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If Not, Read a Few d.
rections Prepared by
an Expert-Ways to
Serve Every Part of
the Melon, Even to the
Rind.

Weight is one Of the first consider
atoms when judging a watermelon.
The heavier the better. indicating
that the melon is full of juice. An
other way to tell whether a water
melon is good or not is to lay it on
it's back with the white part up, then
scratch the skin of the lightest part.
If this seems tender, and the melon is
yet firm to the pressure of the finger,
SO that you can with difficulty pierce
it with your thumbnail. it is probably
a good melon. If you have no re-
frigerator, the best way to cool a
watermelon is to wrap it in large
wet blanket and put it where the
wind will blow over it for couple of
hours without the sun striking 1t.
To serve. have the melon well
chilled. then split lengthwise and
with a vegetable scoop or tablespoon,
using a rotary motion. cut out in
flesh. Serve on individual dessert
plates or arrange on low glass dish
or platter. A few grape leaves will
make a decorative bed for the melon
cones. Another way to serve wa
termelon is to cut it crosswise in
slices about an inch thick. Remove
the flesh with little vegetable or
cooky cutter and stamp into dia-
monds. circles or hearts. Arrange on
a bed of leaves.
When a watermelon is brought to
the table whole. take a long-bladed
sharp knife. insert the blade near the
top Of the melon. then cut diagonally
downward toward the other end.
leaving between four and five inches
as base.
Remove the knife and again insert
the point three inches to the left of
where the knife was first inserted
and cut diagonally toward the far
end of the first cut, thus making a
saw-tooth. Continue to cut up and
down in this way until you have gone
completely around the watermelon.
when the teeth can be readily pulled
apart This Is the best way to cut
watermelon at a picnic.
When preparing a watermelon for
the first course cut in thick slices,
then with a heArt-shaped or circular
cutter stamp out, serving three
forms to each person on a bed Of
grape leaves.
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Made With Watermelon.

Watermelon Sherbet-Take all the
red pulp and juice of a ripe water
melon and to every two quarts allow
half a pound of sugar Flavor with
frozen add the stiffly whipped whites
of two eggs and continue the freeZ-
| ing.
Watermelon Salad.-While a dead
ripe watermelon is far too good to
have it's natural flavor subtracted
from. an insipid and tasteless melon
may still serve a useful purpose as a
salad. Break up the pink portion
lightly with silver fork, pile on
heart leaves of lettuce and dress with
mayonnaise.
Sweet Watermelon Pickle. Take
cup of salt to four quarts OF water,
two quarts of vinegar, two cups of
sugar and one-fourth of mixed pickle
spices Pare the rind and remove all
the red portion of the melon, cut it in
strips or small squares and soak in
soak in fresh water for an hour and
drain. Tie the spices in bag and
put them in a saucepan with the vine
gar and sugar. and boil for about ten
or fifteen minutes. until the liquid is
clear. Add the watermelon rind and
boil until 1t is tender, but do not al
low it to boil soft. Test 1t with a
straw. II the straw Is easily inserted.
take the rind from the strip with a
skinner and put in glass jars. Boil
the strip down a little longer, until it
gets somewhat thick, and pour it over
the rind in the jars and seal air tight.
Watermelon Preserves.-To make,
pare and cut the white part in dices
and boil 1t for a few minutes until
tender. then measure as much sugar
as rind and boil the same as any
other preserve.
Watermelon and Apples.-Press the
juice from a watermelon and cook in
it enough tart apples with a little
spice and sugar. to preserve the ap-
pies. Stick cinnamon and few slices
of lemon may be added.
Watermelon Cocktail.-Prepare some
small balls of bright pink water
melon with a vegetable cutter. no
larger than marbles. Chill thorough
ly. Drain the liquor from a small
bottle of maraschino cherries. chill
and at serving time pour this over
the watermelon balls. Garnish with
sprigs of mint.
Watermelon Ice Cream-Add the
strained Juice Of two lemons to three
pints Of watermelon Juice; then add
one pint Of plain gelatin jelly. one
pint Of milk and sugar to taste
Freeze. To make the Jelly put three
tablespoonful Of gelatin into a
saucepan: add four cups Of water.
one cup Of sugar and the whites and
shells of two eggs. Place over a
slow fire and heat until 1t boils. Re-
move from the fire and allow to Set
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-27

