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Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-29
Foot MuHa

For those who sit outdoors In cold
weather-and. of course, for the mo-
torist-a foot mum Is indeed q COM
fort. These are usually of leather,
fur lined. Some are fitted with an
electric or hot water foot warmer.
There Ia an opening just large enough
so the feet will slip in easily. and
around this opening Ia a border OF
long haired fur. which is a decided
help in keeping the ankles warm.
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Just how long a time will elapse
before ~fur-bearing animals are wiped
OF the face OF the earth Is q perth
nent question. For furs are becoming
more and more luxurious. more and
more extravagantiy used. with the re-
currence OF winter. There seems no
limit to the demand.
Great results are accomplished with
moieskin. squirrel and above all musk
rat. The prolific rabbit supplies many
\ pelt which 10 changed by the furrier
into something new and strange past
all recognition.
Luxurious coats and furs from
French establishments Are pictured
here. Above everything else women
appear to love the luxury of rich flrs.
They are alluringly beautiful and so
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Peppcr Nuts.

Take four cupfuls Of fine sugar,
eight eggs. stirring them for nearly
one-half hour. Beat whites by them
selves; rind of two lemons, two tea
spoonfuis of baking powder. flour
enough to roll. two ~teaspoonfuis of
cinnamon. one t%easpoonful of ground
cloves, one teaspoon Of allspice. one
grated nutmeg. Cut them into any
desired shape and put two drops of
lemon Juice on each cake. Let S:and
over night and in the morning urn
over anG bake.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-29

A man went Into a store the other
day carrying a tin bucket. 1.-THE fel-
low claimed that when | sold 1t to him
] guaranteed 1t for ten years" said the
dealer. He hadn't had II but six
years. and 1t was all battered up. He
wanted q new one, / went and got
him one without Il word. / had no
desire to argue with a man who had a
memory like that."-Kansas City
Times.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-29

Paris fashions fastest edict Is an
evening cap Of green taffeta covered
over with heavy lace. which in turn
is studded with scintillating beads. At
the sides. above the ears, lace and
beads are gathered Into Q rosstte from
which are suspended three clusters
Of beads to represent the long droop-
Ing earrings 80 much In vogue.
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To Clean Msrbis.

When marble Is discoiored by grease
or any stain, mix two parts of common
washing soda with one part OF chalk
and one of ground pumice stone. Have
all finely powdered and mix into a
paste with water. Rub 1t well over
the marble and a few hours later wash
OF with plain soar and water.
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BEAUTY SPOTS ALL IN BACK
Novel Trimming Effects Seen In This
Seasons Costumes Among tho
Uitra-F ashionabIe,

Trimming effects are all In the
back this season. II one may judge
from the clothes One sometimes sees,
and here Is a girl who proves 1t.
The curling purple feathers of the
chic derby crown hat follow a trail
around the brim and decided to stay
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comfortable, They are constantly ad-
vanctng in price. Really good furs.
therefore. II well cared for. will prove
a good investment.
There Is nothing which Is quite 30
cleveriy Initiated ~funlsss II Ia pre-
cious stones) as furs. Decides the fur
riers the manufacturers of pushes
have made limitations OF fur IN plush
that will make one look closely twice
to be sure they are not the real thing.
They are much worn by fashionable
people and r made UP as elaborate
iy A. real furs. When bought ready
made they must be conceded to be
expensive. They may be made at
home with q modest expenditure Of
money and time,
JULIA soTTomLEY.
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Haxty indian PUDDING,

Four cups corr fakes n cup mo-
lasses, Y teaspoon. salt. u teaspoon
ginger. Q large cups milk, 1 egg. a lit
tie nutmeg; dot top with butter and
bsks till set and a little brown. like
custard. To be eaten with hard sauce
mr. orAHn
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tilted way over to the back, where
they daily with the satin rosette and
streamers of the dainty maline neck
frill. Then there is a sash set just
at the proper angle of the left side
back. and q ROY of big bead trimmed
buttons, weighing down the bottom OF
the flonr.length charmeuse skirt.
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Tho Gossip,

You seem TO know a great deal
about Mrs. Wombat's affairs. l didn't
know that you moved in the same
circle"
we have the same laIindress.' said
the other lady guardedly.-Pittsburgh
lost.
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n ahe Quotes.

During the conrtship Il girl quotes
poetry to a man. After marrying him
she quotes what he used to say to her
before they faced the parson.-Chicago
News.
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Mrs. Church-Are your children be-
ing brought up to help themselves?
keep a particle Of jam In the house
more than q day!-Yonkers Statesman.
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Foolish Worry.

