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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1920)
TIIE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEBKLY TRIBUNE. Versatile Mrs. Bass and Her Cow Helng nntlntinl chairman of tin Democratic women might lake nil of some women's lime, but wlint do yon think Mrs-. Oeorgc Hnss has boon dolus botwen meetings and speeches? Mak ing pantalettes for her pel cowl Fashioned of burlap, tied at the bottom of the legs and hooked over Dolly's backbones, the pantalettes were designed to keep the Hies off Dolly. And why wouldn't they? The week before Mrs. Hass left for San Francisco, where she was gen eralissimo of the Democratic women's political activities, she visited her farm at Manitowoc. Wis. She was met with the news that Dolly wasn't doing very well, gave little or no milk, and was a nervous wreck, because of the flies. Mrs. Huss, who in her political experience has learned to produce a panacea for all troubles, hurried to look nt Dollv. rushed off 1o buy burlap. und taking one width tor eueli leg, she stitched up the pantalettes for the cow. Strings were attached so the garment could be tied about the cow a lThe back had to be covered, so, as the versatile Mrs. Hass tells It, "I Just took a straight piece of burlap, shaped It a little, and tied that on. mul Dolly was n ntctnre no nrtlst could nalnt. but at least a comfortable cow." Mrs. Hass admitted that politics, especially during the oncoming cam paign, 1b Interfering with her farming. Senator Ashurst's $8,000 Book IMtOtO twatrn Xtuituptr Union! ACCESSORIES NOW TURN RIBBONWARD Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Ari zona Is a lawyer and has been lum berjack, cowboy, clerk, cashier, report er, Justice of the peace, district attor ney and speaker of the legislature. So he's had a chance to learn by ex perience. On his desk In the senate olllce building lies an $8,000 book. The hook Is entitled "Encyclopedia of Great Men." When the senntor tlrst ijrrlvcd In Washington an energetic solicitor convinced him that It was his uty to part with a photograph and $120. The photogrnph, along with a biography, was to appear In the encyclopedia, and the $120 was to pay for the 12 vol umes that would comprise the set. The senator "fell" for It, and uf ter a long lapse he received one vol ume, the only one he ever got. On the page preceding his photograph was the likeness of a well-known Bow ery bartender: on the page succeed ing It was the sly visage of a "wildcat" oil promoter. And herein lies the moral: Whenever anyone approaches tne Arizona senator wmi u nei-iii-ii-j- scheme, or strives to borrow money he Is met with a polite "no." Thereupon Is entered In the lly sheets of that historic .volume the sum of money saved. "That book," said the senator, pointing to It. "is the greatest Investment of my life." Suffrage and a 'Woman Over 2F Miss ltose Young (portrait here with) of the former National Ameri can Women's Suffrage association now the League of Women Voters says a woman's age Is entirely her own affair, so much so that even Uncle Sam should keep hands olT. This opinion is expressed following the re fusal of Mrs. Helen 1 1 1 1 1 Mcf.'arter of Kan.vas City to stale her exact age at the registration polls, and her state ment that site also would tight to make It possible for women voters to give their ages as "more than twenty-one." Mrs. McCarter, who Is a political leader in the middle West, was a dele gate from Kansas. Hers was the honor of nddrcslug the itcpuhllciin national convention. "There are two good reasons why men and women should not be re quired to give their age at the polls, says Miss Young. The tlrst Is that .my woman's age Is a personal matter. "The other reason" way voters should be allowed to say merely flint they are more than twenty-one' Is purely commercial. It cannot but be a commercial detriment to a man or wonuth to be obliged to unearth a long procession of years and to allow age instead of real enpudty to usurp Identity." Kansas oltlcials are said to have stated that unless Mrs. Mct.'arter con fides her precise number of years to the registration clerk, she will not, be allowed to cast her ballot in November. L Krassin: "Bourgeois