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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
as are any of the patriotic

propriate, as are any of the patriotic airs.
 Old Virginia dishes should be served, and care should be taken that they do not smack too much of modernness. Fried chicken takes first place on 2 Washing ton day menu. But there are many other appropriate dishes such as corn pones, formerly called corn dodgers, egg corn bread. made of yellow meal, salt rising bread. baked ham, pound cake and snow balls of sponge cake; crulers, waffles. coffee, ice cream and strawberries, with planty of cream to smother them. Serve Virginia wine, if wines are served at all, for excellent products of the wine are made in the mother state." Dishes of preserves and pickles should be set here and there about the table. If you chance to posses sthe old-fashioned willow pat to possess the old-fashioned willow pat endeavor to borrow or hire them. Old silver and old candlesticks and snuffers should be used when possible. In Wash ington's time they dressed cakes and can dlesticks with paper cut into fantastic and intricate patterns and carried wreaths and garlands of the paper from one tall candlestick and pyramid to an- other. Flowers were not extensively used for decorating until moro modern times.
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word for it that a mans life before he marries is rather sad -dog-sort of existence"
 But" protested the Bachelor, "a man likes to look before he loops the matri- monial loop. Now I've been thinking-'
 You've been thinking?" she mocked after him. i've been thinking, too, that as one of Jacks friends I feel a deep interest in you. You spend half of your evenings here; you are always taking us to the theatre with you; you are constantly demanding our time and company, and all that shows that you are hard up and as lonesome as the dead"
 "Who isn't, except you and Jack?" queried the Bachelor.
 Wed be, too, if we weren't married,' said she, and that's why I want you to settle down and get wife,"
 The Bachelors eyes fairly danced.
 Every thing you say is true as gos- pei, Mrs. Jack said he, but you are responsible largely for my loneliness"
 'I?' said Mrs. Jack surprised
 "Yes, you" came the answer quick and sure. You see Jack and Tom and I kept Bachelors Hall together; we were as happy as larSs; then you came along and Jack fell head over ears in love with you and from that moment I saw my finish. You married him and he's been a living example of matri- monnl dividends ever since" Then. why don't you take the plunge?" she asked.
 Tom and I were discussing 1t the other evening"" said he. Tom has fallen in love and I am left out in this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Seeing By Telephone


 To allow people conversing by tele| phone to see one another is know| to be the ultimate goal Of those in| ventors to whose labor we are indebt ed for the evolution of the telephoto| graphic apparatus, says the Scientif| American. As the problem did not s| far admit of any practical solution. in ventors have in fact. been satisheI with transmitting. by wire, writing an| pictures, diagrams, handwriting and thI like. According to reports just receive| from Denmark. a satisfactory solutiol is now offered. In fact. two youn| Danes (the brothers Andersen). recent ly called at the office of Politiken, th| we'll known Copenhagen daily, in orde| to submit to the editor the principal of their>ldea, particulars of which can| not yet be given out. Unlike the KorI apparatus, optical transmission. ad cording to their scheme. is not effecte| by means of any material sensitive Il light, such as selenium. nor Is a picI ture produced by photographic or me chanical means as in all the apparatu| so far suggested. Transmission, in fact takes plaSe simultaneously, so as q reproduce any objects situated at th sending station In their natural color and motions. their dimensions, howevei being reduced. The apparatus Is con nected by contact with the telephon wire. when the acoustic or optical cur rents can be thrown alternatel1 through the line The operation is thu able at will to show himself, or T Il bring before the eyes of the persoi at the other end anys objects he ma. like to show him. As the apparatus so far as being necessarily located i'm mediately beside the telephone, can b. used within a considerable range, pro vided the contact be obtained. the pos abilities of this invention are obvious ly many. Further details will be await ed with interest.
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and how is an inexperienced bachelor going to know which to take and which to leave?"
 You are too undecided" said the lady.
 "In a world SO full of girls how Is man to know which set of curls to set his faith in?' soliloquized the poor man.
 If that's the way you feel about it," the lady remarked, q hope you will get enc of those canary-colored blopdes who won't let you read your morning paper, but will sit on your knee when you are in the biggest sort of hurry to get down town and demand to be loved and cooed and billed to. and that you'll spill your coffee, and
 And to think you are the person that Jack said had the most angelic. divine. beautiful disposition in the world" said the bachelor
 T don't mean to be unkind.' said the lady T merely look upon you as bach elor, part of the floating population of the world that ought to be liquidated. If n man hasn't anything to do but make living and pick out a wife he certainly ought to pick one who will be an honor to him.
 i've always hoped that some of these nice women I admire so much would just take a shine to me voluntarily and lead me altarward without my knowing It." sighed the bachelor.
 "Yes, women are very apt to do things like that with no encouragement or even If they have it," said Mrs. Jack with a sarcastic sheer.
 Don't you think the time Is ripe for a matrimonial promoter, as 1t were?' asked the bachelor Some nice lady who knows 1t all' who will go about looking up congenial couples and getting them started on matrimonial csreer?'
 Somebody said a long time ago." re- plied the lady. that all marriage ought to be arranged by lord chamberlain, one who was cut out to fit the position, and who gave his whole time to It."
 Would you undertake picking out girl for me?" asked the bachelor.
 Perhaps I'm not qualified to mate peo- pie off wisely and we'll" she said.
 well, I nearly fell in love. not long ago." said the bachelor. lighting another cigar and growing reminiscent. ''I was at house party and one beautiful afternoon the young lady in question and myself started out for . stroll. We got along fsmously when all ct once imagine my
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ITS A WORLD OF "PEACHES~
 BUT WHICH IS THE RIGHT ONE 1?
 Some StrayDo sMoanyS SueTh When t Married That One Those
 linn to

