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Evening journal., 1909-04-30
REMnulMn ecoRcH.

An old negro laundress is responsible
for the following cure for bad scorched
places caused by too hot irons: A half
pint Of vinegar is put on the stove in
a porcelain lined saucepan. To this IS
added the juice Of a large onion and
two ounces of fuller's earth. The mix
ture is boiled for five minutes. strain
ed. cooled and bottled
In removing the. scorch a little of the
mixture is put on a clean white linen
rag and rubbed over the scorched
place until it disappears. Several ap-
plications may be necessary.
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

0W Il you keep at thing long
enough you will get IT," remark
ed a combative and energetic
"A friend.
"Yes. my dear" I thought 20 myself,
"in everything but the social life:
there your methods so admirable IN the
business world. must fail utterly. just
because they are so persistent"
AS n matter Of fact. do we hate any
one moro than tho social climber. she
who is so pcrsistently and actively IN
our path with her smile that won't
come of and her utter willingness "a
ignore all snubsf
In love. In friendship, IN all matters
social. there are two sorts Of people
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

clothes and make pictures OF them
selves according TO the modes OF tina;
period. Just now the Louis styles are
most liked. You know how picturesque
these ideas are-full skirts. long. point
ed bodice. fchu and tight elbow
sleeves with pendent ruffies. For indoor
wear the period froclS on some women
is a charming thing.
CATHERINE TALBOT.
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

at a recent entertainment in England.
An ideal" wife represented an anti.
She wore a huge hat on a most elab-
crate coiffure. was cooking her hus-
bands supper with one hand. darning
his socks with the other rocking q
cradlefui of triplets with her foot and
reading Mrs. Humphry Wards latest
unvaf
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

When the knob from teakettle cover
coffeepot or kettle lid falls Off. many
a burn can be prevented by using as a
substitute a medium sized cork held IN
place by a slender screw driven from
the underside OF the lid.
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
suEERAeE WAxwoRks.

If women in England take the suf-
frage question more seriously than
their American sisters, they also get
more fun out Of It at times. The lat
est stunt is a series OF anti suffrage
waxworks." which made a great hit
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
HOUSEHOLD TIPS.

The most practical use for old corks
is 20 make a low fire burn up. Empty
spools are also good kindling. and
neither should be allowed to accumu-
late in any quantity.
The label on a glass Jar Will keep
clean and In place longer If pasted on
the inside. OF course this only applies
where dry materials are used, such as
rice. tapioca, etc.
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
ZAP NURSE A NEW IDEA.

Arc Japanese boys" to usurp the
duties of nursemaid in up to date
American families7 That query forci-
blv presented itself a few days ago in
city street when a girl about FIVE
wears old strolled along with a fluffy
little dog and a grinning Jap as es-
corts. The Jap. who was about twenty
wears old. wore a blue suit a light
overcoat and brown derby hat. His
little charge wore the most thoroughly
nm to date garments. Her hat was OF
the accepted peach basket shape,
she wore a long white coat. cut direc-
toire. white stockings and white shoes
Of undressed kid. Her manner was
that of a person sure Of her position in
the world and of the dignity necessary
10 uphold II. TO the Jap she was all
condescension. This is a fragment OF
their conversation: MY papa says our
soldiers are going 10 fight with you.
Kito. Then you'll have to go back TO
Japan" 'T think your honorable papa
is playing a joke" 1t may be wise for
the ambitious young women OF Ireland.
Germany and France 70 beware lesI
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
FEMININE MATTERS


the encroaching Mongol oust them
from their places as nurses in the
American home.
PUTTING AWAY FURs.
The greatest possible care should be
exercised in packing away furs. A
cedar chest with a perfectly fitting lid
is probably tbs best receptacle for
these garments during the summer
months. and. although, for some reason
OF other the large chest is not at pres
ent in favor, smaller ones OF all manner
of shapes are steadily gaining in popu-
larity.
Sprinkle turpentine or camphor balls
In the box or chest and also saturate
the paper in which the fur is TO be
wrapped with one of these preventlves
against moths.
To prevent the acid OF the camphor
from injuring the skin let the first
wrapping be Of tissue paper. Remem-
Der. however. that neither chinchilla
nor sable may be packed away in cam
phor as II viii make both furs a hide
Gus yellow
All white furs. such as ermine. fox or
lynx. should be wrapped IN blue tissue
paper. never white or yellow. for the
acid in the camphor will cause th3se
furs to take on yellowish tinge.
y y
@REALlzE" THE FLESH AWAY.
II you note a stout woman wearing a
faraway look in her eyes and an in
tense expression OF face she may not
be worrying over her dressmaker's bill:
perhaps she is only realizing" her
flesh away. Whatever you hope to be-.
all that is necessary to do is TO real
ize"-in other words. 10 make a mental
picture of the image you are aiming at
in your mind-and, 10, the transforma-
ton is complete. You must work for
it, but If you follow the rules DR.. Julia
Seton Sears. the prophecies OF the new
cult asserts that you can become a
sylph IL you're fat or plump II you're
thin and that these conditions may
otherwise be accompanied by all the
graces that are demanded by the wo-
man who realizes"
1T is not say so. this idea OF 'realiz-
ing your flesh away" she tells her
hearers, "fo- you can rebuild your body
to any image you set up in your con-
sciousness."
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
A VERY sMARr HAr.

