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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

He stops smoking when he counts the
cost, walks to and from his work and
is exceedingly careful Of his clothes.
He is termed model young man.
Let change of fortune come to any
man and who can tell what he will de-
velop into through the influence Of
money! II he suddenly become pos
sessed of fortune left by an old
uncle or aunt of whom he barely
knew the existence the good or bad
qualities with which he Is possessed
assert themselves with astonishing
rapidity. Though he may not have
been noticed in office or shop to any
extent before, he suddenly finds him
self the center of attraction. A host
Of flatterlng friends spring up about
him. The larger the fortune to which
he has fallen heir the higher up the
class of men who seek him out, make
his acquaintance and show their de-
sire to chum1 with him. Education and
manners might bar him from some
homes, but, independent of this, he is
welcomed In the majority Of others.
If he has become millionaire over
night, he finds himself all at once lit
tie less than god. Great business
opportunities are offered him by we'll
known men. Brokers fall over each
other to show him the menagerie at
the stock market. Real estate men
are anxious to sell him mansions.
Automobile plutocrats invite him out
for spin reminding him that man
In his position cannot possibly do
without motor The most beautiful
Of women insist upon their fathers,
uncles or brothers introducing him not
only to their exclusive clubs, but to
them.
II would make poor old uncle or
aunt who had boarded that wealth
30 carefully turn over in their graves
to see the get-rlch-quick relative make
ducks and brakes of that fortune. In
story books, the young man weds the
girl who loved him and whom he loved
In poverty. In real life, the new and
wonderful influences brought to bear
upon him crowd her out of his
thoughts and his heart. Newer fan
cies take possession of him. His
wealth flies like chaff before the wind.
He Is dazed with power and pleasure.
His attorneys cry "Halt" In vain. He
does not heed. He is sure he could
never spend million of money dur
Ing the rest of his lifetime. Such
cases always end In the same old way
the fool and his wealth are soon
parted. Friends and acquaintances
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
TO. PREPARE THE PUMPKIN
Three Splendid Ways OF Making the
Yellow Globes a Welcome Ad-
junct of the Feast.

Pumpkin-Date Ple.-One pint pump
kin pulp, one-half cupful sugar, one
half cupful chopped dates, one-half
teasp0onful cinnamon, one-half tea
spoonful allspice, one cupful cream or
rich milk, .one-half teaspoonful salt,
two eggs, one-half teaspoonful ginger,
one-fourth teaspoonful nutmeg. Blend
all the ingredients to a cream. Beat
up the yOlks and whites of eggs
separately and fold in the whites the
last thing. Pour into crusts and bake.
Serve cold with layer of whipped
cream on top favored with little
vanilla and dotted, If liked, with few
crystallized cherries. These pies can
be made in the form of patties.
Pumpkin Fritters.-Pumpkin or
squash, salt, fritter batter, hot fat. Cut
the squash or pumpkin in long, square
pieces. Make the pieces as thin as
possible. Sprinkle with salt and let
stand awhile; then dip into the fritter
batter and fry in deep fat until the
pumpkin is tender. When nicely brown,
dust them with sugar and serve hot.
EscaIloped Pumpkin. Pumpkin,
breadcrumbs, three tablespoonfuls but
ter, cheese, salt and pepper. After
the pumpkin has been peeled, cut it up
into small squares. Place the butter
in saucepan; when it is melted add
the pumpkin and cook until tender;
season to taste with salt and pepper
and little sugar. Place a layer in a
buttered baking dish; cover with graf
ed cheese and buttered breadcrumbs |;
add another layer and top off with the
cheese and crumbs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

make use Of psychology In their busi-
ness are very apt to postpone their
Monday calls until after lunch. by
that time the atmosphere has cleared
q little.
When you come to think of 1t the
weeks work too often slips off the
ways with considerable friction. In
office, school and household, If this Is
not the rule 1t Is Of sufficiently fire.
quent occurrence to make the picture
familiar to all.
With many people 1t is not because
their daily tasks are distasteful or that
their real attitude toward their asso-
cIates is aggressive; 1t is more mat
ter of rather ill-conceived ideas Of
what constitutes rest or diversion.
1t isn't possible In few words to
describe the Saturday-until-Monday
habits of everyone. The majority Of
people, however, are apt to fall into
two general divisions. One class tries
to crowd too much into the time be-
tween one weeks end and the begin.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
and Otherwise.

