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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1919)
I THE STREET WAIF ~ Black thy face—rough thy head, Soiled thy garb of faded red, Looks like mother you have none— Poor little boy, where has she gone? In the street the live-long day, I have watched you ran and play, None to call you, none to care, Wash thy face, or comb thy hair, All untamed, unmannered, wild, You I pity, little child! Yet, who knows? Some power may! Take a hold of you some day, Whisper something in thine ear, That will rouse thy soul to hear; Fix a vision for thine eyes, Choose a pathway for thy feet, That will lead to some high seat, Where upon Achievement’s slope, You’ll shine a star. Oh, yes, there’s hope! —Roscoe C. Jamison. MDBF3 EVENING F3 FAIRY IME 01 6yT\KBX 6RAJ1AM BONNER » ^ v e*.autmoh. N CATCH-FLY TALKS. “You’re such a sticky flower,” said I the mignonette one bright morning. agreed the catch “You don’t seem i to object,” said the mignonette, in a very surprised flower tone of voice. "I don’t object,” answered the catch-fly, “I don’t object in the “But maybe you are Just trying to make the best of your lot In life, j It’s a very wise thing to do. and I admire you for It, It Was Much Loved ,lUt af the same in the Garden. tlme j can’t quite see why you don’t [ object to being so very sticky." Now the mignonette flower was very pretty. It was of a mixture of green and brown, and it was so very fragrant and old-fashioned that It was much loved in the garden. But the catch-fly was also very pret ty. Some of Its relations were pink and some lavender. This one was a very pretty shade of purple. It was quite, quite sticky, and so were all the catch-fly cousins, for as you may have been able to guess, it was a flow er which caught flies. That was why it was sticky, for flies like SL'cky things—that is, until they are caught—and flies should be caught because they are not healthy. It’s never right to torture flies, but still we mustn’t make favorites of them, for they carry a great deal of sickness around with them. “I am not trying to make the best of my lot in life,” said the catch-fly. “And what Is more. I haven’t a lot. I am in a flower bed. So far ns I can see, you haven’t a lot either, Miss Mig nonette.” “I meant that you were satisfied with your conditions, and by conditions I meant your name, your home, your stickiness. I presume you are satis fied, aren’t you?" “Of course,” said the catch-fly. “Why shouldn’t I be?” “Well,” said the mignonette, “I can’t Imagine everyone ca;ing to be sticky. It's not usually what people or flowers or creatures want to he." “Then I’m not usual,” said the catch-flv. "And for that I am very thankful.” "Ah, but aren’t you sometimes, once In a while perhaps, very sad to think that you are always, always sticky?" “I am not,” snld the catch-fly. “Don’t you fee! badly, now and again,” continued the mignonette, “that even when you are given a beautiful bath from the watering-pot or the hose or the rain that you still remain sticky?” “It doesn’t bother me In the least." “But mothers are always colling to their children and telling them they must wash their sticky hands. It’s not supposed to be nice to be sticky.” “My dear Mignonette,” said the catch-fly, “you really are getting your self quite excited over nothing at all. In the first place, I am supposed to be sticky. I like drinks of water, too, Just as all flowers do. But I don’t expect to be made less sticky by water as the hands of children will be made when washed. “It Is always well to he what one Is supposed to be. What It I pretend ed I didn't care to be known as the catch-fly, and wanted folks to think I was a mignonette, they’d soon find out when they touched me what I was, for I couldn’t ..lunge my nature. “It’s as well to he oneself and not pretend to be something else. That’s what I think. Besides. I have work to do.” “AVhnt is your work?" "My work is to catch flies. I get lit tle ones, very often, thnt harm plants, and sometimes I’ve been known to get a great big one. “I don't get ns many as I wnnt, hut I do my best. And that's all any flower enn do." “Weil, I admire you," said the mig nonette, ‘‘and sometimes I get annoyed with my self. I believe I'm a little envious of you, for you are the useful catch fly, while I am nothing hut the sweet m i g n o n - 3oth Were picked Ptte ” by a Little Girl, “It’s fine to be sweet, too," said the catch-fly. “Just make up your mind you’re glad you’re yourself, and after a time you’ll find you’re very, very thankful you’re not any other flower or creature, with all its troubles.” “I’ll remember,” said the mignon ette. And just at thnt moment both fevers were picked by a little girl with yellow curls, who said that she loved the dear catch-fly and mignonette flow ers. EARNED LOVE OF ALL HER “BOYS” Mother Bickerdyke Real Angel ol Me<-cy to the Wounded Soldiers of the Armies of Both the North and South. nOULD you like to hear more about Mother Bickerdyke. now that you know she was “the soldiers’ friend" during the Civil war? “That homely figure clad In calico, wrapped In a shawl and surmounted with a Shaker bon net," was beloved by the whole Union army. The soldiers saluted Mothei Bickerdyke ns she passed by, and shs was especially honored and respectef by General Sherman, who. In return, was her ideal of all that a man and soldier should be. Here are som« stories told by those who knew her: At Chattanooga Mother Blckerdyk< had a field hospital where, over hugt log fires In the open air. with tin help of convalescent soldiers, she made great kettles of soup, tea, coffee and gruel, and cooked beef and mutton, and baked bread. Often the flying sparks set her dress afire, and the soldiers who were helping her would run “to put her out.” as she laughingly expressed It. “The bovs were all the time putting me out," she said, “and a dozen of ’em were grabbing me whenever I was cooking by the log fires, for the fire would snap and my clothes would catch.” Now, It hap pened that Mother Bickerdyke, clad in spark-burnt