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New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

@ONsERV.ATIONi is the order of the day.
We are cutting down our allowance Of
food, limiting ourselves to a certain
specified amount Of fabrics for clothing, and
are doing our best to save fuel
Just at present the fuel situation is the most
pressing. We have grown used to the shortage
of wheat, meat, sugar and fats, and it has be-
come rather an exciting game for the house
wife to contrive dishes which require the mini
mum of these foods. We do not mind short,
scant skirts and jaunty little jackets, because
they chic as we'll as economical. But when
it comes to a shortage of coal in January, a
situation is created which is about as hard to
get used to as hanging.
But right here is where the fireless cooker
comes nobly to the aid of the housewife who
honestly wants to economize on coal-whether
in her range or in the power plant Of the
gas house. In other words, she is taking very
seriously to the idea of cooking food by stored
up heat rather than by that which must be
generated at the cost of constant fuel con-
sumption.
The principle Of fireless cooking is very
simple-nothing more than cooking food in
heavily insulated metal container by means of
the heat stored up in small metal or soapstone
disks called radiators. For anything that re-
quires long, slow cooking, or for cookery that
must be done without constant personal atten-
ton, the fireless cooker is invaluable Where
gas or electricity is used it also means great
economy of fuel The advantage is not so great
in kitchen which possesses an old-fashioned
coal range because simmering or slow baking
may be done quite as we'll with the slow coal
fire as with the fireless cooker, and the wastage
Of fuel is negligible.
There are three methods of using the freless
cooker First, the aluminium pot containing
the raw cold food may be placed in the "well"
with heated radiator Second, the food may
be boiled for short time and then, while still
boiling hot and in the heated container, be put
in the we'll without the hot disk. The third
method is a combination of the other two. That
is. the food is first boiled for few minutes
and is then placed in the we'll with one or two
heated radiators to finish.
The heat from the radiator, which is held in
the cooking compartment by the heavy insula-
ton of the alright outer case, penetrates the
food and cooks it thoroughly without danger of
driving out or burning. For most foods the
time of cooking is practically the same as that
required on the stove
One great advantage of the tlreless cooker
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
GETTING ROUND THE SUGAR SHORTAGE -

'faVagant sWeetening of our foods.
The natural fruit sugars; the sweet
ness that is inherent in corn and apples
and grains and certain vegetables, such
as carrots, is much more delicate and
delicious than the unrelieved sweetness
OF sucrose itself. But an appetite ac-
customed to three Jumps to the cup
can't taste the more delicate favors.
A vegetable chowder made in the
Institute recently was so sweet, from
the carrots alone. that extra salt had
to be added to balance the flavor. So
the first step in meeting the sugar
shortage is to realize that we are at
present far above normal. Cutting
down our sugar supply even one-half,
so tar from being hardship, would be
OF decided advantage to health and
would improve the quality of our foods
and the balance of our diet.
Some of the substitutes for sugar
are more expensive than sugar itself;
some are more economical; but, in
either case you are saving sugar for
those who need it more than you do.
The men in the trenches and the people
abroad who are living on stinted
ration and are subjected to cold and
privation and scanty clothing, need the
energy and heat yielded by sugar. They
need all of the fundamental, simple,
easily digested foods; whereas we, in
our comparative comfort, warmth, and
with a wide ration, can we'll afford to
substitute other foods for the wheat
and meat, the butter fats and sweets.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

Cereals may be sweetened and made
more delicious and better balanced by
the addition of dates, raisins and cur
rants in the cooking. If these are
chopped and added about fifteen min
utes before the cereal is done. no sugar
is necessary
One resourceful woman pours from
all her canned fruit the surplus juice
and serves this with her griddle cakes
in place of sugar. Honey and jellies
can be used in the same way.
With hot toast in the morning mar
malade or jam is delicious, and no butter
is needed if this be used-an item, with
butter SO to 60 cents pound.
The sweetening of the coffee and
tea is a harder problem. The maple or
brown sugar can be used, but maple,
OF course, is expensive. Here is the
place to use little of the white sugar.
If condensed milk is used, this, of
course, sweetens the coffee sufficiently,
as it contains about 40 per cent of
sugar.
In The Tribune Institute an expert
ment was made in sweetening one and
one-half cupsful of cranberries, cooked
with one-half cup of water, with diff
ferent substitutes. Maple sugar, brown
sugar, honey, corn (glucose) syrup and
molasses were all tried.
The cost of the maple syrup (six
tablespoonsfuD was cents; the brown
sugar (one-half cupfuD, 3 cents; the
honey (four tablespoonsfuD, z cents;
the glucose syrup (one-half cupfuD,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

