marching army
In these maneuVerS war DTeau was
given the final test of efficiency and
found to be master. 1t remains fresh
bread for q fortnight after baking. 80 Is
its general use in the army recommended
and adopted. So has a mai step peeli
taken in that aim of the department to
make its soldier the best fed man In the
nation. So has a superior food been de-
yeIOped that Will meet the trying re-
auirements of army i'll the held.
For the thing has been accomplished at
which the commissary has been aiming
for decades A bread has been evolved
that will retain for weeks all the nour-
ishment and palatablity that belong
to fresh bread. \ bread has been created
that will remain sweet and tasty for
weeks after leaving the ovens. and may,
as a consequence. be shipped to troops at
y considerable distance. The manner or
making a bread that will have sufficient
strength to withstand the hardship of be-
ing shipped in bulk has been discovered.
All these qualities are combined In the
new bread that is officially known as
field bread" but which the men in the
ranks insist on calling war bread A
loaf of war bread is two feet long and
slim in It's proportions. 1t is of such di-
mensions that it would make no mean
weapon should raid on the commissary
be made and the men be found otherwise
rnarmed This bread IS thick and strong
of crust 1t has not been allowed to
rise i great deal in the baking. 1t has
been baked slowly and we'll dried out.
So it has become "a club of bread we'll
preDared To withstand any amount of
hard usage. When il is produced at the
field bakeries it may be corded up i'll a
wagon bed and hauled for days without
crushing or degenerating. When 1t
reaches the advance guard of the army
the trooper breaks it over his knee and
the inside of the loaf is as good as new.
Each Of these loaves contains two pounds
of nourishment, which is sufficient to sus-
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side afterward He wrote to his father
asking him for the money, and it was
sent to him at once, but a small sum
was stopped out of his pocket money
every week till the overdraft was paid.
AS the Duke of Cornwall he already
has an income of between 100000 and
$l5O,OpO a year, but this is being looked
of the income is derived from the rents
of a large and particularly poor part
of London. and King George is now pay
ing particular attention to this prop
erty He has had the whole estate sur
veyed and all particulars laid before him,
ard all the worst houses are to be pulled
down and comfortable dwellings put up
in their stead
Prince Edwards first cousin, Olaf of
Norway, is the most press-ridGen and
the most photographed royal child in
existence. He is also the heir to the
youngest kingdom in Europe. his father,
WHO began life as Prince Charles of Den
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dust. From 1900 to 5000 pounds was
loaded into each wagon. Had ordinary
bread been SO treated 1t would have been
crushed into an unrecognizable mass.
Ordinary bread, also, contains SO much
moisture that 1t molds in d damp climate
and spells. When ordinary bread dries
out it becomes hard ard irredeemable.
But the field bread is immune from all
these difficulties.
The government formerly depended fol-
its cooks and bakers upon men it could
rec ruit from civilian life. But these
found the army ration a thing to which
they could not readily adjust themselves
and the army found the civilian baker
unable to produce the food it required
So in the last half dozen years, the Wal
Department has established schools for
cooks and bakers. and from these schools
II is regularly graduating enlisted men
and today these specially trained cooks
and bakers are preparing the three square
meals a day for the men in Uncle Sans
army.
There are three of these schools now
in existence. One is at Fort Riley, Kan.
another Is at the Preside of San Fran
cisco, and the third is at Washington
barracks District of Columbia. All o,
these have been established since 100.
ana from tnetl nave been near
ly 2,O0G cooks and bakers. At present
these schools are producing about 4Ot
finished bakers and cooks every year
and this number is deemed sufficient &c
supply these graduates for the messes OF
the entire army
The instructors in these schools are man
who have mastered all the Gelicacies OF
the bakers art as foreshadowed in com
mercial life and who have added to this
the training and experience that is re-
quired In wrestling with the army ration
and the needs of the army in the prepa-
ra ton of its food
To these schools regularly come student
cooks and bakers from all the army
posts There, under the supervision OF
the master cooks they take up the CON
coction of the different dishes that Uncle
Sans fighting man is accustomed to eat
Every day they actually produce certain
of these articles. The supervisor sees
that no material is spoiled in the process
and that the food so prepared is fit
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been sacrificed in the interest OF the royal
table.
An amusing story is told Of this little
boy When still a tiny baby his sisters
wished to test the extent of MS knowl-
edge, and. pointing to different articles,
asked. .What color is this He came
out of the ordeal triumphantly until they
pointed to his tan shoes. He regarded
his toes gravely for some minutes and
then replied:
Marion glaces color
The Hereditary Prince Johann-Leopold
of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, though the heir
to throne of minor Importance. VIII
one day rule over one Of the richest
duches in Europe upper Austria and
the Tyrol. which form part of his king
dom. being rich in mines and fore SITS,
to say nothing of Gotha itself. Besides
this his family possesses more crowns than
any other. Belgium. Portugal and Bui-
gara all being ruled by his relations.
