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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-31
COMING EVENTS

Mar. 31-Apr. 3-Annual Farmers
Week, College of Agriculture. Orono.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-31

MAINE rAIRS
Sept. S-10-Maine State Fair. u
ton. t
Sept. 15-17-Somerset Central Ag1
tural Society fair. Skowhegan'I
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cooking and planning and entertain
ing on real terms. There was a high
fence next TO the shed, and grass
under the big trees, although the
back yard was just the ordinary
back yard not more than 80 feet
wide.
There might have been happy
meals there, in the early summer
evenings, bowls of salad, plates Of
cookies, and eggs scrambled "by the
girls" But the mothers casual, IN
thinking decree ended it all, and that
family will have all its suppers in
the small, dark, stuffy dining room,
and perhaps wistfully discuss the
joys Of the lucky person who may
camp, who may live in y open, ell
summer long.
In hundreds Of back yards and
side yards there are pleasant spaces
where grass would grow, where a bit
of green fencing or lilac screen could
easily be planted, and where a little
green table and four chairs would be
screened from passes-by as com
pletely as is the real dining room.
KEEP NEAT TABLE.
Any boy scout any campfire
girl can build a little brick grill
three feet high, and something less
than three feet square, the pit in the
top measured to fit the bars Of a
small broiler. A blacksmith will
take the handles off the broiler, or
make a heavier grill to measure, for
a very small sum-thirty cents was
what one woman I know paid for
quite a strong one, made 70 order.
A dozen nails driven in a fence,
a box to hold spoons, a knife, big
forks, two or three pots and pans,
a mop, soapshaker, and one big
open pot for dish water almost COM
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Mrs. Norris Says

Eating sleeping in things that all children
grownups like do Some can't give
these pleasures their children but mothers could put this
chdrens
or unimasinative to make the effort
there
completely the real dining There
little brick grill OF
innovation establish there must be
patience deal system So organized such house.
keeping s no Norka ALL
eisurely ending Of the prolonged meal in
the family sits down to relax and The
kitchen, meanwhile is cool and empty and orderly
After all It is the duty well as the pleasure OF us wives and
mothers into the lives love all the Why have the
children talking wuy Of camping when much unused fun lying
the elm Of their yard?
hospitality pleasant necessity eating
strained?
The possibilities backyard porches roofs and pastures haven't
yet Pick the site for grill today And two
from tonight emigrate into your backyard.
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dren and denied a right that nobody
had a right to deny them.
But this lady voetd Yes. And
the lovers of pugilism gave her
huge banquet. In the center Of the
ball room Of a great hotel ring was
erected and there several bouts were
held for the entertainment Of this
woman, and numbers of others who
sat in boxes in evening dress.
Of course, evening dress in itself
is a horrible sin to many people and
was forbidden by law in the good
old Puritan days, but in these evil
times it is permissible.
The bouts were all Of them mild,
and some of them laughably tame,
especially in the case Of several
once-famous champions who had
grown so old and fat that they soon
gave out Of breath. But there was
a picturesque encounter between
Major Biddle, an aristocrat Of Phila-
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Out of the Hot Kitchen Into the Cool Pretty Back Garde

