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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Luncheon Salads

Chicken Salad-Cut chicken in
small bits and mix with French dress
ing. Cut celery in cubes and cut
green peppers in rings. Mix and serve
on lettuce leaves. Cover with may
onnaise dressing.
Lobster Salad-One pint lobster
meat cut in dice. Mix with French
dressing Keep on ice Iii ready to
serve, then mix with a little mayon-
naise dressing. Arrange on lettuce
leaves. Sprinkle paprika over the
dressing and decorate with lobster
claws and parsley around the edge.
Cooked Salad Dressing-Six table,
spoons sweet cream or milk, six
tablespoons melted butter, half table,
spoon salt, pinch of pepper. one tea
spoon mustard. one cup vinegar. three
eggs beaten until light. Boil all but
eggs and beat into the eggs for five
minutes.
Reliable Mayonnaise (uncooked)-
AS nearly all the rich salads, like lob
ster and chicken, require a mayon-
naise dressing, the first thing is to
know how to make that, after which
the various combinations are simple.
The trick in making mayonnaise, with
no chance of failure, is to have the
best olive or refined vegetable oil to
start with fresh eggs that have been
chilled in the ice box. Then have
everything cold: oil. bowl. fork and
eggbeater Take a clean bowl and
drop into it the yolks of two eggs Cor
one egg if you are going to make only
small quantity. Stir lightly with
silver fork, then add quarter teaspoon
of salt same amount of sugar, pinch
of mustard, sprinkling of pepper. Mix
well. then pour in the olive oil little
by little, beating all the time. At first
the oil must be added very slowly, but
as the mixture begins to thicken it
may be added in larger quantities.
! . .er a few moments exchange the
| fork for the eggbeater, which does the
I work more rapidly and thoroly- In
ten minutes you should have a thick,
glossy mixture that fills pint bowl
/ three-Quarters full. Now add a table
spoon of lemon juice and a teaspoon
of tarragon or cider vinegar. Keep
adding oil until you have used a cup
full of the oil. Taste the dressing, and
if you want it a little more acid. add
more vinegar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
WHY WORRY?

OF all the concerns which have in
creased their efficiency in the cause
of winning the war, says the Railway
Age Gazette. the railways probably
stand foremost. They are today han
ding a much larger amount of traf-
fic with each freight locomotive and
each freight car than was ever done
before in their own history or that OF
any other railway system in the
world.
Those who like to snarl at the rail-
ways" continues the Gazette, TASK
why it required a NATIONAL crisis such
as the present to cause their managers
to introduce more efficient methods,
but the facts show that they were
constantly introducing more efficient
methods before we got into the war.
The doctrinaire advocates of govern
ment ownership say that the increases
in efficiency since we entered the war
are due to concentrated control and
are therefore an argument for govern
ment ownership. But no government
owned railways ever got such operat-
ing results as ours are getting and 1t
is not merely concentrated direction
but the brains and energy that are be-
ing put into their direction and opera
ton that are getting the results. Such
brains would not be put into their d.
rection and operation under govern
ment ownership
| But is this necessarily true? What
is to hinder the government from re-
tanning at the head of railway man
agement the same men who are now
handling the transportation business
so effectively? If the government
ever take over the railroads probably
there will be a secretary of transpor-
tation in the cabinet, selected from
men like those composing the boart
which now is directing the railroad
| business of the country. Capable
men for every department of railway
management could be obtained if the
pay were sufficient and certainly I'm
Gle Sam could afford to pay as much
for satisfactory service as can an!
board of railroad directors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
THE DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM

While Washington is legislating to
make food cheaper, says Leslie's. we
are neglecting the greatest problem
involved in lowering the cost of liv-
ing-the problem of distribution of
ance will often knock the bottom out
of the market in one locality, while in
other nearby markets top-notch prices
prevail for the same commodities. In
Albany. N. Y, recently the markets
were flooded with spinach at 10 cents
a barrel, while in New York City, the
greatest market of the country, only
three or four hours distant by rail
from Albany, spinach was selling at
50 barrel. In the New York mar
kets asparagus was selling for 35 to
SO cents a bunch while Albany, over
supplied, was selling it for IL cents
Instances like these might be multi
piled. all showing a weakness in dis
tribution, a problem which has never
been attacked in comprehensive
way.
Taking up the waste in perishable
products thru decay and the Cutting
of markets. the National City bank of
New York in it's monthly bulletin cites
the predicament of producers in Flor
ida in the late spring. Producers in
the vicinity of Gainesville had in
greatest abundance ready for ship
ment beans, cucumbers, beets, carrots
eggplant and tomatoes, but were I'M
able to get hampers to move more
than 20 per cent of the crop. Condi-
tons in Texas were even worse The
Dallas News of May IA told of truck
growers besieging the Chamber OF
Commerce and demanding that some
thing be done to afford them a sale
for their products. One grower said
vegetables were worth more as fer
tilizer than on the market. Another
sold go cents worth from load OF
vegetables and carried the rest home
to feed to his stock. This was at g
time when vegetables in northern
markets were bringing fancy wal
prices, and train loads of produce
from California were passing thru
Texas for the Chicago market
The department of agriculture ant
Mr.. Hoover have been doing every
thing possible to stimulate produc
ton, but what are they doing to ia
cilitate distribution? There has al
ways been wastage in the summer sea
son when gardens were at their best
Always in fruit growing section
thousands of barrels of fruit have rot
ted on the ground while city market
were demanding high prices
Wastage and decay will be crimina
this year, and yet with every house
holder having his little garden and F.,
record breaking production of al
commodities, wastage and decay viii
set new records unless there is bette
conservation and distribution.
|
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison G1obe.l

