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The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
STREET CAR STEPS
HIGH FOR WOMEN
Hard to Reach the Ground in
Safety.

! Wisn to express my gratitude, through
the medium of your publication to those
who have ventured forth in the war
against the high steps of the street rail-
way cars.
do not wear a hobble skirt. nor am
] aged or decrepit lame or halt, nor do
I carry a baby on one arm with the
usual go-cart and necessary parapher-
MALTA required when mothers so abroad
. with infants. yet 1 wonder II am going
10 reach the ground in safety when the
time for descent arrives. especially now
there lis no handle bar on the door to
cid in the drop. and when l get on the
car am generally seized by the nearest
man and hoisted like a bale Of goods. 10
the detriment Of my flesh and clothing.
] know they mean we'll and am grateful
TO them. even though st such cost, for
am not sure I'D get there at all with
out their aid.
There Is "a Reason.
Il always makes me tired when l hear
men berate the females for getting of
backward or facing the rear. Common
sense might tell them the reason, for
there is a reason, or, as you may say,
method in their madness" As the steps
are so high the ordinary female has to
let herself down or run the risk of fall
ing or breaking a limb. A lawyer told
me the other day that there had been
number of women who had broken their
limbs since the high steps were inau-
Eurated, and that lawyers had been ap-
preached TO bring suit for damages re-
sulting therefrOm. AS the car was stand
ing still and the women had stepped on
their own feet without to the lawyer, ap-
parent explanation as to the cause, 1t
was decided there was no grounds for
suit, or responsibility on the part of the
railroad Is it not the duty of the
public carrier to provide for the safety
Of traffic on their roads? Are they not
therefore, responsible?
Her Handicap.
A woman has TO lift her skirts, carry
bundlesS babies, &c, and as her right
arm is the strongest, she is. of necessity
obliged TO use in il holding on in getting
of or on, and the car being open on
the right side for entrance or egress,
she has no choice but TO run the least
risk of the two. The new cars have no
rods; the old cars had.
Now, If these same good people could
bring an ordinance into effect forbidding
the cars to be started until the lame,
decrepit the females carrying infants are
Eafely seated, and that II be the duty
OF the conductor 20 see that they are
seated, the millennium will be near at
hand. FIDELIs.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
WINTER RECIPES
FOR VEGETABLES
That Will Help Heusekeep-
ers in Planning Meals.
E.ealIoped Onion.

y
Take medium sized onions. peel and cut
into hnlf-inch slices ParboiI in saIted
water. then drain and lay In buttered
dish. alternating with busting Of ine
stale bread crumbs. and white sauce
made as for the foundation OF cabbage
soufie. but omitting the eggs, Add pep
per and salt. Have the top layer
crumbs. Dot with butter and bake until
onions are tender and the top crisp and
brown.
Vegetable Hash.
Cut cooked carrots, turnips. and pota-
toes into small pieces the size OF a 10
cent piece. Place in a saucepan with
just enough boiling water to keep them
moist during cooking: add a teaspoonful
Of parsley. chopped, either fresh or dried
Have some white sauce at hand and
when the vegetables are hot turn them
into the sauce to simmer few moments
Parsnip Frieassee.
Fry small cubes OF salt pork until
brown; then add four raw parsnips cut
into small pieces after scraping. allow
ing quarter cupful OF pork 70 each four
parsnips. Cover with boiling water and
simmer until the vegetables are tender;
drain of the water, adding sliced pota-
toes, cooked tender. and sufficient milk
to cover. aWhen this polls season to
taste with pepper and salt and add a
lump of butter; then turn into a hot dish
containing squares of toasted bread an
inch thick. This is a good luncheon or
supper dish.
Spinach Puh.
Chop spinach very fine. add a table
spoonful Of butter, melted after meas
uring; salt and pepper to suit, and to a
pint OF vegetable use a cupful OF cream
the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the
stiffiy beaten whites OF three eggs, mix
ing the latter carefully In after all other
ingredients: turn into n buttered dish
and bake twenty minutes IN hot oven.
Serve in the dish IN which II is cooked.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13

