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Uncle Sam Will Teach Nature Study
Public school officials and teachers
the country over will be interested In
a new departure of the United States
bureau of education as outlined In the
following letter from John J. Tigert,
United States commissioner of educa
tion, to Mrs. John Dickinson Shermnn,
chairman of the department of applied
education of the General Federation
of Women’s clubs:
“Dear Mrs. Sherman: I have read
with Interest your pamphlet on natural
science and nature study in the schools,
including a graded course of study
from the kindergarten through the
sixth grade. The bureau of education
fully recognizes the importance of the
study of the practical application of
the natural sciences to everyday life
in the education of the child and be
lieves that the subject should receive
specinl attention in the kindergarten
and the elementary grades. To secure
the best results the subject should
be made an Integral part of the school course, recognized as one of the serious
subjects of the curriculum, and credit given as for other recognized subjects.
I appreciate the work of the General Federation of Women’s clubs In its effort
to awaken a general understanding among parents of the value of science teach
ing in the education of the child and urge that the work be continued. The
bureau will support the project and give active co-operation in so far as it Is
possible for it to do so.”
The General Federation has undertaken to get nature study into the schools
and Mrs. Sherman has now secured the approval and co-operation of the fed
eral government, which will publish a graded course prepared by the federa
tion and lessons now being prepared by the bureau of education.
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Judge Timothy D. Hurley of the
Superior court of Cook county, Ill., has
created a sensation in Chicago divorce
circles. Love pirates who traffic in
the affections of misunderstood hus
bands or abused wives are to be the
target of sweeping injunctions or re
straining orders In nil cases where evi
dence of home undermining Is properly
presented to him.
Convinced by the testimony of hun
dreds of victjpns of the “other man”
or “other woman” that powerful in
fluence exerted by an outside agency
might have broken the triangle before
it was formed and saved another home
and family to society, Judge Hurley
widened the scope of his war on “easy
divorces” to include a drive on the
“domestic parasite.”
Information that her husband has
succumbed to a siren, if included In
a petition for separate maintenance
by( Jie wife, will result, Judge Hurley
asserts, in the issuance of a forthwith citation for the “other woman” to ex
plain her conduct. Substantiation of the charges will be followed by an Ir
revocable decree restraining the interloper from “seeing, talking to, or writing
to” the husband.
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Quits Mayors Job to Become Senator
LarttOVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SundaySchool
' Lesson'
(By REV. P. B. F1TZWATER, D. D..
Teacher ot English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright. 1922. Western Newspaper Union.
LESSON FOR DECEMBER 31
REVIEW
A
Mayor James Couzens. of Detroit
has quit his job to become United
States senator from Michigan in the
place of Senator Truman H. Newber
ry, resigned. Gov. Alex J. Groesbeck
appointed him to fill the unexpired
term.
James Couzens was born in Chat
ham, Ontario, fifty years ago. Re
puted to have a fortune of many mil
lions, he started his career as a
“newsie” on a passenger train.
In 1903 he became associated with
Henry Ford, taking a position as book
keeper. When he quit in 1916 he was
vice president and treasurer.
Mr. Couzens’ first public office was
that of police commissioner in 1916.
I-Ie was elected mayor of Detroit in
1918 and re-elected last year.
A proposal sponsored by the mayor
for the purchase of the Detroit United
Railway lines lost by a few votes In
1919. He then obtained authority of
the voters to build a municipal system, and after this w T as well under way he
negotiated the purchase of the privately owned system and consolidated It with
the new city lines after the voters had authorized the move.
The Detroit community fund receives from him annually $100,000. He has
established numerous homes and settlement houses.
New Georgia Senator in Watson's Seat
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Walter F. George, the new senator
from Georgia, is,in his seat and Is serv-
ln^in^iiie committees on civil service,
'Immigration and post offices and post
roads. He takes the place made va
cant by the death of Senator Thomas
E. Watson. The circumstance of his
taking his seat will long be remem
bered, for the reason that he played
his part in the seating of Georgia’s
“grand old lady,” Mrs. W. H. Felton,
as senator by appointment of Governor
Hardwick.
