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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-13
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The following menu may represent
a little extra trouble on the house
keepers part. but tho results viii
more than atone
Beef stow with Dumplinss
Crcnmcd Cabbage Corn Frlttcrs
Coffee Date Pie
Beef Stew with Dumplngs: Put X
pounds OF beef from the shank info n
large pot, add l onion sliced. cover
with cold water and let simmer slow
1y for about nine hours (somc Of this
boiling may be done the day before
you are 10 serve the roast). Some OF
the meat VIII gradually come of into
little strings and rise 90 the top.
Thicken this stew with little nouf
mixed to paste with cold water.
and season with salt and pepper. Just
before serving sift together 1 pint of
-four and ! heaping teaspoon or bak-
ing powder; add a little salt and
Just enough milk TO make soft
dough. DO not work II 10 much. Dip
the dough by small spooufuls and
place these upon the top OF tho meat.
which is floating on the stew. Cover
tho pot quickly and let simmer ten
minutes. DO not uncover while cook
ing I'm this way, or the dumplings
win fall. After the dumpings are
added tho stew will scorch easily, 30
take the precaution uf moving the
Kettle TO Il moderate part Of tho fire.
Corn F1ftters; Mix together egg
yolks, ] tablespoon OF sugar, "a tea
spoon OF salt. cup Of swee. milk and
teaspoon OF baking powder sifted
with | cup OF -four. Add more -four
until you have a thick drop-batter.
Then add "a cups OF canned corn and
fold in tbe two stifiiy beaten whites
OF the eggs Drop from spoon into
deep fat and brown. Serve hot.
II you prefer Corn Oys,ers," make
them as follows: Open / cnn corn and
add TO it well beaten oggs. piece Of
tutter sdze OF walnut melted. little
salt and pepper and only just enough
| flour to drop out In spoonfuis onto n
hot griddle or frying pan. Fry like
griddle cakes.
Date Pie; Line two pse pans with
pastry, ms In making n cdstcrd pie
then put into them this filing: one
pound of dates which have beer
stewed until soft, then pressed
through a colander or sieve; two egg.
well mixed into tho dates. and alsc
III pints OF sweet milk. little salt
and u cup OF sugar. Bake 40 minutes
IN moderate oven. (Ail pics con.
tanning egg should bo put into no
oven so that the crust will set, ther
tho oven-temperature should DO de
creased slightly go that the f1lliai
will not boil; for II an egg allins boil
Il separates and makes a wntery pie)
Hero Is another good fruit pie:
rune-Apple Pie: Boil X pound O
, Iprunes that have been soaked over
night. until tender. putting ther
, over tho Ere in cold water 10 cove
Then take out the prunes and let tn
liauor cook down until thicker. Pret
tho cooked prunes through eiev
TO eliminate stones. and add TO IN
pulp l cup OF chopped raw appl
n y cup OF sugar, a littlo grated lemo
e peel, "a teaspoon salt and tho liqu
, which you have cooked down. Bal
o between 2 crusts Ike an apple pie
that Is for about so minutes.
n Tomorrow-Answercd Letters.
&
3, All inquiries addressed 70 Miss Kir,
man In care OF tho Efficient Hous.
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BY DOROTHY DIX
Thc Worlds Most Highly Paid Woman Writer
Copyright 1921 by the aeeler syndIcn s lac. NJ "

