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National Dish of Mexico.

a MERICANS in some mysterious way
AA have gained the impression that the
national food of Mexico is chile con
and meat. Americans also hear much
about frijoles and tortillas, the first
being a preparation of beans boiled
and then fried. and the second being
preparation of corn meal cakes some
what resembling griddle cakes. Ask a
Mexican what the national dish of his
country is and he will no doubt answer
mole de guajolota."
Though Mexican cooks show indi-
viduality in the preparation of mole de
guajolota, it is usually a combination
of raisins, almonds peanuts. cinnamon,
chocolate. "ajonjolin," cominos anise.
four or five different varieties of chiles,
garlic. tomatoes and perhaps some
other ingredients. These ingredients
are thoroughly ground and mixed and
put to stew in an enormous earthen
bowl. with perhaps barely sufficient
lard and water to leayen the mass
properly, while it is left to stew for
perhaps two or three hours. While it
is stewing one or two turkeys are cut
up into small pieces and dropped into
the bowl to be thoroughly cooked in
TINS rlch gravy.
1t is said that the turkey cooked in
this gravy gives to the mole rich
turkey taste. while the mole" itself
gives the turkey SAVIOR unsurpassed.
In popular speech the long name of
this dish is contracted to mole and
which is pronounced "mo-lay."
In Mexico City there is. or at least
until recently there was. a firm doing
a large business in cooking and can
ming mole, and it is to be found in all
the good grocery stores of the coun-
try. 1t has been urged in Mexico that
an export trade might be built up for
canned mole very much as a trade was
built up for French sardines, German
bratwurst. Russian caviar, Scotch her
rings, Oxford sausages. Italian tomato
paste and Seville olives and other ar
ticles of preserved food. An enthusiast
on the subject of mole has written:
There is not the slightest doubt in
the world but what it would take big
in the United States and England. 1t
is dish SO entirely toothsome that
there is not the remotest fear but what
the people of New York. Boston, Phila-
delphia, Washington. Chicago. London
and Paris would go crazy about 1t, and
that would have as great vogue as
did chile con carne, tomales, chile sauce
and Hungarian goulasch."
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A Lesson.

rOHN BARRYMORE said at a lunch
~ con at the Players, in Gramercy
Park:
You know the new fashion-bronze
silk stockings and high -heeled bronze
shoes worn with a very short skirt?
Well. a young Philadelphia lawyer in
his desire to do justice to this new
fashion as it was displayed by a very
beautiful girl from Rittenhouse Square,
leaned TOO recklessly out of his Office
window, fell to the sidewalk and broke
an arm and a leg.
This teaches us, said Mr.. Barry
more, that in following the fashions
we can go too far.
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The Apple Is Important
i'm Commerce and History

