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August 23, 1919 
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Don’t Pare Peaches 
Plums and Pears 
I T’S the old, slow and wasteful way of remov¬ 
ing the skins when preserving and canning. 
Not only is it slow and tiresome, but it wastes 
the fruit next the skin—the finest flavored portion. 
You can remove the skin from peaches, 
pears, and plums just as the best California 
canners do by using BABBITT’S Concentrated 
LYE. The U. S. Government Board of Food and 
Drug Inspection has ruled that this method does 
not injure the quality or flavor of the fruit. 
Simply dissolve half a can of BABBITT’S Con¬ 
centrated LYE and a half ounce of alum in nine 
gallons of cold water and boil in an iron kettle- 
Put the fruit in a wire basket or cheesecloth and 
suspend in hot solution for two minutes. This 
will remove the skin. Then wash fruit twice in 
cold water to cleanse thoroughly. For small 
quantities of fruit, use four tablespoons of 
BABBITT’S Concentrated LYE and a pinch of 
alum to one gallon of water. 
This method leaves the fruit whole and per¬ 
fect and does not injure the quality of flavor. 
No fuss, no muss, no special utensils. 
Insist on BABBITT’S Concentrated LYE to be 
sure of the best results. 
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The Returned Soldier 
“Carry On” Work for Crippled Soldiers 
You ought to see the magazine known 
as “Carry On” It is published in the 
interests of disabled soldiers and sailors 
by the Surgeon General of the American 
Red Cross. We have never read anything 
more cheerful and inspiring than this 
magazine of the afflicted. It seeks* to 
show the war cripples and invalids that 
life has not passed them by, and it also 
tries to show the public something of the 
duty it owes to those who have made 
such a sacrifice for their country. Some 
of the things which these maimed sol¬ 
diers are doing are remarkable. The pic¬ 
ture shows a thrilling point in the base¬ 
ball game between a nine of one-armed 
men and another of one-legged players. 
A game was played between this one- 
armed nine and a nine of players with one 
arm tied behind them. The one-armed 
men won! Then there was a football 
game—all the players one-legged men, and 
many other trials of strength and skill, 
to show what a crippled man can do 
through skill and patient education. There 
is no finer work than this of inspiring and 
educating these cripples so that they can 
bride and bridesmaids, and pays the min¬ 
ister’s fee. but all other expenses fall 
upon the bride’s family. Usually the 
bridegroom makes some little gift to the 
bridesmaids, best man and ushers, which 
with well-to-do people ordinarily take the 
form of jewelry, but this is purely op¬ 
tional. and in no sense obligatory. Scarf- 
pins for best man and ushers, and 
brooches or pendants for the bride’s at¬ 
tendants. are customary. Even in the 
case of a very quiet w'edding the bride¬ 
groom would naturally make some special 
gift to the bride. While the bridegroom 
makes arrangements with the officiating 
minister, and pays his fee, the choice of 
minister is left to the bride. 
In a quiet home wedding it is entirely 
proper for bride and bridegroom to meet 
in an adjoining room, and then go to¬ 
gether, accompanied by their attendants, 
to stand before the minister, but in a 
church, or where greater ceremony is ob¬ 
served. the bridegroom and best man pre¬ 
cede the bride, and wait for her, while 
she enters on the arm of her father or 
any other person v'ho is to “give her 
away,” but many wedding ceremonies 
An Exciting Moment in a Handicap Hall 
retain their personal pride and feel that 
they are self-supporting. The following 
little story is told in ‘‘Carry On” for 
July: 
A discharged soldier with his young 
wife recently went on a shopping tour in 
Washington. Ex-soldier, very tired, and 
not having much interest in walking the 
aisles of a department store, sat himself 
down in the lobby and promised his wife 
to stay there until her return. Soon he 
was fast asleep. In a reclining position, 
with his hat in his hand, he was enjoying 
a quiet nap. When his wife returned she 
was shockingly surprised to see a dollar 
and a half in her husband’s hat. 
Too many of our people seem to think 
the soldiers are objects of charity. They 
are not. They are self-respecting, earnest 
young men, ambitious for their future and 
only wishing to have a fair chance. Let's 
all help see that they get it. As for the 
defectives, the little poem on page 1242 
expresses the thought well. 
A Soldier and His Wedding 
I plan on being married soon this Fall. 
It has been such a long while since I 
have been at a wedding I am out of 
practice, especially for one of my own. 
It is to be a simple ceremony at the girl’s 
home, and would like to know some of 
the usual routine that the bridegroom 
must go through, how many guests should 
be invited, in fact, all the details from 
start to finish is what I want to know, 
so I do not make mistakes. u n t. 
The chief duty of the bridegroom, in 
any wedding, is to be there on time, and 
no doubt a man with military training 
will fulfill this requirement. All arrange¬ 
ments for the wedding are made by the 
bride and her family. The bridegroom 
gives a list of personal friends whom he 
desires invite 1 and where announcements 
are sent on' the names of his friends to 
whom these are sent. The bride’s family 
arranges day and hour of the wedding, 
and all details of entertainment. The 
bridegroom provides bouquets for the 
Game. Reproduced from “Carry On” 
omit this survival of ancient custom. The 
best man is expected to steer the bride¬ 
groom through the whole thing; he takes 
care of the ring until it must be placed 
on the bride’s finger, he sees that the 
minister is there, gives him his fee. and 
makes all plans for the newly married 
couple to leave quietly if desired. It 
will be seen that the bridegroom has 
fewer wedding responsibilities than the 
bride, and if liis best man is properly 
careful all details should work out 
smoothly. A quiet home wedding is dig¬ 
nified and attractive, and presents no 
difficulties unless the family is over am¬ 
bitious, and attempts unnecessary show. 
A Land Army Wedding 
Wk often see pictures of military wed¬ 
dings, where the bridal party passes un¬ 
der an arch formed by the swords of the 
bridegroom’s comrades. English papers 
recently recorded a wedding where simi¬ 
lar recognition was given to the Land 
Army. The bride was a Land Army 
worker and the bridegroom a disabled 
soldier \fho had fought at Mons, at Y'pres 
and on the Somme. Land girls in uni¬ 
form formed a guard of honor and pro¬ 
vided a choir, and soldiers from a neigh¬ 
boring camp attended as friends of the 
bridegroom, a number of them assisting 
as violinists in the musical service. The 
bride was given away by her officer and 
attended by four of her colleagues, in 
uniform, who had driven to the church 
in a decorated farm cart, hay wains being 
provided for the conveyance of the other 
Land Army guests. The County Organ¬ 
izer for West Sussex attended, and after 
the ceremony the newly married couple 
passed out of the church under an arch¬ 
way of hay rakes and rode on cart horses 
to the Land Girls’ Hostel at Barnham, 
where at the wedding breakfast the bridal 
cake was cut with a woodman's axe. 
