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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
MEAT DISHES OF LOW COST.
Famous Writer Tells How to Reduce
Cost of Living i'm Prepar-
ing Meats.

Fannie Merritt Farmer, cookery
editor of the Woman Home Com
panlon, writes an article entitled
Meat Dishes of Low Cost" in the
December number of that period
cal. two of which are reproduced be-
low. She says in part:
The high prices of food-stuffs de-
mand more careful and intelligent
study of food values, if the house
wife wishes to keep her bills for food
supplies where she should. to pro-
| portion her income wisely. | can
think OF no better way of giving TO
my readers at this Christmas season
than by presenting some meat re-
cipes which will be a help in keep
ing down the table expenses.
"Smothered Round Steak-Try out
in hot iron frying pan three slices
of fat salt pork, three by four inches.
Add one onion peeled and cut in thin
slices, and cook, stirring constantly.
until onion is brown. Wipe a two
round slice of round steak, put in
pan, scar on one side, turn, and scar
on the other side. Pour over one
and one-half cuptdls of cold water,
bring quickly to the boiling point,
add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt,
cover closely, remove to back of the
range, and let simmer until meat is
tender Remove steak to hot platter
and strain stock, of which there
should be one cupful. Melt one ia
blespoonful of butter, add two table
spoonfuls of -four, and stir until well
blended, then pour on hot stock.
Bring to the boiling point, season
with salt and pepper, and pour about
steak.
Fried Salt Pork, 1912 Style-Cut
fat salt pork in eight thin slices, and
slices in halves crosswise. Then cash
each rind-edge four times. Dip in
mixture of corn-meal and flour, using
two parts of corn-meal to one part of
-four. Put in a hot iron frying pan
and cook until crisp and we'll brown
ed, turning frequently. Remove from
pan and strain fat through a double
thickness of cheesecloth placed over
a fine wire strainer. Put one and
one-half tablespoonfuls of the fat In
saucepan, add two and one-half ia
blespoonfuls of -four, and stir until
well blended; then pour on gradual
ly, while stirring constantly, one cup
full of milk Bring to the boiling
point and add one-fourth teaspoon
full of pepper, and one tablespoonful
of butter, bit by bit; then add one
and one-half cupfuls of hot boiled
potato cubes. Pile in center of plat
ter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Owls Dance Tonight.

The annual ball of the DEBORAH
nest of Owls will be given at Steyers
opera house this Wednesday evening,
the music being given by Helwig S
orchestra. This annual event is one
of the most enjoyable social occa-
sions of the year, and the Owls have
a splendid reputation as entertainers.
Everybody is invited to participate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
PictureFraming
for Xmas

Bring your pictures in now. Don't
wait until the last few days. Besides
being assured of prompt attention to
your work, our assortment of Mould
ings, Mattings, etc., comprising the
pick of five of the largest lines manu-
featured, is now complete. Every
day, from now on, different patterns
will be sold out, perhaps just the one
you want.
We have added extra help i'm our
framing department and will get all
work out very prOmtptly-in fact,
"well frame them while you wait"
IL you wish. +.
A new line of beautiful enlarged
DEBORAH scenes in black and white,
at popular prices, make ideal. gifts
for little money. Also a new line of
small oval frames, the equal OF which
is seldom seen outside the big cities.
NOW is the time. II rw La
RI. Relf
Opposite Grand Opera House. 81.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27

Swindlers who sent their circulars
through the mail are charged by the
postal authorities with having robbed
the American people of 1920, 900
last year. That is about $50, 900, 900
more than the year before. The law
does all it can to protect the gullible,
but the number of those who will
not listen to advice is always large.
No bureau of vital statistics has ever
reported a decline in the sucker
birth-rate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
In the Good Old DAYS.

Britt Tribune:--In the olden times
it didn't cost cent. to be born, only
fifty cents to get married and nothing
to die. TodagI it costs from ten to
fifty dollars to get born, ten dollars
to get married and one hundred
to three hundred dollars to die. And
yet the kid isn't any stronger now
than he was hundred years ago, you
are not married one-half as tight,
and you won't stay dead as long as
those Ngood fellows. will. sOh, for
those good old tfmes!"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
The Masculine Memory.

