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Friend—l see that “fence” broke
down and gave the game away.
How was that?
Cop—He wasn’t well posted.
Close Enough
Teacher—Who was king of France
during the revolution?
Confused Student—Louis the Thir
teenth—no, the Fifteenth—no, the
Fourteenth—well, anyhow, he was
in his ’teens.
Bad Taste
“Look here, waiter, is this peach
or apple pie?”
“Can’t you tell from the taste?”
“No, I can’t.”
“Well, then, what difference does
it make?"
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
Vegetables Vital
To Perfect Health
Formerly an Accessory
Now a Necessity for Diet
By EDITH M. BARBER
"^TEWS headlines informed us re-
' cently that life could be pro
longed through diet. Os course, the
experiments which brought forth
this statement were made upon
some of the smallest members of
the animal kingdom—fleas. While
there can scarcely be anybody who
is interested, except from a scien
tific standpoint in prolonging the
life of this annoying insect, we are
more than interested in the applica
tion of the research work.
The attention which nutrition re
search has called to the relation be
tween diet and health has caused
noteworthy changes in the food hab
its of this country. No change has
been more marked than that which
demands the inclusion of vegetables
in variety and liberal quantities in
our everyday meals. Once looked
upon as merely a pleasant acces
sory to meals, we now realize that
the mineral and vitamin content,
as well as the bulk, which they pro
vide make them an important com
ponent to a meal. Some raw vege
tables, such as lettuce, carrots, cel
ery and cabbage should be used
each day. Other vegetables should
be cooked in such away that the
natural food value will be preserved.
It should be noted that potatoes,
which we have always used in this
country as accompaniments to
meat, are well endowed with min
erals and vitamins.
Casserole of Vegetables.
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 tablespoon chopped pimiento
2 tablespoons flour
2 cups canned tomatoes
1 cup canned peas
1% cups boiled rice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
2 teaspoons salt
% teaspoon pepper.
% cup grated cheese
Melt butter, add onion and pi
miento.
Cook slowly for five minutes. Add
flour and mix well. Add tomatoes
and cook until mixture thickens
slightly, then add the other ingredi
ents. Put in greased baking dish
and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake in hot oven (400 degrees Fah
renheit) 20 minutes.
Scalloped Potatoes.
1 quart sliced raw potatoes
4 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon or more of salt
Pepper
1 tablespoon butter or other fat
2 cups milk
Slice the potatoes one-quarter
Inch thick. Arrange them in a but
tered baking dish in layers, sprin
kling each layer with flour, salt,
pepper and butter. Add the milk
and bake in a moderate oven (300
degrees Fahrenheit) until the po
tatoes are soft.
O’Brien Potatoes.
4 cups potato cubes
Deep fat
1 small onion
2 pimentos
1 tablespoon butter
2 teaspoons minced parsley
Fry potato cubes in deep fat (390
degrees Fahrenheit), drain on soft
paper and sprinkle with salt. Mince
the onion and cook in the butter one
minute. Add the pimento, cook one
minute more, add parsley and pour
over potato cubes in a hot dish.
Split Pea Soup.
% pound split peas
3 cups beef stock
Salt, pepper
1 sprig parsley
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 large onion, grated
Minced parsley
Soak the peas overnight, drain,
add stock and seasonings ana sim
mer about two hours. Press through
a sieve, return to saucepan. Rub
flour and butter together and stir
into the soup, stirring constantly.
Cook for five minutes and serve
with a sprinkling of grated onion
and minced parsley on top.
Tomato and Pea Soup.
1 can tomato soup
1 can pea soup
Dash of nutmeg
Open cans of tomato and pea soup
and pour contents into saucepan.
Dilute the milk if necessary. Add
nutmeg and heat to boiling point,
Serve with toasted croutons.
Tomato Rabbit.
% pound American cheese
% teaspoon salt
Paprika
% teaspoon mustard
Pepper
1 can tomato soup
Shred the cheese with a fork, add
the mixed seasoning and stir over
a low fire until melted. Add the
tomato soup and stir until smooth.
French Fried Onions.
Select large, sweet onions, peel
and cut in one-quarter inch slices
and separate into rings. Dip in
milk, drain and dip in flour. Fry
in deep fat (375 degrees Fahrenheit)
until golden brown; drain on soft
paper and sprinkle with salt.
String Beans With Corn.
Cook frozen string beans in a cov
ered utensil with a little water and
a dash of salt and sugar. When
tender add one small can of whole
kernel corn, or one-half pound of
frozen corn. Add one-fourth cup of
cream, or three tablespooons of but
ter, heat and add pepper and more
salt if necessary.
« Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Active Persons
Are Subject to
Colitis Attacks
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
IX7HEN the word constipa
▼ V tion is mentioned the first
thought with many is to take
more “roughage” in the food,
as this roughage
will irritate the
bowel and cause
its muscular coats
to contract and
squeeze the wastes
downward and out of the body.
