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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
FHESTRU, GGiLF

THE high cost amt my fault. lady.
the grocer assured her when she pro-
tested at his charge Of 16 cents a
quart for potatoes. Its the war does
1t. You can buy American spuds IN
London cheaper today than you can
buy 'em here. Same with canned
goods. 1t amt us retailers fault. the
markets short; we can't get the
stuff. It's all going abroad"
The butcher echoed the story when
Edith. outraged at paying 35 cents
pound for steak which the man re-
fused to trim of its bone and TAT,
declined to buy.
She began to study cookbooks and
domestic science literature. She found
and pored over many articles In the
magazines and newspapers on how
to buy and prepare food economically.
She learned that rice is cheaper than
potatoes and more nutritious; that
corn and various corn preparations
like samp and hominy are cookaDle
in ways she had never thought OIL;
that spaghetti is largely a substitute
for bread. and that milk and cheese
are as nourishing as meat.
In her anxiety to stretch her money
to it's utmost, Edith tried meatless
dinners once or twice week. But
this raised vigorous kick from John.
She hastily transferred some OF the
$40 clothes money" into her house
keeping account and made 1t up 10
John" next night on a costly steak
For some time things went smooth
Nv. owing to her recent purchase of
clothing and household needs. Grad
ually Edith chopped OF. the clothes
allowance" to So week and 1nched
I'D the food allowance to S12.
"By the time any of US needs new
clothes" she told herself, food prices
will be back again to normal" Just
as If things ever came down again,
once they went up! Besides, John
still appeared to be on the right side
of Bonanza Copper and made her ex-
ira little presents OF flves and tens
from time to time. Occasionally he
sent home what he called bargains in
eats"-staples he noticed advertised at
the big markets downtown or bought
through some friend who could get
things wholesale"
And so Edith Ferrol economical and
studied and contrived-and was sue
cessful She felt herself to be bet.
ter manager than she had ever been
before. There was no doubt that she
was a happier wife and mother and
homemaker than she had ever been
before.
ITO be continued)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
TRY THES e.

Boil Egg YoIks Separately. Remove
white. drop yolks gently into boiling
water. This way the whites can be
used for icing, meringues and other
uses.
In Cutting Hot or Warm Bread heat
the knife in hot water. 1t will cut
much better.
To Clean Milk strainer, rub with
salt and soda, then put hot water
through.
When Milk Bottles Become Sour
lin bottom) take one teaspoon of soda.
add a small amount of warm water,
shake vigorously for awhile, then emp
>ty and rinse. Result will be a sweet
smell.
To Keep Fruit Longer When Fruit
Is Ripe have hot sealing wax and dip
the end of the stems into it. Fruit will
remain fresh longer than without.
When Icing Cake-Before icing a
cake spread little flour over top OF
cake and icing will not run off.
Eea Shells, finely crushed, are very
good to clean water bottles or any
other bottles. Crush fine and put in
bottle with little warm soapy water
Shake vigorously and rinse with hot
water.
Whipped Cream Substitute-Add
sliced banana to the white of an egg
and beat until very stiff. This Is
delicious substitute. The banana will
entirely dissolve.
A silk Umbrella is much injured by
being left open to dry. After coming
in out OF the rain. let the umbrella
down and stand IL on the handle, that
1t may dry uniformly, the water drip
ping from the edges Of the frame. II
left open the silk will become stretch
ed and stiff. and Is much more apt to
split than if the folds are allowed to
lie loose.
To Prevent and Destroy Ants-Pre-
pare a solution of one-half pound OF
birthstone and one-quarter pound OF
potash. Place in iron vessel and put
over stove until they are dissolved.
then beat to a powder. Use a portion
in some water, sprinkle the place
where the ants are found and they will
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
Worlds Grandest Health
Builder Costs Nothing
Unless 1t Gives to
w o m IN the Buoyant
Health They Long for.