and that's about all. You'd make
fortune il YOU were stuck down on
barren rock with nobody but the fish to
trade with. Jimmie might stump his toe
against uold mine, and he would never
see IL until the other fellow got IT. |
didn't fall in love with him because
of his financial acumen. Llove him Tor
for hy sweetness, his tenderness, and
just because he's Jimmie.
''Bcsldc.s, | am not mother | am no
more in her class than Jimmie il IN
yours. Mother was poor girl, who had
had to work hard, and scrimp and save
oil of her life. She had been brought up
to cook, and sew, and squeeze every
nickel She had never had anything. IL
was no hardship for her 10 do without
the things that | would be perfc city
miserable without. 1t was no labor 10 her
to do the work that would wear me TO
skin and bone,
"You have made what am. Dad.
The responsibility is yours. The fault Is
YOURS. You have made me soft. You
have cultivated champagne tastes in me,
and it is up to you to.gratify them.
you haven't fitted me to be poor
mans wife. You have made me so de-
pendent on luxury that | would be
utterly wretched if had TO do without
all the comforts that money buys, and
having made automobiles, and servants
to wait upon me, and fine clothes necessi-
ties TO me, you haven't got right to
expect the man marry to provide me
with them.
"You are asking him to foot the bill
for your mistake, because it is o mistake
to bring up a girl to be idle, and pleasure
loving, and self-indulgent. 1t isn't my
fault that / was reared that way. The
pleasure you got out of your money was
in buying things for me, and III indulglng
me. You loved my enthusiasm over
| travel You loved my excitement over
new car. You INDUCED yourself in
indulging me, and now you want TO
stop it all suddenly, and say that must
choose between the kind of life to which
am accustomed, and the man | love.
How can | choose? AID why should
/ choose between them? / say that it
isn't fair 1t isn't fair to me, and it isn't
| fair TO Jimmie. 1t isn't fair TO me, be-
cause you had no right to cultivate
luxurious tastes and habits in me unless
you are going to give me the means to
crafty them. And it isn't right to
Jimmie because it is crime for parents
to dump worthless, extravagant girl
on any poor young man"
'But every man ought to support his
own wife, says the father, 'and | wont
! take care of a son-in-law."
''Do you want me to be broken
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The housc. closing the door after him
whi,h plainly told the boy he was
pvp~ct~d 10 go az once.
Poor lonely little fellow. He walked
slowly down tho road toward the lot
hls -,epfather had spoken about. Bu.
b, WAS not thinking OF his worldly pos
ssHsions. he war thinking 81 his
uu,hcr and that he-Nas alone in the
Wpr'd. for he Ind no other relative.
When ne came 60 the lot by the
liver somehow Jamie felt ne must
Wrp over the nail fence and take a
,~t look ~ th. old cave where he
h1d played many times that he was a
plwtc.
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lemtc was too ssd 20 care about
money. Tor wnen h.s mother died ne
INV his hc~, friend had gene. II.
slsrfsther ala not wan, him around
ihn place and plainly showed that n q
,pcctcj him 20 md another home
There isnt any money left" his
s'epfa'hsr told Jamie the morning af-
tfr the funeral. "and I shall sell the
iarm. which 10 mine because have
is,id the mor'g~ge and the taxes for
Nrafs and your mother made IL over
90 me.
There Ia the old lot down by the
water that IL yours Maybe you can
ell Il 90 the town some day. They
may wan, 81; the water IL deep enough
Tor Vessels 20 como there for a land
"a, but Tint won't he for years"
With this unsymnstheuc parting
ne stenfathcr left Jamie and went into
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rMx WAY rRK CtRCus
ALMOST RROkE TT

Lillian In the aAncet mother
Know. never have known her 10
take aides" IN any controversy which
her small daukhtor has had with an
ether child. Hcaidcr. LILLIAN is able
te zee Marion's foIhes as well AS her
good traits. and watch both develop
with "a humcrously smiling viewpoint,
~ wcil a. an intensely devoted onc-a
combination as rare ms II II rraisc-
No,th>.
nut TINT secretly she In a pa aionatc
i,aitiaan ~ her child's IN any dispute
I guessed long ago. knew II again
when I heard her draw her breath In
quickly. sibilantiy. ss Mary Harrison's
,h,ltNsh voice soundcd In the cruelty
Suntemptuous decision:
can you do"
nut there WAS no other sign that her
Ntcrcs, was srest~r than mine
thoueh, indeed. mlnc war tense
enough rs waited 90 sec what Marion
would do.
For n second or two Marion did
nothing. Sho stood absolutely
motlonlcs-. and I knew thatfs wa'
So nstonishcd by the sudden rudencss
tha, shc had no words. Then. with AT
nir that n grown woman nigh, have
cnVied. she said quietly:
-wh~r~--Ycu Goin'r
"A can't do much. 40 I guess don't
know enough 10 be audience either"
SHE turned on her heel and walked
.s..l 81 hA .sAt,lf
see her face while tho others saw only
her retr~ating haos--witnesscd n mar
N,llous fgh, for self-control I'm IN,
child's up-nung face. with its crimson
,hocks. rs tightly closed lips. and IN
her tiny clcnched hands.
4 know she wouldn't cry" Iillian's
whisper was pacan q triumph. and
/. too rcjoiced that tho little Girl ha,
go justified the training her mother
mad given her.
From tho head 81 the parade" ther,
o,mn "A frightened. disappointed wall
- Jerry Ticer. his face black viii
anger. snatchcd Rodorick from tn,
back ~ the old cavalry horse. deposit
"a the child ON tho ground. and stalk
81 away. leading his horse and whlstl
ms to tho collie. As he Acu,. he pickle,
up cssc contninins n small pet rae
vuun
"Whorc-you eoin'?" Mary auavcr
81.
I'm roln' homo. that's where In
gsui". Jerry retor,ed.
"liut'-but--the menagcric and tn
riuink horse"
They're roln right with me- :" Jorr.
declared. n only come into this ol,
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Given q Snrprise Party.

Mrs. George NJ. 0rier was given
surprise party on Saturday evening
In honor OF her birthday anniversary.
During her absence, early in the
evening. friends gathered Mt her home.
1906 du Pont street. and greeted her
on her return. An enjoyable evening
was passed. with music, refreshments,
&c. Mrs. Grier received many gifts
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-13

All inquire, Addressed 20 Miss Kirk
man In care OF the Efficient House.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-13
Efficient Housekeeping
BY Laura A. kirkman

keeping" department will be answer
cd In these columns in their turn,
This requires considerable timc, how
ever. owing to the great number re-
ceived so IL a personal or quicker rs.
ply In desired. stamped and self-ad-
dressed envelope must be enclosed
with the question The Editor.
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hearted old maid? demands the girl
mo" says the father
well, then" "1says the girl--"come
acrossp
But the father wont. What do you
think nc should do?
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GIFT for School Association.
Walter Stats has presented q Nir-
trola TO the Parcnt-Tcscher Ass,c,a-
ton OF Odessa
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Warm. comfortable rooms are Offer
cd FOR rent in the classified ad section
today.--Ady.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

My husband was very brave and re-
fused. He said to me: I'VE will run away
and go even to New Orleans. 1 will not
give you to Cadeus."
But that very night we heard the
drums beating. When the drums beat out
in the jungle 1t is a sign that the voodoo
is calling. All men put down their tools
at once and go to where the sound of
the drums comes from.
My husband knew and knew why the
drums were beating. We knew that
Cadeus was calling and that when his
people were sufficiently excited by the
voodoo ceremonies he would lead them
to our house and take me away.
My husbands mother lived with him
and so did his sister, whose own husband
was dead. There also were the children
of my husbands first wife, whose mother
also was dead.
I loved my husband very much and /
knew that with his old mother and the
children to hinder him he could not
escape out of the road. And I knew too.
that when the Voodoo came upon him
probably he would be killed. That was
the way of Cadeus Belgrade.
And so | decided that 1t was my duty
to protect my husband and his mother
and his little children and his sister. So
while my husband was in the "homfort," ("
praying himself to Voodoo while others
in the house got ready to flee, | slipped
out and followed the sound of the drums
until came to where Cadeus, in his gold
robes, was preparing to begin the Woo
doo incantations. And / said to Cadeus
Belgarde. II am here have come to be
your wife. My husband is sorry he re.
fused you and asks that you pray the
Voodoo to be kind to him. And l will be
your wife, Cadeus Belgrade
And so that was how l was married
also to Cadeus and became his youngest
wife.
Many times I wanted to run away and
return to my other husband, but I knew
that IL l did Cadeus would kill me and
kill him, too. l knew Cadeus had killed
many men. There was the old man
Tionase, who lived at La Sale, whom
1 Cadeus had killed. And there was julie
Careaux and many other men whom
Cadeus had killed after calling upon the
voodoo. And so l was afraid to run
away.
Here the questioner asked.
DO all people OF Haiti believe In Voo-
door"
All the people of Haiti believe in Woo
doc. We believe in voodoo, too in New
Orleans, but we do not practice II there
so much. We believe that voodoo is the
oldest religion and that II is the way the
stars affect us. It is the worship of the
sun and the moon and Of the things that
grow in the ground. Only those of us
who know better do not believe in sac
rihcing little children. We think the
bird or the goat is just az well. Cadeus
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

II HERE has just come out of Haiti
what probably is the most re.
markable document devoted to a
revelation Of Voodoo practices in that
BLACK Republic which so far ever has
been authenticated
This document is an actual and literal
transcription of the testimony given by
a young Creole woman before an exam
lining party of United States marines.
The examination took place at the little
village~o Saut' dEau. There had been
reported to the marines quartered in that
vicinity that in hidden jungle near the
town of Riviere Cannot, a few miles
away, voodoo dances and feasts were be-
ing held periodically, at which human
sacrifices were made. Just at that time
the sensational rumors of cannibalism
were spreading across the island-the
marines had heard that children and
even men and grown women were being
slain at voodoo celebrations.
GNOly ndllnC WdS Ol tHc dicII
to trace these rumors down and to get at
their foundation.
After long investigation the marines
discovered that Voodoo priest lived just
outside Riviere Cannot. His name was
Cadeus Belgrade. He was known to be
one Of the most powerful of the voodoo
high priests and every native in the VI
cinity feared him. He was rumored to be
very rich, millionaire. 1t was said that
he imported from Paris from house In
the Rue Aboukir, costly embroidered
draperies for his Voodoo dancers. For
himself there had come, it was reported
to the marines, gorgeous. varicolored
robes, on which in figures of gold there
were worked the ram. the young goat
and the serpent, which are the sacred
symbols of voodooism.
In every house for many miles around
the marines had found a "homfort,"
room devoted to Voodoo worship, just as
in manor houses there once we're chapels.
These little rooms resembled small bed
rooms, where pious young madens might
have set up their altars. On the walls
were the sacred images of Notre Dame de
Lorette, st. Roch and st. Joseph. These
images, however, were distorted to iml-
tate certain Voodoo saints.
On each of these altars were the vari-
Gus equipments required by the Voodoo
priests. And to each of them, the ma
rines discovered, Cadeus Belgarde came
periodically TO perform the nefarious
rites of the pagan voodoo rituals
In some of these "homforts," 1t was
discovered, the sacrifices which the priest
Cadeus Belgarde presided over were OF
the bird or goat which the less vicious
voodoo believers accepted in lieu Of the
human victims. In some, though. 1t was
repeatedly said, children were brutally
sacrificed on the stone bowl which forms
a part Of the priests paraphernalia.
The marines spent some time investi-
eating these reports and in seeking TO
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

trap the powerful priest Cadeus. They
learned that he maintained himself and
a numerous household, including several
young wives, on his farm in the Riviere
many lesser priests and built about the
residence there were various stone walled
buildings which had a most ominous ap-
pearance from the outside. In fact, the
resiL.ice of Cadeus was much like a
small castle, with its outposts and with
its regular guard constantly on the look
cut at vantage points hundreds of yards
down the road in all directions. 1t was
reported that the principal Voodoo cere-
monies presided over by Cadeus we're held
in bit Of jungle just back Of his house.
The main feature of these ceremonies al
ways, the marines learned, was the sac
rifice itself. After long watching and
many careful preparations small detach-
ment of marines finally succeeded in in
terrupting one of these Voodoo cere-
monies. Their approach was discovered,
however, and they succeeded In capturing
only one spectator-the Creole girl whom
they soon discovered to be the newest
and most beautiful of the high priests
wives. She was taken to Saut' dEau, and
there the marines made the following
statement in response to the questions
noted. Private Nelson Buckland acted as
the secretary of the little informal court
and the document presented herewith Is
his transcription of the young woman's
testimony:
My name is Julie Vairent. | was the
wife OF Alexandra Jean Francais, and my
home was at Port-au-Prince. | married
in New Orleans, where | was born and
raised. Jean Francois had come to New
Orleans to transact some business and
met him in the Creole quarter and he
made love to me and married me in the
church there. Shortly after we came to
Port-au-Prince' there came to visit us one
day Cadeus Belgrade, who seemed to be
a very powerful man and of whom my
husband was afraid.
After Cadeus Belgarde left our house
my husband told me who he was. He
said he was a high Voodoo priest and
that he was a very dangerous man. He
said that whenever man had a revenge
to be accomplished he went to Cadeus.
He said that II any one made an enemy
and that enemy had money or influence
the enemy always went to Cadeus and
caused trouble Cadeus, he said, was the
great doctor for the whole neighborhood
and that by voodoo magic he cured all
sorts Of Ill health. He said that we must
always be very careful not TO offend
Cadeus and to give him anything he might
ask IL he ever should come asking.
II was not long before Cadeus returned
to our house, and this time he asked
something which did not wish to give
and which my husband did not want to
give either. This was myself He asked
that my husband give me to him that
might be his wife and go with him to
his home near Riviere Cannot.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

