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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1918)
THE SUNDAY OBEGOMAS, PORTLAND, MAY 12, 1918. PORTLAND BOYS AND GIRLS ARE HELPING TO CONQUER THE SILENT ENEMY, HUNGER Gardes Club Work I Progressing in Almost Ever? School District in City and Interest Evinced by Youngsters Is Assurance of Success. i - - -oc n I) 'x i I - .4 . ' . . I ; . t4 -X. O S 'I 1 xtr- 1 r f , ., s v v' - " a ' r't ' - ii""?-.f ... - . " - - -f -, " ' '- -.',' ' " n- - '' -J t-;:s'i:Vi--.-Jf ' ? 57 :4f.-l r"". ! ? ' .u. -.. ' . : - xjnM.j r - . "rr""--"1'"'-v - ; J ; -4 - J! . -t'is. trVs Vt-i'4 -'" L :J?2.- i1- 1"' - , -7 M I -v ' 1 ' , H A all worth trying: when your stock of Ideas Is nearly depleted: Flak a la Mode. To one cup of flah melt one table spoonful of butter (do not let it brown); stir in one tablespoonful of flour; mix well on a slow Are; have one and one half cupfula of hot water with one half beef cube dissolved; pour into the butter and flour but a little at a time and stir well until the water is ab sorbed. Have thickening; very hot. re move from Are and stir in one-fourth cupful of sherry wine; Just turn the flrh in and serve on or with toast. This proves particularly delicious If leftover haddock Is used. Potat PorrldBY. Twelve potatoes, peeled and sliced. one largre onion, also pared and sliced, two quarts boiling- water, one cup hot milk, three beaten eggs, three table spoonfuls of butter, rolled In flour, salt, pepper and a stick of celery cut up or one teaspoonful celery essence, chopped parsley. Fry potatoes and onions light brown In a little butter; put Into a sou pot with Ae, boiling- water and coo grently until soft; rub through a colan der to a smooth puree. Add the water in which they were boiled and return to the Are; when th puree besMns to bubble stir In the but tered flour, pepper, salt and chopped parsley and simmer Ave minutes; heat the milk In another vessel; pour upo the beaten egg's, cook one minute and pour Into a tureen; add the puree, stir in the celery essence, and it Is ready. Sweet Potato Pie. Peel and wash boiled sweet potatoes while hot; rub through a sieve and to each pint of pulp add one quart of milk, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one cup of sugar, three eggs and a pinch of salt: flavor with nutmeg or lemon; 11 n deep Die pans with the mixture and bake. Use the whites of ergs for th meringue, allowing one tablespoonful of sugar to each; if care Is taken that the pies do not cool sudddenly the meringue will stay light and fluffy otherwise It is apt to fall and look leathery. If meringue is not liked ma pie sirup may be covered scantily over the pie and covered with neapea-up whipped cream. House-Cleaning Helps. 1 Um 9IW Library Clab CeraVaers at Werk. S Maay rhol t'htlarea Hare Kathaalaatlrally Takea l Back-Tard Paaltry Prvaarttoa. S Bays' aa Clrla Rabbit Clabs Arc Beeasalag a Faetar la laereaalag Faoa 8 applies. BT MISS ALICE JOTCE. ililtuil State Clab Laad.r for Orvgea. La4r Dirvctloa of the Kxtenaloa L lnaBt of tae U. A. C 7F club activities Indicate success then Portland boys and girls who araj sparing no efforts to help fill Americas storehouses with rood for Uncle Pain will succeed. Voder leadership of principals and teachers, assisted by Parent-Teacher Associations, club work Is progressing In almost every publie school In Port land. The projects beat fitted for city con ditions la connection with the public schools are poultry, rabbit, horns vege table gardening and canning clubs. The plan of organisation and opera tion is simple. Pupils Interested are cai:d together and organise, electing a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Some teacher or parent Is selected as club adviser. Metlaaa Stlaaalate latere. Meetings are held at least once month at which time the adviser dis tributes literature furnished by the Oregon Agricultural College. The club work Is a national organlsa tlon directed In each state by a state leader. Th four H's of the Boys' and Girls Clubs of the United States Dc . partment of Agriculture are: The Head To think, to plan, to rea Son. The Heart To bo kind, to bo true, to ty sympathetic. The Hand To bo useful, to bo help. fuL to bo sklllfuL The Health To resist disease, to en -Joy life. Real Tralalaa- Is Clvea. Leaders are trained through Its re qulrements. to keep records; business methods are practiced: expression of knowledge and experience Is developed , In tho regular meetings. Practical education must train tho whole child and develop right habits of thinking. planning and working. Tho child club means that tho work must bo done with real problems in real things. This arouses Interest which extends to other work at school and In home life. Kvery community must raise as much of Its own food supply as conditions will permit, and to that extent It adds to the Nation's food supply, decreases transportation demands and Increases ins shipment of food to our allies. Saldlera Mt Bo Fed. A representative of tho United States