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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
TO RAISE ceRANlUMs.
Easy To Grow and Free From Disease
and Insects.

No plant Is so easy to grow. nor SO free
from disease and insects as the geranium.
1t stands neglect and abuse and carries
itself bravely. putting forth an occa-
sional bloom even under conditions in
which other plants would pine and die.
1t demands little skill for growing well
and repays better than almost any other
plant the little effort required to attend
to its few wants.
Geraniums are sold so cheaply by the
florist and there are so many beautiful
new varieties that it hardly pays to grow
ones own plants. 1t is perfectly FEAST
BILE, however to carry plants through the
winter in pots, but such plants do not
bloom well enough inside to make good
house plants. and are not so good to
plant out in the spring as the strong.
young vigorous plants obtained from the
florist
Old house plants If used should be cut
down to six inches from the ground. as
they are generally tall and spindling and
never will make shapely plants other
wise. 1t is possible to grow geraniums
from cuttings rooted in the house but
one has to wait long time for such
plants to grow and bloom
One can hardly understand why half
the geraniums grown are red when there
are so many other beautiful and delicate
colors and shades to choose from M the
florists
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
250,000 Hebrews Entering Passover
Period lncensed at Price Of Meat.

New York, April 24.-Race and relg-
ious riots are today threatened each
hour over on the East Side. where ESQ.,
900 Hebrew housewives, who have for
weeks offered to boycott the butchers,
are entering the Passover period in
censed at the high price of their prec-
iouS kosher meat. Prices almost double
those formerly charged for the meats
prepared according to holy writ are now
asked by the retailers of this crowded
quarter, that is just now filled with re-
ligious fervor and excitement BY
threats as we'll as action the women of
the quarter have already made the
lives of their butchers unpleasant and
even unsafe. while it is generally rec
ogniZed that meat trust prices nave
driven their families almost to the
point of actual starvation. Food fights
have of late wears become altogether
too common 3n experience among the
victims of high Living cost in the poor
er parts of this town, and the authorl-
ties are prepared to take emergency
measures to check the source OF the
trouble before blood is spilled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
When Washing Gloves.

Tn" washed chamoiS glove in yellow
and white is an admirable adjunct to
the wardrobe. IT solves the problem
of how to keep gloves clean without
expense. The time involved in wash
ing them is SO small that it can not be
counted, ANA the delight of feeling
fresh gloves against the hands each
day is understood by every woman.
Tn" cheaper gloves do not last. and
therefor" they are not good invest
ment. The rhamois is thin in places
and with a few wa>hingS it wears
through in holes that are impossible
to- mend.
\ mistake is often made OF blowing
into the gloves when they are wet and
hanging them to dry in this shape. If
a woman has Il short. fat hand. she
Mil not object to the result, but if she
has long, slender one she will be
thoroughly discouraged. She will find
that the fingers are only half as long
as they should be. that the button is
up on the palm and that the thumb is
square instead of OblOng.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
GERMAN PUPILS
BY Thousands Sent Hungry To School
According To Statistics.

Berlin, April 24-Accordng to sta
tistical inquiries made in 1875 of the
larger German towns on the feeding of
school children, it appears that last
summer no fewer than $4,000, and last
winter $4,000, children came to school
without having partaken of food of
any kind.
Far greater-10 per cent-was the
number of those who had had no milk,
while the others had been fed on very
poor food substitutes. In winter $780,
600 children and in summer 10000 had
not had warm meal, but only had a
snack of little nutritive value, while
1900 were found to have no supper to
eat.
Three reasons are given for this de-
plorable state of affairs, viz. poverty of
the parents, employment Of the moth
ers outside the home, and negligence
the latter being particularly evidenced
by The cases when they are quite I'M
aware of the insufficiency of the food
substitutes
Statistics show that over a quarter
OF a million married women are in en-
pioyment which means that they have
no time to prepare a warm meal for
their children. Happily there are
charitable societies for feeding hungry
school children already organized in
about 200 towns, but their financial
means are still inadequate to meet all
requirements.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
KRACk BRtCk EN-.
Innovations in Gloves.