Bolshevist" Leonid Borisovitch Krassin, who came Into the public's attention when he went to London this summer as head of a commission to negotiate the reopening of trade relations between soviet ltussla and the outside world, has been one of the few "moderates" to he given a place of responsibility In the soviet governmental machinery, and has been characterized us a "bourgeois holshevist." For engaging In n students' dem onstration Krassin was expelled from the Petrogrnd Technological Institute. Subsequently he engaged In a num ber of plots against the cznrlst regime, hut continued to advance In his pro fession, that of an electrical engineer. Following the holshevist coup of October, 1017, Krassin was offered a sent In the ministry, which he declined, as he thought Lenlne's adventure too risky und his theories too sweeping. Hut his relations wltli I.enine were cordial nnd lie accompanied Lenlne and Trotzky when they went to Brest Lltovsk to negotiate the treaty with (lermany. When It became apparent that the holshevist government would Inst, Krassin threw in his lot with It nnd became commissary of food In the red army. TX THE making of dress accessories1 A ribbons appear to have eclipsed all otluc materials. Everything from lufts to shoes and from undies to wraps looks to ribbon for adornment and, besides being used for mnklng garnitures, It plays a part In the con struction of many garments. To begin at the beginning In ribbon accessories. Ik to begin with sashes. There Is a world of them to consider, from the simplest bonds of the narrow fash ionable two-toned, plcot-edged ribbons that have decked sheer summery frocks, to gorgeous and Intricate af fairs In rich moire or brilliant brocade that are elaborated Into bodices and draperies. There are sashes for aft ernoon and evening gowns and there are sashes for street gowns, all as dif ferent In character as the frocks them selves are. There are sashes that are nrolonged Into trains and others that become draperies for skirts or aspire Into hodlees. with the uld of mallnes or net or lace. Frocks are really merely lovely back grounds for these ambitious efforts of the accessory de signer. An affair of this kind claims consid eration hi the group of sashes pic tured.1 This extravagant ami Ingenious arrangement consists of ati overbodlce and girdle which becomes a ripple of nlalts over the hips ami blossoms Into loops and four hanging ends at the back. Two long ends reach tne notxoiu of the skirt and are edged with frills nf uiirrow bice. These and tne two shorter ends are rounded. I be filmy gown serves to set olT this elaboration of the sash Into the most Important feature of the costume. It would be effective In any of tins lovely colors used for evening dress. A much simpler and more popular sash Is made of wide, soft and plain 'satin ribbon. It Is adjusted about the waistline In a crushed girdle that Is brought twice around and raised at the left side. It Is necessary to stay a girdle of this kind with wire or other Miiinort. It Is finished at the buck with two loops and two ends and over Its fastening at the side, a spray of small roses takes up the color of the ribbon and repeats It In many delightful tints. A description of sashes for evening frocks might go on Indefinitely, there are so many of them In such varied arrangements, but their growing Im portance In tailored frocks compels attention. For these there are line tailored sashes like. that pictured in the group shown here, and others, less staid. This one is made of black sal In ribbon folded and arranged Into two loops and one looped end. The folds are lacked to place. 