HELP FOR
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Until
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> Mrs. Conley Got Help.
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CONTEST ENDED RIGHT THERE
After Mr. Jigson's Statement All Felt
That It Would Be Mere Folly
to Continue.
It was the annual reunion of all the
members of the Globe Trotters’ club.
Speeches had been made by everybody
who was anybody; this and that prop
osition had been seconded by So-and
so, and all the usual business inevi
table at such a gathering had been
waded through. Then the chairman
rose to his feet, holding in his hand
a handsome gold watch.
“Gentlemen,” he said. Impressively,
“by way of a novelty the club will pre
sent this watch to the member who
tells us all the most palpable lie.” i
Then the contest started. All sorts i
of yarns were narrated, describing
sundry wildly Impossible adventures, !
and then it was the turn of Jigson,
a gentleman with a mania for angling, j
“Gentlemen,” he said, apologetically, j
“I trust that you will allow me to re- j
fraln from entering this peculiar con
test.”
“Why?” they all cried.
“On principle,” replied Jigson, proud
ly. “I have no Inclination to tell lies.”
Then everybody yelled, “You've
won 1”
And he had.
A Massacre.
I saw It hobbling down a flight of
steps, slashed and torn to shreds. Bare
ly enough was left to hold the shreds
together. It was a pitiful sight. My
curiosity was aroused.
“What are you?” I asked, “and how
came you in such horrible condition?”
“I am a reputation,” the wreck re
plied, “and I have just been released
from a female bridge whist party.”—
Life.
Call a man a diplomat, instead of
a liar, and he will be pleased. Yet
It amounts to the same thing!
V
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“There’s a Reason’’
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Philosophy of the Simple Life
—
By JOHN BURROUGHS.
If you should ask me what counsel I would give to a young man
starting in life—how I would attempt to set him on the road to happi
1 ness—it would run something like this: Be industrious. Be honest.
' Be serious and sincere; don’t slur your work. Deal fairly; like your
' neighbor; lend a helping hand. And don’t forget how to play. Play
will keep you young. Lucky is
he who gets his -grapes to market
with the bloom on.
Leading the lesson of my life
to myself, it seems to teach one
thing: that one may have a happy
and not altogether useless life on
cheap and easy terms. The essen
tial things—the true values—are
all simple and near at hand—
home, friends, books, Nature, a
little leisure, a little money, and,
above all things, congenial work—
something you can put your heart
in. But uncongenial work, even
drudgery, is better than idleness
and indifference. A heritage of
inestimable value is wholesome in
stincts, especially an instinct for
the truth.
.. 1 have never bothered myseii
with any regularly thought out philosophy of life. I have simply* loved
and most of the things and the people about me. Things become tools
when you learn to grasp the right handle, and people will lend a hand
if you are naturally disposed to lend a hand in return. Sympathy begets
i sympathy, love begets love, and in the end if a man does not magnify
! his duties he is pretty sure to get all that is coming to him in life. I
! have never seriously thought about my dues, or if I had any dues. I
: have simply looked about me for things worthy of my love and interest.
I seem to have been getting my dues and more every day of my life.
With health and friends and Xature, with the sweet air to breathe and
1 the husky old earth to walk on, or till, or study; with the press of one’s
foot to the ground, as Whitman says, springing a hundred affections,
how could one fail to get his dues?
Invest yourself in the people and things about you; deal honestly
with yourself and your neighbor; think not of rewards; think how well
you can do your work, how much you can get in the way of satisfaction
out of each day. Young men often write me that they want to be nature
writers like myself, and ask me how to begin, what books to read, and
so on. I tell them to begin where they are, at their own doorstep, and
to read their own hearts to see if there is any real nature love in them.
Can thev serve the great trio, the True, the Beautiful, the Good, disin
terestedlv, or are they after fame or money?
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$ Buttons in Favor. |
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, One could talk forever about *
<* the buttons used this season. •
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• shows a new button. Engraved
V •
• crystal and aluminum are elab
^ orate, a mosaic shell button is •
<i odd. The buckle button serves •
• two purposes. Enamel and
• rhinestone and steel are artistic <1
combinations. Ribbon covered •
‘S molds, molds covered with •
• bunched beads and some in
• leatlier in pinwheel effect are C
• products of the dressmakers’ *
^ art. Some buttons are braided, •
<1 many embroidered, and some #
• even covered with straw. Hand
^2 §
• painted glass buttons are used .
