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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-03
Her Sixteenth Birthday.

Dear MISS Doom:
I am to rave a party on my six
teenth birthday. please tell me the
best and easiest way to serve refresh
ments. Also. suggest some good
games. Thanking you in advance.
CONSTANT READER.
Why not have a peanut party? It
would provide a whole evenings fun.
For invitations send out cardboard
| shapes to represent peanuts. You can
shade them with pen and ink or water
color. Begin the evening with a peanut
hunt. Have peanuts placed in every
imaginable place and set a limit on the
time of the hunt. At the end of-say
fifteen minutes, the finder of the most
nuts receives an appropriate prize. A
doll, with arms, legs and head of pea
nuts, dressed in a gay color. would b'
appropriate for a girl, with little mer
dolls for the boys.
Have a race in which peanuts are
rolled around the room with walking
sticks, and, of course, the familiar
spearing game where they are stabbed
with hatpins from a tub of water. Toss
ing the nuts into a bowl at a distance
from where the players stand is also
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How to Beaut1y Your Home By
StencIing, Fashion s Latest Fad

to use either dye or paint is to have
a number of old cups or saucers-
Clipped ones that will be thrown on the
ash heap-and mix each color in a
separate dish with "a brush of its own.
In this way there is less likelihood of
dipping a brush into the wrong color.
Stencil designs can be bought that are
adapted to woodwork, leather decora-
ton, curtains, wall decorations and
staining. Some of the well-known
magazines for women have special
stencil patterns that can be adapted in
all sorts of decorative effects.
1t is wiser for the novice to begin
on some. of these bought stencils. many
of which are marked with colors to
be used. Later, if one becomes inter-
ested in the art n has any artistic
sense. it is possible to design ones own
stencils. Pattern can also be arranged
from wallpaper and fancy work motifs.
Cutting the stencils Is a somewhat
Troublesome feat. The design having
first been carefully drawn, 1t is placed
on top of a sheet of carbon paper hat
covers a special stencil paper which
now can be bought in almost every
small town where artist supplies are
kept.
The design is gone over with the point
of a ~stiletto or hard pencil until 1t Is
traced on the stencil paper.
AS it is inconvenient to keep showing
a short design along the material to be
colored, it is well to repeat the motif
three or four times on the stencil paper.
AS most of the patterns are strictly
conventional in type this can be easily
lone. 4.
After the motif is traced the stencil
paper is put upon a mable slab or piece
of thick glass to be cut out. An old
marble-top table is just the thing. The
cutting can be done with a sharp PEN
knife, but it is much better to buy a
special stenciling knife, which is
weighted and makes cutting much cas-
Ter.
Green, blue, crimson la-,e n yellow
will be found sufficient for the majority
of designs. as they al be mixed into
many shadings. A good palette can be
made from a shallow dish of glass with
a handle at one side. These can be
bought in pressed glass for five or ten
cents. and are easy to handle.
The fabrics adapted to stenciling are
many. Pongee, silk, chiffon, crasn'
muslins, leather, canvas, denim, arras
| CLOTH. monks cloth, grass cloth. null
and even cheese cloth a be utilized
for appropriate purposes.
Some of these. like pongee, velve-
teen and leather. are rather u~ndepend-
able, and it is wise to test a sample of
the material with the dyes before at
tempting the whole design.
Thin materials should be decorated
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Now and again he saw fit to pause, re-
moving his hat and utilizing a large,
soiled handana with grim abandon.
At such times his face would be up
turned, eyes trained upon the dim in
finities beyond the pale moon-smitten
sky. And he woufd sigh profoundly
not the furnace sigh of a lover think
ing of his mistress, but the heartfelt
and moving high of the man of years
and cares who has drunk deep of that
cup Of bitterness called unappreciated
genius.
Then, tucking the clammy bandana
nto a hip pocket and withdrawing his
yearning gaze from h heavens, would
struggle on, with a funeral counte-
nanc as the outward and visible mani
festation of a mind burdened with
