DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS CAKES.
. i
^ (By Various Contributor.
Prune Spice Cake.
Remove the pits from IV* cup* of
prunes and cut tne prunes into small
pieces. Add Vi cup of seedless raisins,
V* cup of molasses and cook gently 25
minutes. Cool before using. Cream Vi
cup of butter with Vi cup of sugar,
add two well beaten eggs, Vi cup of
milk and the molasses mixture. Mix
well, add IVi cups of flour sifted with
1 teaspoon of baking powder, a pinch
of salt, V4 teaspoon each of cloves and
cinnamon and Vi teaspoon nutmeg.
B«at weH and bake In a buttered,
floured pan In a moderate oven.
A Fine Fruit Cake.
i'roam together Vi cup of drippings
or vegetable fat, Vi cup of butter, and
one cup of sugar: then gradually add
* well beaten eggs. Now add 1 cup
•of molasses, 1 pound of cleaned cur
rants. 1 pound of seeded raisins, Vi
pound of shredded candled citron peel,
1 tablespoons of chopped nut meats, Vi
cup or fruit Juice, four cup3 of flour
mixed and sifted with three teaspoons
of baking powder, Vi teaspoon of salt,
2 teaspoons of powdered ginger, 1 tea
spoon each of powdered cloves and cin
namon, and 1 teaspoon of grated nut
meg. Mix well, turn Into a greased and
papered cake tin and bake in a mod
erately hot oven for three hours.
Nut Cake.
Cream 1 cup of sugar with Vi cup of
butter. Add 1 cup of milk, 2 well beat
en eggs, 2 cups of flour sifted with 2
level teaspoons of baking powder and
a pinch of salt. Beat well and add 1
teaspoon vanilla extract, Vi cup of
chopped nuts, floured, and mix well.
Bake in layers or In a loaf pan and ice
with maple flavored Icing.
Jelly Roll.
Sift together 1 cup of flour with 1
cup of sugar, IVi teaspoons of baking
powder and a pinch of salt. Add 3 well
beaten eggs, Vi cup of hot water, and 1
teaspoon at lemon extract. Beat well
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i and pour Into a well greased pan. Bake
In a moderate oven, turn out on a
clean cloth and trim off the crusty
edges. Spread with any fruit Jelly
which has been beaten with a fork, and
roll up. Wrap In the cloth until cold
and dust with powdered sugar. The
cake must be rolled while still hot. oth
erwise It will break.
Chocolate Spice Cake.
Cream % cup of brown sugar with
1-3 cup of butter. Add 1 well beaten
egg. \ cup of sour milk, In which H
teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, %
teaspoon of cinnamon, % teaspoon each
of cloves and grated nutmeg. 1 table
spoon of grated chocolate and 1% cups
of flour sifted with % teaspoon of bak
ing powder and a pinch ■ f salt. Beat
well. One-half cup of. seedless raisins,
floured, may be added if desired. Bake
in layers or loaf and ice with plain
icing.
Tea Cake.
Cream 1 cup of sugar with V4 cup of
butter. Add 2 well beaten eggse 2-3
cup of sour milk. 1 teaspoon of cinna
mon, H teaspoon of grated nutmeg, 2
cups of flour, a pinch of salt and 1
teaspoon of baking soda dissolved In 1
tablespoonful of warm water. Beat well,
add 1 cup of chopped, floured raisins
and bake in a greased pan. Ice with
vanilla icing.
Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake.
Mix and boil the following together
three minutes:
One cup brown sugar. 1 cup water, %
cup lard or drippings, 11-3 cups rais
ins, 1 cup currants, % cup chopped
citron.
When cool add 1 teaspoon soda dis
solved in 1 tablespoon hot water. Two
cups flour sifted with % teaspoon each
of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and bak
ing powder, and 1 cup broken nut
meats. Mix well and bake in paper
lined bread pan one hour in a slow
oven.
FILL THE COOKY JAR.
TO SWEETEN THE GIFT. ♦
From (he Minneapolis Journal.
A suitable message to send with a
Christmas present often worries the send
er. The timeworn phrases, “Wishing you
a Merry Christmas from,” etc., lack indi
viduality and effectiveness. Yet a clever
quotation enhances a gift. An appropriate
card to send with books might contain
this from Stevenson:
This little paper traveler goes forth to
your door charged with tender greetings.
