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The Washington times., 1916-01-25
Prices At Center Market
Today.
WHOLESALE.

WHOLESALE.
Apples-Black Twig. $3.50 barrel:
Ben Davis. S2.75: Waldower. 80;
Golden Gate. 80.
oranges-F'rom SIPS TO $3.50 a box.
from 200 TO $50 oranges in a box;
any size.
Onions-Saclx. 100 pounds. S2.75;
three-peck basket. S1t25.
Potatoes-Bermuda potatoes, loo
pounds. $2.75-$3.25. New potatoes are
very scarce. and are about IS and 80
a barrel.
Grapefruit-From S2.75 to 50 a box,
64 TO 96 in a box.
Sweet potatoes-Three-pec basket,
SOC.
Turnips-Three-pec basket. CSC.
Parsnips-65c to 75c. box or crate.
Iettuce-Forty heads. about N.5o.
Carrots-The peck basket. Toe.
RETAIL OUTSIDE.
Fresh ham-l6c pound.
Spare rlbs-10c to 12Ikc pound.
Fresh shoulder-121sc.
Sausage-Mixed. 12l5c; all pure
pork. 15c.
Chuck roasts-12Jkc to 14c.
Picnic hams-l21hc.
Steaks - Tenderloin. 25c: porter
house. 2Sc; sirloin. 22c; round. 1Sc;
veal. 30c.
EgRplant-5c to 1Oc apiece.
Lettuce-5c to 10c a head.
Green heans-10c box.
CTanberries-l3c quart
Dressed chicken-20c pound.
ERgs-30c dozen.
Brussels sprouts-l0c box.
Tomatoes-l5c pound.
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An Afterthought Result
ing In a Visit to Center
Market In Which the Dis
covery of a Remarkable
Likeness to the World Of
Fashion Was Made of
Food! Advertisement
Only Is Required.

~ ROM all Of the advertising and
fuss and feathers fashion at
taches to its spring appear
ance and metamorphosis, one
would think that nothing else of i'm
portance happens at this particular
period in the year.
AS a matter of fact. on this very
day. at Center Market, there is more
really important news and beauty
than in all of the styles put together.
For this is really the first fairly
warm day for quite a period OF time.
strawberries are to be had, rabbits
are going out, and chickens are COM
ing in, and all OF the stalls outside
of the market are filled with the
most delicious vegetables Imaginable.
Food and clothes may go together
in tradition, but not in actual life.
Clothes are by far the most extern
sively advertised and most press
agented. A corresponding heighten-
ed interest in whatever happens to
them is noticeable, not only among
women, but among mere males. If
all of the brains and genius which
is put on the advertisement or
clothes was put on the advertise
ment of the coming OF different kinds
of food, the conditions in agricultur-
al districts would be bettered. ana
perhaps that great back-to-the-farm
movement, for which so many
dream, would be accomplished.
Modern Social System.
For instance, il the young women
comnDnly known as fappers would
think as much about their food as
they do about their clothes, what a
boom in foodstuffs there would be!
Instead of spending for products
from which one can never count on
obtaining the full money value, they
would be in a position to state IN
stantly whether or not they wanted
certain foods.
That vital fault OF the modern so
cial system, the privilege of hoard
ing goods and moneys possible, nor
only through the efforts of corpora
tions, but through private sources,
would be in part eliminated.
All of those summer and winter
garments which lie untouched year
by year in the cupboards OF the pri-
vate homes would gradually disap-
pear.
The interest that had centered
about clothing would then center
about food. and there would be
no such thing possible as the con-
glomerate aggregation of undesirable
wearing apparel, which necessitates
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Three Minute
Journeys
By TEMPLE MANNING.

