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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
"SHORT ACCOUNTS MAKE LONG FRIENDS"

1.-TWO women were chatting in my sit
ting room the other day about the
usual topic-housekeeping in one of
its branches
" / have constant trouble in induc-
ing my milkman to send his bill in to me
the first of every week." complained one of
the speakers.
Do as. do, and get it once month";"
suggested the other.
/ don't like that, and yet 1 may be
forced into it." rejoined number one.
Sometimes it strikes me the tradespeople
do their best to make 1t hard for me to pay
every week. I should think they would
like to have their money come in regularly
and promptly, but l am always fighting
with them to get their bills esrly in the
week..
Her remark stirred sympathetic chord
in my own breast l. too, have difficulty in
persuading my butcher and baker and gro-
Ger and milk dealer to give me their bills
once a week on a fixed day. My desire is
to have the bills in my hands on Monday
afternoon, at the latest and to pay them
off and send out the checks on Tuesday
morning. If they had as much trouble get
ting the money from me as l have in pro-
curing their accounts from them / would
stand but poorly on their books.
This dilatoriness is not due to careless
ness in the majority of cases. 1t is to the
interest of our purveyors to run monthly
rather than weekly accounts, and they fully
appreciate this fact. Without perhaps put
ting into so many words the possibility of
errors-almost invariably to their benefit
being overlooked, with no desire to be dis
honest or in any way to cheat a customer.
they yet know that granted the assurance
that the bill will be paid ultimately, they
are wise in persuading the buyer to charge
rather than to pay cash.
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methods of performing that feat known
as beating the devil around the stump"
l learned one of these from a housekeeper
who confided to me the only way in which
she could make her marketing allowance
hold out was by borrowing from the COM
ing week She went on to explain she did
not pay her bills after Friday. Up to that
day she had been scrupulous in settling
for everything in cash. But her Saturdays
purchases. sometimes those she made on
Friday, she told her marketmen to make
a memorandum of and she paid it the first
of the next week.
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return it as soon as the little girl has the
cast removed Mrs. OBJ"
The applications for wheel chairs have
been so numerous of late l felt we had
reached point where halt must be called
for while, but cannot resist this appeal.
The thought of child being hampered in
the free use of her limbs Is bad enough at
the best; when we think of little girl of
held a prisoner in plaster cast for year
and half passion of pity fills our hearts
and we feel that nothing too much can be
done to alleviate her sufferings. ] hope
fervently this appeal may come to the at
tention of some one who can put the mother
in the way of an opportunity to give the
little invalid the fresh air she needs to keep
her in even tolerable health during the pc
riod of her bondage.
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Requests for Sill Pieces.
would like some silk pieces for myself.
/ am a cripple and now that the winter Is
here I shall not be able to go out at all
and the patches would help to pass the time.
MRS. NJ. b.
write to ask for silk pieces for an old
shut-in who is an invalid. She is dear.
lovable soul and she wishes pieces to make
different articles As winter is upon us. :.
send the following. which believe will be
a boon to those who wish to save coal: Put
together one pound of common salt, two
ounces of oxalic acid, and one gallon water.
Moisten with this mixture of three parts
ashes and one part coal. This is claimed
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Needs a Truss.

saw recently In your Corner an OFFER
of truss. need one badly-a single
one. had an operation for tumor some
time ago and last winter 1 slipped on the
ice and had rupture. 1t keeps me from
work and sometimes | suffer great deal.
The doctor told me l ought to have another
operation but | know that often a truss
helps and you can get along without an op-
Grafton. MRS r, H.
Can some one supply the need Of this
correspondent?
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Little Girl Wants Books.

