The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3424, Ed. 1 Monday, December 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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iilE DAILY LEADER
VERNOR & ABNEY, Publisher*
LAMPASAS, - - - TEXA19
Splendid shopping weather — get
ready for Christmas!
Beware of a meek-looking man or
mule. It may not last.
Some men smile in the face of ad-
versity, but they don't mean it;,
Perhaps a girl’s red hair is for the
purpose of keeping her temper warm.
Many a married man spends the
•est of his days wondering why he
lid it
1 Most people manage to get stuck
ton themselves without the aid of any
adhesive.
Compared with the Balkans affair
[Mexico's war looks like the comio
[opera kind.
Sometimes a man tries to please his
wife, just the opposite way he would
any other woman.
The trouble with the man who says
■a smart thing Is that he always books
lit for a return date.
A southern aviator who jumped
from a biplane proved that it cannot
be successfully done.
We may be sure that it is a wise
jhen which eats a cement floor in or-
der to lay hard-shelled eggs.
The discovery that typhoid fever Is
■carried also by bugs and roaches adds
a few more things to be swatted.
Eloping In an aeroplane accomplish-
es the seemingly impossible by in-
creasing the hazard of matrimony.
That the stingless bee is the pre-
cursor of the singless mosquito Is the
earnest prayer of New Jersey people.
November has no hay fever, tfo
[Christmas rush, and no spring fresh-
ets. Yet very few poets sing its
praise.
New York’s barroom for women;
is variously considered. Some inno-
cent observers are envious and some,'
are not.
* About the only thing that can be
said for the eclipse of the moon is that
one may watch it and smoke at the
same time.
A Texas woman left $100,000 for the
support of old maids. But how are
they going to be convicted of being
old maids?
Nobody denies that automobiles are
(becoming cheaper, but then one can-
•not eat even the costliest cuts of an
automobile.
That man who pleads for anesthet-
ics for rats would probably want chlo-
roform administered to the fly before
swatting him.
A story from Chicago says there are
calves there worth $5,000. That’s noth-
llng; there are calves on Fifth avenue,.
'New York, worth $5,000,000.
The diqtates of fashion has put the
ban upon switches and puffs. We will
soon know what our best girl really
looks like without her disguise.
There are some things we do not
understand. One of them is the mad
iand almost universal desire to change
(the color of a meerschaum pipe. /
A Los Angeles youngster stood on
his head on the top of skyscraper to
“test his nerve,” He was arrested
for shattering the nerves of passers-
by.
A taxicab in Athens, according to
an exchange, is called a polipolytan-
itocinetharmoxaxe. That’s what a
jtaxi chauffeur is called In this country
Iwhen he presents his bill.
Milk makes an excellent tonic for
!the hair, according to the prima donna
who discovered the $15,000 lump of
iambergis. Those press agents do
lhave to work hard for their money.
Beef Is probably going higher, but
Irabbits will soon be on the market.
•At the same time they will not be
Widely popular until someone invents
ja device to dig shot out of the teeth.
A playful person threw a melon Into
a passing taxicab in Brooklyn the. oth-
er night. Many an actor along the
great white way is praying that mel-
ons do not become popular substitutes
[for hen fruit. *
America’s oldest doctor says modern
{physicians are not much better on
cures than the healer of a half cen-
■tury ago. But the old fashioned doc-
tor didn’t have all the ailments and
diseases to treat they hgm nowadays,
BEST FORM OF WOOD BOX
Saves Labor in Chores and Does Much
to Conserve Heat of KltchenMn
the Winter.
One of the most useful things to the!
housewife, as well as a labor saver to
the small boy, who perchance has to
carry in the firewood, is a wood box,
built as a part of the house. The box,
which is huilt over an opening in the
-
outside wall near the stove, is partly
outdoors and partly in the kitchen. A
sloping lid on the outside lets the rain
run off—a flat one Inside makes a nice
seat.
It is filled from the outside, which
saves the opening and shutting of
doors, which is a great saving of heat.
It also provides the house wife with
dry wood.
The dimensions of an oia-Iinary sized
box such as the drawings represent
would be suitable for a moderately
sized kitchen. Inside dimensions—30
inches long, 15 inches wide, 24 inches
high; outside, 36 inches long, 20
inches wide, 40 inches high.
CHICKEN SERVED WITH ONION
One of the Most Appetizing Methods of
Preparing Popular Delicacy
For the Table.
If you like onions, try this smoth-
ered chicken. I cut a fowl in pieces
to serve, put in from kettle (casserole
would be better if you have one) with
teaspoon of salt and boiling water to
cover. [Let it "come to a boil on top, of
stove, then put in moderate oven and
cook (covered tightly) five or six
hours. If water cooks away more
should be added, and if the top pieces
brown turn them over so they will not
be dry. But the water will not cook
away much if fehe oven is not too hot.