Rebecca Latimer Felton, eighty-
aeven, will go down to history as the
first woman to take seat in the United
States senate. To be sure, her actual
service was only a few hours, but she
was actually sworn in. Moreover, she
made a speech as senator, being rec
ognized by Senator Cummins, presi-
| -dent pro tem of the senate, as “the
Junior senator from Georgia.” Senator-
Blect George made this possible by
withholding his credentials, which certified to his election November 7.
Incidentally there was much amusement over the predicament in which
^.veteran senators found themselves. They assured Mrs. Felton she would be
rorn In upon the assembling of congress. Evidently they had forgotten that
be senate must be officially notified of the death of a senator before his sue-
essor can be received. Also they bad forgotten that in accordance with un-
*»ken nrocedent the senate must adjourn immediately out of respect
GOLDEN TEXT-The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor.—
Luke 4:1S.
DEVOTIONAL READING—Psalm 98.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Favored Stories of
the Quarter.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Went About Do
ing Good.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
-How Jesus Ministered to the People.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Some Characteristics of Jesus’ Ministry.
Since all the lessons t>f the quarter
save one are from Luke, and tlie cen
tral and unifying theme is Jesus
Christ, a profitable way to conduct
tlie review, as suggested in Peloubet’s
Notes, would be to assign the follow
ing topics to the members of the
class to make a brief report upon:
1. Christ’s Mission to the World.
2. Christ’s Helpers and How He
Used Them.
3. Christ’s Divine Power and How
He Exercised It.
4. Christ’s Methods of Teaching.
5. Christ’s Love in Its Many Mani
festations.
6. Christ’s Courage and How He
Showed It.
7. Christ’s Foes and His Dealings
With Them.
S. Christ’s Pity for Sinners.
9. Christ’s Passing Through Human
Experience.
10. Christ as a Missionary and an
Organizer.
11. Christ’s Relation to the Father.
12. Christ’s Preparation for the
Climax of His Life.
Another way would be by summar
izing each lesson, stating the out
standing topic and teaching of each
lesson. The following suggestions
are offered:
j Lesson 1. The birth of John the
Baptist, which from the human stand
point was impossible, was announced
to his father, Zacharias. For his un-
; belief he was smitten with dumbness.
| God expects of his servant unques
tioned belief in what He promises.
Lesson 2. Jesus was born in Bethle
hem just as the prophet had foretold
some 700 years before, and at the age
of twelve years he consciously en
tered into the services of God’s house.
Though conscious of His divine being
and mission, He lived a life of filial
obedience.
Lesson 3. John tlie Baptist’s min
istry was a preparation for the com
ing of Christ. He fearlessly preached
repentance and pronounced judgment
upon the impenitent. Though a mighty
preacher, he humbly declared that
Christ was immeasurably grehter
than himself.
Lesson 4. Jesus Christ after His
baptism was led by the Spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the
devil. The purpose was to test the
reality of the incarnation. The re
sult was complete victory—a demon
stration of His ability to save to the
uttermost all who trust Him.
Lesson 5. Isaiah foretold the gold
en age upon the earth when Christ
will reign.
Lesson 6. While Jesus was here He
healed all kinds of diseases and cast
out devils. He authenticated His
mission and proved His power to for
give sins by miraculous deeds.
Lesson 7. Jesus taught the dis
ciples the principles which should
govern in His kingdom. Only those
who have been bom from above can
love their enemies.
Lesson 8. While in Simon’s house
'at dinner, a woman who had been a
notorious sinner anointed Jesus’ feet
and wiped them with her hair. The
sinner’s gratitude to Jesus for for
giveness is measured by the appre
hension of sins forgiven.
