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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
DOES YOUR JELLY
REALLY JELL?
Do You Know About Pectin.
Which Works the Miraclep
Don't Boil Your Fruit Juices
Too Long. and Test Them.

Prepared by the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission
A LII fruit which is green or nearly
n ripe contain a substance known
as pectin, which cause the
fruit juice to "jell" when combined
with the proper amount of sugar and
boiled the right length of time. II the
fruit is too ripe, causing the juice to
ferment, or if the juice is boiled too
long, then the pectin undergoes a
change, and it will be impossible to
obtain a jelly of the right firmness.
Therefore 1t is essential the fruit be
perhaps just a little underripe and
that the boiling of the juices and sugar
together be not carried on toe long.
A test for peetin is to take a table
spoonful of the hot juice before sugar
has been added, add the same amount
of 95 per cent grain alcohol, and If
a gelatinous substance forms which
mary be gathered up On a spoon pectin
is present, and good jelly should re-
suit. If 1t Is found that pectin is not
present, cook the fruit juice again with
the white peel of oranges or lemons or
crabapples or green grapes until b
above test shows pectin.
The old rule of "a cup of sugar for
each cup of juice" is good In some
cases, but 1t is better to use a strip
gauge, which may be obtained at al
most any drug store. To use the gauge
pour the hot juice into a small, tall
bottle like an olive bottle and drop the
gauge carefully into 1t. The gauge
should read twenty-five degrees. If
under this reading add more sugar. II
the gauge reads more than twenty-five
degrees add unsweetened Juice, be-
cause too much sugar has been used.
To make currant jelly pick over and
wash the currants In cold water, place
crushed fruit In the bottom Of an en-
ameled preserving kettle. Heat slowly
and stir frequently. When the fruit
is hot crush and strain through two
layers of ~cheesecloth and then through
a flannel bag. Do not use pressure In
draining juice from pulp.
Measure juice, place in clean preserv-
ing kettle and bring to a boil. Set
back and skim and then bring to a boil
again and then add a scant pint of hot
sugar for each pint of juice. Boil for
four minutes after sugar is dissolved,
then pour into sterilized glasses and
set In a cool place till firm.
To seal glasses cut circular pieces of
thick paper to fit inside the glasses, dip
in 95 per cent grain alcohol and place
on top of jelly. Pour melted paratfin
on top of paper to the thickness of a
quarter of an inch. Put on tin covers
If available; If not cut circular pieces
of writing paper half an inch larger
than glasses and seal around the edges
with a mixture of the white of an egg
and a teaspoonful of water.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
WASTE NO FOOD.
Wartime Tips to Housekeepers About
Petty Leaks.

Food Is wasted
(a) When we eat more food than our
bodies need for growth and repair and
to supply energy for our work. Over
eating tends to poor health and fat In
stead of Drawn and makes us sluggish
and indolent instead of energetic and
resourceful.. Eat enough and no more.
Eat for physical and mental efficiency.
(b) When food is burned or spoiled In
cooking. Improperly prepared or poor
ly seasoned food will be left on the ia
BILE and probably wasted. Buy food
wisely and then prepare it carefully.
(c) When too much food is prepared
for a meal. Unserved portions are apt
to be thrown into the garbage pail or
allowed to spoil. Many housekeepers
do not know how to use leftover foods
to make appetizing dishes.
ID When too much food is served at
a meal. Uneaten portions are left on
the plate and later thrown into the
garbage pail. Learn to know the needs
of your family and serve each no more
than you think he will want.
(e) When anything edible Is allowed
to go to the garbage pail or allowed to
spoil for lack of proper handling.
Q) When food is handled carelessly.
Buy clean food, keep it clean until
used and be neat in all details of cook
ing and serving. This lessons waste
and is a valuable health measure as
we'll.
Feed your own family first.
Don't send valuable food to the In
Generator or the fertilizer heap.
Don't pour into the sewer nourishing
food in the shape of milk, skimmilk
(sweet or sour, soup, gravy or melted
fat or water in which cereals or vege-
tables have been cooked.
Keep good food out Of your garbage
pail and kitchen sink.
Demonstrate thrift in your home.
Make saving rather than spending
your social standard.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17

