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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-26

PLEASANTLY SITUATED. Awnings
on three front windows. Use of
porch, centrally located Address
v. M. c., care Of Farmer.
r II IT,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-26

FOR LIGHT housekeeping. Running
water. Bath. Address Reasonable
care of FARMER. RITZ IF
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-26

CARD READER-Advfce on ssJ sf.
fairs. &c. Mrs.. Lsvy. gf4 Msdfsou
Ave. fourth house above North Ava
Gs etf
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
POE'S DEFENSE OF HIS
| REPUTATION BRINGS sl,7OO

NEW YORK, May S.---A letter
written in 1s4S by Edgar Allan
Poe, defending his reputation, sold
here for S1,700.
MY habits are vigorously abb
stemious, and ] omit nothing of
1.-THE natural regimen requisite for
health" he wrote.
"But this is my private life and
of course escapes the eye of the
world. Desire for society comes
upon me only when l have be-
come excited by drink. Then only
l go-that is--at these times I
have been in the practice of going
among my friends, who seldom.
or in fact never, having seen me
unless excited. take 1t for granted
that am always so. Those who
really know me know better. But
enough of this; the causes which
maddened me to the drinking
point are no more, and / am done
drinking, forever"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Helpful Hints for Mother, Father
and All the Children, on this Page.
SoGzaget9

The Tacoma Dramatic club will
present the popular drama. Erin
Go Bragh," for the benefit of the
Chuch of Visitation, South Taco
ma, in South Tacoma HAN.
Aurora club will meet Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. w. N.
Allen to close the years work.
Betsy Ross auxiliary will enter
tain at a card party Wednesday
afternoon in the armory.
Mrs. George Sherrod, 1875
South M street, viii entertain the
Ladies Aid society OF Central
Methodist church Wednesday af-
ternoon.
For the benefit of the Parent
Teacher association the Tacoma
High school chorus, glee club and
orchestra will give joint concert
tomorrow evening at the High
school.
Miss Varney will close her danc-
ing classes tomorrow evening with
an exhibition program at Sloan's
hall.
The Cosmopolitan club will hold
Its last meeting of the season
Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. w. e. Roe, 411B North
Stevens street.
Phil Sheridan Sewing club will
give a rummage sale Thursday.
Friday and Saturday of this week
at the public market.
The South End Improvement
club will give a benefit entertain
ment Wednesday evening at their
hall at South seth and L streets.
Mrs. Charles Larson and daugh-
ter, OF 3805 North 35th street, are
visiting with relatives and friends
in Vancouver this week.
The High school alumni associ-
alton will meet at the High school
this evening to discuss plans for
the annual reunion and ball dur
ang commencement week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randell Williams
are receiving the congratulations
of their friends on the birth of a
son born last week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
NfCKELODEON CHECKS
BABIES

CHICAGO, May Strand opera
places check your cloak or hat, but
At remained for the manager Of a
five-cent theater in North Chicago
to check babies.
Mother leaves baby and car
rage at the door and enters for
a half-hour relaxation. Show
over, she gives up her check and
the man bawls out the number
just as they call automobiles at
the grand opera house. The at
tendant comes running with the
proper vehicle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
One Way to Having ANY at AN
Your Them Back YOU

Here's the best 'tback-to-
the-soil stunt Of all--from
the standpoint of the man
who hasn't any son and. SIM
ply can't get any. You mere
ly employ $4,000 or more
little folks to go back to the
land for you--other peoples
land, mind you-which they
do cheerfully at the rate of
about 40 miles an hour.
And 1t is something that
can be done on q porch roof
In the heart of a great city,
IL no more advantageous
place of business be avail
able.
Following is the first of
these articles---written by
Thomas p. Hallock of Me-
dina, Ohio. Anybody who
knows anything about bees
knows that Medina. Ohio, Is
to beekeepers what Medina,
Arabia, Is to the Moslem, Ia
sacred city. II is the bee
keeping capital of the United
States.
BY Thomas p. HaIIock.
Almost every community hs
IS beekeeper. No longer ar
eatly arranged rows OF be
ives a strange sight, even b
ongested city districts an
piaries kept on roof tops hay
rought pleasure and profit +
heir owners.
Government statistics sho,
hat bees are kept on one farr
ut OF every 10 In the Unite
tales. Thus nine farm famflie
onsume while only one farme
produces.
IN New York city the past win
+ brought 4 condition Whicl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08