that may be carried off in their
hands.
But Of course this sort Of eating
is an innovation, and to establish
it there must be a little patience,
and a great deal of system. To every
member of the family some duty
must be delegated, and that person
must be held responsible for any
forgetfulness.
The boy Of the family must fill
the pot with water, and put it on
the grill. just as the family sits
down. The man Of the house, tired
and nervous as he may be, must
bring from the porch the big chair
that at the table will be Dads spe-
cial chair. A small daughter must
remember ice water, and the ner-
yous big daughter, who is an office
worker, must carry out the cream.
So organized, absurd as the words
sound, such housekeeping is no work
at all. The conversation flies about,
the eager younger children toast and
butter, the experimenting mother
turns chops, the delicious odors Of
cooking mingle with the dreamy fra
GRANGE Of flowers, and the united
family sits down in n veritable Gar
den of Eden, father, mother, chill
dren, enjoying the sweetest hour Of
the day, the early evening GOODNESS,
and the reviVing food, as a family
was meant to do.
GREAT ADVANTAGES.
Afterward, while Mary talks about
the office day, and Dad sits relaxed
in his chair, Mother washes tin
plates in the big pot Of hot water,
plates that dry almost before they
leave her hands, Betty makes a fly
ing trip or two to the house with
cream or the remains Of bread, Bob
gathers plates, n wet rag wipes the
green oilcloth Of the table, wooden
plates and paper napkins are put
into the fire, heavy old whisk-
broom brushes off the grill, and ten
minutes after the leisurely ending Of
the prolonged meal perfect order
reigns, Mother sits down at the ia
bic to relax, gossip-perhaps to add
her voice to the other voices that are
singing "There's Long, Long
Trail? and "Seeing Nelly Home"
The kitchen, meanwhile, is cool
and empty and orderly. The cook,
who served the children's hearty
midday meal, has gone off with her
beau 20 the movies. There Is no
sense Of heat, hurry, strain, none Of
that jerking Of chairs, brushing Of
crumbs, carrying out Of ashes, that
makes summertime suppers so try
ing 20 everyone indoors.
Another great advantage. Mary
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inal trials and executions in a way,
and they far surpass in thrill the
most exciting dramas ever enacted.
In a prize fight, as in a murder
trial, the contestants can never tell
just what the opposite side will do
next. .-.
OF course to the matters of en-
thusiasm, great public fervor is in
itself abominable. When the first
boxing bill was passed in New York
and the first bout held at Madison
Square Garden, such immense
crowds tried to get in that the po-
lice reserves had to be called out to
hold them. Immediately steps were
taken to discontinue the disgrace.
One editorial writer put the whole
case of the moralists in a nutshell:
A certain privilege is granted to
the public in this republic. So
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Why Steam in a Warm Room When It's
4 ss Delightful in the Open? Asks -~.
/, vs. Noted Woman Writer
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

EATING and sleeping In the open
air are two things that all
children. and most grown-ups, like
70 DO. They are wholesome things,
too. making for quieter nerves and
augmented happiness, and it seems
great pity that we don't manage
TO include tben more generally in
our plans.
Anyone who sleeps on an open
porGl viii tell you that five hours
Of sleep there equal ten in a walled
room. and the JOY Of barbecue or
clambake or picnic appeals irresist-
IDLY to us all-eVeryone brightens up
at the mere words.
Some women CAN'T manage TO
give these pleasures to their chill.
dren; they live in small apart.
ments, spending only two or three
weeks eYsry summer in the noun
tains or at the shore. But many,
many mothers could put this addi-
tional fun and excitement into their
children's lives, and are too lazy or
too unimaginatiye to make the ef-
fort.
Mother" said a girl Of u eager
~ the other day, when ] happened
TO be with her mother, could we
turn that old shed into a little sum
mcr kitchen. and have a table out
under the maple tree, and perhaps
some night have a regular supper
out there, when we've learned to
cooky'
You could not" tire mother said,
indiffcrenly. You do messing
enough II you want to wash dishes,
aou can wash them in the kitchen.
k1ut that door"
CUTS OFF SUNLIGHT.
Il seemed such a pity! Tie child
and her slightly older sister we're 50
ansious % get into REAL work,
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FAyORITE FOOD.

