davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Western news., 1910-02-16
HOME TRADE NOTICES.

Have something to say Say it.
Stop talking.
A man who does big things is too
busy to talk about them.
A tactful man can pull the stineer
from bee without getting stung.
An appeal to reason is ofttimes less
effective than an appeal to the pocket
book.
Every man looks with suspicion upon
any plan necessitatiDg his giving you
money. He has to be shown.
The truth is mighty and must pre-
vail. Just tell the truth. but tell it as
If you yourself believed it too.
Don't fight your competitor by cut
ting prices. Instead go over and have
a heart to heart talk with him.
Your signboard must read. This
Road to Wealth With Safety" and it
must stand where all can see it.
Talk is cheap" Therefore don't
hand out too much of it. 1t makes
you and your proposition look cheap.
You've got to know your proposition
from A to lizard. You've got to know
it like young mother knows baby
talk.
Correct mistakes of clerks or deliy-
cry wagon drivers promptly and cheer
fully and customers will then forget to
lose their temper. Wrangling over the
matters is as bad as refusing to do
anything at all.
The Western news., 1910-02-16

Fire! Fire! Fire! Have you Insurance
on your house and furniture? If not
see James F. Terrence, next to post
Office. Phone COX. 28.tf
The Western news., 1910-02-16
Trade Tip For Merchants

Dealers who do not read trade pa
pers and thereby keep posted are gem
orally those whose trade is least de-
sirable. They are out of date. loose
business men. and their future is very
questionable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27
EERSa5SWEa}Q4f4}Rk0dQr5
Widows Mourning.

Personal inclination has much to do
with the time that widow wears mourn
ing, and even elderly women have much
latitude in this matter. II a woman
wishes to continue to wear a crepe veil
and crepe as a trimming, she may do so
for the rest of her life. More generally.
up a veil adopt one of heavy net, crepe
edged, after d few years, or else use one
of hemstitched grenadine.
Should a woman desire to tighten her
mourning rapidly. a year is the earliest
period of time that this process should
be begun. Up to that time a crepe veil
is imperative, and crepe trimmed gar
ments The only jewelry worn is black
or pearls. The latter arc permissible
at any time. Gold must not be'seen.
During this first mourning period the
widest border is used on stationery and
visiting cards. 1t is a trif1e more than a
quarter of an inch in depth, and may
even be half an inch.
At the end of a year, if a widow is a
young woman, she may adopt a deep veil
that Is crepe edged. This must be worn
over the face. These wells fall below the
shoulders and are deep without being eX-
IRENE.
period of mourning must be edged with
what stationers call the next width,
which is wide but less than. the first. a
little gold jewelry may be put on, a
chain, for instance. but it is better to
wait until the second year Tor TINS DrlSht-
ness of color.
During the hot weather. in the second
year " mourning. a widow who is young
or of middle age. may wear white ex-
cIusively IL she wishes. using white Eng
lIsh crepe as trimming. and adopting
only dull-fnished material. which is re-
served in white, for mourning. During
the following winter she may wear black
only.
At the end of the second year she may
use black and white, gray and lavender.
reducing the mourning band on her cards
and stationery to the narrowest width,
which is scarcely wider than thread.
Nv this time tWenty-four months) she
may use feathers and jewelry, the latter
being restricted to gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27
To Clean White Serge.

If the coat is only slightly soiled it can
be washed in gasoline, but, of course,
this process will require the use of much
gasoline because serge absorbs liquid SO
freely.
Add the gasoline to a teacupfu of soap
suds and then wash as though you were
using water. Rinse in clean gasoline.
The latter may be used over again If
allowed to settle so the clean fluid can
be poured off
White serge also ashes well. You make
a warm suds with white soap and lay in
the coat, then squeeze through the hands
and lift up and down in the bath.
Rinse in warm water and hang to dry.
If necessary. use bOraX as Softener, but
not ammonia, because this sometimes
turns the fabric yellow. Press on the
wrong side with warm. not hot iron.
Wooden 'Scorches before enc is aware
of it.
Keep away from fire or artificial light
if you use gasoline.
To clean marble mix together one tea
spoonful each Of soap suds and oxgall.
Add half gill of tuipentine and as much
Fullers earth as will form a stiff paste.
Apply with a brush.
This mixture should be allowed to re-
mai1r>on the article to be cleaned for two
or three days. 1t should then be wiped eff
and the marble polished with an old silk
handkerchief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27
Keeping Hands White.

