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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

(These articles are based on ques-
tons asked by mothers who have
turned to the Woman's Home Compan-
ion or assistance in the difficult and
delicate task Of rearing their babies.
Each question presented and answer
ed here was asked not by one but by
many mothers. They represent the
general questions and problems OF the
average mother. Mrs. Richardson Is
entirely willing to answer personally
any further questions that readers
may wish to send herr
How should prepare barley
water to be used in modifying milk?
Wash and soak one heaping table
spoon Of barley grains In enough wat
er to allow for swelling. Let it stand
over night In the morning, add one
pint of water and pinch of salt.
Simmer very slowly for three or four
hours, adding water from time to
time, SO that the amount is never less
than one pint Cook over very slow
fire. Strain through muslin. Make
this fresh daily.
2-How do / make thick Cruel for a
baby thirteen months old?
The secret OF, digestible Cruel lies in
tho carefulness and slowness with
which il is prepared. 1t can be made
from prepared f1ours if desired, but it
is considered more nourishing if made
from the unground grains, rice, wheat,
oatmeal, etc. Soak two tablespoons
Of grain which have been washed. over
night Cook four hours over very
sow fire, in one pint Of water, until
thick and creamy. II you use a
double boiler. make sure that there is
plenty of water in the lower vessel,
and keep it at boiling point. Strain
through a fine sieve or cheesecloth,
and serve with top milk, at once.
Half-cooked or half.cold Cruel is I'M
palatable and indigestible.
3-How soon can I feed eggs to my
baby who is perfectly healthy?
At fifteen months. Coddled eggs
are most easily digested. Do not re-
move the shell, but lay the egg in
boiling water; then Immediately set
the stewpan, covered, on the back of
five minutes. The white of the egg
should be like milky jelly, the yolk
soft.
Can I give my sixteen-month-old
baby fresh fruit in summer?
Yes, If he is not subject to attacks
of diarrhoea, and the fruit is neither
green nor overripe, but fresh. He
may have strained orange and pine
apple juice, prune pulp (Which is
prunes cooked with little sugar I'M
til very soft and then pressed through
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

The way in which reckless auto
drivers are permitted to go up and
down Mulholland street is just cause
for strong protest from our people,
and a serious accident will result
some of these fine evenings and 1t is
going to come sure if the practice is
not stopped.
When Mr.. Roy Of Hannibal Mo,
spoke here about two years ago, be-
fore our Commercial club, he said:
Get up something to attract people
to YOUR beautiful but dead town." He
said chautauGua would be one OF the
best things to arrange for Nauvoo.
If you attract people here they Will
know that you mean things and are
trying to do something for your town
and help to increase business The
blow killed the Commercial club, but
Mr.. Roy spoke the truth.
The Hamilton chautauQua begins
next Friday and continues nine days.
Nauvoo will be we'll represented.
Nearly every week families come
to Nauvoo and have a picnic dinner
in our little park.
Thus far there has not been a
single heat prostration recorded In
Nauvoo this season.
The summer is waning and not yet
has one excursion been given out Of
Nauvoo. What's the matter with cur
people?
We have written several sermons
on the need of park for Nauvoo and
it seems to do no good and now we
advise the residents to plant shade
trees and make park Of the city.
There will be plenty OF work in
Nauvoo in week or two cutting
grapes and everybody who wants
work can get it.
Next month will be the first In the
oyster season.
There would be no such thing as be-
ing poor in Nauvoo If 1t took a man
as long to spend his money as it does
to make it.
Nearly everybody in Nauvoo and
our two rural routes reads The keo-
kuk Daily Gate City, subscribers or
not
1t generally makes the fatherless
husband feel little measly to have
his wife dangle someone else's baby
before his eyes in the streets. But
they will do it. for you can see it
done right here in Nauvoo.
Several parties with plenty Of CAPT.
tai told your reporter that If any of
the proposed interurban lines would
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, August 6, 1914

