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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

Evidently a good many Of The Times
readers spent e busy Sunday IN the
woods since half score or more Of the
solutions submitted IN the wild flower
contest have Sunday evening dates af-
fixed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
CHAPTER V.
How l Became the Family Oracle

How | Became the Family Oracle,
HERE is one thing about being
the family oracle that a great
many people don't know. You
elect yourself TO the office This
is especially true in the case Of women.
No man ever thrust that honor on his
wife. When she gets it she simply
dominates herself for the job. and
grabs it while he isn't looking.
Thank heaven I had enough sense
TO do this. and it didn't take me long
20 let John know that If he thought
= was going TO be the head Of our
house he had another guess coming. In
fact, several Of them. 1 also impressed
it. gently but firmly, upon his con-
seriousness that in the home no man
has any right that his wife is bound to
respect.
one Of the first things I did, after
we were married, was TO begin 70 cut
John over by my paper pattern, so to
speak. and remodel him according to
nv taste. This has a most salutary
effect upon a man, because il humbles
him to find what poor, imperfect cTea-
ture he IS in his wife's sight
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

Seems 70 me good many OF the flow
ers in this weeks puzzle are very fanlil'
iar-have we not had them in recent con
tests?" is a query attached 10 another
solution
Trying to remember the special flowers
IN each contest Is rather difficult pro.
cess, but a glance over the answers u
this weeks problem and a good hard
think has brought me to the conclusion
that some Of our old friends have reap
peared. However. since Miss Mattingly
has dressed them up bit differently
do not see why they may not reappeaI
in another glise since the trick IS Il
work out the puzzle rather than exhaust
the fora Of the community.
Since the question has been asked
NAV say that so far as my memory
serves me there Is at least one reappsar-
ance to my xnowledge-how many more
I do not know.
FRANCES CARROLL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
KEROSENE FOR CLEANING.

Clean enameled bath tubs and marble
wash bowls with kerosene. then rinse
with strong soapsuds to re-
move the odor Of the kerosene.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

IT he girl who has a trunk full OF Old
- laces and embroideries may well
let her heart pat juba for with but a
slight skill in the manipulation offabrics
she may evolve for herself at slight ex-
pense robes which the swaggerest girl
IN town might envy.
In Paris and IN London lace tunics are
appearing. These come separately from
the frOcks they are expected 10 adorn,
and. as they are exceedingly simple lu
line the old time needle work and the
old time laces Offer effective means for
the decoration. IN tUnic form. OF the
nets which may be had at any shop. If
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

This one is easy" declares one
contributor Usually I do not get
on well with mystics, but this one Is
so clearly and concisely stated that I
have had no trouble II all in getting
flowers that suit my ideas Of a real
bouquet.
AT the same time I've an idea that
your No. IS is susceptible TO more
than one Interpretation At least, I
fancy ! have heard Of more than one
plant Of hot quality so I am put
ting down my collection just for
luck, even though I realize that only
the first flower on the list will be
cor sidered IN awarding the prizes"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

Hiram Nail, with his blushing tickle
bride on his arm. entered the hotel with
a mOUsely stride and stepped Up to the
desk TO register. The night clerk,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
QUERIES ANSWERED
TINES READERS
The National Flowers.

Emma - The national flower OF
England is the rose; OF France, the
feur de lis; OF Ireland, the shamrock;
Of Germany, the cOrnfower; OF Egypt
the lotus Of Canada, the sugar maple:
Of Italy. the lily; OF Prussia. the lin
dens Of SaXony, the mignonette; Of
Scotland, the thistle; Of Spain, the
pOmegranate; OF Wales, the leek.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
LOCAL MENTION
A Domestic Eve Remedy.

A Domestic Eye Remedy.
Compounded by Experienced Physicians
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws
Wins friends wherever Used. Ask
Druggists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try
Murine IN Zour Eyes You will Like
Murine Doesn't smart
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

Y OWEVER limited may be~a
IL girls opportunities in life,
however poor she may be IN
worldly possessions, yet there
are some things she can do 70 better
herself from day TO day and from
year TO year.
She can. first of all. do what she
did the moment she began TO live
she can breathe properly.
Deep. full breathing every day viii
be the means of increasing her sup
ply Of good, pure, red blood, and this
blood viii promote health, and pro-
duce color in the cheek and light in
the eye. Five minutes given to deep
breathing morning and night means
five times an increase Of health and
beauty.
Then the poorest Eirl in the world
can teach herself department She
can practice sitting and standing and
walking with the chest erect, the hips
back and the head on an even line
with the spine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
Daily Horoscope
"rhe stars incline, but do net
compel"
Wednesday, June %, 1910.

