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Newark post., 1913-01-08
WHY GIRLS. LEAVE HOME

Why Girls Leave Home" one
of the most sensational plays before
the public to-day. The climaxes
and situations are startling, tine
comedy sprinkled all through the
play making it interesting from
start to the finish. This is a play
that made fifty thousand dollars
for its managers the first season.
There is good moral lesson to
learn from it. and a play that every
one should see. Mr.. Tempest has
secured the rights to produce this
play, and promises to give a pro-
ductlon equal to the original cast.
Secure your seats in time to see this
great play. The Mt. Carmel Daily
News says that it is one of the best
plays that has been produced in
that city for some time.
ADV.
Newark post., 1913-01-08

TO be done, fully justified TINS ac-
ton. The Investigations and rec
concentrations of this COMMISSION
nave brought to the attention OF the
Legislature many kinds OF business
which paid little or no license to
the State and the result has been a
large annual increase III the State s
revenue.
| understand the Commission
will recommend certain mpor-
tant legislation at this session and
| urge its most careful consldera-
ton.
In my message Of January 3,
1911. | stated that thought 1t
important that the commission
shall be continued so that the Leg
islature. as well as the people, may
profit by the investigations and
suggestions which its members Will
be able to make from time to time.
This Commission has now been III
existence six years at an annual
cost of less than one thousand dol
lars and | believe the work done
by it justifies the making of some
permanent Commission to carry on
this work. Perhaps the number
might now be reduced. inasmuch
as the greater part Of the work
has been done. and still the work
done as effectively as heretofore.
Newark post., 1913-01-08
REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE-Farm of 20 acres. 8
miles from Newark. House, barn sta-
bling 4 horses COWS. Price rlsh1.
bargain. noon
Address. S. care of NEWAhh foo1
Newark post., 1913-01-08

CONSTABLE'S SALE.-BY WRITE
OF a distress for rent 10 me directed
Will be Sold at Public Sale
ON TUESDAY,,
THE 18th DAY OF JANUARY, 1918.
al O'Clock, p. M, at Christiana. Del.
the following Property, viz:
Whips, Straps, Baskets, Brushes,
Elpoons' +, !, Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Jars,
Tobacco Cutter, Gloves. Clothes Shirts
Goats, Pants, Collars, Hats, Hose, Thread,
harness, Saddles, Glass, Bottles. Cans,
Chains, Coffee Grinder, Safe. Shoe Case,
Stove Pipes, Shells, Soap. Lamps,
Shlmneys, Barrels, Boxes and manv
other articles.
SEIZED and taken as the properly of
Isaac iialnes at the suit of J, * Chambers.
and to be sold by
EGBl%RT SGIELLENDER.
Newark, Del, Constable
Jan. 9th, 1915
Newark post., 1913-01-08

FOR SALE-Building Lots near Cur
tbs Paper Mills. Apply,
J. FRANK ELLIOTT,
pbono oosA Newark, Del.
Newark post., 1913-01-08

FOR RENT rooms communicating
hot water neat, bath adjoining-second
floor.
Apply j., Newark Post.
Newark post., 1913-01-08


Much has been said during the
past year by the press, and partic-
ularly the press outside of the
State, concerning this mode of pun
lshment which is still adhered to
IN Delaware. am convinced that
an investigation at the New Castle
County Workhouse, where this
punishment is now inflicted, will
convince any reasonable person
-that 1t is not done in barbarous
manner, as the articles appearing
IN the press would lead one to
think, but that those who receive
this punishment are shown as much
consideration as the circumstances
will warrant.
The fact that the English Par
lament has recently passed a bill
providing for this method of pun
lshment for certain offenses and
other States in this Country are
also considering its adoption
should be sufficient proof that we
nave made no mistake by continu-
ing it.
REVENUE AND TAX COMMISSION
The last session of the Legisla-
Newark post., 1913-01-08

pennsylvania We're amazed when
they learned that some of our citi-
zens were opposing such a princely
gift, which they are spending vast
sums Of money out of their public
treasures to provide for. ! recon-
mend the passage Of all reasonable
laws that will enable Mr.. dupont to
proceed with the construction of
this road, so that it may be com
pleted in the near future. This
question Of improved highways is
being agitated throughout this
country every day, conventions are
being held at various places, at
tended by delegates from most of
the States in the Union. for the pur-
pose of discussing the different
kinds of material to be used and
the best methods of construction.
The time will soon come when the
State will be compelled to build
such road as Mr.. DUPONT now of
,ers 10 build, and the cost of the
same will be very great.
Newark post., 1913-01-08