Pity the restricted wardrobes OF woman
kind before the days Of the )ohy, COM
Portable. becoming sweater and It's knitted
accessoriesi No other garment In all the
realm OF woman's dress has held It's own
with the persistency OF the sweater. Year
in and year out this garment survives.
and with each year grows prettier, more
practical and better In style. All woman
kind supports the vogue of the sweater,
from the fashionable debutRnte who
wears Il for tennis, for golf. for yacht
ing, and for other out-of-door amuse-
ments. TO the immigrant woman whose
eternal and bedraggled mud-gray sweater
has taken the place OF the one-ume
shoulder-shawl. But white some makers
have been trying TO see how cheaply
these practical garments could be made
and sold, other makers have exerted
their wits to put into knitted wear more
style. more SNAP. and a distinction that
shall appeal TO the best dressed women
And that this indispensable addition
to woman's wardrobe is destined for a
long and continued reign cannot De
doubted by even the most uncompro-
missing stickler for conventionality in
dress.
To Keen the FauItiess Fit.
The best sweaters fit as faultlessly as
a smartiy tailored coat. and there Is a
deal Of Importance In this question OF
a sweaters ft. These garments are apt
TO stretch rather than to shrink and a
model slightly smaller in size than re-
quIred will fit better after six months
wear than one a bit too large at the be-
ginning. II should be remembered that a
sweater invariably stretches sideways.
not up and down. and each time II is
put on II should be pulled down firmly
at the lower edge until II clings around
the hips and gives the tapering graceful
line that makes for a sweaters disttnc-
tion. Il should also be thrown over a
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
A Nonpreasy Hand Lotinn.

Subscriber-This formula is splendid 10
use for chapped hands. do not care for
nongreasy lotions for the face, but this
one is very nice TO use on the hands, as
il does not soil the gloves or clothes.
Rub IL in until perfectly dry.
Two drains tragacanth, fourteen ounces
water, one ounce glycerin, two drains
tincture benzoin, two drains borax, and
four drams white rose extract. Macerate
the tragacanth in the water until II Is
perfectly soft Dissolve the borax in
the glycerin. Mix the two solutions.
add the tincture and perfume, and press
through muslin.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
Fur Fashions.

opossom was added to the list Of ftirs
last winter, and at once achieved I'm,
mense favor. When $1,000 or 50 stood
between a woman and her desire for a
chinchilia coat opossom was the chosen
substitute. Il elso rtvaled chinchIlla on
evening dresses OF the fllmsiest fabrics.
II was use for stole and nun sets. either
alone or In combination with other furs,
ana opossom was used in collar and
rever style for the winter wrap and
tRilor-made.
sheepskin 10 another OF the more ordi-
nary skins which have been added to the
seasons peltry list.
White rabbit skin is one Of the cheaper
Ifurs which are being used extensively
this season for evening coats, and mole
skin Is used enormously for tie and nun
sets, as wen a. fuli-length coatA
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13

contrasting colors. placed back 20 back.
are made reversible. They are finished
alike on the two sides. with a large sin
gle reyer and a basque effect and cuffs
that button back to. show the diverse
color. Blue and white. purple and black.
green and black. green and gray, ars
some OF the combinations
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
A POEM THAT HAS HELPED.

Is a
houFr
theu she
for the
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13
For ObesIty.

Mrs. W. II. w.-The soda bath is about
as easy and harmless way to get rid
OF SUPERB uous flesh as any know Of.
Use two pounds OF washing soda to a
tub bath and lie IN the water about ten
or fifteen minutes every other day.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13

A favorite dish at certain tearoom
consists Of pate shells filed with a mix
ture of chicken livers and mushrooms in
p cream sauce
The Washington herald., 1912-01-13

When laundering lace curtains a little
gum arabic, dissolved and strained, is
sometimes added, to the starch water-
an ounce OF gum arabic to every gallon.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-01
VEGAS CHICKEN THIEF
SLAIN; IDENTITY OF
VICTIM is A MYSTERY

Las Vegas. ". A., Aprii g0.--County
and west side officers today engaged
IN q fruitlesa endeavor 20 learn the
Identity Of a chicken thief who was
killed last night waile robbing the hen
ro0st OF Orlando Smith. who resides
IN the town Of Las Vegas neav the
establishment OF the Romero Mercan-
tile company. Hearing a noise In
The vicinity OF his chicken coop Smith
arose from HIS bed az q late hour last
night Taking his trusty gun with
him he hurried TO the rescue Of his
fowls. which we're filling the night
with their distressed cackles
smith, By the light os the moon,
saw the thief Before the intruder
could make his escape smith nred
and the thief was seen 10 fall lfeless
20 the ground. smith stopped over
tho PROSTATE form long enough 20 as
certain that he had inflicted fatal
wound. He Informed the officers
Justice Felipe Baca Gatcia, acting
as coroner for the precinct, viewed
the remains After heBriug smith =
story and seeing Tor himself that the
deceased had been shot while COM
hitting a robbery. the acting coroner
decided an inquest would be unneces-
aary. However. sheriff Roman Gale
SOS and Town Marshal Manuel Mar
tlnez ondeavored % learn the identity
OF the slain
No letters or papers were found on
] the person Of the departed. who was
OF medium height and slightly aooYe
the average weight Smith was not
surprised that the person he had kiii-
"a was colored--that a ~ say he vas
= coon, "A facc0on, % be exact
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-01

waal : haoEf can TrImsla-
Phone 9.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-01

on Friday. the sra day OF May
1912. az 10 o'clock d. M, In front
Of the city JAIN on North Second
street. win sell one hay mare about
four years old. will weigh about $50
pounds; black name and taiii both
hind feot white, branded NJ on iefl
shoulder. branded on le9t hip and
thigh. also branded q right thigh
THOMAS McMILLIN.
City Marshal.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-01

Earmofs Rualmess Association %
Eatancla valley will glve big bar
becuo aud colobrau0n a. Morlarty
July 4. nlr money for an kinds OF
ADJUSTMENTS Small ffe for privi-
leees. Address Harry .. Finoke.
Ohairman. Morlarty, y. a. ie
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
SKIN DISEASE ON FACE

Barthell KY had a skin disease
on my face, neck and hands that tor
mented me all the time and when |
would get hot the places would burn
so that | had to keep my face wet in
cold water. 1t began as pimples and
indeed it was disfguring, for 1t would
get in spots on my face and hands as
large as a Quarter of dollar 1t would
get into blisters sometimes and | sure
did suffer. My face burned all the
time. 1t was this way so bad for
about six years and I tried everything
that l could hear Of, but nothing did
any good
"One day found the CutiCura Soap
and Ointment advertised and ordered
some at once. l would wash my face
good with the Cuticura Soap and then
apply the Cuticura Ointment and they
have cured me. 1t would take half a
tablet to tell all I suffered In those six
years" (Signed) Mrs. Della Hill,
Jan. 3, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
NO MEDICINE
But Change of Food Gave Final Relief.

Most diseases start in the alimen-
tary canal-stomach and bowels
A great deal of our stomach and
bowel troubles come from eating too
much starchy and greasy food.
The stomach does not digest any
of the starchy food we eat-white
bread, pastry, potatoes, oats. ETC.
these things are digested in the small
intestines, and If we eat too much, as
most of US do, the organs that should
digest this kind Of food are overcome
by excess of work, so that fermenta-
ton, indigestion, and long train Of
ails result.
Too much fat also Is hard to digest
and this is changed into acids, sour
stomach, belching gas, and bloated.
heavy feeling.
In these conditions a change from
indigestible foods to Grape.Nuts will
work wonders in not only relieving
the distress but in building up a
strong digestion, clear brain and
steady nerves. A Wash. woman
writes:
About five years ago I suffered
with bad acknowledgements, indiges.
ton. constipation-caused, I know
now, from overeating starchy and
greasy food.
II doctored for two years without
any benefit. The doctor told me there
was no cure for me. could not eat
anything without suffering severe
pain in my back and sides, and l be-
came discouraged.
"a friend recommended Grape-Nutf
and l began to use 1t. In less than
two weeks I began to feel better and
inside of two months l was well
woman and have been ever since.
Il can eat anything L wish with
| pleasure. We eat Grape-Nurs and
cream for breakfast and are very
fond of it." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
| Read the little book, "Th- Roat
to MELVILLE" In pkgs. There's {
reason
Ever. read the above letter2 . new
one appears from time to time. The,
IRE genuine. true. and full Of huIna,
~ .n9s's. ssE.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
BIGGEST CORN CROP IN HISTORY
NOVEMBER REPORT GIVES 1861
$4,000 BUSHELS.
Enormous Sum Of 1,344,000 Rep.
resents Farm Values OF Lead
ing Products.

