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Show niiilMiiiniiig bealilt and prcvennnjf the sprind of dlkciiNc, The most scrupulous car should b excrdsnl wlicrmcr fund I stored ud prepured. Re sure that no germ ere allowed to live In the place where food for the entire family prepared. The kitchen, us far ns possible, should be bright, ulry, easy to clean, and should have no dark corners. All cooking utensils should be thoroughly washed, scalded nnd dried before they are put away. The danger of Using badly washed dlshc I el-deto everyone. When sink and shelves are washed, dirty wnter should not he allowed to stolid In the crack to draw Insect and breed germs. Dish cloths and towels should he washed anil boiled after using, nnd If possible dried In the sun. The sun nnd fresh air are the best germ killer In the world, Every place where food Is kept should have constant rare. The refrigerator must be kept absolutely dean; all movublo parts should he taken out of It and thoroughly wushod ne a week. At that time the pipe und druln should lie cleaned, rucks thoroughly wiudicd with hot water imd soap suds, rinsed, pluecd In the sun and aired, and the Interior rinsed with hot water, and theu cold wuter, dried nnd left to air for nti hour. Too much cmpluiHlsjunuot be placed on the Importance of special care for ull dishes and cooking utensils sent to the kitchen from the sick room. They should, he snildod liefore drying At the termination of the Illness, such dishes should be boiled briskly for ten minute before being rcV'irnod for gen crul use. The same set of dishes for the patient should he used every day und kept In u place separate from the family dishes. If no sufe place cun he found, they should he kept In the room covered with a dean napkin until needed. Attention should ulso be ftiIdto the hand of the person cooking. Tln-bunshould be wushed always handkerfood. the After using dling chief or coming In direct contact with the nose or inuutli, wash the hand before touching the food. Care should be taken not to cough or sneeze In the nclghhorho.Ml of food, especially food to be euten law, and it the person cooking 1ms a bud cold she should take particular cure to Weep hci hand clean. Food for the slek should always be most carefully prepared, and be a Invitingly served us possible. Trays, dishes, truy cloth and napkins for the patient must be absolutely clean. I'uiM-- r uupklns are better than soiled linen. The trays should not be overloaded with food. The sight of too much food frequently tukes away the uqstite. It Is sufer to err on the sldo of serving too little thun too much. Food left on the patients tray should be burned; It should not be eaten by unyone else, or pluced In the pantry or refrigerator with other food. Keep the kitchen clcun, keep the food clean nnd lessen the danger of Infection from thut point SAFEGUARDING THE HOME Simple Directions on Home Nursing jani a. dhano Suit h DIiM !) ClW Hr tMWN Ounce of Prevention ! Wort!) a Pound of Cure" An SIMPLE nt METHODS SICKROOM of your family set decided signs of lllnc, put the putlent to and t h e u cull a i1iHlcInii. bed' a room quiet and sunny, and it far removed a possl-"b- it from other of the member family. CIkhiho that l , Fm.h air I es- needed pecially by nil nick people, but a ventilated not room doe mean a cold room. windows The should he opened at the top and bottom for a few onee minute hour, to every keep fresh air circulating through the room, but tuko care to protect the patient from direct, draft, at all Use extra covers, If ncces-artime. y. Don't allow more than one person In the sick room at a time, unless needed to help in lifting or moving, und keep wny other members of the family. Only the putleut should occupy tho bedroom, and It Is impnrtunt to remember that all sick people are sensitive to noises; such as llupplug curtains, squeaky door and rocking chairs, rattling windows, ticking clock a, sticking bureau drawers, rustling newspa- d pkirts. Never shHper in the sickroom; it annoys the pers or, over-starche- patient If there senis to be high fever, se- cold applications on the head will relieve. If the patient complains of chill, or feeling cold, put hot water bottles, securely corked and well covered, at the back and feet Give the patient plenty of cold water to drink; It helps to wash away the wastes from his system. If his throat Is sore, have hint gargle It with salt water one teaspoonfnl to a pint of boiling water. Cold or hot applications on the throat are ' nothing,. Give