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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
PREPARING The PEAR.
MANY DIFFERENT WAYS Or
COOKING FRUIT.
Splendid Dish When stewed. but
Many Variations In Serving Are 81
Possible-Pear Dumpiings Al. $s. \
ways q Welcome Oelicacy. s

The possibilities of pears, which are
now In season. are apt to be over
looked by many cooks whose only idea
in connection with this favorite des-
sert fruit is a dish Of stewed pears.
Hard green pears that are unit for
eating raw will do for compete.
Make a strip of sugar and water and
into this put the pears, which should
be peeled and halved Flavor the
strip with a small piece of vanilla
bean or few cloves and color q
pretty pink with few drops OF
cochineal Stew the fruit until tender.
Strain and reduce the strip, which
should be poured over the pears just
before sending the compete to table
A compete OF pears Is the basis OF
pear meringue. Whisk the whites OF
eggs to a stiff froth and add powdered
sugar in the proportion OF table
spoonful Of sugar to one white OF egg.
Spread the meringue over the COM
pote. and bake until the meringue Is a
pale brown. &,
Pear dumplings are popular with
those who know this delicacy. The
pear. which is peeled and cored, ts
wrapped In light pastry and baked
like apple dumplings. For pear fritz
ters the batter should be rich. the, ad-
dition Of little cream being a great
improvement. N
Pears 10 marquise make a dainty
dish. Cook a cupful Of rice in two
cupfuls OF milk. with a tablespo
of sugar. the grated rind of5thalf o
lemon and a teaspoonful OF butter.
Thicker with the yolks OF two eggs
well beaten, fill buttered border
mold and bake for tel. minutes. Turn
out on serving dish, fill the center
with stewed pears sprinkled with
sugar and cover with sweetened
whipped cream and serve. IL
S- For spiced pears wash one-half peck
of Seckel pears. prick with fork
and cook in boiling water, to cover.
until soft. Take out carefully, put in
a stone jar and pour over the follow
ing sirup: MIX one pound Of white
sugar. one and one-half cupfuis OF
vinegar and one and one-half. table
lsspoonfuls each OF whole cloves and
stick cinnamon, broken In pieces
Bring to the boiling point and let sim
mer three minutes. Cover jar and
let stand two days. Drain on sirup.
bring to the boiling point, let simmer
three minutes and pour over fruit: re-
peat. In the jar keep a muslin bag in
which are tied two tablespoonfuls each
of whole cloves and stick cinnamon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Ignorant Hungarian Serves Two
Years Before Discovered.
Divorced by Wife While Abroad on
Visit Unfortuna ate Foreigner Failed
to Pay AIimony and Was
Sentenced for Contempt.

w. /. 4 q = y. j. III ~ -
i Chicago.-Forgotten alike BY family.
friends and lawyers. Pavel Macca. q
hungarian. spent two years In the the
Cook county Jail on simpls, charge
OF contempt OF court.
Attorney John A. Mahoney, who OBJ
tanned Macca's release on a writ OF
habeas corpus. declared the case Of
Macca to be one OF the most remark
able in the history OF this or any other
country.
B Here is q poor. uneducated for
eigner." he said. who has been made
to serve over two years for contempt
and kept in jail without means or
friends to 60 to his aid.
Four years ago Macca and his wife
lived on the west side. where they
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
COULDN'T. B CONVERTED
Pastor Of Church confesses His slnabil-
lty to Pass ! counterfeit Sill
yer Dollar. MA N. I Il: 3gs

