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THE SEMI-W’EEKI.Y JOCRXAL. Atlanta. Ga.
Tariff by Commission.
That the tariff, often raised, often lowered —the
anbject of never ending controversy between the
two principal political parties—is about to enter a
new phase is brought to mind by the recent appoint
ment by President Wilson of Professor Frank W.
Taussig, head of the department of economics at
Harvard university, to the tariff commission created
at the last session o( congress.
Tariffs in the past have been raised too often at
rhe dictation of the interests that the raise would
most benefit without consideration of the consumer
public. Tariffs in the past have been lowered too
often without the exact knowledge of the conditions
effected The tariff in other words seems to have
been the football of partisan politics in its most
partisan manifestations. One of the chief things
about the new tariff commission is that it is to be
nonpartisan and from a nonpartisan viewpoint
will wtudy trade conditions and tendencies here
and abroad, the cost of production and raw mate
rials. in other words, the whole subject of manufac
turing and marketing in its world aspects and out
of this study and investigation will submit reports
upon which tariff changes can be made with justice
to producer and consumer alike.
That the appointment of Professor Taussig, who
will likely be chairman of the commission, is in ac
cordance with this large purpose of the commission
is evident from the comment of such influential in
dependent dailies as the New York Evening Post
and the Springfield Republican.
"President Wilson is to be heartily congrat
ulated,** says the Post, “on the auspicious start that
will be given to the work of the newly created tariff
commission through its chairmanship being filled by
Professor* Taussig. His qualifications for that post
are unique, but it seemed for a time doubtful that
®he could be induced to undertake its burdens. Pro
igssor Taussig is not only the best equipped man in
tftr country for this position in point of knowledge
£hd training but the most extraordinarily judicial
temper.of his mind will cause any judgments he
pronounce on controverted questions to be ac
cepted on all sides with a degree of confidence
which those of no .other man that we can think of
would be likely to command.”
Os Professor Taussig’s qualification the Repub
lican says:
“He is Jf low tariff man bnt he is thoroughly
scientific and moderate as his writings on the
tariff will adequately demonstrate. His high,
standing in the field of economics should at
once avail to win prestige for the tariff com
mission for no one can believe that Professor
Taussig could be in the least controlled by po
litical ’considerations.’’
It will be a long time yet before the tariff will
be taken out of politics but ft fs at least gratifying
that the v*ay has been cleared for the solution of
this vexed question to be approached other than
through extreme partisanship.
Freeing the South's
Live Stock Resources.
Field workers and officials of the federal Bureau
of Animal Husbandry are assembled in Atlanta
for a conference that is of cardinal importance to
Georgia and the entire South. The purpose of the
meeting is to plan a campaign to eradicate the
cettle £ick from four hundred and "nineteen thou
sand square miles of territory now under quaran
tina.
This undertaking is deeply significant not only
to persons directly engaged in cattle raising, but
also to owners of land that is usable for stock farms
or ranches. It is significant, indeed, to every mate
rial interest of the State and the section, because
in the development of live stock industries lies one
of the main sources of the South’s enrichment and
upbuilding. The eradication of the cattle tick will
remove the last Serious obstacle to the extensive
development of those industries in this region.
4 decade ago more than seven hundred and
twenty-eight thousand square miles were under fed
eral quarantine because of tick infection. Under
such conditions, progress in cattle raising was well
nigh impossible* But jlhrough the co-operative
efforts of the National and State Departments of
Agriculture, pome three hundred and nine thousand
square miles of this territory has been freed en
tirely and the task of freeing the remainder ren
dered comparatively simple.
It is a matter of record that within the past
five years, after the work of combatting the tick
was fully under wav, the South has made greater
progress in the cattle industry than in all the fifty
>ears preceding. Further, according to a recent
bulletin from the federal Department of Agricul
ture, there has been more progress in the South
during past five years than in any other sec
tion.
