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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1927)
J » Nicaragua ^ r »----------- THE entone KITCHEN £3 CABINET ((c). 1 SJ 7 . W estern Newspaper Union ) G o i n g w i t h o u t th e g o o d t h i n g s o f l i f e ts c o n s i d e r e d n h a r d s h i p T o o lit t l e t h o u g h t Is g i v e n to th e b l e s s in g s . E v e r y b o d y s t r u g g l e s t o a c quire m a te ria l a d v a n ta g e s, t h in k i n g t h a t t h e y s p e l l h a p p in e s s , b u t h a p p i n e s s n o t i n f r e q u e n t l y lie s In p r a c t i c i n g th e fine a r t o f d o i n g w ith o u t.— A m e rica n C ook ery. SOME GOOD CHOWDERS Everybody enjoys soups and chow ders when well made and seasoned. A ! cook who hits not in her repertoire a list of chowder« Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for is missing one of tile best of dishes Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago to serve her fam Pain Neuralgia .Toothache Rheumatism ily. When it Is pos in Managua. sible to get fish or shell fish, there is nothing better DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART locks and small artificial lake out of for chowders, but other, vegetable« will consideration, may be considered the make a fair substitute. American Suez; for It is relatively Corn Chowder.— Fry until brown Short and direct. The Nicaragua Accept only “ Bayer” package route— again Ignoring locks—must he one-fourth pound of diced salt pork, which contains proven directions. compared with the Turkish straits; add one large sliced onion and fry TTandy "Raver" boxes of 12 tablets until brown. When corn is fresh, cut it is relatively long, and has In its Alao bottles of 24 and 100—Druggist«. course a greut natural Inland sea, from tile cob enough sweet corn to Ajpirla la the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Uonoecetlcactdeeter of Ballc/Ucadd till a quart measure or use a can of from which narrow shipways are pro corn; put the corn into the kettle jected. If a man Is to be trusted at all it A Nicaraguan canal would he less with tlie pork and onion, two cupfuls is when be is sick in bed—so a wom a innn-made affair than the Panama of diced uncooked potatoes, two cup an says. canal, where at every turn nature had fuls of tomatoes, sprinkling each lay to be thwarted and subdued by en er with flour, pepper and salt. When gineers. At Panama ships now move fresh corn Is used, cover the corn every foot of the interocean way with cold water and bring to the boil through great ditches that were dug, ing point; If canned, add as much wa locks that were built, or a lake thnt ter ns needed to cook the vegetables. was created by men. The Chagres Add two cupfuls of inlik, butter and river wns turned aside to make a lake, milk crackers when serving. and even Its bed wns discarded. If a Maryland Fish Chowder.—Fry two 8aya Backache Often Meana You Nicaraguan canal were built accord slices of salt pork and one large Have Not Been Drinking ing to existing plans, it would entuil onion cut fine. Add four pounds of Enough Water much excavation and lock building, fresh fish and six large potatoes cut but work that nature has already done into dice. Dover with cold water and would be utilized to h marked degree. simmer until the food Is cooked. Add When you wake up with backache From the Atlantic end a canal would one quart of milk, salt and pepper to and dull misery in the kidney region have to be excavated, largely through taste, witli two tahlespoonfuls of but it may mean that you have been eut- lowlands, for some 50 miles, for the ter. Add six milk crackers which Ing foods which create acids, says a In theatrical, dub, and sh opping lower reaches of the Snn Juan river have been soaked in hot milk, seuson well-known authority. An excess of Cioters. are clogged with sand brought down to taste with minced parsley and such acids overworks the kidneys in O ne block from U n io n Square. from the uplands of Costa Rica. Worcestershire sauce. their effort to filter it from the blood Every room withpnvatc bath. Locks would then raise the waterway Codfish Chowder.