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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
OId-StyIe Mjncemeat.

Que and a half pounds stoned raj
sins, thIee-quarters pound currants
One-half pound sultanas, half pound
mixed peel, n pound apples, two
pounds of brown sugar, W. pounds
suet, n heaping t%easpoonful of
mixed ground spices, one-half tea
spoonful of mixed ground ginger ana
nutmeg, one gill brandy. Mix the
chopped or grated suet and the we'll
cleaned and dried fruit together with
the sugar, spices and the candied peel
shredded and chopped fine. Mix for
several minutes, then add the brandy
and pack tightly into clean, dry Jars.
Seal thoroughly, so as to keep out the
air, and store in a dry place for at
least a week before using.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
TAKE OUT GREASE SPOTS
Blemishes That So Greatly Annoy the
H~ousekeeper May Be Effectively
Dealt With.

Grease spots may be removed by the
application of carbon tetrachloride, ac-
cording to II. II. Zoller, assistant in
chemistry in the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college.
Removing grease spots with gaso-
line or benzine is both dangerous and
wasteful," said Mr.. Zoller. "Chloroform
is effective, but is dangerous. Carbon
tetrachloride Is uLed by cleaners be-
cause of its safety, cleaning power and
the absence of a d~isagreeable odOr.
The disadvantage is it's expense.
link is difficult to remove If 1t has
been in the garment for some time.
acetic, citric, or dilute hydrochloric
acids. In case of the coal-tar inks, the
spot must be bleached.
Iron rust can be removed by fairly
strong oxalic acid solution, If allowed
to stand on the goods for a short time,
and often when it is exposed to the
sunlight the action is a little quicker.
The excess of oxalic acid must be
washed out, and the goods washed with
a good soap, in order to neutralize the
acid. Hydrochloric acid is the best re-
of iron rust, if handled by an ex-
%perienced person.
IAN excellent formula for the remov-
al of fountain-pen ink, especially iron
ink and iron rust, is the aceto-oxalic
acid formula. 1t is made by saturat-
ing n 10 ner Cpnt acetiC acid solution
with oxalic acid, and mixing one part
of the product with four parts of al
cohol."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

The latest arrivals in coats have not
departed from the liberal lines of early
models, neither as to length nor width.
They give the same impression of lux
urious warmth and substantial com
fort. Some of them achieve original
touches in detail of construction and
trimming and succeed in presenting
something new in a world of varied
coats.
Two examples that can hardly Se ex-
celled for beauty and utility are shown.
They proclaim the cleverness of their
designer inasmuch as they follow the
mode, but by original means. At the
right a coat, which might be made in
any of the popular cloths, is cut with
the body and sleeves in one. 1t is set
to the figure over the shoulders by
small tucks at the back which extend
from a square yoke to the top of the
sleeves. Wide cuffs, a convertible col
lar, and patch pockets, to which we
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Silver Cake,

Beat whites of four eggs stiff, one
and one-half cupfuls sugar, one-half
cupful butter, one cupful cream or rich
milk, two and one-third cupfuls flour,
two ~teaspoonfuls cream tartar. one
teaspooDful soda or two and one-half
teaspoonfuls baking powder, one TEA
spoonful scan of salt, favor with
lemon. Cream butter and sugar to-
gether. Add egg whites, then milk, al
ternately, with flour in which baking
powder and salt have been sifted fours
times. Last add one cupful coconut
If liked. Frost with cream frosting
made as follows: One and one-half
cupfuls powdered sugar, two tea
%spoonfuls butter and suficieL- cream
to make of right consistency to
spread. No favoring, as butter and
cream flavor 1t. Beat hard five min
utes and spread on cake.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
peImonico Cream Roll Potatoes.

