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THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, JfAT 31, 1914. THREE MODISH CAPES PROMISE TO BE SUMMER RAGES AT SEASHORE But for Waistcoats That Peek Out From Under, This Season's Garment Would Resemble Greatly Models of '80s, When Mother Was Young. LACKING its modish waistcoat, showing between the cape edges at the front, the new Summer cape would be a very humdrum affair much like the capes worn in the late 80's, when mother was a girl. One might say that the waistcoat "is the making" of the new cape. Sometimes It is of contrasting color: sometimes it matches the cape in material and hue. Such a model is pictured in a traveling cape of blue cloth which is lined with cherry red silk. The upstanding collar is at tached to waistcoat and cape. A smart white cotton velour cape is typical of the white cape-wrap which promises to be the rage this Summer at country and shore resorts. Its cotton velour texture is also very fashionable, more fashionable than wool for this season's wear. This white cape flares widely at the back and the gar ment is caught in to form wide sleeves under which long gloves of white em broidered silk are drawn up. The wrap accompanies a frock of blue crepe mo hair and buttoned boots with tops of light cloth. Especially individual and attractive Is a cape of blue and white striped serge with a collar and waistcoat of navy blue ottoman silk and a lining of electric blue pussywillow taffeta. The waistcoat starts out as a flat col lar, under a narrower, rolling collar, and continues in two long straps which are crossed over the bust and which fasten at the back of the waistline with a snap button. Under the cape is a trotter frock of blue mohair and worsted mixture accompanied by but toned walking boots with light tops. Answers to Correspondents BY LILIAN TINGLE. i BEAVEHTOX, Or.. May :o. Will you kindly print a Teclpe for sun preserved strawberries? Also can you tell me how to riry pitted cherries? In Illinois, Zi years asco, I dried black Morello cherries, packed them in stone Jars with sugar between the layers; but I have forgotten how they were dried. They were very nice. Thanking you in advance. MRS, S. A. C. THE following method is suitable for pitted cherries, strawberries, sliced peaches, apricots, "cherry plums," and "cherry" or "pear" toma toes. Sun Preserves. Method 1 Use only carefully selected sound fruit, fully ripe but not over-ripe. Weigh the pre pared fruit, and pack in layers, in an equal weight of sugar, for 24 hours, to "toughen." Drain the syrup from the fruft. boil up. skim well and cook the fruit, a little at a time, until sweet ened through, skim out and spread on dishes dredged with sugar. Sprinkle more sugar over, set under glass in the sunshine and turn daily until dry. Pack in tightly closed glass jars, with dry sugar to prevent stickiness. Method 2 Where very hot, contin uous sunshine is available, the fruits may be drained and spread directly on the sugared dishes after standing overnight as above, and the sugaring and drying finished by the sun alon but this method, though delightfully simple, is not always possible in Ore gon. If "spiced dried fruita" are desired, 1 a little mixed spice, boiled in the syrup. to taste, may he Spiced fruits tend to keep better on account of the pre servative action of the spices; but, personally, I prefer the natural fruit flavor, unless the fruit is to be used, later, in Winter spiced fruit cakes, or mincemeat. Method 3 Pitted cherries and straw berries may be dried without sugar on dishes or drying trays in the hot sun or in a drying oven, and are excellent for Winter use, though care is neces sary to prevent molding, in this cli mate. Any syrup left over from the first method may be put up in sterilized cans for future use. or may be utilized in connection with other preserves, or for regular canning. The following recipe is also called "sunshine preserves" and may be what you had in mind rather than the above: Sunshine Preserves. Method 4 Weigh the fruit after it is prepared for cooking, and take an equal weight of sugar. Cook the sugar with half its weight in water to a "light thread." Put in the fruit and cook 15 minutes after the mixture bolls. Pour the cooked fruit and syrup upon large dishes, cover with glass and let stand in the sun two days, or until the syrup is thick. Store in jelly glasses in the usual way. The author of this recipe adds: These preserves are very good, but we cannot say that they are so much better than those cooked wholly over the