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Middletown transcript., 1915-12-04
Memorable Derby Race.

The Derby of Running Rein-or,
rather, Orlando-will ever be mem
orable on account of the gigantic
fraud perpetrated by a mob OF
scoundrelly betting men. who entered
Running Rein, the horse which passed
the post first, relates London Tit
Bits.
Lord Bentinck helped the owner OF
the second, Orlando, to sustain the OBJ
lection he lodged against the winner.
Many interesting anecdotes are told
Of the formers perseverance in prov
ing incontestably that the supposed
Running Rein was none other than a
four-year-old named Maecabaeus.
In this Dirty Derby" as it has been
called. another fOur-year-old named
Leander also ran, but he had to be de-
stroyed Immediately after the race, as
he broke his leg coming round Tatten-
ham corner.
A dead heat was seen for the first
time so long ago as 1928, Cadland win
ming the run-off, and the next dead
heat, that between st. Gatien and Har-
yester, was allowed to stand.
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French AqricuIture.

Since the outbreak of the war the
French government has been fully
alive to the paramount importance of
the agricultural problem, which has
been rendered all the more difficult
of solution by the drain which the
general mobilization made upon labor.
In spite of the great sacrifices made
by the women of France, who. since
the war began, have undertaken agri-
cultural work hitherto performed by
men. there was for a long period a
serious lack of hands. This has been
remedied to a great extent by the
initiative Of M. Millerand. the min
lister of war, who put at the disposal
OF farmers territorial troops and the
men in the depots who are unfit for
the fighting line. Permission has also
been granted to men in the trenches
to return to the farms for seed time,
while in the zone of the armies Off
GERS in command have ordered sol
diers to render help to farmers when
ever possible.
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FIOr1ENg6
nTONNR6
" HELPS
ADD TO VALUE OF PROPERTY
Cleveland Landscape Artist Makes Il
Clear How Trees Give Substantial
Return to Owner.

'If trees do have an effect on real
estate, what is that effect?" says Fred
erick Noble Evans, landscape artist Of
Cleveland, Ohio.
1T would be an assumption Of the
real estate mans total lack Of obser-
walton to argue the point, that the ef-
feet Of well-grown tree or tree group
on lot gives somehow a substantial
appearance to the whole Of the prop
erty. The sense of permanency at
taching to the tree seems in our mind
to spread to the house also.
"The household itself, our imagina-
tion suggests, must be founded on
something substantial. That house a
little farther down the street, built
in the same style, and just as large,
with no tree on the lot, seems tran
sient, of sudden growth and about to
take sudden departure. OF the two,
If we are prospective buyers, we
would choose the property with the
tree near by, for we cannot but feel
that life would be just a little more
worth living here. once heard a
commercial traveller say that in choos-
ing the house that he finally pur'
chased he had let his imagination
do the deciding.
"He had merely shut his eyes and
considered which one he would rather
come home to. The property which
he bought had trees on it. II one Ot
us had been the broker, we would
probably have felt indebted to the
arboreal specimen for the SALE"
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Artificial Limbs.

A recent number of the Berlin
Medical Weekly. notes the excellent
quality of work done by United States
manufacturers of artificial limbs. One
case is cited of subject who eight
years ago in America had suffered am
putation of both arms and both legs
as q result Of gangrene following Sc
we're electrical burns. "The man."
says the medical journal, after six
months practice in exercising the
stumps was supplied with four arti-
fetal limbs by an American manufac-
turer. He became able then to earn
his living; could walk without limp
and had covered without a cane
eleven and one-quarter miles in day.
He was able to feed himself, to dress
and undress and in fact seemed to
show no great incapacity." 1t was
proposed to show him for moral ef-
feet to soldiers who had lost limbs in
battle
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GIVE BREEDERS FAIR CHANCE
Insanitary Conditions Have Done More
to Undermine Health Of Poultry
Than Anything Else.

Always give the breeders fair
chance to make good. Don't shut
them up in a poorly ventilated and in
sanitary pen, give them poor food and
attention and then expect them to lay
eggs filled with strong, vigorous life
germs. They can't do it. Give them
a fair chance and they will always
do their part.
Insanitary conditions have perhaps
done more to undermine the health
and vigor of poultry than any other
one thing. Certainly it is great han
dicap to the fowls, and they should
not be forced to endure such condi-
tions. Their battle for life is hard
enough without making it harder. So
help them by giving them a fair
chance and you will be well paid for
your time and trouble.
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CHIEF POINT OF GOOD EGGS
Most Eggs Purchased on General Mar
ket Would Hatch Out Chicks If
Put In an Incubator.