States it's culture. gathering. packing.
shipment and sale have been CONNER
cialiZed in such an efficient way as to
yield profits which have set farmers
in nearly all parts of the country to
thinking on this subject. The apple
appetite of the people of the United
States is being stimulated by the effec-
tive advertising and alluring exhibits
of the fruit. At the time of the out
break of the great war heavy ship
ments of American apples were being
made to Europe. One variety of the
American apple, and that grown in a
section of the country not far from
Washington. gained favor in England
a good many years ago because of
Queen Nictoria's preference for It, and
big shipments of these apples were
made every year. That apple is the
Aibemarle pippin. However, it is the
western apple grower. and more es-
pecially the apple grower of the north
Pacific coast, who was really develop
ing a wide foreign market for Ameri-
can apples.
There is an extensive apple growing
region in the country west of WASH
ington. both on the Virginia and the
Maryland sides of the Potomac river.
Much development has taken place in
those parts of the country within the
past ten years 1t is not now so usual
to Sc far west apples on the fruit.
stands and in grocery stores of the
city as it was, but there is still big
local trade in western apples. In much
of the country about Washington ap-
pie culture has not been entered upon
in systematic commercial way,
though the possibilities are there. Ia
previous generations every farm had
it's orchard. and apple trees were nu-
merous and the fruit generally excel
lent But the apple was not looked
on as money crop, and the orchard
was considered merely as a farm ac-
cessory for the pleasure and comfort of
the farmers family. The apple has
now become an important article of
commerce.
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blues. and some dyers got from it a
fine and luStrouS fast black. Logwood
is the heartwood of a certain American
tree which grows in the tropics One
of the merits of logwood is that it can
be used with equal satisfaction in dye
ing wool. silk and cotton
One of the plants on which the world
used to depend for certain kinds of reds
was madder. The best Turkish red was
produced from madder. There were ex-
tenSive farms devoted to the cultiva-
tion of the plant in Holland and France
But, under the competition of coal tar
dyes. madder culture passed out of ex
istence excepting here and there in
primitive regions where dyeing contin
ued to be practiced as one of the house
hold arts. A species of the wild mig
nonette was once extensively gathered
and sometimes cultivated in Europe and
sold in the dyestuff marts under the
name of weld" From it was produced
an excellent yellow dye. and even to-
day some of the bright golden yellows
in ladies' toilets and on military uni
forms are produced by this famous dye.
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where he owned a residence and was
permanently located.
The startling thing about the duma is
that in spite of all these efforts on the
part of the autocracy to obtain sub
servient assembly it never succeeded in
quite suppressing the popular demand for
freedom even on the floor of this highly
exclusive organization. which was de-
risively called "a parliament a la carte.
When NJ v Rodzianko opened the ses-
sions of the fourth duma he said: II al
ways have been and now am an ardent
partisan of representative government,
based on the constitutional principles pro-
muIgated in the great manifesto of Oc-
tober Il, 1905: the first and most urgent
duty of Russia's representative assembly
is to strengthen the application of the
principles of that manifesto to Russian
life"
1t is doubtful whether NJ RodZianko
when he said these significant words. re-
allied that the duma was destined not
only to strengthen the application of the
principles of the manifesto. but to reor-
ganize Russia on an entirely new basis
by substituting freedom for autocracy.
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head of the Zemstvo Unions, which, in
spite of constant governmental inter-
ference, have succeeded in becoming
tremendous power in the land and have
contributed a great deal to the organi-
Zation of the army.
The minister of foreign affairs is Prof
Paul n. Milyukov, Prof. Milyukov is
fifty-eight years old a graduate of the
Moscow University. a hereditary noble
Journalist and teacher by profession,
and one of the leaders of the constitu-
tlonal democratic party in the duma.
Prof. Milyukov has had many un-
pleasant experiences, including terms
of Imprisonment. as a result of his
liberal views, but he utilized his time
IN prison to learn the English lam
guage and was for a year a professor
in the University of Chicago. The lee
lures which he delivered there form
the basis of his book on Russia and
Its Crisis" which is the most illuminat-
ing Interpretation of the pre-revolu-
tionary period in Russia
Soon after the establishment of the
duma the Civic Forum of New York
persuaded Mi1yukov to deliver q single
lecture in New York. In the midst of
his parliamentary duties he managed
to find time for trip half way across
the globe in order to explain to the
American people the state of affairs in
Russia and to interest them in the
struggle of the Russian people for
liberty.
The minister of public instruction, Prof
Manuilov, is the president of the Moscow
University and a we'll known authority on
land problems.
The minister of war and of the navy A.
I. Guchkov, is fifty-five years old.
graduate of the Moscow University.
privy councillor. belongs to the moderately
OctODerlSt
formerly president of the duma.
The minister of agriculture. A. l. Shin
garev. is forty-eight years old. is physi-
clan and member of the constitutional
democratic party.
The minister of finance. NJ Teresh-
chenko. is the deputy from Kiev He is
one of the Wealthiest men of the empire
with vast estates and numerous beet
sugar factories.
The most radical member of the min
istry is significantly intrusted with the
portfolio of justice. He is A. T. kerenski.
a lawyer. thirty-five years old. a noble by
birth and the spokesman of the labor
party in the duma.
The minister of communication, N V
Nekrasov, is thirty-eight years old, a
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be a drone On the close of the war
the international struggle for indus
trial and commercial supremacy will
begin and steadily grow.
when peace comes there will be a
rush to rebuild the factories which
have fallen. Powder mills Will be
turned into dye works; battle-torn
fields will be plowed for the harvest.
and there will be few idle people in
Europe. Labor will be at premium,
and industrial workers will prosper,
There will be practically no pauperism
or unemployment. AS wages advance
health will advance, and Europe's death
rate from preventable disease will fall.
THE war has taught the women of
Europe to work at meh's occupations.
and when peace comes many, IN the
great demand for labor, will continue
in fields which. up to the time of the
Serbian students pistol shot had been
monopoliZed by men
in this country we are interested in
the health of Europe in peace and in
war, because have been forced to
learn the interdependence between
America and foreign nations. We must
pay the price for the privilege of
watching the tragedy. We know that
we have drifted near to the maelstrom,
and we know that unless we are very
careful disease in Europe will mean
disease in America.
LAS far as the war infections are
,o,ca,nod ue have little 70 fear for,
,.,,;-,. .;r
me p"ih vi ''e ei'' no. 'o''"
will have but small amounts of these
diseases. And we have bulwarhs in
tho inmigra-ior and quarantine sta
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photo by Clinedinst.y

