THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 191G.
Health
Hints
Fashions
's Work Household Topics
Woman
AC fiance in the World.
Opportunities Found by Those Who Seek Them
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
1 he picture of Opportunity knock
ing at the door has never appealed to
me very forcibly;- Real opportunity U
much more likely to be found by the
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man who seeki it than it is to go
about seeking the man!
The people who complain that they
might get ahead if they had a chance
in the world probably would not rec
ognize that chance if it stood full pan
oplied before them.
About the best means for making
opportunity is to perceive it. Some
times it lurks far in the distance, be
hind shifting clouds that hide it from
any but a keenly discerning eye, and
sometimes it lies at the end of tortu
ous paths to which only the most
earnest effort leads. '
Imagination is a wonderful force in
the life of anyone who longs for the
opportunity t6 get ahead in the world,
No great undertaking leaps to life in
one sweep of effort and is completed
in a moment. . , - .. , -
, Imagination that can visualize a
completed Panama canal or a finished
etching at the same time that it plans
out the concentrated effort to get
them done is of the sort that makes
for itself a place in the world.
Most of us abuse ourselves with
fairy tales all through life. Some of
us put ourselves to sleep at night with
little wonder stories of splendid
and beautiful things. Wonder tales
would not be wasted if instead of im
agining the things were coming to us
we were to figure out ways of going
to get theml ,
Imagination of a sane, constructive
sort demands effort of a like type, and
when you harness the two your sue
cess is a foregone conclusion.
Suppose you who read put my little
theory into practice for just one day.
Don't indulge in dav dreams about the
wonderful things which may be hirk-i
ing just around the corner, but instead
march just around the corner and see
what little thread or clue you can find
leading to success.
We nave all heard about the western
girl who has made a tremendous -success
catching butterflies for collec
tors', a number of people have made
splendid livelihoods by cultivating nut
trees in soil where those never grew
before. Chicken farming, vegetable
raising and all sorts of tasks so simple
as to be unusual have netted ample
support for people who have an imag
ination that can conceive of tasks
other than conventional desk posi
tions'. - - ..'
Have you some clever idea that can
be turned into a marketable coinmo.
dityf Do you see a place where the
methods of your business office might
be improved? Have you a littre spare
time in which you can do some simple
task that will net you pin money
Bring your imagination to bear on
a practical use of your abilities. Out
of cookies better than "mother used
to make," and home-made marmalade
and delicious pickles, three well-bred
women, quite untrained to work, have
recently built three separate thriving
industries.
Never could they have done this if
they had not possessed the imagina
tion to see their chance in the world
and the grit and determination to go
after it
If you wait to fall into luck you are
likely to fall into nothing more than
evil ways and the ill luck of conduct
ing your life badly. If you visualize
your chance and go after it, it may
elude you for time, but in the end
you must necessarily achieve.
A chance m the world is a matter
Conquering a Devil Fish
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In the American Museum of Na
tional History you will soon be able
to see a model of a monster "devil
fish," cast from plaster of parts
molds of the great creature, which
was conquered and killed by Russell
J. Coles, in a terrific fight, about a
mile .from Sanibel Island, off the gulf
coast of Florida.
Mr. Coles fitted out an expedition
for the express purpose of obtaining
for the museum a superlative speci
men of this kind of marine monster,
and he and his crew risked their lives
in as strange a battle between man
and beast as has ever been recorded
The description ofx it would have
made Victor Hugo's electric chevel
ure bristle with extra fierceness.
The "devil fish" (Manta birostris,
as the zoologists call him with
Ciceronian grandiloquence), is not the
giant octopus, the eight-anned horror
of the seas, although that, too, often
bears the same Satanic cognomen, but
it is the biggest and most voracious
of the creatures named "rays," whose
description in books of zoology may
make sensitive readers shudder.
Its general form is that of a lozenge-shaped
disk, with a cartilaginous
skull, an enormous mouth, lidless
eyes, a long tail like a whip, and, most
dreadful of all, a pair of huge, wing
like flaps at the sides of its flat body,
with which it envelopes its prey, in a
mucilaginous embrace before thrust
ing it into the vast horizontal mouth
that resembles a broad entrance to a
low cavern.
On each side of the great mouth
is a flexible horn," which can be
rolled up when not in use. to sweep
of th mind that conceives and then U00(l int0. the S"llet- A full-grown
manta the word means a mantle, a
living mantle may measure twenty
five feet from tip to tip of its side
flap. The one killed by Mr. Coles
measured eighteen feet.