The minister walked solemnly to
the front Of the platform, and after
gazing intently at the Congregation
for some moments he cleared his
throat and spoke. *
II am sorry to have to announce"
he said slowly, that some member OF
this congregation on Sunday last put
a counterfeit silver dollar in the con-
tribution box. What his motive was
know not. He may have assumed
that for the heather a spurious dol
lar was as good as real one, but It
should not be understood that the
actual money we take in here does
not go directly to them, and hope
that the. individual who gave the
spurious coin will be good enough to
redeem it. l am sorry to have to
make the request, butsthe fact Is that
I have tried three times to pass the
dollar In question OF myself, and in
every case unsuccessfully, wherefore
l consider that it is up to the donor,
to make good. 4 AZ II, IN, 4 a. s.s
II am the guilty party, parson,"
said a little red-headed individual sit
ting In the third roWsOf& peWs, rising
and taking genuine dollar out Of
his pocket. II had hoped, sir. that
a man of your strong powers OF ex-
hortation, who has made good man
out Of such unpromising material as
myself, would be able to convert that
dollar"
You will please resume your seat,
Mr.. Skinnerton," said the clergyman
'"The treasurer will negotiate the ex-
change at the conclusion Of the serv-
ice. The ushers will now proceed
with the collection, and while, they are
about it please let me say that, as be-
tween counterfeit money and suspend
er buttons for the collection plate, 1
most unquestionably prefer the latter.
The suspender button can be made
useful, but spurious money is not only
useless, but involves the clerical con-
science in too great strain, consider
ing the size of the average minis
terial ary."--Harper's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
App,leI pumplInas.

Three apples, rather tart. pare.
halve and core. Crust: two cups Of
-four. one heaping teaspoon bnking
powder. pinch Of salt. two heaping
tablespoons fresh lard or butter, sweet
milk to make a dough. Sift flopr. bak-
ing powder. and salt together. cut in
shortening. and with a mixing spoon
stir in the milk Roll to about one
fourth inch thickness and wrap each
half of apple and place in rather deep
pan. Take four cups Of sugar. one ia
blespoon -four. enc tablespoon butter.
and nutmeg to flavor: mix together
and add one quart boiling water. stir
ring while adding, then pour over
dumplings In pan and bake one-half
to three-quarters Of an hour in, rather
hot oven. Basic with the sauce around
dumplings when half done and let
bake a nice brown. Serve with cream.
either whipped Of plain. These are
splendid ~ n se53sE2
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
APRICOT aavarlan Cream

Cover a half box of gelatine with q
half pint Of cold water and let soak
a half hour. Press pint of fresh
apricots through a colander. first
stewing and sweetening to taste. Stir
the gelatine over boiling water until
dissolved. Whip pint Of double
cream to stir froth. Add the gela-
tine to the apricots. mix and turn
into a tin pan. Stand the pan in an.
other filled with cracked ice and stir
constantly until 1t begins to thicken.
Add the whipped cream and stir until
thoroughly mixed. Turn into molds
to harden and serve with whipped
cream.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
cIothes for Nude hen.S

i Saratoga. N. Y.-The home Of the
wonderful fish and game may be Win
sted, Conn. but Saratoga has a hen
that wears clothes. Her name is Jen-
nile, and she lives on the Williams
farm. Jennie was born without the
sign Of a feather. and as she grew
to henhood not vestige Of covering
appeared. Recently the hired man no
ticed Jennie shivering in corner. He
had an idea The hen was measured
for a, suit. and now she wears a nat
ty gray uniform with buttons down
the front and holes for her wings.
Once the laughing stock of the flock.
she is now the envy Of all the barn.
yard population.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

MY young friend. how can you
think Of such a thing? 1t is impossi-
BILE. You are without fortune, and"
But If ! become the son-in-law Of
Mr.. Baring?"
I'm that case the affair would be
soon settled and SO you have my
word"
Fortified with these two promises,
M. Labouchere returned to England,
and in two months after married Miss
Barring, because MI. Hope had prom
ised to take him into partnership; and
he thus became allied to the house OF
Hope & Co. His was magnificent ca
Frazar Kirkland. Cyclopedia OF
Anecdote,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

