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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
Burnt Sugar Cdke.

81 am coming to join the Corner. from
which 1 get much enjoyment and helm
Some one asked for burnt sugar cake, and
although have watched for it have failed
to answer. so 1 will send mine. 1t
may not be the original one. but it fills the
bill
Three eggs. one cup sugar one cup lard.
one cup milk water, two teaspoons bak-
ing powder, one teaspoon vanilla, -four
enough to make batter of medium stiff
ness. I sometimes put in one cup nuts.
Take one cup sugar and put in pan
skillet and burn until dark brown, stirring
all the time; pour in half cup boiling water
and cook until sugar is dissolved; half Of
this must be added to milk In mixing cake
and the other half reserved to use in the
icing.
=" Mrs. r. B. NJ. asks for a soap recipe
She will find one or two on the outside of
any can of I've. She can use cracklings.
although I find salty lard will make good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
Lesson for Child.

The possession of a pet of any sort IL a
waste of energy unless utilized as a means
of leading child to recognize that certain
duties devolve upon him for which he, and
he alone, is answerable. If your child is
old enough to take care of the bird make
it his peculiar care. Let him feel that the
bird depends upon its master for food. for
water, for cleanliness. and accustom him
to bestowing all these upon it with the same
regularity which marks his own meals and
bath.
If he doesn't care enough for the bird to
take the trouble to give it its food and its
bath and to clean its cage he is not fit to
have pet and would neglect any he might
own. He should not be permitted to shift
the charge of 1t to some one else, but be
made to recognize that every gift or privi-
lege brings a duty with it.
This is lesson more easily taught when
a bird is in question than when one is con-
cerned with dog cat, which can pick
up its living for itself. Give your child the
bird or the goldfish now and persuade him
of the cruelty of combining dog or a cat
to the Imprisonment of four walls and the
limited range of the roof or the city streets.
If we begin to implant this faith in the
children there is chance that future
generation may develop enough common
sense to keep most pets where they belong
in the country or in some surroundings
where they need not live wholly artificial
and unwholesome life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

is large and has a huge oven, but cannot
bake decent loaf of bread in it. My bread
is lovely and light when it goes in. but
spoiled when take it out. If I could get
another stove I would return this to its
owner. But the thing really need most
of all is the washing machine.
Mrs. J. F. p"
1t would be beautiful thing if we could
supply this correspondent needs, both
to the stove and the washing machine. We
who are cooks know the trial it is to pre-
pare good food and have it ruined in the
baking. Mrs. J. F. p. is one of the well
established Cornerites. and think of her
as of the band of brave mothers who
struggle to bring up their children in the
right way with insufficient means. Any
help that can be offered to her will be d.
rected where it will be of real service and
receive due appreciation. I have her ad-
dress to send to any one who can furnish
what she wants. This Is another one of the
Illinois contingent, so the assist ance should
come from that part of the world. or the
cost of transporting the articles she needs
will be too heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

and their habits as though they possessed
good deal more intelligence than is com
monty imputed to them.
Another friend considered a small turtle
who shared the hospitality of her giess
globe one of the most valued members OF hei
family. Still another had a little lizard oi
chameleon which lived in her bedroom cur
tains, and which she credited with much
understanding. In fact have known sew
eral friends who kept lizards or salaman-
oers as pets and found them cleanly and
agreeable if not remarkable for mental de.
velopment,
But canaries are easily first when Is
comes to household companions who oa
not suffer from confinement and give nc
trouble beyond the care taken in looking
after them. Born and raised in cages. with
a long pedigree behind them of ancestors
with the same history, they know nothina
or the free outdoors, and would perish IL
they were given liberty to rove as they
please. They have an intelligence beyond
that of the fish or the lizard, they learn &c
know and love their owners, they may ps
taught number of accomplishments, and
have various pretty little tricks of their own
which make them interesting even to the
casual observer and much more so to those
who love them and study them.
Ifyour child or any member OF your house
hold yearns for a domestic pet, buy
canary! You can go even further and get q
pair, and then go into the absorbing work of
raising young birds. There is a great deal
of enjoyment and much education in this
pursuit. and an admirable opportunity for
teaching a child sense of responsibility
which will prove of value later in life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
~~ MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

