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The Washington herald., 1912-11-24
IMPORTANT NOTICE

because Of hs enormous nun16u Of
II letters semitic Tie department. must ask
Contributors 10 limit their communications to
100 Uords. except in cases Of formulas or
recipes Which require sreGier space. Udnt
ding correspondents 70 kGOs a shouting in
lie COrnlr- and # my request in this respect
i. complied rid Il riR Be possible 70 print
mary more letters.
Attention Is called 70 The fact hst Merton
HaTlan6 cannot reesiOe money for patterns.
as she has no connection rih any department
thai sells them. Marion HarLand.
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Concerning Salad Dressing.

ITO save time and labor in making salad
dressing. instead Of letting fall one drop Of
oil at a time into the preparation while It
is cooking, measure all the oil you mean
10 use and mix with the dry ingredients.
Then beat all together with the yolks of
the eggs before putting into the liquid. 1t
viii not separate or become too oily, no
matter how long you keep 1t after 1t Is
made.
Ingredients: Place in q bowl one table
spoonful OF sugar; one Of cornstarch: three
quarters Of tablespoonful Of mustard.
Over these pour half cupful OF best salad
oil with a scant half teaspoonful OF salt.
Beat thoroughly three minutes before add
ing the yoll1s Of two eggs Beat again
for two minutes. Pour this into pan
containing three fourths Of cup Of vinegar
and cup OF water that has come to the
boiling point Boil ten minutes. stirring
all the time. Pour into glass fruit Jar
and seal Keep in dark, cool place. This
viii remain good for two months.
Il. r. H
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worth living? What is religion worth Il II
fail to teach It's professors TO treat their
children with common humanity? We
shudder with horror at the foot binding OF
Chinese girl babies. ths+ortures and deaths
Of children in pagan countries. Look at the
trivial things! Make sure that they are
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Recipe for Spiced Beets.

NOIIDC JVT OFEOS3 10NSt~s
Last year Tcut from the Corner, recipe
Cor spiced beets.'
THE beets put up according to the direc-
lions therein given were simply delicious.
1 supposed had kept the recipe and could
have the came whenever 1 wanted them.
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incapacitated for active life work and shut
out from happiness by the neglect of his
parents to appreciate the gravity of his con-
dition and to seek TO change It.
To illustrate what total deafness may
mean to the afflicted one, let me tell you
Of an Incident that came directly under my
observation:
When l was IN college one OF my school
mates, the daughter OF a prominent cler-
gyman. was deaf to a degree that interfered
with her listening to lectures and with her
recitations. Later. the deafness increased
steadily until she lost her hearing entirely,
so far as the ability to take any part in
conversation went. Driven to despair by
her sad bereavement OF social enjoyment.
and the modification of her infrmity. the
unhappy girl ended her life with her own
hand.
What will you say, careless parent Of
a partially deaf child. IL your boy or girl
commits suicide because of a physical dis
ability that could easily be corrected II
you would DO your duty?
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The Sdddest Case.
The saddest case that ever fell under my
personal observation is one Of lateral eurv-
allure Of the spine-an easy matter to cor
rect If it be taken in time, and one Of the
most hopeless and humiliating Of deformi-
ties il neglected. 1t il usually caused by
persisting in intaining a one sided posi-
ton in sitting and standing, or by fall
that injuries the spine.
The girl thus afflicted has asked me TO
write the history Of her case in the hope
that it may arouse mothers to a sense of
the possible danger TO their children who
manifest any Of the symptoms described.
ana perhaps thereby save some innocent
little one from her unhappy fate.
When quite a small child, being some
what Of a tomboy,' she had several rather
hard falls, most Of them upon her back.
As she grew older she was considered
delicate GIRL nervous. irritable. suffering
with severe headaches and with a spine
that ached and was tired most Of the
time. Little attention was paid to her COM
plants. and this, although she had evident
symptoms Of curvature viz: one hip and
shoulder were higher than the other the
hip on the opposite side being much larger
and protruding-as was one Of the shout
der blades, and the lower part OF the back
appearing hollow All these peculiarities
were ignored by her parents, and this while
they saw that they made her childhood I'M
happy. and that she grew more and more
morbid as she advanced in years. The con-
seriousness Of her physical defects made
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tell me that their cuttings are pasted into
blank books and duly indexed. One Of
these moder housemothers must have the
recipe which demands benzine and gsso-
line.
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4 Good Cdke Recipe.

