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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1915)
' . - : 1 A Messenger's Mistake Made a Lasting Change in the Life ' of- Nurse Ewing. By LESLIE COOMB3. (Copyright, 1915, by the MeClure Newspa per Syndicate.) Nurse Sylvia Ewing was resting. She sat in her room as Mrs. Bill's boarding house, sorting over the bas ket of freshly laundered uniforms, aprons and caps. She was packing a suitcase ready for : any emergency call and she had just completed her iubil muu Bum away ine exira gar ments In her bureau drawers when there came a tap at the door. "Come in," said Sylvia. ' It was Martha, the maid. ."Please, Miss Ewlng, there's a man downstairs says he's come for you to go out to Wlndberry a lady has been taken suddenly. He's got a car down at the door." She handed Sylvia a card and went .away. Sylvia glanced at It. It bore the hifr1 ltnriernctatli In naniil vara a taut words: "My mother has been suddenly Stricken. Can you come at once? Adolph will bring you In the car." 8ylvla did not know Richard War ,lng she had never heard of him, but she supposed it was one of Doctor Dormaa'i cases. She was surprised that the cell had not come through the , customary channel, the doctor's of- But there was no time for specula it ion. i A handsome limousine waited at the curb, and Sylvia donned her white uniform, slipped on a topcoat, 'snatched up her suitcase and, with a ihurrted word to Mrs. Bill, went out and 1 was assisted Into the car by a trim looking chauffeur. In another momont they were spinning along the fine road toward Wlndberry, a charm ing suburb. n' She was not prepared for the im posing house a long, rambling pile f stone broken Into mar.y gables and with a scoro of red tiled chimneys. The footman wag waiting In the lower 'halt. He opened a door and announced "MiuE Young!" "A man cime forward to meet her, There was blank Biirpilse In his keen, clear face, but lie quickly masked it and held out his hand, "I em very glad to see you, Miss er Young?" .VEwlne." corrected Sylvia. "I re ceived your card, Mr. Waring." She gave him the card Adolph had preseuttd and he thruat It Into his pocket. "I suppose it is one of Doctor Dor man's cases?" "Ah no; Doctor Laldltnv Is our phy sician. Will you coma to my mother's room now, MiE3 Ewlng?" """" Mri Waring had suffered a slight stroke of pnralyeis; her speech wns not affected, but 'one arm and hand Worn nntnli otH 1wlMne--t She opened her eyes vMicn Sylvia came to her bedside; and her eyes wldenod and tho same look of sur prise that the nurse bud noted in the sou's gaze was here. "This Is Mips Ewln;, mother," said Waring, "olio has come to take care of you. The doctor has jut tele phoned that he Is on the way to pay yon another visit." Ho stooped over and kissed the pale, lined fnco on the pillow and tiptoed out of the room, Tho maid who had been sitting with her mtsticrs gave the nurse tho paper with the doctor's dirtctlons und left fivlvla alnuq with her natlent. Mrs. Wiring's dark eyes followed the graceful movements of the new nurse. One could read disappoint ment In her cold glance, and some be wilderment. At last she Bpoke: "Why did you come?" Sylvia turned a surprised face to bar. "Eecsuse I was sent for to take care of you," she added, with her beBt smile. "You won't do," Bald the patient coldly. "I'm eorry you dun't like me," fal tered Sylvia, taken oback, "I like you w ell enough but you're too prenyl" 1 Sylvia's hands flow up to her hot cheeks. Her oyes Hashed and then he remembered that perhaps her pa tlont was not entirely responsible for hor utterances. So she made no anwcr, but went about br duties, and when Doctor Laldlaw arrived ho found the sick woinnn reposing comfortably. Sylvti had cot him once or twice In the course of her hospital practice and she knew him Tor a very able phy sician, llo greeted l.tr pleasantly and ho thought she detected a gleam of amusement !n l.U tv;l:illluB glance. Sylvia relieved him to the door as b was going. Sio was perplexed. She relaU-d what tho elolc woman had Mid lo ber, blUHhlns as she repeated the doubtful comi;.uent. "It will dis turb her lo have rr.o her," she added. "I hardly think so we'll try It out, anyway," he said cheerfully as he went downstairs. As the days passf J by Mrs. Waring loct her first animosity tewnrd her nuraa. . J Jt her eyes fr.sihuod to fol low Sr'vla around tlis room. ''Why docs she cr.ro whotber I am pretty er vAV the Kirl aBkoJ herself, impit'csily, "as lng ii; I do my duty?" 1 It we Waring hi-..ne!f who ta IlghUnoi Sylvia. One Apii: ivoin'.'S Mr. Wd.-ing, lttlni; 'n h chair by tho Bunoy win dow, vftch.;i t!:c y!rJ us sua oo.'se lessly puf tk') ruorr to r'.gb'j. "Wkori. U M'.rt tivngl' aakcj Mrs. Warlnj tbruitly. "illse Yeuis? I m orrM I d-n't know hom you ejettn." ' "Miss Young t tho nvrso wi'Q lias always, tr-tended wo." "1'orUaim ho was vngraei on su olh'.r case." "No my cna vA lor you, ll!c Ewlhf ?" '""Yen, be suit AJolpB wltb t'ie car." u'lM you cvr mwt my uon before, , Miss fcwtii."' 