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NAH for comment concerning
WW Uncle Sans bluejackets
abroad?-meaning par
ticularly this country's patrol notilla
attached to q British base. An officer
from London says that it is the sailors
privilege of eating white bread And
they make It right there on the mother
snip. too Why. do you know" he said
to an American correspondent, that
here among these ships OF yours is the
only place in the isles where other than
war bread is made? 1 hear that the
chief cook is a former chef from one
Of your finest hotels Quite extraordi-
nary. indeed" marveled the officer of
the crown And he might have ex-
claimed further had he beer more gen.
orally informed upon the floating
kitchens which fly the flag of a United
States battieship-
In seeking such information and
something as to the manner of the
food and fittin's" served those brave
nations first line of defense. resort was
had to an authority long in the habit
Of satisfying the thirst Of inQuirers in
the Navy Department
=
The navy's system of food supply
for the fleet is SO well developed that
even on the famous trip of the Atlantic
fleet of sixteen battleships around the
world. during Roosevelt's administra-
ton. adequate amounts of fresh pro-
visions for the many thousands of peo-
pie were always on hand" this man
said as he sat talking in the library of
the navy. The government demands,
moreover. and always gets. the highest
quality of food for the sailors. Orders
for the fresh provisions TO be taken on
board, preparatory to leaving port, al
ways call for delivery sufficiently in
advance Of the time set for sailing to
make II entirely practicable to secure
satisfactory food supplies IN replace
ment should the delivery contracted
for not measure up to specifications.
Food hygiene has a big place in the
management of the navy's kitchen and
course. has become almost a science
because 1t is done on SO elaborate a
scale. Take the buying OF meat, for
instance. Even In peace times. tthe
common purchase, and now. with the
vast increase in personnel. that amount
VIII be far exceeded in many pur-
chases. The uncertainty of rising
emergencies must be considered, as
we'll
These purchases must be made
through the medium of advertising
bids based on the most careful survey
OF the various ships needs at the time
When deliveries commence expert in
spectors are on the job to look over
the pork. veal. beef. poultry. etc, which
comprise the meat lists of the vessels.
Adherence to the written specifications
Ia rfgidly enforced. As an instance of
this. not 80 very long ago-perhaps two
or three years. I don't remember ex-
actly-when several thousand dozen
eggs were delivered, the shrewd-eyed
inspector found not less than three
thousand dozen to be cold storage
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pear to be the promise for the fruit
and dessert
The gunrooms serve as dining
rooms. There no side dishes are sit
ting on the tables. but there are big
bowls and platters aplenty. and from
fifteen to twenty men may be accom-
modated at one time. The amount of
rations is legally fixed, and SO also is
the kind of food-which does not mean
that meals are, day after day the
same thing. Whether marines or blue
Jackets, from the breakfast hour at
seven bells, when they file into their
respective seats in the different gun
rooms. until the time when they curl
up in their hammocks to sleep. there
is no grumbling as to the same old
stun to eat.
1T is nightly different, 1 tell you.
from what it used to be thirty or
forty years ago, when l was in active
service on board ship. When I was
a midshipman we lived on salt horse.
oh, no" laughed the official who has
long Mad desk duty assigned to him,
salt horse is not sliced from the de-
scendant of some Arabian steed slain
for the purpose and put in brine. Moth
ing so interesting, l assure you, but
merely corned beef.
Now they are installing cold storage
plants on the larger ships They even
give them Toe crskm--our sailors and
marines. And for some Of us elder
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factories the workmen went to the
well-nigh incredible extent Of asking
for a six-hour day with a nine-hour
wage. Some workers blankly refused
to work more than four hours per day.
The most sober-minded element of
labor, however, united for a standard
eight-hour day.
-
The whole industrial world seemed
uprooted. The situation became SO
acute that the representatives of
eighty-nine companies Of the Petrograd
garrison presented formal request to
the workmen to cease party strife and
quarrels with technical experts and
factory administrations and to present
their economic demands only through
the medium of the arbitration courts
and the council of workmen's and SOL
dfers' delegates. and even postpone the
introduction of an eight-hour day in
the interests of the Russian army.