hope the offer. when it does come. may
bring with it an opportunity for the boy
himself to do something in return. not only
because he will value more highly some
thing which costs him effort to get, but
also because of the benefit it will be to him
to feel that he is making some compensa-
ton for what he receives. There is almost
always a lowering of the moral tone of the
one who gets a good of any kind for moth
ing The sense of obligation is a whole
some experience for all of US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

L1%HE house cat must go! Her prin-
cipal function in most homes is
that of a germ bearer, and the
house dog is good second in this
line. City apartments not
qualified for housing domestic pets. unless
they are goldfish or canary birds.
Such was the recent utterance of prom
inent physician before a conference of
hygiene experts.
Perhaps 1t is because of the strong pref
udice hold personally against pets in
city environment that his words iInpr essed
me particularly. I know all that can be
said of the pleasure a child finds in a dog
or cat. am familiar with the arguments
in favor of the comfort adults are reported
to experience in the companionship of four
legged friends.
The fact that personally I do not know
these joys, that any satisfa ction might
have in association with such animals is
offset by my appreciation of the unnatural
conditions to which they are subjected IN
the town house or fiat is not my only OBJ
lection to their presence in the home and
especially in the nursery. believe they are
menaces to the health of the children of
the family, to say nothing of the older
members of the household and the doctors
dictum that such pets are germ bearers
only serves to confirm my conviction.
1 repeated the statement have quoted
to a trained nurse of long experience
DO you believe he is right?' asked her
know he is!' she said with conviction
House dogs are not so bad, but cats are
real dangers. They convey diphtheria for
one thing, not by germs in their fur but
IN their throats. and other diseases as
well. 1t makes me SILVER when see babies
cuddling cats, inhaling their breath. hold
ing them up close to them. Many a case
Of disease that seems mysterious has been
conveyed into the family by pet cat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

uninteresting except to those who have
never studied them.
One old lady of my acquaintance who
was alone a good deal found much solace
and companionship in her goldfish. She
habitually spoke of them as her little
BIRDS" and took much enjoyment in
feeding them, in changing the water in
which they lived, in following their motions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

printed for the benefit of the seeker for
home made soap. but I am glad to put
housekeepers on the track of another
method as well. To my mind the use of
lard seems expensive process, and my
own inclina ton would be to collect my
grease for soap from the left over or I'M
desira BILE fats which gather in the kitchen.
The fat from mutton or lamb. for instance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

a woman passenger descend from his car
with dog tenderly clasped in her embrace.
He surveyed her as she made her way to
the sidewalk with her pet in her arms, then
jerked the starting bell with an exclama-
ton of disgust.
"Gosht' he said. Babies is lots nicer"
In which sentiment you and I undoubt-
eddy concur with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

farther. Goldfish are not the only creatures
which are content in glass globe At any
aquarium may be found variety of f1sh
from which selection can be made, and until
you study the matter you have no idea
of how attractive fish globe may be. Even
if the occupants are decidedly less respon-
sive than cat dog, they are not wholly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

One of the penalties we pay for the city
life is abstinence from such natural de-
lights as are afforded by the company of
live stock and instead of seeking to get
this by introducing a dog or a cat into
unnatural conditions we should strive to
adapt ourselves to circumstances and get
happiness for our children and for ourselves
in some other way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

But am wandering from the topic with
which started-the undesira bility of dogs
and cats as house companions for children.
1t is hard on the animals. harder on the
children. They may have some enjoyment
in the association with the pets. but the
disadvantages connected with this are too
many to assume.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

BY all means, give your children the
chance to learn kindness to dumb crea-
lures by permitting them to have dogs,
rabbits, chickens. and even cats if there
is plenty of outdoors for the youngsters
and for their pets. but don't bring any OF
these into city fiat. Instead, choose some
thing which will not suffer from the con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

soap Just melt 1t and strain and weigh;
then follow directions on can. Don't stir
too hard or the I've and grease will part
MRS. J. A. R."
We are glad to welcome you into our con-
stituency with your helpful budget and
hope that you may return early and often.
If L am not mistaken a recipe for soap
making has appeared or will shortly be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
Request for Cotton Pieces.

