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, ... ' ' THE BEE; OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917. ' 7 i ... r 1 By MELLIFICIA-Oct. 9. "Pig Knitters" Knit for Themselves. A "pig knitter." That's what they call women in the east who spend countless hours knitting sweaters for themselves in all ,the rainbow hues, instead of making sweaters and socks to keep our boyS in the trenches warm this winter. "It isn't only that they are selfish ly using their time, but they are creat ing a shortage of wool," is the point emphasized by an Omaha woman who has two sons enlisted in the service. "The price of hanks of yarn is phenomenal. The increased demand for yarn to make sweaters, socks, helmets and writlets lor our men is great enough to keep all man ufacturers busy without having to supply the demand of women who want a different cojored sweater to match each costume. ' One well known woman in Omaha is said to possess ten vari-colored sweaters. Mrs. A. W. Jefferts, in charge of the local Red Cross knitting unit, needs hundreds of additional women to help with the work. Yarn may be procured at Red Cross headquarters in the court !;ouse. One million pounds of knitting wool has been purchased by the Red Cross in Washington, D. C. If all this wool were stretched out it would reach 800, 000 miles, or around the earth thirty two times. At Prettiest Mile Club. The October calendar of social af fairs for the Prettiest Mile club is crowded with dates. On Wednesday there will be a dinner-dance for the members of the club, on October 17 there will be an afternoon card party, the following Saturday a dinner-dance will be held, also one on Wednesday, October 24, while on Saturday, the. 27th, there will be an evening of cards. On October 13, 20 and 27 there will be a children's matinee dance for chil ' dren of members only. On Wednes day evening, October 31, a hard times party will be given, when the guests are requested to wear their oldest clothes.. Aside from these special affairs' there will be a ladies' luncheon every Tuesday at the club. Wedding Cards. Cards have been issued for the mar riage of Miss Marion Pearsall, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Pear sall, to Mr. Emerson Goodrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Goodrich of this city, for Wednesday evening, October 17. The wedding will be a home af fair and a very quiet one, only the family and immediate friends being present. Miss Pearsall will have as her attendants her cousin, Miss Jane Pearsall of Eau Claire, Wis., and her sisters, Misses Isabel and Ann Louise Pearsall. Pre-Nuptial Affairs. Mrs. Howard Goodrich will give a luncheon at the University club Wednesday, honoring Miss Marion Pearsall, whose marriage to Mr. Em erson Goodrich takes place this month. Guests at the luncheon and at the matinee party at the Brandeis which follows it will be sorority friends of Miss Pearsall from the Uni versity of Omaha, Mrs. E. W. Nash will entertain at dinner at the Blackstone for the Bain Woodard wedding party and mem bers of Miss Woodard's family. Miss Marie Woodard's marriage to Mr. Charles K. Bain of Butte will take place Wednesday morning. The one large table will have Mrs. Ward roses for decorations. O'NEILL GIRL MAID CORONATION BALL. AT MACCABEES START , DRIYE INNEBRASKA Campaign for 2,000 Members to be Conducted by' Miss Agnes Boyer of North Platte. Personals w ' J If-- nr A -nn 1pff ivir. anu iviia. v. x. uuv Monday evenias for - St. Louis .and Excelsior Springs to be gone ten days. Miss Margery Elias of Buffalo, who was the guest of Miss Gertrude Metz during the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities, left Saturday evening for Denver, where she will visit for some time before re turning to her home. , Mr. and Mrs. Norman M-ck and Miss Harriet Mack of Buffalo, who were also mem bers of the Metz house party, left Sat urday evening for Chicago, where they expect to spend some time. R. B. Banda of the Banda Sulphur Baths, 1919 Farnam street, returned Jrom a mjnth's hunting and fishing trip in Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Megeath and Miss Mary Megeath, who have been in the east for the last two weeks, returned home Monday evening. Mrs. J. S. Coffey of Denver has been the guest of her sister. Mrs. Hal Buckingham, for the past week. Miss Helen Garrison of