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] 14 ¢’/ neing shelled. Get gh * /. viously boiled jars as rapidly as pos- —— The By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copsricht, 19:9, by AM tn receipt of a letter from a Hindu, now in this country, apro- Pos of an articie of mine in a ree Gent issue of The Evening World en- titled “When Gold Was Cheap.” Here is the pertinent part of the letter: “I am sending you a couple of Boston daylies, which reveal what a mat and yet what a terrible coun- this ix, Do you sce this sign (8)? At is the ssn of the dollar, and of fe American gods All other deities wake a back » in the presence of ‘this ($) god. This is the lowest and eworst of ull the gods, It heart, America claims to have a large heart, Yes, a g gantic slab of marble with this inscription upon it-—$." d-wide-and-all-wool” Am- ut can Tsay to the Hindys Phis—thut it is more truth + than poetry. It ls humiliating to haverto say this, but there is simpiy nothing for me 10 do but to face the facts as grace- fully as I can, The American peopie--and other people on God's earty—are thoroughly commercialized. The only values they seem to care much for % are of the material—money and the things that money can buy. “What are you worth?” In other words, “Bow do you stand as to dollars and cents?” “Are you succeeding?” That means “Are you getting rich?” ‘That a man may be worth @ great @eal and still be distressingly short in bis bank account is to the average Amefican—and to the average man of every other country in the world— preposterous idea at there may be wealth quite aside from bank accounts is a thought that the rank and file in America— ‘and in every other “civilized” land— @re unable to entertain with any d gree of seriousness. To have a “heathen” from India's ¢ Prose Maul every God of Americans. niug Co kills the | ee big pie tent Ate: me Xe ad ‘The New York Evening World) | coral strand make that mark (#) and | tell us fMatfootedly that it is our god | well strike us as being rather “sass) but what are we going to do about it? What is God anyway? Is not God | jthe bighest, the very top-notch of jaspiration, the idea, or thing, that | is supreme in the thought and action of men and nations? If the definition holds there is. no \escaping the conclusion that our god is the dollar. For dollars we sell our | peace of mind, our truth, our #elf- respect. Vor dollars we cheerfully barter the honor of man.and the vir- tue of woman, For dollars we stul- | tify ourselves at the marriage altar, at the bar of justice, around the do- mestic hearth and in the very, sanc- tuary of religion, What, then, is our “highest,” our “god,” if it be not this game dollar and the things that {t will buy? But hold! I bave said that I am 4 yard-wide-and-all-wool American, and | repeat it. I love my country, and because I love ber I am glad that om that never-to-be-forgotten August day, four years ago, the Ger- man Kaiser began the business which was to wake up the nations, Ameri- ca with the rest, tasomething higher and bolter than commercialism, bigh- er and holier than tho dollar aud the things tbat it can buy. The great war, in which our people are beginning to play a conspicuous part, has already made a new iife for us, new ideals, new aspirations, and whon, as the result of our splendid Unselfishness, we come out of the struggle we will find, along with vic tory on the battle field, grand, new spiritual visions which ‘will make it impossible for us ever again to be ome the worshippers of the dollar nd the devotees of the material and the mercenary, In sacrifiting so much to eave oth- ers we will find our own salvation. may y PEAS, KEEN PBAS are among the most G dificult vegetables to cun at home. Absolute cleanliness, ‘quick work, attention to evety detail, | are essentials to success. Only young | and very freshly gathered peas should pbofanned, Peas are best gathered in the early morning when cool... Work _d@apidly from the moment they are Z, gathered. Peas should not stand after em isto the pre- ible, Shell and sort, putting only ‘peas of the same