PACK FOUR
RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Honey Gingerbread.
Heat one cupful of honey and half
a cupful of butter together; just be
fore it begin« to boil, remove from the
fire and add half a cupful of »our milk,
two well-beaten eggs, two cupfuls of
flour, half a teaspoonful each of cin
namon, salt and ginger, and one and
three-fourths teaspoonful» of soda.—
E. 1. L
Log Cabin Sandwiches.
Select large loaves of bread, cut oft
bottom crust, then slice in thin even
slices along that, side of loaf. Now
place together two slices at a time,
and trim off all crust evenly, spread
with butter and any desired filling,
then cut across into strips about one
and one-half inches wide, (dace in log
cabin fashion on plates.
Mexican Chowder.
One pint boiled Mexican beaus, two
quarts beef stock, 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 beans, let become
very hot, season to taste, and serve
with corn bread.—I. H. Allen.
Honey Muffina.
Sift two cupfuls of flour with two
level teaspoonfuls of baking powder
and half a teaspoonful of salt. Hub iy
two level tablespoonfuls of butter, add
two well-beaten eggs, two-thirds of a
cupful of honey ami five tablespoon
fills of milk. Mix well and pour into
well buttered muffin pans, filling half
full, and bake in a moderate oven__
Elma Iona Locke.
Dry Farming in the Great Basin
Problem» V ary W ith the Location and Results From Scientific Application
of Known Principles Bring W onderful Results
•
Students of history 25 years ago
were taught that between the Mis
Kouri river and the Rocky moun
tains there stretched a mighty plain
peopled only by wandering herds of
I iitfalo and the smaller animals of the
prairie. School histories of that period
treated tins 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 developed
on the sagebrush plains, the govern
ment has seen fit to send its ex
perts into this vast country to deter
mine the best means of producing a
crop without the aid of rainfall, hith
erto considered essential, and to in
duce settlers to enter and possess the
laud. 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-
this instance wheat had been grown I find plants that will adapt themselves
ol an irrigated tract for several I to the soil that experiments are now
years with excellent results. In the' being carried on. So well has wheat
summer of 1855 the water failed, and J adapted itself to these districts that
the farmers were confronted with the instances are on record where a stool
possibility of no crop. An attempt to | of wheat had roots six feet long. Thus
raise wheat on the irrigated land does Nature, when properly encour
failed and some was planted on the aged, provide the necessities of its
adjoining tract where water had creatures.
Experiments in these states have
never been used. To the great sur
prise of the farmers, the wheat on proven that the continuous cultivation
the dry land drew rank and healthy of these dry lands has hail little ef
while that on the irrigated piece feet upon the quantity of humus and
was wilted and stunted. The continu nitrogen in the »oil. Many tracts have
ous watering of the soil had destroyed been examined where cultivation has
its water-retaining power and the been carried on continuously for 45
moisture evaporated too rapidly. From years without any appreciable decrease
then on dry farming was a successful in the amount of these essential
elements in crop production. In fact,
reality.
It was not until the ’90», however, an increase is noted ii^ many cases. A
that the states began to take up the summer fallow every fourth year, how
matter of experiments in dry farm ever, has been declared by experts to
ing, Colorado leading in 1894. Now be necessary, while fall plowing and
experimental farms are to be found in a careful attention to the mulch on
all of the great dry farm states and top will give the farmer the advantage
Field of Alfalfa, Showing Abundant Yield Under the Dry-Farming Process
Favorite Cake.
Sift I cupful of sugar, 2 teaspoon-
fills of baking powder, 1 Vi cups of
Hour, and Vi ‘teaspoonful salt in a
bowl. Add Vi cupful of shortening
and work into the ingredients as in
making pie crust. Heat 2 eggs and
add gradually with I cupful of milk.
Make into a stiff batter. Spread about
V» inch deep in buttered pan,
sprinkle with granulated Riigar. Hake
one half hour in moderate oven. If
desired may be iced with chocolate
or orange and nut icing. Makes a
delicious cake.— Miss Tille llarcmski,
Ik I’ur. III.
brush lands of the groat basin, whose
barren appearance gave anything but
Tried and True Cookie Recipe.
the
of productivity, and
Two thirds cup butter or lard mixed, whose assurance
tillage
now
. is a matter of won
1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, Vi cup sweet derment to the average
man of the
milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, rain soaked East.
