The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1918, Page 15

> The Story ina This One Plant Could Clothe Mankind if Wool and Silk Should Vanish—U. S. Produces 75 Per Cent. of the World’s Supply F the world should have to face a complete and final shutting off of all supplies of wool, silk and flax, the deficlen- cy could be made good by planting more cotton, No one need suffer if every other fab- ric-making ma- terlal were lost, for this indispensable plant could supply all our needs; clothes, ru: bed coverings, table cloths and nap- Kins. It also is the basis of gun- cotton, and likewise shelters our arm- fea in the field. This does not end the story, for the food value of cot- ton-seed products is steadily increas- ing. On almost every table they ap- bear as oil for salad dressing, as but- ter and lard substitutes, Cotton-seed long known as excellent cattle now baked into bread. ‘The discoverer of the value of cot- ton lived before history began, but the early Chinese and Egyptians used and prized it. Before Caesar's time the Hindus had a law imposing a fine of three times its value upon any one who stole a plece of cotton. “Modern nations must come to the United States for their supplies of raw material, for 75 per cent. of the World's crop is produced in this coun- try. Practically all of the remainder is grown in Egypt, Brazil and East India. Cotton is a shrublike plant about 4 feet high. ‘The flowers are white at first, but change to cream color and then are tinged with red. After four days the petals drop off, leaving a boll.” The boll is the seed con- tainer and grows slowly through the long hot summer until {t is about as large as a hen's egg. When ripe, the boll cracks open and the seeds and Unt, the cotton fibre, burst forth, Pach plant ts then dotted with snow- white clusters, making the cotton field a beautiful spectacle. This ts the height of the busy sca- How Foreign Housewives Cook F one of New York's model house- | where pots and pans may be sot over keepers were snddenly transported to another part of the world it would probably take her some time} to get her home in smooth running omer again, for not only do the na-| tions differ in their choice of food, but their methods of cooking vary widely. In the Orkney Islands the house- wife atill cooks over the “‘kiln-rin; a circular hearth in the middle of the floor, above which hangs a big tron kettle. Over the coals she bakes the griddle-cake, made of oatmeal, salt and milk or water, and Scotland's favorite Gish. Scotch immigrants brought the recipe to America, but substituted cornmeal, cooked !t on a hoe, and gave us the hoe-cake of our own South. Rolled in a cabbage leaf and) » baked in the ashes, it became ash- cake, and corn-pone when baked in « pan, says Gas Logic. The Dutch and the Germans prob- | ably made the first stoves. In spite of the orlticism that they suggest | tombstones, the largo white porcelain | stove, which is a feature of the Ger-| man home, keeps the rooms warmer | and is cleaner and less expensive | than an open fire. ln the Bwiss farmhouse the cooking is done over @| stone hearth in a corner of the house. | Bountiful nature cooks and washes | for the Maoris at Chinemutu, New| Zealand, where there are many hot | springs. Where the steam is plenti- ful a box with a perforated bottom fs set into the earth. Into this the food is placed, a covering thrown, over the top, and in a short time dinner is ready to be served. In the * rural sections of Argentina the fornos | oven is still in use. It is made of} brick, plastered with clay or mud and| with a single opening. The fire is) built, and after the oven is thorough- | ly heated the coal and ashes are raked out and the bread put in, A} feast for the ives of Mindanao means a wild, razorback pig, spitted on a pole fire. countries charcoal is the Italy sin are} MOTORIST journeying through the Rum Ridge region A e upon two men| big road A us ansas wal dust of the |top of which a fi of|on the starboard and av near us, 1 do not know Bale of Cotton’ Coprrteht. 