Lesson 9. Jesus went forth through
out every city preaching the glad tid
ings of the Kingdom of God. The fact
of salvation for sins through a cruci
fied Redeemer is truly glad tidings,
Lesson 10. Jesus sent forth mis
sionaries with the realization of the
big task before them, and with power
to perform supernatural deeds to au
thenticate their mission. Those who
realize the bigness of their task will
earnestly pray that the Lord will
send forth laborers into His harvest.
Lesson 11. Jesus’ reply to the ques
tion of a certain lawyer, “Who is my
neighbor?" shows that the all-impor
tant consideration is not “Who is my
neighbor?” but “How can I show that
I am a neighbor?”
Lesson 12. A certain rich man in
his perplexity over his prosperty de
cided to provide larger stores and set
tle down to a life of sensuous indul
gence. The one who lays up treas
ures on earth and is not rich toward
God is a fool.
Consolation, Love, Faith, Hope, Life.
May Consolation smile on every
pain, and Love put her balm on every
wound that life bears! May Faith
strengthen you all in your unavoidable
trials and Hope whisper through all
sorrows that this terrestrial life of
ours Is a mere shadow of tlie Life that
never dies.—Mazzinl.
The KITCHEN
CABINET
l(£>, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
If you want to live in a kind of a
town
Like the kind of a town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You’ll only find what you left behind,
For there’s nothing that’s really
new;
It’s a knock at yourself when you
knock your town.
It isn’t your town—it’s you.
EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS
Those who have plenty of honey like
to use it in cookery as the product
keeps moist much
longer than that
made with sugar.
Honey Cakes.—
Melt one-fourth
of a cupful of but
ter and add one
cupful of strained
honey. Cool and
add the grated rind of a lemon, one
teaspoonful of lemon juice, two ounces
of sweet almonds blanched and chopped
line, one-fourth teaspoonful of mace,
one-lmlf teaspoonful of soda and two
and one-half cupfuls of flour. Mix
thoroughly, then set aside, covered, in
a cool place for twelve hours. Roll
in a sheet one-half Inch thick, cut in
squares and bake twenty minutes in
a moderate oven. When baked brush
over the tops with a thick sugar sirup.
Apricot Cake.—Grate one-fourth of
a cake of chocolate, take one-half cup
ful of milk and tlie yolk of an egg.
Cook together until thick. Allow this
to cool, then add a tablespoonful of
softened butter, one cupful of sugar,
one-lmlf cupful of milk, one teaspoon-
ful of vanilla, one and one-lmlf cupfuls
of flour and a teaspoonful of baking
powder. Add one-lmlf teaspoonful of
soda to the flour. Mix and bake In
layer cake pans. Spread with stewed,
sifted, dried, or canned apricots. Cover
the cake with a boiled frosting.
Barbecued Ham.—I-Iave the ham cut
very thin and broil quickly or pan broil
it. Arrange on a hot platter and add
to the fat in the pan a teaspoonful of
sugar, one teaspoonful of made mus
tard, a dash of red pepper and four
tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Stir until
bubbling hot, then pour over the ham
and serve.
Cottage Cheese Salad.—Take one
cupful of cottage cjieese, add one-half
cupful of whipped cream to which two
tablespoonfuls of any good salad dress
ing have been added. Stir and mix well
into the cheese. Mold or press into
cone-shaped forms with an Ice cream
dipper and serve on lettuce with a little
of the salad dressing on top.
SIMPLE ELECTRIC EGG TEST
Device Is Most Desirable Piece of
Equipment for Dealer—Pays to
Candle at Home.
The egg tester as a necessary or
desirable piece of equipment is re
ceiving more attention than ever be
fore. It has' always been a handy thing
for the farmer and housewife, and an
absolutely necessary thing for the egg
dealer. With the passing of laws by
states and the establishment of regu
lations by health departments,
candling is becoming compulsory for
all egg buyers. This means that the
AFRICA'S
GOLD COAST
Charity Among Yourselvea
But before all things have a con
stant mutual charity among yourselves,
for charity coveretli a multitude of
Bins.—I P“ter 4:8.
