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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-11


TRENCH warfare devices of many
l. types were demonstrated here last
night before a big gathering of War
Department officials, army officers and
members of Congress as guests of the
trench warfare section of the Ordnance
Bureau The exhibition included gre
nades and bombs of many kinds, now be
ing produced for the army in France" a
demonstration Of gas. flame and smoke
projectors and concluded with n display
Of rockets and other night signaling and
Illuminating methods evolved by modern
warfare.
The scene of the demonstration. which
lasted lato into the night, was the rice
range in a secluded valley of the hills
that surround the capital. 4 feature Of
the display was the dropping of actual
bombs from a De Haviland. 4" day
bomber the machine equipped with the
Liberty motor. now being produced in
quantity for the use of American avia-
tors in France.
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WANTED, AN EXECUTIVE

WITH AN INVESTMENT OF s25, 900 TO
$50 900 IN AN ESSENTIAL ENTERPRISE
LOCATED NEAR PHILADELPHIA.
PROFITS GUARANTEED OVER 1909
PRINCIPALS ONLY
NJ Cog. LEDGER CENTRAL
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Exhibition of Grenades

The rife range lies down at the foot
OF a steep hill. on the top Of which sew
eral hundred invited guests We're gath
cred. Below them. from sand-bagged
trenches. offensive and defensive hand
grenades and rife Erenades were fired
by salvos and in barrage. The hills
roared with the crash of the bursting
missiles and the ground in front of the
trenches was churned by the flying frag-
ments. \ row Of figure targets, repre-
sentirg a charging line, was battered to
pieces in a hail of erenades, showered
over a ten-foot emhankment.
Switching to inCendiary grenades. the
firing party scattered FIVE over the grass
in all directions and in another moment
We're showering a supposed advancing
enemy with gas grenades. Moving out
of the shelter, the squad started for
ward under dense cloud of white
smoke rising from the smokebombs
hurled ahead of them
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Bomb Machines In Action

The hum Of a big motor, high over
head, announced the coming of the
bombing machines The first bomb. con-
tanning many pounds Of high explosives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-11
SEES IN WILSON SPEECH
COMMERCE VAR THREAT
Special Cable to Evening Public, Ledger

CopvrI0ht, 1918, By NeU York Times 20.
The Hague, July 1.-THE Weser
Zeitung recently interpreted Hughes
Fcurth ~ July speech as a threat of a
continuation OF the war at sea. ii the
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A Persistent Youth

Dear Cynthia-You have helped others
nox mSSR am hoping you tor can help me have ave
senior by nearly six months. For, three
months we have corresponded regularIy,, but
ignored this and answered in friendly way,
telling about friends we both know and such
things. Still he insists upon being s"nti-
mental. Now don't like this, for | do
not love this young man. but don't wish to
sS.s p9nyea sm BY at M for h
times but ! don't like his letters and have
tried ,io. to tell him So by isnor,ns them hut but
ought ! TO give up writing TO him. or can
you suggest, some way of letting him know
do not like 1t without hurting him"
TROUBLED.
! don't think it is necessary to give
up writing to him il you want to be
friends. but / do think you will have to
say some little thing to make him stop
being sentimental since he goes right
on even though you ignore part of his
letters, would laugh off the sentiment
In nice kind way. II l were you. You
wouldn't have to ridcule /. in your re-
turn letter, but could joke about it a
| little bit Then II he still continues to
/ indulge I think you had better write a
frank little note saying that you would
! very much like to be friends because
! he makes the very best sort of friend,
but that you Toe afraid you can't write
! to him any more II he won't be satisfied
to send just friendly letters. | would
not answer his letters too promptly and
would try TO get a greater space of time
between them until he understands
| thoroughly that you are always Just
going to be friends.
In giving this answer I take it for
granted you are both quite young and
get over. But If I am wrong and you
feel this young man Is genuinely in love
with you maybe II would be kinder to
gradually break off the correspondence
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-02

