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Silver tinsel !s also made In the sams
way. The fashion In tree trimming Dc.
mands the, lavish use OF this gorgeous
adornment.
NO sToRERooMs FOR SANTA
CLAUS.
Santa has no need for s.ors-oom0 "
wh.ch 20 stack his frished toys ana
tree decorations The demand 10 -
great and go immediate that directly
rhings are finished they are packs1.
loaded on TO immense sle,shs and Ship.
ped to SPECIAL stations which hs has
situated in every city all over the Wog0
and usually In such places - oo'
partmcnt stores or toy and candy 6nopA
Sometimes when oil these places ~
f,ll,d he even hides them IN odd cof00O
OF people's houses. That In how Il CONES
that one often accidentally will anA
things tucked away in tho most unusual
places.
Years ago lie would use his re.noe0
to carry the loaded sle.ghs to sta&ioAs
and often they wero no worn cut ~
overwork that they were unit ~
dliv.ng on Christmas Eve. But nov u
"a quite different. Since motor tTSaoko
have come into use Santa has boaOAt
threc hundred and twenty.sight b Do
this heavy work for him.
something ought to te told the kidAiaa
Of tho character and habits Of the 3okelO
toilers who make their toys. They .0Po
an entirely different kind Of creatures
from any which We. who do not live at
the North Pole. have ever seen.
They are very small OF stature. win
large heads and queer elf,n faces. We
would cali them Gnomss o. Elves. hsse
santa calls them Tobys They have
bright. nischievous eyes wh!ch dance
with delight over the.r pretty hand1s
work. the nerriest laughs and sweetaal
little voces which keep UP 4 continuous
| accompaniment to their taslss.
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only q part Of the life Of the town that
makes this demand. Al other times
business may be bad" o.
DO you think this means that New
York will eventually have q dollar-and
a-half theatre?" felt privileged to
ask.
mo. don't" was tho quick answer.
''The trouble doesn't its In tho two.
dollar section OF tho house. Tho or
chestra seats are easily sold when the
play is good. But even then the bal
cony and gallery are often bad. We
have to look above the first floor to
keep things going. and to bring about
the condition no necessary to the the
atre We must all get togther and elm
mate the unnecessary theatres-Snoving
picture and others-that are making
competition too strong for the general
good. The actor Is tste one person who
doesn't suffer. lie stands still and
watches his salary go up.
IAN actor who Is any good at ali car
command his two and three hundred q
week. II you don't pay him what h,
asks he turns on his heel and goe,
into moving pictures. The leading mar
gets four. five. sig. even seven nun
dred week. could name ono actol
drawing seven hundred who couldn'
earn more than ten dollars a week II
any other Ene Of work. lie has q men
tai equipment tha, would ut him onl,
| to he a truck driver. The actress, es
pecially II she is In musical comedy, q
better off. No, the actors and actr esscI
needn't wOrry-their salaries won't b.
cut"
The telephone rang. and al Mr. Shu
bert turned TO 1t I turned to tho door
Outside. where everything was hs,stl
and hustle. the feverish press asen
refined In his galloplng typewriter and In
dDrsed everything Mr.. Shubert had sal,
on the subject of actors salaries. why
do you know" he confided. IN be
that with my knowledge OF the theatr
and = little practice could start Il
and get five hundred q week As
juvenile"'
And he looked so young and SINGER
that l believed him.
A step further towards the doc
brought me ~ the telephone girl, VIII
seemed TO be dreaming OF the da
when she would be II leading lady witt
her salary in large numbers.
The actor worry! WHAT'S a manage
for?
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and each .maSines that perhaps he is
looking on some noted New Yorker"
There's another thing that would
make the people in Homeburg sit up
and throw . scandaiixed spasm II Il
the second man. noddiug toward u
nearby table where two women and
their escort were opening a bottle OF
w.ae. why, at home they think It's
awful for a woman to drink at all,
while Nd woman ever thinks OF taking
q drink in public. Here the women
drink as they like and whatever they
like" So,
That's not tho only thing they do"
responded the frst man. II never saw
a woman smoke In M life until I got
to New York last week. and one can't
enter a restaurant without seeing from
one 10 fifty women pufs,ng away at
their little cigarettes. But the New
Workers. don't notice that"
The two paused for q moment as the
orchestra struck into . lively BIT OF rag
time. and watched In undisguised
amazemsnt 40 a thiniy clad woman be-.
gan an Oriental dance.
And down homo they won't even
allow burlssque shows" commented the
lrst man sadly. why. this woman
hasn't enough on to clOthe a three
ysar-old kid. ! saw one at Hammer
stc!n'e tho other day that even shocked
the New Workers. But most of the
time they don't notice II at ALL be.
Iievs that within ten years a woman
can appear on tho stage clad only In q
smile and be applauded."
Yes. but the odd part o: II all Is
that We are constantly reading in the
papers about tho daring way Filth
avenue trotters Dress" said the second
man. THE nrst day was In town !
chased over to Fifth avenue and Forty.
second street and stood there for two
hours waiting for daringiy appar.
| e!led dansel TO crafty ny curious eye
! During that entire time | did not see q
sit skirt, a tightly fitting gown. nor
seductive glimpse of anything sup.
posed to be hidden. | sometimes be.
iieve New York exasgerates Its bad.
| effect"
| Inc TWO HnlsheO tnelr dlnner III ST.
!ence and the frst man paid the check
While his friend was thus engaged
the second man was gazing at the
crowd. Suddenly he turned.
| ''Do you remember how We worried
over our evening clothes before ws
left home-wonder!ns II they would ap'
psar old-fashloned here?" he asked
HAS Il struck YOU before that there
are more men In business suits here
tonight than men In evening clothes
I have noticed that several times.
wonder II the day Of the open.facs II
waning. 20 far a. restaurant lfe Il
eoncsrnedr'
The drst man nodded.
At IN uptown show after the f,rst ac
the house seemed to empty itself. q
quickly ala the majority OF the msr
rush out.
why. practically every husband her,
has left mis- wife while he gets a drink.
exclaimed the first man.
The wives are not the only desertes
ones" commented the second man. II
my eyes don't deceive me there are {
good. many sweethearts and Aancee
deoAsto6 Tor tAD memept"
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vaudeville and moving picture-SwiiI have
10 get together and arrive At some un-
derstanding as to how many houses OF
various kinds town can support. with
the theatrical man..g gers and their pro-
ductions just now II Is simply q question
OF the survival OF the fittest Here In
New York It Is only the play that scores
an enormous success that attracts any
attention. Even then Its success 10
likely 10 be matter OF slow growth.
for new plays follow one another 90
rapidly that the public reads a review
OF this one to-day and that one to- NOR
row. and by the end OF the week gets
80 confused that II doesn't know one
from tho other. The really good play
has to have time In which to work It's
way out OF this general confusion. New
York can hardly straighten out all the
theatres In It's mind"
DO you THINK" ! inquired. "that the
closed?'
1T is not at all unlikely that some
| OF tho houses may be dark for y time"
he answered. But that. to my mind.
doesn't spell calamity. II used to be
I considered = crime along Broadway to
close . house for . night or two. hut
that time has passed, and now . house
may close for . t,me and open again
without having lost its standing pro-
vided Il offers play that wins the ap-
proval OF the public,"
That's true. Occasionally a theatre Ia
Just "a much in need Of u rest as the
manager who ,rsoes to French Iich
Springs and comes back with new plans
and "a fresh smile. Hut Lee Shubert
you may have noticed. never take q
rest. He keeps right on going. jump
Ing from the telephone to his automobil,
without ever turning a hair OF his re-
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IN Spite Of Hard Theatri-
cal Times, the Only One
Who Need Worry IL the
Poor Manager-The Ac.
tor Gets His Price or
Turns on His Heel Into
e"Movies" s"-.But EUen
Shubevt Admits There
Are Too Many Theatres.
BY CHARLES DARNTON.

