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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
LABOR SAVER

Labor saving devices and compounds
go hand in hand with civilization.
The savage does what little he ac-
oomplishes by labor with his hands.
AS man lifted himself from savagery
he constantly invented devices to save
manual labor. Today great deal of
the work of the world is done by ma
chinery.
Instead of the old sickle, scythe,
cradle and fail today we have the
mower, the binder and threshing ma
chine.
In place of the spinning wheel and
distaff of our grandmothers, we have
the modern machines which accom-
plish thousands of times more with
infinitely less time, trouble and labor.
Taking the place of the old tire
some washboard we have the up-to-
date washing machine. While it does
the work much better than by the old
methods yet it left something to be
desired by the careful housewife.
1t remained for the Electric Com
pound company of 822 South Spring
street to achieve what the washing
machine left to be desired This they
have accomplished with their electric
laundry compound, which, used in
washing, gets results never before at
tanned and does so with great saving
in time, labor and trouble.
This compound also saves the clothes
as it eliminates rubbing and will not
injure the daintiest fabric or fade the
most delicate color. 1t both sterilizes
and bleaches the clothes and is wo-
mans delight for washing dainty ap-
parel. 1t cleans the finest lace and
sheerest lawns with absolutely no
danger or injury. For the busy house,
wife it is a boon, as it robs wash day
of all its terrors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
OWNING A HOME

A larger proportion of people own
their own homes in Los Angeles than
in any other city in the world.
The reason for this is not hard to
find. When we think of the special in
ducements and easy terms offered by
the many building companies of our
city we see no excuse for man pay
ing rent.
Among the most prominent compa-
nies whose business is the building of
homes, the Cooperative Building COM
pany of 626 Merchants Trust building
seems to be offering the best induce
ments. This company will sell man
a lot in almost any suburban location
and build him a home on it to suit his
own taste in architecture. They sell
him the home for a small down pay
ment and monthly installments in pro-
portion to the value of the place he is
purchasing. These payments are $14
monthly and up. The special advan-
tage of buying from the Cooperative
Building company is that in this plan
you pay no interest or taxes, and they
take care of the insurance until the
home is completely paid for. If you
are thinking of buying your own home
inctead of paying your money out for
rent, it would be we'll for you to con-
suit the Cooperative Building compa-
ny and look over their properties be-
fore making selection.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26

before soon discovered the unusual
facilities for clinging and climbing Of
fered by the copper wire netting. By
the first of July each window screen
was completely covered by beautiful
design of tiny light green leaves and
ruddy STEMS thrown into relief by the
daylight or silhouetted into a perfect
screen from outside by artificial light
within. AS antumn came on and the
leaves turned as only ampelopsis and
woodbine can turn, the window became
daily more exquisite. In the fall the
dead tendrils were easily brushed from
the screens, which, being copper, had
not rusted. Other wire netting could
be protected by yearly coat of var
nish. Mosquito netting would proba-
bly, support the young vine and last
through one SunhF er.-Exchange
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
VARY MoNoroNY OF THE ROOM

To patient who is obliged to be
confined a long time to one room and
yet not too i'll to take notice of things,
a complete change in the room, in the
arrangement of the furniture, the
walls, the curtains, etc., afford s
grateful relief from monotony. Alice
Grant in the Pictorial Review tells of
one ingenious nurse who covers the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
JUNE 26, 1910.
SIMPLICITY IN FURNITURE