One of your correspondents speaks OF
cotton patches she has to give away L
would be very glad if I could get them
either from her or from any other reader
who has them to spare. MRS. E. c.
am afraid the patches which were Of
fered a while ago have been already dis
tributed, but am sure there will be others
to meet your call. I will hold your address
for them and hope to have a demand for
1T soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
&7S-NTv

HAVE upon several occasions eaten
IS / a most delicious pie known as but
4 ter Scotch pie 1t had a meringue
on top.
"wtl you, IL possible. kindly print
the recipe? E. L..
Never having heard OF the delectable pie
until read your letter, cannot produce
it out of hand. I can uarantee that you
will see the recipe in this corner soon after
your request reaches the eyes of our con-
stituency. No notable formula for culinary
purposes escapes them in the long run.
It occurs to me that what was known at
the south as transparent pudding - in the
ante-belium days and is stlled called at
the north Lemon pie" may pass under
the title of d" butter Scotch - IN Kansas 1t
was compounded of butter and eggs. and
often had meringue upon the surface While
waiting for another, and maybe a more cor
rect recipe, suppose you try this? If 1t
prove to be the wrong thing. you will have
been amused during the term of suspense:
TRANSPARENT PUDDING-Ha1f a
pound of butter. one pound of sugar, six
eggs-whites and yoIks beaten separately.
Juice of one lemon, grated rind of two lem
ons, a grated nutmeg, half a glass of
brandy.
Cream brtter and sugar light, beat in the
yolks spice, and brandy, and. last of all,
fold in the stiffened whites Bake in open
crust of the best pun paste
The above recipe is a hundred years old
and is as delicious (and rich) now as
when it was inscribed upon the sa1lowe ed
leaves of my grandmothe-'s recipe book
A note below adds:
" If you would make this into a more ele-
CANT dish, you may beat the whites of but
four eggs into the mixture and whip the
whites of four more into standing froth
with four ta.blespoonfuls of fine white sugar
and little lemon juice to spread over the
top of the pies. The recipe should make
two large pies They are very nice baked
in patty pans, when they are called by
some cheese cakes Some fanciful per-
sons insist that they were the very cheese
cakes spoken of in the Arabian Nights.
and that pepper in the tale. meant nut
meg"
Wasn't that pretty conceit? The digres-
sion is more interesting than the recipe. 1
may venture to observe that have made
nice pudding-or pie-by this recipe, using
four eggs instead of six
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
Best Pets for Children.

The medical authority to which I have
referred mentions goldfish and canaries as
fit inmates of an apartment or a town
house. I would extend the limits even
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.

Dinner
Vegetable soup.
Roast leg of lamb with mint sauce.
Peas.
Drowned potatoes.
Butter scotch pie.
Coffee.
* =
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST
Oranges.
Cornfakes and cream
Fried smelts.
Hot rolls.
Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Scalloped oysters
Saratoga potatoes.
Quick sally Lunn drop cakes.
Jam.
Tea
Macaroni soup.
Baked b1uefsh.
Partisan potatoes with butter sauce
String beans.
Bread and raisin pudding
Coffee
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SATURDAY,.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed pr1nes-
Oatmeal and cream
Fried apples and bacon
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Sliced cold lamb "a leftover)
Salad of beets and potatoes "a leftover.
Baked cheese toast.
Ginger snaps
Cheese.
Cocoa
DINNER.
Bean soup
Hamburg steak with baked bananas
Stewed onions.
French fried potatoes
Fig pudding
Coffee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

or such others cannot be utilized in fry
ing, far cheaper than lard, unless you
live a farm and kill your own pork.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

