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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1916)
ANNETTE AND FERDINAND. A long time ago. In a doll house, here lived a little lady doll, whose lame was Annette. She had brown lair, which she wore high upon her lead, with a band of blue ribbon iround it, and there were three curia it the back. She also wore blue ear rings, which were in style In those lays. The house she lived in was lour stories high, and the little girl to whom it belonged had to stand on l stool to reach the top story. On the ground floor was the kitchen, the room above was the dining room, ibove that was the sitting room, and the top room was the sleeping room. This was in the days before the modern doll house was invented, and while it was well furnished for those days they did not have electric lights, or stairB, for it was made from a Jrawer that was very long and wide, it stood on an end, and had shelves fitted in It for floors. Now Annette's little mother decided that it was not well for Annette to live alone, and one morning she went to a store and bought the manliest doll alio could And, and brought It home, and although the doll's hair was light and parted in the middle, the little girl's aunt, who was an artist, painted It black, and added the moBt wonder ful mustache, so that the storekeeper himself would never have recognized the light-haired doll he sold to the little girl. Ferdinand, for that was the name they gave him, was provided with a black dress suit and a dressing gown and then be was Introduced to An- nette, who blushed and shook her curls, and tried to appear very indif ferent. But her heart beat very fast, and it was a case of love at first sight with both of them. The next day they were married Annette wore a white tarlatan dress, with tiny white flowers in her hair, which held her long veil in place. She carried a bouquet of white flowers The bridegroom looked very sedate in his new suit, although he must have been nervous, for he dropped the ring, which was a band of gold paper, and had to be assisted in putting it upon his bride's finger. But at last they were married and went to ride In the park on their honeymoon trip. An nette wore a blue velvet turban and a blue cloth drees, and Ferdinand's coat was fastened together and covered his white vest. I am sorry to say that he did not wear a hat, for there was not one to be found that looked at all manly. All went well with them for a while. Ferdinand built the fire In the morn ing, and did not find fault with An nette's cooking, although sometimes the fried eggs looked very much like white buttons and the bacon like brown papor and the coffee was very watery. But one morning Ferdinand did not get up to build the fire, and Annette said that she would not build It if she stayed in bed all day. When An nette's mother came she found both of them in bod. She took Ferdinand firmly by the shoulder, and placed him iu the kltcheu and soon a fire was built and the breakfast ready. But tho little mother decided that Dinah, the servant doll must be had at once, for Ferdinand declared the coffee was water and the biscuits like wooden button molds. The next morning Ferdinand and Annette did not get up until the ris ing bell rang. Ferdinand sat at the table, reading bis paper, when Au- nette appeared. She wore a blue silk wrapper, fastened at the neck and waist with blue bows, and from the waist down could be seen the ruffles of a lace petticoat. "You are looking very charming, my dear," said Ferdinand, and Annette smiled very Bweetly. Dinah came in with two little plates, and on each waB half a grape, on a very small leaf. Then she served a most wonderful omelet which looked very much like a daisy. "Dat am a daisy omelet, Mas' For'- nan," she said, "an' It sure am good." The biscuits looked very much like those Annette had served, but Ferdl nnnd did not find fault, and everything went smoothly for a while. Then one night Annette sat up all night and waited for Fordinand, and lie did not come home, and in the morning when Annette's mother same she found her sitting in her chair, looking very sad. "Why, where 18 Ferdinand?" she asked, and then she rau to a corner in the room that Annette sould not see, from her home, and there eat poor Ferdinand, looking as Bad as Annette. The little girl had taken him to hi business office in the morning and for gotten all about him. She quickly re stored him to Annette, who forgave him, as a good and loving wife should, when be explained to her that busl ncss was so rushing they had to work all night And as there were no tele phones in those days, Bhe accepted his excuse. So you see all little girls Bhould be careful to attend to their dolls, because they might break up a happy family by neglecting them. The Chinese pupil reciting Ms les son turns his back on the tutor. SCORED HEAVILY ON PRINCE Beau