If you will send me the address OF J.
NJ I will send her a small black willow
plume.
~ inclose a good cake recipe. It is egg
less, milkless. and BUTTERFLIES. It was type
written and sold for 10 cents copy by the
Ladies' Aid society in my old home in
Virginia, and the proceeds Of the sale are
building a fine Sunday school room for the
church. 1t is called
LADIES AID SOCIETY CAKE.-Put
into g saucepan the following ingredients
and boil together for three minutes; then
let them get cold:
One cup Of sugar, one cup OF water, two
cups Of raisins II prefer onel. half a cup
of lard thome rendered.. a quarter tea
spoonful Of grated nutmeg and the same
Of salt, one teaspoonfuI Of ground CHINA
mon and one OF cloves
when these are cold. add two cups of
-four, into which has been sifted half a
teaspoonful Of baking powder Add to the
mass a teaspoonful Of soda dissolved In hot
water. Bake in T. slow oven.
This cake will be improved by adding
half cup Of chopped nut meats.
Mrs. J. p"
can see how the cheap cake may be
made palatable. for recall similar recipe
taken from Miss Catherine Beecher's cook
book, presented to me In my novitiate as a
practical housewife. That had neither eggs
nor butter in It, but neither had 1t fruit or
nuts. agree with you that two cups Of
raisins would be too much for that ouaH
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none exactly resembles my way OF making
It take the liberty OF offering It. I can
guarantee its excellence.
TOMATO JAM.-Peel and cut the toma-
toes into small pieces; drain, and press out
all the liquid that runs from them; then
weigh and boil for thirty minutes. skim
ming frequently.
While the tomatoes are cooking, boil.
in pure water, large lemons. Allow one
and a half lemons for seven pounds of
tomatoes. When the lemons are tender all
through cut and squeeze out the Juice; re-
move the seeds and chop fne-skin and
pulp. Add Juice and all with the sugar.
three-quarters OF q pound to each pound of
tomatoes. and boil together for twenty five
minutes longer.
Seal hot In fruit Jars. c. B. s"
Your recipe should have appeared earlier
IN the year, and would have had place IN
the Exchange but for a press Of other mat
ter. insert it now with the remark to the
house mother who is naturally attracted by
It that she may secure the delicacy for her
winter stores by substituting canned toma-
toes for fresh. As she will see at once. this
simplifies the recipe. She may begin
operations with the tomatoes ready peeled
and cut up. and hah cooked. Let her strain
or the surplus liquid: put the pulp over the
fire and cook twenty minutes instead of
thirty. skimming frequently" Then fol-
low the rest OF the directions exactly as
they are set down.
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Who are good people as a ruler Those
who are happy or those who are miserable?
How can children believe in the religion Of
father and a mother who deliberately
rob them OF the things that make life best
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to Sunday and day SCHOOL, Ones mental
and moral welfare depends largely upon
normal physical condition
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really tribes before you overlook them.
Nature usually gives fun and distinct
warnings in these matters and yours fs the
guilt II they are UNDECIDED
We have learned but lately that the
great white plague is a thing easily cured
II II be taken in time-tfat II, in the earlier
stages. Dhe same may be said Of nine out
OF ten diseaseg
At best. hfe is a hard struggle. Surely
It Ii asking very little Of parents to urge
them not to handicap their Offspring by
physical defects that might have been
avoided In this age Of surgicaI and medical
achievements that would seem miraculous
10 DUR forefathers.
The best argument I see In favor Of
political career Dor women Is that they stand
less chance to DO harm to the race than by
marrying and bringing into the world
children to be ruined by the ignorance Of
mothers-or more frequently and wickediy
BY the neglect Of health laws"
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Another Wonrdn's Storv.
II in the reading Of the FIRST page of this
letter had doubts as to the expediency Of
granting 50 much Of our scanty space TO
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picture conjured in my memory by the story
of the deformed girl who might have grown
UP straight and strong had her mother
adopted simple preventive measures in the
childhood OF the delicate daughter.
Thirty years ago q young woman called
to see me to ask for work. was the presi-
dent Of a charitable organization having
as one chief object the welfare OF working
girls who were strangers in the city. The
day was wet and cold. and when the hollow
chested girl sat down before the FIRE in my
sitting room and held up first one shabby
shoe then another to the blaze, the steam
arose from them and her skirt. ! made Der
lay on her wet wraps and shoes and sent
them to the kitchen TO be dried while she
drank q cup Of hot tee and little by little
told me her story. She had been brought
up In comparative luxury. The death of
her father and . succession Of misfortunes
had made It imperative that she should earn
her living. Her mother had sunk soon
under the weight OF sorrows; the daughter
had fought on-she did not say bravely. but
/ silently drew that conclusion. She was
bitter but once in the recital That was
when she told how. once and again, her
health had failed when she could have kept
q GOOD place had she beea tolers3ly robust.
II was brought up in utter ignorance OF
the simplest laws OF health" she said her
eyes fixed upon the fire and her tone dreary.
kind who never talked TO their G-Ighters
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FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.
SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.

SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
oat meal porridEe and cream
Clam fritters.
Corn bread.
Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Baked Welsh rabbit
Nut sandwiches
Fried French potatoeA
Lettuce salad.
Crackers and cheese.
Gingerbread and jam.
Tea
DINNER
Tomato tspioca soup.
Potroast Of beef.
Boiled onions.
Brussels sprouts.
Steamed fruit pudding with hard sauee
Black coffee.
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MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed pruneS.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon.
SHRED sgEA
Whole wheat bread
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed eggs.
Baked sweet potatoes-
Fried hominy.
Thin bread and butter
Dreamed ehsese.
Crackers lheatedl and marnalads
DINNER.
Onion soup Ia left overl.
Cold beef Ia left oyerl with horseradish saucs
sounie Of Brussels sprouts IA left overl.
Drowned whole potatoes
Apple pie and cheese.
Black coffee.
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked appleA
Cereal and cream
Bacon.
Baked cream toast.
French roIls.
Tea and eoffes.
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LUNCHEON.
Salt pork cooked in milk and served in cream
gravy.
Chopped potatoes ssutes Ia left oVerl.
Cream cheese and lettuce sandwiches IL left
overl.
Brown bread, cut thin
Remains Of yesterdays apple pie.
Chocolate.
DINNER,
Clear soup with eroutons.
Cannelon OF beef Ia LEFT overl.
Creaned carrots.
Mashed turnips.
Rice pudding with raIsina
Black coffee.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon and fried mush.
Graham bread.
Toast.
Tea and eofres.
LUNCHEON
Bouillon In cups.
Beef cakes L. left over Of the cannelonl.
Stuffed potatoes.
Graham bread and peanut butter sandwiches
Cookies and tea
DINNER. ...
Yesterdays soup with the addition Of carrots
and turnIps Ia left oterl.
Pork chops en- casserole
Apple sauce.
Sc&llopsd sweet potstoeA
Stewed salsify,
Chocolate blanc mango and cake.
Black oo6ea
4 &
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
. Canned rhubsrb.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon.
Rice watiss [sse recipel with maple sirup
Toast
Coffee and tea
LUNCHEON.
Soup in cups Il left overI.
Stew of pork and potatoes IA left ovsrl.
Hot biscuits.
scaIIoped sweet potatoes warmed oysr.
Hasty corn starch pudding,
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tity Of flour, etc. The raIsins are seeded,
halved and dredged with -four. OF course?
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Home Made Soap.

Some mopths ago I saw q recipe in the
Exchange for home made soap. contributed
by some one who had received a box Of II
for a wedding present. 1t called for both
benzine and gasoline. have mislsld the
clipping. much to my regret. Am / ask
ing too much in begging you to republIsh
It II you have Il? think It appeared in
an issue Of October or November. 1911.
"MRs. A A. D."
Having no recollection Of the recipe or Of
the circumstances attending the contrtbu-
ton. must, perforce. refer the question
to the faithful readers who not only clip
recipes from this page but put them away
ssfely and systematically. Some disciples
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DINNER.
ton broth biased upon 10 cent can OF soupl
Corned beef with caper sauce
Ladies' cabbage.
Mashed potatoes.
Pumpkin pie and American cheese.
Black coffee.
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FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges
Cereal and cream
Fried panhSh-
Mufins.
Toast.
-. Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
IsstsfdayS broth in eups-
Cold cornsd beaf Il left overI.
Breakfast mufnnA toaSoed-
Potato pun L. left ovsrl.
Appis and celery alad
Crackers and cheese
Cream puma
Tea
DINNER
Oyster bIsuUA
Boiled goldfish
Raosd potatoes
Canned green psaA
Indian meal pudding
Black eofies.
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SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Pineapple.
Cereal and cream
Boiled sEEA
Bran muf1ns [sss rsoipeI.
Toast
Tea and oonsa
LUNCHEON.
Corned beef hash IL left oysrl.
Potato oal1s IL left oyerl.
Bran mrf1nS. toasted
RouaIns salad
Crsckeu and chsass.
GriddIs cal1sSsndstr1p.
Coooa-
DINNER.
Potato soup.
Veal stew with dumpllnEs.
Canned string beanA
stsWed tomatoes.
e Canned peach dumplInsA
Back eofDsa
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A Little Domestic Story.

