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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1905)
)"" "V& WlWWP'fl (jflf ygt-Wpwr-jrf i ' a 1 SEPTEMBER 29, 1905 bag, and claims that It imparts no flavor to the flour, but is effectual in its protection. It would probably do as well in beans ana peas. Student Some authorities claim that "good coffee, as a beverage, is harmless," but many people do not only have good coffee, but would not know how to make the beverage if they did. The drink is generally ruined between the pantry and the table. Flossie If the rubber plant droops, leaves turn yellow and drop off, try putting a teaspoonful of ground mus tard in a coffee cup of boiling water, cool a little and pour on the soil in the pot; sometimes a long, black, hard-shelled worm springs to the sur face, and if you kill this worm the plant will usually recover. A. M. H. For the bunion, take a good-sized onion and bake it until soft; cut it in halves, take out the neart of one piece so it will fit over the bunion, and put the half onion on as hot as can be borne. Apply at night, and securely wrap the foot so as to keep the onion m place. Re peat the next night. Anxious. Try working for your own home paper. The editor will doubtless be glad to have your items, if they are news and In good, readable shape. Tell him wnat vou want to do, and his practical help, with the real work of news-gathering, will be better than any correspondence school. School Girl. A "great reader" is not always, or very often, a wise one. It depends very much on what is read whether it is helpful or harmful, and even the best reading must be taken with moderation. You must take time to digest your mental food, and you will find it to your advantage to read only the best authors, and to study to find out just what the au thor's meaning is, in everything you read. Mrs. R. L. R. Almost any druggist especially one doing business in a city of anv nretenslons can furnish you with the toilet pumicestone, at a cost of ten to twenty-five cents. It should not cost more than ten cents. The majority of specialists say there is no method for permanently remov ing superfluous hair, unless it be by the electric needle, which process is a painful, costly, slow experience, and not always satisfactory. Katie G. My poor child, try and let medicines, and esneciallv the ad vertised "cure-alls," of the ingredients of which you know nothing, severely alone. If you must take medicines, consult your home physician, but take no more medicine (drugs) than you have to. You can not cure yourself with drugs, and our best physicians are civine less drrnrR and more ad vice as to personal care, than form erly. Try to forget that you have any ailments, drink plenty of pure water (none at meals, or for two hours after), breathe lots of fresh air, sleep in a room with all the doors and win dows open, keep the styn (all over your body) clean, take lots of out door exercise; eat what agrees with you, and very little indeed even of that, and get your health back 'by littles," beginning with the firm de termination that you can and will get well. Don't worry, but laugh all you can, whether you feel like it or not. The Commoner. kettle with about ono quart of water for nrnnnin1 -.. . vruni, j-w'wuu iiuil unougn to fill a wo-quart can, and to them add I one" heaping cupful of sugar, imvo the Hint iZ f uue(amI new rubbers that have lain a few minutes in a solution of soda and hot water; scald the tops; set the can on a folded towel, put the rubber on the can an carefully dip the fruit Into the jar as sdbn as it Is tendor; shake the jar gently to settle the fruit, and add syrup as you like more or less If a. little syrup is left, put it in a bowl to ono side, and whnn nil iim ,. tun, put the remnants of fruit into this syrup and can by itself. The iruit must be attended to when it Is "just right," or it will not be satisfac tory. If the pears have fine, thin skins, and are sound, leave them whole with skins on for pickling; otherwise, they must be pared and cored. Make a syrup of one quart of mild vlnoi?jir and four pounds of sugar; put this into a porcelain-lined or agate pro serving kettle and add cloves, (whole) ono ounce; whole cinnamon, two ounces; let this boil awhile, until the vinegar is "spiced," then strain into a preserving kettle and for this amount of spiced vinegar, add about eight pounds of pears. Boil until tender, skim out. and boil the svrun until ns thick as good honey, when the pears should be returned, the whole boiled up once and then canned and sealed. Pears may be dried, the same as ap ples or peaches, and the nicer thoi pears used, the nicer the dried fruit. They are best pared before being dried. 