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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

Turkeys army and navy are both ranked nine
teenth among the armies and navies of the world,
the Boston Globe remarks. While her army Is
fairly well organized and has a war strength Of
100000, which IS. only 10000 behind that of Great
Britain, her fleet is practically non-existent. In
fact, until 1910 the sultan had systematically dis
mantled the navy, for fear that it would turn
against him as it had turned against his %predeces-
sor, Abd-ulAziz.
The peace strength of Turkeys army is 400 1000
men. She is able to draw upon 300, 900 reserves,
bringing her war strength up to 100000. The
population of Turkey is a little more than 25,O0O,
900, and of this number fully 100000 could be
drawn in case of necessity.
Before the new regime was inaugurated in 1910,
military service had been obligatory on all Mus
sulmans, Christians being excluded, but under
obligations to pay a military exoneration tax Of
$3.50 for every 1876 males between the ages Of
fifteen and seventy-1ve. Under the new regime,
however, all "Ottomans" are subject to military
service, although under certain conditions exemp-
ton is purchasable.
Active service in the Turkish army lasts nine
years. OF this the soldiers are three or four
years with the colors and the rest of the time
they are reserves. In cases of necessity all males
up to the age Of seventy can be called upon to
join the colors.
The navy has been on the decline ever since
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
CONCERNING CHANGE IN DIET
Meat Eater Must Go Somewhat Slow
When He Becomes Convert to
VegetarianIsm.

Many people are deciding to Join
time at least, but this should be done
with the greatest care and thought.
1t will be a step taken with extreme
danger unless the food values are
considered, and those who cannot
give time to study them had better
keep to the feshpots, even If In a
limited way.
The meat eater cannot take up the
new diet at will, as the blood has to
be kept to a certain heat, and this
can only be done by foods with
which the constitution is already IA
miliar.
With regard to -four, the mainstay
of the home, 1t should not be wasted
on cakes and the like, but kept care
fully for bread, which is as necessary
as life itself. The housewife should
not be selfish In the home in using
this valuable commodity recklessly,
and the maker of cakes, which also
require large quantities Of sugar and
butter, at the present time is commit.
ting a criminal act, even though 1t Is
one that only her own conscience can
punish.
The principal meal in the day should
be the dinner, Of course, and the
housewife who takes off a course oil
two is doing an act of self-denial
which is of inestimable value to her
country.-Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
TURKISH ARMY RANKS NINETEENTH !.

the catastrophe of Sinope in 1853, when a Rus.
sian fleet practically annihilated the Turkish
wooden vessels. The sultan, Abd-ul-Aziz, with
the aid Of British officers, succeeded in creating
an imposing fleet Of ironclads constructed in Eng
lish and French yards, but his successor, Abdul
Hamid, pursued a settled policy of reducing the
fleet to impotency. Most of the ships that were
added were built in American, British or Italian
yards.
In 1910 1t was voted to spend SIS, 900, 900 in
rehabilitating the navy. The result is that Tur-
key now has two modern battleships of the first
class, the Reshad-i-Hamiss and the Reshad v,
both with a 2~S,0O0-ton displacement. Besides
these she also has one battleship of the cruiser
type and three battleships of the older type. She
has two f%rst-class cruisers, two second-class cruis-
ers and one third-class cruiser. The rest of the
fleet is made up by two g~unboats, two monitors.
ten destroyers and eight torpedo boats.
The personnel of the navy was formerly drawn
from the army, from 1000 to 5000 joining the
navy each year. But under the present regime,
during the reorganization and reconstruction OF
the navy, the draft of men is made direct. Brit
ish officers were engaged to train the men and to
assist In the reorganization. The naval force
numbers, officers and men, about thirty thousand.
While the navy is small, its potency is greatly
Increased by the strategic position of Turkeys
naval base, Constantinople.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