White hands arc not an impossibility
for women who do their own housework
for the essential to obtaining and keeping
this beauty is ceaSeless care of a kind
not impracticable for woman who cleans
pots and pans and dusts furniture as the
general requirement is that the skin shall
be smooth. If it is the least rough all
kinds of foreign particles will settle, and
their removal will be difficult
To keep hands white wearing gloves in
cessantly / consider imperative, and not
uncomfortable once the habit Is acquired
These gloves should be large enough to
permit of free use of the fingers, and
when there are men in the family their
cast-off gloves will answer this purpose.
II such gloves are not desirable, in shops
may be bought huge gloves made from
cotton drilling. These cost 10 or IL cents
d pair. and are admirable for sweeping or
busting
Rubber gloves are valuable at times, but
unless a woman puts her hands into dirty
water, when scrubbing kettles or the
floor. l think they not needed. But
on such occasions and when putting the
hands into greasy water that is penetrat-
ing rubber gloves must be worn or fin
gers and nails will be ruined. Always be-
fore pulling on rubber gloves the hands
must be thickly powdered with talcum to
prevent their sticking to the rubber.
There is no better treatment for the
ha nds a night than applications of sweet
almond oil and powdered magnesia. To
apply these the skin must be covered
with oil and the hands dipped into the
powder. thus forming a mask. Immedi-
ately large kid gloves should be drawn
on and worn all night. The effect Of this
is both softening and refining.
Soap that is strong enough to wash
dishes or garments properly almost in
evitably has too much alkali to agree with
the skim and it's effect should be coun-
teracted by the use OF oils and soon
dishes are done. or garments are on
the line. the hands should be covered with
white vaseline, cold cream or sweet al
mond OIL MARGARET MIXTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27
Those Who Seek S1immess

Overfat men and women. mortified and hui
INFLATED by the publicity Of conspicuous rolls
and pillows of fat, gradually learning that
through the discovery Of eminent physician
the burden Of overfatness is taken from them,
leaving the figure attractively proportioned. the
flesh firm. the skin smooth and the general heath
vastly improved. without dieting exercise or
sulting wrinkles flabbness. There is no equal
and substitute for the famous Marmola Pre-
scription. but there is a new and more convenient
form-a tablet form Of this safe fat remover.
Marmola Prescription Tablets contain the same
harmless effective ingredients as the original
prescription that has enabled so many thousands
Of uncomfortable men and women to reduce their
weight evenly and steadily at the rate Of
pound or more day. An exceptionally large
ease OF these Marmola Prescription Tablets y
by the Marmola Co., 2S3 Monroe Ave. Detroit.
Mich, on receipt Of price. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27

Colored leather bags about eight inches
wide are most fashionable-a moderate
size somewhere between the very small
and the enormous bags.
MANY Of the new tailored suits for win
ter show below the sailor collar, which
is so popular a false collar of stitching
or, more usually, Of braidinS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27

Several varieties in square mesh veil
ings are shown. Some of them are strong
in effect, others are of the f1let style with
the designs in orthodox figures, such -
one sees in dlet laces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27

Lyon was the most hated democrat in
the country. Being insulted in the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27

This is not bargain store. Wom-
Ell who consider price alone cannot be
suited here. Our customers are dis
eliminating women who consider price
only in connection with style and quail
ity.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09
WEDNESDAY, FEB. o, 1910.
THE LEGEND OF ST. VALENTINE.