11' Rteam cooker, an ohMnililoncd "steamer" will do fine. Requested Recipes Something About Pears Not many varieties of pears are suitable for canning. Bartletts are very nice if allowed to get very ripe before using; they should be so soft that the juice runs while they are being prepared. Halve, and remove the seeds, then carefully peel enough for one can; do not drop into cold water, but at once put them in the AN OLD AD WJSUi T1U1SD RKMEDY teethfnS?W,,SSo0TUINO BYUD1 for children loo hirVtsn'l?" bonsca for children whfio Oatmeal Brown Bread Mix a pint of rolled oats, a pint of rolled wheat, half a pint of granulated yellow corn meal, half a pint of whole wheat flour and one teaspoonful of salt. Dis solve a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in two tablespoonfuls of warm water; add it to half a pint of New Orleans molasses; stir and add this to a pint of thick, sour milk; mix with the dry ingredients. Pour in a greased brown-bread mould and boil or steam continuously for four hours. Mrs. Rorer. Gluten Bread. Scald a pint of flour; when lukewarm add half a cake of compressed yeast dissolved In a quarter of a cupful of cold water; add half a teaspoonful of salt and the whites of two eggs well beaten; stir In SlOWly tWO CUnfulR Of clnfon (whole wheat) flour; beat thoroughly and stand aside in a warm place (75 degrees Fahrenheit) for three hours; then add slowly as much flour as the dough will hold and enable you to stir it. Pour the batter in two snuare greased pans; cover and stand in some warm place for one and a half hours, then bake in a moderate oven for three-fourths hour Mrs. Rorer. Graham Bread. Scald a pint of milk; add half a pint of water; when lukewarm add one compressed yeast cake dissolved in half a cupful of water; add a tablespoonful of mo lasses, a level teaspoonful of salt, and sufficient graham (not fine whole wheat) flour to make a batter that will drop from a spodn; beat for five minutes; cover and stand in a warm place (75 degrees Fahrenheit) for three hours. Add and beat In anoth er pint of graham flour; beat well; pour into tnree greaseu square pans; cover and let stand for one hour. Bake in a moderate oven ror three-quarters of an hour. Mrs. Rorer. Boston Brown Bread. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in three cupfuls of sour milk, and add one cupful of molasses. Stir well, and add one cup ful of sifted corn meal and three cup fuls of graham (coarse ground) flour. Stir until perfectly smooth, and pour into well-greased moulds (can use tin cans with one end melted off) and steam four hours. If you have no What Women's Clubs Arc Doing The club season will begin In a few weeks, and in ono way or another it will bo demonstrated to thouo who wish to know that women's clubs are a good thing, it would bo well just at this soason of the year to ponder upon the fact that "Danto is dead," .Mrs Decker explained at the mooting of the state federation last summer that she meant no disparagement to the StUdV of Djinfo wlmn , i. the few words that have been quoted ou iiiuuii, inn sue could not boar to think of women devoting all their time and energy to a subject of so ttlc importance in tho face of the them iSSUeS VOry (lay confront,nS The club women of r.hnmm i, made a good record In the way of keeping in touch wltn the needs of the world and trying to bettor tho condition of women whenever pos sible. The most prominent clubs of the city have nnmnc niime n, !.... - - ---o i.ivi bunion formed an association for the support of a model lodging house, which last year gavo shelter to 19,110 poor wom en and girls. They now have three houses which are used for the pur- iKJbu, nnu tne ciiarlty seems a most deserving one for women to support. It is designed especially to help the homeless women and girls who work in tho downtown fifsfrM mmi charges for lodging are 10 cents a night,, and breakfast costs 5 cents. This meal includes oatmeal, bread, butter and coffee, and other meals must bo eaten out or the house, or cooked food may be brought in. Tho women are also allowed the use of the laundry for their own washing. Each club has a furnished room in the house, and the opportunities off ered for real live work in connection with such a charity are manv. At tlie last session of the Califor nia legislature a law providing for women physicians in the state hospit als for the insane and homes for the feeble-minded was passed. This law originated with the women's clubs and