Have I your permission to Join your
generous Family on behalf Of my IA year
old son?I CHANGING over the paper last
week, he saw that somebody had received
q water color OUTFIT.
Jumping up, his eyes flashing and face
alight with excitement, he exclaimed ::
%. mamma, please write for a fat cor
net! Maybe some kind person who loves
music can get one for me"
To get peace from a continuous plea
I am writing TO you.
4 should be so happy II could get
cornetT he has repeated until my heart
aches because Of my inability to get 1t for
him.
You FORBID all proposals Of purchase
and exchange, know, but 1 am a fair
artist IN Oh colors and could I not work
OUT the cost Of the cornetf have now a
pretty snow scene panel to offer or some
thing else Of the kind. The boy is full Of
music and will learn readily. He sings
from morning until night.
Apart from this subject, may I offer
silk and velvet scraps to any shutin needle
woman who would like to have them?
And my boy has q little story book some
other little boy may like to get. 8. L. c."
am leaving the little domestic story to
make Ms own way into the sympathies Of
our readers. The boy and his mother live
In Alabama, but the family is, as John
Wesley said OF his parish, " The world"
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Life a Hqd siussle al Best.

WHO. as a general rule. are the busiest
and happltst members Of the community
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Three correspondents have applied for
recipe for boiled salad dressing which will
keep some weeks. That promises to satisfy
them. I hope they will see and keep 1t.
Personally. do not Ike mustard in salad
dressing. Nor DO 1 put cornstarch in mine.
This is a matter Of taste. have no recipe
Of my own for dressing that is warranted
to keep.
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-Four Good "Briefets.

You ask again for what you call brief
lets bits OF housemotherly knowledge
collected in the practice OF the trade-or 1
believe you say the profession You may
be able to utilize the following:
oil OF CEDAR will destroy bedbugs.
They will not stay where it is applied, nor
will they return when once banished.
ITO KEEP ANTS FROM SUGAR
Make heavy chalk mark all around the
box in which 1t is kept. half an inch from It.
FOR CoCKRoACHEss pringle he'll
Iebore where they congregate at night.
They will eat 1t and be poisoned unto
death.
ITO SET COLORS IN BRIGHT RED
MATERIALS-S them deep in water
to which you have added half cup Of salt
and the same Of vinegar for half an hour
before washing them and they will not
fade. MRS. F. R.
More gold filings swept up and treasured
by a practical economist, who keeps eyes
open and wits on the alert. am pleased
to see the recommendation of oil Of cedar.
The perfume is agreeable and slightly
medicinal and 1t keeps aloof moths and
crimson ramblers without r.sklng what
some contend are the baleful atoms OF
corrosive sublImate.
have for years set coIors in cotton
srufs by soaking them in salt and water
before washing. The addition Of vinegar
is a novel idea to me. VIII our chemists
explain the action Of It upon the colors?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
A GLIMPSE OF WAR.
The Sensations Of a Young French
Soldier at Sedan,

