English Munition Workers
Produce Food

One of the great munition works in the Midlands of England has achieved remarkable success in the cultivation of the waste land surrounding the factory buildings and sheds. This land, which previous to the war would have been neglected as waste, and unsightly with refuse heaps, by means of an intensive system of cultivation, is producing great quantities of potatoes, and all kinds of

makes 12 muffins.

quirements of thousands of work-people. This season pig and poultry rearing and

1 cup cream of maize cup corn flour cup rye or barley flour

teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful baking powder

teaspoonful salt 1 egg beaten very light 1 cup sour cream or 1 cup whey and 2 tablespoonful melted shortening

Put the maize in a bowl, put the flour, soda, salt and baking powder into a sieve together and sift them over the maize. When ready to bake, add the liquid ingredients and mix thoroughly. Bake on a hot, well-greased griddle.

QUERY No. 3987. "Recipe for Apple Marmalade made with but little sugar."

Apple Marmalade

Quarter the apples and remove imperfections, but retain sound cores and skin; add a very little boiling water, just enough to avoid burning, cover and cook over a quick fire, stirring occasionally, until soft. Press the pulp (with a wooden pestle) through a sieve. To each pound of pulp (pint) add from half to three-fourths a pound of sweetening, the thin yellow rind, and the juice of half a lemon. Let cook until the mixture beads from the spoon. Do not boil too long, as the marmalade thickens considerably on cooling. Of three and one-half pounds of apple pulp very fine marmalade was recently made, using one pound of sugar and one-half pound, each, of honey and corn syrup.

scheme, and immensely added to its foodproducing value. One hundred acres are under cultivation, and it is expected that the factory will be entirely self-supporting as regards vegetables. As the employees number about 12,000 people a great saving of foodstuffs is secured.

Selling Eggs by the Pound

For several years the plan of selling eggs by the pound instead of by the dozen has been agitated among the Canadian grocers, and in some towns the system has already been put in practice. A trade .journal, which called upon a large number of dealers for an expression of opinion of this point, states that the weight of opinion was in favor of the movement. The only obstacle in the way of a unanimous indorsement of the plan is that the "public has not been educated to buy in this way." As refuting this objection, it is pointed out that in view of the wide variation in the size of eggs, the consumer would quickly realize that the system offers a fair and just basis of charge.

Mr. Hoover warns that the people are eating too much bread and not enough vegetables. This is a good time to remember that man cannot, or at least should not, live by bread alone.

A Story of the Front

The hobo knocked at the back door, and the woman of the house appeared. "Lady, I was at the front -"

"Poor man!" she interrupted. "Wait till I give you some food, and then you shall tell me your story." After she had given him a hearty meal she anxiously inquired, "What brave deed did you do at the front?"

"I knocked," he replied, meekly, "but couldn't make nobody hear, so I came around to the back." - Harper's.

"Can you tell me," said the court, addressing Enrico Ufuzzi, under examination at Union Hill, N. J., as to his qualifications for citizenship, "the difference between the powers and prerogatives of the King of England and those of the President of the United States?"

"Yezzir," spoke up Ufuzzi, promptly. "King, he got steady job."

- New York Morning Telegraph.

An example of how they maintain the censorship inviolate, so that no one may know what must be kept secret, is given by the New York Sun, which quotes an unnamed New York paper. "Yesterday a large transport, arrived at a certain Atlantic port. As the boat proceeded up the harbor a war-weary veteran leaning over the rail exclaimed, 'Gee! but the Statue of Liberty never looked so good to me!'"

A Western man tells of a weatherbeaten woman, somewhat over six feet in height, with shoulders proportionately broad, who appeared at a house in his town and asked for light housework, explaining that she was convalescing from typhoid fever. "Where did you come from, and where have you been?" she was asked.

"I've been out on a ranch in Wyoming," she explained, "diggin' postholes while I was gettin' my strength back."- Harper's Magazine.

The Cure for Care

"Why is it, Sam, that one never hears of a darky committing suicide?" inquired the Northerner.

"Well, you see, it's disaway, boss: When a white pusson has any trouble he sets down an' gets to studyin' 'bout it an' a-worryin'. Then firs' thing you know he's done killed hisse'f. But when a nigger sets down to think 'bout his troubles, why, he jes' nacherly goes to sleep!" - Life.

A sergeant was trying to drill a lot of raw recruits, and after working hard for three hours he thought they seemed to be getting into some sort of shape, so decided to test them. "Right turn!" he cried. Then, before they had ceased to move, came another order, "Left turn!" One man left the ranks and started off toward the barracks-room. "Here, you!" yelled the angry sergeant. "Where are you going?"

"I've had enough," replied the recruit in a disgusted tone. "You don't know your own mind for two minutes runnin'!" Harper's Magazine.

The youth seated himself in the dentist's chair. He wore a wonderful striped shirt, and a more wonderful checked suit, and had the vacant stare that goes with both. The dentist looked at his assistant. "I am afraid to give him gas," he said.

"Why?" asked the assistant. "Well," said the dentist, "how can I tell when he's unconscious?"

Mother: "I don't like the looks of that little boy you were playing with on the street today. You musn't play with bad little boys, you know."

Do not accept substitutes