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RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Honey Gingerbread.
Heat one cupful of bouey and half
a cupful of butter together; just be
fore it begins to boil, remove from the
fire and add half a cupful o( sour milk,
two well-beaten eggs, two ciipfuls of
floor, half a teaspoonful each of cin
namon, salt and ginger, and one and
three-fourths teaspoonfuls of soda.
E. LL
Log Cabin Sandwiches.
Select large loaves of 4read, rut off
bottom crust, then slice in thin even
slices along that side of loaf. Now
place together two slice at a time,
and trim off all crust evenly, spread
with butter and any dexired filling,
then cut across into strips about one
and one-half inches wide, place in log
cabin fashion on plates.
Mexican Chowder.
One pint boiled Mexican beans, two
quarts beef stork, one-fourth pound
noodles, one-half cup diced celery, one
tablespoon minced parsley, one-fourth
cup minced onions, salt and pepper.
Cook the noodles, celery and onions in
the beef stock. Add leans, let become
very hot, Benson to taste, and serve
with corn bread I. 0. Ft. Allen.
Honey Muffins.
Sift two cnpfuls of flour with two
level teaspoonfuls of Inking powder
and half a teaspoonfu) of salt. Rub in
two level tablespoonfuls of butter, add
two well-beaten eggs, two-thirds of a
cupful of honey and five tablespoon
fuls of milk. ' Mix well and pour into
well-buttered muffin pans, filling half
full, and bake in a moderate oven.
Elma Iona Locke.
Favorite Cake.
Sift 1 cupful of sugar, 2 teaspoon-,
fuls of baking powder, i, cups of
flonr, and teaspoonful salt in a
bowl. Add cupful of shortening
and work into the ingredients as in
making pie crust. Beat 2 egs and
add gradually with 1 cupful of milk.
Make into a Btiff batter. Spread about
Vj inch docp in buttered pan,
sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake
one-half hour in moderate oven. If
desired may be iced with chocolate
or orange and nut icing. Makes a
delicious cake. Miss Tille lluromski.
De Pue,.IlL
Tried and True Cookie Recipe.
Two-thirds cup butter or lard mixed,
1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, cup sweet
milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder,
flavor with vanilla, lemon or nut
meg. Flour enough to make stiff bat
ter just as stiff sb can be stirred
with a spoon. Flour the board well.
Pour ont tialf the dough on board,
sprinkle floor on top of dough and roll
one-eighth inch thick. Cnt out, place
. in the bake pan with a pancake
turner, 8prinkle either red, white or
blue sugar on top. The recipe can be
doubled, as these cookies keep well.
Aunt Loo. . .
Cranberry and Eaisiu Pie.
Seed a cupful of raisins and chop
them fine. Cut into halves 2 cupfuls
of cranberries, and mix them with the
minced raisins, add 2 even cupfuls of
ugar, a cupful of . water, 2 table
spoonfuls of flour and a few drops of
lemon juice. Line deep pie plate with
puff paste, fill each with the mixture,
put on a thin upper crust and cut
slits in this for the escape of the
steam. Bake nntil a golden brown.
When cold serve with sugar sprinkled
lightly over crust. Mrs. Bessie Og
den, 26 South Kline street, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
The Real Culprit.
The Duke of Sutherland, at a din
ner in New York, praised ardently
the jcy and delicious watermelon.
"I better understand now," he said,
"a story that I heard on the voyage
over.
"This story was told me ly an in
teresting Southerner. He said a col
ored preacher in his town cried vehe
mently one August Sunday in the
course of his sermon:
"'Breddern and sistern, Ah warns
yo' against de heinous sin o' shootin'
craps. Ah charges yo' against de
brack rascality o liftin' pullets. But
above all else, breddern an' sistern
Ah demonishes yo' at disher season
against de crime of melon stealinV
" 'Ch '
"A brother in a back seat made an
odd sound with his lips, rose and
snapped his hngcrs. I hen he sat
down again with an abashed look.
"'Whuffo, mah frien',' said the
preacher sternly, 'does yo' r'ar up an'
snap yo' fingahs when Ah speaks
o melon steahn r
"'Yo, je reminds me, pahson,' the
man in the back seat answered quick
ly, 'whar Ah lef mah knife."' Coun
try Gentleman.
Shake
' this space
into your memory
and watch
it
Dry Farming in the Great Basin
Problems Vary With the Location and Result From Scientific Application
of Known Principles Bring Wonderful Results
Students of history 25 veara a
were taught that between the Mis
souri river and the Rockv moun
tains there stretched a mighty plain
peopled only by wandering herds' of
buffalo and the smaller animals of the
rrairie. School histories of that period
treated this country as the great
American desert, and pictured the
waste that never would be brought to
use. And while that same idea still
prevails in the minds of a few who
have not seen the wonders devnlnned
on the sagebrush plains, the govern
ment nas seen lit to send its ex
perts into this vast country to deter
mine the best means of nrnducintr .
crop without the aid of rainfall, hith
erto considered essential, and to in
duce Bettlers to enter and possess the
land. While much of the country
west of the Missouri river was in
cluded in the old conception of the
great American desert, the part most
particularly referred to was the sage-
Field of Alfalfa, Showing
brush lands of the great basin, whose
barren appearance gave anything but
the assurance of productivity, and
whose tillage now is a matter of won
derment to the average man of the
rain-soaked East.
