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erf tatter ber Gbtcago -tribune
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ten rocllen fern erobertes ($ebiet be
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flatten greifen fonne, aber. toie eS j
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MADE WITH APPLES
DELICIOUS DESSERTS THAT ARE
EASY TO PREPARE.
Charlotte an Inexpensive and Greatly
Appreciated Dish—Apple Fritters
Will Be Liked by All Mem
bers of the Family.
Apples are cheap this year, and
Housewives who are trying to keep
down expenses would do well to use
them freely on the table. There are
many delicious desserts to be made of
them, and desserts are among the diffi
cult problems for the housekeeper dur
ing the winter.
An apple charlotte is an inexpensive
dish, and easily prepared. Cut bread
into slices a quarter of an inch thick;
then Into strips one and a half inches
wide and as long as the height of the
mold to be used. Cut one piece to fit
the top of the mold and then divide it
into live or six pieces. Butter the
mold, dip the slices of bread into melt
ed butter and arrange them around the
mold, overlapping the edges. Fill the
tenter of the mold entirely with apple
sauce made of tart apples stewed un
til tender, then broken into coarse
pieces, drained and seasoned with but
ter and sugar. Cover the top with
bread and bake in a hot oven fot
about thirty minutes. The bread
should be of an amber color. Serve
with a hard sauce.
Flaming Apples—Pare and core sev
eral apples. Stew them in supir and
water until tender, but still firm
enough to hold their shaite. lteinove
them to a serving dish and fill the cen
ters with any sort of jam. Boil down
the liquor to a thick sirup and pout
over the apples. Just before serving
pour several spoonfuls of brandy ovet
tlie apples, and when they are on the
table light the brandy with a candle
These flaming apples make a very pret
ty dish.
Snow Apple Pudding—fill a hakm$
disli half full of apple sauce, well sea
soned with butter, sugar and cinna
mon. Pour over it a batter made ol
one and one-half cupfuls of flout
mixed with two heaping table«i*oon
fuls of baking powder, one-lialf tea
spoonful of salt, and a tnblespoonfu)
of lard. Moisten it with three-quarters
cupful of milk. The batter should be
thick, hut nor stiff. Cook in a steam
er for about three-quarters of an hour
and serve with a hard sauce.
Apple Fritters—Peel and core some
apples, out them into thick slices, and
rub in white sugar and powdered cin
namon. Make a pancake batter, dip in
the slices of apples and fry in deep
fat. Drop in the batter-covered
slices one or two at a lime. When
the fritters are a golden brown, lift
them out with a frying spoon and
drain on soft paper. Serve very hot
with extra powdered sugar if desired.
Chicken Short Cake.
Did you fancy shortcake gone with
the strawberry season?
Try this chicken shortcake.
Make n biscuit shortcake and when
baked, slit and butter it the same as
for a berry shortcake. Have ready
finely sliced cold boiled chicken, dip
tile slices into well-seasoned mayon
naise and fill the cake, then put on
the top. Tlte dark part of the chicken
must be freed from skin and bone,
finely minced and seasoned with
onion jnice. pepper, salt, a teaspoon
ful of chopped chives and enough
mayonnaise to make a spreading
paste. Spread the top of the short
cake. thickly garnishing with olives
sniffed with anchovies, and serve at
once.
Substantial Tea Cake.
One pound of flour, half a pound of
beef suet, a quarter of a pound of but
ter. half a pound of currants, a quarter
of a pound of peel, six ounces of sugar,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
half a teaspoonful of salt and a small
quantity of milk. Mix the flour, bak
ing powder, salt, sugar, butter, cur
rants and jieel; then add the shredded
suet. Add sufficient milk To make it
to a stiff paste; turn on to a slightly
floured board or slab, roll out to a
thickness of about half an inch. Ilabe
in a quick oven and serve hot; cut in
to diamonds.
Chicken Cream Sandwiches.