Usually the first velvet hats crop out
about the first or middle of July, but
this year they put in their appearance
ever earlier. Often black velvet Is
combined with other materials. One
smart black velvet shape, for instance,
was faced with a delicious shade Of
shell pink satin. Around the crown
was a trimming of delicate pink coque
feathers. The dropping brim is turned
up slightly at the edge of the right side
Of the brim to show the pink facing.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
Advertising
Makes For
Lower Prices
(Copyright-Mallory. Mitchell & FAUST

(Copyright-Mallory, Mitchell & FAUST
Among the many forces tending
to raise the cost of living, it is en-
couraging to find one other whose
tendency is in the opposite direc-
ton.
Advertising is the friend of the
consumer. 1t tends to lower prices.
1t does this in two ways. By lead
ing to greater volume of sales it
makes possible the economies of
large scale production, resulting in
a lower cost of production per unit.
The second way is by reducing
the costs of distribution. A large
element in the total cost of most
products is the cost of getting them
from the factory out into the hands
of the final consumer.
Just what items the costs of dis
tribution include depends upon the
method Of distribution; but in gen.
eral most products pass through the
hands of the jobber and then
through the retailer to the consum-
er. This path from the manufac-
turer to the consumer might be call
ed the channel of distribution.
The effect Of advertising is to
lessen the resistance to the flow of
the product through this channel.
That is, the advertising enables both
the jobber and the retailer to sell
the goods more easily and quickly
and in larger quantities and to turn
their stocks oftener, resulting in
lower costs of selling.
This all works to the best inter-
ests of the consumer-a lower re-
tail price.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17

There are S43 languages and dialects
In use among the blacks of Africa.
Only a few of the languages have been
reduced to writing.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
A YOUNG Patriot.

The little patriot here pictured has
been very much interested in soldiers
and the flag since she saw a company
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17

is finely hand tucked, and femininely
dainty RULES Of the chiffon adorn the
collar and cuffs In double rows. A
string belt of the fabric girds the
waist loosely.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
FRENcHY DESIGN.

What Paris Sends Us For a Breakfast
Coat.
Smoke gray chiffon is the fabric used
for this beautiful garment. The front
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
MANY GARDENS WILL BE
PLANTED HERE THIS YEAR

Abilene will play its part in the
conservation of the nations food
supply this year Already many more
gardens than usual are being plant
ed and backwards usually devoted to
peppergrass and ragweed are being
spaded up preparatory to the grow
ing of radishes and spinach.
Government experts have calcu-
lated that an average American
family uses about twenty bushels of
potatoes a year. 1t takes but frac-
ton of an acre to produce this guam
tity since fair yield of the crop is
200 bushels in a season to the acre.
Radishes, lettuce, early beets,
beans, peas, tomatoes and spinach
and numerous easily cultivated vege-
tables can be raised in the back
yard. Growing vegetables for home
consumption in the vacant lots and
backyards of Abilene will relieve
railroads running through the city
from carrying thousands of pounds
of bulky freight and release cars
which will be needed to transport
munitions and men.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
SAVING TIE FOOD STUFF

Real horse sense marks Governor
Cappers demand that the nation
stop the manufacture of liquor in
order to conserve its food supply.
Wastefulness is a crime in this time
Of world hunger and If we do not
realize it now we shall later. To
save one tenth of the food supply at
one stroke and at the same time lib
crate thousands OF workers who can
raise more or who can fight seems
the right thing to do-and this en-
tirely outside the moral phase Of
the question. AS a simple business
proposition it should appeal to ev-
cry citizen.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

]. L. Bristow is writing few
pieces for his Salina Journal. One
saws there is too much bunc in city
folks telling the farmer to raise
more crops-the farmer will raise
all he can anyhow. What he needs
is somebody to work. Another calls
Henry L. simpsons scare that the
German army is likely to march up
the Mississippi valley. This Mr..
Bristow says is $50 asinine as to in
dict the sincerity or the sanity OF
the man who said it,"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
THE STORY OF TWO RILLs