1 nese iuii ored girdles and tailored hat orna ments are very Interesting and design ers find It worth while to specialize In making them. r -" TUT SJKKEB I I II wmmi ETJ KITCHEN m with salt nnd bnko until the cgg.i nro ttrtn. Servo from the plntter. , m ft -Tfq PIN MONEY PROPOSITIONS r w: make pin money have round netter sin- cess In specializing along eertalti lines of work than In trying many different things. They establish and hulld up a following that comes back to them year after year at holiday time, or at other seasons of the year. One bright woman In a small city has been mak ing rag dolls and cloth animals at odd times for many years and selling them at holiday time. She hns as much work as she cares to take and makes a good profit on it. These dolls are of all sizes and Winds; some of them made of old printed cotton dolls, which can he bought In the stores, but most of them Ingeniously put together of scraps of cloth. It Is Interesting work nnd dolls that represent many different races help to make it fascinating to the worker. . Other holiday articles for children are easy to make. These nro the cloth books. They are made of thin cambric In bright colors with pictures of all sorts, comic and otherwise, pasted ou the pages. To make them, several thicknesses of newspnper are cut into uniform size for the pages. Each of these pages of several layers of pnper is covered with the cambric and but tonhole stitched around the ' edges with bright-colored yarns and several of- them tied together nt the hack These bright-colored picture books de llirht the stnnll children nnd the do mand for them Is constant. In the larger towns and cities the specialist who makes pretty candle and lamp shades can place them In stores, and In bnzaars at holiday time. Oth ers, situated so that they have time for needlework, place embroidered lunch cloths, dollies and things of that character. A work of this kind that some women And profitable, Is the maklhg of layettes and embroidered dresses for little children. The mnk lng of Inyetles mny be developed Into quite a buslnesH by clever needle wom en. In thickly settled communities, where there are many young women who hnve little knowledge of needle work and cannot for thiB or other rea sons, make their own bnby's clothes. One Ingenious woman has Invented an amusement thnt children enjoy. She cuts from magazines the colored pic tures of foods those perfect cakes, fruits, ham, breakfast foods, bread, ba con and rolls, that are so enticing. These are pasted against cardboard; backgrounds, and a set of them, with a papeis, tablecloth, makes an outfit, for a party. These foods are pictured ill uisnes so u is winy i pwi "in ii iii-v ...1.1. .I..... A mindi. u I l ,fl ft t ll UIU Willi IIIUIII. H'V. ....... ...... with ii set of pictures wrapped in It Is .ohlfor a small but profitable price. The cloth animals are made by pat terns, bought of the pattern companies,' and clothes that are adapted to the different animals, helped out with wa ter color paints. Some women are very successful In raising flowers and have capitalized this huppv faculty until their friends look to them for blossoms and flower ing plants. Considering the high prices aslced for cut flowers, profits In this direction ought to lie very good One New England woman specializes In Jonquils; sweet violets In bunchesi ami riMirtv buyers In the cities. 1 lie marketing of perishable things pre scnts- some difficulties, but can be man aged If one can find a distributor who will bundle them for a commission. 6 Gtrt- 2 To Clean Doeskin Gloves. To clean light gray doeskin gloves. let the gloves soak In a saucer with sulllclent gasoline to cover them ; take out. do not squeeze, but let the dirty' liquid drop off. Lay on a thick clean i cloth, und with a dry piece of rag rub Jown. working from the wrist to the fingers. Constantly change the sur i face of the rag. for as soon as it gets 1 dirty It is apt to smear them. After, this, If the gloves are not quite clean, put them through the same process again and nang in wio air. It la a pleasant thing to reflect upon that every baby born into the world Is a finer one tnun the last. -"Nicholas Mckleby." WHAT SHALL WE HAVE TO EAT When there Is u cupful or two left of baked or boiled fish, try: i Turban of Fish. Scald one and one-half cupfuls of milk with one slice of onion, a blade of mace and n sprig of parsley; remove the seasonings. Melt one-fourth of a cup ful of butter, ndd the same amount of flour, half a tenspoonful of salt, a few dashes of cayenne, then add the scalded milk gradually and two well-beaten yolks. Put a layer of fish on a buttered dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add a few drops of lemon Juice. Cover with sauce, continuing with the fish and nuee, shaping In a pyramid form. Cover with buttered crumbs nnd brown In