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Show Tke KITCHEN CABINET UtX Anil .Sprinkle in the ALLENS 192. Western Newspaper 1'nlon.) MEALS FOR A DAY Himl For the first meal of the day, a seasonable fruit of some kind makes a good be ginning. If fresh such as grapeoranges, fruit, pears or apples are not to be obtained, use a handful of fruits Meu.Gem. TeIIs James GJfarbnrd of ErEsbBsb Conflict in History ' HAT does a brigade commander think about ? Particularly if that brigade commander finds himself responsible for tlie success of a maneuver in one of the campaigns in the World war? Let Maj. Gen. James G. Ilarbord, who commanded the marine brigade around Belleau Wood, tell you. lie knows. You can read his reactions now for the first time in that living record written in the heat of war dajs with no thought of publication, bat only for the eyes of one woman, the wife of one soldier and the daughter of another. This is the explanation with which tlie general dedicates to his w ife the newly published Leaves From a War Diary (Dodd, Mead and Company), which, in the days before he could Write Retired List after his name, were for home consumption only. You decide to try to straighten out a email in your lines, starts the general's answer to the above question, or, perhaps, the Boche decides to do something to you, and for about one minute of thought followed by a decision delivered perhaps In less than ten seconds You wait for you sit through hours of waiting. for the necessary preliminary reconnaissance; some artillery preparation; perhaps for the approval of some superior whose mind does not seem to function quickly; for the reconnaissance you must await the report before you can make up your mind what it is you wish your action to be; the artilleryman must get some data to tell you whether he can do what you ask; the necessary matters of ammunition for rifle, Chauchat, all of which or machine-guStokes, V. B., now form part of your armament, must be considered; also the weather, the interval to nightfall as compared with the time it will take to make your operation; what the enemy is liable to do; what your own people on either side of .you can do or will do, etc., etc, etc. Finally all these preliminaries are gone through, and your orders are made, and your attack is launched in the Bois de Belleau, or wherever it is going to be Then comes the hard waiting. You know your people have started forward, and the outcome is on the knees of the gods. You can do nothing more, but you wish you could, and it is sometimes hours before you know what The telephone wires are cut; runis happening. ners are killed, your men are out of sight and Eventually, perhaps, an airplane drops hearing a message at your headquarters as it flies over. An orderly hastens to pick up the little tin cylinder in which the aviators drop their messages, and you get the information that "Americans are in road" or Amerisight on the cans are in possession of Torcy." Wounded men in the begin to arrive at the dressing-station- s Ford ambulances, and sometimes little you get your first news from them. Eventually or it may attained, a signal goes up,' Objective be "Falling back or " We want to advance, lengthOur artilor en the fire" (this for the artillery); By and by, when you are lery is firing on us frantic for news, a message arrives by runner, but is almost illegible and quite generally very vague, being written on some officer's knee with a soft pencil, and carried through brush and shellfire, and probably written under fire. You wish more than anything else in the world to know the exact position of your troops, and exto them; actly whore the enemy is with reference where you can ask the artillery to place their further fire; whether or not the casualties have been heavy among our people, and among the Germans; and the number of prisoners. This information sometimes takes a day and night to filter in, and it is difficult to be patient. The teletimes, and you cannot phone gets cut at critical use it except in code, for the modern listening sets and the operators have enable the enemy to hear, be careful about continually to be cautioned toover the telephone. revealing confidential matter Officers under fire are oblivious to the passage of time and forget the importance of reports. You they are, can't help them unless you know where how they are, and when Reports come in withare and for you on worthless, them, out the hour do not know when the conditions reported existed Certainly it is no exaggeration to say that liaison is of the very highest inimportance. Liaison, keeping everybody generally speaking, consists informed of everything he ought to know. Meanwhile you wait, and walk the floor, or smoke (some play solitaire), or you worry over whether you have left anything undone or not, says the general, and adds: A favorite, or rather an Inevitable topic, when one Is waiting, is our relations with our allies, particularly the