An Abilene business man paid
two bills last week-one to a local
store and one to a Kansas City
wholesale firm. Both were overpaid.
The local merchant discovered the
error in an overcharge, hunted up
the customer and handed back the
over-amount. The Kansas City firm
may have discovered the error but
II it did it never peeped. A letter
calling attention to the matter
brought back the sum due-but it
was the home merchant who did the
thing handsomely and voluntarily.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
THIEVES TAKE COPPER WIRE
FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH

Thieves last night stole a 500
foot coil of copper wire from the
Catholic church, where it was being
used in wiring the church for cleo
tricity. No trace of the thieves has
been found. Officers made investi-
cations along the creek at the old
fair grounds, however, and found
evidence that leads them to believe
that thefts of copper and other
things valuable as junk have been
going on for some time The wire
taken last night was the property of
Councilman Brothers who have the
contract for wiring the church.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

of the nations great men; he - in
earnest; his leadership would do
more to enthuse the country than
any amount of messages, notes and
proclamations from our war and
navy departments. The country is
asked to raise seven billion dollars,
tremendous tax; it is willing to
do It. 1t is asked for an army Of
two or three million men; it will
produce them. But 1t will do both
more freely If there is some evil
dence that the government means
business and the American flag fly
ing in France with Roosevelt head
ing a volunteer army there would
do more good to the allies cause
than a billion in loans. Let the Col
onel go to it-and If he wins glory
he is entitled to it. He is the only
man who has offered to lead an
army abroad-and the president
himself has at last come to the posi-
ton taken so positively by the Col
onel for two years, that we must
fight.
Why not watt the smell of broiled
beefsteak over the German trenches
and mercifully end the war?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

How times change! Present day
discussions reveal that the flood OF
1903 which those of us who lived
through it remembered as having
torn up railway tracks, wrecked
brick blocks, flooded streets until
boats and horses swimming were
needed to rescue frightened families
turned half the town into a river
and caused 100000 damage was
really only heavy dew!
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
ABOUT PEOPLE

Norman Gross went to Kansas
City. sb
F. X. Smith went to Chapman on
business.
Mrs. Ben Murphy was here from
Acme shopping.
Mrs. Alvin Sexton was in from
Acme shopping.
Ed Emlett of -Talmage was in the
city on business.
Erskine Robson of Holland was
an Abilene visitor.
Mrs. Mart Whitney was here from
Talmage shopping.
James Lacy of Enterprise was in
the city on business.
w. J. Scott of Harrington was in
the city on business.
William Kandt of Herington was
in the city on business.
Herbert Sommer was a Solomon
visitor Tuesday evening.
William Sheets of Manchester was
in the city on business.
Miss Maude Scripter went to En-
poria for visit with friends.
Mrs. George Burkholder of Moon
light was in the city shopping.
Elmer Boyle of Bennington was
in the city on his way to Emporia.
Mrs. Jack Daugherty is here from
Topeka visiting Mrs. John Shepard.
Arthur Dodge returned to Man
haitian after spending several days
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Jaeger of
Hope were Abilene visitors Thurs
day.
Mrs. Alice Myers of Newman. H.,
is here visiting her brother, Charles
Estes.
Mrs r. G. Peck and daughter,
Pauline, were here from Chapman
shopping.
MIR. and Mrs. George Gibson and
son Earl of Talmage we're in the
city on business.
Mrs. Anna E. w. Murray of Law
renee is here visiting Mr.. and Mrs
II. E. Ackers.
Fred Olson, one OF the wideawake
young farmers of Logan township,
was an Abilene visitor.
Mr. and Mrs. j. W. Middleton who
have been visiting here for six weeks
left for their home in Chicago.
Mrs. r. B. Jacobs is home after
spending the winter with her daugh-
Ter, Mrs. Oliver Keve, at Indepen-
lence.
Henry Brugan returned to his
nome in Council Grove after a visit
iere with his mother. Mrs. D. c.
3rugan.
Mrs Fred Dodson came home yes
erday from Michigan where she has
ipent the winter with her parents
md relatives
VIII Nottorf. an Abilene, boy Isl
low general superintendent OF the :
Kansas Teleahone Co. With head 4
quarters at Lawrence. II Is fine
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
GIVE T. r. A CHANCE

