NEWS FLASHES

Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

hire started in a lumber yard in East Norristown. Pa., destroying the yard, an off.ee building, and twentj homes at a loss of 1200.000. Sever* 1 firemtn were injured fighting the Kdwln Stiles, 13. of Philadelphia. jMently donned long trousers for the Ortt time and was stabbed as a result. A negro lad taunted him with being a "Ussy” and the fight PTSUed. Mrs. Hannah Eppelshetmer, aged 100 years, of Philadelphia .died last week afier one day’s illness, in complete {ossesnion of her faculties. Will is ton P. Weiss and Sophia Weiss. Philadelphia, were recently divorced after fifty years of married life j lietween fifteen and twenty wa*-1 rants were recently issued from the office of District Attorney of Ph'ladcl j hia. for the arrests of sugar refiners, jobbers and retailers, believed gofliy*

of profile ag.

Another one of the many bills before |

congress relative to soldier bonuse* 'provides for a remuneration of one ' dollar for tach day of service. j George M. Ryan, night watchman the Pennsylvania Institute for Instn It.on of the blind, recently disappeared | villi (1400 of the institution’s money. Ht- le't a polite "card of thanks.' The irate father of fifteen-year-old Kathryn Stock, of Philadelphia. I .ently enlisted the aid * f the police in ' putting a stop to her elopement witn

Edward Burn'. 20.

Tour former soldiers entered the saloon of Patrick Lynaugh. of PhiladelI t hin, last week and stele (IS from the j >ar, eecrping in a motor truck. ' Miss Jeesle A. Peoples, of Wil-ning-ton. won the prize at the tri-state typewriting contest for beginners at National Business Show at Philadel- , liia, with a speed of sixty-three words

«*r minute.

? Ite "Overall Legiotf' is growing in popularity Philadelphia and spreading to other eastern cities.

Ginger Ale Containing Capsicum Not Shown On Label to be Seized By Officials Bottlers are Warned by the Department of Agriculture;

Law r Has Been Ignored

Federal inspectors have been in-J mem where such a short delay is m

seriously detrimental to the public !•

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Food Inspect.oiT Decision 177 ei titled "Soda Water Flavors and Soda, Soda Water," in conformity with this p( Hey. was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture August 20. ISIS. It was published again in Circular 136 eaUtled "Standa:ds .of Purity for F rod Products." This states in effei . that the pras•nce of capsicum, the extract of red pepper, in ginger ale must be declared the label. It appears from aa Investigation ef numerous ginger ales om the market that while this regula tion Is being generally compiled with, yet there are some bottlers of ginger ale whose products come within the jurisdiction of th e Federal Food and Ding Acts of 1906, who apparen.lv not familiar with the provision of this regulation. Therelore. bottlers who arc not complying with Food Inspection Decision 177 are warned that shipments made on or after March 16.

trade as fully as poesibie by food in- 1920, of ginger aie which is not propspection d-risions. Service and Regu- erly labeled will be actively proceeded 'niory Announcements, press notices, .-gainst under secdon 10 of the Fedec.. when an interpretation of the n! Foods and Iwugs Act. If interstate law involved a change of labels, toi- shipment is made, or under secUon mums, or standards for products 1J tn the case of foreign goods offered The trade is given time for adjust- fot entry into this country.

ttracted to watch shipments of ginger ale coming within the jurisdiction of the Federal Food and Drugs Act to set; that the bottles are labeled in accordance with the provisions of the It w ns outlined in Food Inspection I'ecteion 177. according to a state-fiii-nt of the officials of the Bureau of Chemistry, United Staton Department of Agriculture, who are charged with the enforcement of the law. That dot’sion provides that if capsicum, which is the extract of red pepper, is presold 4n ginger ale it must be declared rpon the label. An interstate shipments of ginger ale found on or after May 16th which ara not properly labeled in this particular will bo sUzed say the officials, and shipments from foreign countries will be denied ei.tr>’ into the United States unless correctly labeled. The statement in

full follows:

In the enforcement of Federal Food and Drugs Act, the Department of Agriculture has always advised the