Foolish people begin, as soon as TO-
days tasks are done. TO worry about
the work they will have to do tomor-
row.-Chicago neeord-Herald.
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When we look upon a glorious land
ecape, 1t is every blads OF grass. ev-
cry minute detail that counts In the
make up Of the bsautifuL--Stanley J.
Dark.
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You'll find the worker best qualified to serve you-not by
hiring some one to oblige a friend, but by personally deciding
between the applicants who answer your "help wanted" adj
See page eight.
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Nature knows no paus In progress
and development and attaches her
curse TO all inaction.
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AL the news for 10 cents q week.
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This Coupon must accompany the
order.
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The Man who Was Progressively Pleasant
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He entered the real estate office and said she had been told thayh
a small house to rent.
The three men seated there looked from one to the ohe
Evidently they didn't want to be disturbed. Perhaps they were We
To the woman. thew ere q brand 10y specie of eal estate agent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29

are confined to the neighborhood. These
recreations consist of the games at school.
a little baseball, an occasional spelling
bee and singing school, and frequent log
rollings, husking bees and square dances.
The old folks share in these sports and
have few of their own besides such as
quilting bees and barn raisings. 1t is
worth noting that nearly all these recre-
atoms combine work with pleasure and
represent form of cooperation pos
sible only in stable population among
families that have known each other for
q considerable length of time.
1t Is possible for young man in this
community to save enough money to buy
a small farm by the time he is 23 or "a
or If he has not saved enough he can
usually borrow enough to make the pur-
chase. On such prospects a young man
can afford to marry. The average age
of marriage in this township Is 10 for the
woman and % for the man.
Now suppose the price of land be doubled
without the farmers income being dou-
bled; that is, double his capital without
increasing his interest. Important results
follow
The age of marriage il raised. A Young
man who can afford to buy land at 500 an
acre finds it more difficult to purcha Sc
at $40. He will have to save longer. and
his girl. will have to wait for him, if she
marries him at all. Whereas, when land
was $40 an acre they might have "set up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29

Professor Adolf Wagner is the most
distinguished German who breaches state
interference in all things. There are
other Germans not quite so distinguished
who go considerably farther still. Rigi-
der tories, who want to put every So
cialist in jail, boldly proclaim ultra So
cialist doctrine For instance. DR.. Goeren,
a prominent member OF the imperial
league against socialists, demands that
the universal state shall take the ques-
tions of private morality into it's compe-
tence. 'That will be the only way of
regulating the baseness and excesses of
a commercial age" The state ought not
only to punish crimes which injure the
public, or threaten its security; 1t ought
also drastically to punish private wicked
ness such as ingratitude, lack of respect
for parents, and SO on. 1.-The state must
not be content to punish the man who
steals. 1t must punish the man who re-
fuses to help former benefactor. The
state must begin to see things which are
outside the vision of the existing state
II must cease merely regulating matters
which come automatically to it's cogni-
zance as public authority. 1t must make
1t it's function to watch, discover and
eradicate ill.,
That Is the ideal OF the universal state.
Naturally its opponents are as convinced
as its propasandists. A prominent opA
ponent is Prof. Ludwig Bernhard, who
teaches political science at Berlin uni
versity, and who has just issued a book
on 1.-THE Undesirable Results" which are
the fruits of too mucn state meddlig.
Prof. Bernhard foresees doleful age
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marck's plans for state railroad owner
ship were condemned as "socialistic,'
although now state railroads are re-
garded as matter of course. The ex-
treme demands of today are the conf
monplaces of tomorrow The coming
state will not hesitate to control the
disposal of private property. 1t will
even go so far as to instruct rich indi-
viduals how they may and how they
may not invest their wealth. The state
will impose heavier and heavier taxes
on the rich, and the rich may threaten
to evade the states demands by invest
ing their wealth abroad, or by taking
themselves and wealth together out of
Germany. Wagner declares that the
state has right to forbid this. 1t will
forbid the investing of capital abroad.
and will even punish as criminals men
who break its rules This means also
that the state will forbid it's own citi-
zens to emigrate. or to change their
citizenship; and from these extreme
measures Wagner does not shrink.
The conservative chair socialist
state which Wagner foresees will nat
urally make war on orthodox socialist
doctrine, and defend monarchy and
army and church. But that will not
prevent it from borrowing the favorite
clothes of the socialists. Wagner stands
here for the appropriation of private
enterprises to the state. He prefers,
he says, the state as monopolist to the
private corporation as monopolist. The
state and the municipality will tate
over enterprises freely the moment they
see the threatening of any public or
private interest In the competence of
the state to work any business effl-
cheney Wagner does not doubt. He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29
D THE PRICE OF LANDRY Fred Eastman