And, as a matter of fact, rough
food—fruits and vegetables—is
the best single treatment for
the ordinary case of constipa
tion due to soft foods and lack
of exercise.
There is, however, a type of con
stipation which alternates with diar-
rhea in which these
rough foods are
so irritating that
they cause spasm or
partial closure of the
bowel and constipa
tion is the result.
Following the spasm
and constipation
there is diarrhea in
which the wastes
are covered with
mucous. These indi
viduals are always
“aware” of their
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lower bowel or colon and the condi
tion is called colitis. In order not
to irritate the lining of the bowel,
these colitis patients are often given
soft and liquid foods, with daily
doses of paraffin oil to lubricate
wastes and enable them to pass
readily throughout the length of the
bowel.
Sufferers Are Emotional.
It has often been found that the
individuals who suffer with colitis
are not usually the lazy type but
are active, high-strung and emo
tional. And just as the emotions
can cause stomach, heart, gall blad
der and blood vessel spasm, so also
are they to blame for most cases
of colitis. It is therefore only a
small part of the treatment to pre
scribe diets in these cases. The im
portant part of the treatment is to
try to have them understand that it
is their fears, their anxieties, their
worry about their own or their fam
ily’s health that is causing the con
stipation, diarrhea, dull pain and ir
ritable abdomen.
Doctors Charles W. Mayo and E.
G. Wakefield, Mayo Clinic, tell us
that “the cure of these disturbances
of the lower bowel (not due to or
ganic disease) is not by a rearrange
ment of the diet but in attempts to
control the social conditions causing
the upsetments. In order to get rid
of these disorders the defects in
education, morality, religion and
even physical heredity have to be
corrected.”
In other words, these disturbances
of the lower bowel or colon can
only be corrected when these in
dividuals recognize that they have
not adjusted themselves properly to
their circumstances and to life. And
to the extent to which they adjust
themselves and acquire poise and
calmness, just to the same extent
will their symptoms disappear.
• • •
Foot Defects Should
Receive Prompt Care
One of the helpful things that was
learned during the examination of
recruits for overseas service was
the importance of having normal
feet—free from pain and discom
fort. One may have brains and am
bition, but to be unable to be about
among others because of painful
feet not only interferes with busi
ness and social progress but the con
stant nagging of the nerves affects
the general health and happiness of
the individual.
As most of these were young men
who were presenting themselves for
service, it can be seen that their
foot defects were not due to any
heavy work that was being placed
upon them but because as little chil
dren and later as growing boys in
their ’teens, proper footwear was
not provided by their loving but
thoughtless parents; the narrow
“trim” shoe for growing boys and
girls did not allow the proper width
for the growing feet.
In writing on the subject, “Fitting
the Feet for Lase,” Beulah France,
in Hygeia, states:
Business Men Guilty.
“Nor are ’teen age youngsters the
only ones who are guilty of foot in
discretions. While college girls and
boys show sense about shoes as a
rule, graduates who enter business
leave foot fitness behind them. Men
as well as women suffer all too
needlessly from hammertoes, cal
louses, corns, bunions and ingrowing
toenails due to ill fitting shoes. It
is difficult to understand why a
woman is willing to ruin her pos
ture, her gait, her facial expression
and her outlook on life by wearing
uncomfortable shoes. Many an im
patient gesture, many a hard word
spoken, many a lined and wrinkled
face, may be traced to the owner’s
feet.”
Walk correctly. Do not toe either
out or in, but straight ahead. If you
cannot do this, your doctor will teU
you whether he advises a leather
lift on one side of your shoe’s heels,
or whether he would suggest some
other form of correction.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
„ TIPS,,
(jardeners
Changing Methods
f^ERTAIN garden practices
widely followed a generation
ago have now been proved un
wise. Gardeners formerly allowed
vegetables to grow as large as
possible. According to Walter H.
Nixon, vegetable expert, this prac
tice gave a higher yield in pounds,
but very often lowered the quality
of the vegetables.
Some vegetables, of course, like
tomato, must be mature to be pal
atable; but carrots, cucumbers,
beets, summer squash, turnips,
radishes and others are more ten
der and tasty when not much
more than half grown.
To keep a regular supply of
vegetables of proper eating size,
gardeners are finding also that it
is advisable to plant oftener than
once or twice a year. Gardens
prove more enjoyable and more
profitable when successive plant
ings of favorite crops are made
every two or three weeks, provid
ing garden-fresh vegetables for
the table over a long season.
Few gardeners nowadays save
flower seeds. Fine flowers grow
ing in the home garden often are
cross-pollinated by others of the
same species, making flowers
grown from their seed inferior and
untrue.
Sun Controls Tides
There are several islands in the.
South Pacific, notably Tahiti,!
where the tidal influence of the
sun equals or exceeds that of thek
moon, reports Collier’s. Conse-,
quently these tides come and go,
at approximately the same hours'
instead of having the daily 50-'
minute retardation that occurs in
most of the world.
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HEALTH
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Be sure your seed packets are
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