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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Sandwiches.

Sandwiches.
For meatless and wheatless days:
Nc. Make paste with Rogue
fort cheese, a little butter and salad
dressing. Spread on buttereds rye
bread.
No. 2-One small can salmon and
the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs
mixed with mayonnaise dressing.
Spread on brown bread.
The Table.
Best Salad-On each salad plate
place two crisp lettuce leaves, add one
round slice canned pineapple and
one tablespoon chopped English wal
nuts. Now add one tablespoon salad
dressing, chill and serve with few
giace cherries on top Dressing: Six
tablespoons sweet cream, six marsh
mallows, one-half tablespoon pow
dered sugar. one teaspoon vinegar.
one-half teaspoon salt edo not use
any pepper). Cook three minutes and
remove from fire; when almost cold
add to the beaten whites of two eggs
and beat very lightly and serve on
salad. This is good served on any
tioEs.
United States Cookies-Take one
pound sugar one-half pound butter.
a cake of chocolate. Dissolve in pint
of warm water. Ado three beaten
eggs, two even teaspoons soda and
just enough flour to roll out. Bake
on a tin in rounds. Then place two
together in the form of a sandwich
with chocolate filling. Frost with
white, making a border around the
top and U. S. in the center.
Breads.
Barley Muffins-One beaten egg,
one teaspoon salt. one tablespoon
sugar, one cup sour milk or butter
milk, one rounding tablespoon short
ening, one teaspoon soda, one-half
white flour, one cup barley flour.
Makes ten mullins.
War Bread-The chief ingredients
are cold boiled potatoes. whole wheat
flour and whole rye flour.
The potatoes must be thoroly boiled
and equally and thoroly dried. Then
they must be grated very fine. Com
bine the ingredients in the proportion
of one-third grated potatoes, one
third rye flour, one-third whole wheat
flour.
Make sponge with one-half of
the wheat flour; add one hafho ounce
soft dough Let sponge sriseisJ to
double the volume and add one
ounce salt. Add grated cold pota-
toes and remaining flour and luke
and let it rise to double the volume
Then work it down and shape into
loaves. Let it rise to double the
volume and bake in hot oven one
hour
This is very palatable and nour-
ishing. Serve it in your home You'll
find it appetizing, delicious and nu-
| tritive and good white bread sub
stitute.
Cornbread without Eggs Two
flour. two tablespoons melted lard.
| two cups sweet milk. two tablespoons
sugar, three heaping teaspoons baking
powder. Bake in a hot oven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02
REFORMING THE RAILROADS.

Whatever excuse there may have
been in ordinary times for certain
railroad expenses which Director Cen
eral McAdoo has now cut off, there
is none whatever while the lines are
operated under government control.
One of the things forbidden is the
payment of agents or other persons
employed to affect legislation This
is aimed at lobbying" in favor of or
against proposed acts of legislation at
Washington or at state capitals.
There may have been times when
it was quite legitimate for railroads to
seek changes in the laws affecting
them and there have been many
times when it was for their interest
to argue against some that were pro-
posed. There can be no legitimate &C.
casion for it now. Employment of at
torneys at all, except for necessary le-
gal work. in behalf of a company is
forbidden, as it will be unnecessary
and would be ineffective
Expenses of associations of carriers
or their agencies are also prohibited
unless they have the actual approval
There have been associations for divi-
sion or combination of traffic on diff
ferent lines and the adjustment of
expenses and charges among them
These may have been justified, but
under the present arrangement what
ever is done in this line should have
the approval of the governments di-
rector general Formulating +ho
diture of railroad funds for political
purposes or influencing elections
ought to be in force at all times, and
it may be well to establish an exam
pie now. Much the same might be
said of the issue of passes for free
transportation, except, where this is
actually permitted by law on account
of service or connection with the line
by the recipient.
1t is said that these restrictions
upon payments which are not Iegiti-
mate will result in saving millions of
dollars and have considerable effect
upon net receipts, and that should be
taken into account when the control
of the lines is restored to the corpor-
atoms.
So far as that means the return of
competition or rivalry, says the New
York Journal of Commerce, it may
make necessary some arrangement for
mutual security which will involve
service to be paid for by the compa-
MES concerned. This may be a matter
for restriction or regulation or the ex-
ercise of public authority m behalf of
equitable relations. After this expert
ence of government control in war
time there may be occasion for con-
siderable change in the law relating
to interstate commerce. 1t was far
from being in satisfactory state be-
fore and a good deal of Improvement
can be made when the lines are re-
stored to the control of their owners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02
LIE TIERS OF
TWO WOMEN
At Thirty and Thirty-one.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
At home again, somewhere in

