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The Washington herald., 1912-03-18

A church guild recently just made
money by a bazaar where nothing was
sold over 81 and where most OF the
wares were 25 or so cents.
The novel money limit was advertised
for weeks 1t was exploited that this
was to be no hold up in the name
of charity. As a consequence the bazaar
was not Stunned, the rooms were crowd
ed and the tables quickly cleared at a
good profit.
Everything was donated, so the sales
were gain. The workers understood
that big prices could not be charged, so
put their wits to work for inexpensive
novelties that could be quickly made.
There was a housekeepers' table crowd
ed with donations of homemade cake,
preserves, mincemeat, pickles, pies, rusk,
beaten biscuit and even small mofds Of
cranberry jelly and sauerkraut. There
were cooking utensils bought at the 5
and IO-cent store and sold with but a
few cents advance, and all kinds Of work
aprons. especially those with long
sleeves; covers for ironing boards iron
holders, knitted washrags and neatly
trimmed dish towels.
A Sample Stall.
sample stall was a huge success
Samples of all sorts were begged from
various firms and sold at a moderate
price. Half packages of gelatine, small
bottles Of furniture polish, combination
boxes of soap and face powder for the
traveller, new brands of cereal or coffee
in small packages, an assortment OF
vaseline of all kinds in a compact case,
tiny tubes of tooth paste, boxes of seed
ed raisins, cans of baking powder and
stove blacking were among the articles
that found a ready sale.
For the children there was giant
SNOWFALL with a Mother Christmas in
side. For a nickel she would delve down
into the heart of her hiding place and
bring up a small favor dear to the
heart of a child. These were mostly
penny toys, cheap books or little red
devils and clowns swinging from an
elastic, but the children spent more than
If they had cost many times as much.
The fancy work table, which is usually
robber-in-chief at a bazaar, was none
the less attractive because nothing on
# cost more than 81. There were cards
with two tiny velvet bows. worn with
stiff collars, sewed to each card, and
sold for . cents.
There were fluffy black and white ro-
settles for slippers for 80 cents a pair;
handkerchief cases for the traveller.
made from a yard of 1s-cent ribbon or
remnants of gay silk folded over at
each end into a pocket and then dou-
bling in half, at 40 cents; also dainty
neck tabs made from a scrap Of fine
lawn buttonholed with a narrow colored
edge, with a few dots for decoration,
that sold for 20 cents.
A Table of Cushions.
Other articles on this table were wash
able pincushion covers without the cush-
Ions; some of them cross-stitched on
serin and edged with narrow lace; 9TH
ers Of white pique, with a deeply seal
loped edge and a satin stitch dot in each
scallop, still others of dotted Swiss, with
a scant ruffie Of Valenciennes lace and
a line OF narrow insertion above II. Each
cover was supplied with four big-headed
pink or blue pins for adjusting IT to the
cushion; the pique covers had button
hole worked on each side. and none cost
over 30 cents. most Of them 25 cents.
The flower table, another bugbear, spe-
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18
Figs at Mealtime.

When the stomach has been surfeited
with meat, vegetables and pastries, give
ft rest by eating figs. dates, and nuts
only, at one or two meals each day.
Stuffed figs and dates filled with nut
meats are obtainable at most first class
groceries, though it is not wise to eat
too many nuts.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18

Many housekeepers do not know that
there is a simple way to prevent pota-
toes from burning and sticking to the
bottom Of the pot. An inverted pit pan
placed in the bottom Of the pot avoids
scorching potatoes. The water and empty
sroce beneath the pan save the potatoes
This also makes the work Of cleaning
pots easier. as no adhering parts Of pota-
toes are left TO be secured out.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18
Asparagus Tips Polonaise.

Clean and cut some asparagus three
and one-hah inches long. season with
salt and pepper. and put them in q bag
with teaspoonful Of fried bread crumbs
and a little melted butter. Close the
bag and cook in a moderate over for
twenty-five minutes.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18

Never salt meat that is to be griIled,
as it hardens the hbers Of the meat,
and tends to extract the juices. sug-
gests a woman OF experience. Salt on
the platter just before sending to the
table No meat should be salted un-
cooked. but after the surface has been
scared and the meat is partly cooked.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18

/. Bananas, II they are unripe. may be
used with advantages as a vegetable.
Cut the fruit In halves, stew them for
twenty-five minutes IN just little water,
drain, cover them with a cream sauce
such as you use for caulifiower, and
serve them hot. The ripe fruit is a de-
licious garnish to meat. Cut round slices
from ripe, firm bananas, fry them in but
ter. and lay a few on the top and round
OF broiled steak as It goes to the
table
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18
Green Peas with Mint.

Take small new peas, season them with
salt and pepper, add q pinch or hour.
a few leaves Of mint. little sweet but
ter and q soupspoonful OF water. Put
them in a bag and cook very slowly Tor
thirty minutes.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18
Stewed Mushrooms.

Take about four ounces OF mushrooms.
bare and wash them well, season them
with salt. pepper, a piece or butter Csizs
OF a hazelnuD. put IN a bag and COOK
in the oven for ten minutes.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18
An Gratin Potatoes.

Chop up Irish potatoes and cook in
cream. Then place in a porcelain or silver
dish. sprinkling melted butter and grated
cheese over the top. Bake and serve in
the same dish.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-18

Fine net and maline are much in evil
dence in this seasons dainty neck hxings.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
CRITICISING SENATOR SMITH

Those English ship-owners and English newspapers-includin a few tory publications in this country have never made a poorer appearance than in criticising the methods Of cross examination used by Senator Smith, chairman of the committee which investigated the wreck of the Titanic It is true that an occasion al question was faulty from a sea- mans technical standpoint. It is all SO true that Senator Smith is not a seaman, a navigator, or a ship build CT and that he does not pretend to be. As a whole his examination was searching. complete. and successful in bringing to light information which was much needed to correct existing conditions imperilling ocean travel.
 The world knows now that the Ti- tanic was running at high speed among icebergs of whose presence her captain had been warned; that her equipment of life boats was altogeth- CT too small; that the crew was not sufficient to man such life boats as there were; that there had been no life boat drill worthy of the name; that the boats were sent away only paftly. filled; and that the lookouts in tho crowsnest were without marine
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
BRIDGEPORT BOY MAKING GOOD
 BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI

The Pittsburg Kansan has issued a special edition containing information concerning that town that is invalu- able. We have received copy and have found its perusal instructive and entertaining. Bridgeporters will be interested in knowing that the enter prising publication is now the proper ty of a native son of the Park City, Dr. James F. Callen, who in conjunc- ton with his capable helpmeet, Eliza beth W Callen, publishes and edits the newspaper Dr. Callen comes from East Bridgeport where he was born, reared and where he received his early education. His friends will rejoice to learn of his good fortune which has been richly deserved. In the ''Kansan" he has live and profit able proposition and judging from the editions which have come to our ex- change table the erstwhile East Side boy has succeeded in firmly estab- fishing himself among the best people in the thriving and fast-growing town of the best advertised state beyond the Mississippi. The Farmer extends to the Editors Callen the assurances of its most distinguished consideration and bespeaks for them continued prosperity.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09

glasses with which they might have perceived the berg in time to save the ship.
 Chairman Smith is entitled 70 cred it for the speed with which he did his work. The most dilatory legislative body in the world moved with in credible swiftness. A precedent, and a valuable one was inaugurated when he came with his committee to the dock in New York and went aboard the Carpathia immediately.
 Thus many valuable witnesses were obtained, who might otherwise have left the country, and among these may be included Managing Director Ismay.
 What Senator Smiths methods lacked in subtlety they made up in speed and certainty. He furnished a splendid education for landlubbers, they being the ones who needed it.
 The criticism of Senator Smith is not novel. There always have been and there probably always will be persons of such queer mentality that they endure patiently the needless slaughter of any number of their feI- low creatures, but become rebellious over any attempt to place the com mercial responsibility for such slaugr- ter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
KILLED HIS WIFE
''COuldn't Bear to See Her Suffer'
 From Rheumatism

Sydney, N. S. w., May 9-"I killed her because I couldn't bear to see her suffer-"
 This is the keynote Of a full confess sion made to the police by Frederick William Ball. the Dr. Crippen. of New. South Wales, recently arrested on vessel here just as 1t was about to sail, charged with murdering his six months bride and cremating her body at Bingara, in the bush country.
 "She had suffered terribly with Rheumatism all the time we had been at the farm,'' he said. q could not sleep at night for her moaning. She was on the veranda, and has just talk en dose of medicine, when decided to kill her. She was staggering about, apparently unable to speak. went to the kitchen and got a shotgun. The first cartridge missed fire. I pulled the other trigger, and she fell dead. l then put the body in a wheel barrow and took it down to the pad dock, where I built a bonfire and burned it clothes and all.''
 Ball came with his young wife from Kent. England, in December, and se- Bingara. He made himself so valuable to the proprietor by his industry and thrift, that when the latter came on a visit to Sydney, Ball was put in en- tire charge of the place.
 Following the discovery of the char red bones, the murderer was traced to Sydney where disguised as a sailor he had embarked on ship bound for England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09

passage just as it came from the House. It was pointed out that the old soldiers are dying at the rate of 100 day, and that the increased draft on the treasury would be only temporary and of little consequence. In no instance did the Democrats sup port the Sherwood bill for other than the reason that it proposed to pay the old soldiers what was their just due. The justice and right of the bill were urged constantly.
 The Sherwood bill, had it passed, would have ended pension legislation in Congress for years to come Spe- cial pension bills, which now take up large part of the time of each ses- sion. would have been done away with, whereas, under the Shoot ar- rangement, it is questionable whether there will be any Iessening of special pension bill legislation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
STATE D. OF 1. ELECTS
Two Bridgeport Women Chosen
 Among New Officers

New Britain, May 9LThe State Council, Daughters of Liberty, an aux Hilary of the Order of United Amer ican Mechanics, closed it's annual con- vention here yesterday with the elec- tion and installation of the following officers:
 Councillor, Nettie Monson, Ware house Point; associate councillor, Eva Bishop, New Haven; vice councillor, Edna Harding, Hartford; associate vice councillor, Emma Cooley, Somers; recording secretary, Nellie McNary, New Britain; assistant recording sec retary, Cora B. Allen, Bridgeport; i; treasurer, Abbie Palmerton, Bridge port; assistant treasurer, Ellen Leach, Southington; guide, Lillian Dittus, Danbury; inside guardian, Lillian Ack- ert, South Norwalk; outside guardian, J. w. Rogers, Bridgeport.
 The matter of selecting a place for the next convention was left with the officers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
!" MISGUIDED WOMEN ;
Disapproves Physical Force As Means
 of Political Propaganda'

. London, May 9-Dismayed over the recent action of number of mem- bers of Parliament in renouncing their pledges to favor votes for wom- en, officials of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are trying their hardest to counteract the effects of the hooligan campaign conducted under the leadership of the Plank hursts and Lawrences, representing the militant branch of suffragettes, known as the Women's Political and Social Union.
 s .I have been filled with sorrow,'' said Mrs. Fawcett, president of the National Union, in an interview to- day, tat the conduct of these mis- always disapproved of the use of physical force as a means of political propaganda. But, the justice and-ex- pediency of any cause is not affected by the unwisdom Of some of it's ad- .vocates. The steady augmentative agitation of 40 years should not now be ignored because in the disappOint- ment of long-deferred hopes methods of anger and impatience and even of violence have been resorted to.
 "The newspapers are full of incite- ment to the authorities to use uncom- mon punishment in dealing with the unhappy women who. have committed these actions. That may be neces- sary-but it is only necessary evil. It is no remedy. It deals with the symptoms and not with the cause. We are still hoping and working to the end that our statesmen will see the necessity of getting at the real cause of the unrest
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
A LESSON FOR OR'BRIDGEPORT

The annual borough election in Naugatuck resulted in a sweep for the Socialists, who. in a total poll of HIS votes defeated William J. Neary a Democrat for warden, although Weary had the support of both Demo- crat and Republican organizations, and his name appeared on both old party tickets.
 The result is notable for the reason that it is but the second time in the history of this country in which the Socialists have succeeded in a con- siderable place ill defeating a com bination between the old parties.
 The victory of this new organiza- ton in Naugatuck carries a lesson which ought to be easy to understand. It is a protest against the domination of town affairs by a combination Of poli- ticians of both parties, for their own profit, with secondary, or no regard, to the common welfare.
 Such a union is, or has been, com mon in American communities. And such. unions of selfish and corrupt bosses have produced rebellions of the voters in more than one city, includ- ing Bridgeport, in which 4,000 so- cialist votes were recently cast, most ly from sheer disgust with the almost open and notorious collision between bosses and dealers in legislation in both parties.
 The remedy is simple as it is nec- essafy. D Unless the Democratic and Republican parties wish to be cleaned up from the OUTSIDE, they must clean themselves up from the INSIDE. Democratic voters must expel from Democracy into disrepute. Republi- can voters must do the same.
 The view of the situation in Nau- gatuck as expressed by the Waterbury Republican, is substantially like our own.
 A silk stocking element of the Re- publican party, working through and with Democrats of the mercenary type had completely disgusted the voters of both parties.
 'Naugatuck's decision in favor of the socialist candidates for the bor- ough offices is not unexpected to those who have been informed of the con
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
FIFTY l. W. W.
 MEN GO TO JAIL
Charged With Trying to Intimi- date PatersOn'S Mill
 Workers

Paterson, IN. J., May 9Forty- seven
 Industrial Workers of the World were
 arraigned before Recorder Carroll yes
 terday on charges of disorderly con-
 duct near Bamford Brothers silk
 works on Cliff street. There had been a strike among the silk workers, and
 the police Tuesday arrested the men on the charge of trying to intimidate the other workers at the mill. They were each fined $10, but when it came to paying the fines only two of the prisoners had the money. The others were sent to the county jail for thirty days each. The two that had paid their fines were sent away from the court, but in a short time they were back again, having been
 rearrested for the same offense, and this time they were fined $15. They did not have the money and went to jail with the other five.
 While they were being arraigned there was commotion outside. Frank Young, an organizer for the I. W. w., | who lives in Detroit. was addressing a large crowd of strike sympathizers. He was denouncing the arrests as out rageOus when a policeman was sent to "get him." When Young was ar raigned before the Recorder the lat ter said:
 .Well, I see you have been trying hard to get yourself into trouble, and you have succeeded. I sentence you to three months in the county jail without bail. <, Next time I hope you ] know when you are we'll off" When Young was arrested Samuel Silver of Paterson took his place as speaker. He was arrested and then attacked Doorman Adams when the latter was bringing him before the Re- corder. Adams had his glasses smashed. Silver was sent to jail for one month without bail.
 David Platt tried for speaking hon. ors then, and he was also arrested and sent to jail for month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
FIRST THINGS

The first Theosophica1 society for the propagation of the @'wisdom-reli- gion' was founded by Mime. Helen Blavatsky, a Russian woman, who died in London twenty-one years ago today After her s'transmigration'' the work was taken up by Mrs. Kath. erine Tingley in America and Annie Besaflt in Europe and India, with the result that the cult has spread all over the world. The headquarters in America are at Point Loma, near San Diego, Cal, where the society con- ducts schools, publication offices, and other activities. International head quarters are maintained at Adyar, Madras, India. 1t has territorial sec tions comprising the United States and Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and several European nations, the American section having about 3,0OO members and 125 branches. ''The uni- versal brotherhood of humanity is the basic principle of the cult.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
BERGER SEES
 REAL FUTURE
 FOR SOCIALISTS

Washington. May 9.-The coming convention of the Socialist party, at India0apolis, will be the greatest in the history of the party, and will mark new epoch in the history of the movement, according to Victor L. Der ger, the Wisconsin Socialist congress man, who to-day gave out the follow ing statement:
 The coming convention will be the greatest In history of our party for two reasons:
 Tt will mark the passing of the purely agitational epoch and it's be- ginning as one of the greatest polit- lcal parttes-the third party still, but destined to become the second party soon.
 We shall be compelled to make cer- will protect the Socialist party against cranks. freaks and impossibil- ltlcs who fasten themselves upon ev- cry great movement and are doing our cause great injury.
 "How such precautions can be made enect1ve in a radical organization I do not know. Socialism is an inter- national movement, intent upon changing the laws of every country so as to bring out industrial democracy ito bring harmony into our economic condit1ons-and to make use of polit- lcal democracy for that purpose.
 Therefore everybody who knows anything about Socialism knows that as matter of fact it is the very op- posite of anarchism. A synfcalist is only thinly-veiled@a anarchist and as such has no business in our party. That ought to be made plain at the next convention to the Industrial Workers of the World, and all those who sympathise with direct action, sabotage, and some other impossibil- iStic kinks.
 Moreover Socialists have good req sons to expect to elect quite num- Der of members to the next Congress. Therefore. without in any way for getting their final aim of abolishins the capitalist system, the convention must adopt program which will ap- peal to every man and woman working with brain or brawn. I believe the convention will do it's duty in that re- spect.
 sI do not believe that we should en- dorse any particular kind of labor un- ions, but it might be we'll to repeat our declarations in favor of the in- dustrial form of organization as Such.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
MIR. SANGER EXPLAINS
 RESIGNATION FROM THE
 SOCIALIST PARTY GROUP

Former Alderman Joseph Sanger, who has resigned as a member of the Socialist party, issued a statement to- day, in which he says that he is still a believer in the socialist philosophy. It appears that his resignation is due to his inability to assent to certain features of socialist party discipline.
 MT. Sanger said:
 Socialism is the worldwide move ment of the age. It is a splendid Ideal of a state in which the processes of production and distribution are civilization in which there is neither poverty nor wealth, the guiding prin- ciple Is the cooperation of all for the good of all. Toward this end we are making constant progress gradually undermining the present system. So- cialism is spreading in this country and nothing will check it's ever-in- creasing current, it is an expression Of protest and discontent against the in- dustrial conditions and the ineff1cien- cy of government to legfslate in the interest of the common people, the real producers of all wealth. The peo- pie have lost faith in the courts when tered between the humble worker and the possessor of wealth.
 Socialism is movement that ap- peals to the thinker and student. Many college professors. clergymen. lawyers and authors are it's enthusiastic advo- cates This great social and industrial movement is also confronted with dan- ger in it's development and will re- quire genius and sincerity to guide 1t along safe channels. There is a tendency manitesting itself of ambi- tious and seIf-seeking politicians to gain control and to adopt the cor rupt methods of the old parties and assuming the role of boss. Social ism can only succeed as a true dem- ocracy when all it's members stand on a footing of equality and when the individual members lave the courage to resist the encroachment of Boss rule the curse of American politics
 We are not living under socialism yet and as good citizens we are in terested in having the best government available, this can only be accom- plished by voting for the best quail fled and most honest men regardless of party affiliation. No man should sacrifice his individuality and rights as an American citizen for any po- litical party.
 T M SANGER
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09

The United States Senate has cheat ed the surviving old soldiers of the civil war out of what the Democratic House defined as just compensation for the hardships and losses they suf- fered in the war, namely: a dollar-a- day pension. The Sherwood bill. pass ed by the House, and urged with a zeal and sincerity never excelled in Congfess,- was rejected by the Senate, and in its stead the substitute bill of fered by Senator Shoot, of Utah, who b friendly to no class of American citizens except those millionaires who Pxestdeat Taft, who frequently ex-