n hot oven. Macaroni and Cheese In the Flretess Cooker. Holl one' cupful of mncaronl fifteen minutes, adding one. teaspoon Till of snlt to a qunrt of boiling wnter. Ulnse, drain nnd place In n cnsserole. Fill the dish with milk, stir In one tablespoonful of flour cooked In two tablespoonfuls of butter long enough to blend It. Add juie cupful of grated cheese nnd sprinkle thickly with pap rika. Tack In a cooker between two moderately hented rndlntors. using one radiator as n cover to the ens fcrole. Hake one nnd one-hnlf hours. Do not bent the stones too hot or the dish will be baked hard nnd dry. Salmon Box. Line a bread pan slightly buttered with warm, cooked rice well seasoned, cooking It In broth of milk If possible. Skim milk will do nicely. Fill the center with cold liolled salmon linked and seasoned with snlt, pepper and a slight grating of nutmeg. Cover with rice and stentn one hour. Turn out on n hot plntter and surround with an egg sauce. The egg sauce Is a stipple drawn butter snuce to which the beaten yolks of two eggs nro added with a tenspoonful of lemon Juice. Fried Egg Plant. Pare and cut In thjn slices. Pile the slices on n plnt ter. sprinkling each slice with snlt, cover with n plate nnd 'weight. Let stand one hour, drnln, rinse each slice In cold wnter, dip In benten egg, then In seasoned crumbs nnd fry tin- A commonplace llfo, wo say and wo 1Kb: Tot why do wo sigh as we say? The commonplnco sun In tho com monplace sky Makes up the comtnonptaee clay. , Tho moon nnd the slurs are common- i place things, The nower thnt blooms und the bird that sings; Hut sad were the world and dark the lot, If the flowers fulled und the aim shone not, And Ood, who sees each sopnrate noul, Out of commonplace lives maken his beautiful whole. Susan Coolldge. FOOD FOR THE ILL. Indigestion, stomach trouble of vari ous kinds as well us Intestinal troubles have so in n u y forms und causes that It Is never safe to trust one's own Ideas in re gurd to the kind of food o ii o should ent. A physician after diagnosis will give n list of tlie various foods It Is safe to eat ; however It Is probable that toast which Is lightly toasted on the out side, soft and full of moisture Inside Is unwholesome for the most healthy stomach. Toast should be made of bread at least two days old, cut one half Inch thick nnd dried for a few moments In the oven to remove any moisture, then while still hot from the oven slowly toasted a golden brown. Too many cooks serve toast by tho recipe given by the small boy "toast bread until black, then scrape It at the kitchen sink." Eggs, milk and combinations of eggs nnd milk when carefully prepared In regard to the one who Is to ent tin dish nro foods which will be taken with comfort. Custards of nil kinds, cooked Just long enough to bo smooth nnd velvetr nrc not monotonous though served often. Fried foods of all kinds should be eliminated as they are especially hard to digest. Fruit Juices, Jellies, gelatine dishes, nnd seu moss are desserts which may bo commonly served In ordinary cases. Apple Custard. Tako five well beaten eggs, add a qunrt of milk and one pint of strnlned npplo sauce. Sweeten nnd flavor to taste and bnko carefully until firm. Set the pan of. custard Into a pnn of hot wnter to bake. til brown. AUKUst brings the snowy lilies, Clad In robes of apotless white, Walking like a queen among them As she flings them left and right; Lilies pure nnd lovely crown her, And her dreBS In every fold Wears tho nemblnnco of a Illy In Its dream of white nnd gold. SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS. For the beginning of a dinner a soup of some kind Is always In season ; hot or cold, they odd to the meal Corn and Chicken Soup. Take six cupfuls of chicken broth, add one cupful of corn pulp and half n cupful of cold chicken cut very line. Season with salt, pepper and celery salt. Sim mer half an hour, then add a tablo- spoonful of butter and half a cupful of milk. Urlng to the boiling point nnd serve. This soup may be thick ened with egg yolk, making it more nourishing. Lamb In Aspic. Make a highly sea soned soup stock of vegetables, broth or hwf extract, using u package of gelatine for each quart of stock. Sonic the gelatine and add to the hot stock; stir