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Howe About: War and Debt Temperance Plea Farming Situation ?. Bell dyodlcat*. ? WNU 8erVlc*. By ED HOWE THE people uever hud uuy sense; 1 j naven't much hope for the future, j either as to myself or others, uuce ; they kept a war going on thirty yeurs. ' . . . You may say we have more sense than that now. I am not so sure of It, Our last war was conduct ed on so magnificent a scale that the world became bankrupt In four years, and we had to quit; whereas It Is re- j lnted Kr*?5erlck the Great paid for his wars as he went along. When he quit, 1 he didn't owe a penny, and had no pensioners to move on his capital, and threaten to take It. Boys coming on soon supplied Frederick with more farmers ; food was produced again in a year. . . . But a war debt con stantly Increasing and drawing Inter I est, will ruin anybody. ? ? * I have noted that many people who annoy me, occasionally turn out to have a good deal of sense. One man sent me pamphlets dally for weeks, but finally the pamphlets were made Into a book called "TowaVd Liquor Control." I have read the book. It was written by a number of rather notable men employed by the Rocke feller foundation to look thoroughly lifto the problem of liquor control, and mnke a report about It. The book Is one of the best written, mo6t sensible and Important I have ever read. It Includes a review of our general American shlftlessness In pub . 11c affairs, and which has finally al- ] most bankrupted us morally as well as i financially. I recommend the book 10 everyone who believes a little In com- ; mon sense and decency, and in pre- ! serving the little civilization we have ( managed to achieve. The book Is a plea for temperance j not only as to Intoxicating liquors, but In everything else. We are very In temperate In our eating, in sex mat- ' ters; in all phases of public afTalrs. In education, religion we must become ; ashamed of our intemperance, or we shall be humiliated before the world more than we have been lately. Not less than 88 per cent of our In dustrial workers are hampered by Im proper diet ; of all money spent by their ^ families on food. 78 per cent Is mis- j ? spent, either on Improper or too costly or otherwise uneconomic dietaries. This disgraceful percentage holds In everything else we do. Americans became so rich we j reached the Coal Oil Johnny stage In I extravagance and shlftlessness. and we must do better, as Coal Oil John ny did In the poor house. Although he said a poor-house diet would kill him, after living so long on terrapin and turkey, It actually result ed In better health; actually assisted In restoring him to sanVty and Indus- j try. ? ? ? When I was a boy, and my father farmed and preached the old gospel, we occasionally had a horror. Once a farmer drove Into Pole creek after ! a rain, and was drowned. His horses ; drowned with him. It was terrible, but we didn't have : excitement often. Once- a man had nose-bleed for days, and constantly i grew weaker, as nothing could be done to stop It. We all went over to look at him; everyone was excited. Once a man was bitten on the thumb by a j rattlesnake. He had cut down a hick- j or.v tree, to get the nuts, and the ac- i cldent happened while he was picking | them up. The man put his thumb In < his mouth, and sucked the poison out I We talked about that for davs. An- j other time a farmer came home from i town drunk, and everybody ran over to his house to suggest a remedy. One woman suggested that he drink a pan t of milk. She had lived In a town In Indiana, where we all came from, and knew about such things; and the man i got well. The Civil war was going on then. ' and nn occasional soldier came home on furlough with tall tales to tell, but j we had no such terrors as I henr of ; everv morning and evening now. when | I get the papers. Somewhere the oth er dnv the members of n family w "ro ; eating supper, when nn airplnne fell 1 on their house. The house and seven persons were burned up. with the , neighbors looking on; all they could do wns to snve the house next door. Tn my day. farmers were at least ?teady men; now they are rioting. * | thing I never heard of even town men " doing until I waR a man grown. We were poor people, but always had plenty. Now farmers say they are starving. Millions of them actual ly have starved In Russia, because town men take what the farmers raise. In my boyhood we hardly ever Raw ? town man; Rpeclally they didn't come out carrying guns, and tell us what part of our corn we could keep, and what part they wanted to support the . government's N. A. IV D? which means n new and better deal. ? ? ? I have long observed that when I am out of condition. I can get prompt re suits by eating less; by missing s meal or two. and behaving better In othei respects. There are a few things the bulk of the people have nev er learned. One Is that they must he their own doctors, their own philosoph er#-? their own relief bureau. A great scientist says that nothing tn the stndy of the stars, of the soul, of the old Oreeks. has interested him as has the stud* of his own body; of regnlst It. subduing It. getting blessing* Instead of cnrses from It Sauces of Superior Flavor i\oblem of Lumps in the . Ever-Popular Cream Con coction Disposed Of; Other Recipes That May Be Relied On to Win Approval. A somewhat discouraged housewife addressed this question to an au thority on matters culinary, "Why is It that whenever 1 make a cream sauce it always becomes lumpy?' and is thus advised: "1 can answer that by giving you the sample method which I use my self for cream sauce. I melt the but ter, remove it from the lire, and stir in the flour and seasoning. When this is absolutely smooth, I pour In graudally, stirring, as I do so, about half the amount of cold milk called for in the recipe. I then put the saucepan back over the tire and stir the mixture until It Is smooth. I add the rest of the milk and continue stirring until the mixture is smooth and thick. I then let it boll about two minutes, stirring occasionally so as to prevent it sticking. In case I make more than two cups of white sauce at