Give thanks ere popping to deplore
What seems to be a sorry lot;
Give thanks, and most devoutly, for
Those many things which you have
not.
GOOD THINGS AND LEFTOVERS
A very dainty patty or meat ball
may be prepared as follows: Take
one cupful each of finely
minced ham, mashed po
tato and bread crumbs
and one tablespoonful of
milk mixed with a tea
spoonful of dry mustard.
Form into balls, roll in
crumbs, dip in egg and
fry in deep fat.
Curried Chicken.—Sea
son a cupful or two of boiled rice with
melted butter and a teaspoonful of
curry powder. Arrange a baking dish
with alternate layers of minced chicken
and the rice with some chicken gravy.
Have the rice at the bottom and on the
top of the dish with a layer of chicken
between. Dot with butter and put into
a moderate oven to become thoroughly
hot.
Shepherd’s Pie.—Butter a small
bread .pan and line the bottom and
sides with seasoned mashed potato.
Fill with any cooked meat or fowl and
cover with the mashed potato. Bake
until the potato is brown, turn out and
serve on a hot platter garnished with
parsley.
Coconut Pie.—Take one cupful of
milk, two tablespoon fills of cornstarch,
one-half cupful of sugar, one-half tea
spoonful of lemon extract, the whites
of four eggs. Put the milk into a
double boiler and when boiling add one
box of shredded coconut and the corn
starch mixed with a little cold milk.
Stir until well cooked. Add half of the
beaten whites. Fill a baked shell with
the mixture and cover with a meringue
made of the remaining whites. Return
to the oven and brown.
Oatmeal Gems.—Soak two cupfuls of
rolled oats over night in one and three-
quarters cupfuls of sour milk. Add one
teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful
of salt, one-lmlf cupful of light brown
sugar, one cupful of flour and two
well-beaten eggs. Dissolve the soda in
a little hot water. Mix and bake in
hot, well buttered gem pans in a hot
oven twenty-five minutes.
Beet Relish.—Chop cooked beets to
make a quart; add one quart of
chopped cabbage, one cupful of grated
horseradish, two cupfuls of sugar, one
tablespoonful of salt, and vinegar to
moisten thoroughly. This is a good
relish to serve with fish.
Guinea hens in casserole are fine
eating. Stuff with seasoned crumbs
and cook with carrot and button on
ions for an hour and a half, well cov
ered. Add potato balls the last half-
hour.
An Egg Tester From Flashlight and
Can.
country store which formerly accepted
at a flat price whatever the producer
brought in is compelled to be more
particular. It means that the pro
ducer who brings in eggs, will decide
that it pays him to candle his eggs
at home.
For the general farm producer, the
tester shown, improvised from a flash
light of the familiar long, round type,
is entirely satisfactory. It furnishes a
'good, intense light, making testing a
task without undue eye strain. More
over, the fact that the light is under
control, and is only “on” intermittent
ly, is a real advantage, as it prevents
the testing device from becoming hot.
A quart tin can is used, in the bot
tom of which, centrally, is cut a round
hole just large enough for the flash
light to enter. Over the open top end
of the can is stretched tightly a piece
of felt cut from an old felt hat. In
the center of that felt piece is cut a
one and one-fourth inch hole. This
is the egg hole.
For the base an inch board several
inches wider and longer than the tin
can is obtained, and the tin can fas
tened to this with two pieces of light
vfire, as shown. Parallel with the bot
tom end of the can, an inch board as
high as the center of the bole is at
tached crossways, and a slot cut in it
where tlie flashlight, placed through
the can hole to within an inch of the
felt end, can rest.
It will be noted that the flashlight
is not made an inseparable part of this
egg tester. When not required for
this purpose it can be used for any
other.—J. T. Bartlett, in Farm Me
chanics.
One of the Peculiar Buttressed Trees of Torrid Africa.
