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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

oilers IN ! foreign land Is the Aneri.
can 2. N. G.. A. IN America we thought
It wonderful but one has To be In 4
strange land with strange people who
speak different language to really aps
p-eciate this work. We have q y, here
and the boys spend every spare min.
ute In It Just remember that when
you get over here, its going TO be your
greatest friend"
Charles Ross, son Of Mrs. A. c. Ross.
OF this city, who is with an ambulance
corps in France. in a letter to his moth.
er also adds his word OF praise to the
Y. NJ. c. A. As he puts It the aid the
Y. NJ. c. A. gives the soldier boy is the
one big asset in the environment of the
soldier life. American magazines and
papers are available through this chan.
mel, he states. and music and games are
provided for their entertainment.
Young Ross who left this country Au.
gust Is has not as yet received any let.
tiers from home though they have fol.
lowed him weekly. He states that the
comrades with which he was first as.
ISOLATED are still in a bunch and ART
maxim the best of conditions and are
thoroughly enjoying themselves.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20
HOULT

Mr.. Henry Hess Is moving his fam
liz from here to Jackson addition
whore he purchased property.
Lewis McElfresh has gone to Nor.
gantown where he is going to work.
Mrs. Earl Holbert and four children
returned Thursday from a visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright at
Hutchinson.
Miss Bessie McElfresh returned
yesterday from a visit to her sister,
Mrs. Joe Carpenter at Eldora.
MT. and Mrs. B. E. Wilson spent
Saturday evening with the formers
sister, Mrs. Ross Arnett who is pa
tient at Cook hospital.
Mrs. Nellie Harr and two daugh.
: ters OF F,airmont spent the week end
with her mother, Mrs, Dora Hoult
here.
Mrs. Mile He'll and daughter,
Georgia, spent the week end at OF.
dngton.
Emma Hall has been having tonsi.
lftis.
Mrs. Ola Weaver and two children
Elizabeth and Willie went to Clarks.
burg yesterday for weeks visit.
Mrs. Earl McElfresh and three chill.
dren spent Sunday, visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey McElfresh of near
Owens yesterday.
Messrs and Will McElfresh and
Lloyd Huffman went to Little Falls
Friday night to hunt, returning Sun.
iay.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20
'HEAI.TF Hints

on winter nights don't close your
window because you are cold but learn
70 keep warm with It open.
First arrange your. room 80 that you
do not sleep In direct draught. II
that 10 Impossible the following sim.
pie method may be employed:
Cut heavy piece Of cotton six inch
.es longer than the width Of the window
frame and 1S inches wide. Tack It
along its lower edge to the window sill
and hook the upper corners to the win
dow frame. The windows may then
be opened wide, but the current OF air
win be directed upwards.
Equally important Is the bed. A
thick mattress and pad should be suit
f.cienti under the sleeper, but II the
mattress Is thin, place heavy wrap.
ping paper under It. Flannelette
sheets may be used In preference to
cotton. The lighter the top cover the
better.
II down OF lambs wool are too ex-
peusive. quilt made Of two layers Of
fiannelette with an interlining OF
newspapers will prove an excellent
covering over the blankets.
For the outdoor sleeper Klondyke
bed or sleeping bag is necessary in
real cold weather.
The Klondyke bed is made by tuck.
ing the blankets under the mattress
pad at feet and sides and binding the
whole securely by tucking the top COW
ering 70 inches under the mattress at
foot and sides.
For stormy weather horse blanket
or quilt with canvas covering makes
an excellent protection. The bed
should be heated by hot water bottles
before entering 1t and the covering
must not be so tight that the feet are
uncomfortable. 80
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20
SOLDIER BOYS Tell
ABOUT ARMY Y.M.C.A.
Means Much To Them When
They Are in a Strange
Land.

Just what the Y. NJ. C. A. is doing
for the soldier boys in France and in
the various cantonments throughout
this country is best told by the soldier
boys themselves. The following ex.
tract is from aletter to Arlington Elem.
ing Of this city at Camp Shelby, Hat.
tiesburg, Miss. from Charles Hodges,
son OF Thos. Hodges, Of Morgantown,
from Somewhere in France" The
letter reads:
zone Of the greatest joys Of the sol.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

