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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
KITCHEN HINTS OF MOMENT
ton of Food-Meat When Roast
ing Should Be Kept Covered.

Everybody does not know that food
IN general should not be allowed to
cool in tin. copper or iron. 1t must be
placed while hot in agate, china or
well glazed eathen ware.
Green vegetables should be dropped
into boiling water to which a pinch of
b~icarbonate of soda has been added.
Put in salt when the article is half
cooked.
If you have covered a pan in which
meat is to be roasted never open it to
basic the meat. Keep it covered from
start to finish. The idea is that the
pans are filled with steam, which pene-
trates the fibers of the meat. If de-
sired to brown the outside leave the
W. off for the first half hour in a
quick oven.
The shank bones of mutton, of so
little general value, if we'll soaked add
to the richness of gravies and soup
stock.
When boiling haricot beans or dried
limas do not put in the salt until they
are nearly cooked. otherwise they are
apt to split and come out of their
skins. They should be brought to the
boiling point. that water poured of
and fresh boiling water poured over
them.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
AIR NEEDED IN ICE BOX
Provision for Proper Circulation is as
Much a Necessity as Supply Of
Cooling Material.

II is astonishing how little the aver
age housekeeper knows about ice.
Some women seem to think all there
is about ice is to have the man put it
In the refrigerator Others, more care
full, think to save the ice bill by put
ting some kind of covering over the
ice.
True, the ice does not melt so quick.
ly with the cover, but then again, since
1t does not melt. it has no cooling ef-
feet. Unless ice melts IT is useless.
The faster it melts the colder the ice
box becomes.
The most important feature of a
good refrigerator is ample facility for
a free circulation of air when the box
is closed. Cool air, being heavier than
warm air, sinks. The warm air rises.
For this reason the coolest place in
the refrigerator is the bottom and not
the ice chamber, as so many people
think it is and consequently often put
butter DR. milk directly in with the ice.
There must be suitable passages to
allow the warm air rising from the
things placed in the refrigerator to
flow to and yer the ice at the top. and
for this same air when cooled and
purified by the melting ice, to return
into the food chamber.
The circulation continues until the
temperature is equalized. While this
circulation proceeds the ice melts
rapidly. but. when the temperature is
once equalized the ice melts very
slowly, that is, if the door fits tight.
1t will pay in the end to keep the ice
compartment well supplied with ice.
1t should never be less than o%ne-quar-
ter full. The ice melts faster, and
with less cooling effect, when the sup
ply is low.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

down a lurching, Indifferent figure in
the middle of the road. His ma
chine just grazed Elston and pushed
him aside.
Narrow escape that, Bob" observed
Pearce, in a warning, but friendly
tone. Il should think you'd about cut
this drink business out"
Would" stammered Elston. but
I'm afraid of the tremens," and he
~shuddered.
Pearce eyed him speculatively. He
knew Elston as an irresponsible vii
lage feature, he felt sorry for him
and wondered mentally If it would do
any good to try and sober him up.
See here, Elston," he said, you've
got too much material in you to
throw 1t to the winds this way. Why
don't you brace up?" and he tried a
lot of coaxing arguments on his sub
ject, but Elston was impervious to
them all. He was at that stage where
the liquor lay dead in him, afraid of
the horrors" and he fell behind with
a disconsolate face.
Come to me if l can ever help you
sober, though, mind you," hailed
Pearce in parting, and waived his
hand in a friendly, encouraging way,
not noting that the movement disar-
ranged something from his outside
coat pocket, which fell into the road
owe the side of the machine.
Elston, coming along, saw it, picked
1t up. 1t was a p~ocketbook and it
was filled with bank notes. For a mo-
ment the drink-bleared eyes glowed
with covetqusness. Then Elston
thrust it out of sight inside his coat,
m%uttering:
No, / won't be a thief, II / am
a drunken wreck. Pearce spoke right
to me. I'll act the man." and half an
hour later he reached the Office of the
young lawyer and returned the pocket
book.
"Whew," whistled Pearce, for the
first moment aware OF his loss.
There's twelve hundred dollars mort
gage money paid me by a farmer. /
say!-"
He was petrifed at the simple hon
esty of this lost soul. He pulled Els
ton into his private office.
"Old fellow" he said gratefully.
you've got to let me repay this big
act of yours. The woman who keeps
my office in order has a neat little
home. I'm going to get you a room
there. You'll have the best of care.
Rest for a week and let me put you
on your feet"
mo use, I'm afraid" returned Els
ton dejectedly. 81 can't bear to be
shut up. I'm afraid of the tremens.
and want to be where l can get the
drink If / begin to see things"
For a long time Pearce pleaded with
the poor unfortunate. At length Els
ton said:
TN try 1t, on one condition"
And what is that?"
you trust me-"
i guess will, after your bring.
Ing back that lost pocketbooki"
i want you to buy me a quart bot.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Vacancies Are Scarce.

