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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28

All the world is blue and gold!
Broken blue, the river
Lifts her pillows, fold on fold;
Toward the singing rapids rolled.
Is They clash and foam and culver. = .
Past the woodlands. all arrayed
In royal gold and yellow.
Leaves OF flame that richly fade,
Amber sheath and fiery blade!
Mingled fierce and mellow.
Sun and wave n water-gold
Built the scene together;
Flung II, for the earth to hold
Just one moment. ere the cold,
D%arkening blasts of winter rolled
Ger the crystal weather.
-.R. T.. ,(From Letters from Finland .
by Roealind rr4yerkl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28

80 ~ . bsoEt
There Is not the slightest excuse for
any one to go wrong in the selection of
a suit this season. for fashion rules re-
gardins them are very clear and distinct.
You have doubtless heard that the suit
coats are longer-thep are considerably
longer than those Of last year. For one
who may be a bit bewildered on the
length OF the coats a conservative plan
is to choose the everyday suit OF
cloth. with a coat that reaches well
below the hip line. while the dressy
suit. which may be of velvet or of satin,
should either be th~ree-quarter length
or to a few, inches from the hem of the
skirt. Some of the very newest of these
elaborate suits have coats which hang
evenly with the hem of the skirt
Colors. too. are a simple matter. for
we are given oxford blue, mahogany,
brown. and, of course. black. OF these,
the Oxford and the mahogany are the
newest for this season. The mahog-
m which is offered his eyar Is slightly
different from the shade of mahogany
that we have known heretofore, mas
Iilutll ds lhtlt appears W he more grown
in the mixture and not quite as much
red. Mahogany is not only a smart
color for suits. but is also used by the
hest milliners and makers of expensive
froCks, and therefore 1t has the stamp
Of approval for the coming season.
You will probably find when you start
out to shop for an everyday suit that
ntre out of every ten are developed in
velours.
Today the artist has drawn you a
sketch of a misses suit which is devel-
oped in good quality OF %velours. This
suit has a more intricate cut than the
majority of suits shown for fall, but
at the same time is a style which is
considered quite correst for the miss.
The coat has a large collar of seal and
n band Of the fur marks the pocket OPEN
ing. The skirt is straight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
HONORED FOR BRAVERY
Captain William C. William,
Wins Distinguished Service Cross

Captain William C. Williams. 1925
Girard avenue, has been awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for gal.
lantry in action. according to announce.
ment by the Wal Department.
The acts for which he is thus honored
were performed July Is, hen the Ger.
mans started their fourth offensive OF
the year, and was first told of In dis.
patches from Raymond g. Carroll
special correspondent of the Public
Ledger in rance. Captain Williams
%gallantry in action Is described by the
War Department as follows:
Early In the fighting near Month.
real, France, July Is, he was wounded
three times. but. in spite of SUFFERING
his men until his battalion was relieved
three days later"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
SAVING SUGAR IN MEMORY .
OLA CHILD WHO HAD NONE
And So the Little Girl Who Lay on the Roadside in the Great
Backicash of the Serbian Army Smiled and Died as Soldiers
Do-She Was Very, Very Hungry, Her Mother Said

"A LII the soldiers are not grown up
"A of cours Ruth Farnam, Amer
ica's woman soldier. a sergeant in the
First Royal Cavalry of the Serbian
army. tells the story of a little girl
whom she passed on her way to the
Serbian front. Her mother was there
beside her on the roadside, but even
love and a heart sick with pain can
not ease the sufferings OF a little girl
whose face is pale, with the yellow
skin drawn over sharp bones.
But just the same. the little girl
smiled at the strange lady as she
passed. Mrs. Farnam stopped and
went back to see what could be done,
but when she spoke to the child there
was no answer. Our soldier gathered
the little girl in her arms, but she was
dead.
"She was very, very hungry" the
mother explained, with a great dry
sob.
THIS is a true story. You will know
L just why | have told it when you
read the following extract from a let
ter from one of our reader friends.
the mother Of a little ei~ght-year-old
girl:
May /. a bird Of passage" in your
state, come TO the woman rage Tor
help? When l tell you that I have
two brothers, three cousins and one
nephew over there ana a husband
who would be If he had not been a
cripple. you can understand why I am
so interested in food conservation. I
have long wanted to call attention to
the way some people act about their
children doing without anything. I
have a friend of long standing who
makes corn bread, but her five children
won't touch it, and wheat bread is put
on the table for them. She became
very angry with me when 7 told her
that there was just as muCh reason
for her children to eat things they
didn't like as any one eIse. one makes
cocoa and Lemonade and ew"c'.ns i.
then permits the children to put IN as
much more as they like makes a
large cake with thick frosting wh!ch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
ALLIES and OUR OWN-FASHONS FOR F
A MAID AND TWO MEN
The Story of the Girl Who Was Left Behind
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR

oh. she might chide you for being SO
frivolous Myra's so horribly conscien.
tious about everything"
We'll. she ought to learn to play
bridge II she is going out very much
in the afternoon" said one of the other
girls. II declare I never saw such
playing she lost that prize to me. i
know she did. because my score was
just as high as yours. Helen, before we
lost that last hand"
Helen, who reid the coveted prize, a
wedgewood bowl, under her ARM
shrugged her shoulders.
"Myra's a curious girl for you to like,
Ruth" she remarked. Il never cou
understand your liking her"
well, | do like her" Ruth almost as
founded herself by saying. And as for
playing bridge, 1t was because / IN
sisted and made her break a business
engagement that Myre came at all TINS
afternoon. l just made her come because
I wanted her to be here when 1 'ol'
you all about Jack"
w all like her. Ruth" put in Helen
quickly. II was simply wondering why
YOU seemed so attached to her. Sne
doesn't like any of the things you 10
no one ever sees her anywhere. she
doesn't know what 1t is to enjoy hte'
perhaps she thinks her way Is best:
put In Mrs. Rowland. and her woros
would have settled the matter II It mac
not been for a rather sharp-teatureu s"'
.l. -.a1.z F1r tho fret time.
still water runs deep she an,
nounced disagreeably. But Myra ana
Scott RAYMOND are pretty good friends
7 know that he was there the last
night he was In town, and. she Is the
only one he has written to-
Ruth. who had begun to think the
conversation small and petty and in
conseouential, felt something suddenly
sa,ro I'm in her, a fierce resentment
against Scott and Myra that was mac
countahle. why had Myra neglected 10
CAV ANYTHING about this friendship with
Scott? Scott and Myra! why, the idea
was absurd. Scott, with his fery IN
tensity, and steady. unemotional MNra
But was Myra Unconditional? wasn't 1t
posslble that Myra might rise to far
greater heights than she (Ruth) would
ever he CAPABLE of reaching? 1t was
the hest thing in the world for Myra. a
wonderful friendship with a man like
scott. For he was fine. he was more
than fine. worthy of a big woman. And
Ruth Rowland. surrounded by admiring
friends. engaged to the man of her
choice. felt an elusive something in the
depths Of her heart at that moment that
AT anv other time or under any other cir
oumstances might have been mistaken
for jealousy.
(There N n hint Of a lovers quarrel in
tomorrow's instnllment.)
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the children eat up IN an hour or so
Gin fact. they eat nothing else while
the cake lasts), and then she complains
because she cannot get all the sugar
she wants. She got twenty-five pounds
for preserving. made Jam and Jelly
and let the children eat II up at once,
with never a thought for next winter.
Sill she is very bitter because her boy
is in the last draft. Now, mind you,
these people are Americans for gen.
erations. Cant you take it up on the
Woman's Page? A. X.
THERE you have it. The history
l. of the little girl who smiled and
died hat day on a Serbian roadside as
the soldiers passed on their way to the
front. She was a soldier, too.
BY what divine law are our children
exempt from the slight invitations of
war when pages of the history of
Belgium. of France, of Serbia are
written in little graves that wiring the
heart and make mute appeal to be
avenged? These countries are u
Allies. They held the foe at bay for
three long years before we
came into the war. Now we. fresh
and vigorous, are fighting shoulder TO
shoulder in with them. How mean 1t
10 to pamper our own children when
Just across the street the children Of
our brothers in this great common
cause are crying for sugar. Sugar TO
them mean energy 70 go on living.
'''nt- bodies. weak and pallid, beg
for it, because they have had
so little OF 1t. Sugar TO u little boys
and girls (arY amount owe the half a
mound a week allowed to them by the
Government means a mere indulgence
of n sweet tooth.
It Is not love for children that makes
parents let them have the food they
beg for. The real lovers
~ the little ones weep IN their hearts
at the Gethsemane of children that
viii 20 down in history as the most
0ltiful thing that ever turned a world
to tears, and they make up their minds
- child will never go hungry again If
America can help 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
Ask to Cali

Dear Cynthia have a difficult problem
I wish YOU to answer. | am a young man
Of twenty and am considered good looking.
i love a girl in my neighborhOod very much.
but I seldom tall to her, only when we meet
on a road. She seems very shy when we
meet and that only makes II harder Tor
me to speak.
Please inform me II 1t Is right for me, 70
stop her on the road and talk. or would II
be proper for me to call at her home with
out an invitation. a. d.
The next time you meet her stop and
speak and ask her If you may not call
on her at her home. She may want to
receive you very much, but girls Sc dom
should give an unsought invitation to
call to a man. She is probably waiting
for you to ask if you may. Do not
mind the shyness. That will quickly dis
appear as the friendship ripens. Shy
ness is better than holiness. If it Is not
carried too far.
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The Men Are "Agin II"

