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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

SUBSTITUTE for my usual Familiar
Talk this week thoroughly and Wei
written letter from teacher in the
= public schools of southern city The
facts related by her arc startling to me.
and they may be as new to many another
reader I invite comment from parents
and those whose interest in the welfare
OF the rising generation is deep and sincere
In a personal letter our earnest thinker
says:
I know that the accompanying article
may be too long for insertion IN the CORE
spondence column of your page. Yet I
beseeeh you to find place for it. If posi-
ble
- am anxious to reach careless fathers
and especially careless and ignorant moth
ers through this medium, and. for the sake
of hundreds of suffering children. l wish
this protest to be made public. It comes
straight from the shoulder In this in
stance that means directly from the hearth
"E. K.
"a Southern Woman and Teacher"
VIII you allow me space for an appeal
IN E.Ialf of thousands Of children whose
chances OF happiness and usefulness are
ruined by the ignorance, and more often by
their Indifference. of their parents?
strange statement. hear you say?
Then bear with me patiently while relate
few of the many instances of both igno-
rance and indifference which have come
under my own observation.
My work as a teacher In the public
schools throws me into contact each year
with many children defective in eyesight
and IN Observation-Disclosures that are not
merely sources of modification to those
thus afflicted, but which are a serious
handicap to them in their school work.
making 1t difficult, If not impossible. for
the poor children to keep pace in their
respective classes with others in the same
grades.
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really trifles before you overlook them.
Nature usually ives full and distinct
warnings in these matters and yours Is the
guilt II they are unheeded.
We have learned but lately that the
great white plague IS thing easily cured
II 1t be taken in tfme-that Is, in the earlier
stages. 4he same may be said of nine out
Of ten diseases.
" At best, life Is hard struggle. Surely
II Is 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 surgical and medical
achievements that would seem miraculous
10 our forefathers
The best argument see IN favor Of a
political career for 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 wiekediy
by the neglect of health laws"
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Regarding the Logdnberrp.

Having seen mention of the new logan
berry in your Corner. We write to ask for
any detailed Information you may be able
to give with regard to It. in connection with
its culture, etc. that may guide us in re-
search work In this direction. I. III. A
Your query has been answered by mail,
but we should be glad 10 procure additional
information respecting the new berry that
is exciting interest among fruit growers.
| am the more DESTROYS OF getting particr-
lars because have eaten delicious Jelly
made from the loganberry The flavor Is
exquisite, combining the aroma of rasp-
berry and blackberry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

- INCLoSE a recipe for bran muf-
ee fins for B. v, who asked for 1t
while ago. I know nothing OF
recipes used in department stores
and restaurants. but this was given
me by prominent physician and recon-
mended to his patients for their morning
meal Two mullins should be eaten for
breakfast, as they are fine for the stomach
and act as a laxative. There is a medi-
Gated bran which makes the best mullins.
~ likewise inclose a recipe for seal
loped potatoes and suggestion for lemon
pie.
BRAN MUFF1Ns.-Two cups OF bran;
two-thirds of a cup of white flour; one cup
of milk; half cup of molasses; one egg:
a teaspoonful of soda; a little salt Bake
twenty minutes.
SCALLOPED POTAToES.-Butt the
sides and bottom of a bake dish; break
shredded wheat biscuits into bits and put
alternate layers of the biscuits and sliced
potatoes, with bits of butter, pepper. and
salt to taste between the layers. Pour milk
over all and bake to a nice Drown. This Is
d welcome luncheon dish--especially II
mother has many mouths to feed.
LEMON PIE.--When you have little
grated pineapple left over add 1t to your
lemon pie. Try this and see how 1t will
improve the flavor.
CULINARY ITEM always save the
strip of picked peaches and picked cher
ries for my mincemeat. have just added
it to green tomato mincemeat. 1t is deli
cious. b. B."
A charming cluster of useful items, for
which we are duly thankful to our Mime
apolis member We are accustomed to get
ting good things from that quarter of our
territory. and B. B." does not fail u.s.
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English Crunloets.

