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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

Salads are rather expensive on account of
the oil that is rule used in the dressing
But, oddly enough, my mail today contains
a recipe for q cheap salad dressing sent
to me by a correspondent. I have not had
time to test 1t, but pass it on in the hope
that you may find it of use. 1t certainly
is inexpensive The reader who sends It
writes:
This salad dressing will keep for months
in a cool place. The ingredients are one
tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of
flour. one tablespoonful of mustard, a pinch
of paprika, one teaspoonfui Of salt, one egg,
one coffee cupful of vinegar, one table,
spoonful of butter. Mix the dry ingredients,
add the egg well beaten, and a cup of
vinegar. Cook until thicker than cream.
Add the butter when cooked and while still
very hot If too thick, thin it when ready
to use with sweet or sour milk or cream.
I keep mine in a pint fruit jar, which need
not be alright"
their opportune arrival. There is such va
riety of salads from which to choose that
time and space would fail me were to
attempt to enun1erate a tenth of them.
OF course potato salad, well seasoned and
very cold, is always popular, and when
served with Swiss cheese sand witches forms
a nourishing meal. Cold boiled vegetables
green peas, string beans, etc.-may be
mixed together, moistened with French
dressing. and served on lettuce leaves.
As cheese is very nourishing, and digesti-
BILE If not eaten after a hearty meal, 1t may
be served with all kinds of salads. Strips
of cheese, OF mounds of it grated, can be
put on crackers, which are then set in the
oven until the cheese is melted. Serve
these very hot.
Cups of steaming hot cocoa, made, If you
wish, with really good brand of con-
densed milk, are a grateful and whole
some addition to the salads, or, in fact, to
any luncheon that you may serve.
Desserts are often expensive if good.
And yet there are some sweets that do not
cost SO much as to be ruled out of your
menu. Prunes, we'll soaked and properly
stewed, are nice served with sweet crack
ers or with eggless cookies, recipes for
which have appeared in the corner from
time to time. Eggless gingerbread is sat
isfying, and is especially nice if accom-
panied by the cup of cocoa already sug-
gested. Jellies made OF gelatin are not ex-
pensive, and may be favored with coffee,
lemon, or fruit juice. A jelly favored with
prune Juice is good While this Is cooling
stir into 1t the stewed and chopped prunes
A wholesome dessert Is apple sauce; an
other is baked apples.
Oatmeal and graham waters and cookies
are digestible and nourishing.
Will you not let US know at some future
time how the luncheon business Progresses?
Perhaps some of our readers may send
some helpful suggestions which can pub
fish in the Corner and which hope you
may see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of he enormous number Of
IL letters semitic The department. must ask
contributors to limit their communications to
100 words. exespt in cases Of formulas or
recipes phieh require greater space. 4 wdnt
all my correspondents to hare shouting in
The Corner. and If my request In this respect
Is complied NTH IL tciN BE possible to print
many more letters.
Attention is called to the fact that Marion
Harland cannot reeeiue money for patterns.
as she has no connection lOith any department
that sells them. ts Marion Harldnd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

to the mixture a half cup of household
ammonia and a half cup of pulverized
borax. Stir the mixture, take from the fire,
cover closely. and. when lukewarm, pour
into bottles, closing these with rubber
corks. When ready to use this mixture for
whitening your clothes. put the boiler of
water on the stove. shave into it a half cake
of good laundry soap, and bring to the
boil. Stir In a teacupful Of the washing
fluid. I take it for granted that the clothes
will have been soaked over night and
soaped in the soiled spots. Put them now
into the boiler and boil hard for twenty
minutes, then turn them into the tubs.
When washed clean. rinse well in two
waters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

nothing until as she stood at the back
window gazing out disconsolately she saw
on the whitewashed fence the marks OF
dusty paws a cat had left in her leap across
the barrier.
The housekeeper flew for cloth and hur-
ried to the yard. wiped on the offending
footprints and returned to the house COM
forted by the thought that she had done
something to raise her own domestic stand
ing toward. the pinnacle held by her friend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
Too Much Self-DeniaL.