man beings Dr. Goddard s assistants
have investigated the records Of near
ly every one of these descendants only
to discover that $50 of them -or more
than half-were feeble-minded, many
of them with criminal records. Among
the others were numerous epileptics
showing conclusively the terrible
consequences of that unfortunate
| union.
DR.. Goddard's assistants have traced
nearly thousand of the same young
mans legitimate descendants-ther re-
suit Of his union to normal woman.
Not single case Of feeble-minded-
ness has been found among them.
When this great work is completed.
DR.. Goddard believes it will be the
most powerful argument ever present
ed for the unsexing Of all feeble-mind-
ed persons. The state Of New Jer-
sey has already passed a law which
provides for the unsexing of all In
mates of institutions for the
Efeeble-minded. However, this will
only prevent those who are
already in the institutions Il from
breeding more feeble-minded children.
More effective measures are necessary,
and to that end Prof. tombstone, who Is
superintendent Of the training school,
has outlined a plan which, If adopted,
will, he believes, do more to solve the
problem than anything that has been
attempted SO far.
''All that we have yet done has been
to house the feeble-minded," said Prof.
tombstone the other day. Now
we are finding that they are in-l
creasing with such rapidity that this
plan is impossible. We have got to
go step further. Special classes must!
be organized in every school
for NALL children who are be-
hind in their work. These childrens
must be examined carefully by physi-5
clans. We are standardizing tests for
feeble mindedness. and SO accurate
are these tests that every feeble
minded child can be. detected with.
absolute certainty. If morally suitable
these backward children can be kept
in school and live at their homes until
the age Of puberty. IT, they are not
morally suitable they should be sent.
to training schools for the feeble-mind-
ed. There they should be unsexed
and taught some useful occupation.
Thirty to fifty per cent. can be made.
entirely self-supp porting after ten
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Farmers Guard Crops.

In plentiful America, where thou
sands of bushels Of fruit are per-
mitted to decay on the ground year
after year, very little attention is
given to guarding the crops. But, in
China, where the very poor are in
such vast majority and where every
foot of soil and ripening globule OF
fruit command careful attention, the
farmer always has somebody guarding
his crops night and day. Uusually
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Lemon Cups.

Lemon cups to hold tartar sauce
when 1t is served with fish made a
pretty addition to the dish. After cut.
ting Eve lemons in halves. scoop out
the pulp and remove all the Juice and
white tissue. With q knife scallop
the edges neatly, and after filling the
hollows with the sauce place these
cups around the fish, with a bright bit
Of green parsley between each two.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Mlalne aIIIuLIe,berr-Ies., !

gH# - ~. ! 4 u - f.s.
Washington county's BURBERRY crop
has netted this year revenue of more
than $1,000, 900, according to State
Horticulturist Albert K. Gardner OF
Rockland. This industry was started
but a few years ago in that county and
the yield this year is the largest yet
obtained there, One grower realized
SIS from few bushels which he set
out in his orchard as a "side issue. a
man near Cherryneld is said to have
raked blueberries from the vines just
as cranberries are gathered. It Il.
stated that fabulous prices are paid for
rental Of BURBERRY lands and blue
berry factories and the canning fac
tories are still running Kennebeo,
Journal. Il
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
millionaire to Be Farmer

dents Of New York. 1t is typical
summer resident" farm. beautifully;
laid out, far enough from town to be
q real farm. and yet relying on the
summer visitor income more than
on its crops. It stands some so yards
back from the highway. shaded by elm
and maple trees, and is more bunga-
low than either a farmhouse or q man
sion. A shady orchard screens most
OF the house from view. while the
orchards and fields that comprise the
rest of the estate ARD scarcely dis
cernible 3t{Gs 5
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Aerial Scout Work.

AS an example Of what German
military airmen are already able to do.
the performance OF Lieutenant Mack
enthun recently IL cited. In 9 space Of
IS minutes Lieutenant Mackenthun.
who was acting for the red force. rose
and few around the enemy's front and
was back on the ground at his head
quarters ready to report. To obtain
the same results would have taken Q
strong force OF cavalry four hours.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Mock Angel Food.

Sift four times: One cup sugar, one
cup -four. three teaspoons baking
powder, pinch of salt. Add to the
above one cup Of milk heated to boil
ing point. Beat we'll, add fiavoring,
then put in white Of three eggs beaten
stiff. Fold. but do not stir eggs in.
Bake in regular angel food cake tin
(kind with hole in center) until it does
not adhere to broomstraw. Have oven
very hot until cake has risen. then
cool it by degrees until cake is done.
Leave in pan and turn at once upside
down to cool.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
skips Rope at 81.

Ithaca, N. Y.-To celebrate her
eighty-frst birthday, Miss Sue Vor-
bees, an inmate Of the Old Ladies'
home in this city, skipped the rope 81
times and was not fatigued when she
finished.
Miss Voorhees, is remarkably spry and
athletic for her years. She told her
friends to come on the lawn in front
Of the home and, picking up an ordi-
nary girls jumping rope. lightly skip
ped it Fl times. Last year her friends
say she jumped 1t 40 times.
Miss Voorhees, has been in the home
IL years. She is a great pedestrian.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
ORANGE Crackers.