Mrs. A. r. Carlisle and Miss
Florence Steel attended the Mil
ilnery Display held by New York
firms in Wilmington last Thurs
day.
Newark post., 1913-01-08
Want Advertisements
For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Found
d, orr want ad. Call SO D. x a.

ANY little Want, For Sale or any
Short Notice that does not need as
nIav advertisement just put it in this
Column, 1t will bring results.
No questionable advertisement received oy tne
POST
Newark post., 1913-01-08

FOR RENT-On Maple Ave. Several
Cheap Houses. Apply to -.,-.,,-u,
SQUIRE LOVETT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Process Of Crpstallizing Alum.

. Will you kindly give me the recipe for
crystnllizing alum? To explain this further
| will mention having seen fancy work
for instance, fruit basket-made of wire
and covered with some thing was told was
crystallized alum. which looked just like
frost on the wire frame. The process of
gerting the alum to stick to the wire was
done in some way Of steaming and 1t is this
for which l would like the recipe
MRS M. L.
IL my youth this style of ornamentation
was popular and recollect well having
done some Of 1t myself. The process fol-
lowed was to wind the object to be treat
ed with fine worsted. Cotton or wool with
smooth surface would not answer it had
to be rather rough. The alum was dis
solved in water to make a saturated solu-
tion-that Is, as much of the powdered alum,
as the water will take up-and the object
wound with wool was dipped into this
More than one dipping was usually required
and the ornament was allowed to dry be-
tween whiles. The alum then formed
crystals on the wool and we used to think
then, pretty. I have never heard of the
steaming process to which you refer for
bringing the wire into condition to hold
the crystals. II any Of our Cornerites know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

to take the sick baby and the hour of the
day when attention will be given.
X i:
Ambitious to Teach.
Il am writing you in regard to the sug-
gestion of G. B. A young woman whom
know Is ambitious to become a teacher of
needlework and drawing. She Is excep-
tionally talented in music, art, and needle
craft. but her chances are indeed meager,
living as she does on a farm without the re-
buried means to provide the child with an
education. sThe young woman is well bred
and well hammered and an admirable COM
panion for either the young or adult. Her
initials are H. M. H. w. S. H.
am sorry to say that either through
mistake in printing or in transcribing
am unable to locate G. b. who has made a
suggestion which would prove helpful to the
young girl of whom the correspondent
writes as desiring to become a teacher in
drawing and needlecraft. I hope the pub
lication of this letter may bring the wish
and the opportunity for its fulfillment to-
gether. will give the address Of H. M. H.
to anyone who wishes to aid her in gaining
her ambition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Use of Husbands Name.

. am a widow and ! want to enlist your
cooperation in my almost daily protest
against being addressed as Mrs. Jessie L.
Brown instead of as Mrs. Charles H. Brown
/ contend that have as much right to my
dead husbands first name now as did
when he was living, that only divorce
loses the right to the use of the given name,
and that because confusion might result
in case Of the mans remarriage, but that
death changes no title of address To be
addressed as Mrs Jessie l. Brown is to me
annoying and emba rrassing, and I would
be thankful for any help in making the
continuation OF the husbands first name
universal R"'
great many years ago 1t was taken for
granted that when woman's husband died
she should at once crop his given name and
be known as " Mrs. Mary Smith . tor Mrs.
Jessie l.. Brown) instead of preserving her
husbands name as her own. Old customs
die hard and in out of the way districts YOU
ind the former habits persist. 1t would be
interesting to know the legal aspects OF
the case. / recollect distinctly only twenty
years ago hearing a brutal lawyer inform
newly made widow she was no longer
" Mrs John Smith, " and he added You're
not even Mrs now Whereupon nv
indignation got the better of me and de-
manded what she was. then. She surely
did not resume the title OF " Miss" / feel
as you do about tho right OF the wife to her
husbands siSen name, Whether he is alive
on the earth or not, and l confess to dis
liking the habit pf some married. women OF
using cards bearing their own first names
even while Their husbands are still living
How do our other Cornerf.es feel on the
Subject -...-. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Put Apau for Good.