"Arn't you ever going to get mar ried?" asked The Happily Married Wo- man the other evening as the Bachelor came in for the fourth time that week to spend the evening.
 "Apropos of what is your question:" said he, nonchalantly.
 "Oh nothing" said he, But aren't you?"
 of course, I am," he replied. Isn't everybody going to get married one of these days? There's not a person ng-unattached-wh doesn't vague ly look forward to the time when he or she will get married. We expect matrimony; we regard 1t as inevitable as death.'
 Well, why don't you hurry up then and do it?" asked the Happily Married Woman. Tt distresses me to be all ways running up on you--loose-roam- ing around like an unattached"
 "Er-- stray dog" he suggested. Was that what you were going to say?"
 Well you are unattached. aren't your" she asked. T have only my husbands 8
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Archery Tournament

Three hundred women were contestants in a recent archery tournament in Lon- don. Archery has become a popular sport with women both in England and France. The attempt to introduce 1t in this coun- try now seems likely to fail, as the women who a year ago were enthusiastic have grown indifferent.
 There were more than 100 women and girls in a national archery tournament in Chicago in the summer of 1898, but in America the sport was a short-lived fad. However, 1t has taken so firm a hold in England that it has won many women from tennis and other games. Archery is recommended for women by many Eng fish physicians as a sport of great bene- fit to the nerves. It takes steady nerves to send an arrow to the target, and interest in the sport compels self-eontrol
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For either a luncheon or dinner. the color scheme should be yellow and blue the continental colors. If you are the possessor of some ancient blue dishes you may set a table very effectively and prettily by the aid of a few sug gestiens, and your own gray matter will solve any of the details omitted. For luncheon place a large bowl of yellow tulips in the center of the dining ta- ble. Use the colonial glass candle sticks with yellow candles and set the table with the blue plates. Use post cards for place markers and give cock ed colonial hats filled with candied cherries for favors. This menu will be appropriate:
 Grape Fruit with Branded Cherries.
 Cream of Chicken Soup
 Smelts with Sauce Tartare. Fried Sweetbreads with Peas and New
 Potatoes.
 Celery and Salad in Green Peppers.
 Cheese Straws and Olives. Ice Cream Hatchets. Cake. Coffee. You may vary the dinner decorations and still preserve the unities by using an aidicia palm for a centerpiece. Hide the pot in mound of moss and suspend artificial cherries from the branches. A toy hatchet laid at the base will com- plete the allusion to the ingenious fable. A strictly national menu may be served and should satisfy even a gourmand. Here it is: Blue Points, clam soup. ter rapin, roast turkey with the inexitable cranberry, sweet potatoes, wild duck or grouse, celery, salad and pumpkin pie. The liquid refreshment should be cider. Another menu:
 oyster Cocktails. Cream of Corn Soup. Toasted Tortillas.
 Roast Duck.
 Mashed Turnips. Stewed Celery.
 White Grape Salad
 Washington Pie. Coffee.
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surprise when she burst into tears and slumped down on an old tree stump and boo-hooed. I thought. of course, bee had stung her, or she had got something in her eye, and what do you suppose she said was the matter?'
 The lady couldn't even speculate.
 well, she said she was crying" re- lated the bachelor because 1t had just come over her all in heap. that nobody but fools and old men ever fell in love with herb
