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Meade County news., 1918-01-03
APPROPRIATE.

"Jaggs kept insisting that he saw
a lot of snakes and they were all
black snakes"
But, then, Jaggs is in mourn.
ing"
Meade County news., 1918-01-03
QUESTION OF TIME.

'Was that Jack l saw, with his
arm around you?"
81 don't know. How long ago
did you Iook?'
Meade County news., 1918-01-03
MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.

Nanny, what YOU goin' to gib
me ON nah birthday?'
Muffin, if yo's a good child"
Brooklyn Citizen.
Meade County news., 1918-01-03
RIGHT IN LINE.

"My foreign friend is always pratt
Ting about the crown of jewels"
Bring him out and show him oul
own local diamond"
Meade County news., 1918-01-03
HIS CLASS.

"Your husband is always chatting
one, isn't he, MS. Comeup?"
eyes, indeed. | tell him he is
quite chauffeur"
Meade County news., 1918-01-03
TOO HIGH FLOWN.

"Shall we have some oSculatory
diyersions?"
"Oh, no just let's have some plain
kissing games.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Some of the new hats arc SO '"''"nle'
that they seem oeerdone
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Some time before the days of mid
summer have really arrived, merchants
assemble stocks of silk street suits,
ready to be presented when the first
hot day comes. These midsummer
suits Ore almost unframed, but are
carefully designed and distinguished
BY smart style-touches and niceties OF
finish that place them close to the
formal suit class. Clever women
sometimes take their graceful but
plain suits and tone them up with a
little effective hand work, but even
without that, they are equal to almost
any demand.
There are many pretty suits of heavy
taffetas and of gros-de-londre In the
displays. One of the new taffeta suits
Is shown in the picture and 1t could
hardly be simpler or palmer, but 1t Is
remarkably good style. The coat opens
to the bust line, differing from earlier
STYLES which were open to the waist
line. 1t has q short, f'aring skirt por-
ton with three plaits at each side and
little dip in front, all very crisp
and spirited. Flat, white pearl but
tons fasten 1t. They invite the add
ton of a white pique vestee and col
lar and white cuffs. Altogether tboy
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

a tablespoonful of melted fat. Season
with salt and pepper.
Why not utilize the asparagus in its
season to lend flavor to substitute
dishes? When combined with milk
and eggs it makes very nutritious as
well as palatable dish suitable for the
main dish of meal.
Asparagus Souffle.
Cook bunch of asparagus cut into
pieces in boiling sailed water until
soft. Mash to pulp or grind through
a food chopper. Make white sauce
by melting one tablespoonful of fat In
saucepan, stirring into it one-half tea
spoonful of cornstarch, one-quarter
teaspoonful of pepper, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, and adding one-half
cupful of milk Stir until smooth and
cook until thick. Add the asparagus
pulp to the white sauce. Beat the
yolks of three eggs until thick and
lemon colored and add to first mix
ture. Beat white of eggs very stiff
and fold in. Turn into buttered bak-
ing dish and bake in moderate oven
until firm to the touch.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Preparations for Canning.

The first steps In all canning, says
the United States department of ag-
riculture, consist in the preparation
and cleaning of containers and in the
preparation of the products to be
canned by washing, pairing, trimming,
and cutting into pieces where division
Is necessary.
Those engaged in the work should
start with clean hands, clean utensils,
clean, sound, fresh pSpducts, and pure,
clean, soft water. No vegetables or
fruits which are withered or unsound
should be canned. If possible, only
fruits and vegetables picked the day
of canning should be used. Peas and
corn, which lose their flavor rapidly,
should be canned, in fact, within five
hours If choice product is desired.
Before the preparation of the prod
ucts is begun the containers should
be washed If glass or crockery jars
are used they should be placed In a
vessel of cold water over a fire to
heat. They will then be hot and
ready for use when the products have
been prepared for packing.
All grit and dirt should be washed
carefully from the materials to be
used. All products should be graded
especially for ripeness. Large fruits
and vegetableA should be pared II
necessary, and small fruits, berries
and greens picked over carefully.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

There is nothing for 1t but to knit
and knit and then knit some more
and carry on. She who does not must
be forever explaining why not. It's
an obligation and all that we have to
show that our hearts are in the right
place are knitting needles, knitting
bags and such things.
The four hundredth pair of socks
may prove just a little monotonous,
add the spice of variety to our daily
lives. At the ribbon counters they
are showing some immensely clever
ones along with other work bags and
"catch-alls." Those who spend their
time thinking of new things in bags
have grown to be such adopts that
life at the ribbon counter promises
to become one continual round of
joyous new bags-from now until the
end of the year. Then-unless the
war Is over-they will begin all over
again with 1919 knitting bags.
A new arrival that charms every
one is a knitting bag that looks like
a little umbrella. 1t is made of silk
Or strips of ribbon, sewed together
and cut into a circle. The circle is
cut out In six scallops at the circum-
ference and the points Of these seal
lops are sewed to the ends of the
narrow strip that forms the handle
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
BELTS WORN IN OTHER DAYS
Prevailing Style Dates Back to Middle
Ages, When Soldier Wore Belt
of Metal Plates.