flavor with vanilla, lemon or nut
of dry farming proba
meg. Flour enough to make stiff bat ble The had practice
inception with the gold
ter—just as stiff as can be stirred rush into its
in 1847. Men who
wifh a spoon. Flour the board well. crossed the California
during those days
Hour out half the dough on board of meager plains
transportation facilities
sprinkle Hour on top of dough and roll
well the nature of the country
one eighth inch thick. Cut out, place knew
which they passed and some
in the hako pan with a pancake through
them were observant enough to
turner. Sprinkle either red, white or of
the possibility of producing
blue sugar on top. The recipe can be recognize
crop without water. The extent to
doubled, as these cookies keep well.— a which
dry farming was carried on,
Aunt Lon.
however, was not great, for the set
Cranberry and Raisin Pie.
quick to realize the value of
Seed a cupful of raisins and chop tier,
water, siezed upon the stream most
them fine. Cut into halves 3 cupfuls available,
diverting its waters to his
of cranberries, ami mix them with the
bv means of canals and produc
minced raisins, add 2 even cupfuls of fields
astonishing results. Such, too, was
sugar, a cupful of water, 2 table ing
experience of the Mormon im
spoonfuls of flour and a few drops of the
in the early ’50s. Indeed,
lemon juice. Line deep pie plate with migrant
truth about dry farming is re
puff paste, fill each with the mixture. the
I lit on a thin upper crust and cut lated to have been discovered in the
slits in this for the escape of the Malad river case in Utah in 1855. Tn
steam. Hake until n golden brown.
When cold serve with sugar sprinkled
lightly over crust.—Mrs. Bessie Og- Mothers Will
«1« . 26 South Kline street, Oklahoma
< ity, Okla.
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Be Pensioned
The Real Culprit.
The Duke of Sutherland, at a din
ner in New York, praised ardently
the icy and delicious watermelon
“ I better understand now,” he said,
"a story that I heard on the voyage
over.
“This story was told me by an in
teresting Southerner. He said a col
ored preacher in bis town cried vehe
m ently one August Sunday in the
course of his serm on:
“ ‘Hreddern and sistern, \b warns
yo' against de heinous sin o’ «hootin'
craps. Ah charges yo' against de
brack rascality o’ liftin’ pullets. Hut
above all else, breddern an’ sistern
Ah dem onishes yo' at disher season
against de crime of melon stentin'.
" *Ch------’
‘A brother in a hack seat made an
odd sound with his lips, rose and
snapped his fingers. Then he sat
down again with an abashed look.
" ‘W huffo, mah frien',' said the
preacher sternly, does yo’ r'ar up an*
snap yo’ fmgah> when Ah speaks
o' melon stealin’?’
*' 'Y o, jes reminds me, pahson,' the
man in the hack seat answered quick
ly. 'w har Ah lef’ mnh knife.’ "—Conn
try Gentleman.
Soda C r a c k e r s are e x
t r e m e l y s e n s i t i v e to
moisture.
B e f o r e the a d v e n t of
Uneeda Biscuit the only
persons who ever tasted
fresh, crisp soda crackers
were the people in the
bakeries.
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open to welcome the woman driven
to desperation by the pangs of him
gci and cold. And if she is employed
for the major portion of the day she
i~ hardly in condition to accept the
risks and responsibilities of mater
nity.
Vet the falling off of birth rate is
not confined to the poorer classes. Sta
titties in England show that among
the wall-to-do, thrifty class of arti
zans, taking 10,000 members of this
class as a basis, the number of births
fell from 2472 in 1880 to 1165 in
1904, while among the extremely
wealthy families the 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 ease and the
migratory disposition of the wealthy
tending to interfere with the raising
of a family. In fact, the size of
wealthy families is far less than that
of the poor. And why? Mother love is
not obsolete, nor are paternal in
stincts dead. There can be but one
answer; the poor man gives less
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N o moisture can reach
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i n f l u e n c e s can e f f e c t
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COM PA N Y
Natural Flesh Tints
they have successfully demonstrated of three farms in one, owing to the
that by a proper method of tillage great depth of the soil in most of the
practically three-fourths of the moist districts.
ure can be retained and a large per The soil is not uniform, either in
centage of it carried over from one depth or productivity, in the entire
season to the next. The area of dry dry farming area of the West. In
farming is being annually extended by fact, so varied is it that government
the introduction of drouth-resisting experts have sent out a warning that
“ no definite system of dry farming
cereals.
