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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Beef for Soldiers Use Is
Under Official Observation
From the Pens to Mess Tins

Every precautiOn to prevent an EN-
t,almed beef" scandal in this war is be-
ing taken by the war department. IL
is announced at Washington.
At present the army consumes about
1000. 900 pounds Of fresh beef daily
That is to say about 1000 head OF
cattle. And it is under inspection from
the time the live stock goes to the
slaughter house until it reaches the
moss tins of the individual soldiers.
II is left to the men themselves 10
see hat nothing happens while the
meat is en- route from the mess TIN
to their mouths.
BEGINNING with the beeves on the
hoof. an examination is made for phys
ical defects and all questionable AMI
mails are rejected. Then the car
casses are gone over, and only those
osound, healthful and wholesome" are
passed.
Fresh meats marked inspected and
PASSED. go forward to the camps In
regular shipments, but meats cured,
canned or manufactured into sausages,
etc. are ~reinspected at each step OF
the process.
Fresh meats arriving at the camps
are again twice reinspected, first by
an inspector Of the bureau of animal
industry, and second by an officer OF
the ouartermaster corps. And after
that there is a final inspection by the
organization commander who draws
the ration for immediate use. After
mat the company cooks have their
chance-to make the food p~alatable.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
THE CUP OF LIFE

OF all the vintage in the world
One single cup of wine,
One cup of life, one cup of death,
One destiny is mine
I'd not give up that special cup
My fates have poured for me,
For any other in all time,
Nor all eternity.
For in my time, and in my place
No foot has stood before.
My taste of fortune fine or base
No lips can know of, more.
So might I choose, 1 would not lose
For nectared draughts divine
This de~ep-spiced vintage here and now
In Iii own place and time.
Mine be the strength to lift 1t up
In pride; drink full and free.
And, standing, drain the mortal cup
My fates have poured for me.
Edith Franklin Wyatt.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

stone, hot brick, or other extra source
Of heat is used, less time will be re.
quired. Materials which are denser
than water (sugar strip as used in
cooking dried fruit), and therefore can
be heated to a higher degree, will keep
up the temperature longer when put
into the cooker. Thus the density OF
the food material, as well as the
amount and the length of time that the
apparatus retains the heat, must be
taken into consideration in determin.
ing how long different materials must
be cooked in the cooker.
The recipes for dishes to be prepared
in the f~ireless cooker differ somewhat
from those for foods cooked in the or.
binary way, chiefly in the amount OF
water or other liquids called for. Less
liquid should be put into the food to
be prepared in an ordinary f1reless
cooker, since there is no chance for
water to evapOrate.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

baseball became a great game, idolize
the stars, know Speaker as their pal
a good fellow and a CHEEKY friend.
When Speaker was touring the coun-
try with the White Sox as they started
their trip around the world, someone
wanted a photo Of the famous out
fielder, and he was requested to pose.
Pose nothing" he growled. "Tll
stand right here just like I am, and
if you want to shoot, why, fire ahead"
And he wouldn't bulge. The snap
shot was pulled off with Speaker lean
ing against the wall Of a hotel build
ing. His hat was pulled down over
his eyes. He was reading a letter,
and he was industriously putting away
at the short stub of a cigar. Little he
cared whether he showed as a real star
when the photographs gained circula-
ton.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

farms of France. They put In 16 hours
a day In the fields. With only the old
rnen, the wounded and the tubercular
to help, they produce all the food that
is grown in France. They sow, Guilt
vate and reap. They feed the ami
mails and slaughter the meat. They
even harness themselves to the plows
as substitutes for work animals. They
do these things, although there is
mourning in every home in the land.
In such circumstances, is there any
American woman who feels that the
French women are not doing heir
share because when they do have
bread it is wheat bread?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
iris Speaker, New Kind of
Baseball Star-He Is One
Without That Temperament

Iris Speaker, the outfielding star of
the Cleveland Indians, has blossomed
out as a new kind of star-one without
temperament.
Lee Fohl, the boss of the Indians, de-
clares Iris to be the best man-abso-
lutely-that he ever worked with. Iris,
according to Foil, is there with every
thing-brains, batting, fielding and all
the rest of it. In addition, the famous
outfielder has a disposition that fits the
temperament of every ball player with
the Indians. He's the friend Of every
body. The kids who hang around the
ball park and who, like kids ever since
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
NLu. hl44us0
Spent Yeast From BreWeries
Made Into Useful Articles

