Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1916, Page 6

By A MERE MAN. The average woman “tidies up” as na as she eats and drinks. Eating ‘and drinking are, however, ted to certain fixed times and seasons and she is very particular a8 a rule with regard to the nature and quality of the articles, solid or v liquid, upon which she operates. But there is no close-time for the tidy- ing habit and nothing is exempt from it or comes amiss to it. The tidying habit is omniverous and all- inclusive—a cormorant, ostrich and municipal destructor combined. Taka pour own wife, for instance. She “tidy up” with equal facil- ity, dexterity and completeness, the evening paper you have just brought in and which you have not read a single word, the cast of flies you have just purchased for tomorrow’s fishing excursion up the river and the key, which is the o:iy one that fits your desk. y She can’t help it. The tidying habit, with long indulgence; ~be- comes a dominating passion—like drink or ‘opium. Indeed, it would i seem to be a2 form of domestic klep- ; tomania, and the " various perform- ances ‘of a somnambulist or a per- | son under hypnotic influence, It E would be interesting, indeed, if | - some powerful hypnotist could, by the method of suggestion, for in- stance, prevail so powerfully over the natural instincts of a woman as to cause her to pass her husband’s tobacco pouch, say, without “tidy- ing it up.” .fiypnotilm would win a convert to 'its efficiency if it could do that. The average woman has an inate sense of the “eternal fitness of ings.” © She must have on could not do the things she does. This sense, by some mysterious and o cult process which no metaphysical phil can define, causes her to concl that the only proper and _possible place for a vest you dis- carded ing, the too hot days of the summer is at the bottom—the wvery bottom—of the top left-hand wer of the chest in the attic. | years ago. It is more than probable. | thing to it, just as an electro-magnet makes the iron filings fly toward its all-compelling poles. "Once in | her clutches, any article, especially | if it is one which you require im- | mediately and which will be stale or useless tomorrow, is doomed to | solitary confinement for periods | ranging from six months—very rare instances—to 100 years. In- deed, it is thought that an ancient Egyptian papyrus, containing the news of the day, lately discovered | in the recess of a wall in an un-| earthed royal palace, was one which Pharoah's ~ wite “tidied up” 4,000 You remember the favorite pocket | knife you had when you were a boy? It was a marvel of shining blades,~ big and little, corkscrews, gimlets, button hooks, awls and toothpicks. In an unlucky moment of absent-mindedness you left it on the kitchen table. It was tidied up.” Ten years afterwards, when the family was moving it was brought into the light of day once more, along with other long missing treas- ures of yours from the farthest and darkest corner of the closet under the stairs. Too late, alas! Ten years had cooled your passion for pocket knives of general and uni- versal utility and the knife sought with tears ten years before charmed no longer, Besides it was so rusty that you broke your nails trying to open it and you gave it to the man who calls for old jron. You remember, too, in the im- ecunious days of early wedded bliss aying down on the tea table for a brief moment a receipt for $20. Your fioung wife, who would not willingly ave caused you a moment's incon- venience, had the tidying habit strongly developed. She inherited it from a long’ line of tidiers. Twenty years later, yellow with lfle, gou discovered that receipt, at the bottom of the topmost chest but six %in the boxroom. Meanwhile you had paid the bill again under a threat of legal proceedings because the tradesman had not crossed it off his books and you could not pro- “ Her hand seems to draw every- Ak uses, ¥ But lmg,“:he five United States duce evidence of payment, But how did it get i nto its hiding place? No man knows. Men are not supposed to know. HOTELS D RESORTS. Hotel—— Marie Antoinette R ‘ Broadway, 66th and 67th Sts. ¥NEW YORK CITY. SITUATED in the most con- wvenient location in town. 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Clouds of humming demons, armed with poisoned ' lances, chasing man, following him up, surrounding him where he settles as wolves besiege an encampment, attacking him in his homes, in his walks and his labors, breaking camp when he breaks, stopp- ing where he stops, acquiring from him the habit of emigration, infecting his life with the germs of death and singing a high-keyed paean of victory gratification over his . poignant sufferings—such is the picture which , the recent observations of Major Ash- burn, ‘the general inspector of the health department in the Panama can- al, zone, makes of the anopheles mo- THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, The mosquito from a mod- i el in the Museum of Natural . 