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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
MAKING WORK EASIER
SMALL THINGS THAT TIGHTEN
LABOR IN THE HOME.
Easy Method Of Making old Gloves
Comfortable for the Hands While
sweeplns-Proper Use Of Brush
In the Kitchen. ~

A simple little idea that to pass on
to the housewife was suggested the
other day by seeing a bride OF few
months struggling to WELD broom
while wearing her husbands CASTOR
gloves to save her hands. The gloves
were, of course, a good deal too large
for her, but in spite sof this they were
making her hands hot and uncomfort'
able and sweeping under such condi'
tons was most trying.
Now to make the old gloves disable
for Homework 1t is only necessary to
split the backs along the seams and
then cut slit or two around the
thumbs The protection to the hands Is
as good as with the original glove and
the discomfort is reduced to nothing.
This cannot be done, Of course. with
rubber gloves intended to protect the
hands when forced to dip them
in hot water or soda, but 1t Is
useful hint for the housewife who
does her own sweeping and hopping
and wishes to preserve the beauty OF
her hands.
Some one advised to try clothes
pegs to attach cheesecloth to the jar
when straining fruit for preserves, or
for similar work where a cheesecloth
strainer is used. The idea is not bad,
but there Is another one with far bet
ter results. Have you ever seen the
little clips that photographers. anna
teur and professional, use to dry
prints? Y The little clips are strung
in line, and the prints are clipped at
the corners and left until ready to
mount
These clips are little wooden at
fairs less than half the size OF q
for clipping the cloth to the edge OF
the pan or bowl than clothes peg
would be. They are for sale in a pho
Geographic stock house or In the photo
graphic department of store. They
are cheap and will be found useful In
the house In q number OF ways. A
wire arrangement In the center per-
mits a string to be run through them
without interfering with the clipping
part. and SO they can be strung across
the room and used for drying small
articles
The possibilities of the brush in the
kitchen have by no means been ex-
hausted. The unnecessary waste Of
time and energy in cleansing jars Of
any kind is evident when you see q
woman struggling to get at the crew
ices Of narrow necked preserve jar
with cleaning cloth. 1t Is as bad
as the struggle to clean the inside Of
the lamp chimney. Reams of paper
have been used to present to suffer-
ing womenkind various new methods
of getting at the interior Of lamp
chimney when it is necessary to wipe
1t out, but there Is nothing about clean
ing the Interior of preserve jars. Get
one of those FIVE or ten cent long-han-
died brushes such as you see In one e
the photographs and see how sim
pie, and easy job 1t is to dip
right down into the edge of the in
terror of the glass and remove every
bit Of dirt without effort OF any un-
due kind. n. f#s
70 Another suggestion for the brush In
the kitchen Is to get {. stiff nail brush
for use when cleaning celery. You
will find it useful in a number of ways
when cleaning vegetables
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
New Bread Gutter !.

A most excellent household article
is the new bread cutter, particularly
in the home where there are to be
many teas, or need for cutting sand
witch bread; this bread cutter is made
Of wood, OF a size which exactly holds
the loaf, like a bread board. with a
spiked wooden fence about It: the
knife slips down between the spikes
of the fence and the bread can SO
be evenly and exactly sliced as thlnly
or as thickly as one may desire; there
is absolutely no waste. and much time
and patience in trying to have each
slice thin and even is saved.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Praline Pecans.

Take a cupful OF shelled pecans.
Put two cupfuls OF brown sugar and
a half cup Of water to simmer on
the fire until 1t begins to candy. Add
the nuts, stirring all the time so the
sugar adheres to them and they do
not burn. When they are cool shake
off the extra sugar in coarse sieve,
and they are ready for use.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

No campus ever was Utopia, and the
most golden age Of memory has doubt
less been much alleged with baser
metal, but If there is not something
very bright and beautiful in American
college life 1t is hard to account for
the feeling in thousands of gray-hair-
er men that long ago in their youth,
besides the education they got, they
gained around the knees of Alma
Mater lasting Joy, strength and inspi-
ration that was not entirely contain
ed in the books they read and cannot
be exactly measured by the knovl-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
What Worried Her.

