Bellefonte, Pa., August 15, 1919.
CHEERING SOMEONE UP.
Don’t you mind about the triumphs,
Don’t you worry after fame;
Don’t you grieve about succeeding,
Let the future guard your name.
All the best in life’s the simplest,
Love will last when wealth is gone;
Just be glad that you are living,
And keep cheering someone on.
Let your neighbers have the blossoms,
Let your comrades wear the crown;
Never mind the little setbacks
Nor the blows that knock you down.
You'll be there when they're forgotten,
You'll be glad with youth and dawn,
If you just forget your troubles,
And keep cheering someone on.
There's a lot of sorrow round you,
Lots of lonesomeness and tears;
Lots of heartaches and of worry
Through the shadows of the years.
And the world needs more than triumphs—
More than all the swords we've drawn—
It is hungering for the fellow
Who keeps cheering others on.
—Baltimore Sun.
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
FLEW TO DEATH.
No taunt of cowardice as some ru-
mors have reported, sent Quentin
Roosevelt out, handicapped by poor
eye-sight, on his last night, to find a
grave among his foes. Another un-
worthy rumor, reporting that the
young flyer’s associates had deserted
him and left him to fall a prey to su-
perior enemy forces, is equally false.
On the authority of a friend of young
Roosevelt’s, Capt. Alexander H. Mec-
Lanahan, who was a member of the
American squadron that fought with
a Fokker group on the day when
Quentin failed to return, these re-
ports are so baseless that, with re-
spect to the one charging desertion,
at least, “it almost looks as if malice
had prompted so despicable a charge.”
Captain McLanahan is credited with
the first complete story of the battle
that resulted in the death of the
youngest of Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s
children. The Captain’s narrative is
introduced, in the Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger, by an account of an ex-
perience which Quentin had in Eu-
rope, some years ago. “Was it
chance or a portent of the fate that
awaited him ?” asks The Ledger, and
describes the incident as follows:
When he was twelve years old, in
1909, he was in Europe with his
mother, his brother Archie, and his
sister Ethel, who is now Mrs. Derby,
and, writing from France to a friend
in America, he described an airplane
race which he had witnessed at
Rheims. And it was near Rheims
that he met his death eight years lat-
er in another kind of airplane contest,
wherein the price for which the noble
spirited youth fought was world-lib-
eration from autocracy.
The letter was written to the Rev.
Ambler M. Blackford, who had been
Quentin’s teacher at the Episcopal
High school, near Alexandria, Va.,
and afterward rector of St. Helena’s
Church, at Beaufort, S. C. In part
the letter was as follows:
We were at Rheims and saw all the
airplanes flying, and saw Curtis, who
won the Gordon-Bennet cup for swift-
est flight. You don’t know how pret-
ty it was to see all the airplanes fly-
ing at a time. At one time there
were four airplanes in the air. It was
the prettiest thing I ever saw. The
prettiest one of them was a mono-
plane called the Antoinette, which
looks like a big bird in the air. It
does not wiggle at all and goes very
fast. It is awfully pretty turning.”
The name of the leading aviator to
whom he alluded in his letter—Curtis
—is, by a strange coincidence, the
same as that of the aviator who, on
July 14, 1918, led the squadron of
American airplanes into the fight
which resulted in the death of Quen-
tin.
Recently there was talk about
Quentin’s having been taunted by his
associates and thus driven to go out
in his machine to sure death while un-
der the handicap of defective eye-
sight. From the same source of ru-
mor came a statement to the effect
that, in the thick of the fight, Quen-
tin’s associates deserted him, leaving
him a prey to the vastly superior
number of the enemy.
“These statements are not only un-
just, but absurd on their very face,”
said Captain McLanahan.. “Who
could have thought of uttering a
taunt of cowardice to so brave a fight-
er as Quentin. Only three days be-
fore the battle in which he lost his
life he had bagged an enemy airplane
and under circumstances which
stamped him a sure-enough hero and
brought him recognition in the form
of a. Croix de Guerre.