There are two decided innovations in
gloves This season For the glove to be
worn with long sleeves there are white
and black glace kid gloves. stitched with
the contrasting color and with heavy
embroidery of the same on the backs.
They will be exceedingly smart in the
early spring tor street wear, but that
viii not prevent many women from add
herring to the less striking all white or
all black glove.
For wear with the short sleeved cos
tunes Paris accents the use of long
suede gloves in fairly light tones of
tan and gray In making selection
nr suede gloves it should be remembered
that il Is only the best quaiity that will
give satisfactory wear and that even
50 they are not so economical as the
glace kid, because they do not clean so
we'll A white slacc kid glove can visit
the cleaners times without number YET
returning therefrom looking almost IL
not quite as good as when 1t LETT tic
shop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
The Short Woman,

Choose the tall color schemes Pink
makes a woman look taller, while red
makes her look shorter Brown short
ems. but white lengthens. Black de-
tracts from the height. but light green
adds to it,
Don't wear fat hat The battle
ship hat is becoming to short women
BE sure that it has the upturned side
and the tall crown.
Tall hats are for the short woman
but she must not wear the tall square
or the round cheeseboX hats. She
must select something high, irregular
and graceful
Don't dress Your hair wide if You are
very short
Don't walk with or stand next to a
very tall, slim woman if you can help
it.
Avoid the very stout type of wo-
man. You will be dwarfed.
Keep away from the tall hanging
portieres. Choose draperies anG
hangings in case you must stand close
to them for any length of time that are
curved or draped rather than those
that fan with Greek simplicity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
Etiquette For Girls.

IT Is not considered very good taste
to insist on paying such trting sums
as OMNIBUS fares when out with
friends, especially ones seniors.
or course it may happen that a girl
mas Tor escort young man who has
peen deputed to see her home after an
at nome or reception. In such a case
many girl wonders if she should al
low nm to pay her cab or railway fare.
AS a rule she may, though if she is
one of those considerable. nice girls.
who dislike putting themselves under
an obligation of even a trifling kind to
any young man. she may feel that she
would prefer to pay for herself.
But one has to remember it is very
Illuminating to man to be placed in
such a position, and | think eirl
should sacrifice her own wishes To his
sense of self-respect. Were she 10
rush at the cabman. fare in hand the
pride of her companion would suffer in
wondering what the cabman Thought
OF him. for men are more sensitive
than women to the opinion of Others
even their inferiors.-Home Chat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
FIRST FOLIO EDITION
OF Shakespeare Published In 1923 at
One Guinea.

In 1923 a copy of the first folio edi-
ton of Shakespeare's works was pub
lished at one guinea. A copy of this
edition has recently been bought for
the sum of POPS, and has been added
to the collection of gentleman living
in Glasgow. Scotland, who already
possesses copies of the second and
fourth folios, published in 1882 and
1886 respectively. 1t is said that this
is the only copy of the first folio in
Scotland at the present moment. The
interesting volume was purchased at
the sale of Earl Howe's library at
Sotheby's. having been originally ac-
uuired, it is believed. by Charles
Jennens. the friend of Handel, about
1850. The present Earl Howe came
into possession of this interesting
tome through one of his ancestors. to
whom it was bequeathed in 1928.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
INTERESTING HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
White Looks Cool.

