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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN
lCELESS REFRIGERATOR

A wooden frame is made with
dimensions 10 by 16 by IA
inches and covered with screen
wire, preferably the rustless
type, which costs little more
than the ordinary kind. The
door is made to fit closely and
is mounted on brass hinges, and
can be fastened with a wooden
latch. The bottom is fitted sol
i'd, but the top should be COW
cred with screen wire. Adjusta-
BILE shelves a be made of solid
wood or strips or sheets of gal
vanized metal. Shelves made of
poultry netting on light wooden
frames, as shown in the illus
tration, are probably the most
desirable. These shelves rest
on side braces placed at desired
intervals. A bread baking pan,
IA by 16 inches, is placed on the
top and the frame rests in a IL
by 1S-inch pan.
All the woodwork, the shelves
and the pans should receive two
coats Of white paint and one or
two coats Of white enamel. This
makes a very attractive surface
and one that can be easily kept
clean. The screen wire also may
receive the coat of enamel,
which will prevent it from rust
ing.
A cover Of canton flannel, bur-
lap or duck is made to fit the
frame. Put the smooth side out
If canton flannel is used. 1t will
require about three yards of ma
terial. This cover is buttoned
around the top of the frame and
down the side on which the door
is not hinged, using buggy hooks
and eyes or large-headed tacks
and eyelets worked in the mate
rial. On the front side arrange
the hooks on the top of the door,
instead of on the frame, and also
fasten the cover down the latch
side Of the door, allowing a wide
hem of the material to overlap
the place where the door closes.
The door can then be opened
without unbuttoning the cover.
The bottom of the cover should
extend down into the lower pan.
Four double strips, which taper
to 8 or 10 inches In width. are
sewed to the upper part Of the
cover. These strips form wicks
that dip over into the upper pan.
The dimensions given make a
refrigerator Of very convenient
size for household use and one
with. efficient evaporating sur
face, but 1t is not necessary to
follow strictly these dimensions.
If a larger capacity is desired,
the height of the refrigerator can
be increased.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

table, however, sat N official If the food administration. He beckonei o
the head waiter. said something to him in a undertone, and in a few minutes
the waiter who had served the forbidden bread rushed back to the table
where the two men were and said agHatedy:
you gentlemen have cost me my job-serving that bread was against
orders" t
They called for the head waiter of the room and protested that the
waiter was not at fault but they.
"We have certain rules in this establishment gentlemen, which must be
followed" said the head waiter. "These particular rules are the result Of
a pledge made by III to the food administration"
"But this is u fault" protested N If the two men.
The head walter didn't deny it.
I'VE can only punish the waiter who dsobeyed our rules" he said
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

a helpful young person with seemingly no aspiration to throw down her job
for "a work at one thousand per- suggested every Turing substitute in stock,
but peppermint was what the farmer wanted.
"Why, little miss, those young ones will be waiting for me a mile up the
roadI just can't bear to think of it"
Little miss interrupted him with an inspiration. Under the counter we're
jely-gass jars of pipestemmy sticks of clear candy, lemon instead of pepper
mint, and of a lovely green. The farmer a had to compromise with a
hafdozen Jars and a braided bar of mint cream, but he wasn't happy over it
81 suppose I can't do any beter-but 1 hate to think of facing those boys
after I gave them my word. You see, little miss, a promise ought to be
kept"
Foonshness to make such a fuss over nothing, Of courses OF course!
All the same, it is right refreshing to meet up with a mn with a Gibraltar1sh
sense of honor like that because you must admit
There are others.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

peek backward through his memory glass to show us how beautiful it used
to be. After sc long, the father-an officer In the navy-returned from a
cruise and came to the southeast home for a first glimpse Of his baby
daughter.
The child took in the brass buttons and gold braid with rapt wonder
leadened with doubt. This big goldshining man a lot like the papas who
amt home from work every afternoon to have their legs Rugged. The blue
to be sure.
"Are you my fatherT"
The arms folded the tiny girl and assurance was given which settled
every doubt. And the child voiced rhapsodic relief.
81 thought you were God"
A woman who used to be the tiny girl told about it recently. Father
Time was letting her peek through his memory glass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