until dissolved. Rinse a plain mold In cold water and pour In n luy er of the aspic Jelly, keeping tho re mainder warm. When the Jelly In the mold Is congealed but not hurd, cover with thin slices of cold roast lamb and sprinkle with mint snuce. Cover with more Jelly and repeat when tho Jelly hardens. Continue until the dish is full, huving Jelly on top. Set on ice to burden. Veal Croquettes. Clop cold cooked veal very fine. Season with salt, pep per, grated onion, paprika and u little tomnto catsup. Hind with rnw egg or n very nine uiick cream sauce, Shnpo Into croquettes, dip In egg und crumbs und fry In deep fut. Raspberry Charlotte. Take two cupfuls of fresh raspberries, or canned will do, the Juice of half a lemon, four ladyflngers. rolled Info crumbs, und the whites of four eggs beaten stiff mix lightly and pour Into a buttered baking dish and hake 20 minutes, Serve with a thin custard sauce Swiss Eggs. Spread a stoneware platter with butter and lay on It very thin slices of cheese. Sprinkle with nutmeg and salt, then break over this enough eggs to serve the family. Pour over a half cupful of creuin, sprinkle Within each beating human heart Lis burled out of sight The thoughts that throb like things apart And wait to'nnd the light From depths unstten tho heart's own sod Bends forth Its llowers like golden rod. Ida Scott Taylor. SOME GOOD SUMMER SALADS. In no season of the year nre salads as much enjoyed as during the warm w (Mithor when the appetite lags and crisp fresh things nre most welcome. Cucumber Jelly. Cut p e e 1 e d cueum hers nnd toma toes into dice, Buvlng the Juice. Sea son with grated onion, pepper una salt. Dissolve half a pneknge of gela tin to two cupfuls of liquid, udd lo the vegetable Juices, stir until well mixed, cool, cut In cuben nnd serve In toinuto cups with mnyonualse. String Beans. Wash the beans and put them to cook with n little bacon fat stirring and cooking for flvo min utes, then udd a very little water, set back where they can simmer, lidding very small amount of wnter when needed. Season and cook for two hours. Serve hot with curled bacon. Steamed Radishes. Cook without peeling, the radishes, and If small, leave whole. Serve In a white sauce, using plenty of seasoning. If boiled, use very llttlo wnter nnd reserve It for making the white sauce, so that the nutriment mid flnvor may be saved. Corn and Green Peppers. Cook a medium-sized pepper in sweet fat. then udd corn, seasoning and cook until slightly browned. Serve hot. Icebergs. Dissolve two cupfuls of sugur In three cupfuls of wnter (boil ing) ; cool, udd three-fourths of a cup ful of lemon Juice, color leaf green and freeze. Serve In stemmed sherbet glusses. Put a tenspoonful of cream do nicnthe In each glass, sprinkle with finely chopped nuts, using almonds, lllberts, pecans nnd wnlnuts In equal proportions. These may be used with the meat course, or between courses, or as a finish to the meal. Sicilian Sorbet. Press a can or an equal amount of fresh peaches through a sieve, add one cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of orange Juice, two table spoonfuls of lemon Juice, and when well mixed freeze. Colored Linen Handkerchief. The colored linen handkerchief with a net frill Is the latest French novelty. Sport handkerchiefs of white linen hnve borders woven In colored stripes and the hems cross-stltched In the same thread. TO PROTECT ALUMINUM. To protect aluminum nd nluinlnuin alloys from corrosion, says uie jour nal of industrial and engineering Chemistry. L. von OrotthiiSH has tried browning the metal electrnlytlcally. Hy using this method, the aluminum may bo bent or rolled without tho coating. Aluminum tfcun treated was Immersed In u salt solution for two months without showing the slightest truce of corrosion. Chemical Hound Tuble. CHILDREN AND BOOKS. It does the child no harm to make the acquaintance of hooks which were not written for children. In a homo where the great books that have In spired or amused successive genera tions are accessible an actlve-niliided child Is likely some time to get at them. If we wnnt our children to fa' in love with the better kind ofi books let us provldo them with oppor tunities for meeting such books with out too much rormnllty.