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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-14

gug hrigades today are women some
clad I'm bloomcrs and oyeralls. In
some sections the women were out
at 4 a. m. They We're assisted by
thousands Of children Schools Will
be closed all the week until the streets
are cleared, Eeleasing some slN,y
thousand ChildtTfi for work Of shovel
ing snow.
Tho many apartment houses aro
withllLl coal, II rs thoC that tomorrow
night Viii see AZ danger 0f a serious
Cuul famine n/ted.
city authorities tonight issued au-
other wirnlug of the danger from
fire because Of the inability of the
fire wagons to get thru many streets.
Police today made house TO house
canvass, warning everyone to keep
buckets Of water handy
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-14
MURDERED TO PAY
BACK STOLEN FUND
Slayer of Four Men at Camp
Funston Said He Came to
Take Best Bet"
TH0T HE WAS JUST IN FUN
Carried $4,000 Insurance on
Life, Payable to His Son
by Divorced Wife.

CANT FUNSTON, Kan. Jan. Ia
An aggressive. systematic inypsttgu-
ton throughout Camp Funston. ma
uonal army Cantonment. today failed
10 reveal any money stolen from the
army bank here Friday night by cap
tain Lewis j. Whistler, who brutally
hacked TO death with a hand axe four
men and seriously wounded another
In The operation ana later killed him
self with an army rifle. Three fed
eral bank examiners today arrived at
Camp Funston and started checking
the banks accounts but everything In
the small frame building was In such
disorder that no statetnent is expect
ed for two days or possibly longer
mo definite estimate Of the amount
of money taken has been made. II
was indicated a 'consdera bic sum
was In the bank. Some officers de-
clared Captain Whistler obtained as
much as Sos. 600 to $4,000. Others
declared, he probably took less than
81 900, or perhaps none at NIL
Identified Body.
That Wornall was conscious and
knew perfectly what he was DOING
last night when he positively ldenti-
fled the body OF Captain Wheeler as
that Of the robber was attested to to-
day by a staff officer who was pres
ent at the Identification. Before the
body OF the army officer was wheeled
before Wornall. the cashier was made
to sit up and read from a magazine
10 show that he could see and under
stand
Then Whisler's body. dressed In h's
olive drab campaign uniform and mp
right In chair. WAS wheeled into the
ward and placed directly before Wor-
nall.
That's the man. that's the cap
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

cook, waitress, chambermaid or butler
was unmolested.
Confession is good for the soul and I
hereby confess. I have had Hungarian
cook. She has two sisters who are also
cooks and who work in the homes of pro-
Germans. put my kitchen on Hoover
basis as soon as we entered the WAY.
/ was conscious of reluctance, but I
was busy in the food campaign and over
looked things. For over year there
has been this insidious warfare waged in
my kitchen, and have been too busy and
too weak to say GO" How many more
are like me? How many more women
in this country are buying meat three
times day for the kitchen, and observ-
ing meatless days for the family table?
How many are insisting on war bread
for the family while catering to the taste
in the kitchen which cannot digest any,
thing but white bread? How many are
sacrificing all sugar in order to keep the
kitchen coffee cups we'll sweetened, all
because we are too busy and too weak
to face the prospect of doing our own
work? MRS. G.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

which permits a shade to be attached
should be used under those conditions.
The All-Nite-Lite Transformer is an
other device suitable for use in the bed
room, nursery, bathroom, etc. 1t is SIM
ply miniature transformer designed to
be inserted in lamp socket and fitted
with small 2-candlepower Mazda lamp.
1t lights one comfortably about the room
or hall, and will furnish ten hours ser
vice at a cost Of l cent, with electricity
10 cents per kilowatt hour.
If electricity or gas is not convenient
ly placed and there is a dark nook of
the hall or stairs which should be IL
Illuminated, small kerosene lamp, de-
signed to be hung from the wall, serves
the purpose admirably.
While devices of this nature do not
make big savings in the electric or gas
bill quickly, the accumulated saving in
the course of a year makes their use
worth while. Another point of consid-
GRAFTON IS the comfort accorded by re-
moving the glare of the full light in the
sick room or in the living room when
1T is not needed for reading or sewing.
Frequently electric current is wasted
in the use of electrical appliances be-
cause the plug does not detach easily.
and no push button switch being at
hand, the heat is allowed to continue
unnecessarily.
The CHI Seventy Fifty Switch, which
Is push button switch can be readily
attached to the flexible cord of any table
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Confessions of q Housekeeper