Thus. new and dangerous element
was introduced, namely, the interior
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products. A nearby egg. as some
grocers have it, never gets near or by
the inspector. Strictly fresh is the
order of the day for eggs as well as
everything else.
The preparation of the sailors food
is equally well supervised. This i'm
portant business is taken care of by
skilled cooks who have received their
training for the work at the Newport or
San Francisco training stations. and is
directed by a commissioned officer of
the Pay Corps. The menu varies every
day. and now that our boys are on the
threshold of the only experience some
of them have ever had for a glimpse
of war. no doubt the accommodating
culinary lords of our battleships cui-
sine will be more than ever disposed to
tickle the palate of the healthy fell
lows.
The only feast day strictly Americas
own is Thanksgiving day. Every one
who has a home and is away from it
then dwells on the fact and wishes he
were with the family. Bluejackets. be-
ing much like other people in most re-
spects. are no exception to this rule.
Yet, IL our vessels at home or abroad
do not have turkey and all the fixin's
this next feast day of ours. I'll miss my
guess-or there won't be any turkeys.
The latter is the only thing which
could prevent such a catastrophe.
Surprising 1t were November now.
supposing IL were the asth. to be exact,
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NorthcIiffe's rundown.

a the burly and distinguished figure OF
~ Lord Northcliffe hurried down the
hotel lounge a correspondent said:
There goes the most successful and de-
servedly successful journalist in the
world. In this war he has done more for
the allies cause than any other man, ex-
cept Lloyd George.
"A hard chap to interview, though
could never land him. The last time
wrote him for an interview he wrote back:
- am sorry. but / must ask you to
excuse me from acceding to your request.
1 am like the little boy at the school
treat who. when the squire's wife came
round to him with the strawberry jam.
promptly said:
mo. thank you. ma'am / works ae
the place where they makes it, 4"
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Every bank was guarded by soldiers
day and night. and there was an
armed guard in all the hotels. There
ives little or no footing Stringent
orders had been issued for the sum-
mary re-arrest of the criminals who
had escaped with the general dropping
of prison bars. and most of them were
returned to custody. Some persons.
who were in stolen uniforms, entered
and ransacked a few private houses.
but they were promptly caught and
shot As protection against these
raids. a committee of safety was
formed in every apartment house, and
the men, armed with guns provided by
the provisional government, took turns
on watch all night long. Each man
was on duty for two hours.
A very commendable sort of every
day justice prevailed. For one thing,
the motor cars. seized during the revo-
luton, were returned to their rightful
owners. In cases where damage had
been done to the cars there was prompt
indemnity.
No phase of those stirring days of
transition was more impressive than
the tone of the uncensored press. The
newspapers re-appeared after a weeks
silence and the dealers were almost
overwhelmed by the news-hungry pop
place. The whole tone of the journals
was uniformly patriotic in the highest
degree. There was a unanimous en-
phasis in pointing. out the fact that,
while freedom had been obtained with
slight sacrifice of life, enormous diff
ficulties lay in the path OF the new
government. For several weeks even
the most radical sheets advocated
counsels of prudence and moderation.
Indeed. never was censorship SO ad-
mirably applied as the self-imposed
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brilliant red of protest and passion.
emblem of the new-found freedom,
flashed on a thousand banners, shone
from the crimson caskets that held
the martyred dead. ran like a fame
up and down the unending line of
civilians and soldiers that tramped
from dawn to dark. A hundred bands
sobbed with Chopin's funeral march,
a hundred thousand voices gave THE
Marseillaise." thrilling intensity that
smote the heart. The Russian As all
sentiment.
There was other evidence of order.
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In the Heat.

~ OIL. ROOSEVELT told az the Platts.
" burg training camp a hot weather
story.
Today" he began, is like the day
when the major said to the colonel:
Colonel, i bet I've sweat twentyS
four gallons this afternoon
Major, said the colonel. gentlemen
don't sweat-they perspire. Hoses
sweat, SIR
Then. by gum. colonel said the
major, Tn boss"
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Sell them and get money. But we must
have Shells
This rebuke shamed the men to such
a degree that hundreds went back to
work at once. But they were in the
minority.
