THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918. fe a Ee i a it AE A i x . Ways and Means in War Time 66 OU cannot put a unifors: 'ge XY. and make a soldier of him," said a man, recently. goes to camp he most go through many months of careful training before he is reilly 'in condition -to serve his govern ment effectively." ; It was the first part.of his statement that get me thinking. Tt is true that a uniform does not mike a soldier in amy of the, various branches of service, mor does lack of one prevent any one from heéing a fighter. for the solflier is not the "only one called to' the firing line in this war. for democracy. Every ome of us, men. women and children, has & part to do in this great work. Litelligent Service. The women of the [Tnited States are do- ing a tremendous amount of work al- ready, bat this is just the beginning of what they may be called upon to do. Many women who have mever efor Jone into their kitchens to cook a' meal, are giving their Households, culinary de- partinesikts 'included, their direct super- vision. 3 Some have learned in their own kitchens and other home centres and others have delegated these things to hired help. It hehiooves those whq have not had training to. fit them for food conservation in the hote to got that training in the quickest and best way. v This city offers many opportunities for #tudy of snch problems as confront the Lousewife. If you do not know how to reich the heads of the proper depart ments, if ron will write te Washington or to the New York eity authorities they wil graldly put yon im tonch: with the means of aequiring information. Meatless and wheatleds days are now thé fashion, but they will not proveat all popular or possible unless the women who undertake th carry out the programme of the government set themselves to work * to make them worth while as aids to food conservation. : In the South there are many delectable dishes mm which corn is used either as "grits" or meal. They use meal for frying fish and oysters and grits takes the place of wheat as a breakfast dish in wany bomes. But these foods. are. moat un- "After he. The woman who sets herself to save food should do so intelligently served in the most palatable way and that the very most is made of its possibilities, If she attempts to make sweét potato pie or to bake potatoes in the pan, with butter, sugar and spices, she should know just how to make her pie and just how to season and to bake her other dish. Af #heé cooks rice to go with meat and Eravy,; she should learn the secrets that th&goad old fime cooks have handed down from generation to generation, properly made and cooked, if they are to palatable. The only way to achieve results with meatless and wheatless daye is to make a study of the question. If the house: wives are to make any real contribution of effective help they must study and practise culinary efficiency. One of the great benefits which will coma out of this war (and there will be many) will be that it will teach the women of this epuntry a frogality that they have never before known It has been said that could live on the food that is recklessly {thrown away by an American family. "In {a certain sense this is true For many fuced great economic problems, and the French women have learned tot to waste Wise Frugality. ered the correct thing for the table to groan under its load of: food: many reasons for this. of sisterhood, and those wenlth waste that once prevailed... Now it id not a question of the individual method of the family, but it is the demand of a pation of a world, one might almost sav---that food mot only shall not be recklessly wasted but that every ounce shall be used in the most effective way. Whatever uniform you have heen chosen to wear, whether of the outward appear- ance or the physical aspect (if not actn- ally, at least in imagination), in this war palatable unless properly cooked, of wars, see that you wear it worthily. EERE ~ Hints on Practical Economy An old song runs "Paddy got gay on fish and potatoes," and we are Inclined to think that Paddy was 'a discriminating fellow, and when the next line tells us that Paddy got gay in the morning, we are inclined to think that he had mackerel > and boiled potatoes for breakfast and that he was not gay at all, but only filled with exuberance from the god breakfast that be had which was filled with So much Body bulldifig material, Strange lessons this awful war has taught us. We have come to know that _ Meat 18 not an absolute necessity, and that White bread may also be left out of our dietary with no {ll effects. Wi now discover that fish contains more protein to the pound than beefsteak, and We also find that certain kinds of fish contain 'all the fat we need. v Soe . EFFICIENT SUBSTITUTES. | We find that potatods' contain starch and roay be taken to advantage in place of bread, as they contain mineral salts -that are not to be found in the dread. And so on, for a long list, one might go framing the