During a long life / have known a few
people with remarkable memory for tho
the things they have put away. Irecollect
one man who when asked for paper from
a desk. which was apparently in inextrica-
BILE confusion would mediate for an instant
mo longer-and then reach In and draw
out of the piled up mass Just the thing he
wanted. But he was a wonderful exception
and put him along side of those librarians
who know the number OF a book as soon as
they hear its name. There are not enough
of them to furnish an argument against my
plea for system. .9
On the other hand. we have all of us seen
and Known countless examples of the other
sort of thing.
When your mother says she has put
thing away safely know that she'll never
find 1t again." heard man say of his wife.
and there is degree of truth in 1t as ap-
piled to her and to many of the rest of us-
Il know it is somewhere in the house, a
woman said to me the other day. Il put it
away myself and it is entirely safe. It's
not lost-only can't find it!''
1 was reminded of the old woman who de-
clared the tea kettle was not lost-she knew
exactly where it was--at the bottom of the
well! MY Irlenu s possession ulef ner ltti0
more good than the kettle did its owner.
Some women are born orderly. some
achieve orderiness. others have orderli-
ness thrust upon them by the necessity Of
saving time and effort which the lack of
regular habits takes from them The per-
sons who are born with tendency to put
things in place have little patience for
or understanding of those who were made
up without the bump of tidiness, and the
latter are prone to call the neat ones
fussy," old maidish." and harsher
names
What difference does it make IL don't
keep my room looking right and leave my.
things lying about?" queried a lad impa-
tiently. " 1t hurts no one but myself"
That might be the case with him. but
when the woman at the head of the house
yields to a weakness 1or untidiness she not
only offends against heavens first law and
sets an example to her children which is
bound to harm now and in the future. but
she also lessons her own ability to do good
work and establishes a habit of disorderly
living and thinking which II not checked
will run through and injure her whole char
acter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

stiff1y beaten whites of three eggs and whip
all the while till the mixture is white and
frothy. use only two whites. Turn into
ring mold and serve with sweetened
whipped cream in the center of mold. I do
not use the cream with it e. c. H"
Thank you for your recipe, which hail
myself as an excellent addition to my list
of fruit desserts. l think 1t might be still
finer If the center of the mold were filled
with ice cream, plain vanilla. instead of
with whipped cream. although the jelly
itself should be good enough IL eaten with
plain sweet cream. l see the possibilities
of this recipe with apples or other fruits,
fresh or canned
The other recipes to which you refer as
appearing in other issues of the paper are
usually found in the daily edition of the
paper, in which we have also Sunday
Corner.
hope the meatless dishes may be forth
coming before long. There are many of
them. and directions for some of them have
already been printed here-cheese combi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Worst Wap 10 Keep Recipes.

We cannot escape something of this sort
SO long as there are other members of orr
households who put things out of place, but
certain measure of it we can be spared
II we will adopt fixed localities and suffer
nothing to Interfere with our putting into
them the things that belong there.
Take the recipes, for instance. Tho
worst way in the world to preserve them
is by leaving them in the paper and trusting
to that being left where we put it, A news
paper seems to be looked upon as a pos
session owned by any one and every one
who wishes to take 1t. To be sure of the
recipe.it should be cut out at once and put
away securely.
But l can't do that" breaks in one of
my readers =" The others want to read the
paper and they don't like it if l cut some
hing out before they see it,"
Then have a blue pencil at hand and
mark the article you wish to clip out rnis
marking will not only show later readers
the paper is to be kept. but will aid you I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

name of the contents of the package to the
string with which the parcel or box is tied.
When the wrap or the thick frock or the
heavy underwear is needed in She fall there
is no frenzied hunting through a dozen
bundles to find what is in demand. There
is it's name and address, so to speak, ready
to your hand. Likewise mark the boxes
in which summer dresses and undergar-
ments are put away until warm weather
comes again. If the articles are packed
down in a trunk list of the things 1t con-
tains is written out clearly and pasted or
fastened with thumb tacks on the inside of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Chain of Helping Hands.