The practice of dry farming proba
bly had its inception with the gold
rush into California in 1847. Men who
crossed the plains during those days
of meager transportation facilities
knew well the nature of the country
through which they passed and some
of them were observant enough to
recognize the possibility of producing
a crop without water. The extent to
which dry farming was carried on,
however, was not great, for the set
tler, quick to realize the value of
water, siezed upon tho stream most
available, diverting its waters to his
fields by means of canals and produc
ing astonishing results. Such, too, was
the experience of the Mormon im
migrant in the early '50s. Indeed,
the truth about dry farming is re
lated to have been discovered in the
Malad river case in Utah in 1855. In
Mothers Will
Be Pensioned
( Continued from page one )
open to welcome the woman driven
to desperation by the pangs of hun
ger and cold. And if she is employed
for the major portion of the day she
is hardly in condition to accept the
risks and responsibilities of mater
nity. Yet the falling off of birth rate is
not confined to the poorer classes. Sta
tistics in England show that among
the well-to-do, thrifty class 'of arti
sans, taking 10,000 members of this
class as a basis, the number of births
fell from 2472 in 1880 to 1105 in
1004. while among the extremely
wealthy families tho average number
of children to each family was 5.2
prior to 1870 and only 3.08 since that
year. Very much the same ratio exists
in America, the love of bubb and the
migratory disposition of tho wealthy
tending to interfere with the raising
of a family. In fart, the size of
wealthy families is far less than that
of the poor. And why! Mother love !b
not obsolete, nor are paternal in
stincts dead. There can be but one
answer; the poor man gives less
Develop
tbis instance wheat had been grown
on an irrigated tract
years with excellent results. In the
summer or 18o5 the water failed, and
the farmers were confronted with the
possibility of no crop. An attempt to
raise wheat on the irrigated land
failed and some was planted on the
adjoining tract where water had
never been used. To the great sur
prise of the farmers, the wheat on
the dry land drew rank and healthy
while that on the irrigated piece
was wilted and stunted. The continu
ous watering of the soil had destroyed
its water-retaining power and the
moisture evaporated too rapidly. From
then on dry farming was a successful
reality.
It was not until the 'AOs, however,
that the Btates began to take up the
matter of experiments in dry farm
ing, Colorado leading in 1894. Now
experimental farms are to be found in
all of the great dry farm states and
Abundant Yield Under
they have successfully demonstrated
that by a proper method of tillage
practically three-fourths of the moist
ure can be retained and a large per
centage of it carried over from one
season to the next. The area of dry
farming is being annually extended by
the introduction of drouth-resisting
cereals.
The chief basis for the difference
of methods to bo employed in the
handling of dry land lies in the depth
of the soil and the subsoil. It has
been found that in the sagebrush
country the . top soil is very deep,
while in the Mississippi Valley a de
cided line of demarkatiou is noted be
tween the top1 soil and the subsoil.
It is a general rule that the roots do
not penetrate beyond tho subsoil,
honce the necessity of long-rooted
plants in the dry farming areas, where
no line of deniarkution is apparent.
The roots of the sagebrush are
found to extend to great depths and,
because of their woody fiber, do not
docay readily. Herein lies the socret
of the dry farming plant, and it is to
thought to the family conditions than
does the wealthy. Ho suddenly finds
himself, with a large family and with
insufficient means of supporting them
and his only remedy is to put them
t) work. The child thus robbed of its
childhood becomes dwarfed in mind
and body under the life-sapping toil
in stuffy sweatshop or damp coal
min
France stands as the one prominent
example of this great national men
ace. That once conquering nation is,
more than any other, threatened with
extinction. Millions of dollars have
been spent to make perfect highways,
yet the traveler marvels as he motors
over the peerless roadway at the in
frequency of children along the way.
The change has been very rapid dur
ing recent years. In 1902 the excess of
births over deaths was 84,000; in 1906
it was 27,000; the following year the
death rate passed the birth rate, and
iu 1908 the latter fell 20,000 short.
The shortage is increasing annually,
while across the border in Qermany
the population is growing by leaps
and bounds. So startling is this dis
tinction that it is freely predicted
that unless the other nations awaken
to their condition, the world will fall
into control of the German and the
Slav. Lincoln prophesied that by
this time the population of the United
States would be 200,000,000. But he
was basing his prophecy on the birth
rate and increase in population as he
knew it. We have not reached the
100,000,000 mark. Yet wo would eas
ily have fulfilled Mr. Lincoln's hopes
but for the turn the birth rate has
taken iu the last generation. ,
At the opening of the nineteenth
century Thomas Robert Malthus be
came alarmed at the apparent ten
dency of population to increase iu a
higher ratio than the means of sub
sistence. He prophesied the pauper
ism of England unless the enormous
increase in birth rate should be
stopped, warning the nation against
over-population conditions such as
prevail in India.
