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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
Autu mn Chill.

The chilly wind begins to sing. it's been on ice. 1 trow; the
overccat l soaked last spring would be a blessing now. But it will
have to stay in pawn: the cost of hvings high, and all my bank
account is gone. there's not a kopeck night Tho waiIing winds OF
which you've heard blow cold across the lea: gone southwark is the
dicky bird that used TO sing to me; the gentle flowers ar in the
hole. Ger their deao stalks l weep; mi in the elm trees hollow
boie the aardyark lies asleep. The night wind has a dismal note a
sort of piercing whine; and 1 bewal the overcoat my uncle has in
brine. The clouds are banging low today. there is a threat of rain;
the trees are gaunt and bare and gray and in the blast complain
The leaves are hying everywhere, they soar and swoop like bats; and
all the chill October air seems full of dust and hats As though it
had a human throat that cold wind pipes its tune: alas, the good
old overcoat / soaked the tenth of June! oh, other may face
the storm. the biting, arctic breeze. and keep their Stats and innards
all winter I must stay. and wish I had the overcoat I soaked
=
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

"Old Titefist believes in ~conserva-
ton, doesn't he?" remarked Smith.
should say he does" agreed Jones.
why. he shutters so as to make his
words last longer"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

Homer's Fate Warning to Poets.
The greatest poet that ever lived
was a blind beggar. yet when he died
cities fought for the custody Of
his poor, old. weary bones.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Same Old Story.

The oyster keeps away from strife.
He is a peaceful COOP;
He lodges trouble all his life,
Then winds up In the soup.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
FoOeyi

He Is a Stacker, is young Brue.
Though he's a well-born fellow:
And. while he claims his blood is blue,
1 claim that 1t is yellow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Bits OfBy-Pldy
Peace.
BY LUKE McLUkE.
Copyright 1918, the Cincinnati
Enquirer.

Peace.
He's broken every pledge he's made.
Who'd trust the lying HUM
On honest nations he has preyed,
And now he finds he's done.
What he gave Belgium he will get,
Well crush him like a snake;
And when Hun blood repays that debt.
Our peace terms we will make.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

The doctor says my father is a dys-
peptic." Dragged Tommy.
What's a dyspeptic?" asked
Johnny.
"A dyspeptic is a man whose meals
don't fit him." replied Tommy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Glad TidinQs.

oh. perfect bliss! Oh. JOY indeed!
To pick the paper up and read:
Hun forces Charge Again in Vain
100,444 Germans Slain
Luke McLuke.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
You Meet Him Every !

1 do not like his Oswald Gawks,
He is a pest, by jingi
He talks. and talks. and talks and
talks,
And never saws q III
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

Wen Locate Hint 4.
Dear Luke: I know that Johnny
From lives in Hamilton. Ohio. but
where Is Johnny From ?-R.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

Goshf
We know hat hotels do o well
come guests without baggage. But
the sign on the wall in each room in
the Twickenham Hotel. Huntsville,
Ala. reads:
Transfer Company Will Not
Handle Baggage Without Guests"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

oh. rapture and oh. Joy complete
To read this headline cross the sheet:
"Foch blocks the Teuton hordes again!
10O, 900 Germans slain"
Detroit Free Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

Firms Is Firms.
Who'd & Coke sell stoves and furnf-
ture at Mt. Pleasant. Tenn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Well, Well!

When Karl Shutit inc Tom Lockett
of Mobile. Ala. were In Atlanta. Ga.
the other day. they called on Isadore
Open.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

Names Is Names.
Mamie Cudd lives in Union, S. G.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

He made a date with his best girl.
His name was Johnny Rooseday;
She stood him up" he had forgot
That 1t was meatless Tuesday.
Billie Z. Wood.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

"Foch Hit Hun a Terrific Blow!"
"Bulgars are Near Their Overthrow
Turks Trying Hard to Get Away!
Those headlines make me glad al
dayl
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17
Houston Post.
Afercyi

Anyway when Lenore b. Still OF
Richmond. Va, gets married. we hope
that her husband will never AVE &C.
casion to address her by her maiden
name.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-17

And never says q thing.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Telescope and Spirit Level
Part of Air Raiders Outfit