The late Queen Victoria = husband, also,
c",.o- - ','--'~ ''r.+'-.' the title
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vorite with his grandfather, the late
King Edward.
He and his mother and father may be
said to represent the simple life
among royalty. A little while ago they
were all shopping in the principal street
of Christiania, and King Haakon awaited
his wife and son outside a shop where
the queen was making some feminine
purchase. The saleswcman inquired if
she might forward the parcel to the pal
ace when Olaf Clipped in:
''Oh, no, fathers outside. He always
carries mothers parcels
What different atmosphere is that in
which the little cZarevitch, heir of all
the RussiaS. lives with his four sisters,
over their young lives hangs the shadow
of danger and death, shadow which is
slowly but surely clouding over the life
of their pretty young mother, once the
happiest princess in Europe. Yet though
they are guarded day and night by sol
diers and secret service agents. though
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When these student cooks and bakers
have received their fundamental educa-
ton they are assigned to different posts
and encampments Of maneuvers as assist
ants. In this work they get the actual
practice in the field. If there are no
maneuvers that take soldiers into the
field the squad merely moves its ovens
out in the open country near the school
and there produces its wares.
These army cooks and bakers go back
to first principles. They do their cooking
and baking with the least possible amount
of machinery. The baker mikes his
dough in trough and stlrs ii with his
bare hands and arms. He has a knock
down table upon which to lay out his
dough and a collapsible rack upon which
to place the loaves after they are baked.
That is about all. The idea here as in
other aspects of army life Is to accustom
the men To the least possible amount OF
impediInenta. Then when the emergency
In the field for which they are maintain
ed arrives they may go to the front ana
produce results under the most rudimen-
tary conditions.
Four months is considered sufficient
time in the schools to prepare good bak
ers Then comes the training In the
actual work. After this the men are
graduated and take places at the differ
ent posts. When it is remembered that
this training is given in developing the
ability to produce a few simple things.
and is backed by all the science the gov
eminent has been able to produce or bor-
row in an experience Of hundred years.
II is to be expected that these men VIII
be able to produce an excellent quality or
such articles as bread. AS matter or
fact the average civilian lives lifetime
without ever tasting bread Of the quality
that the United States soldier eats thres
times a day. / have eaten it and | know
no other that compares with it, 1t is the
best bread in the world. The army offers
a haven of refuge to the men of the land
whose wives have prepared their meals
so badly that their vitality has been sap
ped. Those who are Yet able to pass a
physical examination are advised to en-
list before they are further injured.
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lowed in quick succession by his brother.
Don Jaime. and his sister. the Infanta
Beatrz Their mother, OF course is a
first cousin OF King George, and her
children have been brought up on strictly
English lines. An English trained nurse
was engaged for each child when it was
born, and the nurseries are planned to
give the children much light, air and
cleanliness as possible. with tive result
that in spite of the numerous rumors that
lave flown about frcm time TO time to the
contrary. they are three of tie healthiest
and happiest children TO be seen any
where. Though Spain has probably the
most ceremonial court and the one most
hedged about with etiquette, Queen Ena
does not allow any formalities to enter
the domain OF the nursery, ard she 81 o."
intends the lives OF the children, visits
them and has them with her whenever
she thinks fit.
Military life is said to hold great at
ira ctions for the future Alfonso XIV.
Toy soldiers and guns are his favorite
playthinss, and his great delight is to be
dressed UP in the uniform OF the kings
regiment Of infantry. OF which he already
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her recent serious illness, studied medi-
cine when young. and her children are
brought up on strictly hygienic principles
No one is allowed to kiss them. and every
one who enters the nursery is obliged to
wrap himself in long white robes TO pre-
vent the possibility of germs coming in
contact with the children. King Albert
and his queen are extremely popular in
Belgium, and the simple family life they
lead Is a welcome change after the un-
savory domestic concerns Of the late King
Leopold.
DO not kiss me- is a request which
the Queen of Spain also has been obliged
to adopt with reference to her chill
dren, so popular are they with
their subjects. The little Prince
of Asturias, as the heir to the Spanish
throne IS called. was born III May 1907.
n he - - -
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equipment and We're told that altogether
it represented an investment of $500 To
produce the same results they stated
that they would need an investment of
S5.GG9 They also stated that they would
require twice the room given to this
process and twice the labor. All manner
of mechanical machinery would be re-
CURED or the civilian bakers would strike
Yet the army squad went on Serenely
turning out Of this single small oven
some 1.JO pounds of bread day. The
Bakers School at Washington barracks
furnished the squad that baked .all the
bread at the maneuver camp last year.
