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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. JUNE 1, 1914.
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dress will be changed as often as requested.
What 1b friendship? asks a correspondent.
A priceless pearl. '
Tho Juno bride and tho Juno bug have tho
center of tho stage.
Tho crop of fresh young graduatos novor
falls, dry weather or wot.
"Tho TragedloH of tho Sea" sooniB to bo tho
tltlo of a story of endless chapters.
Tho follow with least tb lose Is usually tho
ono most supersensitive of his "good name."
Merry May scooped Mlas- Juno a tlmo or
two on tho weather, but wo daro say Juno will
mako up for It.
"Prince Charley" must bo a voraatllo actor
if he is cast for all those dlfforont roles as
well aa for tho goat.
Of courso, Nebraska will hnvo a banner
wheat crop, a banner alfalfa crop and a fow
other bannor crops, being a banner statu.
As another sure sign of tho early approach
of world poaco nnd universal disarmament,
Turkey has Just ordorod twelvo now battleships.
It Is suggested that Huorta could resign
and get $1,000 a" week in vaudovlllo. lio
doubtless ouTdrJet thol,00u'wlthait't Vttudo-.
vlllo. top.if J ..J f v 0 H v
A Chicago pollcowoman is said to be afraid
to go home in the dark. Sho Would never do
to stick around where they aro singing "We
"Won't Go Homo Till Mo-r-nlng."
One of theso Minnesota law firms proylng
on the Tallroads1 In tho mattor of nonresldont
personal injury coses advertises lawyer agontti
In dmsha. Who are the Omaha agents?
Read that rosolutlon of tho Presbyterian
General assembly against membership In clubs
that dlsponse intoxicating drinks, and thon
again ask tho question "Why don't men go
to church?"
Now that the supromo court has upheld tho
validity of tho Insuranco law and tho creation
of a separate Insurance board and department,
we take It tho Insurance peoplo will not here
after be so much Interested In tho nomination
aad election of our state auditor.
If anybody who favora keeping tho stato
university ueparated and scattered between the
downtown campus and tho agricultural alto
only about four miles apart Is without an
axe to grind or not Influenced by Bomcone elso
who has, ho has not disclosed himself,
Has anyono seen or heard of a lotter ad
dressed to tho county attorney . by Thomas
Wakefield Blackburn as president ot the bar
association demanding that ho call upon Judge
Edgar Howard to prove up on his charge of at
tempted procurement of perjury by certain
Omftha lawyers?
What do you think. Charles Dickons would
have said If someone had told him that his
Uarld CopperfJeld would one day be reeled off
by tho movies? Wouldn't it have mado our
impecunious old friend, John Wllklns Macaw
ber feel as if he had not "waited for something
to turn up" in Vain?
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John 8. MeCormlck, one of Omaha's oldest citizens,
was atrlcken by apoplexy at his residence on E1h
ttenth and Podge streets, and physicians say he Is
pot likely to survive long.
.Bev. Jr. v. Ingram, former pastor ot the Christian
church, started again for hl home In San Jose. CaL
His" departure was a ;use of sorrow to many of his
old partahlcners.
John Damon of San Francisco, called to Omaha
some time ago by the sickness of his brpther. Alec
XUtnon, started on his return home.
The Consrtgatlonallsts promise a literary and
musical .treat next Friday. llss Blla MoBrlde will
read several selections, and musical selections will be
rendered, by Messrs. Northrup and Kstabreok. and
Messrs. Torthrup, Deurl and Esiabroftk.
Internal revenue collections for May amounted
to !..
,1, M. Williams and his mother. "Mrs. Tlillngtmst.
and Mlsa Tabor are back from k vlsjt to Salt Lake.
Mr TUIinhsst and Miss Tabor will go on at onue to
Buffalo, where they reside.
The Htsdt Theater company put on a play In der
man by O. Von Moser. which, freely Ululated, would
Jbe called "A Woman Who Seen Paris." Mils K.
fipahn. ws cast tor the woman.
Charter Changes Again.
Tho discussion of changos in the Omaha city
charter, which recurs periodically in anticipation
of onch succeeding legislature, Is already
started, and tho ancient theory Is clung to that
wo must again go to Lincoln to secure such re
vision an may bo desired. Wo doubt whether
this Is tho proper procedure, although until the
city adopts a home rule charter, the legislature
unquestionably has authority to alter the exist
ing charter as it sees fit.
It Rhould be remembered, howovcr, that
Omaha has already set In motion the machinery
provided under the homo rule section of the
state constitution, which nets forth In detail the
steps to be taken not only for the original
drafting of tho homo rulo charter, but for Its re
submission if rojoctcd. According to the plain
wording of the constitution, fallura of tho char
ter first proposed docs not end It, but "within
six months thereafter" tho mayor and council
"may call a spoclal election at which flftcon
mombcrs of a now charter convention shall bo
elected" who shall proceed to framo a charter
which shnll in llko manner bo submitted to pop
ular voto, and tho procedure repeated "until a
charter Is finally approved by a majority of
those voting thereon." Members of theso sub
sequent charter conventions have only sixty
days to complete tholr labors Instead of tho four
months allowod tho original convention, pre
sumably because they havo tho first draft al
ready at hand to work upon.
Tho advantage of making tho charter pur
Buant to tho plan outlined in tho homo-rulo sec
tion of tho constitution Is, that onco adopted, it
Is Immune from legislative tinkering, and may
bo changed only by our own people voting pro
posed amendments up or down.
Again the Safe and Sane.
An invitation by a Philadelphia nowspaper
for all tho nation to go to that city, where free
dom was first celebrated, to obsorvo the patal
day, reminds us that within a lttle moro than
a month tho Fourth of July will be at hand.
How safe and sano havo wo become since tho
last Fourth? , Somo cities, wo dollght to say,
havo adopted the more aenslblo and less peril
ous methods of venting tholr patriotism, whllo
others, wo regret to acknowledge and Omaha
is among thorn havo through their city coun
cils or commissions either refused or failed to
step out on UiIb vantage ground. 41 seems to
bo difficult to persuade all tho peoplo that
valorous passion and potential death do not
havo to go together. Of courso, as a rulo, emo
tional bursts of tho safoty and sanity Idea fol
low on tho hools of aad catastrophlos, with ro
fcpoct to tho celebration of the Fourth of July
as with othor things, but aftor tho first flare of
sentiment haB died down too often tho catua
tropho Is forgotten nnd tho condition primarily
causing it, remains for similar disaster tho next
tlmo. Back of it nil, bo far as this Fourth of
July nonsense Is concerned, as all know, Is tho
stubborn obstaclo ot solflsh commercialism.
That overcomo nnd tho rest will bo easy. And
tho way to overcome that is simply to knock
It in tho head, In tho Interest of ife and limb,
ob many citlos have already dono.
v- 1 The Taxpayers Have an Inning.
Tho taxpayors 9f Douglas county will con
gratulate therasolres on tho action of the sfato
supromo court in granting a rehearing In what
1b populorly known as the Jail feeding graft
case. Incidentally, they will also mark up a
credit mark to tho county board for defending
theso suits brought by the over-groody sheriff
lr. such a way as to fully protect tho treasury
should tho higher court eventually hold against
tho graft,
The decision which is reopened Is based on
a suit In which tho sheriff had put In his bill
for only one month's feeding of tho prisoners,
and had tho suits on tho subsequent monthly
bills boen allowed to go by default, tho raid on
tho county's funds would have been successful
to that extent evon after tho test cases were
.roversod. This is tho answer to the dishonest
critics who lamented tho expenditure of a few
hundred dollars by the county board to savo
tho taxpayors from being robbed of as many
thousands.
The Ideal of Scholarship.
Scholarship, It seen to me, Is the mastiry, the
exact mastery and cpmproliennlon of great bodies
of knowledge. The object of scholarship, the object
nf all knowledge, Is to understand, Is to compre
hend, is to know what the need of mankind Is.
As tho high product of scholarship, himself,
President Wilson is ablo to define tho Ideal In
Ita highest sense. Happily, we In this country
of pragmatlsts havo long since passed the time
of mistaking moro learning for scholarship, or
oven knowledge for understanding comprehen
sion. Solomon drew the distinction when he
said "knowledge Is easy to him that undor
standoth," nnd that "with all thy gotttlng, get
understanding." Ab tho president puts It, "It
is much easier to acquire than Interpret," Tho,
test fpr education, for scholarship, conies, then,
In Its powor to lntorpret Itself in terms of
definite comprehension and. practical service,
not only "to know what tho need of mankind
Is," but to supply that need. And back or tho
Intellectual forco must jlo the moral principle,
for In the final analysis education, scholarship,
knowlodgo and understanding Is simply character-building.
Moreover, tho world has a right
to (est the efficiency of the college and univer
sity by tho Btandard of moral prlnclplo, "By
their fruits yo shall know them."
Keep It before tho people that tho Jall
feedlng graft is the samo in principle as the
naturalisation and insanity fee grab, -only
mounting up Into bigger money. None of those
steals is any moro defonBlblothan would be an
attempt by a county treasurer to pocket all the
Intoreat paid by tho banks on deposits of public
money in hia custody on some Bpllt-balr technicality.
Complaint is mado that low salaries and
marriage mako rapid changes in tho teaching
corps of our public schools. The Inference Is that
low salaries help along marriages. Then high
salaried teachers would never get married,
when, as everyone knows, thoy are Just tho one
In groatcst demand on the matrimonial market.
When electricity was first urged as a substi
tute for gas n principal argument In Its favor
was that It would produce light without heat.
In vlow of these debates on the lighting con
tract, that argument will have to be withdrawn.
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Hruinnd MarMnnnV Srntrncr.
PLAINF1ULD, N. Y., May M.-To the
Editor of The Bee: Will you let me fl
public nttentlon upon a verdict that is
going to be famous In future centuries
and In worlds set unmapped by Mr.
Itoosevelt? After a number of praise
worthy hurglarles had been brought tu
a peaceful Issue In tho town of Plain
field (where I am temporarily hanging
out my shingle), a policeman, bent upon
vindicating the efficiency of the force,
eaw me, an eminently hurglarlous-lonk-Ing-pcwon,
returning from tho postofflco
ono night, cross the quiet tree-shaded
avenue on which I reside, dlreotly to the
houso that had the honor of holding me,
then saunter up and down In front of thi
houso (a highly suspicious action to
which I am pronel-pause onco or twice In
the path (In poetic ecstasy) and resume
tho suspicious exercises again. From tho
shadows opposite, tho vigilant gunrdlan
of the law suddenly pounced upon his
prey, demanding where tho prey lived
(If he lived anywhere), and what was M
rame. Tho humor of tho situation so
amused mo, that tho policeman consid
ered tho majesty of the law, as repie
sented In his august person, vilely out
raged. I Joked my perslstcpt companion
up and down the block, his temper got
tho better of him. and he arrested mc.
For charge, he was able to recall tha
morning after that I had called him In
"loud and profano language" a qualified
fool-tho profanity being expended on the
qualification. Tho real fact Is that 1
had forgotten to namo him so.
His chief, when he found out what had
happened, In the kindliest, most gentle
manly spirit, and with tho most praise
worthy object, tried to havo the thing
quieted. But, In the Interest of Justice.
1 refused, and Insisted upon the matter
going Into open court.
It Is fortunate that I did so. For It
baa resulted In legal history being en
riched by a verdict for acumen and
brilliancy takes precedence of any legal
pronouncements In the world's history
from the days of Doaberrv
Platnflcld Police Judge DeMcza-a verdict
that will outrival and relegate to ob
scurlty oven the famous one of tho Ar
kansas Jury, who found the prisoner
guilty of murder In tho first degree, be
cause, though ho hadn't killed the victim,
hq had, iho year before, stolen the fore
man's gray mare. This wonderful verdict
which will command tho admiration and
awp pf legal luminaries yet unborn, and
which Is destined to go down to dim pos
terity In the bright annals of Jersey
Jurisprudence, was "I find you not guilty
of disorderly conduct, as charged, and
the case ia dismissed. But," continued
the grave gentleman on the bench, "as
you should have given your namo to the
officer, I find you guilty of Indescretlon,
nnd suspend sentence.."
Now, where is that nudaclous fellow
who said that fiction was stranger than
fact?
Tremblingly sitting under the auspend-d
sword of DcMcza, tho Wise and Won
derful, I am, Yours faithfully,
8EU.MAS MAC MANUS.
Letters from a Political Heathen
Mexico.
SOMEWHEnE. May 30.-To the Edi
tor of The Bee: , It was on tho thirty
first day of October, 1861. the historic
Mexican convention was held at London,
Tha Initiator of this proceeding was Louis
Bonaparte. The participants were
France, -Spain and England. The osten
sible purpose waa the forming of an al
llanco to enforce payment of claims ot
the subjects of the high contracting par
ties against Mexico. An invitation was
sent to the United States to Join the con
vention, but It was declined. Yet Presi
dent Lincoln offered to guarantee the
paymont Mexico's debt and take security
by taking possession of Sonora and Chi
huahua as security. President Jaures
favored this plan. But the Mexican con
gress rejected it. The three powers. Eng.
land, Franco and Spain, Joined in the
convention and each eent a fleet and nn
army to enforco the demand. There can
be no doubt that both England and Spain
acted In perfect good faith. They re
quired that no Interference with the in
ternal affairs of Mexico, no acquisition
of territory enter Into the transaction.
The convention, contained these stlpula
tlons, was signed by Monsieur Flahaut
acting on behalf of Louis Bonaparte, A
secret correspondence, since brought to
light, ehowa that Bonaparte was not
acting In good faith, for he had already
agreed with Maxmlllan to make him em
peror of Mexico.
DEB HEIDE.
Editorial Pen Points
Boston Transcrlnt: But fr t r.i
len. properly awed, had left the august
presence of his master, he mado the gen
eral public salve the wounds his naturally
haughty spirit hsd sustained.
St. Louis Bepubllo: It la now said that
Mr. Folk will not ask C, W. Morse to
testify. Perhaps he thinks Mr. Morse's
testimony would not be worth any more
than his representations as to the stato
of his health.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: General Funston
reports that the slek rate among his
soldiers Is 1.49 per cent and that among
the marines It is 1.46. with no malaria.
Pretty good record with the thermometer
up Into the 00s every day.
Chicago-Tribune: Congress should ad
journ. The congressmen should go home
to find out what Is going on and what
Is being thought, and then as many or
them as are re-elected should reassemblo
next winter and enact a law to treat
business conditions as they exist today.
Springfield Bepubltcan. A course In
salesmanship Is to be Introduced at the
Vnlverslty of Nebraska for the benoftt
of students who wish to earn money In
the. summer vacation. But many a stu
dent lua managed to master the art of
hook canvatnlng without waiting or a
course In the subjeot.
Philadelphia Ledger: n is usual In
such cases, it is almost impossible to ar
rive at the truth In relation to the Colo
rado troubles. All reports sent out aro
partisan. The one thing certain Is that
Colorado haa been disgracefully negli
gent. The only ones who have made any
thing out of the difficulty are a few poll
ttclans, IndlanapoJIa News: A man who found
It liecessary to relate some of his per
sonal affairs tn the police Judge explained,
amorig other things, thai when he got
J1SJ in a suit for damages his lawyer spilt
with hint, the lawyer taking the flOO and
leaving him the IM. Thus we hsve further
convincing evidence or the correctness or
the theory gf the latA Sir Edwsrd Coke
that the law Is 'perfection ot reason."
In the Thick of it When
Mobs Ruled Mexico City
Graphic Description of Events at
Mexican Capital After Fall of
Vera Cruz Related by Omaha Man
THESE GIRLS OF OURS.
CITY OF MEXICO, May 20.
I was very glad to receive your note, which ar
rived here only two dsys ago. It Is good to know
that one la remembered by friends at home. We have
during the last month been through experiences
which made us think of the homeland, for It cer
tainly 'looked at times as If we might not again see
It! Perhaps you would be Interested in knowing how
it all" looked to an "Insider."
Mexico has been so full of disorder, lawlesncss and
bloodshed during the last four years that thousands
of Americans have left the country, especially those
living In tho Interior. Kvcn here In the city hundreds
have left, but most of us had remained, thinkinK
that there could be little danger, at Irast In the eapl
tal, where there are so many foreigners and where
the center of organized government waa located.
Then suddenly came the "Tamplco Incident." the
news of which for a time was suppressed by tho
government, but which, when It finally got out.
aroused tho people to a high pitch of excitement.
When we thought this was about settled (In the
meantime many of the timorous ones had left) thore
camo the startling Intelligence that Vera Cum had
been captured by th6 Americans and then pande
monium broke loose, Indeed.
Apparently the American government claims that
this was not an ar-t of "war," In splto ot the fact
that Mexico's chlof seaport was taken and bevcral
hundreds of Its citizens were killed! But tho govern
ment here considered It War and Mexican Impotence
saved tho United States from having a bloody strug
gle on Its hands (as It may have yet.) Tho news uf
tho landing of the American marines at Vera Cruz
reached Mexico City In the afternoon ot the same
day and thousands of flaming "extras" were soon
out, calling the nation to war. The government of
fices and many largo commercial establishments
closed down and soon the streets were full gf ex
cited thousands, wrought to a dangerous degree of
anger, enthusiasm and patriotism. Self-appointed
leaders soon appeared and the blaze waa fanned by
Inflamatory harangues by student orators and gov
ernment clerks, actually sent on the streets for this
purposo by high government officials. Great Pro
cessions wero formed to parade the streets and tho
cry ot "Mucra a los Gringos!" ("Kill the Ameri
cans!") becamo tho battle-cry. As a preliminary to
tho real business of killing, they began to attack the
American business houses, tearing down shutters and
signs, stoning windows, etc. In a few cases some
looting was also done, but not much.
Fortunately most-Americans wcro able to keep out
ofe the way or else got out, and only a few wore
hurt, none seriously, and no one was killed here In
the city In spite ot reports to tho contrary. But
there wcro somo close calls, I, myself, had an ex
perience which I do not care to repeat, though it
was not dangerous. That first evening I came out
of tho American club, (you will remember Its loca
tion) and with a couple of other Americans we ran
Into a mob Just forming In front of the building.
They wero terribly excited and followed us for a
block or two, each one urging the others to kill the
"American pigs," but no one daring, apparently, to
cast the first stonol It gives one kind of a creepy
feeling In one's back to have a mob following within
ten feet, crying for your blood at the top of their
voices!
This condition of affairs kept up for nearly a
week. Business practically closed down and the
government offices every day poured out their thou
sands for tho express purposo of "demonstrating."
Each day there were fresh excesses and no ope knew
where it was going to end. The foreign colonics
which had previously armed themselves, hurriedly
completed their plans for defense, arranging tor a
central station stocked with supplies and guarded by
armed bands of their subjects to which their people
were to flco If the situation got worse. In the midst
of all the excitement tho peace of mind of the Amer
icans was not, to say the' least, reassured by the
Mexican government's confiscating all our arms and
ammunition and taking possession ot the American
embassy, which had heretofore been our headquar
ters. The American charge d'affaires was given his
passports and sent Put of the country. I was a mem
ber of the "committee on defenso" of the American
colony, which up to this time had been centering all
its plans around the embassy, storing arms and
ammunition, provisions, coal, etc. With the loss ot
our arms and of our headquarters, we had to mako
other plans. But Americans are usually equal to
most emergencies, and this one was met and over
come, except as far as arms wcro concerned; we
have been defenseless since that time.
Finally the enthusiasm of the crowds cooled off,
the deploted ranks of the army were filled up (which
was the real object of Iluerta In jthla whole affair!)
the mobs found that demonstrations and crying
"mueras!" ("death to the Americans!") did not take
the place ot wages and food; and so the government
decreed that there should not be any more manifesta
tions on the streets. In fact, by the end of th
week a pronounced reaction had set in; tho people
began to feel that they had been fooled and that
there was no actual "conquest" of Mexico being un
dertaken by the Americans; the vicious and stupid
lies of the government papers were no longer be
lieved; and It Is probabl that the gqvernment called
off manifestations for fear that they would be turned
against Itself.
One thing Is certain, that If there were not hun
dreds ot Americans killed It was not the fault of
the Mexican press, prompted by the Iluerta govern
ment. I have never heard of any action so outra
geous, mean, false and lylnc as that ot the news
papers here. American "yellow Journals" are not In
tho same class! There Is also not the slightest
doubt that they were all Inspired in their campaign
by the government (for tn Mexico, you know, there
la no "opposition" or even Independent press. The
papers either support the government and approve
alt of Its acts, or else their offices are closed and
their editors take quarters In the government ptlton )
Indeed, It Is to me a suggestive faot that In spite
of alt this Incitement to violence and crime, yet not
a slnglo American was killed In this city. It really
speaks well for the majority of the Mexican people
that they wore not led astray Into terrible excesses;
and even though thousands wero greatly wrought up
up, yet the mass ot the people took no part In the
disturbances. To me It Is also a cause of satis
faction that the association was not molested by the
rioters and the mobs. Several times the mobs passed
the building, but no demonstration was made against
It. It Is true that the government searched the build
ing for arms (and found none), but the people them
selves are as friendly as ever. Our work has con
tinued regularly, except for three or four days when
the trouble was at Its worst, and even thep we were
wide open all the time.
It Is eald that 10.0CU people have left; perhaps even
more. , Many are, still leaving eyery day; Indeed
this letter Is being aent cut by a friend who is go
ing out on a refuge train. But the rush Is over. Some
estimate the ten out of every eleven Americans
hav left. 1 am one that has not gone, as you see
Our Mexican assistants here In the association urged
mo to leae. but well. I haven't gone yet! The fa
la that I can't get away. There Is too mUch at .stake
here In the association to leave Just at this time,
when one feels that It Is of the highest Importance
to remain.
Secretary Young Men's Christian Association ot Mex
ico City.
Mrs. Exe I'm going down town this
morning.
Exe Shopping, my deaF.'
Mrs. Exe No. 1 haven't time for that;
Just to buy some things that I need,
Boston Transcript.
"Everybody rises tu his fnct when the
band plays the "Star Spangtcd Banner."
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "WhAt a
fortunate thing It Is for our national
dignity that the melody Isn't brisk enough
to permit the crowd to tsngo." Washing
ton Star.
He They say, dear, that people who
live together get In time to Iook exactly
alike.
She-Then you may consider my refusal
final. London Opinion.
"You have been kissing another rtian."
, 1 ou have no right to say that," de
clared the girl.
A "Then I withdraw It. But 1 preferred
to bellovn that than to think you had
been chowlnc tobacco." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Willie raw, what conies after "Man
proppscs?" proposes and-?"
Paw Woman' Imposes, my son.
Mow Willie, you go to bed.-Clnclnnatl
Lnqulrer.
Jim They arrested a man In Paris for
being run over by an automobile. The
Judge fined htm.
Joe What did they du with the auto
mobile driver?
, Jlm-Flned him. too. Yes, and fired
him.
tne What for?
Jim For using a safetv brake nnd a
fender. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
' "'Si. ma, "Flossie's mamma got a donkey
and cart for a birthday present. Did any
body ever give you a donkey for a.
present?'- . . .
"Yes. child; pa did when he married
mc." Baltimore American.
A BALLADE OF JUNE TJME.
We alng you to the March of Lohengrin,
Jewel ot months, rarest and fairest
June:
We bring you wreaths to wrap your
Beauty In. . . ,
Deep In the orchard old Pan Pipes a
tune. . . , ..
While flower bells faintly chime the
year's high noon. , ,
And love among the blossoms lies
adream.
Muse, let pa also loll and loon!
Oh, Brldr and noses Strawberries and
Cream!
'Tls song-time swinimine-tlme. when
lads begin .... .
Scurrying streamward from the wood
unhewn ... , ,,,
Barefooted satyrs, freckled as to skin.
But Joyous as young goats, to woe im
mune, ....
Whistling and answering the forest croon.
Mocking the blue Jay and the catbird's
scream.
Come on the water's fine! Oh, boy
hood's boon! . .
Oh, Brides and Boses Strawberries nnd
Cream!
Butterfly Fatec. be kind and softly spin
Love's silken threads Into that old co
coon, '
The future! May theso divers deftly win
Life's prizes; send them swiftly, sure
and soon.
Lead them to Arcady, where lovers spoon
Now and lorover In that lambent beam,
Where orargo buds bloom 'ncath tho
honeymoon!
Oh, BrldM and Boses Strawberries and
Cream!
A Hot Iron and a
Cool Kitchen
That's what you want for ironing that's what the
New PerSctioit
gives you. The heat is all in tne burner none
in the room.
The New Perfection ia cheaper than coal and
cooks better. Broils, bakes, roasts, toasts.
In 1, 2, 3 and 4 burner sizes. Ask to see the
1914 model 4 burner, cabinet range with tireless
cooking oven. x
Perfection Oil Gives Best Results
Standard Oil Company
, MtCBBAJSIA)
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