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    THE 8EMI.WEEKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH .PLATTE. NEBRASKA,
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KITCHEN
CABINET
Anybody can lead tho "simple life"
If ho lias plenty of money and nil tho
modern conveniences. It. W, Holms.
FOR THE WHEATLESS DAY.
There are many wnys of serving tho
ordinary cornmcal mush, but few real
ize tho variations
which may be cur
ried out with It.
Tho custom of
packing hasty pud
ding In granite for
molding, cutting In
slices, and frying
It, Is so well known
and practiced that
It iiced but be mentioned. A batter
pudding similar to Yorkshire, but pre
pared from cornmcal is frequently
served with roast pork. Put a cupful
of milk, a fourth of a cupful of corn
meltl and a half a teaspoonful of salt
in i double boiler until the milk nnd
meill has made a thick mixture. Cool
and stir in two well-beaten eggs.
Greuso the gem pan vell, allowing to
each pan a teaspoonful of the fat
from the roast. Hake In n moderate
nvon basting occasionally with the fat
from the roast.
Corn Mush With Fruit. Wnsh rais
ins, dates or figs, and dry In u slow
oven, This softens the fruit and drys
It on the outside. Add to the hot
mush nnd serve with sugar and cream.
There is no limit to tho amount of
cheese to be added, and It needs no
butter or cream to season It.
Buttermilk Cornmeal Mush. White
oornmeal cooked In buttermilk makes
a dish which resembles a cottage
chese In flavor. It may bo eaten hot.
but Js especially palatable served cold
with cream. In cooking, allow one
part of cornmeal to six parts of but
termilk and a teaspoonful of salt to
each cupful of cornmeal.
Cornmeal Mush With Pork. Cook
a pound of lean pork, part meat, part
bStie, In a little water until tho meat
muy be easily removed from tho bones.
Ilemovo the meat, cut In bits, cool tho
broth and remove the fat. Reduce the
broth to a quart, or add wnter to make
this amount, and cook a cupful of
cornmeal In It. Add the finely chop
ped meat, and senson well. Pack In
n granite pan to cool. Cut In slices
to fry. Beef or any kind of meat may
lie used In place of pork.
A cupful of soaked, shredded codfish
added to' mush and egg, nnd mado Into
balls, and fried In deep fat, takes tho
place of tho potato In tho balls. Use
two cupfuls of mush to one of codfish.
Observation more than books, experi
ence rather than persons, are the prize
educators. A. BronBon Alcott.
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR
BREAKFAST?
To most housekeepers the first meal
of the day presents tho most perplex
ing problems. Tho go
ing without breakfast
has much to recommend
It, it saves trouble, saves
food, and often saves a
few more minutes In bed,
which few of us need. As
the breakfast habit 1h
fairly well established In
most homes It behooves
us to start tho family
cheerily on Its way well
fed and happy. Tho average Ameri
can breakfast is a simple one, which
Is sensible, ns few people are hungry
In the morning nnd a hearty breakfast
Is unwise. It Is better far to par
take of a meal that has not overtaxed
the cook to prepare or the Individual
to digest. "No dinner however beau
tifully cooked nnd served, no fine rai
ment however costly and becomlug,
can over atone, In the memory of man,
for tho wild nnd untamed morning
which so often prevails In the Amer
ican household," says Olive Green.
The right kind of breakfast begins the
day before as all good meals do.
Corn meal mush fried In a little fat
Is going to bo very popular among our
patriotic families, It Is most nourish
ing, nnd will tako the place of bread
In n largo measure. By adding chop
ped meat to tho mush before
molding It to cut In slices, It becomes
still more valuable as food.