The Corner is part Of my daily reading,
and | often make use OF the recipes l find
in it, am sending one that holds high
place In our esteem.
" L is known with us as Aunt Mary,s
recipe for light cakes and crumpets' and
came into our family from Cheshire. Eng
land
ENGLISH cRUMPETS AND LIGHT
TEA CAI<ES-Mix a yeast cake with pint
of warm milk, a little sugar, and enough
-four to make thick batter. Beat long and
we'll and set to rise for half an hour Have
hot grddle ready as for breakfast cakes,
and pour upon Il enough batter to make a
cake of the size Of dessert plate Bake
10 light brown. These may be buttered
and served at once, hot. or left to get cold
They will keep for several days. When
they are TO be eaten, toast and butter them.
CRU MPErS-Make a pint Of milk, one
egg, and little salt into batter with -four
to thlcken 1t to a right consistency Do
not get II too thin. Bake In rings upon the
grlddle over fire or gas. Brown them light
~ on bothsides These, too, may be eaten
hot or left until they are needed They
viii be good for two or three days. Toast
them as would the tea cakes. Mrs b
Recipes that have the merit of concise
ness and cearness. and that meet the oft
expressed demand for English erumpets
and the light tea cakes familiar to ali who
have Travelled through the British isles.
Our Albany correspondent vouches for the
genuneness Of the formula. 1t is compli-
rnent to the Corner that she Is daily
reader.
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Brother and Sister Afflicted.

In my school there we're, last year,
brother and a sister, the boy being deaf.
while the girl had a serious eye trou-
BILE. Although they were the children of
extremely we'll to do parents. no effort
whatever had ever been made to correct
these conditions. 1 doubt if it viii be done
before it is too late to do any real good.
This is especially doubtful in the case OF
the boy As every one knows who has
given the matter any thought, deafness Is
harder to treat with each year of the in
trinity The only hope is IN the youth of a
patient and the short time that has elapsed
since the affection showed itself. There
will almost certainly be one more future
citizen of our Wanted intelligent country
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Today Her Life Is Ruined.

Today hers Is a saddened. ruined life
She has nothing but suffering and humilia-
tion to look forward to. for while a few
dollars spent at the right time might easily
have corrected the trouble, the disease Is
now of such long standing that II a cure
were possible (Which is extremely doubt
fnD the amount needed for a long resi-
dence in hospital and surgical attendance
while she is there would entail expenses
her parents cannot meet. She foresees
a present and future of hopeless suffering.
" Her feeling toward the parents whose
criminal neglect of her as child is directly
responsible for her misfortune Is one of
bitter resentment She feels that had they
done their duty she would have been spared
all this misery.
When will parents see that sins like this
against their helpless offspring should be
classed as objectionable as they are ir-
remediable?
Do they ever ponder upon those solemn
words, inasmuch as We did It not unto
one of the least of these. We did 1t not unto
me-?
Instead of talking and listening to so
much Of the sin of the children bringing
down the gray hairs of the parents to the
grave, why do We not hear more of the
sorrows caused by carelessness and culpa-
bic Ignorance of parents with regs I'd 10
the children committed to the1a by the
All-Father? Which, think you, Is the greater
erime-robbing one of money or of every
chance OF happiness and OF usefulness In
life?
Does not the Bible say that he that
provideth not for his own household hath
denied the faith and Is worse than an in
fdel'? II this be 6 where do many pro-
fessed Christians stand in the sight of God?
Does that word provide mean that one
has fulfilled ones whole duty when food
and clothing are provided and the child sent
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Other women have said tr~same, In effect,
to me at various times One Of the dearest
friends ever given to me was for forty years
a hufferer in direct consequence of her
mothers retlcenee and criminal neglect
of her growing daughters health. Violent
exercise. when she should have kept quiet
at home. wet shoes worn until they dried
upon the chilled feet; late hours and over
study--o, the tale is too common to need
repetition. 1t meant, in the instance speak
Of, the physical ruin of a splendid creature
and the transmission to her child Of the lbs
that had tortMed her for score OF years
before the boy was born.
Our earnest teaener is right, through and
through Mothers are shedding gradually
the false notions of modesty (save the
markD which in former generations
wrought moral and bodily evils to their
girls. II is no longer considered quite
indicate to instruct young women In the
laws governing the marvellous machinery
of their tripartte system. Physiology IL
taught In schools, and women teachers
guard the health of their pupils as the
lady principals of the last century
never dreamed of doing, Yet much remains
undone, and much is but half done. Perfect
confidence with regard to health and the
conditions absolutely essential to the main
tenance of that choicest of earthly blessings
"a sane and active body-should prevail be-
tween mothers and daughters. Indications
such as wrecked the life of the girl we have
heard of through her teacher should not be
dlsregarded FOR one minute.
1t is not week since l was brought face
to face with young woman once a bright.
pretty. active girl who has not walked
step in four years.
1.-The surgeons told me five years ago
that comparatively slight operation would
set me up all right" she said. sadly and
simply. My father had a prejudice
against surgical operations. It Is too late
nowi"
set the "o'ertrue tale" alongside OF
the protest which preceded 1t. and COM
mend both TO sensible, tenderhearted
mothers. God guide them Alright
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ineapacitated 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 prominent eler-
gyman, was deaf to a degree that interfered
with her listening to lectures and with her
reeitations. 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 infirmity. the
unhappy girl ended her life with her own
hand.
. What will you say. careless parent of
a partially deaf child, If 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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Home Made Soap.