COOK ~ minutes IN tne QOuDle DOlle
Or over hot water. Cool, add yeast and
flour, knead. let rise till double in bulk.
Knead again shape into loaf and let
fise. in the pan until the bulk has again
doubled. Bake so minutes.
apricot Chess Pies with Oatmeal Crust.
Two cupfuls fine ground oatmeal, 1
cupful boiling water, teaspoonful fat.
Scald oatmeal with water. Add fat
and mix thoroughly. Roll very thin
and line small pie or tart tins with the
mixture. Bake lightly, fill with april
cot marmalade. Top with merangue II
desired.
Corn a la Southern.
One cupful dried corn, 2 eggs. tea
spoonful salt, IL teaspoonful pepper,
l. tablespoonfuls oleomargarine, 1
pint scalded milk.
Soak the corn in warm water until
1t has absorbed all the liquid possible
Add slightly beaten eggs and other in.
gradients in order given and bake in
Slow oven until firm.
Rye Bread.
One cupful liquid, teaspoonful salt,
IA yeast cake, dry or compressed, in
IA cupful lukewarm water, 1.3 cup.
fuls rye flour. 2 Ia cupfuls white flour.
Scald the liquid, cool till lukewarm.
rdd salt, yeast, and sifted flour. Mix
thoroughly, knead. let re til double
in bulk. Knead again. 81 D .n,o loaf,
and let rise in the pan pJ lie bulk
has again doubled. Bake ~ minutes.
Honey Dressing for Fruit Salad.
Two egg yolks, 1-S cupful strained
honey, 1-3 cupful vinegar, pinch of salt.
whites of eggs.
Beat egg yolks slightly, add the hon.
ey, salt and vinegar. Cook in double
boiler until it thickens. Beat with
egg beater as it thickens in boiler so
that 1t will be smooth. Cool slightly.
Fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Gar.
rish with canned red cherry when it
is added to the salad.
Plum Pudding.
One cupful dried bread crumbs, IL
cupful vegetable oil or hardened yege-
table fat i cupful corn syrup, cupful
seeded raisins, cupful currants, IL
cupful finely cut citron, 1-2 cupful fine.
~ cut figs, l tablespoonful candied
lemon peel, 1 tablespoon salt, IL tea.
spoonful cinnamon, Ia teaspoonful
cloves, IA teaspoonful finger, 3.4 cup.
full fruit Juice, cupful flour.
Mix in the order given and add
enough cold water to make stiff mix.
ture. Turn into a well-greased pud.
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into the bayou and was grabbed up BY
an alligator as succulent morsels due
to the angleworm oil flayoring The
oil however. which was his undoingr
ahdo fortunately so linbered While up
that he squirmed out Of the gators
mouth unframed after tickling It IN,
der the tongue. ~.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

These menus do not aim to make
Thanksgiving a EAST" day, because
that is hardly the idea Of the Food Ad.
ministration, in asking the people of
the United States to eat WISELY and
without waste"
1t Is not necessary that anyone
should be deprived of the needful
amount of food. AS matter of fact 1t
IL very like the situation in the old
fairy story. when the old peddler called
to Aladdin's wife, New Lamps for
Old" We are calling to the citizens
Of the United States, New Food for
Old" but in this case they will find
that to which they have become accus-
toned.
Briefly, we should try in all our
recipes to use other cereals in place Of
a part of the wheat flour; syrtips. mo-
lasses, and honey, as well as dried
fruits should furnish sweetening wher-
ever possible, thus sparing the sugar;
butter should be replaced in all recipes
with other fats; whipped cream des.
serts so common in the past must be
given up for the present for there is a
scarcity Of cream and 1t should be used
to produce butter whenever possible.
Local produce should be given the pref.
erence over food that must be brought
from a distance.
The following recipes are Of foods
in the above menus:
Scotch Bread.
One cupful liquid, teaspoonful salt,
. cupful rolled oats, Ia yeast cake. dry
CT compressed, in Ia cupful lukewarm
water. 2 1.2 cupfuls white flour.
Scald the liquid, add salt, and pour
over the rolled oats. Cool slowly, let.
ting 1t stand 1-2 hour. Add yeast and
sifted flour, knead, and let rise until
double in bulk. Knead again, let rise
In pan till light. Baked in a moderate
oven from 80 to 60 minutes.
Corn Meal Crust for Pumpkin Pies.
Grease pie tin. Cover it with corn
meal by shaking wilma rotary motion.
Have corn meal covering pan to a
depth of 1-16'to is inch. Fill with pie
mixture. Bake.
Corn Meal Yeast Bread.
One and one.quarter cupfuls liquid,
1.2 teaspoonfuls salt. 2-3 cupful corn
meal, IA yeast cake. dry or compress
ed. in IA cup lukewarm water Q 1-2
cupfuls flour.
Pour the liquid over the corn meal
and salt, and heat to the boiling point.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