Dear Cynthia-I read what ''P"rplexed'
wrote you regarding the girl he intended 10
ask to marry him using rouge on her
cheeks. I was surprised you did not ad-
wise him to give her up. 1t is ,scandalous
the way young women are. using rouge.
With pink cheeks and powdered faces and
noses like marshmallows they look like
variety actresses. and you cannot tell me
that a girl who will waste time covering
the dirt on her face with powder and rouge
Instead OF giving II a GOOD wash Is a niIe
not be so always. And she gives the i'm
preston, Of being bad. fresh, and common.
few men would take such a stand perhaps
the silly little idiots would stop painting
their faces and resembling Jezebels OF Bible
times. I would not consider a painted
woman fit to be my wife and I certainly
MORTIFIED.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
CLEANING A CHICKEN
IN THE EASIEST WAY
A Simple and Quick Method
That Prepares 1t for Cooking
or Canning

Cleaning chickens-the housewives
everlasting bugaboo-loses half its ter
rors when dom by this quick and eco
nomical method. There is a real art
for cooking or canning. BY carefully
following the directions given here, the
entire digestive tract is removed with
out. coming in contact with the meat {:
and the flesh and bones from a whole
bird may be fitted nearly into a quart
jar.
Cutting Up and Drawing
First. Remove the wings after cut
ting off the tips at 1.-THE first joint.
Second. Remove the foot, cutting at
the knee joint.
sadie joint.
Fourth. Cut through the connecting
joint to separate the thigh from the leg.
Fifth. Cut through the neck bone at
the head with n sharp knife. being care
full not TO cut the windpipe or outlet.
With the index finger separate the
w%indpipe and gullet from the neck, and
cut through the skin to the wing open
ing. Leave the head attached to the
windpipe and outlet and loosen these
from the neck down as far as the crop.
Sixth. With a sharp-pointed knife
cut around the shoulder blade, pull it
cut of position and break it.
Seventh. Find the white spots on the
ribs and cut along them through the
ribs. Cut back to around the vent
and loosen 1t.
Eighth. Leaving the head attached,
loosen the windpipe. outlet and crop.
and remove the digestive tract from the
bird, pulling it back toward the vent.
Remove the lungs and kidneys with the
point of a knife and cut off the neck
close to the body.
Ninth. Cut through the backbone at
the joint or just above the diaphragm
and remove the oil sack.
Tenth. Separate the breast from the
backbone by cutting through on the
white spots and break.
Eleventh. Cut in sharp at the point
of the breastbone, cutting away the
wishbone with the meat.
Twelfth. Cut the fllet from each
side OF the breastbone. Bend in the
bones of the breastbone.
Packing for Canning
Use a quart jar. Pack the saddle
with a thigh inside the breastbone
with a thigh inside the backbone and
ribs with a leg inside. the leg large
end downward, alongside the breast
bone; the wings the wishbone the
fllets; the neckbone. Don't pack the
giblets with the meat.
Directions for the home canning of
chicken. meats, soups, fruits. and
vegetables may be found in Farmers
Bulletins of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, and will be supplied
free of charge to any one writing for
them to the Division of Publications.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
THE WOMAN,S EXCHANGE
ANSWERS

/. Tomato paste to be used In making soups,
sauces. etc. Is made from a quart Of
strained tomato pulp. q slice OF onion,
n tablespoonful Of red pepper. a tea
spoonful of sugar. half q teaspOOnful
OF salt and u Tablespoonful of mixed
spices. The spices, are tied In a bag
and cooked with the tomato pulp for
three hours in n pan set In boiling
; water. Cook until thick, bottle and
seal while hot.
2. Castillan marmalade Is tomato MARINA
lade favored with preserved ginger and
spices.
3. Potatoes mashed in the bread mixer are
as HIGHT as whipped cream.
!. Eartabs are knitted pieces that require
iltt!c wool and are greatly appreciated
by the soldiers In cold weather.
5. The automobile hat bag Il made from n
piece OF goods 70 match the inside Of
the car. II should be divided into tbre.
partitions and fastened to the ton Of
the ear by means of eight straps sewed
on the bag. "e"
.. In dressing the baby in warm weather
two points are to be remembered-to
keep the skin dry and to let Inc air
get TO IL. "n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
81 HOSEMAN ELIGIBLES
All Who Passed Will Be Needed to Fill
Vacancies

