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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
RECIPES FOR A DAY
faxed MaCarOnl and Clipped

BAKED MhChEOHl anu NhppSu
Beef-Macaroni, one-quarter pound
thinIy sliced Clipped beef, two cups
white sauce, buttered bread
crumbs; separate the dried beef
into pieces, cover with hot water
and let stand ten minutes and
drain; arrange in creased baking
dish alternate layers of cooked
macaxoni and the dried beef having
two of each; pour over the white
sauce, cover with three-quaFters
cups buttered cracker or bread
crumbs and bake in hot oven until
crumbs are brown.
Cherry and Nut SaIad-Drain can
ned cherries, arrange on n bed of
crisp lettuce, sprinkle fine uU
meats over them: serve with cream
French dressing.
Cream French dressing tea
spoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon
pepper, two tablespoons lemon
juice, four tablespoons olive oil,
three tablespoons heavy cream; mix
ingredients and stir until well
blended.
EscallOped cOrn-One small green
pepper, half onion, fnlly chopped
two tablespoons margarine, two
tablespoons flour. enc teaspoon salt,
one-quarter teaspoon papr-ka, one
quarter teaspoon mustard, few
grains cayenne, half cup milk, one
cup canned corn, yolk one egg, hal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Grandma at Her Old Trick.

Our baby is five months old,
partly breast fed, partly bottle fed.
| When she was four months old my
mother-in-law began to feed her
chocolate candies until refused
to allow it any longer. She de-
elares she raised three of the
healthiest boys and fed them candy
from the third month. The baby
now has patches of eczema behind
both ears and beside the eyes.
What is your opinion?
Answer Three of, grandma's
boys may have survived in spite OF
her, but I'll wager she killed as
many as she raised. They seldom
count the failures when telling
about how they raised their babies.
You fail to mention what you feed
the baby. The eczema may be due
TO excess of sugar or starch in the
food.
Big League and Bush League Sur-
gerry.
What is the difference between
minor and major surgery? Is a
general anesthetic used by a
minor surgeon? | am informed
that our doctor can do only minor
surgery. X. II. NJ.
Answers is merely an arbi-
trary distinction between serious
operations and less serious ones.
Eminent" or well known" sur
geons have a way of making every
operations and less serious ones.
the unpretentious country doctor
makes light of the same work. The
anesthetic is immaterial. A gem
eral anesthetic is often necessary
for a minor operation and major
operation may be done under local
anesthesia.
A Minor Operation Needed.
I have on the right shoulder
blade what doctors call a fatty
tumor,s some nine years, the size of
a fist Doctors say nothing but the
knife will cure it. The bullying is
a biemish and annoys me all the
time. Please tell me what to do.
MRS. B. +.
Answer-The lump could be cas-
lily removed by the doctor, under a
local anesthetic, without any risk
or inconvenience to you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
HQart, GoHO1n0|
: 1,!x10pODCOfr1cC
by TEMPLE
Wrong Number

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
man SO years old | lost my wife
last September. She died OF the
influenza, leaving me with four
children.
The nurse who took care of her
stayed and kept house for me and
took care of my children. The
youngest child was a baby a few
days old. The nurse is \an old
woman, but the tenderest, dearest
mother l have ever seen. 1t was
! lovely to watch her tend my little
/ babe.
Now she is gone and l am mis-
cradle | think l love her better
than life itself, but l dare not say
anything to her for l know she
would think me insane as she was
a mother TO me as well as my chill
dren. 1 feel life is not worth while
without her III my home.
What can ] do? ! try to throw
this off my mind, bSt cannot. !
talk to the younger women and try
to like them, but she with my babe
in her arms gently singing to it,
comes between me and all else in
spite of all | can do.
Please tell me what TO do so l
will not be SO miserable.
NJ. b. o. p.
Engage the nurse as house
keeper. After a few months You
can be more sure OF your regard
for her and if your love is still so
deep it will be safe to ask her to
marry you.
There have been cases where
the husband and wife are happy
when the wife is several years
older than her husband, but such
cases are not common.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My par
ents in Switzerland have reared
boy who is now eighteen years
old. He is German born, but he
never saw Germany.
The war made it impossible for
him TO get Swiss citizenship and so
he would like to come to this coun-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