II was an oCtOI ou n's VIZ
to the Players Club who
paused to remark that one
inevitable result Of present
theatrical conditions would be re-
duct,on In the salaries OF actors. lie
argued 30 many companies were
coming In from the road and that
business generally was SO bad that
tho actor was bound to suher.
"Thank heaven I'm In the movies
and able to buy my usual Christmas
presents without going in debt for q
yAar!"
After congratuiating him felt no
.nrry for the other fellow that ! asked
Lee Shubert II salaries were to be cut.
More In sorrow than In elation that
thoroushly business-llke manager as
sursd me the actor had nothing to
worry about
"In fact" said Mr. Shubert, the
~-0 In about the only one VINO mas
y .ause for worry. His salary re-
mains nxed in spite OF business changes
N the theatrical world. lie gets what
he asks " he goes into moving pictures
--that's the situation with him. ana nc
knows how to control t. The man
arer. on the other hand. must face II
and pull through somehow. The man
who produces plays must possess nerve
and money. Nerve. perhaps. 10 OF
greater Importance, for with the man
aRer Il Ia a gamble over night Of forty
or Afty thousand dollars very often.
with no chance Of his getting his money
back II luck Is against him. That's
the game, and II requires nerve"
Mr.. shubert displayed every sign OF
having a steady nerve a. he leaned
back in mis- ONCE chair calmly tossing
on thousands In his quiet way. Even
the crack OF doom would probably not
disturb him, though he might be mildly
interested In watching his friend Brady
lamp. As for conditions that are now
CAUSING general uneasiness. he took this
surprisingly tranquil view:
There's always q slump . few weeks
befors Christmas. That's to bs ex-
pscted."
"rhen you see nothing unusual in the
situation?"
.''Irs not so very unusuai for this time
Of year"
"But II II doesn't change. what's to
be done?"
"I'n tell you what must hs DONE" hs
Answered, fitting forward IN his chaiI
and gripping . desk telephone. "Al
the interests OF the theatrical world will
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Oddities in the Nezvs