[From the Atchison G1obe.l
Nearly every state should have
state food inspector.
People are not so much interested
in how as what you did.
An Atchison man cuts up" once in
while just so his wife will pay some
attention to him.
One has off days in any game
but he should try not to have them
more than half the time.
If the boss doesn't ask you to work
any harder than he does that is a
sign he is an ultra-industrious cuss.
The ultimate consumer knows a
number of other things which are
what Sherman said war was.
Everyone says mean things about
people he does not wish them to hear.
and so it is very mean trick to tell
a man what people say about him
A tip to the preachers: Stubbornness
| is not what keeps people out of the
churches. It is laziness- The average
man is lazy as all get out on Sunday
morning and Sunday night.
THE most damnable institution is
| the boycott" snorted Short jerks to-
day. However, Short is boycotting
| his wife and is following around an
| other woman.
Technically no riots occur in the
Jude Johnson home. for according to
| law it takes at least three people to
make a riot. Two people beating
thunder out of each other do not
constitute a riot. in the eyes of the
law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

of his very small size, is descended
from a larger breed which was much
used for hunting. The degenerative
process may be witnessed in the case
of the cocker spaniel. This dog takes
his name from the fact that he has
hunting wood cock. In Europe, he is
considered the ideal dog for covers
containg mixed game, and he runs
rabbits as well as putting up birds.
In this country altho the cocker
spaniel benches at the shows are al
shown have been used in the field,
and type of cocker is being evolved
which has scarcely leg enough for
hunter. The larger and Iegsier
varieties are still bred and hunted by
few men. but the tendency of the
a strong and lusty hunter into Jne
more plaything for rich American
women. The same tendency would
seem to threaten the Sealyham Ter
rier which has recently been brought
here from his home in North Penn
brokeshire, and is becoming popular.
In his native land he is an inveterate
hunter of vermin and is used with
packs of hounds to get the game out
of the ground. In this country he has
scarcely been hunted at all, and is in
danger of losing the energy and cour-
age which belongs to the native breed.
So the war may lead to an over
hauling dog of values, as it has of
human and national values.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin. Director
Washington, D. c.. with 2-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
TRAWELETTE
Refreshment by the Way.
By NIKSAH

te1reShment Dy the way.
The one great indoor sport of New
Workers, temporary and permanent,
is eating. Probably nowhere in the
world, and certainly nowhere in the
United States, has the amusement of
consuming food-and incidentally
drink-been brought to such high
perfection, price, and prominence
The visitor who ranges up and
down Broadway sees only a part O.:
the city's eating system. He CONNIE on
ly knows nothing of the foreign table
d'hotes, scattered from one end of
town to the other; and unless he has
car and knows the roads, he never
suspects the existence of the hun
dreds of wayside hostelries that line
the highways in every direction.
They begin eight or ten miles out,
becoming increasingly abundant up
to twenty-five or thirty miles, and
gradually fall away toward the fifty
mile zone. The standard summer
amusement of New Workers with
money is to motor out to one of these
rural cabarets, have a bite, a drink
and a dance, and motor back. On q
hot summer night, it is hard to FIND
one that is not crowded.
They vary all the way from some
what crudely converted farmholses
to veritable palaces. One for exam
pie about twenty-three miles up the
Hudson, was formerly the summer
home of a millionaire. 1t pcrches on
a hilltop a hundred feet above the
river, with velvety lawn sloping to
the water. All about it is broad ter
| race decorated with great pearly light
globes looking out thru festoons OF
climbing roses. Here the majority OF
the guests sit and sip their drinks
/ each one of which costs enough to
| buy dinner and cigar in the corr
belt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

state is underlain by salt, which is
mined by many shafts and obtained by
pumping brine. Drilling for oil in
Texas and Louisiana has revealed the
presence of tremendously thick de-
posits of rock salt at a depth of a few
hundred feet. Thicknesses of 1000
feet are common, and one drill hole
passed thru more than 5000 feet of
rock salt. Most of the salt made in
Utah is produced by evaporating the
water of Great Salt Lake. and in CAL
ifornia by evaporating sea water.
These sources are inexhaustible, and
the limit of production by solar evap-
grafton will therefore never be
reached
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
aleaB
Ho..Lsr~AisSss
Sends Billy to Bed.