Three-fourths cupful cooked chicken
breast, one Itoiled mashed onion, one
fourtli cupful finely cut celery, one
cupful rich milk, three tahlespoonfuls
flour, two tablespoonfuls butter,
whites of two eggs, salt, pepper, lemoD
juice to taste.
Make a white sauce of flour, buttei
and milk. Add chicken, celery and
onion. Cook until thick, then add the
well-beaten egg whites and the season
ing. Turn into a mold rinsed with
cold water and let stand 12 hours.
Slice and place between thin slices of
buttered bread.
Household Help.
The failure of getting good results
from vegetable food may be with the
selection, for vegetables out of sea
son are neither economical nor satis
factory; the flavor is usually in in
verse ratio to the cost. The best of
cooking and seasoning cannot sup
ply the lack of flavor.
Vegetables may be crisp and fresh
when brought from the market, but by
careless handling are wilted and
spoiled.
—
Corn With Chicken.
Put one can of com, half-cnpfnl 1
flour, one tablespoonful butter, one
beaten egg. half-teaspoonful sab and
half as much pepper in a double boil
er and cook, adding a little sweet milk ;
if it seems too thick. Lastly, add two
cupfuls chicken meat. When cold cut
In slices and fry in hot butter or hot
chicken fat, if yon have it. Serve
while hot.
- — ■ -
Sardine Toast.
This old recipe has much to recom
mend it. Take six sardines, two eggs
and sufficient cayenne. Scale and
bone the sardines, boil the eggs hard
and chop them. Lay first the chopped
egg or some hot buttered toast, then
the sa’-dines seasoned with cayenne,
and put in the oven.
SYRUP OF FIRS FOR
: A CHU'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.
—
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insisted
on—castor oil, calomel, cathartics
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form ol
physic simply don’t realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious "California Syrup of Figs." Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless "fruit
laxative" handy: they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-eent bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs." which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Power of Music.
“Why do people prefer music to con
versation?”
“Seems to be some sort of instinct
about it. There isn't anybody who
wouldn't rather listen to canary birt1
than to a parrot.”
GOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN
Children love Skinner's Macaroni
and Spaghetti because of its delicious
taste. It is good for them and you
can give them all they want. It is a
great builder of bone and muscle, and
does not make them nervous and irri
table like meat. The most economical
and nutritious food known. Made from
the finest Durum wheat. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co.. Omaha. Nebr.. for beau
tiful cook book. It Is sent free to
mothers.—Adv.
Leap Year.
By the present method of reckoning
time every year of which the number
is divisible by four without a remaind
er is leap year, excepting the centen
nial. or even hundredth years, which
are only leap years when divisble by
four after suppressing the two ciphers.
The year 1600 was a leap year, the
years 1700. tsoo and 19<Ki were not leap
years, but the year 2000 will be and
every intervening year that is exactly
divisible by four. From 1796 to 1S04
and from ltd*6 to 1904 were eight-year
intervals without a leap year.
CUTICURA COMPLEXIONS
Are Usually Remarkably Soft and
Clear—Trial Free.
Make Cuticura Soap your every-day
toilet Soap, and assist it now and then
as needed by touches of Cuticura Oint
ment to soften, soothe and heal. Noth
ing better to make the complexion
clear, scalp free from dandruff and
hands soft and white.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Bonus System in Japan.
The highest salaried man in Japan
.lues not receive enough money in that
form to pay for gasoline used by his
automobile, for salaries of the man
jgers of business corporations are in
significantly small, says the Japan
Times. Salaries, however, are not the
total income of business men. Under
the Japanese custom there is a liberal
bonus system, and the bonus amounts
to 300 or 400 times the monthly salary
in some cases.
The Mitsui company is regarded as
the biggest corporation in Japan and
their directors are noted for their
large incomes. Kach director is said
to receive in the form of a bonus
about SlOO/mn a year, although his
salary may be only S25o a month.
