Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1916, Page 8

THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1916. Health Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman’s Work -:- Household Topics | By Nell Brinkley Mother Still - Bakes Bread The word “lady,” traced to its Anglo-Saxon derivation, means “a kneader of bread,” and the 975 women wlio baked 975 loaves in a prize com- etition at Philadelphia gave a literal illustration of what used to be the poaramount distinction of the house- wie never too proud to cook. And the first prize for the downtown dis- trict went to Mrs. Robert Bird, at 1330 South Rittenhouse square, in a 1egion where people are supposed to . e able to send to the bakeshop round .~ the corner when company comes without breaking into the baby's n To bake a loaf of bread properly is a triumph of culinary science. The finished Eroduct placed on the table was a thing taken for granted till hotels began to charge for it, and few who devoured it—though the chief morning prayer of the race begins with a request for it—thought any- thing of the labor involved in its con- coction, As Giotto proved himself a capable architect by one turn of the wrist that made a freehand circle, and as a carpenter shows that he knows the tools of his trade and the way to use them by constructing a square-cornered box, so a good cook is known by the bread she makes. The human digestion cannot lean up- on a staff of sour' dough. The Jap- anese fought the Russians on rice, the Serbs barred the way for a long time to the Germans on bread merely. If the armies of peace, as well as those of war, must fight upon the stomach, good bread is of fundamental dietetic concern, and those who can make it are valuable servants of mankind, even though they “sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam” ordinarily, in- ead of dabbling amid hot suds in the kitchen.—Philadelphia Ledger. BIAMONDS WATCHES ON CREDIT 278—Diamond Ring, 14k solid gold, Loftis “Perfection” ymtidng is the pen- ‘dulum - that keeps buy- | ingand selling in motion Hello, Summer! INKLE-INKLE-INKLE—hello, Summer! Listen. Aren't you growmf too warm there under your down-quilt, and sleeping . pretty late? You didn’t tell ‘me to stir you up when I saw you last in the dark of wintef, when you shut your sleepy blue eyes— but I thought—I just 'spected perhaps you wanted to be up early to hear the first robin hammer and see /the water drops glisten on his rosy vest—and perhaps to fuss up your woods for the little city kids that may, by some wild miracle or the big open hand of a fairy-god- mother man, get to come' to them in a bit of a while. I haven't seen the robin myself. I'm a “business girl” and I wrestle with mechani- cal knots all day 1.ng, and ride home at last in the soft twilight on a stuffed, heavy-breathing car. The park I pass is wrapped in darkness like black velvet, and if thére is a robin there he is gone to bed and feathery dreams. But from my office window, high up, I can see blue sky, a dainty blue, washed clear and clean by a west wind, with some of the cotton from your quilt drifting across, and I kn ow that if I could throw a_ thin cord up and up in a mile-high arch—with a coin or r1y heavy winter- heart on the end to bring it down at last—beyond the city to the hori- zon and what it fakes mystery of there, my cord would make a rain- bow whose end would be where there are already palely green grass and whistling mocking-birds back from “Palm Beach,” and skipping robins and branches with the sap up and the buds Euffing, and your breathing moving through the spring air. Hello, Summer! Hello! Why It Costs More to Furnish Telephone Service in a Large Town Tllan_in a \Small One Tébphoneu usually increase in number as a town grows, and the more telephones there are the more opportunities there are for the use of each telephone. The more calls there are from each telephone the more it costs to operate that telephone and the more wear there is on the equipment. ~ Also the equipment per telephone is more expensive in larger places. For example, jn a town of 10,000 people the more intricate and complicated switchboard that has to be used costs nearly five times as much per subscriber conpected as in a town of 1,000 people. Subscribers in the town of 10,000 people live on-an average three times as far from the central office as in the smaller places. Also subscribers move more in large centers, and these moves cost money. N ‘A more exacting grade of service is required in larger places, which increases the operating costs. Again wages, taxes " and rents are higher as a town grows larger. Then, too, in larger places we are generally asked to place our wires underground in cables, vhlnll\hnryuppnln. These are some of the reasons why telephone rates cannot be as low in large towns as in small ones. Copyright, 1916, International News Service. Gaa R , \ \. The world a-wantin’ you and you asleep!” P “Hello, Summer-r-r! I'm—wh o is this>—I'm 6 and I'm in school. And it's gettin’ to be a long ways between 9 o'clock and 2. And the seats get harder and harder, and I stwirm and stwirm and they don’t get any softer. And the windows are open now and the sun is so warm! And my eyes gets crossed and scratchy and my head's as heavy as a pungkin—and I lay it down across my arms and forget. In our yard the grass is gettin’ warm to lay on and look up at the sky. And I wisht you'd come out of your little bed in the deepy woods and shut up school! So little girls ®an stay home and cook awith their mothers and never-spell at all.” . “Hello—hello—who's this?