ceIOS Oily 10 bSu
whats that funny noise hear?"
asked Filter one evening as he and
Flutter were about to begin playing.
Listen, Hear that"
Flutter stopped and listened. So
still did she hold herself that she
seemed hardly to be alive
Thru the woods, silent in the even
ing dimness, there sounded the strang-
est noise-like somebody crying in
distress.
Something dreadful has happened
to somebody, that's plain to tell" said
Flutter, who was very kino and SOFT
hearted and hated to hear anyone in
trouble. But I cannot tell who it is!
Let's get nearer, maybe we can be of
help
So the two little flying squirrels
made their way nearer anu nearer to
the mournful sound.
AS they got closer, they could plain
ly hear a whiny voice crying, I'm SO
cold; and I'm SO hungry; and I'm so
miserable, oh-h-h-h dear! I'm so
cold; and I'm SO hungry; and I'm so
over again just that way!
who can that 1e?' whispered
Flutter, in distress. Sounds like
some young creature! Why don't its
mother take care of 1t ?"
Lets go a little closer" suggested
who it is, we can help!"
So they ran up a beech tree and
gracefully flew down nearer to where
| the sound came from.
And what do you suppose they saw
And what in the world did they hear
They landed on the gorcnd just in
time to hear old Mother Raccoon,
whose voice they recognized at once
say sternly: Now, Billy that's just
enough whining for one night! don't
know what I am going to do with you
to make you be nice, manly rae
| coon"
ct don't want to be a nice. manly
raccoon," cried Billy. 81 want some
support I'm so cold and I'm So
Now don't start that story over
again." interrupted Mother Raccoon
IF you are hungry, hustle around ant
get you something to eat-don't de
pend on your mother. who has too
much to do already. And if you arr
cold, curl yourself up in a tight bal
and go to sleep in a hollow tree hk'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
ON SPUR f 4E MOMENT
BY MORRIS MILLER.


An Accumulation.
No doubt he was happy, no doubt he was
glad,
No doubt he was proud as could be,
No doubt he was pleased with the bunch
that he had
And frolicked and capered in glee,
Yet tho his invention made coolies of kale
And tho it's a neat little stunt,
We hate these darn envelopes found in our
with isinglass holes in the front!
clear.
And Care for while we forget,
At times we're amazed that day can ap-
All free of worry or fret,
No aches to beset us, no ailments to all,
No troublesome troubles to hunt
Why then must letter appear in our mail
With an isinglass hole in the front?
blight on the man who invented the
How often he's saddened our soul,
How often we've suffered in reading our
Thru that neat little isinglass hole,
And If we could find him he'd tremble and
quail,
Whenever a letter is found in our mail
With an isinglass hole in the front.
slow and tight doesn't have to be fast
and loose.
jagged.
He spoke to very few did Lowe,
He speaks to even fewer now,
His books were also shy.
True.
Tho a man is very honest
1t takes industry beside,
Many men on the level --
And are also the slide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
THE SEARCMLIGET
latest News from the Fields Of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INvENTIoS
Plenty Gasoline.

The Geological Survey estimates .he
oil content of the oil-bearing shaies
of the state of Colorado alone at 90
900, 100000 barrels. Several -oniig-
uous states contain great quantities
of oil shales. These shales are clay
like soils saturated with petroleum.
The recovery of the oil is too costly
process to be profitable at present.
but il gasoline goes much higher, IL
will be possible to work them. and
thus throw open an immense new
source of oil. They will thus act as a
check to prevent the price of gas from
soaring past a certain high point. The
possibility of discovering a process for
extracting oil more cheaply from the
shales is also worth consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

doctor, How is it, doc? Am I hurt
pretty bad?"
..it might be worse, but I think that
YOU have broken your fibula."
: '.Oh, no. doc" groaned the injured
one. don't say that" And he Swoon-
ed away never to revive.
The answers to correspondents edi-
tor was deeply engrossed in his ardu-
Gus duties.
Here's a guy who wants to know
what musical instrument produces
foot notes." he called out to the sport
ing editor
Tell him a shoe horn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

