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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
Short Cuts for Hows@k@@p@rs

it out. No sweeper will clean when
it is clogged with dust and dirt. To
clean. open newspaper on the moor.
sprinkle it lightly with water and
empty the sweepings on 1t. cutting any
threads or hair that may have twined
about the wheels.
BY this method there will be no dam
ger of a chance draught scattering the
dust again all over the floor If the
brush in a carpet sweeper is too worn
for further use there is no necessity
for buying a new sweeper: instead buy
new brush at one-fourth the cost.
In your next visit to the housefurnish-
ing store look at the improved carpet
sweepers with plate-glass top.
throurh which the brushes and dust
pans are in constant view and conse-
Quently more easily looked after
After using the sweeper go over the
rug with dry mop as you would with
a buster. If a rug needs Frightening
go over it with a mop or a damp cloth
dipped in warm water in which little
ammonia or salt has been dissolved II
a rug is to be put away II should be
sprinkled literally with camphor and
cedar, rolled tightly. tied and bound
with heavy paper.
Oriental rugs are not SO hopelessly out
of the reach of a moderate income as
is generally supposed. The price va
ries according to the design, size and
the number of knots in a square inch.
from about 81 a square foot to very
large sums.
Never allow an oriental rug to be
shaken or beaten. Instead. brush 1t
with a soft brush. wipe with damp
cloth and lay it in the shade to air.
If the rugs have a light. delicate back
ground clean them by sprinkling with
a powder made of six parts of corn
rnI, IT n W
this to remain on the rug for several
hours, brush off lightly with whisk
broom and then with a very soft brush.
and hang in the air for little while.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
CUCUMBERS.

CUCUMBERS are one of the most sat-
~ isfactory Of all vegetables if you
know how to serve them in many ways.
They are always available, they keep
well on ice for several days If neces-
sary and they are inexpensive. They
are probably as digestible as much OF
the other food we eat. When they al e
eaten cooked they disagree with almost
no one; when they are eaten raw they
should be fresh and should stand sliced
in ice water for several hours before
they are sent to the table. The dress
ing used on them should be put on just
before they are served.
A salad which is noted for it's tempt
ing flavor rather than for its digesti-
bility is made of raw cucumbers, cab
bage, celery and walnut meats. To
make it select firm, even small cucum-
bers and scoop out the inside through
a lengthwise slice taken from one side.
Mix the pulp scooped out with salt and
let it stand for an hour. Then drain 1t
and chop 1t and add it to chopped cab
bage, celery and walnut meats. Dress
it with oil and vinegar and return it to
the cucumber shells.
Cucumber farci is delicacy to serve
with fowls, sweetbreads or stewed or
broiled meat. To prepare this dish cut
out two large cucumbers into two-inch
lengths with a vegetable cutter or a
knife. Scoop out the seed part and
shells for ten minutes, plunge them
into cold water and drain them on a
napkin. Prepare a forcemeat of chop
ped chicken. Cover the bottom of a
dripping pan with thin layers of bacon
and put the cucumbers, filled with the
forcemeat. on the bacon. Strew some
parsley over them and put few slices
Of onion in the pan. Moisten it with
chicken stock and simmer 1t for an
hour.
Cucumber fritters are not hard to
prepare and they are truly delicious.
Pare and quarter firm cucumbers, dip
each piece in thick white sauce and
then in fritter batter and fry imme
diately in deep fat. Season them with
salt after they are Drowned. good
batter for these fritters is made of a
cup of -four half a reaspoonful of
| baking powder. saltspoonful of salt
a well beaten egg and water enough to
make thin batter.
For fried cucumbers slice them and
lay them in dressing made of equal
parts of oil and vinegar for ten min
utes. Drain the pieces and dip them
In beaten egg and then roll them in
crumbs. Fry them In deep fat until
they are golden brown. Drain them
Stuffed cucumbers are made of firm
large cucumbers cut in two and freed
from seed and pulp. The pulp should
be mixed with crumbs and seasoned
thoroughly with butter, pepper and
salt and then returned to the shells
Sprinkle the top with bread crumbs
and brown in the oven in a pan in
which little water is put to help
cook the cucumbers by steaming them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
ADVICE THAT HELPS
IF YOU PLAY CARDS
Success or Failure of Party Depends, More
Than Any Other Sort of Entertain
ment, on the Guests.
results than more pretentious plans on
half accomplished.
lent, on the Guests.

results than more pretentious plans only
half accomplished.
AS for the tally cards. they can be
as elaborate as your pocketbook will
let you buy. But the plain little cards
with gilt edges answer the purpose just
as we'll as those that are hand painted.
and, of course, they are less expensive.
But however you economize, even il
you serve just lemonade and keep the
tallies on slips of paper. do have clean
playing cards. In the days when these
were handmade painted bits of ivory,
there was some reason for using them
for a lifetime and then passing them
ON to ones children and grandchildren
But in these: days of two packs for a
quarter. there is no excuse for the tat
tered assortment of frayed and frazzled
cards one sometimes meets with.
A word about betting. Leaving the
ethics of the matter quite out of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
Coverings for Floors.
question of covering the floor
in a comfortable, attractive way
g IN the be.