This Partisan RELOCATING of white to
the background will have little effect
here, for too many frocks are made
this side of the sea, and the American
woman has always been partial to
white. as well she may be. for its va
rious tones or some shade of it-for
white has as many shades as most
other colors-may be found becoming
to any one.
1t is practical, too, because easily
cleanscd. ana it can be procured in
any material, and it looks cool, a de-
cided advantage for summer wear.
The mere fact that one looks cool is
itself cooling, and the effect ON the
imagination OF the beholder is equally
good.
Those who like white frotkS need
not be deferred by rumorS as to its not
being fashionable, for il will be worn,
although il is possible that not so
much of il viii he seen here as last
year
There are "Whit.' summers and
Summers when little of il is seen but
the fashion never goes directly from
ON. extreme to the other
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
STAGE HAS NO CHARM,
Literary Convict Declines Offer To
Appear In Detective Play.

st. Paul, Mimi, April 24.-The offer
of 4 position On the stage has no charm
for John Carter. the literary convict
who has just been released from the
Minnesota State Penitentiary at Still
water Licbler 4 Carter, the theatrical
managers, wired him an offer to appear
in the play alias Jimmie Valentine "
but the young Englishman liked neither
the opportunity TO go. before the foot
lights nor the name of the play in which
he was asked to appear. He has made
up his mind to either follow literary
WORK or music
Carter is spending most of his time
in the law Offices of Judge John w. Will
lis and seldom goes upon the streets.
He StudiOusly avoids the photographers
and so far no one has been able to get
a picture of him.
Il 90 not want my picture paraded in
the newspapers as an ex-convict," he
said. Il shall try TO live down the stain
cast upOr me, and | can't do il if every
where ! go persons recognize me from
nv published photograph"
Once today Carter stood alone on a
street corner watching the whirl of
business. from which ne has been sep
aratcd for five years. No one recog-
nized him.
When newspaper reporter finally
saw MIN he said; III is wonderful the
way things go, isn't it?'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
DAUBS TRAMP WITH PAINT.
lriate Husband Attacks Ungratefui
Wanderer With Well Filled Brush.

Logansport, Ind. April 24.-Enraged
because a tramp who received several
slices of but,ered bread from his wife
stood at the door and arraigned her for
not giving him something better, Isaac
Gray, who had been engaged in painting
the side Of his house. dashed around and
slapped the nngrateful wanderer full In
the mouth with "A brush fun Of red
paint. And before the startled tramp
could recover. Gray jabbed him with
the brush in tn" eyes, ears and hair
The tramp cndeaVored To ward eff the
brush, but Gray continued to daub him.
dipping the brush into the can for q new
supply TIL" tramp finally turned and
fled and the husband pursued, slapping
him on the back. neck and head with
the brush.
fhe appearance OF the tramp created
considerable excitement in the streets
He was hatless and his face hair and
head were rcd. lie escaped to the coun-
trv before the police could get him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
BELIEVE GHOSTS "pULL" BOX.
Logansport Firennen Supersititious
Over false Alarms From Box Al.

Loganaport, Ind, April oi.-Falsc
alarms of fire sounding from box No
Al. at Hanna and North Sixth streets
one block from MI. Hope cemetery, has
caused the city officials to offer a re-
ward of so for information which will
lead to the arrest of the guilty persan.
Tn" firemen, however. believe that it
viii never he claimed, as the maiority
Of them are convinced that a ghost Is
responsible. They have dubbed No, II
the 'spook box and are firmly con-
WINGED that some supernatural! power is
sending in alarms.
The last alarm to come In from box
No Al was n few minutes after mid
night one morning recently. The de-
paitmen, went scurrying to the box.
but the fircinen knew that il would prive
10 be false alarm. And they were
right No blaze was founl or the per
son who had sent in the alarm False
alarms have been coming from This box
for two wears. ard they will average q:
least four a month. Some of the fire
men are worried end fear that 1t is
some evil spirit that is doing the work.
The box has been watched nightly.
but none has ever been caught.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
Correct Whininq Children.

For child's own sake if not for
those around him, do not let him
whine The fault finding attitude
toward life is all too easy, and it
makes for sure unhappiness. The
| whine of the young becomes the chip
on the shoulder of maturity and the
sour disgruntlement of age, says a
writer on child development The child
who is taught to take life as it comes
without complaints, better yet, to
make the best of it or to laugh at its
discOmforts, is the child who will go
through the world a pleasure to him
self and to those who must deal with
him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
is AWARDED PENSION
BY Congress-Most Remarkable Sur.
vivor Of Four Wars.