Akron, la., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. H. Rustin, for a few days. A daughter was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. H. Hooper. The baby will be called Maxine Hooper. Mrs. Amelia Story of Chicago; 111., arrived Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Melio at the Carlyle apartments. Mrs. Story came to Omaha as a bride in 1870, but went to Chicago after the big Chicago fire. Mrs. Rivers J. Morrell of Los An geles is the guest of Mrs. Frank Adams for a few days. To Have Three Comfort stations Located Downtown The city council directed the City Planning commission to prepare plans and specifications for three pub lic comfort stations which will be established at downtown locations. The city has for this purpose $50,000 received from sale or bonds autho rized by the last legislature. To Tell City Employes Of the Liberty Bond Drive Xll citv employes, except firemen and policemen, will meet in the citv . council chamber Thursday night of, this week to hear short talks on the second Liberty bond drive. The mayor offered a resolution to the city i council on the subject i A campaign to enlist 2,000 Omaha women in the Women's Benefit As sociation of the Maccabees will be started next month by Miss Agnes Boyer of North Platte, who is in Omaha returning from the silver an niversary of the founding of the order in Port Huron, Michigan At this meeting, where Miss Boyer was delegate from Nebraska and which was attended by representa tives from all over the world, the wo men of the association unanimously voted to purchase $200,000 worth of Liberty bonds. In addition a fund of $200,000 was voted, this to be used in aiding, sons of the women members of the order who come back from the war dis abled. This will aid in bringing them back to usefulness, in teaching them new trades and professions, so they can once again enter industrial life. Have Reserve Fund. The women of the order, of whom 9,000 met at Port Huron last week, made no empty promises in these matters, for in a bank of that city the order has a reserve fund of $12,000, 000, showing that women make good business managers. Miss Bina West ctartffrt the Marrahees twentv-five years ago, borrowing from the same bank $150 tor ottice expenses. "This was the hrst order in rnc world to grant insurance to women and is the only, one now in existence not admitting men," said Miss Boyer. "No man over the age of 2 years is admitted. The women do all the business. They are far superior to men in this line, we believe. They have foresight and when a readjust ment is necessary it is found they have foreseen it and planned for "it, so it does not put them in debt. Miss West, who organized and built up the association, receives a salary of $6,000 a year. Not long ago a New York insurance company offered her $25,000 a year to come to them,, but she re fused to leave the Maccabees. Dedicate Headquarters. "At the rally last week in Port Huron many distinguished guests were present. President Wilson wired us his congratulations. The meeting was also an international convention of the orders A $200,000 headquarters building was dedicated in Port Huron." In the drive for 2,000 new Omaha members next year Miss Boyer will have the assistance of Miss Eva Mc Nett, great commander of New York division. To Have Municipal Dances At the Omaha Auditorium The city council approved Mayor Dahlman's resolution, setting aside two nights a month for municipal dances at the Auditorium. These terpsichorean functions will be regulated and supervised by the Board of Public Welfare. The first dance will be a Hal lowe'en party on the night of Mon day, October 29. It is proposed to make an experi ment with the first few danpes and then if they are successful, to con tinue them through the winter. Italians to Celebrate Columbus Day by Parade Italian societies of Omaha held a joint meeting at Columbus hall, Sixth and Pierce streets, Monday night for the purpose of making ar rangements for the celebration of Columbus day, Friday, when a parade will be held, followed by patriotic Speaking and a grand ball at Bo hemian lurner nan, inirteentn ana Martha streets growing children, nursing mothers, invalids, hurried home luncheons, and the busi ness man who desires. a light but nour- lebing meaL COORS is bet ter balanced. At Drug Stores and rmititolne U (23) 1UUUUUU9I When