Beat very stif the whites Of two
eggs. stir in as much powdered sugar
as required for stiff meringue. add
one teaspoon Of orange extract. Ar
range on the top of small crackers
which are placed in fiat pan: powder
top Of each with grated cocoanut and.
brown in moderate oven. This makes
80. These are excellent, served with
chocolate. for a children's party.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

s.g
inal founder Of the family, ascriminal
/ who came to America in the latter.
part OF the seventeenth century; were
criminals, feeble minded persons or
tdegenerates This family being stud
led BY Prof. Goddard shows an
even higher percentage of feeble-mind-
& ed members. Dr. Goddard has already
spent three years in compiling and
classifying the information about this
family, gathered by seven trained in
syestigators who have been constantly
In the field. Another year will elapse
! before the record of every member
OF the family is traced and the work
completed. but the facts gathered so
far enable Or. Goddard to declare the
case OF the Jukeses is not an isolated
one as many have believed-but a
typical one In fact, every state in:
the Union will furnish several fam
lilies, he declares, B,
For obvious reasons it is impossible
to give the name OF the family, but in
1882 young man Of a proud New Jer-
sey family wronged a feeble-minded
girl in the village near his home. Then
he went his way, married a girl Of fine
family, reared children and died, high
" respected, In 1887.
But the predetermined girl gave,
birth to son OF feeble mind,sand this
son became the father of 10 children,
seven of whom were idiots. One of
the feeble minded. sons married a
Predetermined woman and all their
children were idiots. In the next gen
Grafton one of their feeble-minded
sons Ito follow only one branch of the
family fell in love with a feeble-mind-
ed woman. Nobody prevented them
from marrying. They brought II chill
dren into the world. And one Of their
idiot daughters bore II children
And the last in the direct line of
horrors is a girl Of IA in the train
Ing school at Vineland who has the
mind of child of two. This, mind
you, is tracing only one member of the
family in each generation. That one
youth who wronged that feeble-minded
girl more than century ago became
the ancestor through her Of 1,146 hui
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Carrot Salad.

One bunch OF young carrots, two
hard boiled eggs. one head Of lettuce.
six olives. one tablespoonful of cap
ers. a little minced parsley and a cup
of mayonnaise. Boil the carrots and
when done drain and cool. Then slice
into pile in the middle Of the salad
bowl. Arrange the stoned olives and
the lettuce leaves around the carrots:
also the ,capers and hard boiled eggs.
Sprinkle the carrots with chopped
parsley and serve with mayonnaise.
This is a pretty and effective salad.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

\
years training. When they grow up
they can be placed in VI homes and
farms for feeble.minded adults The
men can work in shops and on the
farms. The women can sew and work
in the orchards. Many Of them can
be permitted to return to their own
homes. The greatest danger today is
that feeble-minded persons when they
are allowed to return to their homes
bring more feeble-minded people into
the world. But unsexing them will re.
move this danger and within a few
decades the community will have to
deal only with the occasional feeble
minded child who is born to normal
parents.
We are not ready to adopt the old
Spartan custom Of putting to death
the feeble-minded and the physically
unfit, although there are some per-
sons who believe this should be done.
We cannot continue to house them.
The expense is already greater than
the state can bear. We must put an
end to the breeding Of feeble-mind-
ed children as far as possible and
train those we have and those that are
bound to come to be self-supporting.
The training school at Vineland is
the only institution in America that
is scientifically and systematically
studying the problem of checking the
increase of feeble-mindedness. Elab-
crate experiments are constantly be-
ing conducted there with a view to bet
,tering the condition of the inmates,
who number approximately 400. A
few years ago it was discovered that
the cretin type lacked the thyroid
gland. and that feeding them the thy
roid gland Of a sheep produced dis
tinct improvement. 1t is now be-
lieved, in fact, 1t has been demon
strated in many institutions, that If
the thyroid gland be fed to the cretin
type at an early age their efficiency is
greatly increased.
At the present many feeble-minded
children Of the Monaghan type ESQ
called from their slant eyes, are be-
ing fed with pituitary glands and 9th
srs with mixtures of the pituitary and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

nish OF the old Italian makers, have
we? These people have rediscovered
and improved upon it. Instead OF hav-
ing to wait for years Of resonance
with the bow to shake down the oil
into the cells. leaving that soft sur
face color which sends connoisseurs
into raptures, the modern makers
turn out masterpieces by the hundred
per day, and the places where the
chin and the hands have worn the
surface bare are plain proofs of au-
thentic old age"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Peach Leather.