4History, and the mosquito at jwork from a film by the Hearst International News Pietorial, squito in its relations with its human contemporaries. This, as Dr, C. S. Ludlow, of the Army Medical museum, points out, is a new viewpoint of the mosquito, which may be of advantage in the war on that dangerous and irritating insect. Hitherto it has been generally {assumed that mosquitoes, like rattle- snakes, were not to be feared unless one went into a neighhood where they already abounded. It seems to be' still true that the malarial varieties of mosquitoes have their natural habitats, from which they will not widely depart unless they are lured away. But they differ from rattlesnakes and other noxious creatures in that, instead of avoiding the neighborhood of man, they quick- ly learn to prefer it. The taste of human blood becomes as fascinating for them as the smell and flavor of whisky are for some unfortunate, weak-willed men. Dan- ', gerous snakes keep away from in- habited places, but mosquitoes seek them. Man draws them after him, or as Major Ashburn puts it: “The ma- larial mosquito follows man.” Some very curious and suggestive observations haye been made in the canal zone concerning the distances to which malarial mosquitoes will go in search of human blood, the man- ner in which they become infected with malarial germs and the screen- ing effect produced by a settlement intervening between the lurking place of the mosquitoes and another settle- ment beyond it. If they get all they want of their fayorite food at the nearby point they will not go beyond it, but if the hu- man screen is removed then they will go farther, pitching their camp in a new locality, if necessary, for, upon the average, they do not take flights much exceeding a quarter a mile from their breeding places, althouh in- stances have been known where, ow- ing to special circumstances, they extended their range to a mile. They Like Humans. Some experiments, or at least ob- servations, have been made, upon the effect of an “animal barrier” inter- posed between a human settlement and the home of the mosquito, but this has been found to be inefficient. The insects prefer human blood, and they easily perforate human. skin. It has also been observed that places in the Canal zone where set- tlements of laborers had existed for a considerable time and which had be- come hotbeds of malarial mosquitoes, have been almost completely denuded of the dangerous insects since their human neighbors decamped. A very striking instance of this is Zuotcd by Dr. Ludlow in “Science.” t Cano Saddle, a contractor's camp was formed on November 26, 1913. At first malaria carrying mosquitoes seemed to have been unknown there, On December 6 six mosquitoes, with malaria in their blood, were killed; on Decembet 13, thirty-four; on De- cember 20, 165; on December 27, 115; on ganuary 31, 1,211; on March 7, 3,277; on May 9, eighty-seven. The camp was dissolved early in May. Major Ashton thinks that the ano- pheles mosquito:(the malarial kind) is e Do You Know That ’ Stars twinkle more than usual just pre- vious to rain, Sugar s extracted from sixteen varieties of palms which grow in Ceylon. For more than 32,600 years Saloniki has had a continuous hlstory, though the eity has not always been known by its present name. It was refounded and renamed by Alexander the Great in the year 315 B. C. It is sald that Philtp of Macedon named his daughter Thessalonica because on the day he heard of her birth he won a victory over the Thessalonians. JUNE 28, Health Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman's Work -: What Love of Order Costs 1916. Mosquatoes as Man Chasers not a malaria carrier when it breeds far from the neighborhood of man. From this we may infer that it gets the germ from man, renders it trans- ferable, and then hands it back in an envenomed form through its bites. But, if the mosquito itself suffers from the infection, the result seems to re- semble that of whisky on certain men —it maddens with a desire for more, it breaks the bond between the victim and his native home and habits and sends the crazed sufferer in chase of unnatural indulgence without regard to consequences. There is another resemblance be- tween the taste of the mosquito for human blood and that of whisky drinkers for their liquid curse, and that is that it produces, or promotes, a kind of low cunning, employed for the sake of the infatuating dissipa- tion. Nobody needs to be reminded of the pitjful deceptions and subterfuges that the slaves of whisky practice, while no Jerseyman is unaware of the demoniac trickery of a mosquito in getting in its stabs on the back of the victim's neck or through thin stock- ings in the shadow of trouser legs or skirts. One somewhat comforting observa- tion made during the mosquito wars of the Isthmus is that, broadly speak- ing, a distance of about 1200 yards from the breeding ground is, in ordi- nary circ es, sufficient to pro- cure a famc of exemption from the mosquito @wisance. - Some Recipes The following rhubarb ginger jam is specially popular with older people, but, as