Milady Goes Shopping "Oh, the tears we waste and the years we waste ; and the work of our head and hand," all because we do not understand the simple way of shopping. Br ADELAIDE KENNEBLY. ."Oh, the. years that we waste, and the tears that we waste, And the work of our head and hand, Belong to the woman who did not know (And now' we know that she never could know) And never could understand." Kipling's verse hits many a mark. "Dear, me! I have saved up a list of things to buy, but I have dreaded the shopping ordeal so much that I haven't even decided on a day for the task," is a remark we hear hun dreds of times a year. Why do women 'dread shopping so much? It is a part of the busi ness of home-making I They dread it because, nine cases out of ten, shopping is not done intelligently. Too many women are unacquainted with prices, materials, quality and rules. They are fussed up almost immediately on entering a store because they ask what seems to them an entirely reason able concession, but positively un reasonable to the merchant. Women want to, in fact they must, make their dollars work dur ing thesje days of high cost of liv ing.. Most f them are trying, but their efforts are misdirected. There seems to be no medium between shopper and merchant to bring them together. The years we waste and the tears we waste, and the work of our head and hand, is all because we do not understand each other. Shopping, buying of all kinds, and stretching the dollars would be much easier if we understood val ues, deliveries, scheduled advances in prices; where the bargains are being offered and why. Merchants are lying awake nights figuring on ways and means to fa cilitate shopping in their stores, efficient methods of serving their customers, and displaying their goods. They want to please every body, and, above all, they want every customer satisfied. Yet they often miss the mark. Shoppers long for certain condi tions and changes to make buying easier, but they never think of sug gesting it to the merchant. Let us waste no more tears and years trying to stretch the dollar satisfactorly. and, at the same time, keep our mental poise. Let us learn the secret and understand ch other. Wipe out all ill-feeling! Mer chants are not all brutes, cheats, tyrants I Women are not all un reasonable, fickle, irresponsible, senseless creatures! Everybody is more or less all right well meant but often woefully directed. Why not come together in a co operative way Snd eliminate old differences in th; field of under standing! . Note: To bring about a better mu tual understanding, a series of ar ticles will be published in which both merchants and customers will not only be interested but profit. For out-of-town readers The Bee maintains a free, shopping service. Just address "Polly, the Shopper, The Bee, Omaha." Polly will buy for you with the same care that you would buy for yourself. Woman's Clubs Mrs. Bruce McCulloch was hostess for the opening reception of the South Side Woman's club held Tues day. The executive board, in cluding the president, Mrs. P. J. Far rell, Mrs. R. P. Falkner, Mrs. F. M. Oakes, Mrs. J. D. Ringer, Mrs. N. M. Graham, Mrs. E. A. Boyer and Mrs. W. A. Berger, assisted the hostess in receiving. The following program was given; Reading, Miss Marie Berry; vocal solo, Miss Lucy Hill; piano, Miss Helen Watkins and Miss Helen'Root; violin, Miss Mildred Farrell, accom panied by Miss Eva Yerian; and an other vocal solo by Miss Adelaide McCulloch. Dr. Jennie Callfas announces a meeting of those interested in the welfare of young girls to be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the office of Gus Miller, probation officer, in the court house. City officials will be present. It is planned to organize and elect officers at this meeting. Vassar home of club 'Miss meets Mona Friday at the Cowell. War relief work is part -of the club's pro gram' this winter. The Women's Liberty Bond com mittee has opened campaign head quarters in room 662; Saunders-Ken-nedy building. The telephone num ber is Douglas 1360. A meeting of the Women's Zionist society will be held Wednesday aft ernoon at the home of Miss Ida Kub by, 2019 California street. Dr. and Mrs. George Condra and Professor and Mrs. C. W. Pugsley will come from Lincoln Wednesday evening for tha food conservation din ner of the Women Voters' Conser vation league at the