There Is no reason that tho morn
ing meal should not bo varied in its
menu,- us there nro countless ways of
nerving tho common things In uncom
mon wnys. A hot bread will tako the
place of tho toast, waffles nnd griddle
cakes are digested by the actlvo child
as well ns the older person, but arc
not wholesome for those who tuko lit
tle exercise. When one feels slug
gish and stupid an hour or two after
eating' breakfast It Is udvlsublo to
eliminate tho offending food. There
are those who Insist upon meat nnd
potatoes for breakfast, and If tho fam
ily nro active enough to digest such
food well, there should bo no reason to
change tho hrtblt, although wo all
know that meat once u day Is plenty
for health, and wo will bo richer In
purse as well as health to cat less of
the moro expensive protein foods.
As most people enjoy and nro able
to digest fruit well, a dish of season
able fruit Is always a good beginning.
A bit of bacon us un appellze.r, and
pome crisp, well-mado tonst to follow
n dish of cereal, a doughnut or a
cooky or two will bo sufficiently sat
isfying for roost people. Eggs und
iHB
omelet nro popular as breakfast
dishes, are quickly prepared, nnd
when the price Is not prohibitive, most
commonly served.
"Thoro Is no enrthly ailment but
somewhere God hath an herb for Us
healing," says a quaint writer. Tho
trouble Is that wo think tho herb has
a hard, foreign name. Wo seek it In
far lands, but at last, find It In our
own garden plot.
FIGS FOR DESSERT.
Figs nre ono of our most vnluablo
fruits and when reasonable In prlco
should often find n place
on our tables. As a con
fection those who nro
not distressed by tho
seeds, they are excellent,
especially so for pcoplo
of sedentary habits.
Stuffed Flos. Cut a
small slit in tho stem
end of ench fig and work
In two or moro blanched
nlmonds. Another mix
ture well liked is n mlxturo of almond
paste, walnut and hickory nuts, to
which has been ndded enough cream
or orange Juice to hold the mixture to
gether. A portion of the soft meat of
the fig is removed, using a- pointed
spoon or knife, nnd tho fig Is filled
with the paste. Press the opening to
gether and roll In grnnulnted sugar.
This combination will be found espe
cially delicious.
Figs cooked tender In boiling water
or fruit Juice, a little sugar added Jus!
at tho end of tho cooking, are good
served cold with cream. Figs with
lemon or orange Jelly nnd whipped
cream make a moro clnborato dessert.
Fig Whip. Cook four or five figs
until soft, then cut In small pieces.
Beat tho whites of five eggs until dry ;
gradually beat In three table-spoonfuls
of sugar and a half teaspoonful of
salt, then fold In the whites of tho
eggs and tho prepnred figs. Turn the
mixture Into n buttered pudding dish
and bake 25 minutes. Bake In a dish
of hot water with several folds of
paper under the baking dish. Two of
the yolks may be used with sugar and
a pint of milk. To make a custard to
eat with tho pudding, leaving three
yolks to use In some other dish.
Fig Paste. Chop very fine one
pound of figs nnd a half pound of nut
meats r a mixture of equal parts of
dates, tigs nnd nuts, mix thoroughly,
dredge a board with powdered sugar
and roll the mixture Into u sheet, cut
In squnres and roll In the sugar. These
may be dipped in chocolate, making a
most delicious confection. The pasto
may bo packed In layers, In powdered
sugar, In a tin box, kept In n cool
place for weeks.
Wo spend our days and dollars on
the clothes
Our homes and bodies wear.
And then' we pick up any sort of shab
by vulgar thing
To clothe our thoughts nlthough we
know
That matter Is lnforlor to mind
Although wo know that peace and
Joy
Depend upon our thoughts and their
expression.
PIES AND PASTRY.
Good pastry should bo flaky, deli
cate and rich enough to hold Its shape.
Pastry making Is
an art
never
with
hand.
nnd must
be mado
a heavy
Lard or
shortening
should be
uned
cold,
flour as well us
water, so that tho
crust will bo cold
when It goes Into the oven, giving It
moro opportunity for expansion. In
making pastry use six fablespoonfuls
of lnrd to a cupful and a half of flour,
a half teaspoonful of salt, and Just
enough cold wnter to handle and roll.
If tho fat Is cut In with two caso
knives Instead of being rubbed In with
tho fingers, the pastry will bo moro
flaky.
