The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 8

+1 » ny “4 LNA AC NADY OREO VeRE ere A MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918 Camp Dix Hostess House A Real “Oasis of Girls In a Desert of Rookies” It’s the Only Feminine Outpost That Has Penetrated » the Army’s Lines and the Girls Serve in the Trenchers (Not Trenches) Dealing Out ‘‘Eats,” Washing Dishes, Refereeing Boxing Matches, Dancing and Sewing on Chevrons—But All This is Insignificant Service Compared to the Joy They Give by Just Being There for the Rookies to Look At! By Will B. Johnstone. AMP DIX has the unique distinction of having the only hostess € house located within the forbidden confines of a strictly military cantonrient. It is an oasis of girls surrounded by a desert of Pookies. | An ancient farmhouse that happened to be included in the camp site ‘was turned over by the Government to the National League for Women's Gervice, and the Farmhouse Soldiers’ Club was opened. ‘This feminine! intrusion into war time preparation has official sanction, and gives our’ ‘warrior a last touch of home influence that keeps him human, making him Rnightly and chivalrous, preserving traits that ennoble his ready courage. The club canteen and entertainment are made possibie by the voluntary wervice of girls and chaperones who “never worked in their lives before,” ‘and who come from Northern Jersey districts. Twelve young ladies go on ‘weekly shifts every Tuesday, and the number !s doubled over Sunday. The girls sleep at the farm under the protection of a sentry, whose @eat runs from the front door to the back. They are not allowed off the place, the narrow boundaries of which extend to the tents a few yards away. Here the soldier gets refreshments of al! kinds, including refreshing @elight to his eyes. “Gee! Purple's my favorite color, Be says, when Miss Smith wears a purple bow. The same soldier the next Gay eays, “Gee! Yellow’s my favorite | color,” when she wears yellow, &. Speaking of dress, the chaperons en- force rigid rules as to the girls’ attire. No short skirts, no V necks, modest ooiffure, and conservation of powder. ‘The girls must be over twenty-three years old, but @ number of workers ave prematurely aged to meet the Fequirements “Ill have milk and @herry ple, with chocolate ice cream Om it,” is the favorite order the girls _ Bear, or “Glass of milk and glass of «Jemonade,” which they sometimes mix together. If our army “travels on its it's an indestructible one, from this, One Italian mother down to see her boy fed her baby (a @crap of a baby) coffee, raw cucum- ers and onions. She's starting him M™ early. One backwoods Virginian Bookie bad never heard of ice creain and eyed it suspiciously when put be- fore him. They couldn't chase bim @way all day after his first spoonful. The boys bring their pets for re~ freshments too, One fed his Scotoh terrier 40 cents’ worth of ice cream | when the hot spell hit Dix. . , It amuses the fair workers to be @lways addressed as “girlie” by the @eldiers. The “girlies” sew the chev- fons on the boys’ jackets frequently and usually get them on upside down nd on the wrong sleeve. ‘The most pitiful spectacle is that of | fe guard over the prisoners, who| @tands, gun on shoulder, watching his | fogpte correspondence follows. ; Punch of bad eggs, who are permitted | | Pi fir is the soul of patriotism ,@ooling drinks while he swelters in| sounded in the evening she drova her “tantalizing agony. Prisoners wash the| powder puff to stand at @ishes for the girls, and they con-| While the “Star Spangled Banner" Gider the infliction of the penalty mos: | Played: all standing, excepting Ta, Gesirable punishment. One guard) Mal exception proves that every other officer in service wouldn't have actod that way. é The girls get up at 6.30 A. M. and} are never in bed till midnight (they have to put up their own cots), and e only one hour off to rest in all outside of meal time. Sweeping, washing the ash trays and c v7 ice cream cans is the hardest work. Ther serve 115 gallons of ice