These creatures' will eat a man, if
they can get him, with as little-compunction
as we feel in eating a
chicken or swallowing an oyster.
They will, on occasion, drag down
a boat wtih their sticky flaps, and
they will "fight like the devil." Mr.
Coles says he has found that "both
sharks and rays sometimes continue
fighting long after both brain and
heart have been pierced by lancel and
bullet, but that death is instantaneous
when the spinal' cord is severed at a
certain spot just back of the brain."
So human intelligence has worked
out a physiological fact which the
sand-wasps know by instinct, and ap
plies with scientific coolness to un
fortunate spiders. Only the wasp's
instinct is superior to the man's in
telligence, since it makes the stab in
such a way that the motionlessnest
and helplessness of death are obtained
without its real presence.
In preparation for his great fight,
Mr. Coles secured a special "spade
lance," with a keen-edged blade four
inches broad. But in the struggle,
when it came, the handle of this lance
was broken off in the first rush of the
mighty manta fish, and Mr.
Cores .had to achieve his victory
with an ordinary whalc-lance and
twenty-three, thrusts, every one of
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This drawing by Albert Operti shows the relative dimensions of both
fish and men. The wounded fish, in its rush to the surface, finds the boat
on its back; each man is in his appointed place, and the lance is about to be
planted. -
urflirh wnr firim and all 'nf
which together took twenty-two min
utes of breathless fighting.
The victors had a gasoline launch,
twenty-six feet long, with an eight
horsepower engine. As Mr. Coles
remarks (and this is not by any
means his first devil-fish"): "To kill
a manta perfect handling of the boat
is necessary, and a proper crew is
the first consideration in eauiooinE
an expedition." This seems to us as
sound as z mathematical axiom, after
reading his story in the Museum
Journal. ; .
mere were six men in the crew,
including Mr. Coles. He held the
first harpoon, intended to catch and
hold the fish for the lance; Captain
Willis stood forward at his side with
an auxiliary harpoon, Captain- Mc
Cann steered the boat, a fourth man
was ready to throw overboard the
drag sttached to the harpoon and
then to put the lance into Mr. Cole's
hand. A fifth ran the gasoline engine
and the sixth had a bucket ready to
bail out the boat.
Everyone was trained to work like
a cogwheel in a clock. They ran into
a school of manta fish. They got a
foretaste by running straight into the
head of a big bull manta. The colli
sion lifted the bow a foot out of
water, and the propeller forced the
boat right up on the creature's back,
while "the two great, black fins were
flung madly into the air, almost meet
ing over our heads and deluging us
with many gallons of water."
Another manta, rushing out of the
depths, gave the boat a blow that
turned it nearly end for end. The
engineer kept the engine going at
full speed, but the propeller blades
were not catching the water now, and
for a short distance' we' were carried
Sandwich Filling
It is claimed that one Lord Sand
wich was the first to conceive the idea
of placing a slice of boiled ham' be
tween two slices of bread. Whoever
it was that popularized the sandwich
idea waa a public benefactor. Since
the introduction of the sairdwich there
have been many departures from the
ham as a filler, although it still holds
the lead.
Cut bread for all sandwiches thin,
trim off the crust and shape as .de
sired. Spread one slice . with high
grade oleomargarine, the other with
the filling. Fit the slices together, cut
sandwich in two and wrap each sand
wich in waxed paper.
Cream Cheese.
Work the very best creamery cheese
smooth with a fork, season with pre
pared mustard. Reduce to a paste
with vinegar and spread.
Melted Cheese.
Melt one teaspoon butter: add a
cup of cheese chopped or sliced, one-
tourth teaspoon ot paprika, one
fourth teaspoon of mustard and a few
grains of cayenne. When the cheese
is melted and smooth, stir in the volks
of two eggs well beaten, to which a
cup of thin cream has been added, and
salt to taste. Pour in shallow dish to
cool and f.erve cold between slices, of
Duuercu wnue oreau. . ;
Sausage.
A highly nutritious filler is any one
of the numerous dry sausages now on
the market The sausages must be
sliced very thin and it nice on some
of the heavier breads. , .
Pork Sausage. .
Fry sausage until brown, cool and
mix with sweet peppers or chopped
pickles spread for sandwich. Cover
with lettuce leaf and add' buttered
slice of bread. v .
