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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
SEvEN-NAMED HERO
Lafayette Only Nineteen When
He Came to America.
Congress Commissioned Him Major
General and Washington Invited
Him Into His Military Family.

Marie Jean Paul Roche wet Gilbert
Motier was born September 6, 1857.
You know this seven-named hero bet
ter by his title than by any of his sep
tet names; he was the Marquis de La
fayette.
While the birthday of Lafayette has
not been generally celebrated. in the
United States, no 9th Of September has
been permitted to pass without some
recognition of Lafayette's services.
At the age Of thirteen he inherited
an immense fortune, and he was only
sixteen when he married the grand
daughter of the Duke de Noailles. De-
spite his arist6cratic education and en-
vironment, he was from childhood an
ardent lover of liberty.
Republican anecdotes always de-
lighted me-" he wrote in his memoirs,
land when my new connections wished
to obtain for me place at court did
not hesitate displeasing them to pre-
serve my independence"
When he first heard of the Revolu-
ton in America he "espoused warmly
the cause of liberty" and offered his
services to Silas Deane, the American
revolutionary agent in France.
when / presented to Mr.. Deane my
boyish face, for was scarcely nine
teen years of age, spoke more of my
ardor In the cause than Of my expert
ence," wrote Lafayette, ''but / dwelt
upon the effect my departure would
cause in France"
The credit of the Continental con-
gress was so low that Deane could not
procure a vessel, so Lafayette bought
and secretly freighted the ship Victory
to carry himself and dozen or so
other officers across the Atlantic.
Among Lafayette's companions was
Baron Johann de Kalb, a native of Ba-
varia, who had long been in the serv-
Ice Of France. Against the wishes OF
his relatives and the orders of the
French king Lafayette sailed for Amer
lea. From the Victory he sent mes
sage to his girl-wife:
"From love to me become a good
American; the welfare Of America is
closely bound up with the welfare Of
mankind"
Lafayette and his party landed near
Georgetown, S. O., in April, 1777, and
then travelled by land to Philadelphia,
where the congress commissioned the
nineteen-year-Old boy major general,
and Washington invited him to become
a member of his military family.
The boy general Joined the Cont
mental army in August, 1777, and in the
following month he fought at Brandy
wine, where the Stars and Stripes were
first carried into battle. Lafayette
fought as volunteer, and was badly
wounded. After several brilliant ex-
ploits he returned to France In 1779
and was hailed as a hero. ,s
During the French revolution he was
an ardent republican and dropped his
title when he was made commander in
chief of the National Guards. He was
driven from his country by the ex-
tremists, and the Austrians flung him
into dungeon, where he was confined
for five years.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Disease Mt Inherited.

An entirely wrong doctrine of hered-
,lty has been the source OF great deal
of anxiety in the world, declares James
y. Walsh, NJ. D., in the American Maya
zine, and has kept many people from
living their lives as they ought to do,
because they have been spending time
and energy worrying over what would
happen to them if certain feelings
(which they thought symptoms of in
Inerited disease were to prove cor
rect. Defects are inherited. but dis
ease is not, because acquired charac.
,feristics are not transmitted. Appre'
l0ension of heredity has probably
eaused more suffering than heredity
itself
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Russian Prisoners Escape.

The record of escapes from war
captivity has been claimed for Rus
sian prisoner who recently crossed the
Dutch frontier in his twelfth attempt
to escape. Three times he fled in the
direction of Luxembourg, twice he made
for Switzerland, on several occasions
he took the road to Poland and again
to Denmark, but in every case without
success. This was the first time he
had tried his luck in the direction Of
the Netherlands frontier, and after be-
ing two months and twenty days on
the road success crowned his persever-
ance,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Proving 1t.
sour friend Bessie seems to have
quite an open disposition"
"Ouite. She never shuts up"
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

Has been used for all ailments that
are caused by a disordered stomach
and inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous Indigestion, fermentation Of
food, palpitation Of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
is a gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to Sc
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
30 and so cent bottles.--Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
crueIties in STAGE Life.

The great mystery play was just
about to start, when the heroine rushed
into the managers Office.
''What shall / do?" she cried. "Some-
thing awful has happened. My dres-
ser has bunked with the jewels I'm to
wear tonight?'
whats gomez" asked the manager
very sternly.
oh" cried the heroine distressed
ly. 1.-THE diamond tiara, the ruby neck.
lace and all the diamond rings and
gold braceletsr
The manager frowaed and pondered
You must pay for this!" he said
You were responsible for the jewel
chest 1 shall deduct two-and-nine-
pence from your weeks salary!"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Shrine Destroyer in Danger.