Sour Cream Pie. Mix together ono
cupful of sugnr, ono cupful of chopped
rnlslns, ono cupful of sour cream, and
one egg well beaten, one-half tea
spoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg,
nnd Bait, one-fourth of a teaspoonful
of cloves and a teaspoonful of vine
gar. Bake this filling In two crusts.
Pecan Pie. Cook In a double boiler
ono cupful of milk, und n cupful of
sugar. Thicken with one tablespoon
ful of flour and the yolks of two
eggs, add the Juice of a lemon. Bako
a crust as for lemon pie, and when
done fill with n custard, adding a linlf
cupful of peenn nut meats. Cover with
a meringue, using tho whites of the
eggs and brown In v. modernte oven.
Apple Custard Pie. Add a cupful
of sugar to n cupful of grattid apple,
two well-beaten eggs, ono cupful of
sweet cream, and tho grated rind of
n lemon. Pour Into n pnstry-llned tin
and bake.
Date and Apple Pie. Line a pie
plato with pastry and fill it with a
mixture of chopped dates und tart
apples. Sprinkle over tho fruit three
fourths of u cupful of sugar, a tea
spoonful of grated nutmeg, dot with
bits of butter and cover with an up
per crust. Bako 80 minutes and serve
cold with cream,
l SAVE F'ARM MACHINERY
! Word Is being sent out to
farmers over tho country to tako
speclnl pains this fall and winter
to protect their machines. Prices
hnvo advanced greatly, nnd caro
of farm machinery will pay dou
bly well this year. So tho word
la going out
To put machines under cover
ns soon as tho season's work
with them Is over.
To go over every mnchlno
carefully as soon as opportunity
will permit, tighten bolts, replac
ing broken parts, and oiling
carefully to prevent rusting.
To paint machines, as painting
lengthens tho life of n machine.
Brldgo pnlnt Is suggested as best
for Iron parts.
BENEFITS OF CHICK FEEDER
Advantages Claimed Are That Birds
Are Prevented From Overfeeding
and Crowding. f
The V-shaped bottom of this feed
hopper Is made of woven wire and
tho tray beneath Is shallow. Tho nd
vantages claimed for Ihls arrange-
Chick Feeder.
mcnt are that tho chicks nro provent
eed from overfeeding nnd crowding.
Wisconsin Agriculturist.
BEST PLACE FOR SEED CORN
Well Ventilated Room With Artificial
Heat, If Needed, Should Be Had
for Curing.
Word Is being sent to tho farmers
of Minnesota to take special pains In
drying nnd storing their seed corn this
fall. C. P. Bull, university farm, St.
Paul, secretary of the state commit
tee of food production nnd conserva
tion, says
"The amount of moisture to be re
moved from the corn this fall Is larger
than usual. A well ventilated room
with artificial -bout, If needed, should
ho provided for curing. Care should
bo taken, however, not to dry tho
corn too rapidly. Tho temperature of
tho drying room should be kept some
where between GO and 70 degrees. The
ears should bo hung up by tho double
string method or should bo put on
hangers or trees; it should not be
dumped in n pile In a bin.
"A double allowance, If It enn bo
had, should be .saved, In order to ad
mit of n more rigid selection next
spring.
"The present indications are that
there will be a good demand for seed
corn."
LAYING HENS REQUIRE LIME
'Shell Forming Material Necessary In
Egg Production Oyster Shell
Most Suitable.
Lime for sholl-formlug material Is
necessary In egg production. Some
Idea of tho extent of the need Is ob
tained from tho l'nct thnt an average
flock of 150 hens will produce 137
pounds of egg shells In n year. The
grains fed supply a portion of this
lime, but tho supply is too small In
proportion to tho number of eggs a
lien should be able to produce.
Oyster -shell Is most suitable for
shell making. Old plaster may bo used
as a substitute. Egg shell may be
saved, broken up lino nnd fed. Dry
bones may be broken up and fed. The
habit of egg callng often Is caused
by a luck of shell-forming food.
