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Evening star., 1917-09-09
The Hand of Fate.

EXPLORER FRTTHIoF NANsEN. dis
Ia cussing in New York the dangers
of an explorers life. said:
After all. our death is a matter OF
fate. and we should bear in mind the
story of the Vizier Hafz.
''Hafiz said to the sultan one evening
at a sumptrous festival;
Commander of the faithful. will you
permit us to depart at once for
Smyrna
Yes. if you wish. the sultan an
swered. but why this sudden journey"
~ have just seen in the crowd said
the vizier. with a shudder, the Angel
of Death staring at me fixedly. I know
from his look that he has come for me,
and if il be possible. I desire to escape
him.
Go. then" said the sultan. Go at
once And then he beckoned to the
angel and asked him why he had gazed
so earnestly at the visier.
~ was wondering. the angel an
swered. what the man was doing here.
for / have orders to kill him in
Smyrna'"
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own experts in the cooking end of the
Army have instilled the principles of
systematized rationing into the great
and small of the cooking profession
who are joining us temporarily Then
their work begins. They are to teach
recruits how to cook for their fellow
soldiers.
We followed the normal procedure
in the units by getting the old men of
the Army, graduates of the schools OF
the Army, ! mean. to fill positions in
the new organizations. They know
how to unfold the mysteries of feeding
a man nourishihgly on less than 40
cents a day.
ITO pick up a menu in a hrst-class
hotel would give one the impression
that this would be a task, indeed. They
will be. however-our soldiers. I mean
the best fed in the world. The list of
dishes which the volunteering chefs
will make and teach the drafted men
how to make later. when the teachers
have gone back to their hotels and res
taurants. is one which many house
wife might envy the knowledge of
serving so cheaply. There will be meat
three times a day. There will be ce-
reals. fresh fruits in season. the best
of vegetables. and, of course. soups
and dessert.
The training the hotel chefs will
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Each hotel proprietor in each district
is called upon to provide a certain num-
ber of experienced. reliable cooks whom
he can recommend. and for whose ef-
fciency he will be held responsible.
These caretakers of kitchens so chosen
are divided into two classes. those who
have held responsible positions and
commanded good salaries in the past
and are capable of instructing green
men and those who have held secondary
places who are able to capably fry,
roast and make stews, bake biscuits,
pies and puddings. The first grade re-
ceives s125 month from the govern
ment. while the second receives S90
with free board and lodging. Trans
portation to the cantonment they are
assigned to. and back home, is also
from the governments pocket.
Have we had complete response
from the owners of restaurants and
hotelso In the entire association of
hotel men. so-called. there has been
only one man who showed the slight
est hesitancy to act with US. The let
ters we get here in the quartermaster
generals office-well, they come by the
bushel. I've sent a number of copies
home to my mother, they vary so in
point of interest.
II am speaking Of letters written by
men and women, who, though they be-
long to no hotel or restaurant associa-
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An UnWeIcome Truth.

~ APT. F. l.. FOOTE Of the torpedoed
" schooner Margaret B. Rouse said
on his return to New York:
Il live on street called Kaiser ave-
nue., and I'm going to have that name
changed. The kaiser is going to hear
some plain truths about himself before
feel forse than the bald headed chap.
This chap sat in a fashionable Golf
feur's shop with his little daughter
while his wife was having marcel
wave put in her hair.
THE little daughter, as she played
bout patted her fathers bald head
and said in a loud voice that all the
ladies who were getting waved could
hear:
mo waves for you. daddy-you're all
beach,"
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everything in their power to help" de-
clared Mrs. Funk. Ard the way to
reach every woman is through or
sanizauon. The men appreciate this and
are organizing very efectually. Without
organization there must be constant in
terlockng and overlapping of effort Our
first idea in the woman's committee of
the Council of National Defense was to
get coordination of the woman power
with the council as clearing house for
every war activity. The registration Of
women for war work followed and through
that census splendid results should ensue
both in organized and individual effort
ITO go back to the beginning. in all our
efforts at this time the most important is
the teaching of people the meaning Of
this war Men. women and children to
the farthermost corners of the land must
realize what it really means before they
will throw the nselves heart and soul into
the various branches of its work We are
now preparing to send out over ten million
pieces of literature through various cham
nels. The re ponse to efforts to have 1t
circulated is wonderful. Two great firms
have alone offered to send out two million
pieces.
We are preparing to begin with the
children and have outlined a plan Of edu-
cational propaganda through the schools.
We are also organizing speakers bu-
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Their Country's Caws.
BERLIN correspondent said 1