Suffered With Severe
Pain in Back
Some time ago 1 was bothered terribly
with my kidneys: they were inflamed and
swollen and 1 suffered with a severe pain
in my back. 1 heard of your remedy.
Swamp-Root, and decided to give it a trial.
I found great relief from the first feu
doses. and after taking the second bottle
of your large. 81.00 size. 1 was entirelv
cured of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root is a medicine with merit and
1 will recommend it to all who suffer from
kidney, hver and bladder trouble.
Yours verv trulv.
„ MRS. LIDA RIGGLE.
Oct. 16. 1915 Corning. Iowa.
Personally appeared before me this 16th
day of October. 1915. Mrs. Lida Higgle,
who subscribed the above statement and
made oath that the same is true in sub
stance and in fact.
WALTER W LATELY.
Xotary Public.
I believe age is 28.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yoa
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer ft Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y., for a sample size bot
tle. It will convince anyone. Yon will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation.telling abont the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular Sfty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores—Adr.
Carrying It Too Far.
Mr. Curran and Mr. McManus spent
their Saturday half holiday ia artistic
pursuits. Among the objects exam
ined was a new public building. The
feature of this building that appealed
most strongly to Mr. Curran was an
inscription cut into a huge stone.
“MDCCCXCYin,” he read aloud.
“What does them letters mane. Tim?”
“That.” replied the cultured Mr. Mc
Manus. “stands for 1898.”
“Oh,” Mr. Curran replied. Then, af
ter a thoughtful pause, he added:
“Don’t yez think. Tim, that they’re
overdoln’ this spellin' reform a bit?”—
New York Times.
The temperature of Southern Aus
tralia varies not more than 20 degrees
daring the year.
Cold brick buyers are born often
enough to keep the manufacturers
from going out of business.
DEBATE JIT BILL
OPPONENTS AND PROPONENTS OF
UNIVERSAL TRAINING PRES
ENT ARGUMENTS.
—
SENATE IS LIKELY TO ACT
Indications Are That Upper House
Will Either Pass or Reject Measure,
but Chance of Action in House at
This Session Is Believed Slight.
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. — It seems entirely
probable that the senate will debate
j and either pass or reject a bill for
universal military training before this
I short session is ended. The indica
tion is that Senator Chamberlain's
measure on this subject will be re
ported favorably before long. The
hearings are drawing to a close.
It is perhaps true that on no mutter
of legislation which has lieeu before
congress for years have the lines of
favor and disfavor been so sharply
drawn as on this piece of proposed
legislation which would give the youth
of the United States, irrespective of
their poverty, wealth or social stand
ing, a military training. It is only the
truth to say that the proposal has
grown in favor in congress since it be
came so clearly manifest that the leg
islation in its effect would be so broad
ly democratic. This means that no
young man. no matter what his fam
ily’s position, power or wealth, could
escape what the young man without
money, power or position must give
: to his country.
It is not at all likely that universal
military training will become a fact
in this country for some little time.
It is. however, entirely within the
possibilities that the senate will pass
the measure at this session. It is
known definitely that some of the nd
, visers of the administration have
changed their minds about the legis
lation. Originally they were opposed
to it and now they are in favor of it.
There are men here ready to predict
that if the senate shall pass the meas
ure. although there is no hope that the
house will act at this session, that
President Wilson next year will sug
gest universal military training in his
address to congress.
Hearings On for Some Time.
The subcommittee of the senate
committee on military affairs has been
holding hearings on universal military
training for a long time. Opponents
and proponents of the measure have
been appearing daily to give their
views. Tliere is in Washington an
organization called the American
Union Against Militarism. This or
ganization is opposed to universal
military training. It has just had its
hearing before the senate subcommit
tee. The organization produced some
physical training experts, a number of
1 college students, some general educa
tors. some representatives of “par
ents' associations," and some former en
listed men of the regular army to bear
evidence against the necessity of uni
versal military training.
