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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1916. Health Hints -:- Fashions -:- Woman's Work -:- Household Topics Mother Still Bakes Bread Tie word "lady," traced to its Anclo-Saxon derivation, means "a kn-ader of bread," and the 975 women wlo baked 975 loaves in a prize com petition at Philadelphia gave a literal illustration of what used to be the paramount distinction of the house wife never too proud to cook. And tlx first prize for the downtown dis trict went to Mrs. Robert Bird, at 1.530 South Rittenhouse square, in a legion where people are supposed to he able to send to the bakeshop round she corner when company comes without breaking into the baby's lank. To bake a loaf of bread properly is triumph of culinary science. The finished product placed on the table was a thing taken for granted till hotels began to charge for it, and few , who devoured it though, the chief morning prayer of the race begins with a request for It thought any thing of the labor involved in its con coction. As Giotto proved himself a capable architect by one turn of the '., wrist that made a freehand circle, and as a carpenter shows that he knows the tools of his trade and the way to use them by constructing a square-cornered box, so a jgood cook is known by the bread she makes. The human digestion cannot lean up on a staff of sour' dough. The Jap anese fought the Russians on rice, the Serbs barred the way for a long time to the Germans on bread merely. If the armies of peace, as well as those of war, must fight upon the stomach, good bread is of fundamental dietetic concern, and those who can make it are valuable servants of mankind, even though they "sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam" ordinarily, in stead of dabbling amid hot suds in the kitchen. Philadelphia Ledger. MSB A DIAMOND FOR A WEDDING OR GRADUATION PRESENT Do you roftllw tht wondtrful opportunity our liboiml Credit 8yitm Afford you to mk beautiful and lutfnr vffta with a vary HtUo ready mottoy. Nothing will be o mueh prised m ft Mndiomo-Diamond Ring, La Vallltrt, Bracelet, Ear Screw. Scarf Pin. Watch, Wrlrt Watch or other Jewelry or fine Silverware. s Jo 1134 UL; VaJ. Here. Hd sold. black enamel 1 fine diamond, 1 real pearl, IS Inch C1C chain...... It JO a Month. 27$ Diamond Ring, 14k -olid gold, Lofttt "Perfection" CJA mounting 1 a Week. lUMMen' Plat PH eher Ring, 14k olid gold, large aparVling Diamond CA DeHel . . . aeto a menu., Open Dally Till . m. Saturday Till 0:30. Call or write lor Catalog No. 903. Phase Doug lee 1444 and Our Salesman wui van. f PATIC "J MTIOMl 111 I 2 CREDIT iEWEUftl Hello, Summer! -o- Copyriiht, Ills, International New. Brnc. -0- By Nell Brinkley r Attvertiting it the pen dulum that keeps buy ing and telling in motion m I . growing too warm there under your down-quilt, and sleeping pretty late? You didn't tell me to stir you up when I jaw you.'; last in the dark of winter, when you shut your sleepy blu eyes but I thought I just 'spected perhaps you wanted to be up early to hear the first robin hammer and see rthe water drops glisten on his rosy vest and perhaps to fuss up your woods for the little city kids that may, by some wild miracle or the big open hand of a fairy-godmother man, get to come' to them in a bit of a while. I haven t seen the robin myself. I'm a "business girl" and I wrestle with meehenl- . cal knots. all day l.ng, and ride home at last in the soft twilight on a , stuffed, heavy-breathing ear. v ' ., r The park I pass is wrapped in darkness like black velvet, and if theVe is a robin there he is gone to bed and feathery dreams. But from my office window, high up, I can see blue sky, a dainty blue, , washed clear and clean by a west wind, with some of the cotton from ' your quilt drifting across, and I kn ow that if I could throw . a thin , cord up and up in a mile-high arch with a coin or my heavy winter heart on the end to bring it down at last beyond the city to the hori zon and what it makes mystery of there, my cord would make a rain bow whose end would be where there are already palely green grass and whistling mocking-birds back from "Palm Beach," and skipping robins and branches with the sap up and the buds puffing, and your breathing moving through the spring air. Hello, Summer I, Hello! The world a-wantjn' you and you asleep!" , "Hello, Summer-r-rl I'm wh o is this? I'm 6 and I'm in school. And it's gettin' to be a long ways between 9 o'clock and 2. And the seats get harder and harder, and I stwirm and stwirm and they don't get any softer. And the windows are open now and the sun is so warm I And my eyes gets crossed and scratchy and my head's as' heavy as a pungkin and I lay it down across1 my arms and forget. In our yard the grass is gettin' warm to lay on and look up at the sky. And I wisht you'd come out of your .little bed in the deepy woods and shut up school I So little girls can stay home and cook with their mothers and never spell at all." 