no medicine unless ordered to Si so by the doctor, with the possible exception of a mild dose of castor oil. Don't take It unless needIf needed. ed, however. It 1 unwise to give a physic as a routine measure. Don't kill the patient with kindness, and don't overfeed him. If there Is fever, give him milk and strained broths; If there Is no fever he may have, In addition to the milk and broth, tea, toast, plain boiled rice, or the lighter cereals. It Is highly Important that certain dishes and cooking utensils be set aside fur the sole use of the patient. If It Is Impossible to wash them there, they should he carried In a pan to the kitchen, nod boiled before washing. Scraps of food left on the tray after the patient has eaten should he put In a paper hag and burned. The person cnrlng for the patient should remember to wash her hands frequently, especially before leaving (he room to mingle with other members of the family. She must also remember, for her own protection, to keep her hands away from her mouth and r.ose at all times. It Is said that IH) per cent of contagious diseases are taken through the mouth and nose. If the sickroom Is sept well aired, clean and tidy, disinfectants will not be necessary, and should not be used All tin- unless n j.hystrlpn advises. necessary furniture should be removed from tho sickroom, so that It can be easily cleaned. Remove dust from tho floor and carpet with n damp cloth wrapped around the broom. Use clean cloths or paper napkins to remove the discharges from the mouth and nose. I.urn these after being used. Old cloths and cotton used to receive any other discharges, including vomit material, should he placed In a paper hag and burned Immediately. Soiled handkerchiefs, wh'.ch may not he burned, should not be pheed uuder the pillow ; they help to spread the disease. Keep them In a paper bag near the bedside. Before bring sent to the laundry, they should lie put In a pan filled with wnter and a little washing soda anil boiled, In order to keep from breathing In the germs of Influenza and pneumonia, which are expelled Into the air from the patient, the attendant should wear n contagion mask. This Is made by folding together six thicknesses of gauze, eight Indies square nnd attaching tapes to the four corners. Tie the mask over the mouth nnd nose. It is very unwise for the person who has been seriously 111 to get up too soon, or try to go to work until they are feeling entirely well nnd strong. vere headache, . -- Famous Old London Buildinb. The appointment of lieutenant of the Tower of London curries witn It the tenure of the lieutenant's house, which boasts of historical associations, if ever any hoyse did. It W'as built In the reign of Henry Vltl, nnd wns used a r prison for More, Surrey, Essex, Coke, Jeremy Tnejlor, William Reno und Algernon Sydney.- There are two other small houses provided for the lieutenant's servants, nnd In these Lady Jane Grey was held captive and Sir Walter Itulelgh wrote his History In those good old of the World. days the fees charged the prisoners added quite materially to tho lieutenant's sulury. - . KITCHEN sheep-growin- j g Neros Golden Palace. The golden house wns the palace of ero In ancient Rome, which occupier the valley between the Palatine nnd and connected the paints s of the Caesars with the gardens of Maecenas. It was hullt after the great lire of C A. !., and was so large that It contained porticos 2.S00 feet long and Inclosed n lake where the coins. eum now stund. The forecourt contained 0 colossus of Nero 120 feet high. Secrets of the Salmon. single scale from n salmon will tell you Its owner's age, and whether his pickings have been slim or the opmicro-scopposite. When viewed through a the scale will reveal tiny lines, which have developed at the rate of 16 a year. Lines crowded close prove that the salmon has been living high. Lines widely spread Indicate a scant diet. A Only One Town. Previous to the great war, the only town In the old world ever captured hy the United States wns the town of Derr.e, iti Tripoli, which wns taken by an American force under General HYGIENE A dean, house Is deRlrable for ull times, but a clean Kitchen Is an absolute necessity in Scots All Lovers of' Dogs. Scotland Is a great country, yet It loves the dog; gives him Ids due in life and reveres him In At the castle In Edinburgh death. there Is a little plot of ground where the dogs of the Scottish soldiers are burled; It Is n charming spot, and on many little tombstones there ere tender