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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
TO MAKE PERFECT DUMPLlNGs
Really Is No Great Secret, Though
Some Housewives Fail to Make
a Success Of II.

The ability to make really good
dumplings is to be desired in these
days of high prices; and If we can
get as much food value from half the
quantity of meat, while adding to it a
palatable and digestible amount of
dumplings, we will get a better pro-
portion of protein to the needs of the
body. Dumplings made by the follow
ing recipe will be light and dry, and
will be found excellent to serve with
chickens, guinea fowl or veal, and
may be reheated in the gravy in a cas-
serole. They may be made successful
on the top of the stove, also, II care
is taken to keep the liquid at the sim
mering point, and not let boil rapidly
after the dumplings are dropped in.
Have the gravy thinner than is want
ed to serve, as it will thicken some
with the cooking of the dumplings.
For five persons, beat one g till
smooth and light, add one cup of sweet
milk, o%ne-fourth of a teaspoonful of
salt, and flour enough to make a stih
batter. Mix one teaspoonful Of baking
powder with the last of the -four, and
beat well. Drop by teaspoonful into
the hot gravy, cover and cook Is min
utes. Dish around the edge of a deep
plate, the meat and gravy in the mid
die.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Angels on Horseback.

In spite of it's name, this dish is a
close relative of our older friends pigs
in blankets" To make these tid-bits,
wrap each big plump oyster, drained
and dried and seasoned with salt and
pepper, in a nice, thinly sliced blanket
of bacon. Skewer with a wooden tooth
pick and stick two cloves in the fat
end of each oyster. Cook in a hot fry
ing pan or the chatting dish blazer I'M
til the bacon is crisp and the "angel"
or pig" as o choose to call it, is
ruffled around its edges. Serve on
small squares of toast with a garnish
of watercress and an olive or tiny
pickle as an appropriate finish.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
OLD STYLE OF PoTTED BEEF
Nothing Better Has Been Devised
Than This Method That Was Used
by Our Grandmothers.

Take a good piece of a round of beef
and cut off all the fat. Rub the lean
well with salt and let 1t lie two days.
Then put it into a jar and add to it a
little water In the proportion of half
a pint to three pounds of meat. Cover
the jar as closely as possible (the best
cover will be a coarse paste or dough-
and set it in a slow oven or in a vessel
of boiling water for about four hours.
Then drain off all the gravy and set
the meat before the fire that all the
moisture may be drawn out. Pull or
cut it to pieces and pound it for a
long time in a mortar with pepper, all
spice, cloves, mace, nutmeg and melt
ed fresh butter, adding these ingredi-
ents gradually and moistening it with
a little of the gravy. You must pound
1t to a fine paste, or till it becomes Of
the consistency of cream cheese.
Put it into the pottirs ans and cover
it an inch thick with fresh butter that
has been melted, SKINNED and
strained. Tie a leather over each pot
and keep them closely covered. Set
them In a dry place.
Game and poultry may be potted In
this manner.
From the use of melted fresh butter,
instead of ~paratln in sealing, and 9TH
er points in this recipe, it will be sim
ply suggestive and a good study for
adaptation to modern conditions by
those who desire to put up some of
this delicacy for special occasion or
emergencies.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
CunId Wafers.

Beat one-half cup of softened butter
to a cream and gradually beat into it
the following in order given; One
half cup powdered sugar, grated rind
of n lemon, one cup of strained
honey, and two cups of sifted -four.
Spread thinly on buttered tins in
round forms about two inches in d.
ameter and bake in moderate oven
till Drowned slightly. Let stand for
a minute then lift carefully and roll
over a round stick. Very dainty to
serve at st. Valentines party. Tie
each roll or two together with ribbon
and serve with the ice.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