You see. I know you pretty well.
have known you for a great many years.
I understand how your desire to DC the
best for John and the children has be-
come the passion of your life, so that you
have almost no personality of your own
left. You have lost your sense of proper
ton and you do not appreciate the fact
that when you deny yourself overrnuch
you spoil the man and the children for
whose good you try to live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
Companion for Old Couple.

read several days ago in your Corner
of an old couple who would like some one
to stay with them for company. / am
widow with a. young child and would like
such home life as you describe with these
people can sew a little and cook we'll
at least. so am told 1 wish you would
get me the home in question
Mrs. A. NJ"
Several aged couples have made such an
offer as you mention, and have secured
such a companion as they wished. It was
moreover. impossible for me to give you
by mall the address OF the persons you re-
ferred to. as you did not send me the ini-
tails signed to their letter. 50 had no way
of knowing which couple you had In mind.
Add to this omission the fact that you sent
no stamp for reply by mail and you will
understand why 1 could not comply with
your request. i will keep your name and
address in case hear from any one else
wishing a working companion in return
Ter q home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
Stopping" When Scrubbing.

81 have an expensive Hnoleum on my
kitchen floor. The edges where the strips
are Joined are not true, therefore some
crevices have formed that are large enough
to allow the water to run underneath.
which will soon ruin the linoleum. What
can do about the matter? MARGARET"
The linoleum should be lifted and relaid
so that the edges will come close together.
I am sorry that you will be put to this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

VEGETABLE MARROW PRESERVED
WITH GINGER.-Ingredient Same as
above. Cut the marrow into strips. remove
the pulp and seeds; to each pound of mar
row allow one pound of lump sugar; lay
the marrow and sugar in a pan all night; to
every five pounds of marrow add two
ounces OF ginger cut into pieces and three
lemons, with the thin peel cut into small
strips and the juice strained. Put into a
preserving pan and boil gently for four
hours. Take care not to let 1t boil fast
or it Will crystalline. HLR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

DCCOHlWS q w eHIOcT OF l. OTneT.
How may you become a member of the
Corner, or, as like to call it, the Helping
Hand Circle? Some of the charter MEM
bers Will have it, The Helping Hand
club To all it is a big family bound to-
gether by common desire to make the
world better and therefore happier because
we have lived in it-because we are now
living in it! The manner of initiation Is
the simplest one can imagine. Just watch
your opportunity to help somebody by
writing to me, in care of the paper in which
you read that somebody wants something
you can give, and forthwith see to 1t that
the said somebody gets it. 1t may be a
missing line of a poem or the poem entire
the name of a town or of chemical agent
or of a lost relative Or shut-in is re-
ported as needing books games or an
other means of employing the leaden footed
hours Or poor seamstress could make an
honest living IL she had a sewing machine
or materials for rugs and rag carpets and
bed quilts. The ors are beyond count
ing. Keep your eyes and heart open in
reading the all too little corner and make
your own selection. You have earned your
membership today by writing out that re-
cipe when you saw it was wanted.
And what I sa5- to you say to all who
have put the same question
One of the most spiritual mdnde ed as he is
one Of the most eloquent of living preachers,
prays: May my life be like house with
many mansions, with room for the enter
tainment of my brethreni"
The entertainment NAV be but q cum
Of cold water. If it be held to fevered and
thirsty lips It is benefactlon. Despise mot
the day of small things
We welcome you into the circle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

young people-and some old ones-he likes
his own indulgence. Is there any real rea-
son why he should be allowed to lie abed
until 10 o'clock all through the holidays
Just because there is no school. and that
the chores he ought to do should fall upon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

For example, there were holiday invita-
tions sent to all of you. You would have
liked to accept one two of them, but
your party dress % was shabby, and even
If the old one had done for yourself, Mary
would have had to go without a fresh frock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

it would have been for Mary to have little
lesson in Thought for others, in self-denial
for the sake of her overworked mother?
We mothers have to train our children
sometimes at the price of our own appar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

emit selfshness, but the training is good
for them. all the same.
Another instance of place for reform Ia
in your treatm, 1T of that eldest boy or
yours. He is a good lad. but like all other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
FOR Whitening Clothes,