Furniture styles change more stead
lily than the DEGREES of dame fashion.
The change in the fads of the house
decorations is constant and gradual
one. The century old furniture, the
antiques have had their sway, they
have been relegated to the garret.
There is new fad coming in, whole
some one, one that will lead to the
encouragement of the American youth
in the use of his Christmas set of au-
gers and chisels and keep him busy
after school hours. Books have been
written by the score on score telling
in various technical terms how to build
settee for the family parlor with
toothpick and piece of sandpaper
and the new fad has seized the pub
lie with a hardened grip.
Homemade furniture is the rule.
Your SticKley treasures, your mission
style rockers are the beginning of the
homemade plan. Simplicity of form
and simplicity in the making has re-
suited in the sacrifice of ornament for
comfort, in the relegation OF the Gothic
TO the background and in the move
ment of the Ionic to the spotlight.
The cause of the homemade furni-
ture idea lies in the sloyd work that
has become the corner stone of the
public school system of today. Every
lad wants to make a mission table, a
rocker, or a cabinet of some kind or
other, and the boy being a novice at
the game, begins with the simpler
Styles the heavy effect-and there you
are. The furniture of the future will
be the furniture of the brain of the
American youth. Simplicity and COM
fort will be the cry rather than the
ornate and novel.
To the European traveller the fact
that leaves the deepest impression upon
his memory, the idea that will remain
with him always, is the predominating
idea of the ornate appearing on every
hand. Let him first visit the Orient.
He views the picturesque pagodas, the
gorgeous temples, the type exemplified
in the Tai Mahal, that colossal ex-
ample of infinite pains resulting in a
tangled web of thought, the land where
detail is thought more of than the ef-
feet of the whole He journeys to the
countries of Europe and wonders at
the marvellous st. Peters in Rome,
the Eiffel tower, and ST. PauPs, the
combination of the massive and the
ornamental. He comes farther west
ward and he finds the change to the
simple and massive, the land were de-
tail is forgotten and effect is the goal.
The western civilization is sweeping
still farther westward and soon China
and Japan will be saving out mission
rockers in their. soyd rooms instead of
teaching their tiny tots to use the
microscope and compass.
Get out your saws and your ham,
mers, boys and girls. Your time has
come. AS the boy is father to the man,
so the future will see the architects
arising from the younger element, the
babes planning the habitations of their
fathers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
NOVEL SCREEN FOR WINDOWS

A satisfactory treatment of the win
dows of summer cottages whose only
outlook is into the windows of the
next one, was accidentally discovered
last summer. The windows on the
narrow court which separated two
houses, being kept almost constantly
open, the screens were never removed.
The ampelopsis-vines set out the year
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
PARKER

(Incorporated). successors to Pacific Tile
and Mantel Co.. Domestic and Imported
Tiles. Mantels. Crates. Andirons. etc; agents
for Grueby tiles. Estimates furnished. Tie
South Spring street. Los Angeles. Cal
Phone0-Sunset. Main 3137. Home FTOl1.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26

De Chauvenet C0nserva-
tory Of Music, Frater-
nal Brotherhood build
ing. s45 8. Figueroa ct.
Hours 2 to z p. m. daily
except Thursday. Resi-
dence studio, S66 Il.
47th ST., hours 9 to II ..
m. Pupils recitals given
monthly. Tel. Main $3.50
(from . to %: 3936o
from . to 1a).
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
JUST AS GOOD

Customer-Do you keep those Bittermint
pills?
Druggist-No. but I've got something Just
as bad-Yonkers Statesman.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

THE SECRET OF 1T.

Reader How is It don't give large prizes
Io yonrp puzzle contestf
nditor weekly: The to
Dusss pictures
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
Monday. January
1910
Expensive Errand Boys. These
Railroads and Express Companies

market. and all the other markets,
that Is sucking away at the American
consumers pocketbook.
Until this leech is found and be-
headed prices OF living will be tremen-
dously high and will grow higher just
SO long as there remains anything In
the pocketbook To be sucked out.
II has not yet been shown that tho
leech il not the railroad and the exs
press companies. 4,
In 1909 the traction companies ins
creased their Indebtedness by one bil-
lion and fifteen million dollars. The
interest that Is to be paid on this. OF
course. comes out Of the publics
pocketbook. q
And the express companies during
the wear paid dividends that ranked
among the highest on the whole lise
Of industrial institutions.
They're expensive errand boys, the
railroads and the express companies
who bring the eggs from the farmsr
To you.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
HUNTING A PAY STREAK.