were and on conquest bent. The
Greek gods, fearing the subtugation
of their own people, cast about for
means to stay the victorious onrush
of the Atlantean, and finding none,
appealed to ox-eyed Juno, who per
suaded Jove to destroy the Atlanteans
by sinking Atlantis to the bottom Of
the sea.
Tradition has it that at the same
time another continent rose, like
Aphrodite, from the sea and that
some of the Atlantean survivors es-
capped into this newborn country and
there established another empire.
How much Of truth and how much
Of romance there is in this is impossi-
certain, the peninsula of Yucatan is
an infant, comparatively speaking, and
of neptunic parentage. Its entire area
is nothing but limerick (madrepora)
containing the shells of living species
and that of fossils bridging the pfio-
Gene and pleistocehe periods, about
10000 years ago, the traditional date
VI In6 AlIdnLlS ulbdStCIs
Yucatan a Strange Land.
Yucatan from a typographical and
geographical point of view is a strange
and remarkable land. 1t is practically
an absolute fiat and there are no
rivers and no lakes as generally
known. The crust of rock covering
the peninsula is very porous and full
of immense subterranean caverns.
The abundant rainfall of ages filtered
through this crust and filled these
caverns, these great masses of water
under pressure gradually perforated
the rock and found an outlet to the
sea underground. The crust over
these subterranean streams in some
places, caving, formed pools, nearly
all circular and with steep sides and
with a depth of water from a few feet
to several hundreds. but rarely ex-
coed 200 to 900 feet In diameter.
The pools-cenotes as they are
called there-are not plentiful and not
all have potable water. None have
really good water. All are heavily
charged with the different salts.
No metals or any of their chemical
compounds or combinations are found
on the peninsula, but on the south
and where the peninsula connects
with the mainland and the geological
formation changes, there are large
copper deposits, which were known to
the Maya. His smelling furnaces and
the scoriae from them a be found
today along the banks Of the Rio
Hondo, the boundary Of British Hon.
duras and Mexico.
OF soil there is very little. Plant
ers In that country do not buy plows,
but use giant powder to cultivate and
plant with; still 1t seems paradoxical,
the whole peninsula is covered with a
thick, luxuriant and barely penetrable
forest of precious ~hardwoods. such as
mahogany, cedar, rosewood, satin
wood, lignum vitae, ebony and hun
dreds of other beautiful woods. Pre-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

Many of the whites in the Chesa-
peake basin believe that their colored
fellow-citizens are not improving ma
terially, morally and intellectually,
but he that has known the region for
30 years or SO, and who returns to it
with a fresh eye, cannot fail to note
the improvement that has taken place
in that time. The statistics of farm
ing alone in the period between 1900
and 1910 are convincing as to the re-
cent economic improvement of the col
ored a In Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia, as in many other states, the
actual acreage in farms decreased in
the decade 1900-1910, but in each of
those states the number of colored
farmers owning their land decidedly
increased. In Delaware the increase
was from 1872 in 1900 to 4O6 in 1910;
in Maryland, from 3,262 to 1850; in
Virginia, from &c, 1866 to 32,22S.
In each of these states colored ten
ant farmers are being converted into
land owners, for in each the number
of tenants is decreasing, while the
whole number of negro farmers is in
creasing. The value of farm lands
and buildings owned by colored per-
sons was more than 1872, 500, 900, and
colored tenants and managers were
intrusted with the administration of
farm lands and buildings to the value
of nearly $4,000, 900. Thus the col
ored farmers of the Chesapeake basin
are now in the ownership or occupy
ing Of farm lands and buildings to the
value of more than $685. 00 900. A
generation ago, when the colored peo-
pie were still almost within the
shadow Of slavery, a prosperous negro
farmer was a rare sight in the Chesa-
peake basin. In that region the sys-
TEN common in the cotton states of
turning over from 20 to 100 acres of
land to be cultivated to cotton by a
single slave family was little prac-
ticed. so that the colored people were
not ready to be turned into tenant
farmers, and then into land owners
A few free colored persons had owned
land in Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia while yet slavery lourished.-
Baltimore American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

