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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
FULL COMPLEMENT OF TOOLS
Make List Of Those Usually Carried
on Car and Check It Up at
Frequent Intervals.

Every car should carry a full COM
plement Of tools. although the manu-
facturer has one idea on the subject
and the experienced buyer has another
one. Make a list Of the tools. ETC.,
that you usually carry on the car and
check it up occasionally. Tools are
borrowed or mislaid and so are not at
hand when wanted. BY checking up
from time to time such trouble is
avoided.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12

i .
time, the range can take care Of the
food for large number Of men, while
derrick and block and tackle ar
rangement over the range permits Of
the ready handling Of the huge con-
tainers. The "cookhouse" is provided
with number of matches for gaining
access to the various compartments
and suitable loops are provided to IA
cilitate the loading and unloading Of
the motor kitchen aboard steamer or
railroad car.
1t is reported that the soldiers have
been well satisfied with the "chow"
turned out by these motor kitchens,
and it is not unlikely that the idea
will find general favor with the mill
tary authorities. The present model
is said to cost about $1,000. complete
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
MiIk-veaetabIe Soup.

Don't throw away leftover skim
milk, says the United States depart-
ment of agriculture. 1t is nutritious
food and every drop Of it should be
used. One way to utilize 1t is to make
milk-vegetable soups.
To each two cupfuls Of milk use one
tablespoonful of flour, one tablespoon
full of butter, two-thirds Of a cupful Of
a thoroughly cooked vegetable, finely
chopped, mashed or put through a
sieve, and salt to taste. Thicker the
milk with the -four as for milk gravy
and add the other ingredients.
Practically any vegetable except to.
matoes may be used with the other in
gradients as stated. If tomatoes are
used, little soda should be added
to them to prevent the milk from
curdling.
\ Milk is the most important food
Mere is for growing children.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12

brim is wider at the right side than
anywhere else and has a beautiful up
ward roll to the left.
Just below Is lovely hat in dark
brown satin with the entire underbrlm
covered with tightly curled ostrich
flues, also in brown. These very short
curled fues look like Persian lamb fur.
The hat is finished with smart, wired
bow and in this shape the brim widens
at the left.
The big picture hat at the right 10
of black panne velvet faced with plain
velvet. There is not much more to
say Of 1t except that its brim Is soft,
It's lines marvelously becoming and Its
crown embroidered with wheat and
flowers in heavy silk floss. At the
other side Of the group small, droop-
ing-brimmed hat Of porcelain blue felt
makes one waver in allegiance to big
hats. The felt is overlaid with crepe
georgette In the same color and for
trimming there is a generous bow Of
wide grosgrain ribbon, matching the
hat In color.
None Of these shapes have rigid
brims or crowns-each Of them is slim
ply trimmed and each proclaims itself
/ the work of some skilled and clever
milliner.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
STRAIGHT FROM
GARDEN TO COOK
Fresh Products and Proper
Cooking Mean Everything to
Modern Housewife.
HINTS FROM FOOD LEAFLET
Every Cook Can Do Much to Make
Vegetables Appetizing and Attrae-
tive by Proper cooking-over-
cooking Is Bad.