.Evidently, then, when this pest is wiped out,
as it certainly will be through continued co-opera
tion, the South will become one of the world’s great
centers of cattle raising. By every natural cir
cumstance. it is ideally suited to animal husbandry.
It's climate fs mild and Its pasturage abundant, so
that the cost of housing and feeding stock is re
duced to a minimum. There are hundreds of thou-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917.
[ sands of acres of Southern land which are well sit
j uated and well conditioned for stock raising and
which, moreover, can be bought at prices far
cheaper than Western lands. When the danger of
tick infection is out of the way, there will be a re
markable development in those now idle areas.
Indeed, the development already has begun, on
the assurance that all hindrances to the expansion
of live stock interests in the South will lie over
come in the course of anpther five or ten years.
A notable enterprise ofithe kind was projected re
cently by the Georgia Land and Livestock Company,
of Savannah. This company has acquired in Mc-
Intosh and Liberty counties a tract of one hundred
and twenty-eight thousand acres on which it ex
pects to graze twenty thousand head of cattle and
ten thousand head of sheep, and to conduct kindred
undertakings of large importance.
When the cattle tick menace is a thing of the
past, enterprises of this kind will be numbered by
scores; vast areas of land now idle will be turned
to productive uses: packing houses, already on the
increase, will multiply more rapidly than ever; and
the South will become the nation’s center of meat
supply.
The Shippers Meeting at Macon.
The shippers of Georgia have been called to a
conference at Macon on January 17 by W. C. Ve
reen, president of the Georgia Shippers’ association.
Not only are the members of the association wanted
for this meeting but every one who sends or re
ceives freight by rail in Georgia. The conference is
for the purpose of drawing more specific plans for
opposition to the hampering increases of intrastate
freight rates proposed by the railroads of this
State.
By extensive and expert investigation, the ship
pers have arrived at the figures which show the
harmful effect the proposed rate idcreases will have
on the business not only of industrial and commer
cial enterprises but of individuals as well. These
figures and the results that will flow from them
will be presented to the meeting and effective means
for preventing this unnecessary burden on the pro
ducers of Georgia will be sought.
The deeper the shippers go into the subject of
the raises desired by the roads on freight transpor
tation, within the borders of this state, the greater
is their amazement that the roads should, in effect,
purpose to put a throttling hand upon the rising
movement for home enterprises and home products.
The intrastate increases such as are intended by the
roads constitute nothing other than an unwarranted
tax on the business between Georgia citizens and be
tween Georgia manufacturing enterprises and
Georgia individuals and firms who would patron
ize them and who in turn would be patronized by
the manufacturies in the purchase of raw ma
terials.
The whole state through the work of public
spirited men and organizations is aroused on the
subject of Georgia products. Georgia capital and
Georgia brains have brought packing houses and
orchards and hundreds of other varied enterprises
to an admirable degree of service and efficiency.
Stock, and cattle raising has been encouraged.
Many forms of diversified farming have shown the
way to relief from the ancient one-crop system
and have effected preparedness against the coming
of the boll weevil. It is against having the way
of this hard-won advance barred by excessive
freight rates that the shippers of this state are
now battling. • .
In the light of these things the meeting at
Macon assumes especial imiyirtance. It should
have a large and representative attendance and its
best brain an# energy should be devoted to an ad
ditional strong showing before the state railroad
commission against the proposed freight increases.
The Land Show and Its Meaning.
Land is rightly considered the essential source
of all wealth. From it is evolved in some form
food, raiment and shelter-—the three great requi
sites of life. Everything else is but embellishment
and enhancement of these. Man’s instinct for the
land and love for it, therefore, come as the edict
of nature. He finds health there, he finds wealth
there, he finds happiness there. The desire to own
land is never failing, and ownership brings with it
a certain pride beyond that of other possessions.
These facts account in large measure for the
great interest already aroused by merely tLe pre
liminary announcements of the Southeastern Land
show to be held here at the Auditorium from Feb
ruary 1 to 15. There may be shows of this and
shows of that, which afford interest and even great
interest to certain groups of individuals and asso
ciations, but a land show with its unfailing human
concern and the wide sweep of its possibilities
draws the attention and fixes the interest of every
one.
The southeast teems with opportunities, indus
trial, commercial, agricultural, but its greatest re
cource still remains Its land, unused land waiting
only the energizing touch of capital and labor to
respond in hundredfold and add to the wealth of
the owner and to the progress of the section.
What is in the states comprising the southeast
and what can be done here has not yet been ade
quately told the world. Money and population have
not flow’ed here commensurate with the resources
of this great section and the reason is that they
have been attracted away by the better advertising
but not the better opportunities of other parts of
the country.
The state of California stands as an example of
a state of wonderful attractions wonderfully pre
sented to the world. And no small factor in this
presentation have been the land shows held at
San Francisco which for a period of thirty years
have served as show windows for the greatness of
California and the Pacific coast. And the world
parsing by has seen and stopped and gazed and en
tered and bought. Land shows with similar fruit
ful results have been held for years in Chicago and
other principal cities of the United States.
• The Show here in February is held under the
auspices of the Georgia Chamber of commerce and
under the management of the Southeastern Land
Show association. Its purposes are more partic
ularly stated in the attractive folder announce
ments issued by the association which are in part
as follows:
“The land show will be of the highest value ,
in educating the people of the southeast as to
the productive possibilities of their section —
what to grow and how to grow it and where
and how to market what they grow. It will
combine the features of a bazar, not only for
the showing and sale of lands but for the ex-
hibition and sale of the products of the farm,
forest, the factory, the quarry and the mine.
It means the. bringing into the southeast in
vestors and settlers from afar; the winning of
more people back to the soil; better roads
and a better country; and a larger home-grown
food supply for the south.”
It will form an attractive feature of the stop
over visits of winter tourists on their way to south
ern resorts. It will constitute an open and easily
read answer book to their queries of “What is the
South, what does it possess, what does it yield, and
where exactly are its varied activities and possibil
ities located?” To the visitor from other parts of
the country and to the visitor from this section
itself, to both alike, it will reveal not with extrav
agant boasting but with accurate map and chart
and the exhibit of the actual product how Plenty
smiles on southern soil under southern sun.
The land show is an enterprise that bears so
directly and fruitfully upon the progress of the
southeast that it should have the whole-hearted
support of every wide-awake citizen and organiza
tion throughout the states comprising this section.
Wasting Ten Billion a Year.
That interesting economist, Prof. Rudolph
Binder, calculates that the American people waste
at least ten billion dollars a year. This means, as
he says in the New York Sun. that “out of every
dollar earned, forty cents counts for naught. It
means, our population being reckoned at one hun
dred million, that positive waste and lack of thrift
together costs each of us one hundred dollars a
year. It means that vast opportunities for national
wealth and power are being neglected or flung
away.
No wonder eggs are almost a luxury, says Prof.
Binder, because careless handling of them results
in an annual loss which is figured conservatively
at' forty million dollars, “and is probably nearer
sixty millions at the present time.” Irish potatoes
now cost at a rate which Hercules would have
considered high for the apples of the Hesperides.
This is not due wholly to a crop shortage, for it
appears that’ some twenty-five million dollars’
worth of potatoes are lost each year through rot
ting, which could be prevented easily by the adop
tion of drying processes. The high cost of living
is, in part at least, the high cost of carelessness.
The destruction of crops by insect pests
amounts to six hundred and fifty-nine million dol
lars a year, and the loss of animal life in the same
way two hundred and sixty-seven millions.
Most of these pests can be reduced to a minimum,
if not eradicated; science has shown the way.
Failure to adopt available remedies and preventives
is willful waste.
Other sources of great waste as computed by
Prof. Binder are: fires, $250,000,000 a year;
floods, $238,000,000; industrial diseases, $772,-
000,000; preventable diseases and accidents, sl,-
500,000,000; the more obvious kinds of inefficiency,
$702,000,000.
The effect of these drains and losses is felt by
individuals in a burdensome cost of living; even
tually it will be felt by nation in an impairment of
national strength. This larger aspect of the situa
tion is stated well by the economist when he says:
“Don’t let us forget that we are going to
face the bitterest kind of commercial rivalry
when peace is restored. The partly impover
ished belligerent nations will be able to re
habilitate themselves financially only through
foreign trade. They are going to cultivate their
alien markets and to widen their fields of com
merce. In this great struggle, not inaptly
called the war after the war, efficiency of pro
duction and national economy are going to
help potently in determining who shall be the
victors. Productively the European nations
now at war are going to be more efficient than
ever before, and likewise accustomed to sac
rifice and to more modest standards of living.
In view of our extravagance, our inefficiency
and our spirit of wastefulness, where are we
going to stand when the day of battle comes?”
While it is painfully evident that the American
people have lacked the sense of thrift which is es
sential to a nation’s endurance, there are hearten
ing signs of a change to wiser ways. Our larger
industrial and business concerns are becoming con
tinually more efficient. The attitude of the public
and of government toward the question of con
serving the country’s natural resources has changed
from indifference to solicitude. And there is rea
son to believe that little by little the average in
individual is learning what an .important and
really admirable thing is thrift.
Spring is on the way. Already the belligerents
are preparing to make a subdivision of Europe.
Buffalo Bill.
The passing of William Frederick Cody at’
Denver, Colorado, removes an interesting and
picturesque figure in American history. A link he®
was between the West that is and the West that
has gone to return no more. His life was full of
action and color. Such a life always commands
attention. It seems, indeed, particularly to en
dear itself to the American mind. Colonel Cody’s
hold upon the imagination of Americans, young
and old. lay in the fact that he typified to them
the endurance, the daring and the resourcefulness
of the pioneer settlers of this country as they
moved, slowly westward to the Pacific—the drama
of our national life unmatched for thrills.
In 1867 when the Kansas Pacific railway was
being constructed across the western plains and
buffaloes then were numerous, he entered into con
tract to supply the laborers engaged in this great
undertaking with buffalo meat. It is stated that
within eighteen months he had killed for JJie road
commissaries 4,280 of these animals. Hence the
name “Buffalo Bill” by which he was known
throughout his later life. Previous to this he had
been a rider in the pony express of the West and in
I the Civil war was a Federal cavalry scout. He played
a prominent part in the battles with Indians after
the sixties. One of hig most notable exploits was
the killing of the Cheyenne chief. Yellow (land, in
hand-to-hand encounter in the battle of Indian
Creek. His wild West show, known throughout
this country and Europe was organized in the late
eighties. He is the author of a number of books
dealing with life on the western plains.
In his death is exemplified the fact that the
“old order changeth, yielding place to new.” One
cannot take farewell of the old but with a heart
ache for that the new seems flat and stale in com
parison, that it has none of the enchantment of
the days of ride and rifle shot and game and gold.
TAKE TIME TO READ —By H. Addington Bruce
HERE are a good many foolish people in the
world, few of whom have any idea how fool
ish they are. Most of all, perhaps, is this
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true of the foolish people who insist that they have
no time to read.
Many such people even speak with a kind of
boastfulness of their non-reading habit.
“Read!” they exclaim. “Why. no, I never read.
It is all I can do to find time to glance through the
newspaper. I have got to attend to business you
know.”
My pity goes out to these people. I can see
them as I write—tense, strained, always on the go.
inclined to irritability, their minds uneasy, the de
mon of unrest perpetually harrying them.
Listen, brother.
Ours is proverbially a nervous age. Physicians
and psychologists marvel at the increase of func
tional nervous and mental disorders. All sorts of
theories are advanced to account for this increase.
For myself. I firmly believe that it is in large part
due to the decline of the reading habit.
Men need mental foods just as truly as they need
material food. They can get it to some extent from
newspapers—though- not by merely “glancing”
through newspaper reading is not enough.
There must also be magazine reading, and there
must in especial be book reading.
Brother, you who are rushing from home to
office, from office to club, from club to home, from
home to theater or dance hall or card game—stop
and consider.
You feel a lack somewhere. You know that
things are not exactly as they ought to be. You
feel that you are not master of yourself—that
something is driving you to chase hither and yon,
for what purpose you cannot’ tell. .
TO UNDERSTAND—By Dr. Frank Crane
Just to understand!
What a world of wretchedness it would save us!
It would spare us how many fears, chagrins, dis
illusions, disappointments, heartaches, estrange
ments!
I think the real reason why we dislike anybody
is that we do not understand him. I have a theory
that every human being is lovable, if only under
stood.
And if we would try to understand our ene
mies half as hard as we try to overcome them,
they would cease to be enemies.
There is the mother who lives in constant fric
tion with her daughter. Their attitbde is one of
constant hostility. The mother complains that the
daughter is headstrong, secretive, wayward, in
tractable. The daughter that the mother is hard,
unsympathetic, always finding fault. IT both par
ties only had imagination eneffigh to put them
selves in each other’s place! If each would only
seek to understand the other, instead of justifying,
excusing, and pitying herself!
Those who get along best with very small chil
dren are those who most carefully study them,
who try to get their viewpoint, who endeavor to
understand, more thaij to compel, correct, or teach.
In fact, the whole business of “getting along
with folks” resolves itself into a matter of under
standing folks, and there is no business in the
| WAYS TO ECONOMIZE, v —Cutting Down Meat Bills. By Frederic J. Haskin
ASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—A survey of all that
government scientists have to say on the sub
ject of economy in the use of meat shows that
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all their suggestions may be grouped under a few
heads. You may save money by careful buying, select
ing your purchases with care, and watching market
conditions. You may often buy meat to advantage in
wholesale quantities and thus make a .substantial
saving. Yon may, and probably should, eat less meat,
and use more fish and other substitutes. The proper
utilization of bone, fat and small bits of meat com
monly trimmed off and thrown away is an excellent
economy. The cheaper cuts of meat should be eaten
more, although this is not always as great a saving
as it appears.
• • •
With regard to your marketing, the most important
thing is to do it in person, so that you may sfee what
you are getting. An investigation made into the mar
keting and cooking in a number of American families
show-ed that meat was often bought by phone, or by a
child or other ignorant person. Much may often be
saved, too, by watching market conditions and buying
the kind Os meat that is most abundant, and therefore
cheapest, at a given time. You are also advised to
purchase from several different shops, as this will
give you a wider range of information about the state
of the market and of prices.
• • •
If you have proper facilities, and a large family,
you may often buy meat cheaper in large quantities
and use it to good advantage. If you btfy a hind
quarter of mutton, for example, the thin meat on the
flank should be cooked first because it will be first to
spoil. From the flank and rib bones a gallon of Scotch
broth may be made, while the remainder of the quarter
may be used for roasts and chops.
• • • •
Nearly all country folk kill their own hogs, and use
the whole carcass, and the city housekeeper may make
good use of a small animal in the same way. A pig
six months old and weighing about a hundred pounds
is a good investment. The* hams and thin strips of
meat from the belly may be smoked or pickled, while
the thicker pieces of meat from the belly, put up in
jars with brine, are just the thing to cook with beans
or other vegetables. The tenderloin will be roasted;
the head and feet made into cheese or scrapple, while
scraps of lean meat may be used for home-made
sausage. In this way a variety of dishes may be
prepared and every pound of food value gotten out of
'the purchase. The advantage of this method over the
daily buying of expensive cuts is obvious; but it
demands a thorough knowledge of cooking and keeping
meats. In fact, with regard to meats, as with dbgard
to all other foods, ignorance is the greatest cause of
extravagance. The housewife who has learned how to
buy, store and prepare foods is able to get a great deal
more for her money than does the average housewife.