Destroying a shrine nearly cost a
woman her life at Kalma, Korea. II
seems that shrine located in her gar
den was frequented by the Koreans
In the neighborhood and great many
of them visited 1t every day. In do.
ing so, they trespassed on the garden
itself and did much damage, to the
great annoyance of the owner. To put
stop to this, the lady destroyed the
shrine. and this enraged the Koreans
They set fire to the house, and were
about to kill the owner when a force
of police dispersed them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20

that simply means the allies are fore
ing the fighting and compelling the
Germans to devote all their energies to
defense-the allies are able to at.
tack when and where they please.
This means that they can prepare as
carefully and as long as they like for
an attack, and, with good luck, keep
the Germans guessing until it is actu-
ally launched as to the point of i'm
pact
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
NothIno Doinu.

II know who has the lost money"
STATED the visitor.
"Then, why come to meT demand
ed Sherlock Holmes.
81 want you to get it back for me-"
"Who has it,"
"My wife has it."
"Watson, kindly show the gentle
man out" responded the astute Sher
lock with yawn.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Wedding Train Fuller.

Viola had been to see Aunt Mary's
beautiful church wedding and was
much interested in the duties OF the
little train bearer. The next day Vi
ola was seen marching in the yard
with an old lace curtain draped from
her head, and little Jim was holding
it up. When she was asked what
they were playing, Viola replied: "Oh,
we is just getting married. Use the
bride and he's the train puller."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Next to Football.

Doctor Ito former football cham
Mon)-Your face is badly scratched
and bruised, but 1 think it is nothing
serious. / presume you have been
playing football again?
Ex-Champion-Not this time. / only
told my landlady she had face like
football. That's all can remem-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
A Movie Fan.

"You must make home so attractive
that your husband will want to stay at
home evenings"
sHow can IT. asked the married
voung woman. even IL we had q
moving picture machine, couldn't
make arrangements for all the first
run films"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Misnomer for shepfIock.

A Western editor recently referred
no herd" of sheep. and he was
promptly corrected by another editor,
twho asserted that he should have
iealled the "herd" a flock. Most people
lwfll be disposed to side With the lat
her. end yet. how are they going to
lexplain the fact that the person who
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Gramophone for ReprisaIs.

In the London Times occurs this
amusing advertisement by an obvious
ly much-tried man:
WANTED-A loud, secondhand gram
ophone-for reprisals.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20
Artillery HopelessIy Inferior.

Not only are the German gunners
blinded by reason of allied air SUI
premacy, but the enemy is now hope
lessly inferior both in the number of
cannon he can bring into action and
the supply of shells he can deliver to
them. The situation in 1915, when the
allied soldiers had to endure constant
Smelling to which their own guns could
not reply, has now been reversed. Brit
ish soldiers are genuinely sorry for the
German infantry today, for they re-
member what they went through two
years ago, and they know how it feels.
Early in 1916 the cannon and shells
began piling up on the right side OF
the lines, and British staff officers
think that approximately in August of
that year in the middle of the Somme
battles, an equilibrium was reached
and the allies and the Germans were
about equal in fire power. Since that
time the allies, thanks in no small de-
gree to the efforts of America, have
been drawing steadily ahead. There
is now no comparison; were it posi-
bic to give figures which have seen,
they would astonish the most optimis-
tic.
In the infantry fighting the Germans
have also been placed under terrible
disadvantage. quite apart from the
heavier Smelling they have to endure.
Thanks to the possession of the strate-
gical initiative-a formidable term
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-20

come the "break through" so much
talked about, but victory will not come
this year; it may not be possible at all
without the help of great American
armies.
The great progress toward the final
goal that has been made during the
1917 campaign by the French and Brit
ish armies must be measured not by
liberated towns, but by the losses suf-
fered by those LA German divisions,
1t is possible to give approximate fig
ures showing what the German SOL
diers have had to endure this year.
When the campaign opened in March
the trench lines from Switzerland to
| the sea were manned by about 100 Ger
man divisions, while grouped in the
| rear as strategic reserve were A
| divisions which Hindenburg hoped TO
use in an offensive which was to re-
| gain the initiative for Germany after
the March retreat had disorganized the
allied plans. The pursuit was more
rapid than the Germans thought pos
| Sible. the British blow at the Vimy
ridge came three weeks before it was
| expected, and the old marshal's plans
went glimmering. He had TO stand
and fight on the defensive, abandoning
his strategic scheme.
The German divisions are now only
three-Quarters their former strength
and consist as a rule of nine battalions
instead of twelve: which means 1900
bayonets to the division If each bat
TALON is at full strength. but in prac.
tice not more than 1880 bayonets to
l an average division.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

