Kansas City Sun
Saturday, May 4, 1918
Kansas City, Missouri
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BLACK HERO
EMMETT J. SCOTT COMES TODAY
Grand Chancellor A.W. Lloyd of the Knights of Pythias in Kansas City on his Annual Official Visit
Subordinate Lodges Report Splendid Growth Throughout the Jurisdiction, and a Steady Numerical Increase in New Lodges $7,000.00 Invested in Liberty Bonds
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VOLUME X. NUMBER 36.
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Grand Chancellor
the Knights of P
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Visit
Subordinate Lodges Repor
Throughout the Jurisdict
Numerical Increase i
$7,000.00 Invested in
Hon. A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Missouri, arrived in Kansas City Wednesday, having just met the Third Quarterly meeting of the Beneficiary Board, which met in Sedalia on the 26th. At this recent meeting of the Board of which, by the way, Mr. Lloyd is president, twenty-one death claims from the different subordinate lodges of the state were presented, acted upon and settled at once.
Mr. Lloyd seems much more interested in the advancement and progress of the Pythian Order than ever in the history of his administration as Grand Chancellor (if that could be possible).
The members of the Beneficiary Board were royally entertained during their stay in Sedalia by the Knights of Pythias there. The lodges in the State of Missouri are in every respect in better numerical and financial condition than ever before in the history of the Order; and too much credit cannot be given Grand Chancellor Lloyd for his untiring efforts and tenacious manner of pushing forward to reach his coveted goal—success.
The setting up of a new lodge in St. Louis, his headquarters, only recently with eighty charter members is
NEGROES IN FRANCE
It is estimated that there are now fully 25,000 Colored men in France with the American army. Among the Colored regiments there are the 15th New York, the 8th Illinois and the 372d, the latter being made up in part of the 9th Ohio Battalion, the 1st Separate Battalion of Washington, D.C., and militia companies from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. To these 10,000 fighting men can be added, perhaps, fully that number of non-combatants, stevedores, etc. In addition there are many Colored Americans "over there," fighting with the Canadian troops. "The Black Phalanx" will soon be heard from displaying the traditional heroism of black troops in battle.
The Irish with representation in the English parliament, fighting against conscription and the American Negro without representation in congress yet waiving even every right to exemption in his eagerness to fight for his country ought to impress the government of the United States with some idea of the value of its black citizenry.
G. H. P. McCAMPBELL SCORES.
Grand High Priest T. G. McCampbell is not only doing a remarkable work for the higher degrees of Masonry in this Jurisdiction but he is doing a splendid work for the Christian religion as well. On last week he went to Maryville, Mo., and established a new Chapter and Commandery of 16 men on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday morning he preached a soul stirring sermon at the A. M. E. Church and secured one conversion. One of the men who had been initiated into the Chapter the night before. Again Sunday night he preached by special request to a crowded house at the same place, and four splendid young men made a decision for Christ and united with the Church. He was accompanied by Past Grand Master Nelson C. Crews.
The Kansas City Sun
Group of Lincoln High School Girls in Gymnasium exercises—will be seen at Convention Hall at the Big Annual Entertainment, May 10.
a fine demonstration of his aim and ability to always succeed and retain the Pythian high standard and future possibilities. This makes the twenty-first lodge of the Order in the city of St. Louis. Another fine and very conclusive demonstration of the Grand Chancellor's efforts was his encouragement to our people to invest largely in the Liberty Loan campaign recently launched, the result of which was an overwhelming success. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias alone purchased $7,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, viz., $4,000 in our own Kansas City, $2,000 worth in Columbia and $1,000 in St. Louis.
Mr. Lloyd while in this city expects to visit the eleven subordinate lodges and as many of the sixteen subordinate courts as will be possible for him so to do, as well as the five Uniform Rank companies and the ten Juvenile Departments, for the purpose of furthering the interest in the increased state wide membership campaign which is being launched throughout the Jurisdiction.
A representative of The Sun interviewed Mr. Lloyd upon the condition of the Order throughout the state and was informed that conditions in every respect were never better in its history.
GIRL BELLHOPS
St. Louis, Mo.—The Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton and Maple avenues, has been forced to dispense with the services of white boys as "bellhops" and has Colored girls to act in this capacity. This is the first time in the history of the city that white boys have been replaced by the girls of our race. Since the United States entered the war many of the large hotels have employed women and girls as elevator operators and starters, but the Hamilton hotel is the first resort to employ girls as "bellhops." The hotel management says it became almost impossible to get white boys. So far the service of girls have proved entirely satisfactory.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918.
HEROES ON WRECKED STEAMER.
A Negro Fireman on City of Athens
Saved Several Lives.
An Atlantic Port, May 2.—Survivors of the coastwise steamer City of Athens, which was sunk in a collision with a French cruiser in a fog off the Delaware coast yesterday morning with a loss of sixty-six persons, related here today many tales of heroism on the part of the crews of the two vessels. All praised the efforts of the French sailors especially, who launched small boats within a few minutes after the accident and aided by the cruiser's searchlights, picked up many of the survivors from pieces of wreckage.
The survivors agreed that the speedy sinking of the steamer—within five minutes after being rammed by the warship—was responsible for the heavy toll of life, although some claimed that the City of Athens life-saving apparatus failed to work properly. There were 135 persons, including twenty-four United States marines, on board the steamer, which was bound from New York to Savannah with a 2 million dollar cargo of cement rope, foodstuffs and general merchandise on board.
Mrs. Florence Pickhard Harrison, wife of a New York real estate agent, whose father, Winchell L. Pickhard, is president of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., told today how her life, that of her 2-year-old baby and two others were saved through the bravery of a Negro fireman on the City of Athens.
Awakened from her sleep, Mrs. Harrison barely had time to put a coat over her night dress and hurry to the deck with her child.
I saw a lifeboat," she said, "but no one was paying any attention to it except a United States marine, who lifted the baby into the boat. I was about to climb in with his aid when the steamer toppled and my grasp on the gunwale slipped. I caught up the baby and the ship sank under the swirling waters. When I came up choking and almost unconscious from the water with the little one in my arms, we were directly under the bow of a lifeboat.
"A man, whom I afterward learned was James Wallace of Savannah, lifted the baby from my arms. When I regained consciousness I found myself in the lifeboat covered with a piece of canvas, which I wrapped around the baby. My coat and nightgown were torn from the struggle to drag me in. After that Mr. Wallace rescued one marine and a civilian. That brave Negro deserves a hero's medal.
"We were in the lifeboat for about two hours before we were picked up by the crew of the French cruiser. I cannot speak too highly of the gallantry and kindness of the French officers and men during our rescue and the time spent on the cruiser."—Thursday's Star.
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TWO DAYS' PROGRAM
Saturday Afternoon, May 4, 2:30 o'Clock.
The meeting of the Members of the
(all of which constitute a Reception
proceeding immediately to the Union
meet the Hon. Mr. Scott. (The cars
Mr. T. B. Watkins, Chairman of the
veyances.)
Saturday Evening, May 4, 8:00 o'Clock.
Banquet by the Members of the In
tions and their friends under direction
Department of Lincoln High School.
Sunday, May 5, 12:00 M. to 12:30 P. M.
At Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charl
Thomas, Pastor.
Sunday, May 5, 12:30 to 1:00 P. M.
At the Second Baptist Church,
Streets, Dr. S. W. Bacote, Pastor.
May 4, 2:30 o'Clock.
Meeting of the Members of the
nth constitute a Reception Co-
mmediate to the Union S-
pon. Mr. Scott. (The cars ha-
Watkins, Chairman of the n
May 4, 8:00 o'Clock.
By the Members of the En-
her friends under direction of
of Lincoln High School.
10 M. to 12:30 P. M.
In Chapel, Tenth and Charlot-
tor.
10 to 1:00 P. M.
Second Baptist Church, T
S. W. Bacote, Pastor.
The meeting of the Members of the above Organizations (all of which constitute a Reception Committee) at the "Y" proceeding immediately to the Union Station in 25 cars to meet the Hon. Mr. Scott. (The cars have been provided by Mr. T. B. Watkins, Chairman of the Committee on Conveyances.)
Saturday Evening, May 4, 8:00 o'Clock.
Banquet by the Members of the Entertaining Organizations and their friends under direction of the Domestic Science Department of Lincoln High School.
Sunday, May 5, 12:00 M. to 12:30 P. M.
At Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte Streets, Dr. W. H. Thomas, Pastor.
Sunday, May 5, 12:30 to 1:00 P. M.
At the Second Baptist Church, Tenth and Charlotte Streets, Dr. S. W. Bacote, Pastor.
Sunday, May 5, 1:00 to 1:30 P. M.
At St. Stephen Baptist Church, Corner Charlotte and Independence Avenue, Dr. J. W. Hurse, Pastor.
Sunday, May 5, 3:00 P. M.
Assemble at the Kansas City Sun Office, 18th and Wood land. Liné of March headed by the Lincoln High School Cadet Band and Cadet Organization, under direction of Major N. Clark Smith, the Kansas City, Kas., State Guards, led by Melford's 2nd Regiment Band, under the direction of Band Master Wm. Cooper and Major D. A. Holmes and the Boy Scouts, Troops A, B, C, D. Kansas City, Mo., and Troops A, B, C and D. Kansas City, Kas., under the direction of Deputy Commissioner Rev. F. D. Wells and Scout Masters Harrison Williams, James Williams, Fred Drew, Robert Peters, Prof. Woodie Jacobs, Prof. Geo. Mobray, Prof. Homer Wilburn and E. E. Vaughan; from K. C. Sun Office, west on 18th Street to Tracy Avenue, thence south on Tracy to the Lincoln High School. Mass Meeting address by the Hon. Mr. Scott. The entire public is invited to this meeting. Other uniformed organizations are invited to join this parade.
Assemble at the Kansas land. Line of March hea Cadet Band and Cadet Org N. Clark Smith, the Kansas Melford's 2nd Regiment B Mester Wm. Cooper and N
Sunday Evening, May 5 8:00 to 8:30
Ethan, Kansas City, Kas., 8th and
Nebraska Avenue, Rey, J. F, Griffin, Pastor,
At the Metropolitan Baptist Temple, 9th and Washington, Negro State Guards in uniform, Rev. D. A. Holmes, Major; Rev. D. A. Holmes, Pastor .
DR. J. E. DIBBLE . Chairman General Reception Committee
DR. J. E. PERRY . Exec. Chmn. Lincoln High Sch. Steering Com.
JOHN L. LOVE . Pres. Kansas City, Mo. Civic League
REV. D. A. HOLMES . Pres. Kansas City, Kas. Civic League
G. A. PAGE . Pres. Business League of Greater Kansas City
G. B. BUSTER . Pres. Kansas City, Kas. Forum
DR. M. H. LAMBRIGHT . Pres. Kansas City, Mo. Medical Society
WESTERN UNIVERSITY
BEGINNING MAY 6TH AND EXTENDING TO THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918.
ALLIES SUCCESS
NEGRO SUCCESS
Emmett J. Scott, Assistant to Secretary of War, Predicts.
New Era Will Dawn in Which Negro Will Get Square Deal.
Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to Secretary of War Baker, who has visited ten of the army camps and has made a close study of the Colored troops in training for service "over there," said in his recent address at Hampton Institute:
"Eighty-three thousand and more Colored men are in the camps, under the guidance of black men and under the guidance of white men as well.
"We can see, little by little, how they are responding, just as the boys respond at Hampton to the semi-military training they receive, how their shoulders are going back, and how they are learning the hardest of all lessons—the lesson of obedience.
"In these camps there is a most eager enthusiasm and over-joy usness almost, I might say, to serve their country.
"At least it can be said of us that there is not the slightest suspicion whatever as to whether there are any hyphenates among us.
"It has been true everywhere that there has mounted higher and higher, a patriotism in the breasts of white men and a patriotism as well as in the breasts of Colored men.
"Colored mothers and Colored fathers have sent their sons off, feeling, as the woman felt to whom Lincoln wrote, that they were not making a sacrifice at all, but rather that they were embracing a rare privilege of serving their country.
"Black men everywhere are loyal and patriotic and eager to serve their country. They are asking but one thing of their country—that a square deal and fair play shall be vouchsafed to them.
"There sits in the War Department a man, small of stature though he be, of large and commanding intellect and with a courage surpassing the courage of almost any man I know, who was not afraid to undertake the experiment of a training camp for Colored men and was not afraid to call Colored men to arms.
"I think I can speak advisedly when
I say that this man is determined
that a man who is willing to lay his
life on the altar of his country is
worthy of being promised and having
vouchsafed to him the same promise
and the same reward that is vouchsafed to every other man who is willing to lay down his life for his country. I know that is the spirit of the
CLOSING EXERCISE
AT
WESTERN UNI
BEGINNING MAY 6TH AND EXTENDS
16, 1918.
Monday, May 6, 8 P. M.—Voice Recital.
Tuesday, May 7, 8 P. M.—Orchestra Recital.
Wednesday May 8, 8 P. M.—Graduating
Jones.
Thursday, May 9, 8 P. M.—Exercises by
Sunday, May 12, 3 P. M.—Baccalaurea
Parks, DD.
7:30 P. M.—Address to Religious a
Monday, May 13, 8 P. M.—Class night Ex
Tuesday, May 14, 10 A. M.—Meeting of
Exhibits in all departments.
We have many calls each week for houses and rooms of all descriptions. Why not advertise what you have to rent or sell in this paper which reaches all the colored people in greater Kansas City?
PRICE, 5c.
O D A Y
PAID IN FULL
The following Public Spirited Citizens have Completed their Subscriptions to the Wheatley-Provident Hospital.
The manner in which the subscribers to the Wheatley-Provident Hospital Fund are paying their pledges is extremely gratifying and not only have a great many paid in full but hundreds have paid a large percentage of their pledges and doubtless a very lareg list will be added to the PAID IN FULL COLUMNS at the beginning of the fourth and last call for payments. Since our publication last week the following persons have paid in full the amounts herein designated:
$100.00
Dr. and Mrs. Gideon W. Brown.
First National Bank.
$10.00
Miss Beulah E. Coleman.
$8.00
Mr. John L. Stelle.
$5.00—Mrs. E. Y. Pillow, Mrs. Nora
Dozier, Mr. W, G. Moore, Mrs. Fred
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. David Allen, Mr.
Ed. Hill, Mr. John B. Lucas.
$2.50—Miss Edna Hill.
$1.00—Mrs. Ida Bryant.
Rapid work is being done in the remodeling of the new building and on Sunday afternoon walk one block west from Lincoln High School and inspect
A MEXICAN BRUTE.
A Mexican by the name of Eliseo Torrez at 1920 Grove street, rear, was arrested by Officer Walter Howard on a charge of enticing two little Colored girls, one 11 and one 13, to his room where they were detained two days. He is no win the county jail awaiting trial, and if guilty as alleged, should receive the extreme penalty of the law.
War Department and I know that that is the spirit of the President of the United States.
"In a very real sense we are citizens of this republic. No one can make me feel, as we go out in this great international conflict to make the world safe for democracy and to make democracy safe for the world, that within the triumphant folds of democracy, when it has been achieved for the men of Servia and Rumania, France, Russia and England, and even for the men of Germany, there are not also to be included the men of America—the black no less than the white."
EXERCISES
AT
UNIVERSITY
EXTENDING TO THURSDAY, MAY
1918.
recital.
From Our Foreign Correspondents
A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction
W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master.
C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Dep.
Grand Master.
Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Senior
Grand Warden.
I. H. Bradbury, St. Louis, Mo.
Junior. Grand Warden.
H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., Grand Treasurer.
Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City, Grand Secretary.
Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Relief Secretary.
E. G. Lacey, Kansas City, G. L.
1st District.
E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L.
2nd District.
OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER,
R. A. M.
Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18.
T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quindaro, Kans.
A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jefferson City, Mo.
J. P. Moffett, G. King, Sedalla, Mo.
S. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo.
Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo.
E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas City, Mo.
Missouri and Jurisdiction 1917-18.
W. G. Mosely, R. E. G. C., Kansas City, Mo.
J. W. Beard, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo.
G W. Lewis, E. G. G., St. Louis, Mo.