rood Administration on his return from Europe recently, said: "Troops have but little war valae unless they are well red." It Is. therefore, the bus! ness of our people to supply that need. and every ounce of energy that we can mobilise should go Into the lob. Eggs are needed for hosDital service. Kvery family can raise poultry. Where eggs are plentiful they can bo pre- srrvea oy the water-glass method. The poultry clubs hop to store enough eggs for civilian us and re l,ae th fresh eggs for hospital sup pli's. Th Rabbit club offers a new Indus try and encourages thrift and eoonomy in Buying and selling under a co-operative plan. Many homes are being sup plied with fresh meat, th rabbits grown by club member a Cardea Par Xase4. ' Th bom vegetable garden club plans th garden for three definite pur. poses: 1. To grow seed for next year's food supply. 2. To produce fresh vegetables In season. S. To can and dry vegetables and fruits for other seasons. The canning club expect to can veg etable, fruit, rabbit, chicken and fish for us when meat Is expensive. Every club member who has a far- den, pigs, sheep, chickens or rabbits Is a real helper for Unci Sara. Ost Kaeaay Caqaer4. This food will help to supply the homes and the families of the boys at th front. And when all homes are sup plied we have conquered the silent ene my, hunger, on one part of this great battlefield. Remember, you belong to th Homo Guard and your food produc tion proves that you are faithful to your trust. Th National organisation at a con ference which recently met In Wash ington. D. C adopted th club mem ber's pledge to the service flag: I pledge my head, my heart, my hand and my health to help win this war." leaf Meaae Saethlag. Sine the Tankee has been famous for doing things, th following song may be sung with real American spirit: The Clab Member's Tank re Doodle. tTune "Tsnkeo Doodle.") The Tank bors and sirls oday .m hID to do murh sod. sir. Br helping dear eld Uncle Ham To raise the Nation s food. sir. CHORUS. Tankee Doodle gardeners Come in very handy: Uncle 8am coneldTS each A Yaukee Doodle dandy. We're vllllng to da anything To make the allies win. air: And If a garden helps the cause. That's where we will begin, sir. We Tankee boys and rlrls can raise Fine rabbits In a hutch, air; And chickens, too. for family uae. We'd like to do that much. sir. And when it comes to saving thing's. We's with you to a man. sir: We bora and slris work eas-erty To can whate'er we can. air. Emerol Ftacy. RECIPES FOR LEFTOVER FISH Often It is difficult to know just what to do with leftover fish. Following; is a suggestion which is novel and proves very palatable. The other recipes are riEVERALi women readers of Good, O Housekeeping have sent In sugges tions for simplifying the Spring task of house-cleaning. Among them are the following: I have found a way to polish win dows brilliantly with the least pos Bible work. I can clean them whether the sun is shining or not, so Infallible is my method. First wipe off the dust with a dry cloth, or if very dirty, with a damp one, then put a small quantity of water in a basin and make it very Btrong with household ammonia, using not more than two parts of water to one of ammonia. Dip a small cloth or sponge in this and wring It nearly dry, then go over the glass, rubbing hard but working rapidly. Wipe immediate ly with a dry, lintless cloth, or the pane will be dry before you can get over it. The sole objection to this method is in the effect of the strong solution on one's fingers. A rubber or leather glove may be used, but even without gloves I find it takes so short a time to clean a number of windows that If one is Care ful to wash the hands immediately after the task, then rub them with lemon Juice or vinegar and rinse again with clear water, there will be no unpleasant effect. Deck Palat for Kitchen Floor. I have a white pine kitchen floor from which the original finish. If there ever was any, had completely vanished. It was exceedingly difficult to clean and to keep clean. Finally I scrubbed it and when thoroughly dry had It painted with three coats of so-called deck paint containing considerable dryer, so that it dried overnight. As soon as the last coat was thoroughly dry I treated It like a hardwood floor with a coat or floor wax. The wax finish not only made the floor easier to care for, be- use it prevented stains from pene trating, but it protected the paint itself from wear. In my case it has proved a decided success. Hook Vs the Curtains. Keeping bedroom curtains fresh Is a big item in laundry work. But all of us like to sleep with windows raised in spite of the fact that it Is hard on the curtains. We tried pinning them up, knotting them up and swinging them over the bar itself, but in each case they became mussed and wrinkled in a very short time. This Spring I placed small dress hooks in the lower corners of each curtain, with an eye to corre spond two-thirds of the way from the bottom on each edge. Each night the curtains can be hooked up for the breezes to blow unobstructed through PROMINENT WOMEN TAKE IMPORTANT PART IN AMERICA'S CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY Burleson Sisters, Daughters of Postmaster-General Burleson, Are Examples of What Yankee Girls Are Doing to Help Fight the Battles of Democracy Yeomen Service Is Popular. 