n BERLIN correspondent said in
~ Baltimore in a lecture on the
blockade:
THE Germans are suffering from our
blockade more than they'd have US
think There's a real dearth Of food
stuffs. and there's a real pest of profit
eers.
Think of 1.-THE Germans are now
eating crow! More than that, the
profiteers have cornered the crows Of
Germany. SO that the government has
had to fix crow prices. which range, I
believe. from 60 to SIS cents, according
to the weight and age Of the bird,
But imagine 1t! Cornering crow!
That 10 no way to help our country's
cawsw
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

RAP!D-FIRE ENGLISH. FRENCH,
GERMAN; With Pronunciation, for
the tse of Soldiers and Sailors and
the Men and Women of the Army
and Navy Medical Corps, Including
800 words and terms of Trench
SinHci Complied by Committee of
Well known Teachers. New York:
Harper & Bros.
GOOD HEALTH: How to Get II and
HOW to Keep II. BY Alvah H. Doty.
NJ D., author of The Prevention of
Infectious Diseases" etc. Illustrat-
ed New York: D. Appleton & Co.
AUCTION BRIDGE CRIMES; n sutiri-
cal Arrangement of Twenty Common
Faults OF Our Partners, With IL
Illustrative Hands Showing the Ma
ture of the otfenses and Their Tn
fortunate Results. All Carefully In
dexed: Also a Composite Scoring
Table. BY J. A. Cove. New York:
f. a. Fenno & Co.
IN FLIGHT; Verses. BY Rosalie NJ
Cody. New York: Duffieid & Co.
THE LOOKING GLASS. BY Dr. Frank
Crane, author of Just Human" etc
New York: John Lane Company.
WHAT GERaIANY is FIGHTING FOR.
BY Sir Charles Waldstein New
York: Longmans, Green & Co.
LEONARD WOOD; Prophet of Pre-
l.
author of The War After the War"
etc. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
YOJ ARE THE HOPE OF THE
WORLD: An Appeal TO the Girls
and Boys of America. By Herman
Hagedorn. New York; The Mac
milan Company.
THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF AN
AMERICAN CITIZEN. BY Francis
4 TD1@t
fessor of Christian morals temeri-
tus) in Harvard University. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
MISS THEODOAIS' KEARTsTRINGS.
By Annie Hamilton Donnell. Illus
trated by William Van Dresser. Bos-
ton: Little. Brown & Co.
PATRIOTIC TOAsTs. BY Fred Emer-
son Brooks. Chicago: Forbes &
CoRTINA FRENCH-ENGLIsH MILL
TARi MANIAL. BY Jean A. Pic
ard. Foreword by Maj. Gen. Leon
ard Wood. New York: The Cortina
Academy of Languages.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE At WAR. BY
Urban H. Broughton. NJ. P. London;
Published by the author.
SCHOOL EFFICIENCY MONOGRAPHS
-NEWSBOY SERVICE, n Study in
nnce. BY Anna Y. Reed Phi D.
With an introduction by George Ell
lott Howard, professor of political
science and sociology in the Univer-
sity of Nebraska. Yonkers-on- -Hud-
son, n. V: World Book Company.
HEALTH FIRST; the Fine Art of Liv-
inS. By Henry Dwight Chaplin. NJ.
D.. professor of medicine. New York
Postgraduate Medical School and
Hospital. New York: The Century
Company.
"THE FAMILY ALBUM; Another
"FOtygrapht Album" shown to the
New Preacher by Rebecca Sparks
Peters, Aged Eleven. Drawings and
text by Frank Wing. Chicago: The
Reilly & Britton Company.
THE GERMAN TERROR IN BELGIUM.
An Historical Record. By Arnold ].
Toynbee, late fellow of Balliol Col
lege. Oxford. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
LIE SOLDAT AMERICAIN EN- FRANCE.
BY Algernon Coleman and A. Marin
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ton, can cook and wish to offer their
services OF course, we can have no
women, and that reminds me of a let
ter we received from one which the de-
partment took In hand. l believe. since
l think Of it it was written directly to
the Secretary of War. 1 recall it well
enough to quote
Dear Sir: I want to tell you about
my son. He is a good cook. but he did
not register His address is - -.
II you ca make him work 1 would be
very glad. Have you any position for
me to fill, in checking or keeping ac-
counts?
This young man doubtless got into
the hands of the provost marshal of
his district at once. In the budget
of correspondence I was detailed to
handle, among hundreds of letters l
received one in Polish. Along with
it was one written in French. The
latter was answered. but Polish was
too much for US.
One man. once a subject of the En-
peror Francis Joseph, wrote to Presi
dent Wilson. and the letter was turned
over to US. 1t ran like this:
" President Wilson. your honor:
II want to be sorry by the way I
use the English language, but 1 am
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The Thing to Do.