one time I heat the milk In order to save time and the labor of stirring for a long time. It seems to me that two minutes' boiling is long enough to produce a good flavor ?that Is to sny, to get rid of the raw flavor which uncooked flour has. If you have plenty of time you may cook the sauce in the top of a double boiler over the direct heat, and after it thickens set It over hot water and cook ten minutes. He sure to keep It covered during this period. "Many other sauces may be mado by this foundation method. If a bit of onion is cooked with the butter and a well seasoned stock is added instead of the milk, you will have a brown sauce which is appropriate for serving with meats. If you use water instead of milk, and flavor the sauce with lemon juice and extra butter, you will have a very good fish sauce. If you use tomato pulp which bus been cooked with onions, a bay leaf and a few cloves and then strain you will have a very good to mato sauce. If .you use three-quar ters water and one-quarter vinegar, and season with mustard and a lib eral amount of sugar, you will have a sauce which Is particularly good to serve with ham. Flam fnt mny be used Instead of butter. "To go back to our original recipe for white sauce, you may make It richer and more colorful by stirring a little of the white sauce mixture Into an egg yolk or two and return ing this to the original mixture to beat well and to heat. If you add to this a little lemon Juice you will have a good imitation of hollandaise sauce. Another delicious variation of this same sauce may be made by using half cream and half milk, as well as the egg yolk. To the plain white sauce you may add minced cooked onions or grated cheese, or a little anchovy or sardine paste. These sauces go particularly well with poached or hard-boiled eggs." Tomato Sauce. 1 teaspoon chopped onloti 1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons flour V4 cup water 1 cup tomato (stewed or strained) Pepper 1 teaspoon salt Cook the onion and bay leaf In melted bi/ttpr until golden brown. Remove from - (> fire, add the flour, and stir until smooth. Add the wa ter. tomato and seasoning. Boll three minutes, stirring constantly. Strain and serve with conked meats or flsh. Sugar may be added with the seasoning. Tripe a la Creole. GRAS-DOUBI,E A I. A CREOLE 2 pounds of tripe 2 onions 1 tablespoon of butter 1 square Inch of lenn ham 2 cloves of Karllc 3 sprigs finch of thyme nn<l bay leaf 2 pound cans tomatoes Knit and pepper to taste A dash of cayenne Clonn the tripe well and boll till tender. Cut It Into slices two Inches long and hnlf un Inch wide, sliced One. Add butter. Chop uhoiil mit Inch of lean ham very tine, and add. IJrown in a saucepan two cloves of garlic, chopped line, with three sprigs each of thyme and hay leaf, minced very line. Add tomatoes. Season all to taste with salt and cayenne pepper. Let this cook 15 minutes, then add the tripe, and let all cook for 25 minutes. Season <o taste, and serve hot. White Sauce. 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour >4 teaspoon salt Pepper 1 cup milk Melt butter, stir In flour and sea soning and when well blended add milk gradually. Stir over a low lire until smooth and thick, nnd boll two minutes. iS, Ucll Syndlcato. ? WNU Service. NIGHT NOT BEST TIME FOR STUDY, SAYS EDUCATOR The proverb that "one hour's sleep betore midnight Is worth two hours' afterward," tfsuaTiy^s ridiculed by physicians. Most of them maintain" that while eight hours' sleep Is necessary at some time during the twenty-four, it makes little difference when it Is ob tained. A recent German Investigation tends, however, to cast doubt on this medical opinion and to confirm the ancient proverb, says Dr. ter- E. Free, in his Week's Science (New York) : "Dr. Theodor Stockmann, princi pal of a school In Duisburg, noticed that one of his pupils was falling be hind In school work, and was becom ing more and more lazy and sleepy. "Inquiring into this young man's sleep habits, Doctor Stockmann found that he was studying late at night and sleeping late in the morn ing. Change of this habit so that the pupil slept before midnight and woke very early In the morning to study caused remarkable Improve ment in school work and In health. Doctor Stockmann then tested the same Idea on seventeen other pupils, averaging about nineteen years old. All turned out to be In better health and to do better school work when they habitually got four or Ave hours' sleep before midnight and got up at three or four o'clock In the morning to do their studying. "Two pupils who worked part of the day also found themselves In bet ter health and more successful in their studies when they went to bed immediately after supper and did their school work between midnight and dawn. Ills observations also suggest, Doctor Stockmann reports to the German medical profession, that less than ,elght hours' sleep may be enough, at least for young people, provided all of It Is obtained before midnight." ? Literary Digest. Whose Fault? When a Child Wo n't Study "Kept after school!" And it isn't the child's fault, or the teacher's. His mother is to blame. How can a boy get his lessons when his senses are dulled day after day by dosing with sickening punjjatives? When a child's bowels ar^stagnant they need help, of course But not some drastic drug to upset the stomach, perhaps weaken the entire system: Here's a boy who gets good marks, has time and energy for play He is never ill, hardly ever has so much as a cold. When he does show any symptoms of being sluggish, his mother knows just what to do. She gives him a little California Syrup of Figs ? and that is all. It s a natural, fruity laxative that is agreeable to take, and its gentle laxative action comes from senna. or form the laxative habit. On the right, parents will find a happy solution of this problem: Parents ore urged to use just pure California Syrup of Figs. Be sure bottle says 'California'. It'? Worth It An active Imagination Is worth having, but It Inflicts worry on you. Above the Here A real nristocrnt Is one who sim ply can't be common. 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