very man can be wrong, but not
every man can be president.
No man ever does as much today as
he is going to do tomorrow.
No man can expect to be happily
married unless he's good listener.
A man may pocket his pride, but a
woman always has to conceal 1t else
where.
After hearing some men speak we
are surprised at the small hats they
wear.
Whining children and women are
bad enough, but please deliver us from
whining men.
After getting an education 1t is up
to young man TO do things with the
knowledge he acquires.
Somehow woman never seems to
tire Of her efforts to get an article
worth all OF dime for IL cents.
Our idea of credulous man Is one
who actually believes that one woman
can treat another with silent contempt.
There are more ways than one of
looking for trouble. A Texas man ad-
vertised for mother-in-law, who
was missing
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
New Hampshire Carrots.

One quart of carrots, one quart Of
water, one teaspoonful salt, one-half
cupful cider vinegar three-quarters
cupful sugar, one tablespoonful butter.
Scrape the carrots and cut in sections
one and one-half inches long, then
slice them lengthwise, one-quarter of
an inch thick and then in strips of
same thickness. Add water and salt
and boil until tender. Drain off water,
add the vinegar, sugar and butter and
cook until the carrots have clear,
transparent appearance. Then serve.
This will serve five persons.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
PUDDlNGS ALL WILL ENJOY
English Recipe, of Course, ls Well
knoWn--PIaln or Steamed Fruit
confection Excellent.


English Pudding.--Half cupful but.
ter, one cupful molasses, half cupful
seeded raisins, three-quarters cupful
milk, three and one-half cupfuls -four,
one teaspoonful soda, one-half tea.
spoonful cloves, one-half teaspoonful
cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful mace.
Beat the butter to cream, add the
molasses, raislns and milk. Sift to-
gether the flour, soda and spices, add
these to first mixture, turn into
creased mold, cover closely and steam
three hours. Serve with wine sauce
or foamy sauce.
Plain Fruit Pudding.-Two cupfuls
flour, one-half cupful chopped beef
suet, two teaspoonfuls baking powder,
one teaspoenful mixed spices, one
third of cupful of candied peel, one
half teaspoonful salt, one-half cupful
currants, one egg, One-half cupful
seeded raisins, three-quarters cupful
milk. Slft the flour, salt, baking pow
der and spices. Add the suet and
fruit, and mix to soft dough with
the egg and milk. Turn into a we'll
creased pudding mold, cover closely
and steam three hours. Turn out and
serve with hard or lemon sauce.
Steamed Fresh Fruit Pudding.-Two
cupfuls flour, three teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder, half teaspoonful salt, two
eggs, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one
cupful milk, three tablespoonfuls melt
ed butter, one cupful fresh fruit, any
thing one likes. Sift together the
flour, baking powder, salt and sugar
and mix to batter with the eggs and
milk. Pour in the melted butter and
fill small creased cups one-third full
of the batter. Drop in little fresh
fruit and cover with more batter.
Steam about half an hour
Date Puddlng.-Half-pound stoned
dates, quarter pound beef suet, one
cupful flour, half cupful sugar, one
teaspoonful ground ginger, one tea
spoonful ground cinnamon, one tea
spoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking
powder, one cupful bread crumbs, two
eggs, two-thirds cupful milk. Chop
the dates and suet fine or run them
through meat chopper. Add all the
dry ingredients and moisten with the
eggs and milk. Turn into CREASED
molds and steam; If in one large mold
four hours, If in small molds, two
hours.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