Washington, April 24.-Congress has
recognized ny pension the widow of
the most remarkable survivor of four
vars known to this country
Snmmerville Dennis, of Dadeville
Ala. enlisted in the war of 1872, fought
gallantly and was mustered out as dead.
When the Seminole War broke out in
1926 Dennis was one Of the first to en-
list. He fought through this war and
was again mustered out as dead. For
the third time, III the Mexican War of
1861 Dennis, aged IS years, appeared
with the musket for enlistment in the
Union forces. He was rejected because
of age, but his physical condition was
so fit that he was assigned to the Com
missary Department and throughout
the war he drove a mule team. He died
in 1856.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
SuRFEiT OF ONE PLAY.
Woman Who Entertains Buyers saw
Eiqht Performances in Week.

There is Il woman in New YORK
whose occupation is to entertain Wo-
men buyers who come into town Tor
houses throughout the country. she
has an office and whenever whole
sale dealer in millinery or dress goods
has woman buyer on his hands she
is called ON the telephone and later II
introduced to the stranger as Mrs. ~
and so of our house" She then taxes
the buyer in tow, for it is the custom
still to show the buyers some atten-
ton. with the idea of cementing their
allegiance to the houses with which
they deal
This woman has a strong complaint
against popular shows. AS entertain
er she defers to the request OF the
buver to see some one particular show.
Naturally this buyer from out of town
will select one that She had heard of
as doing well and as being amusing.
1t has happened to this woman enter
tainer that in one week. very pussy
one, she saw The same show just eight
times, every evening and at two matt
nees. After that most persons will
agree that she earns her money.
Her system is to take her visitor out
to dinner. then to the show. and after
ward to have a bite of supper some-
where. Her bill to the house for
which she is doing the entertaining is
for expenses. plus % per cent for her
work. IN this way she has built up
an income of about $4,000 for the year.
She does not work awhole year at that.
only those few months during which
the BUYERS come into town.-New York
Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
OF PRICELESS VALUE.
Heirloons From Grandma Most Wei
come Marriage Gifts To Marjorie
Gould

Ne" YORK. April 2i.--None of the ma
nv hundreds of presents given to Mar
Jorie Gould for her marriage to An
thony j. Drcxei, Jr, were more welcome
than the gifts of her grandmother Mrs.
Kingdom.
III was not until the DreXeis and
Gonlds had a family gathering I'm the
Gould town house. Fifth avenue and
Sixty-seventh street, last Friday even
ing. that Miss Gould learned that she
would receive heirloms from her grand.
mother.
Mrs. Kingdoms persents are collar
Of Il strings of seed pearls. held II
place by six bands Of diamonds and fas
tened with a diamond clasp; pearl and
diamond perants, and a jeweled peacock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
GIRLS RUN FROM SNAkES.>
Floor Walker Requests Boy Snake
Charmer To Leave Store.

New York. April 24.-That Williams
burg has a boy snake charmer was
discovered recently in a department
store there, when Arthur Damn, II
caused hullabaloo by bringing in a
dozen garter snakes. Arthur wanted
box for his exhibits. He appeared
at the store with snake draped about
his neck, two others clinging like
vines to his wrists and many more
peeping out OF his pockets. The
snakes looked at two young women
with far-from -taxidermist eyes, The
young women screamed and there was
an immediate fiutter of skirts A floor
walker requested Arthur to go on an
extended tour with his circus. Arthur
grudingly obeyed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
CANDY CRIME.
Ten Tons of Candy Stolen-EHorts to
Trace Booty Prove Vain.