they would break up and board, so she could have a decent meal without
his everlasting din about helping to win the war. 1t was nothing in this world
but an excuse for his meanness, and if she had known he was that sort of a
mainland 81 on and so Il.
And when she had gone off the stew-beef woman felt called on to relieve
her mind to an entirely strange customer next:
"Did you hear the way that woman was going on2 She's got IS good a
husband as ever walked and a nice little home with a sleeping porch and glass
storm doors and a electric range-al paid for and in her name Before
she wa married she clerked way up Seventh street. and had a ballroom
across from mine. 1 was keeping company at the same time, and my Joe
said from the first that poor Lou was facing trouble with his eyes shut and
that she would lever be cOntented, n o matter what he done for her, and
it's gospel true"
All of which set the entirely strange customer thinking thoughts as she
went away with her Notwithstanding fresh ground, if you would care to
know. And IS q sensible thought is always worth passing on, here it is as
the customer got it from a most wonderful ancient lady who sat in that
dusk We all know about, waiting for the dawn. 1t was such a way-back dusk
that the customer had never ven heard tell of hamburg fresh ground
which, naturally, couldn't be expected to equal those arustcaIy trimmed
lamb chops-and this ancient lady remarked with a forgivng smile, "Ah, well,
my dear, you know n is not rich in the things has; real wealth con-
sits of the ability to be satisfied with little and be contented and the con-
seriousness of having tried to do ones duty"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

he have a place in the picture, beside the pretty girl in the rar tire rack.
AS the camera snapped there a a shru cry from a sharpIeatured woman,
extensively dressed, who stood on the curbing.
$50" the woman exclaimed, pointing a finger at the good-natured man,
still seated beside the girl this is why 1 couldn't get you at the office. Joy
riding, Ell? Wait till you get home! The very ideal"
"But-"
The woman, declining explanations, disappeared in the crowd. And the
mar redfaced, pressed the electric starter, refusing to answer "gOodbys"
of the three girls who fed into the department store, where they are en-
ployed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

noon so that she could race down the
pavement and hug him around the
legs. She longed for that daily COM
ing papa with a yearning that no
grown-up could ever suspect, seeing
that we somehow forget what goes on
in childhood land after we are turned
out of it and the gate locked be-
tween-except, of course, when the
lonesome years come along and Fa-
Their Time, who is a whole lot kinder
than we give him credit for. lets us
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

OBren, % cents; OBren a gratn, so cents. I ordered American fried,
removed them carefully Oh tissue paper, brought them to the office and weighed
them. The order weighed l 13 ounces. AT $40 ounces o a bushel of poa-
toes the price to the diner a 800 a bushel Or $3.50 a pound. 1 can buy
potatoes in a cash store at a cent and a half a pound.
Somebody said the country has a 90OO0OO0bushel potato crop going
to rot because people won't eat them. Now, if the restaurants would pool
IN and buy this crop and deal it out at Is cents a n ounce, the proceeds would
be $S660OOOOOO. The excess profits and income taxes from the restaurants
would be enough Ito u the "a three months and the potato crop would be
absorbed.
"n justice to this restaurant I must hasten to add that they did not
emulate some patriotic hotels and charge me ten cents for two ounces of
bread and a pat of butter"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

lulu" replied Davis " it will quickly become a thing of the past. It's a nov
city, and that is ALL A jazz player takes q piece of music and plays what
amt there. The good jazzer a take any sort of a melody and jazz it up
by putting all sorts of blues in, with a generous sprnkIng of ragtme vari-
atoms. A typical jazz band is composed Of instruments of greatest noise
making power. Let me explain. You must have the slide trombone, with a
bottle of oil handy Then q drummer, with q complete assortment of kitchen
utensils and a cornetst who must have finished execution and technique, as
the Raging of the melody depends on him. Caionet? Surel He plays all
the convoluions, evoluhons and variations. And then the pianist. That will
do for a small bunch of jazzers"
"What effect does jazz music have on human bdngs?' asked the reporter.
ut will make a wooden man dance, and cause q octogenaran to feel
like a boy of sixteen" he replied.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

emerged from a nearby department
store. One carried a camera.
One of the girls seated herself In
side the tire, while another seated her
self behind the steering wheel. The
girl with the camera made ready to
take a picture.
A middle-aged man, a huge dia-
mond on his finger, approached and
started to enter the a when he OBJ
served the three girls. They told him
of their desire to take q picture. Did
he object? He didn't. But he insisted
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

