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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
TO MAKE GOOD CAKE
SOME RULES THAT SIMPLY MUST
BE OBSERVED.
proper Temperature Of Oven One Of
the Most Important Points-Dlf-
ferent CONNECTIONS Require
Varying Degrees Of Heat.

First attention should be given to
the oven. making sure that the fire Is
not too hot, and will remain even I'M
til the baking is done. Unless you
have control of your fire do not at.
tempt to bake cake.
Loaf cake requires less heat than
thin cakes. If the oven is too hot at
first or is suddenly cooled while the
cake is baking the cake will be heavy.
Loaf cake should bake as long again
as thin cake. Divide the time OF bak-
ing into quarters. The first quarter
should show a rising, with the edges
higher than the center; the second a
brown tint; the third deeper brown,
and the last shrinking and settling.
If your cake rises and cracks in the
center you are using too much -four;
when it browns before rising, the oven
Is too hot.
How to Put Butter Cake Mixture
Tosether-Cream the butter with
hand or large spoon, add sugar a! d
cream again until very light. When
the proportion Of butter Is small it
may be put In with the eggs and
sugar Beat the yolks until light vel.
low, add to butter and sugar and beat
again. Add flavoring and then lit
tie milk, then a little -four, a little
milk again, and SO on until the milk
and -four are all used, and beat Wig
orously until your mixture is smooth.
Add lastly the beaten whites. Fruit
should be added last. and fruit cake
mixtures should be little sitter with
flour.
Sponge Cake Mlxtures-Beat the
yolks until they are light yellow and
creamy and slowly beat In the sugar.
Add flavoring and liquid and beat
again. Beat the whites until stir and
fold it without beating. Add -four
lastly with as little stirring as pos
sible, as 1t makes the cake tough. AL
ways follow these directions and cake
failures will never be known.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY GET GIFT
Andrew Carnegie Gives Institution
$4,000 Building Which Will BE Used
by Agricultural Del artment-school
Making Progress.

Andrew Carnegie has given another
building to the training school fol
colored teachers at Cheyney. Pa. This
time it is building for the agricul
tural department and will cost $4,000
1t will contain the usual Laboratories
for scientific work In agriculture. The
school offers professional courses for
teaching the industrial subjects and
hopes to correlate these subjects
with agriculture. Three-fifths of the
graduates are now teaching In the for.
mer slave states.
The Institute for Colored Youth was
organized in Philadelphia in 1887. In
1903 the management decided to reor-
ganize the work as carried in the city
of Philadelphia and to concentrate
their efforts and funds in first class
normal school with this aim: To give
a course of instruction, both academic
and industrial, that will prepare the
young people for teachers Of the vari-
Gus industrial subjects and graded
school work The courses are so ar
IdL ecu DIS " pCllllAL &c pOA L1O1 VI
the time to be given to the actual
work belonging to the different sub
jects. The institute claims now to
translate the advanced and approved
educational methods of instruction
into the language OF the present condi-
ton of the negro child.
The school has developed and pub
lished a leafet Daily Menus for tho
School Year and Dietary Study for
October" and set of record sheets
for the keeping Of storeroom and din
ing room accounts. Mention of this
leaflet has been made in the U. s. A.
Experiment Station Record OF 1910.
The daily menus have received the
commentator OF experts, hotel mar
ayers, stewardesses Of boarding
schools and many other prominent au'
thorities The menus are especially
commended for their variety, whole
someness, economy and scientific ar.
rangement
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
Chocolate.Eruit Tarta.

Make the tarts of puff pastry, leav.
ing as large a space as possible for
the filling. In each tart place canned
peaches or apricots from which all the
juice has been drained away, and pour
over them q chocolate sauce. The
sauce is made as follows: Boil one
half pint of milk and CRATE three
ounces of chocolate. Mix a little Of
the milk with the chocolate until it
Is smooth; add the rest Of the milk
and let it boil up; then add one ounce
of sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla.
If the tarts are to be used hot, pour
on the sauce as soon as it is finished
and serve Immediately, covering the
top with whipped cream. The tarts
may also be used cold, and in that
case the sauce must be cold, when
poured over them.-Harper's Bazaar.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
THE LORDS PRAYER.