fire as really to pay for the extra trouble in making them, although the name is attractive for selling pur poses." The following "sunshine preserve" method is particularly good for peaches, apricots, plums and cherries; but I have no personal experience with it for strawberries, which I usually preserve by the "Danish method" (fre quently given in this column), as be ing easier in my circumstances, where much of my housekeeping must be planned for "absent treatment." Sunshine preserves for stone fruits. Method 5 Use perfectly ripe fresh fruit. Split and remove the stones. Spread on large dishes, so as not to touch and set in the. hot sun, taking them in every night before dark and not putting them out in the morning until the dew is off. Repeat this three or four days. Then pack the fruit In stone jars with an equal quantity of best light brown sugar in layers, sugar being at the bottom and at the top of the jar. Cover and let them remain undisturbed for three or four months, when there will be plenty of rich syrup rrom tne sugar. I see no particular reason why this last plan would not do equally well for strawberries, too. You might try small quantity first. Any fruit put up in rich heavy syrup may be easily and quickly converted into "candied fruit" for "immediate use by draining, drying a little on wire sieve in the sun or in a warming oven, and rolling in granulated sugar. Large preserved cherries or halves of apricots are particularly good finished oft in this way, at Christmas time with a bit of hut-meat for filling, daintily packed with other "bon-bons," or used for dipped fondant or chocolate centers, Fruit prepared by method 5 may be converted into "sweet pickles by add ingvspice and vinegar to the sugar in packing; or into "brandied fruit" by adding brandy to taste when the syrup is formed, and repacking in glass cans. Portland, Or., April 11. Will you kindly give directions for making raspberry jelly? If currants are combined with raspberries in the recipe, state what may be substituted In case currants are not to be had. Thank ing you In advance. . A. SUBSCRIBER. I am sorry you have had to wait so long for your reply. The fact is. am trying to get time to write a sep arate lesson on jelly-making which will answer your questions more fully than I am able to do in this column. I will try my best to have it appear before the raspDerries are ready next week if possible- Oregon City, May 6. A few weeks ago someone wrote you rrom Hillsdale in regard to cleaning feathers, etc. I can speak for the work done by the firm whose address enclose as being excellent. I am well aware you cannot refer to any particular firm In The Oregonian, but you may like to know of the place. MRS. C. C. C. Many thanks for the information. If the lady from Hillsdale is still wantin the address and will send a stamped seu-aoaressea enverope win inclose your letter and mail it to her. The following is an overdue reply to a request for a "made" cream filling rrom Airs. jvi. r., saiem. it a meringue cream filing" was meant .please write again. tngnsn cream nmng (for cream puffs, etc Scald 1H cups milk in double boiler. Mix smooth one-half cup flour with one-half cup cold milk. Com bine this with the hot milk, tir until thick and. smooth. Let the mixture cook directly over the fire for a few moments to insure its actually reach ing boiling: point, then return to the hot-water pan and. cook 15 minutes, stirring: occasionally. Beat up two whole eggs or four yolks. The yolks give a richer custard and there are so many other uses for egrgr whites. Add three-fourths cup sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt and beat again. Combine with the cooked flour mixture, blending, evenly and letting: the egg be cooked without leaving it long enough to curdle. Let cool, then flavor with 1 tea spoon vanilla extract, or any preferred flavoring. A cheaper cream may be made by using two egg yolks and sub stituting caramel flavoring for most of the vanilla, or by cooking a few strips of thin cut orange or lemon rind in the milk. A richer cream may be made by us ing part milk and part cream for the foundation, or by the addition of 1 or 2 more egg yolks. For each extra egg yolk leave out three-fourths tablespoon flour. Portland, Or, March 10. Would you please gWe in The Sunday Oregonian a recipe for salt rising bread; and could you give a tapioea-grapejulee pudding? You have becorne a positive comfort to us housewives and it seems so good to get advice. Thank ing you in advance. MRS. G. J. Your letter was mislaid owing to the