1 v H ! V' h V VJfin Ik"" ' I "-J !.v itf Greece Jrs:.W7jm.Zee(tf) AT THE very zenith of the Galll Curcl furore In New Tork, when seas were selling In the neigh borhood of 40. a bomb was exploded by Henry T. Finck, the eminent critic of the New Tork Evening Post in an article on February 16. There is an American coloratura singer whom I consider not only equal to Galli-Curcl, but her superior, be cause she has a more luscious and a warmer voice, which is also true of the pitcn, ne wrote. "Her name is Lucy uaies. on referring back to the Even ing i-oet files I find that I was able to bestow on her more unreserved praise than I have bestowed on any performance by Galli-Curci that I hav heard." Mr. Finck's article has started con siderable discussion, and rrlflr. nn. erally seem to agree that even with the artistic handicap of being an Amer ican Lucy Gates' hat is in the ring. The Burleson sisters, daughters of Postmaster - General Albert Sidney Burleson, are examples of what Ameri can girls are doing to help in the work of fighting the battles of democracy. t-ne is already in service as yeowoman and the other is studying hard to fit herself for a position with Uncle Sam. Miss Lucy Burleson is a veowoman In the Navy.' While her work is of a lerical nature, she may at any time be ordered to sail, as all yeomen and yeowomen are attached to a ship, though doing duty on land. She re ceives 4l a month as salary. miss-Sidney Burleson, in order to help Uncle Sam with the war, is taking course In stenoeraDhy to Drenare her self for a Government position. Princess Christopher, of Greece, has ust reached the United States from London. Before her marriage to the Prince she was Mrs. Nancy Steward Worthington Leads, formerly of New . York, but more recently of London. She was the widow of William B. r- f' l 1 W7. r J - - . v is"-. f' s I 'res wMrrf wop. m , Leeds, the tin plate millionaire of Cleveland, O. . Prince Christopher, of Greece, is the younger brother of Constantine, the deposed King of Greece. He is related to many European royalties, and by her marriage in Switzerland recently the newest American Princess becomes a cousin of King George or England and of Queen 'Victoria of Spain? She is also an aunt of King- Alexander of Greece. Miss Frances Jordan Is a very happy young lady, and she has plenty of rea son to be. Her photograph was se lected out of several thousand submit ted as the one "portraying the char acteristics most likely to inspire our soldiers and sailors" for xxie on the war Insurance calender, which will b sent throughout the camps to urge all men in service to apply for United States Government insurance. Only girls with relatives or close friends in the service were eligible to submit their photograph, this quali fication placing the Nation-wide search for the prettiest, on a patriotic basis. Miss Jordan has a brother and an uncle in the service. She is a member of the "Jack o' Lantern" company. Articles have been published erron eously indicating that a contest was being run by the War Department, which is entirely wrong. This con test was purely for the poster for the war insurance campaign run by tha sailors' and soldiers campaign council. tha room, and when they are let down J hanger put It on for me over the paint- gain next morning the curtains are resh and unwrinkled. The tiniest hook nd eye obtainable will never be de tected when not in use. Renovate PI 1 Iowa. I hope this discovery will help some- ne this season as much as It helped me last year. In renovating my feather pillows, I first washed them. contents and all. Then I took the bag from my vacuum cleaner and after rlp- lng the end of each pillow, after it was washed, I fitted it tightly on the leaner and turned on the electric cur rent. The air thus created rapidly dried and livened the feathers. In a surprisingly' short time they were as ght and -fluffy as new. Oilcloth Wall Covering. After struggling for years to keep my kitchen walls In good condition, 1 nally discovered that an inexpensive table oilcloth was an excellent wall nish to wainscot height. The paper ed wall, using the width of the oil cloth, which was one and a half yards wide. A cheap picture molding was used as a finish. In its place a narrow oilcloth border might be used. Above the base we used a blue and white pa per to match tho oilcloth. The oilcloth base can b6 wiped every week with a damp cloth and after five years of wear my kitchen looks welL Many of our friends have copied the idea of this oil cloth base with papered walls above. Inspect Your Wires. Not long ago a heavy picture in our living-room fell to the floor and was badly damaged. We found that the wire from which it had hung had rust ed thraugh. Now I do