dominating is the achras sapote, or
the chicle gum tree. There are
enough of these to make chewing gum
for the whole world.
This Is the land Of which the Maya
made himself the lord and master
when he came from the mystic land
of "We-know-not."
At a later period. probably a thou
sand years before the Spanish con-
quest, there came to him from across
the sea and from the west some mys-
tic wise men, who became his teach
ers and instructors in the arts and
sciences.
The peninsula, away from the high
way Of nomadic tribes and nations
and unknown at that time to the cap
tains Of industry, was the home OF
the dove of peace, the symbol of
which to the Maya was the quetzal,
the jewel of the jewelbirds.
The Magyar. not having to keep up
an enormous standing army to keep
peace or to defend his country from
a foreign invasion, O being bothered
within by trust. monopeues isms,
schisms or the high cost of living,
devoted their time to the mystic and
wise men, who evidently found a will
ing and apt pupil in the Maya, as the
result shows. They soon became ex-
pert stone cutters, masons, painters
and architects. They were excellent
astronomers, proof of which is theh
calendar, and naturally they must
have known the fundamental elements
of mathematics. Having passed the
stage of photographs, they had evolved
a system of hieroglyphics from which
to the letter was but a step. And so
they prospered, multiplied and built
their magnificent and stupendous tenn
pies and palaces.
But as time passed they became
Gas it always was and will be with
mem divided against each other, with
disastrous results.
A few decades before the coming of
the Spaniard, one of these internecine
wars commenced and did not end I'M
til the common danger compelled
them to lay aside their petty quar-
rels and combine against their great
er foe, who slew them by the hun
dred thousands.
Population Decimated.
Tradition says that the Mayans
numbered about 1000, 900 at the time
of the conquest, but scarcely 5000
f~ull-blooded and free Indians remain
today.
Physically they are short and stur-
dy of body, colored somewhat lighter
than the northern Indians, and that
they are of Monaghan origin is plain
ly shown by their skulls.
Some writer's seek to connect the
Maya with the hero god, Itsamma,
who, they say, led the Maya from the
east across, or rather through the
sea, thus giving the Magyar an At
~lantean origin; but a close study of
Magyar architecture, myths and ira
dition rejects that theory and accepts
the western immigration Of the Maya
as the only tenable one.
or all the Indian tribes of the
American continent. the Maya was
! the most highly cultured and civilized.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
First Turtle coup.

According to some authorities. Bris-
toll, England, has a special claim to
fame as the city where turtle soup
was invented by a seventeenth cen
tury mayor who was also a ship
owner. The captain OF n OF his ships
brought home a live turtle, thinking
that the owner would like to have It
An his fshpond. This happened just
as the mayor was about to give a
civic banquet and deeming that his
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Old EnaIlsh crlsps.

One cup sugar, one-half cup butter,
n and one-half cups molasses, three
cups -four. Melt the butter and the
other ingredients, mix well together
and drop by small spoonfuls far apart
on a creased fiat baking tin. Bake in
a rather slow oven, emove from the
tin with a broad bladed knife and place
I've the edge of a bowl to curl and
cool
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Poor MANS Sauce

Mince an onion finely. Fry it in a
little dripping until it is tender, then
pour over it a glass Of vinegar and
a glass of water or broth, and a little
pepper and salt. Let the sauce sim
mer gently for a few minutes, then
add a tablespoon of mushroom ketch-
This sauce is to be served with
young roast turkey. Sufficient for
three or four persons.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
"Pyrros."

Jane Adams, while walking in
South Halsted street the other day,
was approached by an excited woman,
evidently a Greek. The woman, un-
able TO talk English. was gesticulating
frantically and pointing to a house in
Ewing street.
''Pyrros!" she exclaimed. "Pyrrosl"
"Yes?" said Miss Adams gently.
"Pyrros!" repeated the woman. tug
ing at the others sleeve.
Finally a great light broke upon
IS Addams. "Pyrrosp is the Greek
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Painted Flat Irons-

One neat housekeeper's fiat irons
were painted with aluminium paint,
such as is used to give a silvery ap-
p~earance to radiators and stove pipes.
She says it keeps them in perfect con
dition, preventing them from rusting,
They were treated to a coat once a
year. OF course the fiat ace of the
iron is not touched with the paint.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
mo- Ereahen > Rnnm-

Very often when the dining room is
near the kitchen the sickly smell OF
cooking becomes unpleasant. By pour
ing a few drops of oil of lavender into
a glass OF very hot water the air of the
room is purified almost instantly. This
Is also useful in a sick room II the
lavender is prepared just before din
g is ready to be served, the room
will be filled with a faint but very &C
ceptable odor OF freshness.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Little Girls Criticism.