kindness of someone who "tidied" my desk for me. Hence the delay. It all depends "where you were raised," or where your grandmother was raised whether you use cornmeal or flour or potatoes in the Vstarter" for salt-rising bread. Good results are obtainable each way; but no one who is accus tomed to "her" way will believe that. As a matter of fact, I think there is now on the market a scientific com mercial salt-rising "starter," corre sponding to commercial yeast, by which the "chanclness" of salt-rising bread can be reduced to a minimum, just as fresh standard commercial yeast has removed most of the difficulties in ordi nary bread-making. The following is a Southern method. Write again if it is not what you wanted. Salt Rising Bread Scald two level tablespoons white corn meal and two level teaspoons salt with one pint boil ing water. Let stand 10 minuts, then mix in enough dried, and sifted flour to make a thick batter, "not quite WRONG BOTTLE CAUSES MANY DEATHS A YEAR Dr. Kossiter Comments on Dangers of Taking Mercury by Error and Advo cates Distinctive Retainers and Colored Tablets. BY DR. IT M. ROSS1TKR. 1 T HEEE are no accurate statistics of the number of deaths that occur each year because some one care lessly grabbed the "wrong bottle." Every now and then reports tell that so-and-so's death was due- to taking medicine from the "wrong bottle." It is difficult to understand how some persons can be so careless as to fumble around in the dark for a bottle on a shelf, on whicn perhaps are a score or more bottles, and take medicine from it- A report in a Chicago newspaper makes the statement that in Chicago alone 148 lives were lost last year be cause of the "wrong bottle." - If other large cities have the same ratio of deaths, because persons take bichloride of mercury tablets when they are hunt ing for lithia tablets, and carbolic acid when they are after a cough ayrup, the death toll in this country from thi carelessness must be great. These mistakes have become so fre quent that the city coroner wants a law passed to protect persons from poi sons. In his report he-says: "A needed law of great importance, which experience proves would save many lives that are now sacrificed, re lates to the shape and form of bottles used as containers for poisons. A law making it obligatory for manufactur ers, dealers, chemists, physicians, nurses, clerks and individuals handling poisons to use only serrated or 'porcu pine' bottles is necessary as a safe guard against accidental poisoning. "I also recommend a law prescribing certain colors and Irregular shapes for poison tablets. By this means a large number of accidental poisonings irura strychnine and bichloride of mercury tablets could be entirely averted. The erreat similarity In appearance of the bichloride of mercury tablets as to shape, color and size to those of aspirin, lithia and alkaline antiseptic tablets, makes it imperative mai an mereurv and other poisonous taoiets should be made up with coloring matter and be so shaped by some irregular pattern as to constantly impress the in dividual, nurse, or ciem witu me ion ization that he is handling poisonous drugs." The report shows tnat tnese acciuem.- al poisonings have been steaany in creasing. If persons are becoming more and more careless in this matter, It is only in harmony wltn tne increas ing carelessness manifested in protect ing their lives from other sources of danger, as for instance in crossing the streets leisurely, in front of automo biles, express wagons and streetcars. Judging from the large mortality aue to grabbing the "wrong bottle, some thing more than a skull and crossbones on a bottle is necessary. Bichloride tablets are not a necessity in any home. There are other disinfectants Just as useful that are mucn less dangerous. Carbolic acid is a dangerous remedy to ho a .hnnt at anv time. These two nolsons are responsible lor most or me accidental deaths. Some special cnar acteristlc bottle or container should be adopted for all poisons. It would De a gooa pian ii unuw away all meoicines is no more necessity ror their use. The story is told of a colored woman who hart the misiortune to u uuo- band. The day after the funeral she r.ikI nr. a score or more or meaicine boxes and bottles and threw them into the stove. There was a terrific explo sion, and the door of the stove was hinnm nff. The Dereavea wiaow sumo- quized, "Dat must Have D en powerrui med'c n'." Ulten times mere io erful medicines left around when It would be far better to have the "stove blown to pieces" than to have some one's