Some months ago saw a recipe in the
Exchange for home made soap, contributed
by some one who had received box of IL
for wedding present 1t called for both
benzine and gasoline. | have mislaid the
clipping much to my regret. Am l ask
ing too much In begging you to republish
1t If you haveait? | think II appeared Ia
Jan issue of October or November, 1911.
MRS. A. A. D."
Having no recollection OF the recipe or Of
the circumstances attending the contrlbu-
tlon, l must. perforee, refer the question
to the faithful readers who not only clip
recipes from this page but put them away
safely and systematically. Some disciples
tell me that their cuttings are pasted into
blank books ard duly indeNed. One of
these model housemothers must have the
recipe which demands benzine and gaso-
line.
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Jumping up. his eyes flashing and face
allght with excitement. he exclaimed:
o. mamma. please write for a fiat cor
nett Maybe some kind person who loves
music can get one for mel!
10 get peace from a continuous plea
l am writing TO YOU.
:" should be 50 happy II 1 could get
eornetf he has repeated until my ksart
aches because Of my inability to get 1t for
him.
" You forbid all proposals of purchase
and exchange. | know. but ] am a fair
artist in oil colors and could | not work
out the cost Of the eornet? l 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. lie sings
from morning until night.
Apart from this subject, may ! offer
silk and velvet scraps TO any shutln needle-
woman who would like to have them?
And my boy has little story book some
other little boy may like to get. $. l.. c.
l am leaving the little domestic story TO
make its own way into the ssmpathies Of
our readers. The boy and his mother live
In Alabama, but the family Is, as John
Wesley said of his parish. . The world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
Making Library Paste.

WIN you at your convenience print a
recipe for library paste that Will not sour
in a week and stiffen into uselessness2
use paste daily in various ways, and It Is
not pleasant to be In hurry to transfer a
clipping to my household manual of daily
helps and find a hard, foul smelling, gummy
stuff in the paste pot Then / must make
fresh, or let the clippings go for the time.
Many of the tales of lost extracts one
meant to save are due to the lack of a
paste that may be used at minute
notice.
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The Saddesi Case.

THE saddest case that ever fell under my
personal observation Is one of lateral cury-
allure of the spine-an easy matter to cor
rect II it be taken in time. and one of the
most hopeless and humilladng Of deforml-
ties If neglected. 1t is usually caused by
persisting in maintaining one sided posi-
ton in sitting and standing, or by a 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,
and perhaps thereby save some innocent
little one from her unhappy fate
When quite small child, being some
what Of q 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 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 UNI
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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Recipe for Spiced Bcels.

Last year cut from the Corner, recipe
sor spiced beets
The beets put up according TO the direc-
lions therein given were simply delicious
l supposed l had kept the recipe and could
have the same whenever I wanted them
But l cannot find 1t anywhere, although |
have made dillsent search for IT. Can you
repeat It. and soon? Mrs r.
! have no recollection OF that particular
recipe. We have published dozens Of for
mulas for canning and picking beets, but
none for spiced beets answers to our call.
II some constant reader has preserved It,
will she let us have II?
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Concerning Salad Dressing.