tributes to departed friends. In front of Saint Giles cathedral in the same noble city, there Is a monument to n little skye terrier, nnd uifon It. carved in stone, an Inscription to Robbie, who refused to leave the church yard where hi master wub burled, and died upon Ills grave. . In 1S04. . . It SfPinrd to get colder snd colder, tit Slid not mind It so much. At shout eleven tlmt morning, we arrived at a prison place called Mludcn snd saw camp there Just a stockade fttar the tracks with the boys out In tho open. Wo waved t them, and they waved or two. We back ond gave a rheer-ofur them, bemuse we knew felt sorry N Ex-CU.5. vr Officer and Chief By i we were not going to thut cnup, and Member of (ha foreign Legion of Franca from whnt little we anw, we knew we could not be going to a worse place Csptiln Cun Turret, French Winner of tha Croix da Cuerra than they were In. I shall never forget Mlmlen, because It was bero that X Copyright, lOia, V Itfttly h( Britton Oo., Through Spneial Aimnftmenl With th deor Kutthiv Adam Ssfrlo received the only cigarette X bad while I was In Germany. Mlmlen I quite a railway center, I and CHAPTER of the outside barracks, lmd a stove In the center, n good stove a hydrant But 17 after guess, und when we pulled inlo tha and a big one, but at first It, wus of for a while we drank It, 1 noticed that all the time he wu no use to us, tecnimo the German aeverul of tho boys lmd gone west depot, we snw many troops going to writing the word aud citing us the would not give u coal or wood for It. nnd we could figure out why, a the front rr coining back. As at all bewn the we ho Rut a us man told after stationery, laughing thought the wuter was litqiortunt German rullway alutlons, sentry shivering for while, and having a great time with hi own gan ripping (he board out of the bar- poisoned, and a Russian doctor, who there wus M Red Gross booth on the little self, but I figured he was Just rack, and taking the dividing boards was a prisoner, slipped u word about platform, with Gerniun girls handing things t acting German, and that nothing was from tho benches that we used for It also. So, after that, very few of out barley coffee and other large the German Soldier. I snw Important about It us drank wnter front the hydrant, bed. lied on tho platform, with We were all tickled to death to get Later, they gave each of tts a mat- was seared stiff at first, because 1 had shanty a chance to let our people know where tress filled with wood shaving, and a find some of the water, hut after that Crons pnlnted over the door. I saw the girls giving barley coffee to th we were, and each tunn thought a blanket that was about It warm as a I did not touch bydnint water. would have 1 long time about what he would say, pane of glass. Tho mattresses were It wns a good thing fof US that soldier, and thought I and who he would write to, before he placed on the ground tn the barracks, there was always plenty of snow In a try at It nnd at least be polite of ever started to write. Each man want- wbkh were very dump, and after threo Germany, and even luckier that the enough to give tho girls a chance ed to say all he could In the small or four days, the shavings would be- Huns did not shoot us for eating It. refusing me. I was refused all right, were ao nasty about It that I space he had, and we wanted to let gin to rot and the muttrexses to smell. It wns about the only thing they did but they our friends know how bndly they were In order to keep Varru we slept as not deprive us of It wns not verboten. put down tny head and let something what It out remember treating us without snylng It In so close together os we could, which I thought I knew whnt tough cooties slip, I do was mt very just complimenmany words, because we kucw the mused our various diseases to spread were, in tho trenches, hut they were was, but It tary, I guess. Anyhow, I did not think Huns would censor the letters, and It rapidly. regular mollycoddles compared to the anyone near there Understood Engwould go hard with anyone who comWhen we were receiving our rations, pets we hnd In the prison camps. After some one beard plained much. So most of the men the sentries would offer us on extra we boiled our clothes we would bo lish, but evidently said they were having a great time ration If we would tuke a lush from free from them for not more than two and were treated very well, and spread their belts. We were o hungry that bourn, and then they would coma It on thick that their friend would thirsting) man