^ on lingerie, while buttons edged •
C with wired braid loops are sure- •
• ly a novelty. ^
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Not a Pigtail to Be Seen
in the Chinese Parliament
The opening ceremonies of the Chi- ;
nese parliament in Peking marked the
full turn of the circle to Republican
subplicity from the antique formal- I
ties and gorgeous ritual which Presi
dent Yuan restored in the brief period
when lie was emperor-elect. Rut the
frock coat of the president who walked
in and sat down while all the mem- |
bers were standing around gossiping ;
was not such a surprise as the genial- j
Ity and courtesy which prevailed. Old
rivals shook hands and chatted of the
prospects in a manner which was im
possible when everybody was wonder
ing if his neighbor had sold himself
or would sell him, and the air of sus
picion which hung about the place like
a cloud in the Y-uun days completely
absent. Even the guards at the door
were an unknown quantity in the old
times.
There were present 456 legislators
and not a pigtail among them. Very
few were in uniform. A good many
wore modern Chinese dress, hut those
who hold official positions mostly came
in Prince Alberts.
License Gave Privilege.
Angelo walking down the street saw
Tony coming the opposite way leading
his dog. Rein? deathly afraid of it,
as it was playful, he said to Tony.
"Say, if your dog bites me I'll have
him arrested.” “Go on,” said Tony,
“this dog has a license; he's allowed
to bite anybody.”
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g Poultry Pointers
Chickens should he hatched early
according to the period of maturity of
the breed used, so that they will com
mence to lay when the last year’s j
liens are beginning to tnolt, and the
price of eggs is high.
Some kind of a grinding machine Is
necessary on every farm for making
chop or crushing grain, especially for
the young chickens, which, after the
first week or two will eat almost any- )
thing which is ground finely enough.
It is not the number of birds that
will guarantee better results next sea
son than you had this year, hut the
quality of the birds.
Anything that is tougii and stringy,
like strong grass, pieces of muscle in
meat. etc., should not be fed to the
fowls, for it is likely to become lodged
in the crop and produce crop-bound.
Avoid crowding of chicks hy keep
ing them in small flocks and hy pro- ;
vidiug roomy coops. Thin out if there .
are too many.
It is seldom that any money is saved !
by economizing when buying poultry i
feed. The cheapest food to feed is that
which will keefc the hen healthy and
make her lay well.
Cockerels in good condition bring
a fancy price in the market.
Common sense Is an important fac
tor in the poultry yard.
It is most important never to select
eggs for hatching from hens which
have been laying heavily. The best
are those which have been laid after
a hard winter or a period of rest
Equal parts of boiled oats, corn and
wjieat. with now and then the addi
tion of table scraps makes a good egg
producing ration.
In the breeding pens the roosters
should be changed whenever neces
sary; inbreeding produces weak pro
geny.
A Little Bit of Everything.
A wall tie that grips half a dozen
bricks instead of two, as customary,
has been invented by a Scotch builder.
In the present war seven men die in
battle to one of illness. During our
Civil war five died from disease for
one slain in battle.
New York city is said to have the
best system of street signs in the coun
try, being clearly visible, perfectly legi
ble and informing.
The groundhog, or woodchuck, be
longs to the same species as the squir
rel. The prairie dog is another mem
ber of the same family.
New Orleans is to have a tubercu
losis hospital, to cost $200,000, the
gift of Mrs. John Dibert. The city will
maintain it at a yearly cost of $10,
000. \
Shipments of German drugs have
been received in this country which
came by way of Turkey and Asia to
China and thence to the United States.
The sturdiness of Andalusian horses
is attributed to the fact that they feed
on a species of wild clover which
grows only in the Spanish province of
Cadiz.
Silkworm culture has become such
an exact science in France that the
weight of the cocoons harvested in
proportion to the eggs incubated has
been doubled.
When sugar was first made from
beets it took about 20 tons of beets to
produce a ton of sugar; now it re
quires only six tons, due to scientific
breeding of the beets.
The United States marketed 1.731
short tons of asbestos of domestic pro
duction last year, a gain of 39 per cent
from the year before.
Women Best Letter Writers
Because They Record Trifles
The art of letter writing is consid
ered by the French an essentially femi
nine gift, probably because for years
it was the only means of literary ex
pression open to women. But the real
secret of women’s ability to write good
letters is that they are not ashamed to
record trifles.
