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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

T HE girl who likes to talk shook
her head solemnly at the friend
Il who wanted to know whether she
should buy cut glass bowl for we'd
ding present or send set Of Shakes
peare.
You're like all the rest" said the
girl. "You haven't the remotest notion
of the crisis looming over you. It's
the test of friendship, this selecting a
wedding present. You may have been
bosom chums with the bride from the
mud-pie stage, but right now either
you cement that friendship or else you
make two deadly enemies.
Sometimes" went on the girl who
likes to talk, at seems as though all
the people who have it in for you for
something just treasure up their little
grudge till you get married, and then
with a gurgle Of triumph take revenge
by sending you a wedding present
that they know will set your teeth on
edge and send cold chills down your
spinal column every time you look at
it. She is a lucky bride whose new
home is a thousand miles away, where
her old friends can't drop in unex-
pectedly and prowl around to see that
she has their presents properly dis
played in the best light.
you can't hurt their feelings, you
know; so if they keep watch over the
treatment accorded their presents all
your life you have to writhe under the
affliction of something you loath and
would run away from if you met 1t on
dark night.
Louise moved to California when
she married." related the girl who
likes to talk, land do you know what
that smart girl did? When visited
her she took me one day to a remote
corner of the house and unlocked a
closet door and turned on the light.
I focused a questioning eye on her
after one glance and said I d1dn' t
know she was starting chamber OF
horrors, and asked what the answer
was.
Louise said she and Harry decided
they had only one life to live, and
even at that they probably would
have unavoidable troubles, so there
was no use in deliberately acquiring
other troubles
"They took every last wedding pres
ent they hated and stored it in the
closet and were slowly giving them
away on Christmas and other occa-
sions to people whose character they
thought needed Christening. Louise
generally puts the prizes she wins at
card parties in there, too, because
either they never match her house or
else they are champagne glasses-and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
HOW TO SERVE POTATOES

There are rules about all things, even
potatoes.
Certain ways of serving potatoes are
proper at one time and not at another,
and the skillful cook never makes a
mistake in this as in the other small
but innumerable rules of good serving
Rotate chips, for instance, or French
fried potatoes should never be served
at a formal dinner
Nor would we care for mashed poto-
toes for breakfast
For dinner then, potatoes may be
mashed, boiled whole, if they are new
potatoes, served in cream, whole, and
with roast beef they may be Drowned
underneath the meat.
The following may be served at both
breakfast and luncheon: Potato chips,
potato cakes and potatoes baked,
creamed, French fried, lyonaise, Boston
block and Eau gratin'
For breakfast particularly there are
home fried potatoes and hashed brown.
For luncheon there are escalloped po-
tatoes, potato croquettes and potato
puff, as we'll as other more or less
fancy ways of preparing them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
SCHOOL DAY HELPS

Mark umbrellas by writing name on
muslin with ink and sewing to inside
of top with black thread; overshoes and
rubbers by writing name on lining, and
handkerchiefs by writing name across
the center with ink.
Furnish children with a black cloth
pen wiper and a clean cloth to use
when painting. Line the sleeves of
girls dresses underneath to elbow, as
thew soon wear through on the desks,
and thus can be mended easily.
Put hangers on winter coats. Mark
mittens by sewing name written with
ink on muslin to inside wrist
Dress children neatly. Never allow
them to go with holes in their stock
ings. Teach them to brush their teeth
and hair, keep their hands and faces
clean, give them a bottle of shoe pol
ish to use when shoes grow shabby.
They feel and work better and win
the appreciation of the teacher when
thew look we'll
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
FOR MISS DAINTY