Sackville McKnutt, the famous de.
tective, was in a reminiscent mood. It
have often read in the papers," he
said, where some so-called captain of
industry, or some ~so-called tired bust
ness man, bewailed the fact that there
m no longer any $25, 00O-a-year men.
And, applying my own peculiarly eff
cient system of ratiocination. l OBJ
serve that the best jobs these tired
fellows have at their disposal are
filed either by immediate relatives or
by the relatives of large stockholders,
With no chance whatever for a $25. 600
a-year mar to break in at any price"
Kansas City Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
8 Pies an Hour

The fastest machine devised for
making pies is operated by a fore
mar and six assistants and will turn
out 1900 pies an hour. The machine
is provided with IS revolving pie hold!
ers, which move around an oblong
table or platform; two crust rollers.
n for the lower and the other for
the upper crust; a set of four auto
matte m%oistening, brushes, and a pie
trimming wheel. The six operators
of the machine place the crusts, fill
the pies and remove them from the
table when the operation of moisten-
ing and trimming has been automat-
ically completed.-World's Work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Salviing the
Derelict
- By -
HECTOR BLAKE


Copyright, 1915. by W. G. Chapman.)
"A brand from the burning!" pro
claimed wheezy, parsimonious Daniel
Britt. 1--WE put Bob Elston on his
feet. / hope he keeps his good reso-
lutions which I-ha, hum have tried
to instill."
Old Britt indicated a figure going
down the street. 1t was Bob Elston
whom everybody in town knew for a
ne'er-do-well, but pitied him and liked
him.
AS to Daniel Britt, the knowing
ones smiled and shrugged their should.
ers. 1t was true that he had given
young Elston a suit of old clothes, but
1t was also current knowledge that
Elston In some unaccountable sprint
OF sobriety had delved and labored in
the Britt garden for a full ten days,
receiving half pay.
Britt made great capital of his
charity" all that day. The next, how
ever, his feathers dropped. More un-
steady and ragged than ever. Bob
Elston appeared on the streets of the
village. He had sold his clothes and
was back in his old attire. He was
blindly, steadfastly intoxicated. The
of rum had him fully in his
power once more.
Did my duty, it's off my mind" com
mented Britt, and poor Bob as an &C.
knowledged institution of the lower
type of the time proceeded to pro-
long his spree.
1t was about a week after that when
Donald Pearce, a rising young lawyer
OF the town, coming down the turn
pike in his automobile. nearly ran
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Often the housewife finds that the
cream she has will not whip. The de-
~partment's dairy specialists point out
that to obtain satisfactory results in
whipping cream it should be cold and
of the right thickness, containing
about 80 per cent or more OF butter
fat. Ordinary cream. designated as
coffee cream by the trade, is alto
gether too thin to give good results.
The whipping cream, as delivered by
the milkman, contains 30 to 40 per
cent of butterfat. Thoroughly chill
the cream before whipping by placing
It in a covered bowl on the ice. The
whipping process is also aided and
fastened by standing the bowl in a pan
of ice water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Beef Tea Meat.

Remove all gristle and fat from meat
intended for beef tea. Place these
trimmings in a pan with sufficient wa.
ter to cover them, and add any vege.
table to hand cut up small. Allow to
simmer, then add the meat from the
beef tea. Simmer for four hours, then
strain through a hair sieve and pour
the liquid into a mold to set. When
cold it will be a nourishing jelly, suit,
able for invalids. The vegetable used
must be quite. fresh.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Cook n cupful of boiling water,
four t~ablespoonfuls of butter, table
spoonful OF sugar and one-half salt
spoonful of salt until the butter
melts; add one and one-half cupfuls
of pastry -four, stir until the mixture
leaves the sides Of the pan, remove
from the fire, cool and add three large
unbeaten eggs, n at a time. beating
thoroughly between each addition.
Press through a pastry bag on but
tered and Toured tins. bake about half
an hour, cool, cut a slit in each and
fill with raspberry jam.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Three pounds neck mutton, two ia
b~lespoonfuls pearl barley, two table,
spoonfuls minced onion, two table.
%spoonfuls minced turnip, two table
sponfuls minced carrot, two table.
spoonfuls minced celery. two table.
spoonfuls salt, one teaspoonful pepper,
one tablespoonful minced parsley,
three quarts cold water. Remove
bones and fat from mutton, cut meat
small and place with vegetables and
seasoning, except parsley. Simmer
three hours after coming to a boil,
then thicken with -four and add pars-
lev.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
up to Date.

"Oh, yes" said Mrs. Noovowe. fan.
ming herself vigorously. Jim and me
tries always to be strictly up to date.
In place of a cook we have a chef to
run u kitchen for us; and we've had
a taximeter put on to our car to show
us how much we save by runnin' our
own. and on top o. that. Jim has en-
ployed one o. the best %artichokes in
the country to draw plans for remod-
elm u old stable into a irst-class
garbage"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
AERO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

For a long time it has been sus.
pected that the art of working iron be
gan among the Negroes in Africa.
Now it is so well confirmed that there
seems little doubt about it.
Bronze was the first metal of which
man availed himself. Just how that
came about is uncertain. Copper and
tin were abundant, but were of little
value for weapons or cutting imple-
ments, when someone conceived the
Idea that by combining them a serv-
iceable set of tools vas easy.
1t is believed that the idea may
have come from Asia Minor, where
the two metals are found in combina-
ton. All the weapons of the Homeric
age were bronze, and steel swords
and knives do not appear to have been
common until about 700 or 500 years
before the Christian era.
Archeologists have come across
specimens of iron in Egypt which
have puzzled them. Recently in open
ing some graves in Nubia, the ancient
Ethiopia, an iron spearhead was found
in good condition. The grave dates
from about 340O B. c. and in any event
was long before iron was known else
where.
This spearhead was discovered by
an expedition of the University Mu-
scum, Philadelphia, which was ex-
cavating for ancient relics. It is o
in the museum, and the astonishing
thing is that it is precisely like the
~spearheads made by the natives in
Africa today.
The native village blacksmith is an
important parsonage. He is usually a
wanderer, like the travelling tinker,
but there seems to be a rather closely
organized guild among them. The
bellows are small and are worked gen.
orally by two men. They keep the
fire very hot. The smith often uses a
stone for an anvil, and his hammers
are very rude. Seeing these crude
implements, n would never suppose
it possible to accomplish much, but
they turn out some really admirable
work.
They work with considerable cere-
mony and are highly esteemed. Witch
craft enters into their ceremonies and
the natives believe that only thus can
good work be accomplished.
The appearance of the blacksmith is
the sign for ceremonial dances in the
village. All join in. Dancing does not
seem to enervate the natives and ap-
parently takes the place OF sleep.
The African villages are kept so
clean that the university explorers on
their return were shocked at Philadel-
phia and New York. In Africa the
chief is the head sweeper, and If ev-
erything is not as neat as a pin he is
deposed and sometimes loses his head
not his official head, but his real
one.
The native ironworkers of darkest
Africa are fast disappearing. because
traders are gradually entering the
country and selling cheap wares,
which puts the Negro smith out of
business. There still remains, how
ever, a number of sections where the
smith is a mighty man, even more
respected than he Of whom Longfel-
low sang.
The work of the native smiths al
ways begins with dancing, in which
the entire village joins. Then there is
a feast. Next day, if iron has to be
smelted, the ore is first offered to the
image of the native god by the hand
1900. -s-I - II IL
the work the chief is in attendance,
watching the smiths as they sit in a
ring.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Mix together one-half pound Of -four,
one-fourth pound each of butter and
sugar and two eggs. Add a small cup
full of milk and one tablespoonful OF
baking powder. When well mixed put
in a cupful or more OF grated cocoa.
nut. Bake in small buttered tins In
a moderately quick oven.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Flemish Onions.

Slice thinly greer apples and onions.
sprinkle with -four and brown in but.
ter. using equal quantities of apple
and onion. Place in layers in a bak-
ing dish with buttered crumbs. season
with lemon Juice and finish the ton
with buttered crumbs. When the
crumbs are brown the dish Is readyt to
serve.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Pound six bitter almonds and boil
in three pints of milk, add half a tea
spoonful of salt and three tablespoon
fuls of sugar, Beat separately three
eggs, adding the stifly frothed whites
very lightly to the yolks. Let the
milk cease boiling, remove from the
IRE and whisk in the eggs till all is
a foam. Serve hot in small bowls.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Crane sauo

Wash one cupful of a g and soak in
three cupfuls of cold water for two
hours Cook till transparent and add
n cupful of grape juice and one cup
fui OF sugar. Turn into a mold and
serve very cold. Currant jelly may be
substituted for grape juice by thinning
a tumblerful OF the jelly with one cup
full of boiling water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
pIseoverx Of Coal In Amerloa.