As for the expensive foods, the
oysters, duck, creamed Holsters,
crab, srtichokes-whicb last, BY the
way, ought to be scraped and cut up
in cream-they need no recommen-
dation, they have been chatting
dish favorites for years.
Salads and chilled desserts must
be made in the house, and left in
the ice box until the time 20 eat
them actually arrives, but the
housewife who tries an out-of-door
grill viii have a pleasant surprise
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IN this respect. I experienced it
myself when first we had our grill.
In those days we used to arrange a
pretty salad Of tomatoes and Gu
cumbers, or of fruit, or Of some
light shellfish, and have 1t brought
after the meat. But we had to give
up the custom.
Not because so few persons want
ed salad, but because NOBODY
did. One person after another
shook a Mortified head. After
grilled chops and sweet potatoes
baked in ashes, toasted graham
buns and iced tea, nobody had any
room for salad.
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING.
And with desserts It is largely
the same. Fruit and plain cake
or cookies, or fruit pies, remain
the favorites, and children like best
Of all apples or pears or peaches
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zehng Defended Tame Compared Cruetes Of Puritan

some years ago at banquet given
in honor of a woman legislator who
had cast the deciding vote in favor
of a bill to permit boxing. The
politicians had been bullied as usual
by the militant moralists and half
Of them were contemplate enough
to vote againest permitting the citi-
zens of so-called republic to prac-
tice or to witness the noble art of
fisticuffs.
If that woman had not been a
believer in liberty and fair play,
millions of New York citizens would
have been treated like naughty chill.
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Energetic Folk Find It Easy to Build
Nice Grill in the Yard and
Take Their Meals There

kitchen, ] realize that it is at least
as valuable an art as music or dane
ing. They have a little oven, for
biscuits and gingerbread, and when
] give them money now they fly TO
the five-and-ten-cent store for new
egg.beaters and mixing bowls. In
the house ! can't get them to take
an interest in anything culinary,
but out Of doors they not only fuss
and measure and splash about for
hours at time, but all their friends
some Of them rich girls-come
here TO join in.
''Three times a week we dine out
in the back garden and seven times
a week breakfast there, in the cool
OF the day. My paragon Of a maid,
of whose departure i have been
standing in fear for years, now feels
that she has the pleasantest job in
town, and my husband, who made
all a mans conventional objections
to doing anything SO ridiculous in
little back yard, now feels injured
II we ask him to breakfast in the
house"
USE THE BACK YARD.
After all, 1t is the duty as well
as the pleasure Of us wives and
mothers to put into the lives we
love all the joy we can. Why have
the children talking wistfully Of
camping in the Canadian noun
tains. when so much unusual fun Is
lying around under the elm trees Of
their own side yardl why mike
hospitality so hard, and the pleas
ant necessity Of eating, the delight
Of meal times. so strained?
The old basket luncheon Of hard
boiled eggs, damp, heavy sand
witches. rich, fresh chocolate cake
oily pics, cheese, sardincs and wal
nut fudge Is disappearing-ant
peace be to its ashes. How nnI
stomach survived It at all IL is hare
to say But the possibilities of bad
yards, side yards, porches, avn
inged roofs. abandoned sheds, pae
lures, paddocks and windmill
haven't yet been discovered, even b
the faithful women who long 10 in.
troduce innovation into the tedium
Of homework.
Pick out the site for your grill
today. And two weeks from tonight
emigrate into your own back yard
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prises the equipment. For the ser
vice have paper napkins, wooden
plates, and blue enamel, in plates
and cups.
The table must always be neatly
set, the tin plates are to be heated
on one side Of the grill, the wooden
plates, used for salads and desserts,
are burned after each meal. Butter
is melted, not boiled, in a tin cup
with a squsre-tipped small paint
brush in il, and corn on the cob,
toast, sandwiches, everything that
needs butter is painted-a real econ
omy in plates to wash, and in but
ter, too.
PREPARING THE MEAL
An hour or less before supper
build a paper and kindIing fire, and
cover it completely with charcoal.
Pour a pint of kerosene over II, and
light. In fifteen minutes you have a
bank Of hot Goals, ready to broil
chops, steaks or chicken deliciously.
make ideal toast, heat everything
to that campfire state Of perfection
that makes indoor meals taste so
flat when the holiday in the woods
is over.
Have a pepper shaker, a salt
shaker, a covered pottery bowl for
sugar-these to be kept in the box
at the grill, as part Of the outfit.
Bring from the house a small gar
bage tin, ice, and a pitcher Of fresh
water.
There is almost no food that does
not taste better when it is cooked
out Of doors. Sausages, bacon, ham
and eggs, small pieces Of kidney or
liver grilled with bscon-all are de-
licious. The meek creamed potatoes
left from lunch are perfection when
they are heated and Drowned a lit
tie in butter, the tiresome old bread
becomes interesting when ii Is toast
ed and buttered and eaten all with
in the space Of three minutes. Any
thing like rice, macaroni, or beans
gets a new flavor, and all vegeta-
bles are welcome TO the open-air
cook. Fresh peas and sliced onions
cooked slowly together for an hour
are especially nice, asparagus cut
into inch lengths, carrots and lima
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delphia, and his gigantic son. 1t
was a beautiful sight to see this
white-haired father dancing about
the ring, and exchanging blows with
his loving and beloved lad.
The marvellous physique Of the
major who had boxed in innumer-
able contests was answer enough to
the sickly critics who maintain that
boxing is harmful, though infinitely
more people die of blows from pota-
toes or ill-made bread landed in
their bread-baskets by the cooks.
Still it amused me to see the
legislative lady vince when the
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In Years Gone by So-called Good
Citizens Watched Men and Women
Tortured at the Stake

