FRFNCH CLEAN UP STREETS OF RUINED REIMS
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H0PE
U se C ooking B o x as a R efrigerator
Oat® that never wholly closes.
Opening yet so often In vain!
Garden full of thorny roses!
Roses fall and thorns remain.
By U .
Wayward lamp, with flickering luster
Shining far or shining near.
Seldom words of truth revealing.
Ever showing words o f cheer.
D epartm ent o f A griculture
The fireless cooker can be used to keep things cold as well as hot, be
cause heat cannot pass In from the outside to warm the contents any more
than It can pass out to cool them. In this respect It works very much like
a refrigerator. In fact, both the cooking box and the Icebox are constructed
on the same jminciple, namely that o f supplying a eonstnnt-temperature
chamber with nonconducting walls.
Well-constructed ice boxes nre made
with some Insulating material or dead-air spnee between the Inner and outer
walls, and the covers and doors close in such a w ay as to prevent heat escap
ing in or out through them. O f course the more often the doors are opened
the more heat passes in and the more quickly the Ice melts and the tempern-
ture rises throughout all parts of the box. Fortunately this Is less serious
than the loss of heat when a fireless cooker is opened.
When the cooker is used to keep things cool they must be chilled to
the desired temperature before they are put in. The more nearly heat proof
the w alls the longer the materinl keeps Its original temperature. Ice cream"
put in a well-made tireless cooker ought to remain firm ns long as packed
In suit and ice in an ordinary freezer. Many cooks prefer to puck such half-
Promise-breaker, yet unfailing!
Faithless flatterer! comrade true!
Only friend, when traitor proven,
Whom we always trust anew.
Courtier strange, whom triumph fright-
eth,
Flying far from pleasure’s eye,
Who by sorrow’s side alighteth
When all else are passing by.
Siren-singer! ever chanting
Ditties new to burdens old;
Precious stone the sage* sought for.
Turning everything to gold!
True philosopher!
Comfort rich to
Chider o f proud
Pointing to the
S.
imparting
spirits pained;
triumph’s madness,
unattained!
Timid warrior! Doubt, arising,
Scares thee with the slightest breath;
Matchless chi€^! who, fear despising,
Tramples on the darts of death!
This view of the Itue Ghnuzy, Reims, shows how the French have made Immaculate the streets of the city
though the place Itself was made u mass of ruins by the G. rnmu guns.
VICE PRESIDENT ENCOURAGES THE BOY SCOUTS
O’er the grave, past Tim e’s pursuing.
Far thy flashing glory streams,
Too unswerving, too resplendent,
Fpr a chjld o f Idle dreams.
Still, life’s fitful vigil keeping,
Feed the flame and trim the light;
Hope’s the lamp I ’ll take for sleeping
When I wish the world goodnight.
—E. C. Jones.
SUMMER SMILES
Method in It.
Farm er (to new help)— W hy do you
alw ays ring that small bell after ring
ing the regular dinner bell?
Irish Cook— That’s to call the chil
dren, sorr.
Poor Support.
“ W hy Is your
w ife
no
longer
your leading
lady?”.
“ S h e couldn’t
support me in the
style I had been
accustomed
to,”
r e p l i e d Yorick
Hamm, the emi
nent actor.
Vice President Marshall, addressing the boy scout "flying circus” on the steps of the capitol, declared he hoped
they will reach a membership of a million to aid In combating bolshevism.
The vice president is nt the left
center of the picture with his bund on ills hip. Several m tubers of the senate and house helped him receive the
boys.
HAREM WOMEN MAKE PUBLIC SPEECHES
HELPS HUNT TERRORISTS
W ouldn’t Stand fo r It.
“Met your husband In his car. H e
said he w as going downtown to get a
siren.”
“Just let me catch any hussy o f that
kind riding with my husband.”
Not for Him.
“Play poker with a dentist? No,
sir I”
"W h y not?”
“H e’s too blamed expert at drawing
and filling.”
Slightly Mixed.
A prospective juryman, o f foreign
birth, w as being questioned. “W hat
is perjury?” he was asked.
“H aving more than one wife,” the
man answered.
His Smoking Habit.
“Y our husband
denies it,” said
the doctor,
but
isn’t it true that
he
smokes
be
tween meals?”
