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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-09
of the wheat and of the -four was to
To Investigate Other Ingredients.

But now that it has been discovered
how practically helpful the tests of
flour can be made 1t has been con-
cluded to carry the campaign of in
vestigation into other kindred fields.
Already comparative tests have been
made Of various kinds Of baking pow
ders and the baking laboratory is soon
to enter upon an exhaustive probe of
the relative merits of all the different
kinds Of yeast.
Most progressive of all, however, Is
the ambition OF these Federal sharps
to do something in behalf of reducing
the cost Of living by discovering some
acceptable substitutes for wheat -four
In bread making. This Is task which
may assume almost any proportions.
Already try-out has been made with
fours made from cereals other than
wheat. and with such substitutes as
bananas, potatoes, beans and chest
nuts. or course II liz not the thought
! that the average housewife would be
willing 10 dispense entirely with wheat
-four but it would be a long step ahead
| IL there could be recommended to her
q number of substitutes which could
be combined with wheat fiour-per-
haps in many instances II would be
necessary to use only a very little OF
the expensive -four.
II Is more than possible too, thai
Uncle Sans adventures in bread
making will ultimately introduce us tc
number of new and very delicious
new varieties Of bread. Already Mis-;
Wessling has produced with doul
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-09

day have its prototype in any modest
home is sponge box or raising clos
ct. The sponge-boX which Miss Wess-
ling has devised for her own baking
operations Is almost as big as an or
binary kitchen cabinet--very much
larger than the average housewife
would have any use for--and II Is
heated by electricity. so accurately
controlled that If the Thermometer on
the front of the box registers too low
or too high a temperature IL is the
simplest thing in the world TO remedy
matters. Furthermore this ideal
sponge-boX is lifted with n number OF
small glass doors instead of two or
three large ones, with the result that
access may be gained to any part OF
the receptacle without allowing much
heat to escape.
But all that this sponge-bo does
for Miss wessljng in her baking oper-
atoms can be done for the average
housewife by a home made SPONGE
box-the recipe for which the Federal
baking expert stands ready to give
to any man or woman who asks for 1t.
Or, to save you the trouble Of writing
to Miss Wessllng perhaps II may be
worth while TO explain that this i'm
provised sponge-box Is fashioned by
boring holes In the top of any ordinary
wooden box; fitting n shelf in the In
terror on which 10 rest the crooks of
bread in the making, and installing
a small oil lamp to provide heat A
piece of tin may be placed above the
lamp as a safeguard against fire and
n regulation thermometer attached al
the top of the box will enable the
baker to keep tab on temperatures
a Time Saver for the Housewife.
While we are on the subject OF
kitchen equipment il is a temptation
to gossip for a minute regarding one
adjunct of Miss Wessllng's worlIroom
which II might be worth while for any
owner of a kitchen to duplicate
Strictly speaking, It has nothing, di.
rectly, to do with baking but it is 6
! time saver and q step-saver.
! This novelty is an upright drair
board or dish and utensil rack. l
consists of a large planned board which
Is mounted against the wall direct,
over the kitchen sink and in THU
board are close rows OF holes int,
which At pegs or sticks. these peg
being az smoothly finished as tn
board itself. pointed AT one end 70
insertion in the drain board an,
rounded al the other 80 as not ~ liza
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kneading the dough. AS a matter of
fact she has given all of these trials
but when 1t comes to important in
Vestigations she proceeds in the time
honored way in making her bread be-
cause she wants to know just what the
results will be in any given case pro-
vided the thing is done in the way the
average housewife would do It,
Miss Wessling's Model Kitchen.
For all that the Federal baking or
acle Is so simple In her Ideas and
methods of bread making it may as
well be confessed that she has In her
model kitchen and bakery at Wash
ington a number of articles of equip
ment not possessed by the average
housewife. However, this is necessi-
tated for the most part by the very
exact character of the experimental
work. 1t is essential in test baking
TO not only secure a specified tempera-
ture and to maintain that tempera-
ture. but also to have means at hand
to assure yourself that the tempera-
ture all the while is just what you
have supposed II is,
And the best part of II f. that Miss
Wessling is going to make it part OF
her work to not only test fours, etc.
but also to describe her bakery uten'
sils for housewives who are interested
ana to translate" into terms OF the
average home the special devices
which have been invented or developed
for this work at the Department OF
Agriculture.
ferhaps the most interesting OF
those innovations which may som,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-09
Carnival Days. the Holiday the Panamans and the Delight
of the American Residents of the Isthmus.

