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The diving room at Hazeldeah. thotanf
Louise at her ocn little tea table, on trtAcJk
white bread never hat been served.
A
GREAT many people have had
the pleasure of hearing and see
ing Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw,
suffragist leader, while they -were the
audience and she was the speaker at
some votes-for-women gathering.
And it is safe to say that a ma
jority of these persons have found
their thoughts deflected from the sub
ject 'in hand for at least a brief in
stant while they wondered what was
the golden secret which keeps Mrs.
Laidlaw so beautifully glowing and
sparkling through all the rigors of
exciting campaigns. A little bird
whispered that it was. a secret of
diet. Armed with this inside infor
mation, the interviewer asked Airs.
Laidlaw to explain the magic regimen.
Hazeldean, the country home of the
Laldlaws, situated 'at Sands Point,
Long Island, has only twice changed
hands since the King James grant.
Itis a beautiful low-lying house 'way
off by itself on a hill top. From most
of its windows the Sound can be seen
and from its terraces and loggias there
is borne the bewitching breath of
roses and honeysuckle. The visitor in
making the rounds of the grounds Is
Introduced to many shrubs and trees.
Whatever the Laldlaws may be In poll
tics, they are individualists in regard
to growing things. They know afl of
their big stretch of out-of-doors pretty
well by heart, and one receives a
pleasant impression that the garden
la part of the family.
"Diet." said Mrs. Laidlaw as she led
the way to the vine-shaded terrace at
the rear of the house, "is one of the
things in which I have been intensely
interested for a long time.
"Matthew Arnold has said that con
duct is three-fourths of life. When
you consider that efficiency, mental
balance and much else that enters into
the trfake-up of a human being are
largely dependent on the digestion I
think it is not too much to say that
food is nine-tenths of life.
"I believe that the way to a nation's
Intelligence is through its stomach.
Without proper nutrition no nation will
rise to intellectual heights or to any
great degree of efficiency. It ,is wo
man's part to nourish the race intel
ligently so as to add tothe sum total
of efficiency, comfort and happiness.
Diet and Ballot Interdependent.
"You want me to talk about diet.
but irrepressibly, all this matter of
obtaining better diet goes
back to
conditions which must be regulated by value and their extreme cheapness convenient. Spinach may be used in- pie, potatoes or hominy or spaghetti
governmental action. Tou ask me not grains are too much neglected as a part stead of eggplant and other vegetables with green peas or lima beans or mush
to talk suffrage, but, I submit, how of the diet. I think it is largely be- added if. there are some to be used up. rooms, and cauliflower or spinach or
otherwise, except with the ballot, is a cause most people think of the grains "A person would huff and puff at be- asparagus; or a salad may be substl
woman to be equipped to deal with as furnishing only an inevitable and Ing set down to a luncheon at which tuted for the third group to preserve
conditions such as those which affect
her right to obtain proper food for
herself and her family?"
A smile appeared in the depths of
Mrs. Laidlaw's very lovely brown eyes,
"You see, we aren't talking suf
frage," she said, ' Innocently; "we're
talking causes and effects."
"Women as mothers and as nurses
the people who take care of the
th of the other members of the
are
health
family.