 And did you promptly take her in your arms and comfort her and tell her that you were neither. and yet-loved herr" asked the lady.
 Certainly not" said the bachelor. 1T stood tongue-tied, helpless, dumbfounded, not knowing what to say or do."
 ''Of course, l knew it," sighed the lady. T honestly believe you are hopeless!'
 T believe I am." he said pathetically
 I'm afraid unless you got your brain busy picking out girl for yourself and putting your lazy old heart to work go- ing after her that you'll die an old bach elor and have inscribed on your monu- ment:
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cold, cold world all alone and unpro- tected"
 Then it's up to you,' said the lady.
 But how to get about it?" he pom dered. 'I know the sort of woman I ought to marry, but just as I am about to make up my mind. along comes one of those little Fluffy Ruffles and gets me some how. I ought of course, to lean to the broad browed, serene eyed, motherly kind for that's the kind of woman that makes a man happy, but in the general drawout, you'll see me coupled off at last with a pair of Slip per Buckles that thinks of nothing more elevating than a Cherry Smash or a Chocolate Sundae' Oh. Lord"
 What scares me nearly to death," he continued, Ifs that it's coming sooner or later. can't escape it! I know I shall marry! All of us will. I can see my finish! One of those 'Giggles will get me as sure as Fate. I never take one of those little blondes with about as much brains as a canary bird out to the theatre or a dance that l don't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
How She Hangs a Skirt

How do I know that have the hem right, so my skirt will hang well?' said a woman who does a great deal of her own dressmaking. Because I have meas ured it in my own pet way. When mak- ing a skirt for myself I slip 1t on and then prevail upon some kindly disposed individual to sit on the floor, and with a piece of French chalk mark the skirt just where it touches the floor all around Then I measure up from those marks the distance I wish the skirt to clear the floor. It is simple and perhaps crude way of hanging skirt, but it has always been a satisfactory way for me to fol- loW''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
A Conquest Game on George Wash-
 ington

Question 1. What was tho profession of washington's father? Answer Planter
 0. ?. Did George Washington attend any college? A. No.
 Q. 3. What was the maiden name of his mother? A. Mary Ball.
 o. 4. In what year was Washington born. A. 1732.
 Q. 5. In what state? A. Virginia.
 Q. 6. Who sent him on his famous jour ney through the wilderness? A. Governor Dinwiddie.
 0. [. What nobleman was his early patron? A. Lord Fairfax.
 Q. 8. What position did he hold under Braddock? A Aide de camp.
 Q. g. Whom did he marry. A. Mrs. Martha Curtis.
 0. 10. How did he act when compli- mented first on his military service? A. Flushed, stammered and could not speak
 O. Il. What year was he made conti- mental commander in chief? A. 1775
 Q. 12. Where did he spend the winter of TIT? A. Valley Forge.
 Q. B. When was he elected President: A. 177s.
 Q. A. How long did he hold the presi- dency? A. Two terms of four years each.
 Q. 15. Did he leave children at death. A. No.
 o. Is. Where did he die? A. Mt. Yer non.
 Q. H. Did he hold slaves? A. Yes
 O. IS. Did he approve of slAvery7 A. No.
 O. 1s. What became of his slaves after their masters death? A. They were set ,free.
 e. 20 By whom wss he called first in war; first In peace" etc.? A. By the House of Representatives.
 The guest answering most of the ques- tions receives a dainty gift or favor of colonial design. Candlesticks of cut glass in design of colonial period would be a nice gift
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Washington Birthday Cards