-. Salad Sandwiches. ' -
Any cold cooked meat or reliable
canned meat mar be chopped and
mixed with celery, cabbage or cucum
ber seasoned to taste, mixed with a
mayonnaise dressing and put with a
lettuce leaf between slices of bread.
on the broad backs of the two mon
ster devils of the sea.
Not a harpoon had yet been
throwt). This was only an incidental
skirmish, for Mr. Coles was looking
for still larger game. Other mantas
made their appearance. After cruis-
intr among them for two hours Mr.
Cole at last selected his intended vic
tim.
. Running alongside two harpoons
were flung into the creature's side
and the drag kept it from running
away. Then began the real fight. The
big manta charged the boat Mr. Coles
met it with a thrust of the
soade-lance. The blow was not mor
tal and the manta passed under the
boat, breaking off the handle of the
lance. Mr. Loles seized a whale
lance, and renewed the battle as the
manta rushed aeain at the boat. Then
he saw that the safest place would be
on the creatures back.
So well was the steering done that
every time the manta plunged a short
distance and was brought up by the
pull of the drag the boat was squarely
on its back.
Every time the great fish rose Mr.
Coles plunged the iance into it The
victim was a female and its mate
was at hand helping with an occa
sional head-on blow that nearly cap
sized the boat, but at last the strick
en creature turned over dead. When
they got to the beach they saw on
the surface of the water where the
fight had raged a dark-red patch two
acres in extent, with thirty pelicans
hovering over it and diving for the
small fish that had collected there, as
vultures assemble on a battlefield.
When the huge model is ready to
be seen in the museum you can re
call as you look at it this story of a
sea fight. i
Summer Styles
Black and white were never so
smart as now.
Various shades of brown promise
to be popular this tall.
The rather 1 severe waists are used
for sports and country wear.
Large quaint brooches are being
worn with the new neckwear.
Brassieres are more closely fitted
than ever and more elaborate.
Snake or asp rings set with semi
precious stones are very popular.
Striped or plaided collars and cuffs
appear on pongee-coiorea oust coats.
.Collars are very ample, some of
them extending almost to tne waist
All-white skirts, like all-white
dresses, are more than ever in favor.
Painted white kid and navy taffeta
make a pretty combination for a
handbag. ,
Broad sailor hats of silk beaver are
one of the latest millinery wrinkles.
There is quite a wonderful range of
yellows among the tasnionaoie colors
of gloves. : v
There is an almost unlimited num
ber of combinations that can be used
for cotton frocks.. . - .
The frill of a white batiste blouse
may be edged with white, rose or Co
penhagen linen, - '
Miniature birds travel in procession
around the crowns of some of the
new sailor hats.
The smartest evening gown a wom
an can have is made of some sheer
black material.
The balloon skirt is tosing ground
and we may expect the limp frock
to be the fashion very soon.
The three or two-piece suits are
more favored by the fastidious wom
an than the one-piece gown.
A novel trick is the use of black or
colored velvet ribbon stitched on
frocks of .handkerchief linen. .
Many changes in the appearance of
a gown can be effected by varying
the neckwear which is worn with it
Shortcakes
At Their Best
Berry shortcakes form a delicious
and tempting dessert for the .warm-
weather menu. The suggestions here
offered for preparing them in appe
tizing forms will doubtless prove de
cided novelties to the average house
keeper. , ', '
The evolution of the shortcake has
brought into existence a dish very dif
ferent from that made with the simple
biscuit crust and layers of luscious.
crimson fruit. The genuine shortcake
of olden times is1 seldom seen nowa
days.
Perhaps the best shortcake was
made by the famous old colored cooks
of the south, whose very name; is
now becoming a' tradition. Thrifty
New England housewives could sel
dom find "heart" to use enough of the
sweetest, best butter of the larder
with the liberality that the rich short
cake demands; though it is true that
they made a delicious . buttermilk
cake.
For a a-enuine southern shortcake,
take three cupfuls of flour, half a tea-
SDOonful of salt, two neaping tea-
spoonfuls of baking powder (or its
equivalent of baking soda and cream
of tartar), one-half cupful of the best
butter, and sufficient rich milk to
form a soft dough.. Sift the' baking
powder, salt and flour together; rub
thr butter in with the finger tips, and
add the milk. Work quickly, handling
the dough s little as possible, koii
into a thin sheet and bake in a round
greased pan in a very quick oven.
