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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
CARE OF THE SKIN.
Home Remedies to Clear the Com
plexion


With the advent of spring come trouhles
with the complexion. The face quick to
feel the condition of the blood, breaks out
pie who have felt fairly well throughout the
cold weather are overcome by lassitude and
generally disagreeable feeling.
Much of this may be overcome II not
prevented, by adapting the diet to the
weather and doing other simple things to
tone the blood. Our. grandmothers and
their grandmothers before them, resorted
to physics of home Lrew almost as soon
as the winter was over, and there Is no
douot mat the result was beneficial But
IL Is by no means necessary to adopt such
heroic measures, though some of the milder
ones might be tried
one of the oldest known that ia to he
round now in practically every village and
arm IN new England, is a mixture of
sulphur and molasses. Children as a rule
like this, and II is b. no means unnalatae
bic y thick paste is made, adding cream
OF tartar in proportion of pinch to a tea
spooniul OF TINS mixture. teaspoonful
or this medicine is taken every morning he
lore breakfast for nine mornings. and then
nine are skipped. The sulphur is taken
again nine times and again stopped, re-
psa'i!is ul'til II mas been taken three sepa-
rate times OF nine each.
A simple remedy that iourishes In old
England is oatmeal water, that is certainly
harmless If not helpful.
II is made by washing quickly but thor
ousEly heaplng teaspoonful of fine oat-
meal, and then adding the grain to a glass
ful OF cold water. 1t stands all night and
IN the morning is stirred up well. The
thckest part settles again. and the clear
part is drunk. This is continued for two
or three weeks, and what it will do In the
way of clearing the complexion is said to be
remarkable.
In the the diet much may be done to i'm
prove physical conditions. Fruit should
always be eaten. but especially at this sea-
SON. Baked and stewed apples prunes
stewed figs and dates should be taken free
ly. Bananas are the least desirable of any
fruit Fresh rhubarb, stewed. has a. nosi.
lively beneficial effect upon the complexion
and should be eaten at least once a day
but not IN the form of tarts or pies As
sauce 1t is the most helpful
Any fresh vegetables should be put on the
diet list. Spinach is excellent so are beets
and summer squash is in market and Is
not costly. Heavy meats, such as roast beef
pork and the like should be eaten sparinely
and fish, eggs and poultry substituted
Every effort should be made not tn eat
food difficult of digestion. The liver is in
clined to be torpid, and this condition i'm
mediately affects the complexion. Pastries
and all fried things should be given I'D en-
tirely, and one should exercise all that is
possible, for this is an aid to the organs
performing their functions.
If pimples appear make an ointment of
two grams of beta naphtol twenty grams
of sulphur precipitate and twenty grams
of potash soap Rub over the pimples at
night.
les. Try using slice Of cucumber instead
of soap for washing the face. Don't throCy
away the rind. Boil 1t and use the water
for washing the face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Plug Tobacco Made on the Farm.

from The Baltimore Sun.
Did you ever stop to consider why they
call this plug tobacco?" 1t was one of the
oldest members of the Louisville police
force who spoke, as he took a good-sized
chew. Well, there's all the difference In
the world in tobacco. I've tried twenty
different kinds, but none is SO good as We
used to make ourselves down on the farm,
from which this plug tobacco derived Its
name.
I'm the first place, we would select the
choicest of the leaves and soak them for
a week. or more In wild honey. Then we
would take maple log while it was green
and bore a dozen holes in 1t with a two
inch auger. A good. strong hickory lamp
ing stick completed our outfit, and we
would go to work.
"A little ball of honey-soaked tobacco
would be put in the auger hole and tamped
In with stick and a hammer as solidly as
we could plug 1t. Ball after ball would be
rammed In and pounded until the whole
became a solid plug When the hole was
nearly full the log would be put away to
season.
las the wood dried the moisture would
be drawn from the tobacco, and when IL
was split the sweetest chew you ever had
was taken from 1t. We called II plug to-
bacco and that's where the name origi-
mated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Lingerie Waist and Hat.