Take peck of ripe peaches. prefer
ably the free stones. pound and press
through coarse sieve. To each four
quarts of this pulp allow one pound Of
brown sugar. Mix together. Cook
five minutes and spread the paste on
plates Set in the sun every day I'M
til thoroughly dried so that the paste
can be rolled up like leather. Dust
with graduated sugar. roll up and
place in glass 1ars-or wrap in par
ATTN paper and put in boxes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
.roothaehe srlna, 500.

Thomaston. Conn. Ruska Antilles.
employed at the Wigwam reservoir. Is
500 richer as the result of visit to
a local dentist, who found a pink
pearl in a cavity of tooth that ached.
The pearl was removed and appraised.
Antilles remembered he had been eat
ing oysters.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
Yale Athlete Il coaImaI

Yale Athlete 10 Goldman.
New Haven. Conn.--Bernard 8. Tom
mers. Yale baseball pitcher. graduate
and oll-round athlete. is driving coal
team today. making deliveries az an
employe. He wishes to learn the coal
business from the bottom up"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
SUITED s. i. TO 4 TEE. :.

Fox Ito bear)-Come over tomoFe
row and well play game Of golf On
the links.
All right. i don't know what
the game is, but II there's any job
you can put up on the lynx I'm u i
with you. ij,;35 81 f
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
chlroaI il r'.asph.

""Ethelinda writes very peculiar
hand" said Maude.
'''Yes," replied Maymie. its Just .
lot OF straight lines and angles. When
you read 1t, you have to guess at the.
spelling, the same as she does.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar;coated.
easy to take as candy, regulate and inviSor-
ate stomach, liver. and bowels. Do not gripe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25
a 7N,I y \. - - % y. q 80 ~
FIFTH GEllERAno
OF 23oL cAlL DsEN IN TVS
GENERATION III. MERE: INSANE
SEVENTH GENERA TON
4 zoo INSANE DESCENDANTS
TRACED AND 2O4 EITHER
EPttEpTfeS on NORMAL

ancestry
and mothe
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

It pays to be honest At least It pays
your employer. S; sli
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

ness, is simply another name for it,
is matter Of heredity.
There has been aiterrible increase.
in the number of feeble-minded chill
dren in the past few years. .s5
Feeble minded mothers are twice
as prolific as normal women.
'"The country cannot build institu-:
Il lions rapidly enough to house and take
care of the feeb Reminded \. y.
1T be only ssoluti lon Of the problem is
the unsexing Of all feel le-minded per-.
SONS to prevent them from breeding
more feeble ded children, and the
training Of the ble-mind led who are
now here to be self-sup orting.'s
These are a few of the conclusions
reached by Prof. E. r. tombstone
and Or. Henry H: Goddard Of the
training school for feeble minded chill
gdren at Vineland, N. u. after a care
full study Of more than ESQ families
\ in which feeble mind led children have
been born for several generations. In
four of these families the records of;
II, 700 $indiVid uals were traced, of which
numb So aBwere feeble-minded, or;
nearly one-fourth Of the entire num-
1 Der. 81 & = "a.
At the present time DR.. Goddard.
who is in5c harge of the &research de-
partment Of the institution. Is engaged.
IN tracing the records Of the members
of single family which promises to.
rival If not actually to surpass the rec
ord OF the notorious Jukes family.
ssJukes, 1t will be remembered, is the
famous family Of criminals usually
cited as the most glazing example Of
Sheredity IN crime More than two
thirds Of the descendants OF the orig
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-25

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! The ] ]. { CURSE /;
OF
{ RE !,

HREE HUNDRED THOU
] !: !
~ ~ q sand feeble minded per-
'ss3s sons are running at
large in the United
a ~ States. Eighty per cent
Of theffeeble-minded chill
dren come from 10 per
cent of the community.
5ts aTi Jdiocy - feeble.minded-