• • •
The most direct and obvious way to economize on
the meat bill is to eat less of it; and this has been so
generally urged by dieticians that repetition here is
hardly necessary. Most American families eat meat
two or three times a day, when once would be better;
but to change habit in this regard is extremely difficult.
However, if you can induce your family to-live on one
meat meal a day, you may be sure that you are not only
saving money, but improving the balance of the family
diet.
• • •
The importance of fish as a substitute.for meat has
also been strongly urged; and here agiin the inertia
of habit stands in the way. One good tip for house
holders who buy fish in the market at a distance from
the sea has recently been given out by the storage
expert of the department of agriculture, however. She
says that frozen fish are kept in perfect condition and
are perfectly wholesome; but that they should be
cooked immediately after thawing. Now the average
dealer, in order to make his wares look more attractive,,
thaws out the fish before exposing them for sale, and
they immediately begin to deteriorate. Insist, there
fore. upon having fish that are still frozen if you live
inland. Frozen halibut is now% shipped from Alaska to
Boston, and from there reshipped* all over the country
without deteriorating in the least as long as the fish
remains in its thin envelope of ice.
• • •
The most valuable part of the meat commonly
wasted is the fat. In many families little of this is
eaten at the table and much of it is ultimately thrown
away. Yet it forms from 6 to 8 per cent in lean beef
to 32 per cent in pork chops of the whole cut, and is
high in food value. Hence, if it is apt to be wasted at
the table, the fat should be "tried out” before the
meat is served, and used for cooking purposes. Small
pieces of fat may be easily tried out in a double boiler.
That something is your hungry mind. It longs
to be fed with intellectual nourishment, just as
your body longs to be fed with physical nourish
ment. And, just as cooks can feed your body, au
thors can feed your mind. »
Get acquainted with books, good books Take
time to read the great poets, novelist's, historians,
essayists, scientists, philosophers. They will give
your mind the food it craves. And they will tran
quillize your mind.
Even from the standpoint of business success,
it will pay you to acquire the reading habit.* *
’No matter what your business, you can get
from books —from all sorts of )>ooks—ideas that
will prove “paying” ones to you. The song of a
poet may mean to you something that you can turn
into dollars and cents.
Best of all. through books you will be able to
live efficiently as well as to work efficiently. It is a
great thing to know how to live—and the man who
does not read is usually a man who does not know
how to live. The restlessness the nervousness of
the ncn-reader, is sufficient proof of this.
You have lonely moments? Your books can
make them happy ones. You have times of depres
sion? Books can turn these into times of quiet,
restful, nerve-invigorating contentment. Books are
joy-bringers of almost miraculous power.
Brother, takes this to heart.
Don’t go on living without books. You are miss
ing more than mj* feeble words can express—far
more. Begin to read, begin to enjoy books, begin
to draw from them the peace of mind, the strength
of mind, that lies enwrapped in the world’s great
literature, ready for your use, my use, everybody’s
use.
(Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.)
world that affects our peace of mind more pro
foundly.
’An old saint once wrote: “I went away from
God—to find God.” And surely you will find your-
If test by going away from yourself.
In* the Bhagavad Gita occurs this wisdom
" This is the greatest enemy—the my-ness in me.
This is the giant weed whose roots lie deep in the
human heart.”
I.<«vers, try to understand, and you will escape
jealousies, slights, and all the poison of offenses
that n.ar your delight in one another.
Parents, try to understand and you will not
lose youi children.
Children, try' to understand your parents, ana
ycu will find their case for you a pleasant garden,
and not a walled prison.
Neighbors, try to understand ,and your com
munal life will be a joy, and not an irritation.
Employers and employed, if you would try to
each other you would both get more
out of your relation than by fighting.