"Tho -man of the house has a head
r,n of the house has a head-
e of the sons has a stomach
it is discovered that the little
ache, one
ache or
-.v,n- th household are not being
properly nourished " that a11 the tce- n "u of egg with a little bit of curry 'oret wnat Physician It was who said
"Probably some of these ills are due nav been separated. They may be and sprinkling of Spanish pepper to that "wad" of fre,n aouh ,n th" tom
to the fact that the family has been washed with cold water and that water make It look pretty poured over fried have killed as many people as strong
eating fruits treated with arsenic, poured off, but after thy have been hominy or cornmeal makes a satisfac- drlnk-' Tne be8t bread is a whole
cream treated with formaldehyde, or Pu on the fire the water should never tory addition to a meal. A plain white wneat Product baked until it is dry and
wheat with all the strength-giving e poured off, as part of the value of sauce with a good deal of finely chopped aavor,uL '
elements removed. the Brains would be lost. The water in parsley Is also good over grain cro- "But- generally speaking, bread Is no
"But the wife and mother is forced which they are cooked can be added to queues. Caper sauce is goo if you fr'nd ot nln- M" Httle girl never has
to deal only with results. She must as it cooks away. want something a little more wicked. white" bread. We usually us
care for her suffering family as best Delicious Food In Camp. f coure. caper sauce Is out of the e"raham or leback. The best wsy to
she may but. as is always the case cla.ss of the perfectly innocuous, but if U8e br'"d' . me- to maks
with women deprived of any part in Buc ! "f, L "T"? UBed 'Singly ,t it. not bad for one. browned bread crumb, of It. I think
v.r.rlAl affairs, she can deal only
" k nMt with
with me as to diet. from my point
of view, being a vegetarian. I consider
that the cleanest, most wholesome and
most normal food is vegetable food.. I
use the word in its broader sense to
include grains, nuts, fruits, etc. I use
also butter, eggs and milk, which is
not according to the strict vegetarian
code. My regimen is not followed by
all tne memoers 01 our uouaeumu. ana
for the others poultry and occasional-
lamK OVA nmvtdAd Kit T
i y vefc . . . ,
never nave naa . pietc 01 ruuai u
et
on my table since I have been mar-
rlea. x isn we never use except wnen
we are giving a dinner."
. i j. . s .v. tni or iiun.iriy. lor tha.t we forest . i. i- . browned bread crumb, tiwsyi on nana.
S "f cau et and witho'ut th XTSaSZ aVT T " things ? "
power of the ballot she can have none. a"' ' nm" ' T Ut CeUent- for amP'a- fried or grilUd d,8he'- Creamed eggs, for example.
v slices for grilling, frying or for a score 7niant t-0.0.i0, v . . .nrinkled with these breadcrumbs and
Man Ought to Learn Better. of other uses. - Hominy Is the best of than fried, but if frying is more con browned In the open srs ever so much
"Everybody, of course, does not agree all to use In this way, although even venlent it is possible to do d-n more .avory than without this cover-
"But you let your little daughter of eggplant, then another layer of hom- "In selecting vegetables the house
have meat?" iny, and on top of this a layer of to- wife often overlooks the properties of
"Yes," confessed Mrs. Laidlaw; "lamb matoVs or lima beans or peas. Season each one. Often I have sat down to a.
chops and bacon and chicken, 'just a
little of these. really don't think
they do her any good, but I haven't
quite the courage to insist on her being
brought up without any 'meat at alL
If anything should happen it might be
said that it was because she had been
brought up without meat.
"But it seems perfectly evident that
the strongest animals are those which
live on a herbivorous diet. They have
the most enduring strength and are
lees subject to bursts of ferocity. No
doubt necessity drove men to eat flesh
as the most available life-sustaining
thing. But because man always has
eaten flesh, so 'far as our knowledge
goes. Is no reason that he always
.should do so. The progress of civiliza.
tion has been marked by the growth of
agriculture, and coincident with the
culture of peoples has come the de
velopment of exquisite nuts, fruits,
vegetables, etc. From the days when
the earliest woman tent keeper, with
the woman's food preparing instinct,
planted a seed which some wandering
stranger brought her from a far land
down to the days of Burbank there has
been marvelous advance in the grow
ing of wonderful viands.
"But meat always has remained the
same and it is often brought to my at
tention when I, am dining where a
reeking roaBt or little birds with their
toes turned up afe brought on the
table that there has been ' little prog
ress along this line since the fleshy
feast of Cedric the Eaxon and before
that from the time when the cave man
turned an amorphous bit of meat on a
stick. It is significant that the most
exquisite thing with which to disguise
the near-cannibalism of modern meat
eating is to fringe it around with
bright-colored vegetables. The only
thing we have been able to accomplish
with meats is the effete development of
tripe, pate-de-foie gras. etc the parts
of the animal which even the savage
cave man cast aside."
"Do you think the vegetarian diet
much better for the complexion?" Sirs.
Laidlaw was asked. -
"I hope this isn't going to be a beauty
article," she exclaimed: "because I don't
think I could pause in the midst of a
busy suffrage campaign to talk about
the complexion." A little smile curled
the corners of Mrs. Laidlaw's mouth.
