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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-20
Do NOT NEGLECT
THE HALL

Too many people are too
willing to let the hall of the
house take care of itself
the idea of appropriate fur
nishings for it receives but
scant attention which is
wrong of course since of all
places the hall should ex-
tend a warm and courteous
welcome.
Our new stocks reveal a
wealth of pleasing surprises
in furniture of this descrip-
ton. A few minutes of your
time will perhaps decide the
perplexing question of just
what is needed to inpart an
air of greater hospitality to
the entrance hall of your
home.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-20
NERVOUS
PROSTRATION
Severe Case of a Philadelphia
Woman Her Symptoms.

Philadelphia, Pal had a severe
case of nervous prostration, with palpi-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-20

tat1On or the hGarCy
constipation, head
aches, dizzin es s.
noise in my 9 ars,
tinid, nervous, rest
less + e elm gs and
sleeplessness.
81 read in the pa
per where a young
won an had been
cured of the same
troubles by taking
Lydia e. Pinkhan s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-20

Admission and Reserved seat Tick
cts sold show day at JacIzson's Station
cry Store, $50 Main Street, at same
price charged at show grounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Inversion and PerversiOn

New York World: Announcement
oming from a new school of writers
Tho claim to have evolved a claw Of
nversion" contains the following par
dox: "Do evil, not because it is evil
,ut because it is good One
'hould marry woman who loves
mother, and should engage in at least
me murder, that one may taste the
ear of being hanged and play with
he shadows of remorse. One must
'lways lie, for in lies alone are to
We found the truth" 1t is safe to
'ay that no school Of literature or
my single book has ever been sue
essfully founded on serious intent
20 prove that vice is ever anything
)ut evil, or that virtue is a simple
'ack of sophistication. Not even Oscar
Wilde attempted this, and as dealer
in the inverted and prevented he has
never had an equal. But his meretri-
,ious argument has lost most of it's
glitter G. X. Chesterton has wrung
the last sensation from the novelty
If contemplating the world upside
down. There is nothing left to be
done in the field of the abnormal. Ex-
,ept as febrile attempt to titillate a
public taste that may or may not be
iaded, there is not an atom of excuse
FOR the literature of the morbid and
he unhealthy.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
The Mysteries of Nature

Chicago News: The most striking
hing about really learned man is
lot the extent of his knowledge, but
he extent of his admitted ignorance.
The wiser a person is the greater the
number of things he doesn't know. The
more universally cocksure and well
informed one seems the more likely
is that he is a humbug.
How little has science made inroad
lpon that stupendous and limitless
residence that surrounds it, as the
;tellar universe enfolds the tiny earth
Sir Oliver Lodge the other day, at
he meeting of the British association,
poke Of the mystery of sex deterrni-
,ation. Spite of all claims, we know
title more today than did the cave
nen why one child is born boy and
mother a girl, and why the world ratio
'eeps about the same.
Sir Oliver also expressed his Won
Ter that some plants bore both male
nd female flowers. He said the same
ap comes into the stem, but just at
hat junction where differently sexed
lowers branched away from each 9TH
r there must be some profound
hange in the sap.
81 don't know what it is, and mi
roscopes tell me nothing about it"
e continued. "Perhaps if physiolo-
,ists could find out just what happens
that little plant joint they would
.et some clew to the reason why some
,uman beings are born boys and 9TH
RS girls"
He might have pushed further his
,oint of wonder. How comes it that
he earth juices make here white
lower and there a red? How is a
uge oak all folded in little acorn ?
How. can nature make the peach,
'ull of juice and cased so closely in
he thinnest of fuzzy skin that never
eaks?
How does blood food here create a
ard finger nail, there hair and here
=, stony tooth?
What is electricity? We know
omewhat of how it acts. But what
it? We know little more of it than
'oes a savage.
What is life? What is the secret
Orce CIdC LrdHSl OIulS III q GIlCe d NV
rg dog that eats his environment into
dead dog whose environment eats
i'm?
What is love? Why does this WON,
n thrill you and that one leave yod
old or repel you?
What is conscience, that worlds po-
iceman that urges US on to what we
hink right and affrights us at what
We think wrong?
What is truth? What is personal
~? What is being?
And these questions are not remote
cademic questions, not such things as
huxley called "lunar politics." but
hey touch the very nearest and dear
st regions of every mans life.
We are but dust notes in the sun
cam of the infinite. We cling like
ysters to our little point in the beG
f the vast ocean of mystery.
All about us is nature. her mind a
alaxy of secrets, her thoughts far
nd strange as the procession of the
uns. Nothing BELTS US, her children,
o much as reverence for her pur-
'oses, humility before her great brain,
rust and love in her vast heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Wants Girls Football