Fried pork with cream gravy.
Quick biscuit.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Mince of beef and ham 0eftovers).
Dreamed potatoes.
Graham gems
Cookies.
Cream cheese.
Tea
DINNER
Cream of satisfy soup "a leftover).
Curried veal ard rice.
Chilled bananas.
Spinach
Chocolate blancmange.
Coffee
* !:
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges
Hominy and cream.
Salt mackerel-
Stewed potatoes
Toast
Tea and coffee.
bCNShE
Sausages and griddle cakes.
New maple strip
Tea
DINNER
Cream of tomato soup.
Baked calf s liver
Beets
Mashed potatoes.
Cottage pudding.
Coffee.
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THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST
Grape fruit
Oatmeal and cream
Bacon.
Fried eggs
Whole wheat biscuit
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
iiced liver warmed in gravy "a leftoyer).
Fried hominy Ca leftover).
Toasted biscuit left over from breakfast.
Hot gingerbread
Chocolate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grape fruit
Oatmeal
Jelly and cream
Deviled kidneys
Popovers.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Cold boiled ham.
Baked beans.
r.. Lettuce and celery salad
Thin brown bread and butter.
Lemon jelly.
Cookies
Tea
Celt<y soup (made of outside stalks of celery
from SALAD.
Roast beef.
Hominy pudding
Lima beans
Apple tart
Coffee.
i. !.
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges
Mush and milk.
Bacon.
Boiled eggs.
Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Barbecued ham "a leftover).
Baked potatoes
Mush mullins leftover mush).
Crackers.
Cheese
Tea
DINNER =
Brown potats soup
Larded beef "a leftover.
Large hominy
Stewed satisfy.
Steamed pudding with raisins
Coffee.
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TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST
Baked apples.
Shredded wheat and cream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

Combredd Turkey Stufng.
Il am sending you a good cornbread
turkey stuffing, since I see application
has been made for it. have used the one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
REQUEST for Washing Machine.

VIII you ask If some one has wash
ing machine to spare me? You got one for
me year ago, and it has been such help
and godsend. but has suddenly collapsed,
and / can hardly do washing without 1T.
81 kind neighbor gave me cook stove that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

impulses and devote themselves to puppies
instead of babies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
=" Babies Is Lots Nicer.

Always when see a small dog ca ressed
and carried by woman am reminded of
the car conductor who stood and watched
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

city fnement and will injure the children by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

/T~HE house cat must goi Her prin-
80 cipal function in most homes is
that of a germ bearer, and the
house dog is good second in this
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31

My grandfather on my fathers side
was Of almost purely Dutch blood. When
he was young he still spoke some Dutch.
and Dutch was last used in the services
Of the Dutch Reformed Church in New
York while he was a small boy.
About 1914 his ancestor, Klaes Marten-
sen van Roosevelt, came to New Amster-
dam as "settler"-the euphemistic
name for an immigrant who came over
In the steerage of a sailing ship in the
seventeenth century instead of the steer
age of a steamer IN the nineteenth CEN
tury. From that time for the next seven
generations from father to son every
one of US was born on Manhattan Island.
My fathers paternal ancestors were OF
Holland stock, except that there was
one named Waldron, a wheelwright. VINO
was one of the Pilgrims who remained in
Holland when the others came over TO
found Massachusetts,. and who then ac-
companied the Dutch adventures to New
Amsterdam. My fathers mother was a
Pennsylvania of Irish and Scotch de-
scent; woman OF singular sweetness
and strength, the keystone of the arch
in her relations with her husband and
sons. Although she was not herself
Dutch. 1t was she who taught me the
only Dutch I ever knew, baby song
of which the first line ran Grippe troppa
tronjes." 1 always remembered this, and
when I was In East Africa 1t proved a
bond of union between me and the Boer
settlers, not a few of whom knew II, al
though at first they always had difficulty
in understanding my pronunciation-at
which do not wonder. 1t was interest
ing to meet these men whose ancestors
had gone to the Cape about the time
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31
What Log-rolling Means.

