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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
The Ennlish lea

The growth Of tea" into the elabo.
rate meal which some food economists
wish to see abolished can be traced in
the pages Of our novelists. Thus, in
Crawford" tea consisted Of nothing but
the beverage and very thin bread and
butter, Miss Baker being thought vul.
gar because she gave seed cake as
we'll" In "Pickwick," too, tea was ac.
companied only by buttered toast, but
in BLEAK House" the high tea which
Mrs. Snagsby provided for Mr.. and
Mrs. Chadband included dainty new
bread, crusty twists, thin slices of ham,
tongue and German sausage, delicate
little rows of anchOvies Nesting in
parsley, new-laid eggs brought up
warm in a napkin and hot buttered
tOast."-London Chronicle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Why Soap Removes Dirt.

Although soap has been known for
ages, 1t is only a little more than a
century ago that the first scientific ex-
PLANTATION of its cleansing action was
offered. Everybody, of course, knew
that the lather produced through fric-
ton from wet soap would remove dirt.
But 1t remained for science to show
that, through contact with water, SOAP
is decomposed into fatty acids and an
alkali; that impurities are set free by
the alkali, and that the fatty acids en-
tangle them, all being removed with
the lather.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
HIT AND MISS

Some men never use kind words If
there is n club handy.
An eccentric woma is one who pre-
fers comfort to style.
1t flatters a married man to tell him
that he doesn't look it.
When fame comes to the average
man it costs upon his monument.
Never lend money to n stranger. If
you must have financial transactions
with him, borrow.
"KnOw myself" is all right as n pro-
verb, but some men who know them
selves do not know much.
If your heart prompts you to do a
good deed, do it Immediately before
YOU have heart failure.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
AppIe Purely Gle Of Mature.

From the days of Adam and Eve man
has always hankered for apples and
much of his time has been spent in the
culture of this king of fruits. There
are apples so well-iavored and juicy
and tender that they sell for five and
ten cents apiece, and each apple lover
has his favorite. But how many apple
lovers can tell where or how his favor
lite originatedf All the best kinds OF
apples just "growed," like Topsy. None
| of them was evolved by propagation
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Fish Souffle.

Make a white sauce of two table
Spuonfuls each of flour and butter, a
quarter of a ~teaspoonful of pepper
and one and Il half cupfuls of milk
add to this Il teaspoonful of minced
parsley, Il tablespoonful of minced on
ion, n can of fish flakes, which have
been carefully picked apart with a
fork, then add three beaten egg yolks
to this mixture and fold in the beaten
whites. Bake in a buttered dish in
Il moderate oven till firm in the center
and serve at once with or without to-
matO sauce.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Early Use of Elevators.

The earliest mention of a device in
any way resembling the modern eleva-
tor or 'lift" may be read in Vitruvius,
who describes a hoisting machine
(which was invented by Archimedes.
Hhls elevator Of the second century
b. c. was worked by ropes which were
cOlled upon a winding drum by a cap
stan and levers. The same writer
refers to another similar machine
which was made to rotate by a man
who walked inside the capstan. Such
a primitive elevator is still in use to
lift passengers and freight from the
FIRST to the second story of a convent
ON Mt. Sinai.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Peanut SOUP.

Cook together a cupful of celery, a
tablespoonful of onion and a cupful
and a half of boiling water; cook the
vegetables until tender, keeping the
water as it ~evaporates, to a cupful and
a half. Add n cupful of milk to a cup
full of peanut butter and blend. Put a
tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan
and when bubbling hot add a table
spoonful of flour, a ~teaspOOnful of salt
and an eighth of Il ~teaspoOnful of pep
per. Add the stock and cook until
smooth, hen add two cupfuls of milk,
the peanut mixture and three table
spoonfuls of finely chopped red or
green peppers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Banishino Melancholy,

