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The Washington times., 1913-10-21
LAUGHS GALORE N
COMEDY At BELASCO
Al JoIson, Et AL, in Honeymoon
Express" Delights an Over
flow House.

The Honeymoon Express" carrying
the Winter Garden Company, at the
Belasco this week, is all that it has
been heraldsd. and then some. Al
Jolson, a Washingtonian by birth
as well as by residence. up to the
time the footlights and burnt cork
called him. is the motive power that
keeps the express going along at the
rate of about 100 miles an hour for
almost three hours. The Honeymoon
Express played to one of the largest
houses last night that the local thea
ter world has seen this season. The au-
dience sat through three hours of enter
tainment such as but few, If any, have
done in a long time.
The Honeymoon Express is Pari-
sian entertainment, chock brimful of
music, Of vaudeville specialties, Of large
choruses having a change Of costume
for nearly every song, and a new song
for every few minutes; finished COM
pany, every member of which knows
how to put on a good show, and refined
humOr that produces a laugh at every
turn
A Company of Artists.
1t also carries a company of finished
actors and actresses Jack Storey, Don
aid Mcdonald, Earl Benham, Melville
Ellis, Harland Dixon, James Doyle. F.
Owen Baxter, Juliette DIka, Ray Samu-
els, Ada Lewis, Anna Wheaton, occupy
ing the principal positions in the spot
light, and chorus of something like
90 or 70 men and women who really take
an important part in the entertainment,
and keep the express going along at
breakneck speed.
The entertainment has been cleverly
staged. There are two or three scenes
deserving of special mention. The race
between a high-power motor car and
an express train over altitudinous noun
tains, ending with both the automobile
and the train stopping at the very edge
of the stage. is an optical illusion eN-
ceedingly deceptive There is Rus
sian dance by L. Pernicoff and Ethel
Rose, in which the chorus takes part,
that is entertaining. There is scene
in which Miss Ray Samuels appears
as q careless Spanish castanet singer
and dancer. backed by a Spanish-clad
chorus that is unusually captivating.
There are a dozen other equally as in
teresting parts in the mammoth pro-
duction.
Express" but the latter travels at such
a rate at times that the former IS left
behind and for the time is entirely for
gotten
Al Jolson the Star.
Al Jolson Is easily the feature of the
entertainment He shows conclusfvely |
that he is not a one-song, one-mono- |
iogue entertainer, but that he can go |
as far into the comedian way of enter |
tanning and get away with it as the |
next one. Ray Samuels, while suffer
ing from a cold, was able to bring |
many a laugh, while Ada Lewis and |
Melville Ellis, the latter piano player
of no little ability. furnished bit of
entertainment Juliette Dika, decidedly |
Partisan, and of the Anna Held type,
wore some pretty gowns. which showed
her physical beauty to the best advan-
tage.
The entertainment is in two acts and
six scenes. There is but little risQue or
daring in it, and, unquestionably, The
Honeymoon Express" Is one of the
cleyerest entertainments that Wash
ington will see this season.
The Washington times., 1913-10-21
Delicious ':fruit laxative
cleanses stomach, liver
and bowels.

a harmless cure for sick headache.
biliousness, sour stomach. constipation.
Indigestion, coated tongue. sallowness-
take California Syrup of Figs" For
the cause Of all such misery comes from
torpid liver. and sluggish bowels.
\ tablespoonful tonight means all
constipation poison, waste matter. fer
menting food and sour bile gently
The Washington times., 1913-10-21
Not Tango Teacher.

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-"Tm no tango
instructor" wrote Alderman Brad
shaw, in declining Mayor Harrisons s
offer of a job on a dance committee
for cafes and dance halls.
The Washington times., 1913-10-21
Youthful Thief Repents.