BY lEMHLE MAN NlNN'
~ HE Indians of our American
Southwest are very different
Indians from those of the
plains. While the plains In
dians have always been hunters and
predatory warriors, the Southwest
ern Indians have always been farm
serb and more than half-civilized for
many generations. Rain is the most
important thing in the world to
them; therefore It is not strange to
find that rain-making feasts hold a
ptominent place in their religious
TO most of us rain is a natural an
nbyRnce, to be taken for granted, but
IN the arid regions of Arizona and
New Mexico 1t comes as a direct
ana very special favor of Providence.
v 10 the Southwestern Indians all
rain is supplied by the spirits of the
dead. Children who die young are
supposed to attain miraculous ma
turity in the spirit land, and soon
Rbbume their part, too, in producing
rain. Therefore, in the lapse of
time there have come into spiritual
power z vast number of rainmakers,
hut there are not too many, as the
arid climate certainly proves.
The Indian priests, naturally are
monies, and they fast for days be-
fore the rain dance" to make them
SelVes worthy, and all the people
prepare themselves, too. Then when
the great day arrives the Great
Father of the gods appears. fantas-
ticAIly disguised. preceded by a cour-
Ter, and attended by ten lesser gods.
In the old days the common peo-
pie undoubtedly believed that the
Great Father had come down to
earth in person, but the college ed
ucNted Indian Of today certainly un-
derstands that the actual gods are
bmpersonated by the priests, al
though they reverently take part
Ia the rain dance" and bow to the
disguised priests as hUInbly as IL
they were not simply symbolic.
I shall never forget the one rain
dance" II was my privilege to attend
NOR can l soon forget the speed
with which the priests ran home
after the ceremonies. You see, those
poor fellows had tasted many days,
and they we're very, very hungry.
(copy't, 1915, by Newspaper Feature Service
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proceeding, although It might be
suggested that skirting around
the outside blacks is safer than
plowng through the crowds IN
the interior of the main building.
Down on the right side of Louis
lana avenue are the wholesale
houses. where food, II bought in
the bulk. Is remarkably ineXpen-
slve. Everything is from l to
cents cheaper than IT is just across
the street. But, OF course, we real
ize that people living in apart
ments would as soon contract Tor
the keep Of a white elephant as TO
purchase too large a supply OF
vegetables.
Buying At Wholesale.
1t does seem as II there should
be one man in each apartment to
do the purchasing for the flat
dwellers at wholesale. Better still
they could take turns. Then in
deed would the problem of the
corner grocer be solved, and the
Christmas presents be paid for be-
fore March.
For example, take apples. They
arc selling down on LOUISIANA ave-
nue. today in big barrels. for from
$275 to $3.50 the barrel. AT the gro
GERS such apples are cents apiece,
or three for 10 cents. A three peck
basket OF onions may be had Tor
Sl.3.
One hundred and ffty pounds Of
Bermuda potatoes may be had for
$2.75 or S3.25.
But what is the use Of going any
farther? The prices are not the
only attractive features OF Center
Market. The sight OF the eatables
alone is OF much more value than
the sight of a window full of fash
Ions.
The sad part about It is that there
Is no way of telling Just whore the
trouble lies. If people would begin
and evince a broadcast interest in
food. or ". OH the other hand. deal
ers would begin to advertise i'm the
same way exactly that clothing
merchants advertise. the revolution
would come OF itself.
And instead of the constant buying
OF clothes. the pi!ing up OF bills.
and the subsequent starvation OF
our stomachs. everyone would he
round and we'll fed. dispositions
would improve. Indigestion be un-
known. and we would worship at
least n more substantial god than
fashion.
However. perhaps someone would
come along and find out some way OF
Wasting food. We would be forced
10 wear caulinower corssges. and
carry celery shower bouquets. and
wear real turnips. carrots, and pars-
ley on our hats.
But even at that the tremendous
boom in land values would come.
Why doesn't some one start It?
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(" the air?" said the woman
with the ruffled dress at
the tea the other day.
N0oing TO bed without doing my hair
20 in curriers'" responded the girl in the
military hat.
rains," said the delicate woman who
has 'throat'-and knows 1t.
sPaying the bill for luncheon and not
adding It up first to see II it's right, !"
balpngs to the three most expensive
clubs IN. town.
"dolnS down town without kissing my
wife. good-by," said the lone, lorn man
at.the party.
we ali laughed, all but the wife. She
smiled sadly. And I'm willing to wager
my best new dangly earrings that that
man wished he hadn't said what he did
before he got ten yards out OF hearing
81 the rest of us. Poor NANNY heart
aches for him!
wonder il we women ever realize
Just what 1t is that makes men burst
the chains we try to load upon them
and disappear in a wild effort for free
dom every once in a while.
never understood 1t myself until last
summer. Last summer went TO sum-
Nner resort for four weeks-oh, sad was
the hour and weary was the minute
and at that summer resort. there were
no men-not one single. lonesome man.
Oh Of course, there were old gentlemen,
and bows in their first white flannels,
but no real men at all. And the way
those women nagged and prosecuted and
bossed and managed each other was a
sight to see. ,
AZ I'd stayed q day longer l do believe
i would have taken her out in row
boat and pushed her overheard or
Jumped in myself and found Watery
grave.
Either BOssed or BOssing.
nhA liked me. too. or said she did. out
Rhe didn't want me to breathe Wltnout
Aaking her about it. and she wouldn,
ief me move a step without going with
me, and II did escape for wild hall,
hour OF freedom with a book she had
not lent me. or recommended or hunteu
MP. / had to tell her every step Ia taken
ana Just where 1 sat to begin the book.
and why 1 chose that particular tree.
and how far read and what l thought
OF It, and who went by and what they
said and how / felt when they said 1t,
Ar: 5GT 5SGSTnt often think eaf w0nG wshGd have iSF
loved 1t a good deal more Il she had
been there to talk it over with me?
At noon she was always waiting on
the piazza for me to go in to luncheon
with her-where had l been and what
iu1nt me 40 long and why had l worn
that waist-she thought | was going TO
wear the blue one-and she wouldn't so
in alone. not IL ! waited till the last
minute. Once pretended had head
ache and she came upstairs and brought
me tea and toast. and had tray with
her luncheon and ate 1t there Tor COM
pahy!
No. there was nothing queer about her
or about me. l thought there was at
hrst, but / began to notice the other
women. and l saw that we were Just
one pair. The hotel was full of them.
The middle-aRed mother with the
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To Keep Skin in Fine
Condition in Winter