l once gave a lady twO-and-twenty
receipts against melancholy One was
a bright fire; another, to remember
all the pleasant things said to her
another, TO keep a box of sugarplums
on the chimneypiece and a kettle
simmering on the hob. 1 thought this
mere trifing at the moment, but have
in after life discovered how true it is
that these little pleasures often BAN
ish melancholy better than higher and
more exalted objects; and that no
a ought to be thought too triiing
which can oppose it either in ourselves
or In others.-Sidney Smith.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
a Think Now Pm Glad 1t Happened"

of 4 million. And I've got to make
another explanation. If you don't for
give me for what I've got to tell YOU
well, my life is in your hands,
Grace looked at him with Il wonder
ing fear. He went on:
I'm not the son of Daniel Mason,
but I'm his nephew, and own about
one-third of the business. So, you see,
I can't help it if l am rich. Now can
r."
Grace had to admit that he couldn't.
And I've got the dandiest mother.
She'll love you to DEATH"
1t was a most obliging umbrella
which hid for about a moment the SUBJ
| sequent proceedings.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Around the World.

The people in Holland hold
the record as coffee drinkers.
The Australians r the great
est meat eaters In the world.
There are 25.471 miles of rail-
road In France, in which r
over 60,0O0,000 ties.
The normal daily consumption
of milk in Paris and its suburbs
exceeds 100000 quarts.
A tug dispatcher is employed
In New York to control by tele-
phone the movement of a line Of
tugs in the harbor.
Tiny electric Mazda lamps
fixed In policemen's helmets
serve to direct traffic in the
darkened streets Of London,
, England.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Chocolate Sponge Cake.

Beat the yOlks of three eggs, add a
cupful Of sugar and mix until creamy,
add three tablespoonfuls of chocolate
which has been melted over hot water,
then a quarter of a cupful of milk and
half a teaspoonful of almond flavor
ing. Sift a cupful of flour with two
~teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a
pinch of salt, mix well. Add the whites
of three eggs beaten stiff at the last,
Bake in a tube pan and fill with
whipped cream, surrounded with
sliced peaches.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
I Wonder.

A certain professor, who used to
work late at night, left his Study to get
a book from another room. The zap
tain says that his dog improved the OPP
portunity by leaving his place by the
stove and making himself comfortable
In the professors cushioned chair.
Dear meP' said the perplexed man
when he returned, "can 1 have been
sitting on that poor creature the whole
EVENING""
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
colors for sprino.

Pumpkin yellow, Chinese orang
topaz and Roman gold are the choice
shades of yellow.
Fuchsia red, Japanese scarlet and
Indian crimson are the vivid shades
of red that will be used for ornamen-
tation.
In blue, we have marine, navy.
Egyptian and especially Chinese.
In green, they are jade, Nile, Chrys,
oprase and bottle,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Diminishing Returns.

I spent Christmas day with my Sis
tier who has two boys hat were on the
sick list with chickenpox. When din
ner was announced the boys we're told
that they could have only their broth,
but nothing solid to eat. After the
meal had been well under way. Vim
cent. seven, remarked to his father
"Daddy, don't things taste good wher
you can't have them ?"-Clevelant
ueader.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Mothers
Cook Book
Feather GINGER Bread.

Sift together the following dry in
gradients one cupful Of flour, n tea
spoonful each of soda, salt, ginger and
cinnamon. Blend a quarter of a cup
full each of sugar, mOlasses, melted
lard, sweet milk and our milk. Beat
one egg and combine all the ingredl-
ents, stirring well. Bake in a dripping
pan 20 minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