EGGS are dropping high prices break
BEFORE CHRISTMAS
HETCiY likely 1t
MNARET
a
AMERICAN
the American girl hands and
MICHIGAN
uncontrolAble dishsA
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:CASCARETS TONIGHT! IF BILIOUS,
#ADACHY, C0NS1PATED 10 Gents

poison from the bowels. A Cascaret TO-
night straisners YOU o / by NOR lis-
= l0-cent box from any druggist keeps
your stomach reg ,lA e !. Head clear and
Liver aud Bowe in fine condition for
months. Don't forget tho children.
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acssearsts make you feel bully; they
l6nedistsly cleanse and sweeten the
G11nach. remove the sour. unaiges.ed
- ies eriag food and 70 gases, take
tn sxccss bile from the liver and carry
q ths ceastipsted wsste matter and
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T0YLAND News;
|T'SD|RECTFROM
OLD SANTA CLAUS
How the Gnomes Make the
Pretty Things for the
Christmas Trees.
BIZ Eleanor SchOrer.
Especial STAR Correspondent Of The
Evening WORLDLY

ARCTIC REGIONS. Dec. G.-The CEN
tire OF the Giant Glacier has been hol-
lowed on, into a rionste. cave ana is
serving rs a factory for naN'n; tree
ornaments II Is being run on very
much better system than II was last
year, having two shifts OF workers.
with ten thousand gnomes in each
shift. The day workers come on At
6 A. ". and stay until p. VI. Ona
band OF to!!crs sleep. waie the other
works.
Each OF the workers sits squat upon
the fioor In front Of a blazing fire. over
which Is suspended a huge black cal
dron Each little fellow has long
stemmed pipe with which he blows
bubbles OF the substance which s!zzles
and bo!s IN the huge pot before him.
The boiling substance is liquid
made Of melted precious stones. Mil
lions Of dollars worth OF priceless
Jewels are being imported into the
North Po.e regions FOR this purpose.
Each ca,dron boils n different Jewel.
The melted rubies make bluod-red blb-
bles that CLEAN like flames, The dla-
monds make white ones. bright and
shining like great. round stars. Sap
phires turn into deep-blue spheres. tor
quo!so make pale-blue balls which look
like the summer sky, and SO on. As the
bubbles grow TO the desired size the
workmen shake them gently OF their
pipes on the ice floor. Here they are
allowed to rest until they are frozen
into hard, round. shiny. wonderfully
oo,ored bright balls to hang on kiddies'
Christmas trees. 1t Is estimated that
one man can make five hundred finished
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MINES GIVE OUTPUT OF GOLD
TO MAKE TlNSEL.