— Fry one-fourth and they become sort o f paralyzed and Popular dining room. to the 100-foot level of the lake. Ships pound of salt pork cut into tine dice, loggy. When your kidneys get slug Garage in same block. would he transferred Into the San until brown. Add three sliced onions gish and clog you must relieve them, Under proprietor-management o f Juan river, dammed at this point, and and cook for five minutes, then add like you relieve your bowels, remov Leo Lebtnbaum would move up Its slack wHter for ap one-half dozen sliced potatoes, cover ing all the body’s urinous waste, else e» proximately 45 miles to Lake Nica with boiling water nnd cook until the you have baekuche, sick headache, ragua. vegetables are .tender. Meanwhile dizzy spells; your stomach sours, Lake Nicaragua Is Large. soak one-half pound of s h U codfish, tongue is conted and when the weath This lake Is a really large body of parboil and shred; add to the chow er is had you have rheumatic twinges. water. It is 100 miles long nnd 45 der. with one quart of milk. Bring to The urine is cloudy, full o f sediment, POST STREET NEAR MASON wide at the broadest point, and is the boiling point. Pour hot milk over channels often get sore, water scalds SAN FRANCISCO the most extensive body o f fresh wa half a dozen milk crackers and when and you are obliged to seek relief two ter in North America south of Lake soft add to the chowder; serve very or three times during the night. SELIG BROS., San Francisco Michigan. For 70 miles ships would hot In soup plates. Either consult a good, reliable phy W hnlrw la T ailor* use the waters of Lake Nicaragua. Soft Clam Chowder.—Tic in a small sician ut once or get from your phar Have ou r tarai dealer take your meaaurr for a Then would come the descent to the "S a tisfa ctio n G u a ra n teed " A L L -W O O L SUIT. macist about four ounces o f Jad Price* to auit y ou r purae. Pacific through a canal and locks cov piece of muslin six cloves, six allspice Salts; take a tnblespoonful In a glass and six peppercorns. Fry brown a ering the dozen miles or more of nar o f water before breakfast for u few row isthmus that divides the lake quarter of a pound of diced pork, then days and your kidneys may then act add one large diced onion and fry un from the ocean. S A N F R A N C I S C O ’ S N S W F IN E H O T E L fine. This famous salts is made from E very til yellow. Add six sliced potatoes, a mom w ith hath o r «hower. $2.00 to $3.6A The river nnd lake portion o f the the acid o f grapes and lemon Juice, J o n e s at Eddy. G arage n ext door. can of tomatoes, the hag of spices, route above the dam, however, would four cupfuls of cold water nnd a (I h s I i combined with iithlu, nnd lias been not all be In readiness for use with P E N N A N T P A R L O R C O A C H L IN E S used for years to help clean and stim llflO M arket St., Nan F ra n cis co H em lock SCCTl out the expenditure of labor. Of the o f cayenne, cook four hours. Add a ulate sluggish kidneys, also to neu 45 miles of river 28 would require im quart of soft-shelled clams parboiled San Francisco «• ^;Vttad I I I so tralize acids in the system, so they no r O K T I .A N K D 1 P O T - r il..n « * A tl » HU T t SO provement, while a channel would and chopped, five milk crackers 8 t A l T l . i t I i t C O T , MM B e n e r a H i. P h o n e H l ll u t l 7M * longer irritate, thus often relieving have to be dredged through a score soaked in boiling milk, a qtiiir^of milk bladder weakness. of miles of the lake near the river out and simmer for five minutes. H O T E L W I L T S H I R E , San Francisco Jad Salts is Inexpensive, cannot in 340 S tockton St., nuar U nion Square. Sutter 'SMi The Plebeian Peanut. let where slit has accumulated. K K Y B O Y L H M anager jure nnd makes a delightful, efferves O u tride room IIA w ith b ath, R .f >0 »UigW\ $H M) don b le. The Pacific side of the canal would The ordinary nut which Is so com- j cent llthia-wuter drink. Drink lots of C ourt room s s with b ath, $2.UU ulngl«-. f '¿.W (loiibla* B reakfaM * 3&cr 60c, tide; D inners 86c. Sunday t 00 present relatively few difficulties. The mon among us is a valuable "food, rich j soft water. narrow divide at the point crossed by In fat and of such S A N F R A N C IS C O the canal route rises only 44 feet flavor that Some men will stand up for the fair above the lake level. Altogether the universally sex everywhere—except in a street canal route, from deep water to deep 3 8 7 El K b S t r e e t , a t J o n e s I car. OU TSIDE ROOM. P R IV A T E HATH $2.0$ water, would be about 180 miles long ’eanut butter |1 Tile passage o f ships would require so commonly used F o r b l o a t o d r e e l i n g a m i fllRtrwmed b r e a t h xjj n m e , n C ra n ritrn Nn ft 1 Q ?7 In* d u e to I n d ig e s tio n y o u need a m e d ic in e W "*■ U ** b a n r r a n c i g C O , IXO. 0 * 1 9 4 ' . more than 24 hours as against 12 or • hat it is hardly n s WOO a » a p u r g a t i v e . W r i g h t ’ s I n d i a n ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- less at Panama. Such a canal could necessary to men vretasbt. P»ta_-re_bo.h._ a . iv . 