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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
HONESTY HAD ITS LIMITS
Woman Desisted Temptation for a
Time, But Finally Proved Her.
self Human.

Somebody on the back platform
dropped bundle A woman saw it
and picked it up. She was an honest
woman; nevertheless she opened the
package. 1t contained waist pattern
Of very pretty silk. When she saw
that she thanked her guardian angel
she had been created honest.
IF | had been an ordinary dishon-
est thing" she told her husband, Il
should keep this silk as sure as any
thing and make it up for myself"
But since you aren't" SAID the
man, what are you going to do with
ft?'
ooh, take it back to the lost and
found department of the store where
it was bought. The purchaser will
probably inquire for it there"
One evening about two weeks later
the woman appeared at dinner in
new waist.
Hello" said the man admiringly,
seems to me l have seen that before.
Isn't it something like the piece of silk
you found?"
1t is just like it. sighed the wom-
an. 1T is the same piece. took it
to the lost and found department, but
I'll couldn't stand it. went around
the next day and asked for it my
SELF"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
Perpetual Motion.

Alderman Curran of New York city
worked his way through Yale college.
During his course, he was kept very
busy by the various jobs he did to help
with his expenses On graduation. he
went to New York, and was even
buster than he had been in New Haven.
After some months of life in New
York, friend met him, and said:l
Henry. what are you doing?"
81 have three Jobs" replied Mr.. Cur
ran. Il am studying law, am a news
paper reporter and | am selling life
insurance"
How do you manage to get It ain
in 2" said the friend.
oh" replied Mr.. Curran. that's
easy enough They're only eight-hour
jobs. Youths Companion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
MlstIetoe Hunters.

Ceuzy. in Brittany, annually becomes
center OF attraction for mistletoe
pickers. and the poplars that line the
hillsides around about the village
show an abundance of the precious
evergreen, the sight OF which would
fiji the heart of many a Norman mis-
tleto9 gatherer with envy
Here, however, the trees are lofty
and by no means so easy to despoiI of
their white berried parasite as the
apple trees in northern France. which
yield most of the harvest destined to
find its way to the British market
Nevertheless clambering up into the
tree tops sixty or seventy feet from
the ground is not so difficult a task as
1t may appear to those who are IN
initiated into the modus operandi OF
the mistletoe hunters.
With the aid of peculiarly shaped
iron critics attached to their feet en-.
abling them to get a firm grip of the
trunk or stem which they wish to as
cend, the skilled climbers make their
way from branch to branch with mon.
keylike agility, and In few minutes
the tree is stripped of its mistletoe
crop.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
TO SANTA CLAUS

Santa Claus. Santa Claus,
Are you truly true?
On your way a moment pause
Here's test for YOU
DO you finger round the spot
Where the sunshine cometh not?
DO you seek the hearth that's cold
with your treasure-stores untold?
is your smiling visage seen
In the hovel poor and mean,
Or are you the guest elate
OF the ever-fortunate?
Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
With your pack of cheer.
Are you solid gold or gauze?
Democrat or Peer?
DO you seek the squalid lane
Of the pauper and the plain?
Do you take your Christmas Joys
To the pallid girls and boys,
Little maids and little chaps
Clad in rags and housed in traps?
Do you load the Christmas Trees
With rich gifts for such as these
Santa Claus. Santa Claus,
Whittier are you bent?
To the frigid upper-noors
OF some tenement.
Where upon a bed of grief
Lies one thirsting for relief.
Thirsting for some little rift
In the clouds that seldom lift
Do you carry drafts of life
To these scenes of pain and strife.
Or are you the guest alone
OF your sister Fortunes own?
Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
Are you truly true?
On your way a moment pause
Here's test for you:
Do you give to those in need?
Do you to the weeping speed.
Scattering your gifts of cheer
Ger the weary and the drear-
Or do you your treasures pitch
Into laps already rich?
That, dear Saint. beloved and gray.
That's the test of Christmas Day,
John Kendrick Bangs, Harper!
Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

OF cloth or paper to make it fit tight.
This pocket frame does not require
fastening to the box if it is made to
fit snugly.
The bottom pocket holds the end of
the tree in position. A similar. pocket
in the top of the box is necessary to
keep the tree from topping over, and
this is made by fastening one pair of
boards between the sides of the box
even with the top edge &c. Fig. A.,
then. crossing them with pair nailed
to the top of the box ID. Fig. 81.
The base can now be completed by
covering it neatly with cloth, but it
will have much more attractive ap-
pearance if you slant the sides as they
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
GETTING Double Value.

