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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Goats Save Babies,

The vocation of a certain Virginia
minister is to ave souls. For an avo-
cation he saves lives. He confines his
~soul-saving operations TO his congrega-
ton. while his l~ife-saving activities
the state at large. A large num-
Der Of robust, vigorous babies owe
their health to the milk produced by
mich goats which this minister made
available to the parents of these for
merly puny and sickly infants. The
novel scheme which this goat keeper
practices is to rent out fresh does to
families with sickly children. The
renter pays a given amount for each
days use of the doe, furnishes and
feeds materials in such amount as the
owner directs and signs a contract
which makes him responsible for the
full value of the goat in case Of acct
dent. The renter also pays the eX-
pressage on the goat from the point of
origin to and from his home.
In the main, these goats are main
tanned at a cost of approximately 5
cents a day; oats, corn, clover and
hoS' DAohSS anu SANITARY ldplS
scraps constitute their ration. This,
of course, is contrary to the general
superstition that the average milch
goat possesses a tin-can appetite and
a back-alley disposition. As a substi-
tute cow for babies the mich doe is
extremely efficient, says the United
States department of agriculture. She
will produce consistently for a period
Of from eight to ten months between
two and two and one-half pounds of
good quality milk a day, which is high
ly effective where it is used intelli-
gently in decreasing infant mortality
due to malnutrition.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
UMPIRE IN PLACE or BULL
Mexican Editor Is of opinion That
Baseball Is More Spectacular
Than Scientific.

Jose Campos is the editor of the Ex-
c%elsior. a daily paper Of Mexico City.
When in New York recently the Mexi.
can spent an afternoon at a baseball
game. He thus records his impressions
In New York Herald.
A large game of baseball was cele-
brated this Afternoon in the Polo arena
in the city of the Bronx, a large ride
by train from New York city. AS Is
the custom of the United States Of
North America, many of the business
houses closed for the afternoon, sc EN-.
ployees might attend the spectacle. At
least 100000 civilians, soldiers and
many women and children were pres
ent.
The pitcher for the New York city
troupe was very valiant and charming.
The baseball clothing is not as pretty
as that worn by the toreador, but the
players carry themselves well. The
game is played with the hands, but Is
not like pelota in any respect. The OBJ
ject is to keep the ball off the ground,
and the troupe which does so the long
est wins the game.
In place of a bull baseball has an
umpire, a man who does not play the
game, but who Is authority of the
game. Unlike the judge Of the bull
fight, he stands on the field. He Is
not goaded with pixies, banderillas and
finally the sword, al is the bull, but Is
the recipient of abuse from both play
ers and the multitude seated in the
huge arena. Instead of another BULL"
the crowds when d~ispleased yell "Get
the hooki" The umpire is also called
a 'robber" and a 'big fathead."
The people at a baseball game con-
tinually are eating or chewing gum or
smoking. But these occupations of the
mouth do not prevent a perpetual yell
ing. 1t is difficult for n knowing lit
tie English to understand the things
cried at the players or the umpire. But
l assume from the manner of express
sion that words common TO the lower
classes are used.
On a large board at the back of the
field is enumerated the number of
times that each troupe drops the ball.
The troupe dropping the ball the few
est times wins the game. Unlike the
bull fight, it is difficult to predict which
will win. In that respect the American
game Of baseball is typical Of all
things American-it is more spectacu-
lar than scientific. 1 think if 1 under
stood English perfectly and had played
baseball all my life and had not been
born a Mexican 1 should like to see a
baseball game every year on my BIRTH
day anniversary.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
How 1t Really Happened.

The cow was about to jump over the
moon. "You might announce through
the newspapers that beef win soon
reach the highest mark In history"
she said as she shifted her cud.
mix on that stuff, Bossie," remarked
the cat, as he tuned up the e string on
his fiddle and frightened his bow.
"Just wait till the war comes along
and some of these proiteers get on the
job. Why, your altitude record won't
hold shucks."
Thereupon the little dog laughed to
see such sport and the dish almost for.
got to run away with the spoon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Food Inspectors Help.