.And why should not the British
government undertake to repair con'
ditions that tend to make her a van'
isbing race. Societies are formed for
the protection and preservation of
vanishing species of animals. Is the
human species less Important that
some steps should not be taken to
keep a nation from decayf
find plants that will adapt themselves
to the soil that experiments are now
being carried on. So well has wheat
adapted itself to these districts that
instances are on record where a stool
of wheat had rootB six feet long. Thus
does Nature, when properly - encour
aged, provide the necessities of its
creatures.
Experiments in these Btates have
proven that the continuous cultivation
of these dry lands has had little ef
fect upon the quantity of humus and
nitrogen in the soil. Many tracts have
been examined where cultivation has
been carried on continuously for 45
years without' any appreciable decrease
in the amount of these essential
elements in crop production. In fact,
an increase is noted in many cases. A
summer fallow every fourth year, how
ever, has been declared by experts to
be necessary, while fall plowing and
a rarefnl attention to the mulch on
top will give the farmer the advantage
the 'Dry -Farming Process
of three farms in one, owing to the
great depth of the soil in most of the
districts.
The Boil is not uniform, either in
depth or productivity, in the entire
dry farming area of the West. In
fact, so varied is it that governriient
experts have sent out a warning that
"110 definite system of dry farming
lias been established that is of gen
eral application to the entire dry
farm area of the country," Depth and
composition of the soil have been
found widely at variance in several
sections and no set general rules can
be followed with success. But with
the facilities now at hand in almost
every section, advice is available that
will guide the settler in the proper
handling of his particular piece of
land. The ability of plants to absorb
water and resist transpiration are vi
tally important to the dry farming
problem. The percentage of clay and
sand in the soil will have much to do
with its capillary powers. For this
reason each individual section must
receive its own individual study.
An Open River
for the Northwest
( Continued from page one )
prise, since both are vitally interested
iu its development. With the plant
completed it is estimated power can
be furnished at the very low figure
of $9 per horse power per annum, less
than one-tenth of the present, cost of
power in the City of Portland. Al
ready the plan has been communicated
to European capitalists with the re
sult that a coproration for the manu
facture of fertilizer is ready to take
240,000 horse power per annum at $9
per horse power. The balance would
find a ready market In the North
west. An idea of the enormity of this
project can be had from the fact that
300,000 horse power is approximately
one-tenth of the developed water power
in the United States. At present the
largest project in operation is that
on the Mississippi at Keokuk with a
capacity of 200,000 horse power. What
that project has done for the people
of the Mississippi valley the proposed
project will do for the Northwest. It
is not difficult to picture a gigantic
power plant that would furnish power
foi an interstate railway. It is easy
to imagine great transcontinental rail
ways terminating at the power plant,
from which point ooean-going Vessels
would carry their cargoes to the ports
of the Orient, while inland-bound boats
would distribute the products of the
world to tho furthest confines of the
great Northwest. And as for the
limit to the number and varieties of
products that could io turned out
from a single great factory at the
power plant there is no limit.
The people of the, Northwest must
rise up as one man in behalf of these
projects. The heritage of the North
west lies , in a successful carrying out
of these schemes. It is to the inter
est of the states that feed into the
great basin of the Columbia to pro
vide for their future welfare and that
of their posterity. The wealth is hare.
the power is here, the resources are
here. They must be developed.
Soda Crackers are ex
tremely sensitive to
moisture.
Before the advent of
Uneeda Biscuit the only
persons who ever tasted
fresh, crisp soda crackers
were the people in the
bakeries.
Now that we have
Uneeda Biscuit we have
perfectly baked soda
crackers perfectly kept.
No moisture can reach
them no contaminating
influences can effect
their flavortheir good
ness is imprisoned only
to be liberated by you,
for you, when you open
the package. Five cents.
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There is no improving on Nature. When art essays
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gets with its flesh tints, the more successful is the real
ization. This shows that only natural beauty is really
effective. This was the prompting idea in the invention of
Pears9 Soap
a hundred and twenty years ago. It is a soap composed
wholly of such pure emollient and detergent ingredients
as the skin naturally and freely responds to. "
Pears never spoils the natural flesh tints. It im
proves them, by keeping the skin soft, fine and pure. Its
influence is so kind, beneficial and refining that its use
means the preservation of the dainty pink and white of
a perfect complexion from infancy to old age. Pears is
in accord with Nature first and last.
The skin is kept soft and the complexion
beautiful by using Pears, which maintains the
soft refined daintiness which is Nature's alone.
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a warm, nourishing breakfast of SHREDDED WHEAT
and it's so easy to get him off to school without fuss or
worry because it's ready-cooked and has in it everything
r
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Simply heat the biscuits in the oven a few moments
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