Senator Sniffensnuff likes to get dou-
Bile value out of his cigar. After snip
ping off the pointed end he generally
inserts two-thirds of the weed into his
mouth and munches it until all but
the lighted end looks like a salad.
One afternoon while Sniffensnuff
was sitting in front of his hotel a
small boy tugged at a corner of his
coat.
What is it. SOM" asked the senator,
good-naturedly.
Pointing with a small, brown finger,
the lad replied
IF you please, sir, your chew is 60
ing out. "-Youngstown Telegram
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

and mouth, and make the ears out Of
cardboard and stick them into Sits cut
in the orange rind.
Figure 9 shows a pattern for the
ears, while Fig. 10 shows how to cut
the cardboard body. Stick the neck
of the body into slot cut through
the orange rind To hang up the little
figure, stick hairpin into his head,
and tie a pieca of thread to the loop
end Figs. aM ID Paint the clothes
of the body with water colors or color
with crayons. Ii you make several Of
the figures. provide some with hats
and some with bonnets.
Copyright by A. Nicely Hall)
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

me upper ends of thu sIcks to oppo.
site faces of the star. and bind thu
lower ends together with thread.
When fastening the s.ar TO the tree
run the ends of the sticks far enough
belo" the tree top to enable you to
olnd them securely in position
The four tower points OF the stars
serve eXeellently for attaching the up
per ends of the ornamental chains to.
that so to make up large portion of
the trimmings of tree.
There are various ways of making
pretty chains String popcorn on
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
HOMEMADE TRIMMINGS FOR TIE
CHRISTMAS TREE.

tits lots of fun trimming the Christ
mas tree with homemade ornaments.
much more fun than with the kind you
buy in stores, and planning and max.
ing tree ornaments that will be both
novel and attractive provides interest
ing work for several days
In the Illustrations below are shown
several clever forms of ornaments
that are easily made. The tip of the
tree should be crowned with a single
ornament, and double flye-pointed
star made after the fashion of that
shown in Fig. / is most appropriate
The double star is prepared in two
pieces cut from cardboard box figs.
and -. Mark them out alike with
ruler and pencil. making the distance
between opposite points inches. Cut
them with knife or scissors.
Each star must be slashed so one
VIII Mt over the other. Slash one as
shown in Fig 2, from point A down to
3, which is one-half of the distance
from A to G; and slash the other as
shown in Fig ). from C up to B You
WIN see that by now crossing the pair
OF stars. and slipping the slash made
IN each over the uncut portion of the
other, the star ornament will be nut
together to look like the one in Fig L.
The cardboard must be covered with
un1oil to make it nice and shiny, but
before putting this covering on, cut
TWO slender sticks for a support, fasten
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
Imports of Salt.

Common salt continues TO be i'm
ported in considerable quantity, more
than one million barrels coming to
Atlantic ports last year, according to
the United States geological survey.
The country is amply able, however,
to supply the entire home demand, as
the capacity of its salt mines and
works is ia excess of the present out.
put. The imports last year we're only
80 per cent Of the total consumption.
whereas in 1890 the percentage wa'
17.2.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
FIXING THE CHRISTMAS TREE

A base for the Christmas tree is one
Oh the simplest things in the world 10
make when you know how to go about
TIE con .truction. And you can make
one for the home tree that will be
every whit as good as one bought.
A grocery box and a few box boards
some cloth covering material. a ham
mer and saw, are all thl required
IN making the tree bas. shown in
Fig, l.
An cblong box 10 inches deep. %
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
watsrspouts Escort Ship.

