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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-24
SAVED THE LIMITED
Ralph Walters Also Won Girl He
Loyed, and 0utwitted
a MiSer.
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.

A little incident like the crossing
Of two pins on railroad track was
the starting point in new destiny
Tor Ralph Walters. 1t was at II little
station where he had been waiting for
train for Warburton. The through
train did not stop. He could hear it
coming now. The local was not due
'or an hour. All alone on the bench
outside the depot, he caught sight of
The through" coming around tho
curve. Then. CHANGING to glance the
other way, he sprang to his feet with
cry of horror
A little urchin not over six years
old had been placing two pins cross
wise on the outer rail, to make "scis-
sors." A sight of the coming train
startled the youngster. In his trepida-
tion he slipped over the rail and
rolled directly into the middle of the
road bed.
He was too tar away for Ralph to
reach him in time. and the latter saw
1t q glance that the onrushing train
would be upon the lad before he could
get clear of the tracks. The young
man know that on the turn OF mo-
ment hung precious human life.
His leisure waiting had given him.
from observation, a practical idea of
The switches. There was one thing
TO DO, and that quickly. Ralph acted
He sprang at a switch and pulled it
over to outer clear. The fast Limited
with a. jerk and a toot swung over to
= siding, the little boy rolled from
his bed Of danger, and. half, fright
ened to death, ran from the spot.
screaming out his terror.
There we're explanations due the
switched train. Ralph we'll knew. Be-
tore he could make them. however.
something happened that neither he
nor the crew of the Limited had ex-
pected. Around tho east curve came
locomotive with full head OF steam
on; it flashed on It's way, and Ralph
realized that somewhere there were
crossed orders.
The conductor of the Limited came
rushing up to Ralph, his face white
and excited. In a word he gathered
an explanation of tho motive Of
Ralph in switching the train. Then
he dashed into the station, to find
the operator away for dinner. He
rushed to the telephone instrument.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-24
Contradictory Terms.

An American visitor to Cambridge,
England. sought explanation Of SONS
unfamiliar terms, which . genial Don
was delighted to elucidate. "'Full
TERM" he explained, "is three-quar.
tiers Of . term. and the May week
is the first fortnight In June. A day
Of general admission is the day on
which men leave the university. an
ordinary degree IN one conferred by
a special exam, and IN inspector Of
art is one who has been an arts stu.
dent for at least six years."
The Yankee passed hand across
his weary brow.
"And will they" he queried, put
me in the London train II I ask for q
ticket to Cambridge"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-24
JONES' RARA AVIS
Only Chicken in World That
Walked Backward Proved
to Be Gold Mine.
BY AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHEER.
WIN


"Why, Colonel Travers sends Ave
hundreds miles for plate of straw
berries costing dollar a piece, IL he
lakes the notion" was the way Greg.
Dry Jones usually descanted upon the
Immense wealth of the proprietor of
Hillsdale hall. "They say, too, that he
has banknotes bound up into books in
his library"
Gregory was given to good deal
Of exaggeration, but there was GER
tain basis to his profuse statements.
The Travers people lived in grand
style. They we're pleasant, liberal, and
spent good deal Of money with the
village storekeepers. There was.
therefore, considerable regret when 1t
was known that the hall had been sold
for seminary.
In Hillsdale hall Gregory was very
much interested. He was given many
an odd task we'll paid for by the col
onel. The matron Of that lordly es.
adjustment was Mrs. Susan Morton.
She was buxom widow, CHEEKY but
all business. Gregory had felt a grow
ing fondness for her for years, and
the widow really liked him. However.
he had nothing but what he earned,
and at times work was slack.
On the day that the hall people
moved. Gregory brushed up his best
suit and started for the hall with de.
termined, though anxious face. He ex.
pected to find Susan there, and he did
seated on the top step of the porch
The house had been Invested of all its
furniture and moving vans were visi'
BILE down the road. Susan had the keys
Of the house in her hand and looked
lonely.
you've been crying, Susan" OBJ
served Gregory, sitting down beside
her.
Eyes, I'll admit it." confessed Susan
making room for him. 1T grieves me
to leave such kind, liberal family"
what are you going to do now?'
softly insinuated Gregory, edging near
er to her.
"Why. my sister, the milliner, wants
me to rest up with her till I find new
place."
Susan" said Gregory, with longing
eyes, you know my feelings towards
you?"
Il do, Gregory" acknowledged Su
san, frankly, land feel honored by
them. It is useless to talk about that
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HUMAN SYMPATH|ES
Peculiar How They Are Some.
times Influenced by Mere
Y = Money.
BY GRACE EvANsoN.