What is the first thing for when you examine
His bump OF benevolence.
Why his bump OF benevolence?
So l Will know how much TO ask him for the ar
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
=! a z n ,.!,,,!ss
HASLlsTENED BY FRED ScllAEFER.

has cured himself Of It. In the past
tense. therefore. Bodfitter was the
kind OF man who would sit on track
To see train go by.
The only thing that saved him was
his inability to win bets. For instance,
II II was four-track railroad, he'd
always blunGer and sit on one Of the
tracks the train was not using. He
never could pick a 4-to-1 shot. And
when he'd pick single-track road, the
trains wouldn't be running
However. fate finally overlook him.
In spite of his deliberation.
He saw me on the street the other
day. and started to cross and speak To
me- was In my automobile.
In the middle of the street he de-
liberately stopped. saw something
akin To injury pass over his face It
was not resentment II was not dis
tress. II was my automobile.
Poor Bodfiitter. helped to pick
him up. or course he had scented
danger. but when the danger Is an
automobile you get the scent after II
has run over you.
At last accounts Bodfitter was still
In grave condition. That Is to say,
they had embalmed him.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
Yes, Mr.. Taft What ARE Your Plans?

White House TO share their opinions
with the chief executive. But the in
surgents were In the position OF the
public-a position of ignorance as to
what Mr.. Taft. Mr.. Aldrich. Mr.. Cam
non and Mr.. Morgan intend to do.
Such being the situation, 1t 10 Ger.
tainly an amazing spectacle--the pres-
ident OF the United States brandishing
the bludgeon Of federal patronage
over the heads Of the small band Of
astonished insurgents. with thunder
ings OF wrath at their failure to back
up the administration program" q
What, In the name Of common sense.
Is the administration program?
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

What Wall-st. considers the strongest
feature or the message Is the evident
determination Of the administration ia
preserve the integrity OF American in
vestments. Now that the government
intends to see that no stock Is issued
except for value received. a great food
or European money must come to
America. This determination Of the
government also gives something of q
monopoly to existing corporations. It
Will be difficult to build new railroads
: or start new trusts since the proposed
law will not be retroactive, these COM
binations now doing business having q
tremendous advantage"
Keep In your mind that term ito
preserve the integrity of American in.
vestments." for not housewife. nor
presidents nor trusts ever have put
up juicier lot Of preserves.
When, perhaps, you voted to have
Tart inherit Roosevelt's policies, you
thought the war on great mergers was
to be prosecuted. A halt was to be
called on great railroad combines
made to squeeze exorbitant rates out
Of you on everything you ate. wore or
used In any other way, through the
throttling Of competition. Well, when
st. George Taft came to calling q
halt on the merger dragon, he took
counsel Of J. p Morgan. lord of the
dragon with his Rooseveltian lance, he
road presidents. wet nurses OF the
beast. and instead of puncturing the
dragon with his Rooseltian lance, he
gave birth to the idea that one rail.
road shouldn't be permitted to swal-
low another unless II already owned
more than a majority Of the stock In
II.
You see the heavenly appropriate
ness Of the term preserving the In
tegrity of American investments. -
don't you? Anyhow. Morgan and hin
nine railroad moguls saw II and went
back to Wall-st feeling well pre-
served"
The Taft Idea isn't retroactive. On,
no! All the legislation about the evils
Of combination Of competing lines II
balderdash set aside by this new law
giving an exclusive cinch to trusta
that have already violated every con-
sideration on Gods earth save those
of greed and tyranny!
Wall-st. raises prices! II will be diff
ficult to build new railroads. VIII
be hard to start new trusts. And
European capital will pour in! Ye
Gods IL ought to. for II ever there
were large. luscious, exclusive melons
to cut. Umpire Morgan and his base
ball team Of railroad presidents VIII
have 'em.
And. dear reader. you are the Juice
that's being preserved" In those
melonsi
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