You have invited an expression Of opin-
ion on the ever fertile "cook-in- our
kitchen" question, and ! wish to contrib
ute my mite.
think that the women Of America are
moral towards and I include myself
among them. We are ready and willing
to serve canteen meals all night, to be on
call ready to drive a car or an am
bulance, to sell Liberty bonds or war saw
ings stamps or collect Red Cross funds
twenty-four hours on stretch; we con-
duct streetcars, we run elevators, we
work in munitions, we do everything and
all things without complaint, but ask any
one of US to go into either our own or
some ones else kitchen and we simply
fade away
We leave that important domain liter
ally in the hands of the enemy, and the
enemy knows and profits thereby. When
we entered the war did we have the nerve
to go into our kitchens and dismiss the
enemy aliens therein? No! We urged
our husbands to get rid of their alien
helpers, but--"It's almost impossible to
get help" we wailed-and the Teutonic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

open warfare nor craven submission will
bring any lasting peace.
The maid and the mistress whose let
tiers are given on this page are agreed
as to the conditions existing. What is
to be done about them? Domestic SER
vice must be digniied. the social stigma
removed from it, and the work must be
standardized if it is to attract class
of workers who will give intelligent,
loyal service-who will put any spirit
into their job.
Women must make business of
housekeeping. This does not mean wash
ing your own dishes if you can possibly
get any one else or any mechanical de-
vice to do it for you. A rather delicate
little woman found herself marooned on
her country place this last summer with
three small children and no servants to
be had for love or money She says
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Inside In formation From q Cook

When I read @Disloyalty In Our
Kitchens" in the Tribune Institute for
September % couldn't help but write
and give my opinion and some Of nv
experiences.
am an American cook, the same as
read of in your paper. My great-grand-
parents came from England, and l have
been cooking for the last twelve years,
and must say it is the servants who
get the best Of everything. And they
not only do not stop at taking the best
themselves, but get hold of everything
they can to give to their friends.
l have lived with Irish, Scotch, Ger
man and Swedish servants. To keep
peace cook must learn to do many
thing she wouldn't do if she hadn't to
please the servants as well as the peo
pie she works for. / have lived with
Swedes the last three places, and must
truthfully say when the sugar is hard
to get they use as high as four spoon
fuls in their coffee. They demand the
best Of everything, while few wears
back they toiled in Europe from morn
ing until night, eating food they will not
look at now. They never made such
wages nor they never received such good
food, as they will say when they forget
themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Courage Needed in the Kitchen

The Lady from Philadelphia wrote
frankly to her mother-in-law in this wise :.
81 have very good cook, but am afraid
to go into the kitchen for fear may I'M
Willingly offend her" The Queen of the
Home has abdicated in the cooks favor.
If the lady from Philadelphia were an
isolated case, she would not worry us.
We fear she is a type. And we fear fur
Their that she has good reasons for her
tremors. A training camp for house
wives is needed in these war times What
kind of weapons should the Lady of the
Manor carry when she ventures to tres
pass in her own kitchen and pantry and
exhibit a vulgar interest in her own
sugar tirkin and flour barrel?
Obviously there can be neither digni-
ty, self-respect, efficiency or stability in
such an organization. It sounds like
Bolshevism on miniature scale 1t is
problem that must be faced. Neither
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Special Dishes and Hov to Make Them
Pepper Pot: an Old Colonial Recipe