morning meal, and make the beds
and dress the kids and soothe 'em
when they squeal, and sweep the
floors and dust the rooms and
make a pie or two and buy the
stuff for dinner and prepare the
luncheon, too. And after lunch
make seven calls and dress the
kids once more, and finish up the
ironing and scrub the kitchen
floor, and wash the dirty dishes
and press your Sunday clothes,
and plant the early carrots and
spray the rambler and quiet all
their cries. then walk around the
block to get a little exercise"
Philosopher made no reply; he
wasn't there to talk. He'd jam
med his hat down on his head and
beat 1t for the walk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
World Exposition to Show How
Big Cities Are Doing Thing.
Chicago to Have First Big Exhibit
Of Articles and Methods Per-
tanning to Municipal Better
ment-


CHICAGO, May s.--.An inter.
national municipal congress and
exposition, the first OF its scope
land importance ever planned in
tine world. is to be held In Chicago
beginnfnly Sept. ID ana lasting
through Sept. 80.
This exposition is to be a world
focal point for things pertaining
Ito the advancement of the munich
lpality and the betterment of the
lefty dweller. Pledges have been
'secnred from officials OF many OF
1.-THE largest cities in the world
promising exhibits aad delegates
Berlin will demonstrate her
magnificent plans for rebuilding.
London will show her method
LOT police control OF traffic.
Paris and other French cities
win set forth their schemes for
and parkways.
Chicago VIII exafBEf her civic
Icenter plans and demonstrate her
unexampled work IA the estab.
| lishment OF playero1nds.
Thus each OF thu great cities
|will show how Il had gene about
the solution Of municipal prob.
|Isms. as
Arrangements hare also been
made for the display on exhibits
by manufacturer who make ma
ehinery and materials used ii
fhunicipal affairs. - &1anf there
VIII be on exhibition everything
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Philosopher Gets in Wrong Too,
By Telling Wife What To D,

The South I street philosopher
was gazing at the sink. Twas full
of dirty dishes, the floor was black
as ink. There were bread crumbs
on the table and skillets on the
range The eye of the philoso-
pher It glittered wild and strange.
1t seems to me-" he muttered.
in voice that was not low, that
women folks do housework in a
way that's awful slow. ~
"Now, l labor at the office from
s till after 6. ! struggle hard to
keep my wife, myself and babes
alive. But II my Office looked
like this I'd quickly lose my job.
One look at this old kitchen would
make my mother sob. Experience
has taught me man with ease
can do more work in haH q min
ute than a woman can in two"
Just then the bold philosopher
|o'erheand the voice of love, which
Heated down the stairway from
the toudoir up above. "Don't
fret about those Dishes" a female
voice did cry. "I'll wash 'em up
directly, when I'm ready, by and
by
Phil. said: i've often wonder.
ed and I'll ask you once again
Why Ia 1t women cannot work as
swiftly as the men?"
"You corrugated idiot" his wife
4. L.
ceal your ignorance, no matter
how you try. You harbor a de-
fusion that men do all the work /;
I'll make proposition to prove
that I'm no shfrk.
Tomorrow you may start right
In and take my place at home and
do my work around the house
while / a-shopping roam. You
rise at 6 and fire up and cook the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Helpful Hints for Girls and Women
---Edited by Cynthia Grey.

,ential organizations.
The moving spirit back OF the
exposition is John MqcVicar, COM
missioner of the city OF Des
Moines and one OF the leading
members OF the League OF Ameri-
can municipalities. MacVicar first
suggested the exposition, and 1t
was through his representation
that the Chicago Association OF
Commerce was persuaded to I'M
dertake the matter.
Now, as commissioner general
of the exposition, MacVicar Is
busy rounding up the municipal
authorities of the world with n
view to making the international
municipal congress and expose
ton the biggest thing of the kind
ever held.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08

