davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
SUGARLESS STYLES FOR THE 1918 COOKIE JAR

roll. Roll onequarter inch thick, crease 81 ghtly
cut in squares and bake.
"Crisps" wholesome, inexpensive and
toothsome.
"A cup shortening tablespoonsful brown
tabespoonsful flour or maple sugar
l cup any finely ground Y cup milk
wheat preparation y teaspoonful salt
Tor fine oatmeaD
12 toaspoonful baking powder
Cream shortening and sugar, add -four and
other ingredients, and enough more -four to roll
Let stand in cebox overnight, if possible Roll
very thin (use the creased rocr) and cut in strips
by !. inches. Bake in moderate oven until
brown.
Lace Cookies are among the most delicious
cookies made
egg cups rolled oats
Il cup shortening u teasnoonfu) salt
"a cup brown or maple l teaspoonfu baking
sugar powder
Flavor with vanilla and nutmeg or use little
pounded candied orange peel, if at hand. Mix
well and drop by teaspoonsfu into the dripping
pan Let them stand a moment when done before
removing from pan, knife under each
carefully and quickly.
Mrs. Smiths Cookies are another delicious,
rolled oats product.
Y cup shortening 8 tablcspoonsful milk
y cup brown sugar Il teaspoonful soda Gin
l egg the rilk)
! cup rolled oats l3 cup chopped rasins
l scant cup white or rolled in flour
rye -four
Mix we'll and drop in tins, allowing room to
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
By FLORENCE TAFT EATON

Cake making is fast becoming one of the
lost arts. And for cake serving, l should
be very apprehenslve as to the result of the
shock if there should now be offered a plate
of old fashioned cake, with eggs, butter and
white -four literally advertising themselves in
every slice of its delicious richness and real
old-fashioned "frostng" dark or light, tempt
ing us with its soft, creamy abundance
However, some sweets we must have, and
"cookies" lend themselves well as a substitute
for cake, as really needed addition to many
sparsely sweetened simple desserts, as an ac-
compartment to a refreshing and inexpensive
coup O tea" as an allowable treat for the
little ones.
Even in these days of substitution and con-
servation it is still permissible to fill the
cookie jar with toothsome and appetizing COM
binations requiring little or no sugar few eggs
and a portion only of white -four or none at
all. AS for butter, oeo, "drppngs" or any
good and less expensive "shortening" take
its place so successfully that it's absence can
never be detected. In fact, some of the fol-
lowing recipes often preferred when we
could make our choice without reference to
saving these materials
Oatmeal Waters are prime favorite with
the men folk, young and old.
cup finely ground oat Y cup milk
meal 10 tea asnoonfu1 cod, ,;s
(Sometm called "baby solved in niIt Ill '
oatmeal "a teaspoonful if sugar
cup rye -four is used -
IL cup molasscs - tcasDoonfu salt
N"io"i' sugar may pc Little nutmeg, vanilla
substituted if de or grated oronoe
sircd) noel ~ '''se
u cup shortening
Beat well as the waters are being combined and
add enough white -four to roll thin Run a rrooved
roller over the dough, cut in fancy shapes and
bake.
Molasses Snaps are always popular and keen
well if given a chance
! cup molasses tcaspoonfuI soao
u cup shortening Flour IN roll
! tablespoonful ginger (A rye or buckwhcat
''"0poon'ul SAT- flour may be sub
stituted)
Let molasscs come TO boil and pour if over
shortening, spices and salt. Allow to cool and
add enough -four (haif substitute as indicatcd) to
stlhen Let stand on ice hour or two or mix
the day before baking. Roll ycry thin, crease cut
and bake
Graham Cookies delicious and little
"differcnt"
2 cups graham -four egg
J cup moi st brown sugar l-3 cup milk
10 cup shoftenng tcnspoonfu salt
teaspoonful baking rowder
Add little white -four If more is required to
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

more flavor than the white flour products.
A few typical recipes that will bear out
this contention are appended. All of them
are better than 20 per cent substitutes, gen.
orally reaching the so per cent mark:
BROWN BREAD
Zone small loaf)
l cupfu cornmeal l teaspoonful baking
l cupful rye meal powder
1a teaspoonful salt Il cupful molasses
Il tcaspoonful SODA ] cupful milk
Put in a coffee Zone pound) or two baking
powder (one-half pound) and steam three
hours
SURPRISE BISCUIT
l cupful white -four teaspoonsful baking
u cupful colnmeal powder
y cupfu graham -four u teaspoonful salt
tablespoonsful butter
Cold water to make soft biscuit dough
Sft together the white -four. baking powder
and salt; add the cornmeal and graham -four and
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