- want to thank you with all my heart
for having given my letter place in the
Corner. l never expected that my appeal
for friends, which made In my desperate
need, would be answered from SO many
places There seems to be whole chain Of
helping hands stretched out to me now
1T. b."
Do our Cornerites recollect the letter of
the lonely woman" which appeared on
our page some weeks ago? Iprint her com
munication now because the thanks she
offers area due to the constituency rather
than to me. = It helps our view Of human
nature to know that the cry of need brings
such swiftand satisfying response.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
KEEPING THINGS IN THEIR PLACES

n GREAT many years ago a charming
~ book for girls appeared entitled
"A Place for Everything and Ev-
erything in Its Place" Probably
many of my middle aged readers
may have read it and recall the story it
told of the disordery famil,' who kept all
their possessions at loose ends and of the
reform worked among them by means IF
visitors of neat habits.
The story is not the subject on which
was thinking as wrote the heading of this
talk. Instead my remarks are prompted
by the many letters receive from the me- =
beraa of our constituency asking for the
repetition of recipes which have appeared
in our Corner at some time or other Al
most all these requests are accompanied
by the same sort of explanation: +" l ut
out the recipe and meant to keep it, but it
has disappeared .; laid the paper with
the recipe in 1t to one side, but some one
threw it away -; meant to keep the
recipe. but before pasting day came around
some one picked 1t up and now L cant find
1t .; The children got hold of my news
papers and now l can't find the one with
the recipe l wanted"
The form of the story differs, but the
burden of each is the same. There was not
a set place for the recipes or the papers
containing them, hence the loss. And
every time / read the complaint wonder
again, p" Why do not busy housekeepers
learn the value of having place for every
thing and keeping everything in its placer"
by the time l have found the things
i am looking for haven't time to do any
thing with them," moaned a housokeeper
to me the other day.
Don't we all know what she meant?
Haven't we all sought for mislaid article
until we had no leisure left to use it after !,
1nally came to hand?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

Granted that it is a little more bother at
first, doesn't the scheme pay for itself in
the long run? have a friend who goes so
far that she not only has hanger on every
waist and skirt and frock she o ), ms, but has
the habit of invariably putting each one
on the same hook in the closet. She is a
married woman with children. too-not a
spinster.
You may call me an old maid all you
please she returned placdly one day to
some one who was jeering at her " slavery
to system" :" would rather be in bond
age to a habit which saves me work and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

book. since the indexed cards are easily
found and there is always space to intro
duce new recipes for the same dish.
But whether you use file for your recipes
or book. or lay them in envelopes or any
thing else, be immutable in your custom of
having always the one place for them, and
put them in it. Until you have tried this
plan you have no i,iea how much time and
worry and annoyance it will save you and
others,
Recipes are not the only thing for whic'
there should be a place if you wish to have
peace and comforts A busy woman with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Free Medical Treatment.

Gould you furnish me with the address
OF an institution in New York city that
makes a speciality Of children's ailments
free of charge? happen to know woman
whose circumstances do not permit her to
employ specialist, much as she would
like one for her month old infant, whose
condition is that of a month old baby
Mrs T. H. B."
There are fine clinics at most Of the large
New York and Brooklyn hospitals where
sick child can be treated free of charge
Also there is a child's hospital on Lexing-
ton avenue. with branch on the west side.
BY referring to the telephone book you
can find the address of either of these and
by inquiry over the telephone you can
secure the information as to the best place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
A Place
Cor
EverythinS
and

