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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
TRUMBULL

Miss Dorothy Beach, of Daniels Farm, is spending a week in 4Norwalk as the guest of her grandparents. MT. and Mrs. Edward Merrill
 Mrs. Nathan J. Merwin, of Milford. spent q few days at her place in Dam iel's Farm, the guest of Mrs. Eliza beth Close and Mrs. Frederick Por- ter, who are spending the summer there.
 MT. and Mrs. John L. Beach, of Wa tertown, were the guests yesterday of Mrs. Mary J. Beach.
 MT. and Mrs Edgar Ward enter tained over Sunday MT. and Mrs. How ard HawIey, of Bridgeport.
 Rev. F. B. Pangburne, Of New Ha- ven, who occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church Sunday morp- ing and evening, returned to his home Sunday night. MT. Pangburne was entertained at the French homestead.
 Miss Beatrice Clark, of Long Hill is the guest of her cousin, Miss Elsie Ferris. in Newtown.
 Miss Dorothy Mallette has recently entertained her friend, Miss Anna Grey, of Greenfield Hill.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Gilbert and son; Marina Gilbert, Mrs Mary Plumb and daughter, from Canada, were vis- itors on Thursday at the home of MT and Mrs. Louis Burr, in Monroe.
 Thomas Norrissey and family. of Bridgeport, have opened their summer home in Long. Hill.
 L. M. Wakeley is on the sick list
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

constructive; that if a skirt must have a slit it be a development of overlap ping drapery and not meaningless bite.
 Tight clipped hair is another out rage. Constant cutting and brushing destroys the roots, and at it's best it gives man autumnaf look, as if the leaves had all fallen.
 Tt ought to be heightened to sort of Dutch cut. The best proof of the essential ugIiness of short hair is that any costume but modern costume, that is anything that has the least claim to beauty, requires long hair. The pageant committee hated to hire ex- pensive wigs for the Adonises, but they had to. And it is asfe to eay that if those young men had been ac- customed to appearing in tights their legs would have been above reproach.
 'I should like to see men go back to the silks and velvets that Samuel PePys talks about with such satisfac- tion The business man has serious advantage over the business woman as long as he doesn't have to sew ruchingN into his sleevesi Even votes will not make us equa1!"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
rha nhfId.

The most sacred thing in the com- monwealth and to tbe cornmonwealt1 is the child. whether it be your child or the child of the dull faced mother ob the hovel. The child of the dull faced mother may. for all you know. be the most capable child ih the state. At ifs worst it is capable of good citizenship and a useful life if it's intelligence be quickened and trained. Several of ths strongest personalities that were born in North Carolina were men whose very fathers were unknown. We have all known two such who held high places in church and state. President. Eliot said little while ago that thsl ablest man that he had known in many years connection with Harvard uui- versity was the son of a brick mason. The child. whether it have poor par ents or rich parents, is the most vaE1a- ble undeveloped resource in the state
 Walter Hines Page.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
MONROE
tBy Arthur ". French.}

(By Arthur ". F'rench.)
 Monroe, July 14-Now there's Nor ris French for instance. Morris Of Stepney Depot bailiwick; he of the genial ways and 8, walking smile, Oh, he's all right! Only week or so ago. didn't he get married to a real nice girl at her parental home on Pretty street, Brooklyn and bring her to his home here as he was full of hay making and other business with no the newly Weds are just as happy receiving a, shower of congratulations and Morris passing around several boxes of cigars and the happy couple laying out plans for the interior dec orating and furnishing of the pretty cottage tBrookbank'' owned by the groona's S sister which they will occupy and start their home making this fall and everybody wishes lots of good wishes and it's hats off to Dan Cupid for the just too lovely for anything way he has brought it all to such a pleasing finale.
 As to Mayor Frank [. Price of New Haven and Hast Village, he is going some even when he is out of his motor car or any old where. He is taking much interest in good roads and of course, such as are located in the mostly used part of the village. It looks as if it would be only the mat ter of short time when Bagburn street-hf1I and all-would be made good; in the meantime it is on the card to to a fixing up of the highway west of White Hill. The Mayor is a sponsor of the Civic Club and that body has some quiet work in the way of village improvement laid out for it, with embryo plans awaiting action. Last week Road Commissioner Ben nett of Hartford was to have been the guest of Mayor Rice here. Do you fancy there was som ething said and arranged as to the betterment of our highways, We'll, I guess, yes, and some more.
 And Thornton Bla.keman, you can't lose him. a little bit, especially if he has got his motor car with him. Heav- en knows it would be a mighty shy Good old Summer" for the pretty girls-yessir, yessir. there are a few
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
cannibaIism and Sentiment.

The civilized world is agpaed in re- garding the practice Of cannfbalism as reprehensible and detestabIe- But an article in the Gazette de HoIlande is devoted to proving that the popular ideas of cannibalism. and in particular of it's motives. are completely false The cannibal is generally represented as a degraded being led to an inhuman practice by the grossness of his appe- tites. On the contrary. insists the Dutch writer, the vast majority of can nibals are such against their own wish es, obeying the voice of sentiment Some respected the dead man during his life and are anxious to insure a worthy burial for him. Others are prompted by the desire to assfmilate the dead mans virtues in the process of digestion. while third class are ac- tuated by motives of revenge and hnd their satisfaction in this supreme in- suit Either piety or vengeance ts the cause of cannibaIism.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
rha snnan,ner.

'"The sunhower," said a naturalist, 'tis the most deceitfu1 of all plants. for it has fooled six nations. Six nations believe that the sunfower turns to-
 ward the sun. and so thoroughly are they deluded that they call 1t bT a name which bears witness to their er- TOT. Tlzus the French call the sun flower tournesol; the Spanish call it girasol; the Italians call 1t girasole; the Hungarfans call it naptaforgo- Each of these words means turn to the sum- The English and Americans don't go quite that far in admitting themselves to be the plants dupes. They only call it sunhower. They mean by that name, though. quite as much as the other names imply. The belief is general among six nations that the sunhower turns with the sun and al- ways faces the luminary. As matter of fact, there is only one flower that turns or keeps with the sun-namely. the sun spurge."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

She Raised All Her Fresh Vesefablsst
 My wife raises all her fresh vegeta4 bles," remarked the professional funng man as he helped his guest to striEG beans and tiny young beets. As the apartment was on the top floor of q high building. the guest had visions oG hotbeds and greenhouses on the rOof4 No window boxes producing fresh veg etables were in evidence. and the matt ter of fact guest was speculating as td the agricultural methods of the funny
 mans wife when the buzz Of tha dumbwaiter called her from the table.
 seMore fresh vegetables7' queried tha funny man as she resumed her seat at the table.
 "fYes,'' she responded wearily. "You see," she explained, we're up so high that the market boy never sends thS dumbwafter high enough It stops about two-thirds of the way. If don ( raise all we eat the people on the hfth hoor'd get it, I'm afraid. That's John'a raising my own vegetables joke, but it really isn't much of a joke, afteH alli"-NeW York Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
HOME HEALTH CLUB

CLIMATE: - Whenever unseason- able weather prevails in any locality we grumble and the old weather wise prophets tell us of the way it used to be- Yes, surely the weather is vast Iy different from what it was when they were young, which is not true at all Certain parts of the world grow the same trees, fruits and vegetables that have grown there for thousanos of years, even before the history or mankind and the changes that have occurred are not perceptible- These same fruits, trees and vegetables Will not grow under different temperatures than those which obtain in their na- tive soil
 As matter of fact it is ourselves that change. As we grow older our blood does not circulate so freely and those of us who have thoughtlessly or ignorantly been in the habit of drink ing hard water, that is water which is highly impregnated with lime ana other salts, find that our arteries are growing old. It is true that man IS as old as his arteries indicate, not ac- cording to the years he has lived. To habitualIy drink large quantities, dal- ly, of pure soft water, will put off the day of wrinkles, stimened joints ana old age for many years beyond that which would be ours if we constantly use hard or lime impregnated water.
 A experience we realize what a slave we have been to- habit and environ ment or surroundings. We are apt to look upon the spot where we have lived as the most to be desired place on earth We are in a tread-m1ll or habit. We do the same things over and over day after day, month after month and year after year and we worry for fear those things won't be done after we are no longer able to do them. Now if we could only force ourselves to break the bonds of hab- it and as we begin to feel the slowing down of the circulation, get ourselves Aout ana away from ~oure habits and our one little spot, we would find there are other and more desirable places where climatic conditions alone would remove ten years of old age accumulation from our veins and make us not only younger, but hap pier and more prosperous. For many years have been making careful stu dies of climatic conditions in various parts of America. and have been able, through the Home Health Club to make life much more comp4ete ana happy for those who were not. prop erly located. Certain diseases that seem to be very prevalent in certain localities are practically unknown In certain other places.
 There are districts in which the death rate is lower than in others and where the average life is much longer. know one place where majority of deaths are very sudden. have kept in touch with the district for many years and I am satisfied that know the cause and have advised those who want to know, how to avoid it. Others have advised to move to another location
 This Home Health Club service is published for your benefit and any in formation which I am able to secure is yours for the asking If you think of changing your place of living and want a climate suited to certain health conditions or even to certain crop or any other condition, I will gladly ad- wise you.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
Ancient Mural peeoratfons.

It is probable that the earliest wall paintings were those of the Egyptians- Those people employed a distemper containing dissolved gum. and their principal pigments were white chalk, a vegetable yellow. ochers, Ethiopian cinnabar, blue powdered glass stained with copper and charcoal black. The walls of Assyrfan and Babylonian dwellings were treated in much the same way, and the practice o9 painting on walls coated with plaster was cer- tainly in vogue in Assyria. It has been believed that the Greeks understood true fresco work, apparently on the strength of a phrase occurring in Plu- tarch, "to paint on a wet ground" Vt- truvius, also speaks of a wet ground and says that colors placed upon e surface so prepared are permanent. which certainly is characteristic of true fresco work.-Harper's
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
Women soIdiers.

Tn several cases Prussian women were most capable as soldiers, able to command and ready to obey. es well as being able to withstand the hard ships of campaigning To cite some instances, Maria warder, a woman of Silesia, was allowed to serve as a hussar in the same regiment as her husband, who was a wealthy land owner. She was wounded in several engagements and saw her husband shot dead by her side at Leipzig
 Eleonora Prochaska is one of the better known of these heroines. She engaged under the name of Carl Renz in the Light horse when only eighteen, and several poets have written of her courage and of her death just before the battle of Ileipzig. 4 monument stands to her memory in the cematery at Potsdam.-London Standard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
STEPNEY

Master Thomas Glover of White Hills is spending a few weeks as the guest Of his aunt, Mrs Emily D. Leav- enworth.
 MT. and Mrs. W. Smith and daugh- ter, of Staten Island, returned home Saturday, after 8 weeks vacation spent at the home of O. B. Morgan.
 Miss Carolyn Osborne has enjoyed a few days outing recently as the guest of Mrs. Harriet Peck at Fort Frum- bull beach.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Meth social at the home of Mrs. Edward Booth on THIEsday tern noons nsv~sJtfIy 17th The ladies will serve supper at the usual hour.
 Mrs. Carrie Morgan and daughter, Hazel, of Bridgeport, have spent a
 MT Benjamin Corning of Sandy Hook is spending his vacation with his parents. MT. and Mrs. Edward Corn ing. MT. Corning is not enjoying very good health at present.
 Miss Helen Cornbes entertained a party of young people on Friday even ing at the home of MT. and Mrs. An drew Summers where she is boarding. The evening was very leasantly spent. a "Marshma1Iow4 Toast" being the chief feature of amusement Miss Combes leaves this week for 3, two
 
 Mrs. Carlos Stilson has spent a few days as the guest of her friend. Mrs. Jerome Nichols.
 A new library of good, books has ar- rived for the Methodist Sunday school which many will be pleased to learn as the facilities for obtsiningf good books are limited. I
 MT Louis Snow has purchased a. five passenger touring car.
 Mrs. L. c. Gilbert and Miss Elsie Gilbert leave this week on a trip to Niagara Falls, Chicago and Elgin, Ill., where they will remain several weeks as the guests of relatives.
 An interesting meeting of Harmony was held on Thursday evening when the artistic boxes of lunch the ladies had prepared were auctioned off The next meeting will not be held until August.
 Miss Nellie Northrop has visited at the home of Mrs. Milon B. Hawley. On Friday, Nr. and Mrs. Milon Hawley, MT. and Mrs. Burr Hawley, Clayton Hawley and Nellie Northrop enjoyed an outing at St. Mary's-by- -the-Sea.
 Mrs. Poten, wife of Rev. William Poten, has started a young ladies club which meets on Thursday afternoons, Several young ladies have joined and they are planning to hold some enter tainments later in the season.
 Girl Wanted? Read the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
caustie Whistler.

Most Whistler. anecdotes have the inevitable causdc note One day au English student was smoking a pip8 when Whistler entered the academy. "You should be very careful" he ob- served tFYou know you might get fn- terested in your work and let your pipe go out" Then there was a Scotch student who succeeded in get ting Whistler to examine his sketches. one of which was an old peasant wom- an, whose face was illuminated by a huge candle. He examined all the sketches carefully and then remarked: {: "How beautifully you've painted the candlel Good morning, gentlemen"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
SOME DON'TS
For Stomach and Liver Sufferers.


 Don't take medicine for your Stom- ach ailments morning, noon and night, as usually such medicines only give temporary relief and simply digest the food that happens to be in the Stom- ach.
 Don't permit a surgical operation. There is always serious danger in operations, and in many cases of Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Ail- nents the knife can be avoided if the right remedy is taken in time.
 Don't go around with a foul smell ing breath caused by a disordered Stomach and Liver, to the discomfort of those you come in contact with.
 If you are a Stomach Sufferer don't think you cannot be helped, probably worse cases than yours have been re- stored by Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy.
 Most stomach ailments are nfainly caused by catarrhal condition. Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy not only removes the catarrhal muc- oIis, but aIlays the chronic inflamma- ton and assists in rendering the en- tire aiImentary and intestinal tract antiseptic. and this is the secret of Its marvellous success.
 Don't suffer constant pain and agony and allow your Stomach ail- ments to physically undermine your health. No matter how severe your case may be or how long you have suffered-one dose of Mayr's Wonder ful Stomach Remedy should convince you that you can be restored to health again. Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy has been taken and Is highly recommended by Members of Con gress, Justice of the Supreme Court, Educators Lawyers, Merchants, Bank CTS, Doctors, Druggists. Nurses, Manu- lecturers, Priests, Ministers, Farmers and people in all walks of life.
 Send for FREE valuable booklet on Stomach Ailments to Geo. H, Mayr, 154-156 Whiting St, Chicago, III.
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 THE HIN LE PHI MACY
 9S7 Main Street, Near Arcade
 THE REXALL DRUG STORE
 Corner State and Main sts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
CLUB NOTES

will gladly answer all inquiries for information on health subjects from readers of this publication if same are addressed to Home Health Club, 5039 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago. Send full name and address with 4 cents postage.
 Dear Doctor:-My son is addicted to the habit of cigarette smoking. He has tried to quit, went without for a week, during that time he suffered with toothache, and had the appear ance of having been quite i'll. He has gone back to smoking again. Is there anything can do to help him to overcome the habit or rather kill
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
EASTON

Mr. Leland Wheeler of Bethel is spending few days in town, the guest of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs John 1T. Wheeler at 'ASiIver Hill Farm.''
 Rev. L. Cohn preached at the Bap- tist church on Sunday morning. Sew eral of the Fresh Air children who are now at Mr. Cohn's place. sang several selections during the service.
 There was no service at the Baptist church .on Sunday evening, owing to the absence of the pastor, Rev. F. s. Clark
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

Washington. July 14-Mrs. Joseph Letter has turned shoemaker. She has taken up the latest Paris fad of mak- ing ones own shoes. Mrs. Letter. who is regarded in society circles here and in New York and Chicago as "the perfect mother of wealth. has fash toned shoes for her children which are designed for solid comfort in summer
 The Letters are at present staying at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
the appetite? He is not strong and I feel sure it is injuring him.
 MRS R A M

MRS. R. A. M.
 believe that your son can over come the habit of smoking cigarettes if you were to procure for him some specially prepared or medicated gum and have him chew 1t regularly for about three months, and gradually break off with the smoking. He can overcome the habit without bad re- suits and he will ultimately become a strong. healthy boy. While he is chewing the gum I would think it ad- visab1e that he take a little tobacco in a clay pipe, three or four times daily for the first two weeks, smok- then once a day for a, week, after which he can quit entirely. He should keep on with the gum for a couple of months longer, when the craving for the tobacco will be entire ly overcome. Of course it will not do any good if he will not concentrate his will upon the desire to- quit the use of cigarette.
 Dear Dodtor:-What does the Home Health Club advise or think of the many advertisements for curing her mia, or rupture, in a boy 7 years old without a truss or operation? haven't yet investigated any of them.
 K. L. T.
 About 90 per cent of hernia in cases of small children can be cured with properly fitted truss. especially when used in tune. It is not safe to allow one who is ruptured to go with out a truss. do not know the de- tails of the advertised cures you speak of, but if they are safe and good, your home physician will not oppose their use, but do not try them without con sulting him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

their summer place, the Glass House in the Woods, in the Virginia woods along the Potomac. Instead of letting her little ones run barefooted there she has done the next best thing and has designed their shoes something like the old fashioned sandals, made of cloth instead of leather Women of fashion in Paris are all designing their own shoes now.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

upder the care of Dr. Gallup
 Mrs Fannie Durward has been a recent guest of Mrs. J. Durward in Nichols
 Mrs Ella Curtis, of Bridgeport, is spending the summer with her moth CT, Mrs. D. B. Curtis.
 Mrs. William Cooper, of Nichols, has summer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

It is one thing to make soda crackers that are occasionally good.
 It is quite another thing to make them so that they are always better than all other soda crackers, aLzOays of z1ya- Daryir1g goodness.
 The name Uneeda'-stamped on every biscuit-means that if a million packages of Uneeda Biscuit were placed before you, you could choose any one of them, confident that every soda cracker in that package would be as good as the best Uneeda Biscuit ever baked. Five cents. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15

Girl Wanted? Read the Farmer Want Ads
Alma record., 1913-12-25

A crew OF cable plicers and wiremen
began work Wednesday preparatory
to moving the Union Telephone COM
pany's exchange from the room now
occupied into those formerly occu-
pied by z. w. Creaser and L. W..
Chadwick.
NJ. McLaren and family are enter
tanning Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Alverson
and son, Howard, of Ithaca, and Mr.
4!oIloQ 10 'ddcuN lIeM9lS SIN pue
for Christmas.
Miss Esther Dunham, who is teach
ing near Elwell, is spending the holi-
day vacation at the home OF her mo-
ther. Mrs. II. NJ. Dunham.
Claud Johnson is visiting at Yale.
Mrs. Herman Steckroth OF Mil
waukee, who has been visiting Mrs.
Verne Miner the past three weeks,
left last night for Greenville to spend
the holidays with her parents.
Albert T. Reynolds of Albion came
last Thursday to spend the holidays
with Mrs. Reynolds and father-in-
law, W. l. Amsbury.
Miss Ella McMurtrie lett this morn
ing to spend the remainder OF the
week with her father in Homer.
Alma record., 1913-12-25

Miss Ruth Keller OF Standish, who
attended Alma high school last year.
is a guest at the home OF her uncle,
w. 1. Amsbury, for the Christmas va
cation.
Mrs. Mabel Cleland spent Friday
in Ithaca.
J. w. McConkey returned Friday
to his home in FARMER City, IL, latter
spending several days in Alma on
business.
Frank Boyd, of Champaign, ILL.,,
was in Nina on business last Satur-
day
Henry McLane and family OF st.
Louis were Alma visitors Saturday.
A. Raymond Cleland is spending
the holidays at the home of w. D.
Strong.
Ivan Nelson, who is student at
the L. of NJ, is spending the holidays
with his father, Clinton Nelson.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lanshaw, Of
Big Rapids, were Alma visitors Mon
day and will spend Christmas at the
home of the formers parents near
Forest Hill.
Mr.. +. NJ. Shepler of St Louis was
in Alma on business Monday.
Alma record., 1913-12-25

Albert Maer, of the M. A. c., is a
holiday guest of his brother, G. ].
Maier.
DIR. L. w. Sharp, of Chicago, is the
Christmas guest of his father, L. A.
Sharp and sisters the Misses Velma
and Mary Sharp.
Miss Beulah Strong, spent Friday
in St. Louis with her sister, Mrs. Ro-
main Clark
c. A. Kathan, of the Lyric theatre,
Grand Rapids, is the guest of his sis
ter, Mrs. l.. c. Stinchcomb for Christ
mas.
Miss Rua Day is spending Christ
mas at home She has been teach
ing in Worthwhile. a. 81.