With the making of the lingerie BLOUSE
safely may go the making of the lingerie
hat for 1t is to be a note OF 1907 summer
dressing that whatever the rest of the cos
tune may be, these two may correspond.
For instance, II has been that the lingerie
hat has been considered out of place with
anything but a lawn or organdie costume
finished with frivols and frills; or 1t was
worn only with immaculate and somewhat
ornate linens. Now, however. Paris inn
porters Of millinery are bringing a lin
gerie waist and hat, all fascinatingly
packed together in a beautiful box With
these in some instances goes also the
lingerie boa or ruff of embroidery, slightly
stiff and outstanding or the other kind
that is softly full of crushed pillows and
plated mulls. The hat and waist combi-
nation, however, promises to be the most
popular and most practical, and the real
French milliner who handles the Partisan
article only now gets out the blouse and
hat together triumphantly, as a year or
more ago he supplemented the hat with q
boa or muller in silks or tulles of COR
responding color.
The variety and many adaptations of tho
lingerie hat idea necessarily will make it
this year more popular than ever, as the
older women find shapes in 1t that are
pretty and as far as possible from the too
fioppy and Juvenile effects which reigned
when these pretty chapeaus first came In
as the baby hat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
A New Paris Sleeve.

The sleeve is always moot question at
the beginning of season, and this year
with the elbow sleeve done to death by an
insane popularity. is no exception. The
famous Partisan dressmaker who is known
for novelties and who is responsible for
more spectacular styles than one man
ought to wish to shoulder, Ia foisting a new
sleeve on his clientele. Whether 1t will
take, gods nor men cannot yet say. It
is full length and sheath-ftting, except at
the elbow, where there Is some roominess
II not an actual puff. The openings Of
this month have more to develop in this
line. Over in Paris the elbow sleeve never
had the frantic vogue that it has had
here, and In fashionable gatherings fully as
many long as short sleeves are to be seen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
WRECKS OF TWO SHIPS
HULKs ONLY SHORT DISTANCE
FROM CAPE HENRY, VA

Visitors to the jamestown exposition who
make a side trip to Cape Henry for view
of the Atlantic ocean during the coming
summer will, in all probability have an
opportunity to see the remains of two large
ships thrown upon the sands by the force
of an Atlantic gale. Both vessels lie within
a few hundred yards of the Cape Henry
life-saving station. and are within a few
minutes walk of one another.
The older of the wrecks Is that of the
Norwegian barkentine Antonio. which
went ashore about eighteen months ago.
She was a voyage from the River
Platte. in Argentina, South America, with
cargo of bone for the Bryant fertilizer
making plant at Alexandria. She had sailed
In safety through the storms Of several
months from the south temperate zone to
that of the north, and was lost within 200
miles or the end of her voyage. Although
the vessel has been lying on the beach a
year and kalf, her three masts, with the
yards on them, are standing as plumb as
when she sailed the seas. Capt. Holmes
keeper of the llfe-saving station at Cape
Henry, was alongside the wreck of the An
tonic during a drill of his men about ten
days ago, and found that the hull of the
old vessel is practically eaten up by the
borer worm and that her decks are gone
but her masts remain as witnesses of
marine tragedy.
Went Ashore During Gale.
The other wreck referred to Is that of
the American steamship George Farwell,
which went ashore during a gale last fall
The Farwell struck side on, but the action
of the sea, the life-savers say, swung the
ship around until she lies stern-to on the
beach. The hull and deck houses are to all
appearances intact, but her keel is broken
and tie ship cannot be floated Her owners
have sold her she lies During the COM
ing summer months, when the weather on
the coast Is calm for long periods wreck
ers will visit the vessel and will remove
the engine, boi ers and machinery aboard
the ship, and VIII take away all aboard her
that is of value, leaving only the wooden
hull to be destroyed by the pounding of the
seas in the fall gales. The Farwell when
she was lost her way from a Flor
ida port to New York with a cargo of lum-
Der. Her master, it is said, was trying to
make the Chesapeake to obtain bunker coal
A slight mscalculation of his position put
the vessel the beach in a storm, and
there was work for the live savers All
aboard We're. however, taken ashore in
safety. The live-savers also saved the crew
of the Antonio without mishap.
Cape Henry, while not the most danger
Gus point on the Atlantic coast, has a rec
ord for the number of vessels going ashore
there in spite of the lighthouse fog siren
and other warning devices. During the past
year the records of the life-saving station
at the cape show that four vessels struck
on The beach but that not life was lost,
owing to the vigilance and daring of the
Hfe-savers, under command of Capt.
Holmes. Three of the stranded vessels were
afterward foated and restored to service
the Farewell being the only one lost in the
past twelve months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Cheese Sandwiches.

how they were made-then homemade
nut and marble cake. with coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Foulards in New Use.

Foulards made up In tailored suits are
the latest wrinkle and are both pretty
and sensible in this most useful form.
Every one knows that for comfort In hot
weather the gown of foulard takes the
lead. 1t is cool. and it's crisp surface sheds
dust and refuses to be mussy under most
trying conditions. Made up after any Of
the styles used for the linens pongees
that have been holding undisputed possess
sion of this field, the foulard tailor made
should meet with great appreciation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Material Falls Short.
Again he chuckled.

Again he chuckled.
"Of all the thirty girls who signed the
original invitation in 1902 every mothers
daughter was snugly hitched up to a life
partner by 1905. The invitations of 1908
were signed by fifty girls-twenty of them
being carry from the first year, do you
understand? But as year succeeded year
and those who had held back came boldly
into what was assuming the aspect of a
national Belgian wonder vast credit to
the town, and an admitted honor to it's
girl population, the raw girl material fell
short-just as the bachelor demand in
creased
"Ecaussnnes, therefore, witnessed a
proprietor OF La Sennette, "a matrimonial
fete in which the male pretendants from
afar alone outnumbered three to one the
marriageable girls inscribed upon the gold
en- book 1t was the year 19O5-with it's
sixteen marriages."
Then what about the thirty marriages
of 1902 / asked.
He chuckled a third time.
There were Others" he said "A strange
immigration had begun already. Into our
town quiet families moved. Each had a
daughter, or two daughters, or three daugh-
ters-
'Or four dauGhtersn interrupted gay
voice. 1t was Mile. Marie Gheude, and she
continued:
Were We to become a matrimonial bu-
reau for half Belgium? We saw the thing
coming. We might we'll have quit For the
girls of Ecaussinnes the reproach Of neglect
had been wiped out. They had become so
celebrated and so sought for that the matri-
monial lunches might be considered SUI
perfuous-
But the town clamored for It's fete!"
said Marcel Tricot
Yes, and those good families moving
into Ecaussinnes on faith of u.s." the bright
girl added. Had we the right to disap-
point their daughters? Monsieur, 1 cannot
resist the picture OF the girl who wants to
marry. To hear herself called madame by
the smiling furnishersi To casually unglove
her ring for the confounding of the pre-
sumptuous! To repeat with pride the word
which is for her title deed-'my husband! =
To revel In 1t SYSTEMATICALLY, like sudden
fortunei To. boast OF married woman
responsibilities! Busy. full of affairs, re-
Joicing arrogantly! No. mol I consulted
with our young matrons of Ecaussinnes.
They owed their happiness to the lunches.
Unanimously they agreed we must continue
them"
What young matrons of Ecaussinnes?'
asked. II understood that you had mar
rled the girls to outsiders?"
Not am she laughed. THE competition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

ShSCSC odhoWlCucS-
These were made of new bread sliced
delicately thin and even. The slicing waS
done at the French bakers, where they
have knives on purpose. For slicing 10,
cent loaf they charged cents; but 1t was
worth 1t. The filling for the sandwiches
was the potted Canadian cheese beaten
soft with a little melted butter, then sea-
soned with paprlka, a teaspoonful curry
powder and a tablespoonful finely minced
and appetizing combination.
Ham Sandwiches.
The dressing for these was made of one.
half cup butter. one teaspoonfuI mustard,
tablespoonful olive oil. a pinch of salt. a
little paprtka. the beaten yolk of an egg
and minced boiled ham to make a good con-
sistency for spreading. Rub the butter to q
cream, add all the other ingredients ex-
cepting the ham, and mix thoroughly Add
ham and spread between thin slices OF
bread. If preferred, the olive oil can be
omitted and tablespoonful minced water
cress makes pleasing addition acceptable
to eye as well as palate.
Sandwiches.
Use long French loaf for this sandwich.
and II you prefer It without crust use a
cookie cutter to stamp In circles. Blend a
cream cheese, with two or three table.
spoonfuls currant jelly, until a creamy
pink, and spread a round of the bread with
this. Spread a second circle with chopped
pistache nuts and press together This
makes an exceedingly pretty sandwich for
a wedding collation..
A Luncheon Sandwich.
A new idea in luncheon sandwiches is to
cut very thin slices of bread. butter them
and press together with thin slice of cold
chicken between. Toast crisply and serve
not. oysters may be substituted for the
chicken.
English Cheese Sandwiches.
Rub fine six ounces rich cheese and two
ounces butter. Add teaspoonfuI made
mustard and a tablespoonful anchoyv
paste. Spread the mixture on thin sices
buttered brown bread and over this lay a
very thin slice of ham or smoked beef.
Cover with another slice Of buttered bread
and cut In fancy shapes.
For Making Richer Soup.
From Wales comes this suggestion for
making a richer favored soup In buyins
bones for soup making get a little liver al
the same time. Cut this up and stew with
the bones, obtaining thereby a richer body
and flavor
To Make Ham Tender.
Ham that is to be boiled or fried should
be soaked for a couple of hours in luke.
been added. This, too, is a Welsh wrinkle,
but 1t certainly makes ham, too often hard
and dry, most tender and delicious.
Marmalade Builds Spire.
At rectory in Buckinghamshire Eng,
land, the women OF the parish are busy
making marmalade to sell to the public at
large, the proceeds to be devoted to the
church spire fund. Pork pies and bead
work have also been sold in aid of the
same fund, and a substantial sum has al
ready been realized. As this suggestion
may bear fruit here, where women are in
terested in raising money for various phil.
anthropies, directions for making marma-
lade Will be given in next weeks letter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
The Tailored Shirt Waist,

The spring blouses are even more elabo-
rate than ever before. but by way of
change we have the plain little tailored
shirt waists. made severely plain. with
nothing more than tiny frill Of the same
material appearing either side OF the
front plat. The sleeves are neither long
nor short and are finished with trim little
turnback cuffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

rs not sixteen marriages for 1905 an
error" / asked.
Marcel Tricot chuckled.
"Ecaussnnes he said, lis not an mex
haustible girl-quarry. The total popula-
ton OF the cantonal Jurisdiction is less than
o. 500 souls 80
But look l said. "in the next year the
marriages rise up again to thirty"
Evening journal., 1907-08-24
REAL ESTATE AT
PRESENT INACTIVE
Many People Out Of City
and Transactions Are
Slow
TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY

The real estate market has been un
usually quiet for the past week and deal
ers have been doing practically nothing
in the way Of sales or rentals.
This is attributable to a great extent to
the fact that many persons are taking
their summer vacations and are given
more to pleasure than to business at this
season Of the year.
Although the question Of obtaining small
houses. from seven to nine rooms has
been said by many to be a hard one TO
solve one real estate dealer reports that
he has had desirable houses Of this class
on his board for several months with no
purchasers or renters. For the more
spacious homes 1t is said there Is but lit
tic demand
As a rule real estate transactions at this
season Of the year are quiet but at present
they appear TO be unusually so. There is
not the demand for office room as there
has been heretofore but this is accounted
for by the fact that since the new build
ing OF the dupont Company has been
completed many legal and business firms
have taken up their quarters there and
Vacancies which are hard TO fill have been
caused by said removals.
only three property transfers were
recorded this week since Wednesday.
They were as follows:
Union NJ e. Church TO the Security,
Trust and Safe Deposit Company,
north side Of Second, SO feet east Of
/ Washington street. 81.
James White to the Remington Ma
chine Company, 421 East Front street.
/ $500
William II. Jones and wife to Edgar
j. Burtwen. north side Of Washing
ton street. east Of Twenty-fourth
street. $500.
Evening journal., 1907-08-24
Nearhu PennsvIvania Notes.

Farmers i'm southern Chester county
are getting SIS per ton for their hay.
The expenses of running West Grove
borough the past year were about S,ovy.
w. II. Wright. of West Nottingham,
has 3-weeks-old pig with six feet, all
perfectly formed
There are now 102 prisoners confined
in the Chester County prison. some
serving sentences and others awaiting
trial
The annual camp-meetlng Of the
Holiness Christians has opened at
Twin Oaks, near Chester and the 200
tents are all occupied.
Sixteen locomotives for the Erie Rail-
road have been repaired at the Bald
win Locomotive Works, at Eddystone,
and are ready for shipment.
Charles Dunlap, a resident of Ches-
ter, fractured his skull as a piece Of
steel struck him on the head at the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Eddy
stone
During a thunder storm in Chester
hailstones are large as marbles fell
for several minutes in the western
section Of the city, and did consider
able damage
Israel Foreacre, Of Upland, was
shocked so badly by electricity in a
steel plant where he is employed that
for long time it was thought the
shock would prove fatal.
Councilman Edward Dickerson, of
Chester, is endeavoring to raise $500
by public SUBSCRIPTION to erect an ar
cade entrance to a public building that
he is building on Market street
Evening journal., 1907-08-24
HERE AND THERE.

The Episcopal Diocese Of Chicago has
started to complete the 100000 fund
required to make the diocese self-sup-
porting.
The United States has 100000 school
buildings in which 100000 teachers are
at work teaching nearly 1S.OO0,OOO chill
dren.
Records of false weights and meas
ures used in New York city show that
the people are cheated out out of S13.-
100000 a year by their USE
The African possessions Of the
French government amount TO 3,S05,000
square miles, and those of Great Bri-
tain 2,7140OO, including Egypt.
The most valuable crop in the Phil
ippines is hemp; rice comes next, fol-
lowed by tobacco. The export of Ma
nila cigars amounts to nearly S1.00O,-
600 a year.
1t is estimated that the area of land
in Korea which can prohtably be put
under cation is capable Of producing
about 1s0QO0,OOO pounds Of ginned cot
ton annually.
] A company has been formed TO pro-
duce alcohol from currants in Greece
The spirit has proved of great use as
an illuminant for heating and for driv-
ing smah engines.
Evening journal., 1907-08-24
St. PauI's Y as Guests.

Members and friends OF st. Pauls Y. Of
this city. were the guests Of the Misses
Addie and Lille Williams, at their home
IN Marshallton on Thursday evening. A
pleasant program OF reoitatons and music
was enjoyed by those present The guests
included. Miss Rietta M. Emerson, Miss
Leila H. Jones, Miss Edith NJ Blackburn.
Miss Bertha NJ Biddle, Mrs. Frank p.
HAL. Mrs Mabel Hetherlngton. Miss Cora
NJ. Edwards. Miss Sara A. Durham, Miss
Emma l.. Duny. Miss Fannie Shaw. Mrs
George w. Mullin. Miss Bessie Baxter
Robert w. Johnson. Howard Brown
Frank p. Hall. w. II. Wingate, c. NJ. All
bright.
Evening journal., 1907-08-24

that beautiful western hill THIS IS RICH
ARDSON PARK, where the water is clear
as crystal and free of all germs. Remem-
ber Mr.. Worldngman, IT is NOT DEALT
OUT TO YOU BY THE GALLON. All
you do is to lift the handle OF your pump,
and-as the Good Book tells us-"It is freely
given and freely received"
Now just listen, and we shall mention
few Of the prices Of living. Here is a man
making 50 per week lie must have little
meat, and the price of this commodity comes
mostly from King street market. A Slice OF
ham weighing Il ounces costs Is cents one
Evening journal., 1907-08-24
NEWPORT NEWS NOTES
Folk From Nearby Town co to Reho-
both With Red Men.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWPORT, Aug 2i-Lnlan Brooks. tho
infant daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Brooks. died at their homo on Walnut
street on FrNay morning. Tho funeral
viii take place Sunday. Interment at st.
James cemetery here
Among the numbers that went on the
Red Mems Excursion 20 Rohoboth from
this town an Thursday were Mr. and
Mrs william yins MIR. and Mrs. W. f.
Groome and children. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Young
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Houk. OF Baltimore,
arc spending some time with Mrs. Laura
Poole here.
Mss Laura Morren, who has been
spending some time as the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Nowbold OF Lancaster,
Pa, has returned home. Miss Morrem at-
tended tho wedding of willis Gcist New
bold formerly OF this town 20 Miss Edna
peliaven Brloler, Of Harrisburg. August
18TH
Tho r. X. IS. Club, of Wilmington gave
a yachting party 10 Cohclds Beach and
Delaware city a few days ago. Among IN,
party were Miss Ida Coward of this town;
Misses Anna Cloward and Helen kidd
Frank Shy, William Coward. Thomas
Leonard ana Herbert Allbawi OF Will
mington; Miss Laura Adams and Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Way of Brandywlno Springs.
Mrs. J.. Harley strahorn has been en-
tertaining The Misses Faders Of Newark
Mrs. Garretson and daughters Mrs.
Agnes Bratton and Mrs. Charles Brook.
spent tho day recently at Willow Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Harley strahorn spent
Thursday at Willow Grove.
Miss Mary Scarborough is tho guest Of
friends In Newark.
Miss Mary Benson Is spending some time
as the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Muse.
formerly Of this town, now OF Baltimore
Mr.. and Mrs John Scarborough have
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Patton
and Mrs. White and son OF New Castle.