BrummeM's Remark Left Hlrr, Master of Situation, but Victory Was a Costly One. The greatest dandy and fop of mod ern times was George Brummell, known as Beau Brummell. He lived a life delicate and leisured, and since he was poor his living depended upon the favor of the court. The court at that time was represented in the set where the beau's influence was felt by the prince of Wales, who was. if truth must be told, not a slender man. It happened that the prince and the beau quarreled. To be a dandy is not generally con sidered the first mark of being a brave man, but Beau Brummell gave instant proof that he was not only a great dandy but a great man as well. The details of the story are somewhat vague, but the main facts are certain. Brummell knew that his quarrel with the prince would mean an end of his prestige, but he refused to yield, and on the day following the quarrel went walking with a friend, said to have been Sheridan. The news of the rupture between the prince and the dictator of fashions had spread, and there were not a few who gathered in the hopes of a passage at arms between them. It happened that Sheridan and Brummell met the prince and his party. With princely ostentation the royal personage called Sheridan aside and spoke to him, pointedly ignoring Brummell, who stood by. Brummell did not flinch In the crisis, he was the only person who seemed to be In different. Then Sheridan returned. With a gesture of indifference Brum mell lifted his glasses to his eyes and, Indicating with a slight wave of his hand the person to whom he re ferred, he asked In a clear but lan guid voice the famous question: "Sherry, who's your fat friend?" Brummell spent the greater part of the remainder of his life in Calais, an outcast, a broken man. But with the memory of his great rebuke, it can hardly be said that in the crisis he was found wanting. Came Handy In His Line. "There is nothing like sleep," re marked a chance acquaintance to the newspaper man as he sized up the belated sleepers In a New York sub way car in the wee hours of the morn ing. ."All my life I have done what ever has been in my power to help the cause of sleep In the human race. Whenever I have heard that a doctor Is counseling his patients to sleep longer, I have made a point of writing him a letter of congratulation. And 1 do not mind saying that I myself have done a bit to persuade people that Bleep IB the greatest blessing to man kind." "The perfect sleeper," ob served the newspaper man, "is he who by rigid and constant practice has brought his power of sleep to such a stage that he does not awake even when a dynamite bomb is set off in his room." The chance acquaintance leaned back in in his seat with rapt expression, as if contemplating a beau tiful viBion. "And what makes you take such an interest in the slumbers of the human race?" was asked. "I am a burglar," he replied. "But Just because one of my fellow men did not reach the Btage of somnolent perfec tion I had to abandon my trade for some years. Important Russian Industry. The production of wood pitch and tar Is a highly Important Industry of the timber districts of Russia. A large quantity of such substances is not only used for home consumption In Russia, but Is also exported to for eign markets. England alone takes over 100,000 barrols yearly of Russian pitch and tar. In normal times pitch is exported chiefly to England from Archangel, where it is one of the prin cipal articles of trade, while turpen tine has been shipped to Germany from the Baltic ports and overland. In recent years in western Russia, es pecially near the Vistula river, large quantities of pitch and turpentine havo been distilled from the stumps left after the clearance of woods, this hav ing boen in great demand In Germany on account of Its good quality and low price. Up to the present time the op erating methods employed in this In dustry have been, for the most part, of a primitive character, and carried on in small establishments, whore the owner is at the same time workman and salesman. Girls Will Marry Crippled Soldiers. A letter In the London Dally Mail conveys the Information that hun dreds of English girls have expressed their willingness to marry crlpplod British soldiers and to care for them as their contribution to their country's cause. The offers came as the result of a published suggestion that plucky girls might be of service so, and all that stands in the way of the success of this wholesale matchmaking is that no degree of pluck and patriotism seems sufficient to overcome maidenly shyness. The girls have agreed to marry, but they cannot walk up to the first one-legged soldier they see and tell him so. Meetings are to be ar ranged by certain women of the Loiv don West end, where these self-sacri ficing girls will be Introduced to the lifelong burdens they have agreed to take as husbands. Of Course Not. "That