"Naturally," she admitted, "whatever
is good for the health Is good for the cheese and steam in the chafing dish or were served, all starchy foods; mashed
complexion. There are the wholesome, bake In the oven. Before putting in to potatoes and macaroni are also fre-
nourlshing grains, for instance. cook beat up one egg and pour over quently served together, although, ex-
"A grain of wheat is a perfect food the whole to lift it a little. Instead of cept or the little cheese over the mac
balance. The nice little heart of the baking powder always use an egg to aronl. they have the same food value,
grain gives the proteids, the outer part make the thing puffy. Care should be taken in selecting vege
is the heat-producing element and in "The trouble with roost cooks Is that tables to get a hydrocarbide . and a
the husks are the phosphates and the they are apt to stick too closely to an proteld vegetable paired off at any
mineral materials. original recipe. This sort of dish may given, meal with a dish of a tonic or
"But in spite of their great nutritive be varied In almost any way that is mineral-bearing vegetable. For exam-'
unexciting breakfast dish. But grains
can be baked and browned, croquetted
and souffled, and in combination with
other vegetables, with eggs, cheese,
eic, wm De round to anrora an innnite
variety of delicious dishes. Green pep-
pers and Spanish peppers, tomatoes,
chestnuts, mushrooms and truffles in
combination with rice, hominy, corn-
meal and samj are extremely palatable.
nourishing and not at all difficult to
prepare.
"In preparing grains it is of the ut-
prepare.
In preparing grains it is of the tit-
most importance to remember that their
value does not come out unless they
have been properly bolted and cooked
" , " " . . . " :
"cal use. 10 Keep a 3emea mou,1 or
rice may De cootcea so mat tt can be
kept nicely in these moulds. These
Jellied moulds of grain may be sliced
and the slabs used under fried toma-
toes or broiled muhrrooms. Dipped In
egg and broiled oe fried they are very
good, or they may be scalloped and
take the place on the menu usually re-
served to the eternal potato.
Anotner tning mat we always do
when we are in camp Is to use these
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layers of vegetables.
nyers or vegetaDies. w natever vege-
tables are at hand may bo used up in
mis way. A delicious oisn is made of
a slab of jellied hominy, then a layer
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Mrm Jamrs les Laidlaw doe her tmm cooking rn camp She U abtg
Louise. Mr Laidlaw cuts the fire wood and catches the Juh. The location of
away, deep in the wmtds. and there Mr. and Mrs. Laidlaw and Louise disappear
pie. are near them. They live in-Camp alone and play like they are pioneers.
this with a little thyme or a little
the principal dish was breakfast food,
but with -a little clever flavoring and
combining as a disguise the breakfast
rooa appears as an extremely appetlz-
ing viana. When we go away to our
camp we don't take any servants. For
three weeks we hide in the woods and
do our own cooking. Then I can cook
whatever I please in my own wav and
Introduce any number of novelties,
"The use of sauces gives another
op-
portunlty for variety In in.Hn, ,v
portunlty for variety In preparing t!
dishes of grain. Brown m.i.hr
dishes of grain. Brown mushroom
sauce, egg sauce, attractive red tomato
sauce and a delicate curry sauce are
among those which I hav
cooks give us Holland!..
alwoys on aspara.ru. or "
cately. so that it win nn .
cased in what appears to be a thick
metal coating "-
. , '
rotutoes Merely Iaeldeatal.
"Potatoes should be an incident, not
a bulwark, of diet. Potatoes creamed,
souffled or used au gratln are all very
well, but the ubiquitous and Inevitable
potato staring one in the face at every
meal is. a thing to which even com.
. 1 . ,
pursnvciy epicurean people have ac-
ceded to as an unalterable tradition
Instead there are such wonderful com-
birvatlons of vegetables and the
grain dishes.
many
i- -i.--,ii J'tt
meal In 'which corn, rice and potatoes
nature's balance.
Hew to Judge Breadstuff.
"As to the Inevitable aecompanlment
of eating the various kinds of bread
stuffs the criterion always should be:
"Is It rough or smooth?