C. Brassfield, E. G., Captain General, Kansas City, Mo.
W. A. Ashley, E. G. P., St. Louis, Mo.
J. H. Kenner, E. G., Treasurer, Marshall, Mo.
J. T. Cannon, E. G., Recorder, St. Louis, Mo.
George A. Johnson, E. G. S. W. Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin F. Graves, E. G. J. W., St Joseph, Mo.
Lodge Directory
G
MAJOR CITY OF MASONRY
Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and
A. M., meets the 1st and 3rd
Monday in each month. All
Master Masons in good standing
welcome. Emmett Spruell, W. M;
C. H. Countee, Sec'y.
G
WESTMINSTER
and A. M., Liberty, M., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y.
St. Stephens Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, Liberty, Mo. Meets H. H. Robinson, H. M. month, W. H. Robinson, H. P. Wm., Cappa, Recorder.
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St. Matthew Commandery
No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets
the third Saturday night
William Cappa, B. C.; W. H.
Robinson, Rec. Sed'y.
HOC
IN
CONFIDENCE
WITH
THE
MOTHER
E. A. Walker Lodge No
257, U. B. F., meet the 2nd
and 4th Fridays of the month
at 1403 Michigan Ave. on
September, 2000, 210 E. O.
St., W. W., Watkins,
16th, 26th Virginia.
E. A. Walker Lodge No.
257, U. B. F., meets the 2nd
and 4th Fridays of the month
at 1403 Michigan Ave. E. R.
Robbitton, W. M., 1210 E.
16th St. W. W. Watkins
Sec., 1629 Virginia.
MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION
T. G. McCampbell, President.
E. B. Thompson, Vice President.
W. H. Washington, Treasurer.
S. H. P. Edwards, Secretary.
Board of Directors:
N. W. Jordan. S. Myers.
W. H. Brown. E. S. Baker.
W. R. Patterson R. V. Adkins.
B. R. Francis. Richard Harris
Geo. Johnson, R. Fulbright.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday
in each month.
Greenwood Baptist Church, 18th and Terrace.
Clark Chapel M. E. Church, 1664 Madison Avenue.
Betul A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora.
St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St.
Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland.
Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte.
Ten Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte.
Ebenezee A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy.
St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue.
St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview.
Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland.
St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia.
Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost.
Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Ellis Street.
St. James A. M. E. Zion Church, 1823 Woodland Ave.
Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland.
C. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave.
St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St.
St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES.
Church of the Ascension Episcopal-
Third and Stewart, Kansas City, Kans.
First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb.
Eighth St. Baptist Church, 9th and
Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and
Washington.
Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and
Steward Streets.
St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and
State.
First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb.
King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and
State.
Gumardo A. M. E. Church, Guindaro.
Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose-
Mall.
M. E. Church, 8th and Oakland.
Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby.
Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee.
Bethel A. M. E. Church, 106 Kan.
Kan. Baptist Baptist Church, 709 Munce-
land.
Annual Cadet Drill and Girls Physical Training Exhibition Pageant--"The Spirit of 1918"
SEATS----50 Boxes (10 Seats to a box) $5.00 for a box. Boxes reserved only on full payment. (On sale at Lincoln High School)
4,000 Seats--Arena Balcony, 25 cents each (not reserved.)
2,000 Seats--Upper Balcony, 15 cents each (not reserved.)
All prices include war tax
Tickets, except Box Seats, on sale at Paseo Y. M. C. A., at Drug Stores, and also in the hands of High School students
Proceeds above expenses to be added to amount raised last year for a Printing Office
CHILLICOTHE, MO.
Mr. Spencer Holmes and Mr. Scott returned to Des Moines, Ia., after a week's visit with relatives and friends.
...Mr. Ben Montgomery of Kansas City, Mo., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Montgomery last week. ...Mr. John Saunders departed for Hiawatha, Kan., after a visit with his mother, Mrs. Lottie Caswell...Mrs. Hamilton of Kansas City, Mo., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker...Mr. Charley Gilbert of Rockford, Ill., attended the funeral of his cousin last Tuesday...Mrs. Katie Nance of Cedar Rapids, Ia., arrived last Saturday for a month's visit with relatives and friends...Mrs. Edw. Seymour is visiting relatives at Kansas City, Mo....Rve. Britton, a representative of the Industrial Institute at Dalton, Mo., delivered an excellent sermon and address at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday. It is a fact greatly to be deplored that he does not receive the desired hospitality and encouragement from his ministerial brethren....The funeral of Miss Mabel Gilbert who died at Brookfield, Mo., en route to the station accompanied by Mrs. Edw. Gilbert of this city was held from the A. M. E. Church last Tuesday afternoon with Rev. Ward officiating....The twenty-five young women of the Colored branch of the Red Cross collected $135.81 from their tag sale last Saturday....A fifty cent rally was held at the M. Zion Baptist Church last Sunday. Rev. Alford brought to this church not only his gift as a preacher but experiences as a Church Governor and Financier are proved and perfected in his recent efforts....A farewell entertainment was held at
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Annual Cad
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SEATS----50 B
Boxes reserved on
4,000 Seats-
2,000 Seats-
Tickets, except B
Drug Stores, and a
Proceeds
amount
the A. M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon. Patriotic songs were sung and encouraging addresses were delivered by local talent. Free refreshments were served by the members of the Garrison Junior Red Cross Society Monday at 11:30 p. m. and a large and enthusiastic crowd led by our Colored drum corps to the station marched where Benjamin Bland, Hale Ballew, Jessie Montgomery, Monte Green and William Curren departed at 12:30 for Camp Funston.
BUTTE, MONT.
By Jesse H. Smith.
The la grippe wave has about passed over our city now and all the sick are up and out again.....The Hiking Club is at work again making a trip to Big Butte Sunday and while out they visited Mrs. Quarrels and sick daughter, Lottis, holding a prayer meeting which revived the daughter very much. The Sunshine Mission met in the Bethel Baptist Church Wednesday and were entertained by Miss Olive Fenter and sister, Mrs. Walker. All enjoyed the afternoon.....Rev. G. S. Allen has returned to the city, having attended the A. M. E. Conference at Boise, Ida, and he reports a good meeting, both spiritual and financial.....Mrs. Cooper, an old pioneer, who died at Silver Bow last week, was buried Tuesday afternoon from the A. M. E. Church of which she was a member. Rev. A. J. Woodward officiated.....The Easter exercises at both churches by the children were a decided success.....Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee have moved to 12 S. Washington St.....Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Hubbard have gone to housekeeping on East Third street.....Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have moved to 544 W. Broadway street.....Rev. Coleman stopped over in the city
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918.
on his way to conference.....Mrs.
Katie Fagan had the misfortune to
fall down stairs and received a severe
shaking up. She is able to be up at
this writing.....Mrs. Geo. Phelps has
gone to Waterloo to be with her hus-
band, who is working on his ranch.
...Everybody's News Stand carries
all the leading books, papers and
magazines, also stationery, etc.
WEIR. KANS.
By Mrs. A. R. Phillips.
Rev. Dent, the late pastor of the A. M. E. Church, arrived in Weir Mon day....Rev. Thomas leaves for Nebraska where he has been sent from Weir....The St. John Baptist church had a very successful rally Sunday. Rev. J. W. Lavender of Baxter Springs preached in the morning and afternoon. Services were instructed and comforting. Mrs. S. A. Kinnel, Mrs. Beatrice Prentice and pastor F. H. Prentice attended S. E. District Ministers & Deacons Union and Board held at the Maple Street Baptist Church and reported a very successful meeting at Independence, Kans....The U. B. F.'s and S. M. T.'s of Weir will hold their Annual Thanksgiving services on the Fourth Sunday in May. All Lodges and Temples of surrounding towns are invited to turn out with us on that day....The Central School will give their closing exercises Tuesday evening, April 30, 1918....Rev. F. H. Prentice preached the Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday evening.
MARYVILLE, MO.
Mrs. Onie Gunn, Mr. Paul Smith
OLN HIGH SCH
AT
CONVENTION HALL
FRIDAY EV'NG, MAY 10
adet Drill and Gysical Training -- "The Spirit of 500 STUDENTS IN ACTION.
10 Boxes (10 Seats to a box) $5.50
only on full payment. (On sale at 10
Seats--Arena Balcony, 25 cents each
Seats--Upper Balcony, 15 cents each
All prices include war tax
10 Box Seats, on sale at Paseo
and also in the hands of High
needs above expenses to be add
nt raised last year for a Printing
and Mr. Doril Carriger entertained with an elaborate four-course luncheon Thursday night complimentary to the boys who were to leave for Camp Funston. The evening was spent in giving toasts to the boys and dancing....Mr. and Mrs. Anderson entertained complimentary to the drafted and volunteer boys Friday evening with an elaborate luncheon. The evening was spent playing games and in dancing....The Woman Mite Missionary met at the home of Mrs. Henry Wilson Thursday evening. Luncheon was served....Hen. N. C. Crews and Rev. T. G. Campbell set up a chapter R. A. M. and a Commandery K. T. M. While in the city they were the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Smart....Prof. and Mrs. Ernest O. Boone, Jr. had as 12 o'clock dinner guest Saturday Hon. N. C. Crews, Rev. T. G. McCampbell, Mrs. James Palmer....Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer had as 6 o'clock dinner guest Saturday Hon. N. C. Crews, Rev. T. G. McCampbell, Prof. and Mrs. Ernest O'Boone and son....Mrs. J. C. Cook has been ill with a touch of pneumonia....Mrs. Ernest O. Boone, Jr., received a letter from the head of the Home Economics Department in Columbia, Mo., stating that she had been accepted as one of the volunteer trained workers in Home Economics for the conservation of food....Rev. T. G. McCampbell preached at the A. M. E. Church while in the city at both services and through the combined appeal of him and Brother Crews five souls were saved. Prof. Ernest O. Boone, Jr., lifted the collection in the morning and Hon. N. C. Crews at night. The collection for the day amounted to $18.00. We must say that both sermons were great lessons to both the Christians and the Sinners and Maryville awaits the return of Bro. Mc-
Campbell to again awaken the spiritual side of life here. Hon. N. C. Crews made a soul-stirring appeal to bring some souls to Christ. We regret we haven't such intellectual geniuses in our midst all the time for they could by their appeals and examples have Maryville enlisted in the Army of Christian Soldiers. We thank them from our hearts and say again as we have often said before, You both are always WELCOME here.... Mrs. Mattie Williams gave a dinner Sunday complimentary to her grandson, Harry Palmer, who enlisted for war. Those present outside the family were Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mitchell and daughter.....Sunday afternoon Misses Laura and Lucy Williams entertained a few friends complimentary to their nephew, Harry Palmer, who left Monday for Jefferson Barracks.
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The beautiful wedding of Miss Esther Hurst to Sergeant Lawson Holt took place at the Community House. The Rev. Shephard officiating. It was unique and military in every detail. Mrs. Ford sang "Love Here Is My Heart" with Mr. Endell Wilson as accompanist. Mrs. Holt is from a splendid family of Wichita, Kans., while Sergt. Holt is the son of highly respect and wealthy parents of Holtsville, Tenn., which was named for Mr. Holt's father.
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were preached by Rev. L. W. Harris, pastor of the Virginia St. Baptist church, and Presiding Elder M. S. Bryant.....Mr. Nola Reed, of Camp Funston, visited his wife and relatives and returned to the camp Saturday. Mr. Isaac Cropp accompanied him and visited his Grandmother Smith and his aunt, Anna Parson, and other relatives over Sunday.....The patriotic entertainment, given by the Pleasant Hour Club at the Masonic hall, Friday evening, was a great success.....The interesting program rendered by the club members, assisted by Mr. Harry Washington, Royal Bryon, George Washington and John Lee, thrilled the audience and the address, "The Negro Made Good As a Soldier," delivered by Mr. Arthur Sanford, was very interesting.....Dr. Fenton Goodson of Camp Funston visited his parents and other relatives and friends Saturday and returned to the camp Sunday. The doctor has made good.....Rev. A. B. Abbott, of the St. Paul A. M. E. church, preached the baccalaureate sermon for the Lincoln High school graduates Sunday night to a large and appreciative audience, which was very interesting and instructive.....Miss Fay Oliver, of Wichita, Kans, is visiting relatives and friends.....Mr. James Declue of St. Louis is visiting old-time friends.....city visiting her father, who is sick at the residence of her sister, Mrs. P. L. Blackwell. We hope he will improve. We also hope Mrs. Jones a pleasant stay in our city.
BUTTE NEWS
As a spring greeting for the city we are having lots of snow which is not very pleasant at this time of year, it also causes lots of illness. Mr. James Scott of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Frank Gray of Colorado, are in the city for a few days, stopping
at Mrs. Bird's.
Mr. Joseph Brown has returned to the city, having been away on a business trip.
Mr. E. W. Few is spending a few days in Helena.
Mr. L. C. Foreman has quit railroading and is now employed at Colbert's drug store.
Mr. Ganey of Chicago is in the city on his way to Great Falls to remain indefinitely.
The Sunshine Mission met with Mrs. M. Buchannon, Wednesday afternoon, and had an enjoyable time. Lunch was served later.
The ladies of the Red Cross are all feeling very proud as their first work went up for inspection and everything was perfect, it was also the neatest work sent in by any of the first units.
Game Woods is quite ill at their home.
Mr. Harry Pugh, an old resident of this city, died Wednesday morning at his rooms, in the Penn block, after a lingering illness. He will be buried from the Bethel Baptist church, Sunday, at 2 o'clock, under the auspices of the Masons. Rev. E. B. Reed will officiate. He leaves a wife and stepdaughter to mourn.
Mr. William F. Bland left for the coast for a few weeks to improve in health.
Mrs. Ollie Hatton, mother of Bennie Reddick, died Monday, April 22d, in Anaconda, of pneumonia. She soon followed her son in death, he being buried on Saturday, April 20th.
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prepared on short notice. Canned soups are another available dish. A white sauce with fish, flesh or fowl or almost any vegetable, cold cooked eggs or macaroni will make a good main dish.
A omelet is always welcome and the housewife who keeps herself well supplied with eggs need not worry if she knows how to prepare a fluffy, tasty omelet.
A half a cupful of rice may be browned in a little butter, then water added to cook it, and when tender strir in two or three eggs with a little milk or cream with seasonings. This will taste like scrambled eggs with use of half the number.
For dessert one may always call upon the preserve closet, and with a cracker or small sponge cake or piece of fruit cake with a hot drink, the dessert is easy. If a stale cake is in one's possession, steam it and make a sauce of a cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of flour well blended, and just enough boiling water to cook the mixture until smooth, then add a nice lump of butter, a grating of nutmeg, and a tablespoonful or two of good vinegar, with a pinch of salt. Serve the sauce hot as well as the steamed cake.
Another quick dessert is called "Fifteen Minute Pudding," and is one every housewife should know how to prepare. Take a cupful of flour, sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder, a little salt and a cup of milk. Put into greased cups with a layer of any juicy fruit like cherries in between the spoonfuls of batter. Steam 15 minutes in a dish of boiling water. Serve with cream.
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SAVORY, SATISFYING DISHES.
The conscientious housewife who is trying to fulfill the requirements of her food pledge is often much puzzled to plan a well-balanced meal. Spring Soup.—Peel and thinly slice one onion and cook in a tablespoonful of butter for five minutes, stirring constantly, then add four cupfuls of chicken broth, with one cupful of stale bread crumbs. Bring to the boiling point and let simmer 45 minutes, then rub through a sieve and add a cupful of milk. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two of flour and stir until well blended, then pour on gradually while stirring constantly the boiling hot stock. Add a cupful of cream or a beaten egg with a cupful of milk. Season well with salt and pepper and serve piping hot.
Oatmeal Scrapple.—Boll two pounds of flank steak until tender, put it through a meat grinder. To the liquor of the beef add a pint of oatmeal, boll for half an hour, then mix with the meat, season with pepper and salt, and mold in a bread pan. Fry the slices in hot fat until deep brown.
Prune Ice Cream.—Soak a cupful of prunes in water to cover overnight. Cook in the same water until tender, remove the stones and put the pulp through a strainer. Add a cupful of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and $1\frac{1}{4}$ cupfuls of cream. Freeze and serve garnished with nut meats. The juice of two oranges may be used in place of the lemons, making a pleasing variety.
Creamed Sardines.—Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter, add one-fourth of a cupful of soft bread crumbs, add one cupful of cream and bring to the boiling point; add one box of sardines, two cooked eggs finely chopped, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a few dashes of paprika. Reheat and serve on narrow strips of buttered toast.