- ATTN America IS always seen at
It's best during tho carnival sea-
son tor no people IN the world
AbsD enjoy this gay fete with such
perfect ebandon -as the Latins OF the
sunny chimes Of the Americas. In
Panama the people are OF naturally
Asncitnble temperament, especially the
woman whose lives are for the most
past secluded, and the carnival sea-
non seems 10 be an outlet for all the
pent up energy of q year. Many Of
4hese women are extremely beautiful.
with their ciear, olive complexions,
DARK eyee. and black. wavy hair. They
display excellent taste in dressing, the
better class having their gowns sent
direct from Paris. Jewelry, too, is a
fad, and tho wealth OF diamonds dis
played at the carnival balls rivals
those worn at the most exclusive func-
tons at Newport
The Carnival is held each year just
before Ash Wedn esday, and for four
days pleasure retgns supreme and
work Of all kinds is forgotten in the
mad riot OF revelry. It is good ma
tured revelry, for the street hrawl Is
unknown. There Is little drinking
but plenty Of dancing and noise. for
toy and noise are synonymous with
tho Latins Of the tropics For months
before the Carnival forms the chief
topic Of conversation. the young men
60 about talking in whispers to each
other Of their costumes, while the
girls and their fond mammas plar
all sorts Of surprises in the way OF
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-09
Floats.

one procession is given over to
floats and many of these are really
beautiful. The model of a battleship
surrounded by men dressed as sailors
was one OF the features of the carnival
last year. These men worked on the
model for several weeks and it was
complete in every respect. The queen
leads this procession riding in q sort
of Egyptian chariot covered with n
silk canopy. A heavy red velvet man
tie with an ermine collar Is always
worn. The crown is studded with bril-
liants and Is most becoming to the
oriental type of its wearer. During
the procession the queen maintains
a diEnihed demeanor as she bows to
her subjects who line the sidewalks.
Her maids Of honor and pages follow
in another chariot. Last year one Of
| these maids was n girl who bore
striking resemblance to Maxine ELI
OFT the noted and beautiful actress.
| The Panama girl, however, was much
younger than the actress and perhaps
a trhe more beautiful. Autom obile
trucks are frequently used and deco
rated in the most lavish fashion
Often the wheels are a mass Of flow
ers while the body Of the truck Is COW
cred with growing palms. Figures If
huge, gaily colored birds with chill
dren seated on their backs peep out
from this jungle Of foliage, Balboa
and Columbus arc sure 20 he repre-
scented, and on one occasion thero was
a young woman dressed 10 represent
Lola Montez. the pretty actress who
visited the Isthmus in the middle of
the nineteenth century, and whose
great beauty created such a furorc
among the men who were on their
way to California in the days Of the
gold rush" that many Of them re-
fused to continue their journey unit
She had left.
The Canal work has brought peo-
pie from all parts Of the West Indies
and the picturesque girl from Martin
ique is always in evidence with hei
yellow silk stockings, her befloweret
gown and her gaily colored bandana
bound about her head like a Turkish
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Of their craft some things
that they have not known, for Miss
Wessling the Federal baking expert
Is not in her unique work, dealing
merely with the superficial phases Of
baking but Is making exhaustive tests
of flours, yeasts, baking powders,
favoring extracts, etc. etc.
Comparative Tests OF Flours.
Indeed, we may as we'll confess
right here that this Is one of the
main purposes of the governmental
baking enterprise. Even before there
entered Uncle Sans head the idea of
lending n helping hand to the house
wives who do home baking he had
been turning over in his mind the
problem of ascertaining for the farm
ers in each section of the country just
which varieties OF wheat are best
adapted to cultivation In the respect
i've districts and of finding out ex-
actly what are the flour-making (and
consequently the bread making
characteristics Of each Of these varie-
ties.
AS the best way to determine such
questions 1t was decided to enter upon
exhaustive tests of -four at the head
quarters of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture In Washing.
ton. AS the experts went into the sub
ject they quickly came 10 realize that
whereas scientific comparative tests o.
-four are all very wen in their way
and necessary. moreover. no definit,
conclusions can be reached unless tn,
tests In the chemical laboratories b.
followed UP by practical try-outs un
sder the conditions of the averag,
bakery. In other words the real tes
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the plaza before It.
Grand Professions,