“N aw ,” replied
the patient's wife.
“H e ents between
smokes.”
Not to Be Borne.
“Henry, M rs. Flibbers next door
says she is going to get a new electric
runabout.”
“That’s good. Maybe she'll take you
out fo r a little ride.”
“Oh, d e a r) Oh, d e a r!”
“ W h a t V t h e matter now?”
“You can sit there and calmly talk
about your w ife being subjected to
public humiliation
Exclusive photograph showing native Cairo women addressing a crowd In
one of tlie principili streets of the Kgyptlan city. The speakers are urging
Kreutet patriotism and loyalty to their land. Tills Is the first time Huit
lCgyptlan women have been permitted freedom of speech in public.
HEIRESS AND AVIATOR HUSBAND
Alice Gordon Drexel, one of America's greatest heiresses, only daughter
o f Mr. and Mrs. John It. Drexel of New York and granddaughter of the late
Anthony Drexel o f Philadelphia, and Capt. W illiam Barrett, air force, U. S.
A., with whom she eloped recently. Their marriage “shocked and surprlaed”
the bride's parent».
WORDS OF WISE MEN
The work of Dr. Charles E. Munroe,
explosives expert In the United State»
bureau of mines, is expected to be one
of the most valuable aids In discover
ing the bomb terrorists. Once the au-
torltles estnbllsh definitely the ma
terial used in the bombs they have a
better chance of finding out where
they were made.
Good will, like a good name,
is got by many actions and lost
by one.
Good manners include not
merely pleasant things said and
done, but unpleasant ones left
undone.
The gold o f our best motives
is so mixed with the dross of
selfishness
and
unworthiness
that we can neither take too
much credit to ourselves for
any o f our good deeds nor af*
ford to throw discredit upon any
performed by our neighbor.
W hy Short H o jr i Are 8e»t.
That meii accomplish more ln*short
spells o f severe labor hroken hy longer
spells of rest Is illustrated by the story
of a wager between two officers at the
front ns to the time necessary to dig
two equal lengths o f n trench each
with an equal number o f men. Major Army Officers’ Salary $141
A. C. Fnrquhnrson told it to the Brit
Month to $10,000 Year
ish house of commons in n debate on
hours o f labor.
United States army officers are paid
One officer let his nten work ns they according to the rank held by them.
pleased, hut hs hard ns possible. The A second lieutenant receives $141.67
other divided his men into three
initial pay a month; first lieutenant,
squads, to work In rotation, each squad $106.67; captain, $200; major, $230;
digging Its hardest for five minutes
lieutenant colonel, $291.67; colonel,
and then resting for ten. The second
$333.33. with an Increase o f 10 per
squad won easily.
cent known as longevity pay, fo r each
period o f five years o f service, pro
Valuable Tralnload.
vided that such increase shall not ex
One train left Monte Vista, Colo.,
ceed 40 per cent. The pay o f a briga
recently loaded with hogs and pota
dier general Is $6,000 a y e a r; major
toes with n market value o f $>2,430.
general, $3,000; lieutenant general, $0,-
It consisted of IS cars of fat hogs from
000, and a general, $10.000. These of
the Monte Vlstn sections, six more
ficers receive no increase fo r continu
cars of hogs brought In hy the San
ous service. W hile on foreign serv
I.nls Central, and 19 cars o f pota
toes.
The hogs were worth about ice officers receive an increase o f 10
$3,000 a carload, and the potatoes $330 per cent of their base pay and lon
gevity pay.
• car.
Home-Made Fireless Cooker, Showing Outside Container and Cushion for Fill
ing Space Above Cooking Vessel.
frozen desserts as mousse or parfait in the receptacle of a fireless cooker
rather than In a freezer because there is less danger of their getting too cold
and hard. It is often convenient to make cold drinks, like lemonade or fruit
punch, some hours before they are used. B y chilling them and then putting
them into the cooker they can be kept cool without Ice.
Sometimes a little ice is put into the box with the food to make It cooler,
just as hot soapstones or bricks are put in to make It hotter. Because there
Is less space to keep cool much less ice is needed than in the chamber of
an icebox. The ice in the cooker melts very slowly and so keeps the tem
perature down much longer than if It were used In an open pitcher.