“And in regard to abandoning him
to his fate, it almost looks as if mal-
ice had prompted so despicable a
charge.” In proof whereof Captain
McLanahan gave so great a wealth of
detail of the work of the Ninety-fifth
American aero squadron, first Pursuit
Group, of which he and Lieutenant
Quentin were members, as to furnish
one of the most intensely interesting
stories of the war.
“Qur airdrome. was north of Ver-
dun, about twenty miles back of the
American front line. Quentin had
joined us June 1. He had been instruc-
tor at the aviation school at Issoudun,
and I had formed his acquaintance
there. I left Issoudun for patrol work
at the front about two months before
Quentin was allowed to join us. They
liked his work at the aviation school
so well that he had a hard time to ob-
tain leave to get into the more peril-
ous work at the front, for which he
was always longing.
“Qur regular occupation in the pa-
trol service consisted of two flights a
day, each lasting from an hour and a
half to two hours. As this involved
the necessity of going over the ene-
my lines, it was, of course, extremely
trying upon the nerves. I doubt
whether anybody, except the most
foolhardy, ever performed this sort of
work without feeling greatly exhaust-
ed after.a few hours of so tense a
strain. Nevertheless, we were often
required, when circumstances de-
manded it, to go aloft four or even
more times in the course of a day.
HOW
ee
This was of rare occurrence and only
when the enemy showed extreme ac-:
tivity and every resource at our com- |
mand had to be called into service in |
opposition. |
“Usually a patrol consisted of!
three squads of from six to eight
planes, one squad going to a height of
20,000 feet, the second 12,000, and the
third 4,000 feet, They would fly in Vv
formation, the leader about a hundred
feet below the level of the next two,
these 100 feet lower than those next
after them, and so on to the last ones
of the squad, who were always the
highest.” :
July 14 was an exceptionally fine
day for the sort of work the squad-
ron was doing. —
“We went up at eleven o’clock in
the forenoon,” says Captain McLan-
ahan, and describes the flight and the
fatal fight that followed:
“There were eight of us, all, at that
time, lieutenants—Curtis, of Roches-
ter, N. Y.; Sewall, of Bath, Me.;
Mitchell, of Manchester, Mass.; Bud-
ford, of Nashville, Tenn.; Rossevelt,
Hamilton, Montague, and I. As was
customary, we chatted together be-
fore we went up, and of course, plan-
ned what we were going to do. It
was arranged that Lieutenant Hamil-
ton was to lead, and in case of any
hitch to his motor Lieutenant Curtis
was to take his place in the van.
There was a rather stiff wind blow-
ing in the direction of the German
lines, and when we reached an alti-
tude of about 10,000 feet we began to
be carried with great rapidity toward
them. We had not yet sighted any
enemy airplanes after we had been
aloft an hour. Hamilton’s motor went
wrong about that time and he had to
glide back home. In a few minutes
he was followed by Montague, whose
motor also had gone back on him.
“Half an hour after this when we
were five miles inside the German
lines, we saw six of their Fokker
planes coming toward us. They had
been concealed until then by clouds
between them and us, they flying on
the under side of the clouds. Our
planes were of the Nieuport type, of
the lightest pursuing kind, and in al-
most every respect like the type the
Germans approaching us were using.
The chief difference was that they
carried stationary motors while ours
were rotary ones, which gave us a
trifle the advantage in turning. But
this was more than neutralized by the
very much greater inflammable ma-
terial in our machines.
When we got to within 500 feet of
each other both sides began firing.
The weapons on each side were virtu-
ally identical, each Nieuport and each
Fokker carrying two machine guns.
As each plane had but one occupant,
upon whom, of course, devolved the
work not only of steering his craft
but firing the guns, there was an ar-
rangement by which these two duties
could be executed with, so to speak,
one movement. The steering-gear
and the firing and aiming devices were
adjusted to a stick in front of the avi-
ator, in such a manner that lis hand
could clutch all three levers at once
and work each by a slight pressure.