be built through Nauvoo, they would
build an elevator and stockyards
forthwith. Bring on your road.
Nauvoo has some fellows who are
well-to-do, and they are so blamed
stingy that they would refuse to keep
Jesus over night unless he could pay
for it in gold. They won't subscribe
for any daily newspaper or contribute
cent for any public enterprise, but
sit by and profit over the generosity
Of the more liberal-minded. They
know all the general news by borrow
ing their neighbours newspaper.
Frank Spinanger of the Popel &
Giller Brewing company, was a Nan-
VOC visitor last Wednesday. Frank
is one Of the best collectors and su-
perintendents the Popel & Giller peo-
pie ever had, and also a Warsaw
booster. He works for his Warsaw
firm and every firm wherein his COM
pany's goods are sold.
The Nauvoo ball team has disband-
ed They found it losing venture.
We had the pleasure Of meeting Mr..
John NJ Lindsay, southern manag ger
Of the Illinois Life Insurance Co.
The Moore's early grapes will begin
to move this week.
Many of our people wonder what
has become Of that rumored extra sa-
loon that was to have started in Maui
VOC.
Mr. James Thompson, the superin-
tendent, who has charge Of erecting
the standpipe, has nearly completed
the job for our people. He and his
workmen have made a splendid job
faction our people desire. Mr.. Thomp-
son and his three workmen, Messrs.
Harold La Plant, r. E. Barber, C. H.
Matlock are gentlemen our people
were pleased to meet and we hate to
see them go elsewhere. Jack and his
three followers who erected the stand
pipe were perfect gentlemen white
here and did a fine job for the COM
pany they represent and should be a
recommendation for them wherever
they go. Here's Nauvoo's hand, boys,
wherever you go.
Nauvoo will have fine band con-
cert Saturday night. Nauvoo's fine
band will do the playing.
The grape crop in Nauvoo will
move this week. The first shipment
will be made Friday or Saturday.
Mrs. VIM. iIertei's father died in
Dunlap, Iowa the forepart of the
week and the lady is absent from
Nauvoo to attend the funeral.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
"Senator Hicks" In Action.

Anamosa Eureka: If readers OF
James c. Blythe's story. THE Fakirs"
want to read one Of Senator Hicks"
bcnbastic speeches as it appears
when delivered in real life they should
scan the convention address Of Mr..
Connolly delivered at Council Bluffs
The ranting Of that individual against
vested interests" and his thirty-sec-
ond reference to the .down-trcdden
people" is sure to coniure up WIS.,
ion of the character that Blythe has
attempted to reflect In his story. /,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Edward McCarty, driver of an auto
truck between Murray and Wallace,
Idaho, is authority for the statement
that beer is just as good as water for
some purposes. While making the
trip over the mountain road recently
the supply of water in the autos
tank was exhausted. McCarty aid
few bottles Of beer on board and the
juice Of the hop was used to cool the
engine for the remainder of the
journey
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Figures on the building improve
ments in Iowa during 1913 as shown
by the assessors reports indicate an
increase of more than 40 per cent In
the amount of building in 1913 in
Iowa as compared to a corresponding
period In 1912. In 1912 the new
buildings reported were valued at
S16,2S3,S27. In 1913 the value Of the
buildings was s24,600,0o0. The gain
reported in moneys and credits in the
past year is s42,9s4,312. increasing
the total value Of the moneys and
credits for taxation this year to $780,
21S,17S. There is also a gain in the
value of farm animals and personal
property. Hogs show big decrease
by reason of the loss from hog chol-
era. There was an increase OF 120,
900 head of cattle for feeding and
there was also an increase in the
of farm animals.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
DENV FER, ILL.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Clark, daughters
Blanche and Gertrude, Sundayed in
Ferris at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Alton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Klippert de-
parted for ST. Louis where they will
visit with relatives for two weeks.
Mr.. Wilson of Carthage has charge OF
the bank during Mr.. Klippert's ap-
sence and Miss Stella Lewis Of War
saw has charge of the home.
Mr.. J. S. Motif, editor Of the Bent
ley Booster was pleasant caller in
our village one evening recently.
Miss Hattie Black of Timewell who
has been in this vicinity for several
months was called home on account
of the accident Of her sister-in-law
Mrs. VIM. Black who fell distance
of fourteen feet and sustained serious
injuries.
Mr.. VIM. Polling who has been hav-
ing tussle with sciatic rheumatism
is reported somewhat improved
Mrs. D. Vance and family now ride
in a new Overland car.
DR.. H. Seigfried has completed his
deep we'll at a depth of one hundred
and seven feet, with plenty of water.
Dr.. and Mrs. L. Frazee. daugh-
tiers Dorothy and Elizabeth, and Miss
Ruth Fleming autoed to Elmwood
near Peoria where they will visit rela.
tives for several days.
Don't forget the Menely chautauqua
which will open in our little city
August rs. The opening company will
be the famous Meneley male quar-
tette with their organ chimes and
marimbaphone, also a reader and i'm
personator. The second day will be
covered by DR.. w. H. Bickers and the
Sundel and Bickers entertainers.
There will be two addresses and two
prelude entertainments. Come out
and hear them
Mrs. Belle Wade is making two
weeks visit with her sister Mrs. q.
Walton of Carthage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Burner, John
Clark and daughter Ollie autoed to
Missouri recently, combining business
with pleasure and on their return did
not report crops conditions at all fav-
orable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