The extremes to which labor went
were ludicrous. Even the housemaids
struck. They organized a huge demon
stration, left their saucepans and
brooms and paraded the streets for
days. waving red flags and shoutinF For
increased wages and shorter hours.
This picturesque protest developed
many humorous incidents.
A housemaid in the employ of a
well known American resident in Pet
rograd served notice on her master that
she wanted an increase of SO per cent
in wages and eight-hour day.
What do you mean by an eight-hour
day." asked her employer.
Il am only going to work from I'M
til g." was the reply. Her demand was
speedily granted
The postmen said: Five deliveries
day are too many for Petrograd. Two
are ample" They permitted 25.000.000
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in those first weeks that followed the
revolution.
In that quick procession of unfold
ing wonders you were surprised at
nothing. For the first time in the long
and dismal story of racial oppression
the Jew held up his head proudly and
walked the streets erect and unafraid.
Under the new mantle of freedom He
brew and gentle were linked in the
common brotherhood of privilege.
One fly in the ointment of all this
equality was the let-down in discipline
among the soldiers. Fresh from the
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He showed his ticket whereupon one Of
the Russians Immediately replied:
TT is all right. We have not the
slightest objection to your riding
down with U.S."
There was no ill-will or hostility in
any of these performances. 1t was all
part of good-natured debauch of
democracy.
The situatnon in Petrograd was not
without Its humor. One morning 1 read
in the newspaper that Citizen Ivan
Romanon had solemnly petitioned the
duma for permission to change his
name to Ivan Republicanisky. He was
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Il HAT Is the newest cause
~ for comment concerning
n Uncle Sans bluejackets
abroad?-meanin par
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ussia Recovering From Debauch After Rev0luti<

way. But hectic talk was not their only
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-04

while, especially as these letters Pat
Las sent me have opened a mine of
gold in which the veins are rich as they
are surprising. Why Dick, read the
stories Of three lives this morning
stories that fit into each other so close.
ly each might have been telling his
side of the same story.
"One letter is written by man. and
am awfully glad to get it as a woman
rarely gets a mans story from his own
lips. l don't think he could have told
1t to anyone or even written it even to-
4 friend. But, as he says, My dear
Margery Waverly, you have written
Paula's story so sympathetically. your
philosophy of life seems so sane that
am taking chance on writing YOU
hoping you will feel that the love life
OF mere man-we do really have love
lives, my dear Mrs. Waverly-is as biz
rs that OF a woman.
"I am not sure that would not like
very much to hear your husbands YER
sion Of yours, Mrs. Waverly, for l am
sure no woman could writ as you do
without being able to make life at least
very interesting to some man.
Forgive my somewhat impertinent
conjecture and tell me through the
West Virginian what you think of my
story which is absolutely true"
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suffrage meetings, in society, in
charities, church work and travel.
But the pain at her heart grew and
would not be eased. Then a solitary
Ozark estate, which had long been
source OF merriment among her
friends. suggested itself. She would
90 to the OZarks and stay until the
tumult in her brain and heart sub
sided, for she would not make her
peace with her lover. Because, she
argued, wouldn't that Just be admit.
ting that she was wrong-admitting
1t to her friends as well as to
him?
After she alighted from the train
in the village of Runkle she learned,
by dint of much questioning of the
sleepy agent, that the Sanders es.
tate was where ye see them young
pine saplins, that's it. About mile
down tn river"
After getting her directions she de.
clined the offer of ride in ram,
shackle old buggy drawn by more
ramshackle old sorrel horse, and pick.
ed her way down little.used and
very rutty road toward the pine
saplin's."
Many paths crossed and recrossed
among the slender trees, but none
of them seemed to lead anywhere.
she was about to despair OF ever
finding the log cabin, of which she
had heard little and spoken much,
when she heard a slgh-almost a sob
net far away. Holding her breath
, and listening, fearing she knew not
what. she heard a mans voice. deep
ard rich end all unframed. singing
! an OLD balled. He was evidently us.
iHr IN axe, for now she heard the
even blows on log A girls form
darted down one of the paths and,
without thinking, Grace followed. She
halted when she came in view of
the young man swinging the axe, for
the girl was running toward him now.
irapEly crying Grace stepped back
GmcHg the trees, but still within ear
shot.