Binks-"What's wrong?"
Jinks-"My wife gave me a letter
to mail this morning"
And you forgot it, Ell? Well it
isn't too late"
mo, but / mailed it. / kept it in
my hand, and fixed my mind right
on it until | got to a box, and then
dropped it in. / was bound that she
shouldn't have anything to complain
of this time"
Then what's the matter?"
1T has just occurred to me that
forgot to put "A stamp on it."--New
York Weekly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
A Pleasing tertainment

The second number of the lecture
course, Miss Margaret Stahl, at the
Grand last night, was one of rea,
merit. The big audience which pack
ed the theatre greatly enjoyed her
talented renditions, as well as the
violin selections by Miss Marian Ber-
ry of Chicago, who is the guest of her
aunt, Mrs. B. H. Adams. She display
ed unusual talent and her selections
were much appreciated. 1t was a
very satisfactory evening in every
way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Nowadays.

I'm going to leave, num-" said the
Maid.
'Alas!" cried Mrs. Grey,
1--WE done all of the work myself,
SO why will you not stay?"
Then Bridget up and made reply,
Thus ending the dispute:
"Indade, I'll let you know just why:
The works not done to suit!''
-Lippincott's
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Arrested for Bookkeeping.

Peter Peterson was arrested last
week on the charge of selling liquor
IN violation of the mulct law, after a
raid on his feed barn in which pint
bottle OF whiskey and some empty
bottles were found, and the case will
come before Justice Barthell on Fri
day of this week. He was also ar
rested later, charged with maintain
ans nuisance, selling liquor without
q license, and Justice Barthell hound
Aim over to the grand jury, bail for
$500 being furnished.
-TryaMaf 4@k eGoaumn. It will
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27

-Try'@a xsf eGesumn. 1t win
bring results.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27

A Thought for Thanksgiving.
When round the dish you slide and
slip
And arms perform gymnastics
jerky,
It's tough on you, but don't you think
It's even tougher on the turkey?
Judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
WASHING HANDS TO TIME.
New Use for Sand Glass in a Berlin
Hospital.
rom the London Standard.

From the London Standard.
The whistling egg boiler and other pat
ent inventions have threatened the exist
ence Of the old Fashioned sand glass as
part of the kitchen paraphernalia, ana IL
seemed likely that the children Of a later
generation would be quite ignorant OF the
use of what, with the scythe, SO often
stands as the symbol of time.
A German surgeon-like many Germans,
a strong disciplinarian = has, however
found a new use for the sand glass, and
under his directions one OF the larger
Berlin hospitals has just placed an order
for a score of sand glasses, which, how
ever. are not timed for the boiling of an
egg. but for rather longer-for five min
utes.
It was discovered that some Of the
younger surgeons were rather easy going
in the matter of cleansing their hands De-
fore operations. The regulations prescribe
four processes of five minutes each, but
rarely were the times Kept with any APP
proach to accuracy.
The excuse was that it was difficult to
estimate the time without a clock. Others
pleaded the difficulty of keeping count OF
when they began and then reckoning min
ute by minute with only a small watch
to go by. The sand glasses. however, are
to put an end to this. Each washstand
basin is to have it's sand glass.
For five minutes the surgeon washes his
hands with soap and warm water and
then cleans his finger nails. Another turn
of the sand glass, and five minutes more
Of hand washing with soap and warm
water is to follow. The third turn keeps
time for a third wash. this time in alco-
hol, and the fourth is for the process or
sterilization with a wash of corrosive SUBJ
Innate Over all these operations the sand
glass stands as arbiter to decide when
each has been thoroughly carried out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Transition Stage in Fiction.
Metropolitan Magazine.