If bomb be dropped from an air.
plane 10000 feet up, and travelling at
a speed of 100 miles an hour. it
reaches the ground a considerable dis.
tance ahead Of the point at which It
was released, and the difficulty of
judging how to hit particular build
ing Is enormous.
A machine invented to assist the
raiders has been found on a captured
Gotha. The main feature, says the
London Tit-Bits, is a telescope hung
on gimbals and pointing through the
floor of the bomber's compartment. In
connection with this Is a form of spir-
1t level which brings bubble into the
center of glass disk when the tele-
scope is vertical, so that the bomber
knows when it is in the position that
can be trusted. Below the telescope
is a prism, so that the image seen ia
not an object directly underneath. but
at any desired distance ahead, accord
ing to the angle at which it is set.
For instance, If the airplane is 10000
feet up, and the speed is such that the
bomb must be released half a mile
from the object, the prism has to be
set at an angle of Is degrees. Even
then the calculation is liable to error.
because the density Of different layers
of air may vary.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Potato Menus Provide for
Breakfast, Dinner, Supper

Use potatoes, urges the United
States food administration, making
public a menu which provides pota-
toes from morning until bedtime. Here
It is:
BREAKFAST
Cornmeal mush with dates.
Potato and meat cakes very little meaD.
Coffee. with milk for children.
Mutton stew. Macedoine of vegetables.
Boiled potatoes and lettuce salad.
Soup with potato crotons.
Puffy omelet with tomatoes.
Baked potatoes.
Scotch fancies and chilled fruit.
Potato crotons are made this way:
To one cupful Of mashed potato add
one egg yolk and beat well together.
Spread half an inch thick on fiat oiled
platter and when cold cut In two-inch
squares, then each square diagonally
to form triangular pieces. Brush over
with milk aud brown lightly In the
oven or in a very little fat In the fry
Ing pan.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Soldiers Find Texas Cities
Quite Like Those Back Home

Texans are greatly pleased to find
that United States soldiers from the
North and East have so readily fall
en- into the way of things in the Lone
Star state. The battalions encamped
there are said to express great ad-
miration for Dallas and other Texas
cities. and to admit that they are
something like the cities back home"
And they are. That is one Of the
first discoveries made by anyone who
goes from one place to another in the
United States, observes the Christian
Science Monitor. It becomes monot-
onous after while, to find the towns
and cities are much alike, but mod
ernization has largely done the same
kind of things In Europe. Rome is
every year growing to look more like
London, Paris, and New York. Dali
las, Tex, might be situated in Massa-
chusetts, Illinois, Colorado or Cali
fOrnia, without exciting comment. And
yet there was distinctive architecture
in the different sections of the Ameri-
can Union mot so many years ago.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Optical Glass Playing a Big
Part in the World Conflict
Needed by All Departments

That every field of military endeav-
or depends upon the supply of optical
glass Is the statement recently made
by Prof. Edward w. Washburn of the
department of ceramic engineering at
the University of Illinois.
''The war could not be conducted
without optical glass;" said Professor
Washburn. Telescopes, binoculars, of
ficers' lenses and Photographic plates
for army and navy observation pur-
poses, X-ray bulbs and microscopic
lenses for the medical and sanitary
corps and many other necessary i'm
plements of modern army would be
struck out If it were not for the cera-
mic industry" explained the lecturer.
previous to the war" Professor
Washburn said. Germany manufac-
tured 100 different kinds of optical
glass, an assortment which supplied
the whole world. England boasted
about twenty varieties of glass. The
United States produced none whatever.
Englands product was not nearly suf-
ficient to meet the demand of the al
lies and Britain found it necessary at
the beginning of the war to collect all
field glasses and small telescopes own
ed by citizens"
Doctor Nashburn then told how
America is meeting the SHINE problem
under the direction of a special COM
mittee on optical glass manufacture.
"As result of activities Of this
commission" according to Professor
Washburn. American Industry is now
supplying all the optical glass urgent
ly needed by the army and navy"
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Unpatrioic Hoarding
Sufficient Food Is Being Held in Reserve to Take Care Of
Home Needs First

