~^r .%1 $'f ,\r v®w. INTERNATIONAL rALLS PRESS PROFESSIONAL CARDS WOMEN ASK FOR SHIP SOUR Hides-Furs JOHN H. BROWN RATIONING PLAN Attorney ait Law Office over O. M. Carr & Co. Deal Direct with the [nternational Falls, Minnesota Largest Oldest IM7 House in the West American Women Volunteer to DR. H. H. IHRIG Highest Price* and Immediate Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, Cash Returns. Write for price Dentist tM&m lilt, and full Information* Bread Flour, Sugar CO. Office o*er Holler's Confectionery O.BERGMAN S and Butter. SHOWER BATHS International Falls, Minnesota CANTEEN WORKERS CATER S T.P -.M AUL INN. GEO. S. LANGLAND FORJHILDREN PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK. TO POILD'S APPETITE Lawyer Office over International State Bank Majestic Hotel International Falls, Minnesota Idea Supplements U. S. Food Administration's FOR OYSTERS AND SALADS New Home Card Now Cor. Seventh Street and Hennepin Avenue Low Wash Basins and Little MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA F. J. McPARTLIN in 10,000,000 Homes. Shower Baths Adapted for the THE ONLY MODERN Lawyer POPULAR PRICED HOTEL The women of America, who are Use of the Tots. Office over International State Bank anxious to do their great part in the Within ene block of ten theatres and principal International Falls, Minnesota department store*. Eleanor Robson Belmont, Home From Europe, winning of the war,' are now, as a 45 ROOMS *5 ROOMS with CHATEAU DES HALLES whole, familiar with the most important At Bath Tells of Her Unbounded Faith PHINNEY & CAMPBELL 75c $1.00 $1.25—$1.91 aspects of food conservation. The NOW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Lawyers In the Red Cross. Home Card, both its original form Het and Celd Running Water. Local and Lens Distance Phones in Every Room. and in the revised edition for 1918, International Falls, Minnesota which provides for two wheatless days, One of the Most Complete Establishments Managed by RAY BOYD By ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT. one meatless day a week, in addition Fermrly Chief Clerk Vendome Hotel W. E. LAWRENCE WHEN of Its Kind in to a wheatless meal every day, has been Our Rates are Always AS ADVERTISED huts used for this purpose are little 1 left for Europe a few The Rexall Store placed by the Food Administration after France, With Jolly Playrooms months ago I had no castiron alleys marked "Paris," "Dijon," or "Lyons." MP CALLS a vigorous campaign in 10,000,000 International Falls, Minnesota reverence for the Bed These little alleys are laid out and Toys to Amuse Patients. American homes. An intelligent and Cross. When 1 returned with bunks filled with sleeping men. conscientious observance of the Home If a poilu is going to Paris, he throws from Europe 1 brought home with me DR. E. A. THOMPSON Card's requirements is all the Food MAGAZINE himself down in the Paris bunk, serene unbounded belief in the organization. Up in the mountains, where the Administration asks of the housewives Dentist A S I O N in the knowledge that he will be called 1 had seen enough to make me realize of the country. snow falls early and lies deep, 30 miles Phone 245 that this was the best method of serving in time for the Paris train. The Food Administration has had a from Lyons, is the little French village W^ Authority the soldiers and sailors. We are In some of the canteens the lights great many equests, however, particularly Office over International State Bank of Les Ha lies—a story book village, For Nearly 50 Yearst waging an economic war. Therefore have to be dimmed on account of aeroplanes. from the hom^s of the well-to-do, with its massive stone church standing International Falls, Minnesota the surest and most effective way to that it should issue a worked out plan Often the lights are covered Join the 1,300,000 women who turn to sentinel over two long rows of trim, help is through the established channels McCALL'S every month for correct fashions, for a voluntary system of rationing. with colored muslin shields which for patterns, for economical buying, blue-gray plaster cottages. And a mile DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN selected for that purpose by the This desire for a voluntary ration make a rosy glow that is very homelike. for fancy needlework, for good stories—for government. farther on is the Chateau des Halies, pleasure, for help, for style. springs from two causes—first, because One of the canteens has been Anaesthetist McCALL Patterns fit. The main work of the American Red where your Red Cross has established it is far simpler for the housewife decorated by some of the best camouflage Cross, however, is, of course, carried a home for 200 sick children. Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted to save food when she has a concrete artists in France, who have taken M9 CALL'S 10c 75c on in France. The policy of those Mangini built the chateau. Mangini working plan by which to proceed, great delight in covering the walls and Phone 223, Office 800 2nd St. beading this work is to back up the j. was the man who built the railroad and, second, because the loyal even the ceiling with their pictures. a a French in their own efforts and to along the Riviera and many other women of America desire, unselfishly, The canteens are open day and night NORTHERN MINNESOTA Copy Year help them develop along their own railroads in France. And thirty to put themselves on the same basis for the benefit of the men at the big HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION lines, not to root out French institutions odd years ago he built this castle up as the women of the Allied countries. .Vanction points. and transplant American ones. in the mountains for his country home. The ration proposed by the Food Administration Do More Than Feed Men. Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 Whether we work,, then, in canteens, But soon after his two children died. is almost the same as The worjen in the canteens do more Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 in warehouses, in dispensaries, for Then he died, and when his widow followed thai adopted in England for voluntary than feed the men, however, important poilus or for refugees, in Paris or in Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 observance. All over the United Kingdom, him she left the chateau to the as that is. Poilus leaving their Hospital Phone 79 in hundreds of houses there city of Lyons to be used as a hospital families are naturally depressed and hangs in the front window a card with for children.. Office over International State Bank FREE! SEND A POSTAL CARD AND ASK FOR need sympathetic listeners. Some one the stirring pledge, "IN HONOR Phone 1S5 The War's Wreckage. RAMPT.E COPY of McCALL'S or $10.00 PIN.ONfc.JT to admire his wife's picture, some one GJTcr to or List of GIFTS (riven WE ADOPT THE NATION. BOUND International Falls, Minnesota itliout cost: or BICYCLE Offer to Boys and Then came the war. A little rivulet to laugh over the baby's latest sign AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RATIONS." iris: or i.Uest PATTERN CATALOGUE or Big' of the war's wreckage began to trickle ish OlTov AGENTS or Prize Offer to 1 $150.00 of genius, some one to tell him that you? C-1CRCU. Address in at Evian—"repatries," elderly men the oldest boy is the image of his THZza:J. a.. The ration recommended by the 236-250 West 37&Stntt,N*wYark. N. Y. and women, children, even babies, wiio handsome father—this is as real a Food Administration, and adopted first WHAT ARE YOU GOING had once lived in the parts of France need in the poilu's life as salad or in New York city, whence the idea has Si TO BUY THIS engulfed by the German tides and soup. In fact the presence of these spread through the entire country, is whom the Germans, finding them useless, fine women is such an influence for SPRING the following: were beginning to ship back into Weekly good that officers say the morale of France by way of Switzerland. Gradually Allowance the army is distinctly higher wherever this rivulet swelled. Soon 1,000 the canteens are. This causes great Per Person. of these unfortunates were arriving rivalry among the canteen workers. Meat—Beef (fresh, salted, tinned at Evian daily. And fully half of and hashed) mutton, Each one wants her canteen to be the them were children, undernourished, lamb and veal (mutton by best and most popular in the service. Wewill get you anything from thinly clad, dirty, sickly and, worse, preference) 2% lbs. Besides this direct, personal service a baby cab to a htreshing machine grim, spiritless, with faces that had Butter lb. to the soldiers the Red Cross is doing and meet any mail order forgotten how to smile. Cooking Fats (margarine, lard, a kind of John the Baptist work with price. We can do this and To care for these children was the lard substitutes, vegetable dispensaries. We have fifteen dispensaries make a small profit the same task your Red Cross at once assumed. oi'.s) lb. scattered through districts as Sears and Roebuck, as with Working with the French authorities, Wheat Flour (for use in cooking where war has been or is likely to be. the Red Cross secured permission to the buying connections we have gravies, etc., where France had mobilized 