Sterility is one of the chief points
of a really good egg. No one who
is discriminating wants to eat an egg
that has been fertilized. The germ
is repulsive to the taste. 1t is a fact
that most of the eggs purchased on
the general market as fresh, If placed
in an incubator before they were too
old, would hatch out chicks.
Yet these eggs were sold daily by
grocers and dealers who obtain the
product from farms where poultry rails
ing is merely side issue and conduct
ed without any special attention to the
hens. The fertility is the result ol
failure to segregate the sexes.
On farms where chickens are a BY
product and are allowed to have the
run of the place this condition exists
and it is also a notable fact that suct
farms still supply the most Of thu
eggs consupasd in this country.
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three beaten eggs, tablespoonful OF
chopped parsley, third of a cupful
of milk, a tablespoonful of butter,
melted; mix well and pack in mold,
sprinkle with crumbs, add salt and
pepper to season and bake 80 minutes.
Serve hot
Potato Cake.-This cake is a great
favorite because of its keeping quail
ties. Cream a cupful Of butter, add
two cupfuls of sugar. and the yolks
of four eggs, well beaten; then add
cupful of cold mashed potato, beat
well; then add a half cupful of
milk, two cupfuls Of flour, sifted, with
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one
and a half teaspoonfuls of cloves,
half cupful of grated chocolate; mix
we'll, then add two cupfuls of broken
walnut meats, teaspoonful of vanilla;
then fold in the beaten whites, add a
pinch of salt and bake in a shallow
pan for so minutes.
Boston Brown Bread.-Mix three.
fourths of cupful each Of cornmeal
graham and wheat flour, teaspoon
full and half of salt, tablespoonful
of soda mix all together and ther
add cupful Of buttermilk, cupfu
of molasses and then another cupfu
of sour or buttermilk This makes
two loaves, steam for eight hours. Thu
long steaming adds flavor as we'll a.
richness Of color.
Sweet Potato and oyster croquettes
TO two cupfuls of mashed sweet pc
tato add one cupful of oysters, Gu
in pieces; one cupful Of sweet mill
Stir in two we'll beaten eggs, one tel
spoonful of sugar, one-half teaspoon
full of salt, dash of cayenne. ForI
into balls, roll in beaten egg, the
crumbs and fry in deep fat.
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TAKE THE PLACE OF "SHAMS"
~overplIIowsIIps" Are Great Improve
ment over the old-Fashlonedea and
Unsatisfactory Articles.

The old-fashioned sham" is fast dis
appearing, and in its place we have the
envelope sham, or the "overpillow-
slip" Shams we're always unsatisfac-
tory things to keep in place, all sorts
of laborious devices being needed to
keep them up. Besides. they were
exactly what their name implied.
SHAM" imitation, and any Imitation
is always bad remembering. Of
course, that the exception only serves
to prove the rule).
The new shams, II you insist upon
calling them so, are really pillowslips
made a size or two too large, so that
they will fit easily and quickly over
the ordinary. everyday slips. These
large slips are sometimes quite elab-
crate, although they may be left quite
plain. The object is to preserve for
the pillows an immaculate appearance
during the day. The large slips are
put on the pillows when the bed Il
vlade, anC are removed at night. the
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untheatrleaI Commander.

Great generals in these crucial hours
are not posing for the movies" They
are not animated portrait busts be-
plastered with medallions and ribbons
to astound lay audiences of civilians at
long range. General Joffre, after %
hours of abstinence from sleep or food
as he follows over the telephone the
varying fortunes of battle, calmly says
to his stan, ut is over. Let us go take
bite" The hero-worshiping biog-
rapher might fill the mouth of his god
like eftigy with resounding epic SEN
timent such as a central American rev
olutionist would declaim from bal
cony in triumphal hour; but strategy
not rhetoric, is the field marshal in
Ghis war.
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WHITE
WYANDOrTE

Experience has shown that any
variety Of hen will lay, and lay abun-
dantly, if bred along the right lines.
If you are satisfied as to shape and
color of your fowls, do not change for
something else in the hope of get
ting more eggs, such as Leghorns for
Plymouth Rocks, or Wyandottes for
Minorcas or Brown LeghOrns." This
is the advice given by breeder, who
has found from experience that this
changing is merely a waste of time
and patience.
One frequently sees or hears of a
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SELECT THE BEST CoCKEREL
Don't Sacrifice Vim and Ginger by
Keeping Dapper Little Male Birds
Size Is Desired.