Men feel after they hare described
the weather and the state of their af
fections that they have done their duty.
A woman will tell what another wom
an wore, what her best friend said,
who is rumored engaged to whom,
what two best enemies are not speak
ing, and add. maybe, the breakfast
menu, in letters women give a little of
real life and their correspondence is
really written conversation.
Letter writing is a delicate and dif
ficult art. for. aside from its charming
features, more harm has been done by
the written word titan by all the foolish
converse in the world.
Unkind remarks written are hard to
erase from the heart. A foolish protes
tation of affection is a shame ami grief
forever to the writer. livery indiscreet
written confidence is a curse that will
come home to'roost with the inevitabil
ity of the barnyard fowl.
Letter writing should be an art—the
art of trifles. It should be the art of
being interesting, but not compromis
ing.—Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Clock in a London Church
Can Be Heard But Not Seen
A public clock which can be heard
but not seen is one of London’s curious
possessions. It is in the tower of St.
Mary Abbot’s church, Kensington, and
is the only public clock in the immedl-1
ate neighborhood.
It chimes the quarters and the hours,
but commits itself no further. It has
no dial, no hands, no outward and vis
ible sign of any kind to show that it
is a clock. Tins eccentricity, it is ex
plained, is the result of two causes,
one esthetic, the other financial. When
the tower was built in 1879 a clock was
suggested as an afterthought, but the
architect protested that it would mean
the addition of 15 feet to the tower,
and the ruin of its cherished propor
tions.
A second point was that the church,
having but slender funds, could not af
ford a clock with a dial. A compromise
was arrived at by installing the works
of a (Aiming clock in Ae belfry with
out dial or hands.
Horrifying the Family.
Uncle Ben liked saws, and frequently
repeated them in the presence of chil
dren. One day the minister caroe to
dinner, and as is the custom of some !
people, devoted a part of his conversa
tion to the children, taking great de
light in teasing Sammie.
“Sammie,” lie said, “I saw you
spending your money very foolishly
this afternoon. Now, suppose you
wore to see me sranding at the corner
throwing away my money on the ice
cream man, what would you say?”
“I’d say there is no fool like an old
fool,” said Sammie, to the horror of
his family.
From Bad to Worse.
“She married him to reform him,
eh?”
“Yes.”
“How foolish!”
“And how sad! They both need re
forming now.”
Best Sort.
“What do you think will be the finest
crop of this mouth?”
“Bridal pairs.”
STAR OF THE MOVIES
.."I
Lillian Lorraine.
Pretty actress who has won big fol
lowing among devotees of the silent
drama.
Wise and Otherwise.
The demand for twins never ex
ceeds the supply.
Men seldom follow good advice un
less they pay for it.
It takes an all-round hustler to
make both ends meet
It is easy for a woman to keep a se-!
cret that isn't interesting.
Some music hath charms to, incite
a man to start a rough house.
Many a business man has been
swamped by the weight of his dignity.
It is much easier to break a dead
man's will than a live woman’s won’t.
If we could only see ourselves as
others see us—but we can’t, so what’s
the use worrying?
Don’t try to guess a woman’s age.
Take it for granted that she is some
what older than she thinks she looks,
and let it go at that
--
Tired of the Tune.
“I thought when my neighbor bor
rowed my favorite ragtime record and
broke It that the accident was unavoid- |
able.”
“Yes?”
“But I have my suspicions now.”
“Why so?”
“He wants to replace it with some
thing else.”
The Usual Ending.
“This is a rather affecting poem.”
“What is it about?”
“An automobile racer is bidding fare
well to his car.”
“And the circumstances?”
“He’s going to the hospital and the
car to the scrap heap.”
His Class.
“Blinks, says he Is an optimist”
“So he is—the kind who when things
come their way, are always teiling
other people not to worry.”
Fitting the Name.
She—Why will you drink so much?
You are a monster!
He—All right, then. I’ll be one of
them tank monsters.
CHICKEN PIE WORTH WHILE
Recipe That Has Been Long Use
and Can Be Recommended
as Excellent.
One chicken boned (reserve bones
to make stock), one-quarter pound
bacon, one-half pound sausage, one or
two hard-boiled eggs. Cut the chicken
into joints and place on bones with
an onion, one or two peppercorns, a
blade of mace, and a little lemon rind.