The man exclaimed, "Oh. you!'
Then no more was said until the
girls voice broke out:
Jack! JACK! I'm so sorry ev-
er said wouldn't marry you and be
farmers wife | will, / will; but
why have you begun planting here?
Don't you know how you always said
it was sort of fairy place and its
owner fairy far away. who didn't
want it disturbed"
Yes, know" said the nv. but
/ I lust decided that fixing nm the old
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sold for taxes two months ago and
| bought it in for us"
The girl laughed softly. How did
you know"
"oh. l just knew you couldn't
help knowing how l wanted you, and
that you would really rather live with
me on a farm instead of in one of
those cheap, gaudy cottages in the
Center. They are not real, dear" he
said, softly. They just pretend to
be homes, and know the owner of
this place will never care to redeem
it, for it wouldn't be a home to her.
She never romped over the old house
with her lover; she doesn't know
know which path leads to the big
spring and which leads to the black
haw tree. So she doesn't want it.
Nobody wants place that isn't a
home"
Tears stood in Grace's eyes now.
A home! Nobody wants place
that isn't home" The words poun.
ded themselves into her brain. This
was home for these two, and hers
was far away. She laughed as she
turned back toward the village de.
termined to catch the "aCcommoda,
ton" as it went back to the Center
"Good.by, young lovers! Good.by
Ozark estate, I'm going home
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THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
Her Awakening.
BY MARTHA MITCHELL.

Copyright, 1917. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
A FTER a tiresome trip up the
n White river, Ralph Sanders
= pushed the PROV OF his cAroe
into the bank and then began max.
ing home nthe edge of the Ozark
country. After getting a patch OF
mountain and valley into some sem.
blance Of home, he was stricken
and died. Sanders was an unmar-
ried man, and the one whom he nam.
ed as her to the little speck OF a
mountain home was Grace Milton
then in her early teens. 1t was with
no little degree OF surprise that young
Miss Milton received the announce.
ment at her home in Virginia that
she was the heir to certain tract
of land in the Ozark mountain coun
try.
She turned the business of seeing
after the property over to a lawyer
cousin, and forgot all about it. And
when this cousin moved to another
city few years later, he handed
Grace Milton the papers pertaining
to her property She filed them away
and forgot them again.
The months stretched into years
during the time that the little place
had no tenant, and the space that
Ralph Sanders had cleared there in
the forest became wild tumble OF
young pine, sassafras and bamboo.
And before long the low house that
he had built was completely hidden
he al n
razor.back hogs and lean COWS from
the neighboring farms came to for.
age on the young growth There,
too, the children OF the community
came to play hide.ard.seek among
the young pines that rose like giant
needles over the yard. In the rooms
Of the house, still partly furnished
they played keeping house" with no
one to take exception to the noice
they made in their riotous frolick.
ing.
Later still, these same children
came to roam through the growth
on their childhood playground, two
by two, as lovers in that more quiet
world where two is company and
three is a crowd.
Meanwhile Grace Milton was grow.
ing up in the society of her sur.
roundings, forgetful of the little will,
derness that was passing from her
possession because OF unpaid taxes
While she dreamed dreams, the half.
wild children that played over her
western property grew up to rever,
ence the memory OF the little desert
ed place that had been their unre
stricted playground, and they came
back to the spot years later with
half-formed thoughts OF home just
like it.
Spring had come again and Virgil
Ferris, one of the boys who had
romped over the place. now a stall
waart man, began clearing away the
young growth, little thinking that this
very act would restore TO him the
sweetheart with whom hi had quar-.
relied.
About the time Grace Milton was
seking vainly for some refuge, some
place where the memory of her bit.
ter words cease to burn like a hot
iron in her soul. For she too had
luarreled with the man whom she
loved, and all because he refused to
have his wife independent of him
and his fortune, while she desired
independence for the sake of main
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HINTS

If headaches are at all frequent make
en- earnest effort to find and remove
the cause.