We could see the lines and lines of
helmets. bad sight to see those
helmet spikes.
And / cannot remember when 1t was
that there crept through our ranks
the feeling that those helmets were
not only in front of us, but in every
direction round about, and that we
were surrounded. / suppose it came
from the sound of firing coming from
so many directions.
1t is at such a time that one feels of
n helplessness. And the noise-did /
tell you of the noise? There were sin
gle booms and crashes of volley firing,
and then there would be just one great
roaring, one great laundering, that
1eafened you and in which you could
not tell one sound from another.
There was smoke, smoke, every
where, and the ground would tremble
when the cavalry made charge.
/ would tell you all that / remem-
Der of most interest But is 1t inter-
esting TO tell you that shells burst and
that our ranks thinned and closed up
and that / felt more and more that
we were TO be beaten?
] would have wept, but / had too
much to do In firing and in watching
the lines of helmets.
1t is that a soldier gets full of an
excitedness. You do things and you
scarcely know that you do them or
why.
1t was early that day that my COM
rade was killed And he jumped UP
twice-so, so. And he fell fat on his
face. | turned him over, and my cap
tain said mo time for that You ara
young soldier or you would know
there is no time for that Robert
Shackleton in Harper's Weekly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
Genuine Merit Required to Win the Peo-
pies Confidence.

Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are eX-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfill
the promises OF the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to medicine
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
cured, to those who are in need of it.
In an interview on the subject, a prom
inent local druggist says: Take for eN-
ample Dr.. kilmer's Swamp-Root, a prep
aration / have sold for many years and
never hesitate to recommend for in al
most every case it shows immediate re-
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy that | know of
has so large sale"
The success of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root is due TO the fact that it fulflls
every wish in overcoming kidney, liver
and bladder diseases, corrects urinary
troubles and neutralzes the uric acid
which causes rheumatism.
A free trial bottle viii be sent by mail,
absolutely free. Address DR. Kilmer &
Co. Binghamton. y. Y, and mention this
paper. Regular-size bottles sold at all
druggists-50e and Sl.00-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
DELICATELY
FORMED

and gently reared, women will find
in all the seasons of their lives, as
maidens, wives and mothers, that
the one simple, wholesome laxative
remedywhich acts gentlyand pleas
antly and naturally and which may
be taken at any time, when the sys-
tenn needs a laxative. with perfect
safety and really beneficial effects,
is Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA.
1t has that true delicacy of flavor
which is so refreshing to the taste,
that warming and grateful toning
to the stomach which responds so
favorably to it's action and the
laxative effect which is so bene-
fetal to the system when, occa-
sionally, its gentle cleansing is
desired.
The genuine, always bearing the
name of the California Fig Syrup
Co.: may be purchased from all
leading druggists in original pack
ages of one size only; price fifty
cents per bottle.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
AUTOMOBILES MAY GO TO EDEN.
Regulations Keeping Them Out of Bar
Harbor Are to Be Modified.

Bar Harbor, Me-, March 7.-Action
looking toward the partial removal of
the ban on automobiles in Bar Harbor
was taken by the Eden town meeting
Tuesday. BY vote of 400 to III, the
town, which includes the village of Bar
Harbor, voted to petition the legislation
to open one continuous road for auto
mobiles from the bridge at Mt. Desert
narrows in fremont to a point in Bar
Harbor not more. than half a mile from
the Bar Harbor postofice. Another Sec
tion of the same article, which was
passed, asks the legislature to make
provision so that the town of Eden at any
legal melting may open to the use of
automobiles and motor vehicles any part
of or the whole of any public street or
highway within its limits Since 1908,
when the residents, supported by many
members OF the summer colony, succeed
ed in securing legislative action, the use
of automobiles has been forbidden in
the town of Eden In 1909 the legisla
ture extended this prohibition to cover
the whole OF Mt Desert island, including
the towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Ire
mont and Southwest Harbor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
VISITED OLD HAUNTS.
John Calls Carelessness Will Cost Him
Much Liberty.

Rutland, March because he could
not keep away from his old haunts in
Burlington, John Call, aged "a, fell into
the hands of the Chittenden county au-
thorities Tuesday night, after having had
two years liberty by reason of his es-
cape from the house of correction on
May s, 1910. The officers had been able
to obtain no clue of Calls whereabouts,
but it was expected that he would event
ually turn up in Burlington, where he
had been on two or three occasions, and
the supposition proved true.
Call was sent to the house of correc.
ton in September, 1909, to serve year
for larceny. There was only two months
OF his sentence left when he escaped by
knocking some bricks from the wall OF
THE engine room and springing an iron
bar. Deputy Sheriff John F. Smith went
to Burlington yesterday after Call. The
man win have to begin serving his sem
tence over again.