Sweet juicy beets, corn, lima beans,
squash, summer cabbage, cauliaower,
carrots, Brussels sprouts and spinach
as well as cool green cucumbers. and
juicy tomatoes these are some of the
good things that the late vegetable plot
has to offer as reward for the hours
Of work spent upon it earlier in the
season.
Who, that has the privilege of en-
joying the vegetables at their best,
fresh from the garden, will not say
that the vegetable garden is worth the
trouble it costs? No one not accus-
toned to fresh vegetables cooked with
In few hours after they are gathered
really knows how good vegetables can
be.
Points From New Food Leaflet.
Every cook, however, whether she
starts with vegetables fresh from her
garden or whether she buys the best
she can procure on the market can do
much to make her vegetables attractive
and appetizing by proper cooking. The
United States department of agricul-
ture and the United States food adj
ministration in United States food
leaflet No. 16 give the following point
ers in regard to the cooking Of vege-
tables:
Vegetables just out of the garden
taste best when simply cooked
steamed. boiled or baked-and served
with little salt, butter, milk or cream.
Often heavily seasoned sauce covers
up the more desirable vegetable flavor.
Overlooking Of vegetables impairs
their flavor. Very delicate favors are
destroyed, while vegetables with
strong flavors, such as cabbage or
onions, become disagreeably strong If
cooked too long. Overlooking also de-
stroys the attractive color Of some
vegetables.
Cook summer vegetables as soon
after they are gathered as you can in
order to preserve the flavor. If they
must be kept over, keep in the icebox
or some other cool place.
Let wilted vegetables soak in cold
water to freshen them. If vegetables
must stand after pairing, covering with
cold water will prevent whiting and
discoloration.
Before cooking, put head vegetables
and greens in cold water for an hour
with one tablespoonful of vinegar to
remove insects, then wash very care
fully.
Save Water for Soup Stock.
Drain all boiled vegetables as soor
as tender-they become soggy if they
are allowed to stand undrained aftel
cooking. The water drained off may
be saved for soup stock.
Most vegetables should be cooked il
small amount Of water, because {
part Of the mineral salts dissolves ou
into the water, and is lost If the water
is thrown away. Cook whole wher
possible.
Tender spinach or lettuce leave.
require no added water for cooking
If thoroughly washed, enough watel
will cling to the leaves to preveb;
their burning.
Delicately favored vegetables should
be steamed or cooked slowly in small
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
How TO Stall Motor.

If at any time you open the switch
and the engine continues to run 1t is
due to glowing carbon or oyerheated
engine. Close throttle, put gears in
low speed, apply foot brake gently and
let in clutch suddenly. This will stall
motor.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
Tests for Cylinders.

Opening the relief valves to see If
cylinder is missing is not alwaysa re-
liable guide unless you speed up the
engine. Feed plenty of gas and you
will frequently get burst Of flame
through the valve from what you
thought was dead cylinder.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
A Supplemental Piece of Steel Used as
a Cap TO Prevent Dust Entering the
Bearing.

diameter a trife larger than that Of
the shifting shaft, and to such depth
as to enable the shaft to move the
proper distance. The added piece, as
shown at B in the foregoing diagram,
is fastened through the medium of a
thread. Adolph Klein, in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12
Plain Frocks Of silk.

The best-dressed young women at
fashionable summer resorts are weara
ing, mornings, perfectly plain shirt
waist dresses of soft wash silk waists
gathered Into belt and trimmed with
graceful collars and turned-back cuffs;s
skirts deeply hemmed at the foot and
with or without patch pockets. Somei
times collar, cuffs and belt are plped
with contrasting color or the finish
is done with hemstitchihg. These soft
silk frocks look very fresh and dainty
and are extremely graceful, blowing
about in summer breezes. Plain white
silks and silks with hairline striped
in color are used.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-09-12

Milk is the most important food
Shere is for growing children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
CITY LADS HEALTHIER
THAN COUNTRY MEN.

Madison, Wis, Special-Prediction
being made by health authorities that
country districts, where conditions
have produced seventy-ive per cent
of the physical defects that are bar
ring men from military service, will
be the objective of state and nation
al crusade for higher standard of
living. The draft proved that more
country boys exhibited disqualifying
defects than boys raised in Cities
A high official of the United States
Public Health service, who is author
ity for the comparison, accounts for
the difference by the lack of health
supervision in the country schools.
City schools have generally adopted
health inspection, while few of the
rural districts have done so. Defec-
tive eyes, teeth, ears and threats
among the youth of rural communi-
ties have been found to be due largely
to conditions in the rural schools
Improper desks and seats also have
caused much spinal curvature, lead
ing to other faulty conditions.
These conditions ought to be cor
rected at once" said the official, "and
school children all over the country
should be examined because defects
arising at their period of life as a
rule cannot be overcome later"
In addition to health inspection for
school children, modern water supply
and sewage disposal facilities for
farm homes will go far to eliminate
insanitary conditions in the country,
according to the state health author
tiles. The tendency in this direction
is already manifest, and the next few
years are expected to show wonder
full advance in the adoption Of these
sanitary betterments in sewerless
homes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

