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RY VEGETABLES FOR WINTER USE May 3e Used in Cooking in About Sa:ne Manner as Fresh Varieties Are Employed. 6G0D MIXTURES FDR SOUPS Housekeeper Should Remember That Only Vegetables That Absorb Water and Ccok at Equal Rates Can Be Combined. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Various dried or evaporated vege tables may be used iu cookery iu most of the ways in which fresh materials are employed. They may find their widest usefulness, however, ia soup mixtures or in the preparation of the ever popular old-fashioned vegetable bolled dinuer. Drying permits the serving- of . any fuvorite vegetable combination at any and all seasons'of the year. For those who wish to make a vege table mixture that will have the max imum food value and at the same time be as nearly as possible a complete or balanced ration, the formulas used in making evaporated soup mixtures for the liritish armies may serve ns guides. One of these mixtures con tains 20 per cent each of potatoes, turuipc and peas, 17 per cent each of carrots, and beans, and 6.per cent of onions. In another, the combina tion is 37 per cent of Rotatoes, 19 per cent euch of carrots and turnips, 10 per cent euch of onions aud cabbage, and 2% per cent each of beans and peas. Differ From Prepared Product The dried vegetable soup mixtures on sale differ principally from these Co.okstove Drier Will Dry Vegetables Quickly and Successfully. formulas in having in most instances a larger percentage of potato, In the absence of beans and peas, and in having various minor additions, such as beets, celery, radishes aud toma toes. In making up combinations of dried vegetables, the housekeeper should re member that the mixture must subse quently be soaked and cooked as a unit, and only vegetables that absorb water and cook at approximately equal rates can be successfully com bined in a dry condition. Such mate rials as the root vegetables, cabbage, celery, tomatoes aud onions behave alike both in their absorption of water and in cooking, according to special ists of rlie United States Department of Agriculture. Any desired com bination can be made from them. Dried corn and mature peas and beans absorb water very much more slowly and must be cooked from two to three times as long as materials in the Hst Just given. For this reason they cannot be mixed with other vegetables before soaking. Instead, they should be separated, soaked, and partly cooked. Then the other vege .taboos desired in the mixture, after previous soaking, may be added and the whole cooked until done. How to Dry Vegetables. Practically all vegetables, after'be ing sliced or otherwise made *endy for the drier, should he blanched from one to three minutes In boiling water or steam before drying. They should then be drained and spread in a very thin layer on the shelves of the drier. ,From time to time the trays should be withdrawn and the contents care fully stirred so the product will dry evenly. When thoroughly dry the product should be removed from the drier and placed In a dark airy room free from insects. Stir occasionally during the severn! days lt Is left there to erre. Then heat carefully again for a few minutes and store In tin cans, heavy pasteboard boxes, or paraffined bags. Cover tightly to exclude Insects and store In a room which ls warm and dry. MEASURING CUP AND SPOONS Devices Enable Housekeeper to Weigh Out Correct Amounts in Follow ing New Recipe. Cake makiug Is not "pure luck." A half-pint measuring cup (^lass ' or metal) for measuring the Hour and sugar and a standard set of measur ing spoons for measuring the butter and baking powder will help in fol lowing P few recipe, say specialists In the exp?rimentai kitcktft of the Uni ted States Department of Agriculture. POINTS' OUT HUSBAND'S DUTY Writer Insists No Man May Stand in the Lightvof His Wife's Domes tic Ambitions. "Puzzled husband" writes us that he is sorely tried by his wife's ambi tion to bake the family bread, and other things. Kls domestic affection and spirit of chivalry will uor permit bim to' tel! his wife the truth-that the bread is almost as heavy as a pav ing stone and quite as Indigestible. So he goes to work every morning with a heavy heart and an even heavier stomach, and is bedeviled with gripes1 and abdominal pains, all day. Greene M. Farley writes in the Seattle Post [ntelligencer. Not only 'that, but his wife ls a con stant reader of domestic science de partments and she uses him as an ex periment station. Tlr* hist week, he Rays, lie had biscuits that would do for sinkers on a fish line and an angel cake that could not be, differentiated from old putty. The heartrending fea ture is that she asks him with a bright smile how he likes lt all, and he cannot find it in his breast to tell th? jruth about it; so he lies frankly and tyholehpartediy. . All this is getting on his nerves ana on his stpmach and on his conscience in the course of a little time he feels his life insurance ia going to bs due. Should he tell her the trutlj, or Bhould he suffer in silence and let her go ahead and collect the life insur ance? . If life Is worth anything to Mm he might conclude to tell her the truth end let her go ahead and procure hei divorce. She might find a second hus band with a cast-iron digestive appa ratus and the present husband ought not to stand in the way of his wUWto career as a domestic scientist SHRINES BEYOND ALL PRICE United States Has Many That Are Itv expressibly Dear to the Hearts of the People. This old Plymouth church belongs to the noble dead, to the living only as trustees, but by way of pre-emi nence lt belongs to the generations that are as yet unborn. Civilization Journeys forward partly on books, partly upon the memorial days of great men, who are builders of the state, apon organized laws and finally upon ?lstorie buildings. No one can fully value thf Influence of the Temple In Jerusalem upon ta? 'Hebrew state. In like manner the| Parthenon was Ilise an invisible teach er, whose strong hands shaped the plastic soul of the Gre?k race. There are half a dozeti buildings In Great Britain, including Westminster abbey and St. Paul's, and to take those buildings out oC England's life would be like taking "he Intellect out of man's body. The people of the United States have but a brief history, only three cen turies, but they have Independence hall. Mount Vernen, that shaft at Get tysburg, Faneuil hall, Old South church, Lincoln's house and shrine at Springfield, and cid Plymouth church, priceless shrines for the American peo ple.