Do you suppose there Is any }<snd per-
son who has one or two good books to give
to little girl of II years old? She is
fond of reading. / would gladly pay the
mail charges for sending them TO her.
&C. Nick"
There must surely be some such a. kind
person who would be delighted to make
the little girl happy by the gift of one or
two good books. They need not be new
or handsome.
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makes you acquainted with all sorts OF
expedients and 1 did not feel disposed to
lind fault with my young friend. As
she said. what was she to do? Her al
lowance was limited, she had no way of
increasing 1t. and yet here were the pur-
chases which must be made and she took
the only way she knew of managing. If
she had been man engaged in big finan-
cial transactions she would have been
called clever at finding a way out of diff
culties and not impairing~ her credit and
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the fact that there was no possibility of
her making big speculation which would
replace in her pocket the sums she had
anticipated had nothing to do with the
Righteousness or wisdom of her course.
4; !;
An Economy Stem.
Marketing for yourself and paying cash
for what you get teach the tricks of
the trade and the modes of balancing your
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Thousand Island Dressing.

notice a request for recipe for Thou
sand Island salad dressing which | can
give you, as well as an idea for a French
dressing which was given me by a good
colored cook. l am glad to be able to
reply to one plea, for | have derived so
much benefit from this department 1 feel
1t is about time for me to give as well as
to take and not be sponge any longer,
absorbing all and yielding nothing. Here
are the recipes:
THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING:
Make heavy, creamy mayonnaise. Put
a half cup of chilli sauce into bowl and
chop it with a knife so that there will be
no large pieces OF tomato in it, and then
mix this with the mayonnaise. 1t is said
that this sauce cannot be told from the
Thousand Island dressing made at the
most expensive hotels. Chefs differ some
what with regard to the dressing served by
this name. Another called by the same
title is undoubtedly a Hollandaise sauce
made by adding butter bit by bit to the
egg instead of oil, putting in chill sauce
and perhaps some other additions
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TO be most useful as a substitute for coal
and so l pass it on, although l have not yet
tried II myself. l.. L."
l have put these two requests for silk
pieces together and I trust both may be
answered soon. AS to the coal substitute,
1t strikes me it is worth trying. None of
the ingredients is especially expensive, and
i hope some one will make the compound
and test it and then report to the Corner
If it is useful we would all be glad to know
of it. In this day of increase of expenses
and slow growth in incomes any aid to
economy is eagerly welcomed.
i: n
Easily Made Candies.
II am sending you the recipe for some
easy candies we make at Christmas at
home and which may interest others. Stir
together six cups of white sugar. one cup
of white corn sirup. and one cup of hot
water. Mix we'll and put on the stove to
boil While these ingredients are cook
stiff, cut cup of shelled nuts and one of
pineapple, fine, putting the nuts in one bowl
and the pineapple in another. In third
put a half cup of cocoa. When the sugar
and sirup and water have boiled until
little of it is brittle when dropped in cold
water pour 1t on the beaten whites and
beat until quite thick. Pour equal portions
Of this into each bowl. beat each hard.
and turn into buttered pans. If you like
you may form it into small molds-balls
or cones-and dip in melted chocolate. or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

