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Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09
How to Keep SILK white.

Among the things that are worth re-
membering Is the fact that beeswax
broken in pieces and put within the
folds of white woolens and white silks
will overcome that tendency toward
yellowness that white. fabrics have
when laid away for any length of time.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09

What is the use to fuss about the
sort of creatures who inhabit Mars
when half of the people on our own
globe don't know anything about how
the other half are living f-Kalsas City
Star.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09

How TO Improve Tomato soup.
A few slices of orange in n cream OF
tomato soup just before serving will, 1t
is said, Improve It's flavor.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09
Have just Received
A Carload of
Weber Farm and Team
WAGONS.

have sold a great many Of these
wagons and they have always given
the best of satisfaction, and con
slider them the best wagon of the
kind built.
/ also have full line OF Light
Wagons; also Harness, Summer
Blankets, etc.
Call and see for yourself what ]
have.
Local phone ia. G.. A. ADAM,
s. N. L. phone 23-i2. EAST MAIN ST
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09
Where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.

fidel traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jackals of the des-
ert have been surrendered to the
church, and we reach forth our hand,
crying, There is none like that; give
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-09

press and the platform on the side of
Christianity, but we overlook the en-
graver's knife and the painters pencil.
The antiquarian goes and looks at pic
tured ruins or examines the chiseled
pillars of Thebes and Nineveh and
Pompeii and then comes back to tell
us of the beastliness of ancient art,
and 1t is factnow that many of the fin
est specimens, merely artistically con-
sidered, of sculpture and painting that
are to be found amid those ruins are
not fit to be looked at, and they are
locked up. How Paul must have felt
when, standing amid those impurities
that stared on him from the walls and
NTH, he preached of the pure and holy
Jesus, The art of the world on thu
side of obscenity and crime and death.
Power of Christian Pictures.
Much of the art of the world has
been in the possession of the vicious.
What to unclean Henry VIII was a
beautiful picture of the Madonna?
What to Lord Jeffreys, the unjust
judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
lAANhN' w Lchl " ANNlO, LhC I'LL doLth,
picture of the baptism in the Jor-
dan? The art of the world on the
wrong side. But that is being changed
now. The Christian artist goes over to
Rome, looks at the pictures and brings
back to his American studio much of
the power of these old masters. The
Christian minister goes over to Venice
looks at the "Crucifixion of Christi
and comes back to the American pulpit
to talk as never before of the suffer
ings of the Saviour. The private tour
list goes to Rome and looks at Raphael's
picture of the Last Judgment" The
tears start, and he goes back to his
room in the hotel and prays God for
preparation for that day when
shriveling like parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll,
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16
Your Hair

Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half-starved hair. If you want long, thick, dark and heavy hair, feed it with Ayers Hair Vigor.
 sl. All drufkists Jc AVER CO.,, Lsvel Mass.
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16

q. All drussi.ts. JIG. AVER CO.,. Lowell. Mas.
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of Merchant Stephen French of that place, has been the guest of Mrs Nelson Taylor.

place, has been the guest of Mrs Nelson Taylor.
 THE WEANTINAUG SCHOOL BUILDING.
 The new Weantinaug school build tYon, and it is a building of fine pro- portions. The Tracey Brothers Co.,, the contractors, are now pushing the work to completion. Their local fore man is s. A. Warner, who is hustler from the word go. Just now he is short of carpenters and capable men applying will be pretty sure of getting a job. The mason work was sublet to that reliable firm, Casey & Hurley of Bridgeport. The building is plastered on the outside. R. B. Hurley, of the firm, has personally superintended the work and has impressed all who have met him as courteous gentleman and one who thoroughly understands his business. His firm are now building a very large brick building on Chapel street, Bridgeport, and are remodeling the block on Main street in the same city belonging to the Russell estate. The school building is magnificently located and with the fine corps of teachers, is bound to be success.
 OF INTEREST TO THE TOBACCO TRADE. F. P. Wiseburn, the expert tobacco 1 sampler, who has been working in New Milford, is being congratulated on the l article he has patented of which he is one of the owners. It is an improved patent sampler, always neat and uni form in appearance, can be quickly and conveniently made without dis comfort to the fingers of the sampler and with the aid of comparatively un' Eskflled labor if necessary; and is stronger, more effective and more sat isfactorY in every way than the olC corded and taped form. By the new method even the dryest tobacco can be securely bound without cutting or in l turing the tobacco. It not only insure' a perfect and attractive sample under all conditions but also saves time which is the equivalent of money Furthermore, the actual cost of thu The patent covers, essentially sam pie formed of two or more hands O tobacco held together by a band sur rounding their Shanks, which band i secured by staple or nails, the points of which penetrate through the over Tapping ends of the band and into tn, shankS of the hands of the tobacco be heath. The Patent Tobacco Sample Company also owns Letters Paten
 No. 674, l4S, dated May IA, 1901, for ap paratus for making said Patent Tobac co sample. This apparatus is simpl
 in construction and effective in opera
 tion, and meets all the practical re quirements of the trade. It onl!
 weighs four pounds, is portable, ant easily adjusted in position for use
 The shanks of the hands of tobacco
 together with the ticket, are placed
 upon: the table (across which the bind
 ing ribbon extends) between the verti cal arms of the binding straps, whicl
 are then lowered by means of the ham
 wheel and screw. The desired degre, of compression having been attained the ribbon is cut from the spool, an the ends of the bands thus formed ar
 brought up between the straps ant
 around the shanks of tobacco, tn
 overlapping ends of the band bein , thus, secured by driving staple o
 nails through them.
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16
CORNWALL BRIDGE.