These the of sharing boarding No live unto
himself alone in time of national peril .-.-
The nations food needs this critical time being carefully
aguaded There enough food being held aay fear
on that Our people will be fed first.
But there quicker empty warehouses than to buy
undue quantities 1t recently discovered by certain federal food
administrator the his had three TO four
years supply of flour laid away.
Suppose every family America hoard this much -four
Picture what that would do the total annual supply of that universally
used commodity which in 1917 66,065 500 barrels.
The food administration prohibiting all boarding Of food supplies
the of dealers No licensed dealer permitted hold food stores
of what reasonable requirements for period 60 days
All this being done protect the individual Therefore there
need for individual boarding
oc to block the normal flow of food supplies this by holding
back than he actually needs for his
Remember these days of sharing. fate awaits
The winning this the set by ALL To make the food
supply hold for the coming months saving mutual
sharing not boarding one from the other.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
AS WE GROW OLD

I'm getting scar and old
l-ave passed Lies day Of gold,
And I'm nearing where the evening breeze
is signing!
Age-dear fellow!-seems to say:
eve have come long, long way.
And there's little left for us that's worth
the trying!'
We have made our journey by
Rocky pathways-Age and L
And we shared whatever Fortune chanced
the giving;
Happy we have been and glad,
Luckless, too, and drear and sad,
But we've cheerful been and known the
love Of living.
Now we've reached the end at last.
Youth and Happiness are past
Tasteless now the cheerful words OF sage
and poet:
"You are DID," the echoes say:
Though we're silent on our way.
In the hearts of us tits very well We
know it.!
Not by gray are we betrayed.
Nor our features do they fade:
It's apparent more In our success at WOO
ing;
We can still charm maids Of Six.
And the "girl" of forty sticks.
But the Queen Of Twenty y-one-there's
nothing doing! +.
John d. Wells. Buffalo Evening News.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Make Your
Own Sugar
By the U. S. Dept. Of Agriculture

By the use of ordinary kitchen
equipment many people are in a posi-
ton to make up the average of 81
pounds of sugar, which Is the average
each person in the United States used
last year. A few sugar maple trees.
well-kept colonies of bees, hundred
feet of sugar beets raised in the gar
den. or small patch Of sweet sOr-
shum, and surplus apples which might
go to waste unless made into apple
sirup may each be made. to contribute
to the sugar supply.
The present limited sugar supply can
he increased If many more families, In
regions where the sugar maple grows,
would each make maple sirup or sugar
from ten or more maple trees. Ten
trees, under ordinary conditions, can
be expected to yield about four gal
Ions of sirup or thirty pounds of sugar.
Maple sugar making is an art the
pioneer settlers of America learned
from the Indians and for years it has
been a home and farm industry. The
one who has the opportunity need hesi-
tate to try it. Find sugar maple tree
ten or more inches in diameter; bore a
hole three-eights of an inch or slightly
more in diameter: insert a metal spout
or one made by punching the pith from
a section of elder; set a bucket under
it that the sap may collect: boil this
down in n kettle or shallow pan on a
kitchen stove to the proper density for
maple sirup. If sugar Is preferred, boil
it down further until it is quite thick.
taking care that it does not burn, and
let 1t crystalline.
"Sugar weather" often starts by the
middle of February in the southern
part of the sugar maple region. The
first sap Is sweetest. There is no time
to be lost in talking; get ready to
take advantage of the first warm,
sunny days. "Old timers" say the out
look is good for good sugar sea-
son.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Prediction That Whiskers
May Be Fad After the War

London newspapers are predicting
the full beard will come into fashion
both in Europe and America as a re-
suit of the war. War always has in
fluenced the style Of whiskers, OBJ
serves the Louisville Courier. even in
the time of Alexander the Great, who
required his soldiers to shave off their
boards because heard was a handle
which an enemy could seize.
The Crimean war in the fifties
brought the full beard into fashion
again. In the campaign British SOL
diers spent months in the trenches
where they had no chance to shave.
Their boards grew and grew and they
wore them when they returned to
England.
The English papers say that many
soldiers coming home, from the
trenches are bearded, and, unless pre-
cedents fail, the full beard is go
ing to come into fashion again. Should
our American troops return from the
war with boards, we may look for that
fashion to become prevalent again in
America as 1t did after the Civil war.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06