The planets move 20 mark
Strange things 70 come and dark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
A Better Situation
Is Bound to Come.

This will produce vitality. poise,
grace. and ease of department. II
will give her self-p possession, and
when a girl has health, color, vitality,
grace and SELF possession she may be
sure that other desirable things will
come into her life
Supply creates a demand IT, with
out sacrificing a duty or a principle,
we Mt ourselves 10 occupy a better
situation than one we find ourselves
Ia. a better situation is sure TO offer
itself before long
There is no such thing as being at
a standstiH We are all going for
ward. or backward, every hour Of
our lives. We are more. or less, than,
we we're last year at this time.
We may have less money and we may
be wearing older clothes; but at the
same time we may have advanced 10 a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
Historic Recipe Contest
By Frances Carroll

IN good faith, with the earnest reouess
t Silal II Il should prove a failure the
blame be put on Aunt pVinnfe's ''haid g.,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

VI 18TH all wits at work and IN
M ouiries coming IN thick and
fast 7 have a notion that
the historic recipe contest IS
going 10 be the means OF bringing TO
light some valuable formulas which have
been hiden away for years in al man
ners Of out OF the way corners.
Yesterday one Of my readers called
me up Nv telephone to tell me OF a Won
derful collection Of recipes she possess
ed. the assortment. varied in content.
representing the work OF twenty-five
years.
Some Of the treasures IN this collec-
ton are over % years old and are yet
available for the purposes Of modern
cuisine With such a treasure house
TO draw from imagine II would be an
easy matter 10 forward a contribution
well worth considering.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21
You Need Not Hesitate IN Tntrust

Conger, 23d & n. Y. ave. with the clean
ing of your finest rugs and carpets. Their
reputation for satisfactory work is lived
up to at all times. Phone West 427.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

csvsriy's plumbing. ISsl c St N, II.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-21

SIS Indiana av
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY Il. 1910.


cTTaHE plan for sewage disposal for East Orange, and, tentauVeIy,
for Orange, Montcair, Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, utnne
In a report by a special committee to the East orange
ali reads quite we'll on paper, but there is every reason o oeheVe
nat II viii never reach the stage of operation. A Boston engineer
!. 4. devser of the plan. and it is evident enough that in preparing
= he took too much for granted. In brief, East Orange, or all the
municipalities named combined, are to get the rights II way u
bui,d a trunk sewer to the head of Newark bay, or to the hack
ensack They are there to establish a disposal works on nfty acres
of ground and have an outflow of the ehiuent into the bay IT the
Hackensack river. The engineers estimate of cost for East Or
alone is s616,0OO, and for the combined municipalities $l'o4o,-
900. Necessarily these are crude estimates, and by a single engineer
not acquainted with the ground. The special committee, o ls
chairman who prepared the report, is unfrnndly to the great project,
now at last at the point of realization, of a Passaic valley sewer u
carry all the sewage of the valley to New York harbor and the
committee is only repeating the futile attempts of Paterson to
defeat the general sewerage plan. What its Boston engineer pro
poses is impracticable. In the first place the Legislature a
sanctioned and is committed to the plans of the Passalc Vaiey
Sewerage Commission, and will do nothing to wreck them and
nulnfy the arduous work of fourteen years of effort. And II the
Legislature should give authority asked for formidable obstacles
would arise. It would be virtually impossible to secure a hfy-acre
site In some other municipality for a plant for a sewage disposal
nuisance. There would be almost insurmountable difficulty In
securing a right of way. East Orange would find itself involved IN
expensive litigation involving great delay, and meanwhile the date
approach, with the disposal plan still in the air. The plan OF the
special committee as drawn by the Boston engineer lacks the essen
tial Of prachcabiIty. If the committee had studied the question
OF sewage disposal as thoroughly as has the Passaic Valley Sewerage
Commission it would have saved the cost of the fee to its engineer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
ABSENTMINDrD ScoTcHMAN.

The Scotchman could not find his
ticket. On the conductors second round
1t was still missing. Whats that IN
your mouth?" he asked. Sure enough,
there was the missing ticket. The con-
ductor punched it and went his way.
"Ah, we'el," said Sandy, in reply to his
fellow passengers banter, I'm nae sac
absentminded as we wad think. Yon
was a vera auld ticket n I was jist
sucken aft the date."-Success.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
AFTER THE COMMISSION HEARING. WHAT?