BY Miss Grace 3. Berry.
Our-gracious Lord who lives anC
reigns on high,
Father-of all, beyond exalted
skies,
Who art in Heaven-and earth for
ever the same,
Hallowed betty blessed Holy
Name.
Thy name shall ring DER land from
shore to shore,
Thy kingdom shall be sought for
evermore.
Come gracious Lord with all thy
Heavenly power,
Thy will be done on earth each
coming hour.
AS tbs around thy holy righteous
throne,
In Heaven which splendor here was
never known.
This day our sins beyond all years
to come,
Our daily bread like Heavenly man
ma send,
Anu grant uS pcdCo Will IAcoo OuA
brethren,
Forgive us every vain and idle
thought.
Our trespasses, oh, Lord, remember
not;
AS we forgive wilt thou forgive the
same.
Those who trespass against US. In
Jesus name.
Lead us forever by thy side.
Not into temptation may we ever
abide.
But deliver US when weakened by
earth's trial,
From evil when we're tempted to
denial,
For thine Is, the world and all its
treasure;
The kingdom, the power and the
glory
Forever and forever will remain,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
SOUTH AMERICA No PLACE
FOR The POOR man

Periodically up hobs leader OF
colored people who talks very loudly
about South America as a possible
home of the American Negro. From
the other side there comes now and
then the same word. For South
America We have always entertained
the liveliest feeling OF gaSSart, be-
cause we have :. syola re books and
a.oM sre travelling people that race
prejudice Is there almost unknown
and that many dark persons are way
up In the civil and social scale. But
let US settle on territory as a land
OF promise, and sure as grass grows
there is the man who will turn the
medal. We have an example OF that
before us. A mayor of an Illinois
town recently returned rom South
America. At the Wolcott he gave out
an interview. from which we take
the following rcntence:
South America is a revelation. We
in the states don't know what there
Is In store there, nor do we know
how to get our share of it. At the
same time South America is not
place for poor man. A farmer had
better stay In this country. But
man who can 60 there with $4,000
and purchase a large hacienda and
work it with poems can make money.
The man who wants to work his own
place is lost and lad better stay
away. There is a great opening for
capital for investment in manufac-
lures At present South American
countries import practically every
thing they use. 1t is only recently
that they have begun to manufacture
their own boots and shoes, and all
the machinery that is going in for
this purpose is American"
No place for poor man? Then 1t
is no place for American Negroes,
for those who would seek it as a free
land would also seek 1t as a land Of
labor Few negroes have $4,000 to
invest In hacienda, and no Negro
wants to be peon. II there Is not
the widest opportunity In South
America for free labor that will bring
living wage. there is no hope for the
American Negro, who when he works
lives by the sweat of his brow, and
lives we'll. So 1t goes. Prejudice,
prescription, injustice, inequality and
the bitter gall of cruel words bow US
down to the ground, but after all,
there is no land like the land of tho
Free" and there is no promise such
as Is held out to US and to all in tho
home Of the brave" The civil op-
portunities that a-o said to be in
South America We will make in our
own country by the worth of US that
cannot longer be hidden.-New YorE
Age.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
Strawberry PuHs.

Cream puffs and cellars, filled with
crushed and sweetened strawberries
instead of the usual cream, are deli
cious. Into a granite saucepan put
one cup of water or milk, one-half cup
butter (scant measure) and boil. Then
add one cup -four, stirring continually,
and cook two minutes BY this time
1t should be smooth and velvety. Re-
move from fire and, when cool. beat in
four eggs, one at time. Beat ten to
twenty minutes, then drop by spoon
fuls upon buttered tins and bake in
hot oven for 20 minutes. While still
warm coat with strawberry icing
made by adding strawberry juice
to a cup of powdered or confection-
er's sugar to make a fine icing When
cold cut open and fill with crushed and
sweetened strawberries.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

The courts have recently decided
that If a person has one-sixteenth
negro blood in his veins, such person
is to be classed as negro. We thank
the court for that decision; 1t solves
a historical doubt that has been wor-
rying us for many years. We've al
ways admired the glory and achieve
ments of the ancient Egyptians; we
knew they were colored, but the ras-
cally ethnologists whom we studied
always denied US the pleasure Of
thinking they were negroes. The
courts have transferred large section
of brilliant history to our side of the
house. We wonder what will the Hon.
Tom Watson, the greatest master OF
style that this country has produced,
says about this? Won't he have to re-
wise some Of his expressed opinions
on this subject? When Mr.. Watson
gets loose again on this theme we are
going to cite the decision Of learned
judges.-Old Hickory.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
HIS APOLOGY.

