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Show t BEAVER PRESS Eiiergt' cfhe Kitchen Cabinet Generals' Great oxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjouo Western Newpapr Union.) & 1 19 J. know of no more encouraging abilfact than the unquestionable to elevate hl life by a ity of man endeavor. someIt Is conscious thing- to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make few objects beautiful: but it it far more glorloue to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that le the highest of arts. Every man Is tasked to make his life, even in Its details worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused or rather used up such paltry Inf jniation as we get. the orarles wouid distinctly inform us hew this might be done. Henry TOAOTES r David Thorenu THE PIQUANT PEPPER y it(I A ( i (TV """ai By I I J v 't-irj- ! By I " im" Cadet William Tecumseh Sherman, Cadet George G. Meade, 1933 1835 were pickled and enjoyed on our grandmothers ta- so found these days, not often are bies but are Just us appetizing. A hit of green pepper added to many dishes will enhance the flavor. When preparing land) or chicken croquettes add a bit of parboiled green pepper. Salads are not only made attractive by finely shredded pepper, but are more flavorful. Fruit and Pepper Salad. Cut into small cubes two or three ripe pears and the same amount of good flavored apple: add one green pepper of cut into fine shreds, a nut meats and serve with a good Trench dressing or any desired salad dressing. A strip or two of sweet red pepper will add much to the appearance of this salad. Remove Stuffed Green Peppers. the tops at the stem end and take out all the white fiber and seeds. Parboil five minutes In boiling water, drain upside down and chill. Stuff with any chopped meat well seasoned, a small portion of bread crumbs, such seasoning as chopped onion, parsley, or chives. Replace the tops and hake In gems, adding a little water In each pan. , Take off the tops and brown. These peppers are very good stuffed with nuts, bread crumbs and seasoning to taste. Green Pepper Sandwich. Miia-- two large peppers after removing the pith and seeds Add to a cupful ot mayonnaise seasoned with minced chives and parsley. Cut bread Into thin slices, butter and spread with the pepper filling. Pepper Salad. Cut fresh green pepAll Picture Courtesy Uaited State Military Academy. pers into halves, remove the seeds and pith and drop Into Ice water. Drain that the great American painter was once a West and fill with equal parts of finely Point cadet It might not be so surprising pers cucumber, celery, two chopped haps if they knew of the military background of of chopped onions and a Whilstler's family. In 1758 there was born in of pecan meats. Mix with Ireland of an old English family of Whistlers a a salad dressing. good w boy to hom was given the name of John. During Fritters of Fruit the American Revolution he ran away from hoina The batter Is the same foi any ktnd and joined the army, coming to America with the of fritter, with the addition of a hit troops under TiUrgoyne in 1777. He was thus ono of pepper to the of the members of "Gentleman Johnny's" batter when makarmy which was captured by the Americans ing vegetable at Saratoga. Returning to England, Whistler was fritters. discharged from the army and Boon afterwards Fritter Batter. eloped with the daughter of one of his father's Into a half-pin- t friends. Believing that life In America offered measuring greater opportunities for him, he- - brought his cup put two ta bride to this country and settled at Hagerstown, of blespoonfuls 51d. In 1701 he entered the American army and served continuously on the frontier of the old olive oil. fill the cup with warm wu northwest under St. Claire, Wayne and others. ter, put Into a small bowl with two In 1S03 the secretary of war ordered Colonel beaten yolks of eggs, one tablespoon, Hamtramck of the First Infantry, commander at ful of sugar and a teuspooufuf of lemon f tea Detroit, to send on officer and six men to estab- grated of rind. Add salt and the same of bak lish a military post where the Chicago aiver flows spoonful into Lake Michigan. Colonel Hamtramck select- Ing powder; add Just flour enough to ed for this duty Cupt. John Whistler and made make a thin batter and let stand two him commander of the new post which was to hours, then fold In the stiffly beaten whites and the mixture Is ready tc be built there. use. Whistler arrived at the site of the present city Pineapple Fritters. Sprinkle a lit of Chicago in August, 1S03, and began building tie lemon Juice and sugar over the stockaded structure to which was given the slices of canned pineapple, dip name of Fort Dearborn, in honor of the secretary of war. Thus he became the founder of the first Into the batter and Try In hoi fat. Boil the pineapple Juice with a :itilr permanent settlement on the site of the metropolis of the Middle West and to him historians sugar until thick, then serve the frii have given the title of the "Father of Chicago." ters with the sauce poured around Whistler was accompanied to Chicago by his fam- them. Apricot Fritters. Stone the canned ily. One of them was a daughter, Sarah, who