photo by Clinednst.y
was to capture, kill, MAIN or destroy
one another, and at hand was every
instrument of destruction that human
skill. science and ingenuity could de-
wise.
Soon the hospitals began to show
the result of the new conditions Of
life and exposure to the new infections
from men who carried the diseases of
the foreign countries.
Typhoid appeared among the unin-
oculated French troops. but it was con-
trolled, and hardly a case can be found,
for preventive treatment has become
general.
Cholera. which broke out among the
German troops in Galicia and the
marshes. was checked with slight loss
through the use of anti-cholera pro-
phylactic.
"Anti-tetanic serum has controlled
tetanus, sc prevalent at first among the
wounded.
Malaria and measles have invalided
many men, and pneumonia has claimed
it's victims in great numbers from those
born in the hotter climates.
New diseases-trench fever, trench
foot, epidemic jaundice and others
have found their existence.
The strain of trench warfare and
the shock of heavy gunflre have re-
suited in nervous breakdown or actual
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BoWied Out.

ID REPRESENTATIVE CAMPBELL was
4S talking about a political dispute.
The falseness of your opponents
claims" ne said, was easily brought
out-as easily, in fact. as in the case OF
the orphan.
Lady, whined a husky young beg
gar, cant ye help me to crust o
bread or sumpn'? I'm poor orphan.
"'Where do your father and mother
live, my boy" said the alert lady in
kindly tones
Down that there alley, num- sniff
fled the orphan"
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insanity. When the strain of war is
over, it will be mental disease rather
than physical which will threaten dan
ger of expectation to the United
States.
while many of these unfortunates
may be restored. certain proportion
of the blind, the deaf, the demented.
the chronically diseased and the Grip
pied will remain to be an unproductive
charge upon the body polite of their
own not ungrateful countries. or a
menace to neutral nations, including
the United States
1.-The infectious diseases brought by
some of the foreign troops will re-
main in the soil which they occupied !;
some to die out under unfavorable eli
matte conditions, but others to en-
danger the lives of those who when
peace again smiles Will seek to win a
living from the ground for which their
troops fought.
"But the longer the war lasts the
greater VIII be the advantage which
good sanitation will gain over these
dangers. Their spread in the war zone
will decrease and the chances of their
growth will lessen.
he fighting men are in Tar better
health than they were six months ago.
and in six months more the incidence
of disease will be further leSsened.
Most of this excellent sanitation has
been accomplished by men who before
the war We're civilian sanitary special
lists. now acting under the direction of
army sanitarians.
Their work which has been thor
ough and comprehensive. has resulted
in the preservation of the health OF
troops: and has diffused a practical
cd ON, in cN-cs infp nd car Ifaf ion
This gigantic demonstration will pro-
duce a marked Improvements in the
public health of Europe upon the close
of tn. war.
Another far-reaching health benefit
accrues from the decrease in the use of
alcoholic beverages by all the warning
nations. This has been immediate and
will be lasting.
The. loss of human life and the de
cline in the birth rate has induced a
general interest in child welfare, to
prevent infant mortality.
1.-The efforts to care for the wounded
on the battlefield and in the hospitals
have been widely told. and the success
in teaching the blind to see. the legless
to walk and the mentally unhinged to
live again are well known.
x y
The war. with all its privations has
not lowered the public health of Eu-
rope. On the contrary. it has improved
it. On the western front none of the
so-called war diseases exists in epi-
demic form.
Economic conditions will effect
health conditions. In England. for in
stance, the war has had a beneficial
effect upon the public health, and with
it's rise there has been a proportionate
fall in pauperism and unemployment.
A man must fight or work; he may not
Evening star., 1917-03-25
The Poet.