received indorsement throughout the state. The chairman of the general feder ation of women's clubs gives these statistics that will be interesting to every club woman: Seventeen state federations have civil service reform committees and fourteen federations have subcommittees. It is to Mrs. Decker that credit is due for the man ner in which she has kent the merit system before the men and women of tne whole country. The sociological and philanthropic sections of women's clubs should read the twentv-flrst annual renort of the educational and industrial union of Buffalo, which has just been issued. On October 9 the union will institute a trained housekeepers' course for those who wish to fit themselves for housekeepers in hotels, apartment houses or institutions. Selected. crippled, criMhad, kilted. Thl monna widows, orphans, poverty, hunger, wrotchednoHK. it would worn that Jmitico Khould require thnt nccldontn Khould bo charged up to buinoff. IBiineclally Khould thl bo ho when a aboror got killed In the discharge of his duties and when ho ha not con trlbutod toward negligence. Something over n year ago ono Joseph Faltlnowuki was crushed wh lo drawing $9 n week from Mr. aims. He died leaving a widow and three children. Tho widow, poor, shrinking, hungry and crying, ap pealed to Mr. A Ills for holp. Thoro wun iiuuung no could do. She saw a lawyer. This man asked that she bo given something without going to tho courts. Sho could not wait long onough ror a suit to bo tried. She would starve. And it was then Mr. Allls' concern ottered to settle for $200. That was in mo unman life was worth accord ing to their system of bookkooplng. But for playing cards ah, that's an other matter. And ho did ho. Ho must bo a "dead game sport" all right. Exchange. DO YOU? Professor E. J. Miller, cxaminor at the Unlvoralty of Chicago, created a stir before tho Junior college in chapel today when ho presented a nni ui questions which ho doclarod ought to be asked of every man be fore ho received his bachelor degree. Tho professor argued that university education developed the mind, and not the heart. In order to test tho finer feelings of candidates for col legiate honors, ho suggested a num ber of questions, including tho follow ing: Do you sec anything to love in a little child? Have you sympathy wfth all good causes? Can you look strnlerhfc in iho vn of an honest man or a pure woman? Will a lonely dog follow you? Do you believe in lending a helping hand to weaker men? Do you believe in taking advan tage of the law when you can do so? Can you be high-minded and happy in drudgery? Can you see as much beauty in washing dishes and hoeing corn as in playing golf and the piano? Do you know the value of time and money? Are you good friends with yourself? Do you see anything in life besides dollars and cents? Can you see sunshine In a mud pujldle? Can you see beyond the stars? The questions which he professor propounded had a visible effect on the class and every now and then some student was seen shifting un easily in his place. New York Sun. OF COURSE MONEY TO GAMBLE BUT NONE TO PAY A DEATH CLAIM Tho world at large has little sym pathy for W. W. Allis, the millionaire and social leader who played roulette in Milwaukee the other night and lost $41,000. He can afford to lose It just as "Reggie" Vanderbilt could af ford to lost $450,000 in Canfield's gambling house in New York two years ago. Mr. Allis is one of the principal owners of the Allis-Chalmers com pany. That this company might have the open prairies to fight labor or ganizations in, it moved its plant from Chicago to tho country north of the city. It employs labor at the least possible scale. Every member nf ihn firm ia an tirmlf ernlilrk stnnrmn. V- W.. ...... ... .... . -w. V..V.X, lyllUUUU-l shooting enemy of union workshops. in an large industries laborers get This Is the way Dr. James A. Can field, librarian of Columbian univers ity, illustrated a point at the recent meeting or the National Educational association: "A friend of mine, Dr. Roberts, had a colored maid who was very popular among her friends. One day some ono called her up at the doctor's 'phone, and the following conversation en sued: "Ts this Miss White?' "'Yes, sub.' '"Miss Lily White, what works at Dr. Roberts'?' " 'Yes suh.' "Weil, Mies White, I want to ask you a question, a very Important ques tion, what I ain't had courage to ask you before. I want to ask vou If you'll marry me.' '"Many you? Cose I'll marry you! What makes you think I wouldn't marry you? Who is dis gon'man, any- way r - isew xorK .Press. - i Stitfc"iftIkCMfttH .-