Menu cards with appropriate inscrip- tions would make the occasion as instruc- tive as it would be amusing. One could be printed to read Lord Cornwallis sur rendered at Yorktown, Va, on October 19, 171.' Another could read, "On July 1, 1T76. was signed the Declaration of In- dependence" A third might say, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.'' A
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pinch of salt Beat again and pour into two jelly cake pans Bake in a quick oven for about IS minutes, and when Drowned. remove and let stand in the tins. Turn the cakes out after standing two minutes and spread sweetened, whipped cream over one of the cakes. Put the second layer on this and cover the top with cream icing made with a eupful of powdered sugar and enough milk to form a paste. forgot to state that the candles for the dinner should be covered with shades made of pasteboard, having cherries and hatchets on them.
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William Angel tBachelor).
 Aged 7S.'"

"Never!'' declared the man. T want you to help me right away to find a girl who will say yes within a weeks time!''
 T know one right now," said the lady jubilantly. :.
 whats her name rChs asked.
 That I shall never divulge.'' said she, "but I will present her to you some time soon, and if you don't recognize the not impossible she when you meet her. wash my hands of you forever, for unless you do recognize her yourself you're not the man who would make her happy, even though you won herb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Burglars Peculiar Action

From the Br0okIyn Lilo.
 A burglar went home one night recent ly, fumbled noiselessly at the keyhole, end let himself in without making a sound He was about to creep softly up stairs when his wife appeared on the up- per landing. "Moke," said she, "wot makes ye come In so quiet?" ''Blame it!' beloved the burglar, T thought l was in another house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

gramme of colonial party. Old time music, such as "Woodman. Spare That Tree,' Carry Me Back to Old Virginia. .
 "The Old Oaken Bucket" "The Old Arm Chair Rock Me to Sleep. Mother" 'Massahs in the Cold, Cold Ground My Old Kentucky Home" "Old Folks at Home" ""Auld Lang Syne," etc. is ap-
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mentally conjure up picture of the
 breakfast table with her at the other end, with only the morning paper to obstruct my view of her, and then l nearly die of fright! That's the req son you see me, Mrs. Jack, off by my- self am afreid-positively scared.
 There's no telling what may happen to me. The market Is full of peaches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

Sliced bananas and canned or pre- served strawberries make a delicious cofnbination of a fruit dessert. If It, tie whipped cream is served with the fruit so much the better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
The Age-HeraId Cuisine Washington
 Pie

Beat the yokes of two eggs with one cupful of sugar; add three tablespoons full of milk and one cupful of flour. Beat thoroughly and add the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, then add two teaspoonsful of baking powder and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

If roast turkey or chicken is ubed for croquettes. do not neglect to incor- porate into the croquettes what stuff- Ing Is left; 1t adds immensely to the flavor of the dish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

Gratin dishes of the plated ware ol nickel are sure to be as popular al the pudding dish or pie dish. when the. become better known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
Music and Dancing on Washington's
 Birthday

The Virginia reel is always ideally Op.
 propriate for Washington's birthday eel ebration where dancing is in order. IL forms an appropriate number on the pro-
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Shirt boxes fashioned after the shirt1 waint boxes, come with one end all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

Tn lighting gas jet provided with an incandescent mantle delay a moment after turning on the gas before Ap-
 plying the match. If done too quickly the mantle Is apt to break.
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For the Housewife Scrapbook

