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BEST DitT FOR CHILD ADVICE OF SPECIALISTS OF BU REAU AT WASHINGTON. preparations of Meat, Fish, Eggs, and Meat Substitutes Recommended ? Almost Innumerable Variety of Stews ls Possible. The following directions for the use of meat, fish, eggs, and meat substi tutes in the diet of a child three to " six years of age are taken from Farm ers' Bulletin No. 717, "Food for Young Children," prepared by specialists of the office of home economics, United States department of agriculture. Broiling and roasting are the best methods of preparing tender meat. Tough meat should he stewed or pre pared in a fireless cooker, or first chopped and then broiled. It is very Important to teach the very young ?mild to chew meat properly. Fried meats, particularly those which are pan fried or cooked in a email amount of fat, should not be given to young children. One reason lor this is that they are likely to be overcooked and tough, at least on the outside, and so are likely not to be properly chewed and to be swallowed In large pieces. Another reason is that the fat used in frying and also that which tries out of the meat is likely to be scorched and changed in composition. When this is the case, it Is almost certain to be harmful. Some recipes for cooking meat for Children follow: Many cuts of meat too tough to bo broiled whole may be prepared very satisfactorily by being chopped, salt j?d and broiled. Allow about one-half teaspoonful of salt to a pound of meat. Por very little children the meat .should be scraped instead of being chopped, for in this way the connec tive tissue is taken out. An egg or a little milk may also be added. The .most important point is careful han dling, for if the meat is pressed to gether it becomes tough and hard. If a wine broiler is used, the cakes Should not be squeezed between the two sides. To avoid this, lay them pa top of the broiler and turn them with a knife and fork. Stews made out of meat and veget ables offer a very great variety of .fiishes good in themselves and good Ideal Dinner for Child-Lamb Chop, Baked Potato, Spinach (Cut Fine), Rice and Milk, Bread and Butter. also because they encourage the eat ing of bread. The meat used should, of course, be in good condition but need not be from a tender cut. The .lower-priced cuts may be used with good results, provided they are made .tender by long, slow cooking. Any .Tegetable may be added, including tho tougher parts of lettuce, and the leaves of celery. Rice, barley, maca roni, or even, c rusts cf stale bread may be used in the stew tc give variety. A stew containing a little meat, with one cr more vegetables, and a cereal comes near to supplying all the need ed foods, other than milk. Cut the meat into small pieces, cover with boiling water, boil for five minutes, and then cook at a lower temperature until the meat is tender. This will require about three hours on the stove or five hours in the fire less cooker. Add carrots, turnips, onions, pepper and salt during the last hour of cooking, and the potatoes 20 minutes before serving. Thicken with the fi.our diluted with cold water. If the dish is made in the fireless cooker, the mixture must be reheated when the vegetables are put in. There is much to be said in favor of j keeping a soup pot on the stove all the time, provided great care is taken not to allow the contents to grow stale. Into this pot can go clean por tions of uncooked food and also clean foods left frcm the table, such as meat, milk, mashed potatoes or other vegetables, crusts, cold cereal mushes, ?nd even fruits. Soups made from jBuch materials may not have great nutritive value, but. like those made out of materials bought for the pur pose, they encourage the use of a large amount of bread, particularly if .-carefully seasoned. Chicken or turkey can be used for variety in children's diets. It is palat able stewed and served with rice. If ;roast chicken is used, select portions -which are tender. It is well not to give a young child either highly sea .soned stuffing (dressing) or rich The use of cured, fish, fresh fish and oysters in stews has been spoken of shove. Boiled or stewed fish is also good for variety. Eggs are especially useful food for young children. The chief point to remember in preparing them for chil dren is that they must not be over cooked or they are likely to cause in digestion, as experience has shown. Everyone knows how the heat of cook inf" hardens the egg, and it is easy to tmOorstand why the digestive juices mlfht have difficulty in penetrating ipeb hard substance as the white, of a hard-boiled egg. Overcooked yolks ?Iso thought to be hard to digest. ^However, when eggs are cooked in the ehelL'the heat reaches the white he fore it does the yolk, and so there le more danger of the white being over cooked than of the yolk. The best ways of serving eggs for children are poached, soft-boiled, or coddled, though they may be scrambled for a change if one is careful not to scorch the fat used or to overcook the egg. One of the most satisfactory ways of cooking eggs is by coddling and is done as follows: Allow a cupful of water to each egg, bring the water to the boiling point, remove it from the fire, put in the eggs, cover tho dish closely, and leave'the eggs in the wa ter for about seven minutes. Milk and eggs, as stated above, are common meat substitutes. Among vegetable foods, dried beans, peas, lentils, and cowpeas, which are often classed together and called legumes, are the best substitutes for meat in the diet, of older people, chiefly be cause they have large amounts of nitrogen needed for muscle building. In this respect they have some advan tage, though not a great one, over cereals. Beans and the other legumes are not to be recommended for young children except when milk, meat, eggs, fish, and poultry are not to be ob tained. When used they should be cooked until*they