CHICAGO. Oct 21.-"Do you want
to break your mothers heart" Mrs.
J. F. Waughop asked a youthful hold
up artist, who took her watch and
81 The robber returned the watch.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
First Curtain In Use,

A window is an aperture in an 9TH
wise unbroken wall. 1.-THE said
aperture-was invented for at least
two reasons, one to provide air and
the other to enable the light to pene-
trate the cell, thus saving candles,
coal oil, gas or electricity, as the case
and community and time may be. No
hotel proprietor even invented the
window. No record exists Of the age
or origin of the window, but common
sense teaches us that some caveman
started the custom of windowing hab-
itations by poking hole through the
clay wall Of his residence and finding
the resultant light and air good to
see and to feel. Whereupon Mrs.
Cavedweller shifted contemptuously
and fastened the branch of fig tree
over the newly invented window in
such a way as to keep out as much
light as possible.
whats that?" inquired the head of
the cave.
That's a curtain" was the not un-
certain answer.-Pearson' Weekly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
HAIR CAME OUT IN BUNcHES

S13 E. Second St., Muncie, Ind.-"My
little girl had a bad breaking out on
the scalp. It was little white Jumps.
The pimples would break out as large
as common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run yel-
low matter. She suffered nearly a year
with itching and burning. 1t was sore
and itched all the time The matter
that ran from her head was very thick.
did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb 1t, and
when 1 did comb, it came out in
punches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
Il tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could get to stop it. began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after sent for
the free samples. I used them and
they did so much good bought cake
of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. I washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment in the scalp every two
weeks. A week after had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully" (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson, Dec. %, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
Strong Arqument.

Pianos on the instalment principle
was his theme. You pay three dollars
a week and torture the neighbors.
AS he knocked gently at one door
he suddenly remembered he had been
here before and received a curt re-
fusal. This time it was different, says
the New York Mail
"Oh, it's you again, is it?" asked the
housewife cordially. Come in. won't
you?"
Full of hope he entered and fol
lowed her down dimly lighted hall
She threw open a door and he walked
in, to hear the key click sharply in
the lock behind him.
He was locked in a room with five
children, all bowling, who beat even
their own records at the sight of
stranger
And the woman resumed her wash
ing.
An hour later she came. to his res
cue.
Now" she said sweetly, IF you
still think l need more music in this
house, l am ready to listen to you"
But he had gone before she had fin
ished
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
EARLY DAYS OF ANTHRACITE

Anthracite as n fuel was once a
much doubted novelty. William Endi
colt, a well'known and highly respect,
ed citizen OF Boston, now eighty-seven
years old, lately read a paper OF rem
iniscence in which he told this story:
Somewhere In the early '3Os ru.
mors had reached Beverly that In
Pennsylvania or elsewhere anthracite
coal was coming into use as fuel. IL.
order TO make trial OF 1t FIVE or six
gentlemen Joined together and sent to
Boston for cartload, there being no
railway.
From my fathers quota l remember
a lump of about the size of a peck
measure which he placed in the open
fireplace and heaped about It an as
sortment OF pine and hard woods.
These burned very well, but had no
effect upon the coal, even with re-
peated trials. Considerable fuel was
burned upon that occasion, but It was
not coal
Some little time later, when a crate
had been installed in the fireplace and
good fire was burning in 1t. an old
gentleman came in to view the novel
spectacle. After looking at it intently
for a few minutes he remarked that
1T looked expensive" and retired
from the scene. Little did he think
that his sage conclusion would be
quoted after the lapse of three-quar-
ters OF century and then, perchance,
put in type and possibly read a cen.
tury or two later.-The Outlook.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
GOOD ROADS FOLLOW FLOOD
Ohio Catastrophe Promises to Result
In Much Better Highways in
That Section.

The truth Of the old saying, ITS an
i'll wind that blows no one good" is
no less well demonstrated, following
the great food that swept over Ohio
and Indiana than it has been after
every disaster the world has seen. In
the presnt case those who advocate
the transportation of merchandise by
motor trucks instead of by horse and
wagon, or rail methods, are the ones
who see a great good come out of
the flood, though they were no less
sympathetic with its victims or
prompt in coming to their relief than
any others in the United States.
1t is the reconstruction Of roads
sweep of waters that the motor truck
advocates are to benefit, according to
Vice-President G. w. Bennett of the
Garford company of Elyria, o. With
the work of rebuilding washed-out
roads and bridges completed, Ohio
and Indiana will have some Of the
best truck highways in the country,
says Mr. Bennett, basing his state
ment on information lately received
from Garford truck dealers in all
parts of the flooded district.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
convlots coIIene students

