Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-25

GtfG TttTIE Lot tLE> S4lHIpSES 81 SNtuiHS
electric bulbs in some Of the oldest
ami quaintest cottages. and even sees
the barnyards we'll lighted The max
ing of electricity general. even III peas
ant homes, was no great step.
Simple FireIess Cooker.
The substitute for fuel in the ktch-
en- is the fraless cooker. Ali the war
COOK books tell the "Hausfrau" how
ito make one II you gan buy one, or
have it made out Of wood, well and
good But if that 1t beyond the purse,
there are always newspapers: wrinkle
and crush them together until they
lose their stiffness. and stitch them to-
getber as il they were cotton wadding
make a cloth cover and put buckles ON.
such as we use on artics; make d
round cap ike top and bottom out Of
the same materials; and put the GOV
cred pot iato this. after ii has been on
the fire the necessary length OF time.
five minutes boiling, ~ or 20.
There is a Housewives league. ."
now about a month oil. which was or
ganized for the purpose OF teaching
the German women throughout the
empire what to do with the resources
at hand Just as the war cook book
Of last year il being used today in
England, SO 30 doubt The practical ex-
periments carried on by these women
at their headquarters in Berlin will
trjckte across the channel and help
out the English woman, who is suffer
ing, not from a lack of any particular
articles. but from a rise in the gem
eral prices
An ~Ersatz" for fuel for warming
the rooms is good bed coverings, Cot
ton wadding is not being brought into
Germany now. And the supply Of old
aud new "comforLers" has gone to
the front to the lazarets and rest
! homes for the soldiers. But the Ger
mans devotion to his newspaper is
! having its reward. They are wrinkled
and crushed until all the stiffness is
tout OF them, and then stitched and en-
closed in coarse OF fine covers as the
occasion demands, for covering.
| The exra-large brown bed-quilts
+ that / saw hanging over a chair inter
ested me- I asked what they were
! for. The woman who was showing
me about this EXHIBIT Of substitutes
] lowered her voice
i Those are all for the Russian pris
oners," she said. You see, they havt
to he burned after they are used."
I Then she showed me small military
pillows, of almost no weight. who's,
! filing was made out of newspapers Gu
into threadlike strips, They cost 81
little that they can be lost or thrown
away without a pang. except for tn
comfort that they have given to ttret
heads in the trenches. or on the opeI
ground.
The use Of strong ibrous paper 10
/ chest warmers. shoe-insoIes. table
cloths, was not so striking as the us
Of waterproof paper, with q soft cot
tony ceilulose lining This celiulose
stuff is used in place Of cotton sheet
lon sick beds. is so cheap that its US
costs less than the soap 10 wash III
bed-sheets it tan be made antisep
tic. and so used TO take the place 0
surgeons cotton This particula
i"Ersatz" is not likely to make tn
American cotton growers heart lea
with joy. since it is likely 10 compel
from now on with all sorts Of cott0l
fproducts, having been brought 10 per
lection since the war began. and beint
put very successfully on the market
But il Is in the kitchen that III
need of oil and fat and wheat f1ou
and a thousand and one luxurious in
gradients is most felt, And the re
turn is, perforce. to the simple life.
The "ErsatzH for kitchen soap, for ex
iampIe (which costs three time wha
it used to- is soda.
In The drug stores the "Ersatz" i
everywhere You can't get glycerin
soap. or cold cream. or briiliantine 10
the hair, but you find substitutes. Cam
phor mothhalls are a luxury. but 70
! can get balsam insect powder, whic
Is more fragrant, ard moth root.
. which Is just as effective Lists ar
. published from time TO time tellin,