Tw%enty-one names appear on an ell
gible list for hosemen. Bureau Of Fire,
made public today by the Civil Service
Commission. So many vacancies exist
on the force that most of the men will
be appointed in the very near future.
Another civil service test for hosemen
will be held by the Civil Service Com
mission September ~. when 1t Is hoped
a larger class will apply.
Those eligible for appointment are
Lewis H. Hit, 1901 Mulberry street +;
Ralph Morton, 2267 North Bouvier
street Anthony Amorosi, Jr.. ga Car
penter street Charles +. Clark. 1877
South Twentieth street John c. O'Brien,
2s02 Palethorpe street James Moran,
526 Montrose street: Edward Hall,
Mullany. 1927 West Wildey street ;
James McKenna, 766 North Judson
street: George r. Medary, 1882 East
Ontario street william George. 1880
Kipp street Samuel j. Mccormick, 1873
Florist street Robert Moore, 326 Fair
mount avenue Frank Krug. 3410 North
Tampa street George Cuba, 404 Dupont
street, Roxborough; John McGovern.
1881 East Victoria street Pau Kauff-
man. 1927 Marsden street: George j.
Snyder. l41 Delphine street (: John Foley,
1872 Olive street, and Francis p. Malone,
ala Winter street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
SMALL BOYS POCKETS BANNED
UNDER NEW ORDER OF u IS.
Receptacles Since Time Immemorial for All Those Things
Dear to Hearts of ALI Normal Youngsters Now
Chased as Unnecessary

TROWN persons a been accus-
" toned to be facetious or the sub
ject of the small boys pocket. 1t has
always been something that any n
could be witty about, like -mothers-in-
law. and homemade biscuits.
Now they are going to be sorry for
all the things they's said that Is II
they have any spark of the rop feel
ing. For 1t looks very much as II the
small boys pocket will he nc more, or
at least that for the duration Of the
war it will be consigned, with mems
pockets, pegtops and fine braided
cuffs. TO the limbo of unnecessary
things-and goodness knows how long
that may be.
Simply because the Government
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
Is Bashful

Dear Cynthia am a young girl thought
good looking by my friends. but very bash
full. l spent my vacation In the country
and met a very nice young man. He paid
. great deal of attention to me, and was
much kinder to me than the other girls.
He often gave me flowers and anything
asked for or he had he gave me, but he
ignored the other girls. He always chose
me for his partner. But whenever he
spoke to me my bashfulness prevented me
from answering freely. He often questioned
me about my bashfulness and habit of
continually blushing. But I could not reply.
When we parted he asked II he might
see me again and I told him yes" After
g month l saw him about six yards away
from me. | did not look at him. but I feel
cure he saw me. but he never smoke to
me and / was very much dIsa ppointed be-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28

To the Editor Of WomdH'S Page:
Dear Madam regretted very much to
read about Worried in the column; ! am
Riad to know she is fond of children. /
am sure II she got out and saw how many
children are suffering. also soldiers wives
and children. she would fotset her self
consciousness. There are SO many things
to be done. Red Cross work. knitting. social
work and so much mending for the soldiers.
! have my only child. a son twenty-five
years old. IN France. and when I got out
and see others suffering am thanking
God my son is well IN TO the present and
that ] can help in many ways to end this
war. I have read SO many letters Of un.
happy married women and lonely girls that
should be glad 10 meet and talk happiness
to them and TO get them interested and
give them a word of comfort.
All honor TO you. dear Reader. with
your only child in France. your spirit
10 as brave and high as that
which at this moment is writing glor-
ious history on the western front. |
wish some of our readers who are
lonely and distressed would ask for your
address and I shall be glad TO turn them
into hands that are busy with the big
gest things in the world. If Worried
will send me her address ! shall be
glad to forward it to you. Thank you.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
High School Not Required for MRS.
70 the Editor Of Womdn's Pace.


Dear MAZDA m-wil. YOU kindly s.r
names OF a few hospitals where a high
school education Is not needed. as ] have
been reading your paper and have go
where you had answered other questions ~
] though would try one. This was snoLsSs
OF In the other nights paper. would ILL.,
70 become a nurse and would like 10 try
my luck. EHS
None of the civilian hospitals enIistad
in the student nurses reserve renuire
a hig school education. Women and
girls enroll in the student nurses re-
serve through the woman's conm,ttsa
of the council of National Defense in
the different States. The nearest nIaca
for you to enroll would be Atlantic Citv
The committee there will then see thai
you are called TO a hospital. When
making your application write to the
chairman of the Atlantic CITY limit
Woman's Committee of the CounciI ~
National Defense. Good luck 20 Won
and stick to your resolution.
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doesn't need to put bread and beetles
and fishing hooks into its pockets 1t
thinks little boys don't need TO, either.
or course, the Government must be
right-but what a mess the Germans
have made of things. anyhow.
THAI his pocket is terribly important
is the decision of the small boy after
due discussion of the subject with
others of his age and gender.
He is mere than willing to cooperate
with the Government in the matter Of
saving material, but since that pocket
Is such a vital thing, why not reduce
the rest of the rousers and save, oh,
save that reservoir for dead frogs,
strings and sealing wax?