diers passing up and down the line,
but they worked hard to help the
stricken refugees, hundreds of whom
were fed and ministered to that day
by the Frech Red Cross.
They were mostly women and chill
dren and old men, and their plight
was pitiful. This was the second
time that they had fed before the Ger
man hordes. Last November, after
the victorious retreat" they had
crept back to their ruined and desc
lated villages and farms, and with the
aid of their government and the Am
erican societies for French recon-
struction had begun life again.
In their shells of houses and in their
shattered little farms they gladly took
up the work of gaining a little bread.
Then, without any warning, the awful
flood Of war swept over them again.
They "Have Work to Do"
They fed, half clad, never pausing
to collect their poor belongings.
Without the blessed help of the Red
Cross they would have died of star
walton on the road Everything they
ever had was gone. They stumbled
off the trains, dazed, with white, blank
faces and staring, empty eyes.
[ saw those American soldiers car
rying old women and little children
into the Red Cross canteen, feeding
them, ministering to them, all the
time muttering curses on the fends
who had brought them to this bitter
pass
ooh, we have work to do over here -
one of these men said to me. God
help the kaiser when we get fairly in
to this war" And then he exclaim-
ed: care there really any pacifists
left in America? Il there are I wish
they could see what we have seen
today"
1 wish so, too I wish I could show
the theorists, the "internationalists .
what l saw of those French refugees,
the poor, despoiled working people
and farmers who fed, as the hordes
Of old fed before Attila, another
scourge of God, but one little less
tigerish or void of soul.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
A SOLDIERS MOTHER IN FRANCE
BY Rheta Childe Dorr.

A SOLDIERS MOTHER IN FRANCE.
BY Rheta Childe Dorr.
There is one thing our soldier sons
are learning in France that is more
valuable than the French language
or history or any mere knowledge
acquisition. Our men are learning
the true meaning of natiOnalism, love
Of country and the flag.
In late years we have had in the
United States such a deluge of talk
about "internationalism" that our
young men had almost reached the
point Of being ashamed to feel pat
riotism. An insidious propaganda of
pacifism, beginning in elementary
schools all over the country, had I'M
dermined the old American pride in
the flag. The children went through
the motions of saluting the flag, tru J,
but in too many school rooms the poi
sonOus suggestion was given them
that it was much nobler to love all
flags and all countries equally with
their own.
A young Jewish soldier from the
east side Of New York told me that,
when he learned that he had been
drafted, he actually contemplated SUI
icide. 1t seemed to him a crime to be-
come soldier. His parents had fed
from Russia to escape death at the
hands of soldiers, but that was not
why he was opposed to all wars. 1t
was because in his school, and after
ward in the city college, he had i'm
bibed what is miscalled International
ism.
His Own Country First.
II went to training camp because
was afraid to resist" said the young
man. Il stayed and I worked hard
because I liked it, liked my officers,
and because, being assigned to the av-
iation service as a ground man, 1
knew l would not be obliged to kill
Germans. 1 still believed that it was
my duty to be international at heart"
And then he told me how the con-
viction came to him that men cann0t
love all countries unless they love
their own first and best. "You see
that work gang over there" he said.
Those fellows are Russians. They
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
WAR is DECLARED.