"You say your wife threw plate at
you?" -
"Yes; It was a fine china plate 1t
broke against my head"
Didn't she appear sorry after she
threw it,"
Eyes, she appeared very sorry."
"Ah, indeed. And what did she
say?"
"she said she was fool not to con-
troll her temper"
Good. And what else dido she
say?"
"She said she didn't believe she
could match that plate again If she
hunted the town through. Photo
Bits. /
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Wedding Bells.

Miss Mary c. Belknap, the we'll
known settlement worker Of Cleve-
land. said in a suffrage debate:
ooh, that Is not an argument-that
is a prophecy. prophecy that wom-
an. given the vote, wouldn't know how
to use it.
Nov it's my opinion that the men
who think that are as badly In the
dark about women as jerks was
about the widowed stenographer.
"Jenks, you know, got to taking a
young and pretty stenographer out to
lunch, and to matinees. and to con-
certs; and when any one asked him
about her, he'd smile and say:
"'Oh, another conquest ...-.
"Jenks, you see, thought he'd made
a conquest; but the widow, standing
beside jerks month later at the al
tar-the widow knew she'd made an
annexation"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Ham SoufHe.

A cupful of chopped boiled ham
mixed with cupful Of white sauce,
teaspoonful of onion juice and as
much minced parsley, salt and pepper
to taste. Put this over the fire, add
the beaten yolks of two eggs; cook
two minutes; remove from the fire
and fold in the stiffly whipped whites
of the eggs. Bake half an hour in a
buttered bake dish.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Prune soufhe.

Wash we'll one pound Of the best
prunes, cover with cold water and let
soak over night. Cook in the same
water until tender. Rub through a
strainer and add three-quarters cup Of
granulated sugar. Beat the whites Of
four eggs stiff and dry, then turn into
a -buttered dish and bake twenty
minutes in moderate oven. Serve
at once with thin cream. This dessert
must not stand a minute before serv-
ing, as it is liable to fall: II cooked too
long it is also more likely to fall.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Life In Discarded Tree.

An unusual sight may be witnessed
in a garden at Tiptree. Essex, Eng
land. A damson is growing from the
side of a post in the garden. Two
years ago a damson tree was taken up,
and after being laid aside for some
time was converted into posts. One
Of these this year produced a shoot
which blossome5 and formed into
fruit.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
IN GOLDEN AGE OF YOUTH
"coIIeae Life" a Thing Always to Be
Regarded With the Tenderest
of Memories.

The phrase college life" is an
Americanism and 1t has no equivalent
in any other language but English. 1t
describes, to those whose use with
understanding and sympathy. an ex-
perience out of which grows a deep
sentiment made up of pleasure, friend
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Corn Balls.

Boil together two cups Of molasses,
one cup of brown sugar, an egg-sise
piece of butter. teaspoon of vinegar:
when hard as taffy stir in all the
popped corn the candy will take and
mold into balls or pour into pan and
cut into squares.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Celery Seasoning,

An excellent celery seasoning may
he made at home. Get five cents
worth Of celery seed, run it through
the finest knife Of the grinder or
break it in a mortar; mix with about
ten times its bulk Of table salt and
hottie. r-r
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Seelno 10 Believing.

A trio of professional story tellers
were in a coy corner Of the club
spinning yarns. Brown had just told
q most unbelievable story and the 9TH
er two glanced at each other question
ingly. .s-
well, assure you, gentlemen
said Brown, If hadn't seen 1t myself
I shouldn't have believed It."
"Ha-h'm-well,' said one Of the
two doubtful ones, you must remem-
Der, old man, that we didn't see it,
Tit-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

say that after strenuous week at
school the child should have work Of
no kind on Sunday. That's the ex-
cuse Of those parents who seldom go
to church because of golf and motor
cars-and there are thousands Of
them."-New York Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

ship, affection, loyalty and pride. 1t
seems to them "a tender influence.
peculiar grace" that reaches out
across miles and years. drawing them
back to their Alma Mater. and the
comradeship Of their classmates. To
most graduates their college life
seems their golden age; through the
mist of years the campus becomes an
Island of Utopia whose very tediums
grow bright in the retrospect, the
sting of whose sins and failures was
always lessened by the power Of the
ideals and hopes that filed its air.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Give Him Time.

