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The Washington times., 1901-11-24
A WEDDING GOWN.
And How the Bride Came /,
Wear 1t.

Anu now the brlue came TO
Wear 1t.
There lives in this city the widow OF d
naval officer who was killed in the civil
war. She is a childless woman, and, ex-
cept for an ancient colored nanny. lives
entirely alone. in an oid-fashioned house
on the heights OF Georgetown.
At the time of her marriage in the six
ties, she possessed friend who also
loved the young officer. and who after
ward married a merchant, who died leav-
ing her daughter and debts
AS the merchants widow had never for
given her successful rival. and the other
could never forget, 1t has happened in all
these years that they have never ex-
changed visits, nor even bowed in passing
One day, not so long ago, however, the Of
ficer's widow found herself shopping at
the same counter with her former friend,
who, unaware Of her presence, was deep
in troubled consultation with her daugh-
ter, and the officers widow heard every
word.
There is no use talking" said the girl
finally in voice tremulous with distress
Il will Just have 10 wear travelling dress,
and all my life l have dreamed OF being
married in white
BY that time. the listener had heard
enough TO justify her in doing what some
good people might call a Quixotic, but
certainly was a very, gracious deed
She went straight home and going to
padlocked trunk unlocked and lifted
from its perfumed depths bundle wrap
ped in linen, which she tearfully un-
pinned.
1t was bolt of creamy Canton crepe
that her husband had brought her from
China-his last gift-and only those who
have loved and lest can understand how
sacredly 1t was treasured.
That evening she carried 1t to the
home Of the merchants widow, and a
mouth later. when the daughter became
bride, every society writer in Wash
ington had something nice to say of her
gown Of Chinese crepe.
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that answered the same purpose before
the fire and leaned the disk against it
with its face turned to the blaze. BY the
time it was good and hot she would have
her dough ready-eornmeal seasoned
with salt and worked with her hands into
pattycake consistency with water out
Of the gourd. Then she would flicker
dust of meal over the hot surface of that
disk, pat the cake on top with her deft
hand, punching her finger in the centre
SO that the steam could escape, set 1t
before the fire at Just the right angle,
and then go of to come back now and
then to revolve 1t SO that it should brown
evenly all over, and when done whisk 1t
from the iron with knife, clap it on
plate, slit II In the middle, and butter and
send to the table piping hot.
And that's the way to make a hoecake.
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ing it all peculiar to cook books and die.
tionaries: BEAT two eggs briskly'-

ing it all peculiar to cook books and die
tionaries: BEAT two eggs briskly'-
hoecake knows no eggs.
Another starts out accurately with:
ITO a quart OF cornmeal seasoned with
salt, add water enough to make stiff
batter The water should be hot
Water should be cold.
Another steers clear of the foregoing
errors, but slips up with the baking,
which, she declares. should be done in a
..stove ran, similar to those used in the
South before the war"
BY "stove pam the recipe lady means
the iron skillet on legs. which the South
ern cooks used to stand on the hearth OF
the big, open freplace-there were no
stoves in those antebellum times-and
in which they used to cook everything
they didn't boil, except hoecakes.
A glowing heap of red hot Goals would
be shoyeled from the bed of the hre to
the hearth. and there the cook would set
her sikillet. Cornpone, light bread, bis
cults, and rolls went in those piping hot
receptacles, and when the iron lid was put
on and banked with more Goals, the col
ored goddess who presided as the spirit
of that FIRE would go to the spring, or
pick chickens, or spank a pickaninny
without apparently the least interest in
that skillet until leisurely stopping to
take drink from the gourd floating in
the water tub, or to take a Few extra
plucks from her fowl, or to stand in the
door to call out to some adjacent Pomp
or Sambo to "fotch her passle 'er chips,
she would go to the hearth, lift that skill
let lid with a poker, and there would be
her bread done to turn, delicious
crusty brown.
But she never baked hoecakes that
way; she knew better. fier hoecake pan
wasn't pan at all, but a disk OF Iron As
black as the ace Of spades and as smooth
and shining as glass. Hoes haven't been
used since way back before the Revoiu-
tion. When she wanted to make hoe
cake she stood Aatiron or something
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HAVE YOU A COLOR?
II Not, You Must Try to Grow Red
Cheeks.