officers of the steamer Borinquen,
from San Juan, Porto Rico. reported
that Just as the ship was entering the
Gulf Stream four waterspouts were
seen. Two we're in the southwest and
two In the east, and travelling at
high rate Of speed before westerly
wind. The water temperature at the
time was IS degrees and that of the
air II.
At first the lower parts Of the spouts
were vertical, and the upper parts hor-
,xontal. Later on more spouts ap-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

peared on either side, about two miles
away. They we're solid and nearly
vertical. The dark clouds from which
they appeared to descend were about
1000 feet above the water. After
about forty minutes conditions be-
came normal again.-New York Trib-
une.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

top down over the edge of I, bottom
frame. and tack it to the under side,
Care must be taken when putting on
TINS covering material to stretch the
elotn tightly and evenly Bring it to-
gether at the corners ami sew the
edges nelly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

A Connecticut man has patented an
ash can on wheels. the handles Of
which can be locked tc hold it sta
tionary when not needed to move ii.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
LoalcaI.

Nurse-Goodness me, what ave you
been doing to your dolls?
Joan-Charley's killed them. He said
they were made In Germany, and how
were we to know they weren't spiesr
Punch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

are slanted in Fig l. This is done
by mailing a pair of boards TO the bot
tom of the box tB, 3, Fig. 81 so they
project beyond the sides aud ends as
shown. and then mailing strips F to
the ends of these boards. The pro
jections of the frame thus formed
should be equal. Now, when you Gov
er the bo~. bring the cloth from the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

Most women have mania for the
kind of garments that are more orna-
mental than useful
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

81 suppose that you and your wife
are two souls with but a single
thought"
That's about the situation. but
about half the time she will not tell
pne what that thought is.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

When the rooters applaud the. UNI
pire's decisions 1t means that the visit
ing team is getting the short end Of II
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Try Murine Eye hemedy for Red Weak, wste0
Just Eve comfort. Write for Book of the Eya
by mail Free Murine Eve Remedy Co.. Chicago
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
Modern Rookkeenlnn.

Under what head shall place your
wife's millinery account, Mr.. Blinks?"
Overhead charges. Smith"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11

When man has nothing to say he
is called upon To make q speech.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
A Slam.
Lampoon.

DO you believe in dreams?"
Il did till l met you. Harvard
Lampoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Preparing Mint Sauce

Tell me now 10 prepare mint sauce Also, what other way is there to pre- pare livers. calf or beef beside frying ? Can they be baked or broiled or other wise prepared? What is scrapple com posed of? Pardon me- do I ask too much? ? Did you procure the recipe for southern hash? Here it is: Ground beef potatoes diced, onions minced, three sweet pep pers minced, pulp of three chill peppers scraped after softening in hot water, salt. pepper and little sage to season. Bake in a hot oven MRS. G. R.
 Your letter is a miscellany in itself. Chop a handful of mint sprays fine; have ready half a cup of vinegar in which has been dissolved two tablespoons of white sugar and a dash of paprka. Stir the mint into this and serve before it wilts. Liver may be larded and baked or broiled and minced fine, seasoned and served in pastry shells after moistening it with gravy. There are yet other ways of cooking it to be had from reading good, up-to-date cook books. Scrapple is made of pigs head boiled, seasoned and minced, then cooked in the liquor in which the head was boiled and thickened with cornmeal. No, l had not the recipe until you favored us with it. Thank you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Wants To Be a Writer

T want to be a writer I know if I had the schooling and training I would be- come world known one. I noted some- time ago you caused the adoption of two children. and want you to do a similar thing for me. I am tired of trying to get an education that seems farther away than ever, l am also very lonely. In return for the training l should receive am Willing to give some service in re- turn. Anything, from just merely being companion to any kind of office work. so long as l get training in this and the work be honest.
 FLORENCE D."
 Read what l have said to another girl who would become an author. If it were possible for you to enter the service of an author or editor who would interest herself in you and give you a certain amount of pRactice in the technical parts Of her profession or engage you as sec- retary, your end might he gained. What you want Is practice coupled with en- vironment It is not unlikely that such a person. reading your letter may write to me for your address and advise you, 1T she cannot render more direct assist ance to you. l hold your address.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
WEEKLY REVIEW OF
 FINANCIAL WORLD
Factors Helping to Sustain Prices Earlier Wane in In-
 fluence This Week
By HOP

