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Money in the Home
Little Tricks For Women
in Household Economics
Ru EIIzABETH IATTIMER
By ELIZABETH LATTIMER.

How many OF Us can claim that
We do not waste cooking fuel
especially gas and oil
When a slow fire Is needed all
day to heat a kitchen, select foods
that require long. slow cooking:
Beans, peas, and roasts can be baked
in the oven and cereals can be
cooked in a double boiler on the
top OF the stove. :.
In broiIing over a coal or wood
fire put the broiler through the
door over the fire box instead or
taking off the lids and cooling the
fre.
Use double broilers. steamers, and
eompartment vessels which mt over
enc burner on a gas or oil stove.
Eggs OF small vegetables may be
cooked in the bottom part OF the
boiler while cereals are cooked In
the upper part
A colander or wire basket fittsd
over q saucepan makes a good
steamer Vegetables such as car
rots may be steamed In the colander
while potatoes are boiled in the
saucepan.
For slow cooking on a gas stove
use a simmering burner. When
SOUPS and foods require long cook
ing, but keep well, cook them in
large quantities.
Covered containers heat more
quickly than uncovered
Turn out the gas when IL Is not
needed. Matches are cheaper than
gas.
Turn the flame down after the
boiling point Is reached. Water
boiling fast Is no hotter than water
boiling slowly.
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ined is harmless, sound, and not in
ferior, so that the practice of the
refiners does not conflict with the
provisions of this law,
The method employed in tinting
the sugar examined. is relatively
simple and adds very little to the
cost of the product and nothing to
it's food value. Refiners state that
the shortage OF sugar has created
an opportunity to place on the mar
ket considerable reserve stores of
thfscolored product, which ordinar-
lily is used only for CONNECTIONS.
They deny that they have colored
their stocks of white sugar in order
that higher price might be de-
manded for it
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CHAPTER XVIII.


(Capyright 1920, Star Company
TN the drawing room Ruth Court
ney waited.
She did not know why she
waited. She might as well go
home. she reflected. Now that Doris
was with Hugh and had seen just
Now he looked, she (Ruth) could be
of no further use here.
She told herself moodily that she
was of no use anywhere. While
Hugh was away she had felt 1t her
duty to look after Doris, yet even
that task had been futile. Doris
had lot been disconsclste, or, If she
had. had not come to her younger
sister for comfort Instead, she
had evidently found solace in the
companionship of man whom
Ruth did not trust, but of whom her
mother approved. -
Even after the frst shock OF the
news of Hugh's accident, Doris had
turned to her mother and to Ralph
NortinAnot to her sister.
But this morning. when the girl
had learned that she must face
painful duty, she had begged Ruth
only in disagreeahle places that she
needed the others support and
presence.
Poor Hugh, What was any
body's trouble compared to his?
Blind. his father had said Even
now Ruth Courtney could not grasp
the fact of this calamity.
She tried to picture him deprived
of his sight, walking as she had
seen other blind men walk, led
slowly where he had been won't to
go rapidly. guided where he had
been in the habit of guiding others.
All at once tears rushed to her
eyes. She declared to her soul that
she could not stand having this man
bear this thing, that somehow she
must help him. that she would glad
ly suffer herself to spare him this
agony.
A Sad Picture.
Yet there was only one human
being who could really tighten his
darkness, and that was Doris, tho
girl he loved. Surely she would do
this. Ruth was powerless, even
though she had promised to keep
his happiness safe for him.
Well IL was safe. Doris was with
him, was even now telling him that
her desire was to be eyes for him,
to stay with him always, to make
night day for him.
Ruth's conscience smote her again.
She had been wrong to wonder how
Doris would take this new state OF
affairs. Her evident emotion when
she heard OF Hueh's blindness had
been her natural grief for him Yet
at the time Ruth had actually fan
cied that IL had been a shrinking
from
She sprang suddenly to her feet
as she heard the libyary door open.
Some one was rupning down the
stairs. An instant later. Doris
rushed into the drawing room.
"Oh," che burst forth, you will
have 20 go up and talk TO Huehi
He is going all to pieces-but
can't help II II he Isl I can't stand
I'll tell you T can't stand nr'
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Showers of Frogs.