Log-rolling is the banding of private
interests and the open trading of votes
for legislation, which never would pass
on its merits. That is why we have a
number of unnecessary laws and ap-
preparation items in our budget, And,
incidentally, that is why the cost of
our government is increasing to totals
undreamed of in former times; that is,
in short, why the Federal government
expends a billion dollars annually, and
the States an aggregate of one billion
and five hundred millions a year. In
the early history of this country, when
the pioneers trekked to the timbered
West they used to help out one an
other erecting their log houses. Hence
the harmless phrase of log-rolling. 1t
was a good thing for the settlers to
SO help each other out, in an emer-
gency, but is most pernicious
thing in legislation.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31

Our cavalry officers, who frequently
complain of the shortage of horses in
our service, certainly must astonish
German army men. One of the prob
Inns which the Kaiser's government
has to face, incident to military ex-
pansion, is how to acquire 10000 addi-
tional horses without importing large
ly, and without disturbing domestic
industry. Economizing as far as pos
(fble, the German army at present en-
ploys $4,000 horses. Batteries, on a
peace footing, are given four horses,
instead of six. There is sort of con-
scription of horses in force in the
fatherland, the war office having an
option on likely animals, but conces-
sions are always made to the needs of
the farmer, and even in the cavalry
the horses do not exceed the men.
As a matter of fact, Germany Is far
from being rich in horsehesh. Ac-
cording to the latest official returns
there were only about 100000 horses
in the whole empire Cone to sixteen Of
the population). In this country the
last census reported total of ,2o3,-
900 horses, besides 3,43S,523 mules, and
as to their usefulness for the military
draught service our quartermaster gen.
ero1 will cr;ve willing testimony THE
country may not be the ideal place for
the breeding of fancy steeds, such as
our cavalry officers would like to be-
stride, because it is not profitable. But
we have plenty of horsehesh to mount
our fifteen cavalry regiments, and to
spare. A
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31
The Ambassador in Allegiance.

Our current national calamity has
naturally eclipsed, not only foreign at
fairs, but the recently burning ques-
ton of appointments in our diplomatic
service abroad. In spite of the Presi-
dents numerous preoccupdtions, 1t is
probable that he is nowise losing
sight of the selection of such men as
are deemed by himself and the Sec
rotary OF State peculiarly fitted for the
great posts that would seem to have
gone a-begging. Nor is it likely that
the activities of those ambitious to go
tos London or Paris, or any other of
the great or minor capitals, have been
suspended.
The wire-pulling that has never
failed to attend a change of admins
tration is, in fact, as strenuous as
ever; each of the distinguished men,
either already mentioned, or who
cherish secret hope that they may
be named for the post of Ambassador
or Minister, has not relaxed effort per-
sonally or vicariously. 1t is extreme
ly probable that what may be called
"a dark horse may appear at the
eleventh hour to enter the race for
these coveted posts, and that, in spite
of the agitation that has attended the
expectations of those whose names
have already been mentioned, the
world may be startled with more than
one little joker in the shape of an
Ambassador or Minister, not even
thought of by the general public.
The Secretary of State has more
than once proved the fact that he is
man of surprises, and who knows
but that he will revolutionize the
question of distinguished diplomatic
appointments as thoroughly as he did the
proceedings at the Baltimore conven-
ton.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31
Legislative Jokes.

A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature of Ohio TO create a com.
mission to supervise the style and
fashion of women's wearing apparel
in that State
The plan to taboo peek-a-boo shirt
waists and devices in general for a
lavish display of feminine charms in
public by means of board with in.
quisitorial power to determine just how
much of the female form may be ex-
hibited in God-fearing community
without shocking the moral character
Of its male population certainly sounds
funny, to say the least But what we
know of the preserft chief executive of
the Buckeye State from his manly,
straightforward actions and liberal
views while Congressman, the bill in
question has little chance of becoming
a law-if he can help it.
This is funny enough. But how
about a recent lengthy debate in
the United States Senate over the