Coal was first discovered in the Lee
high regions of Pennsylvania in 1871
by a poor hunter named William Gin
ter. near the present town of Mauch
Chunk. 1t was not until 1904 that coal
mining was begun along the banks OF
the Mississippi as well as along the
Yellowstone. And 1t was In this
same year that coal was first success
fully used in this country for heating
purposes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Cookies, jumbles, and small cakes
are in constant demand on the tea
table. and where there are young chill
dren in the family two or three find
their way into the school lunch box
each day. To make tn ,sr small cakes
requires time and patience. but II
success rewards the efforts the cook
does not regret the time spent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

long and one inch wide for q bracelet.
the chain is crossed and fastened
with a tiny hook and silk eyelet ten
inches from the ends. Over the fas-
tening is a bunch OF silk flowers. Just
above the fastening five tiny silk
flowers are sewed on. At the neck
use the velvet, one inch wide, for
the bar-pin effect, also ornamented
with tiny flowers. Tie a knot in the
center and fasten one end. pointed. to
the chain with a few stitches and let
the other end be attached with .
small hook and eye
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
10 Your chum q oraduate-to-7ef

10 Your Chum q Graduate-to-6ef
Because. II she is, you will surely
want to remember the occasion with
some appropriate gift, even though 1t
costs but a little. One of the pref
tIest, daintiest and most girlish friIls
seen lately is a set OF ribbon jewelry.
Sounds pretty and dainty. doesn't It,
girlsf And 1t Is. You will need q
piece OF ribbon velvet one and a half
yards long and th~rse-eighths OF an
inc wide for the chain. q piece ive
inches long aud one inch wide for
the pin and another strip eight inches
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

At a C~hristmas-tree festival in South
Paris, Me-, the gifts were taken from
the tree by a young lady who had re-
Gently been married. During the dis
tribution she found one package with
a name she didn't recognize, so she
laid the gift aside. AS the packages
disappeared she began to wonder
where her own was. and finally real.
lied that the discarded package bore
her own new name.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Potatoes, cabbage, celery, caulilow-
er, lettuce, carrots and turnips of fine
quality are extensively grown in Yu-
kon territory, Canada. Potatoes are
the principal crop, retailing at five
cents a pound.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

In n of the young ladies' schools
in a suburb of Berlin the pupils sent
a committee to the principal asking
her to discontinue instructions in
French and English, as it would be
unpatriotic to learn the language of
nations who, in such an infamous
manner, had dragged Germany into
war" 1t took the principal consider
able time to show the girls why their
request could not be complied with.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

A government survey has resulted
in ranking the Yukon river in fifth
place among the great streams of
North America.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

If you want to hear a lot of rea-
sons talk to the ball player who has
been released.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Circumstantial evidence. seldom is
strong enough to induce the jury TO
convict an attractive woman.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

II it is anything her husband told
her about his life before he married
her, a wife never forgets it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

For sorting fruit as it is picked from
a tree there has been invented a tube
that separates the small from the large
as they slide down it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Besides SO newspapers printed In
English, New York city has 10 in Ital-
ian, 7 German, Z Jewish. 3 Greek, 8
Hungarian, 2 French. 2 Bohemian, 2
Croatian, l Spanish, Servian. Syrian
and Chinese.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

20 God, we thank Thee for success
and victory of our army and navy
Grant unto us, If 1t please Thee, more
decisive victories. We pray Thee pro-
tect our sailors, naval men, and civil
ians from mines and ~torpedoes, and
our shores from the designs of the
enemy. Through Jesus Christ.
observation-disclosures in Edinburgh
Scotsman.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

One Of the greatest and most repre-
sentative gatherings of Afro-Americans
ever assembled in the Lone Star state
will be present at Austin during the
Sunday school and Baptist Young Peo-
pies union c~hautauqua, which holds
forth August 1928 inclusive. Negroes
of all walks of life will be there,
from men of international reputation
to boy cadets, who will be on hand in
great numbers to lend their assistance
to the occasion.
From present indications Houston
will be well represented, both by
cadets from the various Sunday schools
and delegates from the Sunday schools
and Baptist Young Peoples unions.
The Houston delegation will go in
special cars IN charge of c. F. Rich
ardson and R. B. H. Yates.
In Austin Revs. ]. B. Plus and D. A.
Scott and others are making ample
preparations to care for a monster
crowd. Interest is intense throughout
the state in this great meeting. and
the railroads have granted a rate of
one and one-third fare for the round
trip. 1t promises to eclipse all former
meetings of it's kind in the South
among Afro-Americans.
Capt, John Sessums' Zouaves will
also make the trip and hope t. set a
pace for all the other companies.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

H. P. Ewing, the former potato king
of the Kaw valley, returned to Kansas
City from a lecture tour through Okla
homa, where he has been advocating
the back-to-the-farm movement for Ne
groes. Ewing has a farm west of Ar
gentine, where Negro boys are taught
how to farm. He lectured at Tulsa,
Bartlesville, Muskogee, South McAles-
ter and Wybark, Okla. The CONNER
cial club Of Tulsa offered to help in
the movement, and two hundred acres
of ground were pledged. At Bartles-
vile a quarter section was offered. A
farm of 100 acres is now under cult
walton at Wybark.
An institute in Kansas City similar
to the Tuskegee institute in Alabama,
where Negroes are taught to earn
their livelihood, is planned by Ewing.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

When it is necessary for a town to
pass the hat the first move made is to
secure an influential citizen to do it.