The housewife can see at q glance
how much food she is to get for her
money when it is in package form and
labeled in accordance with the pro-
visions of the federal food and drugs
act, say the officials of the bureau of
chemistry of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, charged with
the enforcement of that law. The fed.
eral food and drugs act provides that
all food in package form, shipped into
interstate or foreign commerce, shall
bear on the labels a plain and conspic-
uous statement of the quantity of the
contents of the package, in terms of
weight, measure or numerical count.
Federal food inspectors are always
on the watch for interstate shipment
Of food in package form, to see that
the labels tell the truth with respect
to the quantity Of food in the pack
ages. Several samples are taken from
each shipment in order that their aver
age weight may be determined. If the
packages are found to be short in
weight or measure, the party respon-
~ " lhO 0hAPAAChN AluJ OS plOoC-
cuted under the criminal section of
the law.
The act does not apply to foods
which are sold and consumed within
the state where produced or manu-
featured, but to those that are shipped
from one state to another, or to or
from a foreign country, or manufac-
tured or sold within the District Of
Columbia or a territory. Many states
have net weight or Measure laws, how.
ever, which protect the housewife
from short weight or measure in pack
age foods produced and sold within the
state. Federal and state food officials
cooperate in the work OF enforcing
these laws in order that abuses which
cannot be reached under n law may
be corrected under the other.
| OklIIw.o hama -.- - -H--E
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Acquainted WIEN the Brand.

"Are you going to hear the famous
youmerist at the chautauqua tonight?'
asked Burt Burt of Petunia. HE must
be a dandy. The bills say you'll laugh.
you'll screech, you'll roar, and that
you must have your buttons sewed ON
with wire or you'n lose 'em."
Il don't s'pose it's worth while for
ne to go" replied old Riley Rezzi-
dew. "You see, / used to read Hostel.
ter's almanac a lot when / was q
Young feller."-Kansas City Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

signed up for a voyage 10 foreign waters Things went well with Egan until
he struck up an acquaintance with a man named Stupy. stupy singled out
Egan from among the crew and they we're shore companions when the vessel
reached San Pedro.
Stupy and Egan imbbed freely there. When Egan got his bearing he dis
covered that his leg was gone and so was Stupy. That was seven months ago.
The WeIboro went to France, England, South America, Panama and other
ports without Egan. To each port Egan sent a letter, beseeching the captain of
the vesselt to send back his leg.
I. S. Tnce, who is employed in the United States shipping office, also took
a hand in the game. When he entered the Office the other day he espied a long
bundle, directed to Il. Stupy, SIS. Westboro.
The name va familiar to Trice. He looked up his files and found that
Stupy was the man who had been with Egan when the two had started on. to
drink San Pedro dry many months ago. The commissioner sent the limb to
where Egan is waiting patiently.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

and the parasite becomes heroic. There are squalls and sunshine tears n
rbald laughter. And then at u when the lights go ut the false joy is
stripped of its mask and crumbles into black despair.
An electric apparatus throws various colored rays Of the dancers. n
other night a spark from the machine fell into folds of chiffon worn by zone Of
the dancers. There "A q flash off flame and a scream PandemOnium reigned
and then N the fringe of the crowd someone charged into the thick of It. He
grabbed the frightened girl away from hysterical men and women and skllfuny
extnguished the fire.
The crowd fell back. The rescuer was a ceanimbed young American
The hddlers struck up the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the young man.
abashed, rushed from the place, OF eve stopping to get his hat Outside he
said to a policeman: 81 don't want to be found here among a bunch of nuts"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Phillips Brooks on Life.

Our life is like the life of a tree,
which is always full of immediate ap-
parent failure. which is always drop
ping back after each rich summer to
the same baroness that II had last win
ter. which keeps no leaves or fruit,
and stands again and again stripped
OF every sign of life that 1t has put
forth. and yet which still has gathered,
as we see when we watch 1t with a
larger eye, all those apparent failures
into the success Of M long, continu-
nus Treyah; has not lost The strength
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

Ensign goes back to the Latin In
signe, a standard, by way of ~insignls,
meaning distinguished or remarkable.
This rank of our navy, until 1862. was
known ms passed midshipman. A rank
of ensign existed in the British army
till 1871, when its title was changed to
second lieutenant. We had the rank
in our own army during the Revolu-
ton.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

ery. He registered fear and gave up his cash, but it was only % cents
They decided they We're on the wrong stamping ground. They wen over
toward Garfield park. 1t was then two O'Clock in the morning
Here you, where you going? Come here" demanded Patrolman Edward
Reindeau. Out came one of Patakeys tusty gats. He now had both of them.
Back up, you big BULL " he roared, or I'll drill you"
The copper failed to reueat. He knocked the gat on of the bandits hand
and knocked the bandit down. George beat it. He "a caught by Detective
Sergeants Curtin and Roche, attracted by the sound # shooting as the police
nan fired over Georges head.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

home and enlisted in the British transport service. Blu. this proved too tame
for him, % he enlisted n a bombing squad of the Sherwood Foresters, from
which he was honoTaby discharged upon Secretary Lansings plea. He sue
ceeded in enlsting again and was assigned to a British mine sweeper. 1t was
blown up, the youngter receiving a skull fracture. He returned to America
incapacitated for further service, but persuaded a Passaic surgeon to operate
and relieve the injury.
The operation proved so successful that Thomas almost Immediately
enlisted o N the Hattie Gage, a coastwise freighter, which was sunk by a Ger
man submarine the day after she put to sea-.
Then he returned home, bid his mother goodby and reenisted in the Brit
ish army N New York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

Quinn, Daniel Egan, an able seaman,
four years ago while crossing a rail-
road track in Oakland, Cal, had his
leg cut off. Egan couldn't get work
as a sailor and for three years he
scrubbed, washed and cleaned out sa-
looms, saving every penny until he had
accumulated enough money to buy a
new leg.
The good ship Westboro was look
ing for men and Dan, with a quick
step, walked to the pier, where the
chin nnrnn rnonnnI -nAl nA..i-LAannu
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

spigots within the diners reach. One
may become corned between the soup
and the entree and the check is the
same.
A l~ong-haired Bohemian leads the
orchestra and is repaid for his plain
tive notes by the showers of small
change from the diners. At about
ten In the evening sentiment reaches
the high tide. 1t is the hour Of II
lusions.
Flushed by the wine, the motley
crowd turns selishness into courage
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

ling battered her hair and Strengthened herself into social form.
81 have a bill here, madam-"
"AnoherT'
1T is for the rent We let it run over this month, Is usual, but the new
owner is a woman who depends o the income for her W expenses and she
wants her house or her money by ter O'Clock in the morning.
"Oh, but l can't move really cannot For one thing haven't the money,
and besides this is the dearest old house-theres such a lovely yard for the
children to play in-the sun gets in there even IN rainy days-and, BESIDES 1
always pay sooner or later"
Sorry, madam, but business is business"
She IA by his face that he meant it. And then she a that 1t ws a
peculiar face; that he had a long white side tooth that lifted his lip when he
spoke, and that he had gray hair o match the gray of his suit
When the engaging sister came down and found the mamma woman
standing in the dark of the hall trying her bestn lot to cry, she reached out her
arms and scooped her in. Then she asked:
what on earth is the mauer-who was that at the door?'
And the mamma woman tembled out: 1.-THE wolf"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

of happiness in this world is thinking
about other people" II do think about
other people," said the p~essimistic per-
son, 'but as they all W me money,
such thoughts make me feel more
gloomy than ever."-Birmingham Age
Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Best way to Water PLANTS.

A French botanist, who has expert
mented with vegetable raising, has de-
termined the exact amount of water
necessary for the best growth of vari-
Gus plants. In general, he found that
a supply of water administered unin-
terruptedly drop by drop brought bet
ter results than even systematic
~drenching.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

of cherries to a meeting where there a a demonstration of the department of
agriculture, a canning expert
The woman "a pointing out the merits of her champion jar If cherries
when along came the expert
"They are beautiful cherries" said the expert, turning the jar this way
and that.
The woman beame1.
But" continued the expert sweehy, "what about this wormT'
What indeed!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

and jelly, and marmalade, n about
everything else in the canned line one
could desire. All the canning was not
fruit by any means, however. Cans
of beans, corn, ETC., We'd with the fruit
display.
But the woman was particularly
proud of her canned cherries. She
lost no opportunity to call attention
to them, and even her best friends
had to admit that she was perhaps a
bit too eager to talk canned cherries.
Then one day she took a prize can
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

man preferred to stand at the door.
There was a draped portiere at
the parlor grill, and the man couldn't
help seeing on it's floor a squirming
heap of children piled on top of one
another and under the kicking arms
and legs of a woman who scrambled
free and stood Up laughing, while the
sister voiced embarrassment from the
door.
Come, children, mamma has COM
pany-finish your game with me-"
The mamma woman, still chuck
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

IUIU OF THtIT EXPLOITS dnU IHtI pTtIIHII-
nary conferences.
"TIuh, what's the use of workin'
for twelve bucks a week when we can
go out with a couple of gats and make
a hundred iron men an hour?" queried
Patakey of George. George opined
there was logic in it. They got the
gats, also masks and flashlights.
Under the Chicago and Northwest
ern track subway at Kinzie street and
Kedzie avenue they started their
career. The first victim reacted prop
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
HELP MEET need
OF SUBSTITUTES
Rice Flour Being Used in Manu-
facture of Bread, Cookies,
Cakes and WaffIes.
GOOD GOVERNMENT RECIPES
Now Being Made in Large Quantities
to Save Wheat-Whiteness Makes
1t Particularly Useful to
Baker and Caterer.

Rice flour, which before the wheat
shortage was used only by caterers and
bakers in small amounts, is now being
manufactured in larger quantities to
help meet the need Of wheat substi-
tutes.
The wilderness of rice flour makes
it particularly useful to the baker and
caterer, and in the effort to save wheat
housewives are learning to use this
product in breads, cakes, and cookies
alone or combined with other substi-
tutes.
The recipes which follow have been
tested in the experimental kitchen of
the department of agriculture, office
of home economics, and the United
States food administration, home con-
servation section.
Rice Flour Waffles.
~ cups rice flour IL cups milk
teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons melted
3 teaspoons naG;9o baking fat
Sift the dry ingredients together and
add slowly to the milk, beaten egg
yolks, and melted fat. Fold in stihiy
beaten whites and cook in hot we'll
creased waffle irons.
shortcake.
~ u rice Jour tablespoons short
4 teaspoons baking ening
l teaspoon salt l cup milk
Mix as you would mullins, bake in
layer cake tin, split, and butter while
hot. Put a layer Of sweetened berries
or other fresh fruit between the halves
and on top.
Chocolate Nut Cookies.
II cup corn strip tablespoons barley
2 tablespoons flour
2 squares chocolate powder
10 tablespoons rice u teaspoon salt
" cup chopped nut meats
Mix and drop by the spoonful on
creased baking sheets. Bake Is min
utes.
Sponge Cake.
3 eggs (yolks and IA teaspoons baking
whites beaten sep powder
y cup sugar juice
water A cup rice flour
Il teaspoon salt
This sponge cake can serve as the
basis for many desserts. Bake as q
loaf cake or in muffin molds. Baked
In a thin sheet, spread with soft jelly,
and rolled 1t makes a delicious jelly
roll. Serve with a sauce.
Bake in layers and fill with custard
filling for a Martha Washington pie OF
use for a shOrtcake with fresh fruit
between the layers.
T Riee-FIour Cake.
u cup fat u cup milk
q cup sugar l teaspoon salt
" cup riced boiled powder
potatoes packed 15 cups rice -four
compactly into a 1 teaspoon vanilla
cup
Mix and bake In muffin molds for
cup cakes or in layers or loaf. II
baked in layers, a lemon filling IS good
with 1t.
Variatlon.-For chocolate cake, ado
two squares of chocolate to the above
recipe.
For spice cake, add one teaspoonfu,
cinnamon, half ~teaspoonful nutmeg
and one teaspoonful spice.
Quick Nut Bread.
1 cup milk n cup mashed pota-
2 tablespoons melted toes
fat ~ cups barley flour
4 tablespoons corn 4 teaspoons baking
sirup powder
2 81 / teaspoon salt
rs cups rice four 1 cup chopped nuts
Mix in order given. Bake in loal
pan in a moderate over for one ant
a quarter hours.
Yeast Bread.
Fifty per cent wheat flour and so pc
cent substitutes.
IL cups LIQUID / tablespoon corn
" cup mashed pota- strip
toes 2 teaspoons salt
IL cups wheat flour tx cups barley flour
,t ~ 9ss~- ~doa ao,,r
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
suspicious.

The professor regarded, with an eye
of suspicion. the small, yellow cube
the waiter had brought him. - take
thee he murmured, "for butter-or
worse."-Boston Transcript
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Sailor to Get Wooden Leg That Has Travelled Far

G AN FRANCIsCo-How a wooden leg lost by its owner Travelled almost
~ around the world and was finally restored was told in the barge office by
Patnck II: Quinn. United States shipping commissioner. According to Mr.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

yOungster has set to work the machin-
cry of the state departments of two
countries by his efforts to fight. Sec
rotary Lansing had him released from
the English army, upon his mothers
plea OF his extreme youth, but Thomas
ran away as soon as he reached home.
He sailed on n munition ship from this
port to Italy and made his way again
Unto England, where he enlisted in the
engineers Immediately he learned the
United States had entered the war.
In 1O1G Thnmnr rnn nunu frnm
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

In your nan in case anything should happen to me-"
NO sir; may be foolish when it comes to business, but I know too
much for that You've got to do ait the signing and everything"
you don't understand, Netie. What I mean, Is Mr. Agent here an tell
you, is, in casea anything should happen to me-"
"That settles it, Bert Blank Pm ready and glad to &C in with you and
do my share of saving and all, but when it comes to putting the house OF my
shOulderS-say, since you are so set on not having it in your own name. maybe
hr Agent will let you shove it on to HIM"
Sounds silly of course; but to quote the agent ignorance like that is not
at all n rareo occurrence among women who are having their first experience
with business.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

of those old summers, but gathered
them into its own enlarged girth and
sturdler strength.--Phillips Brooks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

from every angle until it came to the
point where the husband, in Il gust of
loving thought, happened to mention
to the agent that he would make the
house over to his wife. But the wife
objected:
"Why, Bert, I'm surprised at you
to saddle me with a responsibility
like that! I'm famished for a home
of our very own, but if I've got to be
tied down to
Say, old girl, climb down to COM
MOI sense. 1t Is only that l want it
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
"And There Followed Mist and a Weeping Rain

r HE brief chronicle OF u ae of pride before a fall, etc. She had done a lot
i o. canning, Is per instructions rom the department of agriculture and the
food administration. and she was mlghty proud of herlwork. There was jam.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Little Jap Suddenly Separated From "de Gang

n CHANGED to witness a case Of strained international relations the other
/ evening. It happened on a busy street in the residence section, on OIL of
these new business streets that have grown up by necessity to supply the daily
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Probably Her First Experience With Business

A REAL estate agent was showing a house-six rooms and bath; so much
"A down and the balance in monthly instanments forever after-to a customer
who was looking over Lhe nrsmisss witch his wife: Ihs deal was saHsfactory
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
Careers Of PrecociOus Bandits Nipped in the Bud

NHICAGO-Babyb andiry in Chicago amt what it used to be, Watson. Ask
" George KrkwOod and Kaleman Patakey, two eighteenyearold highway
lei who are held at the Fillmore street police station. George and Kaleman
tMl Of their eNmLSa d their nrelmi
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28
WSHINGIWY{k y ::
OOSSIpSg6&5zEI! z:I
Just a Call From That Dreaded Visitor, "the Wolf

WAsHINGToN-A man rang the bell o a house n the first ward and asked
w tn woman who answered 1t If she was Mrs Blank. The woman smiled
engagngy and smd that She was Mrs: Blanks sister and invited him In. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-28

lshmenr seemingly shut forever, suddenly shot open, and a Japanese
appeared.
"Come In here" said the woman, in English, and then began in Japanese
She grabbed Ter Sol by the arms and yanked him through the DOR, talking
excteUy the while.
Outside, the boys stood looking at the tea in the window, and at the great
yas and other articles.
Then the leader spoke. In tones of o and utter disgust he said Ito the
Others and in his tones 1 sensed al accusation; There, now, we've lost him"