5 m « r t L ib r a r ia n be reached, on the other hand, more tion how whole “ I would like to He« u thesaurus,’ quickly from ports of the United some it is. The small boy knows how I Controllable forest fires in 102*1 States. it appeals to a hungry stomach, as a In Alberta, f'anada, amounted to one- please." One other contrast exists between sprend for bread or -i sandwich filling. tenth of the number reported five | "Animal books on the next aisle, sir." the Panama canal and the Nicnraguan Lettuce With Peanut«.—Roll fresli j years ago. route. The former traverses a coun peanuts after shelling and removing try of relatively little potential the brown husks; when like coarse j wealth. A canal through Nicaragua crumbs, sprinkle over crisp, tender | would doubtless be a strong factor in lettuce that lias been washed nnd [ the development of that country, ojten- drained, add a lilt of shredded onion Ing up Its vast forests of both hard and serve with French dressing. and soft woods and tapping Its coffee Aged Couplet Suffering Acutely from Rheumatism, Neu Peanut Loaf.— Take one cupful ol and cacao plantations and Its mines. ritis and Indigestion, Find Quick and Permanent chopped peanuts, two cupfuls ol I I.ske Nicaragua is already an Inqiar- crumbs, two tahlespoonfuls of fat or 1 Relief in Tanlac and Praise It Highly tant Inland waterway, and near Ita j peanut butter, one • Kg. nne-half tea hanks are some o f the chief cities of “ From the day I was fortunate spoonful of salt, a few dashes of pep- j the republic. •nough to line up with Tanlac,” says per and three-fourths of a cupful ol j Mr. Emil Langhans, ex-cavalryman milk. Mix. using the milk—more II | »mi retired customs official, "it haa Knew What He Wanted needed to make a moist loaf. But In j Kept my health and strength up to While a mother was looking for to n buttered pan and bake one hour, j lighest standard.” hooks for herself at the Shelhy street Bitting in his comfortable home at Baste once or twice with melted fat 2219 107th Avenue, Oakland, Calif., branch library, her two small son* en Serve turned out on a hot platter, Mr. Langhans told howTardarhad re- tertained themselves at the children's sprinkled with chopped nuts. ouilt strength and vigor for himself table looking at picture hooks. Creole Chowder.—Fry brown foui ! »ndhisrharmingwife. "Tanlac worked They were especially Interested In large onions In pork fat. Add flv« senders for my wife,” he said. "Bhe a book containing pictures of dogs. tomatoes, four sweet peppers shredde« , mffered from high blood pressure, The older boy stroked the collie’s pic neuritis and general run-down condi and two cupfuls of fresli or canned ture over and over, while the younger tion. Tanlac relieved her. corn. Add boiling water to cover. Sea “ I had sciatic rheumatism — Buffered one looked on. son with pepper, salt and sugar and for five vears with it -s o that I could Where the mother had her hooka cook until the vegetables are wel ] sleep but little, on account of the pain. charged at the desk she beckoned to Cooked. opportunity to praise Tanlac.” Kidney trouble, indigestion ana loss the boy*. The elder one obeyed, hut Peanut. Peat. Pickle Salad. -Takt Old and young, from coast to coast, of appetite had reduced my strength the little fellow protested, saying: unite in praising this famous remedy one cupful of coarsely chopped pea to a low ebb. "I’lease. mother. I want to spread tba of na*ure. Made of roots, harks and “ Bincc taking Tanlac my health, as nuts, one cupful of peaa conked and dog.”—Indianapolis News. well as that of my wife, haa been re berle, according to the exclusive Tan drained, and one-half cupful oi lac formula, it is an amazing tonic markable. Though I am retired, I chopped sour pickle. Mix well wltt Yet ft’a Still Noticeable medicine. All good druggists sell Tan could resume my old work any time. mayonnaise and serve on lettuce. lac Get a I Kittle today I Over 40 No rheumatism—nor kidney trouble We have enough science in hand to million bottles «old. —u past two years. I never mise an abolish poverty —Albert Edward Wig- gam. 