cream a day. The soldiers are served up to 19.30 P. M, the officers from then on till 11 P. M., which gives the early birds all the better of it, as the offi- cers always find the 116 gallons of ice cream gone. The biggest feature of all, however, from the boys’ point of view is the dancing. The rookies dance every night from 9.30 P.M. till 11 P, M., ex- cepting Friday, the only evening left for officers to dance. Hundreds of soldiers crowd the club and grounds, cuttine in on the girls who work all day and dance all night. Virginia reels, the Paul Jones and all the fox! and one-steps are done in a riot of! amusement to the regimental band. And take {ft from the girls, these boys can dance. “I saw one hard looking rookie making for me,” said one “girlie,” “and I thought, ‘Do I @ to dance with this Then he grabbed me and whirled me through the jam with the skill of a Maurice. It was glorious, I never had such fun. He made me think I was Mrs. Vernon Castle. Professional dan among these boys take the prim ch eron in the Virginia re around her that produce with the young t. May I s | to the train?” inquires some impres- sionable rookie of a ¢ “No,” she replies. chaperon?” he urges Jaughs. “Well, can I write to you?" he implores. There is no regulation on letters, so some amusing and | IGNS, Omens and Superst!- S tions” by Astra Clelo (Star of Heaven) is the latest of- | fering of the silly season, The book | market is overcrowded with copies Id colored cook. She rejc . * h slaving in the kitchen for the Na emuggied out some cookies to give his) prisoners once, and an officer caught | shun for dat fool music.” She drow out the strains of the anthem by dy reprimanded and forced to surren- | and then shaking the grate with utter er the refreshments, which prover- | disrespect. Do You Believe in “Signs’’? Just Add These to Your List hrowing festivities at a wedding by ying that the shoe is a symbol of a fighters, but “won't stand at no’ fim in the act. The guard was atern-| i ocing the kitchen stove door shut —_———-+ Mr. Astra Clelo explains the shoe fruitful marriage and instances; ‘There was an old Woman who lived in Whe booklet Is a compendium of td- @ shoe, Bits that a squirrel loves. She had so many children she didn't Particular attention is paid to know what to do." walking under a ladder and picking “In Scotland,” says the author, “ Bp a horseshoe, and a@ lot of ot ner | volley of old shoes or slippers is cast Padles that Noah used to read to the] at @ couple for luck, but true to Scot- family during the closed season of| tish thrift, they are all collected again the Ark before the days of Ararat. | after the couple has left.” (Ha Lauder ples write.) Copyright WY AOy ‘‘Sisters of the Cantonment’’ ra shoe = : , << ue GIRLS ARE FLIVVERED Yhe Fort TRAIWS "TO THE “FARM*THROUGH oe GIRLS GET ONE HOUR + CAMP —.NO STOP Ove REST A Day « i GIRES REFEREED WASHING [CE CREAM SOME OF THE CANS 1S. THE HARDEST LABOR OF ALL BovTS ON THE | SAM OF JOLY { Sinan DO DORIS OC oe | ; | about two quarts of cold water. Sea- | 4 ;|cut in small squares. Let cook thirty : | minutes, 3} boil five minutes, season to taste, add | 4 When the 45- Year-Old Boys Come Back It May Be Pretty Tough on Those Who Have Done All Their Marching With One Foot on the Bar Rail, But They Will Have Had the Fun of Cooking the Kaiser’s Goose-Step Before They Return, and Then, Too, Service Abroad Will Have Its Compensations, For, So They Say, the Old ’Uns Can Get a Drink in Uniform in Paris. BY ARTHUR (‘BUGS’) BAER 1018. by The Press Publishing Company (The New York Evening World). OT looking at anybody in particular, but thinking of the Clown Prince, it must be a great relief to hear your heels tattooing “Home, Sweet Home," on the turf when the bullets are whistling teach an old hound new amendments. ; she now discards. + | strangely unfamiliar to the average New York woman. a, : |one codfish. i‘ piece of salt pork cut in small dice, MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Leony Derouet, Famous Chef, Gives New York Housewives War Time “Waste Recipes” IT’S THE FIRST WORK MOST OF THE GIRLS HAVE EVER DONE—THIS CATERING TO FOOD AND | By Special Invitation of The Evening World, the FUN HUNGRY SOLDIER BOYS AT CAMP DIX—BUT THEY TAKE KINDLY TO IT, AND SO DO THE ROOKIES. Culinary Head of the New Hotel Commodore, Who Has Invented 1,000 Recipes to Help Cur- tail Waste in War Time, Gives to Readers of This Newspaper Those Which He Considers Most Ee Unique. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ’ ENTION, housewives! The Evening World gives you to-day a budget of new and re- markable “waste recipes,” published for the first time. They come straight from the gifted hand and brain of perhaps the most famous culinary expert in America, Chef Leony C. Derouet. Chef Leony cooked the great Bradley-Martin din- ner given in New York a score of years ago. He will have supervision of more ‘than five million meals next year in the new Hotel Commodore. John McE. Bowman, chief of the hotel, restaurant, dining car and steamship division of the United States Food Administration and owner of half a dozen big New York hotels, including the Commodore, has lent Chef Leony to the Canadian Government in order that he may teach food conservation to Dominion house- wives at the Canadian National Exhibition beginning Aug. 26 in Toronto. But, through The Evening World, New York housewives will have first peep at the best of the three thousand new recipes Chef Leony has been composing on his own farm at Peekskill, N. Y. Perhaps the main article in the conservation platform of this chef of i capitalists and princes is that the housewife should be trained not to throw away many parts of the turkey, lamb, pig and other animals which Even the names of Chef Leony's dishes will sound But Chef Leony ,- Suppose y: try them! Here they are: a salt, fresh Ss white wine, quart of water vouches for their deliciousness. Fish Soup. ’ Take the head and spinal bone of | S™All piece Barllc, Put in saucepan with | und pepper, one | one glass of cider, Json well with carrots, parsley and) 2°4 ¢ Oe one ca aan onion, Let boll for about two hours. | Ging. rtfet ty | Brown one onion, cut fine, with small | skin it. have i let it cool out of mould next day add the fish broth and two potatoes | e cold. take The gravy will make the jell Bluefish Cheek Fried. Remove the cheeks of the bluefish and s¢ add two fresh | Decled and cut in small pieces. tomatoes Let | Codfish Head Roasted. Split the head of a very fresh cod- fish and remove the eyes. Season with | salt, pepper, little shallots, fresh pars- : jley, piece of butter, small wine giass | in deep saucer | of broth or water and bake in hot| lard. a few < | oven for half hour, This will make a | aoaie BR hee very fine dish and not expensive. Goose and Duck Feet. | The feet of poultry are very good ‘when well cooked. Take one dozen ‘feet of geese or duck (pplmipede).| Blanch them and take the epidermis | off with a rough towel. Cut the nails out. Boil them in two quarts cf wa- | ter for two or three hours, well season | |and serve with poulette sauce or | head, Take the skin off, season with | one half pint of cream and serve hot| salt and pepper. Moll them. in flour, with chowder crackers. eggs and bread crumbs. Fry in deep | fat, serve with tartar sauce. Lung of Calf The lung of a will make a very | fresh lung, cut i or Pig. y calf or pir ‘ake bunch of parsley, cov urs. Add thr Re for two hi large pota- , let cook Nike ox's foot wiil be ‘cream sauce. With the broth you will | or four people. be able to make a good soup. ery clean, bone juares, Put it Pig's Skin in Jelly. Take about five pounds of pig skin. very clean. Cut it in pieces about five inches square, put in a deep saucepan with three onions, two carrots, small bunch parsley, little shallots, one ‘Central Now Salutes Uncle Sam’s Signal Pp sauce two ¢ mall bun pan with six sliced three sliced carrots, h parsley, one bay season well with salt and fresh und pepper, add two glasses of water, one glass of cider and a small glass of white wine, Let cook for four