"Is It doughy and wudgy or crisp and
puffy?
"Is it close or open?
Is It brown and delicious or soggy
and half baked?
"Are you getting a white bread gold
Drlck or a 1
"A a natl
ncn, luu-gniinra yruuucir
on of breadmakers we are
far behind many foreign countries. I
mo" people wno coo. i mw una
" is necessary to have a jar
of
Ing.
Make Sou. Delicious,
An Plcur would turn with scorn
from a nutritious and inexpensive
line of soups that I have in mind,
such a. black bean,' spilt pea or . dry
green pea, but put a slice of lemon, a
round of egg and a little chopped
celery In black bean soup. add a bit of
tomato, a dash of thyme to split pea
soup or perhaps a subtle note of bay
leaf and you have wh f would char
acterise 'as not so much highly flav
ored as delicious savory.' It Is ap
petizing without being. Irritating to
the palate, as other forma of season
ing are Curvy should always b. used
In the most delicate way, not as an
l::'-j -
nnilcd bp her Utile daughter
the vamp u a secret It is Jar
every summer So other peo-.
assault upon the palate, but as a
faint epicurean flavor. The same is
true of bay leaf.
"I had the subject of grain diet
called to my attention when" I was a
student in Barnard College. I Was
working In one of Professor Glddlngs'
classes in sociology, and we wen
given a district of the city to visit
with a view to studying the socializa
tion of the families. We made friend
ly visits and I remember feeling green
and timid about talking to experienced
housewives until one day I happened
to call at a house where mother and
grandmother were working despair
ingly over a child very 111 with dysen
tery. What was my horror to see
them put the poor child up to the table
and give him a potato and a piece of
fresh white bread to eat. I made a
wild protest and begged them to pre
pare some barley water and to give
the child some zwieback instead of the
fresh .bread To my astonishment I
found that they did not know the use
of barley at all and never toasted or
dried a piece of bread.
The Poor Cannot I'M the Fire.
"On further questioning I found that
they had never any cornmeal. oatmeal
or wheatena In the house, and that
the use of the nutritious grains was
practically a closed book, to them. It
Is easy enough to criticise these fami
lies for falling to make use of these
economical foods until one realises that
their facilities for cooking are so poor
and that the lack of fuel is so wide
spread that it would be difficult for
many of them to use the fire for a
number of hours or to do any but the
simplest cooking.
"It is easy to talk about proper
dletetl.s when all the means of cook
ing food properly are at hand, but
undoubtedly . even taking Into consid
eration the tremendous economic pres
sure fender which the majority of peo
ple live It is no doubt true that with,
proper knowledge the food value of
the dl?t would be very much Improved
even In the neediest home.
"Dried vegetable, and dried frull.
are among the staples which are often
neglected by the housewife, and yet
they afford an excellent opportunity
to reduce the expenses ot the, table
without cutting down the food values.
Fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, meat
and flh are exprnslve. The dried
vegetables and fruits are Just as
nutritive and much less expensive, and
they are often more digestible, espec
ially for children and people with deli
cate stomachs. For a few cents one
ean prepare a dish of cornmeal souffle
or scalloped rice or hominy and a dish
of kidney beans with cookeU apricots
Hazeldean the Lmdlowt' kome at Sands l'nt. Long island,
where A ay; reigns partly becaus ok rf'Vf jnevails.
tor tJessert. A head of lettuce dressed purwi impossibly In Winter, but is
in oil and ( lemon Is an added luxury, not beyond the reach of aiy one in
which of course would strain some Summer time.
"FIGHTING FIFTEENTH"
HAS ENVIABLE RECORD
WHAT'S In a name? "Forces not
to be measured; life, death, di
vine courage, a rampant spirit of
reckless abandon: these are In a name."
comes the living, pulsating answer to
this trite question an answer which
reverberates around the world to the
accompaniment of cannon music from
the plains of Flanders, where fighting
British regiments are once more In
scribing in blood on the scroll of Fame
their nicknames won on many a shell
ploughed, shot-down field.