French They are the most delightful, unrc Table, trustworthy, sensitive, exasperating, artistic, clever and stupid unsanitary, cleanly, dirty, writer has ever known. Intensely people that the theoretical yet splendidly practical academic and if we do not feel at times, it will be a wonder as much like fighting them as we do the Germans n, Belleau-Bouresch- Red-Cro- te Cj3A5-&.ZAW3- ?S before the war is over, for our alliance tries human patience American patience almost to the limit. One af their orators said in my presence some time ago that all the world weeps for the same reasons, but only those who see alike laugh at the same things, and he reasoned that the French and Americans are alike because they laugh at the same things. We do, but we are surely very different. Reproduction of maps from airplane photographs is in the French system assigned to tlie topographic section of the army. With us our organization has only gone as far as the corps as yet. Our division general staff section 2 (intelligence) has been furnishing us some maps from airplane photographs. French staff officers spend a golden hour telling you that it is not the business of the Deuxieme bureau to make such maps, but of the Section Topographlque d'Armee. The war may be lost, the maps would never be made, men die for want of the information the maps would have given, but what matters if the battle be lost or won if the Deuxieme bureau is not prostituted into the making of maps, but unmolested does its regularly assigned work somewhere back in a safe place in the rear. This is war as seen and felt by a man who was in the thick of it. General Ilarbord is human through and through. From his observations of the French you realize the variations of his manly enthusiasms and manly resentments. Put most important, from the viewpoint of the historian, the general is a good observer with a penetrating sense of values as to what is interesting. He writes frankly with a candid tongue, using language to convey meanings and not to disguise them. Time and again he expresses a whole-souleadmiration for John J. Tersliing, and when he writes My Chief, we cannot but believe tlie true warmth of feeling carried by this plira.se. This loyalty and an increasing friendship with Charles G. Dawes (later of the Dawes plan and of Cool-idg- e and Dawes), combined with tlie fullest enthusiasm fortlie marines, constitute the throbbing, human cadence of ills hook. Read what he says in June, 1918, after getting into action with the marine brigade: What shall I say of the gallantry with which these marines have fought'!! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares farm; of the Bois de Belleau and the village of Bouresches stained with their blood, and not only taken away from the Germans in the full tide of their advance against the French, but held by my bovs against counterattacks day after day and night after night. I cannot w'rile of their splendid gallantry without tears coming to my eyes. There has never been anything better In the world What can one say of men who die for others, who freely give up life for country and comrades? What can be said that is adequate? Literally scores of these men have refused to leave the fid when wounded Officers have individually captured machine-gun- s and killed their crews. Privates have led platoons officers fallen. have when their Many companies have lost all their officers and been commanded officers. One noncommissioned of my youngby Moore, with the veteran Sersters, Lieutenant medal-of-hona man, volunteered geant Quick, to run an ammunition truck down a shell-sweroad Into the town of Bouresches the night we captured It, and did It. Instances of men rushing out and carrying in wounded comrades, which In other days called for the award of a Medal of Honor, have been so frequent as to be almost common In this brigade. Here is his picture of General Perhing: General Pershing is a very Btrong character. He has a good many peculiarities, such I suppose as every strong man accustomed to command Is apt to develop. He is very patient and philosophical under trying delays from the War department. He is playing for high stakes and does not Intend to jeopardize his winning by wasting his standing with the War department over small things relatively unimportant, though very annoying as they occur. He is extrefoely cautious, does nothing hastily or carelessly. He spends much time rewriting the cables and other papers I prepare for him, putting his own Individuality into them. He is the first officer for whom I have prepared papers who did not generally accept what I wrote for him. It is very seldom I get anything past him without some alteration. I am obliged to say I do not always consider that he improves them. d or lie edits eviiv thing he though ofttn he does It is a good signs, ev,n the most trivial things precaution, hut one which can lastly he cairled to a point where it will waste time th.it nncht better