There was some 10000 pounds of il al
together. Yet not a pound of -four was
wasted nor loaf of bread scorched or
otherwise damaged
When an entire division of troops
nearly 1900 of them-were this summer
moblllZed at San Antonio there We're d
dozen of these field ovens installed to
supply bread for them. A hole had
merely to be dug beneath them for the
fire, their collapsible joints stiffened and
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mark, having been chosen by the Nor
wesian storthing 10 be the first king OF
the country after it's separation from
Sweden in 1906. He then changed his
name to Haakon, and his little son. who
began life as Alexander, was renamed
Olaf, after the patron saint of Norway.
Olaf Is such a bright and pretty child,
so full of high spirits and obviously
delighted with everything wherever he
goes, that he is a tremendous favorite
with the public both at home and abroad.
When he first went to Norway, as
short-frocked baby of two, his new sub
were so fond of kissing him that his
mother was obliged 10 withdraw him
from publication and keep him in the
palace grounds for time. He is a ter
rife "chatterbox" and was O. great IA
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THE War Commissary
i Has Invented a New
Sort of Bread, Variously
Known as Field Bread and
"War Bread" Which Is to
Take the Place of Tine-tried
Hardtack, Which Has for
Many Decades Been the Re-
lance of the Army When on
the Hike Or When in Readi-
ness to Do Battle With the
Enemy-Field Bread Is a
Bakers Masterpiece-But for
the Bakers Schools Main
tanned by the Army Its De-
veloprnent and Immediate
Use in the Army Would
Have Been Impossible-But
the Army Schools for Bak-
ers and Cooks Is Teaching
the World New Stunts in
Cookery.
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Rather Stiff.

ffTHAT is rather stiff assertion,
! said Senator Curtis, at dinner
in Washington, of a reciprocity argument.
THAT, in fact. reminds me of one of our
Kansas stories.
What is that tall chimney for? said
a visitor to Kansas, pointing to a FARM
yard rs somebody putting up factory
in this lonely quarter?
No was the reply. That's just joe
Millers we'll Cyclone turned her inside
out.
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Though not actually the immediate heirs
to the throne. the little sons of the Crown
Prince of Germany are so much more
in the limelight than their father. owing,
it is whispered in some parts OF Ger
many. to the kaiser's jealousy of his eld-
est sons popularity, that a few words
may be devoted 20 them They are
hardy trio OF youngsters-the eldest only
five years old-brought up by their mother
under Spartan conditions, as witness
the scanty clothing in which they are
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ARDTACk is no
more. The army
has thrown off the
yoke OF bondage
that has bound 1t
to a pound of dry
bread" a day when
in the field. In
place of this hated
ration there has
come war bread -
crisp and crusty,
pungent and pal
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L q sudden WAY"
Of disaster wer,
10 sweep oTe
Europe ANA carry
off its re!Sn,ng
moIary3Is. neal-,y
all their SuCCe =
o-s ouid be chi
dren, none olde
than seventeen and
one or two OF then
mere babies. Nur-
series, nurses, gov
erueSSeS and tutor :
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D ABIES' Laughter and
- the Patter of Hurrying
Feet Heard in Many Royal
European Homes, Over Some
of Which Also Hover the
Demons of Fear-England's
Heir on the Borderland Be-
tween Childhood and Man.
hood, and Has Begun His
Training as Future Ruler
Olaf of Norway the Most
Press-ridden Royal Child and
Princess Juliana of Holland
the Youngest and Only
Lady" Among Them.
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TWO pounds and three one-half ounces tor
whatever weight may he decided upon)
round up and let prove twenty minutes
OH the bench. Mold into round fiat
loaves of about one inch thickness. Set
to prove in pans so that the loaves will
not touch when at full proof. Let prove
Tor about one hour and fifteen minutes
temperature about so degrees Fahrenheit
When ready to go into the oven the loaves
may be slashed croSsWiSe with a sharp
knife or punctured with pins, thus per-
uniting the escape of a portion Of the
gas
Bake in uitable pans in an eighteen
count oven for one hour
OF course, these quantities are such as
may not fit the needs of the housewife
Neither may she recognize from the reci-
pc what We're the exceptional features OF
this particular bread making But the
army bread baker knows that it is given
an unusual amount of kneadng; that
the loaves are kept thin; that it is baked
a long time in a slow oven. The result
Isl that it is stiff and hard. but still
sweet
III connection with the making of field
break attention is called to the remark
able feats that are regularly performed
by the field bakers OF the army. For ex-
ample a baker will put one of the field
ovens that in use in the army and
all the supplies and appliances that go
with it on an ordinary two-horse wagon
With this he will trail along after a
regiment off OH q march. Wherever it
goes he will follow, and whenever it
pitches camp he unloads his oven and
starts baking. This oven IS little more
than five-foot cube, yet he is able to
get out of it every day a pound loaf of
bread for every man in the regiment of.
say, LOO in strength To perform this
feat he has the help of not more than
half a dozen student assistants.