(Brush over with melted butter before
nutting into the oven, so that the
crust will not harden.) While the
cake is baking, take two boxes ot ber
ries, hull them and divide the larger
fruit from the smaller. Slightly crush
the smaller fruit and sprinkle liberally
with oowdered sugar., when tne cake
is removed from the oven, allow it to
cool slightly, then split open, spread
with softened butter, and cover with
a layer of the large berries. Dust,
with powdered sugar; pour over nan
the crushed fruit and syrup, place
the UDoer half of the cake on top,
and pour over the rest of the fruit.
Have the oven moaerateiy warm,
place the cake in it for four or five
minutes, and send to the table cov
ered with powdered sugar. This cake,
warm and fresh, eaten witn tne ac
companiment of thick cream, will
linger long in tne memory ot tnose
fortunate enough to partake of it.
There is a French berry cake which
somewhat resembles a charlotte russe
to which strawberries or orner iruu
have been added as an after-thought.
It consists of layers of delicate, fresh
sponge cake, put together with layers
of sweetened whipped cream and ber
ries. It is very easily made. First
prepare the sponge cake. As the
sweetened berries and cream are rich
themselves, a rather plain water
sponge cake is generally preferred.
The following will be found an ex
cellent formula:
The ingredients required, are four
eggs, half the weight of the eggs in
sifted flour, the same" weight as the
eggs in sugar, the juice and grated rind
of half a lemon, and two tablespoon
fuls of water. After weighing the
flour and sugar, separate the eggs.
Beat the. yolks and sugar together un
til very light; add the lemon and
water with half the flour, which has
been previously sifted three times.
Beat the whites of the eggs until they
will stand alone; add half of them to
the' cake batter; add the rest of the
flour and lastly, fold in the rest of
the whites. Pour into two ungreased
layer-cake pans and bake in a mod
erate oven. As soon as the layers
have cooled, spread with sweetened
whipped cream to the depth of half
an inch and cover each layer with
large, ripe berries. If the cream has
been sufficiently sweetened and the
fruit is ripe and fairly sweet, no ad
ditional sugar will be required.
To prepare whipped cream for
shortcake, the housewife must re
member that thick, or "double-thick"
cream, as it is called, is required and
that it must be thoroughly chilled be
fore it is whipped. A -pint ot cream
increases to quite double its bulk
when whiDoed. and a large bowl or
cream-whip utensil should be used for
whipping. Begin by beating slowly,
and increase the swiftness ot tne
stroke as the cream begins to thicken.
Do not beat too long or too vigor
ously, for such beating may result
in a pat of unsalted butter instead ot
a tempting bowl of whipped cream.
Still another variety of cake is made
from any good plain or cup-cake bat
ter, baked in layers, as in the previous
recipe. The filling is composed of
berries and powdered sugar, and the
too layer is covered with a meringue
made from the stiffly whipped whites
of two eggs, beaten with two table
spoonfuls of powdered sugar. . Return
the cake to a very moderate oven
for the meringue to Drown lightly and
serve cold, with thick chilled cream.
For most of the cakes . mentioned.
with the exception of the first one,
one quart ot berries will be sufficient;
and the amount of sugar used in con
nection with them must of course be
determined by. the acidity of the
frtrit Virginia C Lee in Mothers'
Magazine.
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
- Ten Mar Haw Taa FmI.
IXar MlM Falrfai: I have known a youns
ladr for thre yaro and hnvo booomo
sroatlr attach,! to her. Roconllr h toned
If 1 eared to aavo her oovor her frlondshlpa
with other men. I replied In the negative,
adding, of course, "I don't want you tA so
to cabmreti with them." She hai told me
that she lovee me, end to all apnearanoes
he doee, hut 1 wonld like to know If ahe
should not. of her own accord, dlepenee with
danclos. for 1 do not like ta have her fre
quent such plaeea. Would It be the beet
thins to tell her of, mr feellnroT Tell her
I dislike her acting thus? We are net en
gaged yet, but she has promised to marry
within th next alx montha r. A. j,
. I think you can rely on your 'own
judgment in this matter. You seem
to be sensible and dignified and en
tirely free from petty jealousy. Your
fiancee, for after all that is what this
girl is, even if you nave not made
your engagement public, really ought
not to gs about with other young
men, except in parties, groups of four
or more. Explain your feelings to
her and I am sure that since she vol
unteered to go so far as to give up
her friendship with other men she
will readily agree with you that she
ought not go about to public enter
tainments with them. ,
Vaccine for
Whooping Cough
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.
