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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1916.
Health Hints -:- Fashions -:- Woman's Work Household Topics
The Use of Sugar
Row much sugar we eat I
Last year it was nearly ninety
founds per head..
Only half that amount was eaten in
this country thirty years ago.
Sugar seems to have taken the
place of the oil of the south as a
fuel food.: ,
Tomatoes should always be skinned
before being used for salad. To dd
this easily, place the vegetables in a
basin and pour boiling water over
them. Let stand a minute and then
drain. . . .
The very general craving for sweets
is undoubtedly based on a demand
of the system.
But there are times and conditions
for the use of sugar which is not al
ways welcomed in the body.
If the stomach ii not able to digest
the sugar at once it is liable to change
into lactic acid instead of being ab
sorbed into the system.
A Big Special Sale of
ROCKERS
' At the
TODAY
Golden Oak Rockers
Birch Mahogany Rockers
Fumed Oak Rockers
Discontinued Patterns and Odd Lots
l From a Large Distributer .
I A big special purchase bought from one of the
largest distributers of high grade furniture at prices
which in many cases were less than the cost to manu
facture, enables us to put the entire shipment on spe
cial sale for this one day only at prices which will mean
a saving to you of at least one-half. . . ,'
H Included in this big purchase are many beautiful
and substantial rockers in the golden and fumed fin
ish. A big collection of bed room and sewing rockers
in the different finishes also a choice lot of birch ma
hogany rockers many have the plain wood seats;
others have the cobbler or upholstered seats, while
many more have the upholstered seats and backs. Each
and every rocker carries with it our absolute guarantee
as to its general wearing qualities. Come to this big
sale, expecting to find extraordinary values and you
will notlbe disappointed; and, as always, YOU MAKE
."JOUR OWN TERMS.
W NOTE THESE EXTREMELY LOW PRICES
ARM ROCKERS
Golden Oak, Cobbler
Best ......... UM
Golden Oak,: Wood
Seat ...... ...1.8S
Golden Oak, Cobbler
Seat fl.T
Golden Oak, Wood
I Seat -..-tv,..la.l8
I ' BED ROOM
v ROCKERS
Golden Oak, Wood
Seat ... ........ Me
Golden ' Oak, Wood
Seat ...........
Golden Oak, Wood
Seat MM
ARM ROCKERS
Golden Oak, Wood
Seat ......... 82.88
Golden Oak, Wood
Seat .... .....$3.25
Golden Oak, Wood
Seat ......... 13.80
Golden Oak, Genuine
Leather seat . .83.88
Birch Mahogany, Wood
Seat 82.89
Birch Mahogany, Wood
Seat ....$3.2$
Birch Mahogany, Man
oealin seat and
Back ,.......$5,951
Go dan Oak. Wood
Seat .,,......(2.381
ARM ROCKERS
Fumed Oak, Wood
Seat ,..$2.18
Fumed .Oak, Wood
Seat .$2.4
Fumed Oak, Wood
Seat $3.10
Fumed Oak, Genuine
Leather Seat. .$3.88
Fumed Oak, Genuine
Leather Seat.. $4.88
Fumed Oak, Manoca-
lln Leather Seat and
Back .$7.88
Fumed Oak, Manoca-
lin Leather Seat and
Back ........ $8.95
MANY DIFFERENT STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM
Snapshotting the Earth's Roll-
, How the Motion of the Spinning Globk May Be Visualized. , .
Why Restaurants Are
Sometimes Unsanitary
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Remarkable PhotograrSs Showing 'He Arctic Sun at Ten Minute Intervals.
Sunset, About 1:30 P. M.i December Zi and 24.
Sunrise About 10 A. M.f
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
The photographs herewith repro
duced are among the most remark
able I have even seen, considering the
nature of the phenomenon which they
represent. They were made by an
Englishman, who is known to me only
by the initials "H. S. O. B.", They
were taken at the time of the winter
solstice, about December 22, from a
place situated less than a hundred
miles south of the polar circle in
Alaska.