X January.
My Darling May:
1t seems like a dream-our meet
ing, our visit, our talks, our long,
silent, satisfying Understandings ="
And 1 am home again, in the east,
and you, my dear, in the west. Yet
there is something now that links us
as if there were no distance between.
For in those long moonlit evenings
at the mystic Canyons rim, while
our menfolk went tramping and
smoking and talking off together,
you and 1 sat in the quiet dark and
told each other everything, without
pretense, without reserve. What a
rare thing is complete honesty.
l delved thru my desk tonight and
found your three-year-Ol letter, the
one you wrote me from Kerryville just
after you were married.
I was still Kate Osway, twenty
dollar-a-week stenog. And there was
no Paul.
Three years. And how many
respectively forty-one and forty, in
stead Of thirty-one and thirty, let's
each write a book. Every person
who is willing to write the truth can
write at least one book. From the
Munson System of Motherhood you
w
THE Blankbook of Success" Still,
taking things by and large, dear. both
of US, while we haven't everything,
have more than the averAge human
being finds in marriage You have
on the asset side a sweet home, a
pair of Incompatible babies, and the
wholesome problems of an impecu-
NOUS household.
1 have a comrade. And material
success. But no home. No baby.
Do II T frf4
happy in each others company, have
nevertheless our hours of sadness,
our discouragements. our loneliness
From your last letter, old dear. l
note with joy that since your second
marriage" to Curt you find that to
own" and that contrary to earlier
symptoms Maize Wheaton will
never be wholly submerged in Mrs.
Curtis Bond
with all our chickering's" you say,
IT am satisfied with the current of
my life. And while 1 have lost much
that L would fain have retained and
acquired much that 1 value little, 1
feel nevertheless that my life and ex-
perience is being rounded out in an
otherwise unobtainable way"
You have achieved everything, you
say. that influenced you to enter into
your marriage. You wanted to be
married, most keenly, as all girls do
VINO nave reached unmarried u,
both for superficial and fundamental
reasons. You wanted children. You
wanted a home. You wanted ito get
into Gods sunshine and away from
New York's moral slough
81 have paid you admit, rather
dearly for these things. But 1 feel
sure these first three years are my
hardest years and that the whole
situation will work itself out to my
advantage-my characters fulfill
ment"
Blessed child! How much mar
riage has taught you, Many women
NEVER get that lesson-that mar
riage is not intended for the happi-
ness of the individual, but for 1.-The
| characters fulfillment"
! AS we go on thru the years, dear,
let us compare notes as to how we
get on with our characters fulfill
ment" our best development, And
read there, when we are old and bask-
ing gently in life's sunset. the measure
of our success as women
Ever and always your own
KATE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

The labor program announced from
Washington assures fair and impartial
consideration of the demands of labor
for wage increases and shorter hours.
In return, the right to strike, appren-
ticeship systems and close shop oe-
mands must be held in allegiance. AS
the demand for labor will soon exceed
the supply the problems arising from
apprenticing and open shops will
cause little concern to organized la
Dor during the war. AS labor has a
government guarantee for practically
everything for which it strikes. it
ought to saw wood and be satisfied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

1t appears that members of con-
sress will not be able to escape paying
their proportion of the occupational
tax after all unless they protect them
selves by additional legislation. The
revenue law exempts officers and en-
ployes of the. government. but the
revenue department has ruled that the
national legislators belong to neither
class. The departments decision will
be accepted with satisfaction by the
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