a rule, the children do not like the hot flavor. Rhubarb and Giner pounds of rhubarb, six ~pounds of sugar, two ounces of root ginger, rind of two lemons. Cut the rhubarb into two-inch lengths and spread in a single layer on a tray; let them dry in the sun and air for twenty-four hours, then put in a deep bowl with the sugar and a very little water for another twelve hours; strain off the dissolved sugar and juice; put in a preserving kettle. Tie the ginger and demon rind in a piece of scalded cheesecloth and add to the syrup. Bring to a boil and continue boiling for five minutes; th€n pour over the rhubarb and leave for an- other twenty-four hours; at the end of that time simmer until the rhubarb is clear and the syrup thick. Do not pour the jam into the sterilized jars, but just lift the pieces of rhubarb very carefully out and lay into the jars, and then pour the syrup over them. : Rhubarb and Almond Jam—Six pounds of rhubarb, four and one-half pounds of sugar, one and one-half ounces of bitter almonds, rind of three large lemons or four small. Cut the rhubarb into two-inch lengths and add the sugar; then very thinly cut lemon rind, and the al- monds blanched and split. Boil all together for one and a quarter hours and pour into hot, dry jars. Sugarless Jam—Three pounds rhu- barb, two ounces of sweet almon;!s, one ounce of root giner, saccharine tablets sufficient to equal two pounds of sugar in sweetness. ; Cut the rhubarb into small pieces, break the ginger very small, blanch and shred the almonds; put all into an earthen dish, cover and place in a moderately hot oven; cook until soft. Put into a preserving kettle, add the saccharine, boil until reduced to two- thirds and pour into small jars; cover with paper soaked in olive oil; pour a very little whisky or brandy over the paper, then put on the final cov- ers and store in a dry place. Gooseberry, greengage, peach and strawberry jam can be made by the same method, allowing the same pro- portion of saccharine. A marmalade swetened in the same way gives a variety to the diabetic patient who is confined to such a monotonous diet, as a rule, that it is a real charity to try and liven it up. Sugarless Marmalade—One pound of lemons, forty tablets of saccharine, half ounce of gelatine, water. Wash the lemons and put into an agate pan, cover well with cold water. Boil for fifteen minutes, strain off and add boiling water as much as the amount that was strained off; then boil again for fifteen minutes. Save one quart of the last water; divide the lemons and take but the pips; cut the peel into very thin shred and re- turn to the quart of water; add the saccharine and boil for thirty min- utes; then add the gelatine and stir until dissolved. Put into jars and cover in the usual way. Fruit Butters. Apple Butter—One peck sour ap- ples, two quarts sweet apples, cider, sugar equal to one-half the weight of the apples, spice. Pare, quarter and core the apples, weigh and then add enough cider to just cover the fruit, put the lid on the kettle and cook gently, stirring oc- casionally with a wooden spoon or paddle. When the mixture begins to thicken continue’ stirring until the whole becomes of the consistency of | marmalade, then add the sugar and powdered cinnamon and cloves, mix well, put into sterilized jars and cover. Other fruit butters are made the same way, but sometimes honey is | added to plums, making an especially delicious compound. This is the rec- ipe: pPlum Butter and Honey—Put the plums into the saucepan with a very little water, just enough to keep from burning, let them cook very slowly until quite soft and then press through a coarse Sieve. Measure the pulp, heat gently until the puree comes to a boil and add the honey, allowing one pint to every quart of the fruit. Con- tinue cooking and stirring until of the Of the many uses to which cocoa may be put, none is more popular than iced cocoa. Serve it in high glasses for tennis parties, luncheon or afternoon teas; or it could also be used as a dessert. . Take one-quart of milk that has been brought to a boil, wlth four tablespoontuls of sugar. Put into a bow! two good tablespoonfuls of cocoa; mix with it by degrees one cup of cold water, and when it is of the consistency of a smooth paste mix into it the boiling milk and stir it on the ! fire till it is boiling; then strain it through a strainer and put aside till cold. Freeze it to the consistency of A New ced Cocoa By CONSTANCE CLARKE. - Household TE}%S Jam—Eight color .scheme. o for Preserves | right consistency and put into ster. ilized jars as usual. String Beans. String beans are dried in a differ- ent way, although the last part of the | process is practically the same. : Gather the beans on a fine day and remove the strings, cutting the beans into strips as if for cooking. Lay all the cut beans in a large colander, and plunge for threec minutes into a pan of fast-boiling water in which a tea- spoonful of bicarbonate of soda hag been dissolved. Turn the beans out of the colander, and dry gently with a soft