From the Metropolitan Magazine.
| The conversation falling upon books.
| my table companion remarked that he
never read anything later than the lit
erature Of the seventeenth century, and
modern fiction certainly not at all. His
| tone left no doubt of his aversion to the
intruding noise, the gross self-confidence,
the parade of discoveries and enthusi-
asms which cast confusion into your
mental housekeeping the moment you
take up the novels Of the day. 1t was a
most sincere compliment to the excom-
lmunicated authors 1t shows how far
they have advanced. once 1t could
truthfully be said that their power, which
was great, lay chiefly in wonderful ca
pacity for exhibitions of bad taste and
that where each succeeding volume only
strengthened the readers CONVICTION or
the hopelessness of their stuff, there was
every excuse for seeking sanctuary early
as a reasonable precaution against going
foolishly mad but now such a with
drawal can only indicate lack of SYM
pathy with the vital interests and the
vivid dreams, and the practical pursuits
|of freedom and happiness-all that urg-
ent presentation of social and personal
necessities with which modern fiction is
more and more genuinely inspired ana
filled. That our writers write badly Is
still as true as 1t ever was They stu
see their material in feeble half-light
of prosaic invention. and are the most
conservative of souls. But that the mag
ination and the passions Will hhaily pc
loosed, as they have been already in Eng
land and Germany, where the pressure
being harder, more inevitable. more real
lly agoniz.ng. tends to sweep writer's
away on a full tide OF emotion and send
them straight over the conventional bar
riers, who that Is hopeful can doubt! AT
this moment the books of a transition
stage sometimes seem to be coming to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

\ message received from the new cut
ter Ungala on her way from the Chesa-
peake to Port Townshed Washington.
announced her arrival at Alden. Deem
Der ~ she sailed from that point and her
next stop will be at Colombo, Island OF
Ceylon. She is expected to reach her
destination on the Pacific coast in the
latter part of February.
The cutter Mohawk. from the New
York station. is at the Norfolk navy yard
to be locked to have her hull under
water painted and for minor repair work
While the Mohawk is out of service the
derelict destroyer Seneca has taken heI
place on the New York station and is
covering her cruising grounds between
Gay Head, Mass, and Delaware break
water. The Mohawk will probably be able
to resume her station this week.
Orders to and leaves of absence grant.
ed officers in the service in the past
week were as follows:
Capt. 8. NJ. Landrey. to Pensacola
Fla, on official business.
Constructor w. c. Besselievre. jr., tc
depot at South Baltimore, Md. on Official
business.
Capt. J. l.. Sill, granted twenty mine
days leave of absence
First Lieut.. w. E. Atlee. granted five
days leave of absence
Capt. ]. NJ. Moore, granted thirty days
leave on account of sickness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Modern Language Study.
From the Boston Transcript.


1t is easy enough to put modern lam
guages, as many as you like, into the
curriculum of the public schools, but eX-
ceedingly difficult to get them out along
with graduating pupils. We are still es-
sentially unilingual people In few
private and perhaps in fewer public
schools are modern languages taught to
such effect that pupils acquire an easy
reading, much less fluent speaking anu
writing. acquaintance with any other
tongue than their own. Most young men
ana women leave college with at best a
smattering of two continental languages
which smattering they usually get rid Oh
in the course of the first ten years after
graduation. In some private schools that
make a speciality of French the most
faithful pupils really learn to read, write
and speak that language, but most of the
Americans who have fluent French or
German acquire such acquaintance
through daily contact at home from early
youth with nurses or EOverneSSeS who
use one or the other tongue as their ma
tive speech. A few such American chill
dren actually leave the nursery speaking
English with French or German accent
These, however. not the Americans
who would use French, German, Span Sh
or Portuguese for commercial purposes.
If we are to have an extensive curricu-
lum of modern languages in the public
schools we must be ready to pay the price
for such boon. The price will include not
merely the salaries of skilled teachers to
whom those languages are native or have
been familiar almost from childhood, but
a deliberate setting aside of a consider
able part of the school year to such
studies. Modern languages administered
in dabs, according to the custom of
many schools, both public and private
serve no purpose practical or cultural
Modern languages as taught in prepara-
tory schools with the special object of
preparing pupils for college entrance are
useful for points" but for little else.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
The Environment Of Ideas.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