would go up buck, with many and many figure they were lying because they and tuke a swat In any part of bis for vengeance. had to. The enmp at Neustrcllts was surbody from the heavy leather belts One fellow hud an Idea thut was with brass tongue and buckle. Just to rounded by big dogs. Which were kept better thun that, though. Ho had been get a little more shadow soup or Just outside the barbed wire. We bad In jull In Portsmouth, England, for them going ull tho time. Every once barley coffee or mud bread. three months, for beutlng up a conOne morning the sentries picked out In a while, some fellow would mnke stable, and he had had a pretty rough ten men from our barracks, of which an awful racket, ond the next thing, o he wrote a pal of Ills that time. was us over a field w e J. new, there w as Frits coming like drilled and one, I he had been captured by tho Gerwns a large a shot, with musket at bl lilp, Just the There kurhe. Dear mans, but that everything was going in the field and we lmd to pump ns they carry them In a charge, nnd tank along pretty well. In fact, he said, wnter Into It. It wns very cold, and blowing whistles at cnch .other until the only other trip ho had ever been we were weak nnd sick, so we would they were blue In the face. Whenon, wht re ho had a bettoi time, was ono full after another, cot curing ever they thought some one wus esthe three months vacation fio hud we ever got up or not Frit whether caping, they run twice as fat as I in Portsmouth two years before, iqx-n- t ever saw theta run, except when tho hi with fell who smash tlioso would which he thought the friend would rebeForeign Legion was on their heels rifle butt. We asked for gloves, member. He said that trip was bet- cause our bands were freezing, but all at Dlxmude. ter than this one, to the friend could we When they got up to the dogs, they got was Xlchts." figure out fur himself how pleasant would first talk to them and then kick After about we been had for there this one was. Ever body thought this men them, and after that, they would rest was a great Idea, but unfortunately an hour nnd a half, one of our their rifles on the wire nnd yell became so I that thought sick, very not all of us bud been In Jail, so vo Zuruckl" at us. Wo all enjoyed this was fell when and he he to die, going could not nil use IL kVhieh was Just innocent 1 The pastime very much, end w reported It to a sentry. ns well, we thought, because the Ger- over, In were glad they hnd tho dogs. saw came him over, lying sentry mans would be suspicious if all of us There were some things tho Iluns the snow, yelled, "Schwcln, debt compared tld vacation with others. krank I" grabbed him by the shoulder, did thut you Just could not expluin. A few of the men did not have any- and The First and Last Clgaret'e. pulled him all the way across the For Instance, one of the Russians body they could write to, and some did field to the office of the camp com- walked out of the kucliq, as we were X not know their friends addresses, so mander, Then he was placed In the passing, and we beard a bangl and who did, for got an awful b(Mt that they would Write letters to friends of guard house, where he remained for the Russian keeled over and went landed me ten or twelve feet away. the other men, and sign It with the two and on tny bands and knef dnys. The next thing we knew, west Now, we lmd not (lone anything I fell frleud's nickname. a saw About I a away clgurctte bad said be yard to Russians and other tho the Russians lmd been ordered As soon as a man had finished bis make a box, and were being marched behaved himself, worked bard and had stub. I dived for It like a man fulling letter, he had to go out to the center to the guard house to put him in It never had any trouble. They Just on a football, and when 1 cuire up of the camp, where they had built a and bury him. killed him, and that Is all there was to that stub was safely In lay packet. raised platform. - There the sentries But not one of ns could figure And It stayed there until I retched Another thing. at Ncustrelitz, that Duiraen ond hnd a chance to Hgt it took the letters, and the men formed was pretty hard to stand, was tho pret- out why. behind tho barracks. If any of tha around the cquare. Thcre were offNeustrclltz we at bad been After tho habit Iluns had of cpnilng up ty men bad pint lied real tobrcco. other icers on the platform reading the let- to the barbed wire end of us out drilled tensing us as for three weeks, they ters. We thought they read them