Covington, KY, Dec. 23-Coach
Burckhart of the Price Hill high
school football team didn't get very
much publicity during the past grid
iron season, but Price Hill students
believe there isn't better prep or
high school football coach in the coun-
try. Under Burckhart's tutelage Price
Hill played six games and won them
all with a total of 161 points. Their
opponents scored six points. Coach
Burckhart has been reengaged for
next year and she has accepted. Yes,
Coach Burckhart is woman and
about the most attractive, most fem
mime little woman ever, say the Price
Hill students. She is 27 years old
and looks 20. When she garbs her.
self in sweater, abbreviated skirt and
tasseled stocking cap and gets out on
the field with cher boys" she looks
like high school girl instead of
Vassar College graduate, which she is.
Mrs. Carrie Burckhart-all the boys
call her "Coach"-believes all girls
and woman who are not physically
unable would derive much benefit from
playing football. Believing this, Mrs.
Carrie Burckhart is going to organize
a girls football team next year. She
will play quarterback and captain the
team. 1t is probable that her team
will line up against the Price Hill
eleven to give the latter practice work
between regular games. Mrs. Burck-
hart not only believes in strenuous
physical exercise when the constitu-
tion can stand it, but she believes in
also. In fact, she believes
the housework should come first, and
then if there's any time left for exer-
else it should be as strenuous as the
physique can stand. Swinging a
broom over the floor, or waving 4
dustcloth or dishcloth, says Mrs.
Burckhart, furnishes as much exer-
else as swinging an Indian club or TAX
ing calisthenics.
81 don't recommend football for all
women" says Mrs. Burckhart, "be-
cause the game is too strenuous for
some boys. do not understand,
though, why all women don't go in
for sports, outdoor sports preferred.
l started playing boys games q don't
see why they are called boys games)
when I was young. had five broth
ers and had to play their games to
keep from being lonesome, and now
Pm glad l did"
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

WITH THANKS FOR MOST LIBERAL PATRONAGE
We wish to all Merry Christmas and Happy and Pres
CerOus New Year.
ROSS & STUART
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
WOMAN'S COLUMN

not only better but attract a better
class Of girls.
Before she began supplying special
lists in household work, however, there
had to be a demand for specialists
1t was when she realized this that
Miss Rouillot opened her school for
household mistresses. Pretty, slight
and smiling, and just a few months
past her own school days, she ex-
plains to class of thirty society
women the mysteries of efficient
Household Engineering" The stu
dents are taught how to add up gro
Gerry bills, the science of cookery, the
difference between good and undesir-
able cuts of meat, household book
keeping-in short, the whole theory
of good housekeeping. The course
consists of three lessons weekly for
five months. Mary Rouillot is the
whole faculty for this school for
household mistresses. In conjunction
with the mistresses' school there is
also an educational institution to fur
nish elementary and advanced instruc.
ton for girls. Though this school
has only been established two months
it already has twenty pupils. They
are taught cooking, serving, sewing
movement economy" and scientific
sweeping. Mary Rouillot is the entire
faculty of this school. too.
Briefly, Miss Rouillot is trying to
push the business of housekeeping in.
to it's proper place with other lines
Of business, with reference to special.
ization and efficiency. She hopes
and says she will-put the housemaic
on social and business level with
other business and professional WON.
en-. Backing her up in her work is
the Woman's Outdoor League of Sal
Francisco, with membership which
reads like the social blue book of tho
city. Miss Rouillot would rather tall
diatetics, proteins and efficient engi
neering than dancing and week enc
parties. "It is my ambition" sh.
said with the devout expression of
Mussulman speaking to Mecca, "t6
visit some day the Partisan sckoo
Of the Gordon Bleu. Their famou
chefs teach the prospective housemait
how to cook and what effcienc,
means. Yes, l know it is a big jol
for one girl, but l am confident O.
winning out. 1t keeps me tremend
ously busy, but | would rather do i
than anything / know Of"
Across the front of the schoo1
which occupies an eight-room apart
ment, are two large sunny rooms. 4
piano, pianola, magazines and cas-,
chairs make them cozy loungin,
place. The girls are allowed the US
of these rooms free. Then there ar
two bedrooms, spick, span and Jeff
cient," modern kitchen, combina
ton sewing and dining room, ant
lastly a laboratory with eight ga
plates and adorned with colored dia
grams showing food values and othe
fearsome looking scientific parapher
MALTA. Miss Rouillot is Philadelphi
girl and new to the West. She run
her establishment, without help an
knows few people except profession
ais. 81 hope later" she said, "to hav
resident girls-experts-so that whe
some one needs maid in an emel
gency she can call on us and fec
sure that the right girl will be ser
to her."
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
December 12, 1918.

