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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-04-28

american cruiser which led the way
into tho great harbor OF Hampton
Roads.
All the members OF the commits
sion were on the bridge Of their boat
with the French admiral command
ING shortly after o'clock to see the
entrance. The day was magnificent.
with hardly a ripple disturbing the
broad expanse Of water. As the
roads came into view Marshal Joffre
turned to an American naval officer
serving IN pilot and said:
"What q wonderful scene. love
this sunshine. II reminds me Of my
own county--the south OF France"
Once inside the harbor the Ameri-
can destroyers slipped away to their
anchorages. Meanwhile every Amsri-
can ship In the harbor hoisted to their
mastheads the French tricoior. and
the band or warship played THE sta,
spongied Banner" Marshal Joffrs
and the military and naval members
stood at salute until the last note had
hoated across the water while the
civilian members stood with baret
heads.
Immediately afterward came tn,
French national anthem which wa
saiutsd In Q similar manner.
The chip bsarinS The mission drop
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-04-28
STAR AVIATOR KILLED.

Paris. April 24.-Corporai Ronald
Hoskier. Of South Orange, N. j.. one
OF the stars OF the American flying
corps. was killed during the present
offensive.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-04-28
REICHSTAG HAS ADJOURNED.

German Parliament Refused to Dis
cnss the Food Problem.
London, April 25.-Despite the ef-
forts OF social Democrats to have 1t
discuss the food problem, the Reich
tag adjourned, after a brief session
yesterday. until May End. according to
I'm Asnytsrdam dispatch.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-04-28
FkIcI COMMISSION IlaIVEs
fRksENTATlvEs OF DEMO
\ CRAUC FRANCE VISIT UNIT.
ED STATES.

Cons "a Confer Wish American ON.
csAh Coseernine methods to Bs Fol-
'owea IN Egsippins Army and Ma
VA Foscss for War On Germany--
oseeroaAes incident to Coming Of
Cesebsa>ed Forcisners arc Informal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
WHAT YOUR GARDEN NEEDS THIS WEEK

many Il is convenience and insures fairly
even distribution of effort
KEEP A DIARY.-Make notes ahead Of the SOW
ings for succession. No more than ten minutes
daily is needed for this, and the convenience of
having ones memory logged by the brief reminder
is greatly out Of proportion to the labor involved
Beans" Madam Gardener reads under the dat.
Of June 10.
"But planted them only week ago." she says
TO herself Then she looks back:
"HO! 1t was corn that put in last week and
in so the beans according to schedule.
1t is only veteran gardener who can keep up
succession without some such aid, because to him
such planting habits have become second nature
But with the aid Of some simple "Pre- Diary" or
Garden Engagement Book" even frst-year gar
dener can be the proud possessor Of garden that
meets the needs Of the family, instead Of having
an unmanageabe surplus and family that re-
fuses to eat any more string beans because it has
been fed on them for two weeks with other
vegetable in sight
Beside this small successive paintings give the
amateur gardener a dozen chances Of success in
stead Of one. If the first crop a failure, the
second may be record breaker.
Here are the June sowngs:
BEANS-Either bush beans, bush lima or pole
beans may be planted. If the latter, be to
plant the poles first. Bean vines are decorative
and may be used instead of morning glory vines
BEETS-Sow mangel-wurzel sugar beet for
winter keeping For succession sow Detroi; Dark
Red, Edmond or Eclipse
CARROTS-Sow Partisan Early for quick crop
CORN-Sow Golden Bantam and stowes Ever
green TO follow.
LETTUCE-Sow wherever there I, space for IT,
PEAS-only early varieties now, such as Gradus
or Little Marvel.
POTATOES may still be planted.
TOMATO PLANTS may be set ou, now
SQUASH-Sow in hills three or four fee, apart
each way. Il may fellow carly beets or peas
Keep the weeds down rs csltivatrr. j. .s easier
10 keep a garden free from weeds THAN to get It
clear once the weeds have start.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