The first belts chronicled In the his
tory of costume design are recalled by
those put forth this season, to meet
tho demand for belts on suits, belts
on dresses, belts for separate skirts,
belts for sweaters, belts for every kind
Of wear, q writer states. While the
use and beauty Of band to bind the
garments at the waist was definitely
recognized in preceding ages, the his
tory of belts as articles of wearing APP
parel is taken by many writers to be-
gin in the old days of "merrle Eng
land" The soldier of the Middle
Ages wore, over his armor, belt of
small metal plates linked with rings
These are duplicated today in metal
and leather belts for sweaters. The
knights on the jousting field and in the
banquet hall wore leather or velvet
belts, richly mounted with carved and
enamel-inset metal. These have
served as models for the bedizened af'
fairs sent forth this spring.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

| three scallops at each end of the
strip. Then the handle is slipped
through a small slide made of the
ribbon and when it is drawn through.
the bag falls in the form of an UNI
brella. The tassel Is sewed at the
center of the circle of silk.
Work bags that will serve for
knitting as well as other kinds of
work are made of strips of plain
and brocaded ribbon sewed together
lengthWise like that shown at the
right of the umbrella bag. The top
is cut in scallops and draws up on
narrow satin ribbons that run through
casing sewed along the base of the
scallops In the plain ribbon. Small
rings sewed at the sides of the bro
caded ribbon are covered with cro-
Chef silk and the narrow ribbon hang
ers pass from the casing through
them.
Below this bag smaller workbag
is gathered over large gasl rings. 1t
Is made of plain satin rib bon joined
with shirrings over cord and finished
with silk tassels. The bag at the
right is made of narrow strips of rib
bon feather stitched together. It's
mouth is small embroidery hoop so
it is always open and ready to catch
what may be dropped into it. 1t
hangs from four cords OF silk and Is
finished with tassel,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Lime as a Disinfectant.

The simplest things are the things
most likely to be forgotten. 1t is
never out of place, therefore, at this
season of the year for all of us to
refresh our memories to the fact that
ordinary quicklime is one of the best
and cheapest of disinfectants. To two
pounds of unslaked lime pint Of
water Is added. When the Jumps
have crumbled and the heat generated
in the process of shaking has disap-
peared, there is added four volumes
of water to one of the slaked lime,
making the mixture known as milk
of lime" 1t furnishes one of the
best of disinfectants for sick-room
discharges. Whtewashng fences.
pens and the interior of outhouses
with 1t tends TO render them more
sanitary. The unslaked lime scat
tered about dairy barns, lots and
yards simplities the problems Of sani-
tation.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Frill Epoch For
Children'S Wear

New York DO not take the fashion
of children's clothes for granted. DO
not fall into the error of going on the
old methods. There Is as much ebb
and flow in the tide of juvenile cos
tumery as In adult, so watch straws
and then go with the current, Is the
advice of prominent fashion writer.
Patterns cannot be handed down
from one child's wardrobe to another.
What was worn last season is usually
out Of the picture by the time the new
season begins.
Things were not always according
to this schedule of variation. For CEN
turtles children were dressed alike.
Glimpse backward over the portraits
that hang In our museums to prove
this. The torturous clothes that were
put on infants three centuries ago will
most probably make the modern wo-
man, filled to the eyes as she Is with
the schedules of hygiene and santa
ton, want to scream aloud at the mis-
cry that was inflicted.
Even the wooden sabots and long
full skirts of the small Dutch girl,
with her white rabbit, stirs In the
mother of the moment violent feel
ing of reform. We grieve far more
for the discomfort of the young man
than for the actual grief of the old.
As near to nudity as the law allows
has been the modern Interpretation Of
children's clothes, and we have felt
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
For Afternoon Occasions.