An hour before dinner I peeled a pint
of small onions, not larger than a sil-
ver dollar, and put in with the chick-
en. To serve, I took out the chicken
on to platter, skimmed out the onions
and seasoned, with pepper and salt,
then thickened the gravy and served
in gravy tureen. Had boiled potatoes,
cranberry sauce and squash pie. For
the next dinner I put the chicken in
the gravy and heated; had baked po-
tatoes, boiled celery and cranberry
,pie. Served the chicken in the gravy
like fricassee this time.—Boston Globe,
Bancroft Pudding.
Cream four tablespoons butter and
one cup sugar and add one well-beaten
egg. Sift 1% cups flour with one-half
teaspoon salt and one teaspoon baking
powder. Add, one-half cup of flour to
the first mixture, and beat thoroughly,
then add the rest of the flour and one-
half cup of milk, alternately. Finally
beat one-quarter square chocolate into
the batter and bake 30 minutes in a
moderate even.
Sauce—Beat two eggs until very
light, then add one cup of confection-
er’s sugar and one cup of thick cream.
Beat until the whole is the consisten-
cy of whipped cream.
- Butter Cake.
To 1 1-8 pounds of flour add three
teaspoons of baking powder, one table-
spoon of sugar and a pinch of salt
Take half milk and half water to
make a dough to be rolled out as foi
pie crust, about half an inch htick,
Cut out with a small round cutter,
drop into a skillet of Hot butter an«J
fry to a rich brown. When brown on
one side, turn. It will take half a
pound of butter to fry them. The re-
cipe does not call for. molasses, but 1
put a tablespoon in to make them
brown.
Scallops a la C. W.
One pint scallops rolled in flour,
juice of one lemon, two or three ta-
blespoonfuls sherry, two and a half
spoons essence of anchovies; cook 15
to 20 minutes in chafing dish; add
fine chopped parsley, red pepper* and
serve.
Lemon Pie.
Grated peel and juice of one lem-
on, one whole egg, one cup sugar,
one cup water, one tablespoonful of
cornstarch in the water and add
piece of butter the size of a teaspoon.
BOYS’ HANDICRAFT
By A. NEELY HALL
Author of “Handicraft for Handy Boys” and “The Boy Craftsman”
m
We all love peace, when things are
coming our way.
As a summer tonic there is no medicine
that quite compares with OXIDINE. It not
only builds up the system, but taken reg-
ularly, prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste*
leu formula at Druggists. Adv.
Mighty Hard to Eat.
“So you like all kinds of pie?"
“Yes! all except humble.”
•Fig. l-
•A-Push-mobile • of'- Simple • Design
;Details '• of-the ; M:ome-.made-Pushmobile
HOW TO BUILD A PUSHMOBILE-
The pushmobile is a unique form
of home-made wagon, patterned as
nearly after an automobile as it Is
possible, to make it with the materials
that a boy can find about the house.
It is steered by the “driver,” who
rides, and pushed by the “mecha-
nician,” who runs behind.
After several pushmobiles have
been built Jay the boy? of your neigh-
borhood, great fun may be had
through the organization of a push-
mobile club and the promotion of
puahmobile races.
There are almost as many schemes
for building these “machines” as there
are forms of automobiles, and by us-
ing a little ingenuity every boy of a
club can have a car of his own de-
slgn.^ The pushmobile shown in Fig.
1 is one of the simplest forms to
make. After I have described its con-
struction, you can ’make such addi-
tions and alterations to the design as
you wish.
If you haven’t any wheels at hand,
there are a nuipber of sources from
which you can get them. Oftentimes
a pair can be picked up at a second-
hand store, or at a junk shop; and
often you will come* across a boy with
whom you can make a trade for some.
Get the iron rods, nuts and washers
that belong to the wheels, if possible,
so that you will not have to get new
ones. In case an axle is missing, or
one that you have* is too long or too
short, you can get a blacksmith, ma-
chinist or plumber to thread a piece
of rod of the right length for you. t
Fig. 2 shows the completed frame-
work of the pushmobile and Fig. 3 the
construction of the wagon-bed. The
rails A and the connecting crosspieces
B and C are made out of pieces of 2
by 4. The length of the former will
be determined by whatever length
you wish to hav,p the car, while that
of the latter will be fixed by the
length of the wheel axles. The boards
D are nailed to the side of rails A to
support the hood framework, and the
crosspiece E is fastened to the under-
side of the rails for a footrest.
1 If the front and rear*pair of wheels
are of equal diameter, the wooden
axles F and G may both be pieces of
2 by 4 (Fig. 2); but if the rear pair
are larger than the front pair, axle F
should be omitted and axle G made of
the right depth to make the top of
the wagon-bed level. The iron axles
may be fastened to the wooden axles
either with staples or bent-over nails.
Procure a carriage bolt long enough
to extend through axle G and cross-
piece C, for a king-holt, and with this
pivot the front pair of wheels in place.
The framework of the hood Is made
of barrel-hoops, the ends of which are
fastened to boards D. Be careful to
fasten them so their tops will all be
on a line.