A \ English poet told in New York
FA why he had abandoned poetry for
war work,
Even L. he said. cant make poetry
pay nowadays. In fact. as far as poetry
goes I'm a good deal like the young
Washington Square chap who recently
got married.
When this chap took his bride home
to his tiny Hat she burst into tears and
cried:
Darling. I've a dreadful confession
to make to you | cant cook.
That's all right he said. And I've
a confession to make in my turn I'm a
poet and You'll have nothing to COOK. -
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university graduate. a professor of en-
gineering and member of the constitu-
tional democratic party.
The controller of state. l. V Godnev, is
sixty-one years old, physician and land
owner. and a member of the Octoberist
party.
The minister of trade and communica-
ton, A. L. konovalov, is forty-two years
old and is the only member of the min
iStry who has had only a high school edu-
cation. He is a manufacturer, house
owner and member of the progressive
party in the duma.
The procurator of the holy synod is an
other Prince Lvov and is member of
this wealthy and influential family.
NJ. V. Rodzianko, the president of the
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Lawson as Usual.

wHoMAS w. LAWSON disclosed moth
u ing very valuable. perhaps. during
the leak" investigation. but at least
he lost no opportunity to let loose an
epigram or pun.
.Mr. Lawson" a committeeman said
one afternoon, severely, you should
do as you want to be done by"
But, my dear SIR the Bostonian
answered, Il don't want to be done by
ANYBODY"
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Two Extremes.

ELIHU ROOT said at a recent dinner
IA in New York:
I'VE should be neither optimists nor
pessimists about the outcome of the
world war.
"Pessimism is undoubtedly the faith of
towards. but it is equally true that op-
timisna Is the faith Of fools.''
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& 4 will flow from the mael-
strom to affect the health of the world?
DIR. William c. Rucker, one of the as
sistant surgeons general in the United
States public health service, who has
just won Welcome medal and money
prize offered for the discussion of this
subject by military surgeons of the
United States. has told why various
diseases have fourished at the lines of
conflict. how the military Sanatorium
men met their tasks; the effect of the
changed conditions upon the health OF
men and women, the soldiery and home
workers: the weakening of the vicious
chain of intemperance, vice and pau
perism; the care of the human wreck
age: the hope for the future. and the
need of watch against making this
country dumping ground for the left
overs.
The world is in an upheava1 of such
magnitude that the mind of man can
not grasp it, much less forsee what the
results will be in the future he said
recently. THE nations of the earth are
employing their every force to produce
results which will be called history. but
the indirect results will mold the lines
of men and nations in ways beyond the
capacity of man now to forsee or here
after to trace.
I'm June nearly three years ago
pistol shot fred by a young Serbian
student killed the heir of the Haps-
burgs. and incidentally let loose the
diipltIoHS anu aureus VI EuTOpc uItll
they eliminated in the world war of
nations against nations, lined up ac-
cording to their ties and interests.
''They drew their forces from the
scattered portions of the globe, AL
geria, the Sudan. South Africa, Can
ada, newfoundland. New Zealand. Aus
tralia, the Straits Settlements, Ceylon,
Nigeria and the West Indies. From In
dia came the Rajput, Gurkha, Sikh and
Pathan. battalion of Fijis appeared
in France.
Soon the places of war We're filled
with many strange nations, each bring
ing its own language. customs and dis
eases: each in turn to be Influenced by
the language. customs and diseases Of
the other; nearly all living in climate
and under conditions strange and un-
familiar. In conflict their one object
Evening star., 1917-03-25