EyeryboGy's Love must be like Burns
Red, Red Rose, these days, II she wants
to be one of the bouquet of beauties in
society's garden of girls. II she does not
grow natural roses she must cultivate
them, and there is more than one way
how. Once on a time a Washington girl
attained rich bloom by saving wood
an aristocratic young person she was,
too, and married q mint of money.
Another dainty maid took TO scrubbing
but fear for ner hands necessitated her
changing her stunt TO sweeping-whichi Is
really splendid for bringing all sorts of
Delsarte motions into play-to say moth
ing of the clean floors.
These workers are in the sere and
yellow leaf now, but they were buds in
those days. and their glowing cheeks we're
their fortune.
The girls of the next generation were
lank and sallow. with yearnings in all
sorts of aesthetic directions. and they
wore picture frocks. looked unutterable
things at sunflowers, until all at once
there was a revolution and the athletic
girl came to the front This sturdy type
has had a jolly time. but the wheel is
turning back bit and the fat has gone
forth that freckles and tan are healthy.
but not becoming, and cheeks must blush
again.
The Duchess of Marlborough has ac-
quired lovely and delicate cheeks. though
how she came by them, since they are
not for sale. and she has been chronically
pale, she has not so far. seen proper TO
say. 1t is said, too, that the young
Countess of Craven is trying Industrious
ly to achieve color. and her friends are
waiting to see how her efforts will turn
out, as it is understood that she acknowl-
edges to having a plan.
The Countess Castellane-if reports be
true-went after hers according to the
French fashion-just as she got her yell
low hair-but there are dozens Of ways Of
acquiring them-if only one knows how.
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Can You Roll wnter

A business woman said the other day
that, while she was not as good a cook
as she would like 20 be, On account of her
outside duties, she mt st say that she
Fnew how to boil water beautifuIly-and
the people who heard her laughed They
had evidently never heard of Sir Andrew
Clark. of London. Sir Andrews word is
doctrine. so far as water is concerned, and
he has proclaimed that, when properly
boiled, it possesses the same medicinal
qualities attributed to an eqaul amount Of
whisky.
He has had similarly forceful things to
say about the unhealthiness OF water bad
ly cooked, but it doesn't make a pleasant
story.
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lday in her distant home. Without money
and in her habit and rosary. only one
thing could happen. She was picked up
on the road by a passing carriage and
brought back to the monastery gates.
She had not the courage, however. to
ring the bell, but came down to the hotel,
and sending the keeper TO the superior
with a message that she was grieyed at
the scandal she had caused, she broke into
a fit of weeping that brought on hemor-
hage from which she died.
The Washington times., 1901-11-24
HOW TO BAKE A HoEcAKE.

This Culinary Triumph is Achieved
by Few Cooks.
Science has decided that hoecake is the
only bread. that should be brought to the
table hot. This being the case. It be-
hooves the housekeeper to know the way
of its making.
There are many WAYS Of not knowing
how to make a hoecake. They are found
principally in cook books. You will read
in one: Take equal quantities of corn
meal and four"-and then you stop, be-
cause there is norfour in hoecake.
Another begins with that air Of know
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that Sister Agnes had been dead for nearly
thirty years. How she died the FORTRESS
did not say, but when madame reached the
quaint little hotel on the. side OF the
mountain she learned the story from the
woman who kept 1t.
1t was not long story, but 1t was one
that madame viii never forget.
The novice was very young and child
like, and rich lady had come to the con-
vent and SO filled her heart with longings
for the world that the POOR thing stole
away from the sacred shelter to find the
The Washington times., 1901-11-24

And that's the way to make hoecake.
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At the Coffee Urn.

The breakfast Jacket. like charity. COW
ers multitude Of ills. The wife who is
SO dead to her own interests as to slouch
into her morning meal in untidy waist.
when a few yards of outing nannel,
ribbon bow and friil Of lace can be bough.
for less than dollar, ought to be dead,
buried. and her place at the head Of the
table given to a brighter. natter number
two, who knows how to appreciate the
goods the gods provide-yia her husbands
pocket.
Instinctively We condemn the woman
with . frayed skirt braid. and yet-she
may be working twelve hours a day.
The Washington times., 1901-11-24
MADAME AND THE NOVICE.
Stories of the world Ruined Young
Postulant'x Peace.