Doughnuts that have become dry may be dipped in cold water and reheated in the oven, making them quite palatable.
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Strange Fate of a Clock.
The Germans have tried many unsuccessful expedients to catch progressive Father Time and force him back into his medieval trappings, which they believe to be still in fashion.
When the picturesque old church at Ettrillers fell before the enemy's artillery, though the shell of the symbolically sacred structure was absolutely ruined, the clock escaped destruction.
Now it forms the front wall of a British Tommy's hut which is perched in front of the sheltering pile of debris. Time is with the Allies.—Popular Science Monthly.
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We should be keerful how we encarridge luxuries. It is but a step forward from hoe cake to plum puddin', but it's a mile and a half by the nearest road when we have to go back again.—Josh Billings.
A FEW PRETTY SALADS.
The combination of light green found in the cucumber, and the rich red of the ripe tomato makes a said most alluring. Small tomatoes may be peeled and cut in the form of a tullip with a bit of yellow mayonnaise for the center; placed on head lettuce, they look
like a flower.
A pretty way to serve cucumber is to peel it, then pare in rounds as one does an apple, keeping the pieces as long as possible. Wind in rose shape, place a spoonful of mayonnaise in the center and if placed on lettuce or a slice of tomato will prove both pleasing to the eye and the palate.
Chopped cucumber with onion used as a filling for tomato cups, the filling mixed with a good boiled dressing or any kind of oil dressing, is another good combination well liked.
Green Pepper With Cheese.—Cut green peppers in halves, removing the seeds and white pulp, then fill with highly seasoned cream cheese which has been softened with cream; a few chopped chives may be added. The peppers are set away to chill, and when ready to serve cut them in slices. The slice will have a ring of the pretty green or red of the pepper around the cheese.
Tomato and Pineapple Salad.—Peel shapely small tomatoes and cut in eighths, keeping it together at the blossom end. Open out like a flower and fill the center with chopped pineapple and celery and dot with a spoonful of yellow mayonnaise just before serving. Slices of radish with slices of onion of the same size in overlapping slices make a pretty garnish for a plain lettuce or head lettuce salad.
Head Lettuce With Peanuts—Take a half cupful of nice fresh peanuts, roll with the rolling pin until crushed like crumbs. Sprinkle these over head lettuce that has been dressed with a highly seasoned French dressing with a tablespoonful of onion added to it.
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Pastry may be made by using barley flour without any wheat flour. Proceed as with any pastry. The mixture will be a little more difficult to handle, but it makes very good pastry. Baking powder biscuit may also be made, using barley flour
pastry. The mixture will be a little more difficult to handle, but it makes very good pastry. Baking powder biscuit may also be made, using barley flour exclusively, with a little larger proportion of baking powder.
Molasses Cookies—Take a half-cupful each of sugar, molasses and vegetable fat, melt and mix together; cool; add one cupful of sour or butter milk, one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour, one cupful of barley flour, a teaspoonful each of soda, baking powder, ginger, allspice, cloves and salt. Mix well and set in the ice box until stiff and cold. Roll out quickly and cut before the mixture becomes too soft to handle.
Camp Pudding—Put a pint of stale bread crumbs with a pint of milk in a saucepan to soak for half an hour; add a half-cupful of honey, one egg well beaten, a few gratings of nutmeg; mix well and bake until the pudding is set in the center. Serve hot with honey or maple sirup.
Oatmeal Sweetbits—Cream one cupful of sugar with a teaspoonful of fat; add the yolks of two eggs well beaten, two and one-half cupfuls of rolled oats mixed with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and when well blended fold in the well-beaten whites of the eggs with a teaspoonful of vanilla. Drop on a baking sheet with a teaspoon and bake in a slow oven, allowing plenty of room for the cakes to spread.
Potato Coffee Cake—Take two cupfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of fat, one-third of a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, a fourth of a cupful of skim milk, a half yeast cake and cinnamon or grated lemon peel for flavoring. Melted fat and sugar with a few chopped nuts may be usd to spread over the top just before baking.
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The housewife who is at all efficient, trys to have something that may
something that may be drawn upon for an emergency when the unexpected guest or "three were invited here come nine," which will sometimes happen in the best regulated neighborhoods. A cream
be drawn upon for an emergency when the unexpected guest or "three were invited here come nine," which will sometimes happen in the best regulated neighborhoods. A cream soup with crackers or crotons will make a good beginning for any meal after breakfast or if broth of any kind is at hand a variety of soups may be
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HAT the United States is already invaded, not by Germans, it is true, but by their effective allies, and that a great host of these are intrenched in the grain fields is an assertion hard to believe at first, but it is nevertheless strictly true, for the clinch bug is pro-German in our present war, the Hessian fly is still Hessian, and the army worm is an ally of the German army. Our duty of helping to feed our fighting friends being paramount, that of protecting and defending the food supplies we produce is as essential as their production.
As a matter of fact, incurring the expense of producing crops and then letting them fall a prey to our insect enemies is worse than not producing them at all, and the official entomologists of the different states are being mobilized for special service in crop protection. These men are but a handful, however—not enough for an efficient patrol—and so they are calling upon the people for such assistance as they can easily give by keeping watch for the common enemy and reporting the first traces of his appearance in numbers sufficient to threaten serious injury.
What these field insects are capable of in the way of crop destruction is fairly well known, and what the farmer may do for the protection of his crops can best be intrusted to the hands of various state entomologists, whose business it is by bomb, gas and other means to kill these allies of the foe.
Consider two fields of corn, both lying next to heavily infested fields of wheat. One is protected by a circle of oil about its borders. The other is unprotected. The unprotected corn is entered by the insects without hindrance as the ripening of the wheat deprives them of food, and a large part of the corn is destroyed, as shown by the part of the field laid bare next to the wheat. In the other field not a hill of corn is hurt. The road oil poured upon the ground in a line between it and the infested wheat catches the bugs which seek to pass.
Millions Lost In Small Area.
By a somewhat general use of such methods and similar materials in twenty-five southwestern counties of a middle Western state where, during a clinch bug uprising last summer, more than 1,500 miles of barrier were laid down between corn and infested wheat, $1,000,000 worth of corn was saved from destruction at a total cost to the owners of less than $50,000 and of some $10,000 to the state. On the other hand, wheat, oats and corn worth at least $13,000,000 more were lost during the same period for lack of sufficiently general and thoroughgoing action.
Owing to a consequent scarcity of feed many farmers were unable to keep up their stock, and in four infested counties, selected as a sample district for study in comparison with another group of counties not infested, the number of dairy cows fell off in four years 7.4 per cent; beef cattle, 21.5 per cent; hogs, 15 per cent; and horses, 27 per cent. The total sum of this reduction in numbers of the live stock of the four sample counties, due solely to the presence of the clinch bug, was $1,053,318. Trade, banking, education, professional incomes and every kind of business and civic interest naturally suffered from this staggering blow to the agriculture of the region.
Greatest Damage to Corn.
The clinch bug does greatest damage to corn. The adult or full-grown bug is black and about one-eighth of an
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THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918
German Allies in American Fields
Ravages of Cinch Bug shown. Plant at left not attacked; plant at right attacked. By ROBERT H. MOULTON. HAT the United States is already invaded, not by Germans, it is true, but by their effective allies, and that a great host of these are intrenched in the grain fields is an assertion hard to believe at
Greatest Damage to Corn.
Hessian Fly, Cinch Bug and Army Worm Ready For Offensive
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Digging ditch to trap marching army worms. Pests crushed by dragging log back and forth through ditch.
Inch in length, and usually bears conspicuous white wings folded over its back. The young ones are bright red and wingless. The old bugs live over the winter hidden among clumps of wild grasses, especially those known as the "broom sedges," which grow abundantly in uncultivated places throughout the greater portion of the main wheat belt of the United States.
It is the usual habit of the clinch bug first to attack fields of wheat, rye, or barley, and its presence often is unnoticed because the injuries inflicted upon these crops are obscure or of no apparent importance. About harvest time the bugs leave the small grains and crawl over the surface of the ground to the nearest fields of corn, where they begin at once to wreak severe injury.
also be taken that the sowing of in the fall is delayed until the fl date, information regarding which can be obtained by applying to county agricultural agents or sta perimental stations. Finally, a rotation of crops should be pra wherever possible, and the cotion of the entire community se in following these preventive ures.
Daily Action Is Necessary
The army worm, known as a p the farmer from early colonial and the locusts or grasshoppers multiply under favorable condition numbers sufficient to devour areas of both grain and forage. Both may be killed easily if att in time by sowing broadcast
Corn fields may be protected and the migrating bugs trapped about the time of wheat harvest by plowing a deep furrow along the edge of the field, running the land side of the plow toward the field to be protected. In dry weather the side of the furrow can be made so smooth and the sides so steep that the bugs will find it easier to crawl along the bottom than to climb up the sides. Circular holes from 30 to 40 feet apart, made with a post-hole digger, then may be dug in the bottom of the trench. Into these holes the bugs will fall in large numbers, and here they may be killed easily by sprinkling kerosene oil over them. In wet weather a line of liquid tur or crude petroleum, which the bugs will not cross, may be maintained in the furrow bottom.
Hessian Fly Is Old Foe.
Another notorious insect whose function it is, in the order of nature, to take bread out of our mouths is the Hessian fly, so called because Hessian soldiers, hired from their sovereign by King George III, were believed to have brought it over from Europe during the revolutionary war. This pest gives its attention almost wholly to wheat, upon which it levies an average annual tax of approximately 10 per cent. Experts figure that sixty million bushels was the shortage in the 1917 wheat crop of the country which may be charged up to this insect. And its members, increasing year by year, have deterred many farmers from sowing wheat, notwithstanding the rapidly rising market prices.
The Hessian fly is a minute mosquitolike fly which lays its eggs upon the leaves of wheat. These eggs hatch into little maggots which crawl down into the leaf sheaths. There they live upon the plant's sap which they obtain by gnawing into the soft portions of the stem. Usually two, but sometimes three or more, generations of the insect occur during a year.
After the Hessian fly has once thoroughly infested the crop of wheat there is no known means of saving it, and the only known means of preventing damage from the fly is to keep it out of the wheat.
The remedies for the Hessian fly are, therefore, entirely preventive. One is to plow down the wheat stubble immediately after harvest in order to destroy the maggots which remain in it. This is for the protection of future crops. Another is to pay great attention to the preparation of the seedbed for the wheat by blowing early and working and packing the soil thoroughly in order to eliminate lumps and clods, thus producing a finely pulverized, compact, and moisture-conserving bed for the seed. Care should announce the appearance of certain stars in each of the constellations as they appeared above the horizon. As there are twelve of these constellations from which the zodiacal signs take their names, it can readily be seen that each twelfth part of the starry host passed over the horizon every two hours.
Now let us consider the ancient observer as he sits in his tower with his face to the east. The sun had set, and darkness is coming on. Low in the eastern sky he
also be taken that the sowing of wheat in the fall is delayed until the fly-free date, information regarding which date can be obtained by applying to local county agricultural agents or state experimental stations. Finally, a good rotation of crops should be practiced wherever possible, and the co-operation of the entire community secured in following these preventive measures.
Daily Action Is Necessary.
The army worm, known as a pest of the farmer from early colonial times, and the locusts or grasshoppers often multiply under favorable conditions to numbers sufficient to devour great areas of both grain and forage crops. Both may be killed easily if attacked in time by sowing broadcast among them a poisoned food which they prefer to the grain and grass plants on which they naturally feed. But this method requires, as a rule, early notice of the impending calamity, prompt organization of the communities concerned for self-defense and general arrangements for the quick supply of all the necessary materials in wholesale quantities—all measures for which careful preparation must be made in advance.
In case the worms are not discovered until they have begun to travel in a mass, usually they can be destroyed by burrowing or ditching completely around the infested area. The worms will fall into the ditches and can be killed easily by crushing them with a log—hitched to a horse or mule—dragged back and forth through the ditch or furrow. Another method is to dig shallow postholes in the bottom of the ditch at intervals of about 20 feet, into which the worms, crawling along the ditch bottoms, will fall. They can then be destroyed by crushing or other means.
Fighting the Cutworm.
The cutworm injury, which usually consists in the cutting off the plants at or a little below the surface of the ground, almost invariably occurs in the spring, beginning as soon as the first plants sprout and continuing until late June or early July, by which time the worms are full grown. The worms feed at night and rest during the day beneath debris or in the soil from one-half to one inch below the surface, and since in most cases they resemble the soil closely in color the cause of the injury often is not apparent. Polished baits are effective when cutworms are found to be abundant on corn land, but proper rotation of crops is the best preventive measure. Pasturing hogs upon land supposed to harbor cutworms is a beneficial practice, as these animals root up and devour insects of many kinds, including cutworms, in large numbers. Farm poultry, allowed to follow the plow, is also of great value.
A billion dollars a year on the average is sacrificed to insects in the United States, according to careful computations and estimates made by the experts of the national department of agriculture. It is a prize worth fighting for, especially in these times of threatened scarcity of food. But individual guerrilla fighting to which this interest has been left in the past will no longer suffice—has never sufficed, in fact. Carefully planned campaigns by organized communities, participated in by everyone so situated as to be available, directed by experts and financed so far as necessary by the state, are the only means to success.
sees a brilliant star which he recognizes as belonging to one of the original groups. He calls the time indicated by the appearance of this star and then at intervals announces the hour of night by the appearance of other stars on the horizon. This ancient custom persisted through long ages. Even after the invention of clocks and watches old communities in Europe and the United States employed watchmen whose duty it was to make the rounds and call the hours of night.
Are Economizing On Dressmaking
New York.—A man who likes statistics has given out a statement that more spools of thread have been sold since America went into war than ever before in its history. This is taken to indicate that there is an important revival of home dressmaking. It is difficult to prove this condition of affairs, a prominent fashion correspondent writes, but the spools of thread are good enough evidence that the women on this continent are employing semnstresses to make new gowns for them or to alter old ones. And they are also doing their own sewing.
On the other hand, the shops insist that the sale of ready-to-wear garments has been immensely stimulated by the war. Women who are giving their time to war relief work are willing and anxious to get costumes with the least possible expenditure of vitality to themselves, and this can be achieved through the ready-to-wear departments.
Those who keep shops also claim that women of small means are buying better materials and paying more for their clothes than they have ever done in the history of American commerce in apparel.
Those who think out the situation say that this is due to the employment of thousands of women in new ways. Instead of these women purchasing cheap, tawdry things, they add $10 or $15 to the price of a costume and buy a gown that gives steady service.
America Haa Done Her Part.
The one outstanding episode in the interesting and important movement of spring clothes, is the immense stride in designing that America has taken.
All that has gone before was experimental, but this spring the clothes are good. They make no pretention of changing the silhouette as laid down by the Paris designers; the only drastic revolution in silhouette which has been attempted by this country, took place last summer, when the nar-
THE FASHION OF THE 1920S
Doeuillet of Paris builds a black satin evening gown into something extraordinary by using tinkling strings of jet from shoulder to knees. The Egyptian girdle is of velvet.
row skirt which pulled upward from the knees to the back and finished with a bustle effect at the end of the spine, was thrown into the arena of clothes. It not only won out, although it was the work of one designer, but it coincides entirely with the clothes that Paris sent over last month.
This season the two countries go hand in hand. The silhouette is the same—narrow, with floating draperies. Take that one condition as the foundation stone and then build as you please is the slogen given to every woman.
American Designs Preferred.
One is immensely proud of American clothes this spring. Our designers have had the courage to show them in connection with the French gowns, and it is easily proved that in several important houses the American woman chooses her entire spring wardrobe from American designs, rather than French ones.
One of the reasons for this is that Paris has not laid unusual stress upon the tallored costume, and the American woman had reverted to it. She wants to appear in a simple but distinguished costume when she is in the
street. The American tailoring is the best in the world, and the American designer contrives to get the best effect out of tailored material, whether he is making a frock or a coat suit. France does not care for such clothes, her women wear them only under protest, and there is always a sash, or a piece of embroidery, or an unusual addition of lingerie, or a
THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Bias tunic is a chosen drapery. It is shown in this gown by Premet of Paris, in biscuit-colored garbardine with deep collar of brown faille. It is soutached with brown braid.
bizarre splash of something that changes the mannish severity of the American national costume into something with coquetry that melts into the personality of the French women.
