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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
RECIPES
Quickly Made Puff Paste.

one-half pound Of dry, slftcd pastry
flour az flour is damp and lumpy the
pastry will be spoiled). six ounces of
lard and margarine mixed. one egg. the
juice (strained) OF half a lemon, five
of cold water. Mix the
water. lemon juice and the yolk of egg
and then the flour. and so make a soft
paste of about the same consistency as
the fat You are going to use. Work this
paste lightly until II Is plant and roll It
lightly. Form the fat into a fiat cake
nearly as large as the dough, lay the fat
on the latter and fold into three and roll
out the opposite way.
Fold and roll six times. by which time
the fat should be mixed into the paste
and then the pastry can be rolled to the
desired thickness. This mixture Is
excellent for tartlcts and turnovers and
fruit pies. 1t is very light and -flaky, but
does not, OF course, rise quite as high as
the real puff paste.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

that the child had been too. closely con-
fined.
The conversation OF the parents-I
myself was n victim OF IL, so | know
whereof l speak-had been entirely OF
the chiid's symptoms. his lack OF Sleep
and his dislike for food. The poor little
baby had been worried into that Illness
by nm injudicious mother. That was all
there was to II.
sadly.
II know Just what you mean" he said.
ct meet such mothers every day. In
sheer terror that the slightest indisposl-
ton OF a child may be the thing we all
dread-the scourge of infantile paralysis.
which Is ravaging the country-they
communicate their fear Ia the children.
II tell you that fear Is definite thing
we have pathological evidence OF II
every day-and mothers simply cannot
be too calm and cheerful in the pres
ehce ofsan ailing child.
Cheerfulness Needed.
I'VE are but beginning to learn the
nower of suggestion and what II means:
but this | DO know. that cheeTfulness
aud courage will do far more toward
making a really III child better than
perhaps any OF us dream.
The minor ailments OF children are
always battling 10 a mother who allows
that IL a sudden and unexpected crisis
we're to come she would be utterly use.
less"
Many mothers do not need this word
of warning, but my recent observation
of this foolish one leads me to believe
that there may be others who do.
Copyright 1916. Laura clawson.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Hoo Your Skin Shows
First Danger Signs OF
General Bad Health
By DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.