on November 1.1S04. married James Abbott, a Detroit apricots aad stuff with chopped nuts merchant. The wedding which was performed by and cherries. Fasten together In pairs John Kinzle was the first marriage of white peo- with toothpicks when taken from the ple In Chicago. Auother member of bis family fat. Roll In sugar and serve with the was a son, George Washington Whistler, then a hprlcot sauce or whipped crentn and toddtlng child three years old. When this boy bits of shredded citron or angelica for grew up he was sent to West Point and was garnish. Frosted Cherry Fritters. Remove graduated from the academy at the age of nineteen. He was assigned to the artillery branch of the stones from large canned cherries the service and after his resignation from the and stuff with blanched filberts to army in 1833 he rose to eminence as an engineer. preserve their shape. Dip Into fritter A year after Whistler's resignation from the hntter and fry. DralD and Insert a son was a boru hliu ot Lowell, Mass. toothpick In each stem and roll tD to army, To this son was given the name of James Ab- powdered sgar and garnish with green leaves. bott McNeil Whistler, and It was this boy who OranB Fritter,. peel the oranges achieved in the realm of art an even greater remove the tissue and dip reputation than hud his father In engineering. the sections connecting Into butter; fry until well Although the connection of Whistler, the artist, browned. Sprinkle with sugar and with the history of Fort Dearborn and Chicago serve hot or cold. Is not commonly known, one historian has said: Tomato Frltters.-- Cut the tops from "The very names he bore served constantly tn "olid ripe tomatoes, remove the seeds advertise it." The Abbott part of It was In honor and muff with chopped green pepper, of James Abbott, Chicago's Erst bridegroom and minced onion and a bit of peanut butthe McNeil was In honor of Lieut. Col. Jbhn Mc- ter. Replace the tops, fasten with Neil, commander of Fort Dearborn from 1821 to dip into batter and fry in iiie Bii:st Himself never saw Chicago, toothpicks, hot fat. Serve with cheese nauce. but with the exception of West Point there was The pepper may be parboiled before no other plnee lo the United States In which he was more Interested." writes M. M. Qualfe In ' mincing and the tomatoes steamed to took, then cool before dippine "Chicago and the Old Northwest." He regarded ' partly into the batter. his grandfather as the founder of Chicago and more than once lamented his failure to visit the Dlace." half-cupf- B 7T fe'CifrJ 'vi Cadet U.h.Crant, VvVS's And the Story of One Who Didn't But Who Rose to World-Wid- e Fame as a Painter. TT F By ELMO SCOTT WATSON KVKK you visit the United States Mili- tnry academy be sure to ask that they take you to the classrooms where the cadets receive their Instruction In drawing, for a thrill awaits you there. Hung upon the walls of those classrooms Is a remarkable collection of pen sketches, water colors, crayon drawings and wash drawings. The subjects of these pictures may not Interest you very much but If you step closer to one of them to see who was the artist who made It you will have a surprise 1n store. For instance, 'there Is the one which pictures a Greek warrior of the ancient days. Down in one corner of the picture Is a barely decipherable signature "J. Davis." Perhaps this doesn't mean anything to you especially until you nee a typewritten sheet Inserted lu the other corner which reads as follows: "This picture, drawn by Jefferson Davis while a cadet at the U. S. J I. A. was presented to me on August 13, 1024, by Sergeant Starr, retired, formerly of the service detachment, now on the police force of the State, War and Navy building at Washington. He informed me that when the old academic building (the one that stood on the site of the presfnt west academic building) was torn down that the drawing fell In the hands of some friend of bis from whom he afterwards obtained It and that he, Douglas Newton Starr, made the frame from a part of a bannister raillug of one of the staircases In the old academic building, (signed) Fred W. Pladen, Major General, Superintendent." So more than a hundred years ago this Greek warrior"! portrait tamo from the pencil of a slender yoviig Kentucklnn, appointed to the military academy from Mississippi In 1824 and graduated in 1S23, who had bis first military experience as a second lieutenant of Infantry In the Black Hawk war In 1S32 and who, as a colonel of Mississippi volunteers In the Mexican war, distinguished himself at the battle of P.uena Vista by an exploit which was to have much to do with bis future career. For Jefferson Davis's greut-s- t fame lies not in his career as a soldier but as a statesman. He was successively a member f the United States house of representatives. United States senator and secretary of war. And later, ha 1861, the Confederate ccngress, remembering the hero of Iiuena Vista and Davis's services in the war portfolio In President Franklin I'lerce'a cabinet, selected him for the position of president of the Confederate States of America. Dut the portrait of the Greek warrior made by Jefferson Davis Is not the only one made by a cadet destined