REGRET TO HAVE DIR. CURTIS LEAVE.
 The residents of Cornwall Bridge are in a good state of health just at the present time and it stands us all in hand to try and keep so, as the com munity have had the misfortune to lose our esteemed and worthy physi- clan, Dr William Curtis, who has moved to Bristol, in pursuit of an easier field of labor. It is with much regret that we have to lose him as a citizen, as we'll as doctor. This was made manifest by the company that gathered at the A. O. U. w. hall the night before his departure to pay their respects to Dr and Jennie Curtis, his wife. Notwithstanding the drenching rain, the hall was a very ap- propriate place as the doctor was 8 member of the Masonic fraternity, and charter member of the A. O. U. w. orders, and it's first master workman. He was always working for the good of the order and it's cause.
 J. E. Skiff and c. w. Skiff and their wives, of Waterbury, who have been spending a few weeks at their old home, have returned to Waterbury, preparatory to J. B. Skiff and wife leaving for trip to Paris.
 Mrs c. L. Slade is entertaining MT and Mrs DOherty, of Waterbu ry, for few days.
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16

AT THE NEW ENGLAND HOUSE. James Zateriski, Nyack, N. Y. Jacob Linxweiler, South Norwalk. J. P. Woodbury, Ridgefield. Mrs E. L. Engles, Washington. w. BOnynge, HObOken, N. J.
 R. J. Roach, H. G. Shell, Buffalo, N H. H. Pomeroy, Gaylordsville. B. D. Seaverns, Mrs w. H. Bonynge, Louise, Lucy and William Bonynge, H. Greer, W. H. Ackley, c. W. Sykes, F. P. Lynch, Charles s. Clapp, H. B. Higgins, B. w. Hayward, c. E. Davis, M. E. Weed, New York. Robert Erwin, St Paul, Minn. B. o. Sperry, Marbledale.
 J. R. Judd, Miss w. Knapp, Kent. s. Haggart, Gloversville, N. Y. F. H. Sanford, w. I. Hartwell, c. B. Bennett, F. w. Robinson, John E. Phelan, Mrs L. A. Marston, Bridge port.
 A.. G. Barnes, Andrew M. Booth Porter M. Cassedy, w. M. Keeler, J H. McMahon, New Milford.
 w. G. Bartlett, E. c. Freeman, Bos ton, Mass.
 B. R. Alexander, Greenfield.
 George ". Hall, Falls Village. c. K. Watson, F. A. Holbrook Springfield, Mass.
 Roger A.. Townsend, L. H. Bates, A. F. Lincoln, H. L. Hayden, J. M Smith, New Haven. J.. c. Beers, Stamford.
 B. R. Fuller, Bath, N. Y. B. D. Pritchard, Pittsfeld, Mass.
 E. N. Stearns, Thompsonville. VI w Stonlov Thnnacfno J. Brown, Albany, N. Y. |
 J. ". Gregory, Meriden. $. T. Sheldon, Providence, R. I. L. A. L. Gale, Orange, Mass. J. Nickerson, F. H. Barnes, Danbury CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ITEMS. Rev Edward M. Chapman of st Johnsbury, Vt., will preach at the Congregational church on Sunday August IS. There being no session in that church last Sunday evening, many improved the opportunity to at. tend the Methodist church and listen. ed to a very interesting sermon from the pastor, Rev George Lansing Fay lor D. D., on the "Grandeur of Man, , from Psalm 8: 5-6, "For thou hast made him little lower than the an. gels," etc. pr Taylor is vigorous preacher and held the close attention of his audience for an hour or more. Mrs c. A. Lathrop has been passing few days in Bridgeport. Miss Julia Kahliher of Bridgeport is visiting at M. H. Waldron's in River district.
 Edward and Hattie Atwood of Hart. ford are visiting MT and Mrs Albert Sterling of Grove street.
 Editor A. P. Smith of THE BEE was hospitably entertained at dinner on Friday last by that genial gentleman, Vincent Sterling.
 Charles Hurd of Merryall has sold his fine crop of tobacco to Turney Soule for 15c.
 Miss Mary Brownson of Huntington was the guest, last week, of Mrs Will son H. Booth.
 Misses Ida and Sadie Allen have been passing week with their grand parents, MT land Mrs J. M. Ford.
 Will Richmond's s choice crop of to-
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16