Pray you, take him in. He comes from a
house where you are well beloved.
Or ono may fancy these lines from Ten
nyson:
I thought to myself I would offer this
book to you. This and my love together.
Those who make their own gifts could
use the following:
Alone X did it.—Shakespeare.
That sanguine Inexperience loves to
make.—Cowper.
With a gift to a husband and wife
might go:
The gift doth stretch itself as ‘tis re
ceived, and is enough for both.—Shakes
peare.
With jewelry:
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
More quick than words do move a wom
an's mind. —Shakespeare.
This ring, O my beloved fair,
For me on your slim linger wear.
As a perpetual caress,
To tell you of my tenderness.
—Adapted, from Stevenson.
With any kind cf gift:
Consider not the gift of the lover, but
the lover of the gift.—Thomas a Kempis.
Wear this for me—one out of suits with
fortune.
That could give more, but that her hand
lacks means. —Shakespeare.
I send with deep regards of heart and
head.
Sweet maid, for friendship formed, this
gift ro thee, —Shakespeare.
Good wishes go with this.
And love, packed in a kiss
—Baldwin.
I send thee here a remembrance of all
That my heart to thy heart doth recall.
—Frere.
(Copyright. 191o, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Have you a cooky jar? If you
haven't, have you not at least a very
tender memory for certain cooky jars
of your youth?
Although the filled cooky jar has
somewhat gone out of fashion, it has a
useful place in any pantry. From its
cool depths small cakes for any oc
casion can be extracted. For the aft
ernoon cup of tea, for the unexpected
and hungry guest who is refreshed with
a glass of milk or a cup of chocolate—
and some cookies—to eat with fruit or
ice cream for dessert, and for the for
bidden but delightful between meal
nibble, the cooky jar can be called on.
Hickory Nut Macaroons.
Mix one cup of nut meats, chopped
fine, with one cup of sugar, one-half
cup of flour and one egg. Drop on
buttered tins and bake in quick oven.
Cocoanut Drop Cakes.
Cream together one cupful of light
brown sugar and a half cupful of but
ter; then add one cupful of sour milk
and one teaspoonful each of cinnamon
and cloves sifted with one level tea
spoonful of soda and two cupfuls flour.
Mix thoroughly and then stir in a half
cupful of shredded cocoanut. Drop
by dessertspoon fuls on a greased pan
and bake in a moderate oven. If the
cakes are not stiff enough to keep their
shape, add more flour.
Walnut Wafers.
One cupful of flour, one cupful of
sugar, one-fourth cupful of butter, one
cupful of walnut meats, one egg and a
pinch of salt. Chop the nuts fine, beat
the butter and sugar to a cream, add
the well beaten egg, the flour and stir
in the nuts. Drop in spoonfuls on but
tered tine and flatten a little. Bake in
a moderate oven.
Pecan Cookies.
Beat the yolks of two eggs until thick
and lemon colored. Add one cupful of
brown sugar gradually, while beating
constantly. Then add one cupful of
chopped pecan meat nuts, sprinkled
with one-eighth teaspoonful of salt, the
whites of two eggs, beaten until stiff,
and six tablespoonfuls of flour. Drop
from tip of spoon on buttered sheet, one
and one-half inches apart. Spread and
bake in a moderate oven.
Two Weeks Christmas.
From the World Outlook.
Filipino children do not think that
they are over supplied with Christ
mases, although they have two, De
cember 25 and January 6, the latter day
having been retained from the old
^ Spanish calendar when the United
T States took over the islands. Praetical
I ly, Christmas now lasts through from
/ one date to the other, 14 days. If to
^ these days the Filipino children could
somehow add the St. Nicholas day of
early December, which the Dutch chil
dren celebrate, they certainly would be
well fixed. However, two weeks of
Christmas is as much as any well
mannered child can reasonably ask for,
and certainly as much as parents can
stand.
