eaks ou will drop that e sentence was fin- lad slipped from the sistant and, striking iron, flew into pieces s like a bit out of “Alice n American formerly en- arious enterprises at Daw- the Yukon territory. ens at 60 degrees below zero, @ 0 ~ perature not uncommon in the two weeks. from 44 degrees below zero (the warmest) down to 68 degrees below. Some of the outlying Yukon police [of these explosions, which resemble | is enormous. stations reported 80 degrees below. The cold wave alternates with warmer periods of 10 degrees below. At such temperatures as strange manifestations appear. is the way a fire burns in the stove. It roars and crackles forge, and wood in the stove to dissolve in the flames like a chunk of ice; the wood is gone and one won- #pwicrs where the heat went. At 60 degrees below every stovepipe throws out a great white cloud of smoke and vapor, resembling a steam- boat in its whiteness, and this cloud streams away for from 50 to 100 feet, mingling with the other of haze that remains permanent white-gray mist in the atmosphere of the town like a great fog when it is 40 degrees or below This white-gray fog is not fog as we know it, but is frozen fog, and every man, woman, child, animal and even the fire that burns is throwing out moisture into the air, which is immediately turned into a cloud of frozen vapor that floats away and remains visibly sus- pended in the air. Very slowly this settles to earth; and in the morning, about the steps and any protected place, one can see a very fine film of flourlike dust deposited, which is com- posed of frozen vapor. more Zero. Exposed cars, hands and noses freeze at this temperature in going the distance of about one city square. The breath roars like a mild jet of steam, while a dipper of boiling water thrown out into the air emits a pecul- iar whistling as its drops circle through the frosty atmosphere. Prospectors, in a dish of rice or beans upon a camp fire unprotected from find that the side of the dish that is in the fire will boil, while the part of the dish exposed to the weather e Glass been glass instead of | and,” but in sober fact, as | s interesting to learn what | ract when embedded in the wood, attempting to boil | the weather, | Es v . has @Pzen. To remedy this, the dish is s8 completely into the fire. Infllich temperatures one must be ve lareful about touching things wi protected hands. It is danger- ke hold of a door knob when ) degrees below zero or there- with the uncovered hand, un-| de is careful instantly to release | bld, for if he does show this | Wssness the inner palm of his | #7 will be frozen in five seconds. | Thy result’'is the same as though he haf touched a red-hot stove. | Great spikes, used in constructing 4 » frames of buildings, when sub- | |iffcted to this frigid temperature con- and when the clinging fiber of the vood can no longer control the con-| {of a building struck with a sledge) |there is, therefore, not one but many | {the sounds from a target range. Coal oil begins to thicken at 40 de- | grees below, and at 60 and 70 degrees only a little darker. It can then be | ter. A lighted lamp or lantern left | |exposed in this temperature will | freeze up and go out in about 80 min- | utes. To offset the effect of the strike of | [telegraphic employes, an airplane pos- tal service has been organized between the principal cities of Italy by the | Italian government. Recently detectives in Berlin in an airplane chased and apprehended three money traffikers who, with 11,000,000 | silver rubles, were en-route to Frank- | fort by train. The pursuers reached | Frankfort before the train and nabbed the traffikers as they were in the act | of transferring the money to accom- | plices in a hotel. Without Assistance A squnk happened to wander by the tent of a party of city hunters one {night. One of the Nimrods raised himself upon his elbow and glanced about. “Oh, Lord! Every other man sound |asleep, so that I'll have to smell it all alone! ” | s dha | The American Bar Association and the Manufacturers’ Aircraft Associa- |tion have united in urging the passage of Federal laws regulating aerial traf: fic in harmony with the international | lair code. Cutting Down Home Waste People of average means can hardly afford in these days to keep servants. Households which formerly kept two or three now get along with one maid. Many manage with half a servant, sharing her with a neighbor. Not a few housewives have been driven to the necessity of doing their own cook- ing and sending the washing to a laundry. This has meant to deal a discomfort, but there has been an incidental gain. Waste is enormously reduced. Servants make nearly all the waste of a household. Many housewives, on. For example, the gentleman¥iraction, the shrinking spikes give a deprived of “lady help,” have been tioned tells of one stretch of suck [great jump in the wood, this being ac- [astonished to observe a shrinkage of old in January, a spell that endured complished by a loud booming sound [their food bills, notwithstanding the The temperature rauged |like the firing of heavy gun, or that [present doubled and trebled prices. When