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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1919)
BLOUSE IN DEMAND EN TER TA IN IN G W OUNDED AN D SICK SOLDIERS iddy in a Straight Jersey Silk Is a Smart Thing. >pular Garment May Be Worn as a Substitute for Sweater, Short Waist or Cuirass. • (S W e ite r n N ew spaper Union One o f the most Important things In the reconstruction nnd rehabilitation o f wounded und disabled soldiers is to keep their minds occupied and free from cares, nnd this Is done at the big reconstruction und rehabilitation hospital at the Pfetddlo, San Francisco. The photograph shows u boxlqg match held in the yard of the hospital while the wounded, Boated all around, look on. * WHERE GERMAN TROOPS FIGHT STRIKING MINERS A general view of a miners' colony lu the Itulir mining district, Germany, where government troops have been try ing to quell the rioting miners. DEMOBILIZING WAR DOGS VETER AN FORESTER IS HONORED No sooner had we heard o f the raight Jersey silk middy blouses )rn at Monte Carlo by smart women an the shops introduced them In nerlea, writes a fashion authority, e get clothes by wireless these days, le garment and the cable come to- ther. It must be a delightful truth the Amerlcun people that this Is s o ; at they can see In their own shops erythlng that Europe offers, and al- >st as quickly as Europe accepts It. course the American public does t accept a novelty ns quickly as ance does. It takes six months, as rule, between there and here. W e cept our own fashions, however, >re quickly than we do the French es. Take the Instance o f the long, tight Irt which was put Into the chan- -_ls o f fashion last fall. This Is a good example of how rapidly the American continent takes up some thing that Is Introduced here. This skirt is worn from the It. F. D. routes to the centers of all great cities. We nre very, very tired o f It by this time. It goes In at the knees, back and front, and permits walking only through a silt at the back. It Is sold fo r any price that one has In the purse. The reason fo r the popu larity o f the American designs Is that they are sent out by salesmen Into every plnce where clothes are bought and sold. All of which Is to say that when the Riviera began to show those loose jersey silk blouses, which are quite negligee In appenrnnee, the American shops offered them for the Florida Riviera. They are merely straight piece,s o f brilliantly colored silk Jersey In a heavy or a thin weave. In golden yellow, for Instance, they look like the gold mesh bags that women enrry. They are so supple that they do not really stand away from the figure; they just wrinkle against It. The neck Is high or low, and the sleeves are elbow length or long. They are trifti- med with a band o f jersey In another color. This outlines the neck and wrists, the edges o f the pockets are put In, and sometimes the hem, where It flattens against the hips or turns up to form a purse pocket and one for handkerchiefs. Any kind o f skirt seems to do for these vivid blouses, and over them nre worn satin mantels, short sealskin coats and rippling capes o f horizon blue broadcloth. In the American re sorts they will be the smnrt thing, worn as a substitute for a sweater, a shirtwaist or a cuirass blouse. Women who have money have ordered six or eight o f them In such colors ns gold, henna, tomato red, French blue, Eng lish rose pink nnd Irish green. There is no attempt to have them demure, although It Is considered quite smnrt to wear one o f dead white edged with black over n white, plaited crepe de chine skirt, and with a white nnd black hat. Other women who try out this black nnd white scheme add n deep set sailor hat of lacquered scar let straw. The Loose Back Panel. The present season has a fondness for loose panel effects, both on gowns nnd on suit coats. Sometimes, In con nection with gowns, these panels will reach from the heck far to the bottom o f the skirt, being caught just a bit at the wnistllne, In order to hold their shape. On coats, the panels oc casionally widen out Into almost mili tary capes. DANCE GOWN FOR YOUNG MISS The war dogs of the British army, which performed Innumerable fine deeds during the great war, nre being demobilized mid efforts nre being made to provide for their future care, A fund o f $100,000 Is being raised In England for this purpose. Sacrificed Principles to Safety. .The truth o f the following story Is vouched fo r: Henry Smith of Newton, N. J., raises chickens, hut their lives are not worth n copper when they won't Uy. Lately they have been tak ing changes, so one day recently Henry went out in the back yard and killed one. As he carried the corpus delicti toward the kitchen, he observed that he was followed by a horrified pullet. “ Young lady," said Henry, "oft goes your head tomorrow morning If you don’t lay an egg today.