A recent refusal by member o.
the English parliament to withdraw
zone comma" of what he had said
about a member Of the government re-
calls the fact that Richard Brinsle!
Sheridan once declined to punctuate
an apology. In the house of com
mons one day Sheridan gave an or
ponent the lie direct. Called upon tn
apologize, the offender remarked:
"Mr. Speaker, said the honorable
member was a liar it is true and I am
sorry for it,"
The insulted party was not satisfied
and said so.
Sir" retorted Sheridan, the hon
orable member can interpret the terms
of my statement according to his abil
ity, and he can put punctuation macka
where it pleases him"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
WHAT LIFE IS
CLAIMING SOMETHING As YOUR
OWN, FINDING IT, IMPRov-
ING 1T.

To locate claim! Why, that's what
lifo Is! Claiming something as your
own, finding out exactly where it is,
then going to work on 1t to improve
It.
Many boy begins to locate his
claim before he is In the high school.
We say he has bent" toward this
or that. He has literary tastes. His
claim is the world of books. Or he
has mechanical genius. Another has
an ability to speak easily standing on
his feet His claim is the world of
speech and oratory, persuasion In the
| courts for the sake of justice, or in
the pulpit for human uplift. These are
great claims, and it's a splendid thing
to feel that one Is naturally drawn to
some one Of these large lines of &C.
tlvity. II he has this bent" early in
life. and is conscious of it. he is
saved much hunting in the dark to
find Job," and he wards of that
bad state Of mind when one must
wonder what he Is really going to do
to make an honest living. For pay our
way we all surely must.
That great man, Thomas Carlyle,
said: Blessed Is he who has found his
work. Let him ask no other blessed
ness Which Is as much as to say,
Blessed Is he who has located his
claim. know man today who is
over fifty years old who has gone to
farming in the last two years. He is
struggling very hard, and l admire him
for that, but 1t Is such hard struggle
that l am sorry for him. l know he
can never be a successful farmer, be-
cause he put off beginning until too
late. He didn't locate his claim early
enough. The men who have helped
the world most are those who have
worked long at one thing, even though
they might play at many smaller
things. And the only way to work long
at thing is to begin early. George
Washington became leader of the
American army because, many years
before, he located that claim by hard
service in the French and Indian war.
| once saw small boy running down
the hill to reach the ferry, going across
the river. But he was just too late.
We'll, my boy" said, Its too bad;
you didn't run fast enough" ooh. yes,
| ran fast enough" he said, but
didn't start soon enough" He was a
wise boy. To locate your claim, start
soon. It's better than running fast
George l.. Parker in St. Nicholas.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
A SIMPLE LUNCHEON MENU.

Now that Lent IL passed and the
spirit OF hospitality may once more
find natural expression the woman
who entertains is thinking Of inviting
her friends in for luncheon or tea.
This does not mean that she must
spend a great deal Of money upon the
meal A menu of simple food daintily
served Is in much better taste and is
sure to be more appreciated than one
of extravagant and quserly concocted
dishes whose ingredients are matters
Of doubt because Of the mixture Of fla
vors and seasonings. The following
luncheon may be prepared by the
home cook or by the maid of all
work:
Masked French lamb chops.
Pea patties. Fruit salad.
Coffee
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