POTATOES AS CHICKEN FEED
Fed to Best Advantage When Boiled
or Steamed—Should Be Supplied
in Limited Quantities.
Potatoes should be boiled or steamed
before being fed to fowls and are fed
!o best advantage when mixed with
mash. Since potatoes are quite fat
tening, they should be fed in limited
quantities, preferably to laying hens
or growing chickens, and should be
used in connection with other feeds.'
One hundred hens will consume about
ten pounds of cooked potatoes daily,
and these potatoes can be used to re
place cornmeal in tlie poultry mash.
If so used, an equal weight of pota
toes and mash may be .mixed together.
A laying mash for this purpose may
be made of: One part meat scrap, one
part middlings, two parts bran, and
four parts potatoes, by weight.—Ex
tension Service Colorado Agricultural
Cqllege.
GOOD REMEDY FOR SOREHEAD
Slits of Canvas Well Greased With
Antiseptic Hung Over Feed
Hopper Is Favored,.
Here is a new method for keeping
sorehead out of the chicken flock:
Hang a piece of canvas over the open
ing of the feed hopper. Cut slits in
this canvas, and keep the slits well
greased with an antiseptic salve. In
feeding, the birds get the salve on
their heads, and this means no sore
head.
The hen with capacity and vigor
should be retained.
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A good layer has a large, open,
moist vent.
* * *
Skim milk is thin-looking stuff, but
It may be put to good use in the poul
try yard.
* * *
Banking earth up around the found
ation of the poultry house is a season
able job now.
* * *
Whitewash is excellent for cleansing
the poultry house. Cover every interior
surface with It. The easiest way to
apply Is with a spray pump.
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Litter that is damp, foul-smelling, or
full of filth is positively harmful. Often
when the egg yield falls off mysterious
ly the sole cause will be found to be
dirty Utter.
(Prepared by the National Geographic So
ciety, Washington, D. C.)
Commodities have left their names
in the geography of western Africa in
ascending scale. First came the Ivory
Coast, followed by the Gold Coast and
Slave Coast. Now that the age of
coal is being threatened by the grow
ing importance of liquid fuels, the
Gold Coast, where important petrol
eum discoveries were recently report
ed, may take on a name that denotes
a value- surpassing all the rest—the
Oil Coast.
Columbus is believed to have done
some of his apprentice exploring along
the Gold Coast shores before lie set
sail for America and many an eman
cipated slave of our southland could
find his family tree among the na
tives of tills ffl’itiarti colony. The col
ony lies “under tlie eaves” of Africa,
with the Gulf of Guinea due south of
It. The golden age of the Gold Coast,
commercially considered, was in the
days of flourishing slave trade, and
the oil fields promise again to outbuy
the entire product of the gold grains
winnowed from tlie sands of the many
rivers of this region.
When you read that three-fourths
of the colony is covered with thick
forests you get a very Inadequate idea
of what you would see could you look
upon the amazing fastnesses of Bom-
bax trees, piercing the skyline at a
hundred feet, with columnar trunks,
free from branches below the top
quarter length. The trees you know
best at home are like icebergs in that
their bases, or root systems, are under
the surface. These foreign giants re
mind you of your children’s Christmas
tree, buttressed by wliat look to be
huge triangular supports. Should you
dig beneath one of these buttresses
you would find tiny tendrils, such as
those which might nourish a sapling.
In the spaces between these buttresses
natives sometimes pitch primitive
tents.
The impression of a forest of tele
phone poles is further conveyed by
great cables sagging from tree to tree.
These “creepers” are popularly known
ns monkey-rope, appropriately enough,
since many varieties of monkeys are
to be found in these forests.
The Gold Coast colony stretches
along some 270 miles of harborless
coast, and extends back for about half
that distance to the border of Ashanti.
Its government seat, Accra, which es
capes by only a few degrees of having
both a latitude and longitude of zero,
is reputed to be especially unhealth-
ful. The entire region is hot and
damp, lias two rainy seasons, and is
swept by that peculiarly dust-laden
Sahara wind, the harmattan.