Don't sacrifice the long, rangy cock
erel until you are sure that he isn't
a better bird than some of his more
"cocky" brethren. Sometimes the
early maturing cockerel stops right
there and makes little further growth,
while the bird that has gone to legs
and bone at first fills out and makes
the larger and more desirable bird for
the farm flock.
Size is usually desirable in any
flock. If vim and ginger go with It.
Don't sacrifice it by keeping only the
dapper little male birds that looked
like their dads when they were only
four or five months old.
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AFTER THE GREAT WAR
SPECULATION AS TO PLEASANT
PATHS OF PEACE.
Woman Who Has Known Conditions
at the Front Wonders What Real
Return to the Normal
Will Mean.

Centuries ago a chronicler of the
Crusades recorded quantity of GER
tain vain and valorous knight:
'Three wounds he received in this
battle, whereat he laughed, but the
paynim who shore his tall plume he
cursed deeply and rested not till he
had, with his good sword, shorn OF his
head"
That was in the day when every
gentleman who was not a priest must
be fighter, and could be dandy only
by the way. 1t was many years later
that another type arose, dandy first
and fighter afterward; the graceful
idIer, the society fop, suddenly trans
formed by patriotism, at his country's
callainto hero. History proved him,
fiction adopted him; he became one Of
the most popular figures in drama,
story and romance. But until now
neither fact nor fiction has supplied a
corresponding type Of heroine.
The great war Of today, although 1t
demands of many of the noble women
who have answered the call greater
ability, responsibility and thorough
ness Of training than has ever been de-
manded of women before. has also Of
fered opportunities Of service to 9th
ers, hitherto merely women of fashion
and the gay world, which many have
eagerly accepted. Women used only
to organizing balls toll on committees;
women who have shone in foreign cap
itals interpret for hapless refugees;
women who have played with petted
children in charming nurseries estab-
| lish orphanages, care for destitute
mothers or adopt war babies. Other
women of the modern athletic type,
unframed to nursing, devote their
nerve and muscle to Shaving in hos
pitals-hastily improvised, ill-equipped,
overcrowded, undermanned hospitals
where they fag for the real nurses,
and turn their hands to anything from
writing wills and messages for dying
men to menial and often horrible tasks
Of washing, scrubbing and disinfecting.
Others give themselves, with their
automobiles. to the Red Cross. and
drive their own cars, filled with wound
ed, over war-tOrn roads and half
wrecked bridges with skill and daring.
Often they run them under fire, and
not one of them has flinched.
IF ever this terrible time, which
seems an endless nightmare, does real
iy end" the American wife of an Eng
lishman of high social position. who
has been loyalty working with the rest
wrote home recently, says the Youths
Companion, land if wake up to peace
and pretty clothes and gay doings, and
life as it used to be-sometimes
wonder who it will be that will wake
Not l, the old / of before the war
that /, my dear, is dead as If she had
been shot. want to be happy and
Jolly again, yet when l think of the
old life it seems no more possible tC
take 1t up and live it than to go bach
and be little girl l have died, Of
grown up, or been born again since
then-I don't quite know which!
only know that am, and must be, diff
ferent and that l cannot even wish tt
be the same again"
Sometimes to lose a self is to find 1
soul.
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the thing for these dishes.
Farlna With Frult.-Put a quart of
milk on to heat, when boiling add q
cupful of farina, stirring until perfect
ly smooth. Cook until we'll done, cool,
add two beaten eggs, half cupful of
sugar, the grated rind of half lemon,
a teaspoonful of lemon Juice and a
fourth of a cupful of chopped almonds.
Pour into buttered pudding dish and
bake until slightly brown. Serve hot
or cold with currants, put up with
out cooking.
cornstar~h pudding and Blackber-
ries.-Take tablespoonful and half
of cornstarch, add a half cupful of
sugar and mix well, then stir in three
cupfuls of rich milk, cook until well
done, add a beaten egg and pour into
molds. Serve with sugar, cream and
blackberries, put up uncooked.
Peach Pudding.-Mix together a cup
full of flour, half cupful of nut meats,
pinch Of salt, two cupfuls of bread
crumbs then add three beaten eggs,
two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice, a
cupful of sugar and two cupfuls of
peaches. Pour into well-buttered
molds and steam two hours. Serve
with cream.
Flfteen-Minute Pudding.-Take a
cupful of sifted flour, teaspoonful of
baking powder, half teaspoonful of
salt and a half cupful of milk. This
is usually enough, though it may be
necessary to add little more milk.
Beat well and drop into buttered cups,
a tablespoonful to each cup, then
add a teaspoonful of sweetened
crushed fruit, Juice and all CHERRIES
are especially good), then another
spoonful of the pudding mixture, and
set the cups into pan of boiling wa
ter; cover closely and let them cook
for Is minutes. Then serve with
sugar and cream.
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PLEA FOR BETTER GARDENS
Writer In California journal Points
Out Defects That Exist in Most
Pleasure Grounds.