in which they are efficient or which they would
like to learn to do.
There is everything from driving an anbu-
lance or an aeroplane to compiling lists for
the office. As unit of the Red Cross, the
members of the Stage Women's War Relief
are entitled to take the courses of lessons
which that society gives in all the useful
branches Of work.
Not only are the stage women of New
York doing their bit but the women on the
road in travelling companies or in stock COM
panies in other cities are either doing work in
their spare minutes or are sending a weekly
sun of money to help the cause.
The officers of the Stage Womens War Re-
lief are as follows: Rachel Crothers, president;
Elizabeth Tyree Metcalfe, honorary vice-presi-
dent; Louise Closer Hale, first vice-presdent;
Dorothy Donnelly, second vice-president; Mary
II. Kirkpatrick secretary; Louise Drew, treas
urer; Mrs. J. Stewart Blackton, chairman NOV
ing picture committee.
The board of directors consists Of Jessie Bon
stele, May Buckley, Minnie Dupree Eleanor
Gates, Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Alice Kauser,
Margaret Mayo, Frances Starr, Laurette Tay-
Tor and Sally Williams Riegel.
UNTIRING WORK OF GOOD COMRADES
There is never a minute, from 10 o'clock in
the morning until o'clock in the afternoon,
when the big room is not crowded with work
crs; never a day without its quota of new re-
crUits.
Actresses, you must know, are "clquey';
they flock together more closely than the
members of almost any other profession or
business; they work best in their own envi-
ronment and among their own kind and this is
one of the reasons, and a great, big reason,
why the work of the Stage Women's War Re
lief is so harmonious and so successful. There
is such a wonderful spirit of camaraderie that
it can't help but produce the best results.
A large portion of the workroom has been
fenced off with wooden ratings. In this space
arc rows Of tables covered with white enamel
cloth, where the women in white pinafores
and head-dresses roll the various kinds OF
bandages, from the tiny strips of gauze that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

balancing in one of those silly little gilt chairs
near the white marble lady whose stony legs
are warmed by red light at her feet, and the
orchestra gets the better of conversation, just
20 a-fshing in the not-silver chafing-dish that
bubbles on the table before you.
Whatever the name on the left-hand side OF
the menu, whatever the dollars on the right
hand side, III wager you artichokes to carrots
that the food is something swimming in White
Sauce!
Maybe it's mushrooms and chicken and green
peppers and hardboiled eggs and celery.
Maybe it's lobster and sherry or shrimps and
green peas; but if you have reminiscent pal
ate your thoughts will go straight back to milk
toast-for-supper-to-nig
l have even found w. s. as the basis OF
Welsh rarebit! You need not impatiently assert
that I'm talking nonsense, because rarebit is
boiling cheese thinned with beer. OF course
that is the way you make it when you're a
sophomore at college, cooking at 2 o'clock in
the morning.
But when you are a housekeeper, dshing up
a nourishing hot luncheon for the family you
will very likely make your rarebit by adding to
the white sauce cup of cut-up cheese and
stirring in two eggs. If you tell me that that
method takes away all the sportiness of the
dish, ! reply that it takes away all the strngi-
ness also Goodby, larky cooking; welcome,
digestibie food.
H. commercial cookery, too, you will find your
old friend. | mean in that form of commercial
cookery where you hand out dime instead OF
dollar and receive back an oyster pie instead Of
an Oysters la Something Foreign. If the pie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

the door Of the workroom would be the same
as mine.
It wasn't the sight of the rows of tables
where graceful white robed figures were roll
ing bandages, or the knitting table in the fur
Their corner where a group of our best known
actresses sat knitting for the soldiers that i'm
pressed me the most; it was the hum of softly
modulated voices that came to me as ! stepped
into the room.
We have all heard the babel Of voices at an
afternoon tea or bridge party-raucous, nasal
tones for the most part, high pitched and pene-
trating. But here one gets the cultivation and
refinement which long stage training has
brought out. Can you imagine how grateful
it is to the sensitive ear?
NV next impression was of the orderliness
and quiet with which the work goes on. This
is really remarkable when you consider that
the Stage Womens War Relief is still in its
early infancy, not yet two months Old There
is no shouting across the room, no confusion,
no hunting about for materials, such as have
seen in other Red Cross units.
The very walk and carriage Of the women Of
the stage makes for efficiency, for it brings an
atmosphere of peace and harmony which is Of
infinite value to the work | spoke of this to
Mrs. Sally Williams Riegel, who acts as execu-
tive manager Of the workroom, and she smiled
knowingly.
"My dear girl" said she, "you know as well
as ! do that the first lesson a professional
woman learns is obedience to discipline. The
notice on the call board of theatre is as
inviolable as the laws of the Modes and Per
SLAMS. We took advantage of this and adopted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
FIND THE UBIQUITOUS WHITE SAUCE