Simmer for three or four hours. Pack
chicken in layers in a pie-dish along
with 'sausage, bacon, hard-boiled eggs
and seasoning; half fili with the stock.
Flaky pastry for covering: one-lialf
pound flour, one-quarter pound but
ter, one-half teaspoonful baking pow
der, water, pinch of salt. Method:
Mix flour and baking powder; add the
butter cut in small pieces, and the
salt. Make into a stiff paste with wa
ter. Form paste into a long piece;
roll it out. Fold in three equal pieces.
Turn the paste round and repeat roll
ing and folding two and one-half times.
Itoll out paste a little larger than the
pie-dish. Cut a strip off and line rim
of pie-dish. Cover top with large
piece. Make a hole in top for ventila
tion. Use scraps of paste to make a
rose and leaves for decoration. Brush
over with beaten egg. Bake in hot
oven at first for half an hour. Then
continue for one and one-half hours in
a more moderate heat.
ROUND STEAK AT ITS BEST
Proper Method of Preparation Has
Much to Do With the Appetizing
Quality of Meat.
Lay out in n hot iron frying-pan
three thin slices of fat salt pork, three
by four inches, and add one onion
peeled and cut in thin slices. Cook,
stirring constantly until broken. Wipe
a 214-pound slice of round steak, put
in frying pan. pour over 1*4 cupfuls of
cold water aud add one-fourth teas
poonful of salt. Bring quickly to the
boiling point, cover closely, remove to
hack of range and let simmer slowly
until tender. Remove steak to hot plat
ter aud strain stock (there should be
one cupful). Melt one tablespoonful of
butter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour
and stir until well blended ; then pour
on gradually, while stirring constant
ly, the hot stock. Bring to the boiling
point, let boil two minutes, season with
salt and pepper and pour over and
around the steak. Garnish with baked
stuffed tomatoes around the edge, aud
with overlapping slices of tomatoes und
sprigs of parsley in the center.
Beef Ramekins.
Take one-half pound of cooked beef,
two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, one
teaspoonful of minced parsley, one tea
spoonful of chopped gherkins, salt and
pepper to taste, and gravy or sauce
to moisten. First mash some boiled
potatoes finely so that they will be
free of lumps, adding one teaspoonful
of butter aud sufficient hot milk to
make them soft and creamy. Cut the
meat into dice, freeing it from skin
and gristle. Mix it with the parsley
and gherkin and enough sauce or gravy
to moisten all well. Fill ramekins
three parts full of the mixture. Cover
the meat with potatoes, lieaping it well
in the center and marking it neatly
with a silver fork. Bake for ten min
utes in a hot oven or until heated
through and well browned.
Chicken a la Monte Carlo.
Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in
an earthen dish or casserole with one
carrot, three onions sliced, two bay
leaves, salt, pepper and some thyme.
Add a young, fat fowl, cut into joints
and let it get brown. Then add one
pint of consomme and cover air-tight.
Cook three-quarters of an hour. It
must simmer all the time. If the fowl
is old, it will take longer to cook. Add
two tablespoonfuls sherry, a dozen po
tato balls fried in butter, a dozen but
ton mushrooms and some chopped
parsley. Let it cook ten minutes more
and serve in the sauce dish or the
charm of it will be lost.
Bubble Pudding.
Put one pint of milk on to heat in a
double boiler. Dissolve two table
spoonfuls of cornstarch in two of cold
milk and stir it into milk. Then add
the yolks of two eggs well beaten and
one tablespoonful of sugar. Whip rap
idly for a moment. Remove from fire
and pour into a buttered mold or
bowl. Cover closely and boil one hour.
Serve with lemon sauce.
Canned Grapes.
Wash the bunches, pick off the firm
grapes, and pack them into glass jars
as firmly as possible without crushing.
Then steam the jars as directed for
canning peaches by the steaming
method until the grapes are thorough
ly heated; this as a rule usually takes
from 20 to 30 minutes.
Peanut Cream Dressing.
Two tablespoonfuls of peanut butter,
one teaspoonful of mustard, one tea
spoonful of sugar, salt and pepper.
Mix well into this two tablespoonfuls
of thick cream and one tablespoonful j
of chopped olives. Thin with vinegar
and pour over either lettuce or chopped
celery.
Good Filling of Beans.
Press cold baked beans through a
eollander; add two tablespoonfuls of
horseradish to each cupful of beans.