It Is safe to say that right here in
this big city are tens Of thousands Of
weak. nervous. rundown, depressed
women who in two weeks time could
make themselves SO healthy, so attrac-
tive and so keen-rninded that they
would compel the admiration Of all
their friends.
The vital health building elements
that these respondent women lack are
all plentifully supplied in Bio-feren.
II you are ambitious, crave success
In life, want to have healthy, vigor-
Gus body, clear skin and eyes that
show no dullness. make up your mind
to get a package Of Bio-feren right
away.
1t costs but little and you can get
an original package at any druggist
anywhere.
Take two tablets after each meal
and one at bedtime-seven a day for
seven days-then one after meals till
all are gone. Then II you don't feel
twice as good. look twice as attractive
and feel twice as strong as before you
started, your money is waiting for you.
1t belongs to you, for the discoverer
OF Bio-feren doesn't want one penny
OF it unless it fulfills all claims.
Note to Physicians, There is no
secret about the formula Of Bio-feren.
1t is printed on every package Here
1t Is: Lecithin; Calcium Glycero-phos-
phate; Iron Peptonate; Manganese
Peptonate; Ext. Nux Vomica; Powd.
Gentian; Phenalphthalein: OJeoresin
Capsicum: Ko1s.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
LEARNING TO SPEND

At first. with her $40 a week. Edith
Ferrol was as happy as child with
an interesting new toy. To woman
who has perhaps earned comfortable
salary and grown accustomed to hel
own purse and Der own uncriticisec
spcndings, the allowance John Ferro
made his wife would not seem great
Nor did 1t seem even adequate to
woman like Lillian Blake. Lii was the
type Of American wife that makes
Europeans gasp and say. ut is women
not men, who run that country. Amer
lean husbands are slaves!"
Lii was just the opposite OF Edit
Ferrol. LII Blake controlled her hus
bands earnings. absorbing the major
part herself, while he lived on the
crumbs. For nine years Edith Ferro
had got along some how" on financial
scraps, not even knowing how much
her husband actually earned or how
much he saved.
Now she felt rich! Also. she felt
secure. She had become a little fright
ened at Johns recent profits in Wall
Street. Like most people, she feared
whatever she could not understand
The $40 allowance, however, came out
Of Johns salary-it was probably about
half of it, Edith figured--and was not
contingent on the rise of Bonanza
Copper.
A dozen times a day she remem.
bered with everfresh relief and hap
piness that she should not have to ask
John any more for money. She liked
to think of her allowance as "sal
ary"-a tangible, If inadequate, return
for her services, as John had for his
Woman's least-rewarded labor, the
managementof home, was no longer a
mere thankless lob" Woman's most
humiliating task, that Of asking man
for money, was hers no more.
But with her new satisfaction came
nhe responsibility Of learning to spend
'Ehe had no more charge accounts
but paid cash to grocer and butcher
This brought her to a closer realiza-
ton OF the buying power of money
than ever before. Formerly when GER
tain articles of food were terribly
high" she had soothed her worry by
having them charged, and trusted to
luck and Johns mood when the bills
came in. Now she had to do all the
paying and prices terrified her.
Carefully Edith apportioned her $40:
$40 for the table and SO for clothes
for herself and the children. But with
butter at "A cents a pound and COM
mon vegetables like onions selling by
weight, instead of bulk, the SO allot-
mcnt soon fell short.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
Heart @DoHOrno
l,iIP j } !! !zzE [lLI!'a.;,,