Pepper Pot: an Old Colonial Recipe
Chop finely two each of green pep
pers, onions and beets. Melt one table
spoonful of cleo, add the chopped vege-
tables and stir until the shortening is
absorbed. Add scant half pound of
tripe, cut in small cubes and ne-quarter
of a cupful of blanched rice. Add two
quarts of cold water, one pound of veal
knuckle and let simmer for two hours;
then ST in one cupful of canned toma-
toes and cook for twenty minutes. Re-
move the veal bone, skim, season to taste
with salt and paprika and serve.
Chicken and Veal Pilau
This is a very hearty dish and it is
made from a small can of boned chicken
and half pound of stewing veal, the
total cost of the meat being 65 cents.
Blanch quarters of a cupful of
rice Melt a quarter of cupful of oleo
in saucepan, add the rice and stir
until it has absorbed the shortening.
Pour in three scant cupsful of strained
broth (liquor in which the veal has
cooked, three quarters of cupful of
canned tomatoes, two sprigs of parsley,
ore teaspoonful of salt and one small
onion, stuck with three whole cloves.
Cover and let cook for twenty-five min
utes. Grease a large timba.e mould and
line the bottom with CREASED paper.
Chop the chicken and the cooked veal
finely, season to taste with salt and pap
rlka and pack the rice and meat in law
ers In the mould, having the rice for the
top and bottom layers. Bake in q mod
crate oven like a custard and unmould
on a hot platter. Pack the mould solid
and add a little butter to the rice If
richer flavor is desired.
Miriltons
Cream a scant half cupful of oleo or
other preferred shortening (half oleo
and half beef drippings make good
combination) with half cupful of
mixed maple and brown sugar; add one
egg lightly beaten, two tablespoonful,
OF sweet milk, one cupful Of rolled oats.
halt teaspoonful of baking soda, the
same of ground cinnamon, one-eiphth of
a teaspoonful of ground cloves. half a
cupful of sifted flour, half a cupful of
chopped raisins and a quarter of q Gun
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

that the electric washing machine saved
her life, literally
Most women underestimate the value
of tools and of system. They can be
made to serve one well in this painful
interim while we are working out some
solution of the problem along broader
lines. Simpler living. part-time ser
wants, cooked food services, increase of
salary based on length of service and
vacations with pay, which we take for
granted in other lines of work-in short.
putting domestic service on a par with
other kinds of labor-all these things
will help There is no panacea. This
is woman's problem, and it calls fol
all the wisdom and patience, courage and
ability that one can muster.
Contributions to the discussion will be
welcomed in The Tribune Institute.
ANNE LEWIS PIERCE,
Director
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

The only way a cook can keep any
thing is to lock it up when the rest of
the servants ere not aware of it. There
Is loyalty to this country in very few
Irish. German or Swedish servants, and
with all their disloyalty they will have the
American flag hanging up in their rooms,
wear the Red Cross button on their
dresses, although they scorn the time
they paid the dollar to the Red Cross.
Some have bought a Liberty bond
and made sure to show it to the madam
and ask her to keep it in the safe When
the ammunition plant blew up in King
ston they said, "Well, that's good; they
may as well kill people here as in Eu-
rope. | have five brothers, one right
ing, the remaining four working at gov
eminent work, and / am trying to do
the best l can to keep peace and at the
same time save all | can. But it is high
time the ladies of our land looked into
their kitchens and saw things for them
selves. The servants who have the
smoothest tongues are the very worst
when out of the madam's hearing. Still.
things go on the same Is ever, while our
boys are pouring out their blood across
the seas, SO our land may be kept free
Tor these servants to live in and help
support their relatives across the seas
A MONTCLAIR SERVANT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

Cold Weather
and Shopping for Breakfast

variety the cereal may be occasionally
omitted, and dishes like scrapple (corn-
meaD, cereal mullins, gems or griddle
cakes served instead. With both milk
and cream advancing in price, this means
a decided saving, as the top of the bottle
may be used for the morning coffee
and the skim milk used in the cereal
recipes, when it would not be acceptable
on the plain cooked or uncooked cereal.
The cost of the different breakfast
menus will depend largely on where
the housewife obtains her supplies and
must use her best judgment and deter
mine whether the prices asked are due
largely to the upkeep of an exclusive
market or if the higher cost is for ex-
ira quality that counts in actual food
value, flavor and economy
Big oranges bought by the dozen give
you more for your money, but mere per-
lection Of color and appearance repre-
sent no real advantage.
Many Of the shops are selling
butter for from IS to rs cents a pound,
the former for the storage product and
the latter for the freshly cnurned, sweet
butter. "You pay your money and you
take your choice"
Eggs are also quoted at different
prices, from the cold storage at So cents
dozen to the nearby "White Leghorns"
that are sold as high as 90 cents a dozen.
It is the better plan, think, to use one
of the cheaper, reliable grades for all
culinary purposes and reserve the higher
priced ones for poaching or boiling. The
complexion Of the egg, however, is a
negligible quantity, or should be.
In comparing the costs Of the different
breakfast menus, served for four per-
sons and using food materials Of good
quality, although not those of fancy
grades, the cost Of those for the first
and second days is SIS cents and So
cents, respectively
Cream costs So cents a quart, 48 cents
pint, "a cents half pint and 13 cents
for gill. Milk ranges all the way from
12G cents for bulk milk, to be carried
home, to 177a cents for the Grade-A,
delivered in bottles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