During the day procession confet-
ii Is thrown about and hundreds OF
pounds or scrpentina (paper ribbons)
are thrown from the houses and en-
twined about the carriages. Often the
streets become SO covered with this
bright colored paper that the horses
have to fairly wade through it. Just
before the evening parade the refuse
is gathered up by the wagon load and
taken out into the country and burned.
All sorts of grotesque figures APP
pear on the street. Some times a huge
duck led by Pierotte will come rum
ming up the street followed by n giant
Teddy bear and clown. over on the
plaza two men dressed as lighting
ROSTERS are engaged in a battle royal.
while hundreds are gathered about
betting on the result for the Panaman
is ready to bet on anything no matter
how trivial. Professional dancers
whirl about the streets escorted by
| imitation bull fighters while court
testers and fairies play hide and seek
about the palm trees in the open
S0uoreS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-09

The greatest crowds gather around
the Cathedral plaza, and there on the
steps of this interesting old church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07

tomorrow at two-thirty. I'm the counsel for
the defense"
well, what of it," says he.
Il want to use you as Exhibit A. says l, Sin
case of an emergency"
@All right" says he. "I'll go along if you say
So" ...
"Good!' says l. And then came the hard
part. "Rowley," l goes on, what size collar do
you wear?"
"But what has that to do with it?' says he.
"Now don't get peeved," says 1; "but you
know the kind our directors are,-hossy, silk
lined old sports, most of EN-; and they re apt
to size up strangers a good deal by their haber
dashery So 1 was wonderin' if l couldn't blow
you to a neat, pleated bosom effect with at
tached cuffs
ooh, | see" says Rowley, glancin' at his gray
flannel workin shirt. Anything else?"
a don't expect you'd want to part with
that face shrubb'ry, or have it handicapped into
a Vandyke, eh?" says I. @You know they amt
wearin' the bushy kind now in supertax cir
cles"
would you insist on my being manicured
too?' says he, chuclllin' easy.
at would help says l. "And this would be
my buy all round"
@That's a generous offer, Son." says he, aand
don't know how long it's been since anyone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07

