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Evening star., 1918-02-08

course, this meant no high times in the
kitchen that night. But they had plen-
ty to eat from the night before, food
which they had taken to their home
among the boxes in the dark. dusty
corner OF the woodshed, SO they really
didn't mind.
Not having a chance to romp as they
did the night before. and there not be-
ing much to do in the woodshed, they
went to bed early. The result was
that the next morning they were not
sleepy. Robber kept still as long as
he could. but finally he just had to go
out and see what was going on. 1t
was very quiet in the woodshed. but
he could hear some one moving about
in the kitchen and the most delicious
odors came through that hole he had
made Robber stood there and sniffed
and shifted until he could stand 1t no
longer. He poked his nose through.
There was no trap now. he put ms
whole head through and presently his
body followed That kitchen was warm
and filed with delightful odors. Mrs.
Brown was busy at a table. Without
Knowing just why Robber felt that
she wasn't to be feared.
Robbers shrewd little eyes twinkied
as he looked this way and that way.
He saw Black Pussy saucer or milk
"A drink of milk is just what l need,
thought he, and started toward the
saucer 1t was then that he discovered
Black Pussy and that Black Pussy dis
covered him She had been curled up
under the stove. Robber paused IN the
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middle Of the door and Black fuev
crept out from under the stove. she
glared at Robber and he giered beeks
showing all his teeth. Black Ppsay h40
felt those teeth once. so now she nneoe
no move to catch Robber. Instead she
arched her back. swelled her tail and
"a At the sound Mrs. Brown turned and
saw Robber. In her hands va: PIE
squash pie! At sight OF Robber in the
middle of her kitchen she dropped the
pie on the floor. shrieked and jumped
up in chair. where she seized her
skirts in both bands and continued TO
Shrek. Mrs. Brown feared few things.
but she was afraid of Rats.
The dropping of the pie ana the shrek
so startled Black Pussy that she jump
ed right up on the table. and there.
with her back arched more than ever
and her tail three times as big As
usual. she stood growing and spttting
like a black fury. AS Tor hopper tne
Pat he decided that he had had excite
ment enough for one morninE. nns an ana aso,.t hort
a. and laugh at the foolish fear the
mere sight of him had aroused.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Custard Filling for Cake.

Boy set trap in the kitchen right in
front of the hole Robber had made. It
was set SO that Robber couldn't possi-
bly, come through that hole without get
ting into the trap.
II may not catch him, but I guess
this will keep him out Of the Kitchen"
said Farmer Browns Boy.
It did. just as soon as all was still
IN the house that night Robber led the
way to the kitchen door. planning for
more high old times such as they had
had the night before. Now you might
suppose that he would have darted
through that hole without bit Of hesi-
tation. but he did nothing of the kind.
He was too wise, far too wise. One of
the things he had been taught when
very young, and which afterward he
had learned by experience. is that the
time to watch out and be most careful
iS when there seems to be the least
danger. So now. instead Of scamper-
ing in through that hole heedlessly.
Robher stopped and poked only his
sharp nose through. So he discovered
the trap and warned Mrs. Robber. OF
Evening star., 1918-02-08

ness Of war for conquest and especially
for obtaining colonies, which he be-
lieved necessary for Germany's future
expansion.
Trsitschks lsotursd at the University
Of Berlin from 1875 to 1896. He is said
to have been . private tutor OF the
crown prince. now the kaiser, and that
ke's philosophy. After the kaiser
tossed Bismarck into the discard in
1880. army and navy and state officers
were bidden to Treitschke's lectures
with the understanding that they bore
the hallmark Of the emperor.
Translations put out by an American
publisher Of three of Treitschke's
books, including his Doctrine of Ger
man Destiny" are to be found at the
Congressional Library in Washington
The Library also has q collection of his
works. .prefaced by q biography. issued
by a London publisher, and various
smaller volumes Of his works.
Evening star., 1918-02-08