life endangered by putting these on a shelf for future use Dy some one for whom they are not Indicated. A New York physician has been con suited bv a number of dancers com plaining of "pain in the front of the foot" and in every instance he has found the same symptoms. On invest! eratlon he discovered that the cause was the same in each instance, the mod ern dance. The patient awakens in the mornin with a slight dull pain in the front and outer side of the leg Just above the ankle. At first this is regarded as a simple injury, or a "little rheumatism,' because of the stiffness. During the next few days the pain becomes more marked and there is pain on moving the foot up md down. Going up and down stairs is painrui, especially tne latter. The outer part of the leg is sore on pressure and a friction feeling can be felt if one hand is placed over the front of the ankle when the foot is moved. It seems that the tango and the com plicated steps and figures of the hesl tation waltz call for great flexibility of the ankle and a great deal of move ment of this joint through all the dif ficult steps. The excessive lowering and raising of the body with extensive movements at the ankle as well as at the knee, with the turning" of the foot outward is responsible for the sore ness. The leg muscles are put on : constant strain, with a resulting in- thick enough to hold up the mixing spoon" but the exact stiffness is not essential. Set the mixture in a warm place or (far safer) in water "Just as hot as you can bear -your hand in," and keep it at that temperature. What you are aiming at is 70 degrees F. for your batter1 a steady temperature, so keep the pan covered and out of a draft. Look at the mixture in an hour, and stir in a little more flour if any liquid has risen to the top. In about six hours the mixture should be foamy and light. Then add one tablespoon of sugar or three tablespoons if a sweetish flavor is liked, and two to four tablespoons' melted lard; work in warm, dry, well-sifted flour, to make a smooth, soft dough, mixing very thoroughly to a smooth texture. - Divide into loaves, place in greased 'tins, grease the tops of the loaves and set to rise at 70 degrees F. When well risen, bake with steady, rather quick heat, for 45 to 65 minutes, de pending upon the size of the loaves. Of course the exact amount of salt, sugar and shortening may be varied to suit personal taste, and scalded milk may be used instead of water (though more likely to "sour") just as in ordi nary bread-making. Some makers let the dough rise once more after mixing before placing in the pans. Other mak ers prefer to have a dough so soft that It must be beaten rather than kneaded. Much depends upon the kind of flour used. I am glad you find this column help ful. Will you write again and let me know the kind of grapejuice-taploca pudding you had in mind? Hot or cold, plain or elaborate, with or without eggs? Portland. Or., May - 11. "Kindly give a recipe for making rose , flavoring. Thanking you in advance. , SSI1. The following Is one way of making rose extract or rose syrup. There are, of course, other ways, but this is easy for a beginner. Rose extract Fill a Mason Jar with fresh, very fragrant rose petals (the faintly perfumed rose3 will not be sat isfactory) and cover with high-proof brandy or alcohol. Let stand 24 hours, then drain the alcohol over anothe JaX of petals, and so on until the flavor is concentrated enough. Do not crush the petals or a bitter flavor may result. A good plan is to add to the rose flavored alcohol an equal - quantity of very heavy (cold) sugar and water syrup. Store In closely corked bottles. HKALIU AUD KFF"ICIE'CTf HOW XO MAINTAIN BOTH. By Frederick M. Ko milter, B. 8., M. IX Questions pertaining to health, hy giene and the prevention ot disease will be answered in this column. When for lack of space and when r.uestiona are not suitable, answers 'jrlll be made by mall, providing a stamped envelope with address is inclosed. Ko questions will be con sidered without the name and ad dress of the sender. No diagnosis will be made In this column. flammatlon of the sheaths of the muscle tendons. There was a time In the history of man when poets raved, over the beauty of the human . foot, especially if that foot, belonged to some fascinating real or imaginary woman. I dare say that there are very few if any poets today among us who know what a natural foot should look like. He would have to consult some ancient piece of stat uary before he would know how to recognize the normal. Some may think that this is