W hat receptacles it is best to use for things to be kept cool in the cooker
depends on their kind. The material can often be put directly into the pail,
just ns If it were to be cooked. For liquids It Is sometimes more convenient
to use a low bottle or a fruit ja r which will set into the nest. I f ice Is to be
used it is usuully cracked and packed around the bottle or dish.
Duets Are Common Between
Pairs of Birds of Various
Species Authorities Say
The singing o f birds is taken for
granted. Yet there must mave been
a beginning of bird-song and some
real reason for it.
Nothing merely
happens. It was not beneath the con
sideration o f Darwin, who held .that
the discovery of the voice first came
from fea r and pain, the agony com
pressing the muscles of the chest and
forcing the air through the glottis so
ns to create a sound. W hat originated
in fear afterw ards developed into an
nrt or accomplishment, so that gradu
ally, during the ages, many birds de
veloped “calls" to others of the oppo
site sex.
Ornithologists say that, any bird-cry
which induces one bird of n species to
approach another o f the same kind is
a “call note,” whether It be a cembat-
cry or an alarm, which were the
earliest, to be followed later by the
love-call.
At the beginning of the breeding
season birds of opposite sex cnll to
each other, and this vocal exercise is
especially performed by the males.
Songs \^ere actually mere repetitions
•of call notes, and only later came the
development o f pure song as under
stood by men. W hen nightingales are
courting they utter a gentle, subdued
warbling. Duets are common between
pairs of birds of various species. Real
song, however, does cot seem to de
pend upon the breeding season at all.
Newlyweds’ Fortunes Are
Told With Oil in India
Among the Kherrins of India, a curi
ous marriage ceremony is reported.
Taking a portion o f the hair of the
bride and bridegroom in turn from the
center of the forehead, the priest
draws It down onto the bridge o f the
nose. Then pouring oil on the head,
he watches* It carefully as it trickles
down the portion of hair. I f the oil
runs straight onto the top o f their
noses their future will be fortunate,
but if It spreads over the forehead
or trickles off on either side of the
nose, ill lnck Is sure to follow. Their
fortunes told, generally to their own
satisfaction, the final part of the cere
mony takes place. Standing side by
side, but with faces strictly averted,
the bride and bridegroom mark each
other’s forehead with “sindur” (ver
milion).
Apes as Farm Hands
Prof. Richard Lynch G a m e r Plana
Nation of Gorilla* In U . S.
Prof. Richard Lynch Garner has an
nounced his intention o f establishing
n nation of chimpanzees and gorillas
in the United States for the ultimate
purpose of uplifting the entire ape
race, says a N ew York correspondent.
Professor Garner has just returned
after two and one-half years in the
French Coftgo gathering specimens fo r
the Smithsonian institution.
The upes today, in their uncultured
state, are second only to the human
family in-point o f intellect, the profes
sor said. H e believes that apes, if
given the advantage o f modern educa
tion and environment, would develop
into a race that would sow und reap
and toll in the mill, hi refined young
lady apes the professor sees a possible
solution o f the servant problem.
“Sam, a boy ape that shared my
home in Africa, learned to fetch things
I called for,” he said. “ H e became as
particular as I about bed sheets being
smoothed out, and he couldn’t go to
sleep without a pillow. I f a man could
train a dog to herd sheep, man cud
make a farm hand out o f an ape.”
Casein of Milk Makes the
Best Enamel Covering for
Wings of the Airplanes
Scientists recently have discovered
that the casein o f milk makes prob
ably the best enamel covering fo r air
plane wings. T he paint from casein
dries quickly, is as smooth ns enamel,
and in a few hours becomes impervi
ous to weather conditions.
Casein after being extracted from
skim-milk and dried has four principal
uses: 1. In the preparation o f plas
tic masses and galnllth ns a substitute
for horn, ivory, celluloid.
2. As a
painting material. 3. As a mucilage
and cement. 4. A s a dressing and
color-fixing medium In textiles.
It is used in plastic masses fo r the
making of combs, collar buttons. Imi
tation linoleum and leather, and bone
and
electrical Insulating material.
Onlalith, meaning “milk stone,” is
made from casein Into Imitation mar
ble, colored furniture decorations,
electrical insulations, and the like.