of material at the hem, and the high
class shops offered to women the skirt
that was gathered at the waist and
deliberately trimmed from the knees
down.
Hard to Convert.
The reporters kept hammering at the
fact that the woman of wisdom should
not indulge in bargains that were Of
fered in full and flaring skirts, but a
great number of insisted that
if the silhouette changed, it was easier
to take the fullness out of a skirt
than to put it in.
Even as late as the middle of Febru-
airy high-ClasS shops were Offering
skirts that measured from five to seven
yards at the hem. True, these hens
did not flare they hung Imply against
the figure, but they We're not cut ac-
cording to the prophesied silhouette
which has come true.
1t may also come about hat the
greater number of women will not take
up the narrow skirt when it appears
in most of the French models, but if
the past is any forecast of the future,
the narrow skirt will grow in strength
as the spring advances and will be-
come the accepted silhouette of the
summer. Women of judgment and adj
vance taste in gowns already consider
the fve-yard hem a second-class fash
ion.
The openings in Paris, as they have
been outlined to this country, can be
summed up briefly as advance infOr-
nation to those who are already look
ing for new spring clothes.
A vast number of separate skirts
were turned out by the best designers,
through the request of the American
buyers, it is said. This fact argues
that the American woman will take up
the separate skirt with Il sports jacket
or sweater or n separate coat, as she
once INDUCED in a tailored suit.
Fewer Tailored Suits.
There are fewer tailored suits turned
out than usual. The deficit is due to
the fact that the men who do this kind
of work are under the colOrs. The one
piece frock, the t~hree-quarter top coat,
the separate skirt and the chemise
blouse are the garments that are of
fered instead of the usual coat and
skirt of cloth or silk.
The majority of ~one-piece gowns
carry loose wraps with them. These
capelike garments are made of the
same material and faced with an op
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Apple lemon Pie.

Mix together two cupfuls of chopped
apples, a half cupful of rolled crack
ers, the grated rind and juice of two
lemons, two well-beaten eggs, two TIA
~blespOonfuls of butter and One and
three-quarters cupfuls of sugar. Use
with a double crust. This makes two
small pies or one large one
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
For One-Fiece Erocks.

All the Chinese fabrics, such as tus-
sor, the new khaki-kool, silk, pongee
and S%hantung, are among the most
acceptable for one-piece frocks and
suits. They are embroidered with
brilliant floss in primitive designs.
Symbolism in embroidery is being
strongly taken up by all those look
ing for novelty. 1t is easy to get
significant symbols from the Indian
writings and from the old, ancient
and modern Chinese. The designers
go to the libraries to copy embroidery
motifs from old tablets and mummy
cases.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Place to Be Avoided.

I'm not going near that restaurant
again."
"Why not?"
"Some fool took my umbrella and
left his in its place."
But you might run across him."
81 don't want to. He left the best
umbrella London Saturday Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Gulmpea.

Appealing to feminine fancy ar.
dainty guimpes of plated silk chit
fon. These come in lovely paste
shades and are trimmed with tiny self
colored or pearl buttons and finishe!
with hemstitching.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

the leather strap handle the height of
style and convenience. The newest
umbrellas are seen either with leather
strap handles Dr. white fiat handles
just touched with the color of the
umbrella. Purple is the favorite
shade, though green, navy and bur-
gundy are also used. Many novelty
umbrellas show a striped border. \
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Tie Rack.

" NNaSRa
No matter how careless that man
of yours, there is one thing that he
is very apt to be careful of, and that
is his necktie. He will actually take
the trouble to string 1t on n of the
man. wooden and metal tie racks IL
one Is placed conveniently near his
bureau or c~hiffonier. The trouble
that most women have to find with
such racks is that they allow the ties
to collect dust, and present an untidy
appearance to the Here is an
idea that both the man and his tidy
womenfolks will appreciate: 1t is
a small wooden tie rack, with a linen
cover, which folds over the hanging
ties and snapslinto place. Anyone can
make one of these affairs, and can
add embroidery or stenciling of a mon
ogram to the cover, too, If she likes.
Don't make 1t too hard to adjust, or
you will find the lucky man railing
against 1t rather than blessing it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

The latest umbrella shows a tiny
watch In the strap handle, The CON
sentative umbrella is disappearing.
Colored umbrellas are the vogue and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Cooked RaisIns.

Raisins are desirable food for chill
dren when they are steamed or cooked.
Otherwise the dry skins may be hard
for them to digest
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

of material at the hem, and the high
class shops offered to ONE the skirt
that was gathered at the waist and
deliberately trimmed from the knees
down.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17
THE TRAITORS.

