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Show ' ' " .. , I , - ' .. ..' ' . ' ; -- , . . ' ' ... , ,. ... .t .... . ' A Feast In Ethiopia. , , (Prepared toy tha National Oaocraphla toclaty, Waaolnitoo. D. C.) epicure who Is willing to THE! - etartllngly new trails and then, can have a won-- . derful time on a gastronomic trip around the world. Dining In the homes of fcngland and Western Europe, the American attend-ing a feast would find the chief dish a reminder of home. Turkey, duck or goose makes the most popular roast In England, while plum , pudding this time with a generously flavored brandy sauce usually tops off ''the meal during cool seasons. ' I ' ' In France aud Spain our American explorer of the world's tables would again encounter the turkey but there he would . find the capon and the pheasant sharing Its popularity. Meth-ods ot preparation and side dishes, however, would tell him tAmtstakably that he was getting..farther afield." Truffles, chestnuts and olives are Im-portant Ingredients of the dressing ot fowls In these Latin countries. In France snails might be numbered among the viands that supplement the piece de resistance; and In Spain the meal, 'starting, say, with almond soup, would be sure to Include among the secondary dishes . a aopa, rice cooked In olive oil, with tomatoes and other vegetables and "perhaps bits of meat ; T " " ", ".' In northern ".Africa, whatever the date of the feast. It would be sure to have as Its central dish cous-cou- This consists of wheat prepared like fine grains of rice, steamed with lamb or mutton, and vegetables If the lat-ter are obtainable. It Is served In a large, almost hemispherical, basket-dis-h so closely woven that It holds water. About this container the diners sit, taking their food with their fin-gers. Olives, dates, and flgs help to complete the, meal j and on occasion there may be a dish of ' locusts "grasshoppers" prepared with wheat The legs, wings and heads are re-moved before the creature are cooked. r Among the Zulus of southern Africa whole oxen or bullocks are "roasted at feast time; and In central Africa the feast of feasts la roasted ele-phant's foot '''. .' - i V.; In Persia' as , throughout" all the Near and Central East mutton holds first place. There the accepted epi-curean trick Is to cook the meat In pomegranate juice. Rice Is cooked In grease, and the, two' combined form the famous plluu. With the pilau Is served the thin, crisp, t paperlike bread of Persia--, , - ' Raw Meat In Tibet , , If one's culinary Investigations ex-tend to backward Tibet he finds a strange combination of a barbarism'' which shows Itself In the ealjng of raw meat the ."higher" and "gamier'' the' bolter and an Ingenuity that hns holds an Important place on the menu. Seaweed, cooked In oil and aerved with allces of, red pepper; and klra-she-a kind of sauerkraut ere fa-vorite side dishes. The guests eat their portions from little Individual tables. '.. i I;.-Ho- They Eat In Japan, In Japan, too, guests at feasts eat from low, small, separate tables, their dishes being served usually, In the kitchen. An exceptional feast Is like-ly to be marked by the appearance of the piece de resistance usually fish whole before the guests. - A favorite food for this sort of treatment is a big baked red snapper. It Is placed on a table of It own in the center of a circle of the guest table, and portion are served froin It by a sery ant 'I' ',. ..'.. ' ... t , , The little tables t. et ., a Japanese feast are packed with a varied array of individual dishes. The guest prob-ably will find, clear chicken soup,-th-e Inevitable covered dish of rice, a slab Of raw fish, roast bird, shrimp frit-ters, fruit and various pickled greens. He may find, too, the most character-istic of all Japanese edibles, pickled chrysanthemum petals. For dessert be will have rice cakes and sweetened bean paste, a stiff, jelly-lik- e substance, not unlike Turkish paste. At Japanese Inn the traveler Is told that "Bombay duck" can be bad at a reasonable price. The hungry customer visions a, fat fowl but the waiter brings in pieces of smoked fish about two inches long and as thick as a dime. The menu also Includes pickled seaweed, seaweed jelly, and chutney which resembles pickled cit-ron, but Is almost as hot as Mexican chile. More raw than cooked fish Is eaten by Japanese. Haw baby octo-puses are particularly popular. "Jani anese Llmburger" Is not a cheese but a Japanese pickled dalkon, or long, white- - rndlsh. Traveling still farther eastward on his circumnavigation of the food world, our explorer would