Put one pint milk in double boiler,
add pinch of salt and bring to scalding
point. Dissolve IN tablespoonfuls
cornstarch in little cold milk, beat the
yolks of two eggs and four tablespoon
fuls granulated sugar together and
pour all into boiling milk, stirring till
smooth and thick. Cover and cook 20
minutes. Beat the egg whites very
stiff and mix lightly with the pudding.
Remove from stove and stir in one-half
cupful macaroons crumbled, two table
spoonfuls maraschino cherries, two ta-
blespoonfuls walnut meats, broken, and
teaspoonful of sherry. Turn into a
mold and set in ice. When very cold
turn out and serve with cream, whip
ped or plain.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

which Il heavy train running at 60
miles an hour can be stopped.
Keeping the air In rooms moist is
the purpose of new humidifier, con.
slsting of small electric fan to be
hung on wall and blow Its breezes
across shallow dish filed with water.
An aviator's hands may be kept
warm by a glove of English invention
into which are woven wires heated by
electricity obtained by contact with
the steering wheel OF an airplane.
Electric massaging apparatus which
emanates violet rays has been invent
ed for imparting general tonic ef-
feet to the scalp and face.
The United States is estimated to
use more than 100000 elaborate elec-
trlc protective systems against crime,
about 100000 smaller systems, and
more than 100000 minor devices.
George O. d. Soule, aged seventy
two, of Portland, Is the oldest mail
carrier in active service In New Eng
land. He has been in the mali service
since Immediately after the Civil war,
and he figures he has walked IlS,OOO
miles In that time.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Some Things That Are New

One of the new electric toasters is
inclosed to retain the heat and save
current.
A patent for cutlery made of bam-
boo has been granted Japanese resi-
dent Of Seattle.
An instrument that measures the
glare of light reflected from paper has
been invented.
Within the heel Of recently patent
ed shoe for women is contained a COM
plete vanity case.
Around the handle of new UNI
brella Is soft rubber ring that holds
the ends Of the ribs firmly and neatly
when the umbrella is closed.
For overpowering refractory prison
ers an inventor has patented u police
mans club that emits noxious gas
when button is pressed.
A Californian Is the owner Of what
Is said to be the only watch of the
kind In the world, in which lever
osclllates and winds the spring with
every step that he takes.
New airbrakes that have been adopt-
ed by large eastern railroad reduce
by 600 feet or more the distance In
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Econ nicaI Fruit jelly.

Save all the rinds and pulp of
lemons and oranges left from lemon
sie or fruit punch. Put them into a
saucepan and cover with boiling wa
ter. Boil ten minutes, strain half the
liquid and add sugar to taste-a small
cupful of sugar to one dozen lemon
skins gives tart, refreshing jelly.
Lastly stir in a half package of gela-
tin that has been dissolved in little
cold water. Pour into mold and
cool. One dozen lemon or orange rinds
should make quart of Jelly, and 1t is
better flavor and more fruity, than
when made with the juice alone.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Stuffed Potatnes

Select fine large potatoes and bake
until tender. Cut off the ends, scoop
out the contents with the handle of a
spoon, and work soft with butter, hot
milk, pepper and salt, and a little graf
ed cheese, Return the mixture to the
skins, mounting It up on the open end,
and with these uppermost set the DO
tatoes in the oven five minutes. Eat
from the skins. Delicious.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Enulish Chicken Pie.

Pare six medium-sized potatoes, cut
in small pieces; cook until tender, but
not broken, and then add two cupfuls
chicken meat and half cupful fresh
pork cooked and cut in small pieces
cover with crust made as follows :
Sift three teaspoonfuls baking powder
with two cupfuls flour, add two table
spoonfuls shortening and half tea
spoonful salt Rub thoroughly togeth-
er and mix with one small cupful
milk. Put on Toured board and press
out with the hands to size required to
cover chicken pie. Bake twenty min
uteS, and serve hot.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Chicken SouffIe.