We should make our gardens livable
and then live in them, to an extent
equal with the English, who pass a
greater portion of their time in the
garden than any other people, says a
writer in the Los Angeles fines. 1t
is largely matter of attitude. AS a
nation we seem to think that whether
one has garden or not is mere in
cident or a matter Of taste. We
should learn to regard it as a neces-
sity; necessary to the preservation
and enjoyment of perfect health, both
collectively and individually. Dr.
Wilhelm Miller says: I'VE cannot be
a pink-cheeked nation until America
is one great garden, as England is"
We must first make our garden COM
Portable, and in gaining this most i'm
portant point will come the true gar
den. For it will never do to seek com
fort in garden that every day looks
as though it had just come from the
barber shop and Turkish bath. One
Of our greatest American park and
garden builders, after being shown
through Southern California's most
spectacular garden. said 1t might be
likened to a freshly-trimmed French
poodle. No rest and relaxation, spir'
itually, may be found in such gardens
not matter how many seats, benches
and arbors may be provided for phys
ical rest, for heartfelt comfort and re
Taxation, both mental and muscular
will still be lacking. We need more o.
comfort, less of Journalism and If We
make our garden comfortably beauti
full in the fullest sense of the word
we cannot choose but to love It.
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SCREEN coNcEALs A COUCH
Admirable Scheme Evolved From the
Brain Of a Woman Who Has
Practical Ideas.

A hospitable little woman who loves
dearly to entertain, but whose domi-
cile is too small to accommodate many
guests, has contrived a very sensible
way to put up the occasional man who
can bunk anywhere" anywhere
usually being the nving-room couch.
Out Of an ordinary wooden clothes
horse, the largest size obtainable, this
hostess has evolved slightly and prac-
tical screen which turns that corner
Of the living rooom in which the couch
is located into a very comfortable and
perfectly private bedroom. Opened
out. the clothes horse. which has three
sections, completely hides the impro-
vised bed from view, and the screen.
moreover. is almost six feet high. so
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FOR THE HOUSEHOLD PET
Easily Arranged DomlcIle That viii
BE Greatly Appreciated as His
Sleeping Place.

For a small pet dog that lives In
doors an ordinary kennel is scarcely
necessary, but at the same time he re-
quires some kind of home" Of his
own, in which he may sleep at night
We give sketch of convenient ar
ticle for this purpose that can easily
bo made of any strong wooden box
of a suitable size, which will, Of
course, be determined by the size Of
the dog 1t is intended for.
The lid of the box may be dispensed
with, as it will not be required. and
the interior of the box is lined with
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Protection for Skirts.

Skirt braid is used as much as ever
to protect hens of cloth dresses which
get hard wear. To put on, baste the
braid as near the edge of the skirt
as possible. then rip the hem for a
short distance and insert a piece of
cardboard or celluloid. pushing it
along as you hem.
You will find that you can put on
braid in less than half the usual time.
II you find it difficult to match colored
fabrics, use the selvedge of the ma.
terial for the binding, On a closely
woven cloth fabric it is admirable for
this purpose when the finished edge ia
used for the lower edge of the btnd
ing.
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flannel, the material being fastened in
place with tacks. The exterior Of the
box is smoothly covered with some
pretty inexpensive cretonne, which is
also fastened on with small tacks. the
material being first of all secured to
the edges of the box. then drawn tight
ly across the sides and tackled on IN
derneath. The edges are afterwards
finished off with narrow ornamental
braid and brass-headed nails, driven in
close together. Prior to covering the
box, part of the front must be cut
away, and the dotted lines in the
small sketch on the right of the H.
lustration indicate the portion that
should be removed.
To complete the home" and make
it very comfortable, a piece can be
cut from an old fur mat to fit into
the bottom of the box.
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Jeweled Combs.