ho imploded on bigger things, but is probably justithd In the preliminary stages in which we are He thinks very clearly and directly, goes to his conclusions directly when matters tall for decision He can talk straighten to people when calling them down than any one I have seen. I have not yet experienud it, though lie has naturally a good disposition and a fiein sense of humor. He loses his temper occasionally, and btupldtty and vagueness innate him more than anv thing else Ha can stand plain talk, but the staff officer who goes in with only vagueness whore he ought to have certainty, who does not know what he wants, and fumbles around, has lost time and generally gained Borne straight talk. lie develops great fondness for people whom he likes and is indulgint toward their faults, but at the same time is relentless when convinced of ineillcii ncy. personal loyalty to friends is strong with him, I should say, but does not blind him to the truth. Writing' of tlie early days in 1917, when tlie A. E. F. was in its infancy, General Ilarliord found nn excellent character study in eonti listing tlie types presented hy Pershing and the Freni h commander, Retain, between whom at this time there existed not too cordial relations. Hatlmul iis: He is said to be known as Retain the Brief, among is own countrymen. Ho was a lliutenant colonel of infantiy before tlie war, and taught In the Eeole de Guerre, an Institution for the higher training of French officers similar to that reveled Institution on the banks of the lotomnc where I spent so many long hours last winter. He is a man about fifty seven, I should Judge, blui eyed, c lied, bald to the ears, erect In his carriage, and gives the impression of alertness and energy. He is extremely direct in his conversation, frank to the point of hiuskness. Though known to his own people as Tlie Brief, he did not seem to me to find the sound of ills own voice at all disagreeable, or to be particularly brief in getting through what he had to say. Perhaps brief would be bettir translated as "brusk He launched foith a stream of terse, concise talk that practically held the center of the stage during the entire dinner, pausing ociasionally for the Interpreter, our Major Frank Barker, who is on duty at French general headquarters and speaks French, to render him In English Parker would get about half of it, and would sometimes forget his suboidinato role as interpreter for General lershing and reply on his own to General Retain. The latters French was so distinct that I was able to follow his conversation fairly well Retain seems very frank and direct in his dealing with General Pershing, but I have not full faith that he regards these exchanges on official matters at social events quite so seriously as we are apt to do. Letters that come from his staff to ours, or that are written by them for his signature, are not always in accord with his ssions at the table. This whole question of our relations with the French high command is going to be maneuvcri d by them to rush our general off his feet if he is not extremely careful. Later he speaks of Pershing visiting the French front with Retain: General Pirshing is evidently studying Petaln very closely. The quistlon of the employment of our army is to come up. Franco has over a million men in the field, they are waning and ours are coming. Should nothing go wrong and the war continue wo shall have more than they a year from now. For the present the French attitude We are is at times very distinctly patronizing. doubtless looked upon somewhat as amateurs, though I believe the average professional level in our commissioned ranks is higher than theirs Our numbers now are, of course, trifling, but we are coming Ietain has sent in several suggestions that have been distinctly patronizing, and In which he has played all around the word order" without quite using it. lie will do well to omit Our general is that word from his repertoire very cautious, thinks very deeply, takes no false steps, knows his ground, and he knows who holds the whip hand, if one may use that word in speakFrance depends ing of relations with an ally on America, and she shall not depend In vain. We It shall never Ire can afford to be generous, and said that we were not. But our relations, it will to are General those of coRetain, be explained 1 he general is going to buggest to operation. him that their dealings had better generally be direct ar,d personal instead of by correspondence; that they are treating exactly ns equals on the same level; that General Retain s intei ests as well as his own, and those of their respective countries, will be best served so. I think they will be great friends; that each will probably be a hero in his own country; and together with Haig they will carry the war to a victorious conclusion; but it basis, no orders, will be on a strictly General Pershing and General no patronage. Wood are the only two American generals with whom I