Forty-five States Now Engaged In Iniradermic Method of Tubercular Test

Arizona, Colorado, and California Are Only States That Are Not Cooperating

Recognition of ‘the iniradermic method of applying the first teat pre-j-atatory to accrediting a herd as free flora tuberculosis, has Just been an-i-ounred by the Bureau of Anlrvri Indnstry. United States Department of Agriculture. The more general use o. the iniradermic tests is expect?d to • -jiead up" the Federal and State cooperative campaign against TB. In the subcutaneous method heretofor' generally used, the tuberculin a inserted beneath the skin and It is ntcessary to take three preliminary t. mperature records of the animal an-i S' bast seven soon after the test. In the inierdemmic method Insertion is iur.de between the layeis of skin. aut 1 . whfle the method require* a greater degree of skill in the operator, only

one later Inspection of the animal may be sufficient to indicate the presence of the disease. The Federal recognition o f the intradermic method provides, however, that herds undergoing it successful!; trust pase a subcutaneous test within a year before they can be accredited as free from tuberculosis. The ii dennic test has been recognised also by ibout three-fourths of the 45 Si now co-operating with the Federal Government in the TB work. Texas recently became the 45th State engaged in the co-operaliv campaign. The throe States not ye enraged in it are Arizona. Colorado and California. Arizona and Colorado are expected to receive authority enter the work at the next session their legislatures.

tested recipes [Canned Tomato

Good for Infants

Mint and Grapefruit Sherbert Boil one pint of water with om and a half-cupfuls of sugar rapid!' for ten minutes. Add four or five sprigs of fresh mint, crush in the hot syrup and stir in half a teaspoon! of gelatine softened in two tabte•poonfuls cf 'cold water. Let stand t'n:il the gelatin in dissofved and strain. Add one and a half cupfuls of grape or loganberry Juice and freeze V.'uen the sherbert begins to congea> bill in the stiffly whipped white o!

one egg.

Sakcd Lemon Dumplings Into a pint of sifted flour mix three g.-nerous ur-aspoonfuls of bakinrpowder, a scant half teaspoonful of salt, and with the finger Ups rub tn two tahlespoonfuls of' any preferred shortening. V.’et to a paste with chilled milk and roR out Into a thin si eet. Cut in rounds and place in the center of each two tahlespoonfuls oi the following mixture: Remove th* edible pulp from one large lemon and odd the grated yellow rind, the Juice, three tahlespoonfuls of chopped seeded raisins, one tablespoonful of meltel Lutter. half a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon and grated nutmeg and half cupful of sugar. Mold the paste ~>mnd the filling In dumpling form, set them in a well greased pan. sprinkle with sugar and bake in a ver.” until crisp and brown. Serve with a liquid sauce. Grange Souffle Beat the yolks of three eggs uatil lemon colored and very thick. Add three tahlespoonfuls of powdered sugar, the rind (grated) of half aa nnge. half a cupful of grated cake crumbs that have been soaked In th-' 'rained juice of one orange, half -t tablespionful of lemon Juice and a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt. MU the- Ingredients thoroughly and fold la the stiffly whipped egg whiles and and a half tabIesr-*onful of cur rants . Pour into a buttered sou fibdish and bake for 25 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with sweetened whipped cream. A New G'apefruit Salad Shred finely tVo smell green peppers (discard the seeds) and add e tcaspoonful ol loincrd pimentos, the sections from one large grapefruit (cut in halves and with the skin r«moved.) one cupful ol finely diced •lery and a teaspoonful of chopped u meats. Moisten with Frencn dressing ami serve in lettuce cups.

BOOKS WRITTEN IN PRISON

So Says Dostor Hess; Blake Against Rigid Casts for Fractures If you want jour month-old babe to be ent'rely free from the taint of scurry, feed canned tomatoes to infanL And if you want the child to grow up to be a normal, healthy mai or woman, don't interfere with th. funcUoning of the thyroid gland These are only two of the interesting conclusions to be drawn from the discussions of prominent physician: recently at the second session of the 114th annual convention of the Medical Society of the Slate of New York at the- Waldorf-Astoria and the Hotel MoAlpln Dr. A. F. Hess said canned tomaloe* are ideal food, are rerviceable and “well bora” and could be given In one-ounce quantities to month-old babies without harm. The revelaliona concerning the Importance of the thyroid and other glands were contained in the paper "The Relationship of the Externa. Appearance of the Body to Disease.’’ pad by Dr. George Draper of thRockefeller institute. According to Dr. Draper, a physician familiar with the action of the glands has only to look into the faces of persons in his audience to toll 'hat diseases they have had, ought to have had or probably wtU have. He referred in illustration, to the fact that people of dark complexion with pronounced freckles or moles had prov ed most susceptible to influenza and that pure-blooded races have always been the greatest sufferers from epidemics. Dr. Joseph A. Blake, whose work In the American hospitals In France him international fame, spoke before the surgical section on ’’ Application of Methods Developed During the War to the Treatment of Fractures in Civil Life.” He branded obsolete the "fixation" of litte fracturoe by encasing the members in a plaster cast and keeping it motion less. He advocated. Instead, suspending the broken limb in a wire splint, treatment used with groat success i France.