Twelve years ago, when the newly
elected members of the first duma
were gathered at the Winter Palace in
Petrograd. the car addressed them as
the best people of Russia" A little
later the first duma presented the
car with demand for liberal reforms
and a responsible cabinet, and the
cars government did not hesitate to
dissolve the body of the 'best people,"
Nobody expected anything else from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

It is estimated that in short time
a million checks month will be is
sued from the bureau of war risk inc
surance to the families of the men
constituting Americas fighting force.
There had been up to January IS,
47S,116 applications for total insur-
ance of s4,011. 391. 900. The average
amount applied for still keeps near
the maximum of $4,000. A steady
effort is being made to make our
fighting forces 100 per cent insured, -
and there are many military units in
which every member is insured and in
some of them every man insured for
the maximum of $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

Critics of the governments conduct
England and France have done. But
it may be noted in passing that Eng
land and France have not won the
war. 1t seems to be up to Uncle Sam
10 show something new
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

the cars government lLenine's <"gov-
ernment," in its treatment of the con-
stituent assembly, has made Use of
the same policy which the cars gov
eminent practiced so successfully to-
wards the duma. 1t is not surprising
that the Russians are shooting at him.
All czars look alike to the Slavs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

The kaiser may yet discern some
good in the internal disturbance of his
realm. 1t will afford him a place to
light. He may derive satisfaction
from kidding himself into believing
that he could have won the war bad
it not been for the revolt of the So
cialists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

It has been officially denied that
any spy has been officially shot or
hanged This may account in some
measure for the fact that the blow
ing up of munition factories and the
burning of food supplies continue in
this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

1t should be apparent to the en-
tente by this time that victory over
Germany must be won elsewhere than
on the western front. If it is to be
military victory the opportunities lie
in Asia. in Italy. in Macedonia and in
The air
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

on the basis of this inventory. These
are the immediate war needs. which
will be met by the survey. But scarce
ly less important is the information
which it will furnish as to how Ameri-
ca is feeding Americans.
Questions on tn above or any/sub-
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation. should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington. >. c., with a scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02
DINNER STORIES

The mother of two haIf-grown sons
found that they were in the habit of
taking the pretty nurse maid out for
a good time. The boys would not own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

Lenine has been given a lesson in
what it means to be a car of Russia.
Somebody took a shot at him this
week. This is the second attempt to
kill him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

1t may be regarded as unpatriotic
to have German measles, but the
name aptly expresses the estimate in
which the disease is held by its vic
Tins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

In a special schedule, the house
holder is asked to compare the
amounts of certain foods used in 1917
with the amounts used in 1915. This
is designed to show to what extent
people are substituting certain foods
for others, as for example, fish for
meat
These studies will include many
typical urban and rural families of all
classes. In order to miss no type of
American home, special studies will be
made of some fifteen typical villages
of less than $500 people, in which
every household will be canvassed.
The food survey will furnish the
answer to many questions. 1t will
enable us to tell our allies just what
we can send them in the way of food
stuffs. Starving neutrals. such as Fin
land, can be apportioned their share
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

y. B-Inquirers should be careful TO OBJ
serve two points: Enclose 3,cent stamp
and address their 'etters to Washington
lay and needless expense are incurred.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-26

uV01
Dinner.
er they were the same ones that wer,
In the Jutland battle or not. FINAL,
we landed at Swinemunde just as thu
bells were ringing the old year GU,
and the new year In. We were a fine
bunch Of blackbirds to hand the kaiser
for a New Years present, believe me
They mustered US up on deck, and
each OF us got a cup Of water for our
New Years spree. Then we saw we
were In for 1t. and nil hope gone, but
we were glad to be released from our
hole. because we had been prisoners
since December 10-three days on the
Moewe and eighteen on the Yarrow.
dale-and the coal was not any softer
than when we first sat on 1t.
: So we began singing, "Pack up your
troubles in your old kit bag and smile.
boys, smile. What's the use of worry.
Ing? It's never worth while" and so
forth. They made us shut up. but not
before we asked ourselves IL we were
downhearted, and everybody yelled
"No!"
And that is how we gave our re-.
CARDS to Swinemunde.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-26