.Trivial as it sounds and seems, on
account of the many serious after
troubles in lungs, nervous system and
heart, to which it may lead, whoop
ing cough is a thing well worth keep-,
ing away from in the first place, and
of treatment with most watchful care
and oversight if it be caught The
little sufferer should be regarded as
an invalid, with air an invalid's priv
ileges and rights. The best and most
appetizing of food, vacation from
school, and all other duties; all the
sleep that he can take, and breakfast
in bed, and play either in the open
air or on a well-sheltered porch, all
the time that he is not sleeping or
eating.
' It is a peculiarly difficult disease to
either avoid or control for several
reasons.' One is its comparative light-
ness, seldom keeping its little victims
in bed for more than a day or so in
the earlier stages of the attack, often
not even that, so that it is hard to
make parents believe that it is worth
keeping children out of school for, or
even away from social gatherings of
other children.
Another is the length of time which
it takes the disease to develop to the
point where it can be clearly recog
nized. A child will be often sniffling
and moping and sneezing or coughing
slightly for a week or ten days or even
two "weeks before the irritation piles
up to the point of touching off a real
explosion, and, unfortunately, all this
early period is infectious. Finally, the
disease itself is one of the longest
winded of the little fevers. Never
less than six weeks, and often eight,
ten or even twelve, before the last
whoop has been whooped.
This makes it one of the most
troublesome of children's diseases for -both
v parents, health officers and
teachers, (and although most boards
of health make it a reportable disease
and-one which excludes children from
school, the practical difficulties in the
way of enforcing quarantine, in th
sense of confinement to the house
or even to the yard, of active, ener
getic youngsters, able arid eager tc
run about and play wtih their friends,
are so great as to be almost insuper
able. About the best that can be done if
to bring pressure to bear from both
ends, ' to warn parents of children
with the whooping cough and to see
that the school teacher or nurse
warns the children themselves of the
serious nature and danger of spread
ing the disease, and that if their chil
dren appear at school or in any pub
lic place or private house other than
their own, the parents will be sub
ject to prosecution and fined.
Secondly, to warn parents, teachers
and children who have not contracted
the disease, that the great danger is
in personal contact, such as swapping
pencils, or sticks of candy, or chewing
gum, with the children who have it,
and particularly of being coughed
upon by a child in one of its parox
ysms. If the affected children are
kept away from school and not al
lowed to go into private houses and
yards, as fortunately very few infec
tions are caught in the open air and
those only by direct personal contact,
a good deal can be done to lessen the
spread of the disease.
Our greatest hope and prayer, how
ever, is for the discovery of a vac
cine against the spread of the disease.
And when some three or four years
ago, after decades of fruitless search
and experimentation, two French bac
teriologists announced the discovery
of the germ of whooping cough, it
looked as if our prayers were about
to be answered. . .
This wretched little bug, called
from its discoverers the Bordet-Gengou
bacillus, has its special habitat
and spawning ground just under the
mucous lining of the windpipe in its
upper part, close below the larynx or
voice organ. And the irritation which
it produces by growing there in the
most ticklish part of the throat ex
plains the fury of the paroxysms of
coughing. Cultures were at once made
and vaccines of dead germs prepared
and while it is difficult to speak with
positiveness, because whooping cough
is an extremely "scattering" disease,
taking one and leaving another, and
seldom 'seizing more than about one
in three of the children exposed to
it, yet some very encouraging results
in the way of prevention have already ,
been secured.
One of the largest groups, cover
ing nearly 1,500 children, was in New
York City, in the children's hospitals
under the direction of the Board of
Health last year. Nearly 1,000 chil
dren who had been exposed to the
disease were given the vaccine and
their history followed up and com
pared with about the Same number
of exposed children, whose parents
either refused vaccination or for oth
er reasons did not receive it
The number of vaccinated children
who caught the disease was only
about one-fourth as large as of the un
vaccinated children who had been ex
posed to it. If we continue to get
results like this the prospects look
bright for stopping this great un
necessary suffering and pitiable
slaughter of the innocents, and sav-"
ing at least two-thirds of whooping
cough's yearly child-tribute of over
10,000 victims.
Do You Know That
Efficient muzzling of dogs wilt
eradicate rabies?
The protection of health of chil
dren is the first duty of the nation?
Bad temper is sometimes merely
a symptom of bad health?
Insanity costs every inhabitant
in the United States $1 per year?
The United States public health
service has proven that typhus is
spread by lice?
Untreated pelagra ends in in
sanity? -
In the lexicon of health there is
no such word aa "neutrality"
against disease?
The death rate of persons under
45 is decreasing; of those over 45
is increasing?
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