1t would be much better for the skin
II nttle cream, powder or rouge were
used during the winter term These
things which clog the pores tend TO aid
wind and weather in rouGhening and
Coarsening tho skin. Ordinary ynercuI-
lied wax will do more for the complex
ION and without encouraging the skin
TO chap, crack or become harsh and
leathery. 1t is the ideal application Tor
the season. as it not only keeps the
pores clean. but daily removes psrticIss
Of scarf skin which have been spoiled
by winds or temperature. By con-
stantly keering the complexion clear.
white and soft. it does more toward
rerretuating a youthful counienance
than any ot tho arts or artifCes COM
monty, employed. One ounce OF insr-
colized wax, obtainable at any Grl r.
store. will completely renovate the
worst COMPLEXION. It Is applied at
night like cold cream and washed on
In the morning.
To keep the skin from wrinkl'n,:. or
TO overcome such condition. there's
nothing better than rece bath ,nrde
by dissolving l ounce of powdered soxo-
lite in II pint witch hazel -Advt
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BOOK REVIEWS

able and interesting preface by Mr..
Moore. 1t Is seldom given to a man 10
criticise-and so frankly and delightful
ly-his earlier work.
A pioneer in his day the student and
writer of present fiction owes to George
Moore more than he at first imagines.
Muslin" contains. perhaps. the best
working plan of the mind OF a certain
type of woman which We are apt to get
for many years to come. Mrs. Marion
belongs to no Deriod. She is eternal.
Mr.. Moore's publishers are to be con-
graduated that they are able to present
such an edition. with such a preface. to
the authors students and admirers.
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The Flight of the Stork.

Every normal person is interested
in the arrival of the stork. 1t is the
greatest event in ones life.
The expectant mother needs.
above everything else, comfort and
peace of mind. This she is sure to
have if Mothers Friend, the safe.
dependable external remedy, is used
to sooth the network of nerves and
to enable the muscles to expand nat
urally, thus relieving undue strain.
Mothers Friend, obtained at any
drug store, is the one remedy used
and recommended by thousands of
women everywhere, who testify as
to it's wonderful merit.
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Imitation Is the Ability
ToShorten TimeNeeded
To Acquire knowledge
By DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG


an unframed one. and finally encour-
ages the unframed animal TO perform.
All of this necessarily presupposes that
the horse, dog, sea lion, or monkey has
failed TO learn by its own efforts. or
that the animal learns at once without
a number of lessons and trials.
The act to be 'imitated'' by animals
is acquired only by perseverance,. This
Is no more a true imitation than is the
ability to dance.
The best dancers learn n new dance,
not by imitation, but by practice. Mere
ly to observe and watch the movements
of some one else dancing new steps is
as Prof. Watson emphasizes. not usual y
sufficient to enable you correctly and
gracefully to "trip the light fantastic"
Consequently to say that masters Of
this graceful art "imitate" each other
Is an error. They practice the new steps
until they master them.
Obviously. animals are thus but little
different from children. You can never
be sure that the parrot-like repetition.
which you may consider some brilliant
flattery of sincere imitation. is not
something previously practiced with
perseverance. For example. in teaching
rats to do certain tricks 1t has been
found that toasted cheese increases the
ability to learn to such a degree that
compared with rats bribed with milk
and bread the stunts" of the cheese
fed rats may be mistaken for pure imi-
tation.
No animal lover will deny that such
things as this lead any one to think that
animals reason, or have the capacity of
Intelligent imitation" Yet the truth
lies in the opposite direction. ExDeri-
ments with all sorts of animals. under a
mixture OF conditions which NAV escape
even animal lovers, show that the sex.
food. and instructive manifestations in
animals explain more things than theo-
retical animal intellect does.
(copyt. 1916, by Newspaper Feature Service.
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the large closet, the moth ball. and
the rag man.
Fortunately, because OF the pc
culiar constitution OF food. it cannot
be boarded as successfully or as
easily as clothing, especially the
more delicious and perishable vege-
tables and fruits. After q few stern
lessons in the process OF decay,
women would cease to buy that
which they no longer needed. or that
for which they had no immediate
use.
One trip to Center Market would
serve to convince the most skeptical
OF the possibilities OF extensive and
unusual advertisement eXistant in
the realm of food.
Desire To Purchase.
After gazing for a sufficient length
OF time on caulinower. peas, beans,
egg plant. fresh meats. apples.
oranges. and everything else under
the sun. the person who can get
away without being violently pre-
possessed with the desire to buy and
eat must be terribly bad off for
an appetite.
Center Market, however, taken
all at one bite, without a COM
petent guide Is a dangerous place.
One can wander for hours in and
out among rows of poor little pigs.
whose clothes are all on, until al
most exhausted, not to say nause-
ated, and shocked. or be lost in a
sea of wholesale dealers wares
which are interesting, but by no
means attractive.
A guide. more preferably in the
form of a large capable man. is
quite a help, and adds greatly to
the Joy of the first visit. The Sec
ond venture is not so dangerous a
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TODAY'S BEAUTY HINT

1t is not necessary to shampoo quite
so frequently If your hair is properly
cleansed each time by use OF a really
good shampoo. The easiest to use and
quickest drying shampoo that we can
recommend to our readers may be pre-
pared very cheaply by dissolving a tea
spoonful of canthrox obtained from
your druggist. in a cup of hot water.
This rubbed into the scalp creates
thick lather. soothing and cooling in its
action, as well as very beneficial TO
scalp and hair After rinsing, the scalp
is fresh and clean. while the hair dries
quickly and evenly, developing a bright
luster and a soft tiuniness that makes
It seem very heavy.-AdVt,
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~ OUDOIR. CAPS are a never
falling appeal to the luxury
loving woman. Prices at the
little speciality shops are.
sometimes prohibitive and many
women who never try their skill at
other kinds of needlework can
evolve the most bewitching of caps
from scraps of lace and silk. Ore
recently seen IN a shop was a Dutcn
bonnet OF net, lace, and ribbon. The
net forms the crown and this Is
gathered into q band OF ribbon, with
a frill of lace across the back. a
fiat bow OF ribbon centered with a
pink rose ornaments each side.
To a plain cap Of net may be
added a narrow circular brim or
pink taffeta. with a band of pink
ribbon about the brim and a put-
terfly bow at the back. Still an
other cap is very evidently patterned
after a Breton peasants Golf. with
a sheer linen crown and two sum
wings" wired back. Two fiat blue
bows relieve the severe white effect.
(cOpy't. lSls. by Newspaper Feature Service
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A Few Easy Recipes

ly until 1t has cooked twenty to twen-
ty-five minutes. Remove the cover
sprinkle with pepper and salt and pour
OF cup of the liquid, dust very light
ly with a little flour and brown. trans
Ter to the platter, then turn the Norid
into the frying pan, adding one onion.
Cne pepper which has been chopped
and fried delicately in butter and three
quarters of a cup of cream. Blend tc-
Eether a little butter and -four and
thicken the gravy. Pour x over the
chicken, garnishnS with cress and tri-
angular toast sippets.
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r IMITATION is not "sincerest nat
terry" but is the ability to shorten
the time OF learning. When one
person initiates another he uses a
method whereby he learns new habits
or improves old habits.
There is no royal road to knowledge,
but there Is n sovereign pathway 10
some goals-imitation. Even when
slmple-minded persons. who have a rev
plain habits. perceive superiority m
others they may copy the improved
methods. Imitation is an abridgement
of the process of learning. whereby it
is possible for animals and persons
capable of learning by their own un-
aided efforts readily to acquire knowI-
edge. Mimicry is not real imitation. II
lies far beneath the capacity quickly
to form new habits. 1t may be an in
stinct. Animals whose colors mimic
their backgrounds, and thus protect
them, inherit racial kinds OF mimicry,
for which they are individually not re-
sponsible. 1t is often impossible to say
whether an animal really initiates or
actually answers to some stimulation OF
its world.
Intelligent imitation does not appear
to occur except in human beings. True
enough many biologists. animal tram
ers, and psychologists claim that some
animals manifest evidence of intelligent
imitation, but serioOs examination OF
such claims and experiments by SO
noted an Snvestigator as Prof. John H.
Watson, of Johns Hospital University
shows them all in confusion as to their
own meaning. They report that ami.
mails exhibit signs of imitation in TINS
way
A trainer or experimehter shows ar
unframed animal how to do an act; al.
lows a trained animal to perform before
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Marion Harland.