To save time and labor in making salad
dressing, instead of letting fall one drop Of
OIL at time into the preparation while It
is cooking measure all the oil you mean
to use and mix with the dry ingredients1
Then beat all together with the yolks Of
the eggs before putting into the liquid. It
will not separate or become too oily. no
matter how long you keep it after 1t IS
made.
Ingredients: Place In a bowl one table,
spoonful of sugar; one Of corrstarch; three
quarters of a tablespoonful Of mustard.
Over these pour half cupful Of best salad
oil with scant half teaspoonful of salt
Beat thoroughly three minutes before add
ing the yollSs of two eggs. Beat again
for two minutes. Pour this into a pan
containing three-fourths Of a cup of vinegar
and a 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
will remain good for two months
Il. y. H."
Three correspondents have applied for
feeeipe for boiled salad dressing which Will
Keep some weeks. That promises to satisfy
them. hope they Will see and keep II.
Personally. do not ike mustard in salad
dressing. Nor co put cornstarch in mine.
This Is matter Of taste have no recipe
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE of The enormous number Of
ID letters senito the department ! must ask
contributors 10 limit their communications 10
100 words, except in cases of formulas or
recipes which require greater space. l wdnt
all my correspondents TO hare shouting in
The Corner. and II my request in this respect
is complied with ii uN Be possible 10 print
many more letters.
Attention is called 10 the faet that Marion
Harland cannot receice money for patterns.
as she has no connection wih any department
that sells them. Marion Haland.
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worth livlnge What Is religion worth II It
fail to teach Its professors to treat their
children with common humanity? We
shudder with horror at the foot binding OF
Chinese girl babies, the fortunes and deaths
of children in pagan countries. Look at the
trivial things Make sure that they are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
Wheat Bread Without Yeast.

Will you kindly publish recipe for
making entire wheat bread without yeast?
am advised to cat such bread in prefer
ence TO that made in the ordinary way.
"A G. r."
I have no recipe for whole wheat bread
made without yeast. One will undoubtedly
be cent in by some horsemotEer richer IN
old recipes than an. 1 suppose biscuits
might be made Of a mixture of whole wheat
-four and white-say two-thirds OF the nrst
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of their physical makeup. She did not think
such subjects modest So l committed all
sorts OF lmprudences as | was growing no
and I must pay the penalty while live
should be well ard strcng. Isuffer almost
constant pain: lave asthma and rheuna-
tism and horrible headaehes-and all. the
doctors tell me, In consequence OF early
neglect. Heaven forgive me, but do you
know. madam. that sometimes could curse
my mother for 1t alp
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and one-thlrd of the lattef-adeIng baking
powder and shortening per recipe fof quick
biscuits? But dare not recommend these
TO dyspeptic without warrant from some
body who has trustworthy formula
Referred.
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Who are good people sas a rule? Those
who are happy or those who are miserable2
How can children believe In the religion OF
a father and a mother who deliberately
rob them Of the things that make life best
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A Lille Domestic Story.

Have I your permission to join your
generous Family on behalf of my IA year
old son? CHANGING over the paper last
week, he saw that somebody had received
a water color outfit
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to Sunday and day school? ones mental
and moral welfare depends largely upon
normal physical condition.
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-Four Good "Brisfets.' =

=. You ask again for what you call brief
let's bits of housemotherly knowledge
collected in the practice of the trade-or
believe you say the profession You may
be able to utilize the following:
t"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 a heavy chalk mark all around the
box in which it is kept. half an inch from It,
FOR COcKRoACHES-S pringle he'll
lebore where they congregate at night
They will eat 1T and be poisoned unto
DEATH
ITO SET COLORS IN BRIGHT RED
MATERIALS-Soak them deep in water
TO which you have added half a cup of salt
and the same of vinegar for half an hour
before washing them and they will not
fade. Mrs. +. r.
More gold filings swept up and treasured
by 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 risking what
some contend are the baleful atoms of
corrosive subllmate.
I have for years set colors in cotton
stuffs 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?
\: \
4 Good Cake Recipe.
/" If you will send me. the address of j.
NJ will send her small black willow
plume.
+" I 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 a 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 IL prefer onel, half a cup
of lard [homc rendered.. a quarter tea
spoonful of grated nutmeg and the same
Va salt oHc lcd>pODhLAA u SlOAiiL
mon and one Of cloves.
When these are cold. add two cups of
-four, into which has been sifted half q
teaspoonful Of baking powder. Add to the
mass teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot
water. Bake In ( slow oven.
This cake will be improved by adding
half cup of chopped nut meats.
Mrs. ]. p"
can see how the cheap cake may be
made palatable, for recall similar recipe
taken from Miss Catherine Beeeher's cook
book, presented to me in my noyitiate as
practical housewife. That had neither eggs
nor butter In It, but neither had 1t fruit or
nuts. ] agree with you that two cups of
raisns would be too much for that guam
THY Of -four, etc. The raisins are seeded.
halyed and dreegsd with flour. OF course?
!: i.