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MONOGRAM
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TUST NOTICE the beauti
J ful decorations and the
exq uisitely traced design. The
ware is semi-vitreons,iemi-por-celain
decalcomania, and the
glaze is put on so perfect and
the decorations are burned on
underneath so carefully, that
we guarantee this ware never
to craze, should last a lifetime
It makes no difference what
initial your's may be; and we
use only the most beautiful
style of lettering. An oppor
tunity to secure a beautiful
Monogram Dinner Set made to
oraer witn your initial on each
dish, at half the usual price
does not come very often, and
may never come again. Our
contract with the factory calls
for a limited number of sets at
a special introductory price,
whichTenables m to make the
unparalled offer we do. The
price. to the press, for the pur
pose of advertising the wares,
is lower than factory price to
jobbers.
Monogram Dinner Sets are al! the rage, never so Popular as now. Order a set at once.
The :1hdependenf -;One Year and the DiniierSef : $4
Each Dish Decorated
With Your Initial.
THIS DINNER SET WILL BE SENT FREE to zny one send
ing us $10.00 to pay for ten yearly subscriptions to
THE INDEPENDENT
Wild Rose Designs in
Colors and Edges
Traced in Gold.-"
Pensioner of 1812 is Dead at 103
Mrs. Ann Betts, who celebrated her
103d birthday on October 6 last, died
Saturday in the home of her grand
daughter, Mrs. Chauncey Turner, 10
Church place, East Orange.
"Aunt Ann" Betts as she . was best
known, was born in Gravesend, now a
part of Brooklyn, and was a daughter
of Abraham Van Emborgh, a commis
sioned officer in the Continental
army during the Revolutionary war.
She was married to Joseph Betts, a
musician in the American army dur
ing the war of 1812. '
Mrs. Betts had a fund of interesting
recollections, and was fond of telling
about Andrew Jackson and his. time.
KJ v n uo wuv vi, vut tvn laill llllug tlx
sioners of the war of 1812. She is
survived by two sons, George Betts,
an inmate t)f the Soldiers' -home at
Kearney, and Joseph Betts, who lives
-on Long Island. There are five grand
children andA ; eight great-grandchil-
' dren. . .,- ., . , ; i:'
Though totally blind Mrs. Betts re
tained her other faculties. -She had
been in poor, health since, a few. days
previous to her birthday last month,
and her inability to take part -in the
celebration made her despondent. She
announced that she wanted to die and
was sure that 'she would not livo much
longer. A few days ago peritonitis de
veloped and resulted in her death, u.
. Mrs. Betts a few days ago told her
family of a vision in which she had
seen- two large floral pieces, "which
she said represented her two surviv
ing sons; five smaller pieces, symbol
ical of the grandchildren, 'and clus
ters of cut flowers, representing the
great-grandchildren. Mrs. ' Betts in
terpreted this as a - premonition of
death. New York Herald. '
PLATES THAT GROW
One of Them Is Worth Two Thousand
Dollars
"If you could eat your dinner off a
service like this," said . a collector of
porcelain, taking a strange, bright
plate, from a cabinet, , "why, such a
service "would be worth $100,000 or
more." , . . , ' " .
The .plate's surface was. covered
with an irregular and glittering cry
talline growth a' half-inch. high. Beau
tiful crystals, in their graceful out
line suggesting quaint pagodas an'"
gnarled trees, rose up everywhere
from the . porcelain pattern.
"It Is .. a growing plate,", explained
the collector. "It is one of those
plates whose clay, containing alumi
num and magnesium, causes an out
growth of ' crystals under the enamel.
Such plates are very rare. I paid
$2,000 for this one.
"Only a half dozen growing plates
are known. One, that belongs' o a
Boston collector, is valued at $1,500.
Another, that had belonged to a poor
New York, woman, who attached no
value to It, sold at auction in 1891
for $3,700.
"It is interesting to have a growing
plate in your collections. This speci
men here has put forth three crystals
under that little blue mountain de
sign since it came into my hands."
New York Press.
Teaching Boys to Sew in School
"Boys should learn to sew as well a3
girls," said Miss Lydia A. Kirby, su
perintendent of sewing, in the public
schools.
Miss 'Kirby did not Intimate that
the coming woman rwould be too busy
to darn her husband's'; socks and sew
on his buttons, but she Bald that. It
oes not hurt any man to know how
o sew, be he bachelor or benedict.
Easy lessons In the art of plain
3ewing may be Introduced into the
boys' classes of the public schools. ;
If the first step in needle threading
is successfully mastered, Miss Kirby
is confident that the boys will take
to sewing as they would to marbles
or top spinning. '
Arguing that tailors and sailors
must know how to handle a needle,
and that bachelors and widowers
would be happier If they could sew,
Miss Kirby sees no reason why "the
average man should scorn the gentle
art. '
In several industrial and institu
tional schools in the city boys are
taught needlework. '
The negro boys at the House of In
dustry at Seventh and Catherine
streets, make samplers and can hem
and fell a seam as neatly as the girls.
Philadelphia North American.
Wise Youth
"Yes," sighed the unfavored suitor,
"Evangeline's father told me never to
call there again. I tell you I am- feel
ing ; pretty blue."
"Well," said his chum, "before I
would feel that way I should call In
spite of the old gentleamn."
"Oh, no. I would rather feel blue
than to run the' chance of feeling
black and blue." Chicago News.1
Had Tried It Thoroughly
"You still have the rheumatism?
Have you ever tried the mud bath
treatment?" . -
"O, yes, I have made several trips
with my automobile the whole length
of Cottage Grove avenue, clear down
to Burnsldc. Didn't do me a bit of
good." Chicago Tribune. . ;