"Yes. Mrs. Tompkins. Uncle Johns
dead and gone at last, and It was
about time. too. seeing that he was
ieighty.nine last June-and when a
man gets to be that old and has tenn.
per like Uncle Johns he isn't good
efor much more. And deceitful! Well,
Z don't want to speak Ill Of the dead,
but II his whole life was like the last
year Of 1t, when we knew him, I'm
not over sanguine about his future.
"This Is how it all happened. OF
course stlas and I had heard Of Uncle
John ell our lives, for we were cousins
before we were married, and having
no. children we naturally kept a warm
spot in our hearts for the old man
We knew he was good for nothing and
never put by penny all the years OF
kis life. but still, we're not uncharit,
able.
J Eyes, we'd heard all about that ton
: tine years ago and put 1t out of our
minds. We thought it was Just story
30 when Uncle John turns up at the
farm on his eighty-eighth birthday, all
ragged like a tramp, and hungry as
though he didn't know what food
meant, we were naturally annoyed
We've always held up our heads
among our neighbors, and we didn't
want it said we couldn't do right by
our uncle.
:. Maria he said-ttose were his
very words as he sat in the parlor in
Nils dirty, shabby clothes, and we NOR
tally afraid some of the neighbors
would come in and see him-'Maria
I've come to lay my bones among you
Will you give me home now that In
good for nothing any longer?'
=, II looked at Silas and he looked al
me. Then he took me aside. 4 guess
we'll have to, Maria he said softly
I'VE can't put him in the poorhouse-
us being so respectable. Besides, may
be he can earn his. keep doing chore.
about the farm
$50 we took him in and let hin
sleep in the attic. There's an ole
straw mattress there, and we gave hin
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-24
"WllI You Give Me a Homer"

an old crazy quilt and let him eat his
meals with us, just like one of the fam.
fly, and what little work he did hardly
left a penny of profit after his ex.
penses were considered. Ate like q
hog, he did. / say it's indecent for a
man of Lightweight to eat like that.
20, that wench Mary Callagnan?
was just coming to her, Mrs. Temp.
kins. Well, she was poor girl Silas
and me had taken pity on out Of the
goodness Of our hearts. Daughter OF
an old friend Of my husbands, Mrs.
Tompkins, and Silas owed him a thou.
sand dollars, and he asked him on his
death-bed If he wouldn't take care OF
his girl and tear up the note. OF
course Silas consented, seeing he was
an old friend. Besides, we wanted a
maid, for I'm not so strong as used
Ito be. And she was that lazy! Often
I'D come down at eight o'clock and
find the rooms wasn't swept and the
pigs not fed and the chickens hungry
for food, and Mary'd just stare at me
in her stupid way and say nothing.
couldn't train her at all. We'd have
packed her off, but for our charitable
5natures-besides a maid would have
cost fifteen dollars a month.
well, would you believe 1t, Mary
and the old man struck up the queer.
est kind Of friendship. She used to
steal pies and things for him out Of
the kitchen when was away. Fancy
an old man of Lightweight eating pie!
And she'd give him blankets for his
bed when it was colony blankets
that keep for company, all wool, and
costing five dollars a pair!
"'Well, Maria said Silas, when j
told him I couldn't do anything will
her, I guess them paupers Just nat
urally takes to one another And that
was the way it seemed to me. If !:
had known! But I'm simple woman
Mrs. Tompkins, and it never entered
my head what a designing hussy sh.
was.
I well, it was on the old mant
.Ieighty-ninth birthday, and he hadn't
Idose a chore for two days, and Silat
spoke up to him.
"'Uncle john he said, I guess We
can't keep you for nothing. You newt,
was worth anything to me and now
you'd best apply to the poorhouse.'
":PoorhouseI' says Uncle John
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Realized That Somewhere There Were
Crossed Orders.