r T NDER the name OF eczema are
to be- found n Sargasso Sea of
skin affections, many OF which
are now known to be due to
poisons from without or from foods
taking on poisonous role within. 1t
u curious fact that the food of one
person may be poison to another.
DR.. Albert Strickler, a Philadelphia
dermatologist calls attention to these
matters In long series of confirmatory
researches on the treatment of several
varieties OF eczema by finding the pre-
clse element In the diet that gives rise
TO skin eruptions.
When you recall that the substances
you eat are: apart from water and min
erals. largely made up OF fats. such as
butter or yolk OF egg; starches, such
as bread, cereals. crackers. and bulky
vegetables and proteins. such as whites
OF egg, meats, peas. beans. lentils, nuts.
ana starches and sugars 20 under the
name OF carbohydrates-you begin to
understand something about the ele-
ments OF dietetics and home economies.
Tnese various victualary substances
produce different effects upon the living
tissues and fluids OF the anatomy at
uitterent times, under different condi-
lions: In health or illness. fatigue or
sscuVity, and at different ages. An in
rant may rebel against eggs or fruit
Juices; a boy may become nauseated by
the odor OF pineapple, or a grown-up
may rail- III IL soda water or any other
caIDonated drink reaches his tongue.
Anaphylaxis or tissue representative
ness is the name given TO such states OF
the anatomy. Hives and other skin
manifestations. such as measles scar
lel rashes, eczema, and wrongly called
1lgger bites" fea-bites, and MOSQUITO
bites appear when food, microbic drug
or vapor anaphylaxis occurs. Vapors,
\ odors. dust particles. and other air-born
matter may cause signs OF anaphylaxis.
such as poison ivy, hayfever. asthmatic
attacks. hives and other symptoms.
In his study OF experimental anaphyl-
axis DR.. Strickler found that the pro-
TENS OF blood. plants, eggs. milk. and
other organic matter sensitized the in
dividual Injections OF these made into
the veins or rubbed into the skin will
give rise after six to twelve days, fol-
lowed by second injection, to some OF
the above mentioned symptoms This
hypersensibility will persist for many
years and may be transferred to the
next generation.
II was also verified that eczema in
| children is due IN vast number OF in
| stances to excessive Cat or too much
| sugar In their milk. Sometimes II was
\ traceable TO the particular protein OF
| the milk. egg. or some other ration.
Forty-six victims of eczema were
tested with food particles. The sus-
| pected victual was injected into the
| skin and the appearance OF little
| papule was watched for. Twenty-three
| Of these persons were discovered to be
| hyper-susceptible TO shell fish. tomatoes.
milk, casein, mutton. wheat. barley,
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Is almost fortunate for the native son
and daughter. He winds a thick shawl
or muffler multitudinously around his
throat and goes his way. red nosed but
slight catarrhal sniff. She swathes
herself and Is happy In rare and costly
furs that are cheap along side the price
OF a bucket of coal.
You can't blame steam-heated North
getting cold feet. II they weather the
terrors OF influenza or a cold In the
head they all finally come to feel twhen
they get over being too numb to feel at
AID that there Is more In Buenos Aires
to warm the cookies OF their hearts
than its heatless houses chill their mar
row.
Mending Done Free.
The sleeve OF my fur GOAT was ripped.
The chill August wind whistled through.
/ took It TO the best department store,
which Is comparable with any store In
London or Paris. TO be mended. 1t was
done for me while l waited. AS I had
had the high cost OF everything here
dinned In my ears all the way down on
the boat. 1t was with faltering timidity
that ] demanded "quanto? or how
much?" The saleslady In most correct
and courteous English assured me u
was pleasure for them to do my mend.
ing. Not as yet have / ever notlceu
any department store in New York en-
joying itself In a sipilar manner,
The Plaza. a Ritz-Carlton hotel IL the
only honest to goodness high-class'
modern hotel in Buenos Aires. It's room
keys all have a. hefty little ball
and chain attachment, but you don
have to get yourself all exhausted tot
ing them to the desk. When You go
ont you simply leave the key In your
door. You leave Il there whether you
are out or in. by night -or day. and
never give It a turn. Love and the
Plaza laugh at locksmiths. and up TO
the time OF going TO press the family
jewels are all intact.
You would get more OF turn than
the one you didn't give your key. how
ever. II you tried this lockless system
In any hosiery In the U. s. A.
real ice cream soda at HarFod's de-
partment store proves how completely
the ocean. of difference between the
two Americas has been overcome. A
tall glass filled with vanilla ice cream.
chocolate syrup. and fizz has turned
the trick. ~.
Indeed, in most all respects a Yankee
feels as comfortably at home In Buenos
Aires as in the land OF the Stars and
Stripes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Chiffon Velvet and Fur.

A smart walking costume was carried
out in chiffon velvet and fur. The
velvet was chosen in dark shade of
sapphire blue. and both coat and skirt
were trimmed with blue-gray wolf The
high Russian collar of fur was found
most becoming and the coat was fasten-
cd on one side with three fur buttons.
The fullness at the waist was held in
by soft sash OF dark sapphire blue
satin, finished with tasseled ends.
The chin will be hidden this winter, II
not completely. then In part. That Is
fashions winter decree. The within is
Justified to some extent. The new COL
larettes. for instance, are very piquant.
feckbands OF coats with their furry
hem, into which the chin sinks cozily,
and the big stockbound frills of the
cold weather blouses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Wouldn't 1t Be Grand, How
ever, To Wear Only That
Which Is Becoming and
Not That Which Some
body Across the Water
Dictates Is the Latest
N O d e the Individual
Styles of the Present Sea-
son May Never Go Away.