it at the regular intervals of house cleaning and any that seem at all weak are replaced by new ones to avoid another such acci dent. Age and atmospheric conditions are bound soonor or later to weaken these wires unless they be made of the metals that are not affected by air. And I am very sure many people never think of it until, as in our case, tho picture crashes to the floor. ClOTI LDE " - A MAY DAY HAT. Th first of May always means Sum mer and plenty of flowers. . Cold winds may still blow and th thermometer may register low, but such biased weather signs can no longer discour age. Th children feel the promise of mor sunshine and longer days even mors certainly than their parents, Sooa daisy chains and flower chaplets ati4 wreaths of oak and maple leaves will grace Summer's court of bare-legged royalty. "Make believe" and "10 years old" will come again Into their own. A forerunner of these Joyous days is the hat sketched in the picture. Directions for the May day hat: This Summery little hat may be made on the pressed straw frame ready bought or fiver a wire frame, in, case the wire frame is used, cover it with black Tus can straw braid sewed 'round and "round. The hat will take eight yards of braid one inch wide. Start at the outer edge of the brim. The head size is 23 Inches. The brim is two and a half Inches deep in front, decreasing to a depth of one and a half inches at the back. The hat is faced with a piece of rose rib bon, or cilk may. be used, cut straight or on the bias. The facing is put on with a wire. The hat is trimmed with 12 light blue, flat roses made of French linen, put on symmetrically with leaves on the front going over the top of the crown. At the back two yards of French blue velvet ribbon one inch wide is inserted through inch slits at the top of the crown. The ribbon is tacked in place at the point of meet-. Ing of crown and brim, In the fold of the straw, and falls gracefully below the hat, caught in a bow with the ends long. Figure 1 Straw frame being faced. Figure 2 Inserting ribbon through slits. Figure 3 Sitching roses In place. Figure 4 Finished hat. This re a k es a charming hat for the little girl of from 9 to 11 years old. Prepare to Can. In this month of May, Just before tho canning period, take account of stock, not only of your equipment, tha can ner, et cetera, but of your jars, your rubbers, and the closet in which tha finished product is to be stored. Havo the closet as dry and cold as possible. Fruits or vegetables that are to ba canned must be fresh and not over one day old, if possible. Peas and corn lose their flavor so rapidly that they ought to be canned within four hours of the time of "cooking. Do not waste any time on decayed fruits or vege tables. The former can be put up safe ly with sugar, as jam, by discarding the poor portions, but should never bo used for canning. oG over the Jars and rubbers. Do not .use rubbers which are sold with Jars, unless a known and tested brand is provided. Even so. It is better to purchase new rubbers, being very sure that the rubber . of which they are made will stretch slightly without break or crack. An excellent tes that Good Housekeeping has evolved con sists In pressing the rubber between the thumbs and fore finger of each hand with a slight pull. If this pressuro develops a soft, spongy feeling in tho rubber, discard it. If it feels slightly granular and firm to the touch, it will prove good. Then, too, the jar must be carefully examined to make sure that there are no invisible nicks or cracks and that tho clamp on the cover fits securely and tiirhtlv. Good Housekeeping. Mrs. Dunnagans Baby Has Thick Hair Now Thanks to Cuticura "Our baby had skin trouble that broke out all over her head, and then on her face and body. It commenced in red spots that developed into white headed pimples. These itched and burned so that she could not sleep, and I had to sit up at night and rub her. She had scarcely any hair. "Then I sent for a free sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. They were so beneficial that I bought Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment and before they were gone, she was healed. She has a thick head of hair now, and her skin is in fine shape." (Signed) Mrs. Bessie Dunna gan, Arlington, Colorado, July 28, 19 1 7. Cuticura is a pure, gentle Soap, ideal for every -day toilet use. Assisted by touches of Cuticura Ointment as needed it does much to prevent skin and scalp troubles. Sample Eaeh Free by Mail. Address post card: "Cntienra, Dept. U, Boaton. Sold everywhere. Soap 25c Ointment 25 and 30c. Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish (Toilet Talks) Any woman can keep her skin frea from unsightly hair or fuzz if she will follow these simple Instructions: When hairy growths appear, apply a simple paste, made by mixing some water with powdered delatone. Apply this to hairy surface and after 2 or 3 minutes rub off, wash the skin and the hairs are one. This is a harmless treatment, but be sure you get the real delatone, Adv t