Unquestionably the reason for the
growth of favor of the measure in
Washington is due to the difficulty in
getting volunteer recruits either for
the regular army or for the National
Guard. The last army bill passed by
congress has not met the expectations
of the men who supported It. They
say so. George E. Chamberlain, Demo
cratic senator from Oregon, but who
is a native of Mississippi, has just
made a statement declaring that a real
understanding of the bill and what it
will do will cause its opponents to
change their minds on the subject of
universal military training.
Capital Mourns for Cody.
News of the death of Col. William
K. Cody, familiarly and affectionately
known as Buffalo Bill, was received
with sorrow in the capital. In Wash
ington Colonel Cody always lias been
a marked and familiar figure.
Among those who watched Buffalo
Bill's illness, with alternating anxiety
and hope and fear for the outcome is
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, C. S.
army (retired;. Through many cam
paigns Miles and Cody camped, rode
and fought side by side. There was
a brotherhood of affection between the
two men.
Colonel Cody came to Washington
every winter of the latter years of his
life. He always met General Miles
who makes this city his home, and to- j
gether they lived over the old days on
the plains from the time that Miles
was in the field against the A ra pa hoes,
the Cheyennes and the Kiowas. through
his campaigns against the Sioux of
the North and ending only when the
last great Indian uprising following
the ghost dance craze, closed with the
surrender of Kicking Bear. Short Bull
and the rest of their followers at Pine
Ridge. S. D.. in February. 1801.
I knew Buffalo Bill intimately in the
not-so-old days. He was a gentle soul,
but an untiring and hard fighter when
the necessity came. In December.
1890, the Indians of the Northwest
became affected by Sitting Bull’s
prophecies of the coming of an In
dian Messiah who would set all things
right. The buffalo were to return in
the herds of another day. the white
man was to be overcome and the red
man was to be restored to his own.
Sitting Bull was killed near Stand
ing Rock agency by Indian police. Big
Foot nnd his hand of 300 Indians, firm
in the belief that the "ghost shirts"
would turn the bullets of the white ;
man. met and fought the Seventh cav- 1
airy at Wounded Knee creek. The
band virtually was exterminated and j
about seventy troopers of the Sev
enth cavalry were killed or wounded.
Adviser to Genera! Miles.
There were 3. XIO Indians “off the
reservation" at this time. Troopers
were brought from all over the United
States to quell the uprising. I was
sent as a newspaper e>i--respondent
from Chicago to Join *he forces in the
field near Pine Kidge agency. On my
way west Buffalo Bill boarded the
train at Chadron. Neb., to make his
way to I*ine Kidge there to Join Gen
eral Miles who had sent for him to
act not only in his old capacity as
scout, but as adviser concerning the
means to bring the campaign to an
end with as little bloodshed as pos
sible.
Buffalo Bill was in the field with
General Miles at this time until the
last of the Indians surrendered. His
counsel was invaluable. He knew
virtually every one of the chieftains
who with their following were on the
war path. Miles knew them also and
these two men between them, by the
employment of trusted Indians whom
they could dispatch to the hostile
camps, managed after some weeks of
time to induce the Indians to come
into Pine Ridge agency, and there to
surrender. Of course Miles’ disposi
tion of his military forces aided
greatly.
“Church of State" Celebrates.
Washington naturally enough has
scores of public buildings. A disap
pointed cynic lias said that unnatural
ly enough Washington has a church
for every one of its public buildings.
Brooklyn has been called the city of
churches, but it has no more claim to
the name than has this capital of the
country. Washington has many
churches and about several of them
cluster incidents of historic interest.
At this writing there is being cele
brated the one hundredth anniversary
of the founding of St. John's Protes
tant Episcopal church on Lafayette
square in this city. St. John's is a
small church and it is by no means
the oldest church in the town, ai
though it holds the interest of strang
ers perhaps more strongly than any
other sanctuary in the capital. It is
a quaint church architecturally, beau
tiful in a plain way, and its pews al
ways are filled at the Sunday services
and pretty well occupied at all those
held on the week days.
