Little Talks by
Beatrice Fairfax
The best way to fail is to think
you are going- to—to imagine your
self unsuccessful—to worry!
Worry is lost energy. It travels.
but it never arrives anywhere at all.
' It cannot keep Monday from coming
after Sunday—but it will waste Sun
day in agitating itself over that fact.
Concentrate your mind on your
headache or the pain in your tooth
or the throb of your cut finger and
see how pitilessly your suffering will
perform to order. Agitate yourself
over how you are going to meet the
payment on * your Victrola, and,
whatever tune it plays, you will hear
"I owe sl#." How am I going to get
it before Tuesday? Owe! Debt!
Worry!"
Worry is completely destructive.
A glad heart truly goes the whole
day long, while the sad one tires in
a mile. Worry never acts as a tonic.
Instead, it conducts itself like a
sleeping potion.
Helen Olson forged from an J8 a
week "job" to a $35 "position," the
end of ten years in the business
world. From clerk in the bargain
basement to ribbon buyer.
"I don't know how Helen does it,"
one of the other girls told me. "She's
the most light-hearted girl you ever
knew. Never takes anything serious
ly, never gets nervous or flurried, or
seems to realize how much depends
on her."
"Doesn't she take any interest in
the work.?" I asked.
"Interest? Oh, yes, but she never
settles down to the seriousness of it
—doesn't seem to worry about her
responsibility. Why. I remember
once, when the Christmas rush was
on, and we used to have to stay un
til 10 or 11 at night and be back
at 8.30 In the morning, a terrible
blizzard came up. Helen lived way
out in Westchester, and it didn't look
to me as if she'd get home much be
fore 1 in the morning. I spoke to
her about it around 9 o'clock. And
what do you think she answered?
'All right, Mary, it may take me an
hour to travel home, or even a cou
ple of them, but I'm not going to
start my floundering through snow
drifts right here in the store." You
can Just see she didn't have much
sense of responsibility, can you?"
What I can "just see" is that Helen
Olsen didn't let her imagination run
away with her.
Have you ever weked up in the
middle of the night, heard a ereek
ing board and manufactured for
yourself out of It a burglar—armed,
ready to slay? Two hours of cold
chills, horror, agony, sleeplessness—
and all because you let your imagi
nation run away with you.
That's what worry does —it spurs
Imagination and lets it run away
with you.
Worry never gets up and "hus
tles;" it never does one constructive
thing about arranging a better state
of affairs than the one it is torment
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ing itself about: it never inaugurates
a tinely destructive policy about
chopping down the woods that may
hold robbers and thieves —it just runs
about like a frantic squirrel in a
cage.
"For all the troubles under the sun
There is a cure —or there is none;
If there is one, try to tind it—
If there is none, never mind it."
There is the whole anti-worry pol
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Left-Over Potatoes
There is no other vegetable for
which there are so many delightful
uses as for potatoe. It combines well
with other materials or it can be
used all by itself. Surely you are
not failing to make use of this ver
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Stowed Potatoes
Cut cold baked or boiled potatoes
into dice, put into a stew pan with
salt, a tiny bit of onion minced fine,
and milk enough to half cover the
potatoes. Set on the back of the
stove and stew slowly, stirring with
a fork occasionally until all the milk
is taken up. Season with fat and
pepper and serve.
Scallop of Potatoes and Olieese
Cut cold boiled potatoes into dice.
When ready to use season them well
with salt, pepper, and melted fat.
In a greased baking dish arrange
alternate layers of potatoes, grated
cheese, and white sauce (medium),]
having sauce on top. Heat in the
oven and serve.
Potato Peanut loaf
1 pint mashed potato.
1 cup ground peanuts or 1-2 cup
I peanut butter.
2 teaspoons salt.
1-2 teaspoon pepper.
1-2 cup milk.
2 tablespoons fat.
2 eggs.
Beat the entire mixture together
and place in greased baking dish;
i set in a second pan containing hot
| water and bake in the oven until
| firm. Serve with tomato sauce.
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Potato Pudding
1 1-4 cups mashed potatoes.
4 tablespoons fat.
2 eggs well beaten.
1-2 cup milk.
1-4 teaspoon salt.
1-2 lemon (juice and rind.)
1 tablespoon sugar.
1-2 cup raisins and nut meats.
Add to the mashed potatoes the
fat, eggs, milk, lemon juice, grated
peel and sugar. Beat all ingredients
| together and bake in greased dish
3-4 hour or longer. Serve with top
milk.
Potato Puffs
2 cups mashed potato.
2 eggs.
1 cup grated cheese.
1-2 cup milk.
1 teaspoon salt.
Add the milk to the potato and
beat until thoroughly blended. Add
the beaten egg and salt, gradually
adding the grated cheese. Bake in
greased tins or ramekins in a slow
oven.