This hat, although modish, is not as
extreme as many OF the new hats OF
the overwhelming -bushel basket va
riety. 1t is of burnt straw and rolls
becomingly off the face Loops Of
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
kEAP TWO CALENDARS.

II is a handy plan for the business
woman or the housewife who has much
domestic accounting to do TO keep two
calendars. one to tear of day by day.
the other TO refer back to past dates
when necessary.
The reference calendar. which can be
very small and inconspicuous. should
have its special hook on the desk OF
writing table
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
some rAsrY sANpwIcHEa-

The day has passed. and forever.
when a sandwich meant two thick
slices OF bread inclosing what the
boys call "hunk" OF cold meat. Now
the popular delicacy is made Of bread
cut to waferlilSe thinness and shorn
Of all suggestion Of crust The ~nn-
ing may be simple or composite. as
taste may dictate. and the ingenious
housewife win devise many delicate
combinations TO be spread between the
two layers Of her sandwiches.
Ham Sandwiches.-ChoD lean ham
Evening journal., 1909-04-30
Clam Boulnon

Clam Bouillon
Celery Radishes
salted Pistachio Nuts
Oyster Patfies
Squads en- Casserole
New Potatoes Creamed Peas
wild Grape Jelly Iced Tomato Salad
Cheese Straws
Peach Ice Cream Assorted Caxae
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

N VIEW YORK. April 24.-This is
N another one of those excep-
tions that prove the rule
n " aeldon, give advice. but 1 an
Evening journal., 1909-04-30

I the encroaching AIongol oust them
from their places as nurses in the
! American home
Evening star., 1909-03-04

Williarm j. Duane of Pennsylvania and
Messrs. Tawney and Woodbury., success
sively, were Secretaries of the Treasury
Gen. Cass until 1886 and 3. +. Butler
until the end of the term Secretary of
War. Amos Kendall of Kentucky Postmas-
ter General. NJ. Dckerson of New Jersey
Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Barry in 1885,
was appointed minister to Spain. and died
in England. Mr.. fancy was appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. serv-
ing until his death in this city i'm 1854.
President Van Ruren. with the exception
of Secretaries Forsythe and Woodbury..
who served until the end of the term.
made new cabinet. Joel Poinset Of
South Carolina, J. X. Pauding of New
York and Felix Grundy of Tennessee were
appointed to the War and Navy Depart
ments and Attorney Generals Office In
ISIS and J. NJ. Niles of Tennessee and
Evening star., 1909-03-04

Adams. Calhoun and Crawford. the first
being elected President and the second
Vice President. The vacancy caused in
the State Department was filled by the
appointment of Henry Clay of Ken
tucky, and that in the War Department
by James Barbour of Virginia. The lat
ter in 1928 was sent AS envoy to Eng
land and was followed in the War De-
partment by p b. Porter of New York.
Messrs. Southard. Writ and Mclean con-
tlnued throughout the term. Richard.
Rush, Attorney General from 1914 to
1917, before going to Great Britain as
envoy. was called to the Treasury, serv-
ing until the end Of the term. Mr..
Southard was afterWard Attorney Cen
eral. governor and United States sena-
tor from his state.
President jackson in 1929 made a
radical Change, retaining only one Of
Evening star., 1909-03-04

paign as chairman of the national COM
mittee.
Mr.. Hitchcock is a lawyer, having grad
uated from Columbian University. and
while working in the government depart
ments found time at night to pursue his
law studies.
George Won Lengerke Meyer, Navy.
George Won Lehgerke Meyer of Massa-
chusetts, Secretary of the Navy, is fifty
one years old. native of Boston He
has had a distinguished career. Wealthy.
cultivated, Travelled. he has been a hard
worker. When he graduated from
Harvard he went into business in Bos-
ton, and later entered firm which had
been established by his father. He be-
came director in number OF corpora
tions and business firms.
While attending to his business affairs
he also took an interest in politics. work
ing up from the Boston common council
to speaker of the lower house of the
a republican national committeeman in
1S9G and later President Mckinley ap-
pointed him ambassador to Italy. He
also served terms of duty at Rome and
st. Petersburg as ambassador
President Roosevelt made him POST
master General in 1907, and it has been
known since the election that Mr.. Taft
would take him into his cabinet.
Richard A. Ballinger, Interior.
Richard A. Ballinger of the state of
Washington, Secretary of the Interior,
was born in Iowa in 1859, but has lived
in several states at different periods
of his life. He is a lawyer and an
author Of legal books recognized as au-
thorities. His fitness for his present
post is accentuated by his experience as
commissioner of the general land Office.
which Office he held by appointment Of
President Roosevelt.
Mr. Ballinger practiced law at first in
Illinois (his father had studied law in
Abraham Lincoln's office and then went
to Alabama, later going to Port
Townsend, Wash. He practiced law and
took an interest in politics. being elected
Judge of the superior court of Jefferson
county. He was afterward mayor Of
Seattle, and it was while in that Office
Evening star., 1909-03-04

the old cabinet Mr.. Mclean, who
few days later was appointed a judge
of the Supreme Court, w. T. Barry TAX
ing his place. Mr.. Barry was invited
to take seat at the cabinet table, be-
ing the first Postmaster General thus
honored. The President appointed Mar
tin Van Buren, to the State Department,
S. r. Ingham of Pennsylvania to the
Treasury Department, Gen. j. II. Eaton
to the War Department. John Branch
of North Carolina to the Navy Depart
ment. and John Nj. Berrien Of Georgia
Attorney General. 1t was not. however,
a happy family, for the marriage of Gen.
Eaton to the widowed daughter of an
innkeeper created a furore in society.
Some OF the families of the members
of the cabinet refused to recognize her.
But the President was determined that
she should not be oStraciSed, and he
Evening star., 1909-03-04

Philander Chase Knox Of Pennsylvania
Secretary of State. comes into his new
office equipped with valuable experience
In several fields of endeavor in behalf of
the public. AS sometime Attorney Cen
eral of the United States and as United
States senator he has demonstrated the
possession of abilities of high order. He
is a lawyer, a constructive statesman
has been prosecutor of illegal trusts
in behalf of the people and arranged the
deal for taking over the Panama canal.
He is a debater when debate is necessary.
but also can be reticent-a qualification
presumed to be essential in diplomacy.
He is ffty-siX years old-born in
Brownsville, Pa May 6. 1855 At Mount
Union College, Alliance. Ohio. whence he
graduated, he met William Mckinley. at
that time prosecuting attorney of Stark
county. The friendship then formed is
responsible for his public career. Knox
went into the practice of law. Mckinley
entered politics They pursued their
separate careers, Knox building up a
lucrative practice in corporation law. He
was attorney for Carnegie during the
Homestead riots and later held briefs for
other large corporate interests.
In 1901 Mckinley, having pursued his
career TO a second term in the White
House, looking about for an Attorney
General. summoned Knox. who accepted.
The first thing he did was TO smash the
Northern Securities Company, regarded as
the stalking horse of the most menacing
combination of transportation companies
the world had yet seen. He next dis
solved the beef trust. He negotiated the
transfer of the title and property of the
Panama canal
When Senator Quay died Mr.. Knox was
appointed 10 fill the vacancy i'm the United
States Senate and when the legislature
met the appointment was extended by
election for the full term ending 1911.
He has participated actively in all the
constructive legislation of Congress since
Evening star., 1909-03-04

Rush. Meigs and CrOwninshield. and APP
pointed John Quincy Adams to the State
Department and John G. Calhoun to
the War Department. In October. 1917,
Mr.. Rush was succeeded by William
Writ of Virginia Attorney General
and Mr.. Crowinshield handed over the
Navy Department 10 Smith Thompson
of New York. For his second term
there was no change until the resigna
tion of Mr.. Meigs as Postmaster Gen
eral in June, 1923. when John Mclean
Of Ohio was appointed. Mr.. Thompson
in September following became JUS
tice of the Supreme Court. and Samuel
L. Southard of New Jersey took charge
Of naval affairs.
Cabinet Members Seek Presidency.
Three members OF the cabinet were
presidential candidates in 1875, MesSrs
Evening star., 1909-03-04