Nations, try to understand each other. The
time is past for despising and hating them that
are of another blood and speech. Race-hate, rival
ry, fear, contention, pride—do yon not see their
result fr the cataclysm now in Europe?
And God—the reason He forgives is because
He understands.
(Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.)
All meat bones are good for soup, but much better
use may be made of those that have a little meat left
on them. The braised ribs of beef often served in high
class restaurants are made from the bones cut from
rib roasts. In fact, on the menus at restaurants and
hotels may be found many palatable dishes made of
materials that are thrown away in most households.
A restaurant keeper who made do better use' of his
materials than the majority of housewives would not;
stay in the business long.
• • •
Spareribs, in like manner, are the trimmings from
roast pork. Marrow bones are a dish seldom seen
nowadays which have considerable nutritive value. The
bones should be cut into convenient lengths, the ends
covered with bits of dough, and floured cloth tied over
them. The cloth and dough are removed after baking
and the bones served on toast. Marrow bones may also
be baked in a deep dish, or the marrow scraped out
after cooking, seasoned and served on toast.
• • •
The use of the cheaper cuts of meat has been most
commonly recommended as a means of economizing
on this item in the bill-of-fare. Government experti
ments shbw that there is scarcely any difference in the
food value of the different cuts, or in their digesti
bility. There Js, however, a difference in the amount of
cooking required, and this should be taken into account,
for fuel is a considerable item in tne preparation of
every meat Thus the meat of the neck is often two
and one-half times as tough as the loin. Then, too, the
poorer cuts are inferior in flavor, and unless they can
be cooked so that they will be palatable, it will not pay
to use them. However, if the cuts are wall chosen and
correctly cooked, many of the cheaper ones may be
made into very attractive-dishes, and it is doubtless
true that these cuts should be used a great deal more
than they now are by most American families.
The essentials in preparing cheaper cuts of meat are
long cooking at low temperatures, and attractive sea
soning. The double boiler should be used for this
purpose, and the temperature should be kept a few
degrees below boiling. Stewed shin of beef, boiled
bes and horseradish sauce, Scotch broth, braised beef,
and Hungarian goulash may in this way be made*-
attractive and digestible dishes.
Quips and Quiddities
."Now,” said the farmer to the aristocratic lady
farmhand, “I want you to clean up the pigsty, the
stable, the henhouse and all the other houses of the
stock.
For two days the sweet thing worked vigorously,
then she appeared before her employer with both eyes
nearly closed, her mouth swollen, and red 'lumps over
face, neck and hands.
"I should be glad if you would pay me my money,”
she murmured. "I can't do any more farming. I want
to leave.”
"What's the matter?” asked the farmer.
“I don’t know what’s the matter” replied the victim,
“but it happened when I started to clean out the bee
hive!”
• • •
A farm hand had been working in the fields- from
dawn till darkness day after day, finishing up his
chores by lantern light. At the end of the month he
said to the farmer: "I’m going to quit. You promised
me a steady job of work.”
“Well, haven’t you got one?” was the astonished
reply.
“No.” said the man: “there are three or four hours
every night that I don’t’have anything to do but fool
my time away sleeping.” *
• • •
The playwrights own latest play was being pro
duced. Sitting in the last row in the parquet seats, he
listened to its leaden phrases. The piece was a com
plete failure. As the playwright sat, pale and sad.
chilled to the heart by the fatal silence, a woman
sitting behind him leaned forward and said:
"Excuse me, sir; I have something belonging to you.
Knowing.you to be the author of the play. I took the
liberty at the beginning of the performance of snip
ping off a lock of your Jiair. Allow- me to return it.”
Villa seems to be about the only man left who
isn’t mixed up in some sort of peace proposition.
Henry Ford’s peace expedition wouldn’t be con
sidered a joke now.
People who speculated and lost on Wall street
recently shouldn’t blame the “leak.” They would
have lost anyhow, sooner or later.