Rome hotel. Dr. Condra is president of the National Conservation congress and Professor Pugsley is the drying expert of the agricultural college at the State uni versity, tifty reservations have ai ready been made for the dinner at which Gurdort W. Wattles, food dic tator; Mayor Dahlman and Frank G. Odell will talk. Mrs. Mary E. Howe, the president, will introduce the speakers. Every Woman Wants to Know Beggars in China are taxed and have certain districts allotted to them in which to make appeals for charity. In some parts of India otters are used by the natives to catch fish for them. So rapid is the speed of the otter under water that no fish can escape them. When not working the otters are tied to stakes like chained dogs. Tuesday is a wheatlrts day. Corn and rice muffins, made from the fol lowing recipe, will give the family a treat and also save flour: Pour two-thirds of a cupful of hot milk over one cupful of cooked rice and work with a fork to separate the grains; add half a cupful of corn meal to the hot mixture, two tablespoon fuls of bacon fat,' half a teaspoonful of salt and one, tablespoonful of brown sugar i set aside to cool. When the mixture is cold, add half a cupful of flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder; beat it thoroughly; bake in well greased muffin pans in a hot oven for twenty minutes. . The Red Cross is in need of 220, 000 blankets to keep the sick and suf fering warm. The government needs women em ployes in many branches and all who pass the civil service examinatin will probably receive their 'appointments without delay, . Stenographers and typista are especially needed. ' Baked potatoes with raw egg is a splendid food on Tuesday, the wheat less day. .Prepared as follows: Carefully open and remove the cen ter of a fresh-baked mealy potato and break the egg over it. Season with butter, salt and pepper to taste. The heat of the potato cooks the egg and makes a light and delicious break fast dish. Tests for Making Jelly: House wives are told how to determine what fruit juices are suitable for making jelly and how failures and waste of sugar may be prevented by the bu reau of chemistry. " To determine accurately the amount of sugar to be used one should put a spoonful of juice in u glass and add an equal amount of 95 per cent grain alcohol, mixing the two by gentle shaking. Then slowly pour the con tents from the glass, noticing at the same time how the pectin the sub stance that makes fruit jellify is pre cipitated. If it is bound in one lump a cup of sugar is needed for each cup of juice. If, however, there are several lumps, only three-fourths as much sugar as juice is wanted. . When no lump appears and the pectin is merely 'precipitated, a half cup, or less, of sugar to a cup of juice should be the proportion. If the test fails to cause precipita tion, it indicates that the juice is un suitable for jelly, and must be com bined with some other juice that is rich in pectin, such as apple juice. cononucb Gditcd btf Imia U. Grosb -JDom4cs Science, iDefiartment Centred School Use of Soda with Sour Milk and Mo lasses. In these days of saving the very last particle of any food that we have inJthe house, the small family may find extra milk left occasionally, which can only be used as sour milk. We realize that in the days of our arrandmothers sour milk and soda were valued as making especially good baked food products; we of this day are very much more dependent on sweet milk and baking powder. It is generally conceded, however, that a sour milk cooky, cake or biscuit is reallv suDerior in duality. Certain it lis that in using sour milk and soda, one is substituting sona tor DaKtng powder, a saving in money; also a less quantity of flour will turn out an equal quantity of finished product, though naturally the food value is slightly less if less flour js used. I have also heard the claim that less shortening is necessary in baking with sour milk, but I have not tested out that statement personally. Essential Information. The first necessary information is the quantity of soda to use for each cup of sour milk. One-half teaspoon of, soda to each cup of sour milk is the maximum that should be used, and the soda should always be sifted with the flour just as baking powder is, When soda and sour milk are mixed some action takes place immediately and much gas is lost; hence