cloth. Have ready somé wire sieves; spread the beans in a thin layer and stand the sieves in the oven one on top of the other. See that the air ¢an pass around all the sieves. Stir the beans gently every three hours, and as they dry move them closer together on the sieves. In this way some of the sieves will be gradually emptied. It is then pos- sible to fill the top- of the oven with sieves of half-dried beans, and have the bottom portion of the oven pack- ed with sieves full of freshly cut' beans. Do not mix fresh and half- dried vegetables on the same siave, as this retards the drying of the lat- ter, 3 When perfectly dried the beans must be allowed to get cold before being stored away in air-tight tins and boxes. Carrots and parsnips should be well washed and scraped, then cut into thin slices or dice, according to whether they will eventually be used for soups or stews. Throw the sliced parsnips into water, to which a table- spoonful of vinegar has been added, as this helps to preserve the color. Afterwards dry them in the same way as the beans. 1f the sun is very hot the sliced vegetables can be laid in a sunnny window to help with the drying, but the process is much long- er than when the oven is used. Apples and Pears, Apples and pears are peeled, the latter cut in halves and the forme: into rings and quarters. The rings take less time to dry and are easier to manage. The rings cut an inch / thick and the core removed. As the pears and apples are peeled | and divided, drop them into a basin \ of cold water, to which has been added a tablespoonful of lemon juice for every quart of water. Leave the slices soaking in this for twenty minutes, then take up, dry thoroughly with a cloth, and lay on sieves in the oven in_ the same manner as the beans. Do not attempt to do too much at a time, as this will lead to disaster. Windfalls, provided they are quite sound, do very well for dry- ing. All bruised portions must be carefully removed. Eating pears dr better than cooking pears, but bot are equally useful. Of course the drying is not worth while unless you have the fruit and vegetables to spare from your own garden; if they have to be bought it is better to rely on the grocer in the winter and to in- vest in a good brand of the canned products.—Philadelphia Ledger. — Tips on Summer Styles Blouses are inclined to be elabo- rately trimmed. Small hats are topped with flam- boyant bows. Greater fullness is seen at the top of all sleeves. Plain and dotted net are used for wash blouses. Dancing frocks lean to the Dolly Verden style. The emerald at present is a much favored gem. Satin is being used for some of the long coats. Old gold with ash-gray is a lovely Black mohair tailored stitched in white. The smartness of a coat is judged suits are by the size of its pockets. Tight-fitting jackets are apt to have wide directoire collars. The high-crowned drooping Gains. boro hats are again in vogue, white skirts, being of Milanese silk. A brilliant mohair braid outlines some of the large picture hats. A flowered ‘voile polonaise opens over a white vest and petticoat. A white silk net wrap has cape col- ar and skirt edged with white ostrich. Gray is a fashionable color and it is oftened brightened by a bit of coral jewelry. . Clear meshes with flower or lea in color are decidedly favored among veilings. Veils are worn as a frill, draped around the hat and falling just below the eyes. A double round muslin collar with a deep point at the back is a favorite for a tailored cloth suit. Brilliants, colored ribbon and flow- ered ornaments form a quaint and pretty finish for the coiffure. A new middy looks very much like a Chinawoman’s shirt and is excellent carried out in yellow silk. Blazer striped coats are worn with both coat and skirt The French are making one-piece frocks with side pockets slung on the hips with cordelieres of silk. The roll-over plaited or goffered lawn collar is effective turned over a high collar band of black ribbons ve- lours. a thick batter; then, when ready to serve, fill tall glasses with it and place on the top of each about a des- sertspoonful of snow cream. Snow Cream—Put two cups of cold water into a bowl or stewpan with a quarter pint of thick cream, the strained juice of a lemon and four tablesponfuls of sugar; whip this mixture quickly with a whisk uatil the top is frothy like snow, remove the froth with a spoon and place it on {a hair sieve to drain. Repeat the whipping while any froth is obtain- able, and when ready to serve take it gently .from the sieve with a spoon and use. Tomorrow—Baked Mackerel, Do You Know That--- which It's worry, not work, shortens life? A cold bath every morning is the best complexion remedy? Poor health is expensive? The United States public health service has reduced malaria 60 per cent in some localities? “ The death rate from typhoid fe- ver in the United States gas been cut in half since 1900? Pneumonia kills oyer 120,000 Americans each year? Flyless town has few funerals? The well that drains the cess- pool is the cup of death?