18.000 of her make use of the old and almost forgotten corn starch, cracker dust we cao buy from any factory 24.000 physicians, leaving about 6,000 Chauteau des Halles up there in or bread crumbs cannot be for the whole of civilian France. they can and at the same the mountains. For years the castle substituted) lb. Sometimes you will find one old doctor price. We are entitled to this had been closed. No effort had ever Victory Bread (containing at taking care of several villages with business because we will give been made to fit it up as a hospital. least 20 per cent, of a substitute no means of transportation except occasionally you better terms. Youl will Your Red Cross had to begin at the for wheat flour).... 1% lbs. an aged, overworked horse. have to send maney with the very beginning. Sugar (Including all sugar Here is a chance for the Red Cross to order when you order from bhb MAGAZINE MM used on the table and in step in and help. There is a syndicate Rooms Big and Jolly. wmrrcM so you cam umocictamp it them while we only ask you a 360 ARTICLES 360 ILLUSTRATIONS cooking and all sweatmeats of physicians to which the Red Cross ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT. BETTER But what a wonderful task it has PAYMENT DOWN SMALL and candies, but not that applies to find out if a certain village the devastated districts, for the children accomplished! The Chateau des used for canning and preserving) Balance when goods are ready has a medical adviser if not we establish or for the aged, it is always on Halles, transformed into a children's THAN to deliver and found satisfactory. lb.' a center and operate in a given the same plan of backing up the hospital and rest home in furious That is worth something, The items listed above are the onlyi section around the center. French if they have any organization EVER haste under the terrible pressure of and besides, we take all of-the ont'S which are definitely limited. In or plan. Bathing a Luxury. war needs, with little time to think trouble of putting in claims, the case of milk and cream, as much Poilus Like Oysters and Salad. A Red Cross doctor and nurse go out twice and no time to retrieve errors, ISe a copy etc., if goods are lost or damaged may be used as necessary, and children, regularly to the villages in their section. The canteen work is one of the most is not only one of the most complete while on the road. of course, must have their full Each village is informed when they are At Your Nswsdtalw Are we not entitled to this gratifying ways of helping the men. establishments of its kind it is one of allowance of whole milk. Fish and Y«arly Subscription $1.50 business coming so that all who want medical the best children's hospitals in all To see those poilus enjoying the first poultry, any cereal other than wheat, Send for our new free cat* advice or treatment can meet together France. The two rooms where the S. E. THOMPSON & SON delicacies they have had for days is a vegetables and fruits and cheese may alog of mechanical book* in one spot and save unnecessary calls. soul-satisfying sight The English and arriving children are isolated for a he used as freely as is desired. Of course, if any one is too ill to come French maintain canteens where they few days are big, jolly rooms—just Magazine Popular Mechanics The above ration is in no wise infended to the doctor, the doctor goes to him. dispense soup, hot coffee and cocoa, tobacco, what is need to efface from the little North Michigan Avanua, Chicago to supplant the Home Card, The nurses carry among other things ones' minds the memories of those iron chocolate, etc., but the American hut rather to supplement it. It has shower baths for babies. In many re days behind the German lines. The Red Cross canteens serve real bee!) published with the idea that it gions of France, owing to lack of facilities, big play room is strewn with rocking dinners at cost or under. The poilus will be a very real aid to the American bathing is a luxury, so the superstition horses and wonderful smile-enticing inordinately fond of oysters and woman in her splendid effort to are has grown up that it is dangerous. parrots and other toys carved by the ssilad when they can order a plate carry out the great food conservation Now since the mother are wounded poilus. of oysters or a dish of salad in an program. convinced -that their children will And so you stray from room to room, American canteen they are as happy Here is your opportunity to irsure nz be neither killed nor injured, but on and everywhere you find new evidences as children. We have six canteens in against embarrass erro- lr*. spelling, the