THE sleeveless slip-on or sleeveless
l. coat smock, as it is sometimes called.
seems not to know any particular age
of women nor to discriminate in any
way about who should wear it or when
it should be worn. At least. mis- would
appear to be the case from the variety
of styles that are shown in the slp-on
coats this season. Certainly there is
something for every woman and girl.
After all it is a very useful piece of
wearing apparel to have, whether one
has the good fortune to be able to pass
the summer in the country or whether
one who must spend the entire summer
in the city, for the slip-on smoCk is
appropriate for town or country.
The progression of the slp-on has
been very interesting, which shows that
this sort of garment was liked by
women. Had this not been so the slip
on would have died soon after its first
try-out. AS you remember, we saw them
in the winter time in velvet. velours and
corduroy, then little later in satin, silk
and silk jersey.
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Clam ChoWder

To the Editor Of Womdn's Page:
Dear Madam-Please print In your column
a recipe for making clam chowder. Mrs. NJ.
The ingredients are one onion sliced
two Cupfuls of boiling water, four cup
fuls Of potatoes cut in half-inch cubes.
one quart clans, one and a half tea
spoonfuls of salt, an eighth teaspoonful
Of pepper three cupfuls of hot milk and
one-quarter cupful of sifted crumbs
Cook the onion slowly for ten minutes
in a little margarine or in with a third
of a Cupful of salt pork cubes If the dish
Is not to be used as dish OF absti-
nence on Friday. Add the boiling water
to this and strain into the kettle. Then
add the potatoes and let cook twenty
minutes. Remove necks of clans, chop
and add to the potatoes and let cook ten
minutes Add the seasonings. crumbs
and hot milk. The onion may be served
in the chowder II preferred.
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CAN VEGETABLE MIXTURES isa
FOR NEXT WINTERS SOUP
Any Desired Combination Can Be MadeFauorite One Calls
for Tomatoes Okra Onion, Sweet Red Pepper e.
and Seasoning-Uncle Sans Recipes

NIHo can? Everybody. The summer
w investment Of time and money is
small and the winter returns in food
and health large.
Where can you can?
In the kitchen. provided with coal or
wood stove, range. gas stove or oil
stove.
Out Of doors. in a clean, cool, shady
spot over a charcoal furnace or any
kind Of fire that will heat a large kettle
Of water.
On the back porch.
In a city apartment.
In a schoolroom.
In a community kitchen.
Moist heat does the trick.
Where does not matter so much as
how.
Below are given recipes issued by
the Department of Agriculture that will
help to tide against the long winter
Concentrated Vegetable Soup
Any desired mixture of vegetables
may be canned for home use. A good
combination consists of one quart con-
centrated tomato pulp, one pint tiny lima
Deans, one pint okra, four teaspoonfuls
salt and sugar seasoning, one small
| onion, chopped. and half a cupful of
chopped sweet red pepper Cook the to-
matoes, pepper and onion; put through
a sieve to remove seeds and skins Re
turn strained pulp to kettle and cook
down to about the consistency Of ketchup
Measure, add the beans and okra which
have been prepared as for canning. add
seasoning and cook all together for ten
minutes. Pack hot into previously boiled
jars. Partially seal Jars.
Canning with steam under pressure is
recommended. Process quart jars thirty
minutes under pressure of ten pounds
Seal Immediately, cool in a draft-free
| place and when cold test for leaks
Store in a cool, dark. dry place.
II the intermittent boiling process is
used. boil for one hour on each Of three
successive days. Before each subse.
quent boiling the covers must be
loosened. and after each boiling the
! covers must be securely frightened again
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70 fhe Editor OF Woman s rage:
Dear Madam-Could you please make a
suggestion for decorating the table for the
Fourth OF July for supper that VIII pe
given In the middle of the evening at
Fourth of July party? Also suggest some
games to play out on the lawn. Miss {. A
would use crepe paper for decorating
the table. In the stores now you can
buy paper with good-sized figures or sol
Aiers and sailors on il. Cut these out
ana mount them on pliable cardboard
and make a ring of them for the center
piece by pasting them onto good strong
circular strips of cardboard. Inside OF
the ring or circle you could have red ana
white carnations tied with navy-blue
bow and put in a tall-enough vase 70
show away over the heads of your card
board soldiers. Instead Of the carna-
tions you could have a good-sized Ameri-
can flag in the center. Use white crepe
paper for the tablecloth and have alter
nate strips of red and white crepe paper
iengthwise all around from the edge OF
the table to the floor. If you have can
siIesticks make red. white and blue crepe
shades. You can make patriotic napkin
rines out of red, white and blue paper
mated to circles OF cardboard. If you
have not used the flag in the centerpiece
nut one in stand at each corner OF the
table. -
The games have been mailed TO you
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wanted to give me. but could not afford be-
fore
Can you toll me what to do? I sppreci'
ate his kindness. but wish he would save.
3. l.. X.
You are facing the problem great
many girls face. It's difference in
makeup, ii seems to me. A woman
invariably looks to the future, while a
man is more apt to live In the present
and let the future take care of itself
He is always so glad to lavish presents
and attention on the woman he loves
while she would be better satisfied II
he brought her money to put away for
him to save against a rainy day
can't explain it to you, my dear.
simply know that it is true. But this
will probably cheer you up very much
In most cases when the wedding date
is set a man saves even better than q
woman does or could ever hope to. The
trouble is to get him started.
But do not protest over the presents
If it gives him so much pleasure le
him bring you things, especially as hs
has not been able to do so before
Generosity is never to be discouraged II
a man, and II he is generous now hel
be apt to be generous always.
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MAPLE SUGAR YIELD
Big AID TO HOOVER
Vermont's Production Helps
Exc Out Supply of White
Variety in This Country
Montpelier. w., July