size and degree of ripeness together. Do not use hard, mature peas among tender ones oF DIE prow peas with very,smal! ones, Blanching (dipping into ho! water) is, ‘very important. If well done tt pre- vents cloudy liquor, makes the peas tender and al8o removes some of the gluey’ substaftee which coats thom Blanch by dipping the shelled pea 4 a clean cheesecloth sack into boil- ing water one to four minutes, de- spending on the age of the peas. Put (one teaspoonful salt to one quart water) and remove after about thirty seconds. Drain and pack to within one-half ‘of the top of the previously boiled tere If the jar is filled too full a few peas at the top may burst and make the liquor cloudy. Add seasoning (one-third level teaspoonful salt and two-thirds level teaspoonful sugar to ‘the quart) and fill with hot water end paddle well to remove air bubbles. ly seal jars. P yrocumine with steam under pres- ‘Bure {3 recommended. Process pints Yorty-five minutes under pressure of ten ds. Seal immediately; cool in @ draft-free place, When cold test for Jeaks and store in a cool, dark, ‘place. oR Rhe intermittent boiling process iw used boil for ninety minutes on the first day and sixty minutes on the second and third days, lefore each subsequent boiling the covers must ‘he loosened, and after each boiling ‘abe covers must be sccurely tightened to make sealing. complete. Cool, test for leaks and store, ‘If @ single period boiling process is fused place jars in the ner and boil for at least three hours. Seal, cool, dest and store.—United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. ‘ STRING BEANS. See BEANS for canning should 2 be tender and fresh. When the beans withif the pod have grown to any size canaing is more difMcult and the finished product !s of poorer ‘quality. ‘Tho Refugee !s a good va riety for canning. Use only ° sorted, small, tender beans, Wash and piék over the beans. String the eans and cut them into 2-inch Jengths. Cutting diagonally or the bias" gives a pretty product. If desired, they can be canned whole sand packed log-cabin fashion in square jars. ‘After the beans are prepared, planch by placing in a cheesecloth “hag in boling water for from three to eight minutes, according to the age and size of the beans, Blanch only until the pods will bend without breaking, then plunge the Not beans Into cold salt water (one tabjenpoon- ful salt to one quart of water) for an instant. Drain well, pack quickly and cover with hot brine (two and one-half ounces of galt to one gallon of boiling water). Partially seal jars Processing with steam under pres sure is recommended, Process pints +46 minutes under pressu of pounds, Seal immediutely, cool in a Graft-free place. When cold, test for leaks, and store in a cool, dry place intermittent boiling process boil for 90 minutes on the and 69 minutes on the s first da} 6 onde, 2 Sirs says. ‘gequent bolling the cov ers must Vegetable Canning Recipes Issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture “instantly, while hot, into cold water! | loosened, and after each botiing ihe! covers must be securely tightened t. | make scaling complete, Cool, tes! and store, : If a single-period boiling process is used, place Jars in the canner and po) thre 4 cool, test, and store. eee Lima. beans are treated string beans, except that « seaming (one-third level teaspoonful salt and two-thirdg teaspoonful sugar) is added | ; after the jar is packed with beans, | hen the jar is filled with beane, | cover them With clear hot water. Pad. die with a wooden paddle to remove air bubbles’ and partially . seal lids j Pres ens as with string beans : Fe if A fter Thirty-e Don't Bite Me | ! JUST. WANT. 7 | Buy 4:CouLAR, sor Loot a ed Sour IT MAKES THE CUSTONER: MAD. SMILE . ’ NoT A MoRGuE jim be £5 tirty-eight Months in the Service He Is Sent Home 30", Permanently Disabled (Copsright, MeQlure Newspaper Byndicato and Barper Brothers.) re RECEDING CHAPTE! eTNOPHIS 01 Pylling for git im the tovibills of th m ar BRE? Bs, fo00 arate, maura was ut snare 2M wat 88y “was pant ts Peta? A he met a. ee bid called Kegerte as sent 