Dear Mrs. Thompson: ! have known
a man for several years and always
thought he was a gentleman. A short
time ago he acted as IL he wanted to
fiirt and l let him and we became
friends for a short time I let him
make love to me and now I have dis
covered he is married. He must have
told his wife that he has gone with
me, because when they pass me on the
street she turns around and stares
at me. l am broken-hearted because
I learned to love him and did not know
was doing anything wrong when I
went with him. What should I do
so the woman will not talk about me
to other women?
RROKEN-HEARTED.
You need not fear that the wife will
tell. 1t would reflect on her husband
too much and would be confession
that she herself is not attactive
enough to hold him. Forget the affair
as quickly as possible. You realize by
this time that the man was to dis
honorable to be worthy Of you. Do
not flirt again.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am sixteen
years old. I met a boy when l was
eleven and I liked him very much.
but thought it was the so-called puppy
love-" Now l speak to him whenever
we meet. I never can get over my
love for him. 1t seems that I never
liked a boy better. I have tried hard
to forget him, but I can't. Do you
think this is real love?
DAILY READER.
If you have tried hard to forget the
boy and can't, you must try harder.
II you analyze your thoughts think
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
RHOuCQnOId
NM21. <HlntC
WI W &DU nRC. n ORION

vacate at once. Borax and sugar
mixed and placed in dish where they
bother. is also good.
liniment that has been tested and
has no equal; good for animals also.
Anyone that has tried this will never
be without it. For external use: One
cup strong cider vinegar, five cents
strong amonia, five cents arnica. five
cents turpentine, five cents spirits of
camphor. Put in quart bottle, break
an egg in. shake for ten minutes and
cork tight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04

evening at 500 o'clock His subject
will be, Making the World Safe for
Democracy" and he will make a plea
to the audience in the interest Of col
leges and universities of the African
Methodist denomination, the Wilber-
force University in particular. The
public is urged to attend.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
ASK INCREASED WAGES.

LONDON, Sept AT the national
conference of postal employees which
meets soon, demands will be formu-
lated, says the Daily Mirror, for In
creased wages, pensions and a better
arrangement of working hours
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
Mrs. Catherine Holzapfel
Dies at Home in Ohio

Word has been received here Of the
death Of Mrs. Catherine Holzapfel, 80
years old, Of Greenville, Ohio, at her
home Thursday. One OF her sons,
Henry, lives in Richmond.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
Req. Williams to Speak at
Bethel Church Thursday

Rev. Charles Sumner Williams. D..
D., will speak at the Bethel church,
South Sixth and B streets, Thursday
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04

you will find that you have permitted
yourself to think of him a great deal
and to imagine how pleasant it would
be II he cared for you. To forget
him you must put him out OF your
thoughts every time he enters. You
have case Of puppy love" and will
surely get over it.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: About a year
ago while on my vacation l met a
man. When left that place he asked
me if I would write. We corresponded
for time, and then l left for the
south.
AS my mail was not forwarded to
me while down south did not get his
last letter until five months later, when
I came back home.
I have been very undecided about
answering it since such a long time
has elapsed since received tit is
nearly eight months now. Would it
be all right to answer it now? I have
heard that he was soon to leave for
France. PEGGY.
1t will be all right to answer the
letter. The long silence may make
him all the more glad to hear from
you, because he will learn that you
are still his friend.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-04
Insists That Frail.
Nervous Women Can
Speedily Become
Strong and Vigorous

"A Vigorous Healthy Body,
Sparkling Eyes and Health
Colored Cheeks Come in Two
Weeks, Says Diseoverer of
Bio-feren.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

The Y. M. c. A. has planned for an
afternoon Of athletic sports in all the
camps, which will include a game of
football, and there will be vaudeville and
other entertainments in the evening.
The Knights of Columbus weeks ago
sent special consignment of tobacco
and cigarettes and hundreds of pounds
Of the hard sugar candy of which the
boys are SO fond overseas as their
Thanksgiving offering, and recently Mr.
William Larkin, one of the officers of the
organization who is at present overseas,
sent an astonishing request by cable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