Tho great Klondyke gold mines are
being worked day and night to supply
the demands of another room OF the
Great Glacier. whore thousands OF
workers sit stringing strips OF shredded
gold on threadG to mako tinsel trim.
mings for the trees. They wear grea'
spectacles on. the ends of their little
round noses. for this work ds a great
strain on the eyes. Each string Is one
mile long and each gnoms completes
three Of these . day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
Pres. Vail Opens His Farm
School to New England
5ooo-Acre Farm at Lyndon, VT, for Train
ing of Boys and Girls

Lyndon, Vt.-Theodore n. Vail,
and Telegraph Company and the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
has announced that he has been sat
isfied with the farm training school
for Vermont boys which he has con-
Quoted for two years on his 5000
acre farm at Lyndon, VT, that he is
intending to throw open the school to
all boys and girls of New England
farm to the project and to endow the
institution literally.
The present school has been more
or less experimental. Mr.. Vail es-
tablished it in connection with the
work Of his immense farm. The stu
dents the first year numbered twenty
five and the second year over fifty.
Each boy has been allowed the priv
ilege of working his own way through
the school. He is allowed IS cents
per hour for his work on the farm
and his total board and tuition is rat
ed at 1925 per annum. Only eleven of
the boys now registered at the school
are paying cash for their tuition. The
boy who works his way is obliged to
remain all Summer to continue his
studies and work during the most pro-
life season of the year.
The purpose of the school, accord
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
ENLARGE STATE
BALLOT BOARD
Mass. Efficiency Commission
Makes Recommendations.
NEW ELECTION STATE COURT
Intricate Laws Make Change imperR
tive, According to Report-To
Extend Power-compensa-
ton Increased.

Boston-The enlargement of tho
Election Court for the Commonwealth
has been suggested to the Legisla-
ture by the State Commission on Ell
cheney and Economy.
1t is TO have ample powers to de-
eide and finally determine all con.
troversies, questions and causes aris-
ing and growing out of or affecting
any or all elections, caucuses, primar-
les and conventions in the Common
wealth, on the rights of candidates or
other persons interested therein or
affected thereby so that the admins
tration of all laws relating to cleo
tons shall be referred, heard and con-
sidered and speedily determined by
this court
The commission states that the
jurisdiction of the ballot law COM
mission would be much more effec-
tive and efficient, and money expend-
ed from the State treasury for the
support of the commission would be
much better administered, if the bal
lot law commission was not limited
to questions which arise after the
filing of papers and confined to the
precise questions stated in the objec-
ton.
Serious questions have arisen
which, owing to lack of time and to
distance involved, and necessity OF
notice and emergencies Incidental to
the printing and distribution OF
ballots, have been prevented from
consideration by the court where
speedy determination is necessary.
and in the questions an election
court, composed of men, students of
and familiar with our intricate cleo
ton laws and conversant with their
history, would speedily and justly
give adequate consideration and
prompt correction and decision.
massachusetts stands since the
adoption of the Australian ballot as
the foremost State in equipment and
secrecy in elections. This position
will be difficult TO maintain under our
present intricate election laws; but
we feel that an election court,
charged with the duty of keeping
thoroughly informed regarding legis-
lation in foreign States concerning
election laws, ballots and all other
methods, jurisdiction and parapher-
nalia concerning elections would be
economical and efficient and give
speedy relief to the condition which
is now pressing"
The commission recommends that
in view of the enlarged duties to be
given TO the commissioners and
their present inadequate salary, their
compensation be increased to sum
commensurate with their labors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21

ing to Mr.. Wallis friends, is to help
the boys to become good farmers and
therefore good citizens, and. to assist
girls to become good housewives ans
mothers. He also believes that edu-
cation along these lines will keep the
farm boy and girl on the farm and
away from the congested centres.
Boys and girls from the farms of
New England will be given the prefer
ence under the new arrangement.
There will be a three-year course to
fit the students for either entrance to
college or continued work in the
school on specialized subjects. The
entrance age will be from twelve to
iod of selection of a career to an even
earlier age than provided for in mod
ern colleges of the most advanced
elective tendencies.
Mr.. Wallis farm is more than mod
ell farm. 1t is a great, big breathing,
pulsating Eastern ranch, the type of
possible perfection to which the New
England farmer may look. In the
centre is his immense country man
sion. His hobby is horses and the farm
is stocked with all sorts of fancy
breeds. He has sixty head of brown,
pure Swiss cattle, thirty head of grade
All of these will go to the school.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
WANTS The GRAND TRUNK
Port Director Also Advocates Connect
ing Freight Terminals.