'v "Hello hello who's this? hello this Summer? Oh, Lady, Lady! You've one pink foot out", but your eyes are fast, and where is your soul gone walking? Come awake. Summer Lady, with your flower-blue eyes and come out in your waiting garden. And to aH watchful, ardent Youth. There's a pool in the CatskillK that lies like a green jewel in the arms of mossy rocks. It is twenty feet from its shimmering surface to the smooth, clean, cold rocks, at the bottom. So clear it is, so diamond clear, that looking, you think you could roll up a sleeve and touch this rocky floor with an'exploring hand. I remember- its clear, xold world closing round as I dived. And I remember that there are trout tjiere as long as 'ong as this I "Summer Lady, come with me there I There are boats that yearn for the breast of the water and there is picnicking to be done! There's the golf course, and a horse; there's the pine woods hum ming to themselves while they wait, trying over their string chants until the wild tiger-lily and the-man from the city come to them, and there is Love, perhaps I AH waiting 'till you wake and step once more through the world that loves you, your arms full of flow ers and your breath of honey-scent." "Hello Summer's a young thing and the young can sleep, with the red in the cheeks and the dew on their eyelids and their breath coming soft. But I am only an old, ancient lady and the old are im patient! Who would think I care whether Summer sleeps on; for Winter is my shadow and has laid his frosty hind on my hair. But I care. My blood moves faster when I find the tulips and -the daffo dils in the florist windows looking out with their golden faces into my dull, faded on. But their faces do not change when they look at mine; they are just as gold and jolly as when they turn up to a girl's fresh cheeks! In that they are kind your children. Summer. "The soft air, the Spring rain, the scent of earth warm and living they all bring memories, and my old heart tries to beat quick and loud as it did when it was young. When you wake; Summer, and stroll among your moon-flowers and pinks, it knows a little season of youth again and takes joy in the soaring prayer of the lark just as my gran' babies' tiny hearts do. Oh, sure Youth isn't the only suitor on your wire, lazy-daisey the Old look on you fondly, too, and jingle your telephone 1" NEL L BRINKLEY. Why It Costs Hore to Furnish Telephone Service in a Large - ' Town Than in a Snail One .. Telephones usually increase in number as a town grow, end the more telephone there are the more opportunities there are for the use of each telephone. The more calls there are from each .telephone the more it , costs to operate that telephone and the more wear there, is on the equipment "V Also the equipment per telephone is more expensive in larger places. For example, Jn a town of 10,000 people the more intricate and complicated switchboard that has to be used costs nearly five times as much per subscriber connected as in a town of 1,000 people. - . " ' Subscribers in the town of 10,000 people live on an average three times as far from the central office as in the smaller places. e. Also subscribers move more in large centers, and these moves cost money. ' . "' , A more exacting grade of service is required in larger places, which increases the operating costs. Again wages, taxes ' and rents are higher as a town grows larger. Then, too, in larger places we are generally asked to place our wires underground in cables, whiclys very expensive. These are some of the reasons why telephone rates cannot be as low in targe towns as in small ones. . (3) Hints on Choosing aDoctor By ALAN RALEIGH. If the very Instant you set eye on him you feet some relief of your symptoms, some slight return of con fidence, some "faint desire to go on living, ..that Is the doctor for your money. If you feel worse, get rid of him at the first opportunity at once. If you possess the courage tQjdo so. He will never do you any good. This is ho mere fancy, but sound scientific reasoning. The best doctor for you is