More than so convicts are enrolled
at the State Agricultural college of
-lnhattan, taking the various courses
offered at the college. They are, so
far as is known, the only convict col
lege students in the United States.
Few, if any, of the convicts have ever
seen the college building, and it will
be some time before any of them can
see it, but nevertheless they are en-
rolled students doing regular work.
All the convict college students are
inmates of the United States peniten-
tiary here. They do their class work
in their cells, and mail their lesson pa
pers. to the college for correction.
Some of the convicts are studying ag-
riculture, some civil engineering, 9th.
ers mechanics, and some are studying
dairying. Nearly all of the students
enrolled in the agricultural or dairy
courses are men employed on the
prison farm or in the dairy.-Leaven-
worth Dispatch to New York Times.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
THE CALENDAR STONE

The famous Aztec calendar stone,
now in the National Museum of Mex
leo, is block of basalt weighing 25
tons and having a diameter of IL feet.
Encircling the head Of the sun god is
a diadem bearing hieroglyphics rep
resenting the divisions of time and the
Aztec method of numbering the years.
The humber Of days in their year was
365, as in ours. Each year had a diff
ferent emblem repeated every four
years. The first year was called
Tochtli. or rabbit; the second, Acatel
or reed; the third, Teepal, or flint; the
Eourth, CALI, or house. The years
we're further arranged by thirteen,
four such periods making Mexican
age.
When the City of Mexico was taken
by Cortez in 1921 and the great tenn
PIE destroyed the calendar stone was
eft in the square. 1t was buried In
a555 and not recovered again until
lZ90.-Popular Mechanics
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
THE LURE OF THE WEST
WESTERN CANADA ATTRACTING
THOUSANDS OF SETTLERS.

Writing on the Canadian West, an
eastern exchange truthfully says:
"The West still calls with imperar
tive voice To prairie and mountain,
and for the Pacific Coast, Ontario's
young men and women are attracted
by tens OF thousands yearly. The
great migration has put an end 10 the
fear freely expressed not many years
ago by those who knew the West from
the lakes to the farther coast Of Van
couver Island, that Canada would
some day break in two because Of the
predominance of Continental European
and American settlers In the West"
This is true. While the immigra-
tion from the United States is large,
running close to 10000 a year, that OF
the British Isles and Continental
Europe nearly twice that number, max.
ing a total Of 100000 per year, there
is a strong influx from Eastern Can
ada. 1t is not only into the prairie
provinces that these people go, but
many of them continue westward, the
glory of British Columbias great trees
and great mountains, the excellent
agricultural valleys, where can be
grown almost all kinds of agriculture
and where fruit has already achieved
prominence. Then the vast expanse
Of the plains attract hundreds OF thou
sands, who at once set to work to cul-
tivate their vast holdings. There is
still room, and great opportunity in
the West. The work OF mans hands,
even in the cities with their record
breaking building rush, is the small
est part of the great panorama that
is spread before the eye on journey
through the country. Nature Is still
supreme, and man is still the divine
pigmy audaciously seeking to impose
his will and stamp his mark upon an
unconquered half continent.
The feature that most commends
Itself in Western development today
is the "home-making spirit" The
West will find happiness in planting
trees and making gardens and build
ing schools and colleges and uniVersi-
ties, and producing a home environ
ment so that there will be no disposi-
tion to regard the country as a TEN.
porary place Of abode in which every
one is trying to make his pile prepar-
atoTy to going back East or becoming
a lotus-eater beside the Pacific.
The lure Of the West is strong. It
will be still stronger when the crude
new towns and villages of the plains
are embowered in trees and vocal
with the song Of birds.-Advertise
ment.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
PARTNERS IN BUSINESS
ONE WoMAN's IDEA OF MODERN
coNNuBlAL RELATIONS.
Cooperation In the Home She Puts
Forward as a Panaoea for Matr-
monial Troubles, and She 10
Experienced.