19, Prana fea te arise of Ypres wag gansa make eo ya tine first dy yy val he tas pelt ‘to ‘went fy ‘a ve went back to Fran to. the. fro sty ath a y * 2 Rit Brite rsoottred «Hf ew feet von afiertard. be * ‘breed ‘Supping Yences ‘8 two-veated machine, ‘accompanied Ly CHAPTER XVII, (Contiaued.) WON my landing at the squad- ron in France I learned that the Germans had done con- siderable damage to the aero- drome, One of their bombs had Killed two equipment officera and a flight commander, who had been in the very act of going on leave of absence, ‘That night I went to B——, where I intended staying over night, having missed the afternoof cross-Charinel boat. There being nothing to do after dinner, we decided (o turn in, but had scarcely done that when we were routed out of bed by gunfire. The Germans were making another raid and Were bombing the city. A couple of bombs fell into the camp of an ambulance unit and killed a few men, | Another bomb killed @ Chinese coolie and seared a hundred nearly to death, The Chinese were making off for the timber at an incredible speed when the Germans sailed away, After 4 while people came out of their cellars and resumed their oceu- pations, but within two hours another German came over and started the ball rolling once more. The French rehie" batteries were quite busy, and | was standing on the fire escape of the hotel watching the shrapnel explode, living over again meanwhile |wome of the experiences I have had at the front, when—zip!—crash! Just across the street from me in the fish market Janded one of the bombs. It was a lucky thing that there was no- body in the market at the time, or otherwise the list of casualties would have been long. After that the Ger- Mens Cioephra ed, aud we were Wuiue ered no more that night, of my machine. of 6,000 or 7,000 fee had’ dropped landed as fast as he could and start- ed to search for the tried to avoid mae ak cordingly, 4 ‘There is no agcurate instrument that will tell the flyer what course he is holding, and often this results in the man finding positions wht weather. himself in e been his obse poor fe ee dangerous flying in in clouds so dense that I could not see the wing Under such circum. to find that he ellow, but TRIS IS OURS IS Too FRESH HE SEEMS To THINK IAN” A Joe would be a smasb-up. 1 tr out of the way of th s arp ut that uted the same manoeuvre. t over him other machine did the same Mout of the pilots have # grea of fun in the clouds, but t als The problem of flying in clouds eee eee oe nel bad always interested ime greatly. ive generally quite tack unlert and show all sorts o< which are visible from Within the clouds the currents of varying velocity and forth. The bum are generally caused b density of the mists thick stances it mpossible for a man tect relation to the wir to establish what his position is in Reath and wit relation to the horizon, He is lke- 2/rPlane going throug o ly to come out of the clouds tn al- Sort may drop fr ‘ most any position, in fact, the Ged foet at 1 ‘ squadton commander, who ¢xamined Who sees ny machin me as to my inechanica lity when {*e vapor n, notl I joined the service, once caine out Clouds of ‘ of a cloud on his back at a height cause of a good m Ad I have often beer how one feels whe >in five miles, ‘That |. > in, for on almo. ry out. He the man had been killed outright and experiences differs half burted in the fall, pends largely « h The oddest cloud formations may nerves and on | fi be met at times. Once | was up condition, But Tima above the main stratum, which wag feeling which oftenrst o4 about 4,000 feet thick, and was Was that I had no bu proken by holes here and there, I having had climbed through one of 6 holes to the top of the cloud, but er when finally I came clear the hole t had closed up. ‘All I could see was 0 large white vinced thut ther 4 be cloud that showed no breaks of times it did not aft ne sort. ‘There were large ;¢4k8 On this — But finally one com cloud, and with my. back towards his life is entirely withit hand n | started to fly towards one the Supreme Pow: n, As I came close to it, I If that Power 1 ut ar saw on its ve de the outlines of to my life on « 1d b another airplane. [had \o other fracture one of 1 snes oF flyers near me and I we ed where molish some ot tt ad come from so sudden- chine. 