Even the finest and most lacy of
summer girls will sometimes be forced
by stern necessity to lay aside her
role and appear as a tailored girl. Her
wardrobe will need replenishing and
she will slip to town for summer allur-
ing than summer gardens. For such
trips, then some simple costume must
be worn-a cool gingham or pongee,
perhaps-and to crown it stiff straw
hat of the type appropriate for the
morning.
A new correspondence paper has
white or colored hemstitched borders,
like handkerchief hens, and the paper
is cross barred like linen.
The costume is now considered in
complete without a wrap of some sort,
no matter how slight it may be, and
this has caused a renewed vogue for
the scarf.
The vogue of fancy neclwear has
reached the proportions of mania,
and the amount of money spent on
neckWear by the modish summer girl
makes serious inroads upon an ordi-
nary dress allowance. OF course some
of the little collars, bows, jabots, etc,
are moderate in price, but one needs
many of them in order to look dainty
and fresh, and, moreover, the prettiest
of these accessories are often surpris-
ingly expensive, owing to the real lace
and the handwork bestowed upon them.
Concerning the high. rundown collar
of embroidered linen or lace, little re-
mains to be said. Such collars are still
worn with bewitching, fluffy bows and
frills to keep them company, but there
is an increasing tendency toward stock
ideas, and the French designers ara
putting out a surprising variety OF
pretty stocks. Where a heavy linen
collar is required straight embroid-
cred collar, fastening in the back, is
newer than the old rundown model,
and the popular rundown collar is now
the low, broad Dutch collar, so charm
ingly girlish. but SO trying to older
women.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
FTreIess Cooker for Twenty Gents
RE you interested in fireless cook
erS2

RE YOU interested in fireless cook
Ia Mine cost me 20 cents. Get a
large candy bucket with wire hoops,
costing 10 cents, and 10 cents worth or
asbestos paper. Cut two circles from
the paper, one the size of the bottom
of the bucket and one the size of the
lid, Tack in position, using small tacks.
Use the scraps of the paper to line the
balance of the bucket, tapping the
seams well. Put four inches of hay on
the inside of the bucket, packing 1t
down fiat in the bottom. On this place
the utensil you intend to use as your
cooker, weighting it down to keep In
nlace. I use a gallon lard pail as
cooker. Weave the hay around the
bucket on all sides, pressing 1t down
firmly until you have filled the candy
bucket to the top of the cooking bucket.
Now cut two rounds of heavy cloth
a few inches larger in diameter than
the top of the candy bucket and fill
tightly with hay until about six inches
thick, or as full as you can press down
in the bucket on top of your cooking
bucket. Fasten on lid with small hooks
and screw eyes, or 1t may be kept in
place with a weight. Excelsior may
be used in place of the hay. The hay
nest remains In perfect shape When
cooker is removed.
Mine cooks as we'll as high-priced
cooker and I give a timetable which
worked out by experiments.
Process Started on the Stove
To use cooker things must be started
on the stove, thoroughly heated
through, then placed in the cooker for
the given number of hours.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
EFT me tell you about charming

II EFT me tell you about charming
bedroom 1 saw the other day.
~ 1t was done in brown in several
shades, from deep cream to the real
wood browns, with harmonious touches
of green The wall covering was
green-striped paper with cream back
ground, against which the few taste
fully framed Copley prints, photographs
and notices were displayed to the best
advantage. The rugs scattered about
the bare floor were made of brown
warped, heavily-woven rags, without
fringe.
The furniture consisted of a plain
en-enameled iron bed, chiffonier,
small desk, dressing table and chair of
natural oak, two willow rockers and
one small table, all three green stained,
a small box couch and a rattan shirt
waist box. Plain net curtains edged
with inexpensive but pretty linen lace
hung straight to the sills of the win
dows.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

$Or over night. . -,
In cooking meats first scar then. all
over in q hot skillet. then add a rev
CUPS Of water and cook them twenty
minutes, adding the seasoning betore
nutting in the cooker. If I am cooking
a large piece I reheat after few hours
and put back in cooker until needed,
usually adding my potatoes on rack
above meat on reheating
An old chicken came out delicious
and tender I put 1t to cook in the
evening and reheated it the next morn
ing while preparing breakfast, and left
1t till noon. I soak my navy beans,
then boil twenty minutes and put to
cook over night A cup of catsup and
a small onion improve these.
Old Chicken Made Tender
In cooking cereals use a small gran
ite bucket inside my cooking bucket,
surrounding it to the top with boiling
water, being sure that 1t is boiling we'll
when placed in the cooker.
took a small frying basket and
had 1t cut in half so 1t could be placed
upside down in cooking bucket to form
n rack. On this steam brown bread,
cup custard and fruit puddings. 1t is
also used as a rack for vegetables over
meats.
This cooker may be used in another
way. Anything packed In 1t will re-
main cold longer than when packed in
the regular freezer bucket.
1t took me half an hour to make my
cooker, but it has saved me many hot
hours since, not to count the cost OF
fl1el-DOrothy Vernon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
DELICIOUS DESSERT