Ieweled combs and hairpins are
among the novelties for evening wear.
Sapphires and emeralds seem to be
the favored stones set in amber or tor.
toise shell. alone or in combination
with rhinestones. For the dowager
there are handsome jet combs. as we'll
as combs set with jet and rhinestones
and black onyx and pearls. Set amidst
the puffs and soft curls of the couture
they add a note of distinct charm.
Worn high, they impart even to the
frivolous coquette an air of dignity.
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that the ordinary individual dressing
behind It, is quite hidden.
The three panels ef the clothes horse
screen have been covered with shirred
cretonne, the material overlapping at
the points of the screen, so that there
shall be no crannies to afford un-
sought and unwelcome glimpses into
the screened-off space. The cretonne
matches the curtains and cushions Of
the living room, and when the screen
is set up at bedtime the rest of the
room still presents a cozy and tidy ap-
pearance.
On the inner side of the screen are
several hooks and many large and
small shirred pockets, made of the Gre
tonne. On the hooks garments may be
hung and into the pockets will be
slipped toilet articles, shoes and small
belongings. An oval mirror hangs
from a stout hook in the center Of the
panel of the screen.
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WHITE LEGHORN
pEMoUTH ROCK

poultry keeper whose birds lay pro-
fusely and almost incessantly, while
a neighbor across the way has the
same variety, gives his just as much
attention, and yet they scarcely lay
at ALL" continues this authority.
Nov, while this neighbor has the
same variety or breed of chickens as
the other, he has not an egg-laying
strain in that particular variety
of breed. and that is just where the
trouble is. To get large egg yield
one must have birds which were de-
scended from an reproducing strain"
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Vines for Concrete House,

A correspondent wishes to know
what vines she should plant to COM
pletely cover a concrete house Of
rough exterior finish, the enveloping
process to be as rapid as possible.
Plant alternately, about six feet
apart, all around the house vines of
Ficus Repens and Bignonia Tweedi-
ana. The former will spread laterally
and cover the lower parts, while the
latter will rapidly ascend to the high
er parts. 1t may be as well to cut on
the lower shoots of Bignonia in order
to hasten its upward growth, for the
Ficus will surely cover all below.
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llIftnmn grl
EI 0Utkrnr aArunDAYW
FASHION HAS TAKEN AM HER
I FORWARD STEP
Daring Leaders Of Modes Are Wear
Ing Flowers Just Above the Shoe
Tops, Instead Of at Waist,
as Formerly.
-

/ The Parisian creators of fashion
have issued the royal edict that to
be the vogue, skirts this season must
be short. The shorter the more vogue
to them. No doubt the fashion men,
tors had in mind that the spaces in
tervening between the skirt bottoms
and the shoe tops would be utilized
by some creative genius in the intro
duction of the latest fad.
OF course there was the apklet
watch and the anklet nun to fall back
on, but such tame things as these could
very easily be improved on by some
one with Imagination.
Naturally one must have a dainty
ankle. Yes, indeed, very dainty
ankle, to attract the proper amount
of eyes. But then, again, like every
thing else. there are likes and dis
likes, and the piano-bottomed ankle
is Just as apt to attract attention as
ts the one built on the lines of a
Venus.
dorothy Newell, possessing as
charming figure as one would desire,
bethought herself of a daring limo
walton. Having the daring of her con
victions, she went about executing
them. II, Miss Newell figured. 1t be
the proper thing to wear corsage
at the waist, why not use bouquet
to adorn the ankle? Having started
the vogue, it caught like a house o.
tinder when the torch is applied to it
and now the florists are getting rea
fused up about it. Aye, they arr
studying the most courtly of manners
in SO far as the art of kneeling Il
J concerned. If the vogue spreads as 1
is already doing, the cavaliers Of tn
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Massaebusetts Mash Formula.

Mash formula, used by the Massa-
chusetts experimental station, with ex-
cellent results: Mix thoroughly equal
weight of cornmeal, ground oats, flour
middlings, gluten, bran, oil meal and
beef scraps; then add one pound Of
salt to each 100 pounds of the mash.
This may be fed dry or wet (mois-
tened), not sloppy.
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Weed Out Poor Hens.

There is a greater difference in the
egg production of hens in the same
flock than most people realize. In
trap-nesting work with small flock
of 16 Plymouth Rocks for year in
Canada the best one laid 2S1 eggs and
the poorest II. 1t is good thing to
weed out the poor layers and consign
them to the pot.