The row of white circles, with a
slight upward bend, consists, of pho
tographic images of the sun, taken
at intervals of only ten minutes by
a battery of cameras coming into
action successively. The horizon line,
close below, lies along the summit
of a. far-off mountain range, including
Mount McKinley. '
At the winter solstice the sun seen
from this point remains above the
horizon only three hours, rising about
10:30 a. m. and setting; about 1:30 p.
m. " During this time it describes an
arc of about 45 degrees in length
just over the southern horizon, with
a low curve like the trajectory of a
projectile fired at short rajige. Its
speed seems astonishing to the ob
server, for it moves two and a half de
grees, or nearly five tmes its own dia
meter, in ten minutes. '
This is no faster than the sun movea
through the heavens in any latitude,
at any time, but we do not notice
its speed when it is traversing the
sky at a high altitude, because then
there is no fixed objects near it by
means of which its motion may be
made evident. But when it is skim
ming along just above the horizon,
its rapid change of place produces a
most surprising effect, and one has
the impression of watching an enor
mous ball shooting along over the
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edge of the earth, and knowing the
great distance of the horizon from the
eye the mind instinctively perceives.
tne appalling velocity ot the motion.
What one actually sees, of course,
is the rotation of the earth, which,
near the Arctic circle, carries any
point on its surface eastward at a
speed of more than 400 miles an
hour. To one who fixes his attention
upon the fact that it is really the
earth that is in motion, the far-off
mountain tops seem to be skimming
along under the sun with a sickening
velocity, but the general impression
is rather that the mountains are stand
ing fast while the sun flies over
them.
It will be observed that the row of
images of the sun does not begin and
exactly end at the horizon, although
it covers nearly the whole of the sun's
visible path through the sky. This is
because, close to the horizon, at the
rising and setting points, the atmo
sphere is so unsteady and so much ob
scured by mists that, successful pho
tographs could not be made.
: Since the interval between each ex.
posure is ten minutes, it is easy to
calculate the length of time during
which the sun was photographed by
simply counting the number of inter
vals. When these amount to sixteen
the time elapsed between the passage
of the sun from one end of the line to
the other must have been 160 min
utes, or two hours, forty minutes. At
the opposite point of the year the
summer solstice the sun, viewed
from the Arctic circle, does not set
,at all on at least one day, but de
scribes a complete circle in the sky,
just touching the northern horizon at
midnight and then swinging upward.
A similar- series of photographs
made at the summer solstice would
show a row of images bent in the
opposite direction, its central image
being poised on the horizon and the
curve running upward on each side.
But then it would be the northern
instead of the southern horizon that
would serve as a base over which
the sun would swing like the bob of
a giant celestial pendulum.
Preparedness
for Girls :
A well-known man has made a
great plea for preparedness, in fact it
might be called the greatest plea. He
wanta every American girl to learn
how to manage a home before under
taking this greatest business in the
world. It is a sentiment voiced by
every thinking Mother and Father in
the country. Ihe college girl says,
"Oh I any girl with brains can learn
to do all .the cooking and home
point directly to the housewife. .
The doctor and medicine bill of the
successful housewife is very small.
The garbage can of the efficient home
manager never contains anything that
could have been converted into a
nourishing and tasty dish.
Every experienced housewife knows
that it takes long practice to master
the technique of housekeeping. Give
the girls a chance to learn in their
girlhood homes the valuable lessons
you have learned from experience.
For an economy lesson have them
prepare "left-over" dijhes occassion
ally. Following are some tested re-
managing necessary in six months." j C,PM
Yes. she has managed to "get along"
because there has been no way of
checking-up on her. In this day of
business and professional efficiency
however, it would indeed be strange
if some expert hadn't found a begin
ning of some checking system.
These experts tell us that the
American garbage can is the fattest in
the world and the Americans spend
more for patent medicines than any
other people. Both these statements
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Hltk Altltuda. Fraa Iron Hay Few.
MAPLEWOOD INN
Ovpaaha Hatal. Capacity 145.
Tame Moo, rate
Siverler It-Hale Call Cawrsa S060 yard,.
Materials' Baat Ra4latlaf Cantar In Mta.
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MEAT ROLLS: Make fine crust
as follows. To one cup of flour add
a little salt and two tablespoons of
pure leaf lard. Cut shortening into
flour with knife then rub in lightly
with finger tips. Toss pastry out on
floured board and roll thin. Cut in
three-inch squares, spread with cold
chopped ham seasoned with peppers
and a bit of sliced onion. Moisten
with a little stock or milk and roll up
like jelly roll, pressing the ends
tightly together. Bake in quick oven
and serve hot. Apple sauce, apple
salad, baked apples or pineapple salad
go well with these. .'.-.