still have to pnss through the Pacific Islands before completing ,. his journey. Ta-hiti may be taken as typical of thl. region. There . preparation for a feast means klll'np the fatted pig. The animal Is usual! roasted whole with yams and native jjlantalns. Coco-.n-sauce and coconut milk complete the feost, which Is served on a, huge banana leaf spread on the floor. The guests squat about this green "board" eating with their fingers, ; Mexico Relies on Corn. . When Mexico Is reached, the trav-eler finds that corn or maize Is the staff of life. But to the American used to his substantial and slznble lonf it Is likely to appear a some-what frnll prop. Most of the Mexican corn Is not milled Into meal or flour. It Is, laboriously crushed with small stone rollers by hand. In millions of evolved: concentrated emergency ra tlous. A Tibetan, feast might consist of yak meat, strong tea mixed with rancid butter, and parched barley meal moistened with the greasy tea. Kvaporated and dried yak's milk soaked In tea would constitute the Tibetan "dessert course." In India no Important repast would be complete without quantities of rice and curry. It Is In Java, however, tfiat rice is raised to Its. highest status as a food. If he who goes exploring among the foods of the world is a connoisseur he may well pause In Java, devoting days and weeks to ex-ploring the variations the nuances, one might almost say of that Dutch-Java-food . masterpiece, .'the rijst ; tafel (rice table). . - RJce Is boiled to flaky ' whiteness and spread evenly on platters, each of which is to serve as an Individual dish. Fut this rice, good as It Is In Itself, and later because of Its bor-rowed savors. Is as yet only the foun-dation of the dish, the "table" as the Dutch have IU On It are placed lit-tle heaps of choice tid bits limited In variety only by the genius and Imag-ination of the chef and his master's' pocket book. '.',-..- I . Fenstlng Is something of an Insti-tution among, well-to-d- o Koreans. Once or twice a year the wealthy rice landlords go to. Seoul, the capital, and invite small armies of friends and ac-quaintances to dine with them that their prestige may be heightened In the eyes of their world. Half a dozen or more meats may be served at such a feast beef, mutton, venison, fowls, fish and oysters. Rice, of course. kitchens end dooryards. The crushed grain Is then moistened Into a stiff paste and cooked on a griddle Into what the average visitor from north of ' the Ulo Grande would term a "tough, flabby pancake." These are tortillas, the most generally used ar-ticles of food In Mexico. They are cooked In the home. In restaurants, over brawlers In the market place, ot taken cold by laborers In their lunch packets. Nor are they unknown on the tables of the prosperous. Wher-ever food appears In Mexico the tor-tilla stands well to the fore. Not only does the tortilla look un-appetizing to the outsider; It is sure to prove, unappetizing If he follows his first Impulse and treats It like a pancake, for It Is tough and rather tasteless. But. treated as bread, the tortilla will moke a much better Im-pression. The proper trick Is to" roll It tightly so that It will be manage-able and retain Its heat. It then be-comes a brend stick whose splraled end will melt a bit of butter and fur-- , nlsh a really delectable bite. , Corn contributes to another Impor-tant Mexican dish, the tnmale. The raw corn paste. Is flattened out as though tortillas were to be made. On the paste is spread a thin layer ot minced meat and pepper pods. The two layers are then folded np so that the meat and pepper forms .an Inner core with a sort of capsule of corn paste about It Each piece Is then wrapped in a corn shuck made pliable by soaking In water. Numbers ? of these are placed In a tin vessel and cooked by steam, then served plplnf hot both with fire and pepper. n n MOTOR QUIZ Uuw Mauy Clin You Answer? Q. Why should a driver allow a reasonable space between his car and the one a lien (IT Ads. To avoid an accident 'caused by sudden stop, also delny on account of being uiv able to get around the oar ahead In cane It becomes stalled. Q. How can the strain mused by rough spots In the street, car tracka and other ob-structions, be avoided? Ana. By releasing theclntcb' and allowing the car to' coast over these place. Q. How often ahould the Igni-tion cable be replaced and whyt Ana. About once a year. Cables become leaky and cause loss of electrical current , Q. What Is the average life of a spark plug? Ana. Ten thousand miles. n tt - C0I1 m ; , X cry In the night may be tlx y M pSESSSS first warning; that Baby hat colic L " . 