CONDENSED RATIONS. 



*5* 



25 pounds table salt. 



1 pound pepper. 



5 gallons vinegar. 

 16 pounds Cleveland's baking powder. 



2 5-pound cans lard. 



24 2-pound cans apples. 



25 pounds evaporated apples. 



24 2-pound cans peaches. 



25 pounds evaporated peaches. 

 25 pounds prunes. 



48 2-pound cans tomatoes. 

 4 gallons pickles. 

 12 bottles lime juice. 



24 3-pound cans butter, Top-o-can brand. 

 24 2-pound cans jam. 

 12 2-pound cans jelly. 



1 pound mustard. 



2 pints Worcestershire sauce. 

 J /4 pound cinnamon. 



V2 pound ginger. 

 % pound nutmeg. 



3 gallons syrup. 



2 2-ounce bottles lemon extract. 



2 2-ounce bottles vanilla extract. 

 24 cans sardines. 

 12 cakes toilet soap. 

 24 cakes laundry soap. 

 10 pounds candles. 



The best of everything should be selected 

 and as far as practicable packed in hermet- 

 ically sealed cans. Having such a supply, 

 here is an ample, nutritious, palatable and 

 portable ration for seven days: 



60 ounces hard bread. 



64 ounces bacon. 



16 ounces pea meal. 



40 ounces (2 cans) Tonty's Military soup. 



1 ounce bouillon capsules for flavoring pea meal 



soup. 

 10 ounces coffee, > ins saccharin> 



1 ounce tea, ) ^ & 



4 ounces chocolate. 

 4 ounces sugar. 



4 ounces evaporated onions. 

 4 ounces salt. 



208 ounces = 13 pounds. 



Pea meal, with a little bacon, makes an 

 excellent soup; it is satisfying and is im- 

 proved by a dash of vinegar. It should be 

 cooked about 30 minutes. Should be 

 bottled, or kiln-dried and put in tins. 



Bean meal is as good but does not keep 

 so well. 



Louis Weidner, 42 River Street, Chicago, 

 makes an excellent soup. It is a combina- 

 tion of pea meal and extract of beef. It 

 is prepared with water only, is put up in 

 parchment rolls, each of which makes 12 

 plates of soup. A roll weighs only 8 ounces. 



Wyeth & Co. and Parke, Davis & Co., 

 Detroit, put up saccharin tablets. These 

 have about 300 times the sweetening power 

 of sugar, but contain no nutrition. 



Cleveland's baking powder is perfectly 

 pure and reliable. Lieutenant Peary takes 

 it with him on his Arctic expeditions and 

 the Government buys large quantities of it 

 for the Army and Navy. The New York 

 Condensed Milk Co., put out the Gail Bor- 

 den Eagle Brand Condensed Milk and 

 the Eagle Brand Condensed Coffee, and 

 others put up so-called condensed coffee, 

 but chicory and licorice are generally pres- 

 ent in large quantities. Quaker Oats is 

 light and contains a large percentage of 

 nitrogenous, mineral and albuminous mat- 

 ter and other good food qualities. It is an 

 excellent breakfast food with sugar only, 

 and after cooling may be sliced and fried, 

 when it makes a choice dish for lunch or 

 dinner. It contains a maximum propor- 

 tion of each of the food constituents which 

 place the oat above other cereals in regard 

 to nourishing and sustaining value. 



A PRETTY PAIR. 



RICHARD PERRY. 



Sometimes seen in the month of March, 

 And oft in the summer days; 



Each of them rests on a graceful arch 

 Yet seldom still it stays. 



Lost in the clust'ring clover, 

 Found in the singing stream; 



Many a mile they travel over, 

 Yet always together seen. 



Sprinkled with morning dew-drops 

 Tossed from the tangled grass; 



Lightly tinted with tawny dust 

 Having the road to pass; 



Cooled by the cold gray stone — 

 Warmed by the sunshine's ray; 



Softly printed in yielding mud, 

 Pressing the moss of May. 



Kissed with gold by the cowslips coy — 

 Owned by a blithesome boy; 



Say — what may it be, this pair so odd? 

 Why — a laddie's feet unshod! 