Two cupfuls scalded milk, two table
spoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls
flour, one teaspoonful salt, one-eighth
teaSpoonful pepper, one-half cupful
stale bread crumbs; two cupfuls
cooked chicken, finely chopped; yolks
Of three eggs, well beaten; one table
spoon finely chopped parsley, whites of
three eggs beaten until stiff and dry.
Make sauce of first ingredients. Add
bread crumbs and cook two minutes.
Remove from fire, add chicken, yolk of
beaten eggs and parsley. Then fold in
whites of eggs. Turn into buttered
dish and bake 80 minutes in slow
oven or steam in cup 35 minutes.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Cream of Onion Puree

Put two or three large onions
through the food chopper and cook
the juice and pulp in two tablespoon
fuls of butter until a golden brown.
Add pinch of soda dissolved in a
tablespoonful of water. Have ready
quart of milk scalded In double
boiler; add the onions and cook until
creamy. Season with salt, pepper and
paprika and thicken with cracker
crumbs. Sprinkle grated cheese over
the top when served, Send buttered
toast bars to the table with this soup.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Lunch Cake.

Soften, but do not melt, third of a
cupful of butter, add cupful and a
third of brown sugar, two eggs, a half
cupful of milk, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, half teaspoonful each
of cinnamon and nutmeg grated, one
and three-fourths cupfuls of flour. Beat
all together three minutes, add half
cupful of ralsins, and bake 40 minutes
In moderate oven.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Bacon and Eoo Hash.

Sometimes few slices of bacon and
cold fried egg are left over from
breakfast and 1t is u problem to make
use of them. Try chopping them fine
with an equal quantity of boiled or
mashed potatoes, then fry like an ordl-
nary hash in little butter, letting it
brown nicely before taking from the
pan. Serve with a parsley garnish and
chill sauce or catsup and you will think
you have some brand-new epicurean
dish. II you prefer, you may make the
mixture into little cakes and fry them
brown in butter or bacon fat.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Mashed. Potato Rusks.

0ne-half cake of compressed yeast,
one-half cupful mashed potatoes, one
half cupful sugar. Mix at noon and let
stand in warm place until bedtime.
Then add one-half cupful melted but
ter, two eggs (beaten light, pinch of
salt and flour enough to stlffen (but
not as stiff as bread dough-. Let rise
until morning, roll and cut with a bis
cult cutter and let rise again. Bake.
not having the oven very hot when
they first so in.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
blue MONDAY and ITS REAL CAUSE
BY DR.. SAMUEL @. DIXON.
Commissioner of Health of PENNSYLVANIA.

ming of the next weeks labor and
take up their business on Monday
morning exhausted and overtired In
stead of refreshed by the "day of rest"
The other class goes to extremes by
overeating and underexercising and
the result is equally unhappy.
Try to strike happy medium. Re-
member that the cheerfulness which al
most invariably begets Its like is well
nigh impossible to one who Is tagged
out or dulled by overeating.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Rice Balls.

Sweeten plain boiled rice to taste
and add, while hot, butter the size of
walnut and the beaten yolk of an
egg to make sweet rice balls. Form In
to little balls and put into the center
Of each tablespoonful Of rich pre-
served strawberries, peaches or pine
apple, first draining Off the sirup. Roll
in white Of egg and bread crumbs and
serve with lemon sauce.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

When the younger brother sees one or
more of his older brothers he turns
off and goes In another direction.
The Oldest boy in the family de-
serves little credit even if he wins
wealth and fame, but If the younger
brother ever reaches the point where
he can earn a dollar day, he should
be crowned with bays.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Cinnamon Bun.

Cream a half cupful of butter, add
cupful of sugar gradually, then the
yolks of two eggs beaten lightly, two
cupfuls of flour sifted with two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and a tea
spooAful Of cinnamon, add half cup
full of milk alternately with the flour,
then add half cupful of ralsins and
fold In the whites Of the eggs. Bake
In sheet and, while hot, spread gen.
erously with butter, and sprinkle with
powdered sugar and cinnamon mixed
together.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

MS pocket ana
must toll hard to
earn his daily
bread. He thinks
himself most for
tunate Of men If
a nice young wom-
an, employed as
he is, looks with
favor upon his
suit, giving him
reason to hope
she will not say
nay when he is
ready to propose
marriage.
Hard toll makes
a man thrifty,
care full Of his
money and saving
- Al.l ann
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
PERILS COME WHEN FORTUNE SMILES
BY LAURA JEAN LIeeEY.

drop Off like leaves in autumn and the
fair women close their doors against
him. Only the girl who loved him in
the other days proves steadfast and
true. We may hoard, deny ourselves
the plain comforts Of life, but who
knows how the money is to go at the
end?
Copyright 1850
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

morning? Do you
start for the office
with q frOwn on
your face and a
look In your eye
that sets the Of
fee boy hunting
for an errand out
side and starts
the whole force
with a crouch
that lasts for the
better part of the
day?
Salesman who
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Where She'd Suit.