Filipino children usually have no
stockings to hang up. but they place
their shoes on the window sill tor the
same purpose. On Christmas eve a
boy and a girl, costumed to represent
Joseph and Mary, respectively, go about j
the streets of each town or village,
seeking shelter. Following the touch
ing drama, reminiscent of Joseph and
Mary’s entrance into Bethlehem, the
scenes of the Christmas story are re
enacted in all the churches. Every one
attends these pageants. Frequently the
crippled and ailing corqe crowding into
the churches on their hands and knees.
The remainder of the night is given up
to feasting.
On Christmas day, small bands of
boys and girls, representing the shep
herds of Bethlehem, travel as trouba
dours about the towns, searching for
the Christ Child and singing Christmas
songs. They are gayly attired in bright
colored clothing, bespangled and glit
tering with ornaments. They sing be
fore the doors of residences and busi
ness houses to the accompaniment of
tambourines and stringed instruments,
and do not hesitate to hold out their
hands for a Christmas gift when they
shout “Buenas Pascues!" (Merry
Christmas.) Their performance is wor
thy of a gift for it represents weeks of
training with the muBic master before
the holidays. _
1^ Leave the Lights Burning.
From the Washington Herald.
"When you leave your apartment or
house unoccunled at night, always keep
the electric lights burning, because the
hardened criminal becomes a coward when
caught under the electric light.”
This is the message Inspector Joseph A.
Faurot, chief of detectives of New York's
M police department, sends to the women of
the country.
Continuing the inspector said: "A flat
worker sehlom. if ever, enters an apart
ment in which he sees an electric light
burning, so it will prove a profitable in
vestment for the housewife to follow this
suggestion.
"The rapid development of electricity
has proved to be the burglar's nemesis.
It holds moro terrors for him than the
householders’ guns. He will take a chance
for his liberty by engaging in a struggle
in the dark, hut he will avoid being dis
covered In a light flooded room where his
features are exposed to view. Through the
aid of identification bureaus being seen
means almost certain conviction.”
Before going on the stage and always
after the performance, Mme. Guilhert,
the actress, drinks a cup of tea. She
is said to drink as high as 10 cups of
tea every day.
Little Orphant Annie.
INSCRIBED.
With All Faith and Affection.
To all the little children:—The happy
ones, and the sad ones;
The sober and the silent ones; the boister
ous and glad ones;
The good ones—Yes the good ones, too;
and all the lovely bad ones.
Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house
to stay.
An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an*
brush the crumbs away.
An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an*
dust the hearth, an’ sweep,
An’ make the fire, an’ bake the bread,
an’ earn her board-an’ keep;
An’ all us other children, when the sup
per-things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an’ has
the mostest fun
A-llst’nin’ to the witch-tales ’at Annie
tells about,
An’ the Gobble-uns ’at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
Wunst they wuz a little boy wouldn’t say
his prayers,—
An’ when he went to bed at night, away
upstairs,
His Mammy heerd him holler, an’ his
Daddy heerd him bawl.
An’ when they turn’t the kivvers down,
he wuzzn’t there at all!
An’ they seeked him in the rafter-room,
an’ cubbyhole, jfn’ press,
An’ seeked him up the chimney-flue an*
ever’wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist hi*
pants an roundabout:—
An’ the Gobble-uns ’ill git you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
An’ one time a little girl ’ud alius laugh
an’ grin,
An’ make fun of ever’one. an’ all her
blood-an’-kiri;
An’ wunst, when they was “company,"
an’ ole folks wuz there.
She mocked ’em an’ shocked ’em, an*
said she didn’t care!
An’ thist as sSe kicked her heels, an*
turn’t to run an’ hide
They wuz two great big ’ Black Things
a-standln’ by her side,
An’ they snatched her through th*
ceilin’ ’fore she knowed what she'*
about!
An’ the Gobbie-uns ’ll git you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
An’ little Orphant Annie says, when th*
blaze is blue,
An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind
goes woo-oo,
An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ th*
moon is gray.
An’ the lightnln’ bugs in dew is all
squenched away,—
You better mind yer parunts, an* yer
teachers fond an’ dear,
An’ churish them 'at loves you, an’ dry
the orphant’s tear.
An' he’p the pore an’ needy ones ’at clu**
ters about,
Kr the Gobble-uns *11 git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
. - ■ —Jams* Whitcomb Riley.
j WANTED—DEAD OR ALIVE!