1011 HEIS 4 waVONOER ! OWNS 4 LoT OF APARTMENT HOUSES son on the plantation, for the cotton must be picked by hand, no success- ful machine having been yet pro- duced. The cotton next goes to the nearby gin, where, after being sep- arated from the seed, the lint is pressed into bales. The bales may now start upon a journey half way around the world to the cotton mill, Here the cotton is cleansed and wound into rolls of batting called laps. These go through the carding machine, which combs out the fibres and winds them into a soft, downy rope known as card silver. After passing through the drawing frames, the slubbers and speeders, the cotton reaches the spinning frames, tho spindles of which, revolving 10,000 times a minute, twist {t into yara Teady to bo dycd and weaved. Two kinds of yarn are produced, the warp for the lengthwise and the filling for the crosswise throads of the cloth. ‘The filling is tn its complete form ready for the loom, but the warp must be dyed, dried and arranged in Paralle) rows or sheets of thread for weaving. The machinery used is al- | most uncanny in its ingenuity. If a thread breaks while passing through the warper, a small wire drops and the machine stops. In this way fuil | count of thread and uniform welght | of goods is insured. Cotton cloths may be divided into five general classes: Plain goods, such as lawn, nainsook, sheeting and print | coth, which vary in number of threads, fineness and weave; twills, | which include denim, largely used for overalls; sateen, used for dress lin- ing, dresses and waists; fancy cloth, the material for children’s clothes, | shirtwaists, &c,, and which is also | known as scrim, and the beautiful | Jacquard fabrics. These represent | the most complicated form of weav- ing and are sold under special indi- | vidual names or brands for dress | goods and novelties. | Cotton yarn is sold by the pound, | and because of the difference in| weaving !t 1s impossible to say ex- | actly how many yards of cloth each pound will make. It has, howeve been figured that a pound of yarn | should make 3% pounds of sheetin, cr 8% yards of muslin, or 9% yards | lawn, or 7% yards of calico, | 5'@ vards of gingham, or fifty-seven | spools of thread | ¢ HE Boosts ) THE RENT / EVERY Six MONTHS HE DOESN'T CINE A RAP IF or Data—From the ‘itook of Wanders.’ by pee. mission of the Burean of ‘Industrial Education Ine. ot Wasitugton. D, °C, the burning charcoal. The artistic nature of the Japanese ghows even in their stoves, which are dainty, lac- | qQuered affairs, fed with finely pow- dered charcoal. In Venezuela the same fuel is used, the kitchen being equipped with a table of hard wood, | protected by a thick layer of ashes, on » 18 kindled under each pot or pan. Depew Is Wounded a Second Time, Then Meets the Greatest Of His Adventures (Copsrigat, i918. vy Rellly & Tritton Oo. By erran BYNOVSIS OF PREC ement with the Cuorge Matthow Adame Service.) ING CHAPTERS Albert N. Depew. oeai gallate in the French Por EF is unsigael as 8 Kuuuer on enters the trae ies. The is recovering the gua turret where he i tthe, Liarda eal Nho volunteer { $d bis"triond “Murray” in. ¢ This Waker weat.ditteres Prom a darederil fyi sober abd is bent up f an reach, Hecauwe of gal'n Veuingula be wins the French War Cross, add gein back to (ue Cassard atier —— CHAPTER XII. LL of are “certainly to be aboard the Cas, Ont went clear thr and drilled a hol while the other came within an inc of going through ‘he pecullar thing @ js that these two were in © mbove yugh bone and all on the other sid glad again, and if any place ever the wound | got at Dixmude, ‘The looked like home to me it Jie ds almost as stuight @s you could draw it with a rule was the old ship. OF course, it knocked me down, and Our casualties | nit my head a pretty hard crack on were very high, the steel deck, but | was able to and we were ¢rawl to the turret door. Just as [ Was ubout to enter the gun was fired. therefore ordered ‘hat particular charge happened to to put back to po defective » shell split: and Brest. We had « caused a backfire, and tho cordite, little cele- fro and gaa came through the breach bration that night Wiich the exploste Renee It must have been a piece of cordite and next morn- which did it, but whatever it was it ing welghed an me in the rt, e and blinded it cher and @taried ye oe! crgtene une Woke horace f cna. French stirge and looks normal, Gunner Depew. back, after clear- mit it pains greatly sometimes, ing for action and they tell me it will always ba We had been out only a short tine, sightless though, when the