“Each of the machine guns carried
about 250 rounds of ammunition, and
unless it got jammed it was capable
of firing the entire lot in half a min-
ute. In order to determine whether
the aim is accurate some of the bul-
lets are so constructed that thev emit
smoke and can thus be seen. These
are called tracers. Without them it
would be well-nigh impossible to
guage one’s range so far up in the air,
remote from anything by which com-
parisons could be made to rectify the
judgment in aiming.
“From the moment that I singled
out the enemy whom I was to engage
in duel I naturally lost sight of every-
thing else and kept my eyes pretty
well glued upon him alone. Now and
then, of course, I would, when I got a
chance, look backward, too. For one
can never tell but that another enemy
plane, having disposed of its oppo-
nent, may pay his respects to another
one.
“But if anybody imagines that an
aviator engaged in the battle with an
active opponent gets a chance to help
along an associate, or even to pay at-
tention to what is happening to any
of the others, he is mistaken. One
has to be on the alert for every move
the enemy makes, and even do a lot
of correct guessing as to what would
be the most logical next move for him
to make. For it is upon that next
move that the entire fortunes of the
war for those particular two aviators
may hinge.
After I had fired every round of
ammunition, which seemed to be
about the same time as my adversary
discovered himself to be in the same
plight, we drew away from each other
and flew toward our respective bases.
During our duel my airplane had be-
come separated from the others of
our unit and I could see no trace of
them. I assumed, however, that they
were either still fighting or had also
finished and were on their way back
home. Somehow I did not think of
the third alternative, namely, that
anything serious had happened to any
of them.
“Indeed, one’s thoughts are so com-
pletely directed toward the business
in hand, especially during a fight, that
there is not a moment’s time that can
be devoted to other matters, even
those of the dearest, tenderest, or
most sacred nature. To divert the
mind even for an instant from the
grim business of battle itself would be
scarcely short of suicidal. And the
home-bound journey after the battle
is enlivened by so continuous a gaunt-
let of bursting enemy anti-aircraft
shells that . they suffice to keep the
mind engaged in ways and means of
dodging them until the home base is
finally reached. During an air-battle,
of course, the anti-aircraft guns are
silent, for their shells would be equal-
ly dangerous for friend and foe.
“Liuetenant Bufard and McLana-
han arrived after all of the others,
except Lieutenant Roosevelt, who had
returned to the field. They were not
worried about him at the time, but
when hours went by and he failed to
return, they knew that something
had gone wrong. Still, they did not
think he had been killed. As Captain
McLanahan explained:
“We were encouraged to hope for
the best by the fact that Quentin had
remained out a considerable time
longer than the rest of us three days
before. On that occasion he had be-
come separated from the squad, I
don’t just know in what way, and
—
when “we saw him again he jumped
out of his airplane in great excite- |
ment and so radiant with elation and
so broad a smile that his teeth showed |
exactly in the same famous way as
his father’s used to do. He never re-
minded us so much of his father as on
that occasion. ]
He told us that after losing track
of us he sighted a group of airplanes
which he beileved to be ours and head-
ed his airplane toward them. He was
too cautious, however, to take any-
thing for granted, and so in steering |
toward the group he kept himself in
the rear of them, and when he got
closer he discovered that they had the
cross of the Germans painted on them.
His first impulse was to get away .
ossible; but then the hero |
as fast as 3
in him spoke up and he decided to
avail himself of the chances to reduce
the number of our enemies by at least
one. And so, flying quite close to the
last one of the airplanes, he fired
quickly and with such good aim that
the plane immediately went down,
spinning around, with its nose point-
ed to the ground. .
«] guess I got that one all right,”
he said but he did not wait to see
what the final outcome might be, for
aviators are full of tricks, and by
feigning disaster to their own ma-
chine often succeeded in drawing an
over-confident enemy to destruction.