my own kitchen, and l have no doubt many
other housekeepers will make the same re-
solve Anything which is both good and
cheap must make a special appeal to all
of us at present and particularly food
which enables us to dispense with eggs.
Thank you for sending the directions.
4: Il
Directions for Candy Cones.
/ wonder if any OF your readers could
give me the directions for making the
candy cones which delight little Children
at Christmas. / should like much to know
how to make them. believe they are moth
ing more than peppermint candy, cone
shaped. VIII some one please help me out?
"A. M. c."
am not sure just what is meant by the
candy cones of which you speak, but have
no doubt some of the mothers of small chill
dren are better versed in such things I
shall be happy to receive and print recipe
for the cones.
Needed for Girls Home.
1 am wondering If request for some
articles much needed by this home would
be out of place in the Helping Hand Cor
ner. We have had pretty hard struggle
and are trying to get settled down ~
help girls out of work and home. The fol-
lowing articles are ones most needed: A
small cook stove and gas plate or range
and cooking utensils for the girls Kitchen,
a wardrobe for bedroom, a heating stove,
bedding and carpets, even strips of car
pet. If any have such things that are
not in use we can put them to use here
Any one is welcome who cares to visit the
home, and IL they have contributions and
will send us a card we will gladly call for
them MRS. E. M. L.
This plea should appeal especially to the
people who feel, as l do. that it is far better
to assist deserving girls in keeping straight
when they are out of work and in need
than to labor to get them out of the gutter
into which penury and our lack of aid have
driven them. l am sure there will come
prompt and generous response to this ap-
peal. Even if one has not the articles
specified to give away visit to the home
would no doubt disclose other needs which
might be filled. The aim Of the managers
is to help girls who are unemployed and
provide a Christian home for those receiv-
ing small wages A worthy object and one
we must all be glad to further.
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Prisoner in a Plaster Cast.
have little girl years old just re-
turned from the hospital, where she lay
ior weeks with q weight on her leg. Now
sne has her leg in plaster cast and is at
nome with me. The cast is so high she
does not feel comfortable except in bed.
put the doctor allows her to go about
little. II she does not get air she will not
improve. and she must wear the cast for
eighteen months. If had a wheel chair
l could manage to get her out sometimes
I am widow With three other children and
cannot afford even to rent wheel chair.
but l am writing in hope some one may be
willing to lend me such a chair for eight
cen months. will take good care Of It and
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no doubt that charge account simplifes
buying immensely"
The question is if 1t simpifies paying the
bills at the end of the month. With the
dry goods shops and department stores
there is little choice. You must either pay
cash or have your monthly bill, but with
your domestic merchants 1t is another
matter. In spite of their efforts to COM
mend monthly accounts to their customers
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for while after have been spending a
good deal of money, and one of the most
agreeable features of it is keeping 1t from
the knowledge of the persons in the family
who are taking part in the economy" she
told me. For instance, once every two or
three weeks we have what we call an oyster
stew supper. make a big tureen of stewed
oysters-a quart of oysters and about the
same quantity of milk-and with that we
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self. so to speak. l don't like the way ]
have to manage. but what can I do? |
have all the allowance for housekeeping
that my husband feels he can afford and
it's just got to lastl If it gives out one
week l have to borrow from what is COM
ing to me for the next week. Sometimes
l wonder what it would feel like ever to be
really even with the world"
Poverty or the necessity for economy
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HAVE hesitated for months about
~ / burdening your important depart
ment with a comparatively trivial
quest of mine, but as l have ex-
hausted all available methods at my
disposal, please, when you have the space.
ask your Cornerites and Helping
Hands whether any of them can aid me in
obtaining three or four really old dolls.
Anything more than thirty-five years old
previous to the present day jointed, bsque
headed substitute for the cloth bodied rag
wooden, or other doll-the older the better.
If can get in touch with any colonial dolls
l shall be glad and willing to do my share,
But cannot afford to buyany of these dolls
at museum figure. They are for use ouE
side a glass case, Long ago l promised a
wee maiden to get some dolies such es
grandmother and great-great-grandmo
played with, thinking it would be simple
matter In present day slang, find myself
up against It,
''One word upon a topic OF which you
have written recently. / think III. d. S
opinion of the stepmother question quite
the most sane l have heard but then we
know there are stepmothers and step
mothers well stepchildren and step
children. / have seen combinations of both
last stepmother problem had to deal with
was that of young, vain girl lifted from
a life of mediocrity to one of affluence.
Her stepchldren are darlings, and at first
she fooled everybody but not for long.
The little fellows are showed into a chill
north room to make way for her own child.
and she has publicly said she wished them
dead-and they are both under 10.
Ivan L. B."
l could tell you where to get colonial
dolls, 1 believe. but they are part of a col
lection and are held at what you term
museum prices. If I know of such dolls
there must be others who can inform you
where you can procure them at a more
reasonable rate. and I have filed your ad-
dress in the hope of it's being sought by some
one who can help you. fully agree with
you in your theory there are stepmothers
of different sorts and stepchildren of many
varieties. Such a case as you instance IL
mparatively rare, I trust, and have a
strong impression a woman who could take
this attitude towards helpless little children
in any conditions would not be a good
mother even to her own flesh and blood
What do our Cornerites think:
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An Eggless Cdke.
''At this time. when the price of eggs Is
so high and housekeepers are trying to
manage without them. 1t occurs to me you
might like to print in your Corner recipe
for loaf cake which contains no eggs. Two
generations of New England housewives
have used 1t with great success as 1t is a
cake which is better for being kept a week
or more than when first baked. Here it is:
Two cups sugar. two cups milk. four and a
ha-. cups -four, two-thirds (scant) cup Of
butter. one cup chopped raisns. two-thirds
cup sliced citron, six teaspoons baking
powder. Flavor with nutmeg and bake In
slow oven one and a half hours or more
"A. ]. B. L."
This recipe will at once 60 into service In
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have oyster crackers For dessert after
that the children-and my husband. too
think nothing so good as a dls,, of toasted
English mullins with honey or maple cream
or cane srup. l have been told it is rather
deadly to eat sweets after oysters. but we
have never found it so. l encourage my
family to consider this meal as a kind of
special treat and 1t never occurs to them
it is big saving on our usual dinner So,
too. once in a while. in cold weather. we
have waflles or griddle cakes and sausage
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are likely to choose the second rather than
the first when the former would make your
stock of money dwindle painfully. When
fresh vegetables and unusual fruits tempt
you there is check upon you in the thought
that the payment for these delicaces would
reduce to the vanishing point the amount
of money which ought to last you until the
end of the week.
STILL even with cash payments there are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25