Fig. "a fywheel, hand-pOwer
type of mill with a c0nicaI grind
er designed primarily for Pern1a
nenf mounting. Turns easily affe
momentum is obtained, and fine
ness OF flour is easily regulated.
Fig. 3-The crank-handie type with
disk grinder. Resembles q meat
chopper, and like it can be mount
ed upon q table and detached when
NOT ir use. Easily operated for
coarse grinding; fneness OF prod
uct is readily controlled by re-
grinding or by regulating screw.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09

editorial chambers of the newspaper
which Judge Darling controls, in Satur-
days issue of which appears a front
page, illustrated feature exploiting the
work of its principal owner in connec-
ton with the Red Cross.
The Herald should be sorry to believe
Judge Darling a party to any attempt
to make political capital out of the
Red Cross movement. 1t believes that
he, as well as thousands of other patriot
lie VermOnters, gave time and money
freely to this noblest of causes solely
because of its need and its peculiar
merit.
The attempt of certain newspapers,
outside of Burlington, as well as IN,
to connect up Judge Darling's candi-
dacy for governor with his Red Cross
activities will most certainly and in
evitably react-and they ought to re-
act.
The Herald has too high a regard
for Judge Darling as a high-minded,
public spirited, unselfish Vermonter to
believe that he will permit either his
own newspaper or other newspapers to
place him in such sordid light before
his contemporaries as this political Red
Cross exploitation comes to.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Q. 1918.
FOOD CRISIS ACUTE.

The latest from Washington. in rela-
ton to the food situation in our allied
countries of Europe as described by
their respective food controllers, is any
thing but reassuring. As the dispatches
from our national capital state, "the
fact that conditions in Germany and
Austria are far worse offers the only
grounds for optimism in viewing the
situation The requisition of the
wheat crop in France, with the reduc-
ton of the bread allowance to seven
ounces daily for every person except the
very poor and those doing hard manual
labor, conveys an idea of conditions in
that country; the announcement that
compulsory rationing Will be started i'm
mediately in England, with meats as
the first commodity to be put under
strict government control, throws side
light on the British crisis, and the as
sertion that in Italy conditions, are
worse, if anything, than in either Eng
land or France serves to round out an
impressivelv serious state of affairs
All of which emphasizes and inten-
SITES the fact, says the Manchester
Union. that we Americans have our
work cut out for us--our farmers in pro-
| ducing food as they never have pro
duccd it before, and our consumers in
practieing an unprecedented policy of
conservation in food products As many
of US as had thought of the war as a re-
mote, impersonal thing, a sort Of dread
full nightmare, but not as a spectre men.
acing our immediate persons and prop
erty, have more poignant apprecia
tion of its actually now. with our owr
flesh and blood on the fring-lin That
fring-line is in Europe today; it vii
come TO America, if our farmers and our
consumers fail to do their respectiv,
parts. Whatever course military STRAIT
cgy may take, the final battle field o
the war is already fixed. The Waterlo
of the Prussian autoerat and all tina
he stands for, or the Waterloo of Amer
: lean libertv-the end of autocracy o
/ the end of democracy-the end o
/ Prussianism or the end of freedom
II will be achieved on the battle-f fields @
American farms and in the STRATEGY
II councils of American kitchens
|, The war has sounded call to dut
l to every individual throughout civiliz;
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
No La Folletteism in Barre.
{ Barre Times.