mREsIDENT WILSON'S admirable.
U settlement of the Goethals-DenmAn
shipping quarrel led a Philadelphia' ed
itor to say:
President Wilson has as good
grasp of literary matters as of state
affairs. / remember literary dinner
in New York, where he sat beside a.
historian.
This historian was bombastic. but
bum Hence his histories, which he
printed at his own expense. never got
reviewed in the critical newspapers
and magazines. He complained about
this to Mr.. Wilson.
"'Yes. woodrow he said, there's .
conspiracy Of silence against me-, What
would you advise me to dor ,--c-'-a =
"Join it. was the answer.s
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manded and collected from Franco
$1,000. 900, 900 indemnity. The French
people, who were as loyal then in re-
spending to their country's need a S are
their soldiers today, hastened to loan
this tremendous sum to their coun-
try.
Their patriotism turned a great mis-
fortune into great benefit Their
thrift in thus saving their money and
investing it in government bonds not
only brought great prosperity to
France. but the bonds rose in value all
over the world and made the French
national credit good wherever civiliza-
tion existed. Ten years after the
bonds were issued they commanded
premium of o5 per cent.
Our American women did splendidly
in the matter of taking up the last
issue of bonds, almost one-third OF the
bond-buyers being women, and they
will likely do more in the next. Our
plan of campaign for the coming issue
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keenly patriotic spirit. has started a
school of her own for army cooks. and
Edouard Panchard of very popular
hotel in New York is president of
new school for the training of army
cooks. We shall. very likely, have men
from these schools come to the can
tonRents. Mr.. Panchard is heart and
soul in the work. is a live wire. and
to help us. for It is an enormous prob
lem. this proper providing of food for
the new army and the absolutely neces-
sary Transformation of new soldiers
into new cooks.
Denver was the first city to offer
chefs to the War Department Within
ten hours after the receipt of the army
communication sent to hotel and res
taurant men in that city the local
hotel association wired the quartermas-
ter generals Office that, Denver could
offer forty cooks, all eXcellently trained
and experienced. These cooks report
a Fort Riley, the seat of the nearest
cantonment.
Chicago is down for 500 cooks as
it's quota, with New York doubling that
and the simplest of directions DIR. Car
roll sets one, first. on the way to prac-
tical knowledge of his own body, and.
next, to such a course of training for
that body as shall result in habits
whose end is care. prevention ana
growth toward Wilderness and strength.
He points out the common errors of
eating and faces one upon the practice
of eating for efficiency. He shows the
penalty of inactivity and sets one upon
the road of recreative exercise for
every part of the body. Work and play
in their natural and stimulating alter
nations are dealt with here. The writer
has much to say of the demoralizing
effects of emotional tyranny. of the
habit of loose and indirect thinking,
and of the general discordance that be-
set man in this oyerpushed and nerv-
Gus age. With each exposition of the
ills to which the majority are subject
through some miouse of powers there
goes along the set of activities that will
correct and build these powers into eff
cheney, and into a harmonious and Sc
rene fulfillment of self. The book is
eminently worth the study not only of
those who have let themselves become
nervously i'll, but of those. a $ well, who
refuse to be victimized with nervous
ness through carelessness and neglect.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
The War Garden.
10 REPRESENTATIVE MASON ,