though we were wild animals In a the camp to a railway station, and they would probably liave murdered there in the open, before us, so that cage. Sometimes there would be stood us In the enow for four hours me, nnd I could not bave blamed them 1L we would know they were not tampercrowds of people lined along the wire waiting for tho train. We were ex- for That was the first and last cigarette ing with the letters, and we thought throwing things at us, and spitting, hausted end began falling, one by the heaven would fall If they were and I got In Germany, and you can behaving a great time generally. It one, ond each time one of us fell, the lieve me wben I say that I enjoyed gettiug so unkultured as that. was harder than ever when a family sentries would yell, "Nlcht krank was not much to It, but I IL There finished men lmd all the Finally, party would arrive, with water and and give us the rifle butt We had their letters and turned them over to mutter, and rnuybe grosvatcr and our choice of standing up ond dying smoked It until there was not enough the officers, who read them. And then grosmutter, and all the little Boche or falling down and being killed, and left to hoi 1 In my mouth, and then I used what wns left and mixed It with We saw why the sentry laughed. kinder, because, as you probably It was a fine choice to have to make. tho bark that we made cigarettes out The officers tore up every one of the know, tho Germans take food with Tho cars finally pulled In, and as of. we were Incidentally, this bark was great anxious letters. They that them whenever they go on a party, usual, the windows were smashed, tho stuff. I do not know wlmt kind of would see them do it, so none of us no matter whnt kind, and they would doors open, ond the compartments Just tree It was from, but It served the would have any hope that our friends stand there and stare at us like the pocked with enow. When we saw this, purpose. Whenever a fellow wonted would get word. boobs they were, eating all the time we knew we were going to get worse to smoke' and lit one of these bark Rut we said to ourselves that, If It and we so hungry that we could treatment, even, thun we lmd been clgnrottcs, a few puffs were enough, was Information they wanted, they had have eaten ourseives, almost. After to die. wanted getting, and many of us as much as was good for them, which they had stared a while, they would It bad not been unusual for some of lie did not want to smoke again for was none at all, because I do not think begin to feel more at home, and then tho men to tell the Germans to ehoot some time afterward, and like as not. one letter In the bunch had a single would start the throwing and spitting them too, anil It seems as though It ho did not want to cut cither. They were therefore very valuable. word of truth In it Rut we were all nnd the scliwelnhund" sangerfest, and was always a man who wanted to live It Is very bard to get matches In very angry and pretty low after that, they would have a great time general- who did get it and, went west. the camps, and when any prisoner because It showed the Iluns still had ly. ITobably, when they got home, However, all of us nearly got killed plenty of kultur left, after all, and wo they would strike off a- - medal for when we rcnched Wittenberg. When does get hold of one, it Is made to last a long rime. Here Is how we mnke a keew there wns rough sledding ahead themselves In honor of the visit the trnln stopped there, we saw a. big match last Some ono gives up lha of us. Also, some of the men were nun were there too, Then, always of sliced bread on the sta- sleeve of his coot, and the match Id sore because they had wasted their soldiers oh leave or off duty, who mudo wngonlond tion platform and we all stared at IL carefully lit, and thft coat slccvo different ways of tiptime thinking-uWe stood It as long ns we. could, and burned to a to state crisp. Tien we take a off tho real friends their ping then we made a rush for It But' when button from our coalf the buttons of affairs, and all for nothing. Why wo got nearer, wc saw that there were are brass with two brlos In them they should worry about time, I could four sentries guarding It and four puss a shoestring thrrjgli the holes, not see. Time was tho only thing we women lssuug It out to the German knot the ends, and with tho button In hud plenty of, and I for one, thought Boldlers. They would not give U3 any, the center of the string. buzz It around we were going to have still more of it. of