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"Outwitting the Hun"
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
(Copyright, 1918, by Pat Alva O'Brien.)
Dinner came at
§5.30 p. m., when we
sometimes hud a
little jam made out
ol sugarbeets, and
a preparation called
tea, which you had
to shake vigorously
or it settled in the
bottom of the cup,
and then about all
you had was hot
water. This "tea"
was a sad blpw to
the Englishman. If it hadn't been
called tea they wouldn't have felt
so badly about it, perhaps, but it was
adding insult to injury to call that
stuff "tea," which with them is al
most a national institution.
Sometimes with this meal they
gave us butter instead of jam, and
once in a while we had some kind of
canned meat.
This comprised the usual run of
eatables for the day—l can eat more
than that for breakfast! In the days
that were to come 1 learned that I
was to fare considerably worse.
We were allowed to send out and
buy a few things, but as most of the
prisoners were without funds this
was but an empty privilege. Once I
took advantage of the privilege to
send my shoes to a Belgian shoe
maker to be half-soled. They charged I
me 20 marks —$5!
Once in a while a Belgian Ladies'
Relief Society visited the prison and
brought us a handkerchief, American j
soap—which sells at about $1.50 a I
bar in Belgium—tooth brushes and j
other little articles, all of which i
were American made, but whether
they were supplied by the American
Relief Committee or not I don't
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know. At any rate these gifts were
mighty useful and were very much
appreciated.
One day 1 offered a button off my
uniform to one of these Belgian
ladies as a souvenir, but, a Ueniian
guard saw me anu i was never al
lowed to go near the visitors after
wards.
The sanitary conditions in this
prison camp were excellent as a gen
eral proposition, one night, how
ever, 1 discovered that 1 had been
captured by "cooties."
. This was a novel experience to
me and one that 1 woulu have been
very willing to have missed, because
in the Flying Corps our aerodromes
are a number of miles back of the
lines and we have good billets and
our acquaintance with such things
as "cooties" and other unwelcome
visitors is very limited.
When 1 discovered my condition 1
made a holler and roused the guard,
and right then 1 got another example
of German efficiency.
This guard seemed to be even
more perturbed about my complaint
than 1 myself, evidently tearing that
he would be blamed, for my condi
tion.
The commandant was summoned
and X could see that he was very
angry. Someone undoubtedly got a j
severe reprimand for it. I
I was taken out of my cell by a j
guard with a rifle and conducted |
about a quarter of a mile l'rom the |
prison to an old factory building i
which had been converted into an j
elaborate fumigating plant. There
1 was given a pickle bath in some
kind of solution and while 1 was ab
sorbing it my clothes, bedclothes and
whatever else had been in my cell
was being put through another
fumigating process. -
While 1 was waiting for my things
to dry—it took perhaps half an hour
—I had a chance to observe about |
one hundred other victims of "coo
ties—German soldiers who had be
come infested in the trenches. We
were all nude, of course, but appar- |
ently it was not difficult for them
to recognize me as a foreigner even i
without my uniform on, for none ot j
them made any attempt to talk to |
mo, although they were very busy !
talking about me.
, I could not understand what they |
were saying, but I know I was the ,
butt of most of their jokes and they |
made no effort to conceal the fact i
that I was the subject of conversa- j
tion.
When I got back to my cell 1
found that it had been thoroughly
fumigated, and from that time on I
had rto further trouble with "coo
ties" or other visitors of the same
kind.
As we were not allowed to write
anything but prison cards writing
was out of the question; and as we
had no reading matter to speak of,
reading was nil. We had nothing to
do to pass away the time, so conse
quently cards became our only di
version, for we did, fortunately,
have some of these.
Daily Lottery For Bread
There wasn't very much money,
as a rule, in circulation, and I think
for once in my life I held most of
that, not due to any particular abil
ity on my part in the game, but 1
happened to have several hundred
francs in my pockets when shot
down. But we held a lottery that
was watched without quite such in
tense interest as that. The drawing
was always held the day before to
determine who was the lucky man.,
There was as much speculation as to
who would win the prize as if it had
been the finest treasure In the
world. The great prize was one
third of a loaf of bread.
Through some arrangement, which
I never quite figured out. It hap
pened that among the eibht or ten
officers who were there with me,
there was always one-third of a loaf
of bread over. There was just one
way of getting that bread, and that
was to draw lots. Consequently that
was what started the lottery.
I believe if a man fyad ever been
inclined to cheat he would have
been sorely tempted In this Instance,
but the game was played absolutely
square and If a man had been caught
cheating the chances are that he
would have been shunned by the rest
of the officers as long as he was in
prison. I was fortunate enough to
win the prize twice.
(To Be Continued)
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