8y!v!'a lojk cf iij'ise fH m-iti' lU9. "Why, no, Mrs Waring. Why do you ask such a Question?" Mrs. Waring frowned. "Because you are so pretty," she said, and remained silent. Sylvia's thoughts were chaotic. Her position was growing disagreeable, and she determined to speak to Rich ard Waring about it. The son of the house spent his days in town and his evenings, when his mother was un able to see him, were spent among his books in the library. It was here that Sylvia found him that same evening. May I have a word with you, Mr. Waring?" she asked timidly, for she was rather afraid of the handsome, re served man. "With pleasure, Miss Ewlng," he re turned cordially. He placed a deep chair for her in front of the fire and stood leaning with one elbow on the mantelpiece. "I'm so gratified that mother has made such progress under your care. Laldlaw thinks she may regain the use of her hand and arm." "I am glad," said Sylvia, with a smiling flash of gray eyes. "But I'm afraid, Mr. Waring, that your mother Is not quite happy with me." A faint color flickered In her cheeks. "Not happy with you?" he ex claimed. "That Is absurd." "She asks me why I came and she Inquires for a 'Miss Young' who has always nursed her. May I ask, Mr. Waring, why you did not send for this Miss Young?" Waring regarded her thoughtfully. Then a rueful smile overspread his face. "To tell you the truth, Miss Ewlng, I did send for her!" "Why didn't she respond to your call?" "I'll be hanged if I know! There, it's out, and perhaps you'll help me clear up the myBtery. I sent Adolph after Miss Young and he came back with you! I supposed she had sent you as a substitute. I spoke to Doctor Laldlaw and he complimented your work, but ho also said that Miss Young was Idle. Then I put Adolph through the third degree he declares that he went to 33 Cypress street" "Number 33 Cyclamen street!" in terrupted Sylvia. "Cyclamen street? Then he made a mistake In ti streot and the similar ity of the names Ewlng and Young added to his confusion. Our telephone was out of order that day, and I did not call her by that means. I am Bure It was a happy mistake for us." He bowed courteously. "I am afraid your mother does not think so," said Sylvia. "Under the circumstances I feel that I ought to yield my place to Miss Young. It Is really her case." "Please do not make any change; mother 1b whimsical and I wonder if I may tell you the real reason why slio prefers Miss Young?" Sylvia caught her breath. She wlshod he would not look at her In that peculiar manner. It made her heart flutter uncomfortably. "Pray be frank with me, Mr. War ing," she managed to Bay. With the long, curling lashes against the pink of her cheeks, the becoming white of her uniform, with Its dainty cap perched In her red brown hair, Sylvia was Indeed charm ing. "My mother Is a woman of preju dices," be begun, "and when her brother, In his late middle age, suc cumbed to the charms of a really no ble woman of your profession, my mother became very angry, and from that date she denounced all trained nurses as you will pardon me, I am Bure sirens! She believed them to be designing, and with a grown son to protect from their wiles she uttered a decree that if Blckness required a trained nurse In her house it must be one of such homely appearance that I would be quite out of danger!" He laughed ruefully, and Sylvia was forced to join in. "So mother made a business of searching for a thoroughly reliable nurse, whom she might call In when sickness should ovortake our family, and she finally discovered poor Miss Young, who 1b plain and middle aged and devoted to the memory of a long deceased lover. She is a faithful soul and we are fond of her. So you see your coming here was to my mother a monace!" "How absurd!" cried Sylvia. "But now 1 am convinced that my presence here could only worry her, and- you must promise me you will Bond for MIbb Young at once." Sylvia Hushed through the door and vanished up the stairs. An hour later Miss Young appeared, tall, raw-boned, strong-vlsaged, a woman of kindly hoart and skilled In her profession, Sylvia bade goad-by to Mrs. Waring with some relief. To hor surprise the Invalid pulled her face down close to her pillow. "You are going, Miss Ewlng," she whispered, "but I feel sure that you will come back some day. I've watched you a long time and Richard has confessed to me, and if fate has ordained that he Is to marry a trained nurse I'd rather It were you than anyone else In the world!" Falsa Alarm. The poverty-stricken artist gnawed at bis last crust of bread. A thump resounded on the door. With a cry of Joy he Bprang to