snirited wa nropaganda and propaganda OK con
quest. The precedents of history were all one
tale of the collapse of civilizations and the oan-
gers of the time we're manifest
The swfftness of the collapse is represented as
it's most terrible feature.
The older civilization rotted and crumDleu
down, but this civilization of modern Europe was
as it we're. blown up. Within the space OF hVe
years it was altogether disintegrated ana ue-
stroyed. Up to the very eve of the explosion one
sees a spacious spectacle of incessant advance,
a worldwide security, enormous areas OF hlshly-
organized industry and settled populations, gigan-
tic cities spreading gigantically, the seas and
oceans dotted with shipping, the land netted with
rails and open ways. Then, suddenly, the German
cannons are heard and We are in the beginning
of the end!
Already the financial fabric staggered with
those first sounds. With the destruction Of the
American fleet in the North Atlantic and the
smashing conflict which ended the naval existence
of Germany in the North sea, with the burning
and w~reckage of billions Of pounds worth of prop
erty in the four cardinal cities of Europe, the
hopeless costliness of war came home for the
first time to the consciousness of mankind. Credit
y went down in a whirl of selling. Money vanished,
and, at its disappearance, trade and industry
came to an end. The economic world fell dead
Wherever there were great populations, great
masses found themselves without work, without
money and unable to get food. Famine was in
every working class quarter within three weeks
Of the beginning of the war. Within a month
there was not a city in which ordinary law and
social procedure had not been replaced by some
form of emergency control. And, swiftly, the
famine spread to the rich"
"The great nations and empires became but
names"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
2zADZLEHE TzAz3RET

destruction, in which the German artillery marked
Its zenith. In no one section of the Ruins Of Ber-
lin or Vienna are the ravages of French or Rus
sian artillery so complete. Inter den Linden, it
is to be noted, rumbled as a mass only after the
great thaw of 1880.
Eiffel overwhelmingly it stood upright. Over
thrown in the first German Bombardment of 1914.
1t is constructed entirely Of steel, and contains
2,543, $50 separate pieces and 9,456, S24 rivets. Be-
meath it flows the Seine, with the Trocadero
Marshes, inhabited by fishing tribes, go per cent
OF whose catches are claimed by the Republic.
(See Dried Fish,
Salmon began coming up the Seine in the year
1878, shad A. d. 2O03. 1t was feared at first that
they might, mutually and reciprocally, extermi-
nate each other, but the shoals of fish proved to
be of too high an order of intelligence to commit
such a suicidal act.
So run certain pages of the chapter Paris of
the Guide to the Ruins of Europe" which was
prepared to warn the nations against the great
war. 1t was not issued in time. The great war
broke out too soon. The brochure foresees a
time when gold itself will be worthless in Europe.
"All factories will be closed" its preface runs,
all railroads will stop, all m will be par
alyzed, and the countrysides, ravaged by war and
neglect, will no longer have food for their own
populations. In the cities piles of ruins decimat-
ed by bombardments, old men, women and chill
dren will riot in famine. All provisions will be
finally with the armies, and the armies will con-
tinue fghting-to kill each other off and get pos
session of the precious foodstuffs!
Such is the black picture of the brochure. 1t
quotes freely from 1.-The War in the Air" by H. G..
Wells, published as long ago as 190S-9. In it the
English philosopher brings America into the uni
versal mixup, as a result Of which the fine order
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

and welfare of society crumpled like an exploded
bladder, In five short years the world and the
scope of human life underwent a retrogressiye
change as great as that between the age of the
Antonines and the Europe Of the ninth century.
Wells remarkable book makes passionately In
teresting reading at this moment. 1t shows now
up to the very beginning of the great war the
movement of the world seemed wholly beneficial
to mankind. Sustaining and constructive forces
seemed to more than balance the malign drift OF
chance and the natural ignorance of prejudice
blind passion and wicked selfseeking of mankind.
Men said, indeed, that moral organization was not
keeping pace with physical progress, but rev al
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Veal With Mushroom Sauce.