During thunderstorm near Glib
raltar, thousands Of small frogs.
apparently drawn up from a lako
twenty miles away, are said to
have fallen upon the earth. Ac-
cording to Mature" such showers
OF frogs, when satisfactorily su-
thenticated, are to be classed with
showers OF herring, sticklebscks,
and even larger fish. Some of those
showers are vouched for by trust
worthy persons, and can be easily
explained. A whirlwind is some
times strong enough to suck up
dust. leaves. and sheaves, or water,
fishes and frogs. The tornado NAV
transport its burden in its whiri-
ing colnmn for many miles until
II losses its~strength and ceases TO
turn. The sudden appearance of
multitudes of small frogs, how
ever, is often owing to nothing
more unusual than the regular mi
grafton OF the young frogs from
their birthplace in tho pond 10
their summer quarters in the
fields. Similarly, alleged "snail
showers are likely to disappear
under scrutiny, and "a torrent OF
periwinklos" most often turns out
to be migration OF Helix vir-
gata or the like. In his Romance
OF Natural History" Gosso dis
cussed tho various kinds OF animal
showers" and came to the con-
clusion that some OF the records
.~were worthy Of credence as re.
CARDS frogs. toads and fishes. IL
II probable. then. that the Gibraltar
shower H. genuine.
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Saludging the
Young
Professer IN tie University OF
Kansas and an authority on
chiId training.
By DR.. VIM. A. McKeever,

PrOfe0g0P IN the Un1vefBaty OF
Kansas snd an authority on
eAiId training.
THE blighting Of q young iffe
is one Of tho worlds greatest
tragedies.
whenever / see . fourteen-year-
old out Of school, am assured that
he has sick soul
The youth whose growth Is
stopped through nop-attendance at
school is quite as unable to dag
nose his case as the one who is SUI
fering from . serious physicai
malady.
The greatest wrong which a State
can possibly commit against the
young is to neglect to keep them in
some kind of school until at least
the age of eighteen is reached
Recently stood before a 80
called vocational school of seventy
young souls whom the State OF In
diana, through its wise new law,
had forced to como In and be re-
deemed by further direction OF their
lives.
The youth who makes even mere
passing grades and stays In school
aha sort of witness, Is unconscious
ly absorbing higher ideals and plans
for his life and is therefoSe max
ing a substantial growth.
Indiana has said substantially TO
her young school truants: We will
force you to come back into school,
but when you arrive we shall search
heaven and earth to find out what
you like and teach you that
Scarcely ono of the young seventy
OF the vocational school Just open
ing, who sat before me, was WILL
ing attendant there, or had yet any
clear understanding of what the
strong arms OF the State meant to
do with him or for him
Rather than make a sort OF rum
mage sale OF the fourteen-year-olds
who have quit school--peddling
them out to the highest bidder for
their mere employment-the State
OF Indiana has begun upon a most
promising scheme OF salvag1ng It's
young human driftwood.
Every youth fourteen to sixteen,
and not a graduate OF the eighth
grade, must now either enter a so
called vocational school or obtain
n certificate of Justifiablc absence
from tho local superintendent or
schools. bnutI lhiS ht" 10" 'h'
Hoosier State is setting a worthy
pattern for Nhe nation.
Nearly all tho toughs and GRIM
inals are recruited from the young
unrestrained drifters and school
ouitters. AS social conditions now
stand. without enforced further de-
yeIopment their case is pathetically
hopeless. :,
Use every honest scheme of
which parent can conceive to
force your truant fourteen-year-
old into a night school, n continu-
alton school or a vocational school.
Keep him learning something. keep
him growing. II your boy can learn
70 mix mortar or carve with jack
knife while he sits daily In the
council OF wise teachers and genial
class mates--that is a very good
and helpful school,
Next to having a worthy ambi-
tion Of his own-which Is really
very ,contaeious-your boy will do
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tcopyr,sA. IsaO. by tn. Wheeler synaio.,,. Ino,

son, after a short term In one OF
the valuable types OF salvage school
named above, is practically certain
TO become q sort OF new creature.
The self discovery, the awakening
interest in something worth while.
the vision OF n possible career OF
real merit-the boys redemption
will come In some such wayr as
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.tr DEALS and 'Tdealism- are