one New York newspaper as saying:
Our experience for the last few
years proves that the idea of identi-
Tying a. fashion with a season has
gone entirely out OF vogue. Individu-
atty in dress is the new keynote OF
fashion. We had medley last sea-
son. We will have a medley this sea-
stands out above the others
Each woman can choose her own
mode"
War Cause Of Lapse.
But the expert of one OF Americas
largest publishing houses was en-
1.-THE styles" he said, have been
dull for the last two years-since Paris
became paralyzed by the war. She is
still sending us models. hundreds OF
models, but her heart Is not In her
work 1t lacks inspiration.
Wait till the wars over and you
win see such riot Of new colors and
new cuts as the world has not beheld
before. Meantime we Jog along as
hest we can, ringing changes on what
Paris gave us before the war"
However, whether the styles are GO
ing or gone, or merely having a bad
case OF insanity and abatement.
women are going to buy new clothes.
And they are going to Keep on doing
so long as there is money in circu-
to 10 by cannot stop them. Surely
the woman who might choose the
two little suggestions for coats shown
i'm the illustration would not be sorry
Nor could her neiRhbor call her badly
dressed. And those two coats are just
AZ apt not to be IN style as they are &c
be passable!
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7 WANT ito be thin.
For although, nobody ever says
so, and the clerks are all so tact
full. ] know that I'm a very fat
person.
One hundred and seventy pounds
sitting around on bunch Of bones
which have conspired to make me
:. fve feet four inches tall.
I'd much rather have a hare lip. or
cauliflower ear, or prominent front
II ! had known that this was the
would have kicked.
But II was sneaked on me.
] didn't used to be fat. Heavens no!
why wheYn ! was married weighed
And a number two and one-half shoe.
Husband used to carry me upstairs
HASN'T even suggested 1t for Ave
KNOWS It would insult me II he did.
No, ss sS.n's I'm rIfhf fat, tn. ,,,r In. q,
favorite, cs-,pink grounds, yunder-
I'm fairly comfortable in winter.
from physical sts md but
can't begin to even dream OF Keep
ing In style. Ugh!
And the silhouette this year Is a
pyramid.
Pyramid!
That's what read one place. Anoth-
or said: THE silhouette this year
Is long slim and Straight"
They differ. but what's the use.
None of them say that the silhouette
this year will be:
A LARGE SHAPELBSS BLOB.
Some women look at me pitying-like,
and say in that COO that makes
you want to break every bone in
their bodies
WAS your mother a stout woman"
Or How we'll you look, You are posi-
lively disgustingly healthy. Doesn't
she look wonderful"
time that she is thinking, "Oh the
great big slob. has lost her shape.
and looks like vasherwoman-I
always knew that her people were
gross, large. but she always SEEM
ed so refined. and it's a pity. too, be-
cause she has such a handsome
husband-and so young looking--why
he is little more than a boy"-and
Until 1 get desperate and say
i''Oh I'm losing rapidly"
Only I mean my temper. but they
don't know.
Then I 90 home and roll. starve. eat
lemons, take salt baths. exercise,
ish baths, and other things.
But s'no use.
could live in the water with nothing
hut noble thoughts as a diet.
And I'd die fat.
Won't somebody help me to get thin =?
] want to be a skeleton.
THE CONDUCTOR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Seasons Reversed
In Argentina
BY MARGARET MASON.

September. and the wintry wind
Blows bleak and chill and unconhned;
Carlotta hugs the hearth's scant ember
And longs for balmy. bright December,
With roses, warmth, and skies serene
In Buenos Aires, Argentine.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentine. Sept. T.
1t may seem strange to be shivering In a
fur coat in September. but not when you
add-in Buenos Aires.
Not only are the seasons reversed
down here In the Argentine, but the sun
Is a bit turned around as well. This a
young North American matron found out
to her sorrow. Looking for rooms, she
insisted on having southern exposure
and was astonished with the facility
with which she got the desired outlook.
After she had signed the lease ana
moved In she found that the sun per-
yersely showered all its golden favors
on her more sagacious neighbor whose
windows faced the north.
'Reveling In eight perfectly good months
of warmth and sunshine. the native Ar
Centinian has taken to ignoring the four
cold months disdainfully. He treats
them Christian Sciencely. and for him
the chill does not exist. Hence all the
buildings are built witk weather eye
10 summer only, and heating facilities are
AS rare as q day in June or an under
done steak. .r
'''' Never Really Cold.
As a matter OF cold fact the Their
mometer never registers much lower
here than on some of our own crisp au-
tumn days in the. United States; IL II
just the tomb-like chill OF tne er ulhe ersnn
buildings that gives that he'ce i'"P
pe W,t S coal at forty-four gold dollars a
ton these days, this lack OF steam heat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
With individuality" the Keynote This Year
Will Fashion Itself Disappear Eventually I?
When Any Style Is the Style
Just So Long AS 1t Is the
Style You Like Best. What
Will the Fashions" Come
To' An End' Or a New
Era of Originality and
Common Sense.
. HERE'S a whisper abroad that
fashion IL going out Of fashion.