Perhaps you have heard the legend
of st. Valentine. but if you have not,
here it is in as small a nutshell as
such saint could be well condens-
ed: st. Valentine lived long ago. An
emperor ruled him, and the emperor
whose name was Claudius, became
very Jealous of St Valentine or FIR.
Valentine as he was then called. And
one day Claudius cut Fr. Valentines
head off and banished his remains,
so that nobody should know that he
had been beheaded.
Now why did Claudius do this?'
you ask Well, he did it because
FIR. Valentine became so great ia
vorite with young people that Claud-
ius was not in their affections at all.
But how did Valentine make him
self such favorite?' you still
query. Why, how indeed? How
do you suppose? How does any
man or woman either for that mat
ter, become solid with young peo-
pie? Why, by helping along their
love affairs, to be sure, and by Civ
ing them every opportunity to be
alone and talk it over. Now, Fr
Valentine was a born matchmaker
and he was always busy making
matches. If he saw two young peo'
pie looking at each other will
sheepish eyes, he cast his toga over
his head and sat still, never stirring
for five minutes.
And so Ft. Valentine got himself
disliked by the Emperor Claudt'
and after Claudius had cut his heaC
off the young people canonized him
and, upon the good old saints birth
day, would exchange little love tok
ems. just to keep his memory green
The people who had known St. Val
entine when on earth told their chill
dren about him in after years, anC
their children told their children
children and so it has come dowl
to us through many children o
children.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09
HEAVY OUT IN DIVIDEND.

The National Protective Legion's
dividend on policies maturing during
the current year will be $51.12 for
full rate policies and S25.56 for half
rate.
This great cut in the dividend is a
hard blow to the faithful policy
holders who have been hoping
against hope during the past year
that the rate of S113.96 would be
raised. When the dividends We're
cut from $3.50 to $113.96 policy
holders gasped for breath, but
the majority of them kept up
their premiums trusting that all
would be well in the end.
But the bubble has burst, and the
policy holders have no comfort or
consolation unless it is in the thought
that during the year they have been
insured. A cut has been expected,
but none of the policy holders dream
ed of such a big one from that of the
$113.96 last year, which was regard
ed by many as very low.
For weeks the entire clerical force
| of the Legion has been busy collect
ing figures and preparing statement
| from which the actuaries and other
experts will be able to figure the
actual amount of the dividend. They
completed their work Thursday even
ing after which the executive com
mittee agreed upon the amount ot
the dividend.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09
THE PROPER VIEW.

There was a rousing public meet
ing at Boyersford on Monday even
ing, which adopted some ringing res
olutions that will meet with the fa-
vor of newspaper publishers and the
public generally. The demand is
made that Congress shall abolish
the franking privilege, which shall
be the means of bringing millions
of dollars into the public treasury"
Also 1t is demanded that instead
of the l-cent pound rate on second
class mail matter being increased.
it shall be decreased to one-half
cent a pound, so as to be on a par
with the rate in Canada. whose post
office department shows a surplus.
In this connection, the resolution
set forth that we see in this recon-
mendation of the Presidents (for an
increase) a direct blow is aimed at
reform magazines and newspapers
of general circulation
It is stated that "if the United
/ States government would readjust
| the railroad rates for carrying all
| classes of mail the postoffice depart
ment would show a surplus instead
! of deficit"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09
DUNMORE WINS
LITERARY CONTEST
Continued From Page oneJ

Miss Ruth Burschers essay
on Pennsylvania in Music" "
for which she was awarded first
prize in the contest, is as fol-
lows:
From the quiet Quaker begin
nings of Pennsylvania early
days, through all her vicissitudes,
down to the strenuous present,
her arts have been undergoing
various phases of development.
Especially is this true of music.
As the Quakers looked upon music
as a part of that worldly life from
which they had fed it had but
gloomy prospects in Pennsylvania.
However, with the gradual inter-
mingling of nationalities in our
state-people who brought with
them other than the simple ideas
of the music among
other arts was cultivated, until
now Il shows development along
an astonishing variety of lines.
Among the early colonists that
followed the Quakers here were
the Morayans. Coming from Ger
many, they possessed a natural
love for music so that although a
religious sect, in contrast to the
Quakers they made music the
chief element in their organiza-
ton. Through their efforts, mu-
sic was brought into closer touch
with the people, until to-day their
annual Bach festivals are famed.
II was these people that gave for
the first time in America Bach's
Mass in G. Minor.
Other forces besides the Mora
vian singing, however, early came
into play. A new county we had
no musical instruments at hand,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09