contrary benefited by baths, how tin- P'rench zone for the French army of this watchful care. And pronunciation and poor choice of USE MORE POTATOES. words. KnoW the meaning of puzzling —France is, of course, divided into they do look forward to them I then you reach the bathrooms. This war terms. Increase your efficiency, zones, In one line of communication After all this inspiring activity ol chateau was built by a man of wealth. which results ia power and success. canteen we serve from 4,000 to 8,000 the Red Cross on the other side, romantic Its plumbing was excellent, and yet it '^LP consume the men a day. These1 canteens are near in spite of the drudgery and has been stripped out and replaced 1917 record breaking m.Ziij tin* railroad stations for the benefit of tragedy, I expected the work here to with little, row wash basins and little potato crop. shower baths that the children can use the men going to the front, heing transferred be an anti-climax. I was amazed, then, Government experts to some other section, or going more comfortably. when I returned to see what we were have esti­ DICTIONARY is an all-kr.ov. That is how your Red Cross thinka Imiiie on a furlough. In one section the accomplishing at home. mated that over 700,000 extra ing teacher, a universal question and cares for France's children. acres of potatoes were planted answerer, made to meet your last year. The United Slates needs. It 5s in daily use by THE RED CROSS Kood Administration is endeavoring hundreds of thousands of successful HER WEIGHT IN GOLD. men and women the world over. to push the nation's big potato 400.000 Words. 27OOPacc. C00C Illustrations. stocks into channels of An Aviator's Letter Tells What a Red 12,080 Biographical Entries. trade and has placed potatoes 3C,tf OQ Geographic :.! Subjects Cross Nurse Is Worth. By EDGAR A. GUEST. on the list of substitutes that GRAND PRIZE, (Hipnest Award) Panama-Pacific Exposition. may be bought along with wheat ISince "As for the American Red Cross •ESUUK and IND1A-PAPEH Editions. too old to share the fight flour. AM WRITE for FREE Specimen Paper. —well, 1 could never in a thousand Pocket ftiape if you r..ic:2 this paper. Too many years have come and gone Potato soup has become a war years express my appreciation G» Si C. MSgRSAM CO., first I saw the morning light. dish. Here is a recipe that has I and admiration of those Springfield, Masc., U. S. A. My youth has been and traveled on, been tested by United States ill American women. I worship them. 'VMcKibbin I am too old to join the line, Food Administration experts. Ingredients "V I guess all the fellows do. The Far-flung today that truth siiall live needed are three potatoes, first day I came into camp—and I may not die for what is fine, one quart of milk, two my morale.was right low I'll tell But I am not too old to give. slices onion, three tablespoons you about it some -time—well, I butter substitute, two tablespoons I am not yet so old that I went into the American Red Cross, flour, one and one-half Have drifted from th« world apart and there, standing behind a nice ivfS NO CAMOUFLAGE! tablespoons salt, one-quarter clean counter, was a little round I still can hear the helpless cry, teaspoon celery salt, one-eighth faced Red Crossie. She was just —ALL THEY And mercy still ean reach my heart teaspoon pepper, few grains cayenne beaming on every one. Imagine I I still can share from day to day •si and one teaspoon chopped LOOK 1 never came as near^ making a The burden that our youth must bear. parsley. fool of myself in my life. I felt And I thank God that I can say Cook potatoes In boiled salted like throwing my arms around her The Red Cross Is my symbol there. water. When soft run through and weeping for joy. As it was, I a strainer. Scald milk with onion, $3.50 and $4.00 I am too old to bear a lance, managed to salt up my chocolate remove onion and add milk EAT CORN Across the shell-torn Flanders' field a bit—only a drop or two that I JAKE GREENGARD slowly to potatoes. Melt the fat, I may not go where troops advance couldn't help rolling off my cheek. add dry ingredients, stir until And death's grim terrors are revealed "T* I ever paint an angel it will "ON THE CORNER" well mixed, then stir into boiling But I can hear the helpless call, lo«-n lust exactly like that little SAVE soup. Cook one minute, strain Reu Crossie. They would bo And I can serve them while I live and sprinkle with barley. worth their weight in gold if theft And I thank God that through it all did nothing but just be here." ,1 shall not be too old to glva. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS a \J* y- w$3 it i-