What is the matter with the Barre
branch of the Red Cross? At recent
" advertised meeting the only persons
present were the president and the vice
president, and the former sent III his
resignation the next morning, saying
that there seemed to be ''lack of CO.
operation. Lack of cooperation,
Great Scott, We should think it was
something worse than that-almost
clear La Folletteism.-Br attleboro Re
former.
Don't worry, neighbor. Perhaps you
failed to notice that 2,o2l Red Cross
members were secured in Barre III the
Christmas week drive, bringing Barre S
total to point in the vicinity of 5000.
Perhaps. too, YOU did not see the item
in The Times of Jan. 3, stating that
the Barre Red Cross during the month
of December completed and sent III
weaters, SO pair of wristers, "A pairs
of service socks. two pairs OF hospital
socks, two pairs of mlttens, 10 helmets
| five scarfs, six caps, rs pillows, p con.
valescent gowns, Is surgical shirts, .
suits of pajamas, 81 napkins, six tray
cloths, six shoulder wraps and various
knitted cotton articles. There certainly
was no comfort for the kaiser III that
contribution from Barre; nor was there
any indication of La FolletteIm. WheI
it comes to working for the Red Cross
Barre attends right to its knitting, al
belt some of the meetings for talking
may not be largely attended
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
Two Kinds of HUNGER.

The mother who ia sole parent may
feel compelled to go ont to work. and
in 50 doing she will change her ideas.
Her employment outside will not be
all loss to her children. But she should
realize that her fatherless children
want much more from her than decent
meals and tidy frocks. IT she has TO
strive to replace her husband she may
have to do q man s work, and she
ought to get q man S pay for it. But
with the pay she must bring home
something TO educate and amuse her
children. She must not wholly ignore,
as she often does, the hunger of the
childish mind. 1t is hard to ask WON
en-, with their lesser strength of body,
to perform this double parental task
in the upbringing Of their children.
But it is necessary if the child Is not
to suffer. So many women are guilty
of this sort of neglect only because
they do not quite realize the craving
OF the mind for knowledge. No moth
er alive to her duties allows herself to
be satisfied when she has fed the chill
dren s hunger with material things
She realizes that there is greater hun
ger than this-the hunger of the mind
Exchange
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
FL DADlY'S[y[NNl|
k,N [AIRY TALE
.4 81 fiAQY GRAHAN BONNER. |
OUNCE CAPS.

"The brownies, gnomes, oaf family.
bogeys. elves, fairies and COLLINS We're
all getting little nervous" said
Daddy
'Of course in Fairyland there is
not the same sort of school life at all,
but there are judges OF good deeds and
judges Of bad deeds and judges of
those who try to do better and those
who don't try to do as well as they
can.
Every time little woodland crea-
ture is selfish or unkind, down goes
a bad mark and at the end of the
year Witty Witch, old Mr.. Giant and
the Queen of Fairies read out the
names of every creature and how the
marks stand.
The woodland creatures had heard
that old Mr.. Giant and Witty Witch
had been making a great many Ounce
caps with the Fairy Queen"
why would they have to wear
Ounce caps?" asked Nancy. "They
don't study Spelling and arithmetic
and one can only be Ounce in les
sons"
ooh no." said Daddy, there are 9TH
err things that one can be a Ounce
about. It's extremely stupid as well
as unkind to hurt any one for it is
really hurting the person himself. And
that would always bring a bad mark
I in Fairyland.
I There are good marks to be gained
( by little unselfish acts and kind things
that are done when fhey are not boast
ed of. For the Fairy Queen thinks
that half the good leaves d kind act
when any one boasts Of doing it..
ut was the day for the marks to be
read out.
'''Oh,' said one little fairy. how aw,
full 1t would BE to have to wear {
Ounce cap. l can't imagine anything
so dreadful"
lit would be awful they all said.
"'Oh DEAR said one of the brown
les, how | wish l could live the year
over again and do lot of things
missed doing
81 did lots of things I wish I hadn't,
said one of the gnomes.
It's too bad we can't take thing
back we've done, said little elf. w,
always know better afterwards
Its so hard to think ahead sal,
one Of the bogeys.
Just then great bell sounded
through the woods and the voice o
Mr.. Giant was heard calling out:
1.-The marks will now be read Tn
prizes will be given out. And tn
Ounce caps are mader
| Every woodland creature felt shiy
| cry feelings as the Ounce caps wer
seen. There upon three thrones 50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
DAILY REFORNfER:

ton. No longer is the course of indi-
vidual life 10 be considered in terms of
self Our business il to win the war.
TO some Of us the call comes to march
away to the fighting front; to others
it comes for the organization and ad-
ministration of parts of the great war
machine; to the American farmer comes
the call to feed the forces which are
fighting for world liberty-and to ev-
cry man, woman and child comes the
call to save food. Is America equal to
the occasion? The answer depends on
every individual American.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
The Fairy Queen Arose First.