FEED AND WATER FOR COWS
Attention Should Be Given to Taste
and Needs of Each Individual
In Dairy Herd.
Do not feed tho dnlry herd as a
herd, for cows differ In their food re
quirements Just ns human beings do.
By feeding !11 cows In tho herd nllke,
some are sure not to get enough to
tho greatest profit and others will get
more thnn they can use to advantage.
Cows need much wnter and should
bo Induced to drink two or three times
u day If possible. Tho uverago milk
cow requires nearly 10 gallons of
water u day nnd moro thnn two-thirds
of thnt must come us drink und tho
balance from water In the feed.
WATER SUPPLY FOR POULTRY
In Winter It Will Be Necessary to Re
new Four or Five Times Daily
Use Common Utensils.
Tho hens need a good supply of
clean water, and In winter It will bo
necessary to renew tho water four or
live times a day. Thoro nro devices on
the market which Iho sellers profess
will keep tho water from freezing, but
at present poultry men, both large and
small, agree that tho best way Is to
put the water In ordinary utensils nnd
renew the supply with sufficient fre
quency to prevent tho birds going
thirsty.
ROUGHAGE FOR SHEEP
Legume Hays Stand at Foro
front in Feeding Value.
Not Only Is Timothy Unpalatable to
Animals, but It Causes Serious
Cases of Constipation Much
Grain Is Saved.
(Prepared by tho United States Depart
mont of Agriculture)
By using tho right kind of hny In
stead of grain, sheen can be wintered
succesfully and much grain saved for
otner purposes. Sheep rcqulro less
concentrated feed during tho winter
than other live stock. If thov nro
In good condition at tho beginning of
tno winter nnd If Inmbs are not ex
pected before tho snrlne nnstnros
on, tho grnlnlcss ration Is to bo ad
vised.
Legumo hays stand nt tho forefront
ns a roughage for sheep. No other
roughnges approach them in
values. Tho conrse-stemmed hays,
iiko ttmotny, red top and blue grass
have very few leaves nnd therefore
nro poor sheep feeds. Hays having
n large amount of timothy In them nl30
aro undesirable. Not only Is timo
thy unpalatable to the sheep, but it
causes serious cases of constlpntlon.
Tho dry timothy hends work Into tho
wool, cnuslng Irritation to tho skin,
lessening tho value of tho clip and
mnklng shearing difficult. When tim
othy or other coarse-stemmed hay Is
fed to sheep In winter quartern it be
comes necessury to use somo supple
mentary feed to keep tho sheep In con
dition. If any nonlegumo hny is fed, sup
plementary protein feed Is needed. Lin
seed meal Is good since In addition to
furnishing protein it counteracts tho
constipating effect of timothy hny.
From one-qunrter to one-half pound
of Unseed meal per ewe dally should
ho uged, depending ou tho size and
condition of the animal, and the other
feed used.
In nn experiment conducted nt tho
Missouri station nnd reported In bul
letin No. 120, the relntlvo values of
clover and timothy hays for wintering
ewes were determined.
Fifteen ewes fed 2.0 pounds timothy
hay and 0.85 pounds grain per head
dally lost 7.0 pounds ench during tho
snme time thnt another lot receiving
tho snme weight of groin und clover
hay gained 0.C pounds. Tho 14 ewes
fed clover hny dropped 10 strong
lnmbs, while those fed timothy drop
ped 11 strong nnd 5 weak lambs.
The lambs from tho ewes fed clover
hay gained more rapidly during tho
first 80 days than did those from tho
owes fed tlmotly hay.
WEIGHING DEVICE IS HANDY
Farmer Enabled to Read Record at
His Leisure and Comfort Bur
den Taken From Hands.
Many times fnrraers weigh heavy ar
ticles by holding tho scnlcs and their
load by ono or both hnnds, while try-
Weighing Convenience.
lug to read tho wavering record on the
face a burden at arms length. Note
tho easier way. As ono holds the
lover down he reads at leisure, and
with comfort, the weight which the
scales show. Tho "bean-nnd-pea"
scales can be used In tho sumo way,
Orange .Tudd Farmer.