hours slowly and serve very bot. Sheep Trotters. The sheep trotters will make a very good dish. There is a little trouble in eating it on account of bones, but it is very cheap, Take a dozen When It Flashes sheep's trotters we ed, wash them in boiling water, Cook” for | F Central doesn't respond as quick- ] ly as you think she might, have patience, for it may be that your old Uncle Sam is on the wire ahead of you, and your three hours in water in which you ave dissolved a little flour, and add one slice of lemon, two carrots, two onions, one small bunch parsley, salt, pepper. After they are well done erve them with poulette sauce or aigrette sauce, the kissing song from the third scene in the fifth act of a Philadelphia clecUon riot. The old bird ts retreating like eleven dollars’ worth of alm Beach suit in a million dollars’ worth of rain. A guy can't be powerful all over, What speed the Clown Prince lacks under his hat he makes up tn his shoes. He lets his rubber heels do his thinking. Looks like that big boil that Atlas is toting around on his shoulder blades {s about to be lanced and the Fatheadzollerns eliminated from the tournament. American General says not to be too optimistic about peace the brass rail. Columbus forty-five-terr ered this star spangled Continent in the Pinta, And it looks like the in the same boat. . of the came over to America in the Pinta. Columbus discov- | boards. If so y have watched m-old Boy Scouts should be allowed to rediscover America If they can’t make it in the Pinta, they ought to be switch- ou the electric bulbs flash out in order to attract the op- erators’ attention. Your Uncle Sam And while Kipling wrote @ fine jof You Bae YON Blood Pudding. eight-barrelled poem, it's bad form to recite “Gunga Din” at a bar- re - . a. the preference The blood of a healthy pig mixed tenders’ picnic, Re ciaa ions with pork fat, cut in small dices, When the war ts cured, and the Katser has a lily in each mitt and [00 Perhaps parsley, thyme, cup of cream, two behind each earpiece, the forty-five-season-old Boy Scoots will | Ou've been in the rks ; pet An Fee sure hate to come back to hard boiled shirts and 2 per cent. near beer |ii¢ telephone ex- | water for flv utes, Cool that ain't any nearer beer than Thursday is to Monday. Tough blow to |changes and have ae Bren ek ea a“ a mut old campaigners wo have done all their marching with one foot on geen the workings peas, ee eal. >—_ A Meddle-Proof f sich for Drawers and Cupboards, Here are a few of the starlings ial the Star of Heaven: “To meet 4 gout unexpectedly ts bad “To put on new clothes on New | luck Year's Day is considered lucky; so| (You bet it is.) Also to bathe.” But here's a gem from the Star of (The average man considers him- | Heaven gelf lucky to be able to put on new! “Playing on some days 1s lucky for @othes any day. Any old clothes| Sor lucky for others." Afe pretty good in wartime. It may| (Every poker player will buy a book Be lucky to bathe on New Year's Day, | e.) Dut it's a long time to watt.) | “To place an open knife near as “To lose your tem on April! ing ¢ i is d a good or Fool's Day when se a fool's} (Especial ld wakes up and @rrand means bad luck." gets busy with the knife.) w“@The bad k generally begins g00d deal to | fight there—for the other fellow.) efrain ‘A man going to t arried w I | meets a male acquat rubs © says glbow to Insure good luck The meow fa k cat at mid. | P* (in this country ssually a bud 1 and foretells a Dends his pw for k as| dH well a3 to forget some thin | ) It is unlu her mirror aft a" wade probably explains the divorce . ition and the popularity ef Reno.) ra bride to iook r being con etely aven o¢ 1 y for the Ror for the present hot wave, treaties, Easy enough to get Billhelm’s signature, but it’s a’ tough as- Q signment to make a cootie sign on the dotted line. latest draft indicates that Boy Scouts up to forty-five years of age lowed to do it in the Half-Pinta anyway, Still, have to wait until we get over thare and back again. 