Figs. 2 and 5 show the details for
the steering gear. A sewing-machine
wheel or a wagon wheel may be used
for the steering wheel, and a piece of
a broom-handle will do for the shaft.
A hole should be bored in the inner
edge of wooden axle G for a pocket
for the end of the shaft to set in (Fig.
4), and the hoard H (Fig. 2) must be
fitted in the end of the hood frame-
work, and be notched in its top edge,
to support the upper end of the shaft.
The method of connecting the front
wheels with the shaft is simple, as
you will see by examining Fig. 5. The
crosspiece I Is a trifle shorter than
the distance between the bars A, so it
will turn with the shaft, and a hole
large enough for the shaft to run
through is bored through Its center.
A screw in the ec^e of the strip is
used for a set-screw to fasten it to
the shaft, and to make the fastening
doubly secure, the block J is fastened
to strip I and7 another set-screw driven
through its edge. Screw a screw-eye
into one end of crosspiece I, and an-
other into the under side of each of
the two bars A (Fig. 5), and after at-
taching two pieces of rope to the
screw-eye in the end of crosspiece I,
run one through each of the screw-
eyes in bars A and tie to a screw-eye
near the end of the wooden axle G
(Figs. 2 and 4). The lengths of these
steering lines must be so adjusted
that when the steering-wheel cross-
piece is turned in the position shown
in Fig. 5 the left fore wheel will turn
in, and when turned the opposite way
the right fore wheel will turn in.
The hood may be covered with tin,
stove-pipe, canvas, or heavy cardboard.
Additional crosspieces may be fasten-
ed between the hoops of, the frame-
work to fasten your covering material
to, if it is not large enough to reach
from side to sifle. If canvas or card-
board is used, a coat of paint should
be applied to stiffen it. The front-of
the hood may be covered with a piece
of screen wire, or a piece of tin which
you have perforated, to represent the
radiator front.
A good pair of headlights may be
made from a couple of empty lard
pails. Remove the hails, but leave
the covers on, and fasten them to the
sides of the hood by means of wooden
brackets. If you can get two broken
alarm clacks, remove the works, and
mount the cases upon small tin cans
for bases; then fasten them to the
sides of your car, and you will have
two fairly good looking side lamps. If
you want to be able to light the side
lamps, a hole may be cut through the
bottom of the clock-case and a candle
set down into the tin can base. With
a little ingenuity, glass fronts can be
set in the lard pail covers and candles
placed inside of the cans.
(Copyright, 1912, by A. Neely Hall.)
Another Form of Recall.
“Father, what? do you think of the
recall?”
“Well, my dear, I hardly know. Soma
people think it is dangerous. But why
do you ask?”
“I sent Ferdy away last night; ancj
now I’m sorry.”
It Often Happens.
“How did you happen to lose youi
girl?”
“I entertained her so lavishly while
we were engaged that she acquired ex-
pensive tastes. Then she wisely de-
cided that she would be unhappy with
anybody but a millionaire, which l
wasn’t,”
Don’t Enyy
anyone a good appetite—
a perfect digestion—a
robust constitution.
will help you to obtain
these very quickly. It
tones — strengthens — in-
vigorates—the entire di-
gestive system and always
stands for better health.
Try it today. All Druggists*
Clears bad
complexions
The regular use of Resinol
Soap, with an occasional light
application of Resinol Ointment,
stimulates the skin, permits nat-
ural, healthy action, and rids the
complexion of pimples, black-
heads, redness and roughness,
quickly, easily and at little cost.
Try Resinol at our expense
Us Resinol Soap (26c.) and
at for samples write to
Chem. Co., Baltimore,
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS never
fail. Purely vegeta-
hie — act surely JMSUPinTcnli
but gently on Slr.lSlFft1
dinner dis-
tress-cure 1
indigestion,11
improve the complexion, brighten the eyea,
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
In this age of research and experiment, all natnro
i by the scientiflcforthecomfortand hap-
nan. Science has indeed made giant strides
st century, and among the—by no means
Fherapion, which has been used With great success
Prencn Hospitals and that it is worthy the attenti
if those who suffer from kidney, bladder, nervo
liseases, chronic weaknesses,nlcers, skin eruptions,
liles, &c. there is no doubt, in fact it seems evident
c.. there is no doubt, in fact it seems evident
te big stir created amongst specialists, that
■LPION is destined to cast into oblivion all
Here’s Your Chance
To Own a Cattle
Ranch or Stock Farm
It is the basis for the most independent
existence of the times. Cattle are high,
grass is scarce and cannot be leased foe
any length of time. The Spur Ranci
(Texas) is a famous old-time ranch now;
being cut up, and from it you can get out
section or fifty, with any desired combina-
tion of splendid farming land for raisiof
winter feed. Prices low — terms east
Secure your ranch tract before it ii
too late. Many selections in many siae&
We also offer straight farming lands. Wrilt
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S. M. Swenson & Sons, Spur, Tex,
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3424, Ed. 1 Monday, December 16, 1912, newspaper, December 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889495/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.