xxi DEALS ana loeailsh ArS
words which are very fire.
ouently used today. Most
-,ople, however, regard them as
fhev do candy placed alluringly In
the shop windows We want the
candy, but we need shoes and stock
ings more, and so we put off pur-'
chasing sweets until another occa-
sion.
But the truth is that our ideals.
whatever they may be, are just as
much facts of daily life as our
shoes and stockings They are
the tape-line by which wo meas
ure everything. whether we know
ii or not.
have a letter from a man who
asserts that he is an idealist, and
lfc objects to somo recently eH-
pressed views of mine on the right
Of married woman to have her
own bank account He doesn't con-
cider that I have a sufficiently high
ideal of the marriage relation. DO
lays:
According to my opinion. you
are Lot correct. I think that a
married couple should have an ac-
count in both their names. 1t can
be so arranged that they would
both have the same drawing power.
You know the old saying. United
we stand, divided we fall Why
are you SO pessimistic about itT
am no pessimist believe me.
Rut YOU can't settle practical
question, especially one involving
human relationships, by saying:
That is the way things ought to
work out. therefore they have got
10 work out that way"
A common bank account 10 all
right for the married people who
prefer that arrangement but i stu
adhere to my conviction that II IL
n risky, often unfair eIpedient, and
likely to be productive of moro
ouarreis and arguments than are
desirable in q happy household.
One Persons Idea
OF Married Life.
NV correspondent. continues:
You seem to regard marriage as
n business proposition instead or a
mutual agreement. When couple
are united in the bonds OF matrt-
nony they should live the life OF
one instead of two separate per-
sons. That Is my ideal OF a happy,
harmonious married life."
II sounds wonderful Perhaps
in some rare cases Il can even be
accomplished. But ut what ex.
pense? II simply means that one of
the persons concerned has sub
merged all individuality and be-
come the mere echo of the other.
THAT is not beautiful. II Is pitiable.
And how can there he any mu-
tual agreement into which the qucs-
ton of food. clothes, housing, etc,
enters without It's being in some
important aspects more OF less or
n business proposition?
A man and a woman marry. They
are happier together than they
we're apart. what does that proven
simply that their natures are con-
.reniaI and their affection enduring.
rhey are willing to make the COM
promises and concessions necessary
10 a real union. Nevertheless, their
fundamental characteristics remain
unchanged.
Now every one likes to regulate
hts own affairs to a certain extent,
especially his own monetary affairs.
Every one has his pet extrava-
N,ances and his pet economies, which
seem absurd TO others, but which
are nobody's business except his
owrs
4 happily married couple may
have widely different views on 60
pcndlturc. The husband may be
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exceedingly we'll to associate daily
with those who are at work upon
plans and specifications for a pro-
gressive career. Even q poor teach
er is always a better counselor for
a youth than the, riff-raf with
whom he is likely TO mingle II he
drifts away from the class room.
Your trusnt and delinquent young
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these and probably bring tears or
Joy to your weary eyes.
Nothing else by way OF satisfac-
ton can quito equal this for par
ent, TO be able TO say In truth, MY
son, who was lost from the way OF
growth and happy unfoldment' Is
now found and is being led In
into n manly career"
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shmmerng globes glory holding imprisoned
goddust amber bead
that lovers with their conured, eyes.
Nowadays jim and Janey lovers blow bubbles ooo
jewel and swimming spendor Of CLEAN and glmmer with
did
another dm far day. And along Malevte bad
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DEAR ELIZABETH LATrIMER:

have been able to save many a dol
lar by utilizing old rubber sheets after
they were no longer waterproof by
soaking with Fels naphtha soap and
washing thoroughly. This dissolyes
the rubber and leaves the muslin soft
and white. It can be used for many
purposes. I have made petticoat tops
for my little girl: have also made her
little drawers out of the old rubber
iBed coats by this method of removing
rubber.
MRS JOSEPH BUSHNELL,
1927 Spring road northwest
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ad Percinet blew bubbles OF rainbow n
swimming glory-geamng with Loves young dreamsanu
Malevoa faey along and blew them ou-pft!-
nothing left but two mourning where once
shower diamond and
soapfoam where there
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blows their bubbles to spater Of ~
dropshateng their old fashioned plansmore od fash
ioned and gentle and and tender than the folks who
vanishing into thin air But Maevolas
old H. c. 1.-The of love know these daySa me!
NELL BRINKLEY.
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lH ~xM&AgND TIE
M1kCOW PUNCHER
NVE1@S=GI@T4sms By Robert JC.Stead
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deeply interested In the young man
who was to be her coachman. Dave
had never been In a home like this,
and his eyes, unaccustOmed 10 com
Portable furnishings, appraised them
as luxury. He soon found himself talk
ing with Mrs. Duncan about horses,
and then about his old life On the
ranch, and then about coming to town.
Almost before he knew 1t he had told
her about Reenie Hardy, but he had
checked himself In time. And Mrs.
Duncan had noticed 1t, without com
ment, and realized that her guest was
not a boy but a man.
Then Mr.. Duncan talked about gar
dening, and from that to Dawes skill
In backing his team to the coal chute,
and from that TO coal itself. Dave had
shoveled coal all winter, but he had
not thought about coal except as
something to be shOveled and shov-
eled. And as Mr.. Duncan explained
to him the wonderful provisions Of ma
ture-how she had stored away in the
undiscovered lands billions Of tons OF
coal, holding them in reserve until the
worlds supply of timber for fuel
should be nearing exhaustion, and as
he told Of the Unreasonable wealth of
this great new land in coal resources,
and OF how the wheels Of the world,
traffic and industry and science, even,
were dependent upon coal and the
man uyhn hnn11ad thn naoI Daun faIt
his breast rising with a sense OF the
dignity of his calling. He had had to
do with this wonderful substance all
winter, and not until tonight had IT
fred the divine spark Of his magma
ton. The time licked on, and although
he "a eager to be at work he almost
dreaded the moment when Mr.. Duncan
should mention his lesson. But be-
fore that moment came there was a
ripple Of laughter at the door, and q
girl in tennis costume and a young
man a little older than Dave entered.
Edith" said Mrs. Duncan.
Dave arose and shook hands. Then
Mr.. Allan Forsyth was introduced.
Mr.. Forsyth shook hands heartily, but
Dave was conscious of being caught in
n quick glance which embraced him
from head to heel. And the glance
was Observation-Disclosures 1t was
such a glance as Dave might give a
horse when he would say, "A good
horse, but / can handle him." 1t was
evident from that glance that Forsyth
had no fear of rivalry from that quar-
ter. And having no fear he could af-
ford to be friendly.
Dave had no distinct remembrance
Of what happened just after that, but
he was conscious Of an overwhelming
desire to hear Miss Duncan ring How
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First Cremation of Human
Body in America in 1892

The first cremation OF a human
body In America occurred on Deem
Der 8, 1892. The body IA that Of
Henry Laurens. a leading statesman
of the colonies and one Of the COM
missioners who signed the treaty Of
Paris, ending the Revolutionary war.
Colonel Laurens died at his planta-
ton near Charleston. S. c., on Deem
Der 8, 1892. and there he was ere
mated. In his will he provided for
this and enjoined his son to cause
his body to be wrapped In twelve
yards of tow cloth and burned until
1t was entirely consumed. His bones
were to be collected and deposited
wherever might be thought proper.
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Naturalist Describes and
Names Eighty-Six Species
of Browns and Grizzlies

All the Alaskan brown bears look
very much alike, says DR.. William T.
Hornaday, in Boys Life. To be more
exact, they strongly show the dis
tinguishing characteristics Of their
group. Some are light brown, some
are dark brown, and some have dark
legs and light bodies. If l should try
to name even the best-knOwn species,
and give their characteristics, no one
would remember them for WI hours.
Ii is not amiss, however, to give here
the names and places of the species
that are at this moment living in our
geological park collections; and in do
ing so / will begin with the most
southerly species we have and work
northward:
Admiralty bear, Ursus ~eulophus. Ad-
miralty island.
Yakutat bear, Ursus DALI, Yakutat
bay.
Kadiak bear, Ursus m%iddendorfi,
Kadiak island.
Peninsula bear, Ursus DALI gyas,
Alaskan peninsula.
Kobuk bear, Ursus innuitus, Kobuk
river.
Last year a startling thing hap
pened. For a full quarter Of a CEN
fury, Doctor Merriam has been col
lecting bear skulls and studying North
American bears. And then, all Of a
sudden, out came from him an inno-
c~ent-looking little pamphlet describ-
ing and naming Sc species of Alaskan
brown bears and grizzly bears! And
Doctor Merriam declares that the
skulls before him left him nothing else
to do.
OF course we cannot follow up the
devoted SO species, and become per-
sonally and permanently acquainted
with each one. 1t is about all / can
do to keep step with the five live spe-
cies daily before me.
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Inventions by Women Are
on InCrease--FirSt Was
by Connecticut Matron