Marion Harland. who in private
life Is Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune.
celebrated her elghtv-fifth birthday
last week. For seventy-one years
she has been writing for the Ameri-
can people. Her name is known in
a million households.
Men are supposed to be workers.
but what of this woman? The books
she has given to the world would I'LL
a respectable library. The newspa-
per articles she has produced would
I'll many volumes. Three OF her
children-Mrs. Christine Terhune
Herrick. Mrs. Virginia Terhune
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The Lost Occasion.

Farewell, fair day and fading light
Tho clay-boTn here, with westward
sight,
Marks the huge sun now downward
clear,
Farewell. We twain shall meet no
more.
Farewell. watch with bursting
sigh
NY late contemned occasion die,
/ linger useless in my tent ,
Farewell, fair day, so foully spent!
Farewell, fair day. II any God
At all consider this poor Clod.
He who the fair occasion sent.
Prepared and placed the impediment.
Let him diviner vengeance take
dive me to sleep, give me to wake,
Girded and shod, snd bid me play,
THE hero in the coming day!
Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Geranium Cake.

Line square. shallow tin with but
tered paper and cover with rose gera-
MUM leaves. Cream half a cup of but
ter with one cup of sugar, add gradu-
ally two-thirds of a cup of water and
two cups OF flour sifted with one tea
spoon of baking powder. Fold in the
stffy beaten whites OF four eggs. turn
INTO the pan and bake. When the
cake Is cool the leaves will pull of
easily, leaving no trace and Just a faint
taste OF the geranium leaves. Cover
with any preferred icing.
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Asparagus Scum.

One-half pound asparagus, one ounce
butter. one quart boiling water. one
teaspoonful salt, one-half pint milk.
Trim and scrape the asparagus and
cut off the heads. Cut the rest I'D in
small pieces and saute in the butter for
five minutes. Add boiling water and
salt. Cook until tender. Rub through
a sieve Return to the saucepan, add
the asparagus heads, and boil for ten
minutes. Mix the flour with the milk
and add IT to the soup; cook for twenty
minutes. Add a little pepper and more
salt, II necessary
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good for dinky little Gary, Ind,
would not suffice for Cleveland.
Now, according TO New York news
papers, William Writ, father of the
Gary plan OF class rotation, is being
considered ~ appointment as super
intendent ofJNew York schools. OF
course, Writ will carry out his dinky
little Gary system in dinky little
New York, II he becomes school su-
perintendent tthere.-Cleveland Press.
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Peanut Cream SOup.

one pint of milk. Add one tablespoon
OF peanut butter dissolved in two table
spoons of warm water. Add one-half
cup of chopped celery, one-half cup OF
barley or rice, and season with pepper,
salt and a dash of paprika. Thicken
with enc tablespoon each of -four and
butter mixed together and serve with
Croutons of toasted bread.
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Woman Suffrage In Canada.

Canadian women are as seriously
looking forward to participation in
government as are their sisters on
this side of the border. Just before
Christmas a petition asking for en-
fanchisement in Manitoba. signed oy
1884 women of the province, was
presented to Premier Norris at Win
nipeg by a deputation from the Po-
litical Equality League. The premier
assured the women that a bill pro-
Viding for equal suffrage has been
prepared, and added that the gov
ernment hopes for its early passage
at the coming session of the leGisla-
ture. Both Alberta and Manitoba
are expected to extend the ballot to
women by legislative action not later
than next month. The measures
pending provide for votes for women
in Dominion matters as we'll as in
those pertaining to the respective
provinces.-Milwauk Evening Wis
consin.
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Chicken a la PapigO.

Chicken a la Papigo requires one
four and a half pound frying chicken
for three people. Joint, SINCE and wash
carefully, place in a deep frying pan
with a tablespoon of lard and two
tablespoons of butter, cover with cold
water, set on the stove, and cover close