ANcIEWoRM oil Is EADLx. Il
HNTEuR. Ala. - White Redfefr'
amateur juvenile cbntortionist. viii
had been greasing himself with angle
worm oil to make himself supple, fel
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20


GOOSE DINNER.
Roast Goose (Apple Dressingat
Sour Currant Jelly
Mashed Potatoes
Rye Bread Butter
Dreamed Celery
Pumpkin Pie (Corn Meal Crustl
Fruits and Nuts grown in the
locality
Coffee
ding mold or into two smaller molds
filling the molds only two.thirds full.
Cover the mold tightly and place In
tciling water and boil to z hours.
Remove the pudding from the mold
when cold. This may be made two
weeks before Thanksgiving, but must
De reheated by boiling l hour Just be.
fore serving. Serve with pudding
sauce.
Cranberry Ice.
Make the cranberry ice by using l
cupful corn syrup, cupful water, 2
cupfuls Of cranberry pulp and liquid
cid 2 tablespopnfuls lemon juice.
Cranberry Sauce.
Sweeten the cranberry sauce with
corn syrup instead of sugar.
Baked Rabbit.
Prepare and skewer rabbit for roast.
ing. Make stuffing of bread crumbs,
softened with milk, seasoned with
parsley, marjoram, thyme, nutmeg. salt
and pepper, and with IA cupful short
ching added to other ingredients. STUFF
the rabbit and sew up. Dredge with
flour and shortening and haste fire.
quently. Roast 1 hour. Serve with
parsley sauce.
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RABBIT DINNER.
Cream Of Succotash Soup
- lth Corn Meal Sticks
Baked Rabbit Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Squash =
Scotch Bread Butter
Celery
Plum Pudding
Fruits and Nuts grown in the
locality
Coffee
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

CHICKEN DINNER.
) Roast Chicken
- Baked Stuffed Irish Potatoes :. =
! or Baker Sweet Potatoes } ~
or both
Carrots and Peas
Cranberry Ice
Corn Meal Yeast Bread Butter
Lettuce salad with Cottage
Cheese Balls
Individual Apricot Chess
i. Pies Oatmeal Crust
Coffee
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-20

Served and for sale by The West
Xirginian's own Carriers every even.
Ing In the following towns:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-26
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
TROUSERS SACRIFICED!
GO TO FRIEDLANDER'S
AND SEE FOR YOURSELF

You'll find Friedlander's, 42S Ninth
Street y. w. doing an enormous bust
ness these days, and those who have
visited the store during the last few
days will tell you that there is good
reason for the firm to be proud OF
their efforts.
Men, here Is what you'll be delight
ed to find II you will go Immediately
10 this busy store: hundreds and
hundreds OF trousers in most every
weave, shade and pattern to select
from at prices that are absolutely no
indication OF the remarkable values
being offered. Trousers worth from
$500 TO 800 selling at $1.9s, $2.45.
S3.15 and $3.9S.
So enormous IL the assortment that
you'll have little trouble in getting
trousers TO match most any suit you
may have.
This IS the only place in town where
such attractive offerings can be found.
IT will pay every man in Washing
ton TO call at Friedlander's, 42S Ninth
Street N. w, right away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-26
fHUNCH' OF POLICEMAN
BREAKS UP ILL GAME

Twas mid the deep darkness of
the second cock-crow this morning
that Lieutenant Pierson, of the Sec
ond precinct and Policemen Benham
and Grimes stood surveying the resi-
dence OF Benjamin Rosso, at 11O4
Fourteenth street northeast.
There was nothing peculiar in the
time, for the stiff arms OF the law
are subject to duty's call at uncom-
mon hours. The strange factors in
the case were:
~ That Pierson was on leave and
could have been at home the last six
hours dreaming Of the merry Christ
mas just passed
(2) That he had well-founded
idea a little game was going on in
Rosso's abode.
When the three made their way in.
the conjecture was verified, they de-
clare. ROsso was lodged at the pre-
cinct station and the price Of $500
set upon his temporary freedom. He
will be arraigned today in police
court charged with violating the
gambling law. II the case is called
late enough, Pierson will have had
opportunity to grab of little sleep.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-26
UNCLE SAM RUNS
WORLDS LARGEST
INSURANCE PLAN