his feet. " Tls opportunity knocking," he said, and opened the door. "If you don't pay me that $7 for back rent, out you go," thundered his landlady. Life Is full of one thing after an other, after all! His Preference, "After being defeatod he stepped right up and admitted ho was wrong.'' "But was ho?" "I don't know." "Thtu why did he admit being in error?" "I think It Is becauso he would rath er be known ns a game loser than sound thinker." Maybe So. "Here's a man predicts that movie shows will eventually bring J5 a seat." "We'J, tl.iiwss have a wuy of ovvuiug up. I suppose then we can see grauj opera for a nickel." mm Ota Q f V-v filf , o A 1 1 ( v i j If y "ytL f,H VlCW or THE THE ancient fortress of San Juan de Ulua, which Oeneral Carranza kept for a time as his official residence and which he has decreed shall no longer be used as a military prison, stands well out ln the harbor of Vera Crua and Is joined to the main land only by a narrow breakwater. The fortress was built by the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and for many years has been used by the Mexican authorities to Imprison military and political offend ers. When the American forces occupied Vera Cruz a correspondent explored the prison from the topmost ramparts to the deepest, darkest dungeon be neath the sea, and this is the story he wrote: Grim, gaunt and forbidding, rising sheer from the blue inner harbor of Vera Cruz, there lies the castle of San Juan de Ulua, a name which Is whis pered In terror throughout Mexico. There are tales of Its dungeons and labyrinth of secret, passages; there are tales of a quiet and secluded open ing along the sea wall, where, In the shadow of night, straining forms have slipped shapeless bulks in sacks over the Bill to the tongues of the lapping waves sacks which struggled and screamed in terror and the black waters have been cut by the lightning rush of triangular (Ins as the sharks claimed their human prey; and more tales, of firing squads at break of day facing a bullet-pocked wall; and still other tales of men Immured within the walls ln their youth and their names forgotten when the burial squad car ried the remains from out the reeking dungeons. A launch carried the visitors across the harbor to the castle. The way winds about to the northward. En trance was gained Into the shallow moat, where a landing was effected on the counterscarp steps which lead to the outer defenses of the brldgohead. Fortress Is Ancient. The fortress is an ancient one, of the Vauban type, yet every twist and turn, every ramification and addition of art of defense, portcullis and draw bridge, caponuters, machicolation, bas tion and keep, all are there. t. An arching bridge leads across the moat to the main part of the castle. The waters of the moat are of a pe culiar green clearness, yet with the Impression of Bllminess. In places the walls of the fortress are crumbling with age, white and ghastly, the color of long-Imprisoned faces, and two-Inch silts ln the ma sonry's ponderousness tell of the only glimmer of light which finds Its way Into dungeons. A suggestion of mod ernne88 is added by the larger ports which are barred with imbedded iron rails, yot even they are flaking away with the rust caused by the Bait air and the salt sea. Within the irregular-shaped walls lies the parade ground, of sunken and fallen granite and flag, worn deep In places by the tread of a host of for gotten feet, and ln crevices, as though ln an effort to lend a gleam of cheer to oppressiveness, nature has made grass to struggle for an existence. In the Musty Cells. The officers ln charge directed that the main cell gate be opened, and the prison proper was entered. Under an archway the light of day became a gloom, and within the first gate there lay another entrance, within the bars of which an evil-looking prisoner re mained as trusty. At the rear of this reception cham ber there rose the barred and cross- Love and Human Nature. "Love?" he repeated again, relaxing his huge body slowly and Hinging one log over the other, "I've seen as much of love as the next man, ln more places than most. I've never be.cn mixed up with It myself not with the real thing. But most things are mixed up with It. You'll believe that I don't read poetry. If you poople could ever get the beat of lite you'd get it with prose. Imagine fitting human beings black or white into a Btanzalc form! I rcallied that young. I've seen people make love all over the shop. I'm not denying it's effective. Hut the one thing I've never seen it do Is really change a person. That's why I don't believe all the things they tell me the poets say about It. Time and ogaln I've Been the trick tried; and time and again I've seen the woman or the man slump back Into the shape Qod made 'em In." From a story by Katharine F. Oerould, ln