Quentin knew this; and moreover, he
had another big contract on his hands,
namely, to get away from the associ-
ates of the man whom he had attack-
ed. They all turned upon him. firing
from a dozen machine guns but in fir-
ing his gun he had wheeled about at
the same instant, and in that way he
had a big handicap over the pursuers.
He kept far enough in advance of
them to get back within the American
lines before they were able to lessen
the distance sufficiently to make their
shells effective. The rate of speed,
by the way, was 140 miles an hour.
“Despite his excitement and the re-
ally exceptional achievement, Quentin
modestly refrained from declaring
positively that he had bagged his
man. It was only afterward when we
learned through an artillery observa-
tion-ballean that the airplane brought
down by Quentin had been seen to
strike the earth with a crash, that he
himself felt satisfied that he was en-
titled to be regarded the victor. This
was the occasion which brought him
the Croix de Guerre.
“When the day passed and Quentin
failed to return, his associates still re-
mained hopeful that he had landed in
the enemy lines, and had been taken
prisoner. But there was further
news, bad news, as Captain McLana-
han relates:
“Even this forlorn hope was dispel-
led the following day, when news was
received that an observation-balloon’s
crew had seen a Nieuport machine fall
at Chamery, east of Fere-en-Tarden-
ois, the place where Quentin had gone
into the battle.
A few days after that German avi-
ators flying over the American lines
dropped notes announcing that Quen-
tin had been killed by two bullet
wounds in the head and had been bur-
ied with military honors by the Ger-
mans.
After the armistice was signed we
saw the aviator who had killed Quen-
tin. He was a non-commissioned offi-
cer and one of the most expert flyers
in the enemy’s air-service. After the
armistice he was acting as an inspec-
tor in the surrender of German air-
planes to the Allies.
This man said that when he learn-
ed that the officer whom he had
brought down belonged to so promi-
nent 2 family in America he felt sor-
y.
“He was identified by a metal iden-
tification-plate fa<tened by a little
chain to his wrist,” said the German,
“and I was then told of the young
man’s prominence and his own per-
sonal popularity. Of course, even if
I had known during the battle who he
was, I would not have hesitated to try
my best to down him, because, if I
hadn’t he surely would have downed
me.
“He made a gallant fight, although
I recognized almost from the begin-
ning of our duel that he was not as
experienced as some others I had en-
couniered and won out against.
“As it was, he dipped and circled
and looped and tried in a variety of
ways to get above and behind me. It
was not at all an easy task for me to
get the upper hand and down him.”
Capt. McLanahan, who himself has
received the Croix de Guerre, return-
ed, in conclusion, to the various ru-
mors that have surrounded Quentin
Roosevelt’s death. He hopes his re-
port, he said, might dispel the effects
of these unjust aspersions, both upon
Lieut. Roosevelt and upon the flying
squadron to which he belonged. As
the Captain is quoted:
“From what I have already said, I
should think it would be quite clear
that any taunt of lack of personal
bravery applied to Quentin Roosevelt
would, in view of his achievement,
have been ridiculously misapplied. It
would have been so utterly without
point as to make any one venturing it
appear to be a fool.
Concerning Quentin’s defective
sight, there is this to be said, that it
was not half so defective as that of
one of the greatest ‘aces,’ who lacked
one eye altogether. Both Quentin and
the ‘ace’ in question were able to take
in more and grasp more of what they
took in by their sight, despite its de-
fective nature, than most people who
have normal sight. It appears to be
largely a matter of brain rather than
of mere vision.”
Who the “ace” was to whom he al-
luded Captain McLanahan declined to
say. He said it might reflect in some
way upon the military authorities who
had allowed him to pass muster into
a branch of the service .which is re-
garded as requiring perfection of
every sense to insure safety to the
aviator himself as well as to make
possible the highest degree of efficien-
cy. The authorities, however, knew
perfectly what they were about when
they accepted this particular aviator,
who used to bag an enemy almost as
often as he made a flight.—Literawy
Digest.
Unreasonable.