tablespoonfuls Of cornstArch. Boil the
sugar in the milk, mix the cornstarch
with = small portion Of the milk, and
when the sugar Is at a boiling heat
stir the cornstarch in and let boil. Beat
the eggs separately and then together.
Then pour the boiling mixture over
them. Flavor with vanilla or lemon.
when cold freeze as other cream.
Four-Egg Custard Pie.
Beat four eggs until a spoonful can be
held. Add half teaspoonful of salt and
two-thirds OF q cup of sugar and beat
again. When well mixed beat in two
cups and half Of milk. Turn into a
deep pan lined with pastry dough. Bake
in q slow oven until the custard is firm
in the center.
cups of sweet milk one heaping tea
spoonful Of cornstarch and five table
spoonfuls Of sugar. Beat the egg and
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Section Of Goth Century Club to Nee,

The Art Section Of the Twentieth
Century Club will meet Thursday aft
ernoon at o'clock at the residence OF
its leader, Mrs. Dayton Ward. when the
subject for discussion will be ''Savona-
rola" A talk on the work of the Chill
dren's Protective Association will be
given at a meeting of the Civic Section
of the club Thursday morning at II
o'clock in All Souls parish hall. The
following were elected to membership
in the Twentieth Century Club yester-
day: Mrs. Robert H. McNeill, Mrs. Amy
]. Leeds, Mrs. Thomas B. Kramer and
Mrs Camille Hindmarsh.
Evening star., 1918-02-08

split them. Butter plain mold large
enough to hold this quantity, and line
1t with the split figs. Arrange them
with the seed sides outside. Cnop up
has been brought to q boil. onto the
beaten eggs. sugar and cornhour. prev-
ously moistened IN a little cold milk.
Add the chopped figs. and pour very
buttered paper, and steam gently until
firm.
Maple Custard.
Beat Ave eggs until a spoonful can be
lifted without stringing. Add half q
cup of maple sirup, a saltspoonful Of
salt. stir well, then add three cups OF
milk and strain into cups or large
mold. Bake in a larger pan OF hot
water, but do not have the oven too hot.
The hot water in the pan should not
boil hard after baking has commenced.
Coffee Custard.
Add to one cup Of strong cold coffee
one cup Of cream, four eggs beaten
slightly and four tablespoonfuls OF
sugar. Put into small earthenware Gus
tard cups. place in . shallow pan with
. moderate oven until the custard Is
firm fs, ,sa,," Serve ice cold ith small cakes or
Chocolate Custard.
When preparing chocolate custard, al
sugar. a pinch Of salt and one table
spoonful Of grated chocolate to each
cup Of milk Melt the chocolate over
hot water and gradually add the hot
milk. Pour this over the beaten egg
and sugar. To one quart allow one tea
spoonful of vanilla. Pour into baking
cups, stand in pan Of hot water and
bake in moderate oven until set In
the center. Test by inserting the blade
Of q knife. When 1t comes out clean,
the custards are done. Remove at once
and set away to chill
Cocoanut Custard.
Heat a pint of milk with half a cup
OF sugar. and when it is hot add the
yolks of three beaten eggs and a pinch
of salt. Remove from the fire and add
half cup of cream. Beat the mixture
pour it into a serving dish. Beat the
whites Of the three eggs until they are
reduced to stiff froth. To the whites
of the eggs then add a half cup Of
powdered sugar and three-quarters Of a
cup Of cocoanut, and beat. Spread this
on the top OF the custard and brown
quickly in a hot oven.
Gelatin Custard.
Two ounces of gelatin, three eggs,
three cups of milk and sugar. Dissolve
the gelatin in a cup of cold water, let
ting it soak for about an hour. Put
the milk, the beaten eggs and sugar
enough to sweeten in the double boiler
and boil until it thickens. Then, while
it is boiling hot, stir into it the dis
solved gelatin. Add any fiavoring de-
sired Put the mixture into a mold,
and when it is cold pour out on a
pretty serving dish and serve with
cream.
Popcorn Custard.
Take one pint of milk. four table,
spoonfuls Of sugar. one tablespoonful
If cornstarch. one egg and vanilla
1avoring to taste. Mix the sugar and
cornstarch, then stir into 1t the egg,
which has been we'll beaten: add the
milk and put in a double boiler and boil
until it thickens. When it is nearly
cold add some tender popcorn and serve
cold.
Frozen Custard.
One quart of sweet milk, two eggs.
one and a half cups OF sugar and two
Evening star., 1918-02-08
LI1TILESToRlES L1ILE
'6rBEDTImE
Copyright, 1918. BY r. W. BurgessJ
Robber Causes Excitement.

