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.
An ounce of asbestos can be spun
into a string more than a hundred
yards long.
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| Drying Fruits
and Veg. “les
Dried fruits and vegetables, in
greater quantities since the ising
prize of sugar made canning an, ex-
persive matter have proved that
retain their native flavor as
well as the canned article. 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.
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nents in {
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son.
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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.