Scrlbner. Optimistic Thought The beginning of excellence la to be tree from error. FORTRESS barred grille of the great cellroom, at whose rounds there clung a hundred whitened hands, while half as many pallid faces pressed -against the iron and peered wonderingly at the strangers ln khaki. A musty, damp odor emerged from the entrance and struck the visitors full In the face. Then, as the Interior was gained, the mustiness became an odor, the odor a stench, and the stench overwhelmingly repulsive nauseat ing. The only light came from far above, through grilled openings ln the lofty, vaulted ceiling; and the light struck only upon a tiny spot directly beneath, while the rest of the cavern was plunged in a deep darkness, through which shadowy forms seemed to slink. Prom the main cell, which is prac tically four long vaults connected by archways, some of the lesser cells were entered, and then the dungeons. There Is a small cell reached by a ladder, neither high enough for a small man to stand erect ln nor stretch out full length. It was vacant at the time, but there was a crust of bread in the cor ner. The dungeons are long, low cells, with barred gate at one end and blank wall at the other, Through the gloom, straining eyes could dimly make out drawings and writings on the walls. Here and there a roughly drawn cross told of a release from suffering a re lease which came not by the hand of man. Dungeons Under Sea, The old trusty, careful to explain that he had been there but nine days, asked other prisoners about the en trance to the subterranean passages to dungeons under the sea then pointed It out. More rusty keys were called Into trial, and, finally, a grim passageway was unbarred and we looked In. Tho darkness was so dense that the faint light of a modern oil lantern seemed unable to penetrate, and a slimy, slop ing footway led onward and disap peared Into blackness. The stench was there, too, more horrible than above, and the dampness and the mus tiness. A step within, close to the dripping wall, and a metallic jangle sounded; the lantern flashed to the loft showed a dangling chain, handcuff on end, which had been brushed against. No one seemed to know where the pas sageway led, the mud was deepening, the light dim and the place ghostly. A further advance, with growing chills running adown the sptuo, revealed cells, cells chains, chains and a freshly mortared block of stone at tho end of the wall. And here exploration necessarily ended. Canary Returns Like Cat, For two months "Snooky" went ad venturing. He saw the other birds out ln the free air playing, and so he left home. Mrs. Whltbeck, manager of the Barbara apartments here, was the heartbroken owner of the missing canary. The cage was left open for "Snooky," who was a prize bird. Late In the afternoon, following his long ab sence, "Snooky" found his way home. He chirped and pecked at the window pane and then flew back Into his cago. His head was cut and scarred from at tacks of other birds. San Francisco Dispatch to Los Angeles Times. The Real Objection. Your objection to special privilege probably Is based on the fact that you are not permitted to enjoy it. To peka Capital. Easy to Effect Saving. The prospect of a rise In the price of mustard should not cause much consternation; ts there any item on which a saving could more easily be effected? The head of a famous firm that has built a fortune upon the man ufacture of mustard once confessed that the money came to him not from the mustard we use but the mustard we waste. Not one of us but proves the truth of the statement every ttme we use the mustard pot and uuh down on the side of our plate flvo times tho quantity we are likely to eat Half Dressed. Mrs. Styles I want a new dress for the opera, dear. Mr. Style Well, there's $500 for you. "Why, that wouldn'tpay for half dress!" "Well, that's about all you need for the opera, Isn't it?" Can't Use White Lead. Laws prohibiting tho use by painters of white lead or products containing It have become elective ln France. AIR NEEDED IN ICE BOX Provision for Proper Circulation Is as Much a Necessity as Supply of Cooling Material. It Is astonishing how little the aver age housekeeper knows about lco Some women seem to think all there is about ice is to bave the man put it in the refrigerator. Others, more care ful, think to save the ice bill by put ting some kind of covering over the Ice. True, the Ice does not melt so quick ly with the cover, but then again, since It does not melt, It has no cooling ef fect Unless Ice melts it Is useless. The faster it melts the colder the Ice box becomes. The most important feature of a good refrigerator Is ample facility for a free circulation of air when the box Is closed. Cool air, being heavier than warm air, sinks. The warm air rises, For this reason the coldest place in the