1 would n to eart long 1 not at the within a few 1 and c machine was coming towards me, | death would | There were tin in the the motor the on!) machine by & 1iot of a pitot Then und the A ith, happened that the tu projections und tu reach THAT NE QavVEeS Looks HA | WHAT ARE Nou LAUGHING / CUSTOMERS MAD ble after a hearing while through I would experierce a describe, — Below me sndous fleld o clearly pulsate @ tre ke, but he n them their cigarettes on tha who Was not sup he wanted to’smoke ¥ requested the privilege of | up. The othe did not bik ording to th the third 4 by disa was Very lik an who will be r, In th popular He went 1 nd the Germar story Was spr ‘rou eafter the super 1 A throughout SINGLE ron" cloud FULL OF ZIP / NOVEL BY VAN-POWER WESTERN FRONTIER LEAD TO The Story Begins on Monday SToP LOOKING So HAPPY IT MAKES THE THIS IS NOT 4 CIRCUS constam degree of lonesomeness that is impossible te mig lision seemed inevitable. | closed my gray and white, nd and eyes and waited for the crash ve me nothing 1c, On n, L hod judged the earth it might be raining, but up h two tbere the sun was shi & chines accurately, r I was Pilots and observers are a rather that [hi d the other queer lot while on the ground, The wr ned my eyes axain—Jjust 48 janguage they uge ix not always of ‘the feeding my@plane was pokin nose into the best, and often they do things Be, the cloud peale against whose sides wrich are not exactly right, although ree tary ot mile puis its outlines had been cast by the as a whole they are of the be we as a Sergeant of & mechanical section SUN, But up in the air It is different, In fort Lt ia , motor As I rushed through the mist \ WS ihe course of time the flyer becomes ar aula. bat ey not yet sure that this had really beea very superstitious, He comes to be- beso" teahe “whe! Ad*aé the case, so when [ had emer Neve in the q st this For in- the enemy’, treuctes ‘and the father aide 3 benke da a desce rs 1 stance, it is absolutely impossible to ates te C or a circle around the peak to find the jqguce an aviator to be the third one a wp io oy Ki ree, oe mac But thers i vy an » ight his cigarette from the san wal 4 joubt that the machine iD \ mateh, Two or four w do but Het Art ate tee Oma tne Sad WE Ne het tng shadow Of my OWT Te toyed Ware ent eos the pogeer4 wee, Bt “ad eraahin at recalled then that the urage to be the third, Some of to and nately i fie ata other machine had been trai em carry their superstition #0 far oo ee art ee tt emudius Sifter es iidescence showing the of that they will not be the third man f’ Gerwans wih be machine gun, the rainbow. It occuried to me ‘hat even if there are four h mullet and bis sbull freceured, Buh it would be well to do it all ove 1). They used t 1 1 a patrol bevael through a tind and I did, T reached the same poale squadron in Fr onaidersbhs manoestring he returied the tion ws before and. wer pilots were xt n Tending in Vtaruees tis frightening « through the sensation me one day w fter helping to ty German raiders tho air rol. ‘The three m wattted t ghting that, for, genera of, overtaken man hd THE FIGHTING FOOL | DA W CLERK of YOURS ME TINMIES _ HE S MAD AS A NAN Fant, 198, by The Pree Publishin | New Orleans. T= ‘Teddy and Mrv. Martin were | standing on the levee—the broad, high bank of earth which holds back the water at flood time~ looking out across the Mississippl River. The wide, deep stream, flow- ing ewiftiy to the Gulf of Mexico, a | hundred miles away, seemed power- ful enough to sweep aside any ob- stacle “If this lovee should give way,” sald Mra. Martin, “Now Orleans would be flooded, because it is below the crest of tho river when dhe water ts high. Sometimes a crevasse, a break in levee, does oecur, and then the river \ Jusr spreads out until it may be fifty miles LOOKING oRe ic / ter seeing (he ships aod river Ss NS Strect and along St. Charles Avenue. - jIt was lingd with