you may sprinkle nut kernels over the top
of each piece. NELLIE"
Although Christmas lies behind us the
season of candy making has not ended and
I don't doubt there will be many grateful
home candymakers who will try this recipe
with apnre eciation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-25
Offers a Craphophone.

dition, with horn and fifty ten inch records
mot all good-mostly instrumental and
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bills of fare and your expenditures as moth
ing else can and aiso makes you acquaint-
ed with some of the joys of economy. What
ever may be thought of the course of the
housekeeper to whom have just referred,
there can be no doubt as to the legitimacy
of forcing heavy expense to be compen-
sated for by corresponding economy. l
was talking the other day with woman
who has reduced this sort Of thing to a
science.
% | ALWAYS have real fun In going cheap
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Terrible Time Catching Up.

-, am careful. as. rule, not to begin
with that until Friday" she said. Once
or twice l have had to start having things
charged on Thursday, but that is pretty
for it means 1 have only money
enough to pay for the things / buy the
first three days of the week and I shall
have terrible time catching up with my
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there are still many who hold to paying
by the week, and it is part of your method
of keeping the bills down to add your in
fiuence to theirs to make it easier to receive
your accounts once in seven instead of
once in thirty DAYS.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-13
ROOSEVELT ASKS COURT
FOR CHANGE OF VENUE
Wants BaInes's Suit for Alleged Lii
bel Tried Outside of Albany
County.
ANSWER PART OF RECoRI
Attorneys Given Until Next Saturday
TO File additional Briefs-Su-
preme Court Justice Chester Re-
serves Decision on Motion.

ALBANY. \. Y. September 1a.-Sn-
preme Court Justice Chester reserved
decision to-day on the motion Of col
onei Theodore koosevelt's attorneys to
nave the $4,000 suit for alleged libel
brought against him By tho Rcpublican n
State chairman. William Barnes triod
outs'uc Albany County, MIR. Barnes
nome the attorneys were given until
next Saturday 10 file additional briefs
Incidentally Nh Roosevelt's answer to
the Barnes complaint was made -
part Of the record OF to-day's proceed
in-S.
The principal plea for a change OF
venue was made on the allegation that
Mr.. Barnes dominated ALBANY County
politics. aud that il would be limos
stbic 10 obtain an impartial trial -Ncrc.
lhe Roosevelt attorneys intimated that
the barnes counsel should consent To
change OF venue. To this w. NJ. Tvins.
appearing for Mr.. barnes rcplied:
Knowing the temper OF the de-
icndant, MI. Roosevelt. il VIC consented.
IL immediately would bo utilized bv
him as an admission by us OF the fact
that we have the political control with
which he charges us"
In the Roosevelt answer. political ac-
tVittes OF Mr.. Barnes for the past
twenty years are commented upon. MIR.
WINS contendcd that the greater part
OF the answer is not relevant TO the
pending motion. but was 'an agerava-
ton OF the iibel.1 He added that AIR.
Roosevelt as Presidept. had appointed
Mr.. Harnes collector OF The port Of
Albany.
IF, Mr.. lvins continued. president
Roosevelt Kept Mr.. Barnes in Office for
several years, knew all The things about
him then that this answer alleges. then
President Roosevelt's actions were
nothing less than criminal
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-13
TAX ON FREIGHT BILLS
FAVORED BY PRESIDENT
viii Openly Indorse Plan When He
Returns to Washington From
Cornish.
HIS APPROVAL IS NECESSARY
Majority Leader Underwood Delays
Introduction Of War Revenue
Measure Until Chief Executive
Gives Official Views.