refrigerator is the bottom and not the Ice chamber, as so many people think it is and consequently often put butter or milk directly In with tho ice. There must be suitable passages to allow the warm air rising from the things placed In the refrigerator to flow to and over the Ice at the top, and for this same air when cooled and purified by the melting Ice, to return into the food chamber. The circulation continues until the temperature is equalized. While this circulation proceeds the ice melts rapidly, but when the temperature Is once equalized the Ice melts very slowly, that Is, if the door fits tight. It will pay In the end to keep the Ice compartment well supplied with Ice. It should never be less than one-quarter full. , The Ice melts faster, and with less cooling effect, when the sup ply Is low. KITCHEN HINTS OF MOMENT Proper Receptacles for the Preserva tion of Food Meat When Roast ing Should Be Kept Covered. Everybody does not know that food In general should not be allowed to cool ln tin, copper or iron. It must be placed while hot In agate, china or well glazed eathen ware. Green vegetables should be dropped Into boiling water to which a pinch of bicarbonate of soda has been added. Put ln salt when the article Is half cooked. If you have covered a pan ln which meat Is to be roasted never open It to baste the meat Keep" It covered from start to finish. The idea Is that the pans are filled with Bteam, which pene trates the fibers of the meat If de sired to brown the outside leave the cover off for the first half hour ln a quick oven. The shank bones of mutton, of so little general value, If well soaked add to the richness of gravies and soup stock. When boiling haricot beans or dried llmas do not put in the salt until they are nearly cooked, otherwise they are apt to spilt and come out of their skins. They should be brought to the boiling point, that water poured off and fresh boiling water poured over them Whipping Cream Should Be Cold. Often the housewife finds that the cream she has will not whip. The de partment's dairy specialists point out that to obtain satisfactory results In whipping cream It should be cold and of the right thickness, containing about 30 per cent or more o.' butter- fat. Ordinary cream, designated as coffee cream by the trade, Is alto gether too thin to give good results The whipping cream, as delivered by the milkman, contains 30 to 40 per cent of butterfat. Thoroughly chill the cream before whipping by placing it In a covered bowl on the ice The whipping process Is also aided and hastened by standing the bowl In a pan of Ice water. Scotch Broth. Three pounds neck mutton, two ta blespoonfuls pearl barley, two table- spoonfuls minced onion, two table Bpoonfuls minced turnip, two tahle- sponfuls minced carrot, two table Bpoonfuls minced celery, two table- spoonfuls salt, one teaspoonful pepper, one tablespoonful minced parsley, three quarts cold water. Remove bones and fat from mutton, cut meat small and place with vegetables and seasoning, except parsley. Simmer three hours after coming to a boil, then thicken with flour and add pars ley. Beef Tea Meat. Remove all gristle and fat from meat Intended for beef tea. Place these trimmings In a pan with sufficient wa ter to cover them, and add any vege table to band cut up small. Allow to simmer, then add the meat from the beef tea. Simmer for four hours, then strain through a hair sieve and pour the liquid into a mold to set. When cold it will be a nourishing Jelly, suit able for Invalids. The vegetable used must be quite fresh. Nut Soup. Pound six bitter almonds and boll In three pints of milk, add half a tea- bpoonful of salt and three tablespoon fuls of sugar. Heat separately three eggs, adding the stiffly frothed whites very lightly to the y.ilks. Let the milk cease boiling, remove from the ure and whisk In the eggs till all Is a foam. Serve hot r small bowls For the Tea Tabic. Cookies, jumbles, and small cakes are in constant demand on the tea table, and where there are young chil dren In the family two or three find their wav into the school lunch box pnnh riav. To make th s- sniall cakes requires time and patience, but If success rewards the eTorts tne coo does not regret the time spent Cocoanut Cakes. Mix together one-half pound of flour, one-fourth pound each of butter and sugar and two eggs Add a small cup ful of milk and one tablespoonful of baking powder. When well mixed put In a cupful or more of grated cocoa- nut Bake In small buttered tins ln i moderately quick oven. KEEPING BABY WELL ESPECIAL ATTENTION NECES SARY DURING HOT WEATHER. Many Ills May Be Avoided by Watch- fulness on the Part of the Moth er Government Expert Gives Advice Worth Heeding. (Prepared by the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor.) Summer complaint," or diarrhea. Is one of the