The American farmer In 1909 re-
ceived sS00.000.O00 for the egg crop.
The American consumer paid $780,
100000 for the same eggs.
Who got the difference OF s24O. O.000.-
900,
The farmer raised the hens, took
care OF them. fed them. housed them.
and paid about cents apiece for the
care OF each one. IL cost him not less
than s76.000.000 10 keep the hens sat
isfied and prolific.
SO. all together. his earnings were
reduced to $4,000. 900.
But somebody else got s240. 1000. 900
which is $4,000. 900 more than the
farmer received.
From the time the eggs left the
farmer 10 the time they reached the
consumer the price on them was al
most doubled. And the consumer. OF
course, paid.
Somewhere there Is leech In the
egg market and the butter market and
the meat market and the grocery
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

President Taft's use OF federal pa
tronage as club to discipline "insur-
gents 10 the most remarkable exhibit
ton yet given of his subservience to
Cannonism.
Bear In mind that Taft has not yet
outlined his legislative program. His
patronage announcement preceded his
messages on railroad and trust legisla-
tion.
So far from opposing the presiden-
.tial program. the insurgents were not
even informed as 10 what that pro-
gram was to be. Certain railroad
presidents appear to have acquired
some information, and went to the
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

Justice Brown. retired. Is always In
the public eye when congress is In
session, for ne still resides In Wash
ington, and Is known to hundreds OF
public men. When on the bench ne
was a strong advocate for nonrestric-
ton OF the courts by hampering laws
passed by legislatures.
In a recent speech he criticised
southern and western states for their
tendency to pass laws restricting the
functions OF judges In dealing with the
facts and the evidence In jury trials.
He advocated long terms for judges
SO that they could not be Influenced
or intimidated.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

II Is invariably the other man who
Is a megalomaniac.
In kicking the hat. Taft put his foot
In II.
Ivy don't you reduce der price OF
dose all-vool suits?"
Vat! vos you crazy? Vid cotton sc
high?"-Puck.
Edison promises us that manual la
Dor will be dispensed with by 2ll0
This indicates that poets are a CEN
tury ahead OF the times.
Mrs. Newbride: Boohoo! Henry
threw biscuit at me. One that made
myself. too!
Mother: The monsterl He might
have killed you.-The United Presby'
terian.
Two French murderers were expos
ed by finger print. Murderers
should wear mittens.
Bones of dinosaur have been
found In Utah. The faithful. how
ever, will not admit II is older than
the book Of Mormon.
Maybe. after all. Poet VIM. Watson
Is a little off mentally. He has re
turned TO one OF those high-priced
New York hotels.
''why do people have silver we'd
dings. pa?"
Just to show the world what their
powers of endurance have BEEN
Judge.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

The news dispatches from Wash
ington having brought US the same
day the conservation views of ex-
Chief Forester Pinchot, bounced,
and those of President Taft, in his
message to congress, we cannot re-
frain from remarking to ourselves,
rejecting upon the dismissal OF
Pincaot:
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
WALL-ST. PRESERVES

You ought to be informed as to what
Wall-st thought OF Taft's message sug.
gesting legislation for control OF the
trusts Maybe you'll think that you are
not interested, but you'll discover that
you are II you'll just recollect how. In
1907, Wall-st. took extraordinary pros
perity out OF your mouth and replaced
IL with the ashes OF panic.
Well, here, in quotation marks. are
some words warm and direct from
Wallst.:
The financial world passed judg-
ment on President Taft's message. and
found II favorable to higher pricea
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
lifts Plan Is All Right,
Bot Whs Is Going To
Make Congress Get Busy?
One Cannot Help But Regret In
View of the Presidents Evident
Good Intentions. That He NO
Longer Has Pinchot to
20 supply the Neces-
sary Backbone.