Stuffed peaches are popular with all
peach lovers. Pare the peaches care
fully, halve them and remove stones.
Chop fine an equal quantity of al
monds and English walnuts Fill the
openings from which the stones were
taken with the chopped nuts. Fasten
the halves together with tiny skewers
or wooden toothpicks, sprinkle four or
Eve tablespoons sugar over them and
set in a saucepan with just enough
water to keep from burning. Steam
ten minutes, then set away to cool.
Chill thoroughly and serve cold with
sugar and cream.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
WALL PAPER HELP

1t is sometimes necessary to patch
the wall paper where it has become
defaced or torn, and the new paper of
the same pattern is too bright to use.
Try hanging the new paper in bright
sunshine until the colors are faded or
dulled, and it can be applied to the
damaged paper on the walls and will
match perfectly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
WHEN SHE SHOULD MARRY

The question of when a girl should
marry is up for discussion as result
of the Stiffness of the season. A girl
should marry when the net income of
the aspirant for the honor of footing
her bills is equal to the sum she is
accustomed to spending plus the
amount she would have to spend to
make her acquaintances green with
envy-Louisville Courier-Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
The DEPENDABLE WAY

AS to learning law by the correspond
ence method-um-m-1 WE'LL 1t may be
feasible enough, but a good deal safer
way is to burn the letters and the
safest not to write them at all.-Indian-
apolis News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
no BASE rIeHT SHOES

Wiring piece of flannel folded
+hickIv out of hot water and place
across the part of the shoe which
pinches, while on the foot; leave un--
til cool, then remove the flannel and
keep the shoe on the foot until dry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
WHAT TO EAT


is a convenience in the kitchen store
room. A sprinkling of the cheese over
the omelet, over milk toast and into
liked by most persons.
Melted butter seasoned with paprika
and lemon juice is served with broiled
finnan haddie in a seaside hotel.
Canned crab meat is q reliance when
one is living "ten miles from lemon"
A delicious way to prepare 1t is to turn
it into the saucepan with a tablespoon
full of butter and heat it through. Then
turn in green peppers cut in rings and
divested of their seeds; season with
salt and pepper and simmer for eight
minutes or so. At the last add half a
cupful of rich cream, cook slowly for
ten minutes and serve.
Tripe served in cream sauce with but
ton mushrooms is an easily prepared
and tasty dish for hot day.
For eggs as a French chef prepares
them, fry half a small onion, sliced, in
butter, until it is golden brown. Then
turn in cupful of tomatoes, seasoned
with butter, salt and pepper, and cook
for ten minutes. Turn the mixture into
q wide bottom saucepan and drop into
it eggs that have not had the yolks
broken. Cook them slowly, lifting them
from the bottom of the dish with a
fork, not stirring them as in scram-
bling. Just before serving add table,
spoonful of grated Parmesan cheese.
Serve on toast.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

It's as easy to secure bargain in a used
automobile, through want advertising. as 1t
used to be-and still is-to secure a horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Lose a good-pay tenant, or boarder? Let
want ad help you to take it like philoso-
pher.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07
THE CAPTION CRITICS

There were three critics Gas critics go)
Who ran reviews of a new-made show.
The first had groaned as he watched the
mess,
But he thought Of his job and wrote
"Suceess!'
The second remarked. as he choked a sneer,
"The play of plays of the current year"
But the third one spread on his copy page.
"The finest thing on the English Stagel!r
Which proves that critic the third, God wot
Was the wisest critic OF the lot-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Melted butter seasoned with paprika
and lemon juice is served with broiled
finnan haddie in a seaside hotel.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Mrs. Helen Field and Mrs. Hallett
are again occupying their home on
Miami avenue after a nine months
tour of Egypt, Greece, Italy, Switzer-
land and France.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Among the weddings scheduled for
October is that of Miss Amy Martin,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Ed
ward Martin of North Vermont ave-
nue., and Arthur. Menrik Stibolt, an
architect of New York. The engage
ment was formally announced only a
few days ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Tripe served in cream sauce with but
ton mushrooms Is an easily prepared
and tasty dish for hot day.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Los Angeles friends have received
cards announcing the marriage in Chi
cago September 1 of Miss Marjorie
Menesee and John Henry Smith. After
November l Mr.. and Mrs Smith will
be at home at Hotel Baltimore, Kan
sas City, Mo Mrs Smith has many
friends in Los Angeles, where she
passed several years of her girlhood.
She was a guest at Hershey Arms last
winter
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Miss Abigail Slaughter of West Thir-
ty-f1fth street was hostess Saturday
night at delightfully."- informal affair
with which she entertained a company
of twenty-five.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Mr.. and Mrs. James Henry Ballagh
of Fifth avenue entertained at dinner
Sunday night in compliment to Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram Lawrence of Memphis,
Tenn, who are touring the coast.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lloyd, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. H Mcconnell and Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Mcintosh left on the Owl
Sunday for San Francisco, and will
sail on the Pacific Mail steamship
Manchuria Wednesday for the world
tour. Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Lattern will
Join the party in San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Mr.. and Mrs. William Rutherford
have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Emily Mary, and
Ralph Fullerton Mocine. No date has
been set for the wedding.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-07

