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WAR SERIOUSLY AFFECTS LONDON German» Said Willing to Make Conce»»ion» Sportswoman in Hunting Season London. A dispatch to Haulers Tel- egram company from Athens says: "The allied fleet Thursday bombard ed and reduced to silence the forts of Dardanus, llamldieh and Tchemerllk, on the Asiatic side of the Inside Dar danelles. The telegraph station at Bo- zlkal also was demolished. "The bombardment was carried out by nine ships, which advanced two miles up Um straits.” A Baris dispatch says the J lavas Army to Fade A tray. Hut News Agency gave out a dispatch con firming the report published In the Movement to front /« Indi Paris Malin that an allh-d fleet re cated Nothing /• Said. Burned the bombardment of the Dar danelles Tuesday morning. This dispatch, dated at Athens March 2, reads: Ix>n<lon — Ixmdon is settling down "Tim bombardment of the Interior to the paca of war. Two months sg<« fortifications of the Dardanelles was It waa a common saying that the aver resumed this morning. The allies have a total of 52 warships on the scene. age Ixtndonor behaved ax though noth Five of them entered the straits. ing were happening which involved While this movement was going on him and hia empire. The contraat be- four battleships began the bombard ment of the Turkish positions fronting twoen thia Imperturbable capital and on the Gulf of Haros, which Is separ cloaed, quiet, grief-stricken Paris, or ated from the Dardanelles by the Gal paralyod Brussels, atruck the observer, lipoli Peninsula." The admiralty Issued the following sometimes. with a diaagrecable sense report regarding the bombardment of of contraat. the Turkish forts by the Anglo-French Now it begins to look like a city at fleet "The operations In the Dardanelles war. It la true that the ahopa are all open; it la true that theatera, hotel» were resumed at 11 o'clock Monday and concert-halls and cafea are run morning when the Triumph. Ocean Albion entered the straits and at ning. But the change in London la a and tacked Fort No. 8 ami the batteries at aubtler thing than the»« mere external I White Cliff. The fire was returned ap|H-arancea ahow. by the forts and also by field guns Moat of all, one noticea the lack of and howitzers. young men on the atreeta. In Baria, | "An air reconnaissance made by during October and November, the navul seaplanes In the evening brought crowds gave a curious appearance of the report that successful new gun weakneax, of languorous movement, positions had been prepared by the which, upon analysis, proved to be due enemy but that no guns were erected In them. The seaplanes also located to that absence of young and lusty surface mines. men. Then you came to Ixmdon and "During Monday night a force of found the atreeta full of vigorous, red- minesweepers covered by destroyers cheeked young Englishmen. That type swept within a mile and a half of Cape is fast disappearing; the young men Kephez and their work which was car you see here, as in Baria, look charac ried out under fire. Is reported to have teristically small and weak -unfit ma been excellent" FRENCH idea in hunting garb is terial to go againat the guns. shown here which the practical You begin to believe what many Wilton'» 7rip to Canal American may make use of in fashion Englishmen whis;>er that the Kitch I» Cut Off by Congre»» ing her own. No American who un ener ai*my is larger than the author Washington, D. C.—Many features dertakes tramping through field and ities have let us know. of the elaborate exercises planned for There's the feeling of war in the the formal opening of the Panama wood and over hill and valley would air, too, an indescribable sense of canal In July will be abandoned as consider following this model exactly. something very grave and aerioua I the result of the action of congress in We wear short skirts, bloomers and afoot. 1 realised it most fully when I ' refusing to make the appropriation for leggings and are prepared to tramp the dined in one of the large and popular j the purpose asked for by Secretary wild, not always following beaten Bicadilly restaurants. Externally, Garrison, of the War department. paths. But hunting and fishing and the crowd looked about the same as ' The appropriation requested was to tramping In the alluring out-of-doors defray the expenses of a trip to the ever, though the dining room was not | by President Wilson, members Is not simply a pose with the Amer so full as in normal times. There ■ canal of congress, members of tho diplo ican sportswoman; she really hunts were the same well-groomed English- ' matic corps, representatives from for some, fishes considerably, and tramps men in smart evening dress; there eign governments and other special much. were the same not-quite-so-well- ' guests. Including ex-Prcsidents Roose The jacket in the model pictured Is groomed English women in evening velt and Taft. Provision also was to Ideal. Made of checked tweed in dress which