Every idea is colored by it's environ
ment. Half of every opinion is the other
opinions that lie around 1t in the mind.
Just as your little girl when she comes
home from school is full of the manner
isms and notions of her companions, SC
every thought you have is tinctured by
its fellow thoughts.
Your thoughts when you are in full
you entertain when you are in your shirt
sleeves trying to put up a stOvepipe in
the kitchen.
on her new gown, has her hair properly
done and is in full social battle array
her ideas of things also have altered.
A mans creed on q fine October morn
ing. after he has had a good breakfast
and when the air is crisp and keen and
the sun is broadly smiling. is wholly
different from his creed on hot night
when the air is stuffy and his rheuma-
tism is tweaking and his wife is telling
him a few of his mistakes.
formula Of belief concerning the uni
verse and the destiny of man. if 1t be
drawn up by body of men in a close
room full of foul air. is not the same as
|
spring morning out on the grass under
an apple tree in bloom.
Boy thoughts are not as man thoughts
The notion of a fifteen-year-old girl re-
sembles those of a fifty-year-old woman
about as much as cherry blossom re-
senlbles a cherry pie.
You and / may use the same words. but
our meanings differ. Forty years of ex-
perience. effort, failure, success and as
ISOLATION cling to your words. To know
precisely what you mean requires an &C
quaintance with your whole biography.
HE is a good man" This sentence
means one thing coming from priest
another coming from a railway boss
another coming from a gambler
Two ladies were once discussing a third
lady.
What do you think of her?' said one
"Oh, well, i think she is a very good
woman"
so? Well, / don't like her.. either"
Don't tell me, therefore. that friend
Jones used actually such and such words
and hence must mean exactly what you
or l would mean If We had said them
For to understand Jones meaning
must know his whole theology, his sys-
TEN of philosophy, his surroundings and
the time of day and the condition of his
liver when he made the remark.
Thank God that God, not man nor you
yourself, shall judge you when all is
over, for nothing but omniscience knows
what you meant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
John Hancock.
From the Boston Transcript.

FROM the Boston Transcript
If there is public building in this
country that should contain a bust of
John Hancock it is the statehouse in
Boston. Besides writing his name on the
Declaration of Independence so large that
John Bull could see it without putting on
his spectacles. Hancock has many other
claims to public remembrance. statue
of him stands in the Capitol at Washing
ton. From this statue a cast is to be
taken for bust which. accompanied by
"a memorial tablet, is to be presented to
the commonwealth of Massachusetts by
the Sons of the Revolution. The bust
will be placed in Doris Hall. Hancock has
been rather neglected in the memorial
honors of this state, considering that he
was not only one of the great leaders of
American freedom, but the first governor
of the commonwealth under the COnstitu-
ton, serving in all eleven years In that
office, and leaving reputation which
far transcribed our borders. He may
have had characteristics which prevented
him during his life from receiving the
full appreciation of his patriotic services,
but time has cast oblivion over his short
comings and the world recognizes him as
one of those daring pioneers of American
freedom who literally took their lives in
their hands when they defied the might OF
Great Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

~ fllz1
|ARQUND TIE CE7S
~ )! l|ll!|lZ 8 y q J.