Mr. and Mrs. A. ]. Francis of
Manila, who early in the summer were
guests Of DR.. and Mrs. Ralph Hagan,
have been touring the north since their
departure and are sailing from San
Francisco for home on the Chyo Maru
this week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14

THE lemon raisers of California
wanted more protection on their
fruit, and they got itr-s'in the
neck" according to- the Los
Angeles Erpress. They had come
mas they supposed-for some
of the tariff swag, the protective
tariff on imported lemons having
been raised by the Aldrich bill so
as to give the California producers
monopoly of the American
market. 1t was slick way of
picking the pockets of American
lemon consumers. But the swag
is not to 60 to the lemon produce
ers. 1t is to go to the railroads,
for they have agreed to raise
freight rates just about enough to
skim the cream soff the American
lemon market-if lemon markets
may be said to .have cream. AT
any rate, lemon consumers will
have to pay more Cor lemons just
the same, but the railroads and
not the lemon .raisers will get the
difference. So it is always with
protection.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14

MY brother Of the Moberly DEM
ocrat, like myself, deprecates the
disagreement between Mr.. Bryan
and Senator Stone, but beyond
this we differ. Bryan is right and
Stone is wrong, and do not feel
like condoning with the convenient
phrase, "great men will differ"
the offense of the Senator in vot-
ing against fre'a raw material.
The tariff wall must be preached
somewhere in order to its destruc-
tion. To tax the raw material and
demand that the manufactured
article shall have no compensatory
duty is SO manifestly unjust that
the breach cannot be made there;
but take off the protection to the
former, and the demand for the
removal of the tax on the latter
logically follows. All this aside,
however, the enunciation of the
national democratic platform, re-
voiced by that Of our State, was
plain and unequivocal in its de-
mand for the admission of free raw
material. We voted for it and our
Representatives and Senators were
in duty bound by it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14
SheriAps Sale.

BY virtue and authority ofa special ex-
ecution, issued from the office Of the clerk
Of the circuit court OF Iron county, Mis-
souri,, and to me, the undersigned sheriff,
directed, in favor Of the State OF Missouri,
at the relation and to the use Of J..
N. Lewis, collector Of the revenue
for Iron county, Missouri, plaintiff, and
against
Henry Van Dorm, unknown heirs and devi-
sees Of C. C.,Zeigler, deceased, Philander
Taylor and Thomas Pitkin Russell,
defendants. bearing date September 9Th :,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14
SHERIFF'S SALE AS TRUSTEE.