The lumber cut In the states OF
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana each year, if used for the pur-
pose. would be sufficient to build a
sidewalk seven feet wide from the
earth to the moon, or walk six feet
wide with a handrail the same dis
lance. Cut into two-inch planks it
would pave a 30-foot roadway entirely
around the earth at the equator.
These statistics are some OF the start
ling declarations made in booklet
now being distributed by forest Off
cials In the territory east of Spokane.
The booklet declares that the actual
amount of board feet of lumber cut
annually in the four states is S,000,-
100000, which if shipped at the same
time would require train of 100000
cars-a train 3,7SS miles long. The
Information is also given that the
manufacture of forest products en-
ploys an army of 10000 men in the
four states, which the booklet de-
clares is more than half their indus
trial population. The money paid in
salries to these men If in silver dol
lars stacked one upon the other,
would make a column 125 miles high.
or If in dollar bills would make row
15,36S miles long.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
What Every Mother Wants
to Know About Her Baby
NO. SUMNER COOKING FOR BABIES AND DELL
'#., CATE CHILDREN.
BY ANNA sTEEsE RICHARDSON
..ter Babies Bureau Of the Woman's Ho

sieve), ripe apple, pear or peach,
finely scraped with spoon. He must
not have berries with seeds. SteWed
fruits may be given when fresh fruits
cause mild diarrhoea.
child eat In summer
Potatoes mashed, boiled or baker,
peas, beans, asparagus tips, carrots
and beets, mashed with a fork or
forced through vegetable press.
Never give a baby onions, caulihower,
turnips, corn or tomatoes.
Glow soon can / feed my baby
ice cream? My whole family is fond
OF 1t.
No child should have ice cream un-
til two years old. Then make sure OF
the quality. Ice cream made in dirty
freezers or from impure milk is dam
gerous. If you have family OF lit
tie people, make your own ice cream.
Scald a pint of milk In a double
boiler. Thicker with one tablespoon
of corn starch, rubbed smooth in cold
milk. Add one egg, beaten light with
cup of sugar. When it Is creamy,
set aside to cool. Whip pint OF
cream, beat this into the custard.
flavor and freeze.
When may baby begin eating
meat and how should it be cooked?
Meat should not be given any child
until he has teeth to chew It, usually
at IS months. Beef, broiled, roasted
or chopped fine as for Salisbury steak
is the most nourishing. He may also
have boiled, roasted or broiled chick
en-, never fried; roast lamb or chops.
boiled fish. A tablespoon of fle
meat or fish, finely scraped, Is mashed
into the potatoes for the noon meal.
If II agrees with the baby, and is
easily digested, increase the amount
gradually, but continue to scrape or
shred It,
S-What is junket?
Junket Is a predigested custard,
frequently prescribed for teethins
babies from fourteen months on, also
for delicate children. 1t is prepared
with essence of pepsin or junket
tablet which can be bought at any
good grocery. Pour one cup of sweet
milk into a clean enameled stewpan
Dissolve a junket tablet in one table,
spoon of cold water. Turn this light
ly into the warm milk, stir just enough
to mix 1t, add very little sugar ard
tiavoring, turn into cups or small
bowls to cool. When cool it looks like
milk jelly. When the baby is ex-
hausted by heat and teething, add a
thoroughly beaten egg along with the
sugar and fiavoring. This dish is said
to be even more easily digested than
plain or modified milk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
TO SAVE EYES
Is the Object Of This Free Prescrip-
tion-Try l. II Your Eyes
Give You Trouble.