1t was an anomaly. After a great deal
IT hunting a man was found who agreed
20 build laundry and rent it to them.
Gradually it developed that the drain
age arrangements were not the ones
chat should be installed for a laundry
and the necessary changes we're grudg-
ngly made. Nearly a year went by as
the building slowly progressed, when
presto! the girls awoke one morning to
find their laundry sold for completion as
an apartment house. And for this pur-
pose, it developed, it had secretly been
intended all the time.
Labor generally was indignant
throughout the city, and some were for
going to law" about the broken con-
tract, but the more canny among them
argued that if some silent force in the
city had power to turn all the real
estate men against them and "string
them along" for year in an attempt to
beat down their courage, the same
secret force would probably in some way
affect legal decision, so they kept out
of court and eventually got possession
of the laundry after the property had
changed hands twice, and jubilantly set
out to buy and install laundry machin-
cry.
Again they found themselves ham
pered at every turn. Firm after firm
among the wholesale concerns supply
ing laundry machinery was unable to
take more orders. This strange reluc-
lance extended as far East as the Missis-
sippi River. Some of the firms, when
pressed, admitted frankly that they
would be glad to fill the order, but they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Cooperation Versus Strikes

bred in the little red schoolhouse, prov
ing that it can do the job better than
those who have it in hand, and taking
it away from selfish associations by the
force Of right, not by the right Of force.
a better answer to those who fear
anarchy from our American iaboring
people can hardly be imagined. Always
have reconstruction periods been marked
by sordid selfshness. But it is not too
much to hope snat just as this war was
fought for spiritual rather than ma
terial gains so the complex industrial
readjustments that must follow it NAV
be marked by a greater restraint and
more intelligence and tolerance on both
sides than previous transition periods
have known.
Perfection is not hoped for; perfect
justice is impossible, but slow, steady
moving forward in the right direction
is not too much to expect of the Ameri-
can people if one has any real working
faith in the spirit Of democracy. And
cooperation, pulling together" whether
consumers or producers, distributors or
laborers are concerned, is surely one Of
the most hopeful avenues Of approach
to gradual, peaceful and reasonable
solution of economic problems
Our bonnet is off to the laundresses of
Seattle, both in congratulation for their
individual success and in recognition of
the very valuable object lesson that their
experience affords for others.
ANNE LEWIS PIERCE,
Director, The Tribune Issstst.5e.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

he asked for hundred thousand tops
to be sent in time for Thanksgiving, as
there were to be top-spinning contests In
the huts as part of the celebration,
and the French supply of tops had been
entirely bought up. It appears that top
with the men in the camps and trenches.
Needless to add, the tops are on their
way.
The Salvation Army Iassies are pre-
pairing an extra supply of the doughnuts
and apple pies which have made them
beloved by the men on the Western
front, and, though the McAllister sis
ters, who were the originators of the
famous Salvation doughnut and who are
known on this account throughout the
army as the dough girls" are in this
country at present on a furlough, one
need have no fear that an inferior quail
ity Of this delectable food will be served
on Thanksgiving Day, for they assure
me that they have left their work in
capable hands and that neither the
quantity nor the quality of the dough-
nuts will suffer through their absence.
The Y. w. c. A. will keep open house
at all the hostess houses in this country
and at the Hotel Petrograd in Paris, as
we'll as at the ten houses which shelter
the women of the Signal Corps in
France. There will be special dinner
and dancing and entertainments at ali
Of these for the men in the service.
The French Y. W. C.. A. here in New
York has taken upon itself to look af-
ter the comfort of the French soldiers
and sailors who may be in town on
Thanksgiving Day. There will be
morning service at the French Church,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

hold joint religious services on Thanks
giving morning in the camps both at
home and overseas. These are the Y.
M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus and
the Jewish Welfare Board.
This joint service takes place in the
morning and in the afternoon each holds
it's own Individual celebration. The
Feast Of Chanukah which commence
rates the fifth victory Of Judas Macca-
bmus falls this year on Thanksgiving
Day, and this will be celebrated by the
Jewish soldiers and sailors, under the
auspices of the Jewish Welfare Board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Thrift IN Porto Rican Schools