schools and churches and community in
stitutions of any sort.
Not only does the attendance and en-
rollment or membership of these institu-
tions drop often to fraction of their
former number, but there is less money
to support them. Schools and churches
are supported on profits When the
farmers interest Is decreased his profits
are decreased. With the decline of these
institutions goes the decline of community
spirit, witnessed in the passing of COM
munity recreations, community gather
ngs and community pride. The spelling
bees. the singing schools, the husking
and quilting bees, the square dances, the
log rollings and the barn raisings be-
come things of the past
Those healthful sports that graced the
peaceful scene
Lived in each look and frightened all
the green,
These far departing seek kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no
more.
Morals do not flourish in such a stag
nant environment.
This very thing has taken place i'm the
United States In the last 12 years, and
the condition described is the condition
prevailing in the average township today
Farm land has increased 108 per cent in
price, and the farmers income has not
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bition is that of the orthodox socialists;
to NEEDLE and regulate.
The "chair socialists have been rec
ognized school of thinkers since 1871. In
that year a handful of Berlin professors
boldly abjured the then fashionable Man
chester school of "laisser faire" in econ
omy and social practice. Today the 'chai
socialists" are more active than ever,
and are busily preaching the doctrine of
the universal state
Greatest of state interference enthu
siasts is Professor Adoly Wagner of
Berlin. Wagner celebrated his seventy
eighth birthday last month; he is the
nestor of German political thinkers. 1t
is 55 years since he first occupied a
professional chair, and 1t is AZ years
since, in a revolutionary lecture de-
livered at Berlin, he founded the COM
munity of chair socialists. 1t was this
lecture which set minds thinking of
state interference as the cure for So
cial ills, and indirectly strongly influ-
enced Bismarck in his plans for state
railway ownership, state labor insur-
ance and state regulation of factory
work. AS the result of his initiative
Wagner has had the satisfaction of
seeing the once supine, indifferent state
invading more and more domains every
year. But Wagners demands have no
limits. He has now issued pamphlet
which contains his political-social tes-
lament, and which proclaims that in
the near future the German state must
seek fresh domains 20 neddle in. and
must exert over persons and purses a
control which would have been con-
demned as visionary 40 years ago.
Wagners theory rs that the state
must not stop at any form OF interfer-
ence He relates that in 1875, Bis
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ing, and the harmonizing of the human
character It's original purpose was
sacred. To this end it was employed by
the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Chal-
deans, the Jews, and the nations of the
world generally. The Reg-veda. most
probably the Oldest document in existence,
one of the sacred books OF the Hindu
religion, is a collection of hymns supposed
to have been sung in the remote past to
the gods.
The hymns of Christianity at the begin
ming were very simple, as was the music
of the early church. but with its growth
in influence and in numbers gradually It's
music became more and more elaborate.
Eusebius says: There was one common
consent in chanting forth the praises of
Goo. The performance of the music was
exact, the rites of the church were
decent and majestic. and there was a
place appointed for those who sang
psalms, for youths and virgins, old men
and young
From this Ia ter custom, namely, ap-
pointing a place for those who We're to
sing as well as the appointment of sing
ers the church choir finally arose, with
voices and instrumental aids to lead the
musical parts of divine worship. Whether
or not the choir. an institution, has
added to the sacredness of church music
is question that has been discussed
through the ages. In the Eastern church
the canticles are rendered by the priest
and people appointed to sing: the congre-
cation Is not expected to join in the music,
which is unaccompanied by any instru-
ment.
How subtle is the satire of George Eliot
in Felix Holt, in chapter xiii, when she
has occasion to speak of the choir of the
wood. deacon and grocer, expresses his
most pious conviction thus: L cannot but
think it snare when processing Chris
tian has a bass voice like Brother
Kemp's. 1t makes him desire to be heard
of men; but the weaker song of the hum
BILE may have more power in the ear of
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even goes farther than some German
socialists who lately have made peace
publicly with the conception of the pri-
vate ownership of industries.
Wagner goes so far as the EXTREMIST
socialists when he promulgates the idea
of "the tax" Tax" in the European
continental sense. is not an impost
levied for revenue. 1t is the fixing of
prices by public authority, combined
with the imposition of penalties on all
who demand higher prices than the
tax" Wagner holds that the COM
ing universal state will regulate COM
petition and prevent abuses by adopt
ing this drastic expedient. Tho state,
for instance, will not tolerate gambling
in food prices. 1t will simply determine
and proclaim the prices at which the
main necessaries of life may be sold.
There are difficulties, says Wagner,
but the fixing of prices is essential if
the general scheme of state lnterfer-
ence is to work harmoniously.