speak ing (or writing) in hyperboles, but that is not the case. Not very many know the shape of their own feet without first taking off the shoe to make ob servations, and even then they do not know whether it Is shaped Tight or not. Babies and often young children have properly shaped feet, but it is doubt ful whether one adult in a hundred- one who has always worn shoesi has I perfectly normal foot. W earing shoes not built on proper anatomical lines Is responsible for this. If any one will observe a baby's foot for a little time he will see that the baby moves the toes, individual toes. about as readily as it does the fingers. Natives who go barefooted all their lives also retain a very good move ment of the individual toes and espe cially of the big toe. But the wearing of close fitting shoes for a period of years causes the small muscles of the toes to atrophy, or waste away, and one loses the nerve control over them. This loss of motion is of no particular detriment to one who has ten fingers, but the trouble begins when the close confinement of the foot crowds the toes together and out of place. A line known as "Meyers' line" Is one that passes from the end of the big toe through the base of the great toe and if extended would pass through the center of the heel. The majority of adults would be somewhat surprised to find where this ' line would go if they should apply the jest to their foot without moving thl position of the big toe after removing the shoe. Any marked deviation from this line of Meyer means the development of bunion. There are two principal causes for bunions. The first is wearing point ed shoes or shoes narrow at the toes rather than a shoe too short. The sec ond is wearing a shoe that is too nar row at the base of the toes. The con stant pressure over the joint of th big toe sets up Inflammation and irrl tation, which in time means a bunion. Women are more troubled with bun ions than men because their shoes are more pointed and not made on ana tomical lines, as is often the case in these days with men's shoes. It is said that shoe manufacturers do not mak women's shoes well shaped because women will not buy them. Lorns are more common than bun. ions, and these are invariably due to wearing shoes that do not fit the foot properly. Tight and pointed shoes are bound to raise a crop of toe corns. and it has been truly said that great acnes from little toe corns grow." Another evil of the close-fitting, pointed shoe is the ingrowing toenail, which usually occurs on the great toe. People who wear shoes wide at the toe never develop ingrowing nails, and to wear shoes wide at the toe is one of the ways to cure this trouble, unless the case is a bad one. If a shoe were made to fit the nat ural foot properly it would be an easy matter to procure a good fit, and peo pie would be more willing to wear the right size. -As the pointed shoes are now made, in order to be reasonably comfortable one must wear a shoe too large a size. Many will not wear the larger size, and so the foot is cramped in order to appear small. For tunately the foot is not a vital organ There are few parts of the body from which people are willing to suffer pa tiently so much discomfort as they do from the feet. Much of the foot wear of today shows that fashion taxes without reason and collects wlthou mercy. We seem to be more proud of the shape of our shoes than we are of the shape of our feet. The more artls tic and dainty the shoe, the more de rormity of the root. - But most people are game, - however, when it comes to admitting that the "shoes hurt!" To be sure, the shoes never do hurt, hut the feet may- 1 J mighty uncomfortable from too tight I j Silk Gloves are sold than all others r because . I j I HJ "KAYSER" Silk Gloves wear III better, fit better and hold jj their shape better than any other silk glove ! in the world, yet they cost no more than j the ordinary kind. , j The assurance of absolute satisfac- jlj tion is worth the pains of insisting ,- on "KAYSER" Silk Gloves. ': jj A guarantee ticket with every pair that l) the tips outwear the gloves. jlj Short "KAYSER" Silk Gloves SOc to $1.25 j Long "KAYSER" Silk Gloves 75c to $2.00 AT ALL STORES j fit. Women endure pain better than men and they certainly endure more discomfort from too small shoes than any man would put up with. Pointed, narrow shoes, with high heels, tire the fecit in a short time, particularly so if one attempts to do much walking In tnem. When the weight of the body Is placed upon the front part of the foot or at the base of the toes the