Since women have come to play so
active a part in the world of work the
necessity has arisen to consider the
home as business institution" says
Mrs. Ida T. Upshaw, superintendent of
the bureau of domestic relations, con
nected with the department OF chari-
ties Mrs Upshaw is constantly called
upon to consider other persons domes.
tic troubles, and In many instances
to aid In Strengthening out a family
struggle. So she should be qualified
10 judge Of the elements necessary to
make a successful home.
1T is not necessary in the very poor
homes to advise business co-opera-
tion. In these homes they are obliged
to figure closely to make both ends
meet They practice every day strin-
gent domestic economy that they have
learned by hard experience. It is the
homes of the middle class where train
ing is lacking. The young women
have gone from their schoolrooms
directly to the Office and from the
Office to their new homes as brides,
with responsibilities thrust suddenly
upon them of which they know little
or nothing. Frequently they are pitt
fully ignorant Of even the simplest
household economies.
"On the husbands part the begin
ming Is made in just as sad a way.
Not one man out of ten, as a rule, has
the slightest idea of what it costs to
maintain a home, outside of the rent
and, possibly, the gas bill; even in the
latter item he is sometimes far
wrong. The young men come from
homes where things have been taken
care Of by mother, who has learned
her lesson years ago, or from hotel
or boarding house, where problems Of
the house we're never presented to
them.
Cooperation is necessary in the
home. When a young husband hands
the wife a certain amount of money
each week for the maintenance OF the
family, and she finds 1t not enough,
the trouble begins, although the wife
may have done her best. The domes-
tic relations court is continually hear
ing cases based on that trouble.
Housekeeping is the woman's field;
once upon a time it was her undis-
puted domain. But it would be we'll
for men to understand the science OF
domestic economy. If they did it
would go a long way toward avoiding
domastfc vuropgIae
The time must come when educa-
tional institutions will recognize that
a business partnership of husband and
wife is necessary; then there will be
taught to men and women alike the
science of domestic economy. 1t will
not only keep their money affairs in
order, but it will hold husband and
wife closer together. The sense of a
common interest in the home has
saved many a family from dissolu-
ton.
ITO caution young married people to
live within their means is proper
enough, but they should at the same
time be taught how to economize.' -
Boston Globe.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
A New Metal.

Some remarkable qualities are
claimed for steelite. a new metal
which is composed of rs per cent. of
cobalt and the remainder of chro-
MUM. 1t may be cast and ground to
a fine edge, is impervious to rust and
the action of acids and highly flexible
AS lathe tool it will cut steel at the
rate of 200 feet minute, a speed at
which steel would ordinarily burn
Certain notifications Of this alloy will
cut glass and even quartz crystals
Steelite is said to be particularly suit
able for watch fittings.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
SHIPS OF CONCRETE

A 5O0-ton concrete scow, says an ex-
change, was recently launched at Bal
timore, Md. 1t is 10 feet long, 2S feet
wide and has a depth of 10 feet 6
inches. Others, built before this one,
have shown a large saving in repairs
over wooden craft. 1t is claimed by
the builders that concrete vessels will
ultimately create a revolution in ship
construction. The Italians have al
ready made use of concrete vessels
and have found them practicable, 1t is
stated. Indeed, they seem to be Of ex-
ceptlonally stout build, for one of
them, rammed by small war cruiser,
showed no other injury but a crack,
which it was quite possible to repair
successfully. This accidental test
gave the constructor much satisfac-
tion.-Outlook.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
ANCIENT STAY-BUSKS

The illustration shows four eight
eenth century, English busks. The
busk or bone" as 1t was sometimes
called, was inserted in the front of
the stays and appears to have been
visible throughout its length, being
held in position by the laces. Objects
of this kind are not only of interest
on account Of their rarity, but be-
cause they illustrate indigenous of
folk art. They are not made by skill
ed craftsmen nor produced in fac
tories in standardized sizes and pat
terms by the aid of machinery, but
fabricated by ordinary, untutored men
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
Cause and Effect.