Here are two Delmonico potato
recipes: Pare potatoes and cut them
into bits the size of a pea. Keep them
in cold water until all are ready. For
each scant pint of potatoes make a
pint of white sauce, seasoning with
onion juice or celery salt. Stir the po-
tatoes into the hot sauce, turn into a
well-buttered agate sauce pan and cook
in the oven until the potatoes are ten
der and the sauce is absorbed. with
the exception of just enough to hold
the bits of potatoes together. Fold one
part over the other as an omelet and
turn onto a hot dish. The potatoes
should not brown above or below. If
necessary, set them on the CRATE and
cover the pan.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
TO CLEAN SILVER
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TELL OF
BEST METHODS.
Directions for Preparing a Cleansing
Material That Has Much Virtue
Must Be Applied With Care
and Thorouphness.

For the benefit of those who have
the care of silver, the Office of home
economics at Washington has made
a thorough study of the electrolytic
method of cleaning and has published
the results of their work in United
States Department of Agriculture Bull
letin No. 449.
After discussing several types of
commercial cleaners and giving the re-
suits of various analyses, they suggest
the following method as being cheap
and satisfactory:
"An enamel or agateware dish
should be partly filled with a cleaning
solution of one t%easpoonful of either
washing OF baking soda and one tea
spoonful of common table salt to each
quart of water and placed directly
on the stove to boil. A sheet of alumni
mum or clean zinc should then be
dropped into the dish and furnished
silver placed in contact with the metal.
1t is best that the silver be entirely
covered with the cleaning solution and
that the solution remain at the boiling
temperature. As soon as the tarnish
has been removed the silver should be
removed, rinsed in clean water, and
wiped with a soft cloth. Zinc may he
used in place of aluminium, but it be-
corroded and inactive in a much
shorter time"
The electrolytic method cleans plated
or sterling silverware without loss of
metal, giving, however, a satin finish
rather than a FURNISHED appearance,
and has the additional advantages of
being both clean and labor-saving.-
Clara Glidden, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colo.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Colonial Cake.

One-hGlf cupful butter, n and a
quarter cupfuls graduated sugar,
three eggs, half cupful thin cream or
rich milk, half even teaspoonful soda,
one even ~teaspoonful cream tartar, two
cupfuls of pastry flour, half cupful
seeded raislns. Add whites of eggs
last and bake in tube pan. When cold
frost with a heavy white icing that will
contrast prettily with the yellow of the
cake. Cltron sliced in thin strips may
be used instead of raisins. or in COM
bination with them.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

and finished with small pendant balls
of silver. The bodice shows a little
chemisette of embroidered net.
A wide fiat girdle is made of satin
yelled with ]georgette and ornamented
with a band of needlewOrk. 1t extends
below the waistline, wrapping the fig
ure loosely. The sleeves are full from
shoulder to cuff. Here they are
shirred to form the deep narrow cuffs
that are finished at the hand with a
band of ~needlework.
The hat of gold lace, which har-
monies so well with this gown, is
bound at the edge of the brlm with
sealskin and trimmed with a small
pompon of this fur. 1t would be Just
as pretty made of silver lace, and the
fur might be moleskin. The choice
will depend upon becomIngness to the
individual.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Hot Biscuit.

Three cupfuls Of flour, two table
poonfuls of baking powder, three
uarters of a t%easpoonful of salt, three
l~blespoonfuls of butter, three-quarters
. one cupful of milk. Nil and sift the
our. baking powder and salt together
vice; then cut in the butter with a
rk until 1t is in fine bits. Add the
1 Tx gradually, just enough to make a
sgt dough. Do not handle any more
Il Ian is necessary. Turn u on a
FL lred board and roll to about three
quarters of an inch thickness. Cut,
IL In place On a baking sheet and bake
inta hot oven from u to Is minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Way to Break a Habit.