N7HEREvER we turn we see
wv posters urging every one to
save. save, save SO as to buy
more Liberty bonds, war savings stamps
and donate more to the Red Cross,
Y. M. c. A, Y. w. C. A., etc., but prob
ably few have realized the saving in both
money and coal made by eliminating un-
necessary illumination and dimming the
lights that must burn, but not necessa-
rily at full candlepower And it is saw
ings In material and labor that help
win the war even more than money.
In many homes, especially city apart
ments, it is necessary at night, owing to
dark hall, to keep an electric light
burning, and in private houses a light
must be burning in the front hall for
the late arriving members of the family.
How often in both cases 40 or 50-watt
lamp is used until late or early hours,
when by the installation of simple de-
vice the illumination could be reduced
just like gas fame.
This device has a screw base. which
hts into socket and is so designed that
an incandescent lamp screws into it.
Thus, by pulling on either of two chains.
five degrees of illumination can be OBJ
tanned, from "out" to full" The de-
vice is small, unnoticeable, easily re-
moved and can be used wherever a lamp
socket is available. When the lamp is
provided with glass shade it is apt to
cause the bulb to project beyond it, and
therefore the model of the Dina lite
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03

lut onto creased baking sheet, If thu
mixture spreads too much add nttio
more flour. WY
Poached Eggs la Creole
Put one tablespoonful of vegetable nj,
IN frying pan, add one teaspoonful of
timely chopped onion, and when the on;on
begins to color add half can of tnma
toes, half a minced green pepper. saN
celery salt and sugar to taste and tbrsa
whole cloves. When the tomato is ~.
duced one-half, press through slew
Have ready for each person round If
toast and a poached egg. Pour tSs
tomato on a hot chop platter, Law on i
the toast and on each slice place one NJ
the eggs. Then pour over them tuo
tablespoonsful of melted oleo, BLENDED
with one tablespoonful of vinegar, Servs
Immediately. Tomato catsup can he
used IN place Of the tomato PURGE.
Bread Criddle Cakes
Crate sufficient stale bread to make ors
pint of crumbs. Add just enough wa,er
to moisten well and let stand for ahont
ten minutes. Then add one lightly heat
en- egg, two cupsful of sour milk, half
teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonfu of
molasses, two level teaspoonsful of bal.
ing soda and enough sifted Victory aorr
to thicken to the consistency Of pancake
batter. Bake on hot CREASED gridde
Eggs a la Martin
Melt two tablespoonsful of cleo. blend
in two tablespoonful of flomr and add
gradually half pint of skinned milk
Stir until it boi1s and add tablespoon.
full of chopped parsley and salt and par.
rika to taste. Put half this sauce in the
bottom of a shallow au gratin dish
break into it four eggs, sprinkle with
salt and cover with the remainder of the
sauce. Dust with four tablespoonful Of
grated cheese and ba' a in moderate
oven until the eggs arc set, about ten
minutes.
Vegetable Hash With Diced Salt Pork
This is delicious quick breakfast dish
and it can be prepared the night before
ready to cook in the morning. Cut
the slices of salt pork into tiny dice and
fry until we'll browned Almost anv
leftover vegetables can be used Carrots,
beets, parsnips, peas, beans and toma-
toes being especially good. cooked pota-
toes being the basis. Blend the pork
with the minced vegetables, add salt and
paprika and mosten with a little milk
(Do not get it too wet) Heat some or
the pork dripping in frying pan, turn
in the hash and stir until heated
through; keep in mound and let brown
on the under side. Serve inverted on a
hot platter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Institute Tested Recipes
Fish Curry