Broil the steaks slowly over a clear
fire, turning often so that they will
not scorch. When done keep the
meat hot on a platter in the oven
while you make the following sauce:
Drain the liquor from a can of mush-
rooms and cut the mushrooms In
halves. Cook together a tablespoonful
of butter and one Of Drowned -four
until they are dark brown in color.
Pour upon them the mushroom liquor
and a cupful of beef stock. Stir to a
smooth sauce, salt and pepper and
add the halved mushrooms. Cook for
two minutes, stirring constantly, then
pour over and around the veal steaks
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Corn Meal Outlets.

The recipe for this good meat sub.
stitute comes from the Battle Creek
sanitarium.
Turn the corn meal mush into
bread tins previously wet with cold
water. Slice when cold. Beat one
or two eggs slightly, add one table
spoonful of water or milk to each egg.
also o~ne-eighth teaspoonful of salt.
Dip the sliced mush into the bread
crumbs, then into the egg mixture
and back into the bread crumbs again.
Place in a buttered pan and bake in
a quick oven until a rich brown.
Serve with butter or maple strip.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

famous battlefield of Waterloo will be
shortly reached, or the journey may be
made by trolley. During the celebrated
hundred days" from the middle of
March to June %, 1915, when Napoleon
|, having escaped from Elba, daringly
attempted to r%e-establish his empire,
he met with his crushing defeat at
Waterloo, the little village just a trifle
more than nine miles outside of Brus.
sells.
August 20 this year was the eighty
fourth anniversary of Belgium's indie
d~endence, but it found the nation in
the grasp Of the invading hosts and
her cities blackened with fire and her
fields d~renched with the blood of her
heroic IONS.
Has Thriving Suburbs.
Beside the city proper, Brussels con-
sists Of ten thriving suburbs, which
have important manufactures of leath-
err goods, linen, wooden and cotton
cloth, furniture and bronze. But most
celebrated of all are the factories
where Brussels lace is made, a lace
which is exported to all the principal
cities OF the world. !
Throughout all Belgium the old Latin
saying is still current, to the effect
that Brussels rejoices in noble men.
Antwerp in money, Client in halters.
Bruges in pretty girls and Malines in
fools.
Malines got its unfortunate reputa.
ton, it is said, because once p o a
time some of the good burghers mis-
took the moonlight shining through
their cathedral tower for a fire, and
the fire engines were called out to ex,
tinguish the confagration.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

tached any meaning to the
phrases. Few realized that
the accidental balance on the
side Of progress was far
slighter and infinitely more
complex and delicate in its
adjustments than the masses
suspected.
They say their armies
and navies grew larger and
more portentous; some OF
their ironclads, at the least,
cost as much as their whole
annual expenditure upon ad-
vanced education. They ac-
cumulated explosives and
machinery of destruction;
they allowed their national
traditions and jealousies to
pile up; they contemplated
a steady enhancement OF
race hostility as the races
drew closer together without
concern or understanding
and they permitted the
growth in their midst of evil
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
FINE FRUIT is PINEAPPLE
HeaIthful, Delicious, and Not ES-
pensiVe, II Is Deserving Of Much Q
Wider Recognition.

For pineapple mousse, make a sirup
with one cupful of sugar and quarter
of a cupful of water; add gradually
the yolks of four eggs, stifly beaten,
beating all the while. Cook In a
double boiler until the custard begins
to thicken, then strain and cool, stir
ring occasionally. Put two cupfuls
of shredded pineapple through a sieve
and add to the custard; lastly, fold
In two cupfuls of cream, stit1y
whipped. Pack in ice and salt, and
Jet stand several hours to harden.
Another dessert for hot weather Is
pineapple charlotte: Dissolve a
tablespoonful of powdered gelatin In
two cupfuls of boiling water; add the
juice of a lemon, a large orange, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and a little
grated rind of the orange. Stir over
the fire until the sugar is well dis
solved. Strain over a cupful of shred
ded pineapple; pour the mixture into
a dish which has been lined with
ladyfngers, and set in the refrigera-
tor to harden. Serve with whipped
cream.
Pineapple cream also calls for gela-
tin and is a dessert specially good In
hot weather. To make this, dissolve
two teaspoonfuls of powdered gelatin
in a cupful of boiling water. Add a
cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of cooked
shredded pineapple, and two table
spoonfuls each of chopped candied
orange, lemon peel and cherries.
Whip two cupfuls of cream until stin
and fold into the pineapple mixture;
pour into a mold, and put in the re-
frigerator to harden. Serve with
whipped cream and decorate with can
died cherries and pieces of pineapple.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17