A delegation of Jewish soldiers
from Russia's west front appeared re-
Gently before the soldiers and work
ingmen's council and announced the
determination of their brethren to
sacrifice their lives, if need be. for the
freedom of Russia and the liberation
of the small nationalities. in accord
ance with the avowed war purposes
of the allies. At the same time they
declared that it was the hope of every
Jewish soldier in the Russian armies
that democratic Russia, together with
all the other democracies of the
world. will aid in the establishment Of
a Jewish state in Palestine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

The new Greek minister to this
country makes the welcome an
nouncement that Greece will be ready
to enter the war in three months on
the side of the allies with a well
equipped army. This action should
place the allied forces in a position
to attack the central powers at what
is apparently the most vulnerable
point. the railroad from Berlin to the
Black sea. If communication between
the capitals of Germany and Turkey
can be cut it should go far toward
putting an end to the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

In these days when alarm regard
ing possible shortages in the supply
of various articles of daily consump-
ton, it is notable that nothing is
being said about salt. In Kansas a
deep well struck rock salt at $50 feet
below the surface and penetrated 500
feet of rock salt in beds from 5 to 60
feet thick, according to the United
States geological survey. department
of the interior. A large area in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

One of the funniest things we know
of. says the Los Angeles Times. is
the pictures in the daily press of
grand DANES. arrayed in all of the art
of the up-to-date modiste. who claim
to have Joined the conservation of
food forces The most of the people
who have enlisted in that cause did
so from compulsion. and they have no
publicity agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

raCcOOn'
have taught you to-dont whine all
night! First thing you know. some
of the woods folk will be coming to
see what is the matter with you, I'd
be ashamed to be found so lazy!" And
without further words, Mother Rae
coon went on about her business.
Think we'd better let him know
we are here?" asked Filter in a
whisper.
Lets not" replied Flutter, 'for
some day he will be ashamed of his
laziness and then he would wish we
didn't knowi"
So Billy Raccoon went grumblingly
to bed and the two little flying squir
rels went back to their play. 1 think
it was kind of them to keep still,
don't -(Copyright-Clar Ingra
ham JudSOn.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

Altho the bonds for the first lib
erty loan have not yet reached the
subscribers the treasury department
is preparing to launch another one
October 1. A total of $4,000, 900. 900
has been paid in but nobody has seen
the color of Uncle Sans paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

The labor millennium to which
workers organized and unorganized
have looked forward for many years
appears to have arrived. Everywhere
the job is hunting the man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
DINNER STORIES

The towns champion liar had luss
fallen on the pavement. and they nau
carried him to the corner drug store
and called the doctor A rev MN
s,.as, ava m;nation revealed the fact
tba+ his leg had been broken. Nc-
gaining consciousness, he asked the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

stantinople is the backbone of the en-
pire of Middle Europe. When the al
lies break it the war will end speed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

The Chicago board of education has or
dered 10000 new spelling books as sub
stitutes for old ones containing a eulogy
Of the kaiser
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

it up to her ears. and making other
people furnish to her the human con-
tact she missed at home
4 The lot of the neglected wife is.
Aithout doubt, a sad one, but it is
never so sad as when a woman neg
lects herself and fails to make the
best of a bad bargain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

After all, Triest for a Riga will
not be bad exchange from the view
point of the Allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
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and address their letters to Washington
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lnv and Needless expense are incurred
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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-11-09
NOME, ALASKA, NOV. g, 1917.
RUSSIAN DETECTION

News of the overthrow of the Kcr- cnsky government and the probable withdrawal of Russia from t1c Euro pean conflict is in the nature of d shock, especially at this time when we are making all possible preparations to take an active part in the task of preventing the Huns carrying out their neat little scheme to steal Europe and few chunks of South America, to- sether with diver other sections of real estate belonging to others. and afterward compel us to pay the costs of ii all under pain of sharing the same fate.
 However, there is little cause for alarm as the defection Of the Russians will have but little effect on the ulti- mate issues of the war.
 We do not mean to infer that the withdrawal of a nation possessing so many potential fighting units is not a matter for serious concern. Were Rus sia not rotten with treason and scdltion and absessed with the fantastic idea that new thought treatments adminis- tered by her ultra radical doctrnaires will cure her of all the ills in her body polite, she would unquestionably prove a most invaluable assistant in rcduc- ing the aspiring Hohenzollern tribe to a state of humble docility Russia, relieved of her agitators and foolish chasers of rainbow fancies would prove a powerful factor in the war But Russia as she is and has been since the cunning Germans instilcd the seeds of mutiny in her armies is of little assistance to the allies
 Beyogd the fact that her withdrawal will tend 10 prolong tho struggle to some extent, it is hard to see wherein her retirement will have other than q passing effect on the war situation
 Russia has been no more than a neg liGible factor in the struggle since the mutinOus spirit developed in the army ranks several months ago But for the fact that the uncertainty of her posi- ion compelled the Central powers to maintain large part of their military forces on the eastern front, ii may be