I has been threatened for many
seasons-an almost complete
dearth of extracted honey In the
local market and no relief will
come until the new honey crop is
lin.
California, one of the leading
states in the production OF honey,
produces barely enough to satisfy
the proverbial sweet tooth of
her brethren in Massachusetts,. So
1t is not to be wondered at that
Thousands OF families do not con-
sumo single pound OF honey in a
lyear.
The trouble is that there Is not
enough honey to go around.
Honey bees are interchangeable
workers, and. when rightly kept,
both peaceful and law-abiding,
but up to the present time bee
keepers have been SO very busy
tearing for their own work that
they have done little as mission
aries. Thus we have condition
quite opposite from that found In
Ipoultrydom. The chicken fever
spreads with wonderful rapidity.
Whole neighborhoods catch the
fad in its most enthusiastic form
almost spontaneously. Costly
buildings are erected. incubators,
brooders and newest appliances
are purchased with lavish hand.
The beekeeper buys no special
Ibuildings-no fancy contraptions
Tho does not even buy feed save
lin seasons of unusual weather.
For his reward in giving the
honey bees a simple, inexpensive
home and very little attention
the bees generously return guam
Titles OF one of natures rarest
Iproducts. Beekeeping then would
] seem an almost ideal pursuit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
SENATOR'S WIFE
MAKES DEBUT
AT CAPITAL

WASHINGTON. D. c., May s.
One of the recent additions to
congressional society is Mrs,
Atlee Pomerene, wife of the new
ly elected senator from Ohio.
Mrs. Pomerene is not only de.
lightful hostess and the possessor
of much personal charm, but she
is also an astute politician and
intensely interested in public ques.
lions before congress.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
SOLVES HOUsEWORK
PROBLEM BY SYSTEM

NEW YORK, May 5.-"The
working hours OF household
workers, as well as their periods
of recreation, must be better
systematized." said Herman Rob
inson, commissioner of employ
ment agencies licenses, In a re-
port to Mayor Gaynor. Heads of
households must concede that the
girl working In the house has
rights, the same as the stenog-
rapher, the saleswoman and the
factory employee"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Unthia6rey5
1ottcfS

Dear Miss Grey: (1) Please
give me recipes for Elephant
sauce, pancakes and caulifiower
pickle. CD What is the language
OF the rose and sweet peas!-
a.: "a Sauce: Wash stalks of
young tender pieplant and cut
into inch pieces. Add II meas
ure sugar In full measure pie
plant and put on stove in earth
enware kettle. without water.
Cook slowly until tender.
Pancakes: Beat eggs thor
oughly and put into dish with Q
ounces melted butter and beat
together. Stir In ounces sugar.
2 ounces -four. N teaspoon bak-
ing powder, then add n pint
milk. Keep stirring mixture ror
a few minutes. Put on creased
pans and bake 90 minutes in hot
oven. Serve piled high on plates
with preserves between. This Is
Ia French recipe.
Caulifower: Prepare the head
and soak "a hour In salt water.
Cut into small pieces and cook
until tender in spiced vinegar,
prepared as for any other pickle.
Can. (2) Rose. too young to
love. Sweet pea, departure.
Dear Miss Grey: ID Please tell
me how to clean reed rocker.
CD How to clean a little boys
blue velvet suit.--A Constant
Reader.
A.: Use a brush which VIII
reach into all crevices and scrub
with soap and water. Rinse thor
oughly and dry in the sun. (2)
1t takes two pairs of hands to
clean and steam velvet. First
sponge Off all spots with ammonia
water. Then pass the damp vel
vet over an inverted hot natiron
brushing the nap with soft
brush all the while until velvet Il
dry.
Dear Miss Grey: What will re.
move nits from the hair?-H
e. L.
A.: Combing the hair thor
oughly with a finetooth comb.
Dear Miss Grey. How can
lciean furnished silverplated pic
ture frames? SUBSCRIBER.
A.-Use any good silver polisi
lust as you would polish table
ware.
Dear Miss Grey: Give direc
tfons to wash lace curtains II
gasoline.-A Reader.
A: Put in clean tub, covel
with gasoline. cover closely ant
leave over might. In the morning
souse up and down, rinse in clear
gasoline and fasten in stretcheri
as usual. Be careful about fire
Do the work out Of doors il pos
Isible.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Back Lot Beekeeping For Pleasure and Profit
The A, B, c Of Bee Culture for the Amateur
Terrytown

and SO it Is. No other offers 30
rich a field for the study OF the
|wondrous lessons Of nature or re-
|quires SO little~sctual labor that
the best results may be obtained.
Let us then invade the kingdom
|of the honey bee--not truly a
kingdom, either, for here Is no
king. Madam the queen is the
categorical head, but In this do
main government centers In the
subjects themselves-thN tireIess
workers who patiently toll and
|get little reward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
IRONING BOARD SAVES 80

NEW YORK, May s. - An
ironing board. placed from roof
to roof, between two big apart
ment buildings. saved so tenants,
trapped by fire. Five minutes
later one roof fell In.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08

Bread making Is often vexa-
Ition to the good housewife, but
never SO when she uses Pyramid
Flour. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08

Tonsils cause rheumatism. saws
an expert. Maybe corns cause
|paralysis?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08
Mother May Help Teacher.

Mothers should cooperate
more closely with school teach
|ers, and the relations between
parents and teachers should be
more cordial. Mrs. William s..
Heffern told the international
congress on child welfare.
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ed as to form with the pergola 9
color scheme of lavender and
white. but they have not vel
reached the roof. One of the
gardens nearby is terraced with
orange trees. imported from {
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-08

The Tacoma Dramatic club will
present the popular drama. Erin
Go Bragh," for the benefit of the
Chuch Of Visitation, South Taco
ma, in South Tacoma HAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
TYPEWR|TERS DECLINE
Jobs IN POST OFFICE
Department Has Trouble
Keeping Them on Account
Of Salaries Paid.

No little trouble is being experienced In
the Post Office Department in securing
and keeping competent stenographers and
typewriters and bookkeepers. The initial
salary for these positions is $500, yet
since July /, on one certification of eight
names from the civil service commission
seven declined appointment as bookkeep-
ers at that salary. On another certifica-
tion Of eight made the last day of Au-
gust two who had accepted the appoint
ment declined before reporting for duty,
a week. Four of the other five have ie-
ported and are now at work.
There have been Ilft ,en designations
since July L. nine Of employees receiving
$500 a year: five of elnpioyes receiving
81 900 a year. and one wlo received s., ,2n0
a year. Since the irSt Ut the year there
have been thirty-six appointments IN
these grades. thirty at $500. four at $1,000
and two at 81 200. Thus the resigna-
tions number almost AZ Per cent of the
appointments.
1t was stated at the department. that
in many instances the reason given for
declining or resigning from these posi-
tions is that the persons interested can
do better on the outside.
The apportionment provision OF the civil
service law practically bar; parsons from
the District of Columbia, Maryland and
Virginia from appointment because the
quotas are full, and Yet 1t Is said there
are hundreds of experienced persons here
in Washington who would willingly and
gladly accept these pla ces that go beg
ging on the outside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
Family of Three Suffocated.
WALSH MAY GET PAROLE.
Federal Board Is Now Sitting at
LeavenWorth Prison.

I.E;AvENWORTH. Kan. September
25-R " La Dow, chairman Of the
board of parole at the federal prison,
has arrived from Atlanta. Ga, and is
holding sessions Of the board relative to
the expected pardoning Of John r. Walsh.
the former baker and railroad builder
of Chicago, and others.
It has been reported that the chairman
would bring a parole paper already ap-
proved and signed by Attorney General
Wickersham for Walsh, but La Dow
denied this and insisted that Walsh
would have to take his turn the same as
the other prisoners. He announced that
applicants for parole would be called be-
fore the board, commencig with the low
est number on the list. and that they
would follow in numerical order.
AS there are about fifty applications
ahead of that of Walsh the banker
will have to wait until all these are dis
posed OF before he can appear to ma sc
his plea 1t Is thought the board will
be ready to take up Walsh's case Tues
day. and 1t is generally believed action
In his case will be favorable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
GO TO PROTECT CANAL.
First Movement of U. S. Troops to
Panama Begins Today.