It DISPUTE IN
Road and Brotherhood Heads
May Reach Agreement That
Permanently Settles
Friction.
Chicago, Dec. IS. — Hale Holden,
president of the Chicago, Burlington &
i Quincy railroad, who was chairman of
i the committee of the railroad execu
tives which met President Wilson and
■ the brotherhood officials in Washing
ton last summer, when a railroad strike
was threatened, confKmed today the
report that informal conferences had
been held by railroad representatives
with brotherhood officials concerning
a settlement out of court of the con
troversy between the railroads and
their employes.
W. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, also an
nounced at Evansville, Ind., last night
that negotiations are under way be
tween leaders of the four brotherhoods
and operating officials of several rail
roads looking to a settlement of the
entire controversy before January 1.
when the Adamson law is to go into
effect. Mr. Lee and Mr. Holden said,
however, that the discussions had
progressed so far even as to suggest a
basis for a permanent settlement.
“I don't feel that I can say much
more than that the conferences have
been held between the brotherhood men
and the railroad officers,” Mr. Holden
said. “The meetings have been of a
purely informal nature and to date
there has been no suggestion of an ul
timate adjustment.”
FOOT OF SNOW FALLS
WITHIN TWO HOURS
New York Buried Under Fleecy
Mantle—Thousands of
Workers Engaged.
New York. Dec. 18.—The first real
snowstorm of the winter will cost New
York city about J500.000. A foot of
snow fell yesterday between 5 a. m.
and 7 p. m. and the street cleaning de
partment will be busy for two or three
days carting it away. The fail was the
greatest here In any day since Decem
ber 26-27. 1890, when 14 inches fell In
24 hours.
Traffic is still blockaded today ow
ing to the shortage of men to clear the
streets. Only 6,000 emergency men are
enrolled and one half of these answered
the call for work last night. These la
borers were assisted by between 2.000
and 3,000 students of local colleges who
went to work at 11 p. m. and received
30 cents an hour.
The storm in this vicinity caused
comparatively little trouble to the
steam railroads and the telegraph and
telephone companies.
—4—
BIG SNOW IN BOSTON.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 16.—-Eight and
one-half inches of snow were on the
ground at daybreak when a storm that
had raged all night abated. Except for
the usual tax on transportation service,
the snow caused no great Inconveni
ence.
GAS SHORTAGE CLOSES
WHEELING FACTORIES
Wheeling, W. Ya„ Dec. 16.—Fifteen
thousand workmen are idle here today
as a result of the shortage of natural
gas, which has forced utmost every
factory in the Wheeling district de
pendent upon gas for fuel to close.
Argentine Is spending 160,040,000 on
*» Irrigation system.
GERMAN RAIDER ON
ROUTE TO LIVERPOOL
Teuton Craft Believed to Be
About 1,500 Miles West
of Bordeaux.
New York. Deo. 18.—The French line
steamer Chicago, which arrived here
today nearly 48 hours overdue from
Bordeaux, passed about 150 miles from
the point which a wireless message
posted on board indicated was the
position of the German commerce
raider reported in the Atlantic, accord
ing to passengers.
The bulletin was put up December 6
and to the surprise of the passengers
was torn down five minutes later. The
Chicago then detoured and the change
of course, together with the heavy
snow storm yesterday, accounted for
the delay.
The bulletin gave the raider’s posi
tion as approximately 1,500 miles west
of Bordeaux and in the Liverpool-New
York steamer route.
VESSEL AGROUND
Rescue Crews Are Sent Out
to Aid an Unknown Craft
Pounding to Pieces on
Jersey Coast.
Sandy Hook, N. J., Dec. 18.—A re
port received here today from the
keeper of the Little Beach life saving
station says an unidentified steamship
is ashore about two miles east south
east from the station and that a Uni
ted States revenue cutter has been no
tified.
The vessel, apparently a tramp, sent
out no distress signals. She lies about
three miles off shore.
EIGHT IOWA MILITIA
BOYS HURT IN WRECK
Members of Battery A. En
Route Home From Border,
Are Severely Injured.
Grapeland, Tex., Dec. 18.—The de
railment of three sleeping cars on a
mixed troop train carrying A battery,
Iowa field artillery from the border to
the home station near here this morn
ing, resulted in severe injuries for two
trainmen, while eight troopers were
bruised. A defective rail was said to
have caused the accident. The injured
were taken to Palestine.
