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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30
Dog Had Long Journey.

ALBUQUERQUE, n. M.-Two
years ago Roy NJ. Coe and family
moved here from Fort Scott, Kan,
bringing with them the family pet,
Bud. a collie dog. Last November
Bud disappeared from home and, al
though Mr.. Coe advertised and Of
fered a substantial reward for the
dogs return, no trace of him was
found.
The other day. Mr.. Coe received a
message from his brother-in-law, an
employe of the Fort Scott Gas Com
pany, reading: Bud, somewhat tired
walked into the gas plant n lay
d0wn.1 The dog. apparently had con
sumed about eight months makint
the trip of approximately 800 miles
The trip to Albuquerque was made
BY train, consequently on his east
ward journey, Bud had no familiar
landmarks to guide him, unless he
followed the railroad.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30
Farmland Rides in Taxi

BY The Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok1a.-Some
"rich relative" was the comment of
James Simpson, a farmer living
near this city. when he saw a bright
yellow taxicab drive up to his gate
and stop. But it wasn't. 1t was a
twentieth century farmland, late of
New York City. who had been adj
vised by the federal state employ
ment bureau that Simpson would
pay $3.50 a month and board for a
good farmland. He worked about
long enough 10 earn the money the
taxi cost him and then left, said
Simpson in relating the incident.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30

and Perth Amboy in Notion" The
pictures OF Making Movie stars
were made on the stage Of the
Crescent theatre on July 20 and "a,
while those of Perth Amboy in
Notion were taken in the city dur
ing the week of July 10. These
wonderful pictures show you Perth
Amboy as it really Is, and maybe in
the taking of the pictures you your
self was caught by the eye of the
camera and IL so you will see your
self as you really are when the pic
ture is flashed on the screen. The
pictures we're taken under h aus
pices of the Chamber of Commerce
and are well worth seeing.
Daughters of Despair" is n of
the greatest dramas ever shown IN
the movies. The picture is n that
will long be remembered by those
who see it. IL is already the talk
of the city. 1t is a swift moving
drama of the lives of several girls
and women all interviewer together.
A young girls heart may seem TO
tell her the way to happiness, but
1t is an unreliable guide. The hon.
est love of a good man, be he min-
lister or bricklayer. is more to be
desired than the golden promises OF
a gilded youth.
Japan's shipping Takes Slump
- nEDa
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30
Feature

The Crescent today offers one of
the biggest bills ever offered by a
theatre in this city. The program
includes the great picture. "Daugh-
ter Of Despair" which has set the
town attacking, and the extra adde
attraction, Making Movie Stars.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30
pSeed More overans and Clocks"

BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Speaking
here at the closing session of the
rural educational conference on the
subject, What Ais Us?" Professor
q. I. Christie. of Purdue University.
asserted that there were too many
diamonds and not enough alarm
clocks; too many serge suits and not
enough overalls."
AS an inducement to keeping the
boys on the farms he advocated
closer and more friendly relations
between city business men and the
farmer, stating that the farmer can
not compete with the business man
in the payment of high wages, which
has caused an acute shortage OF
farm help.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30

MANCHESTER. vt.-Robert Lin
coin. son OF Abraham Lincoln, has
been successfully lodging camera-
men for years. This IS believed to
be The first photograph taken of
hIm IN recent years and was snap
red as he was leaving the court
house here He is spending the
simmer IN this town. MY father
was 4 great man. / am not is the
M4y Lincoln avoids publicity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-30

Japan's Shipping Takes Slump
By The Associated Press.
TOKIO-A feature of the econ
omic depression in Japan is the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