banks of the little River Senne, which
is now hidden beneath the fine modern
inner b~oulevards built upon arches
which extend through the city. h
old ramparts were leveled about fifteen
years ago., as in the city of Louvain, to
be converted into attractive prone
nades. No European city can boast OF
handsomer boulevards than those of
Brussels, which have been constructed
through the heart of the old town.
Promenading along the broad, shady
avenues, completely lined On both sides
with Parisian-looking shops, gay with
fine carriages, autos and vehicles of
all descriptions, and filed with hun
dreds of stylishly gowned pedestrians,
the reason Brussels is known as Lit
tie Paris" is very apparent.
The Hotel de Vile stands in the
Grande Place, or market square, which
Is in the center of the lower part of
the city. 1t is not only the most ia
nous building in Brussels, but admit
ted to be the most beautiful and arts
tic edifce in all Belgium. Its principal
facade is in the true Gothic style, and
it's graceful tower is $40 feet in height,
the work Of Jan Van Ruysbroeck,
whose statue still adorns the first
niche in the tower. The open-work
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

spire was badly damaged by lightning
half a century ago., but it has been en-
tirely repaired, and the colossal cop
per-gilt figure of the city's patron
saint, Archangel Michael, 16 feet tall,
continues to show which way the wind
blows.
Architect Hanged Himself.
A story is current that Jan, the archi-
tect of the tower, in the very moment
of his exaltatfon at the completion Of
his work was informed by a critical
burgher that the editice was ruined
because he had not placed its tower
in the center. In his chagrin and de-
spair at this criticism the architect is
said to have zone off and hanged him
self.
Another splendid building In the
square is the Maison du Roi. The
house of the king has three stories
and boasts an open gallery. like the
Italian loggias of the Venetian palaces
on the Grand canal. where the Brus-
sells grand DANES could stand to view
the fetes and ceremonies taking place
In the Grand palace below. The man
sion has recently been restored and
lavishly regilded from top to bottom.
The enormously high roof, with its
rows of projecting windows, topped by
a quaint lantern. now is seen in all Its
pristine glory.
Close by the Maison du Roi is the
building known as the Pigeon, the de
lightfully quaint guildhall of the paint
ers, which is decorated, not with
birds, but with four reliefs of lior
heads. Beyond is La Taupe, the guild
hall of the t~ailors, but none of the
guildhalls are older than the end o.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

London doctor who was consulted ad-
mitted that he was guilty of dropping
his his" at times. There are various
possible auses of such carelessness. '
he said. "The dropping of his by
educated people may be due to:
Nervous strain which makes the ef-
fort too great.
Need of a holiday
bad mentality, due 10 bad nutrition
"A foolish habit, INDUCED in by many
people, OF initiating, for fun, those who
regularly drop the aspirate,
bad nutrition may also lead to the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Corn Salad.

One dozen a of green corn, two
large cucumbers. one large green pep
per, half teaspoonful salt, half tea
spoonful -four, small head cabbage,
one large red pepper, three pints vine
gar, half %teaspoonful mustard, one tea
spoonful tumeric.
Shave corn from cobs, cut cabbage,
cucumbers and peppers rather coarse
and simmer all together until tender.
Serve on lettuce leaves, cold.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Walnut Cream Cake.