New York. April 24.--Ten tons Of gum
drops. bonhons. chocolates and stick
candy are today known to be concealed
within the pockets and stomachs OF the
boys of nalf dozen blocks of upper
Tenth avenue while the police are
working to make some restitution to a
frantic candy maker whose shop was
looted by sweet-toothed youths p few
days ago. Pounds of chocolate and SUI
gar smeared over the faces Of the chill
dren of this favored neiehborhood. are
the only clues that the struggling
slenths have thus far been able to offer
for the disappearance OF this sweet
stock. and all efforts to trace the booty
further have proved vain. close watch
is being kept upon the visits of the doc
tore Of the region. and sooner or later
the pelice believe they can locate the
hidden source of supply.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25

aren't such winner with the girls as
YOU used to be: and she will find there
is. somehow. a settled look about her
that leaves her pretty lonely; and
both of YOU will find that neither can
be quiet comfortable with the other
dear charmer away.
That's the theory of it, and it has
the added benefit that it may prove
one of the best preventives of divorce.
One might almost call it trial divorce,
as offsetting the current advocates of
trial marriage. If it had been moot
ed by any less orthodox parsonage
than the Ri Rev. Arthur Foley Win
nington Ingram Of London. DEL
phia North American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
HELD A PHOTOGRAPH
At the Depot Until the Right Man
Game AIons-They'Ii Be Married.

Columbus. Ohio. April 24.-From
o'clock one morning until o'clock one
afternoon recently little woman past
her first youth paced about the waiting
room Of the Union Station here. On her
left arm midway to the shoulder was a
large red bow Of silk and In her hand
she carried photograph As the trains
came in she scanned the arrivals
At o'clock mlddle-aged man entered
and spoke to her. Then came the ex-
PLANTATION. She was Miss America Nc
Daniels, spinster of this city. and the
man was John l.. Wise. q widower OF
Sidney. Seven months ago they were IN
trodnced to each other by mail by mn-
tuai friend. a
Since then they have been correspond
ing, but had never seen each other.
They vent 10 friends home. where II
was announced that they would be mar
ried III ths fall. j qisEl-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25

boat patrol steamer and was soon ar
terward under free under the name of
ft, Henry IN fight with that fort. TIE
BOAT served through the war was sold
al auction at Cairo, brought back by
the Terry company for small sum, re-
paired and put again in the ferry trade
When it died of old age the engines
were placed on new steamer, the u.
NJ. Sherley, and after they had propelled
that boat eighteen years they were
transferred 10 the City of Jeffersonvilie
The engines are OF a type common
around here sanif Are in duplicate, each
Fropelling one of the side wheels, the
mechanism being much the same as is
used for the big stern wheel boats
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
STILL IN SERVICE.
Machinery Of Ferry Boat Placed
Commission During Civil War.

Jeffersonville. Ind, April 2i.-The
City of JefferaonyiIle n ferry boat be-
longing TO the Louisville & Jefferson
Vile Ferry Company, in service between
the Two cities named. has engines which
have been doing constant service on the
Ohio river since the outbreak of the
Civil war although the boat is NOT more
than twenty ye ars old.
The engines were built by Ainslee
Cochran & Co, of Louisville, for the
ferry steamer James Thompson In 1861,
but year later the boat was taken by
Uncle Sam to convey a battery OF guns
to Nashville. 1t then became gun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25

garage In the near future the old
Grand Trunk station which was built
in 1864 and is in dilapidated condition
is to De replaced by modern one of
granite and brick, to be situated OPP
posite the new Maine Central station.
Great improvements have been made
about the grounds and train yards
and among the notable changes is the
building of passageway under the
CRAM Trunk track for the carriage
road which leads to the Poland Spring
House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
NO GAME LIKE IT.
No Game So Well Adapted To Ameri'
cans As Baseball.

Walter Camp says in the April Cen
fury, there is nc. game that can stead
ily attract so many spectators during
the entire course of its season as base
hall. There is no sport that gives an
opportunity for 50 many of our young
81 boys to enjoy exciting, skilfnl and
developing exercise. In fact. to put it
concisely, there is no game so we'll
adapted to the American boy and man.