you're a pretty old man to be beg
GIN" said the lady to the man at the
back door.
Eyes, maam." replied the man with
his hat in his hand.
Have you been begging all your
life"
mot yit, ma'am."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Parents Object to Sunday School.

4 Parents Object to Sunday School.
Z The falling off in attendance in the
Sunday schools, which was the sub
5ect OF discussion at the convention
OF the New York County Sunday
School association. was referred to by
a layman after the meeting had ad-
journed as "a progressive disease"
and that the Presbyterian Sunday
schools arc not the only ones where
there had been a falling off from 81
to "a per cent" ITO a great extent"
he said, 'the condition is the result
of too much school work. Parents
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
| zE

Father-Be careful how you shoot
that arrow this way. You'll put out
my eye and then can't write any
more. s
Earle Gas he kept on shooting)-
Why. can't you write with one eye?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
FIXING RATES
UNDER PARCEL
POST J SYSTEM
Government Goes Into Business
Of Transmitting Merchandise \
Through the Mails.
NEW LAW FULLY EXPLAINED

Country Divided Into Zones and
Units for Purpose Of Fixing Charges
for carrIage--No Package Weigh
Ing More Than Eleven Pounds 10
Misunderstanding Properly Wrap
ped Which Will Not Injure Other
Mall May Be Sent. -a.-r.e
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Hodfi4h FrItferR.

Cut Goldfish into strips size of the
finger. Freshen over night in cold
water. In morning wipe dry, dip each
piece in fritter batter and fry nice
brown In hot fat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Way Of Some Ministers.

Bishop w. F. Mcdowell. Methodist.
says some ministers are like some
horses-they'll work all right in the
lead but will balk when placed else
where. &
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
RATES s; OF POSTAGE

Parcels weighing four less maabe at the rate
Of cent for each fraction of regardless OF
distance Parcels weighing than four malabe
at the pound rate shown by the following table, and when mailed
at this any fraction Ola pound considered full pound
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01
Enou0h.

Enough. ...
can me husband got into another
foight an KEN home wit black eye
'Tis too bad, SO it isl" Faith, 1t is
Wand think married man d
enough av it at home."--Life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

edge they acquired.-Paul Van Dyke
IN Scribner's Magazine. 70.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

Postmaster General Hitchcock has
ordered that postmasters be advised
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-01-01

xxi OIIldIbdUI0 "dtICTs
4 The following matter is declared un-
maiiable by law: r.
Matter manifestly obscene, lewd, cor
lascivious; articles intended for pre-
venting conception; articles intended
for indecent or immoral purposes; all
matter otherwise mailable by law, the
outside cover or wrapper of which
j bears and delineation or language Of
a libelous, scurrilous, defamatory, or
threatening character. All such mat
ter, when deposited in a post office or
found in the mails, shall be withdrawn
and sent to the divisions of dead let
tiers. .- = - u o.
IntoxIcants, Poisons and lnflammabIe
Materials.
Spirituous, vinous, matted, ferment-
ed, or other Intoxicating liquors Of any
kind; poisons of every kind, aad arti-
cles and compositions containing poi
son, ponsonous animals. insects and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02
Senses Of Plants.