~ N Wednesday of next week the railroads will be released
w from the request by the Interstate Commerce Commission
to delay the operation of the increased Communication rates
unless the commission shall, in the meantime, decide that the in
crease is not justified or that a longer postponement is necessary for
commission investigation. There is no expectation that the commits
sion. after the hearing today, will take either course. The general
belief is that the commission will disclaim jurisdiction. If that
shall be the decision at Washington, is the State of New Jersey
through with the case except as to the leisurely and ineffective in
vestfuaHon by the State Public Utilities Commission? If the com
mission decides adversely to the commuters is the Commuters
League here at the end of its resources? Abandoned by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, by the State and the Legislature, what can
the commuters do but pay, as thousands of sngleticket riders are
now doing?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12

the first inning transferred to his
own card and every fan within
range OF his voice becomes a target
for his questions.
His stub pencil is working over
time when a howl signaiises an i'm
portant play.
what happened then7" he wants
to know, so he can get It down.
1t would be impossible for a num-
Der of persons to feel badly about
It, II . painful accident should keep
this man from the ball park for
the remainder of the season.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12

~ Ii prizefght moving pictures should be barred from public
IN exhibition. The Newark police department has received
orders to stop the exhibition of the JefriesJohnson pictures
in Newark, and presumably the order will be carried out But what
is the sense of that order if other prizefghts of the same character
are pictured before miscellaneous assemblages of people, including
many children, nightly? The bars should be put up against ALL
The moving picture has become a popular institution. 1t has not
yet been properly regulated by law, as it should be. Rightly used
it can be made of great educational value. Wrongly used it can
have a vicious influence. Whatever tends to brutaize should be
put under the ban. The State maintains a highly expensive school
system to educate and elevate the population. Should it at the same
time tolerate that which tends to undo it's own educational work?
BY all means bar the prizefght pictures and without discrimination.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
Answer. ministers.

AmHNeEh mImhBtcrns
To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
1 read in your valuable paper about
the action Of ministers at a confer
ence in asking the municipal autbori-
ties to prohibit exhibitions in Newark
of moving pictures of the Johnson
Jeffries fight at Reno. These me who
imagine they have sole charge Of the
morals Of the people say the pictures
and children. How do they know? l
venture. the assertion that mono Of
these ministers have seen the moving
pictures and they do not know whether
immoral pictures are exhibited in the
vaudeville theatres or not.
1 have asked some questions in the
Rostrum columns of the EVENING
STAR and none of the ministerial
cranks has dared to answer one of
them. Why don't the ministers attack
fearlessly the divorce evil which Theo-
dore Roosevelt has said often Is ruin
ing the American people7 10 It be-
cause the ministers ear the influences
of the divorced men and women In
their congregations who are married to
other divorced men and women? VIII
don't the men who claim to be ordained
men of God couraseously uphold the
society of Catholic and Episcopal
women of the best society Of New
York and Newport. who will not re-
ceive a divorced man or woman ir
their homes? If this organization hat
branches in every city and town in the
country the divorce evil, especially
among the wealthy, would soon b.
crushed.
Many Of the ministers profess to b.
guardians of the morals Of childrer
and tell parents how they should trair
their boys and girls. Why don't thes'
ministers make their own children goot
men and women? For more than fort,
years 1 have known nearly every min
lister that officiated in Newark an
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
Will ROOSEVELT MDoRsE TAFT?

1Ta HERE is evidently much going on under the surface in the
relations of Roosevelt to his party organization that the
public has no intimation of. Taft and his administration
supporters are disappointed that Roosevelt has as yet made no sign
Of approyal of the administration record, while he has sent for and
privately consulted with men whom Mr.. Taft put under the ban as
party insurgents, men who. have bitterly criticised the administra
ton and even Mr.. Taft personally. 1t is known that Roosevelts
mail ia loaded with letters from the Middle West and other Sec
tons counseling him to come out against the influences that sur.
round Taft and that have almost destroyed his once great popu-
larity. He has been told that if he indorses the administration he
will abandon the policies upon which his own popularity rests,
and that the disappointment and chagrin of the American people
Will be greater even than in the case of the President when he gave
himself over to Aldrich and Cannon as his political mentors. The
conviction is growing that unless a bridge is built between Beverly
and Oyster Bay there will be no Outandout Endorsement of the
Taft administration by Roosevelt. And where are there the mate
rails to bridge a gulf that evidently has been widening every day?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
A WISE p~RHcAUT10N.

The day before she was to be mar
ried the old negro servant came to hsr
mistress and entrusted her savings n
her keeping. why should 1 keep fte
I thought you were going to get q
Red" said her mistress. 80 / "a.
missus. but DO you 'spose rd keep al
dis money in the house via that strange
nigger?"-5uccees Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
ON OUR LIST.