The dispatches from Washington
say that President Wilson is not
favorable to allowing Roosevelt to
take volunteer regiment TO France
and it is intimated that the admin
istration fears the colonel might get
too much glory out Of it. II is to be
hped that this is not true. II the ma
ion is 10 forget politics and unite in
carving on the great undertaking.
before il the place to commence is
t.e 80 .n,-se. Roosevelt IS one
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
A NEW EPOCH

The new fact in the worlds his
tory is that for the first time a great
power with a formidable navy, a
population from which vast armies
might be raised, and an economic
and financial strength which might
alone be decisive in any future con-
flict, is prepared to stake its own
peace, not merely to guarantee its
own interests, or to further the
partisan aims of its allies, but TO
make an end in the world of the
possibility of prosperous aggression.
Whatever may be it's fate as a con-
structive proposal this American
offer marks an epoch in the world 8
moral evolution Ambition and fear
have masqueraded before now in an
international disguise, but the dis
interested advocacy of cosmopoli
tan idea of duty has been left to
academic moralists and to Social
lists. At length a great power, hith-
erto of all powers the most isolated
and self-centered, has adopted this
idea as the permanent foundation of
its policy Atlantic Monthly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
SISTER OF MRS. III. j. HODGE
is DEAD IN CALIFORNIA

Mrs. Ida Hendricks Winterstine
OF Houcut, California, died Monday
night. The burial was at Chico,
California, this afternoon. Mrs.
Hodge and another sister, Mrs. Fl
o. Hogue, of Houston, Texas, left
for California, last Friday night.
They were delayed enroute and
reached Houcut only a few hours
before their sister passed away. Mrs.
Winterstine came here in rs, NOV
ed to California in 1887. Many of
the early settlers will remember
her and be saddened by her death.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

We have scoffed at the worthy
president OF the Million Armed
springers. We were wrong. Bryan
had something on us. He knew and
we didn't. AT the threat OF war they
are springing to arms. You can find
them in line before the marriage
license windows. But Mr.. Bryan held
nut on us. He did not say whose
7rms.-Chicago Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
ABILENE's FooD CAMPAIGN

Is Abilene doing its share in the
food-raising campaign? 1t owns as a
city thirty acres, the fair grounds
tract. On it is about acres OF al
falfa and perhaps as much more is
occupied by buildings and track. The
remainder is going to waste. Yet it
is mighty good soil and should be
raising something. Next winter we
will be taking up collections again
to help the poor-and food will cost
vastly more next winter than IL has
the past winter. The city ought to
utilize the land The school board
is buying another tract of l9 acres.
Perhaps half of it can be titled. 1t
ought to be utilized this year. II the
city will turn its public land into
truck gardens and raise crops It
will have some funds with which to
feed the needy later or at least fur
nish an addition to the food supply
which is going to be a serious prob
lem within few months.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
A Fine Farm Home

B. J. Volkman. eight miles north.
west of Harrington, has just COM
pleted a fine residence on his farm
There are seven large rooms, pantry,
bath and three closets, furnace heat,
hot and cold water and fine. wide
porches running around three sides
OF the building. There is a full base
ment under the house with indoor
laundry The improvements will cost
$4,000. He had corn last year that
made 40 bushels per acre and can
afford it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

House and small barn for rent
H.. L. Humphrey. 10dti
Marriage license: Gustav Kandt
and Olga Will, both of Herington.
For sale, Brown Leghorn eggs for
Matching, soc per IS, SO per 100.
Mrs. R. J. Logan, Holland, farmers
phone. 19w5t*
Seed corn for sale John White
hair. Phone 1902, Abilene. 19w2t*
Mrs. G. Seth Jones who recently
moved from Topeka will take lin
tied number of piano pupils. Les
sons given at pupils home or her
residence, 400 Cottage avenue. Phone
1872. soc per lesson. w1t*
Fresh cut sweet peas at the Rack
ct next Saturday sc per bunch. Re-
member these will be fresh and i'll
good condition. w1t19d2t
News of the death of the father
CT Mrs. E. p Wilson at Georgetown,
Colo, on April 8, has been received
by relatives in Abilene. Mr.. Reilly
was rs years old and a veteran of
the Civil war. Interment was made
at Georgetown. A wife and daugh
ter are left to mourn his departure.
I offer for sale a good farm brood
mare, years old medium size,
blind, otherwise sound; promising
mare colt by side. viii offer at a
price. Charles E. Hersh
5y, Donegal, Kan. 19w2t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
ANOTHER WASHOUT HOLDS UP
SANTA FEE FEW DAYS LONGER