Thousands of people suffer from
eye troubles because they do not
know what to do. They know some
good home remedy for every other
minor ailment, but none for their eye
troubles. They neglect their eyes.
because the trouble is not sufficient
to drive them to an eye specialist,
who would, anyway, charge them a
heavy fee. AS last resort they 60
to an optician or to the five and ten
cent store, and oftentimes get glasses
that they do not need, or which, after
being used two or three months. do
their eyes more injury than good.
Here is a simple prescription that
every one should use:
grains DIPLOMA Il tablet.
2 ounces Water.
Use three or four times a day to
battle the eyes. This prescription and
the simple Diploma system keeps the
eyes clean, sharpens the vision and
quickly overcomes Inflammation and
irritation; weak, watery, overworked,
tired eyes and other similar troubles
are greatly benefited and oftentimes
cured by it's use. Many reports show
that wearers of glasses hav> discard
ed them after a few weeks use. 1t
Is good for the eyes and contains no
ingredient which would iEjure the
most sensitive eyes of an infant or
the aged. Wilkinson G Co., or any
druggist can fill this prescription
promptly. Try it and know for once
what real eye comfort 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
Samples Free by Mail

A generation Of mothers has found no soap
SO well suited for cleansing and purifying the
skin and hair OF infants and children as
Cuticura Soap. Its absolute purity and re-
freshing fragrance alone are enough to rec
ommend It above ordinary skin soaps. but
there are added to these qualities delicate
yet effective emollient properties derived
from Cutcrra Ointment. which render it
most valuable in overcoming tendency to
distressing eruphons and promoting skin
and hair health. Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment sold everywhere. Liberal sample OF
each mailed free, with 32-p. book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept, Il. Boston.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
THE LoNe-DELAYED DECISION.

With all due appreciation Of the
thorough piece of work that has doubt
less been done by the interstate COM
merce commission in connection with
the railroad rates cases, the public
hopes that this body will never again
take time for such an exhaustive In
auiry when the business world is
waiting anxiously for its decision.
The country did not expect COM
plete treatise on American railroading
methods when the commission took
up this subject fourteen months ago.
The public, like the railroads, wanted
to know as quickly as possible wheth-
er the eastern lines might raise their
rates to meet increased expenses. The
matter directly concerned our biggest
industry, with a capitalization of $780,
900, 600, 900, one-ffth of the total
wealth of the country. The welfare
of many other industries hinged on
the outsome. Rightly or wrongly,
business as a whole developed a ten.
dency to mark time while the commits.
sion postponed its decision again and
again. Extreme conscientiousness in
public service is a rare and perhaps
a pardonable offense, but in this case
it has worked grave harm.
The commission presumably has
known for many months what the
general nature Of its decision would
be, even though supreme court decis-
ions entailed notifications. A rough
forecast would have been welcomed
by the country, and would have given
the railroads a sort of working basis
for ordering supplies and planning ex-
tensions and improvements; the de-
tails could have been supplied later.
But the guarding Of the commissions
intention with ell the sanctity of a
supreme court decision until every
detail was complete and every aspect
of railroading with a bearing on
rates had been handled fully has kept
business In state Of mind worse
than would have been caused by the
sure knowledge of refusal.
The interstate commerce commits
sion is no longer an experiment, hut
the general principle Of government
by federal commissions is still on
trial In such vital matters the use
fulness of so powerful an administra-
tive body will always be gagged by
prompt action as much as by wise
judgment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
LIFE'S GIFTS.