At the military maneuvers at Chicago
last year one of these ovens was installed
in the field and Immediately began the
process of producing bread. The bakers
of Chicago got interested and came out
to watch the demonstra tion of the army
bakers They inquired the cost of the
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had seen his father do. said, quite grave
ly, ''C'est iini."
Another little European heir whose COM
ing was waited for some time wi II anXi-
ETY. was Prince Humbert of ita'N who nat
in an appearance after two sisters, and
tfus assured the direct succession TO the
Italian throne. He is now six years old.
and is made a tremendous pet Of by his
sisters, Yoianda and Mafalda The eldest
girl is a great beauty, in a dark, gypsy
style, like her mother, who was a princess
of Mon tenegro, the coun ry reno mel Tor
its exports Of pigs and beautiful prin-
cesseS."
Prince Humbert and his sisters are an
exceedingly happy little trio; their mother
believes in letting them run wild as much
as possible, and their kappiest moments
are when they can race out into the gar
den and roll in the dust. They have many
pets, dogs, ponies and donkeys, and the
little prince wept many tears over tho
late Of favorite pig that he learned had
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passed to their son. formerly known as
the Duke of Edinburgh. His son pre-
deceased him, and the crown. being re-
fused by his brother, the Duke of Con-
naught, il was offered to and accepted
by the present duke. his nephew, the
son of the late Duke of Albany, while
still a schoolboy. In 1919 he married
Princess Victoria of Schieswig-H
and their little son was born the follow
ing year.
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arc now 10. be found in nearly every
palace and the sounds of children's
laughter and flying feet Lven up royal
homes, many Of which are not by any
means the happ.est. Russia's heir is
six; SPANS is four: Norway's eight:
Hollands two; Belgium's nine; Italy's
six; England's seventeen
England's heir, the Prince OF Wales, is
IN his last year of childhood, having just
attained his seventeenth year; in fact he
may be said TO be on the border between
childhood and manhood. for. according to
royal prerogative. he comes Of age next
year, when ne will have his own estab-
Eshment and attendants. Up to the time
ne was AT Dartmouth Naval College he
figured very seldom in public life, but
since he left there he has come much
more TO the fore, and already he has taken
part IN some of the stirring events of this
year In England. In June ne was made
q Knight of the Garter, the first cere-
money in which ne was the principal
neure and some four weeks after he was
formally invested with is title Of Prince
OF Wales in the Welsh capital a cere-
mony nearly as ancient as the coronation
Itself He is row "rea ding for his en-
trance 10 one OF the colleges at Oxford
probably Christ Church-in
the autumn. He is to spend a short time
also at Cambridge University, and then
he VIII make a tour of the British empire
with his brother. Prince Albert after
which ne VIII enter the army. receiving
. commission in the 10th Hussars.
His life. like those OF his four brothers
and sister. has been particularly happy,
though distinctly strenuous for boy.
The king and queen have decided views
on his training, and never allow any
thing to come between him and his les
Sons. While at Osborne College and
Observation-Disclosures he was known among
his companions as 'Sardines"-no differ
ence was made between his life and
those OF the other boys. On one occasion
he gave tea party to some OF his par
ticular chums. with the result that he
found himself about 81 Oh the wrong
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The War Department bakers make bet
ter bread than is anywhere commercial
ly produced. In the army there are few
frills and the baking is limited to the
production of few kinds OF plain food,
mostly bread But the War Department
realizes that a mans usefulness in time
of war depends his physical condition.
and that his physical condition depends
more upon the food he eats than upon
anything else So, III order that the
army may be efficient the men are well
fed Their simple ration is designed to
keep them in the greatest possible degree
of fitness.
This ration has been stipulated after
many years of experiment and deVeiop-
ment 1t is in accordance with the de-
auctions of science. proven by prachce.
Bread is the most important single Item
in this ration So unlimited care and eX-
pense have been given to the productloh
of the best possible bread rms degree
of time and expense would be beyond pos
s!bility with q civilian baker.
Hardtack held its place because OF It's
adaptability to emergencies rather than
to other qualities, although 1t was much
more nourishing than palatable. The
huge amounts Of it consumed may be ap-
preciated from the fact that there was
at one time JO,OO0,000 pounds of bareback
stored in Manila and subsequently con-
sumed by the army.
The greatest demonstration OF the Su-
periority of the field bread was at san
Antonio. There the field bakeries made
no attempt to follow the army in its dr.
ferent movements. The field bread was
baked in the ovens at Fort Sam Houston.
While the division was encamped at Leon
Springs. forty miles distant, 10000 pounds
was the daily production of field bread
from these ovens. Each morning hve wag-
ons were started from the bakeries ladeh
with bread. A canvas was spread in the
bottoms of these wagons, the bread was
pitched in like wood and the canvas was
pulled over the top to protect 1t from