Washington.-A corn crop Of $685.
$4,000 bushels, or 2Sl,92l,0O0 bushels
more than the greatest crop OF corn
ever grown in any country OF the
world, is the feature of the cOuntry's
most remarkable agricultural year in
history, according to the November
crop report of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, issued Satur-
day. The report completed the gov.
ernment's preliminary estimates OF
the nations principal farm crops.
This great crop Of corn was worth
on November l, to farmers, $780,
776,000.
The enormous sum OF S4,171,344,0 900
represented the farm value on No
vember l of the United States crops
of corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, flax
see3, rye and buckwheat, with the
value Of the growing cotton crop and
the crops of tobacco, rice and apples,
the aggregate value Of these principal
farm products will mount well be-
yond five billion dollars.
Upon the preliminary estimates of
production and prices announced, the
value of the crops figure out as fol-
lows:
Corn, $1,S50,776,0O0; hay, s854615,-
900; wheat, $6O3,639.00O; oats, s475.-
10000 potatoes, $1S5,5O1,0OO; bar
ley, S12O,S45 900; flax seed. $685..
900; rye, $24,37O,OO0; buckwheat, s12,.
$4,000.
There was an increase in the total
value of each of these crops, except
ing buckwheat, potatoes, barley and
rye. The increase netted $5l700O,00o
over the value of last years crops.
Record crops of corn, potatoes, flax
seed, oats, barley, rye and hay were
harvested this year.
Total corn production, preiiminarily
estimated, 3,169,1370OO, compared
with 1851, 4SS,O0O bushels last. year
and the record crop of 1921, 416,000
bushels in 1906. Yield per acre, 1913
bushels, compared with 23.9 bushels
last year and 26.7 bushels the ten
year average. Average farm price,
5S4c per bushel, compared with 64.7c
last year. Quality, 1O1.1 per cent,
compared with the ten year average
Corn of 1911 crop remaining on farms
November / was $64,764,O0O bushels,
compared with 123,S24,00O bushels OF
the 1910 crop remaining on farms No.
vember l last year. The farm value
of the corn crop December last year
was s1,565, 25S,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
4 NEW MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO
1t Suggests That General Geronimo
Trevino Be Made President of
Mexico-Eneneer Burned.

Mexico City-General Geronimo Ire
vino, recently retired at his own re-
quest from the army, is suggested as
provisional president of Mexico in a
new revolutionary manifesto which
has just reached the capital. The doe
ument is signed by GaudenCio de la
Lave, colonel of the regulars, who
lately joined the insurrectos; Benja-
min Rodriguez and F. R. Pradillo, the
latter with Orozco's army, until he in
CURED OroZcOs displeasure by taking
Emilio Vasquez Gomez from San An
tonic to Juarez.
The manifesto is dated Puebla, the
day after the capture of General Felix
DiaZ.
Another revolutionary document OBJ
tanned by the police from Zapatista
prisoners. was made public Monday.
1t appears to reveal the intention Of
the Zapata brothers and the leaders
of the insurrectory chiefs, whose
names were signed, TO initiate the
French revolution. Promises are
made to the insurgent army, to which
the document is addressed, that a
guillotine will be erected in the capt.
tai and that the heads of many of the
rich will fall. 1t also promises that
Others will end their days in the
Mexican bastile'
Notwithstanding the failure of the
Zapatistas to take Cuernavaca, activi-
ties in the state of Morelos, Guerrero
and Mexico continue and the govern
ment is planning to resume the eX-
termination" tactics employed by
General Robes a few months ago
with some success General Banquet
will be left in the Zapata district in
stead of being ordered to return north
to resume the campaign against the
Orozco rebels.
The defeat administered by General
Banquet at Cuernavaca appears to
have melted the Zapatistas to more
horrible outrages. Wandering bands
are committing murder and arson in
the way of reprisals. A freight train
was stopped near Puebla by band
Sunday night. The conductor was
stabbed to death, the engineer was
stabbed and, though not killed. was
thrust into the firebox of the locomo-
tive and the door closed. Reports are
current of a now plot, a we'll known
army officer having had conference
with the Orozco adherents with the
object of organizing all factions of
the rebels.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
OTHERS KNOW US TOO WELL
Easv TO Deceive Ourselves, but the
Rest of the World Is Generally
Too Wise.