I've learned that Sooty isn't. I sus-
pect that Twitter isn't either"
oh. yes. he is replied Skinner
promptly. Hes the largest of the
Swallow family and we all feel very
proud Of him. Everybody loves him"
is he as black as he looks flying
around up in the air." asked Johnny
Chuck.
Yes" replied Skinner. HE dresses
all in black. but 1t is a beautiful blue
black, and when the sun shines on his
back it seems to be almost purple.
That is why some folks call him the
Purple Martin. He is one Of the most
social members of the family. Twitter
dearly loves company. He likes to
live in an APARTMENT house. That is
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rIIILES10RlEs
%rBEDTlnE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1919. by 7. W. Burgess)
Skimmer's Biggest Cousin.

If Peter Rabbit had happened to
be around when Johnny Chuck was
asking about Sooty the Chimney
Swift, Peter could have told him all
about him, for you remember that
Peter once made the very same mis-
take that Johnny Chuck had made in
thinking Sooty a member of the
Swallow family. 1t was Jenny Wren
who finally set Johnny Chuck right,
and told him all about Sooty. how he
lives in a chimney and fastens his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-27

why he always looks for one of those
houses with a lot of rooms in it, such
as Farmer Browns Boy has put up on
top of that tall pole. He pays for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-27

the trouble Farmer Browns Boy took
If there is anybody who catches more
flies and winged insects than Twittv.
l don't know who il is"
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tie for five minutes; then pour
through scalded jelly bag.
Watermelon Mold.-To make 4 wa
termelon mold prepare pist2chlo ice
cream and raspberry ice or sharbet
then line a witerm elol apeI mold
with pistachio ice cream T. ,Ee depth
of an inch AMI nalf ana fill the
center with the PINK lie. IL the pink
ice arrange small ra.SinS for seeds
] ack and set away 10 harl"n f,I
three or four hours. Serve the mold
with the fat side up, waiCn suggests
a watermelon cut IN Two.
Ways to Serve Canta1oupe.
Even tasteless cantaloupes should
not be wasted. A delicious preserve
or pickle may be made from them
but do not spoil the flavor of a good
cantaloupe by dressing it up. Nc
spices or fancy combinations can pos
sibly improve its natural flavor
When serving for breakfast. a light
sprinkling of nutmeg will improve the
1avor of an insipid cantaloupe. A
tasteleSs cantaloupe will do nicely as
the foundation for salad Either dice
1t or cut it in long strips with the
seed and the stringy pulp removed
Place the cantaloupe on A lettuce Leaf
and cover with dressing made OF
one-third part lemon juice to two
parts olive oil. Use slightly more sal,
and red pepper when making this
dressing than for ordinary French
dressing. Do not use mayonnaise with
cantaloupe or dressing made with vim
egar. This salad needs the sharp acid
of the lemon. Cantaloupe cut il
lengthwise strips with the rind re-
moved, sprinkled with finely chopped
nuts and served with this same dress
ing is also good
Cantaloupes with Lemon Ice.-Selec,
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OFFICERS ROUND UP ~
GANG or BAD BOYS


SPECIAL coRResRoNosNeE TO HosNINS JOURNAL
Williams, Ariz., April At is
hoped that Stop has been put to the
epidemic of petty thievery that has
been rampant in Williams for several
weeks, by the rounding up of four
boys none of them over - years Of
age by county and city officers, on
Monday On Tuesday Judge +. H..
Jones and County Attorney f. NJ, Gold,
representing the juvenile court. came
oyer from Flagstaff and upon the boys
being brought before the court, and
making a complete acknowledgment
of the charges brought against them,
were placed under probation in charge
of responsible parties TO work upon
ranches; remain off the streets Of
Williams after dark; keep away from
moving picture shows, under penalty
of violation of the provisions of their
probation that they will be sent forth
with to the reform school at Fort
Grant.
over a score Of places were looted
and the Youngsters had cache in the
woods near town whore they res0rted
to eat stolen chickens and smoke
stolen cigarettes. - The latter were
nurloined upon two occasions from the
Ped cross cantecn hut.
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NOT STANiPEDED.