winging stopped, 1 was unconscious imme for We ran into two German cruisers the blow and from the quantity of —which | afterward heard were the &44 Which [ must © ewallowed. This gas did mo a great deal of dam- age, and gives me dizzy spells often, to this day, I do not know what h pened during the f the engage la Werft and Kalserliche Marine—one ne on the port they had managed to sneak up They opened How wing in the at not much more than # thousand Ment, hey an conacioun- and belaboring right zealously, As| yards and gave us @ ood deal of hell Hess un uw t nree Meeeay: pee Hut . he hea n @ ho: vat the Frenen raveller brought his car to a| ftom the atart, though with any kind ard | the tra PPR ARY 2 . of gunnery they should have done for #Uper-dreadnought Jeanne d'Are and stop to keep from running over tho| U4 Shoroughly the light cruiser Normandy wore in it combatants they arose and whacked! We came right back at them, and # Well am ourssives, though not st : t * ne time | was wounded, and that we @ portion of dust from thelr gar-|were getting in some pretty good the 2 Maat Bae baes ments. ‘Then stepping from the|#hots. J was in the 14-inch gun tur- hid all been pretty well battered. The jtet, starboard bow—my old hangout —- C@s8ard lost ninely-six men in the track they produced pines from their!and we wero letting them have it eM#agoment and had forty-eight + pockets and one offered his tobacco | bout four shots every five minutes, Lt OF OW age were : if ; bale pecs a vise twisted into all manner of shapes, to the other in the most amicable way, |and scoring heavily. | a un Sule tema terete “Pardon me, gentlemen,” said the : away, One of our Lieutenants wag motorist, “but what were you fighting that wasn't fighting, pre- replied one of the men, “My | is Gap Johnson, and three or name four of my oldest girls are beginning |than tn any other place. to wall their eyes and talk about | love, This yur gent 18 Bung S' dock, the best ecrapper on the ridge. I ain't as soopls as I used to be, and I'm just practising up with him against the © eons-in-law, Kansas City Star, fuder was carried away. |rot bother us. | turret, it 1s hotter 1-|away, and I was feeling 80 good that rough-and-tumble |I volunteered to go on deck and get another one. | door and across the\deck essary parts, and was coming back time when I'll have to fight a passel | with them, when I received two mas chine gun bullets in the right thigh. been fighting when part of our range- It w hot. though, and we were so h it that little things Mke the ti It is hot in any Killed in the engugem I was told that both the Werft an4 tho Kaiserlicne Marine were sunk in this engagement. 1 have seen pictures of satiors trom the W t who were prisoners at internment camps While I wos etil! in bed in the ospital at Brest I receivevd the Cro.x da Guerre, which I had won at the Dardanelles, The presentation wag made by Lieut, Barbey. He pinned an Amertean flag on my breast, a French flag beneath ft, and beneath that the War Cross. He kissed me on botn checks, of course, whioh was taking gun but 1 have always noticed that there in the Dar anelles But the range-finder was carried I got outside the turret Bot the nec- “THEY DO . / HE OWNS ALL “THE WONDERFUL, ABouT Thar 2 THE TENANTS WOULD Move OuT T SHOULD THN) / CAN You BEAT IT! HE GETS THEN Gong | | tdyantage of a cripple, But it is the charged after a ttle party in my 1 thing With the French, a8 you ward with every one taking part ow--L wean the kissing, got the "Sherlock arranged everything for SUSP Wo canness to cripples. me—imy passage to New York, cloth tai Of course, it was gr stuff for in and xo forth. L ran up to Bt tm, and 1 ‘thought 1 the real Nazaire and saw my grandmother, A h sure enough, but 1 could not loafed around a while and also vis « hel) thinking of the remark 1 have ited Lyon. he here in the States—"I A & short time 1 returned to ou and whole family Peest and got my passage ont you.” And it was hard not t rec for New York had thre Also, {t seemed funny to me, because trunks with me full of things L had 1 did not htly know just what they picked up around Purope and had Were giving me the medal for been keeping with my grandmother. wearing a pair of wooden clogs. ‘The thought it Was for one of two things Ainong iny belongings were several men and boss mere