or all the monster war mushrooms
that have grown on Uncle Sans door.
step here since war was declared, the
great Insurance mushroom is perhaps
the most unique.
ain TO the close of business today"
said a statement from the bureau,
the military and naval division OF
war risk insurance had received 49,
ODD applications from American light
ing men
These applications represent insur-
ance of 81, 665. $4,000. The average
amount of insurance applied Tor per
man is SS,574. the maximum permitted
by the law being $4,000 and the
minimum 81 900.
applications continue to come in
at a fast rate, averaging about $685.
10000 4 day"
1t is believed that this Government
insurance baby is the biggest insur-
ance company in the history Of the
world
Fun of Human Interest.
The whole thing is chuck full of
human interest of the deepest dye.
Just as this statement was being pre-
pared for the United Press there came
the story of a soldier at the front who
was killed fifteen minutes after he
had signed application for $4,000
policy for his mother. dependent on
him for support back in America
Starting at zero when the war in
surance, allowance and compensation
law went into effect October 8, 1t has
grown In the few intervening weeks
into a monster Government machine
intricate, complicated and exacting,
fUnctioning perfectly and growing
like mad.
At the present moment there is,
Eathered from the four corners Of the
land. a working force of o67 men,
women and girls, working long hours
feverishly.
This force merely inaugurates the
work of selling Americas fighting
men from 81 900 to $4,000 worth OF
insurance each, of seeing that depend
ents get their allowances, and that
wounded men get their compensation.
With practically 1000 workers hard
at it getting the system under way,
and new faces beingradded at the rate
of 100 to 200 q week, II is estimated
that this force will number several
thousands before the work has pro-
gressed another six months.
In the long, high-ceilinged rooms
packed full of girls at Gathering type
writers, here issR stenogrRpher-from
Seattle and beside her one from Ten
nessee, An office boy from Maine
sIaps patches of correspondence on
both their desks, which came, from a
man who volunteered from Alaska
Most of these young folk never had
seen Washington until a few weeks
ago and none Of them have had
chance more than to glance at II
since they arrived.
10000 Feet of Floor Space.
This bureau has planked its units
down wherever it could find floor
space. Up to the present it has COM
Wandered 10000 feet Of floor space.
The amount is not so unusual as its
location. 1t is about equally divided
between a hospital, a public market
and q national museum
Behind the great, frosted glass doors
wfrpsss gold lettering informs that
therein you will find The Division OF
Mammals of the New National MI
scum, you come upon a small army OF
claim experts, packed in tie big room
like sardines and porting over official
papers to see IL they're all right.
The organizing genius behind all
this Is Willard Straight, New York
banker and magazine editor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Over the Sky Line

H1MIIToN portrait will bring George ArsS o1e
the Knickerbockr night Mr. Ass ana '
build ABOUT se'era
of treasury
administration time "heh hamilton
had 10 hold singahanded for financial policy meant "
national government Inc scene Is
dpha the the old Exchange Coffee house ana the
Jeanne Eages VIII again support
Mr. Arl The company includes Mrs Ariss Marion barney
Hayden. Carl Anthony Hardee hHKano'
George Woodward Pl Trenton James D. Barrow
Guy Favier Wilson Day.
Davis Arthur
somers Roche with the leading role The play
will be presented by A. H. Woods at the Criterion
Theatre The play made by group Of men to
control the Supporting Mr. Hlad will be
Carroll McComas Ellis Whya Dudley iiawy David
Gao Robert Strange Pierson, Frederick Hand Edwin
Holland Dnney Margae Gilmore, Fred Holloway
and aro EIartshel.
Players
The
will be presented at the
Comedy Theatre Wednesday Edward L. George Mr. Lang
the Comedy Theatre last season
and later revived Family provides satire several
phases The includes Aethea Luce Alberta
Gan Kate Morgan Betty Ross Clarke Frances
Ross David Higgins Winthrop Chamberlain Edwin Forsber Frank
Jamso and James Dyrcnforth
of brand TO make the path of
uring the Manhattan Opera House tomorrow
absence of three Experience has
of morality
Glendnnng William 1ngersol Frazer
Coulter Marcot Williams, Horne Mech and Billy
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perhaps ply your audience with liquor
between Acts I and III, and also be-
tween Acts III and III. Certain mem
bers Ut every New York audience must
have seen people of the kind we in
dictate, and some Of them may have
been to just such parties. II | had, |
wouldn't admit it, now that am older
and know better. might admit such
a thing of you, but never of myself.
But, then, suppose there was no fast
set in Chillicothe when you were beng
raised there. That kind of life had not
even developed to any extent in Chi
cago when | left. The - Clue
hadn't been built then. However, to
those who say our fast characters arc
oyerdrawn, | should recommend tour
of the Broadway restaurants next New
Years Eve, or a pilgrimage to some
of our cabarets about closing time,
even now, when the lid goes down, you
tell ne, at l o'clock. If you cannot
ind Athlete or Mrs. kinney on inc
Biltmore roof, then the Biltmore roof
has changed.
1.-THE point is, it seems to me, that
the cussing, hard drinking woman CT
means is a type in herself SO peculiar
and extreme that she is almost unbe-
lievable, and that when you see her on
the stase-particularly if you arc an
orderly citizen who goes home G.
nights, you doubt the veracity of the
characterization. Put monkey din
ner' on the stage and lot of sane
folk would say it was false. Put a
Seely dinner on the stage and they
would refuse to believe it possible.
Could you stage scene in which a
lot of tipsy men and women at a
house party took off their shoes and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