Has your little girl formed the nail
biting habit? If so. try the plan of
one mother who believed in kindness
rather than harshness. Her little girl
was most anxious to possess a certain
doll which she saw in a toy shop. The
mother promised it to her on condition
that she would stop biting her nails.
She told the child that whenever she
forgot herself he doll would disap-
pear r. a day. The idea worked
beautifully. There were days when
the doll was locked away, but in time
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Chocolate pie

Four tablespoonfuls cocoa, one pint
of water, yolks of two eggs, two table
spoonfuls cornstarch, six tablespoon
fuls sugar. Boil until thick, add one
tablespoonful vanilla. Bake the crust,
pour in the chocolate. Beat the whites
of the eggs with one cupful of sugar,
spread over top and brown. One tea
spoonful of baking powder in one-half
cupful granufnted sugar added to the
white of n egg stif1y beaten makes
a fluffy merlngue.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
steamed suet PUDDING.

One cupful chopped suet, one-half
teaspoonful salt, M teaspoonful soda.
two ~teaspoonfuls cream of tartar. m
cupful molasses, and one-half cup
fuls milk, two and one-half cupfuls
flour. one cupful chopped r~aisins, one
cupful 'c~urrants. a little Gu up citron,
one teaspoonful of lemon extract, one
teaspoonful nutmeg. Steam four hours.
Serve hot with hard sauce.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Cornmeal Mullins.

Sift together n cupful cornmeal,
one cupful bread flour, one teaspoonful
soda (level) in one cupful sour milk,
and add it to the sifted ingredients.
Then add one-quarter cupful molasses,
then two eggs. two tablespoonfuls melt
ed drippings. Beat well and bake in
well-greased muffin pans about one-
half hour in moderately hot wen.
Makes IL.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Precious Balm Of cIlead.

Among the ancient Jews. SO indis-
pensable were scents considered for
the bridal toilet that one-twelfth of
the bridal dowry was set apart for
their purchase. The famous balm of
Gilead was distilled from a bush which
formerly covered the mountains of
Gilead, but has of late become so
scarce that only the sultan can be sup
piled.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

The success of the electric vehicle
should be greater in South Africa than
in most parts of the world, because
gasoline there costs from 20 TO rs
cents a gallon, three times as much
as it is worth in the United States,
and twice as much as 1t costs in any
other country in the world.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Example Of euoyaney.

Probably the most buoyant material
in the world is the pitch from a giant
sunfiower grown In Siberia. which can
support thirty-fiye times its own
weight when on the water. Cork, Oh
the other hand. has a buoyancy of
only one to five, and reipdeer's hair
one to ten.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

The National Negro Business league,
founded by Booker Washington, has
inaugurated a nationwide movement
to advertise business enterprises. The
plan includes trade-boosting cam
paigns in all communities where there
are any number of Negroes engaged in
business.
Cooperative advertising methods
will be employed to stimulate trade of
Negro merchants; prizes will be
awarded in some communities for best
results; celebrations will be planned
in other communities.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Enough to Mai. Anyone.

Mr.. Knewzee-"Miss Verraplain was
taken to the hospital this afternoon"
Mrs. knewzee-"Dear, dear, | didn't
know she was ILL.," Mr.. Knewzee-.
She wasn't until she saw the writeup
IT the Swinton musicale in which she
vas mentioned as the guest of honory'
Puck.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

The Berlin electric central station
under private ownership paid all its
operation costs, set aside reserves and
n pension fund, and also turned into
the treasury of the city in n year
S1,054,S6S to cover the usual franchise
tax and other levies. The lighting
rate charged is Berlin is 9A cents.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