It is this century-old edifice which
is known as the “church of state.” a
semi-humorous reference to the fact
that many presidents of the United
States have attended its services, and
because even if a president is of an
other religious persuasion, a pew in the
church is always maintained for White
House occupancy.
From all over the country there have
come to Washington noted men nnd
women to attend the celebration in this
month of the “year of a hundred
years." The hell of St. John's which
calls the church members to service
on Sunday made its first “presidential
appeal” to James Monroe. John Quincy
Adams, if memory of th£ history of
his life serves, was a Congregationalist,
hut he attended St. John's church. In
addition to Monroe and Adams, Van
Ruren. the first Harrison. Tyler. Tay
lor, Fillmore and Arthur were worship
ers in St. John's.
Presidents’ Wives Among Worshipers.
There is a real reason for the setting
aside of a pew in St. John's for the use
of every incoming president. It may
be that the president himself was not
an Episcopalian, but as several chief
executives of other religious persua
sions have married members of the
Episcopal church, the wives and the
children of such chiefs of state have
attended St. John's.
President Wilson’s wife is an Episco
palian while he is a Presbyterian. His
two immediate predecessors in office
had Episcopalians for wives while they
were members of other churches. Theo
dore Roosevelt Is a member of the
Dutch Reformed church and William
H. Taft is a member of the Unitarian
church, but both of their wives are
Episcopalians and both attended St.
John’s.
Mrs. Wilson attended St. Thomas’
church, but just before her marriage
left that parish to attend services at
St. Margaret’s. another Episcopal sanc
tuary. Virtually she is the only wife
of a president who, being an Episco
palian. lias not regularly attended serv
ices in St. John's.
Tlie church is situated well within
sight of the White House, being di
rectly across Lafayette square, a most
pleasant Sunday morning two minute's
walk through the beautiful park with
a statue of Lafayette on one side, one of
Rochambeuu on another, and with Gen
eral Jackson in the middle foreground.
Occasionally former Presidents Roose
velt and Taft attended St. John's
church with their wives, but nearly ev
ery Sunday each went to the church in
which he held membership.
New Cedar for Pencils.
The eastern red cedar or juniper is
becoming so scarce and valuable that
the pencil manufacturers are turning
to the California incense cedar for a
source of their supply. This Incense
cedar resembles the eastern red cedar
more closely than any other wood. It
is somewhat lighter in color, however,
nnd a chemical process is l*eing used
to stain the wood to resemble eastern
red cedar. A large percentage of our
pencils are now being made from Cali
fornia incense cedar. The tree is
felled and cut up into large planks.
These planks are again sawed iuto
small slats a little wider than the di
ameter of a pencil.—Scientific Ameri
can.
Punch bowels of molded ice, with
delicate flowers incased therein, are
iteing turned out for social functions
by some ice manufacturers.
CONDENSATIONS
Gasoline motors make readx sales in
Cuba.
Ticking for mattresses is needed in
Canada.
Richard Belt has completed a bust
it Lord Kitchener.
One mile of’a country rm.d in Ore
gon is surfaced with borax.
The Grand Trank Pacific dry dock,
at Prince Rupert, cost $2,500,000.
Street traffic In San Francisco is
reg»Jcted by electric semaphores.
Australia's pearl-fishing Industry is
being held up by the war.
Up to the middle of December. Can
ada had enrolled 3S1.43S men for the
great war.
Aviators attached to the signal
corps station at San Diego obtain
weather reports*
At the ninth annual apple show in
Spokane. 49.200 apple pies were given
away.
A movement is under way to turn
the vacant lots of Nev.> Orleans into
vegetable gardens.