A woman was waiting for a car that
took its own good time in coming. The
trees were snow-powdered and every
shop in sight was ready for Christmas.
But the woman had no eyes either for
shops or trees.
What she saw was stretch of desert.
with sandy road crossed with snake
trails, and barren hill steaming like a
kettle forever on the boil. On the hill
was dusty sagebush and the flame of
scarlet thstles-great pompons of scar
let tlistles that knew no purple kin;
thistles so scarlet that
Along came the car and back came the
woman to the snowy trees and Christ
masy shops and to the consciousness
that it was a red thistle on the coat Of
a buoyantly pretty girl. who was also
waiting for the car. that had flashed her
thoughts back to Nevada.
The two got in together. and there be-
ing but one vacant seat the girl made
the woman take it. Then they confabhed,
but as the woman's say wasn't in the
least worth repeating, here are bits OF
the others talk-just to show how nice
girl can be when she isn't trying:
Yes, it is an odd color for thistle,
isn't it? Florists can dye a flower any
shade. you know. Isn't the snow beauti-
full? And the green's are SO lovely this
year. l wish everybody could be happy
and we'll provided for. don't you? Papa
saw such pitiful sight yesterday. A
very old woman stood at ten-cent
counter holding drum. as If she was
considering whether she could afford 1t.
And when she laid it aside and turned
away papa felt sorry for her that he
wanted to buy it and give it to her. only
he was afraid of hurting her pride.
don't believe in expensive toys for little
children; the cheap ones are just as nice
to play with. and the money saved could
buy other toys for dear little folks who
have none. / wish you merry Christ
mas and a happy New. Year"
Off and on, all Christmas eve, the
woman's thoughts went back to a scarlet
thistle But it didn't have a Nevada
desert for a background. 1t famed on
the coat of buoyantly pretty girl who
wanted everybody to be happy.
She was worth remembering, wasn't
she?
A Christmas tree lay in the gutter on
Christmas night.
1t was a pretty tree, green and shape
ly; and the pungency of new-cut pine
showed that it was fresh from the woods.
instead of being in some home with chill
dren playing around 1t.
4 woman who had paused to consider
the tree looked at the house that had Oh
viously cast it out. 1t was a self-respect-
ing little frame. with Nottingham cur
tains and a light. There We're no wreaths
at the windows. though the houses all
around were gay with holly and red paper
dolls One of them showed a tinsel-
dressed tree with sparks of light all over
it. and through the lace of another win
dow there was table in an inner room
with lot of laughing people crowded
around it, with a young man singing at
a piano in the parlor.
The woman could make nothing out OF
the mystery except that:
A Christmas tree in the gutter on Christ
mas night makes a mighty lonesome pic
ture.
Two honeymoonish tourists were stand
ing before a painting in the Corcoran
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
CULPEPER.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special correspondence OF Inc Slat.
CULPEPER, Va, December 2s, 1912.
A deed recorded i'm the clerks office hero
this week showed that James o. FAINT,
postmaster at Brandy Station. had sold
the fair grounds property to Leon Male.
a farmer near Brandy, for the sum of
5000. This tract, which contains sixty
acres, was owned for many years by the
Cupeper County Fair Association and
later by c. Jones Rixey, under whose
patronage successful horse shows were
held for many years. Mr.. FAINT has been
in bad health for some months. and
would most probably not be able to give
to next years show the personal atten-
ton that he did the past season.
Joseph Hit, the young son of Mrs.
Eliza j. Hit, living near Novum, who
has been in a respondent state OF mind
cutting his throat last week. Medical aid
was quickly obtained and the young
mans life saved.
At recent meeting Of the Orange Ii
brary Association it was found that the
readers of the library had increased five
fold since It was opened free to the pub
lie nine months ago. Many of the read
ers come from long distances. and all
are enthusiastic and interested. This IL
brary has been fortunate in donations late
ly, many hundreds of new books having
been added to its lists in this way.
Mrs. Lucy Q. Saunders, widow of
Col. +. j. Saunders died at the nome
of her son, w. r. Saunders, i'm Orange
county, aged eighty-six years. The inter
ment was made in the family burying
ground at her old home. Mrs. Saunders
was survived by two children. twenty-one
grandchildren and thirty-two great-grand-
children.
\ company has been formed. with
George +. Major superintendent, To
organize and equip a shirt factory in Gull
pepper. 1t is stated by the management
that only white operators will be en-
ployed, and the building secured is a
large and well ventilated one in the busi-
ness district
1t was recently noted, I'm connection
with the statement that Culpeper was
the largest shipping point on the South
ern railway between Alexandria and
Lynchburg, that SO far this fall 263
loads of fat cattle have been shipped from
here and about 6oo0o barrels of apples.
In the last two weeks several carloads
of turkeys have been sent to the northern
markets.
Ex-Mayor Burrows has returned from
Richmond, where. having been appointed
by the Governor of Virginia as delegate
to the national conference on the inter
state liquor traffic problem, he spent
the past week. Mayor Burrows, who
served Culpeper in that capacity for two
terms of office, was known locally as the
dry" mayor, Cuipeper having voted for
local option for the first time In its his
tory during his administration.