“ She couldn't. So she sacrltid'd.her moral principles nnd stole an egg from the hennery next door. Several hoys say they saw her roll the egg over to her house. She Is still alive. The state o f l ’ennsylvnnla on Its arbor day planted 80 trees In honor of Dr. J. T. Hothrock. who renched the age o f eighty on April 9. Doctor Roth- rock, one of the vice presidents o f the American Forestry association and for 20 years bead of the l ’ ennsylvnnln association, Is known ns the “ fntlier of forestry In Pennsylvania.” The grizzly bear has been ki^wn to the white race a little more than a century. Lewis and Clark wrote the first official accounts o f him in 1806, nnd he was first discussed publicly In 1814 by Gov. De W itt Clinton in New York city. Guthrie’s old geography says that he was named Ursus hor- ribilus by Naturalist George Ord In 1815. Fossil records Indicate that the grizzly Is o f Aslntlc origin. He appears to have come into America about a million years ago over one o f the pre historic land bridges that united Alaska nnd Asia. Benrs and dogs are descendants from the same parent stock. The grizzly hear never eats hu- mnn flesh. Is not ferocious and fights only In self-defense. He leads an ad venturous life, Is a horn explorer and c.-cr has good Wilderness manners— n« ver makes attacks. The numerous cases In which the grizzly has been made a pet nnd companion o f ninn, where he was thoughtfully, intelli gently raised, show him to be a su perior animal, dignified, intelligent, loyal nnd uniformly good-tempered. Not a grizzly exists in any o f the four national parks of California, and that anlnml, once so celebrated In that state, is extinct there. He Is also ex tinct over the grenter portion of the vast territory which he formerly oc cupied, and Is verging on extermina tion. The natives o f the Torres Strait islands have their own Ideas about showing respect to the dead. One way Is to anoint the body with half the contents o f a bottle o f cheap scent sold by the enterprising Orientals. The rest o f the bottle is corked up and left on the grave. There Is a tiny grave on Moa at the foot o f which is a baby’s feeding-bottle— the probable cause of the unfortunate’ lnfant’s death. Though some o f the larger Islands have ceme teries, graves are scattered nil over the plnce. Generally decorated with empty and Inverted rum bottles, they are often found beside the corpse’s (ate residence. Where the relatives have been more ambitious— or better off— a “ proper marble” has been pro cured from Townsville or some other coastul town. The setting-up o f one of these stones Is the excuse for a gen eral gorge. Such an event recently took place at Dnrnley, where a “ proper stone” was erected over the grave of the late Mamoose— head man or king. The ceremony was followed by a three- days’ gorge o f pig, yams, turtle, etc. which was shaken down— and room made fo r more— by vigorous dancing and singing by all hands. Mother’s Cook Book. Family Food. Cornmeal, If freshly ground with the germ left in It, Is so much superior to the ordinary, long keeping cornmenl, that there Is no comparison. In many up-to-date homes a small mill Is used to grind wheat und corn when needed. Corn Bread. Take two cupfuls o f cornmeal, two cupfuls o f sour milk, two tablespoon fuls of shortening, two tablespoonfuls o f sugar, one nnd one-half teuspoon- fuls o f salt, two eggs, one tenspoonful o f soda nnd one tnblespoonful of cold water. Veal and Cornmeal Scrapple. Cook if pound of veal until tender, then chop fine nnd return to the liquor, which should measure five cupfuls; add one pint o f canned tomatoes, one chopped onion, one clove o f gnrllc, chopped, twenty-four olives, chopped, one tnblespoonful of chill powder, one chopped chill pepper, three tenspoon- fuls of salt, one-quarter of a tenspoon ful each o f paprika nnd pepper; add gradually enough cornmeal (mixed with cold water to moisten) nnd cook until thoroughly cooked. Pout; into a dish nnd when cold roll In flour and fry In f a t Language Employed in the Wording of Peace Treaties D ainty and artistic la this danoa frock fo r tha young mis#. It la In paatal shades of ahell pink with Alloa blue ribbon. FARM ANIMALS PROTECTION OF FEEDER HOGS Department o f Agriculture Conduct» System of Vaccination Againet Hog Cholera. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) In an effort to protect the swine In dustry of the country against the pos sibility o f Introducing sick hogs Into well herds, and at the same time to permit the shipment from stock yards o f stocker and feeder hogs, the United States department of agriculture con ducts a system o f vaccination against cholera as a part o f Its Inspection serv ice at the various stock yard centers. More than 324,000 Logs were Im munized for shipment as stockers and feeders from stock yards o f 18 cities during the six months from July to December, 1918, Inclusive. To accorn- Torres Strait Islanders Have Their Own Idea of Showing Respect to Dead Com Pudding. Take two cupfuls o f canned com (or fresh Is better), one sweet pepper cut fine; scald three tnhlespoonfuls of fine comment with one and one-half cup fuls o f scald'ng milk and let stand un til cold. Add the com, pepper and a beaten egg with a teaspoonful-of salt and two tnhlespoonfuls o f fnt. Bake in n slow oven for an hour or more, stirring It the first half-hour n few times, then let It brown. Dried com, softened, may be used In place o f can ned corn fo r this dish. W OUNDED SPA R TA C A N S IN BERLIN Farmer Values Airplane. George Kottnkel, a farmer of Ayles bury, Saskatchewan, has actually or dered h n airplane, ami goes on record ns the first farmer to adopt this ve hicle In his regular business. Mr. Knunkel, who was one o f the pioneer farmers In that region, believes thor oughly In agriculture by machinery, and plans to use his airplane in mak ing trips to various cities to dispose o f his farm prmluce. Having been the first fanner In that part of the country to buy an automobile, he ap Nurses banding wounded Spnrtncnns on the Frankfurter Alice In Berlin. parently buys his first airplane In the Many Spnrtacans were left dead or wounded on the streets of the capital after the latest hot battle between the tw o factions. same matter-of-fact bualness way. Grizzly Bear Never Eats Human Flesh; Not Ferocious — Eights When Necessary Inoculating a Hog With Cholera Se rum. plish this without spreading disease, In the face o f all the attendant dan gers, required, o f course, such close care that the wisdom o f some phases o f the Inspection .system may not have been always apparent to all concerned. With swine moving by carloads and trainloads from producing areas Into public stock yards o f the country, says the statement, the pens of such yards are inevitably Infected with the com mon swine diseases, of which cholera Is the most Important. Owing to this condition federal regulations formerly required the slaughter o f swine re ceived, but after the serum and virus treatment against hog cholera was standardized the possibility o f resha ping Immature hogs fo r further feed ing resulted In a modification o f the rules. Under the plan now In force swine properly vaccinated and disin fected may be resliipped for any pur pose, including breeding. Immunizing hogs against cholera Is a veterinary procedure, including the preventive-serum treatment, taking o f temperatures and observing the condi tion o f the animal during the test period. Necessarily the official regu lations are o f technical character, and It has come to (he attention o f the de partment o f agriculture that In some cases the rules have been misinterpre ted so as to make them appear respon sible fo r fluctuation In the stock-hog market. For the Information o f the public, the bureau o f animal industry outlines briefly the method o f Inspection: A ll public stock yards are consid ered to be Infected and swine are, therefore, exposed to the contagion from the time o f their entry Into the yards; consequently It Is Important that they be Immunized promptly af ter arrival at such yards, to protect them against contracting the disease. For that reason the -deifhrtment op poses the immunization o f swine that have been so exposed fo r more than five days. Hogs, though they may not show physical symptoms o f cholera, may In some Instances be affected with the disease to such an extent that Im munization will not protect them. * It Is not permissible to Immunize swine fo r Immediate shipment Inter state If they show symptoms o f con tagious or Infectious disease. • I f a considerable percentage o f the animals In a lot Is found to have high temperatures, the possible presence of such disease Is Indicated and the ani mals are not Immunized or permitted to be shipped Interstate. It is possible to have hogs with high temperatures as a result o f conditions surrounding the shipment to market, in which case they w ill return to normal within a short time. Live S tock T— NOTE'S The language employed In treaties Is usually o f the most formnl charac Start training the colt early. ter, hut occasionally, when treaties are • • • considered with eastern powers a more A farrowing rail In the pen is a good florid style is used. At any rate, ac young pigs. cording to a correspondent, a treaty thing to protect • the • • between Great Brltnin and Persia be Pigs w ill die I f allowed access to gins: “ Praise he to God the All-Perfect The old and All-Sufficient. These happy leave* their dams after weaning. milk Is poisonous. are a nosegay plucked from the thorn • • • less garden o f concord, and tied by the Until the lambs are about three hands o f the plenipotentiaries o f the two great states In the form o f a weeks old they should be fed four times dally, one-half pint o f milk be definite treaty In which the articles of ing given each lamb at each feed. friendship and amity are blended."