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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Recipe for Tasty
Devils Food Cake
Something Every Housewife
Likes to Haze on Hand.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agricuture)
Every woman likes to have :. good
recipe on hand for making devils food
cake. 1t is matter of conjecture
whether this cake is so named be-
cause of the contrast of its dark
brown color to snowy white "angel
food" or because it frequently turned
out to be quite reddish in color. The
bureau of home economics, however,
says the red color is due to using too
much soda when the devils food is
made with sour milk, and as overuse
of soda is not desirable, this ingre-
dent should be carefully measured.
DEVILS Food Cake.
ECU cup .h butter IL cups -four tsoft
eggs q white teaspoons baking
! cup milk l teaspoon vanilla
squares choco- u teaspoon salt
late. melted
Cream the butter and the sugar and
add the well-beaten eggs and mix well.
Sift the dry ingredients and add to the
nrSt mixture alternately with the milk.
Add the chocolate, which has been
melted over steam, and the vanilla
and beat until well mixed with the
batter. Bake in creased pan in
sheet for 80 minutes at temperature
between 300 and 325 degrees Fahren.
heit. Cover lightly with powdered
sugar and serve. Or, if preferred,
bake the cake in two layers and make
a vanilla icing.
In this cake mixture sour milk can
be used in place of the sweet milk.
In that case dissolve one-half tea
spoonful of soda in one teaspoonful
of water and add at the same time
with the sour milk. The chocolate
can also be increased by one square
if one likes a strong chocolate flavor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
OATMEAL MUFFINS AFFORD
PLEASING BREAKFAST DISH

If you put the oatmeal into the
mullins instead of serving it for a
cereal, the family will have a pleasant
surprise and the mOnotony of having
breakfast always patterned in one
way will be agreeably broken. The
butter needed to spread the mullins
will correspond more or less to the
cream that might have been used on
the oatmeal, so urge everyone to eat
the mullins literally, and provide
plenty of them, for they will be popu-
lar. The bureau of home economics
furnishes the recipe:
Oatmeal Mullins.
1 cup wheat flour l cup milk
rs cops rolled ! egg
oats l tablespoon melted
teaspoons bak- butter
ing powder -...
" teaspoon salt
Grind the rolled oats through the
fine knife of the meat grinder, thus
making fine meal Combine the dry
ingredients. Beat the eggs and add
the milk. Mix the dry and the liquid
ingredients together and stir in the
melted butter. Pour the batter into
creased muffin tins and bake for 20
to % minutes In fairly hot oven.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Mr.. Rooster crowed ahead of tim

Mr.. Rooster crowed ahead of time.
"Well," said Pinky Pig, "why are
you waking us up at this hour? That
is what I'd like to know"
Because it's day they call Christ
mas" said Mr.. Rooster.
WELL" grunted Pinky Pig again,
"why does day that is named Christ
mas mean anything more to US than
any other day?
"Of course winter is different from
summer"
"Oh, Is it, indeed" chuckled Mrs.
Hen, show extremely bright Of you,
Pinkyw
"Now, don't be rude" said Pinky.
you don't know much more your
self"
Eyes, INdo," said Mrs. Hen, 81 know
when the sun shines and when it
rains.
"There is great deal of difference
in days."
''But STILL" said the goat, "Mr.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Resourceful Pussy

A cat which is ut home in the res
idence of Louis Marshall, Manhattan,
saved itself from starvation by sound
ing a burglar alarm in a neighbours
house where it had gone visiting.
Operatives answering the alarm with
drawn revolvers found the house
boarded up, the family being out of
town. They made an entrance, saw
no burglars, but did hear plaintive
feeble meowing that led them to the
culprit. AS soon as the outer door
was opened, the cat made hurried
dash to the Marshall house for some
thing to eat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Foods That We Like B. xzz1z MAXWELL

and one-half cupful of coconut. Bake
in one crust, using the coconut for
the top.
Bechamei Sauce.-Melt two table
spoOnfuls of butter, add three table
spoonful of flour, one-fourth tea
spoonful of salt, few grains of pep
per, one-half cupful of chicken stock
well seasoned and one-half cupful of
thin cream. Stir and cook until
smooth and well cooked.
(@. 1927. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
For Home Dressrnokers