To REPRESENTATIVE MASON of Illi-
Nv nois said in Chicago the other day:
One way to keep down prices is for
every family to set UP its own vegetable
garden. but the trouble is that most of
us are as ignorant of gardening as the
chap who wrote to the scotsman:
AS l wish to to do my bit for the
allies by growing my own provisions
on strip of rock ground back of my
house. please send me. f. o. b.. one dozen
potato seeds. one bee with hive complete.
one dozen fruit seeds assorted ten
square yards of grass, one path, six feet
Of wall flowers with wall and one dozen
-four plants. I am especially particular
about the grass, which should be green.
and not the brown kind see in so many
gardens
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announced by Secretary McAdoo. This
is to great extent due to the efforts
of Mrs. Anna Ondrey of Cleveland.
Ohio. president of the first Catholic
Slovak Ladies' Union Of the United
States of America. In letter accept
ing membership on the advisory coun-
Gil of the womans liberty loan COM
mittee Mrs. Ondrey empha sized the de-
sire of women of foreign birth and
parentage in America to work for the
cause of liberty.
LAS you know. our parent body
subscribed $4,000 to the liberty loan
Mrs. Ondrey wrote. Should occasion re-
quire the new loan our society will be
found among the first of its subscribers. In
the meantime. we hope to be placed in
the position where we can teach our
women and their families that it is
their patriotic duty to subscribe for
government loans during the war
This war simply cannot be won with
out the women of this country doing
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reau. which will convey the meaning OF
the war and its various activities in every
part of the country. Away back in 1875
people spoke with good purpose on the
street corners of the great issues of the
day: no hamlet was so humble as TO be
left unheralded Fully realizing that to-
day there are many other means of dis
selninating information than by the
spoken word. It is yet one OF the most
effectual methods of education.
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Problem of FEEDING Uncle Sans New Nation

~ a HA! Zee major general.
% IN Henry g. Sharpe, quarter
IN master general of zee ar
q q NEE. he write me. Francois
Radieux. What you theenk he say, eh?
He want my cook. Juist a leetle while.
say six. seven weeks. Jean, zee rascal.
to cook for Stars and Stripes armee-
my armee. too, Thees armee going
into cantonments in few days. prepar-
ing to join zee lofely tri-coIor in my
France" soliloquizes N. Radieux. or
one of his kind from Muncie. Ind;
Marshalitown, Iowa, or maybe Wilkes
Barre. Pa. or San Diego. Cal.
"I cook. myself. now. for patrons.
and remember ozer days on zee edges
of Paris. with little tables in outdoors.
while Jean so chef for Uncle Sam and
gee General Sharpe. who geeve heem
$50 maybee $l25 month. the more
can afford. alas, But l say to heem.
Ro for I like thees bizneSs of my
France and UGited States side by each.
and ! want Zat zee fine American boy
be satisfied supreemely in his appetite:
also my Jean shall teach new soldiers
how xay must cook for comrades and
Papa Pershing. All. yes. monsieur
the little Frenchman concludes, and
straightway sits down and puts prac-
tically the same thing on paper, which
he forwards to the War Department as
. letter.
why. you say? Well about the 1st
Of August it was noised about in a few
terse lines not much larger than
want ad that the War Department
wanted cooks. to the tune of a mere
1000 or SO. According to young cap
greatly enthused over the cooking
game in the army. There was some
scramble staged" The phrase, Cooks
for cantonments" became watch
word.
The proposition of feeding the new
National Army is something stagger-
ing" was the grave introduction with
which the captains description of the
situation began. This thing you see,
came on us all of sudden-the feed
ing of these 700. 900 men who shall con-
etitute our National Army. The Army
has twelve baking companies. with 1o1
Tor probably $1,000 men. but this or
ganization had to be expanded into
nfty-two companies. in order to get
enough of the so-called staff of life to
reed hundreds of thousands of soldiers,
old and new
ITO meet the greatest factor of the
emergency we had to organize a cook
ing school in the twinkiing of an eve
This is the basis of our call for chefs
and cooks attached to the hotels and
restaurants of the country. We had to
have cooks and bakers such. and not
as officers. and there is where the rub
comes in. too-you can't find cook
and baker. civilian. who can handle
army rations. You have to make EN-.
30 we are making them.
We are performing this unique serv-
Ice with the help of all kinds and con-
dition of cooks. from every nook and
corner of the United States. We are
teaching these men who already know
now to cook how to prepare Army ra-
tfons at 3s cents day for each man of
the 100000 of the vast new National
Army Between the 18th of August
and an early date in September, our
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Reviews of New Books