The three-year-old daughter of a
young married couple has been reared
to appreciate moving pictures and
vaudeville, but, until recently, she had
never been to church. When she ac-
companied her parents to worship,
she naturally expected to be enter
tanned, and was a little restless as
she waited in vain for the expected
performance. When the family re-
turned from church the little girl's
mother asked her how she liked the
service.
WELL" said the child, thoughtfully,
the music was nice. but there wasn't
any vaudeville"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
R.aIlx Eoroed y n.

81 understand" said the Judge, that
you stole the watch,of the doctor rho
had just written a prescription for you
at the free dispensary. What have
you to say to this charger" well,
your honor" said the prisoner, ut is
true, but ! found myself In a hole. His
prescription said a spoonful every
hour. and ] had no watc'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

The clinic of the negro school is
showing every day more plainly the
price southern white people have paid
for their neglect of the problem of the
backward race. A cook in a famous
Nashville hotel, followed to her home,
was found to house in a cellar beneath
a foul tenement, to the last degree I'M
sanitary. From this she passed daily
to the preparation of food for fastidi-
Gus whites. A student nurse found a
colored baby sick of a contagious dis
ease lying staring up at a clothesline
stretched across the crowded, untidy
cabin, on which hung the spotless lin
Ell destined to be sent back to an e x
elusive white home.
Here in the north the doctrine of So
cial interdependence has been pretty
thoroughly learned. We know, if we
do not live up to our knowledge, that
the rich pay a terrible toll for the
degradation of the poor. In the south,
it would seem, there has been too
much trust among the less inquiring
classes that the Negroes sins against
sanitation would react only upon him
self. They are awake now. Five
thousand students In southern colleges
are this year studying DR.. Weather
ford's book on the race problem. The
rank and file are coming to see that
the tying UP of negro religion with
social hygiene is likely to have results
intellectually important to the whole
south.-Mary Bronson HART, in the
Boston Transcript.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
whIten scorched Linen,

When white linen has been scorch-
ed in the ironing. wet 1t with soapsuds,
and lay 1t in the sun, If the scorch is
a slight one. If this does not remove
the scorch, boil the piece in milk
and soap in the proportion of a quar-
ter Of a pound of soap to a quart Of
milk
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

Twenty-Five years ago Jonas w.
Thomas, a negro Of Marlborough coun-
ty, South Carolina, began his career
as a farmer by buying an old horse
for $40.75, and by renting 80 acres
Of South Carolina land for 1,400
pounds of lint cotton. After four
years of hard work and close saving
he was able to buy a mule for $65
and also 81 acres of land. Then he
began renting and working farms
which belonged to other men. Grad
ually he was able to buy the land
he had been renting. He also found
it worth while to open a commits
sary.
Now Thomas lives in a IL room
house and employs on his $4,000 plan
tation, SO families, consisting of 1S9
men, women and children. He grows
a variety of crops, including cotton,
corn, and some garden truck, and
raises his own horses, mules, COWS
and hogs. He has received as much
as $4,000 for his cotton crop alone
400 bales of long staple. On an av-
erage he has saved $4,000 a year for
% years. All that he now has on
his farm is his own, directly and in
directly" he affirms with j~ustifable
pride. In a single year he has Dor
rowed of one local bank and repaid
$4,000. Good credit" SO Thomas
says, explains a fair share of my sue
cess"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