course. as you have seen boys do, with tho Going back to the barracks we tried So wo etood around nnd watched the string over both hands, moving the to sing Tuck. Up Your Troubles," but Iluns eat It while they nnd tho women hamls together and apart until the there wns not much pep In It. We lnughed at us, nnd pretended thut button revolves very last were not downhearted, though; at were starving nnd would groan they We then put a piece of flint ngalnst not. least, we said we were and rub their stomachs and say, the crisped cloth, and buzz the button Nlchts zu ecsen, to each other, nnd against It until a CHAPTER XX. spark makes tho then grab a big hunk of bread ond crisp glow, ond from this wo would eat It. Whnt we did not say to them light our bark cigarettes. I do not Kultur the Real Stuff. wns very little Indeed. We were cer- think Neustrclltz was mainly for Russian any nuin In the world could Intainly wild if any men ever were. hale ono of these bark cigarettes: prisoners, and there were neither BritThen some of us said we were go- some of ns tried aud went right to ish nor French soldiers Interned there to get somo Of that bread If wo sleep. ing marine merchant of the sailors only went west for It. So we started a (TO BE CONTRIVED.) such as the men I was with. The fight, and while they were attending to Russians were given fur worse treatsome of us, the others grubbed and hid Cure for Tuberculos a Claimed. ment than any other prisoners. This An Itallrn physician, Vrof. Domenico all tho bread they could. They rousted was for two reasons, as near ns I could us buck Into the cars and we were Lo Monaco, announces that he has make out. One wns that the Russian JiM starting to divide up the bread evolved a remedy for consumption. would stand most anything, whereas when they caught us with It nud took The base of his discovery lies In Ills the British and French could only bo It away. We were wilder than ever Amlin;' that sugar applied to tho brongoaded to a certnin point, nnd beyond chial secretions caused the disappearthen, but we could not do anything. that lay tioublc. The other reason It got colder after we left Witten- ance not only of the secretions but of was that the Russians 6ent Geriian berg, nnd the snow blew Into the cars tubercle bacilli ns well. The Import prisoners to Siberia, or at least, 60 the tho windows and doors until tance of this lies In that the bronchia! the Huns thought, and Fritz hates We Had Our Choice of Standing Up through we were afraid to sleep for tear of secretion Is held to bo a necessary vecold. So, hating the Russians, nnd Beand Dying, or Falling Down and and growth of beto It wns the worst night I hicle for the existence were used freezing. realizing that they ' ing Killed. have ever seen, nnd the coal bunkers consumption germs. Fritz picked on them ing under-dognsd bullied them In a way that the It a point to pay us a visit nnd though on the Yarrowdale seemed like a palJoined the Army. rest of us would not have stood. We I do not think they were as bad as the ace compared to the compartments, A private in the quartermasters would have rushed therh and gone civvies, especially .the women, they because we could at least move around In the ship, while In the train we could corps at Camp Tike decided that he were bad enough. west with bayonets first We had one bucket In each barracks, not move at all, and were packed so would sooner be In a more actlv The barracks were made of spruce, and nnd were about ninety feet long and and as these buckets were used for close that we could not even stretch branch of the service, so asked for to the artillery. twenty-fiv- e feet wide, and you can both washing nnd drinking, they were our legs and arms. Some of the men received a transfergood-bhis bunk-ma- te him take It from tne thut ns carpenters, always dirty. We boiled the wnter did die, but not In my compartment, After bidding service one star with a frost-bitteflag bung whoever made them were fine furm when we washed the clothes, to get though most of us were On being In front of their barracks. era. There were cracks In them that rid of the cooties, nnd that left a about the face. We thought that ulght would never asked what It all meant he said: Our fnu could drive an automobile throzgh. settling In It that looked Just llko red .. e had to get the water from end, but day coma finally, and though Joe has Joined th army." Then w were there, each burrocks lead. Bepew un Albert N. Depew XlX-Contl- nr Ptty DttIhlpCmrd hued. nt it 1 s, n |