cies, day nurseries and classes of va
rious kinds. They do more or less
charity work among their own people.
Some of them, Walters A. NJ. E. Zion.
at West Thirty-eighth and South Dear
born streets, for one, are open "a hours
a day to give shelter and help to all
who call.
In civic life outside their own doors
the churches apparently do not have
the influence to which they are en-
titled. Two of them protested in vain
against different saloons a few doors
distant, whittier boys and girls were
turning their steps. The Rev. A. ]. Ca
rey, one of the leading pastors, has re-
ceived political preferment and others
have been smiled on by the powers
that be. But with their thousands of
devoted followers, the colored clergy
man, as a rule, has not due prominence
among those working outside his
church to better conditions among his
people. Recently several clergymen
passed resolutions indorsing the city
administration regardless of the wide
NBNh AAHhAAAo vi WIG AZ hhAOhs
their people.-Chicago Daily News.
There is no doubt but that in many
various ways a bid for Negro labor by
other sections than the South is being
made. Thousands of Negroes who went
East and West last summer from the
lower South did not return the last
winter. Most of them went as house
servants and hotel help, but remained
TO work as porters, elevator men, and
the like. This summer the traffic has
been even greater. To the writer's
personal knowledge almost whole
neighborhoods have gone to some of
the smaller towns of the middle West.
For an instance, no less than a score
of Negro families have gone in recent
months to certain Chicago suburbs,
notably Evanston, from one Southern
community. Each Negro worker that
leaves the South draws at least n
other worker with him. The ability to
earn a dollar, together with the privi-
lege to spend it largely as one wishes,
offers an irresistible inducement to a
growing class of blacks.
If this migration increases, which is
likely, since the movement is given an
added impetus by the rapidly improv-
ing condition of this country, the Ne
gro will find himself in the midst of
new adjustments which will work in
many ways for his good. For one
thing, he needs to be more evenly scat
tered over the country. Kansas will
need him, Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey will need him, Illinois and Iowa
will need him.
In the South the poorer whites will
be forced to do some of the harder
tasks of the shop and field, and will be
forced to do what they have never
hitherto done: Fit themselves for
homework and other work calling for
more or less personal service. And 1t
will all work to the Negroes gain. The
employer will not be able to get along
without the help of both, and the white
worker will not be willing to work for
the Negro wage.-EXchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Ice Cream Coffee.

Put a good-sized spoon Of vanilla ice
cream into the bottom of II tall, large
glass and fill up with chilled and icef
coffee made with sugar and cream. T.
not stir. Serve with long-handif
spoon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

In Mexico there grows a tree called
the tree Of little hands" 1t is thus
called owing to the fact that its five
peculiarly-curved antlers look like the
fingers of a child.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Fried Parsley.

lie always use a little fried parsley
to ornament our meat dishes with
TIL is how 1t Is done: Wait until {
blu h smoke is rising from the fat
the remove it to the side of the fire
VIII 1t has cooled slightly throw in
the arsley, and leave 1t until the fai
has lmost stopped spluttering. Then
lift out at once and drain 1t we'll
whei it should be a loveus ssEen color
Be c 'eful not to overfry~-suy 1t viii
turn n ugly brownish { -BostUn
GloL, "a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

Behind this movement, says Profess
sOr Haynes in a letter to the New York
Times, is the reaction of the Negroes
toward certain fundamental conditions
which have always affected American
population. They come North for bet
ter wages, better educational Oppor-
~tunities and better living conditions.
Most important is the economic rea-
son. Wages in occupations open to
Negro employees are in nearly all
cases higher in the North than in the
South. From a survey made in New
York in 1910 it was learned that be-
fore they came North, the average
wage of 81 Negroes a from So to 81
a week. In New York their wages
ranged from 50 to $40 a week. Tween
ty-siX Southern Negro women who had
received from SO 10 So a week for do
nestle work in the South, were able to
eNTc from IS TO IS a week in New
York. Out of 1865 Negroes who were
asked why they came to New York
from the South, over three-fourths
gave an economic reason. The skilled
Negro workmen find it hard to obtain
employment in the North, but it has
been found that these man can work
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

Platinum wa Formerly employed for
'he ignition points of spark plugs, but
the greatly Increased cost of the metal
has compelled the use Of substitutes,
chief among which is metallic tungsten.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

In the search of a source of supply
of potash it has been said that a ton
of banana stalks will make five pounds
of pure potash.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
RruteI