even ceased attending church on account
OF the pastor siding with some Of the
cabinet ladies. The result was there
were designations and appointments.
Results Of Social Furore.
Edward Livingston of Louisiana sue
ceeded Mr.. Van Buren,. who was appoint
ed minister to Great Britain. Louis Nc
Lean of Delaware succeeded Mr.. Ingham,
Gen. Lewis Cass succeeded Gen. Eaton
and Rodger b. Taney succeeded Mr.. Ber-
dien. Levi Woodbury. of New Hampshire
succeeded Mr.. Branch. Mr.. Livingston
was ;afterward the envoy to France. Mr..
Mclean succeeded Mr.. Van Buren in Eng
land and Gen. Eaton was sent to Spain.
In the second term John Forstythe o.
Georgia was made Secretary Ofs State,
Evening star., 1909-03-04

that he attracted the attention ii Presl-
dent Roosevelt. who brought him to the
capital as land commissioner
James Wilson, Agriculture.
James, Wilson of Iowa. secretary of
Agriculture has to his credit longer con-
tinuous service in a Presidents cabinet
than any living man. He has held this
portfolio since the first Mckinley ad-
ministration. seeing many cabinet officers
go and come in that time. He is
Scotchman. born in 1880 and coming to
this country as youth. The famlly
settled in Connecticut. but in 1855 James
Wilson located in Tama county Ia,
where he engaged in farming. He was
elected to the state legislature and was
made speaker of the house. In 1877 he
was elected to Congress, serving IN the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth. and then
was a member of the railway commission,
until elected TO the Forty-eighth Con-
gress.
He has always. been interested in agri-
culture and was director of the agri-
cultural experiment station and professor
cf agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural
College He has been member or the
cabinet since 1897.
Charles Nagel, Commerce and Labor.
Charles Nagel of Missouri. Secretary
of Commerce and Labor. is a Texan by
birth and a Missourian by rearing. He
is lawyer. politician and educator
After graduating from the st. Louis Law
School he took special course in the
University of Berlin.
Taking up the practice of law in ST.
Louis. he Immediately manifested inter-
est in political and municipal affairs.
He was president of the city council of
ST. Louis for four years, and also repre-
sented his city in the lower house of
the state legislature.
He is professor in the St. Louis Law
School and trustee of the public library.
the museum of fine arts and other in
stitutfons of culture in St. Louis, as well
as prominent in club and social circles.
He took an active part in the last Presi-
dental campaign and was in charge of
western headquarters of the republican
national committee.
Evening star., 1909-03-04

1904 and is regarded as one Of the master
minds in public life today.
Franklin MacVeagh, Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the
Treasury. is a lawyer. banker and mer-
chant. He is a Pennsylvania by birth,
born on a farm in Chester county in 1912.
He graduated in the law, ard. indeed,
started in practice with his brother.
Wayne MacVeagh. but i'll health forced
him to go west. He brought up In Chi
cago and started a wholesale grocery
firm. which became one Of the largest in
the west. He also became bank di-
rector and director in numerous Chicago
corporations.
Mr.. MacVeagh was originally demo-
crat. In 1885 he was a candidate for the
United States senatorship with the in
ton but lost in the legislature. He be-
came affiliated with the sound money
wing of the democracy and eventually
joined the republican party.
Mr. MacVeagh is a reformer advocate
of civic progress and community upift;
is interested in charitable work. an active
member of the National Civic Federation
and Jealous worker in behalf OF every
thing tending to the improvement beau
tificaton and best government OF his
city.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, War.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson of Tennes-
see, Secretary of War, is a southerner
by birth and residence and a former
democrat He is lawyer Of renown in
the country, has been general counsel Of
the Illinois Central railroad for years and
at present is president of the American
Bar Association.
He was born in Columbus, Miss, in
1851 graduated from the University of
Nashville and studied in Leipzig and
Paris. He was assistant attorney gen.
eral of the United States under Cleveland,
and was counsel for the United States
in the controversy over the Alaskan
boundary before the arbitration tribunal
which met i'm London in 1903.
Mr. Dickinson as democrat of the
Evening star., 1909-03-04


