MARY JANE MCCLURE When meal-time comes in midsummer, the housewife is seized with a langorous disinclination to go into the hot kitchen and cook. The mere thought of preparing the meal drives away the appetite. The up-to-date, commencement de siecle housewife is prepared for occasions of this sort. Her larder is stocked with materials which make it possible for her to prepare an appetizing meal on short notice, with never a thought of sweltering and broiling over a hot kitchen stove. FROZEN BEEF DAINTIES One of the greatest secrets of quick meal cookery is hidden in the little jar of Armour's Extract of Beef. It has proved to be one of the most successful béauty remedies on the market, for it smooths away wrinkles of worry and care more effectually than a massage roller, and replaces them with smiles of happiness which transform the woman before the stove into a laughing Hebe. American women do not place a proper value upon Extract of Beef. They consider it merely a part of invalid diet. They will cook a shin of beef for hours in an effort to secure the essence of it, when they could buy the soul of the shin ready, to be transmuted into delicious dainties with the mere addition of hot water. Italian, German and French women give Extract of Beef the place of honor in their kitchen closet. They know that it doubles the resources of the woman who desires to have things taste a little better than "Mother used to make." A jar of Extract of Beef (if it is Armour's) is a necessary concomitant of things culinary-soups, entrees, roasts or vegetables. It is so concentrated from the richest and best of beef that it is spicy with the absolutely pure beef .flavor. Just a bit of it on the tip of a spoon trans forms an insipid dish into a gastronomical delight. I have found that Armour's Extract of Beef solves the summer soup problem. On a hot day the stomach rebels at the very thought of steaming dishes. One eats more from a sense of duty than because of real hunger. Iced bouillon or consomme teases the flagging appetite into activity and satisfies that gnawing feeling in the pit of the stomach which is at the same time hunger and disgust. The bouillon may be made in the morning and set away until dinner time is at hand. Make it this way: cook 30 minutes. Strain, and when cool add a small quantity of sherry or Madeira wine. Chill and serve cold. If the wine is not' desired it may be omitted without detracting materially from the palatability of the bouillon; but it will be found to give a tantalizing flavor which will add greatly to its merits as a hot weather appetite-tempter. Frozen Beef Tea is another novel mid-summer tit-bit. Make it in the proportions of one-fourth teaspoon of Armour's Extract of Beef to each cupful of hot water. Season it with salt and pepper to taste. Add to it a small quantity of gelatine previously dissolved in water, and set the mixture on ice until it is jellied. Serve very cold in place of soup. Aspic Jelly seems peculiarly a part of hot weather cookery. To make it, take: One teaspoonful of Armour's Extract of Beef. One-half package of acidulated gelatine. One pint of hot water. One cup of cold water. One-half cup of sherry wine. Two teaspoonfuls of sugar. Cover the gelatine with cold water; let it stand for five minutes, then add the hot water, sugar and wine. Strain and put into a mold until cold. Use as a garnish for salads or entrees. EDITED BY ALBERT SHAW. CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1907. Hi-Hyeung, Emperor of Corea, Who Railroads in South America...... 177 TERMS: $3.00 a year in advance; 25 cents a number. Foreign postage $1.00 a year additional. Subscribers may remit to us by post-office or express money orders, or by bank checks, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at sender's risk. 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The refusal of the conference to receive these delegates was followed almost immediately by the demand on the part of the Korean ministry that the Emperor abdicate. The sending of these delegates to The Hague, it was urged, endangered the national welfare of Korea, since by the treaty of November, 1906, all the foreign affairs of Korea are under Japanese control. The abdication ceremonies took place on July 19 at the Imperial palace in Seoul. This abdication is formal acknowledgment to the world of Japan's full control of the Hermit Kingdom. Yi-Hyeung, otherwise known by his title of Ch'yelchyong, succeeded to the throne in 1864. In 1897 he assumed the title of Emperor. Ever since 1895, when his imperial consort, Queen Min, was assassinated, the Emperor has lived in the greatest fear of being murdered by some of his corrupt courtiers or by Japanese intriguers. Up to July, 1894, when war was declared by Japan against China, the monarchy, which is hereditary, was absolute. Japan's influence began at the close of that war and has been confirmed by a series of treaties with Korea, China, Russia, and England. The Japanese resident-general at Seoul, Marquis Ito, now "advises" the Korean ruler in all matters of foreign relations.] THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS VOL. XXXVI. NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1907. No. 2 The Folly of War Talk. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. other one thing that finally emboldened Japan to assert herself and to assume control over her own tariff rates. War in modern times presupposes some fundamental dispute or antagonism that cannot be dealt with by diplomacy or arbitration. Furthermore, war is usually attended by deep feeling on both sides. But it so happens that there does not now exist, nor has there ever existed, any cause of war whatsoever between Japan and the United States. Nor is there any warlike feeling in this country against Japan. On the part of the public men and influential people of Japan, furthermore, there is not warlike feeling toward the United States. Neither is there any question of interest involved, such as leads nations sometimes to find pretext for war because of some conquest or acquisition they desire to make. Japan possesses nothing that we could acquire or could possibly wish to gain. We, on the other hand, have nothing that Japan could hope to gain and hold with benefit to herself, as the result even of a successful campaign. In view of the high average of influence of the United States more than any intelligence that prevails in this country, it is hard to understand why there should have been so much talk about war with Japan. When the Japanese opened the campaign against Russia there had been a long period of serious strain, with protracted negotiations touching vital matters, and with vast changes impending in the political control of regions regarded as of life-and-death importance to the future of Japan. Russia was converting Manchuria into an extension of her Siberian empire, was making Port Arthur an impregnable fortress, was about to acquire Korea, and was expecting in due time to assume control of a great part of China, including Peking. From the Japanese standpoint, Russian policy was not merely fatal to Japan's future growth of power and influence, but even menaced Japan's ultimate independence. The war was prosecuted in a blaze of national enthusiasm and patriotism such as the world has hardly ever witnessed. Russia throughout the war was somewhat estranged in feeling toward the United States, because there seemed in this country to be so much sympathy for the Japanese. Finally the good offices of President Roosevelt helped to bring about a conclusion of the war at the very moment when peace was the best thing that Japan could have. What Would If the Japanese should precipitate a war at the present moment their navy could unquestionably support a successful invasion of the Philippine Islands and Hawaii. But, by such an act, Japan would absolutely forfeit the political sympathy and financial support of the entire world. It would put Japan in the position of an outlaw nation. There would follow the instant abrogation of the treaty between Great Britain and Japan, which is of immense value to the Japanese. Every phase of the Far Eastern question would be reopened. Japan's virtual control of Korea would disappear, and her influence in Manchuria and China would be nullified. We in the United States care very little for Copyright, 1907, by THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY. sovereignty over the Philippine Islands, and juncture. The behavior of the school board we are there principally in order to fulfill of that city was without excuse and was at our serious responsibilities to the inhabitants once mischievous and contemptible. Under and to the world at large. But we could the pretense that full-grown Japanese men not, of course, permit the islands to pass were entering the primary grades with permanently from our control by so rude a American boys and girls to learn to read and method. It might take us several years to write English, an order was issued excluding put our navy in position to cross the Pacific all Japanese children from the regular pubOcean and extinguish the naval power of lic schools. No one would have objected to Japan. But we should be obliged to do it if a rule fixing an age limit under which the the Japanese did not consent to withdraw and make due reparation. All Japanese statesmen understand that they would have much to lose and nothing to gain by war with this country. The Feeling Yet it is idle to deny that there has been much feeling stirred up in Japan against the United States by sensational newspapers. This feeling has owed something of its spread and intensity to the conditions following a successful war. The triumphs of the Japanese armies and navies aroused national pride, and made the popular press resentful of everything that might seem in any way to reflect upon the honor and the greatness of the Japanese name throughout the world. It was much to be regretted that the school incident in San Francisco occurred at such a large boys and men would have gone to the so-called "Oriental School." Scattered among the graded schools of a large city were perhaps forty or fifty Japanese children, whose presence did nobody any harm. There had for a year or more been a rapid influx of Japanese laborers at the port of San Francisco, and the agitation of organized white labor against the Japanese had become so bitter that it expressed itself in foolish and indefensible ways. It would have been comparatively easy to stem the tide of laborers if a certain rowdy element in California could have been prevented from creating one international incident after another. The school trouble was followed by the mobbing of Japanese restaurants and various other acts of lawlessness against people who had the same legal right to be here that any American traveler has to be in Japan. SPAIN TO JAPAN: "Say, pard, if I was you I'd leave that fellow alone!" From the Plain Dealer (Cleveland). |