the water and pat it until all the
water is out of it. Keep out two
tablespoonsful of butter and shape
the remainder into a flat oblong
cake and place on the ice.
Work the two tablespoonsful of
butter into the flour with the finger
tips and moisten the dough with lust
enough ice water so il will hold to-
gether. Turn the dough out on a
Toured board and knead until it is
smooth and pliable. Chill for about
ten minutes and then roll it out to
one-fourth of an inch thick in rec
tangular shape.
Spread one-fourth of the butter
on the lower half Of the dough and
fold the other half over it. Press
the edges together and turn one
over and the other under the en-
closed butter. Chill for few min
utes and then roll and spread with
another fourth of the butter; repeat
until all the butter has been used.
Lastly this should be laid in a cloth
and chilled thoroughly, or it may be
kept over night if desired.
Baking and Combining
The secret of delicate puff paste
is to have the paste very cold and
the oven very hot After cutting
the pastry out into the desired
shapes place on heavy paper, chill
and bake in the oven on low shelf
with the temperature about 500 de-
grees F. Turn the sheet frequently
SO that the pastry will rise evenly.
1t takes about thirty minutes for the
puff paste to rise and at the end of
this time place the sheet on the top
rack in the oven and brown.
Attractive ways of using puff
paste are almost endless. 1t can be
cut in shapes (using a sharp knife
dipped into very hot water) and
baked. When done these may be
put together with icing and the top
iced also. They may be covered
with custard filling and one placed
on top of another and the top deco
rated in any fanciful way. The
pastry may be cut in squares and
put together with jam and a few
chopped nuts and the top iced.
Fruit, hot or cold; small fruits
simmered in fruit juices; raspber-
ries with currants, ETC., are always
delicious with puff paste, being
really an aristocratic form of the
old-fashioned tart, which is a neg
lected dainty, simple and wholesome.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

admonish our legislatures and our
political administrations to follow
our example.
"Capital is nothing but the reser-
volred labor of other years that
waters the gardens and makes fruit
tul the labor of the present. This
TACT should always be borne in mind.
Capital per Sc is not more wicked
than labor per sc, because it is labor
IN another form. When any of US
quarrel with capital we usually in
tend to quarrel, consciously or un-
consciously, with it's relative distri-
button among us.
AS a matter of fact, if we do not
pull together intelligently to rem
edy or to alleviate the evils of high
prices nature will probably in due
course bring about a reversal of
form, with all its economic losses and
human wastage. We cannot pile
further work on the railroads.: thew
cannot handle it until they are vast
ly improved. We cannot by paying
1t more compel labor to produce
more goods in a days work. The
banks cannot go on forever increas-
ing accommodation and keep within
sound banking practice. The whole
some thing to do would be for the
country to budget its expenditures
carefully and conservatively for a
time while the fund of real capital
enlarges." - Reprinted from Publ
cation No. 50 Of the Irving National
Bank.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Fine Points in Pastry Makin6

ter substitutes are used. 1t is pos
sible to use any of the butter sub
stitutes for pastry, and very faky,
delicious pie crust has been made
in the Institute kitchen with oleos,
cotton seed fats and corn oils, but we
think the ideal combination is equal
parts of butter and some other fat.
A Light Touch
When rolling out the dough on
slightly foured board handle the
rolling pin lightly and attack the
dough in the daintiest possible man
ner. Roll it out to about one-eighth
inch in thickness and do not forget
to prick the pastry in several places
to prevent blisters. Always ornament
the top crust with some attractive
design in "fork-hole" embroidery so
that the steam has al. exit!
The Ovens Part
The baking of the pie is at least
half the story, however. The ideal
way, as in all kinds of cookery, is
by the thermometer. Half the worry
and uncertainty is taken out of cook
ing if this little instrument is used
For double crust pies with a filing
of apples, berries and the like, an
oven with temperature Of about
450 degrees Fahrenheit for forty
minutes is necessary. During the
last ten minutes of baking the heat
should be slightly reduced. For deep
fruit pies only about thirty minutes
at this temperature is needed.
A custard or pumpkin or cocoa
nut pie will require 45O degrees
Fahrenheit temperature for fifteen
minutes to set the pastry The heat
should then be reduced to 325 de-
grees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes.
This will produce firm, uncurdled
filing with delicate undercrust.
For an ideal meringue, so often
placed on one crust pies, a tempera-
ture Of about 900 degrees Fahren-
heit is used and fifteen minutes is
the length of time needed Never
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

crate oven for thirty-fve minutes
Serve warm with sweetened whip.
ped cream
iced Peach Cup
For an Individual rule, peel ons
peach, cut in quarters and pres
through rices. Place this IN taI]
glass with one tablespoonful of sugar
and add three tabiespoonsful Of
cold tea and the juice of half
lemon. Mix well, stir in two table
spoonsful of cracked ice and fill m
the glass with carbonated water
Serve with straws.
Plum Sherbet
Stew one quart Of plums with
water to cover until tender and pres.
through a sieve. Sweeten to tasss
while hot, and stir in one teaspoon
full Of gelatine softened in little
cold water. Stir until the sugar and
gelatine are dissolved and add one
pint Of unfermented grape juice and
the juice of two oranges. Taste to
see if sweet enough and freeze slow
~. When half frozen add the stifay
whipped white Of one egg. The sher-
bet can be colored with few drops
of pink coloring.
Peach Salad
Cut peeled peaches in slices and
marinate in French dressing made
with lemon juice instead of vinegar.
When ready to make the salad, drain
the fruit and add for three peaches
half a dozen chopped, peeled rad
ishes, one tablespoonful of ehopped
nut meats, half a cupful of shredded
lettuce and two slices of chopped
canned pineapple. Moisten with
boiled honey dressing and serve in
lettuce cups. Top each portion with
a maraschino cherry.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
BY Virginia Carter Lee
with sugar and real
cream, form almost meal in

DEACHES, with sugar and real
cream, form almost & meal in
themselves, especially if ac-
companied by homemade whole
wheat bread and good butter; while
the plum family lend themselves to
many tasty dishes as welI as being
delicious served as they come from
the trees.
For the latter fruit, unless picked
sunwarm from the trees, is better
if thoroughly chilled in the ice chest
before serving, this being particu-
larly true of the luscious greengages
and the rich red damson plums.
In this weeks menus both peaches
and plums (both of which are now
in the height of their season. are
used in many different ways and in
making up the weekly budget the
smaller, cheaper peaches are used
for culinary purposes and the larger,
more expensive fruit for eating.
Go Shopping for Fruit
Plums are purchased by the
quart basket and the greengages at
so much a dozen to be served au
naturel.
The question of using either white
or yellow peaches, or freestone or
clingstone fruit is one that is usual
ly decided by personal preference.
The white varieties of peaches are
generally more delicate in flavor ana
the yellow have a richer, stronger
flavor.
When stewing or cooking peaches,
few Of the cracked pits are a great
addition to the flavor; they may be
removed before serving 1t is gen.
orally poor economy to buy peaches
by the single quart, as the price
is always higher than when pur-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Take Your Fruits Seriously
Salads and in Compotes as
We'll as for Desserts

an ornamental pudding dish. Coil
slightly, arrange the fruit over the
top and dot with mounds of me-
rlngue made from the stiffly whipped
white of an egg and one table
spoonful of powdered sugar. Serve
with the fruit juice boiled down as
a sauce.
Frozen Peach Pudding
Make boiled custard from a
scant pint of milk, one tablespoon
full Of cornstarch mixed with little
cold water, a quarter of a teaspoon
full of salt, two eggs and three table
spoonsful of sugar. Cook over hot
water and when we'll thickeued re-
move from fire, cool and flavor with
half teaspoonful of vanilla extract
and six drops of sweet almond ex-
tract. Chill on the ice, add a quar-
ter of pint of chilled double cream
whipped solid and turn into the
freezer. Freeze, and when the mix
ture begins to CONCEAL add three
quarters Of cupful of fresh. sweet
ened peach pulp and half a cupful
of crushed, dried macaroon crumbs.
Continue to freeze until fra and
smooth. The peach pulp sholld be
quite sweet.
Plum Betty With Cream
Remove the pits from a quart of
red plums and cut the fruit IN quar-
ters. Sprinkle the fruit with sugar
and add the juice from half lemon
and half teaspoonful of ground
cinnamon. Arrange in a butteled
pudding dish, alternate slices of the
prepared fruit and cake crumbs and
dot the cake layers lightly with bits
Of butter. Have the crumbs on TOP.
pour over four tablespoonsful of
loganberry juice and bake in a mod
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

take a meringue directly from the
hot oven to cool place, as that
makes it tough and small blisters
appear. Allow the pie to stand on
the shelf of the oven for five to
ten minutes and then set in a cool
place.
Puff Paste
The first question asked me when
l took a girls class in cookery at an
East Side settlement last winter was
"How can you make those little
fancy things you see in the pastry
shop windows?" A piece of French
pastry is almost as mysterious to
the layman as detective story.
However, it is not so intricate as it
looks, and it is perfectly possible for
almost any one to be initiated and
to make French pastries almost as
cheaply as a cake. At least it can
be done for much less than 20 to 25
cents apiece, the average price in
the shops. Indeed, tarts and pas
tries are the logical refuge, with
sugar SO high and scarce.
The equipment for making French
pastry includes a measuring cup,
board, rolling pin, and few fancy
cutters. The ingredients for pas
tries are pastry flour, butter, ice
water, salt, with jams or MARINA
ladies', chocolate, nuts, and confec-
toner's sugar for some varieties.
You can be as fancy as you like in
dozens of different ways after YOU
have once learned the secret of the
puff paste.
Temperature and Handling
All materials and utensils should
be as cold as possible. Sift two cups.
full of pastry flour with one-half
teaspoonful Of salt. Measure one
cupful Of butter and place it in a
bowl of cold water. Work the but
ter with wooden spoon, dipping the
spoon first into boiling, then into
cold, water until the butter is very
J smooth. Remove the butter from
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

wv ) such rarity? Have you
ever glanced around you
at restaurant and observed the fate
of most pie? The filling is "eaten
out" and the crust left to decorate
the plate. 1t is no wonder, however,
as sodden, tough piece of thick pas
try is penance to eat and digest.
Plain Pie Crust
The art Of making it seems to
have escaped the great majority.
The secret lies not in the ingre-
dients so much as in the handling.
II the fundamentals are carefully
followed it is far easier to make a
delicious cherry or strawberry pie
than delicate white cake. The re-
suits are certain sure" no chance
of failure is possible. The ideal
"deep dish fresh fruit pie" ras only
top crust, and this should be f1aky
and crisp.
A Pie Sprinkler
Coed pie crust must have the cor
rect proportion of flour, shortening
and water, and real skill and care
are needed to add the water effect
lively. 1t must be added everly and
slowly until the dough can 5e han
died without sticking. The latest
device for this purpose used in the
Institute kitchen is a bottle with a
sprinllling cap on the top, used pri-
marily for sprinkling clothes. In
this way the water is evenly and
slowly added, and it aids greatly to
the success Of the pie crust.
The Fails and Salts
About four to five tablespoonsful
of fat to one cupful of flour give a
delicate, flaky result. Three table
spoonsful can be used, but does not
give such a delicate product. It is
easiest to combine the fat and -four
with the fingers, though fork or
knives can be employed. Any fine
patent flour will do, but special pas
try fours which contain less gluten
$50 essential in raised hread) are be-
lieved to give more delicate texture.
If one-half teaspoonful of baking
powder is added to the flour in the
majority of cases when sitting a
little better pastry is believed to
result, though perfect technique
makes this unnecessary. One-half
teaspoonful Of salt is needed in all
pie dough, and especially when but
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

e IL violent, long-c0ntinued or
extensive changes in the gen
eral level of prices probably create
more human misery than all other
things put together.
"And we set our legislators at
work to fight windmills by enacting
new statutes that are neither wise
nor eXpedient-that neither help us
out Of our difficulty nor enhance our
respect for the law. Never vet has
it been found feasible either to leg
lslate or to prosecute high prices
out Of existence, To attempt to do
either is merely stupid.
diagnosis leads us inevitably to
the conclusion that present high
prices and their concomitants of
shattered standards, uneasy politics
and social unrest have been pro-
voked by stationary or declining
production of staples, an increased
consumption of luxuries and the
substitution of dollars for wealth.
With such diagnosis the remedies
A.tonld be simple if we are coura-
geous enough to take them. The
first one, naturally, would be to pro-
duce more staples. The second, to
stop buying things we do not really
need or can get along without. The
-hird, namely, to create wealth in
'tead Of dollars, would follow, partly
from the application
# the first two, but would be tre-
accelerated were we TO
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Home Budget

THE first of the Ten Comm4ana'
ments Of thrift which wev
adopted by practically all organir
tions interested in the developnie#
of thrift are: ~ Make a buess'
and (2) keep an intelligent reco"
of expenditures. These are of PRIV
Importance in managing a bushes
successfully, and it is no less tfSs
that when the home finances aF
managed in thoughtful way grea'
er happiness results because eaep
activity in the bone is better bay
anced, since it receives its just pre-
portion Of the income.-Reprsn1e
from "The Journal Of Homo Ece
nomics," Ju,se, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Etching in Horrors on
The Mind of a Child

EF l had child, I should watch
like hawk to prevent her looking
daily or often at any ugly or pain
fully eccentric thing. l would not
let her live with or near "aueer"
people or near harsh, rasping
noises. Prenatal influence is i'm
portant, / do not doubt; but post
natal is surely more so!
A child's mind is so plastic, so
much the camera plate behind the
lenses of the eye, that whole life
can be influenced for good or evil by
one short year of horrors or near
horrors.
The Old Woman i'm the Rain
A child I once knew better than I
can ever know any other child lived,
when she was eight years old, oppo-
site tangled garden and an old
house with several sagging out
buildings leaning against it's garden
side. In one of the outbuildings
lived an old woman, a relative of
the house owners.
She never wore shoes or stockings
and her uneven, thin white hair was
always worn hanging around her
face. Her dress was always thin
and black and clung to her spare
figure, as though she had on nothing
beneath; one of her legs above the
ankle formed almost right angle
bend. 1t had been broken and never
properly set.
More than that about the old
woman the child never learned.
Whether she was really crazy or
not, what her life history might
have been, nothing was told, either
to explain away a curious dread or
to arouse a needed compassion. If
other mothers are tempted to believe
as that child's mother apparently
did, that children could not no.
tice things not brought to their at
tention, let them beware. Children
are all eyes and all ears.
Eerie Associations In the Mind
The old woman was inseparably
connected in the childish mind with
dark, lowering skies, wet grass, and
rain drops shaking from the trees.
She came into the open only during
or after rainstorm, and the child
would watch her through the fence,
fascinated, limping about the soaked
orchard, picking up the wet apples
from the ground, and carrying them
away in her skirt, lifted from her
bare legs to make bag for them.
She was inseparably connected,
also, with the impression made upon
the child by bachelor uncle living
with her parents. He was not
healthy and not happy, and he was
very, very sorry for himself. "Uncle,
isn't it terrible about the poor old
woman over at Kinney's! Nobody
loves her!"
Nonsense! She's lucky woman !!
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

Friday
BREAKFAST
Stewed Plums
Grillcd Tomatoes With Bacon
Corn Bread Coffee
LUNCHEON
Cottage Cheese and Nut Sandwiches
Iced Peach Cup
Cup Cakes With Cocoa Sauce
DINNER
Jellied Tomato Bouillon
Broiled Mackerel Fried Eggplant
Potato Balls
Peach Shortcake
Saturday
BREAKFAST
Sliced Peaches
Nodded Cereal
French Toast Maple Syrup
LUNCHEON
Baked Bean Salad
Brown Bread Iced Tea
Plum Sherbet
DINNER
Little Neck CLAIMS
Mutton Croqucttes Creamed Potatoes
String Beans
Peach Salad Honey Dressing
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

cutting the edible pulp into small
pieces. Mix the chilled fruits to-
gether, dust with very little grated
nutmeg and add one tablespoonful
Of orange juice, the same Of grape
juice and powdered sugar to suit the
individual taste. Serve very cold in
sherbet glasses.
For the peach mousse add to a
cupful and a half of sweetened
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Problem Of Prices
a Banks Viewpoint

EDITORS NOTE: Whose prob
lem is lt-the problem of prices?
Not the problem Of hoao to pay them
-aoe all struggle Nth that-but the
problem of regulating them. This
ace are accustomed to delegate to
Lawmakers and producers Gnd to
rail at the retailer oimlessly. He
IS usually merely the man aUho is
holding the bag at the end Of the
line, recolpjng has losses and "gct-
ting his," of course, whenovcr he
can. BIT he is as helpless IN the
grasp of the currents Of trade as
the consumer herself. The retailer
is the leaf on the t1't1t on the tree
Of commerce, not its root. We fiat
ter him and deceive ourselues acIen
ace try to correct q deep-seated dis
ease such as the present price situd-
ton By ca1ping at the spechs on the
truit instead of digging dozen after
the rotten roots.
Women buyers and the retailers
come together for the final conflict
an the aoa'' Of pricesl 1t is most iDl-
portant that qvoahen should hnow
sometling of the real facts of the
matter. There are pro6tecrs, it is
true, bat they are not the tuada-
mental trouble. And pyofteeriaa
c'Wsades are mostly a political t1lck
to diuert the minds Of the people
from real economic euils that the
politicians do not knoaO hoao, or do
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

peach pulp an equal amount of
stiffly whipped cream with sugar to
taste and a quarter of a teaspoonful
Of vanilla extract. Turn into a
mold with water-tight cover and
bury in ice and rock salt for three
hours before serving.
Just How to Make 1t
Peach Fritters
Mix and sift together one large
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Budget

Supplies for the week will include
at the butchers one pound of
chopped veal for 80 cents, one
pound of stewing mutton for 25
cents, two ounces of smoked beef
at cents an ounce, two pounds of
short steak at SO cents a pound, half
q pound of salt pork for 18 cents
and half pound of bacon for "a
cents.
At the fish market one pound of
fresh Goldfish for rs cents, two
pounds of bluefish at 80 cents a