suggestions the presidents message for the
be credited to the man VINO
just dumped midsream between the couny
awakening finding window and the arrival OF the poce
President Tas special message convnces that
entitled place those at the window response TO the
Burglar
help but with regret the camness wn wnicn
be viewY q situation.
And help wondering by nature and temperament this
way facing situations why he should object Pnchots
with him the window simply because Pnchot ns on
making IN appropriate amount of fuss
Possibly PinchOt viii the neighbo
possibly pincho takes the view that it is good idea to
activity police headquarte
ssting the
The more nghbors robbers
scund help win reach the police station
attitude him going to the phone and simply
xmarkng calmly the police There at window
You see, he fails specify.
whether they "Peeping Toms whether they
are o break and rob
He doesn't give inkng his that
some rich vuabe keeping the house
And the thieves but fails to
i've the police description in getting the right
And headquarters idea from the dmeanor Of
h telephone isn't much exercised they
don't get y exercised themselves as they should
In this wise in this demeanor President Taft
s. his special message sounding the nations
guardian Of valuable Aguravey pstrong this
oy the nations and that there
IRE thieves around
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1900 a. ;.h nth -. f.o+ .hst tb.r vauhe are threatened
A. hey are struck by the true STATE
o Of the person at the phone and they cit up
He tells them there are men at the window but trying
them that great
erted into power and money his house.
nd he
ne NOT only describes the e pus nc gives 'nei A AN NO
of robbers
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
EXCELLENT IMITATION.

paror anything like the real articl
respect they The actors constantly Quarree
stage behind the scenes"
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
Whar Wux YET

He was an old, ,darky. He wore no
cvercoat, and the icy wind twisted
his threadbare clothes about his
shriveled body.
Wind" he demanded whimsically,
"whar wuz you dis time las Julyr-
Everybody's Magazine.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17
From Another Point of View

probably
be benefited by starvation
help food and months
wailng help fear of dry
New Yorkm
dead
Of
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he
the
nigh the "JayIAm"
EXCELLENT IMITATION.
anything like artcle?"
constantly quarreed with
&c behind scenes"
AT THE VAUDEVILLE SHOW. B7:;
wonderfully doesn't t?'
would making OF
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

have a sad duty to perform.
II is TO pass a eulogy upon my
friend Bodfiitter
Poor Bodfiitter He and were fast
friends-but | was the faster OF the
two.
Bodfiitter had only one fault That
fault was deliberation. say was"
because he hasn't that fault now. He
The Detroit times., 1910-01-17

Il has cost one transatlantic cable
company over $4,000 so far this year
to repair cables broken By trawisrs.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-28
Victorian God 4

7 4 Thac keray, with 4 brain weigh
ing IS X ounces, had the biggest head
among Victorian writer's, who had the
best features !? The choice would
y g lie betWee Tennyson h and
Henry Taylor. That man must be-
a poet remarks one sof his Cam
bridge contemp orariess when 81 Il he B first.
saw Jenny son come into the hall al
Trinity i, and another friend describes
5 him Il Il his unde days as SIX
feet high, broad chested strong
limbed, hts face Shakespe Ran. WITH
deep YIELDS, hts forehead ample.
crowned with dark. WaYy hair, his
head flnely poised, his hand h the al
:mliration of sculp tors. But time dealt
1 none gentl ia 1enpys son, where i.
as Henry Tor y always ~ 81 distin-
lguisEhed ooking a 40, seems 5to. have
grown sing larly ma estic with years
Grant Duff meeting him when he
was over notes 1T "a aylor looks
more JUPITER than ever, and con-
temp rary memoirs are full of sefeaa
Iences to his u Dwell Ike ppearance. s
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-28

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that he will not be treated as a Wis.
iting member of royal house. This
information is said by his friends to
indicate a desire to receive a reply
from Miss Katharine Elkins. One Of
her closest friends is authority for
the statement that she will have made
up her mind by that time as to wheth-
er she will yie,a her hand or not.
The report that no less a parsonage
than King Edward was responsible for
the additional difficulties in the trou-.
bled course Of the dukes love max,
ing has gained credence from the an
nouncement Of the dukes expected
visit to America. 5as ss: