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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
PIES OF RARE MERIT
SOME RECIPES THAT HAVE Es-
TABLIsHED WORTH.
What is Known as the "Pie Of Five"
Is Excellent-Good One Made
With Brown sugar-Deli-
cious Spice Pie.

The Pie Of Five.-One large, juicy
lemon, one cupful of sugar, one egg,
n good-sized potato and one cupful
Of water. Crate the rind of the lemon
and add the lemon juice and egg. Beat
well. Crate the potato or put through
food chopper. Stir well with the 9TH
er ingredients and then add the water.
Place in a double boiler or saucepan
and let thicken, and bake in two
crusts.
Brown Sugar Pie.-Two-thirds of a
cupful of brown sugar, one tablespoon
full of butter and two tablespoonfuls
Of milk. Cook until waxy looking,
then take the yolks of two eggs, one
heaping tablespoonful of -four and one
and one-half cupfuls OF milk. Mix all
together smooth, add to the above in
gradients, cook until thick, and add
vanilla. Have a baked crust, use the
whites beaten stir for the top, and
return to the oven for a minute or
two.
Grapefruit Pie.-First bake a shell
as for lemon pie, then make a filling
as follows: Mix one tablespoonful of
cornstarch in a little cold water, and
over this pour one cupful of boiling
water. To this add the juice Of two
grapefruits, the grated rind and juice
of one orange, the beaten yolks of two
eggs, and the white of one, and a
small piece Of butter. Put all in the
double boiler and cook until thick,
ctSrrin1 Ill tlo 4s-.o YNvIor la-o -,,A
in the shell. Now beat up the white
of the second egg with one-half a cup
full of sugar until thick, and spread
with a knife over the pie. Put in the
oven and let brown lightly Serve
cold. This makes a delicious pie.
Delicious Spice Pie.-The yolks OF
three eggs, n and one-half cupfuls of
sugar, one cupful of cream, two table
spoonfuls of flour, two-thirds of a cup
full of butter, one t"easpoonful of spice,
cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix
the flour and sugar together, then
cream with the butter. Add the yolks
of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next
add cream and spices. Use the whites
for the frosting.
Turnip Pie.-Put two cupfuls Of
mashed cooked turnips into a basin
add three-quarters of a cupful of brown
sugar, three well-beaten eggs, two
ta~blespoonfuls of molasses, one table
spoonful of melted butter, one table
spoonful of powdered ginger, one
teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon
and one-quarter of a t~easpoonful OF
salt. Mix and bake in n crust like
a pumpkin pie.
Sweet Potato Pie.-Bake the sweet
potatoes and cut them in half-inct
Slices put them in a pie plate on the
lower crust, fill the plate, and sprin
kle with butter and sugar and a little
water. Put IN the upper crust anC
bake.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

the school itself. Then came the
question of the commissariat. At first
she gave up her own ration to her
ten refugees-but that was not
enough among SO many. So she col
lected from her friends and relatives
in the village here a piece of bread
and there a vegetable.
When the Germans, seeing her sus-
%piciously laden basket, asked her for
whom were all these provisions, she
would answer, For your wounded in
the chapel" Better still, she APP
pointed herself cook for the German
ambulance, and in this capacity was
able to pick up all sorts of broken
v%ictuals, so that her English were in
no danger of starving.
But English soldiers do not live by
food alone-they like their tobacco.
Now, according to the regulations of
the invaders, each inhabitant of the
place had the right to buy two sous
worth of tobacco a day. She found
a way to evade this regulation and
to keep her ten in s~mokables. She or
ganized an army of boys, who ten or
twenty times a day would purchase at
different shops the meager penny
worth.
But there was always the danger
that the hiding place of the ten might
be discovered by ONE German. For
t%unately, their dormitory communi-
Gated by trap-doors with the ground
floor of the building, and precisely
with a room on that ground floor
which gave on the garden. So she
procured a long rope, with which she
advised her prisoners to practice a
sort of fire-drill. She was enthusiast
tic over the results.
Just imagine" she said to her in
terviewer, that my Englishmen after
a few attempts were able, the whole
ten of them, to strap up their haver,
sacks, get ready for all e~ventualitiesi
and slide down the rope noiselessly
in less than five minutes"
But these desperate measures were
not necessary. The Germans tempo
rarily evacuated the place, and the ten
English soldiers were able to regain
the allied lines in safety. They have
all given her their names and ad
dresses, and sworn that she mus
come to England when the war is
over, where they promise her a royal
welcome. One of the grateful ten is
a %nobleman, and a relative of King
George-Lord Smith is the name
given, but never mind! The girl left
the town only when the Germans
were about to re-enter It, and after the
town had been subjected to a fierce
bombardment for r ny days.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
LAST OF JOHN BROWNS AIDS
Follower Of Famous Abolltionist Lives
In Kansas and Is Hale and
Robust at Eighty-Four.

Salina, Kan.-Luke F. Parsons, who
has resided on a farm near Salina for
fifty years, has the distinction of be-
ing the last of the survivors Of all the
men directly associated with John
Brown and his famous border warfare,
just preceding the wal between the
states.
Parsons left his home in Massa.
chusetts in 1856 to aid the Free Soil
ers in the Kansas-Missouri border
warfare, following Brown through the
series of skirmishes which eliminated
in the famous battle of Osawatomie.
He was then selected as one of the
ten picked men who we're to accom-
pany Brown on his raid through Vir-
GINA; but, owing to the delay Of
nearly a year in completing the plans
for his adventure, he left the expedi-
ton at Cleveland, O., thus missing the
Harper's Ferry disaster by a few
weeks.
Parsons health at eighty-four years
of age, is robust, and he is still able
to do as much work as the average
man. 1t was not until recent years
that he permitted himself to talk of
the John Brown affair and his con
nection with it. Now all of his com
patriots are dead, and he is the last
link connecting this tragic page in
American history with the present.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

ing glaciers, plunges over great rock
masses toward its lower levels, cuts
through the widest mountain valleys,
traverses a wonderful high, broad
plain, and then. entering it's famous
gorge, wanders through exquisite pan
Dramas, through a lane everywhere
mantled with ruins of historic castles,
abbeys, churches, and every foot of
its way celebrated by legend or his
tory. After emerging from its gorge,
1t flows through a plain where power
full steel, textile and chemical indus
tries center. Through Germany and
Holland the Rhine forms the principal
water avenue of central and western
Europe, and an enormous commerce
is handled through its ports.
The Rhine is international. 1t is
divided between Switzerland, Ger
many and Holland. That part of the
river which lies in Germany, 450
miles in length, has been most dis
puted. The French have laid claim
to its left bank on the ground that the
Rhine formed the boundary line of
Roman Gaul. Though the Roman en-
pire reached out beyond the broad
Rhine, the river formed, nevertheless,
its effective barrier against the north
~barbarians. However. when the realm
of Charlemagne was divided and the
boundaries of Verdun established, the
Rhine became wholly the property of
Germany, and France early began her
centuries-long policy of winning the
stream back again. Complete success
crowned this policy under the Napo.
leonic empire, and the Rhine became
once more the boundary of Gaul. The
Germans reassumed sovereignty of
their beloved Father Rhine after 1871,
and in the present war the posses
sion of the historic river is one of
the most critical questions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

The Rhine, like a mighty tree in
form, receives It's waters from count
less tributaries, and gives them up to
the sea through innumerable off
shoots. Its principal source issues
from glacial ice 1921 feet above the
sea within the confines of the most
independent canton in Switzerland.
On it's way the Rhine is fed, directly
and indirectly, by 10000 tributaries,
and it drains more than $4,000 square
miles. Where the Rhine enters Ger
many, at Basic, it is about 900 feet
broad, and, for the smallest river
boats, navigation begins here. There
is a project to make the Rhine navi-
gable from Basic to its source for
larger lighters and small steamboats,.
Lovers Of natural beauty mention
the German Rhine and the American
Hudson in the same breath. The
Rhine, however, has many traits in
common with the American Missis-
sippi. 1t is Europe's most important
river, it drains one of the greatest in
dustrial regions on earth, and 1t is
commercial development. Moreover,
the great timber RATS upon the Mis-
sissippi, as Mark TWAIN describes
them, can be seen in season floating
down the Rhine. Some of these RATS
are 800 feet in length, and are guided
down the river by more than two hun
bred men who live upon them in little
huts, a whole village adrift. They
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
When Mayonnaise curdIes,

No matter what the cause mayon-
naise is found to curdle almost as often
as it stays smooth. There is no rea-
o to despair, however, for by beating
the yolk of a fresh egg quite smooth
and stirring it into the curdled may
onnaise the dressing will be united
and quite good once more.
A precaution which every cook will
be wise to take is in boiling milk
which is more than eight hours old
in summer or twelve hours old in win
ter. If she will drop in a small piece
of baking soda (the size of a pea to a
quart Of milk it will prevent the milk
from curdling. Otherwise if she tries
to boil milk left over night she may
find it all separated.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
FOR RELIABLE WHITE BREAD
Advantage in Mixing the Dough Early
In the Mornlna-Then II VIII
Not Rise Too Much.

The best time to mix bread is early
tunity to see that the dough does not
rise too much. Overrising is n of
the principal causes OF failure in bread
baking. This is often the Ease when
mixed in the evening and allowed to
rise all night. With an even tenn
perature the dough should be raised
and ready for the pans in three hours,
and in less than five hours from the
time Of mixing the rounded, shapely
loaves should be out of the oven rest
ing on the cooler"
Dissolve one whole yeast cake in one
half cupful of warm water, scald Ia
cupfuls of milk, to which add butter
the size of an egg, one tablespoonful
Of sugar and one tablespoonful salt.
When the butter is dissolved and milk
lukewarm, add the dissolved yeast
cake and stir all into six coffee cup
fuls Of bread -four, add warm water
to make stiff enough to mold.
Turn out on a well-iloured molding
board and knead ten or fifteen min
ANVof VI uulll buOUlu Ut buOulu 10
mixed so stiff that 1t will take up no
more -FOUR. Return to the mixing
bowl, which should be well buttered;
cover, and set in a warm place to rise.
When risen to the top of the bowl stir
down, pour out on the molding board
again; it should now only require a
little -four for handling. Knead well.
divide into four parts, putting two of
the sections into each well-buttered
baking pan. The pans should be about
half full, as the dough will double its
bulk in rising. Raise to the tops Of
the pans and bake ~three-quarters OF
an hour.
This is for two good-sized %loaves.
and If properly baked will be white,
light and feathery.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

Miss Constance Drexel, who posed
especially for this photograph, is an
American girl who was in France with
her parents at the time val broke
out. Like many other American girls
and women, she Immediately entered
the relief ranks by nursing the wound
ed. In the hospital at Deauville, she
saw more wildly than car be de.
scribed, the horrors of war. She saw
the men whom she had nursed, and
helped to snatch from the very brink
of the grave, go hobbling back when
discharged as cured, fearlessly and
bravely, to the firing line.
The self-sacriicing American wom-
en- who as m~inistering angels have
snatched so many of the wounded men
back from the grave, are looked upon
by the women OF Europe as the great.
est possible factor in bringing about
peace.
Miss Drexel is prominent in the
movement for peace started by women
of the neutral countries.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

WRIST among the commercial
rivers of civilization, the most
important geographical feature
OF central Europe, a holly con
tested boundary for more than
two thousand years, one of the rich
est among the streams of the world
in legend and folklore, and incom-
parable for the beauties of its course,
when M calls to mind the Rhine of
Germany he thinks upon one of the
most important elements of the cul-
ture and the history of his race,
whether he be of its Latin or its leu
tonic branch.
The Rhine and the Germans came
upon the stage of history together,
and their fates have been indissolubly
bound together v since, says the
National Geographic society's bulle-
tin. His kindred with this mighty
river, Father Rhine, is one of the
more conscious elements of each Ger
mans life, and to this his folklore,
his literature, his war songs, his opera
and his blood offerings have testified.
Few geographical features have at
fected the conscious life of a race so
deeply as has the German Rhine.
Rising in the highest Alps in cen
trail Europe, the Rhine reaches the
North sea after a journey of $50
miles, and the last part of its course
is through a lowland whose surface
is below the tides crest. The river
gathers its water at the base of melt.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Had the Wrong Outlook.

A public man who looms large to
the men of his day may be judged by
posterity to have been standing for
outworn ideals, and so to have him
dered human progress. Demosthenes
was regarded as a great patriot in OPP
posing Philip of Macedon. But he was
really the champion of the old idea of
the independence of the Greek city
states, while Philip was developing the
project of unifying Greece. For a GEN.
fury the city-states had been fighting
each other, constantly beset by jeal-
ousies. Their lack of unity was a
great obstacle to progress. Demos
themes was looking backward. not for
ward.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Calf,s-feet Blanc Name.

Clean and wash thoroughly. Put on
60 boil in four quarts of water (f all
four feet are used) and reduce by
boiling to one quart. Strain and stir
in a cool place to become cold. When
cold take off all the fat, remove all
the settings at the bottom. Put with
the jellied meat one quart of good.
fresh, sweet milk, sweeten with sugar
to taste and flavor. If lemon peel,
grated, or cinnamon is used for flavor
ing add it before boiling with milk,
but If peach water. rose water or es-
sence of lemon is to be used, add it
(favoring) after boiling with milk. Let
the ingredients to be boiled do so for
about ten minutes, then strain through
a fine sieve into a pitcher and stir
until it cools. While blood warm put
into molds that have been previously
wet with cold water to harden.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
HIDES 10 FROM FOE
French Girl Keeps Soldiers From
German Clutches.
BY Dlnt Of All Sorts Of Courageous
Ruses She Feeds and conceaIs Eng
Iishmen While Teutons
Occupy Place.

Paris.-The invaders would not
have been so charitably disposed to a
French girl had they known that for
three weeks by dint of all sorts of
courageous ruses she had been feed
ing, ~concealing, and keeping from
their clutches ten English soldiers.
She was a servant in a girls board
ing school. When the war broke out
the pupils all returned to their homes,
and she was left alone, for her only
companion was an old deaf and par
TALLY paralyzed woman. When the
Germans entered the town they went
through the girls school from attic
to basement, collecting all the linen
bedding they could lay their hands
on. For some reason or other they
did not install their wounded in the
main building, but in the chapter an
mex.
These wounded the girl tended with
the utmost devotion, in the first place,
because she is tender-hearted, and in
the second, because she had every rea-
son to desire to stand well with the
invaders. For her conscience was
quite clear. She knew that down in
the grotto at the end of the school
gardens she had concealed ten Tom.
miles," who had come, hungry, foot,
sore and worn out Just one hour be-
fore the Germans.
They will be here in a moment
the English officer had said, not wish.
ing to put the girl in danger.
Never mind" she said, I'll hide
you somewhere, and afterwards we
shall see." So she took them to the
grotto. But the quarters were mar
row, damp and intensely uncomfort
able. Her heart bled for her pro
teges. Then she had an idea, the
very daring of which was to insure its
success. She installed her ten Tom
mics in the u~noccupied top floor Of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Eastern Scrub Pine.

A Lazarus of the forest is the east
ern scrub pine, also called Jersey
pine, a small, puny tree of poor and
pitiful form, willing to subsist on the
crumbs that fall from the table of
others. 1t grows in New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and
farther south and west. 1t creeps into
open spaces, and is the companion of
sassafras and huckleberry bushes.
Old, WORKOUT quilted fields appeal to
this pine, because little else will grow
there, and it is not obliged to fight
for room. In course of time, how
ever, as the impoverished soil begins
to recover, broad-leaf seedlings come
in. AS these increase in size. the
scrub-pines die, and finally disappear.
Though they have been in full posses.
sion of the ground, they are unable to
hold 1t against competitors.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Indian Eqq Dance.

Want a new dance? Why not try
the Indian egg dance? Place IS eggs
in rows on the floor INT dance rapidly
zigzag among them without breaking
any Of them-that's all. An expert
says it takes four or five years of prac-
tice to become an adept and that
learners will do well to use potatoes
during the hrst two or three years OF
practice. 1t may be added hat it is
advisable to s strictly fresh eggs
at any stage of the game. The rea-
son for this %precaution a readily be
understood by securing a defunct egg
and breaking the shell suddenly with
an ak.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

DR.. Fritz Wilhelm Holm of New
York is a former newspaper mar of
China, Denmark and the United
States. He was born in Copenhagen.
Denmark, in 1881, is the SON of the
late Consul General Frederick P. Holm
and has travelled all over the world
several times. In 1906 Doctor Holm
organized and commanded a scientific
expedition into the interior of China,
from which after many month of dan
gerous and arduous work. brought
back che famous HISTORIAN monument
of A. d. 7S1, a replica of which stands
in the Metropolitan Museum in New
York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Princess Sherbet