Seeing their opportunity and grasping it as they have never done before, the American tailoring establishments have worked wonders. They have kept to the government's request for the elimination of wool as far as possible, and they have achieved costumes that are eminently fitting and distinguished on the American figure, and for the personality of the American woman. More power to them!
The severity that America lays down for us in the morning is easily changed into a floating gracefulness as laid down by France for the late afternoon and evening.
It is yet to be seen whether America will go in extensively for afternoon gowns, according to the French custom, but there is one thing of which we are quite certain; if the American woman likes an afternoon gown, she will wear it through the evening, unless some formality of entertainment demands a more ornamental frock.
France has cut her silhouette as elim as the American designer has cut it for tailored costumes, but France gives a note of the First Empire in the seductive way in which she drapes this narrow foundation with floating, transparent material.
The trick is not confined to house costumes; it plays a good role in street gowns also, in a modified and demure manner. A tunic of Georgette crepe, for example, will be dropped over a slim underslip of silk or satin, and the sleeves will float away from the arms and come back suddenly to the wrists, where they are tightly caught in. But this gown will not be accepted by the American woman for the street.
There is a strong note of economy struck in these new French clothes, which is heard by the woman who is hiring a seamstress to build up her spring wardrobe at home. It shows the way to alter old gowns into new ones. The majority of women own evening frocks that have good foundations, the skirts a trifle too full, it is true, but otherwise ready to serve as the beginning of a new frock. The alteration in the skirt is a simple one. It consists of straightening out all the seams, so that there is no flare from the hips down.
(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Drapery seems to be the order of the latest spring fashions.
Smart military frocks are very much in evidence for children.
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(All that its name implies)
23 WEST 13th STREET
The best place in Kansas City for a Clean, Whole-
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Special Dinner and Lunch at Noon
for those employed down town
MRS. PEARL RILEY, MARTIN YOUNG
Manager Proprietor
‘We have spent $10,000 remodeling the TULLIS COURT
FLATS at Highth and Jefferson; steam heat, electric lights,
gas, water, bath and janitor service; large, light, airy, cheer.
ful rooms; new paper throughout. Some apartments have two
large rooms and bath, some have three rooms and bath; all
new plumbing in bathrooms. Remember, WE FURNISH
WATER AND STEAM HEAT AND JANITOR; rent only
$12.50 and $15.00 for small flats; large 8-room flats, $40.00
month, fine for roomers; fine, high, healthy location, walking
distance to dowuatown and all west bottoms. See these at once
and phone
BOTH PHONES, MAIN 3207, or call 215 R. A. LONG BLDG.
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EDITORIAL.
‘The principals of the Attucks, Gar-
risoh and Lincoln schools have en-
tered into a very sensible agreement
to simplify seventh grade graduating
exercises. No flowers or presents are
to be given to pupils while upon the
stage, it being pointed out that the
quantity of such tokens by no means
indicates the merits of the pupil and
is frequently embarrassing to chil-
dren with more brains than relatives.
Friends of the Wheatley-Provident
should not become impatient over the
apparent delay in getting into the new
Duilding. The work of remodeling the
interior, installing new heating and
sanitary apparatus and other neces-
sary equipment is now under way and
if all subscriptions are promptly paid
up the new hospital will soon be at
the service of the community. The
public is invited to call and inspect
the preparations being made.
Prin. Joe E. Herriford’s article “Our
Careless Parents',” published in The
Sun two weeks ago, is still the sub-
ject of much favorable comment
among the thinking people of this and
other cities. If the stimulating of this
sentiment amounts to anything “the
little fast girlie” is to be more close-
ly watched hereafter. And the closer,
the better. Her little innocent night
parties, her picture show chummings
and her Sunday afternoon strolls are
the strong points to watch.
‘The many petitions and protests be-
ing sent to President Wilson concern-
ing the recent Camp Funston race seg:
regation order may not result in the
removal of the General as some have
demanded but they will at least indi.
cate to the American people the grow:
ing disgust of patriotic Negroes to-
ward the senseless practice of trying
to mix race hatred with love of coun-
try. Such is a poor stimulus for the
Black Man who is soon to face the
cannon of Prussian tyranny.
Incident to the opening of the soda
season, on the service tables at the
People’s Drug Store on last Sunday
appeared the season's menu of sodas
to be served at that place. The at-
tractiveness of the folder in question
aroused an acute sense of appreciation
on the part of Ye Editor for the real
art displayed by the printer who
handled the job. Our interest gath-
ered the inquiry of who did the work?
(since modesty had evidently pre-
cluded the use of customary imprint).
‘When told that the Commercial Print-
ing establishment of Arthur W. Harris
was wholly responsible, that sense of
pride that all true men and women
of the race have for their own who
are truly masters in their line was in
stantly revived. And The Sun has nc
hesitancy in branding this piece of
work as a “typographical confection.’
Another demonstration that “Art” is
a master of the preservation of art,
FOR RENT—Two rooms, furnished
and unfurnished, 1512 Park Ave.
WANTED—Children to care for by
the day or week. 1504 East Tenth
street, Bell Phone East 1147-J.
| WANTED—Barber to take charge
of shop or will rent same cheap to
desirable party. N. Smith, 910 EB. 12
street.
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, mod-
ern, Bell Phone East 4852J. Gale
Alexander, 2504 Buclid.
FOR RENT — Nicely furnished
rooms, 2120 Woodland avenue, or call
Bell phone East 3962W.
FOR RENT—Modern furnished
room in private family. 2746 Wood-
land avenue. Mrs, Flowers. it
FOUND—A Lady's Silk Glove on
26th street. Call at The Sun office.
WANTED—A Boy 16 or 17 years
old to help on ice wagon. See Salis-
bury, 2414 Highland Ave.
FOR SALE—at 1018 Euclid avenue,
six-room house with basement and
barn in rear. Persons desiring to buy
can call and see same at 6 p.m. any,
day. |
FOR RENT—Three nice rooms, 708 |
E 17th St, Bell Phone Grand 3623-W.
FOR RENT—Partly furnished, $16
per month; one first floor side-hill
apartment in Alpha Flat, 22d and
‘Paseo, Four rooms and bath with
south window in each. Gas and elec-
‘tricity. Water paid, Home Phone
Linwood 70.
Ind, BURTCH INVESTMENT CO.
| HELP WANTED,
| If in need of work call the Afro-
| American Investment Employment Co.,
|1510 Bast 18th street. We can supply
|you with any kind of a job. Phones:
Bell, East 782; Home, East 802.
HELP WANTED.
We have jobs open as follows:
House maids—6.$00 to $8.00 per week.
General housework—$6.00 to $10.00
per week. Laundresses $2.10 per day.
Men for houseclaning 35 cnts per
hour,
Southside Employment Agency,
Bell phone Grand 4204, Home phone
Delaware 950.—Indef.
COLORED BARGAINS.
| 2629 Buelia Avenue—Five (5) roon
brick cottage, nice yard, fine neigh
borhood; price $2,300; $100 down, $18
per month.
1615 Euclid Avenue—Five (5) room
modern brick cottage,. $2,250; $100
down, $20 per month,
1912-14 East 14th Street—Twenty-
two (22) rooms, strictly modern,
pressed brick, slate roof, arranged for
roomers or two (2) separate familes,
Price $6,000; reasonable terms to re-
liable party. Call for Johnston, East
802 Home; East 782 Bell
And many other good bargains.
FOR RENT—THE SUN DESIRES
TO CALL ATTENTION OF ENTER-
PRISING business men and women of
the race desiring a first class and up-
to-date location in Kansas City, Mo.,
to the large, airy, modern storeroom
in the Masonic Temple at 18th and
Woodland avenue, where thousands of
people of the race pass every day and
night in the year. It is being newly
‘painted and decorated bwy the Board
‘of Managers and can be rented by re
sponsible persons at a very low rental.
‘It you have a business worth while
‘or contemplate going in. business tc
make a success, consider this splen
| did location and seize it at once.
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918.
Negro Business and | ane . reat
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Professional Directory oa.
of Greater Kansas City | BE 4
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BAKERIES,
MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 2331 Vine street.
Bell phone, Bast 5017.
HOME BAKERY. Mrs, A. Compton,
Prop. 1717 B. 18th street.
BEAUTY PARLORS AND MAIR
DRESSERS.
MRS. BERTHA McCAMEY, Poro Hair
Dresser, 818 East Tenth St. Bell
Phone, Main 4756.
‘M. B, JACKSON'S WONDERFUL
HAIR PREPARATIONS, 1913 East
10th St, Bell Phone East 4732-W.
MRS. CORA D; WILLIAMS, Poro Hair
Dresser, 1819 Euclid Ave. Bell
| phone, East 4898,
MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1704 Paseo,
Poro Hair Dresser. Bell phone,
Grand 4035-W.
| Poro Hairdressing, Singueing, Mant-
‘curing and Facial Massage. Instruc-
‘tions. Mrs. Hattie Wiley, 329 Parallel
javenue, Kansas City, Kans., Bell West |
2378 W.
| CAFES. |
| MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 Hast 12th,
| Bell Phone, B. 2214,
| COAL COMPANIES.
| PAYNE COAL CO., 1902 Vine Street.
|W. W. Payne, Prop. Phones, Home
| Bast 4132, Bell East 559.
|
FLORISTS.
| CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO,, 1501 E.
at eae ae are
| LAWYERS.
‘|. A, SHACKLEFORD, Attorney-at
| “Law, 511 Minnesota Avenue, Kan.
sas City, Kans. Bell Phone West
| see,
Nes H, CALLOWAY, N. W. cor 12th and
-| Highland. Home phone East 2850
| Bell phone East 4648. Practices ir
| all courts.
r
W. C. HUESTON, N. W. cor 12th an¢
"| Highland, Home phone East 2850
°| Bell phone East 4648. Legal advice
Practices in all courts.
| JEWELERS.
4. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street
n| Kansas City, Mo, Bell phone, Mat
+} 6248R,
‘|
| PHOTOGRAPHERS.
n|J. E, MILLER STUDIO, 1622 Has
0 Highteenth street. Bell phone, B, 91
.| REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT
,| COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT
‘| CO. Solomon Smith, Pres. 212:
.| Vine St. Bell Phone, Hast 1011
-| Home Phone, East 4011.
tH. L. KINSLER, 818 East ‘Twenty
| first street. Bell phone, Grané
| 4204s
;| SHOE STORE,
AG A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E
t| Eighteenth street. Pell phone, Eas
| 1328,
‘| SHOE REPAIRING.
1 ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP
¢| J.C. Banks, Prop., 1514% East Bigh
| teenth street. Bell phone East 4939
y UNDERTAKERS.
‘| ADKINS BROS., Nineteenth and Vin
| streets, Both Phones, East 4349,
: East 4349.
‘o| H. B. MOORE, 1104 Independence ave
.| nue. Bell phone Main 3398W. Hom
phone Main 341,
| | WATKINS BROS,, 1729 Lydia avenu
Bell phone Grand 987, Home Mai
7989. Res., Bell! Kast 2281.
|BIG COLE EIGHT SOCIETY car
| Plenty of room for seven peopl
| Don't crowd in small cars with recl
\less drivers, See Kansas City by da
or night, with the man of the hour an
| ne car of the minute, One of th
AES SR HF eX
The opening of the Tullis Court
Apartments on West Eighth street to
Colored tenants is a distinct stride in
racial advancement in this city and no
doubt these apartments will be eager:
ly seized by those desiring modern,
elegant and up-to-date housing facill-
ties. The agent, Mr. Beck, is to be
commended for this consideration
given our people in this city,
Peewee cee eseeeeee
° NEW LOCATION, *
* W.C, Hueston—c. H. Calloway *
* We desire to announce to our *
* clients, friends and the public °
* in general our removal to our *
* new offices located at North- *
* west Corner 12th and Highland *
* Avenue, where we will be *
* pleased to see you, .
* — Home Phone Bast 2850; Bell *
* Phone East 4648. °
+ HURSTON & CALLOWAY, *
St Attorneys at Law. *
ale hie ena ees tay. *
When in need of the services of an undertaker,
you expect one who will respond in & ssn
quiet, sober and dignified manner,
One who will relieve you of the cares
and worry that you usually undergo
in time of bereavement.
Such efficient and unexcelled serv-
ice can be had by applying to
2220 Vine St., or ’phoneing E.
3336, either ‘phone, for
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—That every fellow you meet wants
to “go in business” since the election.
Well, be careful boys.
—That the man who boasts that
he understands a woman fools nobody
but himself.
—That two certain society lal
are vieing with each other to show)
the public which of their husbands
makes the most money. Allright, go
to it, sisters,
—That a “hubby” came home one
night this week minus all his clothes
save his overcoat. He told “wifey”
‘he'd been “by” the lodge. Must have
gone “by” in a hurry, eh
—That when a certain Cullud gen-
tleman was asktd to buy a Liberty
Bond the other day, he asked the com-
mittee: “Can I hock it?” They re-
plied in the affirmative. He bought
two,
—That a well known man about
town has expressed himself as being
more willing to go to war than marry
a very popular woman to whom he has
been engaged for sometime. Can you
beat it?
—That a lady told her husband the
other night to “get ready” as some
friends were gofng to call later in the
evening; but when the door bell rang,
and husband went to the door, it was
a couple of cops with a warrant for
husband = for non-support. They
proved to be the most unwelcome
friends husband had ever met.
—That an elderly Colored lady call-
ed at a newspaper office the other day
and upon being asked her mission, she
said, “I wants to put dis ad in yoh
Papah, please; I wants it jes like it is
written heah.” Upon investigation
the clerk found the ad to read:
WANTED TO FIND:—Somebody who
will take a great burden off my hands
in the person of my ole man kase the
good Lawd don’ see fit to answer my
prayers.
NOTICE.
This is to announce that Alfred
Rivers has resigned his position as
manager of the Afro-American Em-
ployment Co. For good positions at
‘best wages, call the Afro-American In-
vestment & Employment Company,
Phones Bell East 782; Home Bast 802.
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INTER-SCHOOL. TRACK MEET
Among all Colored Schools of
Kansas City, Kansas
AT HEATHWOOD PARK
1 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918
900 Boys and Girls. Admission 10 cents.
(Take Tenth Street Car or the Chelsea Car to Park)
DR. W. W. CALDWELL, Starter,
DR. HOWARD M, SMITH, Referee,
PROF, C. R. WESTMORELAND,
Head Judge of Finish.
THE ATHENAEUM ART CLUB
will give its
ANNUAL EXHIBIT ANDIDANCE
Monday Night, May 13
AT LYRIC HALL
Admission 25 cents Original Imperial Orchestra
A prize of $2.50 will be given to the President of the club having larg-
Have you ever tried the Spotless
Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best
Piacse in town to eat?
Prof. E. J, Hawkins of Ft. Scott
spent week-end in the city.
Roland Bruce, brilliant violinist,
will be home on May 20 and will give
& recital at Allen Chapel. |
Mr. Geo. W, Smith, 1408 EB. 19th
street, received a communication that
his son, Earl Smith, had arrived safe
ly in France.
Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Betts of Okla-
homa City are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
David Allen at 2313 Highland avenue.
‘They will be here eight or ten days.
Mrs. Parry Grear and Master Tatt
Angel of 918 ine street left Tuesday
night for their future home, Bowling
Green, Ky.
Mrs. M. Fisher left for Chicago,
Ill, May 1 to make her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Izetta Griffen, of 3406
South Park avenue, Chicago, Il,
Mr, and Mrs. Robert J. Hendrick-
son announce the birth of a son Sat-
urday, April 20, to whom they have
given the name Allan Eugene.
ELITE ART CLUB.
By Anna E. Young, Secretary.
Hlite Art Club and its guests were
entertained last Thursday evening by
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ray at their resi-
dence, $25 Troup avenue, Kansas
City, Kans.
The early hours were spent at
Whist, after which a table was spread,
upon which gleamed a delightful re-
past. Covers were laid for twenty
and Mr. and Mrs, Ray showed by the
tempting menu prepared that they
knew what real service meant. The
Club voted @ hearty thanks to Mr.
and Mrs, Ray for having made it pos
sible for them to spend such a pleas.
ant evening with their guests and they
may rest assured their hospitality will
not be forgotten.