"And he nerve will DO missed"
to quote tho tuncful ''Mikado."
We refer to the fan VINO spends
his time scoring the game misses
every play with painful regularity
ana as regularly loohs up from the
card owe which he has been labor-
ing to ask:
what was thar
He gets Into the grand stanA4uge
too late to hear the umpire n
nounoe the batteries. ana he wants
TO know right away who IL tha
opposing pitcher.
That important point or his mind
It IL necessary to get the history Of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
THE LIMIT.

I'm sorry 1 married you! You're a
brute! I saw you On the corner at 2
o'clock this morning hugging a lamp
post"
well, gee-whiz, Mary! Who'd a
thought you'd ever be Jealous Of a
lamp-posti"-Cleveland Leader.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
BELATED NEWS.

America and France. the two
great republics of the world. are
evidently credited with more intelli-
gence than are the king-ridden
m~onarchies.
-Four special missions are to be
sent out from England to announce
to Germany, Austria, italy and
Russia that George ". is now king
of England. Emperor Of India. etc.
That fact has been known here for
some time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
THEIR ETERNAL WRANGLE.

The doctor Through the telephone)-
Yes. I'll tell you all about 1t, but I'll
have to look 1t up. VIII you hold the
wire a minute?
The professor with evident irrita-
tion)-Won't it do just as well If I
hold the MISUNDERSTANDING.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
GRABBING OPPORTUNITY.

The play had fallen very fiat and tn
manager was getting worried.
Sorry, SIR said the comedian. ''bu'
1 can't go on for a few minutes. / ar
feeling kind o funny"
Funny! Great Scott, mani" criet
the manager, then go on at once and
make the most Of It while It ~lasts."-
Success Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12

You often dine at MI. Suddengilts,"
remarked Miss Cheyenne.
"oh, yes" replied Mr.. bangle. IT
dine there. although 1 mus admit they
belong to the mushroom arfstocracy."
"I see. You put them In the mush-
room class because with all their lack
Of exterior charm they afford valuable
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
KHENLY REALIZED RI.

Astonished Maiden-why. Harry. I'm
at least ten years older than you afsi
You DOM know what you're doingi
Harry embarrassed, but making q
brave efror)-Yes. I do. Mile. I'm
trying to propose 90 you and I know
Tn making an awful poor Job of it,
Chicago Tribune.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
DEADLY CHILL.

"a cold is a very ~treacherous and
dangerous thing, isn't 1t, doctor?"
Eyes" replied the physician. ~ have
known people to be made ~uncofnfort>
able for life by simply imagining they
had discovered the North ~Pole."-Ex-
change.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12

WM.TM
A BUM METAPHOR.

las the Mauritania steams slowly
up the bay.
So does the President move on his
peaceful way"
But Of him who shapes the course,
and of the motley crew,
Deponent sayeth nothing, and with
good reason, too!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
WOULD MAKE HIM LAUGH.

whats the matter with your
face, old mann"
my lips are ohapped-"
Then don't read the statements a
the Republican State CoamnAtteA"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
The People 5 Rostrum


we scarcely pick up a paper without
seeing some naked ohampion'a picturef
Think Of the child who eagerly reads
the accounts beneath these pictures.
Is his mind being cultivated under such
trash7 Who would say that that child
receives as much benefit from them as
he does from his Sunday school7 Mol
This abominabie sport should DO abol-
ished from tho land where advance
ment is sought. LUCIUS.
The Charlton y
To the Editor of the Dveuing etar:
Although the Charlton case has been
postponed. 1t is expected that tho pris-
oner viii be a free man after his next
hearing. I wonder II the wheels of
Justice would revolve In the same
way If the murderer were a poor man
without the backing Of ar influential
Judge. This e~xtradition hitch with Italy
Is a very convenient thing in this case;
1t makes 1t easy for the authorities to
free their man In what seems to be q
legal way; also. It will not ost the
State as much money as did the Thaw
fiasco.
Someone in the EVENING STAR
suggested that Charlton be examined
by insanity experts-these experts to
volunteer their services to the State
so that It can be determined where he
belongs, in a prison or q hospital. This
is a good idea. Charlton should not be
permitted to go free. BE is a self
confessed murderer, and unless he ID
insane, the same punishment should
be meted out to him az would be in
ficted upon a poorer man.
However, I think that Charlton 10 IN
sane, else he would not have acted a
he has. The quicker he IL taken out OF
prison and put into a hospital the bet-
ter for him and for humanity at large
". A. N.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
PARENTAL pESSIMISM.

paw. what is the great continental
divide'?'
TITS the final division of the conti-
nent, my son, between the Morgans and
the Observation-Disclosures
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
YES. INnEEn.

And then. too. II Lansford ever
meets Johnson the picture Aims
might be reproduced and form .
most interesting colored supple
ment.