The great majority of headaches are
caused by faulty eating and drinking
They are not to be taken lightly, how.
ever, on that account.
While of no more immediate effect
Than the inconvenience of pain and the
temporary loss of working efficiency,
headache symptoms give warning that
i; the faulty habits in diet are not cor.
Iected, there will surely come the day
when the balance of health will show
an overdrawn account and ultimate
bankruptcy.
Hardening of the arteries, liver and
kidney impairments, premature old
age, are the consequences for this ne
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:: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE ::

took the great sheaf OF letters that
Pat sent me on the train, little book
when Dick and started for home. 1t
hardly seemed possible that SO many
people could have been so interested
in the Paula story.
In the letter Pat wrote he said, You
can see, Margie, how interested PEG.
pie would be in your little book. You
seem to be able not only to see the
truth through the cant and hypocrisy
that has grown up between the sexes,
but you have the courage to tell it.
of course. l know that much OF
Paula's story-much of the comment
on life and love, on work and veal anu
woe. on Joy and grief on frivolity and
common sense-is yours.
You have a wonderful spiritual vi
sion, combined with the rarest of com.
mon sense. | wish could persuade
you to publish those condolences which
you have given your little book"
But you know, dear little confidant,
how impossible that would be now.
Perhaps in the future, when | have
been dead long enough to have been
forgotten some one may give to the
world, after proper editing, what |
have given to you.
told Dick about what Pat had writ.
ten and he said, do you know, Mar.
gle, have always been more or less
jealous Of that little book of yours I?
expect, however, 1t is much like the
book Of fate-something we all want
to read and something that would
strike terror to our hearts II we could
road 1t.
'1s 1T true. honey" he continued,
that you have really confided all your
secrets to that little book In which 1
see you writing so often?"
Yes, dear. have not only written
all my secrets there, but have express.
ed my opinions, my likes and dislikes
OF all those have loved or hated"
And are you never going to let me
read 1t, Margie?"
Never"
why not"
What silly question? Would you
nit down there, my dear Dick, and open
your most secret heart that / might
read every good and bad thought that
is printed there?"
Dick looked somewhat surprised. DO
you mean to tell me, Margle, that you
have put in those books you guard so
jealousy all the episodes and happen.
ings of your life?"
Not only that. Dick, but have regis.
tered also my reactions to them"
Well, perhaps It would be Just as
well II you did not print them, Mar.
gie."
MY dear. do mot intsnh 10 10. .
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BRINE SAVES SURPLUS VEGETABLES FOR THE
HIGH COST OF LIVING DAYS THIS WINTER

terra until the lactc.acd ferment
starts. Add sufficient brine to cover
the material and allow to stand %
hours. Then make air-tight.
The time necessary for complete
fermentation depends upon the TEN,
perature. In a warm place only five
days to week may be necessary;
in cool cellar three or four weeks.
eEETS AND STRING BEANS
The strings should be removed from
string beans before they are put up.
Beets, of course, require careful
washing to remove all dirt before
brining. Proceed as with cucumbers.
MAKE THE CONTAINERS AIR
TIGHT
There always will be more or less
bubbling and foaming Of the brine
during the first stages OF fermenta.
ton. After this ceases a thin film
will appear which will spread over
the whole surface. This scum is a
growth of yeast.like organisms. If
allowed tao grow undisturbed it will
eventually destroy all the acid and
the fermented material will spoil.
To prevent this scum from forming
it is necessary to exclude the air
from the surface OF the brine. This
should be done "a hours after the
vegetables have been packed.
Perhaps the best method is TO GOV.
er the surface-over the board and
around he weight-with very hot
melted paraffin.
Oils, such as cottonseed oil or the
tasteless liquid petroleum, may also
be used for this purpose.
AS a measure of safety with crooks,
it is advisable to cover the top with
a cloth soaked in melted paraffin,
Put the cover in place before the
paraffin hardens.
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Copyright, 1917. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.