stockings and went wadng in fouA-
tain, by moonlight, in evening dress?
Could you make it convincing? Could
you make convincing q scene in which
the visitors at large country place
emerged from their rooms in 'nighties'
and pajamas, and held dance? ]
could go on recitng episodes of which
I have been told, but will spare you
blushes-for know you to be sens-
tive soul. Let me only remind you,
in addition, of the popular legend Of
a lady who is said 10 have slipped a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

/ that she came from Ohio only because
you did, and because we, as authors,
played upon your sectional weakness.
Had It not been for that we might have
tried Ilinois-booth having long since
celebrated Indiana. And all that
Nancy Price means is the kind of girl
a sane man might wish to marry, as
against the kind of girl he might wish
20 take 10 a cataret-if you can fancy
a sane mans going to a cabaret. There
fore, find all the bother about where
Nancy comes from amusing.
Another point which interests me Is
that one or two critics seem to have
concluded that IN the scenes which take
place at the country house we were
attempting to create picture OF our
idea of New York Society, this in
spite Of the fact that it is clearly
shown in the dialogue that George
Tewksbury Reynolds, Sd, is the only
actual swell present, with the partial
exception of Gore, who is of the p!u-
tocracy. The others are referred to as
Outsiders ETC., and prove themselves
so by their actions.
Il see that one or two reviewers
pronounce the characters in our group
of fast Founders overdrawn. This re-
minds ME that when Upton Sinclair's
book THE Metropolis came out, some
years ago, the same thing was said OF
it, although | believe every incident in
the book was from life Indeed, SO
far as | know, it has always been said,
where authors have attempted to pict-
ure the goings on of hard drinking,
dissipated persons such as abound
about New York, and about large cities
land even small towns) in states which
have not yet gone dry.
an order to get just valuation Of
these figures in our play, you should
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

JULIAN STREET, social satirist ana
u co-author with Booth Harrington
of "The Country Cousin" wasn't con-
tent to "let it 60 at that when he read
the newspaper criticisms concerning
the alleged "impossbility" of some OF
the sporty types introduced in the
later acts of the comedy. Mr.. Street,
in a letter to George c. Tyler, the pro-
Queer of the Play, insists with much
vehemence that the criticised types are
veracious and not extreme. Hear him;
what interests me most IN the
newspaper criticisms is not the nattcr-
ing things which are said, but the un-
fattering ones. One curious point is
that some of the critics see in the
play merely contrast between East
and West, to the glory OF the latter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
JULIAN STREET TALKS BACK

Others see it as contrast between
city lif. and rural life, whereas, in
point of fact, the basic contrast is
neither geographical nor, so to speak,
agricultural, but it is one in ideals.
Our Nancy Price might have come
from Yaphank, or Casco, Ne, or from
Brooklyn, or even from New York City.
She is not creature Of locality, but
OF point Of view. And so far as my
participation in the writing Of the play
enables me TO judge, t appears to me
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

piece Of ice down the neck OF forme.
British monarch.
"To me this is an interesting matte,
for speculation: How 70 portray people
who are themselves shallow, false sn!
unnatural. so that they will seem, on
the stage, as they do in life, but will
be recognized as true types. Some OF
the critics, ! see, have not qusrrellea
with the truth Of this picture. Judge
that these have had experience, but
hope they are now trying to lead bet
ter lives"