Elihu Root seemed almost to have been
stealing some of Theodore Roosevelts
thunder when, in the course OF speech
before the Union League club in New
York, he charged that "men are walking
about the streets of this city tonight
who ought to be taken out at sunrise to-
morrow and shot for treason" This
from the man who has been held to be a
conservative of the conservatives, a man
who has been United States senator, who
is considered one of the most learned stu
dents of constitutional law, who has just
returned from mission of brotherhood
to Russia and who, finally, has been held
up as an example of calm thought and
calm speech-this from ex-senator Root
is somewhat startling. Yet it represents
goodly share of public thought in the
United States at the present time,
thought which considers that too much
leniency has been shown toward these
traitors to the interests of the United
States. Perhaps some of the people who
think as Root does would not go as far
in melting out punishment on the often
ders, but they would go TO the extent of
the traitors and suspected
traitors so that they could do no harm
to anybody except to eat out their own
souls in Impotence and chatting
under restraint. When the United States
gets into the war as much as Great Brit
ain and France are in the war the gov
eminent at Washington will take firm.
er grip and place the traitors and the
near traitors where they belong, no mat |
ter whether they happen to be in high or
low estate. AT the same time the news
papers which are vilifying the United |
States or are by under handed methods |
irving to undermine its usefulness to the |
allies will be suppressed until
hey agree to print nothing that could be
.urned to the detriment of the United |
States. Meanwhile such warnings as Eli
III Root is putting out are doing very
service in awakening the United
States to the inside menace.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

tions which are set down for their guild
anee during the period Of their services
and when case does arise In which an
officer il proven TO have broken the regu-
lations he gets about as severe a pun
ishment as IL is possible TO give an arm,
or naval man To be dishonorably dis.
charged and, In addition, TO be escorted
from the company of ones former asso'
ciates is tremendously gallingi II bites
right into the soul of the man who has
any of the finer sensibilities. Forever
that man bears brand, in the minds of
his former associates, and his record goes
down in the books of the service with a
stigma that is hard to erase. To be dis
honorably discharged is proof of mental
and moral incapacity. No wonder the
officers in the United States service shun
il as they would shun the plague.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

Friends who have watched the career
of former Col. Ira L. Reeves, will be
gratified to learn that he is now a major
of infantry, with rank from July |, 1916.
Montpelier Argus.
To jump from colonel to major seems
like a demotion until one recalls that
Reeves was a colonel of the Vermont Ma
tional Guard and not of the regular
army. II ought to be stated. perhaps.
that Reeves held the rank of captain
when he retired from the army to as
sumo military duties in Vermont and
hence his appointment as major on be-
ing restored to the active list was a dis.
tinct promotion. The rank of the r-gu-
lar army takes precedence over the rank
of the National Guard, and Reeves was
not a colonel in regular army psrlanee
in fact, is two grades below that even
after his most recent promotion. Never
theless, there is expectation that he will
acquire the title in due season.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

Poliomyelitis has crept into six of the
IA counties of Vermont despite the great
precautions taken by officials and con
siderable number of people. 1t is the
few individuals who are responsible for
the spreading of the disease, if the med ;
ical theory that the disease is communi-
cable is correct. The few individuals
failed to assume their bounden duty of
responsibility, ignoring quarantine when
ever they could and going and coming
just as they wished, if not held in close
restraint by police surveillance. It is
against comparatively small number of
people that quarantine regulations are
really necessary anyway, only the whole
people have to stand the privations and
discomforts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17
CURRENT COMMENT
Chances of Survival in Warfare.