With individual caprices and humors
wagner's universal state will have no
patience 1t will boldly regulate luxury,
even if it has to return to the system
of sumptuary laws. AS a result of the
increase of wealth, complains Wagner,
there is excessive luxury in eating,
dressing dwelling, amusement and trav-
cling. The time has come for the state
to prevent this. The state of the future
will say to the individual what is a rea-
sonable expenditure on eating, dressing,
housing amusements, and travelling, and
the well regulated. docile individual will
obey. He must obey, for the one resource
flight with his money to some less regu-
lated and-will be prevented by the vigi-
liant state.
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when Germans will be will-less tools. He
declares that state tutelage and popular
pupilage are injuring the national fibre.
and making the people dishonest, feeble
and false. Already. he says, state med
ding has gone to extremes. Officials
compete in their zeal to issue new regu-
!ations; factory worlSmen have their every
step regulated, and are so overwhelmed
with prohibitions that they now assume
right to do everything which the state
does not specifically forbid. The results
are multiplication OF bureaucrats; con-
fusion of authority; endless litigation over
the rights, duties and competence of Of
ficials, and a sapping of the public fibre.
Tho multiplication of officials, other
critics complain, dimnishes the produc-
tive forces of the nation. German coal
mines have attached to them five times
as many state officials as have American
coal mines and four times as many as
English coal mines. Altogether includ-
ing state railway servants and municipal
officials and workmen, there are nearly
100000 Germans in public employment,
and only a small proportion of thefh are
engaged in productive work. 1.-The rest
are engaged regulating, writing regula-
tions, copying regulations, disputing over
regulations, having regulations inter-
preted by the courts. and If their bodies
were dissected after death they would
have the word regulation engraved on
their hearts" Bernhard, who shares this
unfavorable view, shows. however, how
the remedy for the universal state is more
OF the universal state. He Is not sure
that the remedy will succeed. But he
shows that the state is daily called upon
to intervene in order to repair some i'll
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God" Felix Holt questioned. DO you
thing 1t any better vanity to flatter your
self that God likes to hear you, though
men don't?" Mr.. Nuttwood dislilIed Felix
Holt, and made a curt reply. Holt then
added, "Tollow the light of the old fash
ioned Presbyterlans that I have heard
sing at GLASGOW. The preacher gives out
a psalm, and then everybody sings a
different tune. as it happens to turn up
in their throats. It's domineerlng thing
to set a tune and expect everybody else
to follow it. It's denial of private judg
ment." Mr.. Nuttwood was shocked at
the levity of Felix Holt In the sad story
of Amos Barton, in Scenes from Clerical
Life, George Eliot gives a description of
the choir of Shepperton church, closing
her account of the choir's work with the
following: "But the greatest tiiumphs
of the Shepperton choir were reserved
for the Sundays when the slate announced
an anthem, both words and music lying
far beyond the reach of the most ambi-
tous amateur in the congregation-an
anthem in which the key-bugles ran away
at q great pace. while every now and
then the bassoon doomed flying shot
after them"
But to return. One element of the sa :
| credness of music must not be overlooked.
Nothing else on earth so certainly awak-
ems sacred associations and memories as
music A song, mere bar of forgotten
lyric. that was sung in the far off years,
heard today sends the mind fiuttering
back to the scenes of youth and child
hood just as unerringly as lonely bird
flies to it's nest when the shadows of the
day lengthen. Back, back, does memory
fly on the wings of song TO the home of
childhood's happy time, to the friends of
other days, and to the dear forms of loved
ones whose voices sang the old songs
that now we hear againl All, I'm a
happy child again. and look into eyes
that look back love into mine, and hear
dear voices again that have long been
hushed in the profound silence of DEATH
whenever hear "Lorena," Ever of Thee
I'm Fondly Dreaming Her Bright
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increased in proportion. The average age
of marriage has risen throughout the
great majority of our rural districts. So
cial life is In stagnant condition. Over
a third of our counties show a decrea Sc
In their rural population. The enrolment
in the average one-room country school
Is about half what 1t was 10 years ago:
the membership of the country churches
has been steadily decreasing. The old
forms OF recreation have passed away.
The facts are not propounded for the
benefit of the "pessimists' club" but
rather to point to certain underlying eco
nomic causes of rural decay, and to sup
gest to those of us who are working
for the repair of rural life that we en-
deavor first to remove these economic
causes. If the farming population is to
be a settled population. If 1t is to hold
its young men on the farm, 1t must be
made possible for these young men to
procure land of their own at an early
age, and the income of the farmer must
be made to keep pace with the rise in
the price of his land. Either his pro-
duction must be increased or the price
that he receives for his crops or both
The morals OF the community demand
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