fine homes, set s | back on deep lawns and surrounded a | by p aanas, China trees and g 7 | beautiful flowers, In Audubon Park | they admired the live oak trees, | green ai! the year round and from | which bung long trailers of Spanish | mous. As (hey came to the Brench quar- | ter, the old part of town, Mrs, Martin |told them the city was founded in 1718 by the Sieur de Blonvilie and named in honor of the Duke of Or- leans, then Regent of France, After- } ward the Spanish ruled New Orleans; [then it passed back to France until, | in 1804, it became an American city. | In 1815 Andrew Jackson defeated the | Bish here, since which time for | more than w century, We bave lived | at peace with our British allies. | All three were delighied with . cy, = \ CAN ‘You Bear it | tho | DEAR COUSINS: HAT do you suppose | have to iW show you to-Gay? A letter from ono of our American boys who mot one of our own dear French Cousins somewhere in I | Here it is: “Dear J. Lb “Your Sunday World dated April | 14 just came in, the latest news | from the States, and {tt certainly good to get hold of a regular paper. I'll be busy for a couple of days trying to keep track of it. ean | i a stat - uyor who bas lust bis nerve may bi con permanent as far as flying is concerned, | bave known men whe would grow sick at the mere sight of a machine, and for this reason cease to be of any Value whatsoever, Per- 4 dice or 4 playing had often drawn >, lush or a s k upon aces that would brin “a full was bound end as the him good luck. an nigat be # locks haps in the end they would come back! while many of to th Job, and one would imagine! carried little Woollen dolls, Even pho- that the man ought to be as good as! tographs were siid to have the qual- ever, But that is not ao. The thing} that bfinga them back to the aerg- drome is often the sense of duty the value of the man has departed; the flyer who loses lis nerve once is ity which we expocte | oi our fetishes: One of the men looked upon his pipe as a while another cherished 4 piece of Chinese jade upon whieh be counted, Another had 4 knife, Many lost. of the men wore bracects on one | It is my opinion that men so af- wrist. In fact, nine-tenths of the fected have brooded too lon over | pilots in the corps fosscased wome tho fact that in the end the yor is| MAY Gueer sort of personal charm or fe- Lound to be brought down, ui There mying among flye me of the men carried theso If stick to it long enough you're bound to get it." things only in their flying clothe And the saying Is all too true as but others gPew so superstitious that they would transfer tLem into «4 the casualty records show. pocket of their o' r thing; they In the latter part of Septomber, | lefused to be withoul their pocket- 1917, f had to go to a hospital, being piece at any time. fficted whith bronchid! asthma, t remember walk.ny down ‘he Kverything possible was done to r wand with a friend me day. store me, but I ¢ uld feel that little the treatment, [I board of iwedical We came to a lac stood window ¢ good had come vo wis sent before a walked unde t examiners, who recommended that | ine every name he * should be sent ho ‘Though I had | walking under the ladd re been in the service for thirty-eight | was the last person in whom I sbould months, I Was not tired vf it, and if have thought to discov any sup my health hed permitted it 1 would sution, He was au old miner and #@ jive yladly continued wild man besides, Later we returned Seeing America. By Uncle Harry } | “Our camp is situated on a high Upon iny arrival in Canada 1 was | °°! Conducted by Eleanor Schorer ag Co, (The Nee “ack Brening World), > Cathedral, built in 1718, and many res mantic old houses aloug the narrow etréeets, Nearly all bod graceful iron balconies and somo rds with tlowerg and statuary, Most interest- ing of all were the cemeteries. New Orleans \s so low that water is found a few feet below the aurtace, so most burials are in tombs built above tho ground, many very beautiful, They saw the French Opera House, where the Mard| Gras balls #re heid, and then the French Marxet, with tine