ctasy rushing and 1 do not know to thiv day. things [ should ike to show by pho- around the deck and knocking each But 1 thought tt would not be polite toxraphs in this book, but no one but other duwn, and everybody xuttlng. ti to ask, #0 I Jet it go at tha mermaids oan see them now, for everybody claua was, We lowered ull Thore were twelve other naval of- down to the kor of Davy Jones jucob's ladders, but some of the men cers who were present, and they and they went and boys were already in the wate all the other people did a lot of Why they jumped | do not know ing and vived me to a fare CHAPTER X11 There was aa oiler on the Georg! well, It was great stuff, al named Mallen, and though he wore and 1 should have liked wet HEN the tugs had cast Of. giauses, he was the toughest bird I medal every day and after a while we had ever saw. He had been almost stone One day I received a letter from pped our pilot, f sald to blind for a year and « half, and he man who had been in my company myself: “Now we are off, Could hardly se at all out hi in the Foreign Legion and with whom F ses, which were thick and pow I had been pretty chummy, His and it’s the States for me—end of the He was on the boat deck wl letter was partly in Freneh and partly line—far ay we go--IF But the began whelling ux, and it was fn nglish It was all abou Rte} did not look very big to me, 5 16 he was not killed at gne t { had been killed and who had EEN Fougn 1 eoul 1 hs GRE @ wan able to hide behind @ funnel, wounded, He also me f Mur. (Cush J could ese 1¢ with the Ake oe cuit arng sou ¢ ve vay's death, which he had hoard @y¢ All right worn that funnel for a boo about, an bout my rece the it was rough weather thove first waist, but Mallen was not s 1 Croix’ de Guerre, 1 was he two days out, and it was raining most &Uess he was wo tough the shrapnel had said something ab of the time, 1 got up about 4 o'clock Was afraid of him whom | had not heard and tho next morning, which waa Sunday, | When he was going down the Jacob's 1 knew would vi e had th® deo, 10, 1916—a date I do oot think I jndsar the fs. AuGve Bim musae Daye chance, Will ever forget c @ hurry, for hi Ked Mallen But two or three days later I fot Aw soon us 1 was dressed I went {0 the face and broke the lev another le from the own to the forecastie peak and from hich left Mallen with @ monocie. | piolagranht © rst a there, Wako the DANE Losker,. the other one, and that was the only photogrant, i found some rope. in back way he could see a foot in front of him tha was tho Nf on deck, and made myself a hen the Serre thea PRachen wae bayonet A nock, which I rigged up on t headed right in toward and I looked at it closely deck, figuring that I wou a PaGed ENE fa an Brown, 1 fainted 1 Nike ® nico ‘sun bath, as the weather hud at ghe'tneyeg: gram, going to Tain us, but girl lant turned clear piel pad ya When T came to Typoula meray Ae moon as I had the hammock Made’ forthe Geol. peat, a4 15 PRNO myaele tolal ADeRE pe strung I went down to the er and men in the water ua they came and my pals gone! 1 art me fo much had a nice chat with him—and stole ® Crashing thes ae ¢ be it that L crushed the letter ng mon the head wi to th w hot buns, which was what I waa hooks wh n th y ¢ ch them, [ up in my hand, but tate really after—and away to the kalley noticed ch 4 i read parts of it. It sald for breakfast. I was almost exactly the Geennat pane Ware red Kege io found Brown this way 1 nidships, sitting on an old orange When thee dite boat rea about two days aft x, I had not been there long when jnoob's ladders I went overt reported miss So three { Old Chips, the ship's carpenter, stuck Bide of the Georgre una’ thet. went over, and two stayed there, 1 head in the door and sang out, "SMp mann came over the side and hot seems very strange to ine on the starboard bow." 1 did not pay Leen Tie Garena of my pals should tention to him, because ships on with bayonste and tevalvers. if 1 were super the starboard bow were no novelty to # of them went down into theen- what I would out tt. It m Or on the port ¢ Chips was honen Rad tee a Ako me sick and kept me from razy about looking at her either, this t - ag fast is 1 would have done other- qr je came in sat on another hot Limeya came uo tone wise, Both Brown and Murray were and began scofing. He suid he thourht