Put between very thin slices of brown !
bread with butter and a little prepared
mustard. Cut in fancy shapes.—York
ers Magazine.
—
Using Paraffin.
If paraffin is used on top of jellies
and jams, when It is removed from I
the jar, wash it, melt it and strain it
through coarse cotton, such as a salt
bag. It is then ready to use again.
Laundry Bit.
To wash scorched goods, boil them
in a mixture of one part soap and one
teacupful turpentine in a gallon of
milk.
To Remove Iodine Stains.
Immerse the stained articles imme
diately in a gallon of water to which
has been added about two teaspoonfuls
of plain honsehold ammonia.
The Flavor Lasts I
Rosy cheeks, bright teeth,
good appetites and digestions
— yes, the reward for the
regular use of Wrigley’s is
benefit as well as pleasure!
“Chew it after every meal l"
She Let Him Have It.
“Getting on nicely.” said the doc
tor—“very nicely! I think he might
have a little solid food directly, he be
gins to he convalescent.”
“But what are the signs of convales
cence?” asked the wife.
"Oh, it’s always a good sign when
the patient displays irritability and a
disposition to argue and a certain pee
vishness.”
On hi.s visit next day the doctor
found the little wife very cheerful.
“And how is the patient?” he asked.
“Oh, much better, I think, doctor!
I gave him a fried steak and onions
yesterday.”
“Fried steak and onions?” gasped
the medico. “But why on earth—”
“Well, I followed your instructions,
doctor. Yon said that if lie was at all
peevish or disposed to argue it was a
sign that lie could stand some solid
food. He asked me last night if he
could have a fried steak and onions,
and I said I didn't think lie ought to,
so he got up and went into the kitch
en, smashed fourteen soup plates, a
tea service and two milk jugs. So, in
view of what you said, I let him have ;
it!”
BAD COMPLEXION MADE GOOD
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and Ointment. Trial Free.
If you are troubled with pimples,
blackheads, redness, roughness, itching
and burning, which disfigure your com
plexion and skin, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment will do much to help you.
The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Novel Illumination.
The city of Seal Beach, Cal., is now
attracting attention because of the
novel idea of illuminating the entire
water front which has been carried out
by the officials. A battery of 41 pow
erful searchlights, each being of more
than 25,000-candle power, has been
placed on the outward edge of a long
pier which extends out into the ocean
from a point at the center of the wa
ter front. The illuminated water front
may be seen far out at sea, while the
searchlight beams are visible for miles
inland.
Hibbiug, Minn., Is to acquire 16 acres
of forest as a park.
The turtle is slow, but he gets there
in time for the soup.
One Who Doesn’t Worry.
Miss Paul—Grace doesn’t obey any
body.
Miss Pry—No; she doesn't even
mind her own business.—Town Top
ics.
SWAMP-ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE
When ycur back aches, and your blad
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re
member it is needless to suffer—go to your
nearest drug store and get a bottle of Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. It is a physician’s
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and bladder.
It has stood the test of years and has
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by Dr. Kil
mer in his private practice and was so
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, 50c and
*1.00, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
It Looked Suspicious.
They were taking an old-fashioned
buggy ride in the mellow twilight and
their engagement was still in Its in
fancy.
“Darling.” he said, “are you sure
I am the first and only man whose
lips have ever come in contact with
yours?”
“Of course you are, dearest,” she
replied. “You don’t doubt me, do
you?”
“No, no, sweetheart,” he answered,
“I love you too dearly for that. But
when I put my arm around your waist
a moment ago and you made a swift
grab for the lines, I couldn’t help
thinking you possessed wonderful
intuition.”
And the horse meandered slowly on.
No Mistakes.
“I don’t believe that Is a live wire.”
“Well, touch it if you want to be
dead sure about 1L”
Holland's mines are now producing
coal at a rate of about 2,000,000 tons
a year.
Synthetic milk Is being produced
from peanuts by European chemists.
London’s metropolitan police area
has 7,600,000 population.
English people use an average of
eight matches each person a day.
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Table Dainties from Sunny
Climes
Asparagus
and
Hawaiian Pineapple
From tropical Hawaii, home of the sweetest,
most luscious pineapple, comes the one; and
California, where the tenderest asparagus grows, supplies the other. The Libby
care and cleanliness back of both is a warrant of a product that will please you.
Insist on Libby’s at your grocer’s.
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