was busy there for two minutes, and
came out swiftly.
1.-THE biggest thing you will ever
do" he said in strained tone, lis
what you've done in switching our
train"
1T was an impulse. The sight of
the child" began Ralph, almost apol.
ogetically.
III you hadn't" went on the conduc.
tor, you can guess what might have
happened. We had no notice of the
special that just dashed by. The abb
sent operator here was expected to
signal us. Say, you've saved the Linn.
ited!"
The switched train stood stalled
where it had halted. 1t seemed that
the minute the engineer struck the
siding be put on the brakes 40
quickly that q connection was brok.
on. The train hands were trying to
adjust this now. Tho passengers,
startled and curious, had come from
the coaches. Ralph observed group
Of them now surrounding the conduc.
tor. He pointed at Ralph, and from
the actions OF the group the latter
knew that they were discussing him.
Being a modest young man, he
walked down the track to find the
Scissors" beside it where the wheels
OF the great steam giant had welded
the two pins. Ralph could not very
we'll evade group which met him.
They congratulated him on his action
in saving the train. One among them.
a bright-eycd miss, plainly indicated
in her grateful glance that she consid.
cred him something Of q hero. When
the train was ready 70 start Up, by
chance, 1t seemed, she found a seat
beside him.
THAT must be cherished sou.
! venir," she remarked. as she noticed
the baby scissors in RalDh's hand.
you may have it, II you like" hs
ssid.
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Located the Lone Chick In Ito Roost


though, just now. All / have is the lit.
tie plat of farm land my mother left
me. You will have to wait till you get
some steady position"
,"And then, Susan?" pressed Greg.
ory, anxiously.
"Why, the day you can make q
start to stock up the farm l will be
glad and willing to go into life part.
aership with you.'''
Its good, sensible woman you
nre." declared Gregory, warmly. "Tm
going to deserve you, and then I'm
going to have YOU"
II hope So" returned Susan, with
an encouraging smile. I'm waiting
for the agent Of the seminary people
to give him the keys. Oh, Gregory,
would you do a favor for me?"
you don't need to ask that"
1.-THE colonel sold of all his barn
stun, the chickens among them.
There's poor witless hen the purchas-
ers wouldn't take. They said 1t was
crazy and would annoy the other lay
ers. They've left the homeless thing
behind. Won't you take care Of it,"
II WILL" promised Gregory, land
think Of what a kind.hearted woman
you are every time look at it,
Gregory located the lone chick on
its roost, found a bag, said good-by to
Susan and took his prize home. The
keeper Of the village general store was
Just getting ready to put up the shut.
ters for the night when Gregory
rushed into the place in high excite.
ment. He carried covered box in one
hand.
"Hello!" hailed the storekeeper
going to mover"
Pretty nigh that. silas," replied
Gregory. "see here. want a little 40
|. commodation Of you"
what is 1t. Gregory"
Il want to borrow twenty-five dol
lars: Eli! Don't want to loan it,"
queried Gregory. as. his friend shool
his head obviously.
1T isn't the money. Gregory. YOU
can have fifty or even a hundred, anG
welcome to it. I was only thinking
that hope you aren't going to maka
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-04
"CHARM A SORT OF BLOOM''

| glamour that very often serves to count
| eract unlikable qualities.
There u.s. perhaps. no peaSanter sound
| ing compliment than that one is charm
ing" So, to be beautiful cultivate
charm.
Take heed of what hints your friends
or even Your near enemies may chance
to drop and learn from them something
of wherein lie your readiest claims TO
charm and wherein the impediments.
You cannot rely altogether on these re-
ports. but they will serve as gauge II
YOU are truthful to yourself and not
afraid to analyze them. Look into your
mirror. Is your smile particularly at
tractive. Perhaps there is charm IN
the poise of your head or in gracerui
the rest of you play up to that par
ticular asset. SO to say. Suppose your
mouth turns into a particularly pretty
curve when you smile. Well, then, take
care that when you smile. smile just
broadly enough to make that curve and
not to exaggerate it, The chances are
that accentuating it would rob the smile
of its allurement instead of emphasizing
it. Then. still before the mirror. train
your eyes and the arch of your eyebrows.
face to harmonic with that smile and
that pretty much admired curve of the
lips.
One girl I happen to know is singu-
larly unattractive as to features, but
she has a way of dropping her eyelids
slowly over her eyes and then lifting
them suddenly that is SO fascinating
it revolutionizes her whole face and
makes her attractive. An experiment
will show you just how much all this
may mean to you.
, 1t is easier to cultivate grace and
beauty than it Is to cultivate anything
if you begin from a specific basis and
have a clear understanding of your aim
If you are large and ponderous don't
inveigle yourself into thinking that you
can successfully cultivate the kittenish
ways of your diminutive friend. If you
are petite don't attempt to initiate the
long stride or the mannerisms of tall
Matilda Charm is distinctive and can
not be initiated. Don't try to create
charm / said cultivate" il, and to
thing already begun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-04
BY VIDA SUTTON.