had to be stuffed with oysters the price wolS
be above dimes. IL is stuffed with ". 81 e
thick you can almost eat il with fork, anl
favored with two oysters and piece Of shell,
White Sauce as the meat dish Of iuD,,
fedged dinner was an experience 70 when )
opened my mouth at a pension table IN Swi1el.
land. A neighboring sanatorum oyerfoTht
into this house had influenced its cookery tGV.
ard vegetarianism. ! decided on the spot 'a''
White Sauce was my favorite meat. -,
1t was built thus: A thick layer Of COOKE
spinach in baking dish; thick layer OF tnea
white sauce; layer of sliced hard-boiled egg,
more sauce; bread crumbs; Jumps Of outr.
a browning under the broiler The dish geN
an encore. might T." THANK you" =.
The bleak statement of the cookery o0o on.
negects TO mention one characteristic OF W
sauce against which the cook should be warhs =.
It is born with the desire TO lump. BoIn o ~
four-butter heredity and its saucepan en'ifV'
ment it inclines toward lumpishness. -,
Counterfeit this evil tendency by heating ~
milk beforehand. And as you value your coos COW,
ing reputation don't try 10 make white ss..,
with your right hand while your left toSs~
bread.
II you are a ktchenette cookette ana w. .
dinner guest is swinging his patent ea'. y,
pumps from an informal seat on the top OF y,
washtubs, don't let him distract your atSe's,
No, though he talk of automobiles or huSs s II
revolution or violet farming think you Only
your White Sauce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
By MARY ALDEN HOPKINS

HOOK BOOKS have no more imagination
than an engineers blue prints or doc
tors prescription. Take for example
their remarks on White Sauce. The instructions
are practically identical in every cook book that
has been given to every bride in every land for
the last five years. The language may differ
but the information is the same. II reads:
WHITE SAUCE
tablespoonful butter
tablespoonful flour
cup milk
Il teaspoonful salt
l., saltspoonful pepper
Then follow brief directions about melting
the butter first, stirring in the flour and salt;
adding the milk and boiling five minutes. Now,
isn't that stupid and tresome? Just let me
tell you what know about White Sauce.
Ny first meeting with it comes TO me dimly.
shrouded in childhood memories. II was called
MISUNDERSTANDING r-to-night | didn't then
know how it was made, for my eyes were on
the level Of the stovetop and couldn't see into
the saucepan; but now know that it was moth
ing but toasted bread swimming in White
Sauce
Years later was amused to find this hornely
friend introduced into debutante luncheons. It
always turned up somewhere between the two
handed bouillon and the pink wintergreen be-
side the fngerbowl, usually as creamed potato
accompanying a fattish chicken croquette. To
day Il appears in different form.
Some night at the Waldorf, when you are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

a call board system. When anything occurs
which we think is not as it should be we post
notice to the effect that this is taboo. The
offence is never repeated
HOW THE WORK BEGAN
For the benefit Of those who read now for
the first time of the Stage Women's War Re
lief | must state that this association, which
is by far the biggest work that the women
Of the stage have ever undertaken, was the
idea of Miss Rachel Crothers, the playwright
She talked over the project with several
members of the theatrical profession; the re-
suit was the formation of the Stage Women's
War Relief. A most inspiring meeting was
held in the Hudson Theatre, to which all
women who earn their living in the theatre
were invited.
This includes women playwrights, women
decorators who design stage sets, women press
agents wardrobe women and their assistant
seamstresses theatre maids and women ushers,
and even the women whose work it is to clean
the theatre; but as yet but few of the "aed
professions so to speak, have taken an active
part in the work.
It is the actresses, and those for the most
part who are in what is known as the "legiti-
mate" drama, who have responded to the call
There are few musical comedy favorites
among them Georgia Game, who is most
faithful worker, and one or two vaudeville
performers, but the great majority are the
women with whom we have grown familiar
on the stages of our Broadway theatres
The women who come to volunteer their ser
vices at the Fifth Avenue room fill out a
blank on which they signify the line of work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
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are used in the wounds to the heavy, I'M
beached cotton strips which are to serve as
sings for wounded arms. The ravellings from
these are used to fill the pads and pillows
which are ranged in piles on the white shelves.
Paiamas, shirts and all sorts of wearing APP
parel are also made, ranging from socks for
the littlest war baby to the big, full flannel
skirts which will gladden. the heart Of the
Belgian peasants.
TREADING THE ROAD TO TOMORROW
This part of the work is under the direc-
ton of Minnie Dupree, whom we all remem-
Der as the charming heroine in "The Road to
Yesterday With interchangeable energy and
an ardor that nothing can damp she works
six hours day without stopping. "The Road
to Yesterday" is indeed thing of the past
and her clear, blue eyes, filled with hope and
courage. are fixed on the dark Road to To-
morrow"
Fortunately for the Stage Women's War Re-
lief Miss Dupree took thorough course in
Red Cross work last winter. She was one of
the first to answer Miss Crothers's call for
volunteers Besides teaching and supervising
all the work in this department, Miss Dupree
has packed with her own hands every one Of
the seventeen huge packing cases which have
been sent to France as a result Of the first six
weeks work of the Stage Womens War Re-
lief
In corner outside the wooden railing sit
the knitters, needles and tongues flying with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

age and the good soil that is reserved to put in
vt chiefly needs. Sand and manure will tighten
heavy soil and improve its texture.
The soil OF the third trench poor soil and
stones discarded, and the residue mixed with fer
tilizer-flls the second trench. The process is
continued until the last trench is filed by the soil
zremoved from the first.
Trenching is especially useful in the suburbs
and in new Developments" for contractors have
unpleasant habit of burying good garden soil
under several feet of hard pan. The last earth
thrown out in making the cellar becomes the top
soil" for the luckless householder. Trenching
enables him to get at least one garden bed into
state Of high productivity, although the rest OF
his soil may be very Sahara.
WATCH YOUR PLANTS AND DON'T LET
THEM CROWD-Pull out the crowding seedlings
even if you have TO throw the innocents away
Thinning should be done repeatedly whenever
there is need for it. Very young radshes are ex
eellent eating The great temptation 70 the ANA
teur gardener is TO let them grow too big before
pulling Young carrots are delicious; are
young beets, both tops and roots. Baby onions
good in salad, tops and all.
HoUSEWFELY METHODS-Many women gar.
deners manage their gardens as they manage their
homes, with day each for sowing, for wedding
for thinning, for watering, for cutivating, and
one for sanitary inspection" TO combat the i'm
sccts. Like the bousekccper's cleaning day and
baking day. the rule need not be ironelad, but to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

" your garden was planted
early you will have space in it by
now for your second crop Radishes will have
been pulled young beets for green's, and perhaps
you may have had your first crop of peas.
Fill up the vacant rows with fresh sowings, but
the seed should be for crop Of different charsc-
ter. Never follolO one crop Nth another Of the
same.
The reason for thi: is that IL the planting is the
same, exactly the same demand is made on the
soil by the new plant by its predecessor. and
the soil is less able 10 meet il than when the de-
msnd is slightly different. So, il you pull up
pea vines, plant several rows OF beets carrots
in their place.
BETTERING THE SOIL.--Second sowings Civ.
an excellent opportunity for lettering the soil. In
fact, one Of the best ways in which small garden
can be brought into tip-top condition is by
gradual improving Of the soil. bringing bed after
bed into a state Of high fertility.
II ones limited. this is better than
spreading fertilizer over the entire garden area
and making all the soil Of the same quality. Peas.
for instance will do we'll in part Of the garden
that is not 50 rich as the section given TO tho
esbbags.
TRENCHING.-ln = small garden trenching is
one OF the best methods OF lettering the soil.
Imagine your garden bed ruled off like gridiron,
the spaces foot foot and half wide. Dig
the first trench two feet deep and the length Of the
garden bed; put the contents Of this first trench
in a vheelbsrrow and dump It outside tn. grid
iron" opposite where trenehing operations were
begun.
Dig the second trench, Cling the first one with
the soil az you remove 10. Poor soil be
thrown aside. n the coil is sti0 and wet, layer
Of coal sshes can be put Ia The bottom fox drain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
By FRANCES DUNCAN

WELL-PLANNED garden Is a pNs-
gressive affair. There is always
something coming along, and in
the early part of the season, in
fact even as late as late August,
there is always something just
planted.
II your garden was planted
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-08
PRESIDENT ) ...'.,
Mr.. Wilson's Crowded Schedule
Calls For Early Rising.
LIKES GOLF AND BILLIARDS.