WASHINGTON. September L.
House Democrats want President Will
son TO approve openly the proposed
per cent tax on freight bills before a
war revenue hill CARRYING that pro-
vision is introduced. That the force OF
his approval is necessary was agreed
upon to-day by administration leaders.
Majority Leader Underwood, chair
man of the House Committee preparint,
the measure. decided to-day to hold
up tho bill until the Presidents return,
from New Hampshire next week. after
lie and other Democrats had conferred
WIN Secretary McAdoo and postma ster-
General Hurleson. The Postmaster.
General it was said. assured AIR I'M
dcrwood the President would indorse
the plan openly when he returned to
Washircton
insistcmcc OF Democratic leaders
upon an official expression from the
Nhite House was based il was said.
upon desire not to ASSUME all respon
sioii'tH 'or the freight tax Oh the face
OF lively opposition from many Demo
Gratis in Congress, which gained so
much strength to-day that a Dctitiou
for party caucus was circulated
Some Southern and Western Compress
men still insist that the subject is
one FOR caucus even if the bill is i'm
troduccd bearing the Presidents an
proval.
When the tax bill is introduced /,
must - have ,hc open Endorsement Of
the administration said Representa-
tive Underwood to-day. Ut may be
changed somewhat. hut. however. IL
may bc introduced. il 'must b., ap-
proved by the President"
Those who oppose the freight tax
insist tho party should tax Suxurics
and not directly or Indirectly affect tho
price OF necessities. particularly food
products. They viii urgc'-.incrcascs
OF 10 ccnts u bHrrci on. beer. 10 cents
gallon on spurious liquors. 20 u pal.
Ion on wines and an undecided tax
on cigarettes. In addition. il is pro-
posed 10 renew the effort TO raise the
CONTINUED on Fourth Page)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-13
POWERS ENTER PROTEST
TO TURKEYS COURSE
American Ambassador Does Not
Participate In Objections to
Porte.
UNITED STATES MAY JoII
Negotiations Will BE Indcpepdent OF
Any Other-Ottoman Empire Be-
iieved TO BE Further From Enter
ing War Than at Any Other Time.

WASHINGTON. September i2.-Am-
hassador Morgenthau informed the
State Department to-day Of the char
ncter Of the protests made at Constan-
tinoplc by the powers against the abro-
cation by Turkey OF extra territorial
rights and other privileges. AS he was
without instructions. the ainba ssador
did not participate in the protest
II is virtually certain that while tn e
United states will enter objections to
Turkeys course, the negotiations Will
he Independent or any other uotcs on
tho subject addressed by European
powers. The American note may be
delayed until the Porte's attitude to-
l>ward tho protests already made is
learned.
Thc United States is iii pcculnr
position toward the protests mado by
tho powers Although the United
States has enjoyed extra territorial
rights and other privileges under a
most favored nation clause the feeling
OF oncials is that Americans have in
vested considerable money in Turkey
largely because OF the protection af-
forded them by these very privileges.
The protest made by the powers. ac-
cordipS TO we'll informed officials here.
Is weak one. and not likely to affect
| Turkey as much as the course OF the
European war
Reports that Roumania, Bulgaria and
Greece are determined to fight Turkey
| IL she enters the war, and tho recent
German ana Austrian rcyerses, are be-
[ lievcd to have tempered the war spirit
I in Constantinoplc. and many officials
think the entry OF tho Ottoman en-
pirc into the conflict is much more
remote now than at any time since
tho war began.