vegetables, fish, flowers and fruit. Trix bought some oranges, and the woman at the stall added some figs, seying: ‘ “They are for ‘lagniappe.' ’ Trix looked surprised,’ but ber motber said * t is an old word and an old evs. 4 tom, It means something for eocd \ en bie b quarier. They raw St. oule | meusure. r 3 $ Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kolumn There are several boys from Ne York here, and The World m: ene quite popular, I SAW A. LITTLE FRENCH BOY THE OTHER DAY WBRARING ONE OF THE KIDDIL KLUB PINS.” While the rest of the letter is not about our Kiddie Kiub it is very ins teresting. @and bank among some dandy pine trees and the climate is won derful. We are located not far fiom @ f. Sle sum wer resort and my work here keeps me op the bay most of the time. We do a day's work hete every day env it certainly looks good things accomplished. “You mustexcuse this note writ ten at short notice on the top of my suit case with a French peu, but if you get a chance answer it The n from hone certainly lighteas the burden. “Pass my love to the folks and my regards to any others who may ask for’ me. “Until we get the Kaiser, Yours, ‘TED, dward 1. Winter, M. M. U. 3. Naval Air Station, Ar of Postmaster, New York City,” 1 thinkNit would be great fun to to see But| write to Edward Winter and tell him to give our love to our Cousins in eur sister Republic. COUSIN ELEANOR.- CONTEST AWARD WINNER, MY WAR GARDENS. “Do your bit! Uncle Sam needs | your help!" T chose a plot of ground in whiel: to plant seeds of plants and of patri- | otism. I meditated upon which crops were most needed. Beans can be canned for winter use, In several rows the length of my garden { planted beans. I dug rows about eight inches deep and dropped beans in about five inc apart. ‘The seeds came up in @ thick stem with the cracked bean for a hat vhey will grow alately and strong. The next thing to plant was pota+ toes which can be packed away when | Mother Harth*is frozen, The ground | was dug, fertilizer mixed with the ana the polaio eyes pul la aad to the aerodrome and I went up for # ed , covered, When the plants grow [ fight, I bud tried my machine and ¢Xurinod again and found to be per. | SRanr pick Of the buge which will tas ked it over carefully before leaving Mmanen' b Bie) hays bh a | jure them if permitted to remain. In groun It was all right thea, Slmatle @GaMene of deanan ana the fall I will exhibit to Uncle Sam wefore up my frien . ny ¢ Ds. me tor bervery carctul, aud England, and the resuite of imy old |™By WILLIAM HORAK, aged four- pips i a Me Ab eg relld, Gnat. for further service in sie | ‘ee? Years, Scotch Plains, N. J m that he » Ie too Majesty's armies JUNE DRAWING AND WRITING fll LU ERY eres Hat § Hut While in the service I learned that CONTEST. landing I troke my under-cars & Man never knows what he can do| «1.1. ne ourth of July Spirit riage and the mac wax smashed until he has to do it, I look upon my} Dunserl 28 (Ouse ech will be 4p considerably be ce to a participation in the European war warded Kiddie Klub members—ages stop, | changed my ' r that, the greatest honor that cae be be | fro n six to fifteen y @ inclusive and carefully avolded ng Unde? SLOwEd UROR AMER ,|who make the best drawings or write more ladder Phe arms if One OF the grea the best essays on the spirit of our t that is not us teachers of ull time, Ity lessona may | {i O08) Sie Oe quired the hab ena be costly, but they are of great value |" yy awings must be done in bi : A louds = E cannot praise too highly the great eres a avon nensil, and the many fante 3 these work done by the nurses and doctors |...) must not exceed one hundred nist format pe " Of in the Allied service in France and | 4 (150) words. Contestants cour at was going rather far, but to me they will always | must their name, addvess, age Me ae tehaan’ Renta, become y of Mercy, They are | und ccrtifeate num very superstitious jn address Cousin Eleanor. Evening he afact Gh onene tenkien on & World Kiddie Klub, No, 6% Park iow, ND ACTION FROM START TO FINISH, THIS ? 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