a large original quantity is needed. When soda is dissojved in hot water less gas is evolved and lost, but the extra work is unnecessary. For cooking purposes sour milk should be forty-eight hours old and clabbered. Until the clabber stage is reached the milk should be kept cov ered in a warm room; after that stage, it should be kept in a cool place till used. To Change Recipe. In changing recipes from sweet milk to sour milk two further bits of knowledge are necessary. One tea spoon of soda is the equivalent of four teaspoons of baking powder; and one cup of flour requires two teaspoons of baking powder unless many eggs are used to help in the leavening. To illustrate all these directions let us take an ordinary recipe and change it from sweet milk to sour. A plain muffin recipe calls for the following ingredients: i c. flour 1 c. milk 4 t. baking powder. 1 egg. t. nail. T. fat, melted. I T. sugar. The first change to be made is in the milk, substituting sour for sweet. Then, using the general rule, one-half teaspoon of soda is needed and that amount of Soda is equivalent to two teasnonns of hakincr nowder. But two cups of flour require four teaspoons of oaKtng powuer, ana since wc nave added the . equivalent of oily two, two teaspoons of baking, piowder should b .used in addition.: !The last change to be made is in the quantity of flour, Since sour milk is of itself thick, about one-third cup of frour (on a two-cup measurement) can be omit ted, The practical method for an ex perienced housewife to follow is to sift dry ingredients with a part of the flour; then add more flour sparingly, till the batter is of the usual consist ency. We must admit that we are not strictly logical, for when we scant the flour less baking powder is necessary, but the excess baking powder is of slight consequence and' avoids mathe matical complications. Molasses Varies, . The use of molasses and soda can not be computed as accurately as sour milk and soda. Different kinds of mo lasses vary in acidity, and the same kind of molasses left exposed to the air will vary from its original char acter. Old-fashioned molasses was much more acid than our modern Infants Mi'Invalidt HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Rick milk, malted grain, in powder form For infanta, invalid ugro wing children. Pur nutrition, upbuilding tit Whole body. Invigorate nursing mothers ai the aged. More nutritiou than tea, coffee, etc. Instantly prepared. Requires no cooking. Substitutes Coit YOU Same Price For the'allghtly or totillr deal adults. For Particular Addraat, EMMA B. KESSLER NO. 4, FLO-LES APT3. Corner 20th St. and Capitol Are. m m 1 Here if that is all shoe, made of real leather all through, on a last that "will give all day comfort to the foot and yet dress it that stylish appearance in keeping with the good Fall appearance of the rest of your attire. Worth every cent of its price of 1 $6 ifm: brands. The average rule for molasses and soda is one-half teaspoon soda to one cup molasses; but in many mo lasses recipes brown sugar is used also, and brown sugar is somewhat acid. Hence in such recipes more soda would be used than the theoret ical amount. The onlv practical guide then is a tried and true recipe, but if such a recipe, from a very old cook book, calls for much more than the computed amount, the amount can be graudally lessened in successive times of using the recipe. Many an old-fashioned, gingerbread would have a strong soda taste if the spices did not cover up the objectionable flavori SOFT JUMBLES, m e. eutar. S e. flour. - c. fat ( 1 o. sour milk. Flavor to taata. H t. aoda. Mix as cake and drop by teaspoon fuls on a greased tin. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderately hot oven. Sweetheart, You Look , 7eni Years Younger" Complexion Blemishes Banished No Sign Oj . Wrinkles How She Did It Only i woptan who has watched her e o m p lexion chance from wrinkled. eoarse, sallow ugll neaa to clear, soft, youthful beauty can realise, the feellnf of joy that earn over me when first I aaw that my own care w o t n. aged-looking skin was actually re gaining' its girlish freshness. Yet prior to this there waa scarcely prepara tion, including treat ment at the highest prices, which I had not tried, only to maka my face look worse. Finally a French lady gave me a beauty recipe which she had obtained from a