Here is story about a woman who
was scintillating star in the social mr.
mament of Washington nearly thirty
years ago. When scarcely more than
bride. with the world at her feet. she
was attacked with long and terrible
spell of typhoid fever that resulted In
the loss Of her hair. During her con-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
ATTORNEY G. E. DANIELS.

The absorption of the individual coal
companies means the control of the
anthracite coal trade by fewer men.
and those men remote from the local
interests and the producing regions.
There will be both benefits and disad-
vantages. There is an up hill for every
down hill: more than one rose for
every thorn. So it seems to me will be
the change in the anthracite coal
trade.
Unquestionably, the control of the
trade will be centralized. What bene-
fits will result from that? It should
mean that railroads would compete to
tidewater more than heretofore. If that
would follow, the price of coal would
likely fall at tidewater and a wider
market would be found for the COM
modify. In my opinion, the miners
themselves would be bettered in their
daily work. There are exceptions. of
course, but the general proposition is
that the individual operators have
been more sxacting and have imposed
greater hardships and restrictions upon
their men than the larger companies
have.
Then, too, a depression in business is
felt more quickly by the individual
operator, and very often the larger and
coal-carrying companies have been
able to tide over slight business de-
pressions without an effect on the men,
and sometimes even without their
knowledge. 1t should result, too, that
with fewer men to consider and handle
the questions which must arise be-
tween capital and labor, from time to
time, there would be less disputes and
more amicable settlement of those
which did arise. The power Of a few
men in the settlement of the recent
coal strike was very apparent and very
dominating. The fewer number OF men
in control of both capital and labor the
more likelihood there will be of them
meeting on a common ground, man to
man.
The great disadvantage of the deal
lies far more to the community than
to the miners themselves. 1t means
that the corporation profits will not be
expended for the advancement of local
interests. They will go into the treas
uries of men hundreds of miles away,
and will be used for the furthering of
business projects far removed from
any thought of our city. Heretofore
we reaped the benefit of the wages and
the general profits. Now we lose the
latter. If our city Is to continue to
grow, something must take the place
of that loss. The individual operators
have within their power the making or
marring, at least in some degree, of
| our city for years to come. The pur-
chase price of the sales has been paid.
Will 1t be expended in placing indus
tries and factories in the city and val
| ley? If 1t will, the foundation will thus
| be laid, that will make Scranton a
| busy industrial city when the days OF
its chief product, coal mining, will
| have passed. True, outsiders do come
| here TO invest. But 1t t. lie home fos-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
Y. w. c. A. RECEPTION.
Enjoyable Time Promised at the
RomS Today


The board of managers and secre-
taries of the central Young Women's
Christian association will receive this
evening from to 10. The programme,
which as been arranged by Miss Flor
ence Richmond, is one of the best ever
rendered at the central rooms.
The cooking school will he open dur
ing the entire evening and Miss Smith
and some of her pupils will receive.
From Z to 8 o'clock there will be an
exhibition in the gymnasium where the
physical director. Miss Mary Haines
Hall. and class will give an exhibition
Of class work in that department.
The programme from 8 to $50 will be
under the direction of Miss Cordelia
Freeman and Miss Julia Clapp Allen
and will be as follows:
"The Energetic Fiddlcrs' tor violins) Chariot
Misses Edna Caryl, Marie Hill, verna
Walter, Ida Houser and Mr.. Rodriguez
Laura Weldrum, pianist.
Song .......,........,...M Miss Florence Robertson
Mennetto Oor yiolin) ..............,.......Da .Danke
song ..'..',.,......,,..,...Ml Miss Elsie Powell
Tenor solo, "Your Voice" "............... Denla
Mr.. Tom Gippel.
"At the Mountain Inn (violins) .... .Lakitzvy
From o'clock the following friends
of teh association will entertain and
in the order named: Miss Clara Long,
violin; Miss Martha Matthews, So
prano; Miss Grace Duncan, contralt0:
Mrs. Long, piano solo; Miss Strick .
land, soprano: Mr.. Swartz, banjo solo;
Miss Grace Duncan, contralto; Miss
Clara Long, violin; Mr.. Swartz, banjo
The following are accompanies,
Misses Meldrun, Kann, Bone, Mrs.
Adams and Mrs. Aria Powell. The
public is invited.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01

terng Of business that draws the eye
of the outsider.
Scranton has outgrown the swaddling
clothes of dependence upon the one in
dustry of coal production for its life.
The city is dotted with manufacturing
smokestacks that tell of activity In
other industrial lines. But the future
will be problematical' so far as con-
tinued growth and prosperity are con-
cerned, unless there be additional in
dustrial manufactures located here. III
the sale money of the mines be trans
formed into these factories and mills.
5cranton's future is assured. l am not
pessimistic enough to say that Scran-
ton will dwindle and die unless the
present individual operators invest in
other channels. believe 1t will not.
But somewhere must be found people
to care for the city's industrial and
financial interests And does not the
sale of individual mines open UP that
very opportunity to the operators to
advance the city's interests2 If 1t be
seized, 1t seems to me that the sale OF
the mines to the coal-carrying COM
panies will eventuate in n solid basis
Of prosperity that will not crumble
with years nor lessen by production as
coal necessarily must.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01

which would be created by the erec-
tion of the viaduct would be in every
sense of the word such debt as was
intended by those who fixed the con-
stitutional debt limit.
The attorneys for the plaintiff also
attacked the validity of the ordinance
on the ground that the plans and spe-
cifcations were not attached to 1t and
that 1t provided for more things than
the title announced In reply to these
arguments. the defense showed that
the plans and specifications were on
file in the city engineers office and
that the fact that they were not ac-
tually attached to the ordinance could
not possibly invalidate It.
II was also contended by Messrs.
Vosburg and Warren that the title Of
an ordinance was never intended to
be an index to 1t, and that the other
things which the measure provides for
in addition to the erection of a via
duct are included in that part of the
title reading upon certain condi-
tiOns"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
Suit Against the City.

Mrs Kate williams,a a colored woman,
who lives at 621 Kressler court. began
an action against the city yesterday to
recover $1,000 damages. She is repre-
sented by Attorneys c. e. Oliver and l..
II. Burns.
Mrs. Williams is a widow. and she
alleges that on March s, 1899, because
OF the unsafe condition of the side
walk in front of the Raub building on
Spruce street, she tripped and fell in
such a manner as to injure her left leg
ina permanent manner. Since the ac-
cident she has been in the hospital for
a long time and has obtained only
temporary relief. The bone was splin-
tered by the fall and causes her great
pain and annoyance.
She will never again have the same
earning power she had before the acci-
dent and she therefore claims $4,000.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
SERVICES USHERING
IN new CENTURY
Midnight Mass at Cathedral and
Watch Night Services at Many
of the other Churches.

st. Peters cathedral was thronged
at midnight with q crowd of devout
worshippers which filled every pew,
packed the back end of the church and
overfowed out on the sidewalk.
Neven did the interior of the edifice
look more beautiful. The effect, as one
looked at the altar. was dazzling.
There were myriads of candles alight
and on either side of the sanctuary
were two enormous candelabras aglow
with hundreds of lights.
The mass celebrated was a pontifical
high mass and was solemnized by RI.
Rev. Bishop M. ]. Hoban. The other
officers of the mass were as follows:
Assistant priest, Rev. ]. A. O'Reilly;
deacons of honor, Rev. Father Van
Ray and Rev. j. j. Ruddy; deacons of
the mass, Rev. p. ]. Cough; sub
deacon, Rev. Myles McManus; master
of ceremonies, Rev. John Griffin. Beau
tiful music was furnished by the choir.
At st. Luke's church, just at the
new century's dawn, the Holy Com
munion was celebrated. There was a
congregation present which completely
filled the church
Music was furnished by quintet
selected from the choir, and the SER
vice was conducted by the rector, Rev.
DR.. Rogers Israel, assisted by Rev. Nj.
Il. Nash.
Watch night services were conducted
last night i'm the basement of the Elm
Park church. Upwards of 200 were
present and joined heartily in the
hymns of praise which We're sung and
the prayers led by the pastor, Rev. DR..
c. NJ. Giffin, until after the midnight
hour.
In the lower temple of the Penn Ave-
nue. Baptist church a throng of over
800 gathered at $50 o'clock and en-
joyed a social time until shortly after
II o'clock. The pastor, Rev. DR.. Rob-
ert f. Y. Pierce and the former pastor,
Rev. DR.. Warren G.. Partridge, of Gin
cinnati. who is visiting in the city, re-
ceived the guests and led In prayer un-
til after the midnight hour During
the social period refreshments were
served.
A union prayer service of the con-
gregations of the First and Second
| Presbyterian church was conducted i'm
| the lecture room of the Second church
last night between the hours of 7.45 and
| SIS. the pastors. Rev. DR.. Charles F..
| Robinson and Rev. DR.. James Mcleod,
| leading.
Watch night services were also con-
| Quoted at the Rescue mission with
Rev. G. l.. Alrich in charge and at the
| First German Methodist Episcopal
church with the pastor, Rev. Bobolin
in charge.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
d. B. ATHERTON.