This country was not stampeded
into war. We took time to deliberate
to judge the merits of claims of for
eign nations; to learn which was to
blame and when and how to cast
support
Great Britain certainly sought CO.
operation long before we had ended
elaboration. Germany as eagerly en-
neutrality, and later to bluff us into
refusing to do business with her en-
emies.
BE sure you are right, then go
ahead" was the slogan of America. No
adroit diplomacy. intrigues, no plots
abroad to hurry or hoodwink awaited
until public conclusions were def
nitely formed,
Just SO have the people deliberated
about complications into which we are
in danger of being drawn by the
methods and minds of few men, like
George, Wilson, Clemenceau and lesser
ones who follow.
The people have been thinking.
Discussion has already compelled
changes that our own representatives
were not seeking, and which they had
not conceived.
All the efforts of Mr.. Taft and 9TH
ers to prepare the people for approx
ing whatever might be signed UP in
Paris have been unavailing.
The impatierfce of the president
and his assurance that the country
must take everything as it had been
framed up, and must be silent until
covenant were signed, sealed and
delivered have not ratified the think
ing citzenry of a democratic land.
Forbidden discussion has cleared
away the smoke screen thrown around
ton. Well laid plains of men there
have had to be foregone.
The United States people are not
going to be rushed into any combina-
ton blindfolded. through threat that
they may spill the beans of peace or
get the fat into the fire.
The senate which President Wilson
so nerly dominated might not have
approved the program that he de-
cleared was letter perfect. Surely not
will the senate that will have the last
word
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theoretic mindspasms. will press the
ideas of socialism, not as we have
been used to consider it, but of a
quality that would turn this nation
into social autocracy;" a creation
blending all the things dreamed of by
men of other countries where condi-
lions bred ills that do not arise in
America.
If the leaders many party turn to in
ternatonalism, woe be unto them.
The war has caused many changes OF
attitude, due to experiences. But
from now on, aroused earnestness
and patriotism of the country will
fight for q greater and better Amer
lea. Fewer citizens will fail TO vote
and those who vote will do so in light
due to more thinking than was gen.
eraI in recent years, Many had grown
10 thinking that political parties were
not far apart. That all would go well
no matter which party predominated
Optimism or Indifference caused a low
ebb in public interest.
While patriotism brought all
shoulder to shoulder for war. the war
has shown that drifting and lack of
discrimination may easily lead the
country into a maze from which ex-
trication may be well nigh impos-
sible,
The people will watch their step
hereafter. They will likewise watch
the step of leaders.
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RIDER NOT PROPER.

When the American delegation to
up, the position was generally taken
by republican senators that the first
business should be the signing of a
peace treaty.
What was needed was peace at the
earliest moment The warning people
needed to get to work at once, forget
their troubles, and begin reconstruc-
ton. This accomplished, the matter
of peace league could be taken up
in less hasty manner.
When you have a fire burning the
attempt to reorganize the fire COM
pany while flames st!ll threaten to
sweep the entire community off the
map. Better put out the fire, and
then reorganize when there is time
for deiberation.
Mr.. Wilson insisted upon another
policy. 1t seemed to him that the
peace league and the peace treaty
must go together. He and his friends
argued that if the world does not
form a peace league now, it never
would.
That was one of those theorist ar
guments that will not appeal to com
mon sense people. The argument for
a peace league will be just as strong
next year as 1t is this year. 1t IS not
the kind of thing to be built on a
sudden impulse. AS Senator Lodge
said in the Boston debate, It is not a
thing to be jammed through as a rider
on the peace treaty, something that
might not stand on its own merits
The league of nations project needs
very considerable elaboration
As a result of the Wilson theorizing
the situation in Europe has steadily
grown worse. Bolshevism, left un.
curbed while statesmen argued out a
vast new scheme of government
threatens to spread all oyer Europe
A practical vision would have signed
peace quickly, got the warning power,
to work, and then would have gone or
to debate d permanent peace league
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today EVENTS

The Foreign Missionary society of
the NJ. f. church celebrates its cen
tennial today.
Today is the 125th anniversary of
the execution of the French Revolu-
tionary leader Danton.
The first steamer of Canada's mer-
chant marine to be built on the Pa
cific coast is scheduled to be launched
today at Vancouver.
In Philadelphia this evening George
Wharton Pepper noted constitutional
lawyer and Senator Hitchcock Of Ne
braska chairman of the foreign rela-
tons committee Of the last senate,
are to engage in public debate Of
the proposed league Of nations.
i. A party of leading merchants ana
manufacturers Of the middle west
members of the newly organized Mis-
sissippi Valley association, will leave
Chicago today for Laredo Texas, to
begin a trade tour of Mexico as guests
of the Mexican government.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Denver livestock,