For the widely current belief that the
casualties in this war are greater than
those of any previous conflict there il
only one basis-the vastly larger number
of men who are engaged in it, That
does make the total death list sufficient
ly appalling but it does not prove that the
soldier now in arms has smaller
chance than soldiers ever did before TO
survive till peace returns. As a matter
of fact, the statistics are all the other
way, and while it would be absurd to
deny that any participant in this war
may be killed or wounded, the ratio of
those who escape both fates is proba.
bly, larger than ever before. Certainly
it is larger than it was in our Civil war
on in the Napoleonic wars.
The comparative figures were recent
ly given in full by NJ. Tardieu, the
French commissioner, and he was able
to demonstrate not only that the armies
of to-day lose fewer men in proportion
to their sizef than was formerly the
case, but that as regards the forces fight
ing for the allies, their forces are now
less than at the beginning of the war
and are growing steadily smaller. That
is because the offensive is now every.
where in the hands of the powers an
tagonistic to the central empires, while
the latter are on the defensive, and it
is the defense that suffers most from
artillery fire and the offense that is
most protected by it.
All this is easily available informa
ton, yet certain people are Industrious
ly promulgating the assertion that en-
rollment in our army is practically a
to death and that the
young American who sails for France
might as well take a last farewell of
his friends and relatives, for he will
never see them, or they Inn, again. The
motives for this sort of talk are chilly
two-the pro-German propagsndists do
it in the hope of delaying or minimizing
additions to the number of Germanys
armed enemies, and our own pacifists and
directors do il in order that
their arguments may be echoed and sup |
ported by towards and slaokers of all
kinds. One never hears from the members |
Of either class that in the first six months |
IF 1917 the French lost in killed and
wounded only Is per cent. of their force
in the field. and never word about the
new sanitation that protects the soldier
almost entirely from what formerly
we're perils more to be dreaded than
bullets or shells.-New York Times
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

OF late the French official war reports
have copied the British in stating that
"al our detectives were gained One is
almost led to believe that the detectives
were placed on a comparatively conser
vative plane, whereas the hopes and ex-
pectations were fixed at something con
siderably higher Anyway there is en-
couragement to the people in Great Brit
ain and France, as well as to the entire
entente section of the world, that the
British and French official reports are
able to declare that the detectives were
gained, for that means certain amount
of progress toward the defeat of the
kaiser's ambitions.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

Vermont labor union men assembled in
their annual convention in Rutland
showed their patriotism by pledging
their support to President Wilson as the
head of the nation through all the vary
ing changes which may come incident to
the war. While Vermont is one of the
smallest states in the nation, the voice of
labor from Vermont will no doubt be en-
couraging and heartening to the govern.
ment, showing, as it does, spirit of CO.
operation in solving the great problems
now facing the country. The adoption of
the resolutions was really one of the best
things done in Vermont for some time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

"Dishonorsbly discharged from the
service and escorted from the Boston
navy yard is the punishment imposed
upon q minor officer in the naval reserve
for sbsenting himself without leave and
for conduct unbeooming an officer. There
are few men in the officers service Of the
United States government a. the present
tine who are 20 irresPonsible and 20
dsreliet Of duty a. 10 break the rerula-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

You may know that China is the 18th
nation to declare war against Germany,
but you may not be able to fill in the
names of the Others. 1t would take
quite sharp student of the war to do
that, off handed
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

As we have said before and shall prob.
ably say again, begin to save your pen.
mics and your dollars to put into United
States government bonds, the best Sc
curities the world possesses at the pres.
ent time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

The New England railroad regiment"
containing some employees of Vermont
roads, is safely on the other side of the
ocean. They can do great deal toward
shortening the war by facilitating trans
portation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17

The New England coal commission has
President Wilson's assurances that New
England will not be forgotten in the gem
eral scheme of things when it comes to
distribution of the coal supply. Having
the assurances, we now want 'the coal.
The trip of the commission to Washing
ton will probably do considerable
amount of good.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-17
Barre Town Quarantine Notic..

All children in Websterville under IL
years Of age are quarantined on their
own premises until further notice. The
churches in Websterville are also closed
until further notice. and Ell churches in
Barre Town are closed 70 Websterville
people until further notice.
Per order Board Of Health.