-Newell Dwight Hillls. Mexicans Are Great Walkers. There is a faying lu Europe that ?be Spaniards are the champion walk ers of the world, and certainly their defendants in America, th? Mexicans, art the champions of the new world. Three nights every week there is a concierto in the main downtown plazu In Monterey ano nearly all the Amer icans in town, including niaay big, husky transients on the way to or from Tampico, sit on the park benches and watch iu wonder while the Mexi cans walk. All the young people In town, It ap pears, walk around and around and around that plaza, the boys in ons direction and the girls in the opposite direction, while their parents and chaperons und a few aged people share the benches with the buskj^ Americans. Ttiis Monster Was Battler. The curators of the Launceston and Tascanian museums huve presented to the Royal Society of Tasmania the pre liminary account of a nearly complete skeleton of a giganticfextlnct monster, recently discovered in the pleistocene beds of Tasmania. The animal was os targe as the largest existing rhinostferos. The new discovery shows cleaiiy that It was a rhinoceros-like animal, with a skull built for aggressive warfare, and at ieast one rowerful horn on the snout Evidence of the gigantic battles ic which this animal engaged is to be found in the complete smashing and partial mending of the collar-bone, and In the crushing and subsequent repair of the bones of the nose and snout. Embroidery Ardent Art The art of embroidery has been practiced from time immemorial-it is said to be as old as the art of dress ing. The mummy clothes of ancient Egypt show the earliest extant em broidery and the "pome-granates of blue and purple and .scarlet" of the book of Exodus were of embroidery. The art reached i? height In the early middle ages. In Greece and Rome laws were made to moderate Its use, but without success. The most distinguished artists did not count lt condescension to wake the designs frohi which the highest ladies in the hind executed their embroideries. No workers were more eklMed ia tte vet \bsn the 'English. r. \ COURT SETS VALUE ON TREES I - j Decision That Will Be of Interest to Many Communities Throughout the Country. In Salem, Mass., a resident sued the town gas light company for damages caused by the killing of five shade trees through the escape of gus from a ' leaky main. A verdict for $1,000 against the-company was rendered $200 u tree. The decision is said to have been awaited with a good deal of interest by surrounding towns, for tree killing from this euuse is a com mon thing. It has happened many times in Indianapolis, according to re port; though complaints have not been heard lately with the frequency that characterized them l ack in the days when natural gas was piped through the- streets, hastily and no doubt often carelessly. The killing of a thrifty, well-grown shade tree is usually a distinct loss to any property, commonly lowering Its value. In view of the time required for the growth of such trees $200 ls a moderate sum in the way of damages, and no amount of money, when it conies to that, can really recompense the owner of the trees. They have to him, especially if he planted and cared for them, a sentimental value that dol lars cannot measure. They have added beauty to his home and he has counted them among his treasures. To a real tree lover, a beautiful tree, whether his own or not, seems almost to pos sess a personality of Its own and to see lt struggle for life and gradually die, brings real sorrow. It is to view a calamity.-Indianapolis Star. SIMPLE FOUNTAIN FOR LAWN Easily Constructed of Cheap Materials, and Adds Greatly to Attractive.? ness of Grounds. This fountain has a double bowl or basin formed by placing a high-voltage Insulator about IS Inches In diameter over a %-inch pipe that is connected with the water-line. On the end of the pipe ls a coupling having a smal nipple and over this ls j Although Made of Simple Material, This Fountain Is Attractive. attached au automobile-tire dust-cap, which Is pierced with many holes about as small as the point of a pin. This cap fits down to the shoulder of the coupling.-Popular Science Month ly. Advancement Everywhere. The national agencies engaged in rural social work are reported as be ginning to co-operate in their pro grams. The rural church' Is grappling with its peculiar problem in a dynamic manner. The rural home is being re constructed in a new and encouraging way as a center of all social ^organ isation. Rural government and legis lation are undergoing a far-reaching change. Country communities are thinking about country planning and "art as integral parts of commuity life. Hoad building in country districts is proceeding with unprecedented rapid-" ?ty, and the country life movement ls on the verge of an international un derstanding.-Exchange. Untactful. Brown was the possessor of very large feet and a very bad cough. He entered, a boot shop and the young as sistant turned the shop upside down to find something to fit him. Brown had just tried on the fortieth pair when he started coughing. "jXasty cough" said the assistant. "Yes." gasped Brown. "Doctor snys I've got one foot in the grave." "I shouldn't worry," said the assist ant. "You'll never get the other in; it's too big!" Solved. Uncle III had just passed his flrsl night in a hotel and was still curious. "Son," he inquired* of a bellhop, "what's that funny contraption out the window?" "That's the fire escape." replied the youth. "By hickory! I wondered what made lt so dad-blamed cold in here last night."-American Legion Weekly. Too Much to Expect. Jud Tunkins says he doesn't hope for a general drop in prices to equal tlie < a tiuit takes place when you come to sell a brand-new tlivver that you have run a couple of days. Look about your office and see what you need in office stationery. We are better equipped than ever to supply your printing needs. We have re ceived new type faces and carry a well selected as sortment of paper of all kinds. WE CAN PRINT ON SHORT NOTICE TYPEWEITER HEADS LETTER HEADS NOTE.HEADS BILL HEADS STATEMENTS ENVELOPES CARDS CIRCULARS CIRCULAR LETTERS MINUTES [CATALOGUES BRIEFS We guarantee satisfaction on every job of print ing we do. Your money back if you are not sat isfied. 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