Mora Paley," and an address.
at can't be possible that a man
nike Mr.. Clevering> knows herr" he
soliloquized. "If he does, It isn't
for his good. that is certain. I'm 60
ing to look into this"
And this was what Dan found
out: Vincent Cleyering was a young
man of wealth and position, given
to kindly deeds. and engaged to a
beautiful girl, social favorite, also
interested in philanthropy. His in
diligence towards Dan was char
acteristic of him.
And Nora Paley? Dan had known
her in the past as one of the most
dangerous of woman schemers and
swindlers in criminal classes. He
investigated, to find the woman pos
ing as poor seamstress in a
wretched tenement house,
Keep up your role" Dan over
heard her accomplish direct her.
We'll spring the trap just about
his'(wedding day. Rather than have
a sensation in the newspapers he'll
give up few thousands. You have
preserved the notes he wrote your"
Yes, but they merely inform me
where can apply for work, or tell
me that he has paid my room rent I"
Shocked, incredplous, alarmed,
Vincent Clevering one day sat lost
in thought after a stranger had Wis
tied him. This was the aecemplice
OF Nora. without any evasion as to
his Matchmaking motive this mis-
creant threatened to enmesb him in
q scandal that would give him I'M
enviable publicity. unless he SUD
mitted to extortion- The amazing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
Weather and Climate.


In the finest weather we can con-
| ceive, m the ideal, temperate au-
tumn season here in the healthiest
climate in the world, the recent
influenza epidemic prevailed I'm
fortunately this puts quietus on
| the Anticipated notion that the
grippe is somehow associated with
damp, chilly, stormy. cold. dry,
windy or some other brand of alb
normal weather. There was enough
rain TO keep aoWn dust; there was
no snow or slush to cause wet feet; ;
there were no sudden changes of
weather. Howinsamhill the grippe
came about under such perfect
conditions the old yarb doctors
have not explained.
We know thkt oyerheated air is
excessively dried out. At 65 de-
grees Fahrenheit the winter air
still contains a fair amount of
moisture, but at 20 degrees F. the
same air is excessively dry, and
at "a degrees it rivals the air of
Sahara. And We know that this
desert air in which SO many of us
spend'the greater part of the win
ter is the cause of the dryuess,
harshness, roughness, chapping and
irritation and itching of the skin
with which SO many suffer in win
ter weather. To ascribe the trou-
bic to the weather, however, is
about as reasonable as it would be
to ascribe diphtheria, pneumonia or
typhoid fever to impure blood.
The best climate for one with
pulmonary tuberculosis or chronic
bronchitis or so-called chronic
catarrhal" trouble in the nose or
THROAT is the arctic climate, for in
the far north the respiratory dis
eases are extremely uncommon. 1t
is rather difficult to account for the
absence OF pneumonia and of al
legged colds" generally reported
by polar exploring parties, unless
We assume that the members of
such parties acquire a reasonable
doubt that exposure predisposes to
any respiratory disease.
Even those medical authorities
who hold that exposure predisposes
to respiratory disease are begin
ming TO feelsa trifle uneasy about
it, fer in the last few years they
have devoted considerable energy
to the vain attempt to prove by an
imal experimentation that exposure
to wet and cold does invite respir-
atory disease. The experiments
have proved a dismal failure thus
far, but the authorities still cling
to the good old delusion for all the
comfort and satisfaction there is
in >it-becauSe when you don't
know precisely what is wrong with
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

try to make his home with US.
Could L get permission for his
immigration from somebody in the
United States? Il. T. e.
You cannot get permission fol-
his immigration. If he is engaged
in engineering work, teaching OF
medical work he can come now
after applying to the immigration
bureau for passport; otherwise he
Will have to waiB four years before
he can enter this country.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: A young
man whom / have know for several
years was very friendly to me last
summer. He smiled at me when We
met on the street and l always
spoke and smiled back. He was
always a gentleman.
This winter | met his mother as
we are both members of the same
lodge. She invited me to call on
her, which I did. and she had me
spend the afternoon with her.
She asked me to come 10 Sun
day school at their church, which is
the NJ. T.. church.
! lDNe leI SOL, nut / 40 NOT KNOW
that he returns my love My broth
eT says ! am so crazy about him he
won't care anything about me. Is
it right for my brother TO talk that
way 10 me?
Would it be right for me to at
tend Sunday school and church at
their church? Would it cause him
to hate me~if l did?
YANKEE GIRL.
Your brother is doing you a kind
ness when he tells you not to run
after the boy. Follow his advice
and stop showing your feelings.
Stick to-your own Sunday school
and church. If you switch over TO
the boys church he will probably
know you are doing it because you
are Interested in him and not be
cause of any religious beliefs. BE
very careful or he will lose respect
for you. DO not call at his home.
If he wants to see you he will call
at yours.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
The Attack on MIR. Burleson.