Any woman can economic when
she's broke. Get the ideaf Keep her
broke.-Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

When the sociable natives Of Mu-
impza go II TO lunch they toss dice
, see who is going to be the lunch.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Individual

the habit was entirely broken and the
doll was eve present.-Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

Churches probably WELD more power
among the colOred people than among
any other single class in the United
States. Religion is an intimate part of
life to most colOred persons. The
churches are an influence for good citi-
zenship and an educational factor sec
ond only to the public schools. They
have clergymen powerful as %eXhorters,
and surrounded by thousands of de
vOut followers.
A canvass of all the churches made
by the Daily News shows that they
claim 42.5 per cent of the city's col
ored population as church members.
Attending church is taken up with en-
thusiasm and religious services are
made a pleasure. Few other churches
in Chicago have as large congregations
as several of the leading colored
churches. From this high standard the
congregations diminish in size and in
tluence down to the private ventures
where a brother" or sister" with a
car of paint and a brush has converted
Il vacant store into a mission. Some
times a mission" is started and runs
a strong-lunged e~Xhortation, followed
by a collection or Il rummage sale to
make it worth while.
The big churches are financially pros
porous. They have employment agen-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13

The migration Of Negroes, attracted
by the large wage offered for labor in
northern munition works during the
last two years, commanded attention
principally because of charges In some
quarters that attempts were made to
absorb these men into the electorate
before they have complied with the
terms of the election laws, writes Will
son Jefferson in the New York Sat
urday Evening Post. According to
George E. Hayes, professor of socia,
science at Fisk university, and execu
tive secretary of the national league
on urban conditions among Negroes,
the present movement northward is
only an example, somewhat cOnspicu-
u because of its size, of what has
been going on for more than thirty
years. He chooses nine northern and
border cities to show this tendency.
and refers to the federal ensus re-
turns for his figures. The cities in
clude Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Evansville, Indian
apolis, Pittsburgh and st. Louis. Be-
tween 1850 and 1890 the Negro popu-
lation in these nine cities increased
&c. per cent, a rate three times that
of the rate of increase in the Negro
population of the United States. Be
tween 1890 and 1900 the movement to
these cities became more pronounced,
the Negro population increasing 74.4
per cent, or more than four times the
rate of increase of the Negro popula-
ton in the United States, and between
1900 and 1910, the increase was 37.4
per cent, or more than three times that
of the Negro population in the United
States.
In fifteen representative southern
cities it was also noticed that the Ne
gro population increased more rapidly
than the normal rate of increase all
over the country, but during the same
period the increase in northern cities
was larger. In both cases 1t is clearly
shown that there is a steady flow of
Negroes from rural to urban districts.
The difference between the increase in
the northern cities and in the southern
is also emphasized by the observation
that in the northern cities the rate of
increase among Negro inhabitants ex-
coed that of the white inhabitants,
while in the southern cities it was al
most the same, indicating that there
was nothing unusual about the in
crease in southern cities.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-10
NOTICE

Beginning January lst, 1917, I shall
be at St. Paul, Minnesota, attending the
1917 session of the state legislature. Dur
ing my absence my law offices in the
Weiser Building will be in charge of
W. T. Eckstein, Esq. Mr.. Eckstein
is a lawyer of the highest standing and
will look after all of my business during
my stay in St. Paul. It shall be my en-
deayor to so arrange matters as to enable
me to be home in my office Friday and
Saturday of each week and I shall be
pleased to have my clients and friends call
at that time.
adv. is Alfred w. Mueller
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-10

+ WANTED. Two Ladies TO assist
me in introducing a new line of Extracts
and Toilet Preparations. Easy and
pleasant work. Pay overnight. Qua
ranteed salary and commission. Chance
to4earn big money. Call at 302 South
MINI. ST. after P. M.
2 ADV. Gottlieb Oswald.