and without these little develop
ment was possible. In 1741 a
Philadelphian, Johann Klemm,
constructed the first American
organ. Following this was the
manufacture of spinets in Phila-
delphia in 1743. The spinet made
way for the piano, where again
Pennsylvania claims precedence,
for another Philadelphian, John
Behrent made the first American
piano.
Leaving this part of Philadel-
phia's early work, we find her mu-
sicians active in various ways.
Benjamin Franklin counted mu-
sic among his many interests and
by his criticism aided two young
composers of his time, James Lyon
and Francis HopkinsOn. Lyon
was a writer of psalm music and
hymns, but Hopkinson's value
lies in the impetus he gave to
concert work. He directed one of
the first important concerts given
in America To an associate OF
his, Andrew Adgate, America owes
her first concert performance on
a grand scale After this, orches-
tral music gradually developed,
till to-day Pennsylvania possesses
one of the finest orchestras in the
country, the Victor Herbert of
Pittsburg.
by the establishment of a sing
ing school, Adgate helped also to
further musical education in his
day. In 1857 the Philadelphia
Musical Academy was founded, to
which most of our musicians owe
their training. II is noteworthy
in this connection that the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania was one of
American colleges to establish
Chair of Music
This same Philadelphia academy
was for years the temple of Italian
This same Philadelphia Academy
tige in opera is due to our opera
singers. None is perhaps more
truly popular in the country at
large than David Bispham.
Abroad are Emma Loefier and
Allan Hinckley, both favorites of
music lovers in Germany; and Will
liam Miller, once a newsboy in
the streets of Pittsburg, but now a
twenty-four thousand dollar tenor
in Vienna.
In composition of opera, we can
claim the first attempted in the
United States-Frye's "Notre
Dame de Paris" OF our compos-
ers who have written less intri-
cate music, vocal and instrument
tai, Ethelbert Nevin is most wide
ly known; the passionate strains
of his Rosary" have pulsated
through every listening heart. w.
j. Kirkpatrick's touching hymns
and gospel songs are sung even in
the mining camps of remote Aus
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09

tralia. OF patriotic songs we have
several Hail Columbia" is ours,
as to both words and music, and in
Philadelphia we're composed the
stirring strains of Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean" Other pretty
contributions are Homer Greene's
Banner of the Sea- set to music
by Father Ganss, and DR.. Lyte's
Pennsylvania"
But there are songs that thrill
us in another way. Thomas Dunn
English has given us tender recol-
lections of Ben Bolts Sweet
Alice" And who has not been
moved by the pathetic sweetness
of the songs of our Stephen Col
Inns Foster, the best beloved of
American song writer's? In laying
bare the heart life of the negro.
he has touched the great human
heart of all races. His "Swanee
River" odd Black Joe," and
Kentucky Home" are but few
of the host of songs wrought out
of the bitter struggles and sor-
rows of Fosters life.
1t is not, however. on what has
been recounted that we lay our
claim to pre-eminence. The Key
stone State enjoys the distinction
of being first in the Union to es-
tablish Druid's Day, which annu-
ally draws thousands of Welsh
people together to give the music
that made Wales the greatest
singing nation in the world In
the German competitions for male
singers held annually throughout
the United States, the chief prizes
have been won by choirs from
Pennsylvania. Our supremacy in
male chorus singing is thoroughly
established. The Dr. Masons of
Wilkes-Barre have triumphed over
choirs from all sections of this
country and Canada. Their only
defeats have been by Pennsylvan-
ian choirs. In ladies' chorus sing
ing our state stands unrivalled.
She boasts of a long list of vic
tories and not a single defeat
After the competition at Chautau-
qua, when choirs from the East
West and South were hopelessly
beaten, DE- Parker of Yale, that
distinguished musical authority
declared the singing of Pennsyl.
vania's chorus the finest he had
ever heard. Overshadowing al
these achievements is the magni.
cent work of the Scranton mixed
chorus, which for thirty-hye years
has remained unconquered, Al
the Philadelphia centennial, the
Chicago Worlds fair, and the st
Louis exposition, they won over al
others in the most exciting con
tests known to musical history.
and thus is seen the versatility
Of Pennsylvania in music. Pioneer
in the production OF musical in
strUEents, she early took hel
place among musical centers
The singing schools and academic.
established to train her musicians
the variety of work attempted b!
her composers, the heart-winnins
pathos of her home songs, and hel
tremendous success in chorus
work, all indicate the many-sideC
development of her musical pow
ers, and sound the keynote for {
still more brilliant future.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09
CURFEw LAW IN PORT JERvIs.