Among those enjoying a sOjOurn at MT and Mrs J. R. RObinson'S in Merry all are MT and Mrs Sheldon Hendricks of South Carolina, Miss Birdie Rothe of New Milford, and MT and Mrs Orlo Cook and baby of Bridgeport.
 William Stone of Merryall has inn proved his barns by newly covering them.
 Miss Daisy Lathrop has been the guest of Gilbert Lathrop in the Park City.
 Miss Emma L. White of Hartford is the guest of Miss E. Belle Sterling of Grove street.
 Wilbur Osborne and family, Mrs George CogsWell and daughter, Miss Mary Cogswell, Mrs Wooster and Mrs Eaton are enjoying a stay at the Old Lakeside house at Lake Waramaug, now owned by Henry $. Mygatt.
 A. w. Piper is assisting in the cloth ing store of La Hait & Thomas during the vacation of John Pickett.
 Miss Sarah Hendricks of Merryall was the guest, last week, of Mrs John L. Brown of Kent Mountain.
 J. R. Robertson of Merryall is just completing very substantial tobacco barn, 72 30, with 181 foot posts. Sheldon Hendricks is doing the car penter work. MT Robinson has fine crop of five acres, sold to Vincent Sterling. and will be in position now to house the crop in fine shape. MT Robinson is one of the most energetic farmers of his district.
 Master Harold Frey of Stepney Depot, valued assistant in the store
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16

CHESTN UT LAND. Miss Julia Mulcahy of Staten Island and Miss Nellie Mulcahy of New Mil ford were recent guests of Miss Margie O'COnnOr.
 Miss Nellie Dubois called on her aunt, Mrs Robert Clark, one day last week.
 MT and Mrs Eli Clark are entertain ing company.
 Miss Margie O'Connor has returned home after visit with friends in New Milford.
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16
AN ART COLONY.

An interesting and ;charming com pany of Brooklyn art students are en- toying life at the pleasant home o1 Horace Allen. The ladies in question have rented the vacant house of MT Alleni and have christened it ''The Faby." The party includes their chaperOn, Mrs BroughtOn. Miss Averill and Miss Ethel Averill, Miss Edith Yeager, Miss Edith Frost, daughter and Miss Helen Daley. Mrs Langtry and daughter of Brooklyn arrived this week. William D. Paddock and Frank vOn Der Lonchen, two art instructors, have erected a neat studio on land of Robert Mallory, overlooking the HOusa- tonic river, and so the young ladies are able to keep up with their studies.
 THREE YOUNG MEN.
 A representative of THE BEE, while passing the house of Charles Camp, was invited to take seat on the piazza, where he was introduced to one of New Milford's young men, Alanson N. Garfield, who will be 94 years old in October. MT Garfield is n possession of all his faculties, and aside from being lame, is very we'll. A few doors north lives the venerable Col Starr, who will be 95 in January. The colonel reads without glasses, and moves about town like a man of 60 years. On Sunday night last he walk ed to the Methodist church and listen cd to sermon by Dr Taylor. Just across the Housatonic lives Orrin Marsh, aged 93. All three are sturdy old republicans and MT Canfield says he has voted for IS presidents.
 MT and Mrs Henry Donnelly, MT and Mrs Frank Evitts, Myron Patchen, Charles Lewis, Charles Pierron and taa1 ne a dnaer mas Mf at %homas eysu grays Lakeside Inn, on Sunday. The out of-town guests were: MT and Mrs Mi mott Lyman and son, Frederick, and Mrs Pierce, Elmer s. Joyce, K. A. Gay nor, Arthur c. Gaynor, James Dunn, Thomas A. Shanley and P. Lyons, all of Bridgeport.
 Mrs Ella Nearing and family have
The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16
SATURDAYS TOWN MEETING.

The special town meeting of August 10 was we'll attended. Attorney F. M. Williams presided as chairman. O. w. HOyt of BOardman presented the needs of a new schoolhouse in that locality, and after some discussion a vote was passed appropriating 5000 for a new schoolhouse, site and furnishings at Boardman. A building committee was appointed consisting of the selectmen, O. w.. Hoyt and c. N. Hall. The "good roads' question was,then taken up and c. P. Bentley stated that the merchants and property owners of Bank street would subscribe $1 ,000 to- ward paving the same. A vote was then passed appropriating s3,OOO for grading and improving Bank street, $l, 900 to be raised by subscription and $2, 600 to be paid by the State. On mo. tion of H. s. Mygatt vote was passed apprOpriatiug $1 ,5OO for use in further improving the road in the vicinity o1 Couch Hill, one-third to be raised by subscription and the rest to be paid by the State. The sense of the meet ing, most emphatically expressed, was that no town money should be expend- ed under either of these votes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09

sord in Boston the other day Miss
Alden was the cynosure of all eyes.
She sat at her timeworn spinning
wheel, arrayed in old-fashioned Pu-
ritan gown and cap, and spun the
tough fax and fine silken thread Just
as her long line of grandmothers
had done for the past 200 years. She
bears a striking resemblance to the
first Priscilla and her sweet maiden
ly dignity and gentleness of carriage
would have won the heart of John
Alden himself could he have peered
terday and seen her at work at the
wheel.
Many generations of Aldens have
used the old wheel. Some of them
spun fax upon it to make garments
for those who defended the infant
colony against the bloodthirsty In
dams, and later on the thread of the
uniforms of the continental soldiers
of the revolutionary war was reeled
off it. The wheel is precious heir
loom and hundreds of people visited
the exhibition yesterday especially
to see Miss Alden spinning it.
While sitting at her wheel Miss AL
den occupied a chair that is also his
toric. 1t was originally the property
of Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth Rock
fame. 1t has remained in the Brad
ford family ever since, and many dis
tinguished people have used it during
the last two centuries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09
MOST USELESS EFFORT.
Compelled to Perish from the
r Face of the Earth.

Of all forms of human effort and
execution scolding is the most use
less. When a parrot, a chipmunk,
squirrel or bluejay scolds he is lu-
dicrous. For people to scold is lu-
dicrous, too, but with a difference,
and assuredly the difference is on the
unfavorable side.
1t never did and never will do any
one any good. 1t has done much
harm. Besides, scolding grows to be
a habit. We have all suffeRd be-
cause of the shortcomings of some
one else, receiving tremendous TRADES
over what we had no hand in, be-
1ause we happened to be present
khen the scolding habit was yielded
to by one of its victims.
Seeding is easy. 1t takes neither
power of brain nor heart to scold 1t
does not even make any great draft
upon the physical being. Any fish
wife alive can be a grand success at
scolding! Why compete with her?
Scolding should be compelled to
perish from the earth. The tongue,
the voice, the eye, the facial should
be trained not to scold; yes, and the
pen, for of all things a scolding pen
is the worst. And the habit once
foSu:ed with tie pen is apt never to
be entirely shaken off.-Ada e. Sweet,
In Woman's Home Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09
PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS.
Why Woman's Size Appears to Vary
According to the Color of
Her Gowns.

That the color of a woman's dress
can make her look larger or smaller
is a fact that many professional dress
makers now take into consideration.
Dressed in black and dark hues,
stout women look smaller both in the
street and when out walking; and by
a use of the same hues, the dimensions
of small people are so decreased that
they appear like dwarfs.
The optical effect of white and light
colors is to enlarge all objects, and
make the stout woman who wears
them almost mountainous in her ap-
pearance. She need not, however,
look dingy and dull, for the rich, dark
hues offered to her for selection are
varied and numberless. Greens and
blues, in their various shades, are bet
ter than reds, giving an effect of re-
pose and distance.
All Gght-colored materials should
be avoided for the waist. During the
awkward age of girls, between the age
of ~ and IA, dark blue or plain red
cashmere or serge is found to be pro-
ductlve of the best results.
In choosing colors for dresses, the
complexion must, of course, be taken
into account. Those with sallow, dark
faces should select clear tints, and
scrupulously avoid glazing bright and
decided hues. Those who possess
clear skins and pale faces may wear all
shades of rose, primrose, buff, light
green, lilac, brown and violet.
Florid persons should wear the tints
that subdue color and give the effect of
distance, such as blue and green. The
most lucky of all girls are those with
fair compilations and a color. To
them, few shades will be unbecoming
Those with pale compilations should
wear only fresh colors such as cherry
and pink.
Color III dress not only exerts an in
fuence over the beauty of the wear
er, but also over her health. Dark
colors are found to absorb and give
out smells of all kinds to a far greater
extent than the light, and it is for
this reason that professional nurses
are not allowed to wear black dresses.
1t is said that for nurses black cotton
is bad, black wool worse and black
silk the most injurious of all. Some
doctors refrain from wearing black
clothes when visiting patients for the
same reason.
The warmth and comfort of the body
are also affected by the color of the
clothes which cover it, white and
light-colored fabrics rejecting the
heat and black and dark ones absorb
ing it. Black, however, throws heat
off sooner, and white clothing retains
the natural heat of the body longer
than black.-N. Y. journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09
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TALENTED HELEN HAY.
Elder Daughter of Our Secretary of
= State Will Soon Publish a New
Volume of Verse

Literary critics Of Washington say
that John Hays daughter" will be-
come one of the successful poets of
America. 1t is about three years
ago that Miss Helen Hay published
her first efforts in verses, and, indie
pendent of the fact that the writer
was a daughter of the secretary of
state, the book commanded immedi-
ate attention. Miss Hay called that
initial effort Some Verses" and she
has since revised it for three edi-
tons. Last autumn she published a
dainty little collection of child
rhymes, ''The Little Boy Book" and
this also was favorably received.
For the last year Miss Hay has
been diligently working on the most
ambitious work she has yet at
tempted, and in a few weeks this
will be given to the public. 1t is en-
titled: THE Rose of Dawn" and is
a love story of the south seas told
in blank verse. Throughout the book
there are snatches of lyric poetry,
love songs and ballads of the peo-
pie, and in these Miss Hays peculiar
talent is wildly displayed. That emf
nent writer of the south seas and
well-known literary critic, Charles
Warren Stoddard, is enthusiastic over
"The Rose of Dawn" and predicts
q brilliant future for Miss Hay as a
writer of lyric verse.
This talented young woman is one
of the popular bellies of the capital.
She is feted and admired from the
beginning to the end of the sea-
son, and few social events may be
called successful when not graced
by her presence, yet she finds time
TO write some of the most exquisite
verse ever published. She takes a
few hours in the morning, and just
before dressing for dinner is a IA
vorite time for her muse. She jots
down then the thoughts that come
during the hours of gayety, and later
they are woven in dainty numbers.
Miss Hays verse, like that of most
young writer's, is inclined to sadness
the poetry of tears. In love songs
and sOnnets she is particularly adept.
She naively says that she does not
write from experience, since she has
never felt the darts of the little rosy
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09

god, but that her impressions of the
master passion are gathered from
her friends. Some of her critics
assert that when love strikes her
harp she will sing her best songs
and develop the germs of genius so
apparent.
She is nearly "a, and possessed of
physical charms as potent as the in
tellectual. In manner she is strik-
ingly like the author of Little
Breeches," and her expression re-
minds one strongly of the secretary
of state. Col. Hay is intensely fond
of his elder daughter and delighted
with her literary success. He has
encouraged her to write since she
was able to hold pen, and, like Rud-
yard Kipling and Charles Warren
Stoddard, he has an abiding faith in
her future.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09
AT THE SPINNING WHEEL.
A Fair Descendant of John and Pris-
ella Alden Weaves Flax Into
OId-Time Cloth.

A lineal descendant of John and
Priscilla Alden, noted in revolutionary
history, is living at Boston, and
greatly cherishes the memory of her
ancestors, whom Lorgfellow immor-
tahzed in his celebrated poem. She
is one of the few women of New
England who still use the spinning
wheel, and she is said to be as ex-
pert as was her great-grandmother,
Priscilla, after whom she is named.
At the exhibition of the Daughters
of the Revolution at the Hotel STRAIT