~.
and won't know whether I'm nitrous sulphde
ferrous oxide of broo settler. Let's take the rest in
other dose
Rowley chuckles and agrees to call it day. didn't
let anything the Office next morning; but by eight
planted at the roltop with my elbows squared,
tryin' to write much of that chemistry dope as
could remember. And it's surprisin, amt it, what
lot of information you can sop up when you do the
sponge act in earnest? | found there was lot of
points, though, that I was foggy so l makes an
early getaway and puts in another long session with
Rowey.
And, take it from me, by Tuesday was we'll loaded.
Also l had my plan of campaign all mapped out; for
you mustn't get the idea packin my bean full of
all this science dope just to it would stand the
strain Not So Claricel I'd woke up to the fact that
l was bein carried along by the Corrugated sort
of misft inner tube slowed in the bottom Of the tool
box, and that it up to to make good.
so the first openin has tackles Mr. Robert on the
about that Rowley proposition?T says l.
ooh, yes says he. Il fear Mr. Briscoe thinks
favorably of it
Then he's fruty in the pan, says l.
ave have been in the habit of accepting his judg-
ment in such Matters says Mr.. Robert.
Maybe says 1; "but here's once when he's handin'
you a stall. And you're mssin out something good
too"
MIR. Robert smiles Skeptlca Really" SAYS he.
"Perhaps you would like to present minority
port?'
4Nothn' less" says l. @Oh it may listen like joke,
but that's just what got in mind
@H-m-m-m!' says Mr. Robert. "You realize that
Briscoe is of the leading mining authorities in the
country, suppose and that pay him large salary
consulting engineer
l mods Il know" says I. 4And the nearest ever
got to seem mine watchin EN- excavate for the
subway. I'm admittin' all that"
Il may add too" goes Mr. Robert, @that he has
way of stating his opinions quite convincingly."
@Yep,' says l, Il should judge that. But if think
he's bkin you this, is it my play to sit behind and
chew my tongue?"
by Jove" says Mr. Robert, his sportin' instincts
comm to the top. @You shall have your chance,
Torchy The directors shall hear your views tomor-
row. at two-thirty You will follow Brscoe.'
Lets not bill it ahead then says l. "if it'll be fair
to spring it on him.
quite says Mr.. Robert "and rather amusing,
l fancy. l will arrange it."
aid like to have old Rowev on the side lines in
case get stuck says l.
wish And if there are any preparations you would
like to make
Il got two" says l. startin for the door, $50
mark me off until about tomorrow noon
RUSY? Well say, kitten with four feet stuck in the
- fypaper didn't have anything streaks it for
Sixth and lands in Rowleys loft all of breath
whats up?" says he.
aThe case of Briscoe ct al u.s. Rowley says l. Its
to be threshed before the full Corrugated board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07