The city of Scranton has reached
new epoch as we'll as has the anthracite
coal industry. Scranton can no longer
depend upon coal mining II it 10 to con-
tinue to prosper. grow and thrive. I
believe that our capitalists who have
large interests in this community to
protect will see to it thata least a part
of the money received from the sale of
these coal interests is placed in chan
nels that will increase our manufac-
turing industries, and put the city
upon a more sound and better basis in
dependent of the coal interests entirely.
1 do not fear the retirement of the
individual coal operator. On the con-
trary / believe that the result will be
beneficial to Scranton. The change
will increase the money circulation in
this district, because 1t is well known
fact that the large carrying companies
are more liberal in their mining opera
tions; 1t will do.away with the COM
pany store which will largely increase
the volume of business among Scran-
tons merchants; Scranton being the
metropolis of the anthracite region,
buyers will naturally come here to do
their trading the moment they are re-
lieved Of the company store; it will
make the semi monthly pay system
general which will decrease the credit
time limit one-half, and bring us so
much nearer the true and only basis
of business-cash.
There are so many openings here
now for the profitable investment of
capital that / would like to suggest
few: An open hearth steel plant;
plant for the construction of all kinds
of electrical apparatus; a tin plate
plant: a wire factory; a concern to
manufacture telephone supplies; for all
of which there is an unlimited demand.
Any one of the above industries, If To-
Gated in Scranton, would have the en-
tire eastern market at their command.
and for commodities that are in con-
stant demand, and will be for many
years to come.
Nor is there more centrally To-
Gated city for the distribution of such
commodities than the city of Scranton.
Look on the map, and you will find
Scranton almost in the center of a
circle whose lines would cross Boston,
Buffalo, Pittsburg and Baltimore. with
five different lines of railroad extending
in all directions.
Such industries as well as many al
ready located here would not be de-
pendent upon the coal business. Take
for instance the Dickson Manufacture
ing company, our silk mills. piano fac
tory, axle works, drop forge works,
our bolt and nut works and spike fac
tories, all of them are almost entirely
independent of the coal business, and
work steadily without regard to the
condition of the coal trade.
Such industries are what Scranton
needs; what Scranton must have, and I
for one am willing to leave it to the
broad minded, liberal. progressive citi-
zen of the city of Scranton to see that
we get them, and with little more en-
| couragement from those who have a
selfish interest In the development of
Scranton along the lines indicated
above it will make very little difference
whether the coal business is in the
hands of the few or the many.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-01
SIXTEENTH WARD PRIMARIES.

The vigilance committees of the two
districts OF the Sixteenth ward met last
night in the office of Walter L. Davis,
in the PAUL. building, and decided to
hold the primaries for the February
election on Saturday, January II. be-
tween the hours of and p. m. The
last day for the registration of candi-
dates was fixed for next Monday.
The only ward official to be elected
is an alderman and three candidates
registered last night. They are Fred
erick Fuller, the present incumbent; p.
j. Vetter and Joseph Klein.