A call for men,
Some go now, some go then;
This may apply to me or you
Between the ages Of q and 80.
First we're examined, then we drill.
Take our hikes with the best of will:
Then they send us to the coast,
To cross the waters then We'll boast.
Now we're landed safe and sound
From the waters to the ground,
Here we're marched silent and still
To our work to capture OLD Kaiser
Bill.
Dig our trenches broad and deep,
Large enough for work and sleep,
Here we're sure to meet the foe
United We'll stand-they'll have to go.
Back to their places where they start.
Driven by Sammies with gladstone
heart:
Here they're captured one and all
Peace is signed before they fall.
Soon once more our boys will be
On this side across the sea
Where their homes are waiting still
For each one his place to fill.
Now just think what they have done
With their swords and best of gun:
This was done for me and you
Three cheers for the old Red, White
and Blue.
Marie Vincent, age II, Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

are part Of the Russian division that
was sent to fight in France two or
three years ago. You remember what
g fine impression they made then.
Well, after the revolution in Russia,
or rather after the Bolsheviki SOL
diers began running away from the
fight, numbering their officers and
clamoring for a separate peace, there
was the question what to do with the
Russian regiments in France.
'It was impossible to trust the Rus
slams. Some Of them, at least, don't
know how many, were bitten with the
German propaganda. They did what
they could to demoralize the French
soldiers. Nobody knew but that they
might betray the allies in the middle
of the battle. The upshot of the whole
thing was that they sent the Russians
back from the front, and now they
work in labor gangs. They don't
want to go back to their own country
Things are too bad there.
One Man Without A Country.
Among our fiers was young lieu
tenant. who was born in Russia. Not
Jew Russian. He was finishing
his training in this camp. 1t was
partly the mOnOtOny and the lack of
work that made him melancholy. You
know we haven't enough practice
planes and the flying men are idle
half the time. But mainly it was the
sight Of those Russian laborers that
got on his nerves. He used some
times to talk to them, and they were
pathetically glad to have him, because
nobody else spoke their language and
they were lonesome.
"He said to me once: When those
poor devils landed in France the
houses were decked with flags to
greet them. The streets were full of
cheering crowds and children threw
flowers in their path. Now nobody
trusts them to fight. They are out
casts. They have no country, and no
country wants to adopt them I
tried to tell him he was wrong, that
the allies wanted to help Russia to
get back, but it was no good.
"By and by this man took it into
his head that he was distrusted be-
cause he had been born a Russian. It
wasn't rue. But he thought it was.
He said so. One day he went up in
an altitude test with an observer. He
was acting as pilot, but the machine
had double control and the man with
him was cool and capable f1ier
Otherwise the thing might have been
worse than it was. For when they
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
BIG CONSTRUCTION WEEK
ON TRUNK LINE HIGHWAYS

The week Of June "a will be the
big construction contract week, dur
ing which contracts for the construc-
ton of portions of the State Trunk
Highway system, amounting to over
100000, will be let. The federal
government has given final approval
to sixteen construction projects in
this state on which federal money will
be used, and the highway department
will let the contracts for this work
and push it as fast as possible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
DODGE DEATH RATE
IS FAST DECREASING.

Figures compiled at the office Of
the division surgeon at Camp Dodge
show that the death rate is rapidly
decreasing. During the month of APP
ril 112 deaths were recorded while in
May only SIS soldiers died. June to
date has only recorded Is deaths. 1t
is also pointed out that the division
has as many soldiers now as it has
ever had at any previous time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

War Savings Stamps help provide
that 'FOrce, force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit, the right
eous and triumphant force which
shall make right the law of the
world" which President Wilson says
must be used against our enemies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
MUST APPLY FOR LICENSE.

BY order of President Wilson, all
persons or firms engaged in the i'm
portation, manufacture, storage, or
distribution of farm equipment in
Guiding machinery and farm utensils
of all kinds for farm use in the pro-
duction of foods and feeds, must
apply for license to the License Divi-
sion, Food Administration, Washing
ton, D. c., on or before June goth.
LEN STAUFFACHER,
Federal County Food Administrator.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
Meaning of LoUe of Country
and Flag; Our Troops in
France Are Learning IT