December IL, 1918.
Register and Receiver,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Sirs:-
Your particular attention is calle
to the Imperial South Side Waite
Company, and the Imperial Wate
Compeny No. 2, two irrigation con
panies operating in the Imperial va
ley, your land district.
You will under no circumstance
reject final proofs submitted on desel
land entries alleging either Of thes
projects as the source of water SUI
ply, where the only objection to tn
proofs related to the establishing G
the water rights of the project as re
quired by paragraph 18 of the eli;
cular approved September 80, 1911
go l.. D., 253).
Upon the submission of final proc
on a desert land entry, wherein IL
claimant alleges either of these con
panies as the source of water suppl.
you will carefully consider same, an,
if the claimant shows the ownershi
of one share of stock for each irria
able acre embraced in the entry, yo'
will, in the absence of any objection
in your office, and upon payment of a.
amounts due, issue final certificate
and transmit the record to this offic
with your regular returns, for adjudi
cation.
Make thorough search of your rec
ords, and ascertain all desert-land en-
tries upon which final proofs has
been submitted, the claimants having
alleged either of these projects as tn
source of water supply, which proof
have been suspended or rejected b.
you, the sole reason for your actor
having been the non-establishment O.
the status of the particular project
and act upon the said final proofs, il
accordance with the instructions O
this letter.
You will give this matter you
prompt attention, and consider i'm
mediately all pending cases.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) CLAY TALLMAN,
Commissioner
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Tackles Servant Problem

San Francisco, Dec. 23.-In San
Francisco is a slip of a girl who
has started out single handed to solve
the problem of the serving maid. She
is Mary Rouillot, and she was gradu-
ated from Columbia University in
February, 1918. Miss Rouillot intends
to create demand for efficient house.
work specialists, and then supply that
demand. Her plan if successful will
raise the standard of domestic service
to the rank of such professions as
stenography, nursing, or teaching.
That the long hours and social stigma
attaching to household work from the
servants standpoint are what keep
many girls from making it their
means of living, is Miss Rouillot's
theory. By making the work an hon
orable profession she believes it will
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

Coal, gas coke and wood. Full
measure, right price, prompt service.
The Feed and Fuel Yard, Phone TAI,
354 Olive avenue.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

I appreciate your hearty cooperatio
and the benefit of your local know
edge in assisting me in the adjust
ment of the complicated situation eA
listing in the Imperial valley.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) CLAY TALLMAN,
Commissioner
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

Coal, gas coke and wood. Full
measure, right price, prompt service
The Feed and Fuel Yard, Phone TAI,
354 Olive avenue.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

DIR. S. Odle, veterinary surgeon, per-
manently located, treats all animals
L. H. Parsons, assistant destist. 727
West Main, Ell Centro.-Adv. If
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

California products for Californians
Savage Tires-Roy Norman & Co.,
Phone Main 91.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Tells of Status of
No. 2 Company