doctor claims to have dlscov ered an entirely now disease." "1 hope he won't publish the symp toms of it." "Why not?" "People cannot have it if they do not know the symptoms, can thoy?" Bronze Lions on In Washington X .u. KXiWK-u&i&LiZ i w;wmmih ft I If i ,a ' ,r'7:b I 1 1 eIW .. Bmm This is one of the four bronze lions on the Grant Memorial being erected In Washington that are said to be copies of those on the Nelson monument In Trafalgar square, London. Each of the lions is couchant upon a flag that Is supposed to be the Stars and Stripes. The design has caused much comment and some objection has been made to its adoption. German Writers of Note Appear Two at a Time "It is a striking coincidence that the most significant figures in the history of German literature have appeared upon the scene two by two. As far back as the ninth century," Dr. Otto Heller says in his "Studies in Modern German Literature," "we find side by side as its greatest poetic monuments two religious epopees of almost equal importance, the Heliland and the 'Evangelienbuch'i among the popular epics of the .Hohenstaufen times the German Iliad, the 'Nlbelungenlied,' is matched off by the 'Lay of Kundrun' as by a German Odyssey; and among the chivalric poems of the same period the pre-eminent works of Wolfram von Es chenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg lend expression to diametrically oppo site views of life. "After the literary life had Iain in catalepsy for many generations it was reawakened in the eighteenth century through apparently antipodal forces which may perhaps he most fitly brought to mind by the mention of Klopstock and Lessing. Then the dazzling flood of light, which, at the close of that century, suffused the cul ture of Germany, was shed from the twin luminaries, Goethe and Schiller. "Although In the ensuing century the catalogue of the poetae Germanlae grew to an unexampled magnitude, its best-known names at successive periods stood in contrasted couples: Kleist and Korner, Uhland and Hauff, Heine and Lenau, Gelbel and Freill- grath, Grillparzer and Hebbel, Router and Scheffel, Freytag and Keller, Heyse and Spielhagen, Wllbrandt and Wildenbruch, Marlltt and Werner, and, if the truth must be confessed, Hack- lander and Gorstackcr. 'To the great mass of the people the literature of the post-Bismarckian era seems epitomized In two names Gerhart Hauptmann and Hermann Sudormann, for undeniably these two have exercised the greatest formative influence on contemporaneous German letters." irlrliirtrCr The World Over. The law In Switzerland protecting rare plants is so strict that to be found In possession of specimens illegitimate ly collected is a penal offense. In Turkey It Is unlawful to seize a man's residence for debt, and suffi cient land to support him is also ex empt from seizure. The ten countries with the largest population are, In the order named, China, India, Russia, the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Austria. The largest volcano crater In the world is in Asosan, In southern Japan. It measures 14 miles across one way and more than ten miles the other. ' A flash of lightning lights up the ground for one-millionth of a second, yet it seems to us to last ever bo much longer. What happens is that the Im pression remains in the retina of the eye for about one-eighth of a Becond, or 124,000 times longer than the flash lasts. I PALE EYEBROWS Tale eyebrows and lashes make a face expressionless. Thoy can be coaxed into a bet ter growth by rubbing the cye orows nightly with vaseline and ' applying to tho roots of bath the eyebrows ar,d eyelashes a tonic made by mixing live grains of sulph-.tte of quinine, with one ounca of sweet almond oil. Apply this with a line sable brush, which comes for the purpose Grant Memorial Arouse Criticism Poultry Hints The person who is "dead earnest" in his poultry work, who never shirks duty, who never omits the details, who never becomes discouraged, is the one who as a rule succeeds. That Is the secret of successful poultry women. When buying any kind of chick feed always be sure that it is free from mold or mustlness, for otherwise it will cause digestive troubles followed by severe losses in most cases. If you do not have dry mash before your hens at all times, try keeping bran before them. Let them eat all they want of it In connection with other foods. It is rich in protein of the vegetable kind and will give good results. A kerosene solution put in a con tainer where the hens will have to stop In It, will prevent scaly leg, or will help to cure it if your chickens are already afflicted. Never set eggs laid by specimens which are not strong and healthy, or from pens headed by unhealthy males. The- profit all comes from the stock which is strong and vigorous, and strong chicks do not come from weak parents. Fix nests in out-of-the-way places for the turkey hens and they