In most trousseaux there are num-
Der Of dainty afternoon costumes, for
so many affairs take place now by
Neutrality-suspicious., war relief ba-
zaars, fetes and the like. Such frocks
are of satin, Of foulard and satin, In
combination, of embroidered chiffon
over satin, of silk poplin, of mohalr
and worsted weave and other lustrous,
supple fabrics. Straight lines are ad-
hered to, but trimmings Of embroidery,
of filet lace, of beads, of tasseled
sashes and so on give plenty of variety
and distinction.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

make this suit irresistbly cool LOOK.
ing and that Is the charm of charms
in midsummer. White pumps and
stockings might be worn with 1t to
the best advantage.
Among these new silk suits there is
one having coat with three founces
set In across the back that is very
pretty. 1t has narrow pockets set on
at each side with rows of small but
tons, and a belt of the silk. These
belts, in many silk suits, extend around
the waist in the most straightforward
and matter-of-fact manner, which is
another point Of departure from
style in cloth suits. The most popular
colors are navy, taupe and black, but
light colors, as sand gray or white
have daintiness that coIDpensates
for their being shorter lived
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

The loose girdles which slip well
over the hips on this springs suits for
American women, are reproductions OF
the sword belts worn In England CEN
turtles ago, even to their fastening at
the side. And the stiff leather belts,
clasped firmly about the long cloth
coats, are just such as were worn by
the grooms, to give firm hold for
their mistresseS, mounted postillion
fashion on horseback behind them.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
ASPARAGUS MOST
DELICIOUS Dish
Housewife Should Make Most of
Vegetable While 1t Is Avail
able for Use.
EXPERTS GIVE GOOD ADVICE
Numerous Ways of Serving, All OF
Which Are Excellent - Stand In
Pitcher of Cold Water to Re-
move All Bits of Sand.

The only bad thing about asparagus
is that it doesn't last long enough.
Therefore, make the most of this de-
Iicious vegetable while 1t Is here.
Serve 1t as often as possible in your
meals. If you have an asparagus bed
put up few jars for winter use.
There are numerous ways of serving
asparagus-all of them good. New,
tender, juicy stalks of uniform size
are very attractive served whole. A
good way to remove the bits of sand
which collect under the scales is to
stand the bunch of asparagus tips
down In a pitcher of cold water for
an hour. Wash each stalk carefully,
then tie in a bundle with all of the
TIPS in the same direction. Cook in a
deep pan, the stalk ends down as they
are tougher. Cover with boiling sailed
water and cook for about 20 to ~
minutes. Remove from the water just
ms soon as tender, take off the string,
butter, and serve on platter.
If the asparagus is not of uniform
length or size it Is better to cut 1t
into pieces before cooking. Cook I'M
I'll tender and serve with a white
sauce. Asparagus served In this way
resembles green peas in flavor and is
sometimes called asparagus peas"
A popular way of cooking asparagus
In the past has been TO cut 1t in pieces,
boil it in water and serve with butter
or cream sauce on toast. This re-
quires bread however, which we are
trying to save. The following is a
good substitute method aid by 1t every
portion of both rice and asparagus is
| VcaH
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Asparagus With Rice.

To each pound of asparagus allow
one-half cupful of uncooked rice, one
level teaspoonful Of salt, one and one
half cupfuls of water and a rounded
tablespoonful of fat. Use a double
boiler. Cut the harder portions of the
asparagus, which has been washed
carefully to remove sand, into one
quarter-inch pieces and cook them In
sailed water twenty minutes In the
top of the double boiler directly on the
stove, not over hot water. Add the
remainder of the asparagus cut into
inch pieces and the rice. Cook over
hot water until both asparagus and
rice are soft. Add the butter. If the
rice Is lifted carefully when there is
need of stirring, the asparagus keeps
its form, and In spite of being cooked
with cereal retains its freshness and
julciness. This is a simple yet very
palatahe dish.
Any leftover portion may be served
cold on lettuce with French dress
ing for salad.
Don't neglect to serve your family
with cream of asparagus soup several
times during the asparagus season
To make 1t, grind several stalks OF
raw asparagus through the food chop
per, taking care to save all the juice
Put n half cupful of the ground pull
into the top of double boiler ant
heat over boiling water. Add quar-
of skim milk and thicken with five
/ teaspoonfuls of cornstaFch mixed witt
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

The cape takes on new grace as worn
By the younger generation. I'M
Intensely useful for seashore or coun-
try is this cape of navy blue serge
lined with old rose and blue figured
silk.
that by hardening their legs and arms
through constant exposure In the for
native years, we are handing them a
talisman against weakness and dis
ease in the settled seasons of life.
The elimination Of the garter that
binds, the corset that restricts, the
skirt that hampers, the sleeves that
cover, the shoe that pinches, has aided
the doctor and the teacher.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
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The Palm.