Several weeks ago hundred teach
ers visited Tuskegee Institute. They
were amazed at what they saw. All
men are amazed at Tuskegee, in many
respects the thing wonderful, In Amer
ica Among the number there were
several Ohio teachers and the editor
of the Ohio Teacher. The editor puts
in his journal his impression of the
things he saw, and we venture the
easiest paragraph for layman's
eye:
I'VE might as we'll admit in the out
set that Booker T. Washington has
been doing for years what many a
white educator has talked about and
conjectured he would do some day
During the past five years prominent
educators have discussed the psy-
chology Of motivation, but the great
school at Tuskogee has been motivat-
ing for a quarter of century, and
during the past ten years has solved
many q pedagogical problem relative
to manual training, vocational studies,
activities and the social efficiency Of
the Individual While many of us
have been talking glibly about these
things, DR.. Washington, born In slav
cry, has been modestly working them
ont for his race"
That Is too much for our usual will
ing hands, and we spread 1t on the
minutes Of general achievement, with
the rather ragged translation that Tus-
kegee is the model American univer-
sity, that it came out Of the brain and
struggle Of a Virginia slave, that it is
the beacon light for educational effort
everywhere, and that Booker Wash
lngtcn Is the prophet of useful learn
ing. If that translation proves not the
purpose it Is no fault Of ours.-N. Y.
Age.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

for "irrevocable," disappointment"
might have been," and the weary
marches of 40 years had printed In the
sand OF the desert Opportunity and
unbelief equals forfeiture of rest"
The place of the brightest promise
now becomes the place Of the most
solemn warnings, the place of happy
hopes-the place Of painful despair,
the threshold Of rest becomes he
portals of restlessness. And we
came to Ka-desh- barnea!" With
what? Faith Of a Caleb or JOSHUA or
with the unbelief of generation? If
we come with the former. we will gain
Canaan: II with the latter, a will
derness.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

A London professor has found that
the white race is doomed to die on
the face Of the earth, and he has
discovered that the original color OF
man was brown. While the informa-
ton brought to US by the London
truth-seeker Is Of great human In
terest, 1t Is not altogether informing.
We do not believe that the white race
will ever die off the face Of the earth.
for that race Is smart enough to save
Its life by fusion, or by the art OF
combining with all other races against
what Is still the understandable pur-
pose Of time. What the white race
may lack in vitality may be supplied
by the blue bloods of our own south
ern states. as represented by the first
families Of Carolina, led by Tillmen:t
Jefferson Davis, and the first families
Of Mississippi, led by Jeems Katydid
Vardaman. No formula or discovery
of science could convince these mill
tant and heated defenders of the
white race that their time Of passage
from the earth will ever come. We
side with them. We should hate so
much to give up white people, for
they have their place in the civiliza.
ton of the world and Ought not to be
disturbed by professors and uncouth
scientists. AS for the color of orig
inal man, we have known all along
that 1t was color other than white,
for that color is out of all harmony
with nature, but have feared to claim
1t was black lest science should throw
its giant form against us. We are
willing to compromise on brown, the
most engaging Of all the colors, and
which fits SO we'll in all scheme and
shadings. The whites, as this London
professor points out, may be unable to
fit In In tropical climates, but they
have fitted in we'll enough In Africa
to gobble up all the lands and riches
Of that continent, and in most all 9TH
err climates. tropical or otherwise.
where they have settled. There may
be some serious facts with respect
to the races Of the earth, their color.
shadings. varying constitutions and
organisms, such as Boaz Of Columbia
presents, but that one race will ever
completely die away and another
race alone survive, we take no stock
In. The fact Is, let US take our own
country, that both white and black.
yellow and brown, are increasing year
after year, increasing by hundreds Of
thousands. The group Of people called
negroes, for example, started out so
years ago with 100000 In numbers
Today a fair count would give them
10000 So 1T is with the American
whites, with this advantage for the
blacks, however, that their Increase
except through HANDFUL of West In.
dtans, who do not affect the native
colored population numerically, Is al.
together continental, while the whites
are constantly receiving recruits from
Europe. We hope the professors and
the scientists will give the whites a
chance. They are needed and, with
proper care, can be made highly use.
full to all lands and governments.
Here in our own country we are doing
all we can with them to make them
yield up something In the way OF
equality and Justice to men and women
Of other colors. If they are put of
the earth, what are we to do? To
whom are We to appeal? How lonely
1t would be.--New York Age
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
HISTORIC BEAUTIES,