2 tablespoonful pounds any good
butterine. pan fish.
2 small onions. tablespoonful
/ "A tablespoonful curry.
any substitute y teaspoonful salt.
flour. l teaspoonful Wor-
! cupful fish stock. cestershre sauce.
Melt butter, fry minced onion in IL
until golden brown, add flour, curry
and salt. Blend we'll and add the fish
stock gradually. Mix together we'll and
bring to boil. Season with Worcester
shire sauce and boil unit! slightly thick
ened. Fry the fish, pour sauce over them
and serve very hot with ring of we'll
cooked rice around it.
MRS. M. r. F., New York City
This recipe for most savory fish
curry is unusual and appetizing. This
amount will generously serve four per-
sons and costs less than 45 cents, using
founder at Is cents pound.
Peach Special
2 cupsful water. cupful peach pulp.
Y cupful honey. Juice of one lemon.
! teaspoonful gela- Juice and pulp from
tine soaked in " one orange.
cupful cold wa y cupful whipped
ter. cream.
Bring the water and honey to the boil
ing point in saucepan and cook for
twenty minutes. Add the soaked gelatine
to the honey mixture, and when all is
dissolved strain. When cool add the
peach pulp, the lemon juice and the pulp
and juice of the orange, freeze slowly in
an ice-cream freezer and top with q
spoonful of whipped cream.
Mrs. NJ. j. S., New York City.
This dainty frozen dessert, made with
out any of the now precious granulated
sugar, will be delight to all those who
try it. The combination of the three
fruits gives very pleasing and unusual
flavor. The recipe will serve six persons,
at cost OF about 45 cents Canned
peaches may be used.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Stuffed Squash Creole

] crook neck or 2 tablespoonful
patty pan squash. chopped red pep
/ cupful bread per.
crumbs y tablespoonful salt
"a cupful chopped tablespoonful
firm tomato. minced ham
/ tablespoonful tablespoonful
chopped onion melted oleo
y teaspoonful paprika
Cut out piece of the squash at the
stem end and carefully remove seeds and
soft pulp. Estimate the amount Of fill
ing needed and for each cupful of bread
crumbs add the proportion of other in
gradients that are given in the recipe.
Run ali through the meat chopper and
lightly fill the sQuashes with the mixture.
Fasten the cover on with toothpicks and
steam until tender. When done, cut in
slices and serve with tomato sauce
MRS NJ J. s., New York City.
This recipe will furnish very good
main dish for luncheon or dinner and
may be the means Of using but tiny
portion Of ham that might otherwise be
wasted With tomato sauce this dish
will yield five appetizing servings at q
cost Of about 40 cents
War Macaroons
II cupful corn syrup lis tcaspoonful
II teaspoonfu cinnamon
RIQuNQ nuILuSS l~lt
cupful rolled oats allspice
egg tablespoonful
melted butterine
Combine the ingredients in the order
given, drop by tsaspoonsful on we'll
creased baking sheet and bake in mod
crate oven. H. B. T., Florence, Ala.
A recipe for cookies with neither
sugar nor wheat should be welcomed
with applause in the Hooycrite's kitchen.
These cookies become stiff and almost
brittle Immediately after baking. If
they are To be kept for any length Of
time they should be placed in an air
tight Jar otherwise they will soften.
Fourteen e. these cookies cost IL cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
BY VIRGINIA CARTER LEE

~HE American breakfast is hard
meal to plan, when maids must
be handled with the greatest OF
tact, mornings are dark, breakfast an
hour earlier and the standbys-bacon,
ham and eggs+are as high priced as
they are now.
To meet the first difficulty (and also
to relieve the housewife when she is
both cook and caterer) the breakfast
menus suggested, with the exception Of
the cereals, can be cooked inside of TWEEN
ty minutes with the assistance of a gas
range; the cereal (when cooked) being
either prepared the day before and re-
heated in the morning or else cooked
in the freless cooker overnight
Frequently, too, when the wage-earner
thinks he cannot spare the time for
sparate fruit and cereal course, they
may be combined, as IN the steamed oat-
meal with raisins and in the baked ap-
pies with cooked rice.
Eggs selling at "a cents dozen should
not be used every morning for the main
breakfast dish. Three times during the
week is sufficient, and it is well to re-
member that, while the imam of the
house" will probably require two eggs
when served plain boiled or "coddled,"
ono will generally be enough if served
with good sauce and toast, as in the
poached eggs la Creole, or backed with
sauce and cheese, as in the recipe for
eggs 4 la Martin.
Even at relatively high price, eggs
are one Of the most valuable forms OF
food, and there is very little waste. AS
the white is albuminous, the correct
cooking temperature is from 100 degrees
to $50 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus cooked,
they will be tender, soft and jelly like,
and very easily digested.
The question Of a cooked or uncooked
cereal is one Of individual preference;
the cost Of the package cereal is greater,
especially when the home-cooked grain
is prepared in the freless cooker For