doctor In Paris, who told her the reason moat things failed was because they jacked the power to get down into the skin and renew tha youthful activity of the tissues. It was only a short time after that my husband exclaimed, "Sweetheart, you look 1 Translation of Original French Proscription. "Apply night and morning one cup of clear, warm water and one teaspoonful ol roseated cream." (Fully Explained In this article.) ten years younger! That French beauty recipe la marvel.' I am certain 1 that most any woman can successfully use tha same plan, so glsd ly repeat it here tot tha benefit of others. Merely wash your face with dear, warm water and rub in a teaspoonful of rose ated cream (which can be obtained from druggists) wipe tha faca and apply Pou dr Petal las very fine complexion pow der prepared epe eill for shiny nosea and bad complexions. If your face la badly wrinkled, get a box of Japanese Ice Pencil to us in connection with th roseated tream. I have seen many a wrinkled, hollow-eheeked. faded-looking woman banish every sign of wrinkles and complexion blemishea and mar velously increase her beauty, through this simple and Inexpensive recipe. The manufacturers of th genuine roseated cream Crime Tokaloa Roseated guaran tee that lte use will banish complexion blemishes and maka any .woman look year younger and far more beautiful In thro daye' time r will refund th pric paid. Whom ahowa th shove article, tha following local merchants stated that despite tha war, they could supply Cram Tokslon Roseated and th ether French created products mentioned. Sherman McConnsll Drug Co., Green's Pharmacy, Brandeis Stores, Rlchardsen Drug ""P"" J"0" n mi. mi -hi i 'in ' .. in ii mi Here's AWarTime Saving Plan Eat All The SchuV Bread You Gn 3 Hi m re g)l3sssiadiffir Conserve Your Country's Food Supply You're not asked to be content with an inferior diet The Govern ment only urges conservation of certain provisions. Perishable foods can't be shipped to our boys in France. They should substitute possible exports. " : ' , Alamito Pasteurized Milk ! is one of the most wholesome and nourishing foods. It can be used to good advantage right here at home in its natural, sweet, fresh con dition. Pure milk supplies every element of nutrition in the most economi cal and digestible portions. , Alamito Milk is scientifically pasteurized your best assurance of 1 purity and safety. Sold in sterilized bottles and delivered "before break fast". , " ,'.'" ' ' . : At, your grocer's or 'phone us. r Alamito Dairy Company 1 Douglas 409. Council Bluffs 205. TURPIN'S SCHOOL OF DANCING Firat Children's Claaa Saturday, October 13th, at 2:30 P. M. x Opening Assembly Wednesday, October 10th, at 8i30 P. M. New Clasa for Adult Beginners Monday, October 15th, at BiOO f. M. Join th Firat Lesson. Terms Moot Reasonable. Phone Harney S143. 28th and Farnam. I (NO. 4, FLO-LES APTS. I Corner 20th St. and Capitol Ave. s a anoe ii . lli A Letter From Washington The Food Administrator Writes Us: "The use of baking powder breads made of corn and other coarse flours instead of patent wheat flour is recommended by the Conservation Division of the Food Administration. The wheat needed for export is thus conserved, and at the same time healthful food for our own people is provided. The circulation of recipes pro viding for these uses would be of assistance in carrying out our plans." The following recipes for Corn Bread and Rye Rolls save wheat flour and make attractive and wholesome food for every day when made.with BAKING POWDER ROYAL CORN BREAD en pa eora meal cup Boar level teaspoons loyal Baklag Fowls 1 tablespoon sngr v 1 teaspoon salt 1 caps milk tablespoons ihorteniag Ht ttemghly dry ingredients i add arllg and malted shortening: beat well; pour into well greased paa aad bake la hot rrsa shout tl minutes. RYE ROLLS t cups rr lour i teaspoon salt level teaipoeni loyal Baking Fowda enp miia . tablespooa shortening Sift dry lnsredlsnta together, add milk tad Belted short aula. Knead on aoorad board; shape tat rolls. Pat lata graaaad paaa and allow t staad la warn Place to to it mlnnt. Bake la mederat vn at to 30 minutes. 1 3 Our fi, whit mi blue booklet " Beet War Time Recipe " containing additional similar recipes tent free on request. Address Royal Baking Powder Company, Dept. H, 135 William Street, New York. '1 ii Bee Want Ads Are Always the Best Boosters