When the principal of our school began
to talk of thrift stamps I decided that
every pupil in my room should have at
least one stamp.
After school two came to me and asked
me what to do to earn money with which
to buy more stamps. AS our town is
small and everybody knows everybody
ehe, advised them to make home made
candy and sell it from house to house.
Accordingly they made some milk and
toeoanut fudge, after investing 81 in ma
tersls, and on the first trip they had
$3.50, or seven stamps gain.
Milk fudge is very easily made and
children like it. Use brown sugar; use
half as much pure milk as sugar and
cook as you would fudge. When pouring
out pour in rounds about as big around
as biscuit and about an eighth of an
inch thick. These can be sold for cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
The Seattle Laundresses Build Their Own Laundry

TT is the West that is setting the
pace in cooperation in this country,
especially Western girls. In Seattle,
WASH, the laundresses own and run
their own laundry. 1t is beautifully
equipped to do the finest work, light,
sanitary, convenient, and provided with
ane lunch and rest rooms. They are
successful, too, doing a business of
I'SOO a week and paying themselves
rom SIS week up. And don't they
Deserve those wages? Isn't it the hard
ess kind of work, laundering clothes?
wouldn't you want that much if you
we're earning your living by washing
and ironing clothes? Eth? What? Yes,
You would
A few years ago these same girls
were discouraged, overworked crowd,
aOorlng in steamy Easements and hot
rooms for 81, $3.50, SIS and 81 week.
mere they were, in one of the most
ueautlful cities in our country-for
nsattle is that, set as it is on the spark
aag sound, with snow capped noun
Jams rising out of the sea and glorious
,af OFT mountains to the north and south.
noses blow in the breeze-swept avenues;
"chards and gardens and grazing lands
surround the town. But what good did
'ney DO these girls cooped in hot base
~snts so many i'll paid hours day?
Cooperation Makes Capitalists
VI Laboring Folks
Moreover, these wages we're paid in
We teeth of the So minimum wage law
Established =, by the State of Washington.
,a's state of affairs went on until one
wy OF course, the workers struck. And
we more the girls compared notes as to
seE experiences in the different laun-
NJ r1'es the more their ind gnation grew
aaeh they found widow with six chill
a. sh 70 support, who, notwithstanding
s'' TACT that she had been in the laun-
60 s several years, was being paid only
sS0I week, something snapped in their
Nv S aaoits of thinking and broke off
s av''' They began to question the ira
@oaai acceptance of world made up
: s~o hard and fast classes, employers
On. employees. "And we call the United
~. 'es democracy" they exclaimed
'~ scorn. Sure it is--for the en-
ssVser' But where do we come in? Why
IA. We get together and have our own
ury' The fact of the matter is, qce
n''' hooe come in on democracy and
j, Heuer wiu until aoe osUm oar own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
ME struggles and successes of the
Seattle cooperative laundry, chron-

TIME struggles and successes Of the
Seattle cooperative laundry, chron-
icled on this page, offer most
Illuminating example of the advantages
to every one concerned of constructive
policy Of cooperation rather than de-
structive policy of Striking" however
well justified the strike may be.
Immediately one thinks of the effect
on the price Of laundry work, but we are
assured that the prices charged by the
Mutual are the same as those through
out the city and state. The general ad-
vance in these prices of about 40 per cent
is due only partially to the rise in wages,
since the cost of fuel and supplies has
gone up from 100 to 200 per cent, while
wages have increased about so per cent.
Significantly enough, the state has
recently passed new law making $500
the minimum wage. The Mutual, which
pays $3.50, was organized in 1913. The
law has finally reflected public opinion
The sturdy, patient manner in which
these laboring women met the sinister
undermining of their plans throughout
period of two years speaks volumes both
for their intelligence and the sincerity
of their convictions. Here is no fame of
resentful Bolshevism. Here is democracy,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Organized Happiness For
Our Fighting Men

Inc great war relief organizations
which for the last year and a half have
toiled increasingly to make our men in
the service happy and comfortable will
not be found mapping when it comes to
providing Thanksgiving cheer for their
first peace holiday.
1t is significant of the spirit of the
times that three Of these grea organ-
cations representing three distinct and
widely different creeds are planning to