Whereas, Louis Miller, and Salena A.
Miller, his wife, by their certain deed OF
trust, dated the go day OF March, 1905, and
duly recorded in the office OF the Recorder
OF Deeds tor the County OF Iron, and State
of Missouri, in Book 81, at page I1S, did
convey to VIM. r. Edgar, Jr., trustee, the
following described real estate and personal
property, situate, lying and being in the
County OF Iron and State OF Missouri, to wit:
All of a lot or parcel OF land lying in sec
ton FIVE in Township thirty north, Of
Range four east, described asiollows: Be-
ginning at point In the center OF Stout's
Creek where the south line OF Lot /, Block
"a Harris Addition to the Town OF Ar
cadia, crosses said creek; thence east 800
feet; thence north 244 feet; thence west to
center OF said creek; thence up center OF
said creek to point OF beginning-with the
factory building thereon located, and with
all the following described machinery In said
building, to wit; one I4-horse power hor-
izontal engine, with one 3o-horse power
horizontal boiler, complete with boiler, feed
er and smokestack; one standard DE Lavel
separator, capacity $500 lbs. per hour; one
3oo-gallon receiving vat, convenient for
handling milk or cream, lined, with bottom
and sides Coakley charcoal tin, with self
draining channel bottom; one butter printer
and table; one 24o-pound dairy scale, with
butter sailing attachment; one 4xo Morse
steam pump, with deep well cylinder; one
galvanized tank, 2x2xo, with coil for cooling
water tor cream; one vat strainer for cream;
one cream conductor; butter ladies'; one
butter packer; one office desk with drawer
attachments; one chair; one I-gallon dip
per; one heavy iron-clad milk pail; two
floating thermometers; one butter-trier; one
cream rake; one rubber mop; sin scrub
brushes; one patent hue-cleaner; one steam
washing and cleansing tank, with water and
steam connection; one combined wrench;
one churn strainer; one doz. monthly cream
sheets; doz. R-pt. tin top sample Jars;
all unions, tees, couplings, elbows, plugs,
reducers, bushings and nipples necessary
for the complete piping Of said factory; all
water, steam and radiating pipes; all globe
and check valves; all shafting, pulleys and
betting required in operating the machinery
of said factory; all adjustable shaft hangers
and collars; one sanitary rotary pump; one
common rotary pump for elevating butter
milk; also, one bottle Babcock turbine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14
of j.. N. Lewis, collector of the rev.
enue for Iron county, Missouri, plaintiff,

of j. N. Lewis, collector of the rev.
enue for Iron county, Missouri, plaintiff,
andsagainst \
Lydia A. White, John Ellis, unknown heirs
and devisees Of Lydia A. White and John
Ellis, deceased, G.. Matthias, trustee
for L. A. Matthias and Frederick Matthias,
T.. A. Matthias, Frederick M athias, Charles
S. Russell, Benjamin B. Cahoon, Louis
j. Houck, j. I. Case Threshing Machine
Company, corporation, J. M. Huston,
C. A. Matthias, J. H. Chiffon, w. H.
Hay, trustee for ]. H. Chiffon and J. D.
Raglin,
defendants, bearing date September 9Th /,
1909, and returlable to the October term
1909, thereof, have levied upon and
seized the following described real estate
and property. lying and being in Iron
county, Missouri. as the properly Of said
defendants, described as follows, to wit:
The southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter, and the south half OF the northeast
quarter--all in section twenty FIVE, township
thirty one, north, Of range four east.
And ! will on
Tuesday, the 26th day of October, 1909
at the east front door of the courthouse
IN the City Of Ironton. Iron county, Mis-
souri,, between the hours of 0 O'Clock in
the forenoon and B O'clock in the alter
noon Of that day, and during the session
of the circuit court, sell, ,at public vendue,
all the right, title, claim, estate and prop
erty Of the said defendants, Of, In
and to the above described real estate and
property, for cash in hand, to the highest
bidder, to satisfy said execution and
costs. JOHN /. MARSH ALL,
Sheriff Iron county, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-10-14

In view of present conditions
developing more rapidly from day
to day, and with increasing danger
4 ask you, my friend to read the
following carefully and thought-
fully. is not partisan politi-
cal question it deals with, but one
that affects the dearest rights of
every American citizen:
1t has long been my opinion,
and have never shrunk from it's
expression, that the germ of dis
solution OF our federal government
is in the judiciary, an irrespons-
ible body working like gravity,
by day and by night, gaining q
little to-day and gaining a little
tomorrow, and advancing in
noiseless step like a thief over the
field of jurisdiction until all shall
be usurped from the state, and the
government of all become con-
solidated into one. To this l am
opposed, because when all gov
ernment, in little and great things,
shall be drawn to Washington as
the center of all power, it will
render powerless the checks pro-
vided by one department on an
other, and will become as venal
and oppressive as the government
from which we separated.
You wonder if that is not the
product Of some silly Socialist OF
crazy Anarchist? The words are
those of an American patriot
4 honored next to the immorta
Washington; the warning sounded
by one whose honesty, whose in.
tegrity, whose ability, whose
solicitation for the welfare of un.
born generations, place him higf
in the annals of his country anc
make his memory dear to the
hearts of his fellow citizens
Thomas Jefferson. Look about
you, my friend; see the things
being done by the outstretchine
hand of Federal power and ther
decide if he prophesied truly Of
| falsely.