Bald Customer—This stuff you sold
me is a fake. I've rubbed it on my
head for weeks without result, yet
you said it would grow hair en a bil-
liard ball.
Druggist—Well how the deuce can
you expect it to grow hair on a bil-
' capture of wild beasts.
CATCHING A TIGER.
Orientals show the greatest ingenu-
ity in the methods they adopt in the
Nothing af-
fords the natives of the Malay Penin-
. sula so much sport as catching tigers.
one was taken in a Jit dug in a Chi-
naman’s garden; and it is interesting
| to learn of the clever fashion in which
they got the beast out of the pit.
his pit was circular in shape, elev-
en feet deep and three feet in diame-
ter at the top. It was slightly small-
er at the bottom. It was in sandy
clay, and the sides were clean-cut, the
tiger could not scramble out. The pit
was situated on the margin of a jun-
gle, and it had been contrived, not to
capture tigers, but wild hogs. It was
covered with a thin roof of sticks,
grass, and leaves.
As soon as the owner of the pit be-
came aware of the nature of his prize
he covered the mouth of the pit with
strong planks. Then he looked about
for a purchaser, who was soon found.
The money was pid over while the
beast lay at the bottom of the pit.
move, cage, and convey the animal to
Singapore.
For six days the captive was allow-
ed to lie in the pit; he was fed very
sparingly, in order to reduce his
strength and energy. Six Malays
with a thorough knowledge of the
ways of wild beasts were engaged to
| cage them.
Their first step was to rig a strong |
beam at the height of about nine feet
over the pit; the beam was supported
i on well secured uprights, to which it
was strongly lashed with
Next. the men prepared two cyiin-
drical baskets of green rattan. One
basket was two feet in diameter and
eight in length; the other was just
large enough to be passed into the
strength to the contrivance. One end
of each basket was open, and the oth-
er closed, except for a hole about
three inches in diameter. s
The smaller basket having been
jammed into the larger one, the two
were firmly laced together through-
out with withes.
Finally, two new hempen ropes
nearly three inches in circumference
were prepared with running nooses.
As soon as the Malays had cut a few
long poles and prepared them, with
forks on some and pieces of wood
lashed on others to form hooks they
were ready for the tiger.
They separated the planks that cov-
ered the mouth of the pit so that they
could pass down the ropes and poles.
The noose of one of the ropes was
lowered, and in spite of the tiger’s
resistance, the men, by skill and pa-
tience, got the moose over his head
and around his neck. As soon as the
noose was in position it was drawn
fairly tight. The other rope was then
passed down and secured in a similar
manner. The operation of placing
the two nooses round the neck of the
captive occupied twenty-five minutes.
passed through the cylindrical bas-
kets. The baskets were placed mouth
downward over the pit, and when all
was ready they began to haul on the
ropes. The tiger was drawn up head-
foremost into the basket. which was
just large enough to receive him. As
soon as he was well within the basket,
the Maylays drew up the whole con-
trivance, laid it on its side, and laced
up the mouth of the basket so that
only the tiger’s tail protruded. When
all was fast the nooses were slacken-
ed in order that the tiger might
breathe more freely. The basket was
then slung on a pole and borne to the
cage that was in readiness to reccive
the captive.—Exchange.
Guard Against Hessian Fly Now.
Losses to the present winter wheat
crop from Hessian fly have been rath-
er wide spread. Straw-fallen wheat
due to this cause was commonly ob-
served in many regions where the
percentage of infestation by the Hes-
sian fly has very materially increased
this year.
Growers of winter wheat should
put into practice at once measures ad-
vocated by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture to avoid losses
to the 1920 crop by the Hessian fly.
There is no remedy for this pest when
once it takes possession of a crop of
wheat. Injury can be prevented sole-
ly by keeping the fly out of the wheat.
The department experts say the fol-
lowing methods are effective:
Do not sow wheat on stubble if pos-
sible to avoid doing so.
Plow under all infested stubble and
ruined wheat where practicable soon
after harvest, especially where this
does not interfere with the growing
of clover and forage grasses.