for future fame. Near it is a scene In an Indiun camp of the old days. In the foreground a chief squats holding his gayly decorated pipe as he dickers with the white trader whose wares of blankets, knives and other trln keta are spread enticingly before him. Standing to one side is an Indian woman, pnpoose in arms, who seems much interested in the bargaining. The artist who depicted this scene was Cadet V. U. Grant, a graduate from the academy in 3841. Perhaps most Americans know him as U. S. Grant, those Initials standing both for Ulysses Surrcndw" but Simpson and "Unconditional when he was at West point fie signed his name as U. H. Grant for Ulysses niram was the name which his mother had given him. Close beside the drawing made by tht future commander-in-chie- f of the Union forces In the Civil war la one made by a man who, next U ... L A n :v?2 sf""' m -wy " Com V that peppers , .. V Peppers, like some other vegetables, are not especially nutritive, but the piquant n u v o r makes them val uable as an appetizer. The stuffed - OT& 01929, ft, ftb.be. The Right Way to Fine Silks Redye Textile makers al-wa- y3 use special dyes for Bilk or wool. They know that is the best way. J"he makers of Diamond Dyes are the first to mi enable home dyers to follow this plan. Next time you want to dye soma of ycur more valuable articles of silk or wool, try the special Diamond Dyes in the Blue Package. They will give these materials clearer, more brilliant colors than dye. And they any are just a3 easy to use as ordinary dyes. Like the white package Diamond Dyes, these dyes contain an abundance of the highest quality anilines. The blue package dyes silk or wool only; the white package dyes, or fakirs, any material. Either package; 15c, drugstores. "all-purpos- e" ' Ignorance is mind darkness. table-spoonful- half-cupf- Codet Jefferson Davis By Grant, was the greatest leader of the boys in blue. It is a classical subject, a Greek warrior slaying a centaur, and It is signed by Cadet William Tecumseh Sherman, a graduate In the class of 1838. Not far away Is a painting of a different sort a water color picturing a riverside city, perhap an ancient walled town somewhere In Italy. It Is n painting of rare beauty and one which might well have come from the brush of a dreamy-eyeartist. Looking at Its soft coloring It Is difficult to renlke that the hand which held the brush that put this scene on canvas was the same hand which directed the movements of thousands of armed men on the bloody battlefield of Gettysburg, those hot days of July 1, 2, and 3, ISO;!. For this painting was made by Cadet George C. Meade of the class of "33. whose victory over the great Itobert E, Lee, a fellow West Pointer, was still thirty years In the future. Hut these drawings by "artists who became great generals" are not the only artistic treasures which adorn the walls of this West Point classroom. There, too, are examples of work by one artist who never became even so much as a "shavetail" (lieutenant) but who did become one of the greatest American urtlsts of all time. Once upon a time James Abbott McNeil Whistler humorously remarked: "Had silicon been a noxious gas I would have been a general today." Pnck of this remark is this history of a brief career at West Point. In 1ST.2 Whistler was appointed to West Point. He was there for two years. Then came the fatal day when he and his classmates were taking an examination In rh.'inlstry. Wan silicon a noxious gas or wasn't It? That was one of the questions confronting the future generals. Young Whistler guessed that It was. And be guessed wrong. It Is probable that It was only one of several mistakes which he made in the examination. At any rate, he was "found" that Is. discharged from the academy for deficiency In chemistry. Today a "Whistler" Is one of the most prized possessions of public art galleries and private collectors, and the United States Military academy Is the possessor of not only one but five genuine "Whistlers," and what makes them even more valuable Is the fact that they ore "early Whistlers." They are all copies of drawings and paintings which Whistler made from the work of recognized masters. One of them shows a group before the door of a medieval castle with the lord of the manor distributing alms to the poor. Even more interesting Is another of his, showing two pretty Italian girls gossiping In a doorway. Although this was a copy, Whistler Showed his Independent genius in sn Interesting way. In copying the original he changed one of the girls from a brunette to a blonde so as to give variety to the picture and he painted In the shadowy figure of a young soldier at the end of the street bo as to give the girls something to gossip about Surprising aa it may seem to some Americans d d fill one-hal- ' i.s. Acidity The common cause of digestive dlffl :ulties is excess acid. Soda cannot titer thi3 condition, and It burns tna ttomach. Something that will neutralize the acidity is the sensible thing to take. That is why physicians tell the public to use Phillips Milk of Magnesia. One spoonful of this delightful preparation can neutralize many times ita volume in ncid. 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