Boston The goth century will be
Canada's century. While the United
States has been exporting great
amounts of grain and beef we will
soon be importing it, while Canada will
do the exporting" sai6 Port Director
William S. McNary, addressing the
members of the Massachusetts Real
Estate Exchange.
He continued 1T is there that our
chance lies. Boston is the ice-free
port to the grain fields of Canada. II
the New Haven railroad looks at the
question rightly and allows the Grand
Trunk cars and cargoes to come in.
we are made. | believe that the poll
cies of this road are undergoing q
change which will bring it about"
Director McNary declared that the
real problem that Boston is facing to-
day in developing the city is the con-
Meeting of the freight terminals for
the cheaper transportation of freight.
THE only way to build Boston up
he said. 'in connection with the vat
erfront improvements that are being
planned and executed by the port di.
rectors, is to build belt line con-
Meeting all the railroad lines with all
the piers,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
WATERWAYS EXPERT
AR0USES CHAMBER
RAILROADS SHOULD NOT CON-
TRoL TERMINALS.
Cong. RansdeIl of Louisiana Address
es Boston Business Men

Boston.-'1 believe that the rail
roads of the country can be better gov
erned by the unmonopolized and the
unmonopolizable inland waterways of
the country than they can ever be by
any statute that man has made or
ever will make" declared Congress
man and United States Senator-elect
Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana to the
500 or more present at the annual
banquet of the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce.
Referring to the terminal situation
in Boston, the senator-elect especially
reused his audience when he said:
You are as badly bottled up here in
Boston by the railroads as any city in
the country. If you have the power to
free your waterfront from the rail
roads, do it now. If you have not,
certainly Massachusetts will amend
her constitution so that you may take
over such water terminals as you
need, control them and use them for
your own benefit"
why should Massachusetts and
New England contribute to the pro-
jects of the improvements of the
Great Lakes system, the big rivers of
the Mississippi-Missou system,
or the great Columbia in the Far West
or the protection of the lower Mis-
sissippi valley from the devastating
floods? Because these improvements
will allow Boston to receive the great
staples from the West at much lower
rates than would be possible by rail,
and can deliver the goods made in
your factories to the great populous
centres. along these waterways at
freight rates much lower than those
you pay to inland points now served
by railways"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
THE GOOD THAT MEN Do

The Laconia Hospital Aid associa-
ton is to give poverty party to raise
money for its work.
The Mems club of st. Andrews
Episcopal church, Manchester, has
bought piano for the church par
lors.
Joseph Scruton, while skating at
STAFFORD, went through the ice and
was saved from drowning by his
schoolmate, John |. Knights.
AT the last meeting of the New
Hampshire Woman's Humane so
ciety, number of gifts were reported,
including five dollars from henry A.
Kimball of Concord.
The Manchester Firemen's Relief
association expended $994Z5 for re-
lief purposes in the past year. In fu-
ture surgeon is to be employed to
respond to all alarms after the first
and to render service when necessary
AS soon as the new parish house OF
Grace Episcopal churcn, Manchester
given by Mrs. Josiah Carpenter, is
completed the whole interior of the
present parish house is to be remod.
eled. 1t will contain a memorial
chapel for Miss Emily Smith.
The Nashua Hospital association
has advertised for architect proposals
for So room hospital to cost not
more than 100000. The plans must
be submitted before April l and no
charge is to be made except by the
architect whose plans are accepted
Daniel Herbert Diggins, six years
old, nearly lost his own life at Nashua
in an unavailing effort to save the life
Of comrade of the same age, Alton
Kimball, who had broken through the
ice. Samuel Zimberg, high School
student, also went into the water
while aiding Kimball and was rescued
as was young Diggins, by Elphedge
Ledoux and Charles e. Whitney.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-21
Charges Massachusetts, Industries
Underpaying Its Wage-Earners
H. LaRue Brown Says $4,000 Women Are
Barely Able to Keep Alive

ut has been said that equal pay to
all classes of workers brings the eff
fcient worker down to the level of
the inefficient worker. AS 81 per
cent. Of these women workers earn
81 a week or less, there is no room
for dwelling, for everyone is already
levelled.
Take the manufacture of candy for
instance. When a pound of 80-cent
candy is bought, the worker receives
5 cents only. In the case of Accent
candy but cents goes to the girls.
The manufacturers should treat
girls as we'll as they would treat their
horses. If you don't feed horse he
will die. When the girls die an adj
in the paper will bring more girls.
"The engine called public opinion is
a very powerful machine. The public
ity part of any proposed reform justi-
Ges the measure.