will fre quently lay in them, where the eggs can be taken care of, instead of steal ing their nests In places difficult to find. Don't allow your chicks to sleep on the floor, below the roosts. Teach them to make use of the roosts. Crowd ing in the corners on the floor may start colds and other troubles, while layers that sleep this way very soon become anti-layers. You can't buy $1 cockerels and in prove your stock, as no breeder will ship you quality at this price; but pay $3, $5 or $10 for something good, and you will be pleased with such pur chases. The planet Venus !s so shrouded with dense clouds that astronomers are unable to study Its surface. ALL THE SAME $0rVv0U& WlrtObJtCT 70 IvOUCt GOING OUT "TO THE K 7 CLUB EVENINGS? vsl HQ DOES TO MY STA-YING1 W HOME- OR. ANYTHING P MM. eiSfc FOR THAT fffli SANDWICHES OF MANY KINDS Some of Them In the Nature of De parture From the Weil-Known Fillings Generally Used. Olive Sandwiches. Thin slices of bread evenly buttered, cut hexagon shape. Between each two slices place a layer of neufchatel cheese mixed to a paste with equal quantities of cream and salad dressing and covered thickly with chopped olives. Fig Sandwiches. Thin slices of bread cut in fancy shapes and but tered, with fig filling between each two. The fig filling should be prepared follows: One-half pound finely chopped figs, one-third cupful sugar, one-half cupful of boiling water, add two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Mix these ingredients and cook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread. Chicken Salad Sandwiches. Be tween two thin, oblong slices of bread, buttered, place a layer of chicken sal ad on a lettuce leaf. In making chick en salad for sandwiches chop the chicken and celery much finer than for ordinary purposes. Ham Sandwiches. Chop ham very Sne and season with mustard, make Into a paste with melted butter, spread between two thin slices of bread, thin ly buttered. German Sandwiches. Mix equal parts of cream cheese and chopped walnut meats with French dressing. Spread between thin slices of bread. Russian Sandwiches. Stir grated iheese into mayonnaise and spread be tween thin crackers. SOUR BEEF WITH DUMPLINGS Recipe Which Will No Doubt Find Favor With Anyone Who Is Moved to Try It. Put three to four pounds of beef (the round is best) in a bowl and pour over it sufficient vinegar to cover. Set aside for 24 hours, turning and basting frequently. Brown two large onions, chopped fine, in two table spoonfuls butter. Place meat in roast ing pan, pour over it the brown onions and the vinegar in which It was soaked; add a few cloves, a blade of mace and a bit of allspice. Bay leaves and lemon peel may be added if de sired. When browned and thoroughly cooked the liquor should he strained and thickened either with flour or grated ginger snaps. Potato Dumplings. Cream a piece of butter the size of an egg, add yolks of two eggs, half cupful stale bread crumbs and a cupful of cold boiled potatoes; put through the ricer; season with salt and nutmeg, and, last ly, add the beaten whites of the eggs. Make into small dumplings and drop into the boiling liquor in which meat was cooked, and boll, closely covered, for ten minutes. Noodled Ham. Make the noodles by beating one egg with a saltspoon of Balftill very light. Add as much flour as it will re quire to make a stiff dough. Roll thin, cut in narrow strips, shake them out, then break or cut in pieces when dry, Put two cupfuls of them in stewpan, cover with boiling water and boil ten minutes. Chop enough boiled ham to make a large cupful. Butter an earth en dish, drain noodles and alternate layer of ham and noodles,' with ham for the last layer; beat two eggs, add one cupful of cream or rich milk and pour over top. Cover with layer of crumbs and dots of butter. Bake a delicate brown and serve In dish In which it was baked. Apple and Honey Pudding. Four cupfuls raw apple cut in small pieces, two cupfuls bread crumbs, one half cupful hot water, two teaspoonfuls butter, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon and one-half cupful honey. Put a layer of the apple in a well-buttered pudding dish; then a layer of crumbs. Mix the honey and hot water. Pour part of this over the crumbs, sprinkle with cinna mon and dot with a few bits of butter. Fill the dish with alternate layers ol apples, crumbs, honey, etc., having a layer of crumbs on top. Cover and bake 45 minutes. Serve with cream. Mother's Magazine. Potato Caramel Cake. Cream together two cupfuls granu lated sugar, two-thirds cupful of butter and yolks four eggs; add one cupful hot mashed potato and one-half cupful of milk, one teaspoonful each clove, cinnamon and nutmeg, one cupful grated chocolate, two teaspoonfuls baking powder in two cupfuls flour, and last stir in lightly the whites of eggs and one cupful broken or chipped English walnuts. Hot Fricassee. Cut into small