We forget ancient horrors that
were common, ard imagine ancient
virtues that were rare. 1t is hard
for us to believe the hideous cruel
ties of those times.
The Puritan ladies lived In towns
decorated with poles on which were
stuck the heads of Indians, not
only of warriors but of women and
children. When King Philips war
was ended, the Puritans paraded the
head of his slaughtered wife on a
pole.
The Puritan girls could see their
fathers paying good money for the
scalps and better money for the
heads of Indian women and chill
dren. They could hear the stories
of whole Indian villages surrounded
and set on fire, and Indian women
and children thrown back into the
flames to crackle.
These are not the base accusa-
= ton of the Indians; they are the
boasts of the Puritans.
CRUELTY IN EUROPE.
Let him who would condemn a
woman who watches a prize-fight
today first consider the women Of
the previous centuries who stood
about and laughed or wept to see
old men, old women, little children
dashed till the blood streamed down
to their heels.
Those must have been lively days
in Europe when witch-hunting was
carried on for a hundred years or
more with such devotion that three
million men and women, mostly
women, were burned alive for hav-
ing sold themselves to the devil.
And the burning alive was the least
part of it, for it was the restful
conclusion of prolonged torture.
1 have a book Of the confessions
Of three women. 1t is taken from
the official records Of 1917. A
footnote explains that the confess
sions are punctuated with colons
following many short phrases. This
was because the colons represented
points where questions were asked
and not answered to the pleasure
of the judges, so that the victims
had to be taken out and tortured
some more.
The confessions are ridiculous de-
scriptions of seeing people turn into
cats and dogs and fly through
the air on broomsticks, and ruin
crops and dry up cattle and destroy
unborn children by virtue of certain
charms bought from the devil.
1t is ridiculous that human be-
ings ever said or listened to such
things, yet who would not have
confessed to anything that such
judges demanded with such fright
full instruments, and on the grounds
of the preservation Of religion and
morals?
FIGHTS NOT CRUEL.
No, no, let US hear no more
criticism of our foibles today from
the fanatics who praise the past.
Neither the men nor the women Of
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quentation of prize-fights, enormous
sums have been earned for chart
ties. In New York City and Los
angeles the Milk Funds for provid-
ing poor children with good, free
milk have gsrnered in tens of thou
sands of dollars on each occasion.
In Boston last month the blue
blood of Beacon Hill made a vast
amount of money for an American
Legion Fund by crowding to a
series of prize-fights.
So long as mankind loves strug-
gle, athletic contests will draw
great throngs. They resemble Grim
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can bring her young man to this
sort of meal, confident that he will
think it is lots Of fun. Grandma can
stay, or Bob's chum, or little Cousin
Peggy. without the uncomfortable
necessity Of telling the one hard
worked servant that things will
have to be little nice tonight, Miss
Mary has company. The man does
not live who does not enjoy q meal
OF this kind men indeed will linger
about the grill wistfully, when the
supper is over.
A MANS IDEA.
"Who built it? Say, that's quito
an idea. You could have 20 people,
couldn't you? 1 was just wonder
ing IL my brother and couldn't
rig up something like that for
mother" Mary's young man will
say.
If he had dined in the house he
MIGHT have liked the cream of to-
mato soup with the whipped cream,
the roast of lamb, the salad with