garments—all that she had—visited Chicago to procure sup plies for her “boys.” The ladles of the sanitary commission, seeing the condition that she was in, presented her with a box of clothes for her own use. But they did not know Mother Bickerdyke! Did she keep those clothes, when her "hoys" were starv ing? No! As soon ns she reached the South she traded those good garments for eggs, milk, honey, fruit and but ter. But not quite all the garments, for among them were two night dresses, very elegant, and embroid ered and belnced and befrilled. These she kept for herself, as they had been sent to her by friends. But as she was returning with her load of good things to eat, she came to a shanty In which were two soldiers just re leased from a hospital. Their wounds were open and undressed. They were starving, weuk. and completely dis couraged. and their shirts were dirty and ragged. Mother Bickerdyke im mediately washed their worn. Is and, Over Huge Log Fires in the Open Air, With the Aid of Convalescent Sol diers She Made Great Kettlea of Soup. tearing off the hems of those pre cious nightgowns, dressed and ban daged the wounds. But the men's shirts were too tom un i full of ver min to put on again "Here, boys.” she said, “put on file upper parts of these nightgowns. They’re Just the thing! My snkes! hut this Is lucky!" The boys, naturally protested loudly against having to meet their north ern friends In ruffles and lace, hut Mother Blekerdyke would not listen to them. As they were weak from sickness and hunger they had to sur render. and were soon meekly arrayed In embroidered lawn above which their unshaven fares grinned sheep ishly Bin -a reaelilng ihe North they refused in purl with ilie nightdresses. And *'i -i r " venrs since one of the giiriiH !■' • • I'"1 ' d ivtih Mother Bicker dykes ii- mi- v as kept by a Wiscon sin faintly as i war souvenir. They may have It still. General Grant was another ot Mother Bickerdyke’s Ideal soldiers She would never listen to a word Id Ids disfavor, and the general liked well her bluff honesty and her fear less devotion to the wounded soldier*. Mother Blekerdyke at one time hud charge of a hospital boat that con veyed the wounded from the battle ol Donelson to the hospital. When the surgeons brought the wounded on hoard they found comfortable beds ready, and tea, coffee, soup, gruel, and other foods waiting In great quanti ties, and Mother Blekerdyke, strong and sympathetic, ready to help In ev ery emergency. “I never saw any body like her,” said a surgeon who was with her on that boat. "There was really nothing for us surgeons to do but dress wounds and administer medicines. She drew out clean shirts or drawers from some corner when ever they were needed. Nourishment was ready for every man as soon ns he was brought on hoard. Every one was sponged from blood and frozen mire of the battlefield, as far as his condition allowed. « • • Incessant cries of 'Mother! Mother! Mother!' rang through the boat. • • • And to every man she turned with a heav enly tenderness, as If he were Indeed her son. She moved about with a de cisive air, and gave directions In such decided, clarion tones as to Insure prompt obedience. » • • To every surgeon who was superior she held herself subordinate, and was as good at obeying as at commanding." But It was not only to her ‘boys In blue" that Mother Blekerdyke gave her tenderest care. Whenever a wounded “boy in gray" was picked up on the battlefield and brought Into her hospital, she looked after him and comforted him as though h«, too, were her own son. And today veterans of both North and South who remember her faithful, loving service honor the name of “the soldiers’ friend.” There are 10.500.000 in this country who are not citizens, besides all those who never should have been accepted. • THE ■ d KITCHEN^-’ L CABINET It take* more than one fall to keep a determined man down, to have failed once doe* not make one a failure, to have strayed once cannot make one a lost *oul. POPULAR DISHES. The busy housewife with but one pair of hands at her command must do away with frills In cook ■ jj cry, no matter how much 'lie may enjoy them. A few minutes spent in ar ranging and garnishing a dish, however, Is nevei wasted effort. Carrot Pudding.—Take 1 one cupful of grated ear rot, one cupful of grated potato, one egg, one-half cupful ot sugar, one-half cupful of shortening, one-half cupful of raisins, one tea spoonful of soda and one cupful of flour. Steam one hour. Drop Doughnuts.—Take one-half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of milk, one and one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with one tea spoonful of baking Powder, one egg, n little salt, ginger and grated lemon rind. Beat the egg white stiff, then add the sugar grad ually, then add the beaten yolk, lemon rind, salt and ginger and milk with the flour. Itrop from a teaspoon Into hot fat and fry brown. Roll In pow dered sugar. Chocolate Cookies.—Cream half a cupful of shortening with one cupful of sugar, one egg. Add one-half cup ful of sour milk with one-half tea spoonful of soda, two squares of choco I late melted over hot water and one and one-half cupfuls of flour. A half cupful of nuts muy be added If de sired. Cover with a frosting, using one whole egg beaten, adding three cup fuls of confectioners’ sugar and three tablespoonfuls of cream. This frosting will keep for some time. But on the cookies when they are nearly cold. Cabbage Salad.—Shred very fine one small firm head of cabbage, add hall a cupful of chopped almonds that have been blanched, four or five ripe : bananas finely cut, mixed with a cup ful or more of thick sour cream. Sea son with salt, red pepper and paprika and add a dash of vinegar. If it Is not sufficiently acid. Mock Rabbit.—Take a pound each of corned bpef and veal, two onions and a green pepper; put all through the meat chopper, add three eggs and crumbs to rfiake a loaf. Blare In a baking pan with strips of bacon on top; bake three-quarters of an hour. 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