mundane. concerns: such as Zone might
shrewdly surmise) that autographed
portrait of a deputy commissioner of
police which the detectives lynx-like
eyes had discovered on Maitland's es-
c~ritoire, unhappily, toward the close of
their conference, or, possibly, the
mighty processes of departmental law,
with it's attendant annoyances of
charges preferred, hearings before an
OUfIOuSIN D1CJdoltCu y0N a
pied martinez, reprimands and rulings,
reductions in rank, breaking" trans
fers; or-yet a third possibility-with
the prevailing rate of wage as con-
trasted between detective and side
w~alk-pounder," and the cost of living
as c%ontrasted between Manhattan, on
the one hand, nj Jamaica, Bronxville,
or st. George, Staten Island, on the
other.
A dimly lighted side-entrance pres
entity doomed invitingly in the SER
geant's path. He glanced up, some
what surprised to find himself on Sixth
avenue; then, bowed with the fatigue
of a busy day. turned aside, entering a
dingy back room separated from the
bar proper cat that illicit hour by a
curtain of green baize. A number of
tables whose sloppy imitation rosewood
tops shone dimly in the murky gas
light. were set about, here me there,
for the accommodation of a herd of
sleepy-eyed, case-hardened habitues.
Into a vacant chair beside one of
these the detective dropped, n famil-
iarly requested the lantern-jawed
waiter. who presently hustled to his
side. to BACK meh up a tub of suds,
George. Nah," in response to a
concerned query, II amt feelin' up to
much tonight"
Hat tilted over his eyes, one elbow
on the chair-back, another on the table,
fabby jowls quivering as he mumbled
the indispensable. cigar. puffy hands
clasped across his ample chest. he sat
for many minutes by the side of his UNI
needed drink, pondering, turning over
and over in his mind the one idea it
was capable of ~harboring at a time.
He c'u'd we wrote that letter to
himself. He's wise enough. Yeh can't
foo Hickey all the time. I'll git him
yet. Gottuh make good r it's the side
walks fir mine. Me, trying hard to
make an ones livin'. Nd him with all
kinds Of money!"
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The fat notified fingers sought a
waistcoat pocket and, fumbling there
in, touched caressingly a little pellet of
soft paper. It's possessor did not re-
quire to examine 1t to reassure himself
as to it's legitimacy as a work of art,
nor as to the prominence of the Roman
C in its establishment of engraved
arabesques.
"a century" he reflected s~ullenly,
zone lonely little century for mine.
Nd he had a wad like a ham on him.
Nd I might we had it all for my very
own if" His brow clouded blackly.
"SIeuth!" Hickey ground the epithet
vindictively between his teeth. And
spat. "Sleuth! All hell!,"
Recalled to himself by the very
vehemence of his emotion, he turned
hastily, drained to its dregs the tall
glass of lukewarm I'M vapid beer
which had stood at his elbow, placed a
nickel on ''e table, and, rising, wad-
died hastily out into the night.
1t was being borne in upon him with
much force that if he wished to save
his name and fame somethin' had got
to be lone about it.
"I hadn't oughtuh left him so long.
1 guess he told himself; "but-IlI get
him all right"
And turning, numbered gloomily east
ward, rapt with vein imaginings, squat,
swollen figure blending into the deeper,
meaner shadows of the Tenderloin; and
so on toward Maitland's rooms-raorose
misunderstood, malignant. coddling his
fictitious wrongs; somehow pathetically
pic of the force he represented.
On the corner of Fifth avenue he
paused. startled fairly out of his dour
mood by the loud echo of a name al
ready become too hatefully familiar to
his ears, and by the sight of what, al
first glance, he took to be the begin
ming of a street brawl.
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Pepper Mangoes.

Dear Margery Doom:
Kindly publish a recipe for making
pepper mangoes for winter use. The
peppers were picked several days ago.
MAPLEWOOD.
Pepper Mangoes-Select firm, sound
green peppers. With a sharp knife re-
move the tops, take out the seeds, soak
over night in salt water, hen fill with
chopped cabbage and green tomatoes.
seasoned with salt, mustard seed and
ground cloves. Then sew on the tops
with coarse thread. Boil enough vine
gar to cover, adding a cupful of brown
sugar and pour over the manages. Re-
peat three mornings.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-03
Cleaning a Silk Blouse.

Dear Margery Doom:
Kindly tell me how a pale blue mes
saline waist may be cleaned at home.
1t is trimmed with fine Valenciennes
lace. and is very dainty. II also has a
very thin lining of batlste.
ANXIOUS.
Dip it in a bowl of gasoline and let
stand for a few moments. Then rub the
soiled places gently between the palms
of the hands. Do this until you are
sure the blouse is clean. Rinse in clear
fluid and hang in the all, but not in
the sun to dry. Be careful not to use
the gasoline neal any kind of a fire, as
1t is highly explosive.
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Leather, Curtain and Wall Deco
ratiOns Can Easily
Be Done.

g TENCILING is so much used now as
an offset to embroidery or as a
substitute for it that many women may
be glad to know of this art.
There is an idea that it is difficult; it
is in fact. easy if one has a good pat
tern and remembers to use the dye or
paint sparingly. The chief trouble to
the novice lies in the paint running and
blurring the material.
This can be avoided by taking very
little paint on the brush, then rubbing
almost dry against the side of cup or
palette. Some workers mix the paint
oil a cloth or velvet pad and wet the
brush in this rather than in the color
itself.
AS the paint must be used very thin,
the novice will need to be extremely
careful not TO get the color under the
stencil and ruin the work. One success
full artist says she has overcome this
difficulty by working over the stencil
itself rather than in the spaces.
The materials needed are not costly.
Either dyes or tube oil paints a be
used. Good effects are even obtained
with the powdered house paints that
can be bought by the quarter pound
from any painter and will last a long
time.
Dyes, while they show the fabric
better than paints, do not wear so
well when the article must be laun-
dered often. They will often fade after
q few washings, even with a f1xative,
says the writer in the Philadelphia
Ledger.
AS they are easier to work with
than the paints, use them on dark
materials and for fabrics that will not
stand washing. The tube dyes are
most convenient to handle, though any
kind will do if they are selected for
the proper materials. That is, do not
attempt to color silk or wooden stuffs
with a cotton dye.
Many of the dyes come ready pre-
: pared. but the oil paints must be
thinned to the consistency of a thin
cream with t%urpentine or benzine
Some workers use a thinner of one
part Of Japan drier to two parts of
turpentine. This keeps the color from
spreading easily. If a tiny pinch OF
sugar of lead is added it sets the color,
One experienced stenciler sets hei
dyes by using a half teaspoonful oil
gumtragacanth. She mixes the pow
ders with the dye before adding water
which is preferably hot.
The easiest n least wasteful way
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-03
MARGERY doom

amusing. Each nut thrown into the
bowl counts n point.
Again 0 might give each person
twelve or fifteen peanuts and see who
could in the shortest time shell all his
or her nuts without breaking one.
Have sailed peanuts, peanut butter
sandwiches and cardboard cases repre-
senting peanuts. filled with candy,
among good things on the supper table.
Have two or three girls assist you in
passing the good things around. This
method is much simpler than trying TO
seat many guests at table. You might
also serve layer cake with coffee filling,
which is a sort of a peanut shade. I
think that many other games will sug-
gest themselves.
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Author of the "Blaek Bag
.The Private War;" Etc.

her. What mater? If they disbelieved
him, persisted II calling him An1sty, IN
natural course they would undertake 10
search the fat. And if she were found
l.. oh, she must spare him that!
She had given him cause for suffering
enough. She must get away, and that
instantly, before . From a dis-
lance, tomorrow morning-tonight. even
by telegraph, she could communicate
with him.
At this juncture O'Hagan entered
with his parcel. The rustic of the
paper as he brushed against the door
jamb was in itself a hint to a mind
keyed to the highest pitch of excite
ment and seeking a way of escape from
q position conceived to be perilous. IN
a trice the girl had turned and sped.
lightfooted, to the door opening on tbs
private hall.
Here. hating for a brief reconnais-
sance, she determined that her plan was
feasible, if hazardous. h ran the
risk of en~countering some one ascend
ing the stairs from the ground floor.
but if she were cautious and quick she
could turn back in time. On the other
hand, the men whom she most feared
were thoroughly occupied with their
differences, dead to all save that which
was happening within the rooms
four walls. A curtain hung perhaps a
third of the way across the study door,
tempering the light in the hall; and
the broad shoulders of the cabby OBJ
structed the remainder of the OPEN
ing.
1t was a chance. She poised herself
on tiptoe, half undecided, and-the rust
ling of paper as O'Hagan opened the
Parcel afforded her an opportunity to
escape, by drowning the noise of her
movements.
For two eternal seconds she was edg-
ing stealthily down toward the outer
door; then. in no time at all. found
herself on the landing and-confronted
by a fresh complication. one unfore-
seen; how to leave the house without
being observed, stopped, and perhaps
detained until too late? There would
be men at the door, beyond doubt; pos
sibly police, stationed there to arrest all
persons attempting 10 leave. 7.
No time for weighing chances. The
choice of two alternatives lay before
her: either to return to the alcove or
to seek safety in the darkness Of the
upper ioors-untenanted, as b had
been at pains TO determine. The latter
seemed by far the better, b less dam
gerous. course to pursue. And at once
she took II.
There was no light on the irst-foor
l~anding-it having presumably been ex-
tinguished by the janitor early in the
evening. Only a feeble twilight OBJ
tanned there. in part a reflected glow
from the entrance hall, partly thin n
dinused rays escaping from Maitland's
study. So 1t was that the first few
steps upward took the girl into dark
ness SO close and unrelieved as to seem
almost paIpable.
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A White Beaver Hat.
Dear Miss Doom:

Dear Miss Doom:
/ have a white beaver hat that is
slightly soiled. Please tell me how to
clean ii at home. I do not want to
send it to a cleaner. Also, please let
me know what will remove a stain
from a mahogany table. A N. T.
Heat corn meal or flour and rub thor
oughly into the beaver. Shake well and
rub in more meal or -four. Put in a box
and place away from the light for two
or three DAYS. REMOVE. shake out all
of the dust and the soil will come with
it.
You forgot to tell me the nature of
the stain on the table. Therefore. l
cannot advise you.
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CHAPTER XIII.
FLIGHT.
N the alcove the girl waited, torn in
the throes Of incipient hysteria: at
first too weak from reaction and re-

2 N the alcove the girl waited, torn in
the throes Of incipient hysteria: at
first too weak from reaction and re-
vulsion of feeling to do anything other
than lean heavily against the wall and
fight with all her strength and will
against this crawling, shudderfng,
creeping horror of nerves, that threat
ened alike her self-ontrol, her con-
sciousness and her reason.
But insensibly the tremor wore itself
away, leaving her weary and worn. bur
mistress of her thoughts and actions.
And she dropped with gratitude into 8
chair. bending an ear attentive to the
war of words being waged in the room
beyind the portieres.
AT first, however, she failed to grasp
the import of the alteration. And
when in time she understood its trend,
it was with incredulity. resentment and
a dawning dread lest a worse thing
might yet befall her, worse by far than
aught that had gone before. But to be
deprived of his protection, to feel her
self forcibly restrained from the shelter
OF his generous care!
A moment gone she had been %
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RECIPES WORTH TRYING.
4++++FF+FFFFFF+FFT
EGG croquettes.

For six croquettes take six eggs.
pint of milk. one tablespoon of butter,
one tablespoon of flour, n tablespoon
of chopped parsley, ten drops of onion
mice and a teaspoon each Of salt and
pepper.
Boil eggs hard and drop in cold water.
Remove shells and put through a po-
tato ricer. Boil the milk and add the
-four and butter, which have been
rubbed together, then add the parsley.
onion Juice and seasoning.
Turn on a platter to cool. Let the
mixture stand for three hours. a
and drop into beaten g and crumbs
and fry in very hot fat.
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= VOsEPH VANCE

sure that all would now be well with
her, once Maitland succeeded in Kidding
himself of the police. He would shut
that door and-and then she would
come forth and tell him, tell him every
thing, and, Withholding naught that
damned her in her own esteem. throw
herself upon his mercy, bruised with
penitence but serene in the assurance
that he would prove kind.
She had such faith in his tender and
gentle kindness now. She a
OWNED so clearly the motive that had
permitted Anisty's escape in order that
she might be saved, not alone from
Anisty, not alone from the shame of
Imprisonment. but from herself as well
from herself as Maitland knew her.
The burglar out of the way, by ruse,
evasion, or subterfuge she would be
secreted from the prying of the police,
smuggled out of the house and taken
to a place Of safety, given a new chance
to redeem herself. to clean her hands
of the mire of theft. to become worthy
of the womanhood that was hers. Z.
But now-she thrust t1nger-nails
cruelty into her soft palms, striving TO
contain herself and keep her tongue
from crying aloud to those three brutal.
blind men the truth: that she was
guilty of the robbery. she with Anisty;
that Maitland was-Maitland: a word
| synonymous with man of honor"
In the beginning, indeed, all that re-
strained her from doing so was her
knowledge that Maitland would be
more panied by her sacrifice than glad
| dened or relieved. He was SO sure of
clearing himself. . 1t was incon-
| ceivable to her that there could be
men so stupid and crassly unobservant
as to be able to confuse the identity
of the two men for a single instant.
What though they did resemble each
| other in form n feature? The like
ness went no deeper: below the sur
face. and rising through it with every
word and look and gesture. lay a world
wide gulf of difference in. every shade
of thought, feeling, and instinct.
She herself could never again be de-
ceived-no, never! Not for a second
could she mistake the n for the
other. What were they saying
The turmoil of her Indignation SUBJ
sided as she listened, breathlessly, TO
Maitland's story of his adventures, and
the Joy tina leaped in her for his frank
mendacity in suppressing every incident
that involved her, was all but overpow-
ering. She could have wept for sheer
happiness. and at a later time she
would, but not now, when everything
depended on her maintaining the very
silence of death.
How dared they doubt himl The in
s~olents, The crude british insolence ot
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A Thrilling Story Of Love
and Romance
Copyright 1907. by
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
All Rights Reserved.
Continued From Yesterday

For what should he say to her other
than the words that voiced the hunger
of his heart? Yet il he spoke
words such as those toto a thief
what would be the end Of it all?
What did it matter? Surely he,
who knew the world wherein he lived
and moved and had his being, knew
bitter well the worth of it's verdicts.
The world might go hang, for all he
cared. At least his life was his own,
whether to make or to mar, and he
had not to answer for 1t to any
power this side of the gate of
darkness. And if by any act of his the
world should be given a man and a
woman in exchange for a thief and an
idler, perhaps in the final reckoning
his life might not be accounted alto
gether wasted.
He set back his shoulders and in
spired deeply, eyes tightening; and
stepped into the study, resolved.
Mis-" he called huskily; and
stopped, reminded that not yet did he
ever know her name.
'It is safe now" he amended, more
clearly and steadily, Ito come out, If
you will"
He heard no response. The long,
cleaning folds of the portieres hung
motionless. Still, a sharp and staccato
clatter of hoofs that had risen in the
street, might have drowned her voice.
eff you please" he said again.
loudly.
The silence sang sibilant in his ears;
and he grew conscious of a sense of
anxiety and fear sitting in its in
tensity.
AT length, striding forward, with a
swift gesture he flung the hangings
aside.
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CHAPTER XII.
On Reconsideration

- ENTITY, but with decision. Ser
geant Hickey set his face against
the allurement of the wine-cup
and the opportunities of his fellow
officers.
He was tired. he affirmed. with a
weary nod: the lateness of the hour
rendered him quite indisposed for con
vivial dalliance. Even the sight of
O'Hagan, seduction incarnated, in the
vestibule, a bottle under either arm.
clutching a box of cigars jealousy with
both hands, failed to the tenn
perate soul.
Nah" he waved temptation aside
with a gesture of f1nality. II don't
guess I'll take nothin' tonight, thanks.
G'night ALL
And. wheeling, shaped a course for
Broadway.
The early morning air brcathed chill
but grateful to his fevered brow. Oddly
enough, in view Of the fact that he had
INDUCED In no very violent exercise. he
found himself perspiring profusely.
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sunshine Mullins.

Beat the whites of eleven eggs
until they are stiff, then add
teasnoon of cream of tartar and beat
until fine and dry. Add the yolks OF
four eggs beaten to a frotn' SIT ons
cup and a half of graduated ugar'
add to the whites carefully n str IN
a teaspoon of vanilla 1avoring.
When well mixed, fold in gently n
cur of flour that has beer sifted nv or
six times. Turn into creased munn
tins and bake in a moderate oven ZOE
twenty minutes.
When these cakes are cold they
hould be iced with orange icing.
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THE pRizE.WINNERs.

Many children were smart enough
to find the correct answer to last Wed
nesday's business office puzzle, which
was typewriter. The two following
children were awarded the prizes:
FLORENCE ALBRIGHT, aged 9
tbs Devon street. Arlington (book)
LEO KOLZER, aged 10. 377 Central
e Newark (penknife).