The initial movement of troops to the
Fanama Canal Zone for the defense Of
the Panama canal is expected to begin
today by the departure of the 10th Regi-
ment of Infantry. Col. Henry A. Green,
commanding. from Fort Sam Houston.
near San Antonio. Tex, for Galveston
At the latter port the troops will embark
on the army transport fitzpatrick and
proceed direct to Colon. on the Atlantic
side of the isthmus. whence they will go
by rail to their destination.
The regiment will go into temporary
camp near Las Cascadas. Two old labor
camps, consisting of old French bar
racks, have been fitted up for the enlisted
men, with Standee hunks two tiers high
and a separate mess for each of the
twelve companies. Two battahons will
be stationed at the old White House labor
camp and one at the Las Cascadas labor
camp. The building formerly used by
the central division as a time Office will
be the Office of the commanding officer.
The officers will be quartered In bachelor
quarters in Las Cascadas village. The
present complement Of the regiment Is
si6 men and 30 officers. A battalion of
United States marines has been stationed
in the Canal Zone since 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
TEST THE REFERENDUM.
Constitutionality of Law Attacked
by Telephone and TELEGRAPH Co.

The initiative and referendum is to
undergo the acid test OF constitution
ality. TO be applied by the Supreme
Court of the United States at the Oc-
tober term. The state Of Oregon. the
home of this issue. is made party to a
suit with the Pacific States Telephone
and Telegraph Company. The company
challenges a law enacted by the Ore
gon legislature under the Initiative
plan. by which a tax of 2 per cent was
placed upon the gross earnings of tele-
graph and telephone companies. The
company claimed that the initiative
and referendum are inconsistent with
the form of government guaranteed by
the United States.
The constitutionality of the law is
thus squarely presented. and the
courts decision will affect Colorado.
Montana. South Dakota. Missouri.
Oklahoma and Arkansas. with a bear
ing upon proposed legislation in Cali
fornia. Washington. Nebraska and
wyoming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25

the collection amounted to $1O1 1918. as
against 760O5. Is for the year previous.
Receipts from licenses. not including
liquor licenses. amounted to $12O. 1881
for the fiscal year 1911. The number OF
for harrooms and 12T for wholesale
houses, amounting to $45S. 295. 10.
Estimated revenues for the District for
the fiscal year to end June 80. 1911. as
compiled recently by the District auditor,
assessor and collector Of taxes, reach
total OF $7.36O.8jO according to state
ment in the assessors report
The entire report of the assessor COW
ers twenty-one typewriter pages. 1t
contains statement of the assessed val
ues Of taxable personal and real estate
in the District in addition to a statement
on the estimated revenues for the District
for the fiscal year 1913 and certain sug-
gestions and recommendations looking to-
ward the Improvement of the service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
FIRE IS FATAL TO -FOUR.
SCORE Of PERSONS HURT
Blaze Believed to Have Been
of Incendiary Origin in
Chicago Tenement.

CHICAGO, September 2J.-Four persons
were killed and a score injured today.
when fire broke out In a double four story
brick tenement house at 1896 South
Sangamon street. The dead are Harry
Eglovitch, his wife and baby. and Samuel
Alpert. All were burned and suffocated.
The fire. which is believed by the police
to have been Of incendiary origin. started
in the basement and rapidly spread to
the upper floors occupied by eleven fam
lilies.
Babes Thrown From Window.
Excitement followed the discovery of
the flames and dozens Of women and chill
dren were rescued with difficulty. Two
babies were thrown from an upper win
dow, by their frantic mothers and were
caught in the arms OF pedestrians.
One woman who lived on the top floor
weighed 354 pounds. and was carried
down stairs by her husband and four
firemen, after several unsuccessful at
tempts had been made to rescue her by
means of a ladder.
who lived with his parents on the first
floor of one of the buildings, discovered
the fire. and. after running through the
structure, rousing the sleeping occupants
turned in an alarm of fire.
Family Of Three Suffocated.
After 1t was believed that all had been
rescued 1t was discovered that the Eglo-
witch family still was in rooms on the
top floor.
Police and firemen made a search OF
the rooms and discovered the bodies OF
EGlovitch, his wife and child on the floor
NJ window They had aftemOted 20
get to the window. but were overcome
by smoke.