The famous beauties of the world
are wise when they leave no portraits
OF themselves. Take Marguerite of
Valois. She was an immoral, dishon-
orable, criminal, scheming, unscrupu-,
lous villainess, but she was lowered
with such charm that there was not a
1ailer or an enemy she could not
charm when she tried. No, nor wom-
an-not even the wives Of her lovers.
Men came from every country, taking
year long Journeys, only to see her,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

Some weeks ago we read an ably
written editorial in one of our papers
on the very important subject, Are
Preachers Overpaid?" The writer con-
Guided that they are not. But isn't
there another side to the question!
We think so. And as 1t Is settled
habit" with us to look for the other
side of questions that have been set.
tied, sealed, put aside and marked
@. E. D., we propose at the first op.
portunity to look for the other side
of this question, to examine into 1t
with the cold neutrality of impartial
logic" extenuating nothing and setting
down naught in malice. Shall draw
the thing as he sees 1t, for the God Of
things as they are. Dallas (Tex)
Express.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

and went away after little glimpse.
saving they had seen loneliness it
self" Then one sees her portraits.
Too much forehead, not enough eye
brow, straight nose and expressive
mouth (in one picture lovely mouth)
and that Is all. Mary, queen OF
SCOTS, was very iovely-three king,
doms battled because of her beauty
and yet her pictures leave one cold.
Fouche said her portrait showed every
trait of the lowest criminal type
That was before he knew whose pic
ture he riticised.-London Truth.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
SALTED RAILWAY SLEEPERS.

Railway sleepers used In south Rus
STA are sailed for preservation. The
discovery of the efficacy of salt for
the purpose was made accidentally
some twenty-five years ago. The tele-
graph poles Of Sebastopol soon rotted
below the ground. and one Of the staff
tried the experiment of putting pool
of salt into the hole prepared for the
reception Of the base Of pole. The
wood lasted five times as long as
usual, and the experiment was repeat
ed and extended to railway sleepers.
Crude sea salt, such as Is recovered
along the Crimean coast, is used.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
lentil Salad,

Take some boiled lentils and let
them get quite cool Drain them with
care and mix them with about fourth
of their weight of cooked onions or
celery or the two mixed. A pile should
then be made in the middle of a dish
and some chopped beet root be put
around it. Pour some salad dressing
over and serve.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
EDUCATION NEEDED.

Slavery is but half abolished, eman
cipation Is but half completed, while
millions Of freemen with votes IN
their hands are left without educa
ton. Justice to them, the welfare Of
the states in which they live, the
safety of the whole republic, the dig
nifty of the elective franchise-al
alike demand that the sill remain
ing bonds of ignorance shall be un
loosed and broken and the minds al
we'll as the bodies of the ernancipatet
90 free.-Robert c. Winthrop.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
Molasses Cookies.

Two and one-half cups sugar; two
cups molasses, one tablespoon ginger,
one tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon
When cool stir in four eggs and one
tablespoon soda, and flour enough to
roll out next day. Moderate oven.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

Trim French chops neatly. Have
ready some nicely seasoned mashed
potatoes, beaten light. Broil the chops
quickly for five minutes, and while
they are warm heap the potatoes on
one side of the lean portion of each
chop. Dip into beaten egg, sprinkle
thickly with bread crumbs and plunge
into hot fat. Decorate the bones with
paper and place attractively on the
chop dish.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

The negro must not only be con-
sumer but producer. He can only be
strong factor in a community in pro-
portion as he purchases real estate
and engages in business enterprises.
The young women of the race must be
given employment in business enter
plises as we'll as in professions,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16
MUST MAKE GOOD"

The man errs who believes a Won.
an he has Tilted forswears love on &C.
count of him; the real truth Of the
matter Is that he never made love suf-
ficlently attractive to BE- interesting.
consequently she wants no repetition
of a game that didn't seem worth the
candle.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

The negro is not contonding for So
cial equality in this country. He
wants equal rights along all walks of
life. With these he would be well
conterted.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-16

AS high as we have mounted in delight
In our detection do we sink as low.
Wordsworth.