ENGLISH RISSOLES: Chop cold
meat, beef or whatever , you have,
fine. Mix it with stock made by dis
solving one-half teaspoon of beef ex
tract in one-half cup of hot water,
season and add diced carrots or a few
peas. Add one-half cup of fine, dried
bread crumbs to a cupful of meat.
Add a raw egg, mix well, form into
rolls. Dip in flour, pllce in a wire
basket and fry in deep, pure leaf lard.
To serve, place on platter around a
mound of French Fried Potatoes and
garnish with crest
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BY WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.
There n little- actual reason for the
public to become wildly alarmed over
this 99)4 per cent badness in the of
ficial scoring ' of : restaurants and
lunch counters because conditions in
public eating places have probably
always been just as ad as they are
now -a'nc the time when the mem
ory of man runneth not back to the
contrary and we still survive in a
moderate state of preservation. The
only reason why we didn't know of
them was that no private individual
had the stomach, and no public oflii
cial: took the trouble to penetrate
those steamy and smelly regions of
mystery behind the battered and
sweat-marked swinging door at the
back of the eating room. The occa
sional whiffs which , escaped from
there when the w'nd was in the right
quarter were, quite enough.
' In the language of the hymn, there
are some things which "'tis better not
to know." But now that their nauseat
ing secrets have been discovered and
dragged out into the pitiless light of
day and published broadcast, there is
only one thing to be done, and that is,
wipe them out of existence, as the
restauranteurs have crestfallenly rec
ognized and are proceeding to do
with- the beat grace they may. Of
twenty-two( re'nspected, over half
were found to have made marked im
provement. Nor can it fairly be claimed that
this extraordinarily low rating of a
great group' of successful restaurants
is due to finicky and unattainable
standards of healthfulness. This was
the not unnatural conclusion ' sug
gested in a good many of the first
comments upon the findings. There
is noth'ng superfine or fantastic about
the shortcomings reported; nothing
that requires a microscope to see or a
chemical reaction to detect. Just an
ordinary eye and an unspoiled nose
and an average sense of decency and
cleanliness are all that is required.
No scrapings were made from
walls or refrigerators, or the cuffs
and lapels of waiters' jackets, no bac
teriologic counts made of the plat
ings, no analyses for tenths of a per
cent of some adulterant, or for the
use of wood vinegar in place of cider
vinegar in the dressings. Every fault
found was perfectly visible to the
naked eye. Food was found standing
or stored on the floor. Cooks were
found preparing dishes with un
washed hands and in filthy, ragged
clothing.
Scraps and leavings from the plates
were resurrected in the next days'
soups and stews and minces. "Spot"
eggs and low grade, that is, rancid
butter, were used in the pastry and
puddings. Dishea and plates were only
half cleaned in greasy, reeking dish
water, or wiped upon slimy, filthy
dishtowels. Dishwashers, scullery
men, and even cooks and waiters,
were found at work with skin diseases
of the hands and face, catarrh, tuber
culosis, even typhoid and other dis
gusting or communicable disorders.
Food which could not be sold upon
the delicatessen counter in open day
light was sent back to the restaurant
and concocted into goulashes, and
ragouts and hamburger steaks. The,
phrase "in the soup" has acquired a
new and sinster signifiicance.
In fact, as Inspector Browne quiet
ly remarks, "The requirements for
scoring the grade 'good' are only
such as any citizen would wish and
expect for the handling of his own
food." They are nothing more than
would be expected as a matter of
course in any decent private kitchen.
Not that all home kitchens do come
up to those standards,' but a good
many of them do. ".
One -of the reasons why public
kitchens have got into this slipshod,
unhygenic custom of the trade way
of doing things is partly because they
are overcrowded and badly lighted,
and either on account of high rents
or of the desirability of using as much
as possible of the front and well light- '
ed, attractive parts of their space for
dining rooms, show wmdows and dis
play purposes generally, the kitchent
and scullieries are crowded into back
rooms or driven underground into
cellars or basements.