ranged from smart to be made for a banquet and other en shades of brown, it Is roomy enough dowdy; there were the same liveried 1 tertainments on the Isthmus, for gold for freedom and snug enough for com doorkee|>era sod attentive waiters. To medals, souvenirs and for tho printing fort, and is not ungraceful. The back invitations. the eye the only marks of war were of It special was Intimât..I here that the presi Is plain, with the fronts fulled In a the khaki uniforms- officers seising a dent himself would not go to the for little above the belt. The sleeves, of1 last, chance to take out their fiances mal opening, which Is planned for the plain coat-sleeve variety, are or their families. Finally the music July, but it Is possible that he may finished with n pointed cuff on the up stopped, and 1 was struck by the si change hlx present plan«. The Navy per side. The yoke overlaps the lence. 1 thought at first that no one department has an appropriation for jacket at the top, fastening on the was talking at all. 1 had to strain my sending tho fleet to tho canal and it shoulder, and a plain turn-over collar cars to perceive that they were all wax said that some kind of exercises finishes the neck. talking, but in sutdued tonea. An probably would be held. Plain machine stitching finishes all All of the president's plans for the English dinner crowd is never noisy, spring and summer months were said edges. The jacket fastens with snap but never before have 1 heart! in a to bo dependent on the international fasteners, and small metal buttons, restaurant such quiet as this. The situation. While the prospects for his mood of England was in it, 1 think. going by train to San Francisco later They are going about the accustomed this month were said to be brighter, motions of life, but their hearts and he will make no final arrangements for the present their thoughts are in Elanders. put on in diagonal rows (three In each row), are allowed it by way of adorn ment. No one can fathom the idea of the designer In making, to go with so practical a jacket, a skirt so entirely unsuited to hunting. The proper skirt is to be cut much shorter, extending not below the calf of the leg. or at most to the top of high hunting shoes. It is to fit smoothly about the waist and hips and flare toward the bottom. It should be finished with a machine- stitched hem and provided with a few weights. Skirts of this kind are worn over dark-colored bloomers and with the plainest of soft shirtwaists, in brown linen or other strong fabric. The cap is a very good model, with a vizor of which there Is only a glimpse in the picture. Such caps are made of velours, chinchilla, velveteens^ tweeds and similar fabrics, and it would be hard to improve on this one. It is comfortable and becoming. For the crisp and glorious days of Indian summer and the light snows of De- qember the real sportswoman can equip herself to be entirely comfort able and be conscious of looking well, too. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Dainty Serving Aprons, to Cost a Quarter Great Ilritain In»i»t» On Power of Navy Ixmdon — The order-in-council put ting the English declaration against German commerce into effect, it is said authoritatively, will explain the details as to how the admiralty will proceed in enforcing the sweeping order. The exact date of the order has not yet been decided on, but it will prob ably be published in a few days. Great Britain has not yet prepared her anxwer to the American note sub mitted to the British and German gov ernments looking to the withdrawal of the submarine blockade and the con tinuance of food movements to Ger many for civil population. The publication of the text of the American note and Germany's reply in the Ixmdon papers has attracted wide attention. The English view, which will un doubtedly be embodied in the note to the American government, is that the suggestions propose that Great Britain virtually forego the strength of her position due to her superior navy. In other words. Great Britain feels that Germany is trying to have the neutrals ;>erform duties for her which she could (xtssibly carry out had she a superior navy. Furthermore, the British govern ment, it is asserted, will ask what assurance the Unite«! States can give that Germany would not resume her submarine acvities after she had ob tained sufficient food under the relaxed regulations to enable her to carry on the war indefinitely. Timet Witneeutee Dead. Ihree More bort» In Dardanelle» Quit Action Baris.