OPPORTUNITIES
| THATJUOISSED
Why Wait? Why Not Go to West
ern Canada Now?
j The writer has frequently heard th*
. remark that “after the war we will gt
i to Western Canada.” It does not oc
cur to those making the remark that it
j they wish to secure lands in Western
| Canada, whether by homestead or pur
j chase, the best time to go is now. After
| the war the welcome will be just as
hearty as ever, bdt the chances are
that land values will increase and to
day homesteads are plentiful and land
j is reasonable in price. There is nc
question about what the land In Muni
| toba. Saskatchewan and Alberta will
do, what it will give uuder proper cul
tivation.
Farmers in Western Canada are pay
| ing for their land holdings with the
j proceeds of last year's crop. That this
I is no idle statement may be gleaned
from the three following items, which
j are picked out at random:
“In the spring of 191G a half-sectioD
of laud was offered for sale at $17.0(1
per acre. There were 103 acres ot
summer-fallow, which because the
owner could not at the time tind a
buyer, were seeded to wheat. A yield
of 40 bushels per acre, 4,200 bushels
all told, grading No. 1, was obtained.
The price the day the grain was sold
(which was very early in the season,
before grain prices advanced to round
about $2.00) was $1.60. which brought
the handsome total of $6,720.00. Three
hundred and twenty acres at $17.00
equals $3,440.00, so that a buyer, by
placing less than half of the whole
under crop, would have made a profit
of $1,280.00.” — Hobson Messenger
Robson. Sask.
“That the ’Indiana Boys’ farm this
year raised sufficient crop to pay for
the land, all the machinery and all
overhead expenses as weil as make a
handsome profit, is the information
given by N. B. Davis, the manager.
The wheat yield was over 22.000 bush
els. Of twelve cars already sold, nine
graded No. 1. and Mr. Davis has sold
I over 2.000 bushels locally for seed at
! $2.00. Naturally, when he gets to In
diana he will be a big booster for Al
berta.”—Bossano Mail, Bassano, Alta.
“Oscar Castalor, who bought land at
Blusson after the crop had been put
in last spring, for $3,800.00. has
threshed 3,900 bushels of wheat, which
j i« worth at present prices about
$7,500.00. He refused an offer of
: $5,000.00 for the land after the crop
had been taken off.”—Lethbridge Her
ald. Lethbridge. Alta.
Reports from the wheat fields are
highly encouraging and show that the
] wheat crop of many farmers in West
ern Canada was highly satisfactory.
Coblenz, Sask.—W. A. Rose has
threshed an average of 33 bushels per
acre and 83 bushels of oats.
Gleichen, Alberta.—Up to date 237.
812 bushels of grain have been received
by local elevators, of which nearly
180.000 bushels were wheat. Seventy
one cars of grain have already been
shipped.
Stoop Creek, Sask.—James McRae
has threshed 5.400 bushels of grain.
2.000 bushels of which were wheat,
grading No. 1 Northern. One field
averaged 44 bushels per acre, and a
large field of oats averaged S3 bushels.
If information as to the best loca
! tion is required, it will be gladly fur
nished by any Canadian Government
Agent, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere.—Advertisement.
Unbreakable Windows.
Repeated coats of raw or boiled lin
seed oil applied to a newly meshed wire
fabric will give a good substitute for
window glass. The wire may be used
for many purposes, and is especially
good where glass might easily be
broken. The fabric may be dipped in
the oil instead of applying it with a
brush.
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi
ness. coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath—always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines. instead of being cast out
of the system iB re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con
gestion and that dftll, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in th# bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep—a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
' clear, stomach sweet and your livei
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
Singing Contests in Norway.
Some of the songs of Norway con
i sist of hundreds of four-line verses,
; which must surely be a hard test to the
memory of the singers. Sometimes
; two s*ngers will have a duet in such
i a song, singing verse after verse alter
nately. He whose memory, or tn de
fault of memory, invention, fails him
first is loser.—From Norway, by Nloo
J ungman.
Obviously.
“Smithers dressed up that story he
told.”
“I suppose that is why he took It
to a swallow-tale party.”
A strike of undertakers took place