The first patent taken out by a wom-
an was for a process of weaving straw
with silk by a Mrs. Mary Kiser Of Con-
necticut in 1909, and she has had, as
time went on, many followers in in
genuity, so that at Washington there
is a woman's department, with the
specifications Of the patents arranged
in chronological order, observes Lon
don Tit-Bits.
1t was not till 1894 that the British
comptroller general of patents thought
it worth while to ascertain the num-
Der of woman inventors, and the war
has naturally decreased their numbers,
but whereas there were nearly 400 APP
pliCationS for patents from wOmen in
1913, in 1914 there were $50, and in
1917 253, and in 1913, 2S6, so hat the
total Is rising again.
During the war the outstanding in
vention was Mrs. Bertha Ayrton's fan
for sending back gas and smoke fumes.
Other inventions of national impOr-
lance of late years were Mrs. Ernest
Harris for interpreting fabrics. a dis
covery Of which use was made by the
admiralty, war office. railway cOm-
panies, ETC., n Mrs. CayIey-Robin-
sons patent for a semi-gas furnace,
which was intended to revOlutioniZe
heating, as 1t is said to reduce ex-
penditure by one-siXth on fuel, con-
Stunning all waste products, such as
Cinder, SCOT, smoke and ashes.
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like Reenie she was! And just as he
was beginning to think Mr.. Duncan
must surely have forgotten his lesson
he heard her asking him IL she should
sing. And then he saw Forsyth at the
piano-why couldn't he leave her to
do 1t herself, the butt-in?-and then
he heard her fine, silvery voice rising
In the notes Of that song about the
land where the sun should never 60
down. And suddenly he knew
how lonely. how terribly, terribly
lonely he a And he sat with head
bowed. that they might not know. .
And then there were other songs,
and at last Mrs. Duncan, who had
slipped away unnoticed, returned with
a silver teapot and cups Of delicate
china, and sandwiches and cake. and
they sat about and ate and drank and
talked and laughed. And when he
looked at his watch It was eleven
o'clock!
II guess we didn't get any lessen
tonight" he said as he shook hands
with Mr.. Duncan ut the sidewalk.
~ am not 80 sure" replied his tutor.
"The first thing for you to learn Is
that all learning does not come from
books. A good listener can learn as
much as a good reader-if he Listers
to the right kind of people" And as
Dave walked home the thought deep.
ened In him that 1t really had been q
lesson. and that Mr.. Duncan had In
tended 1t that way. And he wondered
what remarkable fortune had been his
The air was full Of the perfume OF
balm o. Gilead, and his feet were light
with the Joy of youth. And he thought
much Of Edith and Of Reenie Hardy
In subsequent lessons Dave was rap
idly. initiated into many matters be
sides parlor and converse
ton. Mr.. Duncan placed the nrst ant
greatest emphasis upon learning Il
write and to write we'll. They hat
many philosophic discussions, In which
the elder man sought 70 lead tn
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THE TWO VILLAGES

Over the river. on the hill,
Lieth a village white and still:
All around il the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze:
over 1t sailing shadows go
OF soaring hawk and screaming crow,
And mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle Of every street
over the river. under the hill.
Another village lieth still;
There I see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars of household light,
Fires that CLEAN from the smithy's door
Mists that curl on the river shore;
And in the roads no grasses grow,
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill
Never is sound Of smithy or mill;
The houses are matched with grass and
flowers;
Never a clock to toll the hours;
The marble doors are always shut,
You can not enter in hall or hut:
All the villagers lie asleep:
Never again to sow or reap;
Never In dreams to moan or sign:
Silent and idle and low they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still.
Many a weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and signing. longs to q
Up to that home from this below;
Longs to sleep In the forest wild,
whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth, praying, this answer fall;
Patience. thai village shall hold We ALL"
Ross Terry Cooke