they alone belong and put them in this The
instant you have clipped them.
One of the best ways of preserving recipes
is by the card system. Buy the OF uinary
index cards and keep a package of them at
hand. As soon as you cut out your recipe
attach 1t to the card with sweep of your
paste brush, or pin it to the card with a
clip If you don't wish to take the time for
pasting. Then slip the card into the box !;
1t is there safely until you have time to put
1t in its classified place in your file. This is
really better than pasting the recipes in a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

town and when the cold weather arrives 1
do not have to waste any consideration
on my receipts There they are in that
drawer which has held them every sum-
mer for years. With them are my savings
bank book and one or two similar posses
sions which are not used every day or every
week, but which I want Immediately when
want them at all.
Try the same plan in other ways, and you
will be surprised at the saving it means to
you of thought and worry. I take it for
granted that you have bag or a drawer or
a box for your patterns. and another for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
ENerything
in 1tJ
Place.
cQ2zaO

worry than to wear myself out by having
to hunt up things as some people do. When
l want pair of shoes slippers 1 can
md them in the dark. because l know in
Just which pocket of my shoe bag have
tucked them. l didn't have to give myself
the task of learning the wherea bouts of
every article, either. / formed the habit
of always putting each thing where it be-
longed. and my knowledge of its place now
Is essentially mechanical. am not obliged
to stop and ponder where this or that
can he"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Blind Girl Wants Tppepriter.

write this for girl friend who hasa
been totally blind all her life. She has
learned typewritng at school, but she IL
financially unable to purchase machine.
Is there any one who could help ner with
one? f. l."
ls there any" sadder fate in the world
than blindness? Would not any of us do
anything possible to help one so afflicted!
biind-totally blind-alI her life! Who will
try to bring little light into her vear,1
days? 1 hold the address of her friend an,
VIII give It gladly to any one who has
idea Ct how typewriter can b eel
for ~ blind girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

Nearly every housekeeper worth the
name has a system of this kind in her
kitchen. and can put her hand at once on
the caddy with the tea or coffee or sugar.
can reach for the frying pan or the doubts
boiler or the strainer or anything else Of
the sort the need of the moment requires
Is 1t much more trouble to carry this order
illness into other parts of the home and
apply ii to clothes. to pieces. to newspaper
cuttings. to books-to anything else? Try
it and see
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

many cares on her mind can spare herself
an incalculable amount by making fixed
rule of invariably slowing certain articles
in their own niche. so that she never has to
spend time and thought wondering where
this special paper or book or pattern can
possibly be.
For example, when l go to the country
for the summer l send certain valuables
to the bank. also put my furs in storage.
The receipts for these always go into a
small drawer in my desk, and 1t is always
the same drawer When come back to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

your pieces-perhaps more than one,
have found that it simplified searching to
roll up the different kinds of scraps and
pin or tie them and then stow them in a
box or a drawer or arrange them on a shelf.
When 1 am looking for piece of some spe-
cial kind do not have to turn whole rag
bag upside down and inside out to find
what 1 want.
On the same principle Imark everything
l put up for the summer or the winter.
When have wrapped my woolens in cloths
I tag them. attaching the tag bearing the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

nations of various kinds, egg plant, stuffed
peppers. and tomatoes, bean dishes, salads,
and the like, but there is always room for
more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

she is pretty sure TO receive requests for
her directions Recipes for more than one
mode of making it have already appeared
and others will shortly be printed.
Makes Delicious Dessert.
inclose a recipe taken from maga-
zine which we think makes delicious des-
sert. l vary 1t by using different fruits,
leaving out the lemon in such cases. 1, too,
wish C. b, L. would send recipes for dishes
containing no meat. as I believe they
would prove helpful. You spoke recently
of certain recipes appearing in daily
paper and 1 wonder in what paper. Per-
haps other Cornerites would like to know.
Here is the recipe for peach trifie of which
l spoke:
Soften one-third of a box of gelatin
with one-third cup of cold water and dis
solve in one-third cup of boiling water
Add one cup of sugar and when dissolved
the juice OF one lemon and strain. When
cool add cup of fresh peaches put through
the ricer. AS it begins to harden add the