New York March 29.-Faetors which helped to sustain prices of stocks earlier in the month waned in influence this week. London's early hopefulness for an Irish settlement gave way to an anx- iety over signs of an in1ammatory state of feeling, The New Maven agreement with the government relieved fears of a deadlock, but gave no positive benefit to the market Announcement of fur ther hearings of the eastern railroads petition for a per cent advance in freight rates cancelled the effect of last weeks rumors of early favorable ac- ton.
 There were some heavy declines in February net earnings of railroads in spite of reductions in outlay, and the decrease in total of idle freight cars The cut in the dividends of Pittsburgh, Cin- cinnatl, Chicago and St. Louis common and preferred and suspension of Norfolk and Southerns payments gave concrete object lesson of the difficulties confront ing the railroads,
 The necessity for railroad economies ex- plained the eheeress feeling in the steel trade. Gloomy predictions were heard of an April l curtailment of output and a break in prices. orders and specified tions were reported to be coming in at the rate of only about half the current shipments from the mills There was said to be buying of copper, but textile mills were looking forward to to reduce productions.
 Acute weakness in special stocks grew out of trust prosecutions and finaneill needs. Additional note issues by rail- roads, rather than bond issues. were dis cussed in spite of the easy money condl- tons
 Varying influences on the check to busi- ness were ascrlbed to the intended trust legislation, the federal bank reserve or eanization an dthe Mexican problems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Putting Up Olives

As l had anticipated and foretold to divers inquirers into the method of put ting up olives, we are in receipt of more recipes for the process than we can pub fish. l have therefore weeded from the collection three formulas, written in faint pencil, and I purpose to print the rest as l can make room, no two being exactly alike.
 Mrs. A, H. As inquiry for recipe for putting up olives leads. me to tell but now have discovered a process used in foreign countries which is consid- cred superior and of much less trouble Let olives stand 10 days in clear water, changing every other day. Then make a brine of boiled water and rock salt, strong enough to hold up an egg. Pour over the olives and place a weight to keep them under in this brine for 30 days or longer. You will find them cured per- fectly. To keep them, place in a brine of the same weight. Just before using freshen them, for they will be salty. When putting in the second brine pleas ing change is acquired by the addition of clove of garlic, a large bay leaf, and, If liked, pimento to about a gallon of the olives. VIRGINIA S.
 We have on hand several queries dated last summer as to the mode of treating green plums to make them into mock olives Would 1t be practicable, in your opinion, to do this by subjecting the plums to the process you describe for green olives? We should like to know this before warm weather is upon us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Stain On FOulard

"I have spilled chicken soup upon a dark blue foulard dress. I should be greatly obliged if you would give me something to remove the stain.
 MISS T. w" First sponge with pure chloroform to get rid of the grease. 1 fancy that the cream and grease of the soup make up most of the stain. These extracted, sponge with alcohol and wipe dry Or you may cover the spot with French chalk. rubbed in well; leave it on for 2i hours and brush it off. It should extract the grease. Then sponge with pure ether or chloroform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30

Is there anyone who possesses lit- erary correspondence course who no long, CT cares for it2 I have keen desire to write and have written stories, but I feel I am not well enongh informed on construction of manuscripts to ask for my stories to be published. If anyone can supply me with Q course I will be greatly pleased and gladly pay postage when l receive the same.
 MRS. A. D. H."
 Unless you refer to such course of reading as Is laid down by the chautauqua school, I am at loss to comprehend just what you would like to get. 'yrhe construction of manuscript" Is not a thing to be taught by correspondence, al- though there are certain rules respecting the form in which they should be sent to editor or publisher that are easily learned. The merest tyro in such mat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Foreclosure Sale