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Quick relief whea you've a headache, or cold; or are suffering from neu-ralgia or neuritis. Bhenmatie pains yield, too, if you'll only girt these tablet a chance. But yon want genuine Aspirin, so look for the Bayer Crow on every tablet. The box always bears the same Bayer and the word 'genuine' - printed In red. Proven direction inside. Aspirin la ths tnuJs mark ef Bayer Kuiufaeture l MoaofcoaUoacldtntar fa "UerUc,cl r - i v M I I - i ' 'V'7 Backache Bother You? A Persistent Backache Often i . i . Warns of Sluggish Kidneys. DOES every day find you lame and achy nagging backache, headache and dizzy spells? 4 - Are kidney excretions too frequent, scanty or burning in passage? These are often signs of slug-gish kidneys and should not be neglected, , j t " To promote normal kidney action and assist your 7 kidneys in cleansing your blood of poisonous wastes, ..... use Doan's Pills. Endorsed the world over. Sold by -- good dealers everywhere. 50,000 Users Endorse Doan's t - Mra. L. 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It costs only as much ural way of bodily lubrication will M , to a good movie, and It. e'o wonders for you, too. wffl mean so much to you. In sealed You see, all of us have an excess package at any drug store, Start. s ' poisons that make our skins feeling fine, this very day! f ... ..... .... Eyesight of Motorist! ' Found to Be Defective Dr. F.dwln It Silver, prominent . Washington optometrist and chairman of the motor vision commission of the Optometrist society, has declared that 30 per cent of all automobile acci-dents In the United Statea are due to V . J Dr. Edwin H. Silver. defective eyesight of motorists. Re-cently returned from an Inspection trip In.. Europe, Doctor Silver says France and Germany are far ahead of the Doited States In safeguarding the rights of pedestrians and regulat-ing the Issuance of. motor permits. During 1028 the motor vision commit-tee has succeeded In securing legisla-tion In nine states and the District of Columbia requiring eyesight tests for motorists. ' WINTER CAR CARE ROUTINEOUTLINED Autos in Storage and in Service Need Attention. To assure automobile owners of maximum automobile comfort and ettl-- r ciency during the coming cold months service experts have prepared a list of suggestions which cover the essential points of car preparation. Where a motor car Is not to be used during the winter, the experts advise storing It In a dry, evenly heated and not too light place. The car should be waahed and dried, all oil and water drained off, wheels Jacked up to lift weight from tires, the tires partly de-flated, and unpalnted metal parts coated with heavy oil or vaseline to prevent rust or corrosion. Oil Should be Added. To prevent rusting of rings and cylinder walls the spark plutcs should bo removed and one gill of engine oil poured Into each cylinder. Then dis-tribute the oil by turning the engine over a number of times and replace the plugs.. Where It Is Intended to keep the car In commission changes In operating conditions call for attention to certain Important details. It Is Important that cars be In good operating condi-tion to overcome the rigors Imposed ' by cold weather. Whenever possible owners are urged to use the facilities of service stations. For those who prefer to condition their own cars these suggestions should be followed: Remove all accumulated sludge from the oil pan and refill with oil of good quality, frequent oil changes during the winter, with proper adjust-ment of the ernnkense ventilator, will safeguard oil circulation. Lubricate the chassis completely. Change oil In the transmission and differential. In-spect and clean the generator and re-place any worn parts. ' Check the bat-tery and recharge the electrical sys-tem if necessary. Clean Starting Motor. Remove and clean the starting mo-tor and replace worn parts Clean connecting cable terminals of elec-trical system and grease those at the battery, generator, starting motor and starting switch. Clenn and adjust distributor and spark plug points. In-spect cables and replace If necessary. Reset timing. Clean gasoline and vacuum tanks, gas lines and carburetor. Adjust car-buretor to proper winter mixture. Tighten water hose connections or replace worn hose If necessary. Pour In antl-freez- e mixture. If alcohol Is used check specific gravity weekly to prevent freezing of the mixture. Align wheels to prevent tire wear. Tighten body bolts and spring clips. Adjust clutch, brake pedals and brakes