lessons that we have learned, and the lessons will do us as much gd 8 tire of peace 'ss fn time of war, and when this crisis has passed we will be a healthier and & happler race, * Ol Food Administrator 1s urging us to make os much of our fish supply as pos- sible. dnd We are wondering why we aid not discover its many possibilities for owr- 'selves lorg ago. At this time, too, 4t Is our Adty to the farmers to make use of the orop of potatoes 'that is now being har: vested, : : In order that be well fed our y needs protein, musele building food; v and miners] salts. A méal of 1 oes supplies all of these, to thing of the delights of the paimts| derived from a pare salt fish of some sort. A luncheon of creamed. fish is appetizing and nourish- ing, and for dinner, the heaviest meal of the day, we may have one of the heavier fish, such as mackere! or salmon. For a household where supper is served a good fish salad Is delicious, This may be made of any one of a number of canned] fish, or of any remnants of cold fish that have been left from a previous meal. If we are serving fish that lacks fat this may be supplied by a butter or ofl sauce. Fish and potatoes may each be Prepgred in thousands of ways, and the viffious combinations of the vwo need nevir be- come monotonous. : 'We may ser/e fried fish and boiled po- tatoes, boiled fish and Jried potatoes, salt or smoked fish and potato salad, creamed fish and baked potatoes, fish salad and potato biscuit, that rival in lightness ani delicacy the famous scones of Scotland. .. Another r inendation of the fish and potato meal is tht it is seasonable every day in the year. o We edn have a fish and potatd day in our household and comply with tie food administration's request for a meat. leas and a wheatless day.. A fish and potato day Is both, Of one thing we may be sure, if we in- stitute a fish and potato day of our own accord we will not have to repeat the same combination by compulsion many times In fifty-two weeRs, : The housekeeper who will set some day in the week other than Friday as a fish and potatoe day will aid conservation in no small degree. The universal use of fish is the only thing that will lower its cost and at the spmie time cause a material saving of the meat supply. "This sounds like a paradox, but it is only common When the fish dealer no longer has ty figure his profits on one day's business in the week he can afford to sell at a cheaper price. and when the use of fish is more universal. the hun- dreds of tons that are annually wasted will be brought to the market. i 5 UNIVERSAL THRIFT. Fish is much easter to cook than meat. once you get the habit, and for a day when the maid is off or the housekeeper want's to go shopping, fish cakes that tan be prepared in the morning make an exeel- lent Not necessarily are the gime honored codfish cakes meant, for there are many . pid Be oe oe When the strip is dry repeat, going farther on in course, until the entire surface A heads outward allicovered. Leave the crepe om I8y st the end a strip of cleam] vag the length of the vell and eight ; wide wrung out of warm this hold a hot fron so close] unt] dry, when it will be found equal to new. oes In restoring small pieces take care the are pinned true and not pulled out of the the steam and: dries the abcount let the iron pi She should | see when she uses a substitute that it is! Her ries! waffles must be just right, her corn bread be nourishing, to say nothing of being | v French family | years France; fighting for freedom, has | The days have passed when it is consid There are | Oue of these is that women each year| are drawn closer into a certain bond of | have | learned too much of the problems that | confront their sisters to show the reckless | .jand 1 was - {times Rl --_ . : of the Mountains' Ruling Bulgaria? | ] UST A L | + with a Here is Princess Eudoxia, known in Sofia as the "Maid of the Mountains," who is reported to be ruling the Balkan kingdom. The funior is current among the rank and file of 'thi Bulgarian army that King Ferdinand is dead. years old. Princess Eudoxia ig nineteen Be Fair to the Child One of the cruelest injustices to chil- dren is Jetting frupatient or' cross with them, not because of any real wayward. ness. on: their part, but because for some reason or other we ourselves are hearted or out of serts. If honest statistics were taken, it would be found that a simply inerédible propor- tion of the scolding$; punishmer impatient remarks meted out to children by their parents or other grown-ups in charge 8f there rise not from naughtiness of the 'children, but from the disgruntled mood of the grown person. One mother frankly confessed that sha herself had often been guilty of the cruelty she so deplores. down- 8 and THE MOTHER'S PART. ti ide -- ey "It was a remark made by one of my little boys that woke me up. When 1 kissed him goodby a certain morning be- fore starting forth down town to do Soma shopping, he begged me not to shop too much. I asked him why, He sald:- A 'Canse you get so tired when you go inté& many shops, and vhen you are tired you always think we are bad. 'Tisn't fair. "'Tisn't fair! That little sentence hit me hard. [I realized ny injustice to the children. My fittle boy's arralgnment was absolutely justifiable. "1 reviewed my attitude toward my little sties and I fould that all too ofted my ir. ritation: onsadlual severity toward them was Induced by my owh mood. "With my hay's "Tisn't fair.' ringing in my ears ] cut shorter my list of ers rands. Keeping myself from over fatigue became a matter of paramount impor. tance. Their happy faces when I returned without ithe usin] wehry, nerves-on-edge moed that Wak invariably mine after s shopping xh dition smote my conscience. It was éusy and pleasant to be kind and fair to them. 2 "IT resolved 'that in every possible way that 1 could manage it I would order my life so as to keep from getting tired. This meant a great deal of yeadijustment. It meant a vastly: oved system in housekeeping in gene It meant a grea) de f cutting down 0} 'unnecessary nc: tivities: "1 was simply amazed at the quick re- sults thai came With the new order, 1 had much more control over the kiddies h uch happier with them and théy were with me, es anal my planning there still came times "wi hen 1 folt fatigue keeniy. Xo mothe? a omekeeper can escape suc es however much she Jug lesgers them Aro Wine management: of things a of herself. But when ; against letifng my my dealings with my chil can be carried through with flying colors if a hi 4 upon Winning out. And how can she fall in the determination once she has reai- ized the cruelty of letting her own feel- her judgment toward her chils tired the judge in court may) must Keep his bead clear to give] be he such a period would | & mother find a child + 3 Be FAIUIIBIIEIIIPEB IAB EIRP PIRI II HIE 4400 0000000000000. cena NT Quire into its motives, or so tired that the hild irritates her just by its innocent importunities and activities, or so' tired that she creates 'a distracted atmosphere that makes the chid nervous and fretful? Blue, dépressed days will come to ui all; We cannot escape them, but ou *hildrefi can escape the influence of them f we determine upon this, - WORTH KNOWING. To clean brass that has been exposed to {the weather make a paste of salt dnd com- {mon vinegar: rud the brass with the mix- {ture and leave for ten minutes. Then clean {in the usual way. Even when there is cream in the coffee, ithe stains can be removed from the most {delicate silk or woollen fabric by brushing the spots with pure glycerine and rinsing in lukewarm water. 1. 'Never close up a ringer with court plas- ter. It involves the possibility of pus and long inflammation. Wash the cut with { warm water, and turpentine should he ap- plied. Then bandage with linen cloths. When preserving sprinkle some ashes on the stqve lid beneath the kettle of boiling {Truit. This. prevents standing over the {Stove to stir the fruit. It will not burn or | stick if this method is followed. When whipping cream cover the bow! ece of paper with a slit in the top the shipe of a maltese cross. Insert the jeg beater inte the slit. and the cream may be whipped without danger of spattering A teaspoonful of wdrm olive ail or cam- , Phorated oil poured into the esr and held {there for a few minutes will destroy thé {Bug in the ear, and it will then easily pour lout, bringing with it the dead insect | Paper is a friend to the housewife. She |can use it when preparing a chicken or fish Put a piece of paper on the kitchen Ftable, cut the fowl up and when finished roll up paper and mess and put it in the |fire. Your table is clean and fresh, riced- {ing no scrubbing. re > ' KINKS. Now that flour is so high, dry leftover bread, with brown crust takem off, in a slow oven. Roll it out fine with reliing pin and use it"witn flour for making pies, cakes and biscuits. It's fine. The brown crusts you take off you can use for a pudding Add a teaspoonful of ice water to the white of an egg before beating for frost. ing pies; it makes twice as much 3 : pe lr OF MICE. 'GETTING RID -------- You can easily get rid of mice by putting branches of peppermint or the essence around where the mice have beeh. They dislike the odor and will not came again. Repeat this process every two or three months and you will find that your trou bles from this source are over, . It is easier to get married in Scotland then in England. French women are making harness and saddles for the army. The National Woman's Army holds reg- ular drills in New York city. Over 7,000,000 women in the United States have signed food pledge cards. Over one million women have directly replaced men in British industries. Italian women are rapidly being granted new privileges by their government. Miss Juliette N. Crosby, who has been engaged in missionary work or the last forty. six years, was re- cently invested with the order of the Blue Ribbon by HAPPY INVESTMENT, Children should he taught to respect a mother's privacy, to treat her 'with con- ideration 1f she tells them she is tired or does not fee! well, But never should 1 child feel that its mother's attitude toward it changes with her moods. Al ways should it feel fairness in her judg- ments, her reproofs. invest in happiness for yourselves, mothers, by fair dealing with your chil- dren. Children are not really naughty till you think they are. N Preserve a falr attitude toward jour children day in and day out at any cost of effort and sacrifice and see if they ire not for the most time as good as you could wish them to be. - the Emperor of Japan; o Women in France Bi are being employed ITTL EXTENDING THE FLAVOR OF MEAT. Stew with Dumplings. --Make stew from small pieces of meat and vegetables, cook- ing it on stove or in fireless cooker. Serve with. dumplings made as follows: --For a stew using one pound of meat mix a lttle teaspoonful of baking powder and a pinch of salt, work in a rounding teaspoonful of butter and mix with enough inilk to form 8 medium stiff dough. Cut into small pisces and cook in a buttered steamer enough greww from the stew to expose the meat and.vegetables and place the pleces of Jough on these solid materials ta cook.' Meat Pie.--Meat pies are made most sat- isfactorily by first cooking the meat and vegetables as for a stew Line a pan earthenware dish or casserole with' bis- cuit dough rolled fairly thin, put in the meat, vegetables and gravy with dough and bake in a hot oven. ¥ Meat Turnover.---Place any chopped cooked meat available on circles of biscuflt dough about the size of a saucer. Fold the dough over the meat, crimp the edges and bake in a hot oven. Vegetables may be combined with the meat filling as de- sired and the whole may be served with gravy. cover Faded colors are in vogue, Usually two or more are combined so that Ahey serve as: foils for each other and bring out greater beauty of tone. There is, for example, a very charming frock made of orchid satin veiled with orchid tulle. A band of faded old rose forms the bodice and there is a silver gir. dle which seems to unite the orchid and the rose shades. A delightful feature of this model is hand-wrought little bas- kets done m silver threads and filled to overflowing with French flowers, which, of course, are also hand made. Old blue and gray are 'met with in sev- eral of the new Paris models, and there is & fancy for beige combined with laven. bodied women, over a kettle of boiling water, or remove | have Y.st the opposite cifect, ESTS E OF EVERYTHING THE COLD PLUNGE iets If you have been taking cold plunges or showerd all summer, don't step them now {because it is getting fallish and 'eold. {Keep yourself hard, und not ing will help {you more than the ccld water bath the {year around. | more than one-third cupful flour with one! But when the very coid weather comes and the 'water is fairly icy, unless you are 8 Finn or an Indian. it were almost death for you té try the cold bath. The way to set around this is to draw {the water in the tub the night before. {Over night it has a chance to lose the eniil and for your white skin and none too red blood makes the bath invigorating and {bealthy, whe jas the Icy water would HOUSEWIFE. Canned pears sre good with thelr 'sores filled with fine chopped preserved ginger end whipped cream laid over them Sweet pickled apples are delicious served with meats. They may be made Just as pickled peaches are Raw cabbage 1s said to be much more digestible than cooked, and a delicious salad is simple shaved cabbage with a French dressing , Vinegar works like a. chaz when it comes to cleaning dirt and smoke from walls and woodwork. Wet a flannél cloth with it and rub A jittle jar of bes! extract kept in the refrigerator is useful to add meat flavor to a vegetable dish. a White enamelled furniture may be cleaned with turpentine ynd the gloss will be uninjured. Wet a soft cloth with tur- pentine, rub the spots off the woodwork and rub dry with another cloth, { TIPS FOR A RIOT OF COLOR. For the sum parlor with the cerise suinted watering pot, the painted tin flower basket and gayly colored pots of jgayer flowers use sand colored and white chints curtains, for your little Scotch heather plant of lavender pink in its ned pot, and your other blooming color notes will form rict enough to please the most futurist eye. tr pep btn WHEN SHOES PINCH. To prevent new shoes from pinching lay a cloth moistened in hot water across the place where the pressure is felt most, changing the cloth as soon as it be. der, mahogany or jade. French actréss, bas left the stage to take) the veil, 'When it comes to digging in the fields the Chinese woman is equal to any man. Trains running between St. Louis and Memphis will. hereafter have women as ticket takers. . In certain drench cities nearly one-third gt the. metal workers are strong, able save fooa Girls who are enrolled as i Yeomen in the United States Navy receive #5 per month salary, A peculldrity of Anu have tattooed ie