FOFecIOSure sale
 Default having been made in the
 payment of an indebtedness secured by
 mortgage executed to the under
 signed United States Mortgage and Trust company on the Sth day of Feb ruarys 1912, which mortgage Is re- corded in the office of the judge of probate for Jefferson county, Alabama, Tn book 662, on page 206, and the pay ment of which has been assumed by
 Margaret Mccormack Gillespy. notice Is hereby given that, acting under the power of sale contained in said mort gage, the undersigned will sell the property thereby conveyed at auction
 Tor cash at the county courthouse in
 the city of Birmingham. Alabama on
 Friday the first day of May, 1914, which property is described as fol-
 lows, to-wit:
 Part of lots and 4 in block S94, ac-
 cording to the present plan of said
 city by the Elyton Land company; par ticularly described as beginning In the
 south line of Madison avenue at q point 366.S9 feet westward of the in- tersection of said line with the west
 ern line of Cleveland street, tangents of each produced to intersections thence in an easterly direction along the south line of Madison avenue 50
 feet; thence an angle to ,the right of 71 degrees II minutes and in south erly direction 158 feet to the north line
 of 15-foot alley; thence in west
 erly direction along the north line of said alley 51.92 feet; thence an angle to the right and in a northerly dlrec- tion 167.34 feet to the point of begin ning
 167.34 feet to the point of beginning Said sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by said mortgage. as wsll as the expenses incident to foreclosure.
 This the 30th day of March 1914 UNITED STATES MORTGAGE AND TRUST COMPANY, Mortgagee. A. AND H. R. HOwZE Att'ys. 3-3O-5t-mon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
SOME HELPING HAND
 HINTS FOR THE HOME,
BY MARION KIRKLAND

ters knows that one should write upon one side of the sheet; that all writing should be in ink and preferably type written: that the manuscript should be fiat and never rolled. and the pages num- bered properly. Paragrapning in accord ance with the subject is understood by every school girl who has written com position. For the rest, the rule is ahso- lnte. If you have anything to say to tho world say it in the best English you can command, but In your own way sSaid a great English writer. Lay hold, if but by a little finger upon the altar of the human heart and the sweep of ages will not tear you away" Write from the heart. and to the heart and you will have hearing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Hubbard Bros. x CO.

Cotton Merchants, Hanover squnre, N. Y. Members New York Cotton .Ex- change, New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange. Asso- ciate Members Liverpool Cotton Asso- shase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil for. future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for consignments of spot cotton for ds- livery Correspondence invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Keeping Ivory White

Would you kindly tell me how to keep Parisian ivory handle white and clean? I have tried alcohol but find 1t destroys the luster. c. F."
 First. keep 1t dry. Never wash it in hot water. Wipe 1t free of dust with a cloth just dampened with peroxide of hydrogen and instantly rub it dry with channels skin. Do this as seldom as is consistent with keeping the ivory clean. I have ivory ornaments 20 years old that remain white and glossy. Readers are invited to send stories of other methods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
FOR RENT.

THREE MODERN, NEW STORES AT PARK AVENUE AND 20TH STREET, WILL RENT CHEAP TO DESIRABLE TENANTS.
 ONE SPLENDID STORE ON aTH AVE. BETWEEN I9TH AND 2OTH SITS.
 LOUIS V. CLARK & CO.,. ACTS. 4TH AVE. & 2OTH ST. PHONE 607.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
Prince of Wales Cake

As my introduction into your valua ble Corner I will give you a recipe for Prince of Wales cake: One cup of sugar, one half cup lard, one teaspoon of salt. two eggs, one cup sour milk, two tablespoons moasses. one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, two cups of flour. one teaspoon soda, one cup raisins Mix in- gradients and bake in a. moderate oven. Will you kindly ask for the poem The Face on the Barroom Floor for me?
 KATE" His royal highness has abundant room for selection among the cakes that bear his name. Yours has features that are new to me. Your request for the poem will be honored in due time. What has started the demand for it? We have four inquiries with regard to 1t on hand Epidemies do not spring into action with out cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
For the LeuIsiafure

l hereby announce myself candi- date to represent Jefferson county in the legislature subject to the action of the democratic primary.
 F. R. MATHEWS.