a domestic establishment em- ploys half a dozen servants the waste Nearly always in a house run on that scale the butler and cook “stand in” with the butcher and grocer, and their rake-off in- these [below becomes as thick as lard and creases with the amount of food they One hooks very much like that substance, throw away. Recent investigations by the New like a great!cut out of the can with a knife the York Health Department proved that seems Same way that one cuts lard or but-'the average family living in a private house with one or more servants, throws away a pound and a quarter of perfectly good food every day. It was found that the average apartment house family throws away only one-fifth as much—Ilargely, doubt- less, because such families reduce do- mestic service to a minimum. In the tenement districts of New York one garbage can usually suffices to hold the food refuse of 20 families. But in the “private house districts” it was found that 163 families had 175 garbage pails, or more than a pail apiece. Examination of the 175 pails re- vealed 18 pounds of bread and rolls, 50 pounds of meat, 35 pounds of po- tatoes, 16 pounds of cereals and large quantities of perfectly fresh vege- tables. Always the amount of food waste varies directly with the number of servants employed. As a matter of fact the full garbage pail seems hith- erto to have been regarded in this country as a manifestation of pros- perity. Not until very recently have people begun to think that possibly this was a foolish idea. One area of shale on the Colorado- Utah boundary is estimated to contain 36,000,000,000 barrels of oil. In the first four months of this year 62,509 Italians came to this country. 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They have {but one disadvantage—that unlike the annzd article they cannot be served at once from the jar, but require extra cooking or overnight soaking. This, however, is a minor inconveni- ence, when you remember how much more dried food can be packed away in comparatively small space than the canned goods. It is true that rows of well filled shelves are a delight to the eyes of the thrifty housewife who takes this advantage of summer to ay aside for the winter. But what can the flat dweller do? In the average city flat there is scarce- y enough space for current food sup- they plies. Canned goods take up space far in excess of the amount of food value they yield. But you can pack away enough dried food for the winter's needs of a small family on one or two shelves. It does not pay to dry lima beans or in fact any of the bean family. These are such staple articles that they can be bought cheaply enough to make it unnecessary to do the drying at home. But peaches, pears and other small fruits should be dried if there is not space or equipment for canning. Dried tomatoes also are a great convenience, taking up space than the cans, and yielding much berries, apricots, less more pulp and flavor at a smaller price. The Italians have long had dried omatoes, but the article is still more of a rarity with the American families. Their method is to stew fresh tomatoes very slowly without any water being This is done until most of the water content of the vege- tabels has and only the pulp remains in the saucepan. This must be stirred frequently, of course, to prevent burning, and should simmer over a slow flame very gently. Final- ly, the pulp is squeezed through a col- ander, the liquid being used for soup making or other immediate purposes. The pulp is spread out on boards and left to dry in the sunshine. When perfectly dry these strips of tomatoes are packed tightly in jars or crocks and sealed. Thus they keep indefinite- y, and one or two tablespoonfuls will added whatever. evaporated eason as richly as a small can of tomatoes. For drying berries, be sure to use nly the good ripe ones. Spread three ayers on a baking. tin and place on back of the stove or leave in a slow oven until the scalding point is reached. Then leave in a warm place to let the moisture evaporate slowly. This mav .xe from 36 to 48 Then replace all the berries in a hot This is simply done to sterilize completely. Pack tightly in small pails or tins and cover the top of the can with everal thicknesses of newspaper be- fore clambink on the lid. It should, of course, be tightly sealed. Spinach, string other available vegetables may be left hours. beans and many to dry in a slow oven, but always there should be only enough heat to dry them slowly-—not sufficient to burn or start cooking. During the heating pro- cess the fruit or vegetables should be watched and stirred occasionally. By writing to the Agriculture at Washington you obtain complete information in letin No. 341 called “Drying and Vegetables in the Recipes for Cooking Appended.” Department of may Bul- Fruits Home with APPLES PLENTIFUL; NOW FOR JELLIES With enough apples in sight this year for everybody in the United States to have almost a bushel each, housewives can plan on putting up a plentiful supply of apple jelly and apple butter, Not only is there an unusually heavy crop forecast (the De- partment of Agriculture estimates