—Tho following supplementary official statement was issued late Thursday by the French war office: "It can be said that in the Argonne, where we ha«l been constantly attack ed since December, the roles in the last three weeks have been reversed. We have gained the indisputable as cendancy. The effect Is salutary in those local actions, of which the Ar gonne is the theater, to feel that more and more the enemy Is at our mercy and that our moral superiority is as sured. "We have obtained this result by a series of limited operations, energeti cally carried out, and although the German forces which confront us are «■xtreim-l' courageous we feel that at a given point and moment we are mas ters and can do what we wish.” The statement gives the details of one of those engagements, which it says, occur dally and show the splen did ardor of the troops. "Action began In a ravine near Fon- tain«« Madame at 8 o'clock In the morn ing,” says the report, “fivo companies being charged with the attack. We exploded threo mines under trenches of enemy, while our artillery crushed them under a hot fire. Three minutes later our columns debouche«l from branches of trenches and stormed the German works. “We penetrated in three different quarters, killing all the occupants of the trenches, 75 infantrymen and about 30 prisoners. We took four wounded prisoners. At 8:30 o’clock we had «•.¡lined at least 350 yards of the ene my’s trenches.” Trade With Europe Gaine. Washington.—An analysis of Ameri ca's foreign trade for January, issued by the department of commerce, show ed in detail the amount of the tremen dous increases in exports to many Eu ropean nations and tho decreases in shipments to the principal countries of Isatin America, as compared with Jan uary, 1914. No American products reached Austria during the month, the report showed, but shipments to Ger many showed Increases as compared with the first months of the war. Ix>s Angeles—Two witnesses regard ed as extremely important to the state in the prosecution of M. A. Schmidt and David Caplan, allege«! participants in the conspiracy to blow up the Ix>s Angeles Times building in 1910, are dead, according to reports received at the office of the district attorney. One of these was George H. Phillips, su perintendent of the powder plant at Giant, Cal., from which the dynamite used to destroy the Times building was Comet 1» Coming Nearer. purchased. The other was Manuel Sil Cambridge, Mass.—Mellish's comet, va, a boy employe at the same place. which Is visible in the morning skies through a small telescope. Is increas ing In brilliancy and will make Its per Land Grant Suit Advanced. ihelion passage around the sun on July Washington, D. C.—The Oregon and 20, according to computations made California land grant suit will be by Professor Crawford and Miss argued before the Supreme court April Young of the Students’ Observatory, 19, the court having advanced the case Berkeley, Cal. This was announced at the Harvard Observatory Thursday. on motion of the attorney general. , Various Treatments Necessary for Their Effective Preparation for the Table. Fresh meats which are to be served cold should be put to cook in a pot of boiling water and boiled hard for 15 minutes, covered, then boiled gently until tender throughout. The season ings may be any combination of herbs or vegetables desired. Halt and pep- pei should be added when meat is half done. 8alt meats take different treatment. First soak over night in plenty of cold water. Then scrape and clean the next day, and put them on to cook in a pot of cold water. Cook tongue very gently until the small bones in the root can be easily pulled out This Is a matter of four hours Leave in water until cold. Then lift out, trim, skin and serve. It may be put away cold in the ice box, wrapped in a coarse clean cloth, or may be returned to some of the wa ter in which It waB boiled. This will help it retain Its succulence. Ham, if very dry, may be soaked 48 hours, changing water once or twice. Put to cook in plenty of cold water. It should simmer five to eight hours. It is done when the small bone In the hock can be pulled out easily. When nearly cold draw off the skin; do not cut. Cover the top with a mixture of egg, bread crumbs, pep per, salt, sugar and a little made mus tard, and set in a slow oven to brown. Baste frequently with two tablespoon- fuls of vinegar and a little boiling wa ter in the pan. Bake from one to two hours. Save ham fat from the pan. It is fine for frying potatoes, hominy or rice. Save the ham skin and use it to cover the ham under a coarse cloth. Subtle Change Seen in General Keeling of People. A ! PROPER COOKING OF MEATS KEEPS DRAIN PIPES CLEAN Arrangement That May Be of Home Construction Has Been Recommended. FOR COLORED SALADS DISHES THAT ADD ATTRACTION TO TABLE. Possible to Make Them In Almost Any Color Desired—Orange Salad One of the Particular Favorites. Yellow.—To make a yellow salad at this time of year use the yellower heart leaves of lettuce. On them put diced orange pulp, dressed with French dressing, and sprinkled with chopped walnut meats. Or else scoop out the centers of small yellow skinned apples and fill them with a mixture of orange and apple, dressed with mayonnaise made with lemon juice for thinning and flavoring of mustard. Green.—On green but tender leaves of lettuce, put a little mound of spin ach which has been boiled and pressed through a sieve and mixed with French dressing. In the center of each mound, concealed by the spin ach, put a spoonful of chopped hard- boiled egg. Green and White.