Destroy all volunteer wheat by har-
rowing, disking, plowing, or other-
wise.
Plow all land to be sown to winter
wheat as early and deeply as exist-
ing conditions permit and prepare a
thoroughly pulverized and compacted
seed bed.
Conserve moisture against a per-
iod: of drought at seeding time.
Uuse the best seed procurable.
Keep the soil in good tilth and,
most important of all, sow winter
wheat during the fly-free period as
adivsed by local farm advisors or
State experiment stations.
Community action in these meas-
ures is absolutely essential to com-
plete success.
Fattest Man in ‘World is Dead of
Paralysis.
“Jack” Wilson, said to be the fat-
test man in the world, who weighed
650 pounds, died in a hospital in New
York of paralysis.
When Wilson, who for years has
been exhibited in a sideshow at Coney
Island, was taken to the hospital, it
was found an ambulance was too
small to hold him and he was trans-
ferred in a motor truck.
At the hospital it was found neces-
sary to carry him through the door
sideways on an improvised stretcher
and to arrange two mattresses on the
floor to serve as a bed. His body was
taken to Chicago for burial.
A barrister, not so discreet as he
might have been in the expression of
his ideas, was engaged on a case con-
cerning some pigs.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” he began,
“there were twenty-four pigs in the
drove, just twenty-four; exactly twice
as many as there are in that jury
fiard ball if you rub it on your head?
box.”
withes. !
| larger one, in order to give additional |
The ends of the ropes were then!
The sum agreed upon was £50 to re- |’
UNIFORMS FOR THE DISCHARG- |
ED SOLDIERS.
Replying to certain letters of in-
quiry concerning the steps necessary
to obtain a reissue of certain articles
of uniform and equipment, the fol-
lowing information is furnished:
The following articles of clothing
and equipment may be permanently
retained by enlisted men upon honor-
able discharge: :
1 oversea cap (for all enlisted men
who have had service overseas) or 1
hat and 1 hat cord for all other enlist-
ed men.
1 olive drab shirt.
1 service coat and ornaments.
1 pair breeches.
1 pair shoes.
1 pair leggins.
1 waist belt.
1 slicker.
1 overcoat.
2 suits underwear.
4 pairs stockings.
1 pair gloves.
1 gas mask and helmet (if issued
overseas).
1 set toilet articles (if in possession
when discharged).
1 barrack bag.
3 scarlet chevrons.
Any enlisted man who served in the
United States army during the pres-
ent war and who was honorably dis-
charged or furloughed to the Reserve
since April 6, 1917, and who has re-
stored to the government any of the
above articles, or to whom for any
reason they were never issued, may
make application for such articles to
the Supplies Division office of the
Director of Storage, Munition Build-
ing, Washington, D. C., and similar
clothing and uniform in kind and val-
ue as near as may be will be returned
to him. The application should state
sizes required and will be accompan-
ied by affidavits made before any civ-
il or military officer authorized to ad-
minister oaths, setting forth the
soldier’s record of service since April
6, 1917; the date and place of his dis-
charge or furlough to the Reserve;
the articles and kind of clothing re-
stored to the government, whether
cotton, O. D. or woolen, O. D., and cer-
tifying that none of the articles ap-
plied for were retained by him at the
time of his discharge or furlough to
the Reserve, or if retained, that they
have been restored to the government
since that time.
Officers and enlisted men who have
returned the gas mask or helmet may
make similar application for these
articles and they may be issued if
available.
By authority of the Director of
Storage.
W. C. CROOM,
Major, Q. M. Corp.
External Relation Branch.
Forecasts of Peach Shipments.