0Q0aa Uafssl baet hessH m ani
easAsa . searcAlisAG They picked ~
Jageo siGAt away. Ut barnsy va
mailing god headway and IVES slnosl
free when they dnggsd hin h TAsy
beat them - - he patEsl boat. ord
when they put them haek On IL
Yarrowdale Radewtts beat them %
some more and put them In isoas.
Then he began 10 shoot at thelr 6sst
with his revolver. and be had Q MSlee
stand BY - hand him anothse esvol.
yer when the drst ono acas eSpty.
Then he would cash thelr faces with
the barrel Of he revolver and shout,
I'm Badewitx. I'm the man whs
fooled the EnglisA." and shoot at then
some more.
All the while the sailors were cele-
brattng. drinking and eating. and yell.
Ing. ~ usual. and the whistles on all
the German ships were blowing. and
they were having . great fest. After
about thirty hours we left. being es-
corted By . minelayer and Q mine
sweeper. I asked q German garby II
that was the whole German navy. and
he looked surprised and did not know
l was kidding him. aud said no. Then
! said. $50 the English got nil the rest.
did they1" and he handed me one In
the mouth with his bayonet hilt. SO l
quit kidding him.
We saw rows and rows Of mines.
aud the German sailors pointed out
what they said We're II. NJ. IS. Lion
and Nomad, but l do not know wheth-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-26
CHAPTER XVIII.

"Pack Up Your Troubiesw
We arrived at Swinemunde, on the
east bank, and after we had had ouE
drink OF water and had been rousted
back into the bunkers. Badewitz went
across to the west side in a launch
with Joyce and Hill and a guard Of
sailors. They were to be shot the
next morning. with some others. at a
public s~hootlng-fest. The rest Of us
wrapped ourselves In Jumps Of coal as
best We could and tried to sleep.
In the morning crowds of Germans
came aboard US and were turned
loose on the boxes In the hold. Il
was a sight to see them rip OH. the
covers and gobble the salami and 9th.
er stun that we carried. Table man.
nerS are not needed when there ia no
table, l guess. but II you had seen
them. you would say these Germans
old not even have trough manners. /
have seen hogs that were more I'm.
icky.
While they were at It, hand to hand
With the chow, giving and receiving
terrible punishment, we prisonery
were mustered on deck, counted
kicked onto tugs and transferred Il
the west bank. where the mob wa,
waiting for rs. My wounds, an q
q Imagine. were In q pretty bad
state BY this time, and were getting
more painful every minute, 80 that /
found ] was getting ugly and anxious
for an argument. knew that II I
stayed this way I would probably
never come out alive, for there IL
every chance you could want to pick
a quarrel while you are a prisoner
that will mem freedom for yov-but
only the freedom Of going west, which
] was not anxious to try.
Wh'n We got near the west bank.
on the tugs. We could seo that We were
up against q battle with our arms tied.
Over half the crowd was women and
children. I should nay, and the rest
We're laborers and old ctvvies. and r..
serve soldiers, and roughnecks seo.
orally. We could zee the spit exnerts
1.-The spit Shippers. deploysd 70 ne
front, almost.
mo b coNr1Nvnn,.
-A-'. I'|PH|H"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-26