Montpelier. VT, July 2.
II there Is one product for which the
State Of Vermont is famous 1t Is maple
sugar. In the production of this deli
cacy Vermont is the leading State. While
there has been attached to the sugar
drop much sentimental value maple
products in late years have been con-
sidered luxury and the importance of
these products in the sugar supply OF
the nation is probably not generally ap-
preciated.
The Commissioner OF Agriculture has
taken a census of the members Of the
State Maple Sugar Makers Association
to gather data regarding the 1918 crop
of maple sugar and syrup This year
was not a bumper year for maple sap.
because the production of sugar per tree
averaged only 2.26 pounds. This is vir-
tually the same as the production for
1917. which was considered rather a
poor year. There was tapped. however,
approximately 5.500.0O0 trees. which
would give a total production of 12,430.-
900 pounds Of sugar for the State.
Food Administrator Hoover has al
lowed a sugar consumption of thirty-six
pounds per capita. This allowance
would give Vermont, in round numbers.
IL, 100000 pounds. Therefore, Vermont
maple sugar orchards nearly supplied
the needs of the State. OF course, this
does not mean that Vermonters will not
need white sugar. because Vermont
maple sugar and syrup are shipped a.
over the United States and to nearly
every foreign country, but it does mean
that Vermont will contribute to the
sugar supply of the nation nearly as
much sugar as she consumes.
The price for sugar, as indicated by
the census, was twenty-five cents a
pound. as against 1853 cents received in
1917. The price received for syrup this
spring was sl.S8, as against Sl.37 re-
ceived in 1917. In many cases these
prices also included the package. Making
due allowance for this and for the fact
that persons responding to the census
cards probably received more than the
average price through better than aver
age marketing, we still have revenue
of s2.0OO.Oo0 for the 1918 crop of sugar
and syrup.
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empty classroom she Was turning recess
to good account by correcting the papers
OF applicants who had been examined
the day before. Having been since then
in position to appreciate the full
meaning of an interruption in such
task, / can the more accurately estimate
what 1t implied that owing to my
tardiness she must not only stop what
she was then doing, but must also begin
again on work which should have ended
yesterday. Yet she gave no hint Of,
even the slightest annoyance, and with
a reassuring smile started in to question
me- At the close of the oral examina-
tion she took me to Miss Reese, a talls
lively young woman. who could whistle
like a bird. To be sure, in school hours
she managed to hide this accomplish.
ment merely giving the impression of
extracting a great deal of fun from the:
days work. At a word from Miss
Grenedict she stopped In the middle of
dictation exercise which she was
giving her French class to set me at
work on some examination papers These
were lengthy and looked formidable, but
Miss Reese cautioned me to read each
question twice before attempting to-
answer it, and, above all, not to hurry,
as I could have all the time / wished.
I obeyed instructions and decided be-
fore the ordeal was half finished that 1t
was not so difficult as had appeared at the.
first glance Later Principal Freeland
himself went through the papers with.
me and gave them a higher mark than.
l had been hoping for; Furthermore, he
said Miss Grenedict's report of me was
good. and he sent me back to Elm-,
wood avenue happy in the knowledge
that despite my youth and small stature,
/ had been accepted as member OF
the senior class in the Bellington High
School.
CONTINUED TOMORROW H
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More Day.Nursery Questions