m0IIOWS, ridges But tne 1urIner
was set on peppermint stick candy,
pink and white. He had promised the
children the last thing before starting
for the city. They were going to help
him out with the crop-and he had to
get them what they asked for. His
disappointment had put a real worry
line between his eyes and in his voice
was a detection which would have
been ridiculous except that you can't
laugh at genuine feeling-not if you
are the right sort yourself. The clerk,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

know now you can set q Ix-monLns
kid so he'll hit the hay an hour earlier
these nights2"
These are sample inquiries that
have come to the World since the
clocks of the country were poked
ahead an hour.
my baby used to sleep from six
till six. Now she refuses to go to bed
until seven o'clock, and won't get up
until seven the next morning. The
World helped move the clocks ahead.
Now ] think it's up to the World to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

uIu hui SteM 10 curt uHy IHInB uUVuI
food conservation, were responsible
for the discharge of a waiter the
other day.
The two had ordered a hearty
luncheon, and after the meal had pro-
crossed somewhat they summoned the
waiter and told him to bring some
more bread. He hesitated.
"Wem protect you. Bring the
bread" said n of them, and the
waiter hurried off. He came back
with q plate of biscuits. At the next
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

think If sol way of moving the babies ahead" That's a fair sample Of what
the mothers say; A fairminded method would seem to be to just chuck the
kid into its bunk by what the clock says, and not what he feels, and haul
him out again by the cock-make him run OIL daynghtsaving time.
But mothers to whom you say that just sigh and look at you as If you
were the prize boob of the neighborhood. And fathers make remarks about
your not having t. stick around and listen to the baby yell for his rights
Maybe congress IAN fix It up.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Couldn't Believe Gorgeous Being Was Her Father

A TINY girl out southeast way lived with an uncle and aunt because her
n mother was in heaven and her father at sea-. Being old enough to play
with other tiny children, she wondered why it was that she had n papa to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

harmony, cannot De Wrltten ecauSe
it Is never played the same way twice
in succession.
'The jazz originated in a section
Of New Orleans known as Congo place,
and has been transplanted to gilded
hostelries, the homes Of the rich and
to all places where the canned-music
machines give voice." said Davis.
"Will the jazz craze last?" ques-
toned the newspaper man.
Like the music they imported
from the waye-washed shores of Homo
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Here's Prize Scheme to Raise Money for War

IAN FRANCIsCO-"I admit" the reporter oratorcany said, as he inter
~ viewed himself for publication, 81 admit that in volunteering to embargo
from his menu wheat Iroducts that he can't get anyway,t the restaurant man
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Might Call This One Story of Real Hard Luck

Y ANsAs CITY-The empty, purple colored motorcar rested against the
n curbtng at Eleventh and Walnut streets. A large tire was strapped in
the rear tire racks. Three young women, attractive and well dressed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Rather Rough on Waiter, but "0rders Is Orders

THE manager of a Washington hotel has insisted upon strict observance
] Of the food administrators rules from the beginning, SO that two men,
apparently of the class that are in Washington o. business just now, who
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Wanted to Keep Promise He Made the Children

A FARMER la wanted peppermint stick candy, pink and white. You can't
"A find old-dmey sweets like that these days, except in back-stret shops that
don't count but the clerk could give him caramels conserves, glaces, marsh
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Some Way, Babies Don't See Daylight Saving Idea

Anew YORK-I beg your pardon, but do you know Of any method by which
~ 1 can persuade my child to take nounshment, retire and arise by the
clock, instead of by his Dear Little Instnct?" "HeyI Does anyone there
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

is performing a patriotic service. The
thing 1 am objecting to is his luke
warmly in buying Liberty bonds with
the money he makes on potatoes"
In proof of which the reporter die
tated TO his typewriter the following:
81 went into a restaurant and cop
fed this from the menu: Potatoes,
French fried, is cents; American fried,
10 cents; Saratoga chips, Is cents !;
julienne, 10 cents; hash brown, 10
cents; lyonnaise, 20 cents; cottage
fried, 20 cents; au gratin, % cents /;
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

Never buy large quantities of spices
at a time-they spoil
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

