The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-14
MRS JOHN BULL
b0YC0ITS BUTTER
The Genuine Article Ia so High In
Price That Substitutes Are
Used by High and
Low.
is JUST AS NUTRITIOUS
Peculiar Case Of Songs Which Brought
Sight to Blind Man and Made
Dumb Man
Speak.

GBy Wilbur S. Forrest, United Press
Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Oct. 10. (by ma 'D-Mrs.
John Bull is waging butter boycott.
With British butter at thirty-six
cents, Danish butter at forty cents
and any old butter thirty to thirty-five
cents, Mrs. John Bull and all her
housewives revolted. Danish butter is
confined to limited export and British
butter markets find good butter
scarce because the farmers, because
OF the high price, sell only milk. New
Zealand and Canadian buffers are at
q premium.
The British government has taken
the butter situation in hand and is in
sorting display advertisements in the
newspapers praising substitutes for
butter, and, incidentally inserting
recent government report that Sub
stitutes properly made of vegetable
oils, milk and other ingredients, are
as nutritious as butter"
private investigation just con-
cluded shows that thousands of British
housewives are surrepitiously buying
the best grades of substitutes for their
tables. Not only the middle class
housewife, but the upper class ones
too, are doing it, Whether the hus-
band OF the household knows it or
not, according to this investigation,
he Is eating butter substitutes. The
substitute, as made in England today.
looks like butter, tastes like butter, is
twenty four cents per pound cheaper
and is put on the market with the
guarantee from the government that
It is as nutritious as butter. AS a
result, 7stiis slsaakxsts factories in the
United Kingdom, despite the chance
to make shells, are working overtime
making imitation butter
No animal fats are used Pure
vegetable oils are used. The oils are
mixed with milk. The mixture is
poured into iced water or over
wheel, the inside of which is practical
ly at the freezing point. The sudden
change of temperature brings about l
solidification of the mixtures which is
floated on water. 1t is then skinned
off and put through rollers that ex-
tract the water and without touching
human hands, it goes into pals and
tubs ready for Mrs. John Bull.
American housewives leagues that
proclaim boycotts and overlook the
fact that the boycotts are not carried
out, while the food producer laughs up
his sleeves, may take a hint from
their British sisters. The latter are
boycotting quietly; SO quietly that
half their husbands don't know it.
Songs That Make the Blind See.
LONDON, Oct. 10. (by maiD-|
Music's latest triumph is the restora-
tiAn Of the mental faculties of sol
der whose mind went blank under the
terrible cannonade that heralded the
allies last drive in Flanders.
In one of the numerous concert or
CARNATIONS, which under the direct
supervision OF, the minister of war,
are now sent to hospitals, encamp-
ments and even the trenches at the
front, to cure nervous, mental and
physical ailments of soldiers, was
Kenneth Ellis, a well known basso of
the London concert stage. He tells
the story:
-'The recovery by this soldier was
one of the most touching things have
ever encountered. The poor fellow
had been brought to our concert and
sat absolutely uncomprehending, un-
til Ernest Grooms rose to sing the
old favorite Mother Machree.'
"As the song proceeded. suddenly.
by one of those quick, curious mental
effects sometimes produced upon 4
deranged mind. the man caught at the
word mother Groone finished the
last verse but the man still repeated
mother, mother, until at last it
proved the key to his memory ana
unlocked the whole Of his previous ex-
istence. Now he has entirely recov
ed
Ellis had an equally interesting
achievement to his own credit: "On
our previous tour sang to the wound
ed at Havre, well known west
country ballad. On this last tout.
while singing at Rouen, soldier
came up and congratulated me.
81 want to tell you how pleased I
am to hear one of our old country
songs" he said. when I heard you
before L was determined to tell you
what a great thing you had done for
me-"
But have you ever seen me be-
fore?" / asked.
mo he replied. 4 never have but
/ heard you last April at Havre, when
/ was blind. As you sang, the tears
came to my eyes and my sight camn
suddenly back to me-"
Ellis says the songs the wounded
like best are of two varieties: either
something absolutely absurd like the
ton gue-twister (which switch is the
switch. miss for / switch?" or else \
real, old fashioned rollicking song.