PROF. PAUL n. MlLYUkOV.
Russia's new minister of foreign affairs
Copyright, 1917. by Underwood & Underwood.)
it was a committee of the duma that
accomplished the seemingly impossible
task of completely overthrowing the
century -old autocratic regime and es-
tablishing the foundation of a free gov
ernment for the Russian people.
The group of men who have taken
charge of Russian affairs are nearly all
duma members, and it is vastly signifi-
cant that large part of them are very
substantial men of affairs They are
all Russians by blood and belong to the
Greek Catholic faith. Beyond that it is
perhaps worth while to mention briefly
the important facts about each of the
members of the new ministry.
Prince George Lvov, who is the pre-
mier and the minister of interior, is a
veteran fighter for Russian liberty and
one of the small group of men who
were received in audience by the czar
in 1914. when he rather contemptuously
refused to consent to the calling of
national assembly. Prince Lvov is the
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depended upon to show tact and
moderation in the tremendous crisis
through which their country is now
passing.
There has been very little blood
shed and no executions. The imperial
family is permitted TO live in peace.
provided it does not interfere with
the workings of the new government.
The determination Of the permanent
form of government is to be left to
the people themselves, who are to. elect
soon as possible constitutional
convention that will lay down the
principles by which the country is
to be governed.
An extraordinary fact about this
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F1HE Russian revolutionary move
ment, although rooted deeply in
the general discomfort of the
Russian people with their rul-
ers, has made it's most noteworthy ad-
vances in connection with foreign wars.
The Decembrist revolt of 1925 followed
soon after the Napoleonic wars. the
great Polish rebellion of 1863 followed
the Crimean war, and the revolution of
1905 was largely Influenced by the Jap
anese war. 1t seems fitting that the
world confia grafton that is raging to-
day SHOULD result in the final overthrow
of the Russian autocracy.
When the czar, in 1905. was forced to
grant to the people the right to elect
representatives to a duma. he little
dreamed that the apparently harmless
institution that was brought into ex-
istence would ultimately take control
of affairs and would spell the termina-
tion of the RomanoG dynasty. And yet
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duma. who is connected with the ministry
in organizing the preliminary govern
ment is fifty-eight years old. a graduate
of the corps of pages. a chamberlain and
a large landowner with varied CONNER
Cial and industrial interests.
Thus it is clear that the group of
men in whose hands lies at present
the destiny of the Russian people
does not include single red-hot
proletarian. with nothing at stake but
his life. They are all men of i'm
portance in their community, with
records of public service, who may be
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almost bloodIess and so far entirely
successful revolution is that 1t was
managed by a committee OF the rep
resentative assembly. the duma. the
elections to which were regulated by
the most undemocratic and discrimina-
tory system. When the government
first created the duma it had great
faith in the stanch loyalty and con-
servatism of the peasants. and the
electoral system was SO arranged that
of the 44S members of the duma, 2l6
were peasants. But the peasants dis
appointed the bureaucracy They
proved to be instilled with the desire
for freedom and better working condi-
tionS. and it was the agrar1an program
worked out in the first duma that
caused it's dissolution after short
existence.
The second duma met very similar
fate After that the government
preferred not to take any chances.
and, in violation of it's own pledge. 1t
radically changed the electoral sys-
tenn. with the result that the balance
of power was taken away from the
peasants and was given to the land
owning nobility.
In the first duma the mobiles formed 81
per cent of the members; in the fourth
they constituted 50 per cent: whereas the
peasants share fell from nearly half OF
the membership of the first duma to only
one-fifth of the fourth. Similarly. the
liberal parties declined in number and the
reactionary and conservative parties In
creased so that in the last duma two
thirds ma jority was in the hands of con-
servatives and reactionaries. with the lib
erals being reduced to only about "a per
cent and the radicals forming small mi
nority. The government did not depend
on the election law alone for insuring a
conservative membership of the duma 1t
interfered by administrative DEGREES, in
terpreted regulati as to residence in an
arbitrary manner and often instituted fake
legal prosecutions that were dropped after
the election, but in the meantime dis
qualified the undesirable individual from
running for the duma. startling Illus
tration of this sort of thing was the treat
rlent accorded to member who was dis
qualified from standing for reelection to
the fourth duma on the ground that he re-
sided in st. Petersburg. The fact was
that he was a member of the duma and
was attending the sessions, and conse-
quently could not be in his home town,
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FTER the war, what?" is
the question which thrusts
itself before many. What
will flow from the mael-