The following correspondence from
Congressman Kettner and Clay Tall
man, commissioner Of the general land
office, is selfexplanatory:
Washington, Dec. 18, 1913.
My dear Mr.. Bennett:
AS you no doubt know by this time,
the Commissioner of the General
Land Office has directed the register
and receiver at Los Angeles to issue
final certificates in all of the land
cases that have been held up pend
ing an investigation of the Imperial
Southside Water Company and water
Company Number Two.
Mr.. Havens was here in this con-
nection and had things very well lined
up at the department when 1 return
ed, and you are to be congratulated
upon having such a good worker to
look after the interests of the valley
before the department.
Enclosed you will find copy of a
letter from the commissioner to the
register and receiver, and also a copy
of one of myself, which may be of
interest to you.
With the compliments of the season,
l am, Very truly yours,
WILLIAM KETTNER,
Mr.. E. E. Bennett,
Chamber of Commerce,
Ell Centro, Celif.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

Best equipped and most careful
piano mover. Ed Royce Transfer. If
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

Lee Tires-Roy Norman & Co.
Phone Main 91.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

December IL, 1918.
Hon. William Kettner,
House of Representatives,
Washington, d. C.
My dear Mr.. Kettner:
Reference is respectfully made to
your personal conference with me in
regard to the Imperial South Side
Water Company, and Imperial Water
Company No. 2, irrigation projects in
the Los Angeles, California, land dis
trict.
At your earnest request, / have Civ
en- this matter my careful attention,
and, by letter of this date, a copy of
which is inclosed, I have directed the
Register and Receiver at Los Angeles
to issue final certificates to claimants
making final proof on desert-land en-
tries wherein either of these compan-
les has been alleged as the source of
water supply.
The local officers have also been
instructed to make thorough search
of their records and ascertain all des-
ert land entries upon which final
proofs have been submitted alleging
either of these projects as the source
of water supply, and to act on the
said proofs where the sole reason for
the suspension or rejection was the
non-establishment of the status of the
particular project.
The records of the various cases
involved will be transmitted to this
office and upon receipt will be acted
upon without unnecessary delay.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Now that your patronage has been literally demons
trated we could not fail to wish sincerely for each and
every one the greatest prosperity and happiness.
PRESTON & MCCARTNEY
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
BEST WISHES FOR
THE LADIES TOGGERY
CHRISTMAS GREETING

CHRISTMAS GREETING
We wish all friends Merry Christmas and want to
thank them for their patronage.
EADS, THE ELECTRICIAN
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
Sale On These Furs Starts Thursday

To make this sale still more interesting OUR ENTIRE STOCK
of High Glass dependable FurS will be included this
$50 to 500 discount
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Central Bible class will meet
Thursday afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Mrs. George Beyler, 324 S.
LAFAYETTE st. The subject for study
will be the oath and 25th chapters of
Acts.
The Philanthropic department of
the Progress club will meet Thursday
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Miss Addie
Van den Bosch and Miss Louise Stude-
baker viii present a program on
Seattle and Alaska.
The Bayhinger w. c. T. u. will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Bessie
Teach, 731 Notre Dame av.
The Mothers club will meet Thurs
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. l..
s. LaPiere, 500 w. Colfax av.
The Impromptu club will be enter
tanned Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Charles Keltner, 715
Leland av.
The circle of Mercy will be enter
tanned Thursday afternoon in St. Pat
rick's hall.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17

mas time. To Mrs. Blanche Chap
man. a member of the club, who
left today for New Orleans TO live.
the club presented a set OF oyster
forks. Mrs. Chapman with her son
Floyd will join her husband, Chester
Chapman, who has been in New Or
leans for sometime past Luncheon
was served at noon. The Pythian
Sisters will meet this evening for
election of officers.
Mrs. Delbert A. Smith, 1919 S.
Carroll St, was surprised Tuesday
evening by % relatives and friends.
the occasion being her birthday an
niversary.
Mrs. Smith entertained her unex-
pected guests with a reading as did
Miss Rohene Smith Vocal and in
strumental music was also enjoyed
following which refreshments were
served Mrs. Grace Lester of Lafay-
cite. Ind, a sister of Mrs. Smith, was
among the guests.
The girls of the Jolly Twelve club
acted as hOstesSeS Tuesday night TO
the members of the club. Dinner was
served TO the party at the Oliver and
later the mem Ders enjoyed a box
party at the Orpheum theater This
is second of series of events to
be given by the club.
The hostesses of the evening were:
Misses Jennie Noisom Janette Maier,
Irene Hatfield Mayme HoSsler,
frankie Wa1ling and Elma Rumpf.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
NEWS OF MARRIAGE
COMES IN TELEGRAM
George \. Platt and Miss Blanche
Alexander Were Married at st.
Joseph Tuesday.