upon their upper and lower | ustache. in the gas houses, storage houses, in tanneries, and im. fact almost every branch of tndustry that is thriving at this time. Practically all the harvesting in is being done by women and girls Miss Ennis Short: is employed as a lead grinder In a large Indianapolis paint fas tory. 3 : About one hundred. women are employed in the British National Physical Labora. tory. . . % Mademoiselle Lavalliere, a' prominent Tiinois Top Sergeant Adams finds no The bunch whose favorite hue Though Aut Nobody mn A a h€ Spirits of the crowd Company A, 104th M becnade she is tog tired 10 ine ee He sees a line of troopers full of sted at 8 A. M.: ; © And "Two Gun" Dimond; who was {ll is up and out for bear-- (The boys are on the line in France; they're in jt "over there"), O'Shea Is shoeing Horses as he never shoed befqre ; : i And Sergeant Ryan sports a grin that's like to stretch his jaw; fillhooly's shined his rifie up till you can't find a stati, And Pinnerty rides out to guard a-smifing in the rain. (4 red head Irish gunner turned the first shof loose, they say). ts ure Arctic-like In Alabami's pine groves, hurraly if jee forms on the stoves; And everything around the place is Fatigue dnd drill, patrol and post, we hit 'em with a song-- . (The %oys are hammering the Hans; our turml i ets. There's no mote grousing in the street, the detalls come and 80, And éven kitchen ranging doesn't raise a how! of woe; Ta weeps it revelile to stem, w is green are holding holiday--- of employing OF the-oné to whom the letter is wddressed. ball, that the wax | Wax from dripping. : | 1a softened to seal one's note, apply it 6 ihe envelope without pressure: If a seal] 18 used on the wax, fashion the wax with| '® twist of the stick as it flows onto the : 5.1 ---- |" No rule of etiquette binds in the selection The Commissioner of Highways in Cam- den, N. J, is considering the advisability women to clean the streets in that city. comes cool, This will make the leather shape itself to the foot. 'Capable Women and Their Doings lege of Literature of the Imperial Univer | sity of Tokio, Japan, fifty of {heim are women. Women are at present for the first time being allowed by HY Soverantent to cam. pete as mechanjca) tsmen in the ex. aminations now being held. Mrs. Edmund Lincoln Balies. of New York, has been decorated by the Fremeh government with the Legion of Honor ta recognition of her work in France. Mine. Signe Lund, - anaturaiized American of Nor- birth | wesian 1, has been awarded the national arts prize | of $500 for the best musical setting for Daniel M, Hender- son's. prize poem, "The Road to France." The wearing of high heeled shoes by the women has MME 5 been prohibited in, 1 consequence of the many sccidents where women have been killed or injured through Of the M0 students enrolled in the Col being tripped as & result of wearing high heels. a Correct Use of Sealing Wax Every woman Qesires that 'her letters shall be charming, and this applies not only to thelr messages but to their gen- eral appearance. One of the prettiest 'ways to enhance 'the jatter item 18 through the Sorrect use of sealing Wax (its incorrect use is an abomination). Nor is sealing Wax a matter of adornment alone to the) note; it is a dainty interruption te all pry- lng and inquisitive Magers, and «n fssur- dnce of the fact that the contents of the letter have been reseived for fhe reading devotion to duty, is also frequently used by 'men, though occasionally women will select this color for business notes. Letters of purely social Jdendeney and Wholly feminine are most often fastened With seals of palest tints, the pastel colors. Rose color stands ror optimism. Green enates Initiative and m lighter- shades : ends easlly with a tinted : Pale violet indicates fond ls There are in all eighteen shades made, Bo that one should very perfectly be ails to match the wax wiih one's nots paper or properly harmonize it. AN ADDED ATTRACTION. L "To form a seal a oh property basure, first bt does not ignite Rida above the candle so that it will melt With, out flaming ana tlt the stick at auf | Ward angle so that the wax runs down rather than drops or drips, and is the Melting begins, revolve the stick With efiough speed to allow it to seften evenly. This turning will alse help to keep the When a sufficient amount of the stick "Thé heal bases on which the monograms Are cut may be had tn six different shapes--round, square, . diamond shape, oval, ectagon and hexagon. It lg possibie to possess all these shapes at slight cost by purchasing ove handle on whith the Various shapes are to be screwed. One's ndtviduality (8 greatly braught out By the way fh which the seal base is cut, for either monogram or initial op Coat of arms afi' be used. Some few peo. ple like the address as an impress, bit this be along). So _ FASHION OF THE HOUR, | --_-- of the design cut beyond the dlight one that the dis mark shall be identical with that on the paper. Not In size, necessarily, a A