A and C batteries were traveling in
two 86011001? with Captain Brandt, of
A battery, the ranking officer, B bat
tery, with headquarters and part of the
hospital detachment, under Captain
Compton and Captain Oakes, adjutant
of the battalion, was to leave Houston
at 11 a. m.
The three batteries, numbering 513
men, are to be mustered out at Daven
port, Muscatine and Clinton. In. They
have been stationed at Brownsville
since July.
The others injured were: Private
Vernon Dobson, slight cerbreal con
tusions; Private Jim B. Smith, lacera
tion about the eyea; Private Charles
Smlthers, right eye injured; Private
John Dorsey, head cut; ITlvate —•—
Humphries, eye hurt.
All belonged to battery A.
The United States in 1915 producer
550,055 tons of lead.
BL E WIPES OUT
L BUI run
iron Works Which John J. Mc
Namara Once Dynamited
Again Wrecked By
Blast.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18.—Fire
early today nearly wiped out the plant
of the Llewellyn Iron works, causing
damage estimated at more than $508,
000. Several explosions were reported
to have occurred and the police were
investigating to determine if they were
incidental to the fire or if the plant had
been dynamited.
John J. McNamara, formerly secre- I
tary-treasurer of the International
Union of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers is now serving a sentence in
San Quentin, Cal., for the dynamiting
of this plant in 1912, to which he con
fessed.
The blaze spread to the Lacy iron
works across the street, but was
brought under control.
The fire was said by the police to
have started in the same part of the
establishment as that which was
wrecked by the bomb explosion in 1910.
By the time the fire department ar
rived the major portion of the plant
was in flames, which cast a glow over
the entire business section of the city.
Fifty men were in the plant. The
fire started apparently in the office
building, but spread with such rapid
ity that the men had difficulty in es
caping. When the fire department
equipment arrived thq entire plant, oc
cupying two full squares, was In
flames.
The roof of the office quarters fell
in a few minutes after the fire equip
ment was in action and Redondo street,
on which the plant fronts, was half
filled and in places blockaded by
wrsckft^p.
Concern was expressed by officers of
the Llewellyn Iron works as to the pos
sible destruction of many blue prints
and records of costs and other office
material which they said were valued
at more than $1,000,000.
The extent of the loss will be known
when the ruins cool. Some of the blue
prints were known to have been left
out of the vaults.
It was at the front entrance of the
building, where the fire was discovered
today that there occurred a bomb ex
plosion Christmas morning, 1910, dur
ing the labor disturbances in the lat
ter half of that year.
Little damage was done by the ex.
plosion at that time. _
COMPULSORY HEALTH
INSURANCE OPPOSED,
W. G. Curtis Marshalls Array
of Arguments Against
State Plan.
New York. Dec. 18.—Compulsory
health insurance for wage earners,
legislation for which has been pro
posed. was strongly disapproved by W.
G. Curtis, of Detroit, Mich., president
of a casualty insurance company, in
an address before the 10th annual con
vention of the Association of Life In
surance Presidents here today. Mr.
Curtis summarized his objections to
compulsory health insurance by saying
it would produce these results:
a tax of $5 to effect a sav
ing of $1.
... . 2,340,000 of the 33,600.000
wage earners because of age or phy
sical Condition.
Provide employment for 250,000 poli
ticians.
Create a fund of $150,000,000 that
would be controlled or exclusively ad
ministered politically.
Permit a Bmall percentage of physi
cians to control most of the industrial
medical practice.
Establish socialism, paternalism and
class distinction.
WILL SEND PENCE
NOTES THEN WAIT
NINT FROM ALLIES
President Wilson Decides Not
io Risk His Standing By
Making Advance Com
ment on Subject.
HEARING SEEMS ASSURED
Belief Prevails In Washington
That Entente Will Hear Teu
tonic Terms Before Turn
ing Them Down.'
Washington. D. C., Dec. 18.—The
nplnion la growing in Washington that
regardless of any action by President
Wilson, the entente will not Hatty re
ject the German peace proposal, but
will at least indicate it is willing to
talk peace on certain terms.