Beer mugs of pewter are made wit the glass bottoms, quite recalling tn mugs of olden times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-27

along the road to drag. I had to do the
dragging all summer. They paid me .
dollar mile for each time dragged
The road was good all summer and 10
In much better condition to start in
this spring. and I expect, II It Is
dragged next summer will have to do
1t. I don't want the job even at dol
lar a mile, and would not do 1t except
along my farm. and between my home
and town. will drag along my farm
whether the pay Is a dollar. fifty cents
or nothing mile. but believe that 1t
would require the state guards ana
perhaps the regulars. to enforce 30
cent q mile law.
To do good job it took fully three
houD, after getting hitched ready to
go to work, OF two men and six horses
to drag the four miles We worked last
summer. I believe the only way is to
pay enough so that there will be q
strife for the Job. giving residents
along a road the preference. That
works in other business. why not in
road work? The cost does not matter.
as practically the adjoining land pays
the BILL II Mr.. Cunningham or any 9TH
er man thinks that farmers will leave
their work to drag roads for SO cents a
mile. he has another guess coming.
have lived among farmers all my life
and know that they will do more for
nothing at times. than any other class
of people. but for q steady Job at that
rate they will ask to be excused.
JEROME SMITH.
Corning Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-27
PAINE on AUTOS

Editor T.-R.: Don't you think the
condition described IN the enclosed
clipping accounts for the farmers not
getting more interested in the good
roads movement?
Don't you think that IL the farmers Of
county like Pocahontas have spent
$3.000.000 for drainage in order to raise
more and cheaper feed for the people,
the dear people. they should be hardly
expected to expend a like amount for
automobile speedways?
And don't you think that nine feet
would be too narrow for two autos to
meet at forty miles per hour?
I own an automobile and there are
eight others in the township owned by
farmers. but we hardly can ask the
other ITO farmers in the township to
go in for . tax to build hard roads as
We find that road that is practically
good for loads moving three or three
miles per hour may be rough road
Tor an auto moving twenty-five miles.
II every automobile in the state was
taxed @25 and the amount rightly ex-
pended in draining and dragging the
roads we would each OF US save more
than that amount in wear and tear OF
our machines each year.
1t seems to me that IL the only prac-
teal road movement at present. Hard
roads to come In the future.
w. A. PAINE.
Eagle Grove, Jan. Is, 1911.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-27

much chance OF being challenged or

much chance OF being challenged or
punished.
Fortifying the canal is simply taking
care Of what we've got 1t is better to
fortify than to look on later while
some other nation fortifies It,
A drug clerk at Atlantic saved a
woman $4,000 and her life the other
day. She had secured a divorce and
$4,000 from her husband, then bought
what she supposed was eleven grains Of
strychnine with which to suicide. The
clerk made mistake and gave her
eleven crystals. This evens up for the
late press dispatch from Atlantic where
druggists clerks seem to be recruited
from livery stables. In the other In
stance the man died.
Now as TO President Taft's plan of
Canadian reciprocity what what Sem
ator Young and the ex-members OF
Taft Clubs" think of It?
The Danville mess is as much worse
than the Adams county nest OF angle
worms as Vermillion county is INTEL
lectually ahead of Adams. However, a
district which keeps Joseph Cannon in
congress is not a criterion OF intelli-
gence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-27
PUBLIC UTILITIES LOBBY.

The war Of the public utilities
monopolies VS.. public interest is on in
the Iowa senate where the Van Law
bill Is being attacked by Senator Sam
mis- in behalf Of the public service cor
porations. Van Law proposes q bill
which shall give city councils power to
require reports as to earnings and val
uationo from . public service corpora
tioa 70 the city council can discharge
intoiligsntly the duty now devolvea up
On II BY the statute to fix rates. Sam
lsnis attacks this bill and strong lobby
;AgainSt 1t is being maintained by the
publ3e utility corporations. The coun-
stor tsrltaut Is . bill for q public utilities
Smmission much desired by the cor
nt3qns because they would have only
- hard to control instead OF as many
- oouDcils - there were companies.
800 tAs sammis bill provides that
oGIoo 60 1svee build their own electric
s71k - sae plants when a private
ysDely II in the Held unless they OBJ
Il - consent Of the commission. In
$50 Nay u Il hoped to perpetuate the
EeDely and prctect the monopoly