The prospective commercial peach
crop of 30,082,000 bushels, forecast
July 9 by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates United States Department of
Agriculture, appears liberal beside
the very light crop of 20.000,000 to
21,000,000 last year, but the present
crop is moderate when compared with
those of recent years. Probable ship-
ments appear more limited when it is
considered that fully half the crop,
or over 16,000,000 bushels, is credit-
ed to California, says a report from
the Bureau of Markets. Nearly 90
per cent. of the California crop is
commonly used for drying, which
would leave only about 3,600 cars to
be shipped as fresh fruit. Actual
shipments may equal 4,000 cars. In
previous years the California crop
has not been over one-third the total.
Georgia, the leading southeastern
producing section, according to early
indications, will ship 7,700 cars, in-
cluding 3,000 cars of Elbertas, com-
pared with 8,400, last year’s totals.
Arkansas leading in the south central
section, may ship 3,200 cars, or near-
ly half as many cars as Georgia. Ok-
lahoma is likely to become a fairly
heavy shipping section for the first
time, with: possibly 800. New York,
usually the heaviest shipping State
of the northeast, may have twice the
very short crop of last year. The
forecast of car lot shipments is 34,-
000, compared with 15,903 cars ship-
ped last year.
The Strongest Vault.
The banking building occupied by
the Morgan firm in New York is said
to contain the strongest security vault
in the world, a vault that is proof
against fire, water, and burglars.
This vault is 23 feet wide, 27 feet
deep, and 33 feet high, outside meas-
urement, and is divided into three
stories. The walls, which are two
and a half feet thick, are made up of
Harveyized nickle steel armor plate,
surrounded with rock concrete. which
is re-enforced with double and treble
sections of 125 pound nickle-steel
rails. The main door of the vault is
round, and three feet thick; and when
closed makes an air-tight fit with the
door frame. Although the door, with
its bolt work and hinges, weighs 50
tons, it can be swung with one hand.
The vault is equipped with the very
latest and most complete system of
time and combination locks, burglar
alarms and electric lights. It is
guarded night and day by patrolmen,
whose work is made easier by passag-
es round the four sides, underneath
the bottom, and across the top, and
by mirrors so placed that they can
see around corners,—EX.
Select Seed Potatoes at Harvest.
The custom of using as seed pota-
toes left from the previous season’s
crop, after having disposed of the
best, must be discontinued if the
present quality and yield of the crop
is to be materially improved, say
specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The grow-
er can not expect to get maximum
yields from inferior seed stock any
more than the dairyman can expect
to get maximum milk yields from
scrub cows. The best time to select
seed potatoes, according to the spe-
cialists, is in the fall when the crop is
being harvested. Then the yield of
the individual plant and the quality
of the tubers can be considered.
Good seed is pure in respect to the
variety; is produced by healthy, vig-
orous, heavy-yielding plants grown
under favorable climatic conditions;
is somewhat immature; reasonably
uniform in size and shape; firm and
sound. The first sprouts should be-
gin to develop at planting time.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
The omnipotence of God shines forth
from the universe.—Swedenborg.
Despite all Paris evidence of short-
er and fuller skirts, some New York
designers and manufacturers of ex-
clusive dresses for women are prepar-
ing no models that do not conform to
the long, slim silhouette.
. Street dresses of cloth on tailored
lines, made with long, straight skirts,
have cuff hems, similar to the finish
cn men’s trousers, only the bands are
of wider width.
As has been reported before, the
redingote lines are to be seen both in
suits and dresses.
The high cost of fabrics has no in-
fluence whatever upon the minds of
wrap designers, for such garments
are developed on lines that call for
elaborate materials and plenty of
yardage.
Watermelon parties for the very
young set bring to mind vivid memo-
ries of face-washing and a generally
uproarous time. Now though there
should be informality at this sort of
mid-summer affair, there can be, too,
a real opportunity for original and
enjoyable entertainment of a slightly
more dignified type that will appeal
to those of us who are over 16.
Let's see what we can do to make
the watermelon party this year a bit
different! First of all, we can begin
with the invitations. A clever invita-
tion always presages good fun. So,
why not cut up yours from green bris-
tol board and, in watermelon shape,
stripe it in black by using a water
color brush and India ink, and address
it and stamp it on the blank side.