Because of its simple eloquence, the
"Fighting Fifteenth" Is one of the most
striking of nicknames of British reg
iments now at the front. The name la
an Intense concentration of the reg
iment's history. It Is fighting now; It
has always fought when there was a
cause, and It has never questioned the
cause that It was Britain's was
enough.
This was the first regiment of light
cavalry organised In the British army,
and dates from 17S. when It was of
ficially the Fifteenth Light Dragoons
and popularly known as Elliot's Light
Horse, from Colonel Elliot, whose de
fense of Gibraltar Is one of the epics
of history. ,
The Karl of Pembroke. Sir William
Ersklne and David Dundas were among
the distinguished men who held com
missions In the "Fighting Fifteenth"
st the first. At Gmsdorf. July it. 1753.
under I'rince Ferdinand ot Brunswick,
the Fifteenth Hussars began to earn
their nickname of the "Fighting
Fifteenth."
The regiment performed notable
achievements at Groebensteln. and at
Frledburg It made the first of a series
of famous rescues when It saved
Prince Ferdinand, who bad been sur
rounded by the enemy's cavalry.
Later they were to rescue the Prince
of Sch warsenburg. It was near Le
Cateau and Landrecles that a squadron
of the "Fighting Fifteenth," under Cap
tain Pockltngton, advanced to support
a reconnaissance made by the Prince
of Schwarzenburg and a regiment of
Uhlans.
The most famous exploit of the
"Fighting Fifteenth" was the rescue
of the Emperor ot Austria at Villlera-en-Couche
In 1714. The regiment was
then serving with the Austrtans against
the French revolutionary forces In
Flanders, where some of the fiercest
fighting Is In progress today.
The "Black Watch" Is another name
famous throughout the United King
dom and the colonies. The Forty-second
Highlamsers, -the oldest Highland
regiment, does not get this name from
the performance of any particularly
gallant action, but the name has come
to stand for all that Is glorious, dash
ing and courageous In battle. T4o
"Blacn Watch" has an enviable reputa
tion as a righting regiment
It was organized by combining sev
eral Highland companies raised In Scot
land In 1715 to 1729,recrulted first for
the purpose of maintaining order In
Edinburgh, and its members were for
the most part from the clana of Camp
bell. Grant and Munro. ,
These clansmen wore their own tar
tan, but when Johq. Earl of Crawford
and Lindsay, welded them . Into qne
regiment, known as "The Highland
Regiment." a new .tartan was devised
by abolishing the color from those
worn by the men In the ranks. Craw
ford, being a lowUnder, had no family
tartan, and tt was from their black
garments that the regiment got the
name of the "Black Watch."
The "Gunners" means to the Briton
the Royal Regiment of Artillery, whose
record Is the record of British arms In
every quarter of the world.
It was not cavalry alone which at
. talned Immortality at BaUklava. The
second battalion of the Ninety-third
Regiment of Foot was there, and
against it the Ru.aiana hurled the
flower of their caavlry. a body of men
In gallantry and dnsh rivals of the
Light Brigade. In a "thin red line."
only two men deep, the Ninety-third,
with bsyonet. fixed, sprang to their
feet and charged the Russtsn hore,
not waiting Tor the enemy to reach
them. It Is hard to ride horses onto
cold steel, and the Czar's cavalry wa
vered, but only for a second. Urged
by spur and voice, the horses plunged
forward "again.
There was a furious clsshtng of steel,
plunging horses, stabbing, slashing and
shooting men.
The thin red line swept onward., the
wave of Russian Cavalry rolled back.
That Britlah regiment Is still the
Ninety-third Foot In the riles of th
War Office," but to Britons throughout
the world It Is simply the "Thin Red
Line."
Toe Royal Welsh Fusiliers Is a pre
tentious and elegant sounding name,
but the men and officers of the regi
ment prefer the title which has been
conferred upon them by admiring thou
sands, the "Nanny Goats."
It was In 168 at Ludlow that the
"Nanny Goats" first became a regi
ment, being developed from IS com
panies of foot recruited three years
earlier In the Welsh marshes by Henry,
fourth Lord Herbert. Among the bat
tle, where the "Nanny Goats" earned
distinction are the Boyne. Namur,
Schellenberg. Blenheim, Ramlllles,
Wynandale. Oudenarde. Malplaquet,
the siege of Lille. Doual, Dettingen.