The people who indulge in honeyed
phrases seldom have any fear of eating
their own words.
Lenten dishes this year have no
wOrriment for the housewife who has
been keeping lent all winter by meat
less, wheatless, porkless days. Eggs
are at present so high that when using
them the frugal cook tries to extend
them by adding something to the dish
which will give bulk and not deiract
from the attractiveness of it.
One good dish may be made by us,nS
rice with egg. Put'a quarter of Il cup
full of rice we'll washed into n frying
pan with little sweet chicken fat;
fry it until yellow, then add some
chicken broth or. lacking that any
good vegetable liquor which has been
saved because of its mineral content.
Cook until the rice is tender, season
and stir in three eggs, carefully cook
ing, add butter, salt, paprika, and
serve as scrambled eggs. This dish
will serve five or six people, saving
two or three eggs. ..
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
BACKYARD
POULTRY GROWING,

The city or town man who keeps a
small flock of hens not only is saving
money but is helping his country.
Every pound of poultry raised and
every egg laid releases just so much
pork and beef for our armies and al
lies. according to L. w. Burby, poul-
try husbandman stationed at the ag-
ricultrral college by the United
States department of agriculture.
Poultry will not prevent ones grow
ing garden. Twelve hens confined
In pen big enough for exercise and
provided with green feed will furnish
gOodly number Of eggs for food. A
packing DOx and little poultry net
ting are all that Is necessary for build
Ing house and run.
For egg production q rooster should
not be kept, rs he Is noisy and has
a large appetite, but has no influence
on the number of eggs produced.
The poultry grower should not de-
pend too much on table scraps for
feeding his poultry, points out Mr.. Bur-
by. Enough feed should be given to
keep the birds in good condition and
sufficient excess to produce eggs. The
hens will eat vegetable peellngs
and fruit scraps If these are put
through the food chopper and mixed
with little mash. A good mash cor
sists of four parts Of bran, two parts
of shorts, and one part Of high grade
beef scraps, by weight.
Plenty of green feed should be used.
This cuts down the amount of grain
necessary. 1t Is desirable to feed to
the poultry the green weeds and thin
nings from the garden, also the mis-
shapen and wormy vegetables, and
tough corn, unfit for human cOnsump-
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
About the Sun.

"Sun" Is among the words contained
In the latest issued sections of, the
Oxford English dictionary. Eleven
closely printed columns are devoted to
1t. 1t Is quite interesting to find that
the kaiser's famous phrase, "Place in
the sum-" originated with Pascal, who
used 1t to illustrate the beginnings of
tyranny. Yet another well-known
phrase. "On which the sun never sets"
was apparently first used in connection
with the Spanish empire 800 years ago.
Its first application to the British em.
pire was made in the way of a Joke
by Thackeray In the pages Of Punch.
Christian Science Monitor.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
How Red Cross Workers Are
Now Knitting Two Socks at
Same Time for Army Boys

Knitting two socks at one time is an
achievement every war knitter would
like to be equal to- Some of the Red
Cross shops are passing the news
around that it can be done. The dis
cOvery was credited to a Sydney, Aus
tralia, workshop. This shop increased
it's output from $4,000 pairs of socks
one month to 10000 pairs the next by
knitting "twins." Miss Brown, who
came to this country to impart the di-
rections to our Red Cross. gives the
following instructions on knitting twin
socks:
'"The purling for the top of the socks
lis knit separate. When one is finished
take it off with darning needle on to
a heavy cord. When the other is fin
ished slip the first one inside the Sec
Ond one, from the top, and with the
knitting needle take up from first one
and then the other, alternating, begin
ming with the first stitch from the
needle and ending with the last stitch
from the one on the cord. Hold the
sock toward you, purling the first
stitch, which is from the sock that was
on the needle, and knitting the second
stitch from the one that was on the
cord; proceed with the first purl and
then knit, holding the thread over the
first finger for knitting, and soon you
will acquire rhythm.
when you get to the heels take off
as in any sock. AS you turn your heel
always purl the one next to you and
knit the other. To narrow take first
and third stitch, purl them and slip
the needle out, which leaves one stitch
from the opposite sock, which slip onto
your needle and narrow knitting. There
is no slip and bind in this sock. When
finished slip the needles out and take
up your separate socks and bind off.
In purling never put your thread over
always keep it toward you, as if you
are purling back on your heel"
The teacher said that after knitting
three pairs one would become as eff
cient as in knitting the single sock.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Prison. Labor Bill Provides
For Use of Inmates Of Penal
Institutions in Road MAKING

