The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-04

he began to raise them himself. ana
made fortune at it.
Here is a recipe that is worth try
ing, it is for pork loaf:
| Three pounds OF pork (mosuy
lean) ground.
Three teaspoons of salt.
! One and one-half cups cracker
crumbs.
One cup of celery cut into little
pieces.
Moisten the cracker crumbs in
milk.
Mix all the ingredients and form
| into loaf. ..
Press through colandar can or
| tomatoes, season them With SAT- anu
pepper and pour over the meat LOAF.
Bake for two hours, Blasting the meat
occasionally with the tomatoes. Two
or three onions may be baked In the
| pan with the meat If onion flavor IS
liked. Serve on a platter with the
tomato sauce over the meat rms
meat is delicious cold with chill
sauce. 1t makes good sandwiches
| with chopped dill pickles.
One Of the Presbyterian churches
lin Waterloo is built of granite stones.
all of one color. Would you believe
| that whole church could be built OF
one Iowa boulder? The Waterloo
people say that this church was built
of one boulder and that there was
enough stone left to have built a
manse If they had wished to erect a
second building. ....
Nal Rose, the Oskaloosa poet, has
1{cho
verse. Listen to Me, which Is his
fourth book published. The verses
all have delightful rythIn and every
one breaches the gospel OF good
cheer. The first poem In the new
book Is
Listen to me and some tales I'll tell
OF the Land Of Glee where the smiles
| DWELL
Where the skies are fair. the wealth
or fine,
And the air 10 rare as the purest
wine.
Where no ships depart-and no storms
are known
And no burdened heart has been
| known to moan;
Where the high descend and the low
ly rise
And each friends friend OF the
common size. ..
Where the hill paths wind with a
! gentle slope
And the valleys are lined with the
| flowers of hope;
And the song birds sing all the
| gladstone day,
And no evil thing ever passes that
l. way.
That presidential campaigns are
becoming more dignified and more
and more free from personalities was
demonstrated in the recent election.
Those who are old enough to remem-
Der as far back as the Cleveland
Blaine campaign will recall that the
most prevalent campaign cry was an
attack on the personal character OF
Grover Cleveland and the papers sup
porting the opposition candidates
/ contained all sorts OF personalities.
This year some derogatory stories OF
the president were current in the
east and yet 1t is worthy Of note
that none of them were published in
the papers In one of the cleverest
pieces of writing imaginable the pres
ident's brother-in-law, Prof. Stockton
Arson, answered these accusations
and stories in the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger, the article being repub-
lished in the Literary Digest of No
vember a., Those who haven't heard
the stories are none the wiser from
reading Professor Axson's article, he
doesn't give away one thing, he
doesn't even say that stories have
been told. He describes the presi-
dents home life before the death OF
his first wife as ideal and makes it
1>l 'to ho1i fhof h arn ypE Q
even anything but the most cordial
relation. The writer so deftly avoids
telling you that there is gossip and
so cleverly answers every accusation
without limiting that there are &C
cusations, that you feel the tension
Of thin ice.
The women of the Wednesday Read
ing club have taken up this year a pro-
gram which must be very interesting
to the members. They are studying
American authors who in their works
illustrate various American types. AS
for example, at the last meeting they
studied Charles Egbert Craddock and
the Tennessee mountain type. Charles
Egbert Craddock as everybody knows.
is the pen name for Marion Murfee,
but it is too bad that more people do
not know her books. Her characters
like those of Dickens, are real people
and you remember them just as you
remember real people. She makes
these people say unforgetable things
in a homely way as for example, Il
never did believe that God made wo.
man out of mans rib, but He made
her out of a mans back bone and he
amt had any to speak of since" Then
again we find this, at is a sigular
trait of whet might perhaps be called
sentimental economy, that every indi-
vidual in the world should be the OBJ
ject Of the hero worship of some other.
The plainest face has some devotee to
| it's beauty and even the most unprom-
Using infant is miracle of grace and
genius to a doting grandmother