Anything can happen and u""T
will happen in the dark or in a bad
light, and practically every dark cor
ner sooner or later becomes dirty and
unsanitary. Commercialism and cook
ing don't mix well and when the
cook's eye is chiefly on profits
stomachs are apt to suffer.
Another reason, and a potent one,
for the unsatisfactory conditions in
hotels and restaurants is the fact that
until just within recent years, waiters,
cooks and hotel and restaurant ser
vants generally have been unorgan
ized and unable to demand and secure
decent wages, decent living and work
ing conditions and decent food from
their employers. If there is a hotel or
restaurant m the country which doet
not at times, and usually most of the
time, feed its waiters, waitresses,
chamber maids and employes gen
erally upon stuff which is really only
fit for the garbage can, it can rise,
stand and be counted. ,
Some of the most objectionable and .
insanitary features discovered about
public kitchens have arisen from the
way in which the eating places and
wash rooms and even sleeping placet
and toilets of the cooks and helpers,
and hotel servants have been crowded
fight among or next door to the
rooms in which food was cooked or
prepared or stored.
Bedrooms for the help are ex
tremely apt to be located either in
basements or attics, and in one atate
it was actually found that the waiters
slept at night on mattresses spread
upon the tables in the dining room.
One could almost wish that it was
against the law for hotel and res-
taurant keepers in cities to house any
of their employes on the premises. It
would certainly work powerfully for
both the health nd safety 'of the
public and the comfort and welfare of
thi pmnlnves.
Thev ahnuld also be eomoelled
abandon another ancient and abomi
nable trade custom, a survival of slav
ery, that of refusing to pay their wait
ers an adequate living wage' and
sponging on the public to do it for
them in the shape of tips. If waiters
are compelled to live, as most of them
are at present, upon what they can
pick up in the way of tips and what
Ss thrown to them in the shape of
scarps and second-handed food, it is
scarcely to be expected that they will
develop high standards of self-respect
and sanitary service, or take a oride
in their occupation and in the inter
ests of the establishment in which
they are employed. The handling and
preparing and serving of human food
is certainly the last occupation which
should be left in the hands of over
worked, poorly paid, and badly fed
and housed labor.
Also, partly from the special ex
igences of the trade, partly from the
irregular and unskilled nature of the
occupation, the hours of service which
are required are often extremely long
and exhausting. Some of the most
bitter opposition, for instance, to Cali
fornia's new humane and progressive
labor laws, forbidding, among other
things, the employment of women for
more than eight hours out of the
twenty-four, came from hotels and
hotel keepers. They declared that it
was impossible to carry on their busi
ness under such restrictions, that their
property was being confiscated, took
the matter to the courts and secured
an injunction. But the courts there
had a wholesome fear of enlightened
public sentiment, and in the final ap
peal, sustained the law.
Not a single hotel went out of busi
ness, and within a year, the law had so
greatly improved conditions, not
merely for women employes, but also
for guests, patrons and the manage
ment, that the hotel keepers were
completely converted and declared
that they would not go back to the
old conditions if they could.
An eight-hour day and a minimum
wage fixed and enforced by law would
do more than almost any other single
step toward making hotel and res
taurant kitchens clean and sanitary, i
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Carrot Marmalade
Bg CONSTANCE CLARKE.
Carrots contain a large amount of
tugar, and, on account of their deep
color, make a very attractive-lqpking
preserve. : . :'..
Take two pounds of new carrots,
three pTnts of water, three pounds of
sugar, three ounces of root ginger,
the juice of two lemons, and a pinch
of cayenne. Scrub and scrape the car
rots, and cut them lengthwise into
layers. Leave them to steep in cold
water for twelve hours; then change
the water and allow them to steep
again for the same length of time.
The steeping is to draw out the strong
flavor. - Drain and dry well. Put the
carrots, sugar, ginger, juice of lemons,
cayenne and water into a preserving
pan, and boil for a quarter of an hour.
Then turn into a bowl and leave until
the next day. Repeat this process
(boiling for fifteen minutes) daily un
til the carrots are transparent, which
usually takes about three or four boil
ings. The boiling should in each case
be very gentle, merely simmering.
Turn into jelly glasses and cover. ..