Miss Blanche Alexander 327 S.
William St, left her home Tuesday
morning, presumably on visit to a
doctor. George A. Platt, member of
the 999 Clothing Co, left the store
about the same time. go
Tuesday night Charles Perkey.
Platt's partner received the follow
ing telegram: Miss Alexander and
were married at St. Joseph today"
The telegram came from Chicago,
where the couple went, following the
ceremony.
When Miss Alexander left home
she informed her mothers, Mrs. 7. +.
Alexander, she intended to see a doc
tor. Instead she met Mr.. Platt and
the two went to St. Joseph and were
married The marriage was a surprise
to the friends of the couple here who
knew nothing of the affair until the
notification came by telegraph
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
Greatest Fur Buying Opportunity in
30 Years at EllSwOrth's.

on account of the extremely mild
weather which has extended over Eu-
rope and America, very few ufrs have
been sold Manufacturing Furriers
are glad TO take any price for made
up Furs. The Ellsworth Store has
inst furnished for spot cash big lot
of dependable furs at a very low
price from manufacturers who had to
turn their stock into money.
Sale on these F'urs starts Thursday
Morning.
To make this sale still more inter-
esting our Entire stock of High Glass
dependable Furs will be included in
this sale at from % TO 80 per cent
discount-The Ellsworth Store.-Ad.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17

which favors went to Mrs. w. II.
Brandt Mrs. Charles Bailey and Mrs.
T.. l. Irwin. The club will meet in
two weeks with Mrs. Matteson, 219
Il. Marion st.
Mrs. John Campbell of y. Taylor st.
entertained the Clio circle Tuesday
afternoon. The program consisted of
the following numbers: Temples
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
PERSONALS

]. X Light. of San Diego, Cal, who
has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
r. Fisher, Ola w. Wayne ST., has left
for Buffalo y. y.
Mrs. Maude Coleman ana Mrs. EliZ-
abeth Turner returned Tuesday even
ing from Peru, where they we're called
by the serious illness of their mother.
Mrs. j. BOsh. Mrs. Bosh is somewhat
improved.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17

and Tombs," Mrs. II. NJ Miller; Lake
Biwa," Miss Thadessa Taylor; Full
yama," Miss Ethel Crockett.
The Pythian Sisters held an all day
meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
J. Henderson, 1114 5. Carroll st. The
day was spent in knotting comforters
and making other gifts which the
club will give to the poor at Christ
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
N Wu.HELNrS WINDOW

Nine. Gowan, of New York City, will
give a demonstration of Furs IN the
window of Wilhelm's Ladies Ready
to-Wear Store from 3 TO 8 and to 3
d. m. today An elaborate display at
wonderful reductions from regular
prices will be shown. See the Furs
on a living model. Wilhelm's, Cor.
Michigan and Jefferson St.-Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17

BRASS GOODS. The finest stock
in the city, and we guarantee our
prices IA lower than any other deal
er at Coonley's. AdVt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17


where they will
OF a to
to met
where ultimately member the exclusive
married the after she had stipulated that there should
a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
Fur Manufacturers Hard Hit

On account of the extremely mild weather which has extended
Europe and America few furS have been sold Manu
turing FureS glad take any price madeup The
Ellsworth Store has Just purchased for cash big lot of depend
able urS at very how price from manufacturers who had
their stock into money.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
CIAUER,s CLOCKS.

Our $500 Westminster Chime
Clocks are wonderful values. we inn
ported these. Best quality guaranteed
strike on steel tubes. $500 to $500.
CLAUER'S BIRD FLOOR CLOCK
ROOM.
-AIVf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-17
Pints $3.50.

COSMOS BOTTLES. Pints $3.50.
Q|si'ts $2.75. Guaranteed equal 10
anv high priced bottle made at Coon
ley's. Advt.