most dreaded ills which may befall the baby. It Is the principal symptom of va rious forms of indigestion, some of them mild and some very serious. But any undue looseness of the baby's bowels should put the mother on guard against Illness. At the appearance of diarrhea, the city mother should take her baby to a good doctor. If she has no doctor, she should go to the nearest Infant welfare station, where a competent physician will advise her as to the care of the baby, and the nurses in attendance will help her carry out his directions. In the country, where It is very dif ficult to get the advice of a doctor, the mother has a harder problem. Be cause she is out of the range of infant welfare stations, hospitals, and, often, of physicians as well, It is most Im portant to prevent every attack of Ill ness possible, by careful attention to the baby's food and general care. A pamphlet which may be of help to the country mother is "Infant Care," sent free to anyone mailing a request to the chief of the children's bureau, U. S. department of labor, Washing ton, D. C. This- pamphlet- contains simple directions for the care and feeding of the baby, and suggests some ways of dealing with various emergencies. The healthy baby usually has one or two bowel movements a day. If this number is Increased to four or more it 1b time to take measures against sickness. It Is well to remember, however, that the bowel movements of a baby fed entirely at the breast are normally more frequent than those of a bottle fed baby, and that a slight Increase ln the number of movements Is not so serious a matter to a baby at the breast as to one artificially fed. A baby fed at the breast does not usu ally have diarrhea, and when such a baby shows signs of digestive disturb ance, it 1s usually because he Is over fed, either he is nursed too often, or at Irregular Intervals, or is allowed to nurse too long at one time. When he does have diarrhea, the time be tween nursings Bhould be Increased to four hours, and the time at the breast reduced to five or ten minutes If the bowels continue loose, tho breast should be withdrawn entirely tor several feedings, If necessary, giv ing the baby instead cool drinking wa ter at frequent intervals. In this case the mother should pump her breasts at the regular nursing times, both to keep them from drying up, and to pre vent their caking Bottle-fed babies are the moBt fre quent sufferers from summer diarrhea, and this fact furnishes another strong argument In favor of breast feeding. Diarrhea ln a bottle-fed baby Is also best treated by reducing the amount of food. The bottle should be omitted for 8, 12 or 24 hours, according to the severity of the attack, and in place nt the milk should be given as much holled and cooled water as the baby will take. Food should not be withheld for more than 24 hours, without the ad vice of a doctor When the bottle Is resumed, the food should be much weaker than before; water Bhould be substituted for at least half the milk previously given. The milk should be skimmed, and the sugar omitted The return to the former feeding should be made gradually by adding a little more milk each day and begin nlng to add sugar. The more severe the attack has, been, the more slowly should changes be made. If the baby Is on "mixed" feeding, that ts, partly breast and partly bot tie fed, the bottle feedings should be omitted If diarrhea appears, and the breast given once In four or five hours, with nothing but drinking water be tween meals. Diarrhea Is much more frequent In July and August than ln the cooler months of the year, which fact has earned for It the name of summer complaint." Accordingly the mother should use every means In her power during the hot- weather to keep the baby cool. In the heat of the day the baby should wear only a diaper, with possibly one other thin garment. Frequent cool sponglngs and at least one full tub bath each day, plenty of sleep, and a constant supply of fresh air will help to protect the baby from the excessive heat, and keep him well Raspberry Puffs. Cook one cupful of boiling water, four tablespoonfuls of butter, table spoonful of sugar and one-half salt- spoonful of salt until the butter melts; add one and one-half cupfuls of pastry flour, stir until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan, remove from the fire, cool and add three large unbeaten eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly between each addition, Press through a pastry bag on but tered and Floured tins, bake about halt an hour, cool, cut a slit ln each and fill with raspberry jam. Grape Sago. Wash one cupful of sago and soak In three cupfuls of cold water for two hours. Cook till transpatent and add one cupful of grape Juice and one cup ful of sugar. Turn Into a mold and serve very cold. Currant Jelly may bo