for cold weather driving. Living on less can become a beset-- 1 ting passion. What la more disappointing than a magazine when It 1st ' , ... , . ( I HOW TO LIVE j Bv JOHN CLARENCE FUNK J A. M, Sc O. Dtracto at Public Hxltk EducatlM. J . Slatt l Ptftniylvania. , t i Food Fads ' ' IT WAS recently announced that two Internationally known Arctic explorer sustained life most BMtlxfue-torll- y on an exclusive meat diet while living' in the temperate ton and en gaged In sedentary hahita Alnut at the tame time a young lady claimed thai she had actually flourished for months solely on peanuts, V And still another experimentalist announced to the world that bread, milk and cheese constituted the perfect dietary. Thus, food fads are horn. However, when It. la all said and done, ; these digestive excursions , merely prove"- - the amazing flexibility of the human system to food adjust-ment And while from a nws stand ' point such studies are Interesting, they are likely to result In more harm than good. , The reason for this Is thnt there are so many fanatically minded people who. are eager to trj anything new If It relates to the food question and particularly It It Is con nected wllh the reducing Iden. It must he readily admitted that various kinds of food are definitely contra Indicated' In the actual pres ence of disease. Rut In tteneral all foods, so far aa the average person Is concerned, are entirely ' safe and healthful to' consume. Consequently sweets, meal. milk, grains and all their by produrta have their proper place on the dally menu." The Im. portnnt thing Is to maintain a ration al diet balance and eat all things mod, erately. , ( Therefore,' follow fads In clothing, Interior decoration and motor cars If you have a falling for fads, hut do not go crazy' on the food fads Long life Is not In sympathy with such an attitude. Don't Get Chesty JT IS only natural to develop a supe-rior feeling over man's present day achievements. Airship, subways, sky scraper and all the wlzardy of elec-tricity are enough to turn the head of the most modest of us, ' And with modern nitration plants, sewage ' disposal works and all the other magnificent strides In disease prevention and cure,. It seems entire ly logical to develop a "high hat" al-titude on the question of living. Has not the span of life been In creased at least twenty years In the last two decadest Are not the health laws the best and most efficiently en forced In man's history Is not life easier and more protected than ever before? Well, the answer to all these questions Is emphatically, yea But In spite of It the outstanding and disturbing fact remains that for the great uumtier of citizens who have attained fifty years. Increased longev Ity has no application whatsoever. Resting In a sense of false security, hundreds of thousands of, adults who have reached the onehnlf century turn In life are dying at the aame rate of years ago, and sad to say are In creaslngly dying. This Is happening because they are confident tluiw the modern conditions of life have auto-matically added two decades to fhelr expectancy and consequently do little to help themselves. They have an Idea that "fleorge," In the form ot tiealth departments and regulations, had made life Just that much safer and longer for them. A great Idea but a totally erroneous one. Cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis and heart affections are today- - afetually creating havoc among those over mid die age. It is this group of maladies which mulntalns the unsatisfact-r- ' ' death rate among adults The annual physical exaniliiajlon alone. If employed, would by means of early diagnosis, save countless lives Sensible living hahlts would lake care, of many more thousands. Rest assured that adult niortnlity will not decrease until health Interest Increases. Pon'f get chesty over this modern living business. lo omefhlng about tt (&. 