about to dump trunkful of Steel preferred on the
market, instead Of few patents
"Im giving your advice thorough trial, you see,'
says he.
That's the stuff" says l. Its the dolled up gets
the dollars these days. Be and sit where they'll
get good view.
Then went into the directors room and heard
Willis G. Briscoe deliver his knock. He does it snappy
and vigorous and when he's through it didn't listen like
anything more could be said. He humps his eyebrows
humorous when Mr. Robert that perhaps the
board might like to hear another view of the subject
"Torchy, goes Mr.. Robert, you have the floor
For second so, though, l felt like spreadn' out
so wouldn't slip through crack. All of sudden too
my mouth had gone dry and l had panicky notion
that my brain had ossied. Then l got glimpse of
them shrewd blue eyes of Roweys smin' encouragn'
me- the first few of my speech filtered back
through the bone got my tongue movln, and was OFT
Funny how you work out of that way,
amt it? Why, say, the first thing knew ID picked
out old D. K. Rutgers, the worst shace in the bunch,
and THROWN the facts into him like was shoveln
coal into cellar chute Beginnn with Rowley's plan
for condensn commercial acids from the blast fumes,
explainn the chemical process that produced EN-, and
how they could be caught the fly and canned in car
boys for the trade gaoped through the whole propo-
sition, backn up every item with figures and formulas
until l showed EN- how the Stag that now cost EN- SO
much get rid of could be sold for road ballastn and
pressed into buildn blocks at profit of twenty dollars
ton. didn't let anything go just by Stain it bald
took Briscoes objections by shot EN- full of
holes with the cone-backs Rowley had coached on
and then proceeded to cnch the argument until had
old Rutgers noddin' his head
"And these Gentlemen, l winds up with, @are what
Mr. Briscoe calls the vague, half baked ideas of
practical inventor He's expert, Mr.. Brlscoe is!
I'm not. | wouldn't know supersaturated solution
of methyl-cacites from stein of Hoboken beer; but
I'm wiln' to believe there's big money in handling
either, providing you don't spill too much the in
side Mr.. Rowley claims you're throwing away millions
year. He says he save it for you. He wants to
show you how you jugge you save every
thing but the smell He's here the spot, and if you
to quiz him about details go deep you like.
Did they? Say, that seance didn't break up until
sx-fteen and before the board adjourns Rowley had
whackn big option check in his fist, and resolution
had gone through to install an experiment plant
soon it could be put up An hour before that Willis
G. Briscoe had done the silent sneak wearn his mouth
droopy.
MR. ROBERT meets outside with the fraternal
~ grip and says he's proud of
Thanks, Mr.. Robert, says l. ut case of
framn' up job for myself else four-fushn along
until YOU tied the can to me. And | need the Corfu
gated just now"
4No more, I'm beginning to suspect says he, than
the Corrugated needs YOU
Which some happy josh for amateur private
sec to get from the boss! Eth?
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"That's generous offer, Son" says he, "and
l don't know how long it's been since anyone
has taken much personal interest in Old Hen
Rowley. Seems nice too 1 suppose | am rather a
shabby old duer to be visiting the Offices of great and
good corporations. Yes, I'll spruce up bit; and if I
find it costs more than afford-now let's how
my cash stands"
With that he digs into hip pocket and unllmbers
roll of ntnted kae the size of your wrist Maybe
they want all hundreds clear the core, but that's
what on the outside.
"Whiffo!" says l. Excuse me for classin' you so
the bread line but by your campin in loft, and
the longshoreman's SHIRT, and so on
Every natural, Son, he breaks in. "And see your
point all the clearer. I've no business going about
The whiskers shall be trimmed But your people up at
the Corrugated have evidently made up their minds to
turn down.
4Maybe, says l. 4but if they do, it won't be on any
snap decision of Briscoes And unless l get tongue
tied at the last minute we're goin' to have for
our money"
THAT what worried me most,-could | come
across with the standn' spiel? But, believe me- |
want trustin to ohand stuff! I'd got to know in
advance what l meant to feed EN-, line for line and
word for word. By o'clock that night l had it all
down on paper too-and perhaps l didn't chew the
penholder and leak some from the brow while was
dom it!
Then the rehearsin. Say, you should have seen
risn' dignifed behind the washstand in my room
Str1k1n Bill Bryan pose, and Sll1n calm at the bed
posts as launched out my speech. Not that
tryin to chuck any flowers of oratory. What
l aimed to do to tell EN- about Rowey's schemes
simple and straight away | could, usn' one
syllable words for the most part, cannin' the slang,
and soundin' many final Gs my tongue
would let me. Before l turned in too l had it
almost pat; but l hardly dared go to sleep for
fear it would get away from me.
Say, but it amt any cinch, this breakin into
public life, is it? The obscure guy with the
dinner pail and the caloused palms thinks he has
hard lines; but when the whistle blows he can
wipe his trowel on his overals and forget it all
until next day. But here losses around restless in
the feathers and up again at daybreak, gon'
my piece again, trembly in the knees with
a vivid mental picture of how cheap I'd feel if
should go to pieces when the time came.
A good breakfast popped me up lot, though,
and by noon had them few remarks of mine SO
could say 'em backwards or forwards. How they
was goin to sound outside of my
another matter. 1 had my doubts along that line;
but l was goin' to give EN- the best l had in
stock.
TT was most time for the session to begin when
Vincent boy trots in with card announcn'
Mr.. Henry Clay Rowley. And, say, when this
srnooth-faced party in the sporty Scotch tweed
suit and the model pearl gray lid shows up,
l has to gasp! He's had himself tailored and
barbered until he looks like English investor
huntin six per cent. dividends for
Bank of England surplus.
"Zowie" says l. "Some speed to you, Mr..
Rowley. And class? Say, you look like you was
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-07-31
Daddy 'sBedtirne
How the
: Doggies Found
Their Bark.
Story

"%K\ELL a different tonight daddy" begged Jack.
How dhent?" daddy the children settled
~ for the evening story.
"Oh that will be real funnyg replied Jack
II might their said daddy
"Oh children.
Daddy Remember this
ingbrds, and they playful
zone day chasing them and
while the them hard and the dogs
fully lodging them great drops of rain began to fall
And then and the lightning flashed and the
time
great big boatk thing
do land.
kept running
the swiftly
they arrived
closed right in the Of the
n high hill to from being drowned
The big boat floating hoed
which
like
poor
dove brought them from the inside of the great boat
awhile the stopped and the big boat settled the
high mountain and then the little doSes crwed of the roof
animals They didn't the
had chased them picked them and fed them with milk
things tried whistle their thanks They tried and
could say"
Dowwowr" Evelyn laughing mely
daddys