natural tendency is for the foot to spread and the toes to separate, but the pointed shoe and high heels prevent this. So pointed, narrow shoes, and shoes of the wrong size are responsible for unions, corns, ing.'rowing toenails, broken arch and flf.t feet and much misery and uncomf 01 tableness. So long as we wear high heels we must expect to wear shoes that deform the feet. for no high heeled shoe can be con tacted on lines that keep the natural, beautiful shape of the foot. YOUNG TELL SHOT; DYING Woman Stage Partner Kails to Sit Potato on Ilia Head. LYNN. Mass- May 26. While a big audience looked on 19-year-old Henry The new treatment for tender skins 0i S0( See what a difference it will make in yoar skin Just before retiring, dip a toft washcloth in warm water and hold it to the face. Do this several times. Then make a light warm water lather of Woodbury's and dip your cloth up and down in it till your cloth is "fluffy with soft, white lather. Rub this lathered cloth gently over your skin until the pores are opened and thoroughly cleaned. Rinse the face lightly with clear, cool water and dry carefully. Use this treatment persistently for ten days and your skin will how a marked improvement a promise of that loveliness which the steady use of Woodbury's brings to a tender, sensitive skin. Woodbury's Facial Soap costs 25c a cake. No one hesitates at the price afttr their first cake. Do this today NowF Tear out tht illustration of the call helovi and put it in jour purse as a reminder to get fPtodbury's. ' Tear out the rate novi. Tck? it to four druggist or toilet coun ter today. H-cgin tonight to get thr benefits of this facial soap. For sale by dealers everywhere. A IB. vvvvuuurys The Andrew Jergens Company Spring c ooe Avenue Cincinnati, O. "All is Well That Ends Well" t Along with dyspepnlm cornea nerrotxsoem, Bleepleasnaas and gen eral ill health. Why ? Beeauaa a disordered stomach does not permit the food to be assimilated and carried to the blood. On the other hand, the blood is charged with poisons which come from this disordered digestion. In tarn, the nerves are not fed on good, red blood and we see those symptoms of nervous breakdown. It is not head work that does it, bat poor stomach work. With poor thin blood the body is not protected against the attack of germs of grip bronchitis eonsnmp tion. Fortify the body now with DR PIERCE'S Golden E!etiical Biscovery an alterative extract from native medicinal plants, prescribed in both liquid and tablet form by Dr. R. V. five, evsr 40 yean mgo. More thsn 43 ymn of experience) has proven its soporior worth as an to siaroraans: stomach tonic sjad blooo purinor. It invisToratas and rognlatos the stomach, liver and bowels, and through them the wboie sysucn. It ca.a now also be had in ns-ar-coated tablet form of most dealers in medicine. If not. send 60 cents in one-eent stamps for trial box to Dr. Piaree's Invalids' Hotel and SorKical Institute. Buffalo. N.Y. .The Common Sense Medical Advlser- IS A BOOK OF 1O08 PA 3ES HANDSOMELY BOUND IT CLOTH-TREATS PHYSIOLOGY. HYGIENE, ANATOMY, MEDICINE AND IS A COMPLETE HOME PHYSICIAN. Send 31 one-cent stamps to R.V. Pierc, Buifaio. N. Y. Garvan, impersonating the son of Wil liam Tell, with a potato Instead of an apple on his head, was shot through the forehead on the stage of the Central Square Theater by Mrs. Juanlta. Griffin, known professionally as "Princess Neta." He was hurried, to a hospital. His recovery is doubtful. Mrs. Griffin was placed under arrest. BOY, HIT BY BALL, DIES Fatal Accident Happens at Happy Sunday School Picnic. NEW TOp.K. May 26. Nelson A. King, aged 17, Morristown, N. J., was killed near Greenwood Lake by a blow on the head from a pitched baseball. He was a member of the Sunday school class of the First Presbyterian Church, taught by Samuel Gillespie, who took the class to the lake ty automobile. The boy was at bat when the ball hit him on the side of the head. He staggered and then went to a water way close by and bathed the bruise. The pain, however, grew worse and the boy was dead before a doctor arrived. Many people with tender skins have been misled by the superstition that wash ing the face with soap and water is bad for the com plexion. Dr. Pusey in his book on the care of the skin says : 'The layer of dirt and fat that such persons accumulate on the skin is a poor substitute for a clean, clear skin and is a constant in vitation to various disorders. The following treatment with Woodbury Facial Soap is - just what a tender skin needt to keep it attractive and resistant. h ' "ft UJJ