the Fairy Queen, Witty Witch and Mr..
Giant. They did not look angry il
the least.
The Fairy Queen arose first.
Little creatures Of Tie woods and
of Fairyland,' she said, we made the
Ounce caps to fill you with the fear of
how dreadful it would be to have to
wear one. / am thinkful to say that
no one will have TO wear Ounce cap
Some have made mistakes, but / know
they are sorry for them ana that this
next year we will have a far finer
record
"Oh, how glad the little creatures
were that none of them would have
TO wear Ounce caps. But they had
been taught a lesson-the lesson
which told them how they would feel
If ever they vert really mean or bad
"Then Witty Witch spoke. we want
to remember all the things we wish
we hadn't done this past year, and we
don't want to do them again-for if
we do-dear me, there will have to be
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09

The work of local correspondent of
country newspaper is largely a labor
of love. II is important, however, in
keeping the town and its interests be
fore the public in the other towns of
the county and to the larger consti-
tuency of former residents who have
gone to other fields. H. A. Blake, who
died recently in Sutton, had sent the
news of that little town to the st.
Johnsburv Caledonian 40 years without
a break. This is a remarkable record,
and Mr. Blake rendered a service
which many readers had enjoyed, even
though they may not have given an ap-
preciative thought to the writer who
reflected the life of the community in
a good paper through period of near
lv a half century.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09

President Wilson is in full accord
with Lloyd George in defining the war
aims of the allies, including the Unit
ed States. His statement is even
stronger than that Of the British pre-
mier. He points out clearly that there
can be no peace until Germany con
sents to restore all subjugate posses
sions, establishes the independence of
Poland and rights the wrong of the
Alsace Lorraine seizure in 1871. Tho
determination of the allies to help Rus
STA to a stable government is also EN-
phasized. Perhaps the bitterest part
of the declaration from a TeutoniC
standpoint is the statement that wher
peace terms are finally made Germany
must be represented by Spokesman OF
the German people and not Of the pow
ors of militarism which forced the wal
upon the world.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09

more Ounce caps made. But now we
are going to use them for a bonfire.
"'To welcome in the New Year said
old Mr.. Giant, we will have bonfire
of the Ounce caps and we will hope
that next year we will have a still
finer set of marks 20 read out. Let's
start afresh.' And as he said that he
blew his trumpet, read the marks
aloud, and the bonfire Of the Ounce
caps suddenly blaZed up.
$50 was the New Year begun by the
little woodland creatures, and oh, such
good resolutions as they did make
so many fine things they were going
to do, nice little unselfish things. AnC
among them they were going to help
children by telling them that they {
grow to be greater and finer men and
women if they were thoughtful Of 9th
ers-all others, children. grownups ant
our good friends the animals anC
birds"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09

1t may cause some speculation as 20
why the Italians are able, after their
disastrous retreat, to hold back the best
the Teutons have to offer The answer
is not to be found in the assistance Civ
en- by the British and French, for the
Teutons were fought to a standstill be-
fore assistance reached Italy at all
The old Italian line from Val Sugana
the valley of the Brenta-across Toll
mino and thence down the Isonzo was
nearly 300 miles long. The present line
from the Brenta to the mouth of the
Piave is only about 20 miles long. We
thus have a concentration of the italian
front of about 230 miles. This more
than offsets the Italian loss in men and
practically offsets the loss in artillery
A short line is always more readily held
Particularly is this true in very noun.
famous country, where the fighting is
not done by continuous line, but by
groups of men struggling for individual
positions. 1t is just this condition
which prevails on the Italian front
That the people of Northern Italy hav,
confidence in their army to hold is seer
| in the announcement that the school
of Venice, which have been closed sew
eral weeks in fear of the invaders, ar
to be re-opened.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
The Wise Husband.

Mr.. Barton lived in a suburban town.
His wife asked him TO purchase a shirt
waist for her while i'll New York. After
telling the s3lesgirl what he was after,
s.le displayed number.
Here are some verv pretty ones.
What color do You prefer?'' she said.
1t doesn t make any difference,
replied Mr.. Barton.
Doesn t make any difference. cx-
claimed the salosgirl. tWhy, don I
you think vour wife would like a GER
tain color2''
No, il makes no difference what col
or | get or what size. l shall have TO
come back tomorrow to have it
changed. New York Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
FREE OF CHARGE.