Farmer Browns Boy, who is nothing
if not obedient, promptly set three
traps for Robber the Rat. and all the
time he was doing it he had feeling
that If Robber knew what he was do
ing Robber would laugh at him.
You see, Farmer Browns Boy knew
that Robber had come from the barn,
and this being true those traps were
quito useless. He had set them SO
many times in the barn that Robber
knew all about them and there wasn't
the least chance that he would be fool
ish enough to be tempted into one Of
Evening star., 1918-02-08

one Of the best examples OF natural
is furnished by the zebra,
which. owing to its stripes. fades into
The tall grass, where 1t retreats irom
tba hunter,
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Custard Pie With Few Eggs and
Little Milk-Filling For Cake
Delicious Desserts That Are
Quickly Made From Fruits,
Flavoring Extracts, Milk and
Eggs.

| The secret OF making good custard lies
not only in knowing what enters into It's
composition, but also in having the knack
Of properly combining the several ingre-
dents. While the milk is heating over
the fire, the yolks Of the eggs should be
beaten light and smooth, then, II other
| thickening is used, the cornstarch or nour'
as the case may be, should be ADDED ana
! the mixture again beaten until creamy.
Lastly, add the sugar and beat 1t In thor-
oughly. Pour the milk. which should al
ready have been brought to the boahng
noint in a thin stream over the mixture.
stirring constantly. Then return 10 tne
fire and let it boil up well Just once. II
YOU adopt this method, you Will nave
neither a lumpy nor curdieo custaIu.
Light brown sugar or honey sirup may pc
used in place OF white sugar IN al ene
following recipes.
Custard Baked in Ramequins.
Beat three eggs, add three cups Of
milk, six Tablespoon fuls of sugar and any
savor;ne preferred. Pour this mixture
into rameauins. Place the ramequins in
a shallow pan nearly filled with water and
bake in a moderate oven until the custaro
ia firm in the center. Thls taxes ABOUT
twenty minutes. Inc reeipo VIII AAA AVA
rameQuins.
Orange Custard.
Put one cup of orange Juice and the
grated rind of two oranges IN pint OF
boiling water, add the juice Of one lemon
and a teaspoonful of grated lemon rlnd:
sweeten to taste; boil for few minutes.
then stir in the yolks Of four eggs that
have been blended with two tablespoon
fuls of cornstarch and half cup OF milk
Stir this in gradually until the mixture Is
thick and creamy, then fold into this hot
mixture the whites of four eggs beaten
stiff. Fill a mold with this and set aside
10 cool. Garnish with bits OF candied
orange rfnd.
Pineapple Custard.
To the beaten yolks of four eggs add
half a cup of sugar and the contents OF
one can of grated pineapple. Put this
in small ramequins, place in pan OF
warm water. set in the oven and bake
until the custard is set Then put aside
to get cold Whipped cream may be
used as sauce, or it may be served
plain. .,
Banana Custard.
Cream one tablespoonful Of butter.
with three-quarters of a cup OF sugar.
then add the yolks of two eggs, two
mashed bananas. one heaping table,
spoonful of flour and one cup of cold
water. Put into a pie crust and bake.
Beat up the whites of the eggs, then
beat in two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Place this meringue on the top of the
pie and brown lightly in the oven.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
FOOD, HEALTH, HOME AND THRIFT

mix with tho other ingredients. Flavor
with lemon or vanilla and bake In one
crust
Pie Without Mtlk-Two eggs, yolks
and white separated. four tablespoonfuls
Of sugar, two tab1espoonfuls Of -four
and one and half tablespoonfuls Of
butter. Save the whites Of the eggs for
the frosting Of tho pie. beat tho rest
Of the ingredients together to a cream,
add enough cold water to fill the pie
and bake in one crust. When the Gus
tard is firm, put the whites Of the eggs,
which have been beaten to a stiff froth.
with one tablespoonful Of powdered
sugar over the top of the pie and return
to the oven until the frosting is nicely
Drowned.
Custard Filling for Cake.
One cup Of hot milk, one-fourth Of a
cup OF sugar, one tablespoonful Of corn
starch. yolks Of two eggs and one-half
teaspoonful Of vanilla Mix the corn
starch and sugar. add the yolks Of the
eggs. which have been slightly beaten.
and pour this over the Boiling hot milk.
Cook in a double boiler, stirring until
lit is thick. Flavor with vanilla.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
From English Translations.

These excerpts are from English
tfanslations of lectures by Treitschke
delivered at the University of Berlin
between 1890 and 1895. Previously he
had been at Freidburg. but his love for
a. Prussian subject, and for time ed
ieed q paper. in which, as in his later
bpoks. he preached hatred of England
and France, the necessity for world
domination by Prussia, the righteous
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Fig Custard.

Take one pound of best cooking figs.
four eggs, two large cups of milk. and
one dessertspoonful of castor sugar
Wine the figs with a damp cloth and
Evening star., 1918-02-08

AS you eat more oranges and
grapefruit and less meats and
grains you will conserve the
latter for shipments abroad
to our soldiers and our allies.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Care for States Power.

sWhat really exists is the exclusive
state, vigorously national and essential
" the state is power, because its high
est duty Is self-preservation. and this
means power, hence the highest moral
duty of the state is to care for its
~Ppwer is not conceived as mere or
bare power, it is precious and ultimate
because the state is the vehicle Of cul-
ture-
precious because that state is, the col
porter of culture.
AAMight must justify itself by being
used to spread the highest moral cul-
ture.
absolute sovereignty OF a state is
necessary for its absolute power. Abso-
Lutte sovereignty cannot be bound by
any obligations even of its own making.
"a state cannot bind its will for the
future over against other states. Inter-
national treaties are no absolute linn
itation, but a voluntary self-limitation
of the state and only for such time as
the state may find it convenient.
THE state has no judge set over it.
Each nation evolves its own conception
of right. No seIf-respecting state would
sacrifice its own conception of right to
any international rule.
The state exists to discharge two
Observation-Disclosures law and to make
war. OF the two, since 1t is politics par
excellence, war would appear to be the
greater.
War is the only medicine for a sick
nation. War alone makes us realize the
social organism to which We belong.
Care for States Power
the petty Individual altogether van
fishes before the great thoughts of the
state, and therein lies the majesty of
war.
mands war.
The living God will see to it that
war shall always recur as a terrible
medicine for humanity.
.sIhe idealization of the state as
power results in the idealism OF war.
AS the state must be power to pre-
oSrve itself at all, 1t must be a war
state to preserve itself from sickness.
sTf it does not fight, individualism
Will triumph over the social organism
aud heroism will perish out of the
world.
..aThe maintenance of peace should
never be the goal Of a policy. War
the teacher of heroism, the inevitable
biological law. the force that spreads
tie finest culture-is the law of hu-
nanity.
"a growing nation must preserve all
its new members in its bosom. it must
not let them escape by immigration
to foreign soils. ii must found colonies.
and. II necessary, get them by con-
qnest.
Germany to preserve intact for Ger
man culture the surplus of its grow
ing population must be a world power
OF perish
From English Translations.
Evening star., 1918-02-08