The chief basis for the difference j has been established that is of gen
of methods to be employed in the era I application to the entire dry
handling of dry land lies in the depth , farm area of the country.’’ Depth and
of the soil and the subsoil. It has composition of the soil have been
been found that in the sagebrush! found widely at variance in several
country the top soil is very deep,; sections and no set general rules can
while in the Mississippi Valley a de be followed with success. Hut with
cided line of demarkatioii is noted be the facilities now at hand in almost
tween the top soil and the subsoil. every section, advice is available that
It is a general rule that the roots do will guide the settler in the proper
not penetrate beyond the subsoil, handling of his particular piece of
hence the necessity of long-rooted land. The ability of plants to absorb
plants in the dry fanning areas, where water and resist transpiration are vi
no line of demarkatioii is apparent. tally important to the dry farming
The roots of the sagebrush are problem. The percentage of clay ami
found to extend to great depths and, sand in *the soil will have much to do
because of their woody fiber, do not with its capillary powers. For this
decay readily. Herein lies the secret reason each individual section must
of the dry farming plant, and it is to receive its own individual studv.
thought to the family conditions than
does the wealthy. He 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 «lamp coal
mi n
There is no improving on Nature. When art essays
to depict beauty, the nearer to Nature’s own «coloring it
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
Pears’ 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
An Open River
in accord with Nature first and last.
for the Northwest
The skin is kept soft and the complexion
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beautiful by using Pears, which maintains the
prise, since both are vitally interested
soft refined daintiness which is Nature’s alone.
i-i its development. With the plant
France stands as the one prominent completed it is estimated power can
example of this great natioual men be furnished at the very low figure
nee. That once conquering nation is, of $9 per horse power per annum, less
more than any other, threatened with
extinction. Millions of dollars have than one-tenth of the present cost of
been spent to make perfect highways, power in the (’ity of Portland. Al
yet the traveler marvels as he motors ready the plan has been communicated
over the peerless roadway at the in t> European capitalists with the re
frequency of children along the way.
The change has been very rapid dur suit that a coproration for the manu
ing recent years. In 1902 the excess of facture of fertilizer is ready to take
births over deaths was 84,000; in 1906 240.000 horse power per annum at $9
it was 27,000; the following year the per horse power. The balance would
death rate passed the birth rate, ami find a ready market in the North
in 190S the latter fell 20,000 short.
The shortage is increasing annually, west.
while across the border in Germany An idea of the enormity of this
the population is growing by leaps project can be had from the fact that
and bounds. Bo startling is this dis 300.000 horse power is approximately
tinction that it is freely predicted one-tenth of the developed water power
thnt unless the other nations awaken in the United States. At present the
to their condition, the world will fall largest project in operation is that
into control of the German and the on the Mississippi at Keokuk with a
Slav. Lincoln prophesied that by capacity of 200,000 horse power. What
this time the population of the United that project has done for the people
States would be 200,000,000. But he of the Mississippi valley the proposed
was basing his prophecy on the birth project will do for the Northwest. It
rate and increase in population as he is not difficult to picture a gigantic
knew it. We have not reached the power plant thnt would furnish power
100,000,000 mark. Yet we would eas foi an interstate railway. It is easy
ily have fulfilled Mr. Lincoln’s hopes to imagine great transcontinental rail
but for the turn the birth rate has way?« terminating at the power plant,
taken in the last generation.
from which point ocean-going vessels
At the opening of the nineteenth would carrv th«»ir cargoes to the ports
«•entury Thomas Robert Malthus be o* the Orient, while inland-bound boats
came alarmed at the apparent ten would distribute the products of the
dency of population to increase in a world to the farthest confines of the
higher ratio than the means of sub gr« at Northwest. \nd as for the
sistence. He prophesied the pauper limit to the number and varieties of
mm of England unless the enormous products that could be turned out
increase in birth rate should be from a single great factory at the
stopped, warning the nation against pnwer plant there is no limit.
overpopulation conditions such as The people «>f the Northwest must
prevail in India.
rise up as one man in behalf of these
And why should not the British projects. The heritage of the North
government undertake to repair con- west lies in a successful carrying out
ditions that tend to make her a van of these schenms. It is to the inter
ishing race. Societies are formed for est of the states that feed into the
the protection and preservation of great basin of the Columbia to pro
vanishing species of animals. Is the vide for their future welfare and that
human species less important that of their posterity. The wealth is here,
some step» should not be taken to the power is here, the resources are
here. * They must be developed.
keep a nation from decay?
The Great English Complexion Soap
The Call of the Bell
It is music to Johnny’s ears if he starts the day with
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
he needs for study or play. It’s the whole wheat, cooked,
shredded and baked to a crisp, golden brown.
Simply heat the biscuits in the oven a few moments
to restore crispness, then pour hot milk over them, add
ing a little cream, and salt or sweeten to suit the taste.
A muscle-making, brain-building food for children and
grown-ups, for athletes and invalids, for outdcxir men
and indoor men. for workers with hand or brain.
The Only Breakfast Cereal
Made in Biscuit Form
Made only by
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