A witty bishop Of one of the south
ern dioceses of the Protestant Epis-
copal church was being shown
through a small college, to whose
board of trustees he had been elected.
1t was a summer day, and as the epis-
copal party crossed the campus, the
bishop noticed scores of students who
had flung themselves on the grass
and lay there sleeping. The scene
suggested picture of a battlefield.
entitled After the Charge
The dean, his companion. opened
a classroom door. A particularly
prosy professor was holding forth.
This, bishop. is math,." he said in
the college lingo.
'Ah, yes" said the bishop. He
pointed to the sleeping students. And
this. suppose, is aftermath"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
LAKE OF PURE SODA

A lake of pure soda, Lake Magadl,
IN East Africa, was recently visited
by an Italian scientist. The lake at
distance appears to be of water. It's
surface is solid and dazzlingly white.
The lake comprises thirty square
miles, and at present considerable
quantity of soda is daily taken from
it, while a railway is under construc-
ton from the lake to the Uganda rail-
way. When the railway is completed
It is expected that Lake Magadi will
supply soda to the world.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13

Perhaps the most important of
waste fuels in the United States has
been spent tanbark. A rough estimate
would indicate that this material gen
Grated few years ago an amount Of
steam that would have otherwise re-
quired the yearly consumption Of
about 100000 tons of high grade coal.
Yet this valuable fuel was at one time
considerd a mere detriment and an
expense to the leather industry. It
was disposed Of by dumping it into
rivers, filling in waste ground and by
making roads with it, often necessitat-
ing the paying out of large sums for
its disposition. This strikingly illus
trates case of how the improvement
of furnace converted a hitherto sup
posed combustible into a valuable
waste fuel of the auto-combustible
class, and shows how an enormous
waste was converted into an equally
great economy.-Engineer Maga-
zine.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
TWINS A PAIR

Birth records have been shattered
by the wife Of workingman at Bar
row, Lancashire. February "a she gave
birth to a son. Another child-a girl
was born six weeks later. From a
medical point of view the children are
twins. but the law may not regard
them such. Under the insurance act
the father is entitled to a maternity
benefit Of $3.50. If the children are
not adjudged to be twins he will be
entitled to receive twice $3.50. The
law counts them as one If they are
twins.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
OWL PLAYS THE PIANO

Hearing the notes Of his piano
struck first UP the keys and then
down, Ernest Lemmy of st. Pauls
road, Peterborough, peeped through
the opSSa door and discovered that
the player was his pet owl. The owl
would step ON key and then listen
attentiveIy to the sound. 1t tried
another and another, and seemed
highly pleased with the noise it was
making. When 1t got to the upper
end OF the piano and found Il was
pnly the black and white keys which
,ounded, 1t started back again and
sounded all the notes until 1t reached
the last in the bass.--I4ondon Mail.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
Way With Most Of Us.

Mayor Gaynor, at a dinner in New
York, discussed the arguments of a
very young and very cocksure lawyer
This young chap from the country, "
said the mayor. would do well to fol
low-instead of trying to lead-older,
wiser, and more experienced men than
himself. But"
The mayor sighed whimsically.
"Heigho!" he said. Some men
never have any respect for gray hairs
till after they've acquired a few Of
their own"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
DIG UP CANNON BALL

An iron cannon ball was unearthed
by the greenkeepers on a golf course
at Perth, few days ago. The men
were engaged on some excavations on
the course when they found the ball
about six feet below the surface of
the ground The missile, which meas
ured Is inches in circumference, was
deeply embedded in the trap rock,
and had suffered little from oxidation,
being secure from the disintegrating
effect of the atmosphere.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-06-13
MILLIONS OF TELEPHONES

There are said to be 100000 tele-
phone stations in the United States,
and the amount of wire made use Of
totals 100000 miles. Some idea
of what this total means may be grasp
ed when we calculate that this length
of wire could be wrapped around the
earth 500 times, and that it would
make so separate lines from the earth
to the moon, but there would not be
half enough wire to reach from the
earth to our nearest planetary neigh
bor. Venus.