chopped nuts on II. and the jelly
with cherries ana more whipped
cream.
But there is no question Of his
liking the grilled potatoes, the
broiled spareribs, the cut corn with
green peppers in it, the toasted raj
sin bread from the grill. That is a
mans idea Of food.
Plain meat cakes, burned brown
on the outside, bright red in the
centers, are n luxury when one gets
them sizzling hot from the pan. And
over and over again, when Annie
asks shyly for an extra afternoon
off, Mother will find herself think
ing how EASY supper is TO manage,
on such n sweet afternoon. Milk
toast and berries, and a stuffed
egg salad for Dad-nOthing to do,
really, now that the girls are get
ting so helpful, and so enjoy the re-
sponsibility Of getting a meal.
ALWAYS KEEP COOL
my girls have learned to cook,
at II and -" one woman said 10
me, Of little outdoor kitchen that
Is squeezed iPto a back yard not
20 feet square. "And when / re-
member my own eaAy agonies as a
bride who knew nothing of the
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many people want it that great
mobs rush for it. Therefore, GER
tain reformers rise and demand that
it should be abolished at once. Isn't
it astounding that people could exist
in a free country and have the in
science to point to the excessive
popularity of a thing as a reason
for rendering it Illegal?
But before we condemn the wom-
en- Of our time for attending prize
fights, let us compare them with
the women of the good old times.
There was bear-baiting, where
throngs gathered to watch the tor
ture of a chained bear. The Puri-
tans stopped it, but as Macauley
said, mot because it gave pain to
the bear but because it gave pleas
ure to the spectators.
In our own good Puritan days,
the dear little Priscillas and Pa
tiences gathered in throngs to watch
the poor Quaker women stripped to
the waist, fastened to carts and
dragged through the snowy streets,
while they were dashed to ribbons
by the authorities.
The, sweet maidens Of the Pill
grim days gathered round while
Baptists were whipped till their
skin hung in bloody rags.
OLD TIME CRUELTIES.
They collected to see men and
women made to mount ladder till
halter was fixed round their
necks; then the ladder was kicked
out and they swung and kicked
for no other reason than that the
Quaker doctrine differed from the
Congregational.
The darling girl of then, the flap
pers of Puritania, saw the witches
hung at Salem, poor old women who
had been accused by hysterical
lying children and condemned to
death by superstitious authorities.
The society women Of that day
watched poor Giles Corey slowly
squeezed to death by weights piled
on top of his blacksmith form.
In New York City in 1T41, the
best people gathered to watch thir-
teen poor negro slaves burned alive
because a servant girl was scared
into accusing them of planning to
burn the city and rule it.
In a town in France in 1865
three boys not yet 20 years old
were accused of sacrilegious acts
committed in spite of most careful
rearing. One of them fled. One Of
them, named La Barre, was first
subjected to the Extraordinary Tor
tune, cruel grotesque affair, and
then hung.
THE GOOD PURITANS.
After his death somebody looked
up the books and found that there O.,
was no law to authorize such pun
ishment for such an offense. The
good people had simply assumed
that judges had a right to do any
thing they had a mood to. The
third young blasphemer was not
punished at all.
The prize-fights that the police
permit to be fought today are vol
untary matters. Nobody has to
fight them, and nobody has to wit
ness them. But in the good old
times when people took life serious
ly, the public had festivals provid-
ed for it that make a modern prize
fight look like a battle Of roses.