VIII you kindly insert in the House
mothers Exchange a recipe for a washing
fluid that will whiten my Globes? F. H"
To make the washing fluid dissolve can
of potash in two gallons of boiling water
II you cannot get the potash. use some I've
that you have tried and found good. Add
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

trouble, but know of no other remedy for
the error. May I also suggest that in
cleaning your kitchen floor you can get it
quite clean if you do not use enough
water " to run underneath the floor COW
ering? Wipe up with cloth wrung out in
warm water, changing the water often. or.
If the floor be so dirty as to need scrubbing,
do not souse " the liquid on the floor, but
dip the brush into the pail. shaking off the
super1uous liquid, and apply it vigorously.
A little water applied frequently will get
your floor as clean would quarter
pailful stopped on and over the 1lnoleum
and running into the crevices of floor COW
ering and floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

for the New Years dance. So you gave
up the outing and stayed quietly at home.
I" You can't trouble me by letting me have
a quiet evening to myself" you said cheer
fully as you saw the merry party off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
Preserving Vegetable Marrows.

(" have just seen in your Corner a re-
quest for a recipe for preserving English
vegetable marrows. A friend of mine
used to prepare them in this way, but I
have not the exact directions wish L
had. MRS. K"
am glad to be able TO crafty your wish.
as a correspondent has sent me in two rec
ipes copied from an old English cook book,
one of which she hopes is that desired by
another housewife who asked for the direc-
lions for making the sweetmeat
TO PRESERVE VEGETABLE MAR
ROWS.-Ingredients: Equal quantities of
marrow and sugar, lemon and ginger
Method: Peel some good marrows and
take out the seeds Cut the vegetable into
pieces of the size OF a large walnut, boil
them with their weight In sugar until the
pieces, which should be shapely, are trans
parent Use no water. Flavor with lemon
or ginger. or both, as preferred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
The Case of Emily F."

How can a man get acquainted with
Emily F.? JOHN T..
Forgive me If 1 say that he cannot,
through the Corner. I regret to be obliged
to make this statement, but as letters
from other men have come to me with
the request that they be printo in my
column, 1 have good and sufficient reason
for declining to give the desired address
to other masculine correspondents. We do
not run matrimonial agency, and when
we published Emily F.s letter we did not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

Hudson, and Los Angeles. Yet in every
place 1 had the same trouble and loneli-
ness to contend with that Emily F. mem
lions. I would go to clubs and sociaIs,
but as soon as the other young people
discovered what my work was I would
be Stunned by them all. Nobody knows
how much suffered, and you will hardly
believe me when l tell you that the most
pain was caused by the actual church men,
bers who would be friendly enough with
me until I was obliged to say where 1
lived and what my work was. From that
time on I would scarcely be noticed. Yes.
the memory of it all is still bitter to me.
and the only way out Of it, so far I
could see then, was to change my occu-
patton or to marry. did the latter, rather
against my true inclination, for reasons
which 1 need not state here In some
cases-in many cases@the choice would
have proved disastrous. It almost did in
my own case during the first years after my
marriage. But now as each year opens
with little more brightness in it than
the previous one held, I do not regret the
step 1 took.
The only course I can suggest to Emily
F. is to get away from the cities and take
a position in the country or in some small
town where she will find herself treated as
one of the family in many respects. and
where she will meet other young people,
and where L know for a certainty that
she will spend many pleasant hours. I
am acquainted with just such young peo-
pie in a rich and growing district from
which we moved six months ago. Such
persons are to be found all over the coun-
try away from the large cities. At all
events. the country districts offer chances
for the attainment of something better in
life than Emily F.. appears to find, sit
uated as she now is. I wish 1 could help
her. MARY H.
A straightforward, womanly letter.
wish that the writer had given me her
full name that 1 might send 1t to Emily
F. This letter is a terrible arraignment
of those who claim to be the followers
and to bear the name of Him who said:
. I am among you one that serveth."
and who reminded his followers that He
Himself came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister"
AS 1 read the letter which have given
here at length one scripture verse ran con-
stantly through my mind Wounded in
the house of his friendsI"
This is not sermon, but it would be well
for each of us to think on these things"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