1li. Waatara Newapapai Union.) All the planning that many men do Is on the spur of the moment Love that feeds on beauty alone Is " apt to die of starvation. Annual Automobile Cost Is Estimated at $418 An average of $203 was spent by each motorist In the United States during 1028 In the operation and maintenance of his car, according to figures compiled by the American Mo-torists association. Of this sum $101, or 84 per cent wns exended for fuel and lubricants, this being the largest item In the motorist's annual opera tion and maintenance bill. ' - The $2!)8 figure does not take Into account depreciation. The average life of a passenger ' automobile, ac-cording to computation" of the federal government Is approximately seven years. During 1028 the average retail price of passenger cars In the United States whs $875, which, bused on a seven.vear life expectancy, would mean an average depreciation of $125 per year. From this figure, plus the average maintenance of $293, It will be seen that the general overage cost of oper-ation, plus depreciation, was $418 per year, or approximately $1.14 per day. The comparable figure for 1027 show that the average cost of operation, plus depreciation, was $305 for that year, or $1 per day- - $ AUTO FACTS eeeoeeeeee'eee More than 87 per cent of the farm-ers in Garfield county, Okla own pas-senger automobiles. . a Many Paris policemen are linguists, but the American traffic cop can say enough In one language. "Here." said the Vain Optimist "Is a traffic regulation scheme that will not pain a great many people." Ton can beat some of the trains to all of the crossings; all of the trains to some of the crossings, but you can't beat all of the trains to all of the crossings. . Pennsylvania has approximately 27,000 gasoline retailers. Each dealer Is required by law to file a bond. In amounts upward of $500, to Insure collection of the four-ce- gasoline tax. Fifty-seve- n engine In that many naval destroyers have outlived their usefulness. It Is reported. The, might be fitted to some of the Mlo bulk, we see scattered here thus begin a new life of destructlve-ne- ... A "baby auto" is to be manufactured In the pine box which can be parked In which It Is shipped. Why not make a pocke.-el- J equipage that could be parked overnight In dad's overcoat iMKkett FOLDING AUTOMOBILE IS NOT EXPENSIVE I ttailiF . , V Two views of the new folding automobile. Invented by Helnrlch Zaschka. of Berlin, which costs about $350 and Is In reach of all classes. , Ownership of Arctic ,.' 1 Island Awarded Norway The Island ot Jan Mayen In Arctic' waters, between Iceland nud Kplts bergen, was recently t rniully annexed; to Norway, says a dispatch from Osloj At the same time the, director ot the Norwegian meteorological station on the Island was given magisterial au, thority on the Island. The claim of Norway to Jan Mayen. an Island ) miles north of Scotland and H miles' northeast of Icelnnd, has sometime been contested by other countries. It wns probahly discovered by the Eng llsh explorer. Henry Hudson, in 1007 a It has been Identified as the island lie visited thai yenr. in latitude 71 degrees north, and named "Hudson's 'Hitches." But It is certain thai the Dutch navigator, Jan Jacobsz May (whose name It now ear), landed there In 1614. But It, was then con-sidered an ICtiglisb possession, and was granted to tbe corporation ot Hull by James I In 1014. During tbe World war tt was occupied and claimed oy a Norwegian, but lie fur ther complicated the question of own- - ershlp by selling bis rights to au American cltlxen. Good Old Bunk Bunk Is a kind of grease that makp the wheels run smoothly, harmless flapdoodle to keep people Interested You kiss your wife to show her that you still love her. She knows ust how much yon love her without being kissed; yet she like It. American Magazine. Animal Life in Alps A treat for lovers of nature Is to be had In exploring the 8wtsa Nation-al park, not far fnom St. Mortt. There you can observe the original" Inhabi-tants if the Alps--lh- e chamois, deer, Ibex, foxes, marmots, otters and all smnli mountain dwellers abound, as do the birds. The rare edelweiss grows on high slopes and colorful Al-pine powers grow wherever there Is a patc) of soil between tbe rocks. Indian Tribes Related - The bureau of Indian affairs says that .the Mohican tribe of Indians is the same's the Mahtcnn. , This was one of the Algonquin tribes, and If any of (he Mohicans remain they are ted In the Etockbrldge tribes. Tbe Stockbrldge Indiana are closely connected with tbe Delaware, al-though they are not a branch of this trlhe. Some of the Stockbrldge In-dians live hi Wisconsin. Tramp Turns to Autos As the result of. an investigation conducted In one of the larger east-ern cities of the United States, the modern hobo Is resiionslble for a large number of automobile thefts. It I found that be has abandoned the old practice of riding the brake rods of railroad trains and now steps into tbe best looking car he can And parked along the curb and drives himself to the next city In which he want to stop and deliberately abandons the stolen car. ValuabU Record When a housewife washes dishes hree times s day for years, she hus a right to claim an endurance rec-ord that really amounts to something. |