long as this is our idea Of war hard
carry very far. AS matter of fact,
rock candy or crystallized sugar, not
granulated, is considered great luxury
for the tea table or for coffee.
And after trying all these ways Of
"going round the end" of the sugar
shortage we can always ''buck the line"
Of the difficulty and come through the
centre with gain to ourselves if we
simply "go without" sugar at least half
of the time.
We are asked to cut down our indi-
vidual consumption of sugar to three
pounds month. Did you have any
idea you ate that much? Surely we can
stop eating candy, minimize the sugar
laden desserts, and use sugar in modera-
tion in the foods to which it is essential
for their general palatabihty.
After we have made this superhuman
effort we shall still be getting almost
pound month more than the English
man, two pounds more than the French
man, and two and quarter more than
the Italian. This Notwithstanding that
we shall have decreased our "before the
war; ration more than one-half we are
accustomed to eight pounds month.
The little boy with both pockets,
mouth and hands bulging with candy
and doing out "a suck'' to his penniless
neighbor, really has not much on the
average American citizen when it comes
to his constitutional, God-given right to
put three Jumps of sugar in his coffee.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

is that the food values are all retained. There
is very little evaporation, therefore none Of the
flavor or essential qualities of the food are
dissipated during the cooking process. Its
value IS especially evidenced in the cooking of
tough cuts of meat, which are made tender and
juicy and retain every atom of the rich meat
flavor.
Another blessing that is bestowed by the
reless cooker on a family which uses it, is the
all-night cooking Of the breakfast cereal. Ex-
cept in the case of pre-cooked breakfast food''
all cereals are the better for long, slow cook
ing; with most Of them it is absolutely essen
tial both for flavor and digestbityy
1t would need to be devoted mother or a
phenomenally faithful cook who would rise in
the small hours of dark, cod.wnter morning
to put the breakfast cereal over the fire 1t
cannot cook all night over direct fire for fear
of burning, and it is never so good if cooked
the day before and warmed over for breakfast.
But food put into the we'll of fireless cook
er, with a comfortably hot radiator below it,
will simmer quietly all night long and at break
fast time-whether that be 6 o'clock or o'clock
is ready to be taken out piping hot and per-
fectly cooked, with that delicious creamy con-
sistency that is impossible with hasty boiling.
To the woman who must attend to her
cooking, fitting it in somehow with many other
tasks, the freless cooker is first Of all trouble
saver The containers which come with the
cooker are so fitted in that they either rest one
above the other in the wells fit in the
same level like wedges of pie whole dinner
may be prepared, put into the cooker, and then
the housewives responsibilities about that din
ner are at all end until it is time to put the food
on the table. Watching, stirring, basting, turn
ing adding water all unnecessary, and
there is no fear of burned or overdone dinner,
for food cooked to turn will keep hot for an
hour more in a fireless cooker without harm.
No special experience is needed to fire
less cooker-only average skill and common
sense.
Food may be roasted, baked, steamed, stewed
and boiled in these insulated wells. They are
prepared beforehand just as they would be for
the stove, and if the radiators are at the
proper temperature when put in, the cooking
will go merrily on.
The temperature of the radiators, however,
is important. The directions which come with
each cooker will serve as guide in this matter
as we'll as in the equally important details of
use. For instance, the housewife should know
in each case whether not the cover should
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

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spoiled our complexions by this ex-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

be on the cooking utensil; whether or not to
use water and if so how much; whether to use
or two radiators, and lastly, how close the
radiators should be to the food. Very careful
directions as to these matters are given and
little experience will do the rest.
AS a general rule one heated radiator is
placed at the bottom of the cooking compart-
ment when the foods are to be boiled or
steamed. If it is necessary to quicken the proc
ess two radiators may be used, one above and
one below the container. For baking or roast
ing, the cover is left off and radiators are al
ways placed above and below.
The radiators may be heated on any kind
of stove-over the direct fame if gas is used
and directly over the coats if used in connec-
tion with the coal range. It Is also practicable
to put the radiators directly into the fire pot
of the furnace when 1t is necessary to heat
them quickly and at the same time to econo-
mize fuel, but one precaution should be taken
when using kerosene stove for heating radia~
tors. If they are covered with an inverted
pan to concentrate the heat it will mean
saving of time and fuel and higher tempera-
ture.
The directions which come with the cooker
usually include table of temperatures for the
radiators required in cooking different foods.
The best way to determine this temperature
is to have radiator thermometer, but if one
of these is not at hand there are several tenn
perature tests which may be used. The best
one is the flour test. Sprinkle little flour on
the disk. If it turns Immediately to light
brown the temperature is right for baking
cake or bread. For baking pies it should turn
to golden brown; for roasting meat to dark
brown.
The radiators may be either metal or soap
stone. When soapstone disks are used they
should be kept in dry, warm place. Then when
they heated gradually there is no danger
of their breaking and the heating requires less
fuel than if they were left damp or cold. All
radiators should be dried thoroughly after
using.
The fuel required to heat the radiators need
not be wasted, for other things, such as
teakettle, a saucepan or any other cooking
utensil, can be placed on the disk and heated at
the same time. Another way to conserve fuel
is to put asbestos mat over the disk, which
considerably lessons the time needed for heat
ing.
Considerably less water is used for freless
cooking than is necessary when the same kind
of food is cooked on the stove. Fowls and
meats when roasted need no water at all in
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

3.4 cents, and the molasses (one-quar-
ter cupful), 1 Is cents, as compared
with white sugar (one-half cupful),
2 1-2 cents.
The cranberries sweetened with the
maple syrup were delicious. The brown
sugar and honey sweetened cranberries
were good, but the tasters all pro-
nounced against the corn syrup and the
molasses. However, if smaller amount
of molasses or glucose syrup is used and
part sugar, the flavor is improved and
some saving effected.
A sort of cranberry marmalade can
be made by cooking with one and one
half cupsful of cranberries, one cupful
OF raisins, one-quarter cupful of brown
or white sugar and one tablespoonful
of molasses This is delicious.
"Hooverizing" always means mixing
brains and time and trouble with your
food, in order to save either money or
certain materials that we are accus-
toned to using, and to substitute others.
This is the housewives contribution to
the war programme. We are by no
means ignoring the fact that saving
food is difficult task. It means eternal
thoughtfulness and vigilance.
One colored woman tearfully COM
planned that she had been obliged to
do something she never expected to
have to do, and after breathlessly await
ing a frightful tale of hard labor and
abuse, it developed that she had been
forced to buy rock candy to sweeten her
coffee. No sugar was to be had. AS
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

We would never have thought Of this
if it hadn't been for the war. Take an
account Of stock-housewives all. Count
noses in your family, total up your
monthly sugar bill, and see whether you
are getting your share, more or less.
And remember, all the candy, ice cream
sodas, cakes and other sweets that you
eat away from the table!
Here's to sugar conservation as a con-
tribution to the public health, as we'll as
to the needs of the warning nations!
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Let the FireIess Stove Help to Defeat Any
Threatened Coal Famine

the pan, and any food that is boiled requires
only one-half the amount of water that would
ordinarily be used in boiling.
Exhaustive tests of tireless cookers have
been made in The Tribune Institute, usually
by cooking twin meals, one on a gas stove and
the other in the fireless cooker, and then COM
pairing the amount of gas used and the quality
Of the foods after cooking. In every case the
advantage lay with the fireless cooker For
instance, if chickens were roasted, the one
taken out of the insulated we'll proved to be
browner, juicier and more tender than the one
roasted in the oven, and the gas consumption
was reduced by more than half in the case of
the fireless cooker
Soup stock made in the cooker required only
about half much gas as when cooked on the
stove, and the amount of the finished product
considerably larger.
But when it came to testing casserole dishes
the difference in gas consumption showed up
strkingly. The saving made possible by the
use of the freless cooker was over 200 per cent
Also the meat cooked was tenderer and more
palatable.
When beans were baked in the oven forty
five cubic feet of gas were required for the
entire period of cooking; in the fireless cooker
only five and one-half cubic feet of gas were
needed to heat the one radiatOr
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
"Doling Out a Suck to His PenniIess
Neighbour
By ANNE LEWIS PIERCE
Director Of The Tribune Institute

on the average
use about six times as
much sugar as the people
of other countries. We
have vitiated our tastes
and promoted fermenta-
tion in our ston1achs,
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-19
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
 ID FACILITATE EXPORTS
(By Associated Press)

FL PAsO, Texas, Feb. 19.-An of- fee of the war trade board has been opened here in the federal building to permit shippers of goods to Mexico to make the necessary applications in the proper forms and to facilitate the export business to Mexico through this port The establishment of such an office was the result of visit of fed eral war trade experts here recently and a meeting between the business men and these experts. Because of the embargo on many articles of ex- port, it has been necessary in the past to make applications for shipments of goods to Mexico direct to Washing ton. All such applications are now filed with the local war trade board office, which is in charge of former customs broker, and forwarded to the national war trade board
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-19

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The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-19

The Overland hotel, at Chitina, which is conducted by Fred Handy, has been thoroughly renovated and is popular among the travelling public. When in Chitina stop at the Overland.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-19

For sale at a bargain, Walkers Inn at Alaganic. For terms apply to Cor dova Abstract & Realty Co, Adams Building.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-19

Bargain Notice-FOr sale one four foot fireproof safe, three National cash registers. Adress Prospector, Valdez.
The Robesonian., 1918-03-25
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH
INCOME: TAXES.

In comparison with the tax levied
in England on incomes our own in
come taxes are moderate, indeed
In England the tax on incomes IF
81 900 is 1-2 per cent, in America
nothing.
In England the tax on incomes of
81 500 is 3-4 per cent; in America
nothing for married men or heads of
families, and 2 per cent on $500 for
an unmarried man.
In England the tax on an income Of
$4,000 is Z 7-8 per cent; in America
nothing for married man or head of
a family, and per cent on 81 900 FIR
unmarried men.
The English income tax rate also in
creases more rapidly with the growth
OF the income than ours, So, 900 in
come being taxed ID per cent, 5000
16 per cent, $4,000 20 per cent, and
SIS, 700 25 per cent, while our CORE
spending taxes for married men are
respectively two-thirds of 1 per cent,
l IL per cent, 1-2 per cent and 5
per cent, and only slightly more for
the unmarried, due to the smaller
amount exempted, the rate being the
same.-Liberty Loan Bureau.
The Robesonian., 1918-03-25
DO YOU WANT A
FOREST FIRE PATROLMAN
IN YOUR COUNTY?

Press Bulletin N. C. Geological and
Economic Survey.
With the approach of the spring
forest fire season, the unfortunate
lack Of State funds for fire prevention
is again brought forcibly nome to the
rublic. Although North Cardinals
forestry laws is as good as or bet
ter than that Of any other State in the
South, little effective work can be
done under it owing to the lack Of ap-
probation. It is hoped that this fatal
defect will be remedied by the next
Legislature.
Fortunately, under the operation of
the Weeks law, the u. S. Forest Ser
vice is allowed to spend small
amount in patrol work in North Car
olina, under the direction Of the State
forester. For the past two or three
years about one thousand dollars q
year has been so expended in the
mountain counties. In order to extend
this work, the State forester is now
trying to secure patrolmen in one or
more counties in which such work has
not heretofore been carried on.
Contrary to previous practice no
expenditures on the part Of the land
owners will be required, though their
cooperation will be expected. All that
is necessary, however, is that such
owners will fight fires on their own
lands and assist the patrolman in his
work in every possible way. TIE cour-
ty or district which can promise the
heartiest and most practical cooper
alton will be selected for trying out
this new kind Of patrol
The patrolmen will give their WI, le
time to the work during the fire sea-
son. They will cover on horseback as
large part of the county as possible,
or parts of two or more counties. 7 hey
will put up notices, interview land
owners and others, see that care is
taken in burning brush and in con-
ductlng numbering operations, and in
sist on the observance of the State
forestry laws. These patrclmen will
not be required to extinguish fires or
fight fires themselves, as their duty
will be to prevent fires rather than
to extinguish them. They will en-
desvor to secure the cooperation of
all residents who will be expected to
extinguish fires
The appointment Of three or four
such patrolmen will be made this
spring. The State Forester, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, will be glad to
correspond with parties who would
like to have patrolman sppointed
In their county.
The Robesonian., 1918-03-25
EXECUTORS NOTICE

EXECUTORS NOTICE,
= naV1ng qualified as administrator of Job,
North n fhriyle deceased late of Robson County,
bsuin Caronna. this is to notify all persons
a naving claims against the estate of said de-
ceased ceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or
netise @ she IL 18th day Of March 1915 or this
make immediate payment. VIII pies'se
Ihls the 9Th day of March, 1918.
w. R. CARLYLE,
poh Executor of j. E. CARLYLE
f1,s hobert t E. Lee, Attorney for Executor
The Robesonian., 1918-03-25
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICC

:, ADMiNISTRATRIX NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the es-
t taIe OF Mollie Bryan, deceased, are hereby no.
Gnled 70 file the same Immediately with No
Lean, Varser Mclean, attorneys. Lumber-
ton, North Carolina, or this notice viii he
pleaded in bar of recovery VIII oe
This 2Srd day Of February 1919
., LULU BRYAN,
=, Administratrix of Mollie Bryan. deceased
Mclean, Varser & Mclean. N'e'Seu
Attorneys for Administrators 225s Mon
The Robesonian., 1918-03-25
THE GREAT DUTY.

AS we go about our daily tasks in
peace and safety me mare dying every
minute on the battlefields of Europe
to save civilization. Our own gallant
soldiers are shedding their blood in
France and our sailors engulfed in the
waters of the Atlantic as they go in
defense of Americas rights and honor.
Upon our performance Of the work
committed to US depend the lives of
thousands of men and women, the fate
of many nations, the preservation of
the more quickly will this war come
pie of America ere in doing our part,
the more quickly will lthis war come
TO an end and the greater the numb Y
of our soldiers and sailors who will
he saved from death and suffering and
the greater number Of the people of
ether nations released from bondage
and saved from death.
To work, to save, to economize, 10