DINNER
Tomato bisque
Hamburger steak. baked IN mold and
gsrnished with fried bananas.
Sweet potatoes
Dreamed onions.
Rice pudding.
Black coffee.
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FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST
Oranges
Cereal and cream.
Pan fish
Tea cake.
Coffee and tea.
LUNCHEON
Salt mackerel with cream gravy.
Southern batter bread Imade of southern
cornmeal].
Stewed potatoes.
Crackers and cheese.
Cookies and tea.
DINNER
Black bean soup.
Oyster pie.
Scallops of tomatoes and rice.
Fried potatoes.
Ambrosia lsliced oranges and grated cocoanutl.
Black conee
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SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Sliced bananas and cream. with shredded wheat
biscuits
Bacon.
Sally Lunn.
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
IFor stormy dayl.
tSz gout of hamburger steak, onions and diced
potatoes La left-overl.
Griddie cakes eaten with the ragout, and for
dessert with strip and honey.
Bread and butter
Tea.
DINNER
Yesterdays soup with the addition of tomato
puree.
Calves hearts, stuffed and Dreaded.
Ma shed turnips.
Macaroni baked with cheese.
Apple pie
Black coffee.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28

A chair is an elevated seat on four
legs, enabling the ground to meet a man
half way when he sinks to rest.
Chairs are an acquired taste. For
many centuries men got along without
them. In Africa the natives squat Tor
hours in a position which would give
an American athlete seven varieties OF
cramps. In Japan the people kneel and
sit on their heels. The Turk sits cross
legged on a rug, and the ancient Roman,
when stufflng himself with costly foods,
lay on a marble bench and propped him.
self on one elbow. All Of this proves
that man can get used to almost any
thing II he tries Doubtless the first
people who used chairs could only sit
in them for few minutes at time
without getting shooting pains on the
insides ftheir knees.
Chairs are great necessity in Amer
lean and European homes, and although
some slight effort has been made, in
society. to educate people to the buffet
lunch and the stand-up reception, man
finds it very difficult to exist for more
than an hour without making an invert-
ed figure of himself, assisted by the
four legs of q chair. The only people
who have no use for chairs are the
housewife with four children and the s.
a-week salesgirl. The only use a busy
wife has for a chair is to dust II in
the morning. while IL the owner of a
great store were to find salesgirls sit
ting in chair during business hours,
he would have her arrested for treason.
Chairs enable man to compose his
thoughts and curve his backbone COM
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28
George Fitch Explains.
From the Peoria Journal.

From the Peoria Journal
81 want to take advantage of this
occasion to set myself right with a men,
Der Of the Ministerial Association. He Is
present, but I will not mention his
name" said George Fitch, of Peoria.
ut was when i was an editor. 1 asked
the gentleman for a copy of sermon.
He allowed me to use 1t, but enjoined
me to see the copy was returned to him.
promised. Then 1 gave the sermon to
San Francisco earthquake sufferer who
was temporarily on the repertorial staff
an earnest. enthusiastic, and bibulous
soulIaying stress on the Importance of
returning the copy to my desk.
1.-The sermon was returned safely, and
without unfolding it I gave 1t to the
writer next day. heaved a sigh of relief.
and dismissed the matter from my mind.
The next time / met him 1 noticed a
peculiar GOODNESS in the demeanor of that
particular minister. / couldn't under
stand it. and it worried me until found
out what the trouble was.
'"The San Francisco earthquake suffer-
er had written note on the manuscript
for the guidance Of the compositor. 1t
was: Save this sermon. Not that it's
worth a "Keokuk," but save It
The Rev. Hugh Jack then arose and
assured Mr.. Fitch that his version Of
the matter was entirely satisfactory to
hin-besides, it happened . long time
ago
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28
Panama Canal Is Outdone.

From Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Much has been written about the har-
Messing Of the Mississippi at Keokuk for
the hydro-electric generation of 2o0, 900
horsepower, but 1t has been difficult to
impress the fact upon people that some
of the things done in this undertaking.
are bigger than the same kind of things
at Panama The dam that now har-
nesses the Missouri Is the biggest of its
kind in the world, the power house Is
the largest ever built, and the lock
which the government required the en-
gineers to build around the dam is big
ger than those of the Panama Canal,
and the drydock alongside is large
enough to accommodate practically all
the steamboats, that were navigating the
Upper Mississippi last fall.
The Gatun lock at Panama is consid-
cred an exceptionally big engineering
achievement of its kind. Yet the Keokuk
lock is just as wide 010 feeD and has
lift Of forty feet, whereas the lift at
Panama is twenty-eight feet four inches
The steel gates at the lower end of the
lock weigh 100000 pounds each and are
so thick that two wagons could pass
each other on the top edge. A number
of interesting views accompany the
article.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28
STA ESMEN-REAL AND NEA X
By FRED c. KELLY

keeper could go forth to some shady
dell and engage in quiet meditation over
the affairs of state.
One recalls, too, in this connection,
the case OF certain statesman. who
was promoted A few years ago from the
House to the Senate end of the Capitol
During his service in the House he
had alweys been shaved by certain
barber in the House barber shop. and
naturally, he did not like to intrust his
face to a stranger. Neither did he like
the idea of traipsing clear to the House
wing every time he desired a shave
especially as the Senate shop is a free
institution to the elect
He took up the problem with his col
leagues, and a way was arranged. One
of the Senate BARRIERS, who had been
there for a great many years. was pro-
NOTED to be manager of the shop,
with nothing in particular to do, and
the House barber the statesman liked
was brought over to the Senate end to
fill the vacancy. And to this day the
Senate shop has its four BARRIERS, for
every three shaves.
Copyright, 1913, by Fred G. Kelly. All rights re-
seryed.1
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28
Our Friend, the Horse.

The horsei Our friend in peace, as
well as in war! Adds to our pleas
ures and lightens Our labors. This
week and next Washington bows to
him. He is on show, and, while So
ciety will try to rival him with its
bright colors, waving plumes, and
bright-hued flowers, it will have to
take a back seat to the satin-coated,
clean-limbed, heet-footed Pegasus.
The motor is here and here to stay,
but ii cannot GUST the horse, whose
usefulness will never wane, but whose
heavier labors will be lightened The
motor is more and more taking the
heavy burden from the horse, and the
twentieth century will see the horse
become a finer animal for this reason.
Cool white dresses, crimson wells of
flmy texture, ornate creations of the
dressmaker, with a thousand flashing
shades of color, will make gathering
dazzling in its brilliancy, which will
be added to by those who affect the
riding breeches and booted calf. All
will 60 to make pretty picture, but
the real piece de resistance, the king
of the day, will outshine his admirers
He will be as we'll groomed, as care
fully dressed as the daintiest miladi.
Such exhibitions as those to be given
in Washington this week and next are
of greatest benefit to any community.
They cause a friendly rivalry to i'm
prove the breed, not only of the sturdy
Percheron or Shire, the housekeeping
hackney. the clean-limbed hunter, or
saddle horse, but even the everyday
cart and farm animal
Any one that loves a good horse is
better physically, mentally, and moral
ly. 1t means more outdoor life, for
what can be more celebrating than a
ride either on or behind a thorough
bred? What will cause the heart to
beat faster than to watch sound-winded
and stout-hearted, intelligent animals
strain every nerve to do what they are
called upon to accomplish at the gen.
tie pressure of knee or rein?
At Fort Myer and at the National
Capital Horse Show the best animals
in the country will be on parade; they
will be called upon 10 show their adj
mirers what feats of strength, or en-
durance, or grace, they can perform.
They will show what clean living and
a wholesome life can do for an ami
NAL, and will put to shame those hu-
mans who are not so careful in their
modes of living.
Hurrah for the horse, and may every
one of his lovers see him at his best.