For the layers use any regulation
cake recipe. The following is very
good and easily made by beginners:
One cupful sugar, one-half cupful
butter, three eggs whites and yolks
separately beaten), one and one-half
cupfuls -four, n and one-half tea
spoonfuls baking powder, one-half cup
full milk, vanilla fiavoring. Bake In
three layers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

frequently dropped my his Is there
any medical explanation of this?"
A Chelsea correspondent, who is a
schoolmaster. makes this confession
and asks the above question in a letter
to the Mirror. Il am continually say
ing is for his, ear for hear, 'ow for
how. and so on" he continues. 81 can
feel sometimes that I am going to drop
an h. but even this mental warning
does not help me-"
Inquiries made by the Mirror show
that a temporary condition of "h"-less-
ness is by no means uncommon, and a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

w.
"feathering" an explosive into the
crack.
A new design of safe has all these
old projections, and an added one to
take care of n nitroglycerin the
burglar finally works into the crack.
1t has triple walls, with an air space
between, and each wall has a separate
door. The two outer will have many
small holes drilled through them. The
doors do not fit so tightly on the in.
side of the jamb as on the exposed
side. Therefore, If any nitroglycerln
is worked into the crack it will u
down the air space and u through a
hole; or IL any is exploded in the air
space much of the force Of the explo-
sion will go out of these ~leakholes.-
Saturday Evening Post.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
French LoauaeItx.

There is no nation like the French.
A French milliner will make a hat out
OF a piece of felt and nothing; and a
French official will make a diplomatic
episode out of nothing at all, putting
into Ave minutes of futility all the
Gallo civilization of centuries.--Ar-
mold Bennett in the Century Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

dropping of his. Malnutrition affects
the mental powers, and the mind does
not work as it should. Educated PEG.
pie who find themselves dropping their
his will probably be at their worst
at night, when they are getting tired
London Letter in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
WHY j. BULL DROPS HIS HIS
London Physician Suggests a Variety
Of Reasons for Failing Into
the Habit.

At last the world may know why the
81" is dropped by John Bull in CONVEX
sation. The following article from the
Mirror reflects the latest scientific
views on this time-honored problem.
Here 1t is:
Il am not in the habit OF doing so,
but for the last fortnight or 80 have
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
EIderberry Wine.

One quart ~elderberry juice, two
quarts water, then add one pound
sugar to every pint Of the mixture and
let it work. We made ten gallons two
years ago and 1t was delicious.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

One cupful chopped r~aisins, juice of
one lemon, n cup sugar, one cracker
rolled fine. one egg. Mix thoroughly
and use as filling for tiny turnovera.
Fine for children's lunch boxes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Guinea Pie.

Peel, slice and stew six ounces I'M
til soft. Press through a sieve, add to
them one pint Of milk and four we'll
beaten eggs and sweeten to taste.
Bake in a bottom crust t~hree-fourths
Of an hour in a moderate oven.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
Sure.

Since Miss Plimmer went away to
a finishing school her manner is un-
bearably naughty"
That's her way Of showing the pub
lie that she got her moneys worth"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17

1USSBLS is well called Little
Paris" for the ancient capital
Of Brabant is most decidedly
French. 1t grew up way back
in the eighth century on both
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
40 ADEpO NHR3E-


UST before the breaking of the great war
a brochure calling attention to its dan
y gers to European civilization was on the
~ point of appearing simultaneously in all
y " the capitals.
21 A wealthy peace society, which has the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-24
MAYT0RENA MAY
AGREE To LEAVE
Belief Is Expressed That He
Will Drop His Attack
y Upon Naco.

Naco. Ariz., Dec. 24-Gen. Scott
United States army chief Of staff, and
Gov. Maytorena, commanding the Villa
troops besieging Naco, Son. were ex-
pected to meet today at the interna-
tional boundary, four miles east Of
here. As a result, it is believed Gov.
Maytorena may consent to withdraw
his troops from the vicinity of NacO-
Maytorena and Gen. Scott were to
have conferred on American soil We'd
nesday. Maytorena, however, sent
word that the Sonora law pro-
hibiting him as governor from
crossing the border without au-
thority from the legislature, pre-
vented his coming to Gen. ScOtts tent
His agents suggested he come as mil
itary chief" but he did hot consent
Light firing between the two Next
can factions continued. HilPs forces
have moved a field piece to the east
to meet the fire concentrated on the
Carrancistas there. The American
outpost guard reported that reinforce
ments came to Maytorena's east
trenches.