it at 97,764,000 bushels) but a shortage of barrels will prevent the usual quan- tity of apples from going into cold storage. This will probably result in nore apples going on the market as they are picked, thus lowering the price. In some apple producing cen- ters, growers are offered only 40 cents a bushel. At such prices, housewives will be able to preserve apples this fall in large quantities. Apples are one of the most desirable fruits for jelly-making. Crab apple jelly is always a favorite dish and ~r varieties make jelly which may “ vored with other fruits or spices. If the apples are acid it is not neces- sary to use any flavoring. To make jelly that will not crystallize, the right proportion of sugar must be added to the fruit juice. Another condiment is apple butter. This is made a little later in the apple season when farmers begin to make cider. It can easily be made at home by boiling cider and ground apples with the proper amount of sugar. IMPH “You hay nents in { «f have, son. “And + about the “So far, rather hy quite free Hunting a New Position There is a right way and a wrong way to go about everything and the girl who goes out to hunt a new posi- tion should go about it in the right way if she expects to be successful. First of all, do not go hunting new employment late in the afternoon or when you are tired. The affairs of that day and the fatigue are sure to be reflected in your manner, and you will not appear at your best or be able to convince the new employer of your true ability. The newspapers ideas for the something offer no end of girl who wants to do different or improve the line she already follows. Advertise- ments to the girl who wants to £20 ahead, but sometimes the best oppor- tunities are not advertised and are found only through a friend or the employment agencies, so that it is well to register in several places and give a full history of your ability. Very often a girl who has followed one spe- cial line of work for some time hesi- tates to branch out in those sister de- partments which demand special work along that particular line and fail to mention their ability to do this work at the time they register. If all the various lines of work and the special training to each girl is recorded the unusual position is surer to find its way to you than if you simply register as a clerk or stenographer. In paying off who was going a very efficient girl to a better position “You know, Miss Brown, if you had told me when you came that you could do this work I would have paid much but you were not sure ,and, of course, your word.” That girl the statement, and since hen has always thought out carefully all the possible work she could do efore starting and then, when uestioned, answered firmly and cer- tainly every question. The result has been that instead of taking small tasks to do with small pay, she has steadily climbed upward, taking on more and more difficult work, and giving more satisfactory service. an employer remarked, you more, took you at ever forgot out, Most girls are afraid of themselves and hesitate to extol their own sibilities. Of course, there are some girls who do nothing but boast, and we all know they are usually the class who are constantly hunting a position because their last arge for them. They looked so much and thought so much of their perfectness that they failed utterly to realize that the employer did not see them with the same eyes. pos- new was too own There are a few girls dressed plain- ly and in such a manner as to make think of no special part of that dress but to remember only the gen- eral and suitability, with shoes blackeed and straight of heel, hair netted and not blowing heedless, hands neatly gloved, who are bound to attract the business man. Having been next at the eyes and much is determined by this Clear, yes convince the most prejudiced, for men of the paying giddy girls to adorn fices. They want ones later on to amuse them, but in the office, where much depends upon the mind and hands of the wants a girl emergency if necessary. one neatness attracted, he looks eature. strong wide-awake business world are not their of- these may giddy girls, he think in an And whose eyes are interested and awake have that which is so dependable in tests. who can the girl wide- is sure to quality As the girl talks to the possible em- ployer she gains alks to the point statements. An many points if she and evasive answer clear will make him suspicious of your ability makes a sure answer given without bravado feel and that you are worth his employing. causes him to sure of you Make up your mind what is a just and before the interview and state that salary without hesita- fair salary tion. It may seem strange, but it is often the case, that the girl who timidly suggests a low wage, fails to get the position where the girl who demands the larger salary gets it. There is a great deal of psychology in that—the girl with the timid wage makes the employer believe that she to offer ,something she is not sure of and would sell cheap; whereas, the other girl who states a larger wage and sticks to it is apt to give the impression