ceptable to support Taft in the last cam
paign.
George w. Wickersham, Justice.
George w. Wickersham of New York,
Attorney General, is a native of Penn
sylvania. born in Pittsburg in 1858 He
is a member of the law firm of Henry
w. Taft, President Taft's brother. Mr..
Wickersham's speciality has been rail-
road law, and he has acted as counsel in
some notable cases. He also has been
counsel for the Interborough railroad
and for Chicago traction companies.
Mr.. Wickersham graduated from the
law school of the University of Penn
sylvania and practiced in Philadelphia
and New York. He has crowded d great
deal of hard work into recent years. but
at the same time has found some oppor-
tunity for play. He takes his recrea-
ton In travel, and goes abroad once every
year for several months.
Frank II. Hitchcock, Postmaster
General.
Frank II. Hitchcock of Massachusetts,
Postmaster General. is the junior MEM
Der of the cabinet in years, though not
in public service nor experience in poll
tics and public affairs. He has had a
busy life and remarkably successful
career Born in Ohio in 1867 he was
reared in Massachusetts and graduated
from Harvard in 1891.
He Immediately entered the government
service, and Secretary Wilson who now
sits around the cabinet table with his
former clerk recognizing his ability. soon
made him chief Of division. He be-
came chief clerk of the Department of
Commerce and Labor when that new de-
partment was organized, and maintained
his record for efficiency.
In Roosevelt's first campaign Mr.
Hitchcock went with Chairman Cortel-
you as assistant secretary of the ma
tional committee, and afterward became
first assistant postmaster general He
resigned that place to manage the Taft
campaign for the presidential nomination,
and was so successful In this and hand
ling the interests Of his patron at the
Chicago convention. that he was called
upon to manage the presidential cam
Evening star., 1909-03-04
George w. Wickersham, Justice.

Cleveland school naturally found it ac-
ceptable to support Taft in the last cam
paign
Evening star., 1909-03-04

1904 and is regarded as one of the master
minds in public life today.
Evening star., 1909-03-04

that he attracted the attention if Presi-
dent Roosevelt. who brought him to the
capital as land commissioner.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-21
EAST SIDE MAN
 SHOT IN THE LEG
Boys Across River Were Firing at Target - Bullet Entered James Frankin's Thigh, Near Knee, Co., ing to Bone.

Game Warden James H. Franklin
 was accidentally shot in the left thigh
 Monday afternoon about 215 o'clock,
 while standing on the battle-ground in the rear of Sherwood B.. Potters store.
 He was talking to c. Morgan Williams
 at the time, when the report of a gun
 was heard, and Mir. Franklin exclaimed
 '1'm shotI" He bent. over to see where he was hit, and fell to the
 ground, the leg becoming numb. The shot struck him from the front, entering his thigh about ? 1-2 inches above the knee, and the bullet flat tened out against the bone, as was ascertained by Dr. F. J.. Harper, who
 examined MT. Frauklin at the injured mans home, to which he was removed in Potter's wagon. It was decided to alolw the bullet to remain where it was rather than probe for it.
 The bullet evidently came from North Main street across the Shetuck- ct river
 As soon as the matter was reported to Chief Murphy he sent his men at once to North Main street to make a search for the shooter. At the James D'Atri house it was learned that Mi chael D'Atri, aged 13, with another boy, had been shooting at a target in the back yard, the pasteboard tar get being on the fence, and the shoot ing was in the direction of the river. Some of the boards are off the fence, and 1t is supposed the bulle. went be- tween two of the boards and cross ing the river struck MP. Franklin. The boy had take nthe. rifle into the house. and 1t had been hidden, but was found later by the police, the fla ther of the accused expressing sur prise that his son had gun with out his knowledge. The boy admitted shooting, although the father said he knew nothing about it. The boy was taken to the police station about. four o'clock and told Of his part in the .af- fair. It Is believed the affair was ac- \ cidental.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-21
A LITTLE RED SPOT
Novel Experiment by Which 1t May
 Be Made to Disappear.

A peculiar feature about posJam. the new skin discovery is that no one .s asked to buy it without. first sending to the Emergency Laboratories No, 52 West Twenty-fifth street. New York City. for an experimental sample and applying same to an affected part of the skin. about the size of a silver dollar. It will clear the spot so treat ed in twenty-four hours--a remarka- ble visual demonstration of its powers.
 While poslam has been mentioned principally in connection with the cure of eczema. the most stubborn of skin diseases, 1t must be remembered that when used for itch. hives, plnn- ples. blotches. acne, itching feet scaly scalp chafing of infants and similar minor skin troubles it's action Is all the more pronounced, results being seen after an overnight application. As only a small quantity of poslam Is necessary to cure such cases, special fifty-cen package, usually. suf- ficient, has been placed on sale at The Lee & Osgood's and Smiths drug store in Norwich, Larue's in Putnam. Wood wards in Danielson and Chesbro's in WillinIantic and other leading drug stores throughout the country. 4