COUSIN JULIA. BY Grace Hodgson
Flandrau. New York: D. Appleton
Evening star., 1917-09-09

? OOKING back over the past dec
| ade one seeks from among the
| women actively doing big things
Warren sheaf., 1917-12-12

On the night Of the concert she su.
perintended Lark's dressing with ma.
ternal care. You look all right" she
said, "just fine. Now don't get scared,
Lark. It's so silly. Remember that
you know all those people by heart,
you can talk blue streak to any Of
them. There's no use =
But can't talk a blue streak to the
whole houseful at once," Lark pro.
tested. 1T makes me have such a.
hollow feeling to see so many: white
faces gazing up, and It's hot, and"
K "Stop that" came the stern com,
smand. 'sYou don't want to get cold
feet before you start. II you do acci.
5dentally forget once or twice, don't
worry. I know the piece 6s well az
you do, and can prompt you from be.
hind without anyone noticing 1t. But
Nyou won't forget" She kissed her,
| I you'll do fine, Larkie, just as hne al
fyou look, and It couldn't be better than
that
Just then Connie ran In. Fairy
wants to know IL you are getting stage
fright, Lark Ny. you do look NIGEL
Now, for goodness sake, Lark, remem.
! Der the parsonage, and don't make .
! ssfizzle Of II. !"
Who says fizzle I. demanded theil
father from the doorway. Never gaJ
die. my girl. why, Lark, never saw
you look 80 sweet. You have your haii
Warren sheaf., 1917-12-12
. q can t, Lark whispered, Tn sick"
Lark Lark called the superin-

q can't t, Lark whispered, "I'm sick. =
Lark kLark," called the superin-
tendent.
Carol sighed bitterly. Evidently 1t
was up to her. With grim face, she
rose from her chair and started out on
the platform. The superint tendent5
stared at her, his lips parting. The
people stared at her too, and smiled,
and then laughed. Panic-stricken, her
eyes sought her fathers face. He nod
ded quickly, and his eyes approved.
Good !" His lips formed the word,
and Carol did not falter again. The
applause was nearly drowned with
laughter as Carol advanced for her
second recitation.
"The wind went drifting DER the
lea," she began-her voice drifting
properly on the words and so on to
the end Of the piece.
Most of the audience, knowing
Lark's temperament, had concluded
that fear prevented her appearance,
and understood that Carol had come to
her twins rescue for the reputation
Of the parsonage. The applause was
deafening as she went back. It grew
louder as she sat down with COM
forting little grin at Lark. Then as
the clapping continued, something Of
her natural impishness entered her
heart.
Lark she whispered, "go out and
make a tow.'
Mercy y gasped Lark. II didn't do
anything
1T was supposed to be you-go On.
Lark Hurry! You've got to! Think
what joke it will be-
Lark hesitated, but Carols domi-
nance was compelling.
'Do as tell you,'' came the per-
emptory order, and Lark arose from
her chair, stepped out before the as
tonished audience and made slow
and graceful bow.
This time the applause ran riot, for
people of less experience than those of
Mount Mark could tell that the twins
were playing game. AS it continued,
Carol caught Larkin's hand in hers,
and together they stepped out once
more, laughing and bowling right and
left.
Lark was the last one in. that night,
for she and Jim celebrated her defeat
with two ice cream sodas apiece at the
corner drug store.
Il disgraced the parsonage" she
said meekly, as she stepped into the
family circle, waiting to receive her.
Indeed you didn't said Fairy. '.It
was too bad, but Carol passed it off
nicely, and then, turning it into Joke
that way took all the embarrassment
out Of it. It was perfectly all right,
and we weren't bit ashamed" J"
"And you did look awfully sweet
when you made your bow" Connie said
warmly for wien a member Of the
family was down, no one ventured q
laugh, laugh-loving though they were.
Curious to say, the odd little freak
Of substitution only endeared the twins
to the people Of Mount Mark the more.
BY ginger, you can't beat them
bloomin' twins said Harvey Reel,
chuckling admiringly. And no one dis
agreed. ..