rids heavyweight

champion laughed when he was told lhat George Carpentier said that he expect**! to beat the champioh In sis “If Carpentier is as good a fighter o he is a bidder, th* h>» tin step w-tae.” said IVznpaey. "I feel sure that 1*111 beat Carpentier. but 1 have rover predicted as to bow long it * ould take. I can't believe Cxrpentlor expects to stop me in six rounds. It

he does expect to. then he ts dse to! he disappointed 1 hare no though: ofbeing beaten in ac; •-ertain number o?.

rounds. I hop*; they pull the fight a tii*. earliest possible moment." Carpentier has since said that h

uiu no! say he could or would whip I vmpsey in six rounds. What he did ivy was that a fight between two fas; scrappers, both of whom were rushers tike himself and Dempsey, would hardly last more than six rounds.

A Treasure

, Manager—Why do you keep that office boy? He’s the most forgetful

youth I ever saw

Assistant Matut -—That’s just i«. j He forgets every topnlar song he

} hears and can’t whistt. it ^’-rd times—tn th*- Stone Age.

Some of the greatest books in ail literature were written in the soil tucie of the prison cell, says the Sing Sing Bulletin. Vincent Blasco Ibanet ne of the foremost writeri, of fiction tooay. began his literary career wble •rving a 14-year prison sentence in hpanish penitentiary for bis political activities in an attempt to free Cuba. Hi* 'Hustrious countryman. Cervantes, a ho wrote the greatest Spanish novel, ’TKin Quixote." was a prisoner in Madrid jail when writing that master piece. John lunyan was confined in Bedfoiri Jail for 12 years, his "Pllgrim’r Progress” haring been written while he was a prisoner there. His "Gracr Abounding" and “Holy War" were aisj written in prison. Dante wrote most of hiit wondeiful poems while in pea cry and exile, after be had been condemned to be burned at the stake. Raleigh wrote his "History of the Wcrid” during his 12 years' imprison m* nt in London Tow«*r. "Robinson Caruso." a book read In every country ir the world, was i ten in Jail by Defoe. Thomas Co. was confln»d in Stafford jail when be gave to literature bis “Purgatory of Suicide.*' Oscar Wilde s "De Profondis" is perhaps the most sorrowful story that was ever penned within prison walls. Others who wrote within dungeonwere Campanclla, who was 27 year: hi s cell where no ray of sunlight ever penetrated: Lovelac*. Booms. Grotius and a great many other writernote. Danish Potatoes Were Rejected About 24190 sacks of po’alc-s from Denmark have been refused entry a New York after rejection by U»* Inpayment of Agriculture. Nearly < percent ef the rejected stock wa' lai.rted with scab and rot. This cargo, which arrived March 4th. in * leded some potatoes of fsiriy good grad- which -old wholesale at S4i,a r»r 109 pounds, or considetsbty be ;->w best native stock, and most of th* imported potatoes not reject** soli still lower. The portion of th* aigo which was refused may bi tipped to Cuba.

Teak Forests Teak foiests of India supply the ■jst valuable timbers of the world The durability of teak t B remarkable, rafters of teak in some of the temples of I lia having served their purpose for more than 1000 yea; . The forests arc inaptly under government control and yli Id a considerable rev enue. _ Teak Is used for shipbuilding and Interior paneling and in the manufacture of furniture. It resembles coarse mahoganj, is easi’y worked and la not liable to the attacks of sects. When properly seasoned rclther cracks, ah rinks nor altera its shape. The trees seldom attain height greater lhan 150 feet.

Shape of Shells "Modern long range shells are cigarshaped . 7710)' taper both at the from and at the rear. This tapering of the end is called ‘boat-tailing.’ ” You have noticed that racing automobile.-! have torredosbaped sterna. A squaretailed shell or automobile is actually •Id back at high speed beciv.it the vacuum created behlni It by the loclty of its inovemFHt. Tapering the iail leads the air gently and ea*ily Into the hole that the shell or racing car bores in the atmosphere and thus lessens vacuum s impeding grip on the flying object."

He who preaches economy to wife by the yard is apt to practice by the Inch.

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DR. MARGARET Rl PPERT

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