MUCH INJURY IS DONE SOIL
Live Stock Crush Particles Together,
Drive Air Away and Induce For
mation of Clodo.
A groat Injury Is done every soil
when live stock Is given liberty nnd
freedom over It, and especially when
fall, winter and spring aro on with
wetness and cold. They crush tho soil
particles together, drive the air awuy,
Induce the formation of clods und
holes, and deaden tho soil nnd drive
llfo nway,
Cattle hnvo no place In fields, culti
vated or grass lands, when the soil
conditions nro such that they tramp
the fields. Place stock during such
periods In feeding lots.
TIME FOR MAKING REPAIRS
List of Jobs Required Should Bp Made
and Work Completed Before Cold
Weather Sets In.
Aro there repairs that ought to be
mado In the dairy barn before winter?
Better spend a half-hour making n
list of them ; and then fix each ono ns
quickly us possible. This will save
1 time and trouble later or,
rJvj&-i'
HAULING CROPS TO MARKET
Average Farmer Must Haul His Prod
ucU Six and One-Half Miles
Other Points.
Dow far must tho. nvcrago farmer
In tho United States haul his crop
to market? Exactly six nnd a half
miles, it can bo answered, for tho bu
reau of crop estimates of tho depart
mcnt of ngrlculturo has completed an
Inquiry Into tho whole matter of farm
hauling throughout the country. In
cldcntully, tho results of tho Inquiry
show that If only ono wagon wcro
nvallablo to haul crops it would re
quire nbout 15,747,000 days for It to
complete the Job for only tho mar
keted portion of three most prominent
farm products wheat, corn and cot
ton. The Investigation shows that It ro
qulros about half n tiny for tho aver
ngo fanner to mnko a round trip to
market, and about two-thirds of n day
on the average for tho farmers farth
est from market to mnko a similar
trip. That market distances aro grow
ing shorter Is shown by tho fact that
In 1000 It required almost 50 per cent
moro tlmo for tho average round trip.
Ono reason for the Improved condi
tions, It Is pointed out, Is thnt slnco
300(1 tho stemn railroad mlleago In
the United States has Increased 15 per
cent nnd that many now freight-carrying
electric lines have been built.
Another point brought out by tho
Inqry Is that there has been marked
Impiovcmcnt In public ronds since tho
Concrete Road In Mississippi.
bureau's Investigations In 1000, for
the size of tho average lond hauled
has nearly doubled slnco then. A day's
haul of wheat In 1000 was 50 bushelB;
now It Is 112 bushels. In 1000 1,700
pounds of cotton was hauled In a
day; now the average dnlly haul la
8,000 pounds.
Tho Inquiry developed tho fact thnt
tho loads hauled In the cotton country
nro tho smallest but tho most valu
able. Thus tho average value of n
load of cotton was found to bo .$183,
wheat ?43 and corn $28. Tho longest
haulfl wero found to bo In tho Itocky
mountain states, where Nevada holds
tho record with un average haul for
all .farmers of 18 miles. Tho shortest
.hauls wero shown to bo In the middle
West, Ohio nt tho bottom of tho list
with four miles.
BIG GOOD ROADS DIVIDENDS
Motorists of Massachusetts Spent $25,
000,000 Last Season, as Result
of Good Roads.
Motorists spcnfc$25,000,000 In Massa
chusetts last season, largely as a re
sult of tho good ronds of that state
Bather a fine dividend I
Great progress has been made In Im
proving the ronds In Minnesota, but
there are communities which ns yet,
apparently, see but ono side to the
good roads question, nnd that Is, cap
ital going out nnd no dividends com
ing back. While the returns from
motor trnvel uro Indirect, neverthe
less they nro ccrtnln. It Is obvious
thnt nny town Is nt least Indirectly
benefited by having such good roads
that motorists delight In making it an
objective on their week-end tours.
Any district that has bad ronds be
comes Just us well known, but of
course adversely. Unfortunately, too
many specific cases might bo given.