Along this cost lies Kormantine, fa
mous as the place where slaves first
were exported, which gave the name,
Cormantynes, to the West Indies
slaves from the region.
Of the estimated population of a
million, fewer than 2,000 are Euro
peans. The most noted of the native
peoples are the Fanti, whose women
of light brown skin are pretty. Their
favorite perfume Is distilled from the
excrement of snakes. Shark flesh,
sun dried, is a favorite edible. Among
them, as among many primitive fight
ing peoples, mothers are held In high
esteem. Property Is inherited by the
oldest son of the oldest sister. Land
Is held In a communal fashion, the
possession of a gold “stool" being the
badge of a chiefs authority to the
lands over which he holds sway.
Areas are assigned to families but
they revert to the community upon
the holder’s death.
Trees, plants, animals, snakes and
Insects are found In amazing variety.
Here, as in many other verdant trop
ical regions, flowers are not nearly so
abundant. The animate curiosity of
the Gold Coast is the driver-ant, which
also constitutes its worst pest. The
driver-ants constitute the standing
army of the insect world. They have
a system of caste and rank, and the
naturalist gravely tells that the work
ers are a quarter of an inch long, the
soldiers about half an inch, while tho
stately officers reach seven-eighths of
an inch.
Results of the World War.
As a result of the World war, Great
Britain added to her Gold Coast col
ony an area of about 12,500 square
miles which was formerly part of
German Togoland. A portion twice as
large went to France. The new Brit
ish addition to the Gold Coast lies
along the eastern border and stretches
away in the shape of a lens far to
the north.
Germany annexed Togoland in 1884,
the year she launched upon her
colonial expansion with the acquisi
tion also of northeastern New Guinea
and the Bismarck archipelago. Togo
land was the first colony to dispense
with imperial subsidy.
Aloug the seacoast Togoland’s soil
is rich and sandy, its climate warm
and moist. The hinterland is higher,
wooded and drier, but seldom arid.
Thus the land is adapted to a wide
variety of products, among which the
growing of coconuts, corn, rice, to
bacco and coffee already has been
highly successful. The exports in
clude considerable quantities of ivory,
kernels, copra, palm oil and rubber.
This colony affords a commentary
upon Germany’s application of bureau
cratic methods to her possessions.
Despite heavy German emigration to
the United States and South America,
and despite her effort to divert this
flow to her colonies, only about 300
Germans were to be found among the
million natives of Togoland in 1910.
Most of the 300 were engaged In gov
ernment service, either in the coast
cities of Lome, a made-to-order town
which Germany planted on the site of
a fishing village, and little Popo, or
the inland government stations at
MIsahohe or Bismarckburg.
Togoland, too, was aloug the famous
Slave Coast of Africa.
About the Dahomeys.
The Dahomeys, natives of the south,
present a curious blend of shrewd
ness, cruelty, and superstition. Small,
robust and athletic, they climb trees
like monkeys, easily become fluent
linguists, but cling to fetichism and
still practice cannibalism.
The king of the Dahomeys is a
tribal deity. He controls the lives and
property of his subjects. Formerly
he was regarded as more ethereal
than human; he was believed to re
quire neither food nor sleep. He
strengthened that impression by hav
ing all food served to him in solitude,
and hearing petitions from behind a
screen. Consultation with his minis
ters was carried on through h* wives,
who were state dignitaries. Genuine
Amazons formed his bodyguard, and
these warrior women were reputed to
be as fearless and brave as those of
Greek mythology, and much more
cruel.
Only the sons of. the dada. or queen,
were regarded as heirs. From among
the Amazons the sovereign selected
other wives, but all except the favored
few were celibates. The king was
considered the father of all his sub
jects. Children were taken from
their mothers at an early age and
given to other families so they might
form no ties which would conflict wltt
their allegiance to the king.