Many state and county administra.
tions are utilizing prison labor in road
work.
Governor Brough of Arkansas has
announced that Is to 100 convicts will
be used continuously on road work In
his state. A sentiment is growing in
favor of imprisoning all vagrapts and
placing them at work on county high
ways. This method of utilizing pris-
on labor. where it Is conducted under
proper conditions, has always had the
Endorsement Of the national committee
on prisons and prison labor. and pro-
vision for road building has been in
corporated in the prison labor bill.
An important feature is that of Re-
quiring the payment Of a wage to the
prisoner. Such a wage will make it
possible for the prisoner to contribute
to the support of his dependents and
at the same time will prevent unfair
competition with free labor. The pas
sage of the bill will give impetus to
the movement for the employment of
Ia ioOhClS III lOuu WOIh dilu Ill OtlleT
occupations affected by the national
emergency.
Ever since the United States entered
the war the demand for utilizing the
prison labor supply confined In the
penal and correctional Institutions Of
the country has steadily increased. Re-
ports made to the national committee
on prisons and prison labor show that
the demand for this labor comes from
practically every organization which
has as its purpose some work related
to the prosecution Of the war. Ma
tional and state ;ood, fuel, freight,
farm and fish commissions are seek
ing prison labor. State and county
commissions are meeting to discuss
the problem. .....
Many Of the proposals made will not
be realized until the passage In con-
gress of the prison labor bill intro
duced by Senator Hoke Smith of Geor-
gia and Representative Charles +.
BoOher Of Missouri. This bill has been
introduced through the efforts Of the
national committee on prisons and
prison labor and the American F9dera-
tion of Labor to promote the nse Of
prison labor in the war emergency and
also to prevent exploitation of the pris-
Oner.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Ten "Kultur" Commandments
Now Prevailing in Germany

1. Thou shalt make thy God craven
thing and use his name to justify thy
own baseness. by.
Q. Thou shalt take his name In vain
whenever thy people show unrest.
3. Remember thou, October IL, 1915,
the glorious day we shot Edith Ca
veil.
4. Dishonor thy father and mother
by the cruelties to the aged.
8. Thou shalt kill for "me und Gott."
6. Thou shalt make light thing of
all virtue and innocence.
z. Thou shalt steal and pillage all
that thine enemy values.
8. Thou shalt bear false witness
against all, so kultur reign supreme.
8. Thou shalt covet thy neighbors
wife and possess her.
10. Thou shalt covet thy neighbor's
goods and seize or destroy them.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
1t Depends.

Mrs. Flatbush-
What does your
husband call your
dog?
Mrs. 3 en- S o n
hurst-When he's
calling him in the
h o Il S e, do you
mean, or chasing
him out?
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Lemons Yield citric Acid.

The production Of citric acid on a
commercial scale from Gull lemons has
been solved by the United States de-
partment of agriculture. Citric acid
prepared in this way has been sold at
a price several cents above the mar
ket. Orange pulp for the manufacture
Of marmalade has been prepared and
methods for preparing citrus peel for
the market developed by the United
States bureau of chemistry. +
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06
Tomato Rarebit.

Melt tablespoonful Of butter in a
saucepan; when bubbling hot add a
tablespoonful of flour; when smooth
add cupful Of strained tomato and
when cooked smooth and thick add a
half. cupful Of grated cheese, half
cupful Of milk and well beaten egg.
Stir until the egg sets, season we'll and
serve on graham crackers.
I French dressing made as follows
with thick sweet cream added Is es-
pecially good with sliced cucumbers: !:
Use three tablespoonfuls of olive oil,
one of vinegar, half teaspoonful Of
salt, teaspoonful of powdered sugar,
a dash of cayenne pepper, and when
well mixed and blended stir in three
tnblespoonfuls Of thick whipped cream.
Sour cream may be used.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-06

Probably the first motor car In
America to use coal gas as fuel is a
New York machine that has an 8 by
45-inch steel tank mounted on one
of its running boards, says the Popular
Mechanics Magazine. The cylinder,
when charged to pressure Of about
1000 pounds to tho square inch, car
ries sufficient fuel to drive the ma
chine about one hundred and twenty
miles. For automobile propulsion,
compressed gas at so cents thou
sand feet Is said to be about 25 per
cent cheaper than gasoline at % cents
a gallon. This comparison Is based
OH mileage rather than thermal units.