The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-12-04
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laws in this section, while at the same
time New England is ahead of other
sections In the matter OF highways.
That the highways need to be taken
out OF local control and that nothing
savoring OF politics should enter into
the care OF them was emphasized.
That only Z percent OF the highways
OF this country are improved was rath.
or a startling figure to the delegates.
The fact that Massachusetts, has spent
millions In good roads made an impress
sion on every one. as did also the as
sertion that while nothing has yet been
found 10 Withstand the wear and tear
OF motor cars experiments are being
conducted which eventually will re-
suit in a non-destructive highway.
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Mrs. Celia s. Lappen, the probation
officer OF the Roxbury district court. is
literally the friend, inspirer. guardian
and reward" OF hundreds OF Roxbury
women who would otherwise be
wretchedly serving out one sentence
after another at the island or else
where.
Mrs. Lappen, more than any other
one person, keeps these women in
their homes. for she believes that it
is the home which always counts.
Her great home saving method con-
sists OF teaching the plain, definite, ev
cryday details that make the home
cooking and sewing.
/ 'rlp Wnnlan in NV charpa dnp't
| know how TO manage " she says,
generations OF New England thrift.
ness" sounding In her voice.
81 know one woman whose husband
earns SIS week and she lives I'm
locality I wouldn't step into II my busi-
ness didn't call me Increasingly be-
cause she can't cook and therefore
away buying stun at the bakery and
delicatessen shops.
you 20 into her house at meal time
and youll perhaps see n loaf OF bread
| bakers brcad-a knife and some bat.
ter on the table, while her little boy
has gone down to the corner to the
cooked food shop to get everything
else.
$50 one big part OF my business is
to give cXtempore cooking lessons"
| continued Mrs. Lappen. Many house
hold disputes that end In assault and
battery began with discussion over
burned bread or needless expenditure
in the kitchen department.
Whenever I'm calling on my people
and there's a good opportunity teach
them how to make their own bread. In.
stead Of buying II. I tell them how
much wiser IL is 10 get large piece OF
meat or lot OF vegetables at once and
cook them ones self than TO live hand.
| to-mouth fashion by buying just
enough for single meal, already cook.
| ed
Then | SHOW them how to cut littlo
| dresses for their children and so save
| money that way. They are really sur.
| prisingly eager to learn-they want TO
| be economical In most cases, but II
takes more knowledge than most OF
| them possess to save in these times!"
This week Henry b. Harris brings 10
| the Hollis Street theatre, Charles
| klein's latest pl.y, The Third De-
gree" Any announcement OF new
| play by the author Of The Eoy and
the Mouse should attract more than
ordinary attention of the theatre
goers OF this city. From the very first
line In the play, the interest in Third
| Degree" is aroused and never permit
ted TO sag until the final curtain.
For an all round bill with every act
a feature. II would be difficult TO sur
| pass that announced for Keith's the
atre. this week One of the principals
Is Rock and Fulton, those recent ac-
| quisitions from the legitimate stage,
who came into vaudeville with an elab-
| orate dancing act, in which Mr.. Rock
introduced the hypnotic dance which
has become one of the biggest novel
| ties in recent years.
One of the most remarkable sue
casses is presented at the Boston the
| atre this week In "A Message from
| Mars The play is even better now
than II was when first given, principal
| ly for the story II tells and the re-
markable stage effects produced when
the messenger from Mars appears.
Four individual star acts are only
part OF the features on the Orpheum
| theatres bill this week. Direct from
their record breaking run in London
came the Zancigs, Two souls with but
a single thought" in their marvellous
| demonstrations of thought transmits
sion which have puzzled Investigators
| of five continents
1t is very easy to talk about crowds
at place of public amusement even
when they do not exist. This is a spe-
cies OF exaggeration nowadays which
| is generally tolerated and by those too
who have little confidence in the asser-
tions made When il is said that
crowds have regularly attended, after
noon and evening. at Boston's new
Winter Garden I'm Park Square one ia