—Peel and boll tiny white turnips of equal size and hollow out the center of each. Fill with cold boiled peas and mayonnaise and put on green lettuce leaves. White.—Celery, potato, chicken white meat only—whitefish, blanched asparagus—any or two of these may be used for white salad. Dress with French dressing or with a white may onnaise, to which the beaten white of an egg has been added and which has been thinned with vinegar. Red.—Scoop out the Insides of to matoes. Save the slice removed from the top for a cover and replace it on the tomato after filling it with a mix ture of celery and nut meats, mixed with mayonnaise. Place each tomato on a white leaf of lettuce. Pink.—Strain tomato juice and mix It with equal quantity of white stock —veal or chicken. Thicken sufficiently with gelatin and harden In molds. Serve on white lettuce leaves, with mayonnaise that has been colored with a little cranberry Juice- Orange Salad.—Make mayonnaise with much egg yolk in proportion to other ingredients, and thin with cider vinegar. Dice tender carsots and arrange on lettuce leaves, dressing with orange mayonnaise. A device for the kitchen sink that has proved successful in keeping the drain pipes clean is made of a wooden frame and ordinary window screen. Make a wooden frame, about two inches high, just wide enough to fit nicely into the sink, and not quite as long as the inside of the sink. On pne end of this nail a board, covering about half the length of the frame; on the other end, on the opposite side, nail a piece of wire window screen. This device may be kept in the sink always, the dishpan set on the wooden part, and anything poured on the other part will be strained before reaching the pipes. This may be easily cleaned, | and the wire screening renewed at small expense, when worn through. It is better than the ordinary sink strainer, as it covers the bottom of If your soup is too salty try adding the sink, and catches everything a few slices of raw potatoes and cook thrown into it.—Holland's Magazine. a little longer. The potatoes will ab sorb the surplus salt German Potato Salad. Before stuffing a chicken rub it in Boil in their jackets two dozen small potatoes until tender. Peel, and side and out with bacon drippings. while hot, cut in thin slices and mix Sausage Instead of stuffing in a chick carefully with two white onions, a cu en is an agreeable thing. A generous piece of newspaper cumber, a green pepper and half a dozen radishes, all sliced thin. Sea crumpled into ridges acts as an effi son with salt and pepper and while cient drain to all croquettes, fritters, hot, mix with the following dressing: doughnuts and bacon. Rubber bands are inexpensive and One-quarter pound bacon cut into small pieces, one-quarter cupful each are of great use in preparing lunches of water, vinegar, sugar and one-half to fasten the waxed paper around teaspoonful of mustard, one-quarter sandwiches, cakes, fruits, etc. When running dates or figs through teaspoonful of salt, and a dash of cayenne pepper. Fry the bacon slow the meat chopper add a few drops of ly until brown; then pour over both lemon juice to prevent the fruit from the bacon and the fat that has been clogging the chopper. Kitchen scissors for cutting raisins fried out, the vinegar to which has been added the water. Mix the sugar, and figs, lettuce, parsley, and so on, mustard, salt and pepper and add this are exceedingly handy. mixture to the other. Cook until the Individual Cocoanut Pies. sugar is dissolved and while hot pour Beat together the yolks of two eggs, it over the potatoes. Heap on a plat ter and around the sides of the dish; one cupful sugar, three tablespoonfuls garnish the top and sides of the flour and pinch of salt Add one pint mound of salad with radishes cut like boiling milk and stir briskly until it thickens smoothly. Remove from roses. stove, flavor with vanilla and add three-quarters cupful shredded cocoa- Meatless Mince Pie. Half a cup of molasses, two-thirds nut Pour into individual shells that cupful of water, two-thirds of a cupful have been previously baked. Make a of vinegar, one cupful of sugar, one meringue of whites of two eggs and cupful of breadcrumbs, one cupful of a tablespoonful of sugar and drop on chopped raisins, one cupful of minced pies. Brown in quite hot oven. These apples, one tablespoonful of cloves, are truly delicious. one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one Macedoine Vegetables. nutmeg grated, and add a piece of but Here is a way to use cold pota ter the size of a hen's egg. Mix all the ingredients and heat the mixture toes which may be new: Melt three thoroughly without really allowing ft tablespoonfuls of butter, add three to cook, stirring it often. While hot. tablespoonfuls of flour and add grad fill into the pie pans, baking it with ually l1^ cups of milk When thick ened