The United States bureau of home
economics has made a valuable con-
tribution to the fitting problems of
the home sewer, by assembling infor-
nation needed when one works with
the patterns now available. If a
woman understands what should be
the main lines Of a well-ftted gar
ment, the methods of correcting COM
mon defects in each part of a gar
ment, and the ordinary mistakes that
should be avoided, she can either
make her own clothes or alter those
bought ready made with greater con-
fidence. This information will be fur
nished to anyone who makes applica-
ton for it to the bureau at Washing
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

While we were staring up at the
trees, the female barred owl came
skimming like gray shadow through
the woods and, approaching the nest
ing hole, suddenly plunged into 1t, APP
parent)y without slackening its flight
in the least.
One of my friends obtained snap
shot of it as it entered its nest and
the camera showed something which
our eyes were not quick enough to
follow and gave the explanation of
how so large bird could plunge into
a tree at full speed without receiving
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Orange Drop Cakes Are
Wholesome, Easily Made

Children will like these wholesome
easily made drop cakes favored with
orange. Make them occasionally so
as to have them fresh for the school
lunch boxes. The bureau of home
economics furnishes the recipe.
Orange Drop Cakes.
2 cups flour 4ta b e spoons or
l cup sugar ange Juice
tablespoons but eggs
ter teaspoons baking
" teaspoon salt powder
tablespoons graf
ed orange rind
Cream together the grated rind of
the orange and the butter. Gradually
beat in the sugar, the beaten eggs and
the orange juice. Add the flour and
baking powder, which have been
mixed together. Drop the batter by
teaspoonfuls onto a creased baking
sheet or an inverted pan, and bake in
quick oven.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

sleep In Well-VenIlldIeu
room, and eat the kind of food that
will bring one up to spring with the
maximum health and enthusiasm.
So many home workers will say: 81
am just too tired to get out and
walk" Well, that tired feeling is
often a poison which a walk taken
briSkly in the fresh air will dispel
and you will return rested and re-
freShed.
With the proper care of the body,
frequent baths, restful sleep and
proper outdoor exercise, the diet
should come under our consideration.
Diet is most important in the fall and
winter regime. 1t is too easy to hug
the fire and evade outdoor exercise.
Our winter foods are heavier and
heartier; more care should be given
to the food, using fruits and vegeta-
bleS freely with as much of green food
as it is possible to use.
Fresh lettuce is in most markets
not unreasonable in price. The leaf
lettuce is more valuable as vitamine
giver than the bleached head lettuce.
Eat all such green's freely; if posi-
BILE have a green salad once day.
Canned spinach is good and serves
very well as a substitute for the fresh,
but it lacks some of the vitamines
present in the fresh spinach.
Canned vegetables are very good
food and with the modern improved
canning methods, every farmers. wife
should have a full closet of green
foods canned when they are at their
best.
Unless children are given the proper
food during the years of tooth build
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Human Eye Unable to Catch Birds Activity

The barred owl turns somersault in
midair, too fast for the human eye to
see, but not too fast for the camera to
snap. 1t cost me wet and muddy day
in a black-gum swamp to find out
how it is done, Samuel Scoville writes,
in the Forum. @
We splashed our way through mud
and water until we came to a couple
OF large hollow trees not 80 feet apart.
In one was the nest of q barred owl
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

containing two eggs in a hollow about
twenty feet up, while In the other tree
barn owl had made it's nest in
hole some fifteen feet from the ground
and laid there six round white eggs
about the size of crows egg. Both
nests contained dead field mice. while
in the barred OWLS hole was the wing
of a screech owl and the feathers of
marsh hawk, which that fierce sky
pirate had evidently killed and eaten.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Rooster hasn't told us about Christ
mas"
''It's a day when all the world gets
up early" said Mr.. Rooster.
'And what have we to do with the
world?" asked the little chickens.
ave care for the barnyard-not for
the world"
But the world cares for the barn.
yards" said Mr.. Rooster.
Nonsense" said Pinky Pig. "Only
tell us your reason for waking us up"
Because of Christmas morning the
farmer feels so happy. and the chill
dren feel so happy that they give us
an extra breakfast" go.
"Oh,'' said Pinky Pig, squealing hap
PLY, 'now that is different, quite diff
ferent."
'You see," continued Mr.. Rooster,
san old man by the name of Santa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

discreetly, 1t adds decided tone to the
scheme. Sweaters in brown and beige
and wine or dark green and especially
dull rose shades which have threads
of gold interworked are the CLASSY"
thing today.
While this is very much of a tweed
season, as far as the cloth part of
the sports ensemble is concerned, it is
also very much of kasha season.
These two outstanding materials, how
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

any injury. When the plate was de-
yeloped it showed that just as the owl
reached the hole it turned a somer-
sault and, reversing its wings, checked
its fight for an instant and slid In
feet foremost, bit Of aeronautics
which fancy only the most skilled
flyers among the bird folk can per-
form.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

ing the two ends pointing downward.
This is due to the fact that some per-
sons think its protective powers to
be due to its resemblance to the MINI
bus or halo frequently seen in pic
lures of angels or saints. The super
stitution regarding the horseshoe as
an emblem of luck is, believed to be
connected with the custom of the an
cient Romans. They used to drive
nails into the walls Of their houses
as an antidote against the plague.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Prepared by the unids tateD Departing uture3
kitchen which onveniences of
house. The very
height
likely the Inc
there little extra shelf at the side
washed Soid dishes
the table which made by the woman d
enables
while washing dishes she wishes to- Under the
basket
and drenched scaldng then left to dry.
kitchen made by he Gloucester
covered withI be easily kept clean
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

bottle that tastes I'M
pleasant. 1t is anything
which imparts vigor, In
creases vim and pep"
and makes one feel bet
ter. A spring tonic has
seemed necessary to
tone one up in the
spring, but why wait?
Now is the time to take
daily outdoor exercise,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Holiness is the architectural plan on
which God buildeth up His living tenn
ple.-Spurgeon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
No Present

Blink-What did you get on your
birthday?
Blank-A day older.-Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

serving add the riced yolks of three
hard-cOoked eggs.
English Date Pie.-Beat two eggs,
add three-fourths of a cupful of sugar,
one-half teaspoOnful of salt, one tea
spoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth tea
spoonful each of nutmeg, allspice and
cloves, one cupful of sour cream, one
tablespoonful of fine bread crumbs,
one cupful of dates cut into pieces
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

He that would be master of his own,
must not be bound for another
Franklin,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

ing they will not have sound strong
teeth and no matter how faithfully
they are scrubbed, decay will get them
before they reach even middle age.
For building sound teeth and bones,
children need from their infancy
diet rich in calcium and mineral salts.
Good milk supplies these materials
and it should be regular daily food
through the entire childhood and until
the last permanent tooth is cut.
Whole wheat, bran, graham and rye
in breads should be given the children
instead of white flour. Toast, sweibach
and crusts are recommended, as they
must be chewed vigorously and this
exercise is needed for healthy gums
and teeth. The average child must be
forced to eat certain vegetables, pre-
ferring potato and gravy with meat.
Vegetables should be eaten every day
carrots, cabbage, rutabagas, spinach.
lettuce and cress as well as all other
vegetables in season. They contain
the valuable substance called vita
mines which build up the body and
the mineral matter in such foods sup
plies the teeth and bones. Another
important food which should be given
daily is fruit. Apples are one of the
best. oranges, grapefruit-grapes when
in season are known to be highly i'm
portant.
Food That Is Different.
soup and it is good enough for any
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Missed Delight

''Madge's honeymoon was complete
ly spoiled"
"HOw?"
"The papers containing an account
Of the wedding failed to reach her,
Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

body:
Chicken Soup
Chop one cupful Of
roast chicken, to
it add one pint Of
chicken broth, one
cupful of s W c e t
CT ca m, salt and
pepper to t a s t e
and Just be fore
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
No Straight Path

Gerald move in good circles.
Geraldine-Tye heard you called a
rounder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

A slender income is said to be an
excellent remedy for obesity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Get man to talking about his job
and he's interested, If you are not.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Just what is a tonic? 1t Is not
necessarily something in a tall black
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Nature seldom hides massive brain
behind a pretty face.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

"Today, only, is yours" and not
that If somebody interferes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Reduced to Poverty

Judge-Have you anything to Of
fer to the court before sentence Ia
passed on you?
Prisoner-No, Judge. had $40, but
my lawyer took that.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09
Horseshoe for Luck

The usual method of mailing up
horseshoe to bring good luck is hav-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

Great truths are the simplest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09

are delightfully."- autumn-like. Some
have the warmth and glow of ruddy
winter reds ranging from wine tones
to scarlet, these interworked with
neutral tones or metallic effects. All
the new browns and various beige
tones show forth at their best in these
swagger knitted and cloth suits.
Speaking of the metallic note as
introduced into sportswear, when used
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
The World and All
IN NEW YORK
By Charles P. Driscoll

IN NEW YORK
Elmer 7. Peterson is editor Of q home magazine
in Des Moines. He was in New York on business the
other day, and / took him home with ne to dinner. in
Yonkers. When he was leaving, / gave him explicit
directions. It isn't altogether easy for a stranger to
find his way to and from suburban places.
IF you get lost" ! said,.~ get on an elevated train
and ask a conductor or q guard"
But I can't make those fellows understand me-"
he said. They talk some funny dialect"
That's easy" said ]. Put two marbles in your
mouth when you talk to them"
Peterson considered this for a while.
Yes" he said. "that might work, if I had the
marbles handy. But what am ! to put into my ears
when they answer me?"
The Grand Central branch ofathe Corn Exchange
bank is just east Of Fifth avenue, on Forty-second
street. In this neighborhood are many retail stores
that remain open all night. There is an sll-night shoe
store for men, many stores that sell women's clothing.
without locking the doors from Monday morning until
Saturday night, and a goodly variety Of eating places.
All-night merchants fear late robberies. So the
Corn Exchange has installed a big money chute for
night deposits. Each customer has a key. When the
key is inserted, it becomes possible to turn q copper
cylinder. set into the granite wall Of the bank build
ing. A sort Of hopper then begins to turn, and the
m~oneybags are dropped into the hopper, which deposits
the money, properly tagged, in a vault in the base
ment.
~ CHutc II ~ - 0NeA1S1H6 Ne
attention of outside bankers. and similar chutes may
be installed in many banks soon.
The other day I counted eighty-four bareheaded
men between Forty-third and Forty-sixth streets, on
Broadway, and / know that I missed a. many more.
! can remember when a man was considered slightly
insane if he went without hat. even for the lsudable
purpose of bringing back the hair to a sparsely cover
ed scalp.
BY the way, does going bareheaded in the sun en-
courage the growth of hair on the head? I'd appreciate
some advice from persons who have actually tried ii.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
Other Papers
DIVIDENDS FROM WATERWAYS
beaumont Enterprisel

Major General Edgar Jadwin. chief Of army en-
gineers, says American waterway developments are
paying the people Of the United States dividends Of
more than 10 per cent. The people were not aware.
Psxbaps, Of the extent to wheih they profit by the
waterways, but in the past % years waterway develop
ment has convinced even the most ~skeptieal citizens
that it is worth all its costs. The evidence of increas-
ed prosperity, billions of dollars saved in freight
other benefits traceabls to the greater use of the
waterways are too impressive to be ignored.
General Jadwin refers specifically to our seaeoast
harbors, which represent an outlay in federal funds Of
more than a third of the total amount spent for all
river and harbor improvement; the Great Lakes har-
bors and connecting channels. which handled a COM
merce in 1925 of 100000 tons, and paid a dividend
Of more than 100 per cent on their cost, a little more
than Sl60, 100000; and the intracoastal waterway along
the Atlantic seaboard from Massachusetts to Florida.
This waterway, with its feeders and tributaries, car
ried in 1926. according to General Jadwin, q commerce
Of 100000 tons, or 100000 tons more than it car
ried in 1922. This is an extraordinary example Of the
service that can be performed by a waterway. even
when it is in an incompleted state.
There is in the showing made by the intracoastal
canal between Massachusetts, and Florida encourage
ment for the advocates Of the intracoastsl canal along
the coast Of Louisiana and Texas, q project now under
way. The actual amount Of business done. the tonnage
transported and the profits made directly by use OF
the waterways by no means tells the whole story. The
benefits are so widely diffused through the territories
immediately served by the waterways and the country
at large that they cannot be estimated.
When the intracoastal canal that will eventually
connect New Orleans and Corpus Christi is completed
the south and the southwest will enjoy waterway "a
cilities equal to those Of the Great Lakes region and
the Atlantic seaboard, north and south. Also the
Louisiana-Texas waterway will connect the southwest
with the national waterway system. the intracoastal
canal along the Atlantic coast, the Mississippi river
and its tributaries and the Chicago-M Mississippi canal
joining the Great Lakes with the Gulf Of Mexico.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-26
American Progress

Few Americans realize the many advantages they
possess. according TO Phillip Il. Gadsen, president Of
the PHILADELPHIA Chamber Of Commerce. who recently
returned from a European trip during which he made
. survey of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS utilities. He assert
ed that Americans should never cease to be grateful
that they are living under a government that Is not
operating the public utilities and where competition
assures maximum service at minimum cost.
When asked how these services compared with the
services rendered in the United States, he said that the
contrast between rates and service Of government
owned utilities on the continent and in England with
the rates and services rendered by private'y-owned and
operated companies in America was very striking and
all in favor OF this country.
AS an illustration" Mr.. Gadsen said. "the report
Of the international Chamber Of Commerce on inter
national telephony. shows that Of the 1s principal cities
in Europe. London has telephone communication with
five. Paris with nine and Berlin with Is. The average
DELAYS during the busy hours on long distance lines
between Berlin and Paris is 6s minutes; between London
and Amsterdam. 50 minutes; between Paris and Brus-
sells. $50 minutes. The time by rail between Paris
.ra RrnsseIs is 27 minutes. In other words, you
eould send a messenger from Paris to Brussels in Just
about the time YOU could complete 9 long distance call
between these two cities"
Mr.. Gadsden also called attention TO the superiori-
Nv 81 the electric light and power service IN the United
States over similar services abroad.
I'm London, for instance" he said, practically
every politieal subdivision has its own separate and in
dependent electric system. and these systems are not
standardized but differ from each other in voltage and
other Characteristic. the result being that If a house
holder moved from one political subdivision TO another,
the electric appliances. such as vacuum cleaners, cleo
trio irons. and so forth. which he had purchased, could
not he used in the new location.
~The citizens Of the United States should be very
grateful to the founders Of this republic that they set
up q government designed to encourage individual ini-
tiative and private enterprise, and on the theory that
government should be confined to seeing that every
citizen has a fair and free field in which to work out
his own future. free from unnecessary governmental
influences.
after what ] have seen abroad, Il seems to me
It Is the duty Of every thinking American to be vigilant
IN resisting any and all efforts 70 extend the opera
tions Of government, whether federal or state, into the
fiaJd of business"