Dress up your hands for spring
with gloves of known quality
gloves fashioned of selected prime
skins-gloves that fit properly and
give the acme of service. White,
black and the correct shades.
Stitched to match or to contrast.
Evening star., 1918-02-08

Tree-ripened Sealdsweet
oranges require but little if
any sugar. Nor need much
be used with Sealdsweet
grapefruit many persons
prefer them with salt instead
of sugar.
Evening star., 1918-02-08

uIERES an oasis in the desert
III of high costa special lot OF
sturdy suits. tailored of
fancy cloths in many attractive
patterns, belt all around. or the
popular pinch-back. It's good
business to buy several for your
boy while you can.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-12

ing seas. nc grew excited. till at the
end he was fairly beside himself.
At the second shot he cried:
"Now. II they're killed. It's their own
fault"
And as he spoke tho clouds closed
up again and In the murk the schooner
was lost to view. The Seeadler kept on
but 1t was like a blind dog. not sure
OF which way It's prey lies.
Minute by minute the captain
stormed or paused in his mutterings
to try TO pick up the schooner once
more. and around him officers and men
stood silent afraid to offer a word
Five minutes passed SO, ton and the
hopes OF US Americans rose again;
| twelve. and no sign OF the Manila;
nfteop-and then the clouds opened
again. and a beam of light came from
the sky and fell full on the little
schooner. scurryinE like n scorched cat
across tho water. and headed for US.
tTo be continued.)
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-12
WELCOME SUFFRAGE
English Morning Paper. Say. Il Ends
wrnnEle Troubling Coun-
try for Years.
Tpy ASSOCIATED Pr.ss1.

TBy Associated Press1.
LONDON. January 1.-The morning
newspapers welcome heartily tho dc.
cison OF the House of Lords on woman
suffrage. which gives the vote to about
100000 women and ends the Ions
wranSlc which has troubled the coun-
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and Il motion to submit the question to
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-12
CLAPPED INTO THE BRIG
BECAUSE He OFFENDED

Then the name of Germany was de-
tended in Graf-lilc force and with sea-
manlikc words and the upshot Of It
was the Hollander was clapped in the
brig. and never sight OF Rio did he
get. From then on he scrubbed and
New Britain herald., 1918-05-30
INDUSTRIAL ARMY
 IS HELPING U. s.
Riveters Are Rapid Fire Men in
 the Second Line
(By Roger w. Babson)


 Our comrades were again the first An ericans to go over the top. They have had their bloody baptism of shell fire. They have met the Hun and were unafraid. They have with stood the ferocious attacks of brutal German troops and have hurled the Hun back, shattered and disorgan- ized.
 The courage of these young men from our peaceful hills and valleys from our busy cities, and our wave washed shores has won distinction in the most fearful war mankind has ever known.
 Our comrades are making the su- preme sacrifice. Steadily grows the honor roll of dead, wounded, and missing. Deeper and deeper they are hurled into the fray, never fainting, never complaining, but giving their all that we may be safe and free here at home.
 Our shame.
 While our comrades are fighting in France, are we not laggardS here at home? While our friends are going over the top on battletields, are we
New Britain herald., 1918-05-30

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 You are paying for it NOW, my friend. and dearly; yet you do not get it.
 Let me tell you why.
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 A good manager never spends more than his interest.
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 And what are you doing?
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 You used to make good money; now you earn about half of what you used to get.
 To make two, three or four dollars was play to you; and you had all your heart and soul in your work.
 These happy days are gone.
 You now barely make a living and find it almost beyond your strength. And you shudder at the thought of what will happen when the final breakdown comes.
 Figure out in dollars and cents what you have lost already and you will be amazed at the amount; and what you are gong to lose is beyond estimation.
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 The dollar you take out of your pocket and spend for treatme ent with an experienced specialist is not an expense. It is an investment. And in return you get increased working ability, higher wages, health and hap piness at home.
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