At $50 p. m. on Monday, Feb. Z,
the big Erie whistle at Port Jervis
blew the first note in the curfew re-
frain which says that all children
under IA must go home in accord
ance with the provisions of the new
ordinance which the town fathers
enacted. After March LIST the whistle
will blow at $50. If this law works
well there may be added another Sec
tion to the ordinance compelling all
young men under 20 years of age
who play draw or stud poker to go
home before sunrise the next day.
We print the law in full
Sec |. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person under / 4 years of age to
be or remain in or upon any of the
streets, alleys or public places in the
city, at night after the hour of half
past nine o'clock p. m, from March
1st to September Goth, inclusive of
each year, and from October 1st TO
the last day of February, inclusive,
of each year, after the hour of half
past eight o'clock p. m, unless such
person is accompanied by a parent,
guardian or other person having the
legal custody of such minor person,
or whose employment makes it nee
essary to be upon said streets, alleys
or public places during the night
time after such specified hours, but
such person whose employment
makes il so necessary shall not play
or unnecessarily loiter in or upon
such street, alley or public place
Sec. 2. 1t shall be unlawful for
any parent, guardian or other person
having the legal care and custody OF
any person under fourteen years OF
age, to allow or permit any such
child, ward or other person, under
such age, while in such legal custody
to go, or be in, or uDOn any of the
streets, alleys or public places in the
city, at the times during which they
are prohibited in section one of this
ordinance, unless a reasonable nee
essity exists therefor.
Sec. 3. The police department Of
the city are hereby authorized to ar
rest, without warrant, any person
wilfully violating the provisions o.
Section one OF this ordinance, anC
may detain such person for a rea
sonable time in which complaint car
be made and a warrant issued anC
served.
Sec. 4 No child or minor person
arrested under the provisions of thi
ordinance shall be placed in confine
ment until the parents or guardian
of such person shall have been noti
fed of such arrest, and shall have re
fused to be held responsible for tn,
observance of the provisions of Sec
tion Two of this ordinance.
Sec. 4. A violation of this ordin
ance shall be punishable by a fin
not exceeding 500, or by imprison
ment not exceeding two months, o
by both such fine and Imprisonment
or by penalty of 500 to be recoyere'
by said city in a civil action.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09

DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitu-
tiOnal remedies. Deafness is caus-
ed by an in1amed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube When this tube is inhamed
you have a rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed, Deafness is the result,
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to
it's normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by Catarrh, which
is nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dol
lars for any case of Deafness (caus-
ed by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
| stipation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09

On a West Newburgh car the
other evening at the rush hour there
was not a vacant seat. A lady en-
tered but not a man noticed her
standing, apparently. Finally one
man arose and offered her his seat,
She thanked him, adding: "You are
the only gentleman in the car" She
was startled by his answer: Yer
betcher life ! am, kiddo."