CHICAGO, Anril 4.-Cattlc--Roc"ipts
5000. Market strictly rood aud good
she-stock PIC lower; all other cattle
steady: calves 2Tn higher. HEAVY
beef steers, $1t.50G 2O.dO: light beef
steers, $tO.0001S5o butcher cows
and heifers. $7hOm 1925; Gamers and
cuttors $5-75@100O; veal calves,
$13.75@ 500: stocker and- feeder
steers. s. 25m155O.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000, Market foir-
" active, about stead" with yoster-
days average. Ton. 5000; run' Of
safes. $40 90G20.1f: heavy wo'oht,
$1,000 @ 1920: MEDIUM WEIGHT go g
n 1920: light weight. S195C@PO -:
light light. $1S.25m2 90 %: sows, SITE
619.75; pigs, $17.25m1S.75.
Sheen-Peceipts 1000 Wooded
lambs steady, shade higher; shoep and
nrime lambs about steady. THmhs'
"a Wounds or less $tS.50D20 80: 50
pounds or better. $4,000 1000. Ewes;
medium and good $t2256o15.75;
culls and common, SG.O0612.25.
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Backbone Versus wishbone.

Stress willis waXy spines. Whimper-
ing and wishing expose prospective
failures. The man who's perpetually
signing instead of trying Shoes off
success.
When wishbone Gusts backbone, de-
feat gains vantage ground. If you're
nursing your wishes rather than
works, take a brace or you'll never
win, the race.
A stiff upper lip is the whip of
achievement. Sheer nerve has made
the impossible commonplace and has
metamorphosed apparent dross into
boss.
Electricity would still be decayins
fossil, man would still be caveman,
about and climbing trees but for the
you and I would still be sinking
brain and BACKBONE of men who
wouldn't cry and couldn't say die.
Innate ability goes far. but logged
tenacity and downright determination
to put things across goes infinitely
further. It's the fellows who link
fierceness of will to their skill who
earn the wherewithal to fill the till
Intelligence plus perseverance is the
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Stand to and Carry On
BY HERMAN j. STITCH.

No man with a yellow streak can
be true blue
Every time you wilt the current
milk is split. And the pail of oppor-
tunity empties surprisingly SOON
Every time you cry instead of try,
every time you sigh hard instead of
die hard, every time you quit instead
of hit, every time you stop because
you happen to flop-by 80 much and
more do you lessen your chance to at
tain the top.
Success isn't intended for welchers
or weak-knees. You can't thrive un'
less you strive. You won't win If you
don't grin at bumps and thumps. You
shan't pan out if you can't stand out
and stand up under punishment. NJ
man succeeds who succumbs too easily
or too frequently.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-05

Brain and Drawn are essential to
enterprise--b they are powerless
without tireless determinaton-lik
an automobile without gasoline-or a
locomotive without coal.
Other things being equal, success as
a rule rewards the more vital, vibrant
psychology. The sons and guns of the
allied nations would have been naught
but for the impelling thought that we
could Motive would not lose. SO
from the Joy of your job get grit and
grow grit and you'll be fighting fit
Stand to and carry on! Jam and
cram every Granny of opportunity
with optimistic, undownable faith that
you will and must make good. The
gutter, the welcher and the wilter
may jeer and sheer But after all you
will be delivering the goods that go
every time.
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Sayings of Mrs. S. olomon
%. cThe New York Evening world)
BY HELEN ROWLAND.

Co. (The New York Evening World)
which outshineth his repartee is lnore
uncanny than pet parrot which
saith the appropriate thing al the
fright moment.
Be not deceived, then, when a man
saith unto thee:
GO to! l could not endure life
with a stupid womann'
For, verify, NO woman is stupid. in
his, opinion. who AGREETH with him.
But a woman with "convlcttons"
affecteth him as a cold bath on 4 Jan
Iuary morning. She snocketh him!
And a woman who can be SILENT
in one language is more "inte res1,r9"
than one who can be brilliant in seven
languages.
Behold, in high Olympus, Minerva
the wise had the respect of the gods.
And Diana, the strenuous, had her
independence
And Venus. the beauty. married the
| blacksmith. ...
But Psyche. the simple, was
LOVED.
| And Juno, the bovine, married the
GREAT CATCHm
| Then, whatsoever thou receivth in
the Love Game, oh, thou Scintilating
lone accept 1t gladly and rejoice
Ithereat.
| For, whether It be a babe snatched
from the cradle or an octogenarian
spared from the grave, It is thy por-
Ition. Therefore cherish it.
| For, verify, verify, in the logic of
Imam, brains-and- beauty are an i'm
possible feminine bination--
| May not impossible to find! But
Impossible to ENDURE once thou
hast married it!
And Solomon himself had not been
HAPPY had he suspected that there
Twas an IDEA afloat among all his
seven hundred wives
i Selah
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On the nnN,s NnMs y