doc. Cadeus would never let me come
close to it. In front of the book Cadeus
puts large white stone, which Is the
Maloulow or Devil Stone" Upon this
stone he puts lighted candle.
Now Cadeus gives me the key to the
the door, while he comes behind.
All this time the drums are beating
louder and faster and the people in the
circle are commencing to shout and
scream and sing.
Around the stone and the lighted
candle a fire springs up, and the men
and women dance out to this fire and put
their feet into It and hold them until
they commence to burn. Then they dance
away.
when Cadeus comes out Of the stone
house he brings with him the victims for
the sacrifice. He drags the victims out
TO the Maloulow stone and throws them
to their knees and holds them so their
nNdQt utHu uOWu " the btOHt.
Here the young wife OF Cadeus tells in
full detail how her husband, Cadeus, takes
the life OF Each Of his victims and just
what constitutes this part OF the voodoo
ceremony. II is perhaps enough to say
that when her testimony goes on the vic
tins have been slain and their bodies Of.
fered up In the terrible ritual.
All the time that this is going on Ca
deus. waving his arms 80 that the lights
from HIS gold robe glitter in the flrelight,
sings the ritual songs and drones out his
incantations. Tho men and women are
now Just like fends. They leap and dance
and shout and catch hold OF each other
and try 10 drag each other into the blaz-
Ing FIRE. II one succeeds In pulling an
other down into the flames there is a
great screaming from every one and every
one Is very happy. because this is taken
to be a sign that voodoo is being more
propitiated even than by the sacrifice.
Before long some OF the women begin
10 faint and then Cadeus steps upon the
IRE and puts out the blaze and gives a
sign for the drums 10 stop rolling Then
every one goes home, except those who
siili have something 10 do with taking
away the victims
Where did Cadeus get the poison
which be gave 10 his victimsg"
Ills poiaona and the drugs which ne
used are from a pharmacist in Port-au.
Prince. lie used 10 send me 10 this phar.
macy FOR theae drugs. Tho pharmacist
knows how 10 make them and is the only
one IN that part OF the country who does.
I have always taken lots Of money 10 the
pharmacist. and think cadeus shares
with him the money that he collects.
IL was from this pharmacist, too, got
for Cadeus many other drugs. which he
used when he gave treatment 20 people
who were sick. Whenever any one is m
he always sends for cadeus. because
there II no other man who can heal him.
Cadeus always promises 70 have voodoo
send the sickness away but he always
asks Just as much money as he thinks the
sick one can AFFORD 10 pay. This always
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

used to say to me that IL was just as well
to sacrifice bird, but that the people
did not get so excited over mere bird.
Our dances show our understanding of
the forces of life. We are praying when
we dance. When Cadeus wishes to hold
"A voodoo ceremony he sends word to his
agents to start the beating OF the drums.
Then two or three men go out into the
jungle and commence to slowly beat their
drums and soon other men take II up
and before long the sound of the drums
is heard for many miles around. AS soon
as the drums begin to roll people who
hear them raise their heads and learn
from the wind what direction the sound
comes from. Then they leave their fields
or whatever they are doing and like SOL
diers march to the sound OF music they
run to the sound OF the drums to where
the priest is awaiting them.
Soon after / was married TO Cadeus he
taught me all his voodoo secrets. He
said would have TO be one OF his as
sistants and that must know all about
them, just as he did. And 80 I had to
help him, although IL was very horrible
to me and did not want 10.
Tell us just how the voodoo ceremony
is conducted, from the very beginning to
the end"
When the drums have beaten awhile
oil ha Of hA oh hnr hax "A
gathered at the place I'm the jungle a
little ways from the farm OF Cadeus. Here
there are two little mystery houses built
OF stone. In one OF them cadeus keeps
his many colored robes and in the other
he keeps the victims for his sacrifices
When you speak OF victims. what do
you meany"
mean the children or the mon and
women whom Cadeus sacrifices.
Where does he get these victims?"
When he visits around the neighbor
hood he picks out the boys and girls
whom he thinks would be good sacri.
fices to Voodoo. Then he tells their
fathers and mothers and collecir money
from some OF them 10 let their children
alone. II the parents will not give him
hoHOy MS p'eEie ~ ~ hibHt ahu Aaht Aht
children away. The fathers and mothers
do not dare cause any trouble or object.
because they know II they do he viii
punish them and burn their farms or
perhaps have them killed. He takes the
children TO the little stone house I'm the
jungle and gives them a drink OF poison.
This poison makes the children sleep
just as II they were dead. They stay
asleep until Cadeus is ready for them.
and then he awakens them. only they do
not awaken altogether-just enough 10
move around when he drags them.
When all the people have gathered in
the circle around the mystery house
Cadeus makes me 30 out and sprinkle
the ground within the circle with corn
-four. Then carry from one OF the
houses the big stone bowl and put this
in the center OF the circle. Then Cadeus
himself comes out and puts by the bowl
a book. Nobody knows what this book
is. II is supposed TO be the Book Of Woo