Out of Bed at S a. M, Battles and Is In
Study Not Later Than 5:30-Always
Retires Before IL Reads Poetry
Aloud and Takes Pleasure In Latest
Detective Stories.
Observation-Disclosures Wilson has a
we'll defined schedule mapped out for
his daily work when in Washington.
He sticks to this schedule closely. 1t
calls for his arising at the early hour
OF 5 o'clock. Then he has his bath and
is in his study not later than $50
o'clock, says the Louisville Courier
Journal in Il recent account Of the pres
ident's schedule.
Usually the president is met in his
study by his stenographer. Charles
Sven. Charlie, as he is known about
the White House, takes dictation until
S o'clock, which is the presidents
breakfast hour. Breakfast over, MIR.
Wilson is accustomed to return to his
study to continue his morning dictat-
ing.
About $3.50 o'clock in the morning
the president receives a list of appoint
ments which Secretary Tumulty has
made for him at the executive offices.
These engagements never begin until
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-08
FOOD COST RAISED
BY 100000 DOGS
Steps Taken In England to Re-
duCe the Canine Steak
... Eaters. -

Thousands Of dogs are helping to
keep up the high cost Of eating in Eng
land by figuratively snatching from the
mouths Of humans pound steaks, mut-
ton chops and other expensive things.
This was brought out in parliament
the other day when it became known
that steps were being taken to ire
duce" the 100000 dogs that inhabit
h British Isles. The result was d
protest from alarmed dog lovers and a
chorus Of approval by dog haters.
The suggestion Of the government to
raise the dog tax from $1.5O to SIS is
one OF he proposed steps to reduce
the dogs" In favor Of the dogs, it is
declared that dogs were never more
useful than today. The head of a Lon
uon dog home says he gets more re-
quests for dogs than in peace times
so many women are nervous now that
their husbands are in the army, and
they buy dogs to guard their homes.
What really makes patriotic people
boil with q G is to see fashionably
dressed ONE with anywhere from
two to a half dozen pampered pets.
These are the dogs accused Of eating
the pound steaks.
But 1t appears certain that, whatever
other breeds may be affected by the
threatened reduction Of licenses, tho
British bulldogs place Is secure. In
defense Of the bulldog 1t Is stated that
he ia not an expensive luxury; that he
will eat almost anything and only re.
quires u good meal q day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-08
WIDOW SAVES TREES.
Turns Commissioners From Those
Planted by Her Husband.

FiaIltcG ny TIT TIuSOat1Os :
st. Cloud. Mich.-'Woodman, spare
that tree: touch not n single bough."
Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, wild
ow. as she pleaded for the preservation
of trees planted by her husband. long
dead.
1t was three years ago that Mrs. Spi-
Ger started her battle with city officials
over the maintenance Of this arborian
Inheritance. She was called upon to
enter another skirmish the other day
when sidewalk bids were opened, in
which provision was to have been
made for the removal Of the trees.
Mrs. Spicer's pets" fringe a lot on
which her modest little home is built.
wait until l am gone and you may
remove Them" she told the city COM
~missioners. who took her words to
heart. When sidewalk bids were open.
ed there We're proposed contracts Oh
other jobs. but on the Widow Spicer's
pro%perty-nOt ii word.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-08

10 o'clock. Few of them are for longer
than half an hour. These engagements
run up until about - o'clock, the pres
ident always leaving the Office building
for the White House for luncheon not
later than | o'clock.
Usually the presidents afternoons
have been given over to recreation.
OF course the president played golf
but Il few times during the railroad
crisis. He then only did so because DR..
Grayson thought it advisable for him
to get q little outdoor exercise. On the
motor rides and at the golf matches
Mrs. Wilson was always his cOnpan-
ion.
The motor trips are usually over by
6 o'clock, SO there is ample time to pre-
pare for I o'clock dinner. Most Of the
presidents evenings have been devOt-
ed to work.
For the last few months there has
been Il great mystery about the White
House. 1t has to do with of the
means which the president employs to
relax from his presidential duties. This
form OF amusement is nothing more
than the popular game of pool, or,
speaking in more polite terms. pocket
billiards.
When the conditions are normal at
the White House the president has two
means of relaxation other than playing
billiards. He takes great delight i'll
reading poetry aloud. The other form
of amusement is the reading Of detec-
tive stories. He gets the latest books
Of this sort.
President Wilson does not believe it
wise to keep the midnight oil burning
Therefore the hour Of IL o'clock usual.
ly finds him in bed. More often it is
before II o'clock that he retires. This
is necessary because of his early ris'
ingS.