have close dealings, that struck me having the head for the part The Germans have won the war so far by have their enemies in detail. When the Frenchbetig gone forward, the British have not; when the the French been have been deBritish have ready, two badly trained layed. It has been a horses pulling separately Instead of together. Great Britain is engaged in too many subsidiary operations. Such operations are only Justified in war when they have a direct bearing on the object of tne war. The place to beat the Germans Is where the Germans are, and that is on the western front, not in Bagdad, Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Salonica. The fighting in those regions is purely !? the interest of Britains political and commercial supremacy in Asia and Africa. It tics up a tremendous amount of shipping which is needed to bring us into the war, ail sides realizing that with France and England nearing the end of their man power, it Is America that must win the war 1 -- -- blond-mustn- ex-p- Fee-sa- ri MITCHELL EYE SALVE heals Initiated eyes, granulated lids, styes, ee. Sure Safe. Speedy. 2.'c at all druggists. Hall & Ruckel, N. Y.Ci How He raisins added to oatmeal, Prunes are always in season and always good, us are dates. With an increasing variety of brenk-fas- t foods one need never serve one too often. Eggs are the aeeepted breakfast dish, as is bacon. Eggs ate served In many ways, so that they, too, need not appear In tlie same way morning after morning. Sausage, hum, chops and fish are breakfast meats that follow bacon in popularity as breakfast meats. Maekerel Is u great favorite, when fresh, or stilt. If salt, freshen, skin side up, In a deep pan of water over night, changing t lie water as often as possible, in tlie morning plate in a dripping pan cover with cream and bake about twenty minutes or until tlie fish leaves tlu lame. -- Serve with baked potatoes. Tills makes a most aeceptalle lumheon dish. (ittddle cakes, wallles, hot muffins, gems and toast are tlie breads well liked for breakfast. I' or luncheon one hot dish may be escallopetl fish, vegetables, rice or Codfish with macaroni with eggs. baked potatoes, a cream soup of some kind; all of these are easy dishes to prepare. A salad is always liked on the luncheon menu, and here one has a vast variety from which to choose. Some kind of bread, a lmt drink chocolate, cocoa, tea or cofi'ee with a small cake, with or without fruit, such as marmalade, preserved canned or fresh fruit, makes a good finish for the luncheon. Pineapple Cocktail. For each glass take a taldespoouful each of pineapple anti orange, with u Idt of the grated peel. Four over a lemon sirup or mixture of pineapple Juice, lemon and stig.tr, cooked until quite thick. Cool and add with chipped ice. Beans and Bacon. Take n can of tender string beans, drain and season. Cut up two slices of bacon Into small lilts and brown. Remove the bacon to tlie dish of beans and fry one small onion in the bacon fat. When well cooked add the beans, mix well and add a dash of vinegar, enough to season well. Serve hot with frank-forts. Lightning Cake. ('ream one-hal- f cupful of shortening, add one-hacupful of sugar, four beaten egg yolks, three of milk tublespoonfuls and one cupful of sifted flour, with a teaspoonful lf baking powder. Spread the mixture in a shallow pan and cover with the frosting below. Frosting for Lightning Cake. Bent four egg whites very light, gradually s add of a cupful of sugar and one-hal- f cupful of shredded almonds. Spread on the uncooked cake mixture and sprinkle with a tablespoonful of sugar, mixed with one-halteaspoonful of cinnamon. Bake In a moderate oven. Combination Salad. Cut small tomatoes into quarters or eighths, leaving the sections together at the stem end. Arrange on lettuce and heap over them finely chopped celery, a quarter of thinly sliced pear and the tapering end of a banana, which may be placed in the center. Serve with a mild salad dressing enriched with cream. Thousand Island Dressing. Take one half cupful each of olive oil and lemon juice, one tablespoonful of grated onion and one a f cupful of orange Juice, three teaspoonfuls of minced parsley, eight olives chopped licstnuts also tine, eight cooked of a teuspoonful chopped, of salt, one teaspoon ful of Worcestershire sauce, a dash of paprika and of a teaspoon ful of mustard. Shake in a mason Jar until well blended. Browned Chestnuts. Use the large Italian chestnuts. With a sharp knife make two incisions at right angles to each other through the hell on one side of each nut. Cover with boiling water and let cook for half an hour. Drain and keep hot while removing the shell and the thin inner skins Cook In a little hot fat until nicely browned. Turn often, drain and sprinkle with salt. When beating eggs add a few grains of salt to the egg white'; It makes the frosting lighter by holding in more air, as the salt toughens the egg. 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