add one cupful each cooked two crusts. string beans, peas and cold boiled po tatoes, cut in cubes. Season with salt Liver Hash. One pint of liver, chopped coarse and paprika and let stand 15 minutes and measured after chopping. In fry over hot water before serving. As ing pan melt one tablespoonful of but this calls for other vegetables it may ter, sdd one teaspoonful of flour and help to use up the leftovers. blend well. Now add one cupful of water gradually, while stirring, and Coffee Frappe. season with salt and pepper. Stir in Put two ounces of finely pounded the liver and simmer for 20 minutes. fresh roasted coffee into a pint of milk Just before serving add one teaspoon with six ounces of loaf sugar; let it boil, then leave it to get cold; strain it ful of lemon juice. on the yolks of six eggs in a double boiler and stir on the fire till the Making Dustless Dusters. Wring out pieces of cheesecloth tn custard thickens; when quite cold hot water and saturate with crude oil. work into it a gill and a half of Another way of making a dustless whipped cream; freeze the mixture; duster Is to saturate the cheesecloth then fill the mold and keep on ice with kerosene oil and hang it in the until the time of serving. sunlight to dry. More Comfortable Shoe«. To Improve Chocolate's Flavor. Paste a round piece of black velvet A drop of cinnamon extract and inside your low-cut shoes when they three or four drops of vanilla added begin to stretch, and you will not be to a pot of chocolate will greatly im bothered with them slipping up and prove its flavor. down. • a pAU AROUND bHOUSE F YOU are casting about for inexpen ated by her who is remembered with one at Christmas time. The pretty aprons shown here cost only a quar ing, for the smallest outlay, as the ter each. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. little serving apron. Of course these small bits of dainty apparel may be Wide Skirt Has Arrived. made of fine materials, trimmed with “The wide skirt has arrived," says a the more costly lingerie laces, and elaborated Into expensive affairs, but fashion authority. "It started with the these will not be any more pleasing short, flaring minaret tunic. From than plainer aprons which are equally there it lengthened and expanded into dainty and are made of inexpensive the long, full Russian overskirt. Here cotton fabrics trimmed with sheer em It ruled supreme for some time, but broideries or the cheaper laces. at last the Anal drop came, and sud The weaving of cotton into exquisite denly, too, and Its end is the three and fabrics that cost little has placed a a half yard round-the-bottom skirt. The world of opportunities at the hand of circular skirt hanging in quaint godet the needle woman. All the fine cot ruffles is a rival of the new plaited ton lawns, plain and printed, dotted skirt, and Paris favors both as smart mulls and swiss, plain and printed autumn styles. The long coat which voiles, fancy nets and cotton mar flares even more than the skirt be quisette are in line with fancy weaves neath Is the suit coat of the hour, to make the frivolous little accessories while the basque which clings to the of dress and the airy house and party figure has taken the place of the bag gowns which women are privileged to gy kimono blouse. It has brought wear. Everyone of them is available with it the high collar and the higher for the serving apron and for the ruche, which flares. It is Interesting morning cap. to note that we are to flare both at There is a saving in buying enough the neck and at the feet this winter.” material to cut several aprons, and they may be made of short lengths or Fur Capes and Ruffe. Fur trimmings are a strong feature pieces or remnants, because the body of the apron Is often cut In panels that of women's dress this season and are set together with narrow val lace. therefore it is to be expected that fur Short lengths of embroidery serve for should prove a big item in the wom edgings, because they are put on with en's neckwear field, according to the out fullness. A pocket, decked out Dry Goods Economist. Cape collars with a small bow or rosette, is an of fur finished with standing ruches embellishment and comes in handy ar»-« feature, as also are mallne ruffs with a fu* band in the back. for the lace-bordered handkerchief. Some of the more elaborate novel Since It Is so much the vogue for the daughters of the house, little and ties designed as foundations for eve Good Thing to Know. To Prevent Tam-o’-Shanter Shrinking. big, or for the young hostess, to serve ning dresses show trimmings of fur, An excellent way t^ remove the When washing a child's tam-o'- the guest at tea or luncheon, the combined with smart opalescent span odor of onions from the hands Is to shanter hat, if you dry it over a dia serving apron is sure to be appreci gles and beads. rub them with a raw potato or parsley per plate it will not shrink. sive Christmas gifts there is hardly I anything that makes as good a show