1t is the reproach oftenest brought
against the colored laborer that he
loves pleasure too well to work steadi'
ly week in and week out the year
round, and the charge is well founded,
though 1t is equally true as regards
a part of the native whites. Happy-go-
luckyhabits inherited from slave ances-
tors are in large part responsible for
the disbelief of the Whites in the man
ifest improvement in the material con-
dition of the colored people. Gamers
in the Chesapeake basin often import
foreign labor from Baltimore through
the ~padrones, because the newcomers
can be counted upon to stick by the
job the season through, while the col
ored laborer is apt to run off to a
camp-meeting or take a trip to Balti.
more when the cannery is busiest,
Housewives are driven nearly mad by
the impossibility of knowing whether
the cook will report for duty on any
given morning. When spring comes
and the men have regular work and
wages, the ONE desert the kitchens
anu let LHelT OF overs sup
port them. With late autumn, when
the farm work is done and many farm
laborers are idle, the women are glad
to go back to the kitchen in order that
there may be money for the household.
Thrift is a lesson that the descendant
of the slave is slow in learning.
In spite of much idleness, however,
and e~xtravagant indulgence in pleas
ure, the colored people of the Chesa'
peake basin are vastly transformed for
the better in outward aspect within
the past generation. The colored folk
that crowd the villages on Saturday
night are far better dressed than many
European peasant proprietors. Indeed
the colored mans ~improvidence is apt
to take the form of over-indulgence in
dress and display. A colored farmer on
the eastern shore Of Virginia, finding
himself with more than $4,000 in bank
at the end of the season, bought five
vehicles of various kinds. The bicycle
is already much used by the colored
people, and it will not be many years
before colored men in the Chesapeake
basin will be seen driving their own
autos.-A. E. Vallandigham.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

Very good toifee is made with one
pound OF sugar, one-half pound OF but
ter. one-quarter pound of strip, a pinch
OF salt. a little water and two table
spoons OF vinegar. which last-named
soould be added Just before the toffee
IL done.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

When it was first said last April
that horseracing was to be resumed
in the state of New York. Col. Frank
lin P. Morgan. who loves sport of any
sort, expressed his qualification at the
news,
"Horseracing," he said enthusiastic
eally, lis a great and glorious thing.
It warns the heart. thrills tie brain
and puts money into circulation"
Yes, yes chimed In the group who
was listening TO him.
The only trouble is added the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

guests might appreciate a new dish,
he ordered that turtle to be stewed-
The aldermen were so delighted with
the novelty that they reelected their
host to the municipal chair nine times
running.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Keeping Cheese.

To prevent cheese from getting
hard, u a email piece on for present
use and place the remainder In cool
place. Spread a thin film of butter
over the cut part and cover with a
clean cloth. This will prevent that
hard, cracked condition which ruins
the best Of cheese.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of the Colored People, of
which Oswald Garrison Willard, presi-
dent of the New York Evening Post
company, is one of the prime movers,
was characterized as dangerous and
misleading, and one of its Washington
agents charged with fraud in a meet
ing of colored people in the Metropoli-
tan church in M street, Washington.
A resolution was adopted inquiring
the number of school teachers and
government employees who are giving
their aid to the association, the man
ner of expenditure of money publicly
collected for the advancement of the
colored people," the necessity for the
existence of such an organization in
the district, and whether the organiza-
ton is Incorporated according to the
laws Of the district.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

word meaning fire." and the woman
was simply trying to tell her that her
house was on fire.
An alarm was sent In. The blaze
proved to be only a small one and the
fire department experienced no diff
Guilty In putting the "pyrrosp out
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

Booker T. Washington finds that
Virginia is setting a great example
for the rest of the south in the matter
of showing how the white and colored
people may cooperate for general I'M
provement. find" Doctor Washington
adds, that not only have the efforts
Of the Negro Organization society re-
ceived the hearty support of the white
people of the state, but that other
special lines of endeavor have like
wise received their most cordial sup
port.
This is particularly true in the mat
ter of education. Virginia was the
first state to have a state supervisor
of rural colored schools, and by SO do
ing set an example for the rest of the
south. The work of Jackson Davis in
improving the negro schools of Virgil
mia is an indication of how the best
white people of the south are ready to
give their time and talent for the bet
terment of conditions among negroes"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

When navigation officially opened
April "a, there were in elevators. on
steamers and on railroad hrs at FIT.
William and Port Arthur, at the head
of Lake Superior, more than 42,750,.
900 bushels of grain awaiting trans,
portation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21
Halloween happenings.

When the boys smash our neigh.
boris gate, it's the exuberance OF
youth, but when they smash our gate.
it's an outrage.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-21

British exports to Mexico during the
first ten months of this year were
considerably greater than during sim
liar periods of the two preceding years