Badewitz. who began mauling him be
fore the sentry even had told hL
story. After q while Badewitz qui
pounding the cook. and listened to tn,
sentry. Then Badewits said the cool
had put q note In the dixie before h
dropped 1t. so they beat him up agair
and put him In irons. After that they
sent the rest of the cooks back, and
would not let them on deck again
They had plenty Of canned goods and
meat aboard. but they would not give
us any.
Five Of the men were buried at sea
that day. More men were going mad
every minute, and it was a terrible
place; pitch dark, grimy. loose coal
u~nderfoot. coal-dusty air to breathe,
body-dlth everywhere. Some Of the
crazy me howled like dogs. But we
were not as much afraid Of these rs
We were of the others who kept still,
but slipped aroy 4 in the dark with
Jumps Of coal In their hands. We
got SO we would not 60 near each
other Tor fear we were running into q
crazy man. Those of us who were
sane collected as near the fiddley as
we could. and We would not let the
others get near US. but showed them
back or SHE'D Jumps Of coal at them.
And every once in a while some one
OF us would begin to act queer. May.
be ne would let out q howl suddenly,
without any warning. Or he would
Just quit talking and begin to sneak
around. Or he would squat down and
begin to humble. We could not tell
Just when a man had begun to lose
his mind. He would seem Just like
the rest of US. because none Of us was
much better than q beast
We could not take turns sleeping
and standing watch against the crazy
men. because when we talked about
1t. we agreed that none Of us could
tell whether or not the sentrles would
60 crazy while on watch and have the
rest OF us ut their mercy. 1t was aw-
full to talk about going crazy in this
way. and to figure that you yourself
might be the next, and that it was al
most sure to happen II you did not
get some sleep soon. But it was worse
to find a man "a you going, and have
to boot him out with the other insane
men.
The days passed like that, with
nothing to do but suffer, and starve
and freeze. II got colder and colder,
and all we could wrap ourselves in
the coal. We began to speculate
on where we were. 1t was not till
later than an old skipper in our bunch
told US that we had rounded the north. |
crn coast Of Iceland.
Finally. one day. a lad yelled down |
"Land!" and we all dove for the i'd.
dley like wild men. and. those who
could get near enough looked out, andI
sure enough! there was the coast Of
Norway, very rugged and rocky and
covered with snow. We thought It
was atl over then. and that we would
be landed at Bergen sure. Then there
was the usual running around and
yelling on deck, and VIC were not SO
sure we would be landed, and very
suddenly 1t got colder than ever.
l was In the fiddley, aching to get
out, and ready for anything that
might happen, when the door opened
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-26

chosen me- said Christ. but have
chosen you, and ordained you, that W
should so and bring forth fruit, and
fnat your fruit should remain" May
II DC to give you another opportunity
to glorify his father by bearing fruit,
that you are still here2
1t may be you are waiting to be
perfected. I ought to explain this, be.
cause there Is a sense In which every
true Christian Is perfected the moment
he accepts Christ as his Savior. He
Is perfected In that he is both justified
and sanctified his sin is put away, and
by the Holy Spirit he himself is set
apart for God forever. The New Tes-
lament Is very clear on this: notice
Paul's words In his epistle to the Co
losslans, for example.
What, then. do we mean BY saying
we may be waiting to be perfectedy
DO we mean the attainment of a state
OF %stnlessness this side Of heaven? No;
for II 81 Christian lived to be as old az
Methuselall, would he not still require
to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses us
we forgive those who trespass against
us?" We only mean that perfectness,
In the sense Of a rIpeness for the
sickle. which comes in the lives Of
some as II a crown Of glory had been
vouchsafed to them even before they
passed into the unseen.
And so may it be with some Of you.
Though now your pruning, your dig.
ging, and perhaps your growing days
are over, yet the quiet hut potent rays,
Of divine grace are accomplishing a
maturity In your experience. so that
your Christian life never will have
been so attractive as In the hour that
you depart hence. eve all do fade as
n leaf. but the fall Of you, yc glory
crowned ones, IS to be illun,ined by
the grandeur Of an autumnal sunset.
God bless you, aged brethren God
bless you. young and old, rich and
poor, saint and sinner! May you have
n Happy New Year" In the highest
and truest sense. "Happy Is the peo'
pie whose God Is the Lord" Accept
MIN. serve him. wait FOR him. II
only as we stand In such relationship
to him that. after employing the psalm.
lists question, "And now. Lord. what
wait l forT we ran confidently npply
the consolation In his words that fol-
my hope Is In thee"