4 vat never boils, wili soon be flatwheeling around in the walking department of Uncle Sam's Army. We either have to work or fight, Some slackers toss up a two-headed coin to decide their choice, But @ real patriot will get married and do both, When they get us ancient Boy Scoots all over on the wrong side of Women Brickmakers Now as long vi “ OMEN are to-day working|have mastered already 600 processes, W horemen, as nay-|three-fourths of which had never barrowing coke, a8|known the touch of a woman's hand has a little bulb all his own these Peart PRS in the home often days, and its color is red, white and meddle with drawers and cup- boards blue. When the little tri-color bulb oy sand where it is not de- flashes out its summons Central is ela » At these with locks some expected to drop everything else and | form Of latch is convenient. One that cx eeer that call, and in the mean |! easy to make 80 inconspicuous time you may be cooling your heels or getting hot all over because of a fancied inattention on the part of the Atlantic brooktet to verify the rumor that the Kaiser's goose-step is ilway porters and conductors and| before the war. ‘I consider myself ee ee cooked, there won't be any beritones or basses left in the male quar- | is40: takers, as postal employees |a fret class workman at my treae,|” ‘Thee, too, you must make allow- tels, ‘The tenors will have to carry on the unequal struggle with the and elevator operators, as brick set-|Tt took me seven yeare to learn itv lance for the “green operator” who crippled fountain pens and back collar buttons, There are certainly | jers' laborers, attenders in roller|said a foreman to me through the| has not yet become accustomed to going to be a lot of vacant high hats in America when the old Boy | mills, workers in 78 processes in grain | crashing noise of the machines among | Uncle Sam's private red, white and Ecoots limp away to make the world safe for Cook's Tours. They in processes in paper| which we stood, ‘but,’ and he waved | blue signal. She has to arise and sol- say you eon get a drink in uniform in Paris, There ain't any difficulty | making, in 24 processes in furniture | nis hand over his domain in which |emnly salute the little tri-color bulb ting a drink in your uniform in France, ‘The only trouble is keeping |! n boiler making, laboratory! 1709 women were at work, ‘these|and that takes time, Maybe you : it in your uniform after you get It. French liquor is a combination of optical work, aeroplane build- | women, at occupations requiring speed | think she doesn’t HAVE to do that.])).. | m meddled wit § Carolina moonshine and Jersey forked lightning served with a | ins in dyeing, bleaching and printing |anq dexterity, already excel me,’ | ‘well, maybe she doesn't, but it is ise Maa ipeaeg: pipe fe But any old harbor is a storm, especially when it's a thirst |cotton, in woollen and velvet goods,| «tte Jed me to the side of a girl|one of the little jokes of the ex- Aas Pree ae n, From the angle at which America is rattling along, this |!" M@king = zed and unglazed | wiio was drilling holes in brass, ‘See,’ | change to instruct the new operator nade of a strip of iron, neck-o-the-woods will soon be drier than the mezzanine floor of the les, glass, leather ne said, ‘si. does 1,00 holes at 50 to that effect and watch her fall for pen olds It le haat ; ; a 4 1 linoleum," says Mabel Pot-| centimes an hour. No man we were|it. This bit of patriotism gets @ laugh ara sand farm, And after a forty-five-year-old Boy Scoot gets author of “Women SE tana 4 p. A spring gives , : aes ‘ ; lever able to employ ever did more! from the older operators ai.d inject prope (eneten here ai scooting from one Parisian oasis to another, maybe he will hate to (Doran), She continues: than 800 holes an hour, and we had/a little humor into what is generally the bar evar 4 pinccPomin Mee come back to the land of the free and the home of Steero. You can't In the engineering trade women to pay him 75 centimes.’” @ pretty monotonous day's work, chanics, , , { h decom Aili ios all «i laa ee rene ee a