The sense most developed in plants
Is that of sight, which enables them
to see light but not to distinguish OBJ
jects This sense limitation is found
among many living creatures, such
as the earthworm, oyster and coral,
ETC., which possess no localized visual
organ, but give proof of their lumin-
Gus impressions by the contractions
that they manifest when exposed to a
ray of sunshine. Similarly, it is easy
to gauge the influence of light on
plants Cultivate plant in room
with a. window only on one side and
it's stalks in growing will incline to-
ward the source of light. Physiolo-
gists explain this by suggesting that
the side to the dark grows more
quickly than that exposed to the light
There remains, however, the fact that
the plant has reacted to the light OF
whose effect it was conscious.
A sense common to many plants is
that of touch Of this the most Illus
trative example is, as it's name i'm
plies, the sensitive plant. Another
leaf, responsive to the touch, is the
catch-tly, whose two halves close down
upon the other by means of central
hinge.-Harper' Weekly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02
HAS SENT PHOTOS By WIRE
Few Years AGO Was Consid- -.
cred impossible.

NJ Edouard Belin, a French il
ventor. has succeeded in telegraphing
q photograph from Bordeaux to Paris
IL the record time Of four minutes.
III. Belin's process differs radically
from Korn's method. Instead of u.s.
irg selerium, he prepares photo
graphic plate the basis of which is BIZ
c1rcmated< gelatine and the surface
o. which is uneven. A small metal
point, passing over the uneven surface
Ct the plate, causes variation of the
electrim current, which renders pos
sible the transmission over tele-
graph or telephone wire of the lights
and shades of half-tone plates, and
is attended with remarkable regular
jty and speed. The most interesting
feature Of NJ. Belin's invention is that
t is possible to carry about a small
apparatus weighing about 16 pounds,
and Immediately attach it at any tele-
phone station. This renders possible
the telephoning of pictures over long
distances. In the experiment referred
TO made recently a photograph six
inches by five was sent. An hour
was occurred in preparing the plate.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02
RESULTS R that REMAIN.

Are Appreciated by Bemidji People.
Thousands who suffer from back
ache and kidney complaint have tried
one remedy, after another, 4 finding
only temporary benefit. This is dis
couraging, but there is one kidney
medicine that has earned a reputa-
tion. for lasting results and there is
plenty Of proof of it's merit right here
in Bemidji. = t''~.% ~
Here is the testimony of one who
used Doan's Kidney Pills years ago,
and now makes his testimony even
stronger.
Mr.. Henry Revor. sos Bemidji
Ave. Bemidji, Mimi, says: IT suffered
from backache for weeks at time. 1t
seemed that l could get nothing that
would relieve me. Finally, l heard
about Doan's Kidney Pills. After
taking two boxes, felt like a differ
ent person. The public statement
then gave, praising Doan's Kidney
Pills, still holds good. The benefit
they brought, has been permanent. !"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States. Remember the name-Doan'
and take 10 other.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02
WOMEN ADOPT THE M0NoCLE
What Seems Extremely Silly Fad
Has Been Taken Up by society"
= in New York. /

The ultrafashionable young woman
Of 1913 will wear a monocle. In fact
the fad has already struck New York
and on Broadway and Fifth avenue
the monocle issseen every day adorn-
ing the#faces of up-to-date femininity.
More than a year ago one of the most
noted horsewomen in New York wore
a mcnocle at the horse show. It at
tracted no end of comment. Despite
the attention it drew to her she con-
tinued to wear; ton horseback. at
society functions. both in the after
noon and evening. The tiny piece OF
glass was in her left eye whenever
she was seen in public. Whether she
startedsthe fad or it sprang up from
other sources is not known, but re-
Gently there has been a steady de-
mand for monocles at the big Jew
elry, shops on Fifth avenue. =
The smart young woman does not
wear a monocle2 on all occasions. She
allows it to dangle from her neck by
a fine gold chain or narrow3 silk
ribbon Now and then she raises 1t
to her left eye, but she never wears
1t for, any, great length Of time. Most
of the monocles that are sold on Fifth
avenue have tortoise shell rims. They
are more easily worn than the rim
less or even gold-rimmed variety. 4.
i According to several jewelers., the
hand monocle "a glass too large to be
worn in the eye, but which can be
raised to aid the vision-is destinedeto
eclipse the smaller and true monoc1e
in popularity. E>t
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02
On life'S Road.