substituted for grape juice by thinning a tumblerful of the jelly with one cup ful of boiling water. Flemish O.ilor.a, Slice thinly green apples and onions, sprinkle with Hour and brown In but ter, using equal quantities of apple and onion. Place In layers Id a bak ing dish with buttend crumbs, season lth lemon juice and finish the top with buttered crumbe When the crumbs are brown the dish li ready to serve. OF Doctor Greeley Claims to Have Isolated Microbe. Believes They Multiply In Mucous Membrane of Nose at Beginning of Disease and Thence Penetrate Blood Vessels. Dr. Horace Greeley of Brooklyn re ports to the Medical Record that he has discovered the long-sought mi crobe of smallpox. He found "an ap parently identical organism" from the vesicles of twenty-five cases of suc cessful vaccination, from a like num ber of cases of undoubted chickenpox, and from five cases of recognized and undoubted smallpox." From Doctor Greeley's technical de scription of this new microbe it may be gathered that It is Bpherical and from 0.3 to 0.6 microns (of 0.000117 to 0.000234 inch) ln diameter. It Is ln the form of multiplying spores, which just before division assume the shape of a figure 8, with a nucleus ln each half. These develop Into branch ing masses with spores at the end of the branches. Doctor Greoley has grown them in cultures. He belloveB they multiply on the mucous membranes of the nose at the beginning of the disease, and the spores when shed penetrate the blood vessels and are wafted to all parts of the body, "landing ln the skin capillaries, where conditions of lower temperature and more light, perhaps, favor further proliferation. In this connection we should remember how the eruption favors the face and hands." Doctor Greeley concludes that vac cinia and variola are Identical, the dif ference being that "vaccination pro duces a local and at most a lymphat- lo infection, usually stopped at the nearest chain of glands, and repre sents the Inoculation of an organism directly derived from a different spe cies of animal, and therefore probably of low relative virulence, while small pox Is undoubtedly contracted through the respiratory tract and is due to one derived directly from an animal of like Bpecies which, as shown, through spore formation, passes Into the blood and is thrown to all corners." ARE LOADED WITH THERMIT Incendiary Bombs Differ From the Ordinary Missile in Character of Their Destructive Power. Incendiary bombs differ from ordi nary explosive bombs ln that they are Intended not to scatter fragments over a wide area, but to produce sud den and intense heat at a given point, thus starting a fierce conflagration. W. A. Tilden describes in Nature one of these bombs, a picture of which is reproduced here. His description is as follows: The bomb, as a rule, is conical, of ten-inch diameter at the base, corded round, and has a metal handle at tho i Section of Bomb. apex (see cut). The base Is a flat cup onto wlhch a pierced metal fun nel Is fitted, having the Ignition de vice " and handle fitted at the top. The funnel is generally filled with thermit, which upon Ignition gener ates Intense beat, and by the time of the concussion has taken the form cf molten metal of the extraordinary high temperature of over five thou sand degrees Fahrenheit. The molten metal Is spread by the concussion. Outside the funnel Is a padding of a highly inflammable or resinous mate rial bound on with an inflammable form of rope. The resinous material creates a pungent smoke. There Is generally some melted white phosphorous in the bottom of the cap, which develops nauseous fumes. In some cases celluloid chip pings are added and occasionally a mall quantity of. petrol. Peculiar Effect of War. Capt. Eugene Bourassa, a military officer ln Montreal, who ln private life controls a clothing Btore, states that the war has caused among his patrons an average expansion of chest meas ure from 36 to 40 Inches. This is true not only of those ln active serv ice, but of all the citizens. Ho ex plains it on the ground that ail the men are mentally and physically pro paring for service now or in the fu ture. Nothing Doing. Madge Papa Bays that capital is very timid on account of the war. Marjorie Nobody knows that bet ter than I do. I've flirted with half a dozen rich young men since the war broke out and I haven't had a slug! proposal. Judge. Unsentimental. "Do you understand the language of flowers?" said the sentimental youth. "No," replied Miss Cayenne. "I don't know that I should care to bave my conversation regulated by the kind of vegetation that happened to bs ln season." Another for Home Use. Ovuar What a sweet voice your wife has. I had occasion to talk to hit over the phone this morn!r.;. Heiny Ah, that explains It Vou heard only her phone Tolce. Ei SMALLPOX Muwont f a o WAY 'Ait i