Minneapolis Journal.
Greatly Improve Road.
By keeping a road drag and drag
ging tho road along one's land after
heavy rains tho road may ho greirtly
Improved. It is nn easy jnuttor to
hnvo nn agreement so ench farmer
will drng tho road In front of his
farm. This would maintain tho rond
till the regular hands could bo called
out nt stated Intervals or till tho com
missioner could make tho repairs.
8lxteen-Foot Roadway.
Maintain at least n 10-foot roadway.
S
Stop
That
Cold At Once
CASCARA MQUININB
The eld family remedy la tMt
form fe, lure, cy to tak. Ma
opiate no unpleaiant after effect.
Curti cold In 34 hour drip ta S
day.. Money back IfltfalU. Qetttia
rcnuws im wiio
Red Top and Mr.
Wire picture en It
X4TabUufor2So.
At Any Drug St era
Every Woman W ants
FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE
Dttiolved (a water for douche steps
pelvic catarrh, ulceration and In (lam
ination. Recommended by Lydta E.
Piakhaa Med. Co. for tea years.
A healing vroncJer for nti&l catarrh,
sore throat and sore aye. Economical.
W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 47-1917.
No More Light Cooking.
A socket for electric lamps has been
put on tho market which makes It Im
possible Jo sUnl electric light bulbs or
to use tho socket for any purposo
which tho owner does uot Intend. The
new sockets will bo a blow to those
who live In furnished rooms and se
crete nn electric toaster or an electric
Iron in tho bottom of their trunks to
uso when tho landlady Is uslecp. Tho
Bafety socket Is so made that ypu can
screw In nny lamp or attachment plug,
but once In, It cannot bo removed.
Tho socket only works ono wny.
$100 Reward, $100
Catarrh Is a local dlscaso gToatly Influ
enced by constitutional conditions. It
thoroforo requires constitutional treat
ment. HALL'S CATARRH MUDICINH
la taken Internally and acts through the
Illood on the Mucous Surfaces of tho Sys
tem. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE
dostroys tho foundation ot the disease.
Klvcs the patient, strencth by Improving
tho general health and assists nature In
doing Its work. $100.00 for any case of
Catarrh that HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE) falls to cure.
Druggists 76c. Testimonials free.
V. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Recognized His Sermon.
Two of Knghind'fl most famous act
rcsses aro "daughters of4tho manse,"
and Mathcson Lang Is tho brother of
tho archbishop of York, Kt. Rev. Cos
mo Lang. ' Barnsby Williams, who
represents tlio characters of Dickens
to tho life, was educated for tho
church and was only a youth whoa he
became attached us a preacher to a
mission nt Bow. So successful was
he, writes n correspondent, thnt many
of his sermons wero sold at a penny
a copy. Ho tells n good story of one
of them,
'"Mene, Mene, Tckcl, Uphnrsln
('Thou aro weighed In the batanco
and found wanting') was my text," he
says, "and as I delivered tho sermon
with all tho dramatic fervor nt my
command I crcnted a sensation. Some
years later I went to n certain church.
Tho preacher was n well-known church
dignitary. When ho read out his tczt
I pricked up my cars. Still higher did
I prick them, till they nearly fell off'
my head, when, as tho preacher rend
hlH sermon, I recognized my own Ju
vcnllo effort."
Delicatessen Joke.
"Thero aro Gorman's pics In this
house."
"The dcuco you say German Bplea
In this house?"
"Sure wo got 'cm from tho delica
tessen storo around tho corner."
All the Same.
First Neighbor' My dnughter Is rery
patrlptlc. She Isn't going to piny any
more Gorman music.
Second ' Neighbor I'm nfrnld that
won't help uny. She will probably play
something else In place of lt7 Judge.
Two Great World Grains
are combined in ihe
perfected ready-cooked
cereal
Grape-Nuts
This appetfeingblend
of Wheat and Barley
is over 98 Food.
ECONOMICAL
HEALTHFUL
DELIGHTFUL