of worth has a poor thing and ability. And, since he is looking for the best on the market, he em- ploys the girl at the larger salary. Of course, the girl who is just start- ing out must expect to take time to adjust herself—to find her place, and she cannot expect to receive large salaries until she has become accus- tomed to the business world. The new position should not be picked for just a moment, but with careful thought ag.io what the work will do fog HoT as well as what the girl can dq for it. She must not work blindly asf someththing which means oniy wastd hours. Each task should ce toward training to bet- And we often wonder just sd hours are. are to be used to carry eceived recently in hb Near East Relief. bunds to American relief the interior of Syria who een heard from for more hth, according to a cable New Porter Wins The mayor of Riverside has beem ‘e-elected to office. And it is a strange case. In the betting ring the odds would have been 1000 to 1 against him. This mayor presided over the town f Riverside during the “flu” epidemic, says the Los Angeles Times. In order to set up an additional preventive against the spread of the disease he issued an edict that there should be no kissing in that town. He made it unlawful for a man to kiss his own wife. You “wouldnt dast’ kiss the prettiest girl in Riverside, and that’s a big word, for Riverside is just liter- ally jammed with pretty girls, If you were to see the prettiest girl n Riverside you would risk the “flu,” lumbago, mumps, Charley horse and every other misery to kiss her. You | would walk a tight rope across Niagara , Falls on a windy day to do it. But, if you did, and it was when the “flu” was rampaging around there, Mayor Porter's policeman would slam you into the calaboose and all the lawyers in California couldn’t get you out. “This is the last time he will ever be Mayor,” was what they all said. And certainly it looked like it. Every- body was mad. Yet, here comes along another elec- tion, and there is the honorable mayor just where he was, booked for anothex term, his same old chair waiting nice and cozy for him in the city hall. It is indeed a true saving that poli- tics is like a cat. “No one can tell which it will jump. But there must be something than that back of the Mayor Porter. There must be something un usual aboutthe man himslf. way more re-eleition of The Latest Gossip Among the Vitamines Every month we have a few more disconcerting facts about the vitamine. Yor example: A fresh young carrot has over three times as much antis corbutic vitamine as a fresh but old arrot. Both the age and the methoa of cooking a food may have much effect on this valuable food item. Dried milks keep their vitamine value and may be used for children if yrange juice is fed . Condensed milk, on the other hand, supplies very lit tle antiscorbutic. Potatoes may or may not guard .gainst scurvy, according to how they are cooked and how much is eaten. It is “thumbs down” for the boiled potato, especially with the skin off. Too high temperatures and too long death to the vitamine that may, however, cooking under less strenuous conditions. For example, of four pigeons on the same ration of corn and barley and peas, the cooking are survive two whose food was heated in a pres- sure cooker at 15 pounds pressure for 25 hours died in 40 days, but the two min- utes were doing well after 280 days. whose food was heated only 35 There is nothing momentous about ritamines. Each little vitamine has habits of its own. Glittering generali- ties are their abhorrence. And fur- food varies not nly with age and the treatment it has with its production— with the soil and thermore the same received, but vegetables animal ood with feeding of the animal. But- erfat, the great purveyor of growth- promoting vitamines, varies in this ‘egard with the feeding of the cow, ym standing, and on pasturization. The humble cabbage eaten raw, car- ots, fresh milk and yeast are all no- table “protective foods.” Our scientists are hot sources of these ? on the rail of the vitamine, but the end is not ret, not apparently for a long time yet. All this appears from the work of Marguerite Davis of the Home Eco- nomics Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, as set forth in a recent wumber of the Journal of Home Eco- nomics. John E. McDougald of the San Francisco treasury department will use an airplane for taking the payroll from City Hall up the Sierras, from the different various tunnelmouths, mills and dam sites, as well as to the men at outlying points at Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy proper. It is a long journey by boat, train and motor, but an airplane can go and re- turn in a day. Treasurer journey locations at the saw- To Help Business Use New Discoveries Commercial and industrial concerns will be helped to apply new processes and discoveries of chemists in the United States Department of Agricul- ture by an Office of Work just created by the Secretary of Agriculture in the Bureau of Chemis- iry. The staff of the new service will be made up of engineers rather than David J. Price, chief engi- neer in the dust explosion investiga- tions conducted by the department, will be in charge of the new work. Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, in a letter to the Secretary stated that such a service is urgently needed to translate the work of the Bureau into terms that could be understood and applied by the manufacturer and investor. Every year valuable discoveries are made concerning the utilization of manufac- Development chemists. turing waste, or a new food is found, Put one hundred men on an island where fish is a staple article of sus- tenance. Twenty-five of the men catch fish, Twenty-five others clean the fish. Twenty-five hunt friut and vege- tables. The entire company eats wha thus is gathered and prepared. So long as everybody works there is plenty. All hands are happy. Ten of the allotted fish stop catching fish. catchers Ten more dry the hide part of the fish they catch. Five continue to catch fish, but Pr: only part of the day at it. Fewer fish go into the kitchen. But the same numb 1pon having the sam to eat as they had t The fifty men who and cooked the fish owing to the under sup they continue to dema Gradually greater bt upon the fruit and ves They upon a rr fish in return for in gathering fruit anc is denied them the twenty-five and vegetables. But the of men insist nt of fish cleaned 8s to do fish. But laid e hunters. share of arger efforts vegetables It soon twenty of gathering fruit are insist and quit entire one hundred men continue to insist upon their right to eat. The shrinks. daily food The man supply gradually with two fish de- mands three bananas in exchange for one of them. The man with two bananas refuses to part with one for fewer than three fish. IYinally the ten men work quit in disgust. Everybody con- tinues to The hidden fish are brought to light and consumed. Comes a day when there is no food of any kind. Everybody on the island blames everybody else. remaining at eat. What would seem to be the solution? Exactly! We thought you would guess taht give repeat steal, For we you can’t eat, buy, away, hoard, wear, use, play with or gamble with WHAT ISN'T. sell, History of a Button The demands of today are trivial and unworthy of the talent inherent in the agle fingers of the Japanese people, say the author of an article on Japanese Woodcarvers in “Asia” for July. Many wood carvers have turned to makng netsuke. Netsuke are the little buttons of carved wood or ivory fastened by a cord to the tobacco punch and the pipe case to prevent them from slipping through the sash. A whole school of netsuke carvers sprung up at the end of the seventeenth century, and it has been the ambition of every Japanese gen- tleman from that time to tkis to fasten his tobacco outfit by a netsuke that bears the name of artist. a celebrated The descendants of Unkel have de- voted themselves to art in miniature, but they have drawn from the whole world for their tiny buttons. history, and humerous inei- dents of daily life all furnish material or the netsuke carver. Religion, folklore Many of the woodcarvers have today gone into the field of ivory-carving, he foreign market. These ivory carv- ings are for the most part intricate nd photographie, lacking the genius that illuminated all the carvings of Japan. Still others become sculptors of the ultra-modern school. They have studied in Europe and work in well They often do esting work, but th imitation of the ot enough derived native sources to place the principally for great wood- have marble and bronze, as as wood. inter- much and from stamp of their work. will reeis too western models inspiration eal achievement on It is a phase that The art instinct is pass. too deeply rooted in Japanese national life not to find ade- quate expression in and pessimestic enough to believe that ma- chinery and all the some permanent worth while form—unless one is by-products of modern industrialism have set thei death mark on Japan's artistic door. or a new dye, glue or preservative. Without fice such as is now provided the value the service of a business of- of these dscoveries is greatly reduced through the present his proposition in terms which discoverer’s inability to the business man can understand, and the public runs the risk of losing a much-needed material. Under the new organization the engineers will look after the product as soon as it has beyond an experimental or laboratory stage and will prepare esti- mates for the manufacturers. Mr. furnish data upon raw material supply, uses to passed the convenience of associates will Price and his and the adopted—in cost of production, which the product is hort, they provide an unbiased prac- tical prospectus to show the public ex- actly what may be expected from the new material or process on a quantity- production scale. It is believed ii» co-operation will develop many ne: glected sources of public and private profit. Ea Spanish immigrants have been con ing to this country in large numbe with the object of taking up farming The United States holds $58,00 000 of Polish bonds, taken in exchan for food, clothing, arms and equ ment.
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