—hello—this Summer? Oh, Lady, Lady! You've one pink foot out, but your eyes are fast, and where is your soul gone walking? Come awake, Summer Lady, with your flower-blue eyes and comé out in your waiting garden. And to a}l watchful, ardent Youth. There’s a pool in the Catskills. that lies like a green jewel in the arms of mossy rocks. It is twenty feet from its shimmering surface to the smooth, clean, cold rocks_at the bottom. So clear it is, so diamond clear, that looking, you_think you could roll up a sleeve and touch this rocky floor with an*exploring hand. I remember-its clear, cold world closing round as I dived. And I remember that there are trout there as long—as 'ong as this! v “Summer Lady, come with me there! There are boats that yearn for the breast of the water and there is picnicking to be done! There's the golf course, and a horse; there's the pine woods hum- ming to themselves while they wait, trying over their string chants until the wild tiger-lily and the-man from the city come to them, and there is—Love, perhaps! All waiting ’till you wake and step once more through the world that loves you, your arms full of flow- ers and your breath of honey-scent.” “Hello—Summer’s a young thing and the young can sleep, with the red in the cheeks and the dew on their eyelids and their breath coming soft. But I am only an old, ancient lady—and the old are im- patient! Who would think I'care whether Summer sleeps on; for Winter is my shadow and has laid his frosty hand on my hair. But I ¢are. My blood moves faster when I find the tulips and the daffo- dils in the florist windows looking out with their golden faces into my dull, faded oné. But their faces do not change when they look at mine; they are just as gold and jolly as when they turn up to a girl's fresh cheeks! In that they are kind—yodr children, Summer. “The soft air, the Spring rain, the scent of earth warm and living —they all bring memories, and my old heart tries to beat quick and loud as it did when it was young. When you wake, Summer, and stroll among your moon-flowers and pinks, it knows a little season of youth again and takes joy in the soaring prayer of the lark just as my gran’ babies’ tiny hearts do. Oh, sure—Youth isn't the only suitor on -your wire, lazy-daisey—the Old look on you fondly, too, and jingle your telephone!”—NEL L BRINKLEY. Hints on Choosing a Doctor By ALAN RALEIGH. If the very instant you set eyes on him you feel somé relief of your symptoms, some slight return of con- fidence, some ‘faint desire to go on living, .that is the doctor for your money. , If you feel worse, get rid of him at the first opportunity—at once, if you possess the courage to do so. He will never do you any good. This is ho mere fancy, but sound scientific reasoning. The best doctor | for you is the one who makes you feel better when you see him, not the one who is crammed to the brim with wisdom. There is an affinity of the mind and an affinity of the heart; I will not add an affinity of the soul, for) that is an even more subtle and deli- cate matter, and beyond the scope of this article. \ There is also a repulsion of the mind and of the heart. The influence of mind over matter is a truism—almost a platitude—but how it acts in this way is not easily understand. Yet act it does. Let me cite an instance. Someone you love is separated from you, ill perhaps, and there is no news; you worry and you are anxious; you cannot sleep; your appetite is lost; you cannot fix {our mind on ydur work; you lose all interest and pleas- ure in life, and you walk about with laggard steps and careworn face. Sud- denly you get a_ wire, “Cheer up. All's well. Love,” or something to that effect, and in an instant, as if by magic, all is changed. ou could shout for joy; your steps trip and spring; you are eager for work or play; your happiness infects those around. you. . Now, if a doctor were to examine the action of your vital organs before and after the good news had been re- ceived, he would find that the action of every single organ had been im- proved and strengthened. Your brain- is more active, your ASK FOR and GET HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK heart beats more vigorously and more steadily, the blood circuf’a!es more easily, the eye is clearer, the skin acts better and the muscles are more cofftracted. You can look the world in the face with a serene and happy confi- dence—all through half a dozen words on a sheet of paper. And in this case the person who ef- fects the change is at a remote dis- tance. What greater changes may we not expect when eye speaks to eye and heart to heart, when the aura that surrounds another human be- ing is in close and actual contact with you. In that way lies the success of the true physician, the soothing pres- ence, the healing touch, he who exer- cises in' a way most appropriate to your symptoms some degree of un- conscious and unavowed hypnotic suggestion. No one whose personality is hostile to you will ever exercise this influ- ence. There are some doctors you know—not the one you will call in, of course—towards whom you have the /feeling that, clevar though they may be, you would actually feel worse if they came into the sick- room. Shun all such as you would the plague. There is the doctor who regards you with a grave and anxious face and says, in an almost sepulchral voice: “My dear sir, you have only just called me in time,” as if to claim the personal credit of snatching you from the jaws of death. In reality he is generally a prepos- terous humbug, a qualified charlatan trading on human weaknegs. His aura is positively harmful; every single one of your many symptoms immediately ~ worsens when he comes in. For, believe me, disease is_not defi- nite entity which can be attached and routed out of you as you would rout dirt and dust out of an engine whose works had grown rusty. Ordinary skill by means of drugs we expect and generally get from ev- ery doctor, but it is the far more sub- tle and potent influence of the man and his individuality on your vital energy that counts. Some people get better in spite of, not because of, their doctors. . The doctor of your choice, the doc- tor with the right bedside manner should be the man who makes the impression of ‘“shooing” away dis- case, as a woman “shoos” hens. | By CONSTANCE CLARKE. Cream soup is delicious when the creaming is done carefully so that no lumping or curdling occurs. Melt five tablespoonfuls of butter in a stewpan, stir in three tablespoonfuls of flour, add one quart of white stock and stir till soup boils; simmer. it gently for ten minutes and remove any grease. Cut a cucumber into small pieces; put these with a cup of extra stock. Beat the yolks of three egge together with half a cup of cream, cool the soup slightly and strain in_the thickening of egg and cream. Stir over the fire a few sec- onds, but take the greatest care not to let the soup boil, or it will curdle the cream and be spoiled. Next add a seasoning of salt and pepper and the peas and cucumbers. Serve hot_in bouillon cups; just before serving shelled peas into a pan of salted wa-| garnish the top with a teaspoonful ter, and boil them until tender, then drain and-keep them hot in a little of whi[i_perl cream. (Tomorrow—Veal Loaf.) / 1