1t was after school hours in the shining
little village schoolhouse nestled in a
slope of one of the mountains whose
white capped peaks fringe Lake Geneva.
The school mistress was entertaining US.
She was a fresh-faced. sturdy young
woman from the University of Geneva,
her mother tongues French and German,
and English an early acquisition With
great pride she showed the immaculate
little building. with its big sunny windows
and comfortable desks. and the neat,
beautiful work OF her young charges But
her greatest pride was the notebooks OF
her class in government, with their pages
in marvelously correct handwriting on
What Is a law" who Are the Law
Makers" What Is a Citizen?'
Can there be a profession more I'M
portant than teaching" she asked. For
see, here we are making the lawmakers.
Ny father was a teacher who knew this.
often has he said the day is coming
when We all will see that the world Is
governed from the nursery and the
schoolroom.
His faith was simple. Teach every
poy and girl a bread-winning craft, to
know. and to do their duty to God and
their neighbor and. greatest OF all. teach
them that they are in the world to make
A new world he said. and SO. most OF
al. he emphasized teaching them about
their country and its institutions. He
himself was from the canton of Glarus,
ono of the small German cantons, where
Ill the lawmakins is done in meetings
Of the people.
well do / remember when ! was a
hid going to the .Landsgemeiden.' II
vas in big meadow. and there was great
procession, with all the officers in their
robes, and the band playing. The women
and the children were given places OF
honor in the front of the assembly t6
watch and TO listen. With awe We heard
the laws discussed and saw the people
Voting with their hands held high. Their
the new officers were elected and took the
oath under the wide open sky. under thu
eye of heaven. To be a citizen. bur
CHER. meant something to children wh<
had seen that. They knew then that al
this work was to be theirs some day, and
ideas began to grow and dreams to come
OF the good laws they would make.
1T is said every "Schweitzer' is borr
IL he is not born with it surely his edu
cation should put it there.
I'm the big cantens In Susie Romandt
the people are lawmakers, too. though
they do not meet together to make thu
laws. as in the small German cantOns
But everywhere It Is the vote Of the peo
pie at the last that decides the law. They
have the last word. To them the CUES
tons are referred. and they may bring
up a new law before the council. II
seems strange to the Swiss that in
America. the great free country. they feal
the referendum and the initiative. Fol
with US they are the signs of the peoples
rule, the proof of our sovereignty.
And every child knows soon this law
Since 1874 all 60 TO school, rich and poor
alike. together. In my school have ar
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skins will come off readily. Then peel
them and put them in layers in a large
earthen bowl. with granulated sugar be-
tween the layers. Let them stand over
night and the next morning pour off the
juice that has collected and bring it to
the boiling point in porcelain kettle.
Skim 1t and add the fruit. Simmer for
thirty minutes. and then remove the
plums with a skinner. Cool them and
boil the juice till thick. Then put the
plums in jars, pour the juice over them
and SEAL
Copyright. 1913. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate, New York City,
This is a reliable recipe for canning
plums: Weigh the fruit and for every
pound of plums allow three-fourths Of a
pound of sugar. Cover the fruit with
the sugar and stand aside for two hours.
Put only enough fruit to fill two quart
cans in the preserving kettle at time.
Bring it to the boiling point and put in
the cans at once. This recipe is success
full with blue or green plums. The green
sort should first be pricked with fork
SO that they will not crack.
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LAWMAKERS OF SWITZERLAND

orphan child fed and clothed by the COM
mune, side by side with the son of a
well-to-do tradesman. We know that the
presence of better-trained children is
helpful to the poorer children. They must
learn from and Of each other. So the
idea of equal privileges and rights for all
grows in our hearts.
When it was suggested that Switzerland
is only half democracy. because half
the people. the women, only look on at
the lawmaking, new fire flashed out.
THAT is true. But the real freedom is
coming. Calmly and slowly 1t comes, as
all things come to us here Equal privi-
leges and rights for all women, that is
in the air and soon to be born. Switzer-
land puts the girls on equality with boys
in education. Switzerland was the first
country to open its universities to women.
And Switzerland recognized the equal
part of man and woman in making and
training its citizens. The rights of citi-
zenship to woman, mans partner in
everything else in our free country, Is a
thing Of the near future, we women be-
lieye who knew the justice OF our men"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-04
By ANNE RITTENHOUSE.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

PARIS, August 25, 1913.
There are some very good looking white
wash blouses offered every day to the
woman who is getting new coat suit.
1t is not improbable that the colored
blouse for the ordinary coat suit will not
be as fashionable as formerly. The time
of the year may have something to do
with the plentitude of muslin and linen,
but on every hand one sees the choice
given to the wash blouse instead OF the
fanciful one.
There was a day when one ordered a
blouse of chiffon or net. lavishly emorold-
cred and trimmed with lace, to go with
the coat suit, but IL straws show the
wind. the we'll dressed American woman
will wear white blouses with her coat
suits.
They may not all be Of wash fabrics.
There is too much lace In the world at
present for muslin to go without rival,
and satin puts in an appearance now ana
then in order not to let the world forget
its rather fascinating qualities as a
blouse: but taking 1t by and large, the
well made white wash waist is to be the
fashionable thing.
Rut mind you, it must be we'll made
and of good fabric-no heavy machine
stitching. no coarse embroidery, no penny
laces. Batiste. Paris muslin. net and
handkerchief linen are the four fabrics
preferred, and narrow Irish insertion
without a design. ciuny Of very good
weave and that heavy French valen-
ciennes which never really goes out OF
fashion when it is genuine are the laces
one sees on every hand.
Blouses Fasten in Front.
None of the French blouses fastens In
the back, which is a grateful fact to
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VARIETY OF HANDBAGS
ORIGINATE IN PARIS

There are as many new handbags and
vanity bags and opera bags and fan bags
as there are days in the year, and there
will be more new ones with every wind
that blows from Paris or from any other
quarter of the globe. There will always
be good supply of leather handbags,
and it is really to these that the women
in search for novelty turns. For, al
though leather is as old as the hills
ideas in leather handbags are as new as
this mornings sun.
One new bag, Interestingly developed in
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the skins will burst and the pulp will
lose its shape. When they are tender
sWeeten them to taste and Chill them be-
fore eating.
Candied plums are made from ripe fruit.
Stone them and halve them and dredge
them thickly with powdered sugar Put
them in granite dish in a moderate
oven for half an hour. Then lay them
on plates to dry and cool.
.Greengage ice cream is almost I'M
usual enough to be called a novelty. To
make it stone ripe greengages enough to
measure four cupfuls. Boil them with a
cupful of water and eight tablespoonful
OF graduated sugar until they are soft.
Add cupful of grape juice. If you can
get white grape juice the green color of
the cages will not be affected. Pass the
mixture through sieve and cool. Add
four cupfuls of whipped cream and freeze.
Pack in small molds in salt and ice and
sprinkle chopped nuts on top when sery-
ing.
To make a delicious plum pie, cook rich
pie crust in deep pie plate. Cover 1t
with a piece Of WaXed paper. filled with
BEANS until it is brown. Then fill it with
whole plums. from which the pits have
been removed. Lay them closely to-
gether. Sprinkle them with sugar and
bake until the fruit is tender. Make a
little strip with equal parts of sugar and
water in which three or four ripe piums
are boiled rapidly. Strain this strip over
the pie just before serving 1t.
Iced plums are a tempting dainty.
Choose good-looking plums for this pur-
pose. and dip them, after washing and
drying them in the unbeaten white Of an
egg. Then roll them in powdered sugar.
Let them dry before serving.
Here is recipe for sweeter canned
plums than those prepared according to
the recipe given above: Allow pound
Of sugar to every pound of fruit. Put
the plums in boiling water until the
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and in other cases the beads are worked
into a dragon, a butterfly or a striking
brilliant colors, are simply dotted here
and there over the surface of the bags.
Embroidered net is mounted on suede
for some beautiful bags. The panel. a
little smaller than one side of the bag.
is fastened to the suede with silk, and
each stitch is marked with a rhinestone
or gold or silver bead. One lovely bag,
of light tan suede, shows a panel of gold
meshed net, embroidered with beads Of
soft yellow, red and green.