Furthermore, eagles from Berlin
saying Germany is prepared to offer
liberal terms, suggest the Idea that the
central powers are really desirous of
a peace parley.
The Germany embassy lias given It
out informally that Germany will not
reject a proposition from the entente
for the limiting of armaments. From
this, it is inferred, Germany realizes
she must be prepared to back up her
pledges by stronger guarantee than
words.
Meets Law’s Demands.
This is a most important factor in
the situation. It has to be considered
in connection with the demand of
Bonar Law for guaranties for the fu
ture.
While there Is wide division of opin
ion here as to whether anything will
come of the German peace proposal,
the belief is growing that the peace
leaven is working in all the warring
countries. One authority said today:
“Whatever comes of this Immediate
proposition it may be set down that
this marks the actual beginning of
peace negotiations. I believe Europe
has entered the road to peace, though
it is doubtless a good many months
off."
Concession important.
The authorized statement at the
German embassy that consideration of
at least partial disarmament would be
one of the things taken up at a peace
conference attracted the widest atten
tion among government officials and
diplomats. It was accounted doubly
Interesting because Germany had re
peatedly refused such suggestions, even
to the point, it was said, of threatening
to withdraw from The Hague confer
ence if the subject, which had the sup
port of the United States, England.
France and Russia, were pressed.
To Make No Comment.
The White House this morning was
without further information on the
peace situation. The president’s atti
tude Is that the United States should
Hend the notes without comment, but
should hold itself in readiness to say
or do anything which seems feasible
In the light of developments. One au
thority summed up the case today by
saying:
“We don’t want to say anything that
will bring us a slap in the face. We
ire simply going to wait until we learn
whether we will get slapped if we urge
& peace conference or express a wish
tor a peace parley in any way.”
oernstortt sees Lansing.
Count von Bernstorff, the German
ambassador conferred with Secretary
Lansing today, seeking Information of
the attitude of the United States to
ward the peace proposals of the cen
tral powers to discuss the general sub
ject of peace from this government’s
viewpoint and to give any information
Mr. Lansing might desire on the atti
tude of the German government. Am
bassador Bernstorff after a 10-mlnute
visit with Secretary Lansing, said:
"We did not discuss peace terms In
any way. I have not received any for
mal terms and the American govern
ment knows officially that no formal
terms have been proposed. AH Ger
many has suggested is that the bellig
erents get together and tatk. If that
proposal is accepted definite terms
naturally will be discussed, but till then
It will not be proper to mention them.
My visit to the secretary was purely
for discussion.’’
No Commont on Policy.
The ambassador indicated that the
actual plaoe for the holding of a con
ference and the question of whether it
should be by direct negotiations or
through intermediaries were questions
entirely dependent on the willingness
of the entente allies to discuss the sit
uation at all. He indicated also that
he had not discussed the American ac
tion in sending on the Teutonic notes
without comment, as that was purely
a matter for this country to decide for
Itself.
Secretary Lansing said early this
morning the peace notes probably
would go forward before night. One
uniform American translation will bo
sent to all the governments where the
United States represents the central
aHles and the original texts will be
forwarded later, probably by mall.
LOCAL SNOWS FORECAST
FOR THE COMING WEEK
Washington, Dec. 16.—Forecasts for
the week beginning Sunday were an
nounced by the weather bureau today
as follows:
Plains states and upper aad middle
Mississippi valleys: Fair untfl Wednes
day or Thursday, when local snows'are
probable in northern and rains or
snows In southern portions. Temper
ature below seasonal average first part
of week, followed by warmer during
the middle of the week and colder on
Thursday._ _ _
FAIL TO AGREE.
Washington, Dec. 16.—The Senate
committee on commerce today failed
t.;. reach an agreement on the flood
control bill to appropriate MS,MO,000
for the Mississippi and Sacramento
rivers. The bill passed the House last
May. Advocates want the bill passed
unamended, but opposition developed
from senators who proposed a general
flood control measure instead. The
committee wfll resume consideration
of the bill Tuesday. _
Pressing one end of a pedal with the
foot admits cold water to a new wash
stand, pressing the other end allow*
hot water to flow and pressing the en
tire pedal mixes the two so that mod
erately warm water is obtained.