WHO WAS tUBdEtU 10 Il IItUIVHHHI uuU
was going to be a war bride, would
pour.
The stew-beef woman told her she
was flying high, considering we had
been asked to censor lamb until peace
came. The chop lady shrugged her
shoulders near French and said she
should worry, with all the extra-work
money her husband was bringing in.
AS for her part, she was sick of all the
silly little economies Lou was forever
nnn-i.n A-n- nI,A if Ghn hnl hnr M
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
Washington Expert Tells All About "Jazz" Music

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Davis of this city, who has been dubbed the liking
w of the "jazzers" is quoted by a Boston Post reporter who interviewed
him as having said that jazz music while having Wagner beaten a mile for
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18
ILLUSTRATING the Difference Between Two Women

~HICAGO-She waited while the butcher trimmed her lamb chops And
" while he was doing it she confded to a woman who had ordered stew
beet, that she was giving a tea to meet Mrs. Blank, and that her Cousin Maude,
Newark post., 1918-02-06

them to a higher plane in life. DR..
Mitchell then told Of the work that
is now being done for the children
of Mexico, and said that this
chance would never have come to
the Mexican youth if it had not
been for the example set by this
brave little Negress.
Miss Mary A. Mitchell, '21, gave
a resume of current events on
Tuesday morning. She spoke of
the "Smilage Books" for the SOL
diers, of the "Englishless" meals
in the training camps which pro-
mote the use of the French lang
uage, and Of the new ship-building
schools, established by the govern
ment, for college students.
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Squibs From The Magazines

If a soldier were built like a pro-
fiteer, he would lay down, say, ten
per cent of his life for his country.
A request for more than that
would come under the head of
"confscation."
At last accounts, Mr.. Nicholas
Romanoff was much addicted to
whist. If such is still the case, he
is the only noiseless thing in Rus
sia.
1t takes all sorts of people to
make world; including, of
course, the women who pays one
dollar to the Red Cross and eigh-
teen dollars for a knitting bag.
When the Kaiser dumps his
medals into the ammunition melt
ing-pot, the end of the war will be
visible even to the naked eye
Puck.
Newark post., 1918-02-06

Wednesday morning was a Y. w.
C. A. morning. Catherine Schun-
der, '18, president of the College
Y. W. c. A., Was in charge. Mary
Jane Mason gave a report of the
conference held in Philadelphia on
Bible study. Miss Caudell express
ed the willingness of the Faculty
to cooperate with the students in
the movement; and representatives
from each class spoke for their res
pective classes. The new work was
taken up with enthusiasm, as at
tendance at the Bible classes on
Thursday evening showed.
The speaker on Thursday morn
ing was the physical director, Miss
Mary Bigelow. She spoke on
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Students Enjoy Chapel Talks

On Monday, January %, 1918,
the first day of the new term at the
Women's College, the students had
the pleasure Of having DR.. Nit
chell, the president, with them in
chapel. He congratulated the
grils on all the work, scholastic
and patriotic, that they had been
able to accomplish during the
past term. He told them of the
work of a little colored woman,
Miss Randolph, among the school
children of her race. She intro
duced vocational training into
their schools and slowly lifted
Newark post., 1918-02-06
FARM LOAN ASSO-
CATION ORGANIZED
Applications Filed For Sixty
Thousand Dollars

At the meeting held Saturday
February 2, at the Bureau of
Labor, Wilmington, the New Cas-
tie County Farm Loan Association
was completed. Applications were
made for loans aggregating ap-
proximately 100000.
at is very gratifying" County
Agent Bausman stated today in
speaking Of the new Association,
''to note how the farmers of the
county are appreciating and taking
advantage of these government
loans. Judging from the spirit
demonstrated over the county and
ait the meeting Saturday, the Farm
Loan Association will develop into
one of the most important organ
izations in the county in the pro-
noting of better farming and of
better farm homes. There is no
doubt that it will be the means of
many a tenant farmer owning his
own farm and many farm owner
erecting better buildings and buy
ing better stock.
when the merits of the Farm
Loan is understood, it is obvious
why it appeals to the practical
farmer. 1t is a long time loan
which enables the farmer to buy
farm or erect buildings or drain
his farm; investments which bring
returns slowly but investments
which bring returns certainly and
with big interest. 1t is loan
backed by the Government, a loan
with which one percent of the face
value of the principle plus the in
terest can be paid off annually,
and in a period Of 36 years the
principle will be absorbed"
The following are the officers
cleo;
Presidential. J. Coverdale, 215
w. 0Lh oI., w llllllH tOll, DCI.
Vice President-J. J. Sharpe,
Christiana, Del.
Secretary and Treasurer-Geo.
L. Townsend, Ford Building, Will
mington, Del.
Loan Committee:
Walter S. Money, Townsend, Del.
j. S. Spruance, 2210 Gilpin Ave,
Wilmington, Del.
j. ]. Sharpe, Christiana, Del.
Board of Directors:
Martin S. Smith, Ford Building,
Wilmington, Del.
Thomas Manns, Newark, Del.
Thomas Jefferies, Stanton, Del.
Walter S. Money, Townsend,
Del.
j. S. Spruance, 221O Gilpin Ave-,
Wilmington, Del
Any farmer Of New Castle Coun-
ty who is interested in the County
Farm Loan Association should ad-
dress the Secretary-Treasurer,
Geo. L. Townsend, Ford Building,
Wilmington, or the County Agent
at Newark.
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Card Of Thanks