r
The spent yeast which collects in
breweries and distilleries is put
through a process which turns 1t out
in the form of buttons, doorbell plates
and knife handles, according to the
Popular Science Monthly. Formerly
this leftover material was consid-
cred to be a bothersome waste; now
it is utilized, every bit Of it. AS it
is gathered from the watts the yeast
is of a dirty, gray-brow1 color. The
first operation is to dye it, and then
to work it over until it assumes the
form of powder and can be hot
pressed into any form. In this stage
it is called "ernolith." 1t may be
sawed, scraped, filed, drilled, en-
graved, turned to an edge and pol
ished.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
The MAKING OF
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Is Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
even the casual looker-on with the reli-
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making Of this great
medicine for woman's ills.
Over 800, 900 pounds Of various herbs
are used annually and all have to be
gathered at the season Of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal SUBJ
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
to extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes in
contact with the medicine is sterilized
and as a final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
in sterile bottles.
It is the wonderful combination Of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
so successful in the treatment OF
femrle ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the use OF
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound which we are continually pub
fishing attest to its virtue.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Bow Scouts Duty in the
Great War Garden Movement

The food production and garden
campaign of the Boy Scouts OF Amer
lea is well under way, says Boys
Life. the boy scouts magazine. Every
scout and indeed every troop and
every local council, according to re-
ports. is definitely interested in some
way. This year every scout is asked
to be responsible for securing n
adult to agree to work with him on
the scouts individual garden or on
the troop garden or on the local oun
Gil garden.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
FeCundity of Bacteria.

Bacteria reproduce with almost in
credible rapidity,'' says George w.
Hunter in "A Civic Biology" 1t is
estimated that a single bacterium.
by a process of division called fission
dividing itself into two parts) will
give rise to over 16, 100000 others in
"a hours. Under unfavorable condi
items they stop dividing and form
rounded bodies called spores. These
are exceedingly difficult to injure o.
aestroy.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

Millions and possibly billions of dollars worth of treasures now lying on
the ocean floor in sunken ships may be regained to TIN world by the cannon
ball" The great diving bell has just been completed and is now being tested.
1t resembles a cannon ball, a giant sphere, eight feet in diameter. shell IS
made of tough vanadium STEEL on and onefourth inches in thickness and
weighs, with the machinery inside six tons. The subnarine works Dy
maneuyering huge steel pontoons alongside a sunken ship boiling the pontoons
free of water and raises the sunken ship. The largest pontoons IRE ~ Iet
Ion and Is feet in diameter, and have a lifting power Of BOZ tons each.
Two operators form the crew of the diving bell and they work In norman
atmospheric conditions because of an oxygen tank on top of the sphere. The
mir supply will last for Y hours without being repenished. The supporting
cable and all electrical and telephone wires are carried In a n insulated cable,
which is strong enough to support 56 tons.
Two propelers and a rudder give the ball lateral movemen and two pro-
send it up and down. These popeners push the ball through the water
at two miles per hour.
Tn front IF the ball are four 5000 candle power nitrogen lamps covered
WITH a, feel NET and q twoinch glass, to light up the huls of the sunken ships.
Near each light is a lookout lens four inches n thickness. On the front re
hua n,oooets which draw the ball to the hull of the sunken vessel
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Another TO Be Found.

A tracer Sent to locate the old-fash-
toned mar who wore q peachstone
watch charm, reports from Clearfield,
Pa: "Loca5ed my man. He also car
ries a combination pen, pencil, tooth
pick, and rubber stamp. Any instruc-
tions?" Certainly; draw for expense
money and hunt for the old-fashioned
woman who used to grease the pam
cake griddIe with a pork rind.-Buf-
falo News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Shortest Railroad Is Only
100 Feet Long-Connection

You have heard of shortest rail-
roads before. Always they're the
most abbreviated ever, says Popular
Science Monthly. But offhand one
would grant the prize to Missoula,
Mont. 1t has a railroad only 100 feet
long. 1t connects the Northern Pa
cifc with the C. NJ. & st. p, and is
used rs a transfer. 1t has no equip
ment, no employees, and no stations,
yet the company that owns it gets so
cents for every car that passes ove
its rails. Sixteen thousand have done
SO thus far. Think of it
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Science Notes.

A new lawn mower cuts grass
with a circular blade that re-
wolves horizontally.
Except along the Caspian sea
coast, agriculture in Persia is
dependent upon irrigation.
Europe's largest turbine is a
$1,000 horse power affair in
stalled by a Swiss hydroelectric
plant.
A company is being formed in
Sweden for the production of oil
and by-products from native
shale.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
charm of the Impromptu.

"W h a your
mules name?"
"He hasn't got
any regular name.
1t sort o. keeps us
both interested for
me to think up
what to call i'm as
e p~rovocation
arises"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Business Before Pleasure

Never before did so MANY
Americans spend 80 much money
in Europe, or for such a goou
purpose.
silence is usually the best as
set of a good-looking woman.
wonder if the cannibals yer
informed of the dates of meat
less days.
It is always hazardous for an
unattractive woman to shoot e
husband.
The man who eats garlic can
always attract attention II not
fame.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Half Started

June-Then you think he hasn't the
nerve to proposes?
Jane-Yes; asking pas income and
mas disposition AMI my age seems aa
far as he dares to So
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
First PRINCIPLES.

The fact disclosed by a survey Of
the past that majorities have been
wrong must not blind us to the COM
Elementary TACT that majorities have
usually not been entirely wrong
Herbert Spencer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Couldn't Find Peter.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul
is bad business" said Mr.. Dubwaite.
$50 it is" replied the im%pecunious cit
izen. 'In my case I find it exception
ally bad business" "Why should it be
worse for you than anybody elseY IL
have the dickens of a time finding
Paul"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
JUST FOR FUN
44+E44E44E##*#EE#*E
Reasonable Suspicion.

Reasonable Suspicion.
"It must be a lot of satisfaction for
a oma of fashion to have a French
maid"
mo doubt. Still there are draw.
backs"
"Of what kind?"
IF the maid happens to be chic, II
isn't long before her mistress is won.
dering what sort of effect Marie is hav.
ing on friend husband"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
b Detained Him.

"You seem to be later every morn
ing" said the manager.
"Yes,' replied the meek-looking man
"my wife seems to add a few more
buttons to the back of her waist eV'
cry day"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

pleasant lavors; if this happens in
making gravies and sauces or in fry
ing, the food will usually not be eaten;
burned meat is also d~isagreeable and
so are burned vegetables.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Mothers Cook Book


No matter how beautiful the house,
or how exquisite the furnishings, II
pure air does not circulate in every
ROOM, the family suffers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Good Speech.

did he make a good speech?"
"Great. In the first place he said
something, and in the second place
he quit after he had said it,"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Mot For THAT Reason.

The electrical expert was breaking
in a green man.
"Never touch the wires with your
bare hands"
ST see. Everything sanitary"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Pessimisn,.

Curious Friend-I wonder why they
say poetry has feet?
I~mpecunious Poet-Well, not be
cause 1t wins in a walk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

Funny, isn't it,"
"What?"
"a man can't preserve his health by
getting picked"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04

Philadelphia reports a shortage OF
garbage collections.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-04
Very Much Tried


Bacon - Were
vol ever tried by
a jury?
Egbert Oh,
yes; I served on
one once. and
none of the stub
born men would
r with me-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"Why Marry?"
Jesse LYNCH WILLIAMS'S comedy

Jesse LYNCH WILLIAMS'S comedy
y And So They We're Married, pro-
duced as Why Marry' in New York city
this winter, was originally published as a
reading play some four years ago. Many
managers and friends of the author could
at that time see nothing in it but an anus
ing closet drama, but it must be conceded
that Mr.. Williams's faith in his work as
an acting play has been amply justified.
So much has been written about Why
Mary' that the reviewer may dispense
with detailed analysis and proceed at once
to agree with Mr.. John Corbin, the per-
spicuous critic of the New York Times.
Mr.. Corbin has pointed out that the end
Of the play bellies the rest of it. Mr.. Cor
bin might well have strengthened his ease
by recalling that Mr.. Williams himself
originally called his play And So They
We're Married, quite evidently intending
to show that the young couple, after try
ing hard to escape the chains Of matri-
mony, finally gave in.
Were it not for the trick at the end Of
the play-whereby the young people are
trapped into a marriage which they are
unwilling to contract of their own free
will-Why Marry might well take rank
as one of the few genuine American COM
edies. Or, rather, in spite of the ending,
it as one Of the half dozen true American
comedies.
The comparison with Shaw's Getting
Married is inevitable. Why not be frank
and declare that Why Marry9 is worth
half dozen of Getting Married. Shaw
has a more logical mind and wittier
tongue than Mr.. Williams, but Mr.. Will
iams's play is play and not merely
brilliant series of conversations.
WHY MARRY7 By JESSE LYNCH WILL
IAMs. Charles Scribner s Sons. $50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
Education for Life"

TN connection with the fiftieth anniver-
Il sary of Hampton Institute. Francis
G. Peabody, dean of the Harvard Divinity
School for several years, and trustee of
the institute, has brought out volume in
which the aims and accomplishments of
the most important school for negroes and
one of the best known trade schools in
existence, the story of It's conception and
the splendid efforts of its two principals
during its fifty years of life, are SET forth
People who are interested in the work will
find Education For Life very engrossing
as it tells n remarkable story of what has
been done for the negroes in this compar-
lively short time. DR.. Peabody has in
cluded a brief history of the civil war
and the reconstruction period in his work,
and long account of the first principal
Of the school, Samuel Chapman Arm
strong.
EDUCATION FOR LIFE. BY FRANCIS G.
PEABODY. Doubleday, Page Co. $3.50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
Sir Arthur Helps's Letters

TINE Correspondence Of Sir Arthur
Il Helps, edited by his son, <. A.
Helps, contains some matter of literary
and historic interest to Americans. Known
TO a former generation of American
readers by his Friends in Council, series
of essays upon social and political sub
.iects, Sir Arthur's memory lives in his
Spanish Conquest Of America, which in
volved seven years of labor and two visits
to Madrid.
The letters here assembled include cor
rcspondence from Harriet Beecher Stowe
on the slavery question, and with Charles
Eliot Norton on the civil war, on Irish
immigration, which Norton envisaged Is
a serious menace to American institutions,
and on the visit of Kossuth, which Nor
ton deprecated as likely to stir up revo-
lutionary passions in our safe and sane
democracy.
Sir Arthur Helps was on terms Of init
macy with Tcnnyson, John Stuart Mill,
Gladstone, Disraeli, Ruskin, Froude, Car
lyle, Dickens and Kingsley,
As clerk to the Privy Council Sir Ar
thur enjoyed the confidence and friendship
Of Queen Victoria and her consort. In
letter to his daughter describing ten
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
"Why Not Marry"

II/HY NOT MiRRY, contributed to
w and compiled by Anna Steese
Richardson, should set this generation OF
matrimonial slackers to thinking. For
those who have not yet summoned up the
courage TO take the plunge the author
has many word Of assurance, and for
those who have already taken the plunge
only to find themselves in hot water there
are some excellent suggestions in this lit
tie book for modifying the temperature.
The consensus Of the contributors to
the discussion is almost unanimous that
the High Cost of Courtship is the greatest
stumbling block in the way of the willing
Barkises. Even stenographcrs and sales
girls, we are told, demand from those who
come courtin' an exorbitant blowout these
days. They are no longer satisfied with
ice cream sodas and trolley rides, but
must he fed with swell dinners and aired
in motor cars. As n result too many
young girls are chasing around with IRE
sponsible malefactors of great wealth who
give them a good time; they are passing
up men who would 60 the limit in
matrimonial hazard for men with money
but without intentions.
Mrs Richardson assures US that the
mother-in-law joke is a dead one to-day,
that the son-in-law leans largely upon his
feather Drained young wife's sensible
mother
We ran cheerfully commend this book
as perfectly safe to put into the hands
Of the young. "What," asks one con-
tributor, "did the chap in the book say
about jug of water, some verses, and
girl in the wlderness?". Omar, good
night!
WHY NOT MARRY. BY ANNA STEEsR
RICHARDSON. Bobbs Merrill Company.
$40.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

ing illustrations. To speak of "reviev-
ing" such book is to he as absurd as
if you talked of reviewing a piece OF
scenery. Of course you can review
scenery and if it's fine you generally want
to. The pictures of scenery in this book
will be reviewed again and again by
those who like landscapes
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH
LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATER
COLOURS. EDITED BY CHARLES HoLME-
The Studio.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
The Maple an Autuu,rE By 1aJert " Alan RKJ. R.SW

THE water color reproduced above,
l. picturing autumn naples and ex-
ecuted by Robert W. Allan, is much more
beautiful in The Development of British
Painting IN Water Colours, which
is the title of a book published
by the Studio, said book counting as the
special winter number of that periodical
The gray paper covers of the book give
no idea of the handsome colored plates
within. All kinds of water colorists are
represented among the twenty-four glow
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

ants ball at BalmOral he writes:
"People of all ranks danced together;
in one dance where it was a matter of
skill | saw the Prince entirely cut out
by his own coachman. Even the Queen
was amused and stayed for some hours.
The poor Prince later Edward VII. had
hard work He had four dinners going
on at one time"
An interesting account of the Savers
Hoenan prize fight is TO be found here,
and there is an undercurrent of humor
and many an excellent anecdote to COM
pensate for those letters which have lost
their interest in the shifting of the sands
of time.
CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ARTHUR
HELPS. EDITED BY +. a. HELPS. John
Lane Company. 81.
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Replies to Questions.
An English Idea.

The English book trade is usually pretty
well advanced when it comes TO adopting
methods that promote good fellowship, all
or any of which nigh. be put in operation
on this side of the ocean. One that is of
especial interest and value is the Book Trade
Provident Society, organized to encourage
thrift among tradesmen and their employees
and to effect insurance on their lives The
carrying charges are very small and it is
used by pretty much everybody in the trade,
especially in London.