are reduced to a mush. Since the skins are likely to be tough, it is well to put the cooked legumes through a sieve. PERFECTION IN THE KITCHEN j One Secret of Successful Cooking is Having Proper Materials With Which to Work. Most housekeepers have -wondered at times why there is "a touch" about the best hotel cooking that amateurs can seldom get. It is not because the materials are superior or the recipes exclusive; home cooking can be better than hotel cooking so far as that is concerned. It is partly due to the very simple factor of heat and cold. In the hotel kitchen everything is hot that should be hot. and everything that should be cold is Just off the ice. The home kitchen may not be provid ed with huge refrigerators, warming tanks, and plate racks heated by steam, but that is no reason for not being up to date. Enamel double boil- I ers, an enameled bain-marie, even an enameled saucepan or frying-pan or balding dish set in tho top of a ket tle of boiling water, will keep any sort of dish hot without its being dried or scorched. And they are far easier to keep clean than tue elaborate copper and nickel fittings of the hotel. The other thing in which the chef is apt to be superior Is in the use of complex flavors in soups and sauces, and here again his creations can be ri valed with enameled soup-kettles and double boilers. The one thing that even some good cooks need tc learn is that the longer and slower the procesa ! of blending flavors the more perfect ?s I the blend. HODGE-PODGE" ECONOMICAL Can Be Fashioned From Any Scraps the Larder Affords and Makes a Most Satisfactory Meal. Having to live as cheaply as possi ble cn account of the war, we have invented a "hodge-podge." It is made of any scraps the larder affords. Veg etable hodge-podge is one of the best, and gives the idea for all. Take a I baking dish, put in a layer of finely- j cut-up tread (crusts of cold toast is . all right), next a layer of cold boiled j macaroni with tomato sauce (rice , will do as well) then ctld boiled cab bage, cauliflower or parsnins, or, in fact any cold vegetable, and a layer of cold potatoes; salt and pepper. Add | a few spoonfuls of gravy, if on hand. ; Repeat layer until dish is full; grate dry cheese generously on tcp. If not quite moist, add a little water. Put brewn bread crumbs cn tcp and heat thoroughly in the oven. It is surpris ingly gcod, and makes a most satis factory meal.-Woman's Home Com panion. Boiled Pork and Chill Sauce. Prepare the chili sauce before cook ing the meat and in a goodly quan tity, as it will keep for a considerable time; or use chili sauce already pre pared and bottled. The cultlets, taken i from the leg of fresh pork, should be 1 about half an inch in thickness. Place ! them between the bars of a double gridiron over a moderate fire, cook for about 20 minutes; when done place them on a hot dish, sprinkle ever a little salt and pepper, put a little but- : ter over them and serve with the j chili sauce in a boat. Buckwheat Cakes. To one and a half pints of pure buckwheat flour add half cupful of white flour and cornmeal, three heap- i ing teaspoonfuls of baking powder, j one teaspoonful of salt, one table spoonful of brown sugar or molasses. Sift all the dry ingredients together and add a pint of milk or water, or sufficient to form a smooth batter that will pcur easily (not too thin) from a pitcher. Oysters in Sauerkraut. Place in a baking dish alternately layers of cooked sauerkraut and oy sters, starting and finishing with the sauerkraut. On top place a few strips of fat bacon. Place in a hot oven for about half an hour, or until heated through, and serve at once. Changing Pillow Cases. In putting on fresh pillow cases, start the pillow into the case, then, holding it to you press against the wall, and the pillow will slip in easily, filling the corners. Candidates' Column FOR CONGRESS. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Representative in Con gress from the Second District of South Carolina, pledging myself to abide by the rules of the primary and to sup port the nominees thereof. JAMES F. BYRNES. I desire to announce to the people of the Second Congressional District that I am a candidate for the national House of Representatives. I will give my best services if elected and will at all times be faithful to the interests of my people. I respectfully ask your support. ALVIN ETHEREDGE. FOR SOLICITOR. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the Democratic nomination for Solicitor of the Eleventh Judicial Cir cuit, subject, to the rules of the Demo cratic Primary. J. W. COX. I am a candidate for the democratic nomination for Solicitor of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. GEORGE BELL Tl M M ERM AN. I am a candidate for the nomination for Solicitor of the eleventh Judicial Circuit in the approaching Democratic primary, I pledge myself to obey the law governing primary elections and to observe the rules of the party and to abide the result of this election. E. L. ASBILL. FOR STATE SENATOR. I announce myself a candidate for re-election to the State Senate, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. B. E. NICHOLSON. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. I respectfully announce that I am a condidate for re-election to the house of representatives and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic party. J. L. WALKER. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for re election to the House of Representatives from Edgefield county, subject to the rules and regu lations of the Democratic party. S. T. WILLIAMS. FUR CLERK OF COURT. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election to the office of clerk of court of Edgefield county and solicit the support of the people, pledging myself to abide the result of the primary election. W. B. COGBURN. To"the Citizens of Edgefield County: I announce myself as a candidate for Clerk of Court of Edgefield County, pledging myself to support the nomi nees of the Democratic Primary. W. M. WRIGHT. FOR SUPT. OF EDUCATION. I announce that I am a candidate for County Superintendent of Education subject to the rules of the democratic primary, and, if elected, pledge my efforts to the educational interests of our County. W. W. FULLER. FOR SHERIFF. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for re-election to 'the office of sheriff of Edgefield county and so licit the support of the people, pledg ing myself to abide the result ol' the Democratic primary. W. R. SWEARINGEN. I very respectfully announce my candidacy for the office of Sh-.-rilf of Edgefield county and will abide by the result ol' the primary election and sup port all the nominees of the Democratic partv. W. G. OUZTS. FOR SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of supervisor, and pledge myself to abide by the result of the Democratic primary, and support the nominees thereof. A. A. EDMUNDS. To the Citizens of Edgefield County: I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor of your coun ty, and if elected will try to serve the people as near right as I conceive, pledging myself to abide by the results of the election, and support the nominees of the democratic party. W. G. WELLS. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for the office of supervisor of Edgefield county and solicit the sup port of the people, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic pri mary election. J. M. BELL. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for the office of Supervisor of Edgefield county and solicit the sup port of the people, pledging myself, if elected, to serve the people to the best of my ability and to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. J. W. HUDSON. Morgana, S. C. I respectfully announce to the voters of Edgefield county that I am a candi date for the office of supervisor and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election. |R. J. MOULTRIE. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for the supervisor of Edgefield county and solicit the support of the people, pledging myself to abide by the result ol' the primary election. J. 0. SCOTT. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for the office of supervisor of Edgefield county and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election. R. N. BROADWATER. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. I take this means of announcing that. I am a candidate for the office of ! county commissioner and solicit the support of the people, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. J. W. CHEATHAM. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for the office of county com missioner of Edge*ield county and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. J. O. HERIN. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of county commissioner, and solicit the support of the people, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. JAMES DEVORE. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for the office of county com missioner and solicit the support of the people, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. GEORGE B. TIMMERMAN. Pleasant Lane, S. C. FOR MAGISTRATE. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for the office of magistrate of the 8th magisterial district of^Edge field county a.id pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. W. E. TURNER. I hereby a nnounce that I am a can didate for re-election to the office of magistrate of the 1st magisterial dis trict of Edgefield county and will abide the result of the Democratic primary. N. L. BRUNSON. I hereby announce that I am a candi date for the office of magistrate of the second magisterial district of Edge field county, pledging myself to abide the result of the primary election. WALLACE W. WISE. V Ford Automobiles We have the agency for Ford auto mobiles for the western part of Edge field county. There is no better car on the market for the money. The Ford owners who have thoroughly tested these cars will tell you that. If you want a car, drop us a card and we will call on you and demonstrate the Ford advantages. W. F. RUSH & CO. PLUM BRANCH. S. G. Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South Passenger train schedules, effec tive October 24, 1915. Trains arrive from No. Time 108 Augusta, Trenton 8:20 am 130 Columbia, Trenton 9:40 am 110 Aiken, Augusta 3:00 p m 106 Columbia, Augusta 8:30 pm Trains depart for No. Time 109 Trenton, Columbia 7:2u a m 129 Trenton, Augusta S:45 a m 131 Aug-Columbia-Aiken 11:45 am 107 Augusta, Columbia 7:30 p m Schedules published only as in formation and are not guaranteed. For further information apply to J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent. Edgefield S. C. iSTEItSPIU DIAMOND DIAMOND EBAIfD PILLS, for twentv-five years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS SSS EVERYWHERE XSTES 3*0 GEO. P. HIMS OPTOMETRIST! Eyes examined and glasses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, S. C. How To Give Quinine To Children. FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name Riven to an improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and docs not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness norrineinj? in the head. Try it the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The lame FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 25 cent*. How To Give Quinine To Children. FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name given to an improved Quinine, lt is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor ! cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try ' it the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The name FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 25 cents. Prescriptions . 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