George Wharton Pepper. who is to
engage in q debate on the league If
nations in Philadelphia tonight with
Senator Hitchcock Of Nebraska, chair
man of the foreign relations commit
tee in the last senate is a Philadel-
phian with national reputation as a
constitutional lawyer. For seven
years he taught law in the University
of Pennsylvania. As iufist his
greatest service has no doubt been in
the preparation Of digests of federal
and Pnsvlvania law. In Philadelphia
civic affairs he has used his attain
ments occasionally for the benefit Of
reform movements. During the late
war he was active in the prepared
ness" movement. and served at the
Plattsburg military camps. Now he
is head of the league for the Preserv-
alton Of American Independence, re-
Gently organized by opponents of the
proposed league of nations.
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CHICAGO PRODUCE.

unchanged
Eggs-Market higher. REGENTS
i2S,S7g cases. Firsts 39m39%c: ordi-
nary firsts, asa O3S%c: at mark,
cases included. 1874 m39c; storage
packed. 42m42Hc
Poultrv-Alive, lower, Springs, SSc;
I fowls sec
Potatocs-Markot firm. Rocoipts
CT cars. Northern white bulk end
sacked. L. 8. Grade I. $1.7OD1S5:
Red rivers. $1.95; western russets
$3.50.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-05
THIS MAY MAKE YOU DIZZY.

A duel was fought in Texas by
Alexander Shott and John 5. Mott.
Mott was shot and Shot was not. In
this case it was better to Mott was not
shot, and Shot avows that he shot
Mott which proves either that the
shot Shot shot at Mott was not shot
or that Mott was shot notwithstand-
ing.
Circumstantial evidence is not al
ways good 1t may be made to appear
on trial that the shot Shot shot shot
Mott or as accidents with firearms
are frequent, it may be possible that
the shot Shot shot shot Shot him
self, when the whole affair would re-
solve itself into its original elements
and Shot would be- shot and Mott
would be not. We think. however,
that the shot Shot shot never shot
Shott but Nott;s anyway, 1t is hard
to tell who was shot,
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leap with humility and conceal her
intelligence with assimilation and
camouflage. she may learn to watch
her P's and "cues" and 'yes-dears'
and to cultivate her What dost-
think -darlings.'
But an intelligent opinion in the
mouth of pretty woman horrifieth
man even as the scissors in the
mouth of babe or a slingshot in the
hands of a mischievous boy.
And woman with judgment
which eXceedeth his own and with wit
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HER HUNDREDTH YEAR.
oston TRANSCRIPT

bOStOn
Mrs. Mary A. Blodgett, Pittsfield's
oldest living resident, reached ON
Thursday, the age of SO years, 81 e
walks, reads and is in possession of
all her faculties. Mrs. Blodgett, in
the days of the Civil war journeyed
south from her home in Salisbury.
Conn, to go to her son soldier who
was Ill with typhoid, nursed him back
to health and took him home. She
has three living daughters. seven
grandchildren, nine great-grandchild-
rem and one great great ganddaugh-
tnp
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Copyright, 1919. by Press Publishing
Being the Confessions of the Seven
hundredth Wife Concerning brains
and the Woman.

My DAUGHTER, what will a re-
trousse nose profit thee if thou hast
an aquiline mind? "
What will beauty profit thee if thou
art likewise gifted with brains?
What will dimples avail thee if thou
hast also opinions?
What will blonde hair gain thee if
thou possessest a brunette tempera-
ment?
Go to the lemon grove, thou Schol-
arctic, For how few women with
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CoULD'NT FOOL ,FM AGAIN.

whats coming orr out IN front
there?' asked the proprietor of the
Tote Fair store~in Tumlinviile, Ark.
"a counle of fellers from Straddle
Ridge snapped mules, replied the
clerk, land now each Is accusing the
other of SHINING him.
well, then, why don't they trade
back?'
Il reckon they are both afraid of
getting skinned again."