Another washout last night be-
tween Burdick and Diamond Springs
put train service on the Santa Fe
out of commission for a few days
longer. Bridge No. III went out,
making the fourth within five miles.
The only train on the branch now
runs between Burdick and Superior
No freight trains are running and
morning mail from Kansas City will
be delayed for several days.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Downtown any night in Abilene;
Fifty motor cars, filled or partly
filled with young folks, going
around and around; through one
lodge room window visible fifty
young men in conventional black
dancing with fifty young women in
gorgeous attire to the tune of waltz
me around again, Will-e-e"; fifty
boys and young men playing pool,
3S smoking Efgars, II cigarettes;
IA couples in drug stores slipping
coco cola or milk shakes; six men,
bers of the school board wrestling
with business; 400 men, women and
children at the movies watching
THE Hazards of Helen" in six
thrilling reels; one bank clerk work
ing overhours listing up Deposits
IA men and boys at the restaurants,
visiting and eating sandwiches and
pickles; members of the choir
for next Sunday evenings
concert; ten high school pupils
for the senior play; 16I
lodge members giving the work,
three cab drivers waiting for 119;
attendants on six garages pumping
gasoline and repairing tires; / 0 tele-
phone girls whispering number
please; doctors dashing through
the streets on urgent calls; one
haling a Weary Willie"
to the calaboose Who wouldn't live
in a wideawake town like Abilene? |
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19
Old Time Sunday school Is Passing


A study of the program issued for
the State Sunday School convention
at Topeka May /, 2, 3, reveals some
some unusual features. Mr.. H. w.
Maurer of Cleveland, Ohio, author
Of what has come to be known as
the Cleveland Plan" has been Sc
cured to deliver one of the lectures
on the opening day and will main
tain a free consultation booth, being
at the service of church building
committees throughout the entire
three days. The distinction which
this architect has attained in the
east warrants the expectation thst
people will come from remote Sec
tions of the state for this feature
alone.
Other features of the convention
indicate that the Sunday School has
ceased to be pious picnic or an
fmprovised devotional song service.
The publishers display, the educa-
tional exhibit of handwork, the
musical concert by 500
Topeka boys and girls under the
direction OF Miss Mildred Hazelrigg,
the technical group conferences, the
prominence given to child psychol-
cey, the special School of Sunday
School administration, the lectures
by Miss Margaret Slattery of the
Boston Board of Education are all
of a new conception OF
Sunday School work. Programs and
Information may be secured by adj
dressing the Kansas Sunday School
Association, Abilene.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Sears Roebuck sold $146,000,0 900
OF goods last year and made net
1914 per cent profit Local stores
could probably make as good profits
II their customers would pay cash
in advance and buy goods "unsight
unseen"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

The Wichita Beacon thinks the
printer who made a southern Kan
sas editor say that President VIII
son delivered his magnificent night
dress to congress ought to be intern
ed for the remainder of the war and
led on bread and water. II was Just
as easy for him TO say might adj
dress"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Three "first class fighting men"
arrived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Kosina. The proud father
says he probably will name the trip
let's Army, Navy and Marine. He is
sorry that there was not another
arrival so that he could have named
her Red Cross.--Chicago Exchange.
And a fifth might have been named
I5
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Compulsory military training is
not necessarily military service and
the people of the United States are
rapidly coming to the view that it
is not only good physical equipment
but good policy for the government
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

A Lawrence merchant uses Latin
in an advertisement and prints its
English translation beneath What's
the matter? Do not the Lawrence
people absorb any learning from the
University?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Senator Curtis: am in favor OF
giving those who desire to volunteer
for the war a chance to do SO before
trying any other plan, and / hope
and believe CONSUMPTION will not be
necessary. have great faith in the
loyalty Of the American people.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-19

Some Kansas members OF con-
gress seem to be uncertain what
they want to do about raising an
army. Better make up their minds.
IT congress does not hurry the
United States will arrive about in
time to enjoy the Home Sweet
Home" number.