flavor and creamed or seasoned with bit Of
stock or dish gravy.
No less an authority than "The Journal of
the American Medical Association" recently
editorialized to the effect that every day should
be fish day here and now and proved it from
the double standpoints of economy and nutri-
ton.
Another point is not to shy at a new name.
Meet the stranger half way and give him
chance to make good. Why should not gray
fish be just as good as a whitefsh or blue
fish? The burbot is delicacy in Europe-and
its relationship to the cod should admit it to
the best New England society. The halibut
and hake and cod may not be as well favored
as the shad, but try them cold, with mayor
naise, or clipper" them with a spiced vinegar
sauce, or bake them with a sprinkling Of
butter and grated cheese, basting generous
ly with milk, and see how easy they are to
swallow.
Buy fish or anything else any day it hap
pens to be fresh, plentiful and cheap. The mar
ket list should rot be predestnated; it should
be matter of inspiration and opportunity. A
clever buyer watches the market and follows it.
Don't insist petulantly on blueish if the
bluefsh didn't bite.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

A prominent fish dealer recently complained
in pantive tones that you couldn't make
fish bite any more than you could make a hen
lay. Sometimes the boats go out and stay
week or two and come back almost empty;
other time it is heavy haul. The overhead in
both cases is the same. One lot Of fish may
cost dollar pound to catch; the next Lot only
a trife. Don't buy fish when the fish aren't
biting.
We also have habit of shuddering and turn
ing pale when butter substitutes and cleo are
mentioned. 1t is time to smile-when you can
get good wholesome, pleasant tasting fats,
honestly sold under their own names, at a
small part of the price you pay for butter and
olive oil.
These are more delicious, and for children
the butter is better than any oeo, but for adults
who have completed their vertical growth and
are starting in to see what they can do hori-
zontaly giving up butter would be pious no.
ton, war or no war.
And, mind you, there are those across the
water who need it cruelty with their ration
limited both as to quality and quantity. These
butter substitutes got bad name, and fairly
earned it, when they were dishonesty sold for
what they were not. But they have their own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

Tribune Institute laboratory meal, consisting
of roasted meat, Drowned potatoes, string
beans, baked apples and bread pudding, was
cooked at one time.
The meat and the peeled potatoes were
placed in an aluminium cooking pot, eight
inches in diameter, of the stralght-sided va
riety that is used in freless cooker Mean
while the oven was heated for twenty minutes,
or until the temperature was 43O degrees
Fahrenheit. Then the roast was put in and the
heat kept on for five minutes longer. When
the thermometer indicated temperature OF
AIS degrees Fahrenheit the gas was turned of
and the oven was sealed. In twenty minutes,
when the temperature had dropped to $50 de-
grees Fahrenheit, the string beans, covered
with boiling water in another straight-sided
cooking vessel, the apples and the bread pud-
ding were placed in the oven
Within half an hour the meat potatoes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
System: Every Business
Must Haze Its Machinery

laboratory proved that four quarts of water at
81 degrees Fahrenheit could be brought to q
boil in this kettle in thirteen and one-half min
utes with a single burner on full"
Other desirable features of this kettle are the
lid and the handle. The lid slides back and
FORTH instead of raising on hinge or lifting
off completely. By this device the hand is
protected from steam if it is necessary to open
the kettle while the water is boiling. The
handle is Of ebor lied wood, so mounted that
it holds the kettle rigidly and without swerv-
ing while the water is being poured, and it can
be turned down only on one side. The kettle is
well balanced, easy to pour from and, even
when filled to capacity may be emptied with
out spiling around the cover. Its actual ca
pacity is four quarts and three cupsful-prac-
teal capacity, four quarts
Made by the Wagner Manufacturing Com.
pany, Sidney, Ohio. Wagner Grand Prize"
Tea Kettle. Made in three sizes, capacity ga,
AZ. and quarts. Price, $500, $3.50 and
$500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
A Quick Heating, Space-Saving Tea Kettle

TT is difficult to see why the Wagner Grand
Prize" Tea Kettle reminds one Of a nice,
- shiny white elephant 1t is made in
modified Colonial pattern, with softly rounded
curves and humps in place of the usual panels,
and it is a very handsome tea kettle.
Nevertheless, the suggestion of an elephant,
with plump contour and knobby, intelligent
looking skull, is so obvious that one is almost
inclined to name the kettle Mott Guj or Radha
Pyari and make it household pet. 1t has
distinct personality.
Aside from the personality, it is a large tea
kettle, made of heavy cast aluminium, with
highly polished exterior. Being semi-oval in
shape, it can stand comfortably on the top of
considerably crowded gas stove and keep from
jostling its neighbors. Its special construction
is supposed TO add to its heating surface, and
thereby make it a quick heater Be that as it
may. the test given IN tia Tribune Institute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

national food bird. No parrot ever demanded
Its cracker more consistently than the Ameri-
can man calls for his Sbacon and eggs" for
breakfast. It's automatic. The fact that the
hen is on vacation or busy with maternal
duties doesn't interest him. He just keeps on
saying eggs" summer and winter, and then
wonders 'why cold storage" Doubtless after
the San Francisco earthquake the men stag
gered forth into the morning light and feebly
said eggs" as usual.
When every one demands the same thing at
the same time and there is limited supply, the
price goes up for the same reason that water
runs down hill. A whole regiment of Hoovers
cannot save us from own folly if we refuse
to buy and eat inteligently.
In the same way most Of US with one accord
say "Fish on Friday" and forget the word for
week. It's musical phrase, but it's "bad
business" because it means minimized con-
sumption of a most excellent food, and creates
the maximum of difficulty in handling and dis
tributing highly perishable product.
Why should not every day be fish day instead
of only Friday? Anybody who can do part
of his 'bit" by eating bluefsh or scallops or
tuna is certainly getting bargain in patriot
ism.
We have few traditions in America and too
many habits. When it comes to foods we should
be cosmopolitan, free thinkers, progressives.
Tastes can be cultivated-especially if the cook
helps.
How often have you heard some one say with
an air of virtuous pride, "Oh never eat spin
ach!" Probably he never had any real spinach
to eat-tender, with the ribs rejected and the
leaf put through colander, releasing its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Efficiency: These Devices
Tighten HonSework
TIME one object of The Tribune
Institute is to give housewives a
- dependable source Of information.

Institute is to give housewives a
- dependable source Of information.
We are doing it.
No guesswork is tolerated in The
Tribune Institute; no article is published
merely because it reads well.
Every household utensil described and
illustrated in these pages is tested IN the
laboratory by the engineering expert and
the domestic scientist of the Institute.
The results are at your service when you
want to buy.
just now the burning question of the
day is eeonomy-in food as well as
money. 1t is important that the largest
amount of nourishment be obtained from
the foods which are the least expensive.
Every statement we make about food
ha, been carefully weighed. Each recipe
!, tested before it is published, each price
verified; each article on foods and food
values and on household equipment has
been given the acid test.
We mean it literally when We say we
are at your service" VIII you let us
know how we can serve you best?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
TESTED AIDS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

het is obtained a thermostat automatically
shuts off the current. Should this thermostat
20 to sleep at the switch the pad is still safe,
because the thermostat is provided with
safety button which softens with heat and au-
tomatically opens the electric circuit the mo-
ment the temperature rises past given point.
This pad measures nine and one-half by
thirteen inches and is equipped with ten feet of
flexible connection cord and separate lamp
socket plug. The handy cJnnectors make it pos
sbe to move the pad about from room to room
without having to carry the entire length OF
cord; also, they permit an extra length of cord
to be added at will. The cost Of operation, at
10 cents per kilowatt hour, is about half cent
an hour.
Made by the Scientific Products Company,
Steubenville, Ohio. Safety Electric Warming
Pad. Price, $500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

place and it is good one, if you know enough
to put them in it.
And again, why always wheat? It's Won
derful food. But why should "oats, peas, beans
and barley grow" as the children's song says
they do, if not to eat?
We are not asked to go hungry, or even
TO eat monotonous diet, not YETI We shall
have our own selfshness and stupidity largely
to blame II we stolidly prefer our flood habits
to an intelligent adaptability to needs and con-
ditions.
Prices were going up before the war. The
Hoover commission can perform no miracles.
And miracle is called for when one tries to
counteract basic economic and industrial laws
lust as truly as if one tries to override nature.
But you can control and modify and direct.
This is being done in Washington through CO.
operation and licensing, by proving that cut
throat competition will mean suicide.
We have chance to make advances in our
methods of distribution and merchandising,
under present laws and conditions, that it
would have taken fifty years or more to have
established in years of peace and fat plenty.
Apart from this the Food Commission can
only prevent erorbitdnt prices. The equalizing
of demand is the consumers part of the war
programme. The commission cannot carry
both ends of the log.
It is a real test of the freedom of democracy
and the fruitage of the little red schoolhouse,
this demand that is being made on 1OO,0OO,OOO
people for intelligent, concerted action.
Are we really free, intelligent people? or
are we the slaves of our own habits and fleshly
comfort? If so We might almost as we'll be
slaves of Prussianism as of our own selfish
materialism.