Why suffer with Indigestion. dyspep
STA, torpid liver, constipation, soTr stom
ach, coming up-of-foo after-eatinS. etc.
when you can get a sample bottle Of
Green's August Flower free at Will
fred F. Root s drug store. This medi-
cine has remarkable curative properties,
and has demonstrated its efficiency by
fifty years of success Headaches are
often caused by a disordered stomach.
August Flower is put up in so and
90 cent bottles. For sale in all civilized
countries.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
Little Benny's
Note Book
Ry LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Mary Watkins and Maud Jonson was
skating up and down On their skates,
and | was skating up and down on mine,
skating backwards and diffrent things
every time saw Mary Watkins look
ing at me, and after vile she started
to skate alongside of me. saving, How
do you like my new hat l got for Kriss-
mas, Benny
Being a red tommo shanter with a
round thing on top, and / sed Fine.
| think its bewtiiill, / think its the best
hat ] ever saw.
0 Benny. how YOU ixaggerate, sed
Mary Watkins, and I sed. No sir, |
think its CRATE hat, ii makes YOU look
even prettier than wat you are eny-
how.
Being a compliment. and Mary Wat.
kins sed, Well | RELY don't think its 50
wonderful, | RELY think | like Maud
Jonsons new hat better, don't you?
Maud Jonsons hat being big flat
one, and | sed, G, I think hers is fearse
yours beats hers mile. tommo shant
er is better than a fiat hat eny day
Now, Benny, | think you must b,
lest saying that to be polite, sed Mary
Watkins, and | sed. No | amt, either
WV, if l had Maud Jonsons hat do yoJ
know wat ID do with it?
No, Wat? Sed Mary Watkins, and
sed, Jump on it and then throw it away
Well | think you're perfeckly horrid
and if YOU RELY wunt to know, Maud
Jonson is wearing my new hat and In
wearing hers, jest for fun, sed MARY
Watkins.
And she started away looking proud
and | thawt, G. And I skated mp il
the next block and stayed there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
FOR WOMEN WHO WORRY.

Worry and 1.-the blues are usually
linked together, and in many cases are
due to some functional arrangement
which if not corrected may lead TO
more serious ailments. More outdoor
life, sleep, waterdrinking and few
week : treatment with that good otd-
fashioned root and herb remedy, LYDIA
+. Pinkham 3 Vegetable Compound,
will revitalize and strengthen the sys-
tenn and work wonders for any woman.
If Won are prone to worry and the
blues try it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service In the delivery Of
the paper each night, and II solicits the
CO. operation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure TO receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission. in person,
by telephone or postal card thus enabling
tho cause Of the error to be promptly and
accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t Is only
by this method that the publisher can Sc
cure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
What Canadian Women arc Doing

\ woman writes in tie January
Woman 5 Home Companion:
: We found that our Canadian army
IN training contained scores Of boys
without mothers o. near relatives
Through the y. VI. G. \. workers ia
the camps we obtained a list Of names
which these boy. furnished us. When
they went abroad, we followed them
with letters, newspapers magazines and
occasional boxes Of homemade goodies
We visit tho military hospitals in To-
ront2. hunt up the boys who have no
friends here, send them fr, and flow
as and have a chat with I'M Nurses
say they look eagerly for our coming.
As our home is neaeiv an hCur s ride
from the hospital, my daughter and !
knit during the journey. W always
keep two Or three pieces Of work going
at time, and If friend drops in, we
offer her garment TO war OIL while
we chat. In two years a.d'a Half we
have knitted one hundred and SIX llil
OF socks, besides caps, searfs, gloves
cholera helt5 and mitts The lesson We
Canadian women have learned is K
make minutes Is wei as h2Hra count
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-09
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Plumley On Hosiery War Service Con


Charles \. Plumlev, president of the
Vermont Hosiery & Machinery com
pany of Northfeld is named as the
Vermont member of the hosiery war
service committed Pursuant to reso-
buttons adopted at the war convention
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States of America held in At
lantie City in September last, commit
tees of knitting manufacturers have been
named as important units of the war in
dustrie5 board. II is the plan of the
Chamber OF Commerce of the United
States to have the war service commit
tees vested with authority to represent
their respective industries in their re-
lations with the government during the
war, the object being to have the gov
crnmcnt receive the benefit Of tho sug-
eestions and advice of the industries
involved