Senator Pomerene has happy
Snack Of driving home statement
with an epigram.
At luncheon Senator Pomerene
described would.be litterateur.
Thanks to whisky and strong
cigars" he said, the poor fellow mas
failed to make good He earns pre-
carlous living by newspaper work.
but, though he Is so now, none OF the
vondrous novels and thrilling stories
that he used to pirate about have ap-
peared.
And yet, in his shabby apartment
over a bottle Of cheap liquor and a
box of cheap cigars, he will boast by
the hour-poor, gray wrinkled dutter
of his unfinished MSS. Oh, they
will appear yet. Yes. he will yet IL
lumine the world with the light OF his
genius"
Senator Pomerene sighed and con-
GUIDED:
"Ah. II we could deceive others as
easily as we deceive ourselves, what
regulations we'd all have, to be sure.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
SIX powers WILL TRY FOR AN AGREEMENT
Entente and Triple Alliance Consider
Essential Portions of European Tur.
key Be Retained by Turks.

Paris.-The great powers, Great
Britain, France and Russia, constitut-
ing the triple entente, and Germany,
Austria and Italy, the triple alliance,
are believed to be at the point of
reaching an agreement to prevent the
Bulgarian army from occupying Con-
stantinople. The six governments find
themselves in accord on the princi-
pie and active exchanges are in pro-
gress as to the means to be taken to
bring about this result.
One suggestion is a collective pro.
visional occupation of Constantinople
by the six powers, with the consent of
Turkey, under the assumption that
such action was necessary to protect
the subjects of the respective nations
and to maintain order. The Bulgarian
government appears already to have
indicated that it has no intention of
trying to hold Constantinople and
that it would occupy the Turkish CAPT
tai temporarily only-until peace had
been arranged
This, it is stated, is not satisfac.
tory to the powers. 1t is pointed out
that such occupation might continue
indefinitely and certainly in the long
discussion preceding a settlement OF
the OUestiOnS raised nv tho war and
would render permanent agreement
more difficult to reach by the Euro
pean conference.
1t is considered essential for the
great international interests that the
Bosporus, Constantlnople, the Darda
nelles and narrow zone in Euro
pean Turkey should be retained BY
the Turks.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
Fashion Note.

Lady Duff Gordon, at tea at the
Rits-Carlton, praised the pannier skirt.
Everybody likes it, 1t is SO grace
full" she said, smiling. Everybody
likes 1t except crusty old fellows"
She turned to a crusty old fellow
upon a Louis Seize chair beside her
and continued:
II know a woman whose husband
growled at her when she tried on a
new pannier gown for him:
al don't see why you wear those
ridiculous big panniers. You haven't
got the hips to fill them.
THE woman blushed and bit her
lip. Then she said quietly:
but do you fill your silk hat.
George""
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
Dates for Farmers Institutes.

Austin, Textile agricultural de-
partment has announced the following
dates for farmers institutes: San
Diego, November 10; Cotulla, Novem-
Der 20; Pearsall, November q; Com
merce, November IS; Fairlee, Novem-
Der 10; Wolfe City, November 20;
Childress, November %; Chillicothe,
November rs; Crowell November q.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
Cholera at ConstantinopIe.

Washington. - American Ambassa.
dor Rockhill at Constantinople cabled
the state department Monday that
there are $4,000 sick and wounded in
the capital of Turkey, practically
none of whom are prisoners of war.
Seventeen cases of cholera have been
brought to the city by soldiers. Some
$4,000 refugees are being cared for by
the Ottoman government and there is
much sickness, including smallpox,
among them.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
English Stump Speech.
Adv.

A correspondent, "Old Briney,
sends US the following specimen Of
frenzied stump oratory: "Feller
blokes! Thanks ter tn guV'ment. yer
got yer d'minishin' wage. and yer lit
tie loaf an all that. Wotcher got
ter do now is ter go fer devil-ootion
and local anatomy, an go it blind"
Loud cheers. )--Landon Globe.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
The Crooked Way.

District Attorney Whitman Of New
York, according to the Washington
Star, was talking about the bad case
of a western banker who had stolen
q great sum from the depositors.
1.-THE man." said Mr.. Whitman,
lived beyond his means-motor cars,
a house with eleven baths, son at col
lege, daughter coming out, wife hun
cry for diamonds. The inevitable re-
suit followed"
Mr.. Whitman smiled and ended:
"The unfortunate fellow got strait.
ened, 80 he became crooked"