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The Tomahawk., 1918-01-17
MOST IMPORTANT
AEWS.0F WORLD
Big HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels Culled From Events OF Mo.
nasnt In All Parts OF tho Worid-
OF Interest to All tho
People Everywfero.
U.&-Teut011ic War News

The former captain of the Princeton
football team, now serving in the fly
Ing corps, brought down his first Ger
man plane, the Paris edition of the
New York Herald says: The captain
referred to probably is Lieut.. "HObey"
Baker
The American steamship Harry
Luckenbach has been torpedoed and
sunk with loss of life, according to
word received at New York by the
owners Of the vessel Eight Of the
crew are missing.
Revelations of conspiracy to SNUG
gle small arm ammunition from this
country to Germany were made at
Washington. The charge is made that
German reserve officers at liberty In
this country have been supervising the
manufacture Of this ammunition.
Mobilization Of 100000 workers for
agriculture, shipbuilding and war con-
tract plants was intrusted to the Unit
ed States employment service by the
department of labor at Washington.
Tremendous expansion of the service
is in progress in preparation for re-
cruiting men necessary to carry on
the economic work in support OF the
military forces in the war. John b.
Densmore of Montana will be national
director Of the employment service.
General Pershing reported to Wash
ington the death of Capt. William Il.
Hard of pneumonia. He lived at l2Oo
Western avenue, Joliet. III.
Deaths of Lieut.. William S. Ely and
Sergt. George E. Houdek in airplane
accidents in France were reported to
Washington by General Pershing. Ely
lived ut sol East avenue, Rochester,
n. Y, and Houdek at Ills Monticello
avenue, Chicago.
United States aviators have flown
over the German battle lines and
dropped bombs, in conjunction with
British and French pilots, says dis
patch from France. The flight OF the
Americans virtually was reprisal for
the killing of two American woodcut-
ters during a German bombing expedi-
ton week ago.
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Some peoples good points seem to
have been broken Of.
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Same Thina,

"A lyric was poem intended for
use by Tyre"
"JuSt like Il modern fish StOry?
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His Game.

"How did he make his fortune?"
promoting bazaars for worthy char
tiles"
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Washington


Ing inventories for excess profits and
income tax returns, dealers in mer-
chandise or securities might use the
cost price or market value, whichever
was lower, is being reviewed by the
department Of justice at Washington.
Reorganization of the war depart
ment at Washington begun with the
creation last month of the war coun-
Gil of high general officers, advanced
a step further with the appointment by
/, Secretary Baker of Maj. George w.
Goethals, acting quartermaster gener-
al, to serve also as director of war de-
partment transportation and storage.
The selective service act was upheld
as constitutional by the Supreme court
at Washington. The governments con-
tention that the power given congress
to declare war includes power to COM
pel citizens to render military service
both at home and abroad was sus-
tanned by the court.
American transport Antilles by a Ger
man submarine with the loss of many
American lives, Rear Admiral w. G.
Fletcher, who was in charge Of the
convoy system of the navy. has been
relieved from duty and ordered home,
the navy department announced at
Washington.
Overcoat shortages at National
Guard and National army training
camps we're reported ended except at
Camp Beauregard, La. by Secretary
Baker at Washington in further re-
Spouse to the senate military commit
tees resolution urging immediate steps
TO provide the soldiers with adequate
winter clothing.
It was announced at Washington
that the money in circulation in the
United States January 1 amounted to
$3.50. 900. or $4S.76 per capita,
rs compared with $5,OS5.370,OOO one
month ago. Circulation has increased
$3.50. 100000.
An unconfi-T:,ed report from Wash
incton says that Secretary of State
Lansing may be sent abroad by Pres
fdent Wilson on n special war mission
with authority to bind the United
States not Possessed by Colonel House
the usual special foreign representa-
tive of the president.
Announcement was made at the of
fec of Director General McAdOo at
Washington that approximately 400
passenger trains had been taken of the
:h-oc princi'2a! reads operating cast OF
J,t.tc',--rh
The Tomahawk., 1918-01-17

Fireproof buildings are protected
-. Il. Ire escapes, Just the same.
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Many Aliens Bear Firearm.

The State Board of Health. created
a division on venereal disease and
then discussed proposed regulation I'M
der which those diseases would be- re-
ported to the board and Guaranteed.
DR.. H. G. Irvine, Minneapolis, was
elected head OF the new division,
which will work in connection with
the state commission On social hygiene
recently appointed by Governor Burn
Guist- DR.. EsI BoecEmann was eject
ed president Of the I,cari OF health
and - c. re G. u, IS D
cie- G. ICE =. -i-e.S.
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SUMMER
PILLOWS
Now Is the Time
to Make Them.
BY EDNA EGAN.

FLOR the housekeeper who is plan
ming for her summer quarters 1t
W is now time to look over her
supply of porch pillows, Gull
from the leftover collection the faded
ones and make new coverings. You
can't begin this important duty too
early.
Several things should be remembered
concerning the colors and materials
which appear on the cushions of the
out doors living room, into which the
American veranda has developed these
last few years. In selecting its cush-
ions it can not be treated like an Of
dinary room, as the brilliant light has
to be considered.
The adjacent lawn or garden, with its
flower beds and shrubs, is seen in con-
nection with the porch, so that the two
must be planned together. Some per-
sons before fitting out a porch COM
pletely with cushions test samples of the
cloth to see if they will stand sunlight
and water. One should never use hand
some embroidered or silk pillows on
the porch; comfort, not elaborateness,
should be the aim.
The covers, if possible, should be uni
form in material and color, with pos
sibly one or two carefully chosen con-
trasting shades to avoid monotony. If
the materials are washable, two sets OF
removable covers are made for con-
veniencc in laundering.
If porch happens to be fitted in
brown wicker furniture, covers of Hol-
land linen with monogram in darker
brown are good choice. Dark blue
linen marked in white or darker shade
of blue mikes decidedly smart covers
for porch which has the natural COL
ored wicker furniture and blue jute
rugs.
One woman has laid in a supply Of
blue and white plaid bingham, with a
finish of the wild old-fashioned rick
rack, which she is planning to make up
into pillow covers. Linen of a rich
ecru finished with heavy dark blue
rickrack braid would also be serviceable
and effective.
Some very successful coverings have
been made from materials borrowed
from the kitchen, such as crash towel
ling in the blue and red squares and
what is called German dish cloth Of
heavy hand-wovcn cotton, creamy in
color. This peasant cloth when trimmed
with an equally foreign looking red and
blue cotton fringe is more than effec-
tive and worth while.
Some house furnishcrs provide the
porch seats with cushions covered with
lowered crctonnes and serviccable
chintzcs, which are always attractive if
thexe hannenS t. be 20 adiaceQt Ga1dn
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HOW TO USE STALE BREAD

with gravy, creamed chicken or FISH,
poached eggs, melted cheese, cooked
asparagus, Swiss chard, baked tomatoes,
etc, are served very commonly on toast.
Cream or milk toast (that is, toast with
cream sauce or milk gravy, perhaps
favored with very little Clipped beef.
salt fish, or other savory) may be used
as the main dish at breakfast, luncheon
or supper. Slices of toast may also be
dipped in water or milk and beaten egg
and lightly Drowned on a hot creased
nan. The recipe for this dish, which is
called by various names, is given IN the
appended recipe under the heading Egg
Toast" 1t may be used at breakfast and
has the advantage of making the eggs
go further" than if used in a separate
dish. or it may be served with cinnamon
and sugar. syrup or any sweet sauce for
dessert.
Another good way of using stale
bread or treating bread SO that It shall
not become stale is to put the pieces IN
the warming oven or on the back of the
stove and leave them until they are
crisp and delicate brown throughout.
This is often called twice-baked bread
and is very popular with children and
also with grown-ups who like its
"crunchiness" and the flavor which
comes with the slight browning. The
rusks which used to be commonly served
like breakfast cereals in some parts of
the country were made by crushing
such twice baked bread with rolling
pin.
There is nothing new in the idea of
using bread crumbs in cookery, and
most ho,1sekeepers are in the habit of
having some OH hand for use in seal
Hoped dishes, stuffing for meat, pud-
dings, etc. Few realize, however. how
much more generally they might be
utilized. Many commercial bakers use
bread crumbs to some extent as a sub
stitute for the flour in many sorts of
cakes, cookies, buildings, etc. Crumbs
may also be used instead of flour and
starch for thickeninE soups and sauces.
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make the finger tips touch the floor
without bending the knees. If there is
the slightest bend there the work is use
less. 1t will be impossible at first to
reach to the floor, but long, steady prac-
tice will accomplish much. This may
be done several times, alternating with
another exercise, which is to sit astride
of chair and try to turn the body
around first in one way and then the
other without moving in the seat. This
should bring pull on the hips and alb
domen, not on the shoulders. A third
exercise is to lie fiat and raise each foot
as high as it can be raised and then
stand, and, holdinr one knee, try to
bring it against the chest. None of these
can be done at first but as they work
off the flesh better results are gained.
They should be done at first for FIVE
minutes, morning and night, increasing
the length of time IS the muscles become
harder.
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commonly wasted in many
American households, say the
specialists of the United States
Department Of Agriculture This waste
is probably due to the fact that many
houSekecpers do not think of bread as
costing much and are careless about its
use or do not know what to do with the
odds and ends frequently found in the
bread box.
Good, fresh bread has spongy tex
ture, which in time disappears, leaving
the bread dry and crumbly, the moist
ure gradually passing out through the
crust Bread a little too stale to be
appetizing. but not yet hard, may be
ttreshened by putting it into the oven
drive the moisture from the crust back
INTO the center of the loaf, making the
crust more crisp and the crumb little
more spongy. Some housekecpers
moisten the surface of the bread and
sometimes cover it before putting it in
to the oven, but others think that moist
enng Injuries the texture of the crust,
without improving the crumb.
Rolls or biscuit which have a greater
surface in proportion to their size dry
out more rapidly than loaves of bread,
1t IS good planning therefore, not to
provide more than will be used at a
meal or at least a day after baking.
For similar reasons, bread stays fresh
longer in the loaf than after it is sliced.
No more than will be needed should be
cut for any one NEAL and one loaf
should be used before the next is cut
into. When the bread needs freshen-
ing it is a good plan to cut the required
slices and put them into the oven for a
few minutes just before serving.
Toats is another form in which partly
stale bread can be made attractive. In
many families it is served only tor
breakfast, luncheon or supper, but the
custom which many high-grade restau-
rants have adopted of serving thin,
crisp, hot toast with the more substan-
tial meals might we'll be followed at
home. Such dishes as chopped meat
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Scotch WoOdcock.

Two tablespoons butter, one table,
spoon -four creamed with butter, three
quarters cup tomatoes strained, one
eighth teaspoon soda put in tomatoes,
one cup milk, two cups cheese cut fine.
half teaspoon mustard, half teaspoon
salt quarter teaspoon red pepper, half
cup macaroni cooked
After butter and -four are creamed,
add dry ingredients; then cheese, toma-
toes; last of all, nacaroni; cook until it
is smooth consistency. This is fine
made in chafng dish.
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Harlequin Cake,

Break two eggs into a cup md all
with sweet cream, one cup Of sugar.
two cups of -four, little salt, ma
teaspoonful of cream of tartar. one
half teaspoonful of soda Divide inso
three parts, color one pink Leave
one white, one with chocolate (uBmg
one square OF chocolate). Put to
gether with filling. chocolate h1sr
first, then white, then pink. Fro2 top
with common white frosting. Hue 0ll-
ing. use one cup OF sugar, one cup q
cold water, one egg, two tahaeapnnn.
fuls Of -four. juice and rind q o.
lemon. Boil till consisteucy e f1al
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Stewed EggA.

Cut in small pieces one onion, three
tomatoes, a small green pepper. Cover
done. Then strain through colander
and add teaspoonful Of sugar with
salt to taste. Pour this in Q trying
boiling liquid five eggs. stir until hard
and serve.
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HOW TO REST

l"|ANY eminent stomach specialists
lIH in their advice to high strung
D nervous woman suffering with
digestive disorders lay great
stress upon calming oneself before cat
ing Don't begin your meal immediate
ly upon returning to the house after a
long, fatiguing visit or a shopping or
business jaunt. Settle yourself, quiet
your nerves before you start to tax the
muscles of the stomach with the diges-
tive process. Rest is the best rcstora-
tive known. Far better, in fact, than
tones or trips, etc. Steal off and rest
even if just for a few moments. Rest
and settle yourself before beginning to
eat Distract your mind from business
and cares for a few minutes. Then,
when you feel relaxed and rested begin
your meal. If this simple preventative
and safeguard were practiced my Office
would be echoipG its own ematicesx
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with vivid coIorings, but merely a vel
vety green lawn.
Cushions that are supposed to be for
real comfort on the verarda couch
swing should not be of rough, scratchy
material, but of some smooth goods.
pleasant and cool for the face to rest
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Pea Soup.

One-half cup split peas, soak several
hours or over night Put them on to
boil in three cups cold water, with one
small onion. Cook till' soft. rub through
a strainer, add hot-water to make it the
consistency desired salt and pepper to
taste, and add small peace butter.
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MOlasses DOughnuts.

One-half cup sugar, one teaspoon bot
ter, cream together; two eggs beaten,
two-thirds cup of molasses, one quarter
teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves, nut
meg and ginger, half teaspoon SALT one
cup of sour milk, one rounding teaspoon
soda.
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Cream Fritters.

Take one cup Of cream, the whites
of five eggs. two full cups Of prepared
-four, one saltspoon Of nutmeg, q
pinch of salt. Stir the whites, into the
cream in turn with the flour. Put In
nutmeg and salt, beat all hard for two
minutes. The batter should be rasher
thick. Fry in deep sweet lard, a
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Ham Toast.

Chop old boiled ham very fine, tnast
slices of bread and butter them. After
laying the ham on the toast place in the
oven for few minutes. Beat up four
eggs with milk and salt and pepper, pour
the eggs into saucepan with a lump
of butter and stir till thick, but do not
boil. Put the ham and toast on q plat
ter, pour the eggs over and serve.
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Chocolate Icing.

Whites Of two eggs, beaten With
sugar enough to stiffen, three tea
spoons of melted chocolate and one
teaspoon Of vanilla
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Raked Halibut

A thick slice of halibut, rub with salt
and pepper, cover with milk (skin will
do) and bake about an hour, serve with
butter or white sauce.
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Oatmeal Mullins.

Two cups rolled oats, one and half
cups sour milk, soak them several hours,
then add one cup rye flour, one teaspoon
soda, half teaspoon salt. Makes IL
mullins
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White Fruit Cake.

One cup Of butter, two cups Of wn.te
sugar, one cup Of milk, two and one
half cups Of -four, whites of seven
eggs, two teaspoonfuls Of baking pow
der, one pound of seedless raisins, one
pound of figs, one of dates and blanch-
ed almonds, one-fourth of poun.: 1t
citron. Cut all fine, -four well. Bake
slowly.
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Pot Pie.

Cut veal, beef or chicken ini0
pieces. Put into boiling water enough
to cover. Boil an hour and season 10
taste. Make q batter of two Beaten
eggs. two cups Of milk, a teaspoon OF
baking powder and flour to make a
batter Drop in separate spoonfuls
while boiling and cook five minutes or
longer. Serve at once.
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!. 00QS fNQ| :!

T|OUR medicine chest may usefully
include a gargle, and one that
~ can be recommended contains
eighty grains of chlorate of pot
ash and half a dram of dilute hydro
ehloric acid in eight ounces of water.
TAINS can be removed from
- tiled hearth by squeezing a little
III lemon juice over the stain, leave
for twenty minutes, then with
a duth dampened with a little warm wa
ter, wipe off the lemon juice This will
generally remove the strain; if not, re-
neat the process. Polish afterward with
. soft cloth.
~nURELY it takes an artist to make
and an artist to wear black with
success. The average person
who puts on black frock or hat
or wrap without care or discrimination
Is counting sartorial disaster Opposed
10 this class are the women who see all
the danger signals and never run past
them recklessly They make fine art
of wearing black costume, whether 1t
be for morning or evening. A woman
can hook as conspicuous in black as III
scarlet. TIC dl lSlSllllS hlioWS hlAo ~
we'll that she saves her black gowns for
her most adventurous hours, those in
which she wishes to startle, to surprise,
to shock. She realizes the possibilities
of glittering jet against white skin.
lNVlF course there arc rose climates
where roses will not thrive and
blossom in the most luNuriant
manner, though these beautiful
flowers are grown in almost every part
of the country. Where it is impossible
to have them in the yard, then have at
least one baby rambler to grow in
flower pot This rambler is not climb
ing rose, but very bushy one and pro-
duccs flowers almost as abundantly as
its brilliant sister, the scarlet rambler.
In selecting your flowers this season. do
not forget to order at least one of this
kind. also the dainty tea rose, which
loves to be coddled and pettcd, yet re-
paws in the daintiest flowers inlagina
bic.
~UR1NG warm weather little pre-
liminary sponging with moist
G cloth is helpful in quoting over
wrought nerves. This process,
too trivial to be dignihed by the name of
bathing, consists of putting few drops
of alcohol on the wrists over the pulse.
while the face is wiped in the same way,
giving special attention to the temples
and throat. Before trying to sleep the
thinnest and loosest of dressing gowns
should be stopped on, and the neck left
aaea. EAtoyate thoIgh these prepare
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tons may sound, they take but few
moments, and once done give so much
comfort they will not be omitted often.
If rest is to be taken on couch it is
we'll to cover it first with sheet, for in
this way the surface is kept cool.
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B6gH[ k|7cHaA6

spoonful of batter for each d1tber.
Drain and serve on hot, clean nap
kins. Eat with honey. Break or Duil
them apart.
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@SE the basket in which baby's tot
let articles are kept, supposing
A it is average size when you
weigh baby. Buy five yards OF
webbing-an extra heavy tape. Cut two
strips each O. inches long. Pass one
under the basket diagonally and tasten
securely at corners. Do same with 9TH
er strip, fastening at opposite corners.
Join the ends over the top. This leaves
ample space to slip baby under. In one
end of remaining piece of tape sew
loop large enough to pass over one
prong of the chandelier. On the other
end sew the ring of your ordinary hook
scales, at such a height that when the
loops on the basket are hooked into the
scales the basket will skip the bed or
table by six inches. Place pillow and
set of clothing in basket and weigh
place the baby in, and after weighing
him subtract the weight of basket and
clothing and you have babys extra
weight.
-HAT is the color of your eyes? In
MY the light of science there are
M only two sorts of eyes-blue
and not blue 1t is a fact that
all ewes are blue or blue-gray in ground,
but great many have some other pig
ment in front of the iris. Hence appears
4 strange law of heredity. In the VII
lagc of Burbage, Leicestershire, recent
jv an interesting experiment was made
X group Of members of the British AS
ISOLATION was drawn up in lines along
one side of a narrow lane. On the 9TH
cr were marched by, and halted at IN
teryals, one hundred or so school chill
dren, distinguished with various badges:
Arden Investigators would now and
again advance from the line of scientists,
halt group of children, and inspect
their eyes with magnifying glasses. 1t
is asserted that where both parents have
blue eyes all the children have blue eyes.
and when both parents have brown eyes
all the children have brown eyes; but
it is where the parents differ that this
alleged law of hcredity is most surpris-
ing.
to reduce the alb
domen should be done while
I wearing no constructing clothing.
One way is to stand with the
feet together on the floor and arms high
above the head. The arms are brought
down with sweeping motion trying to
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READ is one of the items most
commonly wasted in many
American households, say the
sDecia1ists of the United States
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ladderkc
This opwork better known as Roman cut work ono Of the first forms
shown within the scrolls This bound heavily around the edge
threads which into effects sometime: only bars with
n worker makes wheels diamonds: ceens and fa stitches:
permit of little You make them solid opcnork quite
though
make neatly the right side should
this o embroidery.
Cood embroidery
like the
but the color you Sincerely yours
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ia JOUR- medicine chest may usefully
include a gargle, and one that
III can be recommended contains
eighty grains of chlorate of pot
ash and half dram of dilute hydro
ehloric acid in eight ounces of water.
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@IOR the housekeeper who is plan
ming for her summer quarters il
e is now time to look over her
all