Mr.. John E. Egan wishes to ex-
press his appreciation to friends
and neighbors for their kindness
DUNG the illness and death of his
wife; also to employees of the
American Vulcanized Fibre Com
pany for flowers.
Newark post., 1918-02-06

Health and Character" In clos
ing she left four excellent thoughts
with the girls: % Be self-possess-
ed; (2) Be grateful. (3) Be grac-
ious. a. Be not afraid to be alone.
Dean Robinson delighted the
students on Friday morning by an
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Local Farms Sold

John w. Scott has sold the farm
north of Newark, near Milford
Cross Roads, to Herman Cook, who
takes possession March first. Mr..
Cook has sold his property at
Pleasant Hill to Elwood Sheldon.
Newark post., 1918-02-06

lists, and of another expedition =
the Hawaiian Islands. The f5I Dao,9 10
also spoke of her course Of stvaI YJn
in the German schools in Ra,l}r l%}Y0oy
Newark post., 1918-02-06

informal talk on the pleasures that
her B. A. degree had brought to
her. She told of her trip to jana
lea with a party of fellow botan-
Newark post., 1918-02-06
NEWARK OPERA HOUSE
PROGRAM WEEK BEGINNING
7th

THURSDAY 7th
Edna Goodrich renowned beauty Of two continents in
the most fascinating Photoplay Of her romance Of
the old souhland-"A DAUGHTER OF NARY
LAND Also-The Sixth Chapter Of "Vengeance and
the Woman
FRIDAY 9th
Earle Williams in IMPAIRMENT No. 29."
thrilling Viagaph detective drama in five parts AIo
A Big "V" comedy.
SATURDAY 9th
Gail Kane in THE BRIDES SILENCE" Up-
to date news and comedy.
MONDAY 11th
Madam Petrova in THE LAW OF THE
LAND,'' and the Fourth Chapter of "TF4E MYS-
Terry SHIP"
TUESDAY 18th
CLOSED---By Order of the Fuel Administrator.
WEDNESDAY 18th
Madam Petrova in the "SILENCE SELLERS"
A hveact Wonderpay Of mystery and intrigue.
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Team-Play in Time-Saving

Never before has the requirement. been SO nsistent for ac
curacy in telephone service
In days like these, when things done in huge rush.
hurry their calls by the rang off of numbers and by
verbal shortcuts that almost invariably confusing
The present great traffic volumes are tax on even the CO.
pous facilities of the Bell System And in order that the
public time may be conserved in fullest measure urged
that the needless of undue haste be avoided and that
consideration be shown the operating force it's endeavor
to maintain service accuracy before all else.
The Diamond State Telephone Company
E. P. Bardo, District Manager
Wilmington Del
Newark post., 1918-02-06

Rare touches of style and in-built
shapeliness that any tailor would be
proud to equal. Ready-to-wear at
Newark post., 1918-02-06
Clean Up Sale

Notwithstanding the advanc-
ing prices we mean to clean up
all the Heavy Weights.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-04-12

1t would be we'll for the men in
draft age, that will likely be called
soon, to avail themselves of this
opportunity to take FirstAid work.
These men will have a chance to
use dressings when they will be
very effective, and if they would
think right about it, they would
be glad to form a class and get