To keep pet palm in order, the
leaves should be sponged carefully
every week. Don't water palms too
often; let the earth become dry, tbon
soak II literally.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13
FEDERAL OFFICIAL
 HELPS MINERS

ANCHORAGE, (By MaiD-To give geological aid to the mining industry in the region tributary to the govern men. railroad is the mission of Theo- dore Chapin, of the United States Geological Survey, who has arrived from Washington, E. C., to establish headquarters in Anchorage. He is accompanied by Mrs. Chapin and they will make their home here.
 MT. Chapin's duties include not only the extending of assistance in any way possible for him to the Alaskan Engin- eering- Confusion, which is building the government railway, but the giv- ing of advisory information to any per sons whomsoever. Quite naturally, his chief work will be in connection with the neighboring coal fields. However, he will devote attention to the de- pos,ts Of ether sorts of minerals His first trip of an official nature will be to the Matanuska coal fields.
 If mere time than MT. Chapin has at his disposal is required in the prose- cution of his duties, the geological sur vey, on his recommendation will de- tail an additional specialist to the An ehorage office.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13
LEAVING FOR SIX MONTHS

Mrs. c. A. Reynolds and son Cyril, are planning to leave tomorrow on a southbound boat for an extended trip in the South to visit with Mrs. Key holds son, A. B. Reynolds of Portland. After a week or so there Cyril will go to Red Bluff, to stay with his brother L. c. Reynolds, until the fall term of school opens, when he will return to Portland and enter Jefferson High for the year, not returning here until next summer. Mrs. Reynolds will remain in Portland for six months or so and will be accompanied home by Miss Florence. who will go south month before her mother returns to come back with her here.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13
AUSTR0-BULCARIAN
 FORCES ON THE RUN
The French Repori More Gain and the Capture of Five Hundred Prisoners. They Made Material Gain
 Between Montddier and Disc

PARIS, July l3:he French forces drove forward over mile three mile front between Castle and MailyRameval; took Castle and captured five hundred Germans the war office statement says
 During night French made thrust the German Mondder and the Disc river and gained quarter of a mie
 British Capture Prisoners
 LONDON, July 13The British forces during the night captured ninetysix prisoners Levieux Bergun Flanders front
 British Send Help
 LONDON, July 13-The British government is sending siderable forces the urman according to the flee statement.
 Todays dispatches indicate that million allied troops are pushing the offensive Balkans with all vigor
 dispatch from Rome received this morning The allied forces in Albania advancing rapidly.
 Hindenburg is Reported Dead.
 AMSTERDAM, July l3.--Fed Marshal Hndenburg is dead according to the Les Nouvee Death occurred after stormy interview with the Emperor at Spa.
 The Emperor and the d Marshal said to have had ser differences of operation concerning German offensive toward Paris Hndenbg said to have died of congestion of the brain followed by apoplectic stroke.
 French Executive Splendid Movement
 WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, July 13-In a superbly ted action carried by the French today southeast Amns brought into their the entire Kouveeo plat dominating the region between the rivers Avr Moreu and Noye through which the main railway from Paris to Amiens and which has been the hands of the since March WASHINGTON July 13.-General March today announced that ninety thousand dispatched France during the week. The that three army of 900 each have been definitely organized divisions in France. WASHINGTON July 13-Genera says that the ship ment of troops proceeding without any let up
 Hertlng's Peace Talk Useless.
 WASHING, July 13-Chanceor Herings peace balloon is useless this authorities declare today whether not he is serious makes difference they say as never the nations fighting Germany mer in uiy and determination in the struggle.
 Austrian German internal may be growing worse and having influence Hertng remarks that It argued that are all the victory they
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13
THE BRITISH
 WILL HELP
 THECZECHO
Bo|sheviki Forces Aided by German Prisoners Are
 Adv ancing

WASHINGTON. July 13.-British achievements have been dispatched to Siberia, according to official infor. nation received here today. The re. Inducements are said to be to assist the Russian CzechoSlovaks in guard. ing the allies stores from the attack by the Bolsheviki forces aided by Ger man war prisoners who are said to be advancing upon Vladivostock.
 The demand for help was made at the instance of the military authorit- ies at Vladivostock. Both Japan and China have been notified of the action taken and it is possible that the form CT will be ready to give hand in case of necessity.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13
FLOOD WATERS DO
 NOT DAMAGE RAILROAD

ANCHORAGE, (By Mail)-While the flood waters this season in the Talkeetna rivers were unusually high, nc material damage was occasioned to the grade of the government railroad.
 The Talkeetna river flows into the Susitna river at point about 11u miles north of Anchorage. Near the junction of the two streams and for stretches of considerable lengths south of there, the Susitna parallels the railroad grade. Flood waters at times reached the grade, but did not injure it.
 The movement of ice at the break up this spring in the Susitna river manifested especially terrific force. The ice badly eroded the banks of the river.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-13

 SPEECH IS
 CRITICIZED
Belgium, He Says is Only A Pawn to be Used In
 The Future

COPENHAGEN, July 1S.-One of the local papers quoting freely from the German Chancellor's speech in the reichstag yesterday. quotes this morning the chancellor as saying: The present possession of Belgium by Germany only means that we have a pawn for future negotiations" It says that Hertling repeatedly assert ed that both President Wilson and MT. Balfour were wishing the destruction Iof Germany.
 The writer commenting on the speech concludes that the chancellor is feeling his way to get out from under the allied apparent design with as much honor as possible.