Write between the stripes the follow-
ing verse:
Watermelon’s ripenin’ on de vine,
Waitin’ to be picked mos’ any time.
Waitin’ for some folks I know—you're
one—
To come and eat it and have some fun.
We'll suppose the party to be giv-
en out of doors, for why have it in the
house when even city dwellers live
within trolley distance of the woods,
and so many of us have flivvers to
take us to nature’s playground? Of
course, the “piece de resistance” for
the party will be watermelons. Have
them plugged to be sure they are
good and ripe. Keep them on ice for
a whole day beforehand to have them
thoroughly chilled, and then pack
them in buckets, cutting them in half
and covering with wax paper while
you pile ice around them if possible.
Of course, one could give a watermel-
on party by cutting the pink melon
into inch squares and packing in jars
and ice, but that loses the point of a
real watermelon party, where the joy
of eating the juicy fruit from the rind
is part of the fun,
Besides the melon there will have
to be some more substantial lunch.
Let it be something that can be cook-
ed over a fire. Corn roasted in the
husk, potatoes, marshmallows to be
toasted, sandwiches and cake may all
form part of the supplies. If the par-
ty is large the supplies can be distrib-
uted in baskets so that none of the
burdens will be too heavy; but if you
want a real party without any work
for the guests, corral a machine to
take the supplies to the picnic place.
So much for the refreshments and
run. Rig up a target of a grinning
pickaninny with a wide-open tooth-
less mouth. The problem is to shoot
teeth (watermelon seeds) into a dar-
key’s mouth. Each guest is given 10
slippery seeds and told to “plop” them
between the fingers intothe darkey’s
mouth, each seed that goes in to
count one point. The one getting the
most seeds in from a distance of
eight feet, gets an extra piece of wa-
termelon later on for a prize.
Guessing the weight of the water-
melon is fun. It can be done in two
ways, either by merely looking at the
melon exhibited for the purpose, or by
actually “hefting” it, in which case it
may be rolled into a towel and lifted
that way. The prize for the nearest
guess to the real weight—which
should have been found out by weigh-
ing at home—might be a small jor of
watermelon preserves from last year.
Fruit Dumplings.—For fruit dum-
plings make a rolled biscuit dough,
using a little less milk and a bit more
shortening. Roll one-fourth inch
thick.
Cut in squares large enough to cov-
er apple or other fruit. Large fruit
Shanta be first cooked five or ten miri-
utes. :
Place fruit, pared, cored, sliced or
whole, in center of dough, sprinkle
with sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg.
Moisten edges of dough with water
or cold milk and fold so that the cor-
ners will meet in the center. Press
edges together gently.
The top may be brushed with beat-
en egg, milk, melted butter or marga-
rin and sprinkled with sugar. Place
in a greased pan, adding a slight
amount of water.
Bake in a rather hot oven until
crust and fruit are cooked. These
dumplings may be steamed if desired.
Serve with hard sauce, apple or other
sauce.
Apple roly-poly is much the same
as dumpling except that the dough is
rolled in one rectangular piece, spread
with softened margarin, then with
apples cut in thin slices and season-
Roll up like jelly roll. Slice and
bake the same as dumplings, adding
a little water in the pan to make a
sauce.
There is also a Dutch apple cake
much like apple roly-poly except that
it is not rolled up like a jelly roll, but
baked in a rectangular piece.
This cake is good to serve with aft-
ernoon tea or with coffee. Serve as a
semi dessert.
_ Another variation of fruit: dump-
lings is to make a fruit pudding—
sweetened fresh or canned fruit cov-
ered with a crust of baking powder
biscuit dough. Bake in a fairly hot
oven.
Shortcake uses the same proportion
of flour, milk and baking powder .as
does the recipe for rolled baking pow-
der biscuits but requires more short-
ening than the biscuits; that is, two
tablespoons or more of fat to each
cup of flour, and the addition of a tea~
spoon to half a tablespoon of sugar
for each cup of flour.
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