pieces the remains of a roast, either beef, lamb or veal, put into a frying pan, dredge thickly with flour. Season with salt and pep per, cover with, cold water and cook gently. Serve very hot with mashed potatoes. At this time of the year potatoes are much nicer mashed or scalloped than boiled. They go farther also. Chill Salad. Half a green sweet pepper shred ded, one whole tomato skinned and cut in thin slices, half a large cucum ber peeled and sliced, French dressing with a drop or two of onion Juice. Arrange on a lettuce leaf and serve. Spaghetti Salad. Take spaghetti, boH in salted water until tender, then drain after running throagh cold water, and some chopped celery and pimento. Make a dressing, one t&blespoonful lemon Juice to three of oil with a little salt. HELPS THE HOUSEWIFE "SCRUBBING CHARIOT" A DEVICB WORTH COPYING. Not Only Saves a Great Many Step but the Work Can Be Done With Much More Ease and Comfort How to Make It. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) One of the many labor-saving de vices made and demonstrated by th( farm women under the direction of the woman agents of the department oi agriculture in the South, with the co operation of the state agricultural col leges, is the "scrubbing chariot." Thie consists of a comfortable padded frame on rollers which enables the housewife, in wiping the floor, to do the scrubbing with more ease and com' fort and save a great many steps. It may be built at a very small cost, the material needed consisting of a -inch plank, 20 by 10 Inches, 2-inch strips for the sides, which should be 8ft Inches long by 4 inches wide, and a front piece of the same material 20 inches long and 4 inches wide. An ordinary soap box can be used for this by cutting down the size to about 6 Inches high and knocking out one side, The padding for the bottom of the chariot may be made of burlap. Tack this around the inside of the chariot and place the whole thing on four roll ers. Place a soap dish on one side and a little rack for the scrubbing brush on the opposite side. This con trivance, it is estimated, costs about 47 cents. Linoleum Out of Carpet. Clean the carpet thoroughly, then turn it worn side down and tack. It will be better to tack it right on the kitchen floor if you could get along without the kitchen for a few days, Otherwise, tack on some floor that will not have to be used every day. Then put on a coat of any good floor paint, let dry thoroughly, finish with a coat of good linoleum varnish. This will give you a floor covering that will be very easy on your feet, and im pervious to water so long as the paint lasts. And the worn spots can be re painted as needed. This will, oi course, give a paint color. After the paint and varnish have thoroughly dried the carpet can be rolled very carefully and loosely to move it to the kitchen, but the best way is to paint it right in the kitchen so that it will not have to be moved, for the rolling is liable to crack the paint and bo make it less impervious to water. Ohio Farmer. Cornmeal Mush. Four cupfuls of cornmeal, one table spoonful salt, four quarts water. Put the top of double boiler on with the four quarts of boiling water; add corn meal, slowly stirring all the time. Add salt, and when thick boil two hours in double boiler (this is prepared! while getting dinner the night be fore). Use what you need for break fast. Then add one cupful of grated strong American cheese; beat until well mixed, pour into greased pan and set aside for luncheon. Then cut in half-inch slices and brown on hot griddle. Dainty Eggs and Bacon. Butter a baking dish or platter, or Individual ramekin dishes. Break each egg into a cup and drop into baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, bake in a moderate oven for five min utes for soft-eooked, and ten minutes for hard cooked. Lay thin slices of bacon on a hiss ing hot frying pan. When transpar ent, turn. When dry and crisp, drain and dry on brown paper. If you have the time place thin slices on broiler and cook over dripping pan in hot oven. Dallas News. Chocolate Caks. One cupful sugar, one-halt cupful butter creamed, add one egg unbeat en, one cupful milk with teaspoonful soda dissolved in it, one teaspoonful vanilla. Put one-half cake chocolate, one-half cupful milk, one half cup ful of sugar on fire to melt. When cool add to rest and two cupfuls bread flour. Beat well and bake in sheet tin. Frost with frosting made with confectioner's sugar and hot wa ter thick enough to spread. Southern Sugar Sweets. Peel sweet potatoes and slice in three-quarter inch slices enough to fill a medium-sized baking dish. Just cov er with cold water. Pepper and salt the top and sprinkle about one-quarter cupful of sugar over the whole and Just a dash ot nutmeg. Melt a good teaspoonful of bacon fat, or two tea spoonfuls ot butter, and pour over the whole. Bake till soft and browned on the top.