IN MEMORIAM,
In loving remembrance of my dear
mother, Amelia Gibbs, who died one
year ago, May 1, 1917:
She was my dear friend—I had but
her, no more,
‘No other upon earth—and as for
heaven,
1 am as they that seek a sign,
‘To whom no sign is given.
My Mother! Oh, my Mother!
ROY C. GIBBS.
ANNUAL PATRONS DAY AT
LINCOLN.
Annual Patrons Day at Lincoln
School will be held all afternoon next
Thursday, May 9. There will be a
continuous outdoor program and an
exhibit of pupils’ work inside. The
school cafeteria will supply luncheon
and the pupils’ orchestra will dis-
course music to further enliven the
occasion. These affairs at Lincoln
are always worth while and everybody
is invited to be present, bit
CARD OF THANKS.
‘We wish to thank our many thanks
and neighbors for the loving kindness
to us in our great loss of our beloved
wife and beloved Mrs. Winnie McDan-
iel; also for their expressions of sym-
pathy shown in the beautiful floral
offerings.—J. W. McDaniel and daugh.
ters, Myrtle, Viola, Pansy and Doro-
thy, ‘
SANCTANONTAT 3 Gaus
Sh hk he ak Sh Sh he he Sh Sh
See Madam A. Moore for special
rates in piano lessons, Phone, Bell DANCE
East 5407. given by
Miss Isadore Wheeler of Sedalia, THE LADIES’ AUXILIARY
‘Mo., attended the Clyde LeRoy Glass (to the Mail Clerks)
recital last Wednesday evening. MAY 17TH
— —at—
Mr, A. W. Gates of Hastings, Nebr., LYRIC HALL
returned to his home after a bricf Admission, 25 Cents.
visit with friends in this city. Williams’ Imperial Orchestra
Mrs, J. H. Brown, who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. M. Vaughn, a ben Se ea
your favorite minim:
1741 Lydia avenue, has returned to her|| ture patriotic character.
home in Fort Scott, Kan, 3
Mr, Stephen J. Hightower one of DR. HORTON MOVES.
our most enterprising and progressive} Dr. Horton, the Optometrist, «
citizens has just purchased a beautiful /nounces that he has equipped a sui
new, upto date Cole 8, one of the best of rooms next door north of the Pe
and handsomest machines on the mar-|Dle's Drug Store, 18th and Paseo, a1
ket which will be at the disposal of}has moved from his temporary qui
the public. Mr. Hightower is one of|ters over the drug store into his p¢
our most successful business men and|M™anent suite on the Paseo. He h
owns much valuable real estate in|@lso been attached to the staff of
‘chik ieate, leading white Occulist, one of 1
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DR, T. C. UNTHANK
Formerly superintendent of the
Old City Hospital
Announces the removal of his office to
his former home
1120 VINE STREET
Kansas City, Mo.
Private and Mrs. Geo. Brooks of St.
Louis, Mo., en route home from Camp
Funston, Kan., stopped over in this
city for a few hours’ visit with their
father, Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd,
also of St. Louis, but who is visiting
the K. of P. lodges of Courts of Ca-
Yanthe here.
Mr, and Mrs. B. B, Francis, 1412
Vine street, entertained a few friends
Monday evening complimentary to Mr.
Henry Richardson of Oakland, Calif,,
and Lieut. Leonard Richardson, his
son, of Camp Funston, Kas.
Mr, Richardson was a resident of
Kansas City in the 80's and the guests
were mostly friends of that time. The
evening was delightfully spent in mu-
sic an pleasant reminiscences of
early days.
During the evening two selections
from Dunbar were read by Mr, Wil-
lam F. Fairfax, Dainty refreshments
were served and at 12 o'clock the
guests bade the host and hostess good
night.
While in the city Mr. Richardson and
Lieutenant Richardson are stopping
with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fox, 1304
Highland avenue.
THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE.
The Negro Business League of
Greater Kansas City held a successful
business meeting at which a large
number were present. Matters rela
tive to the entertainment of Mr. Em
mett J. Scott were taken up and dis
cussed fully, The president desires to
|have every business man of the two
|oities meet at the Page Shoe Store
||Sunday at 2 o'clock, from which point
-|they will join the general line o!
-|mareh, As many business men as pos
||sible are asked to meet Saturday af
-| ternoon, where autos will be furnishec
-|free to convey the members to the
Union Station to meet Mr. Scott,
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918.
DANCE
given by
THE LADIES’ AUXILIARY
(to the Mail Clerks)
MAY 17TH
uate.
LYRIC HALL
Admission, 25 Cents.
Williams’ Imperial Orchestra
Far One Cent you may cast
a vote for your favorite minia
ture patriotic character,
DR. HORTON MOVES,
Dr. Horton, the Optometrist, an-
nounces that he has equipped a suite
of rooms next door north of the Peo-
ple’s Drug Store, 18th and Paseo, and
has moved from his temporary quar-
ters over the drug store into his per-
manent suite on the Paseo. He has
also been attached to the staff of a
leading white Occulist, one of his
teachers, who has offices on the South
Side and practices exclusively among
South Side white people but will at
reasonable rates extend the benefit
of his knowledge as an Occulist to
any Colored persons introduced by
DDr. Horton, Patients living in the
Independence Avenue district can get
in touch with Dr. Horton through the
office of Dr. T. C. Brown, 809 Inde-
pendence avenue,
A LE
In loving memory of my dear moth-
er, Mrs. Fannie Williams, who de
parted this life one year ago, May
3, 1917.
“The depths of my sorrow, I cannot
tell,
At the loss of my dear mother, I
loved so well;
And while she lies in peaceful sleep,
Her memory I shall always keep.
Day by day I sadly miss her,
Friends may think the wound is
healed;
But they little know the grief,
‘That's within my heart concealed.
She shall never forgotten,
Never from my memory fade,
My loving heart will always linger,
‘Around the grave where she is
laid.”
Sadly missed by her daughter,
MRS. CARRIE WELCH.
(eR ELA TR TERE SEE
GRAND CHANCELLOR LLOYD IN
SEDALIA.
Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd and
the members of the Beneficiary Board
of the Knights of Pythias, held impor-
tant meetings in Sedalia, beginning
Thursday evening, April 25th, * and
closing Friday evening, April ‘26th.
The meetings were as follows:
Thursday night a joint meeting of
the K, of P. and 0. 0. C. They or-
ganized a committee on arrangements
to entertain the Grand Lodge and
Grand Court which convenes in Se.
dalia, July 23, 1918.
Committee:
Prof. C. C, Hubbard, Gen. Chairman.
Mr. Brookes Moore, Vice Chairman.
Mrs, Marie Hogan White, Sec'y.
Mr. Leonard Foster, Ass't Sec'y.
Mrs. Susie V. Newbills, Treas,
‘Mr, James Ramsey, Marshall.
Friday afternoon was the meeting
of the Beneficiary Board, After all
claims were allowed, the Board pur
chased Liberty Bonds to the amount
of $7,000 cash, Friday night a granc
reception was tendered the Board by
Greater Sedalia Lodge No. 42 anc
Etopia Court No. 19. Addresses were
delivered by G. ©. A. W. Lioyd; G
K, of R. and S, Prof, W. T. Ancell
Grand Attorney Hon. L. Asama Kno)
‘and G. M, of Ex. Prof. J. B. Coleman
Mrs, Winnie McDaniel, daughter of
the late Edmond Duson of Bethany,
Mo,, passed away at her residence,
1008 Tracy avenue, April 16, after .a
long illness. She was well known in
Kansas City, having for a number of
years been connected” with both
Church and charity work. Brief ser-
vices were held at the Watkins Bros.
Chapel, after which the body was
taken to her old home in Bethany,
Mo., where the funeral was held at
the residence of her brother, B. E.
Duson, one of Bethany’s most success-
ful business men. Her pastor, Rev.
S. W. Bacote, who accompanied the
family had charge of the services
there. The burial was in Miriam
cemetery. Rey. C. V. Pierce offic
ated,
DR. BROOKS RETURNS.
Baltimore, -Md.—At the present ses-
sion of the Baltimore conference of
the A. M. B. church the Rey. Dr. W.
Sampson Brooks the financial wizard
of his denomination was returned to
Bethel A. M. B, Church after reading
the greatest report ever rendered in
the history of the Conference. He
raised during the year for trustees—
$28,517.04; stewards $3,272.78; for the
Sunday School $669.10; Allen League
$40.00; Finance Committee $786.83;
special $317.42 making a total of $28,
603.67 for his first year comprising
‘about ten months,
Emmett J. Scott
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“I am hoping this booklet may find
a place in the comfort kit of every one
of them and in the libraries of those
who would be informed-as to the real
worth and history of the Negro sol:
dier.”
Get your copy from any agent, price
25 cents. Or call on C, A. Franklin,
the printer, at 1309 B. 18th street,
Active persons can make money by
acting as agents, Write for terms.--
Ady.
HELENA, MONT.
(By J. E. W. Clarke.)
“Innocence finds not near so sae
protection as Guilt. We would aften
be ashamed of our best actions, if the
world were witness to the motives
which produce them.”....Mrs. Mason
Robinson, who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Tony Williams, at Chi-
cago, for the past five months, has
returned.....Mr, Elmer Few of Butte
was visiting Mr, and Mrs. Edward
Johnson last week....Mrs. Molly Ward
of Bozeman is visiting friends in the
city. At present Mrs. Ward is at the
residence of Mrs. E. G. ole, on Rod-
ney......Mrs. Isador Maney of Seattle
has come to Helena to live. Mr.
Maney, who is in the railway mail
service, has made this point his head-
quarters for some time.....R. L. Hous:
ton and wife have gone to the bunga-
low for the summer. ......Mrs. C. C.
Mathews was out for the first time
|last week receiving anaccident more
than two months ago.....Mrs. George
Christian and daughter, Miss Hil-
dreth, and Mrs. Laura Sidney of Town-
send were in the city last week to
assist in the initiation of candidates
into the Household of Ruth......The
Pleasant Hour Club met with Mrs.
William Mason, its. president, last
week. Final steps were taken to com-
plete its membership into the National
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
‘The election which was, held resulted
in the reelection of the old officers.
‘The club is planning to send a dele-
gate to the meeting of the Federation
at Denver in July.....Presiding Elder
C, N. Douglas left for Missoula on the
24th to hold quarterly conference.....
Rosa Glenn, arrested on a charge of
|grand larceny, in connection with the
‘alleged theft of $105 from Sam Betts
(white), at a resort on Tower Hill,
was released on $500 bail. ‘This is the
second charge filed against Mrs.
Glenn. The first, for keeping a dis-
orderly house, and bail was furnished
| by a local saloon keeper. H. J. Baker
|and Nathaniel Ford appear as bonds:
| men in the second charge. Mrs, Glenn
|is @ member of one of the local secret
societies.....Mrs, George M. Lee, Sr.
Jone of the captains of the Liberty
Bond committee, reported only $300
|as the total contribution from the Col
|ored women of our city; $500 from
|one white woman, a total of $800. It
lis to be regretted that we did not
jmake a better showing in this third
patra rally. We are not doing
|justice to ourselves.
FOR
STEAM-HEATED
TAXI
Call E. 4154
DAVID ALLEN,
2313 Highland Ave.
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The Cosmopolitan Club |
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at $250
TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 25
ACADEMY HALL.
14th St, and Michigan Ave.
Kansas City, Kansas
Dependable
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at lowest possible prices
Clothing
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By Mrs. W. T. Biggers.
Mrs. H. B, Barnett of 2318 Allis
street is reported ill.
Mrs. Eula Dave left Wednesday
evening for Van Buren, Ark.
Little Alice Rodgers of 323 ‘Troup
avenue is indisposed and unable to
attend school, ‘
Mrs. Hattie McHenry, 1039 Oakland,
who underwent a serious operation
last Tuesday, is improving nicely.
‘The First Baptist church will pre-
sent the Home Guards and Boy Scouts
with flags on Tuesday, May 14th,
The recital at Western University
Thursday evening given by Miss Bes-
sie Eads was highly entertaining. Miss
Eads has a brilliant future.
Mr, Parker Gardner entertained
about twenty of his gentlemen friends
with a stag party last Friday night.
Refreshments were elaborate.
Mrs. B. F. Bolds of 942 Washington
boulevard called to the bedside of her
father at Odessa, Mo,, reports that he
lies very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Singleton of 360
Garfield avenue are rejoicing over the
birth of a 10% pound baby girl. Mother
and child are doing well.
The Eighth Street Baptist Mission
Cirele in connection with the young
ministers had a stirring mission rally
and a very interesting program last
Sunday afternoon. St. James Church
‘of Westport was the guest of the meet-
ing,
Mr. G. T. Nolan, who has been in
the employ of the railroad company
for fifty-one years, spent last week in
Chicago. While there he was retired
from active service on a pension.
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church will
hold a bazaar, beginning Thursday,
May 16. The Mission Circle had an
interesting meeting with Mrs. Josie
Abram last Thursday, The Stinday
school is being well attended.
On Tutsday, May 7th, two 60-pound
pigs will be given away at the First
A. M. E. church, under the auspices of
Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11, Golden
Rule Tabernacle No. 12 and the Odd
division of the First Baptist church.
Work is being pushed on the beauti
ful new parsonage of the First A. M.
f, church at 8th and Nebraska. The
new members speak in the highest
terms of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Griffin
Mr. ‘and Mrs. Martin of 2045 North
ard street entertained the Kansai
Sunflower Club Monday evening anc
all members present spent a delightful
evening.
Mr. G. W. Carson, proprietor of the
Carson Cafe at 3rd and Minnesota ave-
nue, died early Sunday night of pneu-
monia, The funeral will take place
next Sunday at 1 o'clock from the
First A. M. B. Church, under the aus:
pices of the Odd Fellows and Ameri.
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THEIR EYES.
One pair is all we get. You don’t let your huekster pre-
seribe for your liver—you go to a graduate physican.
You wouldn’t allow peddlers to sell you a set of teeth—
you would go to a graduate dentist.
Then WHEN you NEED EYE GLASSES, GO TO A
GRADUATE OPTOMETRIST!
DR. HORTON
prescribes glasses after a scientific test and treatment of the
eyes, No drops. HE IS A GRADUATE OPTOMETRIST!
His prescriptions are filled at Merry’s, 1009 Walnut Street.
THE DOCTOR will cheerfully consult with you on any kind
of eye troubles FREE OF CHARGE.
Mornings, 10 to 12; Thursday afternons, 2 to 5.
NEXT DOOR NORTH OF PEOPLES DRUG STORE
N. W. Cor. 18th and Paseo,
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When in
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP
WASHINGTON.—There is an alley with a gutter down the middle and bushes shooting above the fences that wall it in. All along are gates that open into back yards. And, always, little children romp in and out in
stroyer is going to send that sub to the bottom and Billy's ship is laying alongside to rescue the crew. You see that woman standing before that stone wall with her arms tied and a handkerchief over her eyes? Well, she's a spy. If you wait a minute till the firing squad comes up you can see her shot, if you want to."
The woman spy, who must have been every day of four years old and who masked her iniquities in a pink gingham slip and bob curls, posed smilingly against the fence, with one eye peeking over her bandage.
Up marched the squad, led by a drummer, knee high to that grasshopper which lends itself so accommodatingly to occasions like this.
Each soldier wore khaki or a sailor suit or an Indian costume, and all were armed with real toy guns. They lined up, took aim and the victim, terrorized by the grim make-believe of childhood, which is one of the most real things in this world, yelled out as the officer lifted a handkerchief and the squad shouted, "Bang."
But she played the game like a little sport and fell according to schedule.
What a way-off, old-fashioned and uneventful world it used to be when children floated ships of clover down the stream—and hatched snakes out of horsehairs—and rode tobacco sticks—and played jack straws—and worshiped stiff china dolls with black curls painted on.
Just the Adventures of Three Women and a Baby
Just the Adventures of Three Women and a Baby
HE was dressed to kill—in the sense that she was armed with every weapon that money could forge for the fighting of that battle which woman always loses when her enemy is Time.
All the time, the woman in the fine clothes and make-up watched the baby with that hungry look that—you can't put it in words, but the next time you see a baby in a car, say, watch the passengers, men and women, and somewhere in that crowd you will catch the expression. But you couldn't spell it to save your life.
The woman looked at the baby that way, and right in the middle of its pounding and kicking and yelling, by some luck—maybe it wasn't just luck, either, but never mind that—by some luck, the baby caught the woman's glance, stopped crying, held out its arms and began to coo.
It was a clear case of hypnotism. The woman gathered up her belongings with subconscious conventionality, paid her bill and then went straight to the baby and took him in her arms. The mother was frankly gratified that a woman of such worldly affluence should be playing nurse to her child, until—until another woman at another table—an ominously virtuous woman whose milk of human kindness seemed to have curdled came over and whispered a remark.
The mother took her baby from the woman, and the woman, understandingly, went out of that cafe mad enough to bite nails.
That was all there was to it unless—unless some day—somewhere—a viciously good meddler and an overprudent mother who snatched her baby from the arms of a middle-aged Delliah should be called to account by an accusing Judge, who, himself, loved little children when he walked the earth—a long time ago.
Capital Claims Priority in Women Taxpayers
THAT Washington has more women taxpayers in proportion to its population than any other city in the United States reports of the income tax bureau will abundantly prove.
"Net contributions, net deductions, and subdeductions. The most tangled up, mussey thing I've ever handled.
"Knitting compared to filling out an income tax return is like holding the baby when he's all dressed up and nowhere to go compared to walking him up and down the floor when he has the colic."
A woman, smiling, came over to the scene of battle.
"Oh, I'm all through. It's just not so bad after all. There's a nice man who gives you a seat and tells you just what to put down, and you can ask questions about the parts you don't understand.
"Oh, you're third. Don't let any one get ahead of you. Good-by. It only takes five minutes."
Washington Small Boy Just Now Much Disturbed
THAT the public schools of the District of Columbia should be kept open for twelve months every year was the statement of Ernest L. Thurston, superintendent of schools. Confirmed in this belief by the experiences of
during the summer scattered throughout the city. Two high schools were open during the summer period of about six weeks. An appropriation estimate now before congress as part of the regular District appropriations bill carries provision for money to permit many of the District high and grade schools to remain open during the summer months.
At Eveleth, Minnesota, the all-year school has grown out of a summer school that has been successfully conducted for the past six or seven years. The superintendent reports that a year ago, when special efforts were made to increase the enrollment of the summer school to over 600 pupils, it was decided to go over definitely to an all-year organization, consisting of four terms, spring, summer, fall and winter, three school months in each term.
play. The other morning, after a night rain had washed the cobbles and filled the gutter brim up with fresh water and put gold-green leaves on the bushes, it seemed an extra nice alley to a woman who was making a short cut through it—but people do make such ridiculous mistakes. For it wasn't an alley at all. Three boys who were floating toy boats down the gutter explained:
"This is the Atlantic ocean and this is the American navy. My de-
stroyer is going to send that sub to a alongside to rescue the crew. You sit stone wall with her arms tied and a ha a spy. If you wait a minute till the f shot, if you want to."
The woman spy, who must have b who masked her iniquities in a pink g ingly against the fence, with one eye u Up marched the squad, led by a dr which lends itself so accommodatingly Each soldier wore khaki or a sall were armed with real toy guns. the terrorized by the grim make-believe of real things in this world, yelled out an the squad shouted, "Bang."
But she played the game like a litt What a way-off, old-fashioned and children floated ships of clover down the horsehairs—and rode tobacco sticks—an stiff china dolls with black curls paint
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baby with that hungry look that—you c
you see a baby in a car, say, watch
somewhere in that crowd you will car
spell it to save your life.
The woman looked at the baby th
pounding and kicking and yelling, by
either, but never mind that—by some
glance, stopped crying, held out its ar
It was a clear case of hypnotism,
with subconscious conventionality, paid
baby and took him in her arms. The
woman of such worldly affluence should
until another woman at another table-
milk of human kindness seemed to have
remark.
The mother took her baby from the
ingly, went out of that cafe mad enoug
That was all there was to it un-
viciously good meddler and an overpr
from the arms of a middle-aged Dellii
accusing Judge, who, himself, loved lit-
—a long time ago.
And serve them both right.
Capital Claims Priority
THAT Washington has more women tion than any other city in the Ur bureau will abundantly prove.
If you don't believe it a trip to the Legal building, Eighth and G streets, where women taxpayers stand in line all day to make their income tax returns, would convince you.
"Never knew women could be so quiet," said a mere man, as he stood there looking at the women in line.
"Why, you could hear a pin drop."
"You'd be quiet, too, if you had to keep your mind on one of these stanks," spoke up a woman taxpayer.
"Net contributions, net deductions, and mussy thing I've ever handled.
"Knitting compared to filling out a baby when he's all dressed up and now and down the floor when he has the o A woman, smiling, came over to t "Oh, I'm all through. It's just no who gives you a seat and tells you just questions about the parts you don't u "Oh, you're third. Don't let any o takes five minutes."
Washington Small Boy J THAT the public schools of the District for twelve months every year was superintendent of schools. Confirmed
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SHOULD BE
KEEP OPEN
12 MONTHS
EVERY YEAR
AW!
Wolfram.
during the summer scattered through open during the summer period of abate now before congress as part of carries provision for money to permit schools to remain open during the sun. At Eveleth, Minnesota, the all-year school that has been successfully cone The superintendent reports that a year to increase the enrollment of the surc decided to go over definitely to an terms, spring, summer, fall and winter.
READY-
AIM-
the bottom and Billy's ship is laying
see that woman standing before that
handkerchief over her eyes? Well, she's
firing squad comes up you can see her
been every day of four years old and
ingham slip and bob curls, posed smil-
peeking over her bandage.
rummer, knee high to that grasshopper
y to occasions like this.
or suit or an Indian costume, and all
yined up, took aim and the victim,
of childhood, which is one of the most
is the officer lifted a handkerchief and
table sport and fell according to schedule.
a uneventful world it used to be when
the stream—and hatched snakes out of
and played jack straws—and worshiped
ed on.
Three Women and a Baby
ense that she was armed with every
for the fighting of that battle which
is Time.
And she was looking over at another table in the same cafe. What she saw was a lump of pink fat, blue eyes, a lot of dimples and exactly two teeth—the combination perched on a high chair beside a girl-mother who was going through an "afternoon tea" that began with three fried and was to end with jelly frappe. The baby obviously objected to oysters allied to frappe, for he pounded the table with pudgy fasts. And for good measure, he felled and yelled, and—
the clothes and make-up watched the can't put it in words, but the next time the passengers, men and women, and watch the expression. But you couldn't that way, and right in the middle of its some luck—maybe it wasn't just luck, the luck, the baby caught the woman's arms and began to coo.
The woman gathered up her belongings and her bill and then went straight to the mother was frankly gratified that a child be playing nurse to her child, until—an ominously virtuous woman whose curdled came over and whispered a woman, and the woman, understand-ugh to bite nails.
unless—unless some day—somewhere—a student mother who snatched her babyiah should be called to account by an little children when he walked the earth
in Women Taxpayers
taxpayers in proportion to its popula- nited States reports of the income tax
PAY INCOME TAX HERE
THE MEN WILL NOW LEARN WE ARE NOT SO HELPLESS AS THEY THOUGHT
and subdeductions. The most tangled up,
an income tax return is like holding the
where to go compared to walking him up
collie."
the scene of battle.
not so bad after all. There's a nice man
just what to put down, and you can ask
understand.
one get ahead of you. Good-by. It only
Just Now Much Disturbed
District of Columbia should be kept open
is the statement of Ernest L. Thurston,
and in this belief by the experiences of
school officials of other cities, who have found that keeping the schools open for educational purposes has resulted in speeding up educational work and bettering the standards of both pupils and teachers, Mr. Thurston strongly urged that the District schools be put under the quarterly system, with small vacations between the quarters. This system will speed up educational processes in Washington. Last year about 1,200 pupils were accommodated in grade schools open
about the city. Two high schools were about six weeks. An appropriation esti- the regular District appropriations bill it many of the District high and grade summer months. A year school has grown out of a summer deducted for the past six or seven years. A year ago, when special efforts were made summer school to over 600 pupils, it was all-year organization, consisting of four per, three school months in each term.
THE KANSAS CITY SUN SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918
Indelible Ink From Fungus
Found Growing in France In
Decaying Vegetable Matter
The utilization of a common variety of fungus for the manufacture of ink, now both costly and scarce, has been proposed in France, says the Pathfinder. The ink-yielding fungus which is often found growing in clusters where decaying vegetable matter exists in rich, damp soil is sometimes called the "inkstand" or the "ink bottle" because of the fact that when it decays a black liquid is produced. Its cap is elongated and bell-shaped, white at first and covered with a shining powder, later turning to gray with small brown scales on its top.
A French scientific journal says that extensive experiments in the production of indelible ink from this fungus were once carried on by French botanists. The fungi are simply placed in a bottle or other container.
After standing for a day or two they change to a black pulpy mass, which, on being filtered through a folded cloth, yields a deep black or brownish ink, not unlike India ink. The addition of a small quantity of gum arable and a little of the essence of cloves is said to improve it and preserve its fluidity. The ink consists of a liquid in which are suspended the minute spores of the fungus. For this reason it can be readily identified by means of a microscopic examination. As it is also indelible it is peculiarly valuable for use in writing of wills and other documents which are sometimes subject to fraudulent alterations.
Mother's Cook Book
Food habits, like all other habits, are not easily changed. Do not try too many war-time dishes at once. Use ingenuity in the preparation and serving of new combinations, try to have them look and taste well.
Eat Nuts. Save Meat.
Nuts are so wholesome, present such a variety and are so well liked that they should be used more often as a food rather than a delicacy.
Sweet Potato and Peanut Croquettes.
Mix a cupful of mashed sweet potato with a cupful of finely chopped peanuts, a half a teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper, shape into croquettes, roll in fine bread crumbs, and bake in a hot oven until brown. If the crumbs are well buttered before using the croquettes will brown quickly. Serve with a white sauce seasoned with two tablespoonfuls of chill sauce.
Scalloped Onions and Peanuts.
Cook six onions in boiling salted water until tender. Chop two-thirds of a cupful of freshly roasted peanuts. Melt two tablespoonfuls of fat and add two tablespoonfuls of barley flour; when smooth add a cupful of rich milk, a teaspoonful of salt, a few dashes of paprika. Put a layer of onion, a layer of peanuts, then white sauce in a baking dish, cover with buttered crumbs and bake.
Stuffed Dates With Nuts and Cheese. Steam well-washed dates until soft, remove the pits and fill with cottage cheese mixed with a few finely chopped hickory nut meats.
Cut eight apples in halves and remove the cores with a spoon, put into a baking pan with a cupful of maple syrup and $1\frac{1}{2}$ cupfuls water and two tablespoonfuls of butter, sprinkle with two tablespoonfuls of chopped nuts and bake until the syrup is thick; serve with whipped cream.
Apples With Nut Stuffing.
Scoop out apples and fill the shell with English walnuts and apple pulp mixed with mayonnaise; place in a circle on a large serving dish and heap whipped cream in the center.
Honey Custard.
Beat two eggs, add half a teaspoonful of salt, one-third of a cupful of honey and beat again; add two cupfuls of milk and mix thoroughly. Turn into four earthen cups. Set into a dish of water and bake until firm in the cechter. Sprinkle with chopped nuts just before putting into the oven. Nellie Maxwell
Kept Two Mice Busy Whole Year Operating Thread Mill
A thrifty Scotchman, David Hutton, conceived the idea of using mouse power commercially, relates the Popular Science Monthly. He experimented and found that a mouse will run on an average ten and one-half miles a day.
One mouse in Mr. Hutton's collection actually ran 18 miles in one day. The power of a mouse is not much when compared to horse power; yet, it is enough to spin cotton thread.
The cost of a mouse upkeep is not very high. One mouse was kept in fine working condition for 35 days on one-half penny's worth of oatmeal. During those 35 days that mouse run 362 miles.
Mr. Hutton built a thread mill for his mice which was so constructed that the mouse was able to twist and reel from 100 to 220 threads a day. The mouse ran ten and a half miles every other day.
Two mice were kept constantly engaged in the spinning of thread for more than a year.
World's Corn Acreage and Distribution
By the U. S. Department of Agriculture
The world's area annually planted to corn normally averages about 175,000,000 acres. Approximately 40,000,000 acres are planted in the eastern hemisphere, where the principal corn-growing areas are southern Europe, Asia, the Mediterranean countries of Africa, and the Union of South Africa. Among the countries of Europe, the greatest acreages are in Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Balkan states, and Russia. A much less extensive acreage is grown in Spain and France. In Asia, British India, Turkey, and southern Asiatic Russia have the most extensive acreages; the crop is grown less extensively in the Phillippines, China, and Japan. Practically all of the African acreage is in Egypt, the Union of South Africa, and Algeria. Australasia contributes comparatively little to the world's corn acreage.
Of the 135,000,000 acres planted to corn in the western hemisphere, 105,000,000, or three-fifths of the total world's acreage, is in the United States. Next to the United States, Mexico and Argentina have the greatest acreages. The crop is grown extensively in the smaller countries of South America and of Central America, and less extensively in portions of Canada.
Argentina is the leading corn-producing country of South America. Its annual yield approximately is 250,000,000 bushels. More than half the Argentina crop is exported, so that, considering its production, it does not
Illuminating Gas Is Being Used in England as Motive Power for the Motor Cars
The war has at least served a useful purpose in teaching practical economy. Today we are facing a serious gasoline shortage. In England, according to the Science et la Vie, illuminating gas is now being used extensively as the motive power for motorcars, omnibuses and motorcycles. It is much cheaper than gasoline, and its use conserves the limited supply of fuel for the motors at the front. Another war industry has been given birth and already a large number of companies have been organized to manufacture tanks for supplying vehicles with gas.
The system is very simple and may be applied to almost any type of motor vehicle. All that is necessary is a balloon container for the gas, tubing to carry the gas to the motor and certain adjustments in attaching the controls to the carburetor and accelerator pedal.
In England the balloon in a box rests on top of the car, where it is held in position by elastic bands, which stretch when the balloon is filled and shrink as it empties. It is made of India rubber tissue like that used in the ordinary balloons of ascension.
The tubing from gas bag to carburetor is fitted with a cock which has a triple function. It permits the bag to be charged or emptied or can be turned to the neutral, which permits the gas to flow along to the carburetor. A second cock controls the flow to the carburetor. This is turned off when filling or discharging.
Between this cock and the carburetor is the control mechanism attached to the accelerator. This mechanism is so arranged that gas or gasoline may be used as it happens to be convenient. The only difficulty at present in the way of a wholesale substitution of gas power for gasoline lies in the fact that the factories which manufacture balloons are under military control.
Items of Interest.
In buying a meat chopper choose one that is easy to clean.
A little pine vaseline will remove mildew and stains from leather.
Every well-fed child should have one egg a day as part of its diet.
Rock salt broken into coarse bits is a great help in cleansing bottles.
Made of a flat steel spring, a quickly adjusted belt has been invented to take the place of strings on kitchen or laboratory aprons.
Using Farm Machinery.
The greater use of farm machinery as a solution of the farm-labor problem is the logical and, indeed, inevitable outcome of the situation brought about by the war. Not only are federal and state authorities urging this course upon farmers, but encouragement in various forms to do so is being held out to the farmers in all parts of the country—Springfield Union.
Homemade Meal.
Soy bean meal is on sale in some places, but the housekeeper who wishes to do so can grind soy beans by putting them through a meat chopper several times or by using a coffee mill or other small mill. The meal does not require any preliminary cooking to soften it. Soy bean meal can be used like other common meals to make a variety of palatable dishes.
一
rank high as a corn-consuming nation. The smaller countries of South America consume about all the corn they produce, for it holds an important place in the dietary of the native population, especially in Peru, Bollivia and Ecuador. In Mexico, corn, in one form or another, is the staple article of diet of most of the population. So great is the demand, that although in normal times Mexico ranks second to the United States in acreage and total yield, its production is insufficient for home consumption, and several million bushels are imported annually from the United States. In a large part of Mexico corn is the most important agricultural crop and in some sections two crops a year are grown. Many distinct types having characters that adapt them apparently to certain peculiar environments have developed in Mexico.
In the United States corn is grown more widely than any other crop. It is grown to some extent in every state in the Union. The acreage in the United States usually exceeds the combined acreages of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, and rice. Annual production ranges from 2,500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 bushels, or slightly exceeding the combined yields of the cereals just mentioned. The value is far in excess of any other crop. With the possible exception of cotton, corn is the most important and irreplaceable crop in the agriculture of this country.
THE FUNNY SIDE.
The Class.
"I have a fine setter I have just bought."
"What is it—Gordon, English or Irish?"
"None of the three; Plymouth Rock."
"I have a fine setter I have just bought."
"What is it—Gordon, English or Irish?"
"None of the three; Plymouth Rock."
"What do you think of this daylight-saving movement?"
"It won't do any good," replied the weary commuter. "It'll get me up earlier in the morning, but they've fixed it so that I'll miss my train the same as usual."
FISHING
"Bliggins sits out in a boat by the hour and fishes."
"He isn't really fishing. He's only dodging regular work."
"Suppose hens actually laid highly colored Easter eggs."
"We wouldn't be satisfied," replied Mr. Growcher. "We'd try to improve their appearance by whitewashing 'em."
Its Advantages.
Downright Dick—Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Sly Cyril—No, but it gets you a drink in a dry town.
"The cook burnt the steak again," exclaimed the experienced housewife. "Dear me!" said young Mrs. Newly-wed. "Wouldn't ordinary coal have been a little cheaper these days?"
Boys Can Help Country by Gardening, Raising Poultry, Pigs, and Conserving Food
How every American boy, although separated by the Atlantic ocean from the actual theater of war against autocracy, can play his part in upholding American ideals, is pointed out by Secretary of Agriculture Houston in a message addressed to the Boy Scouts of America. The Secretary pledges to the boys the hearty co-operation of the federal and state agricultural agencies. Secretary Houston's statement follows:
"The splendid army of Boy Scouts of America can be of very great help to the nation in this time of world need. The war can be won only if we deliver the men, the ships, and the food in sufficient number and quantities to make our war program effective. You as a boy scouts can greatly aid by growing home vegetable gardens, raising pigs and poultry, conserving food by canning and drying for home use and in many other ways open to you.
"Will you not help your country again this year even in a bigger and a better way than you did during the summer of 1917? Your task will be to 'beat your own record' in food production and conservation. May your motto for 1918 be 'every scout to feed a soldier and one other.'"
"I desire to extend to you the hearty good will and co-operation of the officials of the United States department of agriculture, also that of the cooperative club leaders of boys' and girls' extension work at the agricultural colleges, who will be glad to assist you in your work."
HAPPENINGS in the CITIES
Rhinoceros Does Not Take Kindly to Pneumonia
Rhinoceros Does Not Take Kindly to Pneumonia
NEW YORK.—Pneumonia is prevalent in the New York Zoological park in the Bronx. It is particularly prevalent in the great Indian rhinoceros. Nobody knows how prevalent a disease can become in a rhinoceros, according to Dick Richards, the nurse in attendance, until he has a suffering rhinoceros on his hands. Other victims are Teddy, an Alaskan brown bear, and Louisa, a Himalayan black bear.
All three have been taken to the isolation ward of the hospital provided for such contingencies and strict precautions are being taken to guard against further spread of the epidemic. Every keeper carries a thermometer with which to take the temperature of his charge.
o, and the ostrich man carries a basket well as could be expected, but the great. As soon as he was stricken Dickous plasters to put on the small of his Indian rhinoceros was lying flat on horn and shaking the building with his joints with crowbars a good half hour to t当 when he did it took another fifteen of his back was. When the spot was porous plasters was inadequate. Dickozen more, and while he was gone the in. were in place, but Dick and the patient with them. They didn't seem to draw for some towels to dip in hot water to he could find only three dozen towels, like a handkerchief for the great Indian used a dozen tablecloths, however, and first Turkish bath he ever experienced. crick, but the great Indian rhinoceros roceroses that ever lay flat on its back
to Deal With Slackers
slackers have sought to evade military of physical ailments or helpless depend- have been heard by local boards and medical examiners.
griffe's keeper carries a stepladder also, and the os of thermometers.
Teddy and Louisa are doing as well as could Indian rhinoceros is very low indeed. As soon Richards ran out and got a dozen porous plasters back, and when he returned the great Indian rhi his back, denting the pillow with his horn and sha breathing.
It took Dick and a force of assistants with cro persuade the invalid to roll over, and when he d minutes to discover where the small of his back found it was evident that the supply of porous plas had to rush out and get a couple of dozen more, a rhinoceros rolled over on his back again.
Yesterday, however, the plasters were in place think there must be something wrong with them. right somehow. So Dick hustled out for some tow wrap his patient in. In the whole park he could fin and the lot of them scarcely would make a handker rhinoceros.
The ever resourceful nurse obtained a dozen succeeded in giving his patient the first Turkish Dick hopes the tablecloths did the trick, but the undoubtedly is one of the sickest rhinoceroses that and played that it was a steam plano.
Draft Boards Find Ways to De
CHICAGO.—Although a majority of slackers have service by submitting sad stories of physical a ents, more than a few classical excuses have been medical ex
giraffe's keeper carries a stepladder also, and the ostrich man carries a basket of thermometers.
Teddy and Louisa are doing as well as could be expected, but the great Indian rhinoceros is very low indeed. As soon as he was stricken Dick Richards ran out and got a dozen porous plasters to put on the small of his back, and when he returned the great Indian rhinoceros was lying flat on his back, denting the pillow with his horn and shaking the building with his breathing.
It took Dick and a force of assistants with crowbars a good half hour to persuade the invalid to roll over, and when he did it took another fifteen minutes to discover where the small of his back was. When the spot was found it was evident that the supply of porous plasters was inadequate. Dick had to rush out and get a couple of dozen more, and while he was gone the rhinoceros rolled over on his back again.
Yesterday, however, the plasters were in place, but Dick and the patient think there must be something wrong with them. They didn't seem to draw right somehow. So Dick hustled out for some towels to dip in hot water to wrap his patient in. In the whole park he could find only three dozen towels, and the lot of them scarcely would make a handkerchief for the great Indian rhinoceros.
The ever resourceful nurse obtained a dozen tablecloths, however, and succeeded in giving his patient the first Turkish bath he ever experienced. Dick hopes the tablecloths did the trick, but the great Indian rhinoceros undoubtedly is one of the sickest rhinoceroses that ever lay flat on its back and played that it was a steam plano.
Draft Boards Find Ways to Deal With Slackers
CHICAGO.—Although a majority of slackers have sought to evade military service by submitting sad stories of physical ailments or helpless dependents, more than a few classical excuses have been heard by local boards and medical examiners.
The following little system caught more than one would-be evader:
A youth alleging defective hearing was taken into an examining room.
"My hearing is pretty bad," he told the medical officer.
"That so? Let's see," said the doctor, as he stepped close to the young man.
"Put your hand over your right ear," said the doctor, loudly.
physician, in a low tone.
was spoken in an ordinary voice.
it ear," said the doctor, in a faint voice. The candidate "saw the light" and meeklyion.
in one of the Detroit draft board offices, or to enroll in the medical examiners, member of the local board, concerned a and who evaded the tests and tricks of room the smile which the demure miss war and home and country.
woman asked in a very low tone. I gee, I wanted to——"
a little mistake and you're accepted,"er.
medical officer. He blushed and stamthe girl in the case.
Hang" of Daylight Saving
by a man who swears he can't get the n. He is a perfectly intelligent fellow, is a strong opinion that his inability to
"Can you hear this?" asked the physician, in a No response.
"Can you hear me now?" This was spoken in No response.
"Now, put your hand over your left ear." said the Order was promptly obeyed; the candidate submitted to the rest of the examination.
A sweet young woman, employed in one of the caught several slackers who were clever enough to One instance, which was reported by a member of the young man who insisted he was deaf and who eva the examiners. As he left the medical room the sn flashed at him caused him to forget war and home.
"Were you accepted?" the young woman asked.
"Naw; they turned me down, and gee, I want."
"Don't worry, my friend, we made a little mis said a drawing voice behind the slacker.
The youth whirled and faced the medical office, but finally began to grin.
"That's number six for me," said the girl in the Seem Unable to Get "Hang" on BALTIMORE.—There is in this city a man who hang of the "daylight saving" plan. He is a with a keen enough brain, and there is a strong c
"Can you hear this?" asked the physician, in a low tone. No response. "Can you hear me now?" This was spoken in an ordinary voice. No response. "Now, put your hand over your left ear," said the doctor, in a faint voice. The order was promptly obeyed; the candidate "saw the light" and meekly submitted to the rest of the examination. A sweet young woman, employed in one of the Detroit draft board offices, caught several slackers who were clever enough to foll the medical examiners. One instance, which was reported by a member of the local board, concerned a young man who insisted he was deaf and who evaded the tests and tricks of the examiners. As he left the medical room the smile which the demure miss flashed at him caused him to forget war and home and country. "Were you accepted?" the young woman asked in a very low tone. "Naw; they turned me down, and gee, I wanted to——" "Don't worry, my friend, we made a little mistake and you're accepted," said a drawing voice behind the slacker. The youth whirled and faced the medical officer. He blushed and stammered, but finally began to grin. "That's number six for me," said the girl in the case.
Seem Unable to Get "Hang" of Daylight Saving
BALTIMORE—There is in this city a man who swears he can't get the hang of the "daylight saving" plan. He is a perfectly intelligent fellow, with a keen enough brain, and there is a strong opinion that his inability to understand the "daylight saving" scheme is largely due to an argumentative disposition.
But, however that may be, there is something to what he says. There is going to be a lot of topsy-turvy business resulting from the double-quick of the clocks, unless people really do what they are being told to do:
"Set your clock forward an hour and—forget it!"
The trouble is some of these birds are determined not to forget it.
There will be the sporty fellow, who, thinking to slip one over on the government, will look at his watch, note that the hands register 1 o'clock, and will exclaim:
"It's only midnight, boys—we've got another hour yet."
An intelligent-looking man was heard to say:
"I'm not going to be mixed up about this t carry two watches, one in my left vest pocket pocket. When I want to do anything I'll look at it but when I want to really know what time it is. I
Meets Her Baby Under Exception
DETROIT.—This introduces you to William And William is thirteen months old and he n Anderson, for the first time Friday. It was an u inz, too, b
about this time business—I'm going to vest pocket and one in my right vest. I'll look at the one in my right pocket, time it is. I'll look at the other one."
Exceptional Circumstances
William Anderson.
Id and he met his mother, Mrs. Hazel.
It was an unconventional sort of meeting, too, because William was in his nightie and John O'Brien, a deputy sheriff, had charge of the introduction. It was at the county building.
"I'm not going to be mixed up about this time business—I'm going to carry two watches, one in my left vest pocket and one in my right vest pocket. When I want to do anything I'll look at the one in my right pocket, but when I want to really know what time it is, I'll look at the other one."
Meets Her Baby Under Exceptional Circumstances
DETROIT.—This introduces you to William Anderson. William is thirteen months old and he met his mother, Mrs. Haze Anderson, for the first time Friday. It was an unconventional sort of meet
Mrs. Anderson snatched the baby in an eager embrace.
She cried over him a bit as women will, and William cooed and gurgled and seemed to understand just what it was all about.
Then Mrs. Anderson told how it happened—that she hadn't seen her own baby until after his first birth.
own baby day. She said that she was a nervous wreck through treatment alleged to have been accorded was in the hospital for several weeks after Will placed in the home of her husband's mother.
Now Mrs. Anderson always has yearned for a Webster so. The judge gave her a decree and despite these legal alds she couldn't get possession John O'Brien stepped in the breach.
"I didn't want to dress him," said the perspir to take time. That's why he's only got those night.
"Bless his precious heart," said Mrs. Anderson
uous wreck before her baby was born,
been accorded her by her husband. She
s after William came. The baby was
mother.
yearned for her baby. She told Judge
decree and the custody of the child. But
get possession of William until Deputy
d the perspiring O'Brien. "I was afraid
at those night things on."
Mrs. Anderson.
day. She said that she was a nervous wreck before her baby was born, through treatment alleged to have been accorded her by her husband. She was in the hospital for several weeks after William came. The baby was placed in the home of her husband's mother.
Now Mrs. Anderson always has yearned for her baby. She told Judge Webster so. The judge gave her a decree and the custody of the child. But despite these legal aids she couldn't get possession of William until Deputy John O'Brien stepped in the breach.
"I didn't want to dress him," said the perspiring O'Brien. "I was afraid to take time. That's why he's only got those night things op."
"Riess his precious heart," said Mrs. Anderson.
to Dick Richards, the nurse in attendance, until he has a suffering rhinoceros on his hands. Other victims are Teddy, an Alaskan brown bear, and Louisa, a Himalayan black bear. All three have been taken to the isolation ward of the hospital provided for such contingencies and strict precautions are being taken to guard against further spread of the epidemic. Every keeper carries a thermometer with which to take the temperature of his charges. The
NAW WERE YOU ACCEPTED? The youth did so.
understand the "daylight saving" scheme is largely due to an argumentative disposition.
But, however that may be, there is something to what he says. There is going to be a lot of topsy-turvy business resulting from the double-quick of the clocks, unless people really do what they are being told to do:
"Set your clock forward an hour and—forget it!"
The trouble is some of these birds are determined not to forget it.
DEAR
LITTLE
SNOWKIDS
-!!!
"Too Old"
By VICTOR REDCLIFFE
"You see the big entrance to the factory. Beyond, a great broad stairway leading to the offices. After that the draughting rooms. Then building after building, pattern lofts, machine rooms, molding floors. Well, thirty years, boy and man. I've gone up those stairs, kept going till I mounted higher and higher, and became superintendent, then—follow me a bit, and I'll show you the other side of the picture."
Thus Gabriel Purcell, sturdy old disciplinarian of fifty. He did not look it, he did not feel it. His voice was clear as a clarion note, his eye was full of fire and power. Just a wee stoop of the shoulders threw the stalwart figure out of direct plumb line, and the silvering hair was touched with the first frost of time and winter.
He carried a magnificent gold-headed cane under his arm, disdaining its use as a support and only taking it with him for company because it was the cherished gift of some cheap shovel men in the factory, who loved him and his just, helpful way as if he had been an own father to them. Gabriel Purcell led his companion, an old-time friend, making a brief visit to the town, around the great stone wall enclosing the plant, and then swung his cane to where a long steep chute ran from the upper floor of the tin specialty shops to the barren rear yard. Down it it was now pouring the scraps, refuse, waste of the factory.
"The dump head—see it, Farleigh?" questioned the old man bitterly.
"That's me—in at the front, rushed through, worked out and thrown on the dump head!"
At that same hour Thomas Wynne, head of the great Wynne company, sat facing his attorney in his private office.
"The fact is, Wynne, isn't it that Purcell is Oslerized," submitted the latter.
"Don't use the word juntily, Randall," returned the founder, "but that about covers it. You don't know how it jars on me to face the merest imputation of injustice regarding Purcell. He has been my right hand since I started in here with a little twenty by forty shed of a shop, and has helped build the business up to its present up-to-date proportions. You know how fifteen years ago my wife inherited a large estate and supplied one hundred and fifty thousand dollars capital to expand the enterprise. Well, recently a younger brother of hers, what you may call a mechanical theorist and ultra-system man, got the idea in his head that he could come in here and double up profits in a year."
"But what interest has he in the business?"
"None, except through the courtesy of my wife and some relatives who are also stockholders. Of course I can't gainisay her. Her estate owns considerable of the company stock. She helped build me up. I can't afford to quibble with her. I had to supercede Purcell. My brother-in-law is now in charge of the mechanical departments. Younger men, stricter rules, more business, higher profits, his aim. We shall see how it works out." Mr. Wynne sighed.
"We shall, indeed," muttered the lawyer cynically.
"Yes, that isn't all, Randall," resumed the manufacturer. "I am approaching a delicate subject. You know that Purcell has a son who is the pride of his soul and the apple of his eve. Arnold Purcell."
"Yes," nodded the lawyer, and it was palpably apparent that the mention aroused pleasant sentiments. "A fine young man, an exceptional one, they say. Capable, ambitious, high grade. I hear that he has won quite some eminence as an advanced sanitary engineer."
"Very well, by some strange freak of destiny he and my daughter, Elstnore, met at a social function in the city. Plainly, they are in love with each other. I am no aristocrat, I sprung from nothing, as did Gabriel Purcell. My wife, however, as you know, draws the line at social distinctions, or rather those of wealth. She has fatly told young Purcell that Elstnore must never marry a man who has not as large a fortune as her own."
"And Arnold Purcell?"
"Asks time to make good the condition."
"Great for him! He'll make it," declared the lawyer with confidence. "The young man has not advised his father or others of his love affairs," said Wynne. "He and Elsinore seem to have settled down to sensible, dignified patience and mutual fidelity. He does not intrude himself upon her company. He is pursuing the even tener of his way, and she is content. It is the father I worry about. I want you to go and see him, and here is the memoranda of what I want to do for him."
Mr. Randall departed with his instructions. He found Purcell at his home. The letter had been a widower for many years and lived in a comfortable, but small house at the edge of the town. It overlooked a deep pit nearly a quarter of a mile in extent, to which a spur of the rail-read ran. For ten years a soft limestone quarry had been mined here to supply slag mixture for the big blast
furnaces. The entire property belonged to Purcell, but was of little apparent value. He greeted Mr. Randall civilly. "I've come from your best friend," spoke the lawyer. "He wants you to accept a pension, a free and clear town residence, an automobile and—" Gabriel Purcell burst out into a hearty laugh. He held in his hand a letter he had just received from his son. He was strangely changed from the wandering misanthropy of the early morning.
"Stop right there, Mr. Randall," he said heartily. "I understand Mr. Wynne and he understands me. The new experiment is forced on him, and no hard feelings. It won't go through. Remember what I say, that before a year is out I'll be back and the old system resumed. And say," and the old man's eyes glowed. "I'll be able to help him out if he finds he's cramped for capital."
The lawyer eyed Purcell as though he was getting rid of his senses. "Oh, I'm not talking wild," chuckled the old man. He waved the letter in his hand towards the old quarry pit. "I own that, you know."
"That hole in the ground, you mean?"
"Exactly, and it's going to be a gold mine."
"I can't make out Purcell," reported the lawyer to Mr. Wynne. "He talks millions. He's got some dream of wealth and he seems happy as a lark. He says he'll be back in a year."
"I honestly hope it," groaned Mr. Wynne. "Already some of the modern efficiency tactics of the new superintendent have set the older working gangs by the ears, and they are quitting by the score."
Mr. Wynne put himself out of the way to meet Purcell whenever he could. He was surprised, pleased and gratified to note the glad, sincere welcome of the discarded faithful old fellow worker. Purcell was more than friendly, he was cheerful, loquacious, and referred constantly to his "vacation," and blinked jocularly at the founder and referred to "the good old times coming back all new."
Then came a period of care and trouble for the plant. A good many of the old expert workmen sought new fields of labor. The new superintendent took a large contract at a loss. In rushing a special order they forfeited the trade of one of their oldest and most substantial clients.
Meanwhile, something that puzzled the townpeople was going on at the old quarry. Near the edge of the big pit new tracks were laid, a large weighing scale put in, derricks erected, and scoops, elevating and lowering machinery. Purcell bustled about, the busiest, cheerless being ever was, and his son Arnold made frequent inspection visits to the old home at the quarry pit.
One day, like a thunderclap, came the news that the big plant was shut down pending a reorganization. The new superintendent had resigned. Some outstand stockholders had become alarmed at the reports of fast shrinking profits, and had thrown their holdings on the market at a ruinous decline.
That very morning a train of 50 gondola dump cars gracefully wound round from the main railroad tracks and half encircled the quarry pit. Each car was weighed, the contents dumped, and the train returned to the city. Ashes, building debris, all the daily accumulated rubbish and waste of a great city was represented in this first dumping into that useless, valueless, almost fathomless quarry pit.
Thomas Wynne looked up from his desk in the office of the deserted plant as Gabriel Purcell entered. The founder's face was worn and drawn.
"Is it as bad as they say?" questioned Purcell.
"Worse. Outside of my wife's capital I have no resources. I must have two hundred thousand dollars to get back where we were before this ghastly experiment was made, or go into bankruptcy."
"Good!" cried Purcell animatedly.
"Til provide the deficit amount for a like amount of stock."
"You?!" cried Wynne incredulously. "Myself and my son, yes. You see, old friend, the quarry pit. Arnold is the head expert in recovery and disposal work for the city. We are only 12 miles away, and the nearest available dumping pit. They have been carrying the refuse out into the lake, but the barge rates have become prohibitive. In fact, we have a ten years' contract for disposing of the rubbish at forty cents a cubic yard. Fifty cars a day and all profit, but the weighing. Figure it up, and don't wonder that we are able to anticipate a million in payment any time we want it." "And you propose—"
"To go back to my old job and run the plant on the old safe, sensible basis. Old friend," suggested Purcell, with twinkling eyes, "did it happen to occur to you that In Oserizing the plant you forgot that you were ten years older than myself?
And then when affairs had been readjusted and Arnold Purcell qualified fully as a meet suitor for pretty, patient Elsinore, and the old cheerful hum of industry cheered the contented workmen at the plant, Thomas Wynne and Gabriel Purcell, again in the right groove, felt as though they had stepped back into the magic enthusiasm of their earlier years.
Modes of Progress.
"You need exercise. You ought to walk to work."
"It can't be done from our suburb. You may snow-plow your way to work. You may slide or you may come pretty near swimming to work. But you never actually walk."
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918
What Well Dressed Women Will Wear
THE WOOL COAT
ON BEING CORRECTLY SUITED.
The vagaries of spring suits are many—as suits go. Heretofore it has been left to afternoon and other dresses to give us unlimited variety to choose from while the tailored suit appeared true to form, in a few very well defined styles. This season the tailored suit is indulging many fancies of its own. There are suits with very short coats, suits with Eton jackets, many suits with waistcoats and a good many eccentricities in coats. Skirts are nearly always plain, but a few exceptions to this rule appear in skirts to be worn with coats that are high at the back—an echo of the bustle dress of last winter.
Other feature that can be gath sentative showy shoes continue to pared to high shag. The fact a lengthened a little ence. The very little than the modern more practical. shoes are of cloak. As fine kl leather that is there is no reas shoes should not conscience. But attractive and it
With this variety in styles to choose from, it becomes easy to be correctly and becoming suited. The waistcoat, which is the most interesting feature in the new suit styles, is made in as many ways as suits themselves and is becoming to almost everybody, but if it proves unbecoming or unpractical we can center attention on other new features in the styles, as the uneven length of coats at the bottom and the abundance of braid trimming.
Two very conservative suits shown in the picture will appeal to the woman whose taste cannot be diverted from plain and practical ideas in tailored clothes. At the right there is blue serge—which we have always with us, whatever else may come and go—trimmed with silk braid and, buttons. The coat is longer in the front.
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SUMMER STYLES IN SHOES.
and sides than at the back, being cut with a point in front and at each side in deference to present-day style. The suit at the left has only one feature that distinguishes it as distinctly of this season, and that is the manner in which it is left open at the front to the waistline. It is of beige gaberdine and has a military suggestion in its pockets with flap and belt fastened with a small buckle. It will be noticed that collars on the new suits are usually high in the back and this one follows this rule. Below there is a small sketch of a jersey suit with a real waistcoat—which leads to the confession that there is much camouflage in this matter of waistcoats—they are usually merely front and nothing more.
Just a glance over the displays of footwear for summer brings home the fact that women have taken more than kindly to colored shoes. In fact it appears that color in footwear promises to become a permanent thing, as in gloves—and that the same colors are to be used. Many shades of tan and gray, often in combination with white, russet and white shoes, if counted would sum up as many pairs as there are in black shoes.
Other features of the new styles, that can be gathered from any representative showing, reveal that high shoes continue to be very high as compared to high shoes of a few seasons ago. The fact that skirts have been lengthened a little has made no difference. The very high shoe is more trim than the moderately high shoe and more practical. The uppers in these shoes are of cloth just as often as of kid. As fine kid is not the sort of leather that is needed in the army there is no reason why the very high shoe should not be worn with a clear conscience. But cloth tops are just as attractive and just as desirable as the kid and maybe a little easier to keep clean.
Oxfords and slippers will divide honors with high shoes for street and sports wear this summer. In all of them toes are somewhat pointed but not to the length of discomfort. Considerable decoration in perforations appears on all styles of shoes as may be gathered from the group pictured here which includes a high walking shoe, oxfords and a dress slipper. The high shoes are in black kid with common-sense Cuban heel. Wherever a seam is required for joining the different parts of the shoe, there perforations occur. And the toes have a small pattern that is purely decorative. The oxfords are in tan leather, finished in much the same way as the
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high boots and the slippers are in black and gray—very smart for wear with afternoon frocks and light summer dresses.
Julia Bottomley
The new linens for household use show a great deal more lace trimming than has been the fashion in some time, and the favored lace seems to be flet. Handsome towels of linen damask have strips of flet above the ham and above the flet a delicate hand embroidered pattern. Tea cloths show a flet edge with a line of hemstitching an inch above, and a flet square in one corner with hand embroidery trailing about it. An interesting card table cover is of white linen with a flet border and flet squares at each corner showing the card symbols—heart, diamond, club and spade—each worked delicately into the flet mesh. Lovely dresser sets have flet trimming in butterfly pattern, and to match these there are guestroom towels trimmed with the butterfly flet
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.
Teacher of English Bible in the
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR MAY 5
JESUS SETS NEW STANDARDS OF
LIVING.
LESSON TEXT-Mark 10:1:31
LESSON TEXT—Mark 10:1-31.
GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye first the king-
doms and His righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 8:33.
DEVOTIONAL READING—Ephesians
4:10-20.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
FOR TEACHERS—Geneesis 1:27; 2:18-25; Exodus
4:27; Matthew 18:1-14; 19:16-30; Luke 18:3-
26.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus and the childen.
LESSON MATERIAL—Mark 10:13-16.
MEMORY VERSE—Suffer the little
children to come unto Me, and forbid
them not.—Mark 10:14.
JUNOR TOPIC—How God would have
used the childen.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL—Exodus 20:
2:17; Leviticus 19:11-18; Matthew 22:34-40.
1. Regarding Marriage (vv. 1-12).
The question touching divorce, which the Pharisees temptingly put to Christ, brought forth teaching which exhibits marriage in its true light.
1. Should not be degraded by divorce (vv. 1-6).
Divorce was not instituted by God. The marriage relationship is indissoluble. Moses suffered divorce, limited and regulated it. Its existence, its practice, is indicative of the coarseness and perverseness of man. Sin is its real cause.
2. Marriage is God's primal law (vv. 6-9).
The ideal law of life for the subjects of the kingdom of marriage. This is proven by the fundamental fact of sex. The union of the male and female natures is physical, mental and spiritual. In marriage, the male and female natures are mutually complemented. God's intention is that man should not be without the woman, nor the woman without the man (1 Cor. 11:11).
3. Remarriage of the divorcer is adultery (vv. 10-12).
The marriage relationship can only be broken by death and sin. In view of the fact that marriage is for life, men and women should not enter this relationship without very serious consideration. Divorce for other than marital infidelity does not give the right to remarry.
II. Regarding Children (vv. 13-16). The union of the male and female natures, according to God's purpose, lays the foundation for family life. The issue of such union is children. In connection with the divine law of marriage, it is fitting that Jesus should set forth his estimate of children and interest in them. The disciples considered it beneath the dignity of the Master to spend time with the children. Those who think it beneath their dignity to give attention to children should ponder well the words of Jesus. This will give the disciples proper consideration for work among children, and also to the nurture and discipline of their own children. Christian men and women will regard children as the property of the Lord, and will esteem it a high and holy privilege to train them for him. Due attention to Christ's teaching regarding children would transform the home life of society.
III. Regarding Riches (vv. 17-31).
1. The young ruler's question (v. 17).
This question reveals a void in his heart. He was a young man with a lovable character. The Savior's affections were enraptured by him. He was moral, honest, earnest and courageous. He had a wrong conception of eternal life. He thought that eternal life could be obtained by good works. Though he claimed to have kept the law, he was conscious of something lacking. He was willing to do something to fill up that which was lacking; therefore he came to Jesus making inquiry as to that lack.
2. Jesus' reply (vv. 18, 19).
He knew the young man's heart, and put his finger on the weak spot. When it came to parting with his possessions in order to help his neighbor he parted with the Lord, going away sorrowful. This revealed the fact that he was a covetous man, a violator of the tenth commandment.
3. Lacking one thing and yet lost (vv. 21, 22).
When the Lord pointed out to him that the defect in his life was the love of his money, he was unwilling to pay the price. When the time came in his life to choose between eternal life and riches, he chose wealth and parted company with Christ, perhaps, forever.
4. The peril of riches (vv. 23-31).
The difficulty does not lie in the fact that a man possesses riches, for a man may possess great riches and still be an heir of the kingdom. Wealth is a mighty power. In itself it is good. It will provide bread for the widow and orphan, amelioration for the suffering, and send the Gospel of Christ to the ends of the earth. The step from possessing riches to trusting in them is a very short one. The tendency of growing wealth is to destroy the nobler life of the soul. Many of the most useful men in ancient and modern times have been men of wealth; but they, like Abraham, chose to live in tents, looking to the heavenly city which hath foundations. As long as a man possesses riches he is safe, but as soon as riches possess the man he is in deadly peril.
The Housewife and the War
(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) PLAN YOUR MEALS FOR A WEEK
THE CHEF'S WORK
With Her Meals Scheduled, the Housewife's Saturday Market Basket Can Bring Food for a Week. Except Some Perishables.
PLANNING MENUS WEEK IN ADVANCE
Satisfactory Answer to Question
"What Shall I Have for
Dinner?"
Definite Schedule Will Be Great Help in Avoiding Waste—Meals Suggested to Meet Food Administration's Requirements.
It will pay you, Mrs. Housekeeper, to sit down for an hour each week and spend the time in planning your week's menus in advance. Especially at this time when all are striving to conserve food, you will find a definite schedule a great help in avoiding waste.
Here are some menus for a week from a woman who believes in a working schedule for her household. The meals are carefully planned to meet, first of all, the food administration's requirements, using substitutes for wheat, meat, fat, and sugar, and they show also how a little careful planning can save the time and labor of the busy housewife. Features of the menus are the breadless meals and "quick breads" (muffins, etc.) made from other grains to save wheat, and the use of meat substitutes and savory dishes which call for little meat.
The meals suggested are all simple and are planned to meet the needs of a family of four, consisting of two adults and two children. None of the menus are inflexible but could easily be varied to meet changing conditions. You can use these as guides in planning your family meals.
The recipes for most of the dishes given in the accompanying menus are published in the United States Food Leaflets of the United States department of agriculture and the food ad-
A WEEK'S MEALS FOR FOUR
Breakfast.
Stewed dried apricots
Codfish balls
Hot wheat and oatmeal,
rolls and butter
Coffee for adults
Milk for children
SUN
Luncheon
Cheese
Stu
Ho
MON
Luncheon
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ministration. This woman works her schedule to save time, fuel, and labor. On Saturday she baked her oatmeal bread to last for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The rolls for Sunday were therefore ready to be reheated Sunday morning. The hen for the chicken loaf was cooked In the fireless cooker Saturday in one cooking compartment while a quantity of apricots was cooking in the other compartment. The codfish balls were made Saturday night, thus utilizing some mashed potatoes left from dinner. Twice the quantity of hominy grits required were cooked in the double boiler for Monday breakfast and utilized with the apricots left from Sunday to make the apricot-hominy scallop. In the same way enough apples were baked for two meals. Corn sirup was used to sweeten the baked apples and stewed fruit in place of sugar.
The stock from boiling the chicken served as the basis for chicken soup Tuesday, and the small quantities of left-over vegetables used for the vegetable salad Friday.
Instead of stopping each day to answer the question, "What shall I cook today?" answer it at one time for the whole week. Try the plan and see how much easier your work becomes.
Matrons for Rest Rooms.
In rest rooms employing matrons many activities can be carried on which otherwise would not be possible. The matron not only sees that the rose room is kept in a clean, sanitary condition at all times, but she may provide for a sleeping child or a system for providing hot lunches at noon for women and children. She may care for packages which otherwise might have to be carried from place to place. In some rest rooms the matron takes charge of the woman's exchange, which usually is supervised by a committee from the women's clubs.
Egg yolks, which are rich in fat and which are often left over from cake making, may be used to enrich soups or may be combined with milk to make custards which resemble cream in composition and can be used as cream, as on desserts.