Take a cupful of the strip from a
Jar of raspberry preserves and the
same amount of juice from a can Of
pineapple; add two tablespoonfuls Of
lemon juice and a strip made by boil
ing together a pint of water and a
cupful of sugar. When cold add four
tablespoonfuls of orange juice and
freeze. When stiff, open the freezer
and add the white of an egg, beaten
stiff, with a teaspoonful of powdered
sugar.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Bacon and Scrambled Ems

Break four eggs into a bowl and
beat well; add four tablespoonfuls of
milk or water; also half a saltspoon-
full OF salt and a good pinch of pepper.
Melt half a tablespoonful of butter in
a frying pan and pour in the eggs.
Stir occasionally till they have set.
Serve on a hot platter garnished with
tiny curls of broiled bacon and pars.
ley sprays.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
NOT PARTED EVEN BY DEATH
Married Sixty Years, End for Aged
Couple Is Almost Stimuli
taneous.

Stamford, Conn. = In Creadley
Heath, England, more than eighty
years ago, two children were born-a
boy and a girl-within a stones throw
of each other. They played together,
they went to school together, they
courted and sixty years ago they mar
ried. They moved to this country and
died here within eve hours of each
other.
These two people, whose lives ran
happily side by side for more than
three-quarters OF a century, we're Mr..
and Mrs. William Woodhall, 1876 Hen
ry street. Stamford.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Indian Curry of Mutton

Fry four chopped onions in butter,
add a te%aspoonful of curry powder, a
teaspoonful of salt and one cupful of
chopped apples. Stir in a cupful of
rich milk and a tablespoonful of -four
rubbed smooth with a little cold water.
Simmer till thick and add two pounds
of breast of mutton cut in squares,
Toured and Drowned in a little butter.
Simmer till meat is well done; it may
be found necessary Il add a little
more milk or water from time to time.
Serve very hot.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

live and thrive.
The mother is aged thirty-seven
and is already a grandmother of three,
She was married at the age of thfr
teen in Texas to her present husband,
who is sixty years old. Both are
of healthy, hardy stock. though plural
births can only be traced on the faith
er's side, where twins have not been
an exception.
There were 60 visitors at the Nc,
knight farm home next day, in spite
OF the remote location. Among them
we're a party Of newspaper men.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Liver Loaf.

One calf's liver, one-half cupful of
bread crumbs, one-half teaspoonful
salt; one teaspoonful of ~flavoring for
soups and stews, one tablespoonful
vinegar, four slices of salt pork
chopped fine, one t,.blespoonful of
chopped onion, one cupful of water,
few grains of cayenne, few gratings Of
nutmeg. Wash liver and chop, cook
in boiling water five minutes, drain,
add bread crumbs and chop, adding
remaining ingredients and press into
a bread pan. Cover and bake one
hour in a slow over
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
EvanoeIIst who Was an Actor.

George Whitefield qualified as a boy
for gameness in more than one di-
rection. The future evangelist en-
joyed play acting, and performed in
girls clothes before the mayor and
corporation of Gloucester; while by
the time he was fifteen he had become
an expert ale drawer in the family
public house. These pursuits, alien
to the pulpit, appear. however, to have
been converted into aids to evan
gelism. The youthful love of the stage
no doubt helped to develop the ire
mendous histrionic gift which made
Lord Chesterfield. on hearing White
field describe a blind beggar's fall
over a p~recipice. spring from his seat
and exclaim: Good God, he's gone!"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01

Boil two cupfuls diced potatoes, half
cupful chopped celery and parsley.
with a little onion In sailed water, un-
I'll tender. Thicker with a Tablespoons
full each of butter and -four and rub to
a paste. All two cups Of hot new
milk, season with a little white pep
per; bring all to a boil. stirring until
smooth, and serve.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
Rolled Dat Waters

Tablespoonful butter, one cupful
sugar, two eggs beaten separately,
two cups rolled oats. one-half tea.
spoonful bitter almonds, two teaspoon,
tuls baking powder. Melt butter, pour
over sugar. then add yolks, beaten
whites. flavoring, meal and baking
powder, Drop in t~easpoonfuls on but.
tered pans.