Back of the onslaught now being made on
Postmaster General Burleson for the purpose,
as he himself AYERS. of driving him out of the
cabinet. there are motives which are clearly
discernible Publishers of periodicals blame
him for the increase in postage on second class
matter and for steadily opposing its repeal
Then there is the animus of wire corporation
leaders, whose Juggling with the business after
the government took control was vigorously
dealt with by the postmaster general, who
Topped of number of official heads to make
the lesson more impressive.
Mr.. Burleson attributes most of his trouble
to the activity Of publications which have beer
forced to pay somewhere near an adequate rate
for useeof the mails. Formerly he contends this
class OF literature-much of it purely ad-
vertising matter-received something like s70,-
100000 worth of service annually which it did
not pay for. By the advance in rates this
deficit has been reduced to s50,000,000, but in
justice to the public and especially to those
interested in rates on other classes of mail
matter, the second class rates really should be
increased still further instead of being restored
the old basis
The postmaster general is earnestly trying
to keep the postoffice a paying institution and
he has insisted upon equalizing. as far as pos
sible. rates on the various classes Of mail In
his campaign he says he has been threatened
openly with suffering the fate of other public
men who have had the temerity to cross the
paths of those controlling avenues of publicity
and he believes that the campaign against him
is being waged by those who gave the warning
To defend himself he has submitted his
to the people through public statement.
1t is to be expected that Mr.. Burleson will
get the worst of the argument for the simple
reason that he cannot command the means of
publicity that are in the hands of his enemies.
Furthermore, he will be bound by scruples
which at least some of those who are after his
official scalp will fail to observe. j.
Even so, it is safe to predict that those who
have challenged him will realize from now on
that they have a fight on their-na
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
The Day in Davenport

Cashier Acquitted-W. j. Hous-
man, assistant cashier of the First
National bank of Davenport, indict-
ed for embezzlement on 16 counts,
was acquitted in federal court yes
terday. The eXoneration followed
the complete collapse of the gov
ernment's case and the sustaining
OF a motion to direct a verdict for
the defendant. Judge Martin j.
Wade held that the government had
failed to introduce any evidence to
show that Housman had ever con-
verted funds OF the bank to his own
use. as alleged, and directed the
jury to return a verdict OF not
guilty.
Auto Thief Arrested-Herbert
Frahm, 1912 West Sixth street, was
arrested in Davenport late Wednes-
day in an automobile he took Sun
day from the farm of Eric Harder,
where he was employed. Harder
lives northwest of Maysyille. Yes
-terday Harder came to Davenport,
refused to prosecute Frahm, and
took him back to the farm with his
automobile.
Open Repair ShOp.-A new tire
repair and accessories establish
ment will be added to Davenport's
list of business houses when the
Perfection Sales company has its
formal business opening Saturday
of this week. John and William
Mass, both well known Davenport
ers, are the proprietors of the new
establishment which is located at
Third and Gaines streets.
Rainbow COming.-Davenport will
be one of the first cities in Iowa to
be given a chance to welcome home
the tattered, war-torn remnant of
the gallant Rainbow division, ac-
eording. to dispatches yesterday
fl ON Washington. One train of the
One Hundred Sixty-cighth infantry,
assigned to Camp Dodge for demo-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
Household Hints

cup dried bread, one tablespoon
butter, two-thirds cups buttered
cracker crumbs; wipe pepper, cut
in halves lengthwise and remove
seeds. then cut in strips and strip to
halves crossWise; cook pepper,
onion and margarine five minutes,
stirring constantly; add flour, mix
ed with seasoning and stir until
blended; then pour on gradually.
while stirring constantly, milk;
bring to boiling point and add corn,
egg yolk and bread broken in small
pieces and cooked with the table
spoon butter until well Drowned.
cup canned corn. yolk one eg, half
butter. Turn into a creased baking
dish, cover with buttered crumbs
and bake in a hot oven until crumbs
are brown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
Buy q Bond.


Can't you hear the bugle calling you? It's
Uncle Sam; he needs helping hand or two, so
don't take the joy out Of life. Don't hesitate
| wait. Buy loan and help the boys get
home, so their dear mothers, who may be old
and gray, waiting for the day for their lads to
be on their way Their dear old dads are so
glad to know they have lad who was so brave
and true to their country. In every home there
should be q Victory loan Be it large or small,
it is better than none at all. You helped them
over there, now help them back with love and
care. Oh, how happy they will be when they
sail back across the sea. So don't hesitate and
make them wait, but subscribe today, so they
may be their way. You must stand by
Uncle Sam, for he's the man who protects our
land, HAZEL MANTLE,
Age u.
When our netghbor in the column to the left
said last evening Make the Liberty bond so
|1icitor's work easy. Meet him half way" he
didn't mean that in buying a hundred dellar
bond the salesman would come across with
the other half if you paid $50 of it.
g.
II It's Work You're Looking for
(From State Exchange).
Z WANTED-Soda dispenser, male or female
to work at drug store soda fountain; work
eight-hour day but must be good worker. <Ap-
ply William F. Work, Continental pharmacy.
Add Endorsements of DR.. Foster: Iglehart
Marble and Granite works
THE SONG OF DYING THIRST
Dear o. D. X: Have you heard the follow
ing? If not we beg to inform you that it is
jazzed to Till We Meet Again:
Drink. oh drink! until July the First,
If you don't you re to die of thirst,
For the old U. S. is going dry
Through no fault of you or l.
No more lies to dear little wife. y r.
You shall lead the simple, quiet life,
So meet R1e at the bar each night
Until July the First. E. C. n. S.
P S.: Have you received, yet any of
those postals with inscriptions such as After
July the first, no one but the moon get
fulF'?
The postscript quotation of E.. G. ". s.
suggests the comment that probably he'll spend
his last quarter as usual, in doing it, too.
Why Rush! Probably It's Already Answered!
washington, D. c., Times).
WANTED-Gentleman to share large, hand
somely furnished room; hot water heat electric
lights; twin beds, two car lines. Phone Colum-
bia 1853.
A humorist on the ST. Louis Republic runs
a column which he calls Good Morning"
GOOD NIGHT!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

biliZation, will stop at Davenport
| for two hours. The date has not
| yet been determined, but will be
wired to Mayor c. ~. Littleton.
Popcorn Wagon Spilled.-A speed
ing train and a frightened horse
were the contributing causes TO an
accident which spilled a popcorn
wagon for a block along Fifth
street Wednesday night, and might
have cost James POleminos his lie.
The train was speeding west. A
woman, standing on the sidewalk
near Warren street, hailed the driH-
er of the wagon. He stopped. The
train began to rumble down the
rails and the horse pricked up his
ears. The train kept coming and
then the crash.
Painted YellOW.-A Russian nam
err Gjunerik, single and without de-
pendents, and drawing more than
So day as toolmaker in shop DA-
r, at the U. S. arsenal, said: 81
c;pn't afford to buy bonds" Every
other man in the shop had sub
seribed to the Victory loan and all
were anxious for a 100 per cent
showing. At noon yesterday fellow
workers painted his tools and kit a
shining golden yellow. Gjunerik
came in from lunch before the dec
Grating was finished and endeavor-
ell to demonstrate. What he heard
in reply made him think it was time
to move, and he did so in pretty
good style, drawing a knife to pro-
tCct himself from personal violence.
The whole shop was right behind
until the officers at the guard house
took him in and protected him.
Build Theatre.-Turner hall rem
devious of thousands of Davenport
ers in the old days, made immemo-
rial by Sylvester balls; the home
of the old bar with its genial host,
John Hill; the center OF physical
culture in Davenport for over thirty
years, may be turned into a movie
and vaudeville house, il present
plans carry. Charles Schick, coun-
ty supervisor, and large holder of
real estate. yesterday
closed a 60-day option on the prop
CTLS DIT d VI
III addition to the large building
the land involved comprises front
age of $50 feet on West Third street
and 14O feet on Scott street.
Strike Is Ended.-Strike of the
hosting engineers here is ended.
The engineers signed an agreement
with the master builders yesterday
morning and have gone back to
work. They will receive so cents
an hour and time and a half for
overtime.
Deer Captured.-A young deer
was captured in the river below the
Crescent bridge early yesterday by
Pete Hendricks, a riverman, living
in a houseboat at the foot of Divi- |
sion, street. Hendricks discovered |
the deer swimming upstream in the |
vicinity of the bridge and gave /
chase in a skiff He forced the ami
nal toward the shore and with the !
aid of ropes succeeded in making |
it q prisoner.
Obituary RecOrd.-Mrs. Johann !
Brus. mother of j. J. Brus, cashier |
of the Home Savings bank and /
well known Davenport woman died |
at her home, 923 West Sixth street, !
W ednesday evening. after an illness |
OF 10 days duration. She was II
years old and had heen-a resident ,
of this city since 1857. |
Marriage Lieenses.-L. W. Arthur
and Helen Palmer, both of DaveH /
port; Frank C. Andrews and Mabel .
NJ Berry, both of Davenport: Les +
ter e. Campbell and Johanna Rose +
Schooner. both OF Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
MINU HINT.

MINU HINT.
Breakfast.
Shredded Grapefruit
Powdered Sugar
Fried Corn Meal Mush, Maple Syrup
Onelet Brown Toast Coffee
Luncheon
Clam BOulliOn
Escalloped NC1Fn Graham Mun!ns
Butter Canned Peaches
Plain Cake Tea
Dinner.
Tomato Soup
Baked Macaroni and Clipped Beer
Graham Mullins Butter
Cherry and Nut Salad a.
Black Coffee
Cottage Pudding with Sauce
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
DISCOVERIES.

The Nickel Trimming on n gas
range gets very rusty and discolnr-
ed from being in storage. Buy a
small box OF aluminium enamel and
with n small brush give all the
trimmings a coat, also the oven.
Take out the Innings TO the doors
that have open work If badly
rusted-and give all a coat Of alum
mum.
= It looks fine and will not burn
OF.
POr MOths-Wrap furs and wool
en- clpthing and blankets in green
newspaper before storing them
away for the summer. Moths will
not enteT(ciothes put away in this
manner, as green dye Is particular
~ obnoxious TO them.
When Planting Flower seeds that
are very small and likely TO wash
away in heavy rains, try planting iu
hills instead of drilling in rows.
and put glass tumbler over each
hill. The glass holds the mOIsure
and draws the heat; every seed Wi.
come up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
HEALTH TAH dKR
BY WILLIAM BRADY nd.
korkD PenkstlAN AND -AnIHoa

patient you can call it a slight
cold" and as a general rule he is
willing 10 accept that. Thus we
find the catching cold phobia per-
petuated in the medical literature
of the day, for what medical au-
thor doesn't know, but lifts from
authors who have gone before, fills
the greater part of his book.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

One OF Canada's most prominent
women lawyers is Miss Winifred.
Wilton of Manitoba, who took up
her brothers practice when he
went to the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

THE LIVING PAST.
,asse' nest pas une chose mOrte. .

la passe' nest pas une chose mOrte."
The past is not dead thing, an, how truei
Though in rose Jar we would lay it by
And from each passing morn pluck blossoms
new
That in their turn at last must fade~and die.
The past still lives; its tendrils creep and clasp
About our lives for ever more and hold
Our days and hours within their tender grasp
Like chains of steel or links of beaten gold.
Whether for veal or woe weSstIll must keep
Z The joy, the grief that seasons dark or bright
Have brought US, till across times vastly deep
Like a smile breaking through shower of
tears,
Gods shining promise spans the cloudy years.
DORIS KENYON.
Giving timely consideration to the momen-
tous happenings of the world. why not offer
for another worlds shortest poem:
ITO be or not to be-?
Queries Italy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
NOT CAT BUT KITTENIsH.

Sir: Observing that c. NJ LETT me out of his
pretty Easter poem. and feeling that perhaps
my signature &C. A t." was a bit too catfish for
him to wax ,5tical over, / have concluded to
give him a better chance by changing my con-
tributing name from c. A. T. to Caroline.
Henceforth (take notice c. M my name is
Caroline. Now do your .durndest!
CAROLINE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

Before the thing was definitely settled a
leading newspaper editorial said: What Shall
Be the Seat of the League of Nations%' to which
spring infected or slow witted contrib. has
Just answered thus: 1T doesn't seem as though
it should be anything less than leather or cord
uroy" Why not bit of cretonne?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25

This business in which Germany involved
us is not yet ended Buy Victory bonds and
show where you stand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-25
The international Aspect of
Aviation.

AS mere Incident in the work of the peace
Conference came the fixing of conditions for
International aerial communication. Thus one