'K tJ L tiU erolfi. r i SAY “ BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST 1 Street 8cene ( P r e p a r e d b y t h e N a t io n a l O r o g r a p h i c S o c ie t y . W a s h i n g t o n . D . C .) scene of activity by American marines, is the largest of the Central Ameri can republics; many acclaim It the most beautiful. It has vast for ests of precious woods, untold re sources of valuable minerals and soil so fertile thnt it has been said, “ If you tickle the ground with a hoe it smiles back witli a yam." There Is a darker side— few regions of its size anywhere in the world have been so beset by revolutions and vol canic eruptions. After a century of filmost perpetual civil war Nicaragua settled down to comparative peace a few years ago nnd began to reap the dividends in progress toward prosper ity. Modern science can ameliorate the disasters from valcanoes by ap proximate predictions of their explo sions, while It also has taught the Nlclraguans that the eruptions of the past were blessings In disguise, be cause they fertilized the land to a marvelous degree. The country is about the area of New York state nnd its total popula tion Is only a little larger than that of Buffalo. It has two mountain ridges which Inclose the "Great Lakes of Centra! America,'’ Lakes Nicaragua and Managua. A glance at a Central American map tells the story of Nicaragua's backwardness In bygone years. Costa Rica, to the south, nnd Honduras, to the north, are accessible from the At lantic ocenn; all of Nicaragua’s Im portant cltips are on the 1’aclflc side of her coastal mountains. To the east of the mountains lie her lakes, and she presents to the Caribbean a very unprepossessing “back yard,” with the world's worst real estate desig nation, the Mosquito coast. Pacific Frontage Helps Her. Today, with Los Angeles, Snn Fran cisco and Seattle to tap her markets, Nicaragua's Pacific frontnge is a hless- lng. But yesterday, when the Atlan tic ports of North America and Eu rope were doing the world's shipping, she was severely handicapped. Curiously, too, her Mosquito coast was appropriately Darned by error. The appellation was not Intended for the insect, which abounds there, hut is a corruption of the name of the 0.000 Indians, the Misskits, who sur vive there.. The country’s northernmost Carib bean headland. Cape Gracias a Dins, is a headline of geography. Columbus explored the Central American const on Ills Inst voyage and, cruising east from Cape Honduras, was compelled to take shelter from a storm at a point where the coast abruptly turns to the south. He named the cape “ Thanks to God" and took possession of the country for Spain. That was in 1502. A century before the Mnyflower touched at Plymonth rock the Spnninrds were established along the lake region In far western Nicaragua, despite the unwelcome vol canic outbursts. Especially vigorous was the explosion of Masaya, In 1522 The most sensational single eruption, however, occurred within a cent nr.i from our day—when Cosegnlna blew off Its head In 1835. For days a black pall obscured the sun, dust blanketed the fields nn1 forests, animals died bv the thousands from thirst and hunger Tradition sa.va that it was Into the •meter o f the above-mentioned Masaya that Friar Bias of Castile lowered a hucket In 1534 in the hope of drawing up molten gold. When he tonched the lava the backet melted and the good friar wrote home: "One cannot behold the volcano without fear, admiration, and repentance o f hla sins; for it can be surpassed only by eternal Are.” At the foot o f Mount Masaya la a lake of that name, and near the lake la the little town o f Masaya. Routa of Proposed Canal. Whether a Nicaraguan canal will be built Is a question which only the future can answer; hut It hag been so continuously discussed and Its pos sible site so thoroughly surveyed that the term "Nicaraguan canal mute” Is easily described Interest has been reawakened in this route by the re cent trouble In Nicaragua. The Panama renal, if one leaves Its N ic a r a g u a , S c^ CALIFORNIA DIRECTORY If Kidneys Act Bad Take Salts wantages HOTEL CECIL HOTEL ROOSEVELT HOTEL MENTONE O akland G. A. R . V eteran and Wife Regain Health i J