and I told thene ta stay w te wood pals, and very good men In @ sho was @ tramp, and that whe flow the and thut the Germans wid fight br ) fag astern. rin Ufe bow Anothe Tho American Consul visited me | ate all I could get hold of and went Germans hoisted t of the quite often, and I got to culling him oyt on deck. 1 stepped out of the ga kegs on their sho Sherlock, because he asked #0 many joy just in time to the fun, The down Into No. 6 hold wit questions, We pla of gan was just opposite us, when away Meantime the ry together, m« went our wireless and some of the on the boat de a great time boats on the starboard side, and then \s dover went the I came convalescent th boom! boom! we heard the report of ted, and one or two tr me that I had seen enough, and the guns. I heard the shrapnel whiz~ met. When the Germa thourh 1 really did not think vg around us just as I had many up to us they had their revolvers out however much I disliked what I s before. [I jumped back in the and were waving n around an? seen--he gol my discharge from the and Chips and the cook were veiling, "Gott. str England!" and servica on account of physical in & so hard they made the pans talking abe bunds. ability to discharge the usual duties. rattle the first thing 1 k 1 was } After T had been at the hospital for When the firing stopped I went np off into the sea. I alippad off ony @ Uttle over @ month 1 was div- to ine boat deck. I had co all of my trousers and cout aud clogs, and bee Ay 1 conrad hin Wie a By Maurice Ketten | TORY WITHOUT A PAUSE Begin It on This Page Next Monday Ais Kiddie K] he Evening World’s ub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Coorright, 1918, by The Prone Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World), 4 B uster’ Adventures By Uncle Harry The Big Fish. USTER went down to the lake one morning. The sun was 80 bright, the grass 60 green and the water ao clear that he begun to bark to show how happy he waa. All at once, some one called out: “Hush! you will scare the fish.” It was Mr. Fox, He was sitting under @ little bush, and in bis mouth was a string, the othor end of which was in the water. “Good morning, sir,” said Buster, “what is that in your mouth?” “It is a fishing line @ man gave me, and Iam going to catch a fish | for dinner,” Mr. Fox answered. This was not true; he had stolen the line when the fisherman's back was turned. He shook his head when Buster asked if he might hold the string, but Buster begged so hard that finally Mr. Fox consented. Buster sat very still but didn’t got a bite; then he began to watch a kingfisher, for. got the line and dropped It. “Ll knew you would do that,” cried |Mr. Fox; “a fish might have carrted lit away. I will have to tie it around your leg.” He fastened the string to Buster's foot and told him to walt until he }came back. It was #0 quiet that latter a while Buster began to nod. Suddenly he awoke. Something had caught the line and was dragging him toward the water. He tried tg hold back but couldn't, and nobody are when be barked for help. Close d closer he came and then in he went with a splash. Buster tried to swim but the weight on his leg pulled him down, Twice he came to the top, only to be drawn under again, All at once he felt himaele Mfted from the water and carried to the bank. When he opened his eyes, Mr. Blephant was standing beside him and not far away was a great, bie fish. His friend had come just in tume @nd pulled both of them out, of wat After Buster had rested Mr. Elephant took him home and teld him to give the fish to his mother, > Yousin Eleanor’s Klub Kol Cousin Eleanor’: ub Kolumn + | 7 or "Sammie" who has gone from Dear Klub Members: your home and for those whose wel- N front yards and back yards. tare you offer up morning and ey il on school roofs and home ‘ol ning prayers. We can do much to and wherever else possible, K14-| ake those prayers come true. A dies and grown-ups are planting big and little “War Gardens" to help Uncle Sam's food conservation plans A small plot well planted can be mado to yleld enough vegetables to supply the needs of the family, You have but to count the number of people your garden is feeding in order to know how much responsibility you are unloading from Uncle Sam's broad shoulders, If you solve your own problem of daily living he will not @ to do it for you and he will 6 and hav have just so much more tim ENSE clothing, but instead of shoes 1 was lieve mo, it was not a case of all) dressed up and ne place to go! Then 1 swan hard and ¢ to the Limeys who had jumped first They were asking each other if they downhearted and inawerlns, Not @ bit of it, me lads,” and wying troubles in ry could not to sing, “Pack up your old kit bag,” your y th do much sing ount ef th waves that slipped into their mouths every time they opened thom. ‘That was just like Limeys, thougn, ‘They will Carry on, to use a well known x pression, “Ull hell freezes over.” ome ‘of the boys Were fust climb ing up the jacob's ladder on th Moewe when the old Georgie let out an awtul aud up went tne d tie hatches high tn the air splin One fellow let go bts bh on the ladder and went dowa, and he never came up. The Germans were making for the Moewe in the life boat, and we reached it just before t did. Up the ladder we went and over the side, and tl st thing we caught wight of was tho German revolvers in our faces, drilling us all into line. » boat brought back the s papers trom the Gee and we had roll ca ‘They kept us up on k in our wet ear, and it was very cold indeed, Then tho first mate and the Old Man and of the Gorman office v4 off the names, and we f d fifty missing Boche commander had gall to say to our Old Man that he re to kill men, but to sink that were supplying the sald giaud was trying rmany, but they would ed, und that rmany would Allies very so: Af call of us asked the Germa clot or at le “ place ourselves in, but Fritz could not see us for the dust on the ocean, and we just had to stand there and shiver Ull we shook the deck al most, Then L we down on the pipes that feed t k winches. They had quite them and I was ad of steam {i & to feel more was a G und he started calling 48 kinds of schweinhunde nk of, and be could thir hey ed y 1 other part of tt ck led us down into the fore and read the martial law of Germany to us At least | guess that is what It was, It might have been the “Help Wanted umn from » for al! Re Lokal Taggat knew or cured (To Be Continued) ers’ the War Garden will be a great help. I wish that every loyal Kiddie Klub member and true American patriot would become intertsted in a War Garden, There is not a more delight- ful or healthful form of entertainment and exercise for spring, summer or early fall, The Department of Parks wil! glad- ly give all information on farming. The little model gardens situated in Imost every park demonstrate proper planting. Now, Cousins, tell me all about | material to devote to the “Jack Tar” your own War Garden, Tell what you have planted and also how and why you have done so. This is the sub- |Ject of this month's contest and ten prizes of one dollar ($1) each will be awarded the writers of the ten best compositions on “A War Garden,” and honorable mention will be given the next best To win a prize or honorable men- tion will not only mean that you are |an ardent patriot, but a clever writer as weil Cousin Eleanor, r If you own a bond of the | Third Liberty Loan do not forget to fend your name infor the Kiddie Kiub's War Service Honor Roll which will appear on Saturday, May 11. |APRIL CONTEST AWARD WINNER, HE American soldier's euit is of khaki coior cloth and the but- tons on his jacket make his uniform very attractive. He ts brave and true and when he attacks the enemy he does it with al his heart and strength, He pro- tects the freedom of our country and is willing to give bis life for Unole Sam erty Hy DORA WLLDMANN, aged sov- en years, No, 217 18th Street, Brook- lyn MAY COMPOSITION CONTEST. SUBJECT—"A WAR GARDEN. prizes of $1 each will be awarded Kiddie Klub mem- | bere—ages from six to fifteen who write the best compe- inclusive sitions on @ war garden, Composi- Jet hould tell which vegetables are best to raise and how and when to p them, Compositions must not exceed ono Bundred and fifty (150) w nts must etate their name, age and certificate number. | Address COUST ELEANOR, Evening World Kiddie Klub, Park Row, New York City Cont address, |) PSE CE ERIE "'9GOW To JOIN THE KLUB AND OBTAIN YOUR PIN, Rewiuning with any pam ber, cut ow of the cow 18—ie wed in” Eleanor ii with « note hich vou minst. gtate UlUNAME, AGB and op tw 6 om year of eae i COUPON NO. 3 1 2 °