LIFE's GIFTS.
Two children, playing on the sunny
sand,
Chasing the waves that curled along
the beach.
Wild as the dancing foam-and close
The mother, with watchful eye on
each.
Some whisps of gray were struggling
through her hair,
With fine faint lines her weary face
was crossed,
AS she had given the children playing
there
The years of life that she herself
had lost.
"A care-free. maiden with a pleasant
smile,
Past girl, near woman, CHANGED to
come that way,
And stood in easy ecstasy awhile, q
81 Charmed at the sight, to watch the
children play;
backward anu forward udncluS, III
too bold,
A vagrant breaker splashed one to
the knee,
And when a childish voice began to
scold.
The maid and mother laughed in
sympathy.
TIL from the younger woman's lips
there rose
A sudden cry with deeper feeling
rife,
rob, to be mother Of such BARNS as
those,
I'd gladly give ten years Of my
young life!"
The mother called them gently to her
side,
Her sad face lighted with Joy d.
vine;
For these you'd give ten years of
life," she said,
why, dearie, have given ten years
of mine"
Harry Bowling, in Los Angeles
Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

81 used every remedy that could find
but nothing seemed to do any good. Finally
I sent for sample of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and then got cake Of Cuticura
Soap and box Of Cuticura Ointment which
completely rid mo of the trouble. (Signed)
Ray Bryant, Mar. IA. 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

The idler, the lounger, the loafer-
who respects him? He isn't decent
company even for himself. The world
has no use for him. He is marketable
only to the devil, and the evil one
makes him work long hours and over
time. M. Studebaker.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

peared as tiny clear blisters
and in places the blisters were
30 close together that they
almost formed one large
blister. The slfn was rough
and cracked open. At times
1t was SO bad that 1t disabled
me: my hands became so sore
that l could scarcely use
them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
FUNERAL RECORD
eA~e~~~~~~ 80
William n, Hun.

The funeral Of William H. Hun,
whose death was announced in The
Gate City yesterday, which occurred
at the family home 1904 Oak street,
was held at 10 o'clock this morning
and burial took place at the F'razee
cemetery, near Wayland, Mo-, the for.
mer residence Of the family, and was
attended by many friends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

American insurance companies
hold policies in Canada aggregating
1858. 100000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
How the Trouble starts.

Constipation is the cause of many
ailments and disorders that make life
miserable. Take Chamberlain's Tab
lets, keep your bowels regular and
you will avoid these diseases. For
sale by all dealers.-Advertisem
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Ecuador last year bought s22,795
worth of paper from the United
States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Argentine's 1913 imports were
valued at s4O6,605,203.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Spain last year imported 2,700,00(
tons of coal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

France last year imported 934.679
tons Of natural phosphates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Belfast last year sold 1902 tons OF
thread to the United States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
SKIN TROUBLE
ON HANDS AND FEET
Similar to Ringworm. Tiny Clear
BIisters. Skin Rough and Cracked
Open. Could Scarcely Use Hands.
Used Cuticura Soap and 0int-
ment. Completely Rid Of Trouble.

Cassville. Monty hands and feet
were affected with a trouble similar to ring
worm for . number OF years. It first APP
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

The Bulgarian government is bor-
rowing s96,sOo,oOO from Austrian and
German banks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

California's 1914 prune production
is estimated at 100, 100000 pounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

The United States in 1913 sold to
Ecuador 100000 pounds OF dyna-
mite.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Bavaria's iron mines and smelters
give employment to 1917 persons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

British Columbia last year derived
s31,L-5 from fisheries taxation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Germany has 262,469 acres in vine,
yards.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Russians have s13,591 $50 invested
IN agricultural implement manufac-
turing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Read The Daily Gate City. 10
cents per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06

Bavarian wine production lest year
was 9,177,44S gallons. Value, 80 cents
a gallon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

PHYSICIAN.
DR.. w. P. SHERLOCK.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
once, IS North Fifth street. In us
Howell building
ONCE Hours-10 to IL q. m,
8 o. M; evenings. to 8; SUNDAYS
II to 1 o. m. United States ciVii SOL
vice examiner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-06
Before Going Away

Don't forget to have
The Gate City follow
you by mail. To be
happy and contented
you must have the
home news. Mail post
card or phone IS.