To the Editor Of Womdn's Page:
Dear Madam-Will you please help me
once again? Please tell me where the near
streets? How old must be the children: How How,
How much do they charge for one child:
/ would like to 20 TO work for the summer
and get a little money ahead for the winter,
as we had a very hard one last winter. IL
takes all my husbands money TO get along
on now without saving for tne winter:
l. NJ. W.
The nearest day nursery to Thirteenth
and Porter streets is the Franklin Day
Nursery, at 7l9 Jackson street. The
children can be any age. but at present
this particular nursery cannot take any
more babies-they must be "toddlers, .
ANY number OF children will be accepted
from one family - they have had as
many as six brothers and sisters at one
time. Six cents a day is the charge and
ten cents for babies II you will take
your children there yourself the matron
or whoever is in charge will tell you all
that is necessary and will make arrange
ments with you to take care of the
children. They will be well taken care
of while you work If you carry out the
plan of working to save money for next
winter. 1t sounds like a very sensible
plan. Your other question will be an
| swered in the exchange later In the
week
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Alice Kent and the Days Work |
The Story of Business Girl Who Would Not Fail
By MARTHA keller
Copyright. 1913. by Public LEDGER Com parv.
CHAPTER L
TNHE meeting with Professor Freelan

CHAPTER L
INHE meeting with Professor Freeland
l. marked an epoch in my life. At this
time he had been principal of the Bell
ington High School but a short time.
yet he was already known in the COM
munity not only as born teacher
whose love of sound learning was as
genuine as his interest in boys and girls,
but also as man who esteemed char
acter superior to knowledge and had the
faculty of bringing out the best in his
pupils We did not think of him
primarily as a disciplinarian; probably
because he achieved results without
fussing about them. His classes recited
Freeland made the lesson so interest
ing that. If you were member Of the
class, your attention was riveted through
out the recitation period. IT, on the
other hand, you were scheduled for a
study hour and We're accordingly seated
at your desk in the back part Of the
room while from the front platform the
principal gave attention to his class {;
II seeing him thus occupied you ventured
to idle the time away or to busy your
self with the mischief which is ever
within reach of idle hands, in due
season you made the significant dis
in the recitation that went on in his
immediate vicinity, Professor Freeland
never once lost sight of you and your
activities.
If the latter harmed no one but your
self. it Is quite probable that he would
wait until a convenient season to call
you to account; perhaps the day of
reckoning would come at time when
you, imagining that your recent mis-
behavior was known to nobody, of your
own accord before or after school sought
out the principal for assistance with
some knotty point in the lesson for the
next day. with a lucid explanation he
would clear away your difficulty and
then, just as you were hurrying away
ne would stretch out a OBTAINING hand
and invite your aid concerning a little
matter that was troubling him! Be-
fore you knew 1t you would find your
self talking freely to Professor Free
land, and presently agreeing with every
word he said when you walked away
| at the conclusion of the interview your
step was rarely as sprightly as when
! you approached, for in the interval you
| had taken your own measure. Having
also come to understand that the prin-
cpal was your friend, you resolved II
| future to justify his confidence.
Such. then, was the type of man who
greeted me on my belated arrival al
! the school, At that moment importan
matters awaited him, but he took thu
time to question me briefly about thu
work l had accomplished in LetburS
| (although there was nothing to my
, credit worthy the name of accomplish
! ment'D, and then introduced me to Mis-!
Grenedict, his first assistant, a plumb
woman with pretty, dimpled hands
she was older than the principal ant
indeed had been his teacher in the towi
where he prepared for college. In al
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-02
Teachers Must Live
o tho Editor Of Woman's Page:

To tho Editor Of Woman's Page:
Dear Madam am Philadelphia school
teacher who is willing to express an opinion
about the salary situation here, II the
bonus is not granted l am afraid the CITY
next fall will find itself Yainly looking AROUND
for women TO sit at the desk at the top or
the room. When teachers ask what theS
should do to help win the war they are told
not to desert the classroom, but to see tnat
Young America gets an education IhIs
live in order to do II. We are not taking
advantage of wartime when we ask tor IN
crease in wage; we do not begin to ask the
extraordinry salaries now paid to women IN
war work We merely want TO i've as we
have been accustomed to living. This 1t Is
Impossible TO do now because OF the rise
in the cost Of living. That is what those
in authority do not seem to take into con
sidrrRtion when our request is comosted
As the other teacher who recently expressed
herself in your column said living Is aonor-
NAL. =, ,
We want TO teach. hut. after all. teachers
are only human. They will walt so long
and then will go out and take some OF the
lucrative work that will enable them 20 i've
SCHOOL TEACHER.
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sGUARD YOUR CHILDREN WELL
UNTIL THE FOURTH is OVER
We Haze Had Safe and Sane Independence Days. but Neue'
One So Safe and Sane That Ii " ent Silently Out With
out Toll in Little Boy and Girl Life

DAY after tomorrow is the Fourth
Of July. That means that tonight
some mother somewhere in our land
is putting to bed a little girl or boy
who will not be alive on the 5th of
July. There is no use not recognizing
this fact We have safe and sane
Fourth, but We have never had a safe
ana sane enough Fourth to go silently
out without It's toll: a little child.
1t is queer thing to think of. In
dependence Day celebrates the free
dom Of America. And yet the sun
never sets on its hours but what some
ooy or girl Is deprived of the biggest
freedom of all. life.
Must this be? Tonight, for instance.
cant every mother in our city make
an ironlike promise to keep rigid guard
over her little brood all through the
long. dangerous hours of the Fourth
of July? Not only Of the Fourth it.
self, but the Sd and the 5th, those
fringelike days Of danger that have
a habit of snuffing out little lives when
one least expects it. 1t is such little
thing to give one. two or three days
of ceaseless watching to our children.
And the rewards are go great. A
mother will never know when she
sinks relievedly into bed after the
danger period is over whether it might
have been her child in place of an
others who goes riding by in the
little white hearse--if she hal not
watched.
Ch;ldren's deaths on the Fourth of
July are traceable to either of two
faults on the part of their parents:
overindulgence or. carelessness.
A child will come in from the street
and say that "Johnnys father is going
to let him shoot them off" For a
while mother holds out and says no.
Then the sight of her boys little face
pressed against the screen worries
her. The Fourth of July comes only
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-02
Fourth of July Dainties
That Sdue the Sugar

1t Is very necessary to save sugar Just
now. The supplies which were expected
to be available have not been forthcom-
Ing. The submarine sinkings on the AZ
upon our imports. II is expected that
II wise conservation Is practiced there
will still be enough for canning purposes.
The United States food administration
asks your sincere cooperation.
Pineapple sherbet
One cupful corn or other syrup.
Two cupfuls boiling water.
White Of one egg.
One cupful grated pineapple.
Juice Of one lemon.
Combine the ingredients with the ex-
ception Of the egg white. Cool the mix
white just before the freezing Is COM
pleted.
Two tablespoonfuls corn. or other
One-half cupful milk
One-eighth teaspoonful vanilla.
Add Add the syrup to the egg and beat the
mixture with an eggbeater until IL is
light. Add the milk and the 1avortng
Stir the mixture thoroughly and serve II
Ice cold.
Frozen Custard
One pint milk.
starch
one cupful corn syrup or sufhcien'
maple syrup or honey for desired sweet
ening.
One-eighth teaspoonful salt.
one and one-half teaspoonfuls vanilla
Scald the milk and add the cornstarcf
mixed with the cold milk or water Cook
the mixture over hot water for ffteer
minutes Add the egg, slightly beaten
and cook the mixture for Ave minutes
Add the corn syrup and the salt. ant
stir the mixture well. Strain 1t and coo
il. Add the vanilla and freeze the Gus
tard in the same way as any ice cream