All our WEAKNESS of suffering IL
without avail to leave even a little
memory among those for whom the
work is done All that is wrought il
despair, all that is loveless and me-
chanical, falls to the ground. We live
for even 50 much as a brief life only
in that which carries the breath OF
our being, the love of our heart. 1t is
cot in ceaseless routine and grinding
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-02

that we live, nor in what is small and
anxious. Machines will continue the
tale of that forever. No cog will ever
be missed in that endless chain. But
we shall NOT wholly die in the song
we carry in our heart, the love with
which we love the being Of another,
the smile we give another wayfarer at
dusty noonday.-Collier's Weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
HIS HORSE IN
COLLEGE DAYS BUT WILL
SUPPORT HIM FOR OFFICE
Julian Ennis Was Once Considered BY Dr. A. A Persons in
the Light of a Fiend of Cruelty But Time Has Made
It Only college Prank"

There is at last tangible proof of that
which has always been eontended-that
even the most serious pranks of college
boys are considered by them as merely
pranks.
The ''reformers'' rave whenever a cam
pus satellite strays from that straight
and narrow" which they themselves have
mapped. Nevertheless, there is no ques-
ton but that practically every crime"
committed by the college boy is due en-
tirely to an undisciplined "effervescencep
or youthful ebulition, spirit of mischief
too inexperienced to differentiate between
that which might be considered funny
and that which might be considered out
rageous.'
At any rate, one frosty morning Julian
B. Ennis, mischievous cadet, decorated
the noble steed of DR.. A. A. Persons. then
professor of chemistry at the University
of Alabama, with the college colors-
"crimson-w white. DR.. Persons at that
time thought the act that of fiend He
smiles now when he recalls the deed and
the "fiend." For Mr.. Ennis, a prosper
Gus young merchant of Livingston, has
written a letter in which he declares that
he will support DR.. Persons for commits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
''THE HOME BUILDER"
rs NAME SELECTED
Prizes Offered by Helena Land Com
pany for Name of Trade Paper
Are Awarded

Some two months ago the Helena Land
company began the publication Of q
trade paper. This was called the paper
without a name and a prize of $25 was
offered to anyone who would suggest an
acceptable name for the publication. The
winner was to get $40 and the second
best to receive So. Three newspaper men
acted as judges yesterday and decided
upon "The Home Builder" as the best
name submitted. Several persons sug-
gested that name and the prize will be
distributed among them. The second best
was '"The Birmingham Booster and sew
eral persons suggested that name also
and tho money will be evenly divided
among them.
First prize, $2o ''rhe Home Builder, =
won by James Weisel. 1720 Twelfth ave-
nue.; Mrs. ]. w. Cobb. Ills First ave-
nue., West END: Mrs. w. A. Allen, 4o2
South Nineteenth street; Mrs. II. B. Fur
man. 1901 Hayes street, w. G, Clark. 1l5
South sixtieth street; II. Allen, lila South
Eighteenth street The money will be
evenly divided between them
Second prize sb. ",rhe Birmingham
BOOSTER won by II. 8. Thomas, B15 Sec
ond avenue, West End: Kinloch Andrews,
e03 South Eighteenth street. Walton Al
len, Cromwell; Paul Allen, 5037 First
avenue; Beatrice Bearden, 1920 Avenue
E Walter Thompson, Brilliant. Eliza
beth Farley. Ella Avenue Gi Felix Mem
del. 14l5 Eighth avenue, Andrew J. Pitts,
614 South Twenty sixth street, Mrs, w,
p. BIugh, s2O Ellie avenuei J. @. Car
ter, 1910 Huntsville avenue. Maude Cow
art, $40 First National Bank building,
r, A. Harrell. 5025 Second avenue, north;
Helen Gum. 1905 First avenue, West
End; Mrs. ], II, Bohannan, 23t1 Avenue
@, Ensleyi b. f. Riley, 2O33 Thirteenth
avenue, SOUTH