Mltvden. Fontenoy, Bunker Hill, Co
runna. Gibraltar, Copenhagen. Mar
tinique. Torres Vedras. Badajoa, Sala
manca, Burgeit, Vlttorla, San Febaatlan.
Alma. Inkerman and Sehastopol. It
also served In Egypt. paln. Nova Sco
tia. Hanover. the Indian Mutiny.
Aahantee. Burma and South Africa.
Quite a warlike record for a "Nanny
Goat, which name was given to the
regiment because of Its murot In the
officers' mess on Kt. David's day the
goat, escorted by drum and fife. Is
marched round the table while each
officer and guest who has not done so
before must stsnd on his chair and eat
a leek while a drummer beats a long
roll behind him.
The "First Tangerines" are officially
the Queen's Royal West Surrey regi
ment, but they won their nickname by
their defense of Tangier In IMS. which
fortress had become a Britlah posses
sion as psrt of the dowry of Catherine
ot Bragansa.
The "Devil's Own" was a name given
to the Connaught Rangera. or Eighty
eighth Foot, because of their notorious
rascality. General Picton had described
them as the greatest blackguards In
the army, but after their terrific fight
ing at Kuentes d'Onoro he was obliged
to admit they had redeemed their
honor. .At the takinsr or BadaJes the
"Devil's Own" rivalled their feats per
formed at Kuentes d'Onoro. and sines
then they have been continually bet
tering their reputation as fighters.
George II was the last Frltioh mon
arch to appear on the field of battle
actually under fire. At the Battle of
Dettingen he witnessed the remark
able bravery and excellent work of the
East Surrey Regiment, then known as
the Thirty-first Foot, originally a ma
rine regiment. As the survivors went
swinging past him in the midst of the
battle he cried out:
"Well done. Old Buffs!" mistaking
them for the Third Buffs.
When his error wes pointed out to
the King he exclaimed, "Well done.
Young Buffs, then." The name has
stuck.
The "Carablnlers" were originally
the Ninth Horse and the Queen Dow
ager's Cuirassiers, so called in honor of
Catherine of Braganza. whose master
of horse was their first Colonel. The
regiment dates from 168i and won its
nickname at the Battle of the Boyne.
where it fought in the cause of William
III so effectively that he termed it
Carablnlers" as a distinguishing com
pliment. The present official title of
the regiment Is Sixth Dragoon Guards.
At Albuera Colonel I null. is commend
ed the Fifty-seventh Foot, who wero
defending an artillery battered wall.
As the enemy pressed home their last
'charge Colonel Ingllss shouted above
the din of battle:
"Die hard, my men; die hard."
That the Fifty-seventh Foot did die
hard was attested by the hesps of the
enemy's dead. That was In 1811. Since
then the "Die Hards" have been dying
according to their reputation.
When General Monk marched to Lon
don In 160 to Insure a free Parliament
and the restoration of tha Stuarts he
took with htm from Coldstream, in
Berwickshire, his own regiment of
foot, who were known thereafter as
Monk's Cold at reamers. There IS an un
authentlcated story that when the es
corting force met Charles II at Black
heath this regiment kept the still
disloyal troops from mutiny, and the
King, on learning whence they had
come, dubbed them "My Coldstream
Guards." To this day they are known
as the Coldatream Gusrda.
There are several traditions concern
ing the ' origin of the name "Scots
Greys." The moat generally accepted
one Is as follows: When the Royal
North British Dragoons, as the regi
ment was styled up to the time ef the
Crimean War. landed in the Low Coun
tries -In 174 the Ftadt holder noticed
that me men were without mounts. H
Immediately ordered his own guard to
turn over their gray horses to the Scot
tish corps.
IIKi.PI0 HIM OI'T.
"Sometimes I think." remarked the
tlmta young man In the parlor scene,
"that If I r had money I would r
get married'." "Well," suggested the
dear girl who was occupying the other
end of the soTk. "why don't you try -and
er borrow soroeT' Philadelphia
Ledger. '