IT. HERE'S whisper abroad that
fashion Is going out OF fashion.
1t has been denied and poo
poohed. and Knocked. but 1t still
persists. With any style the style. what
and where Is style?
Somebody somewhere started the
story, and 1t had to have some foun-
dalton. for such a remarkable theory
couldn't begin all by its lonesome.
1t IS too big. an idea. New York
styles really begin there. They seem
to be almost anything and every
thing.
The Tale Is True.
One has but to read the magazines
to believe instantly In the tale. For
all OF the fashion periodicals give
different interpretations of what the
fall styles should be. And the manu-
variety of actual suits and dresses.
The silhouette Is anything from a
pyramid to straight line. New
Workers began to wonder just what
The New York newspapers took up
the idea gladly. until the story that
fashion was going out of fashion
is now in full swing. There's some-
thing to It. too. Even the least OBJ,
pick out Inconsistencies In the stories
about dress.
The waist line is long. according to
one, high according to another;
coats are short in one picture and
three-quarters length in others:
sleeves are plain and tailored in one
catelessly drawn model with one eye
and magic hair. and they are as fan
ciful as a nightmare on another ex-
circulating representation of a woman
wearing her clothes.
The great consolation of this ter
rible state of affairs Is that no mat
ter what one buys this year. II Is apt
to be all right.
Just so a suit Is individual, and you
like II, II will be in style. Individ-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Worry May Make
the Baby Ill
BY LAURA CLAWSON.

IN these anxious days, when every
mother is watching more closely
than ever her babies. there IL
word OF caution necessary to even
the most placid. the most sanguine.
asked famous child specialist
about this fact Of communicated fear
me other day. thinking perhaps an in
cident l had observed had been exag-
gerated to my notions by the fact that
|. did not at all approve of these par.
ticular parents In other ways-in short
l considered them thoroughly unwise in
the treatment OF then baby of two.
The child had been ailing, one OF the
simple, easily controlled siCknesses OF
childhood, family physician called in
and a remedy suggested.
The second day the child was languid
and while wanting to get up and play
about. he was kept by himself In an
unsuitably ventilated room. BY the fifth
day the child was really III. and when
the doctor was called in he said frankly
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Meat Pie PASTRY.

II the puff pastry first given Is not
wanted good pie paste is made thusly:
One pound OF dry. sifted flour, one tea
spoonful Of salt. eight ounces of fat.
When these have been worked together
with the finger tips work In the yolks
of one or two eggs and mix to a smooth
dough. Roll out six times, folding in
three after each rolling and waiting
inR N
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

How is Cousin Ben getting along
down In the border?" asked Tommy
who was anxious TO learn how mis- own
family was enduring the hardships OF
camp life.
cousin Ben" said his father. 'as you
we'll know. mas always been more OF
less OF a kicker. When he Joined The
militia he never thought that he would
ever be called out, and he really hasn't
gotten over the surprise Of II yet. But
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

fish. beef. pork. and other foods, and
were cured quickly upon the taboo aud
Withdrawal OF the guilty ration. Indeed.
some who had been victims OF eczema
for years. were cured within three
weeks by n properly managed diet.
Evidently. the skin In Natures seme-
phore for informing the observant just
which high road leads to health.
Copyright. 1915. Newspaper Feature Services,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Bacon and Egg PnAs-

cooked bacon or you are short OF eggs
add some very fine breadcrumbs when
making the scrambled egg-their pres
ence can scarcely be detected) and use
II as filling for puffs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

To Complete the picture draw a
straight line from the dot marked a
TO the dot marked ID and so ON through
the alphabet.
Copyright. lsds, by John N, wheeler. Ine.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Mushroom PuHs

Take some stewed mushroom and cut
them into medium sized pieces Add
some evoked peas or dice OF bacon,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22
Bar'rin6toRlall
The .B.lserissd Coffee

In tie neo Pul-To-D'ip Grind
A delight to those who wan.
the best and actually costs less
per cup than ordinary coffee at
Doc.
You have tasted coffee in
some leading hotel. as clear as
wine, full favored, delicious.
The Pul-Vo-Drip method is the
hotel method adapted to home
use.
Pul-Vo-Dip Darlington Hall
will produce for you that same
quality of coffee 80 cups to the
pound. Possibly double the
amount you get now.
Darlington Hall Coffee is
sold regularly ct 40c IN pound
TINS. PuLVo-Drip Pot at $I.l0
each.
introductory Price
,Apomd ofthis splendid coffee
and = pot $l.l0 for both.
At all eooera
'RAxER MroRIFlc COMPANY
lisFs~h:a s''s~ New Yott.
. =
-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

the trip is doing him a whole lot of
good, and the only real kick that he has
now is because he can't have cream In
his coffee"
why not?" asked Tommy,
because" answered his father, they
ing by a."
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gle idea OF sameness could be garner
ed from any of them.
Here's what the editor OF an ex-
elusive style magazine Is quoted in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-22

The Woman
Who Wants
To Be Thin


A Cry From the Inner Re-
cesses of One Hundred
and Seventy Pounds of
Adipose Tissue-A Few of
the Ways and Means
Which the Fat Woman
Has Employed in the Ut
terly Fruitless Attempt To
Relieve Herself of I'm
earned Increment.
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uality ia the keynote. At least, that
Is what poor clustered New York tried
to decide after having seen so many
different interpretations that no sim
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-23
pROCLAMATION.

Proclamation is hereby made that
on the 11th day of November, 1916,
the Board of County Commissioners OF
resolution as follows:
RESOLUTION AND ORDER
BE It resolved, that the Board OF
County Commissioners of Carter coun-
| ty, Oklahoma deems il advisable to
issue bonds of said county In tho
amount of Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars 100000, with interest at
the rate Of per cent per annum; tho
purpose for which the money derived
from the sale of said bonds to be
used as follows:
For building and constructing per-
mancnt state roads.
Said bonds shall become due and
payable in twenty-five equal annual
instalments, the first of which shall
be payable one year, and the last or
which shall be payable twenty-five
years from their date.
The number and location of said
roads is to be as follows:
Road No. Sec. G State Highway,
Ardmore to Lone Grove.
Road No. Sec. NJ State Highway
Lone Grove TO Wilson.
Road No. Sec A State Highway
ArdmOre to Berwyn.
Road No. Sec ii State Highway,
Ardmore to Springer.
Road No. 5.-Sec. f State Highway,
Miles /, first half of 3.
Road No. Sec + State Highway
Miles /, 2 and g.
Road No. Sec. ID State Highway,
miles /, and 3.
Road No. 8.-Sec. X State Highway,
Lone Grove to Woodford.
Road No ., beginning at section
corner common to sections %, 20. 20
and 27 thence south miles on sec
tion line to section corner common
to sections "a and 80, all sections In
Twp 4 south, range 2 east.
The above minutes were read aloud
adopted by the board and signed by
the chairman and attested by tho
county clerk, this 11th day of Novem-
Der, 1916
On motion duly made and seconded.
the board adjourned.
j. Il. TALIAFERRO
(SeaD Chairman.
Attest: s. w. TYER, County Clerk.
By b. w. DUKE, Deputy.
161m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-23

suits 'Plantex' is a coined name.
made up from the two words plant
and extract The ingredients are
taken from twelve common plants.
Even in advanced types of cancer
'planteX has given relief from pain
and hemorrhage, which are distress
ing accompaniment of the late stages
of the disease. The treatment is by
injection, and in con
nection with X-ray and radium appli-
cations may be used as may other de
structiye means, provided that plan
tex be used at least a month before
any other treatment so that when the
toxins, which are bound to be set free,
when the cancer mass is destroyed,
may meet increased resistance from
the tissues and the blood"