InsidiOUs Propaganda of Pacifism,
Began in Elementary Schools, Had
Undermined Old American Love of
Flag, says Mrs, DOrr-What TheOr-
les Our Boys cover There" Had of
InternatiOnaIism Have Been Dissi-
pated by What They Have Seen on
tho Battlefield,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
RAINBOW SOLDIERS GET
GOLD SERVICE STRIPES

Rainbow Division soldiers have won
the gold service stripe according to
a letter received from Leroy Durni
to his mother. The service stripe in
dicates six months service in France.
It is worn on the left sleeve Of the SOL
dier's blouse above the cuff.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

An American infantryman in France
carries 100 more rounds Of ammuni-
ton on his person than does the Ger
man soldier. The American carries
22O rounds of rife ammunition and
carries it with ease in the ten peck
cts of his light canvas webb belt and
his two bandoleers. The German sol
der has only 120 rounds and thirty
OF the 120 are awkwardly carried in
his knapsack, weak failure, since
he must lose valuable time in secur-
ing it at a critical moment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

Make every day a thrift day and
help your government end the war
days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
ARMY NOTES.

X X y X X X
Women between the ages of 81 and
50 who have had high school edu-
cation or its equivalent will be elig-
ible for admission to the army school
Of nursing, arrangements which were
recently made by the war department.
1t is intended to start several schools
in selected military hospitals. I'm
les sotherwise specified, applications
should be sent directly to the Army
School of nursing, Office of the Sur
geon General of the army, Washing
ton, d. G.
Uncle Sam is determined that his
boys in the army and navy will have
the best of everything. One of the
latest steps in connection with the
food supply of the soldiers and sail
ors is the appointment of inspectors.
who will supervise the making of the
butter supply of the navy Inspect
ors will be placed at every creamery
engaged in making navy butter and
they will see that nothing but sweet.
wholesome cream is used in the man
ufacture of the butter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
Eager To Avenge Brother.

Brother was a good swimmer and
he managed to rescue his chum and
to get him back on the raft. But
while he was in the water two more
men, half drowned and desperate,
had climbed aboard, and the raft was
now several inches under sea. So
this heroic young American soldier,
unwilling to jeopardize his comrades
life, gave up his own.
"Tell my mother and the family
that l am sorry l didn't have a chance
to fight for America" he said, and
sank into the black and icy ocean.
well, I can fight" said the sol
der who read NE the letter. ''And
every time l am allowed to go over
the top shall reminder how they
killed my kid brother in the dark. =
American men are accustomed from
their childhood to see women treated
with respect and children with ten
derness. They see with horror-strick-
en- eyes the women and children refu-
gees from the war invaded districts
flying before a foe that knows no pity,
that treats combatant and non
combatant with equal cruelty and
wrath.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26
Refugees a Pitiable Sight.

I have told Of Sunday I spent in
a railroad station in the first days of
the great offensive, and of the south
ward bound trains, bearing the
wounded and the homeless. With me
on that platform were several Amer
lean soldiers, two or three members
Of the military police. They were
there primarily to look after our SOL
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-29
TODAY'S BEAUTY hint

il is not necessary to shampoo
your hair so frequently If it is en-
tireIy and properly clcansed each
time by the use OF a really good
shampoo. The easiest to use and
quickest drying shampoo that we
can recommend 10 our readers is,
ono that brings out all the natural
beauty of the hair and may be en-
joyed at very little expense. by dis
solving a teaspoonful Of canthro1,
which can b. obtained from any
druggist. in Il cup OF hot water.
This makes Il full cup Of shampoo
liquid, enough so it is easy TO ap-
ply il 10 all the hair instead Of just
the top Of the head This when
rubbed into the scalp and onto
every strand uf hair. chemically
dissolvcs all impurities. 1t is very
soothing and cooling In It's action,
as vol as beneficial 10 both scalp
ard trlr. After rinsing out the
lalhc, 30 created. you Will find the
SCALP "A fresh. Clean and free from
dannfur. while the hair dries
quickly and evenly, developing a
bright lustcr and soft futflnrss
that makes, 1t seem very heavy.