The bride who tried to kill herself
when her husband stayed away from
home n few hours would make n
dandy wife for rich invalld.-Grand
Rapids News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
wbv Rubber Ia Scarce.

It Is only 27 years since the first
pneumatic tires were made-those, OF
course, being for bicycles, but today
"the pneumatic tire business Of the
world is estimated at the enormous
sum Of $65O,OO00OO."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
PerXerse WaNa.

As II general thing, 1t Is the women
who wear the wells and the men who
can't face the music.-Galvestpn News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
Crumb Cake.

Mix well together one-half a cupful
of butter, one and half cupfuls of
sugar, two cupfuls Of flour. Add two
teaspoonfuls Of baking powder, two
eggs, cupful Of milk and a teaspoon
full of tiavoring. Mix the sugar, but
ter and flour together; when well
blended take out cupful Of the mix
ture and add the eggs, well beaten,
the milk and flavorlng to the remain
der. Put into the cake pan and sprinkle
with the reserved cupful Of the mix
ture. Bake In moderate oven.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
When about to make a choice.
hear In tones OF ire
A stern Gods tremendous voice
"Be counseled and retire"

Many man is just good. honest,
worthy fellow If he hasn't a dollar in
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

Is 1t q habit of yours to get out Of
bed on the wrong foot on Monday
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19
MOTHERS
COOK BOOK

Nothing is easier than fault-finding, no
self-denial, no brains. no character are re-
quired to set UP In the grumbling busi-
ness.-Robert West.
Pork Cake.
Take one cupful each Of fat chopped
salt pork, boiling water, molasses,
dried apple and sugar. Add the boil
ing water to the pork; cook the mo-
lasses and cupful of dried apple
which has been soaked over night, a
teaspoonful of cinnamon and half u
teaspoonful each of cloves and nut
meg with a half cupful of raisins,
three hours; add the other ingredients,
two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda and
two of cream Of tartar flour to make
soft dough. Bake slowly one hour.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-19

1ver, Is to raise
ner's family, and.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-08
WAS TO BLAME?

liberately run toward the enemy
lines-and in another moment he
fell shot thru the head.
MANY q fist was clenched and
raised in the direction of the Eng
lish-but they, after all, should
not be directly blamed for Writ
death. The real cailprit was his
wife. whose letter we subsequently
found in his breast pocket.
1T was the usual jeremiad. She
was insulted ESQ this miserable fe-
male wrote) by the officials at the
food depot; she could obtain no
coal, even after hours of waiting;
she was SO frightfully emaciated
that her husband would not recog-
nize her: she was short Of money
and of food; and so forth,
"His wife had murdered him.
Will this be q lesson to the thou
sands of other involuntary MUIR
deresses at home who disgrace
heir German womanhood?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-08

Margie Allen arrested by Ia
coma detective charged with steal
ing $40 from a man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-08

The following, says the Berlin
Post, is no hero story, no tale Of
high chivalry or humor, but the
plain narrative of an episode such
as should furnish q valuable les
son to many q family having rela-
tives at the front: %re
Private Wirtz was the favorite
Of officials and soldiers alike. For
IS months his irrepressible humor
had kept us all alive when we
should have been dead either Of
Sickness, wounds, OF. the general
effects Of misery.
"A day came. however. when he
was transformed He sat with
troubled mien wiping the perspira-
ton from his brow. and then, with
an expression like that OF one in .
trance, shouidefed his rifle to taxa
up his post on relief duty. Then
We saw him, after Keeling for
something IN his breast pocket. do