the one who makes you feel better when you see him, not the one who is crammed to the brim with is an affinity of the mind and an affinity of the heart; I will not add an affinity of the soul, for' that is an even more subtle and deli cate matter, and beyond the icope of this article. N There is also a repulsion of the mind and of the heart. The influence of mind over matter is a truism almost a platitude but how it acts in this way is not easily understand. Yet act it does. Let me cite an instance. Someone you love is separated from you, ill perhaps, and there is no news; you worry and you are anxious; you cannot sleep; your appetite is lost; you cannot fix your mind on your work; you lose all interest and pleas ure in life, and you walk about with laggard steps and careworn face. Sud denly you get a wire, "Cheer up. All's well. Love," or something to that effect, and in an instant, as if by magic, all is changed. You could shout for joy; your steps trip and spring; yon are eager for work or play; your happiness infects those around you. Now, if a doctor were to examine the action of your vital organs before and after the good news had been re ceived, he would find that the action of every single organ had been im proved ana strengtnenea. Your Drain ' is more active, your ASK FOR nd GET HORLICK'S IBB ORIGINAL ' MALTED MILK Cbssj sabstttot cost TOO sum adea heart beats more vigorously and more steadily, the blood circulates more easily, the eye is clearer, the skin acts better and the muscles are more colttracted. You can look the world in the face with a serene and happy confi dence all through half a dozen words on a sheet of paper. And in this case the person who ef fects the change is at a remote dis tance. What greater changes may we not expect when eye speaks to eye and heart to heart, when the aura that surrounds another human be ing is in close and actual contact with you. In that way lies the success of the true physician, the soothing pres ence, the healing touch, he who exer cises in' a way most appropriate to your symptoms some degree of un conscious and unavowed hypnotic suggestion. No one whose personality is hostile to you will ever exercise this influ ence. There are some doctors you know not the one you will call in, of course towards whom you have the feeling that, clever though they may be, you would actually feel worse if they came into the sick room. Shun alt such as you would the plague. ; There is the doctor who regards you with a grave and anxious face and says, in an almost sepulchral voice: "My dear sir, you have only just called me in time, as if to claim the personal credit of snatching you from the jaws of death. In reality lie is generally a prepos terous humbug, a qualified charlatan trading; on human weakness. His aura is positively harmful; every single one of your many symptoms immediately . worsens when lie comes in. . . For, believe me, disease is. not defi nite entity which can be attached and routed out of you as you would rout dirt and dust out of kn engine whose works had grown rusty. .Urdinary skill by means ot drusa we expect and generally get from ev ery doctor, but it is the far more sub tle and potent influence of the man and his individuality on your vital energy that counts. Some people get better in spite of, not because of, their doctors, v The doctor of your choice, the doc tor with the right bedside manner should be the man who makes the impression of "shooing" away ' dis ease, as a woman "shoos" hens. , 11 taXEKYI IKCMEAN3ME SCWlti fes. - in.,,, mi n ,' litHIll Cream Soup By CONSTANCE CLARKE. Cream soup is delicious when the creaming is done carefully so that no lumping or curdling occurs. ,Melt five tablespoonfuls of butter in a stewpan, stir in three tablespoonfuls of flour, add one quart of white stock and atir till soup boils; simmer, it gently for ten minutes and remove any grease. Cut a cucumber into small pieces; put these with a cup of shelled peas into a pan of salted wa ter, and boil them until tender, then dram and-keep them hot in a little extra stock. Beat the yolks of three eggs together with half a cup of cream, cool the soup slightly and strain in the thickening of egg and cream. Stir over the fire a few sec onds, but take the greatest care not to let the 'soup boil, or it will curdle the cream and be spoiled. Next add a seasoning of salt and pepper and the peas and cucumbers. Serve hotin bouillon cups; just before serving garnish the tap with a tea3poonful of whipped cream, r . ' (Tomorrow V cal Loaf.)