in a comfortable, attractive way
L must be met in the very be-
ginning of home furnishing. Every
room should have some CHIEF color
scheme, the walls, hangings. furniture
and rugs playing into each others
hands so to speak. A floor should De
the lowest or darkest tone in a ROOM
then the walls and the ceiling the
highest or highest. This is the nat
ural way and the safest to follow as
General rule 1t gives feeilns oI
firmness and solidity to the floor
The chief color of the rug should be
tho chief color of the walls. not neces-
sori,v the same tone, but harmonizing
tones of the same shade. In choosing
rur IT is best to have in mind one
predominant color. with the other COL
ors adding the snap that contrast gives
and forming a harmonious and delight
full whole.
satisfa Glory than several small ones
1t is always more restful and gives the
floor the needed feeling of solidity: II
a plain color is desired for rug there
are wide carpets that will suit the or
dinary-sized ROOM and these only re
uuire to be finished at the ends with
a narrow binding the color of the ma
terial. The usual plan in making up
a rug from carpet is to surround q
square or oblong center Of the material
with border. Very small patterns.
however, do not require a border. and
in a small room the absence of the
border adds to the apparent size Of
the floor.
To make your new rug last better
and a room warmer try this plan: Be-
fore putting down the rug take old
mating that is too faded to use else
where and scrub 1t we'll with soap and
water When dry put 1t down over the
entire floor. Get house paint the same
color as the predominating tone in the
rug and paint the mating all around
the edge just as you would paint a
floor. Allow 1t to dry thoroughly be-
fore lacking the rug in the center.
Rugs and carpets should be beaten
on the wrong side first and on the
right side afterward. Threads and
hairs on a carpet are hard to sweep
up, but If the broom is brushed lightly
round and round, instead Of straight
along, the threads will be formed in
a ball and may easily be picked off the
broom. Some women have an idea that
a broom takes out more dust than a
carpet sweeper. but II they will meas
ure the amount taken from the same
amount of space they will ind their
error The broom raises more dust
than a sweeper, but it does not take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
New Shade of Blue Crepe Paper Strikes
Unusual Note and Can Be Used
to Good Advantage.

yellow it should be. or even an orange.
There are special Halloween crepe
papers in yellow. black and white,
showing witches and cats, ghosts and
jack lanterns arrayed in startling and
amusing manner.
which the refreshments at a children's
Halloween party are set forth Moth
ing is more interesting than a huge
paper pumpkin, with green leaves and
green stem. After the pumpkin and
leaves are made they can be vanished
to make them stiff. little doll, dress
ed in yellow crepe paper. is seated
on top of the pumpkin and it is drawn
by half a dozen little gray mice that
can be bought at any toy or favor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
CANDY
FOR HALLOWEEN

Candies always form an appreciable
times candymaking forms a part Of
the Halloween entertainment of chill
dren. A good old-fashioned molasses
candy pull, the making and eating Of
various simple nut candies or the maxi
ing of candies and packing them into
boxes for souvenirs would prove en-
tertaining. in addition to some of the
regulation Halloween fun next Satur-
day afternoon at children's party.
Here are some reliable recipes for
seasonable candies warranted to be no
more harmful to youthful digestions
and appetites than most other candies.
Peanut Candy.
For a thick peanut candy boil to-
gether a cup of sugar, a cup of mo-
lasses and two tablespoonfuls of but
ter very slowly for about half an hour.
Then try In cold water and when it is
brittle add a cup OF shelled peanuts.
Pour into well CREASED pans to the
depth of half an inch. When it begins
to harden cut into squares with a but
tered knife.
A crisp peanut candy that is easily
granulated sugar, being careful that
it does not burn, and then pouring it.
when 1t is all melted and brown, over
shelled peanuts. When it Is cold break
it in pieces.
Raisin Creams.
Mix a cup of English walnut meat,
chopped, or else pecans, a teaspoonfuI
of vanilla, a pinch of salt. cup of
chopped and seeded raisins and two
pounds of confectioner's sugar. Mix
to a stiff paste with cream and roll on
q sugared board in a layer half an inch
thick. Cut in squares.
Walnut or Pecan Creams.
Beat the white of an egg and a table
spoonful of cold water into a pound of
confectioner's sugar. Add three tea
spoonfuls of vanilla. Shape the cream
into balls. and into each ball press two
walnut or pecan meats. Perhaps more
or less sugar will be needed to make
the paste of sufficient thickness to
mold easily.
Stuffed Dates and Figs.
Buy good dates or fgs for this sweet.
The dates that come wrapped in waxed
paper and already seeded are usually
the best. But they must be moist and
firm. Prepare some cooked fondant, or
the raw kind, like that for walnut
creams, described above. Have few
bits of candied lemon peel, preserved
ginger, and candied cherries and citron.
Have broken walnut and pecan meats
and some almonds. shelled and blanch-
ed. Stuff the dates with nuts, fruit and
nuts mixed or fruit, and open the figs
at the stem end and stuff them in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
Economizing on Coal.

A TON of pea coal in the celler is .
"A most valuable addition. small
shovelful spread over the fire in tho
cook stove will keep it going nicely
when the stove is not in use. and will
quickly catch when the stove is opened.
On ironing days, when a steady fire Is
needed, q little pea coal answers the
purpose. 1t costs less than other coal
and one ton lasts long time. It
should be used to spread over the fur
nacO on warm days. A cup of water
sprinkled over a bucket OF coal will
prevent the too rapid consumption OF
the fuel and does not lessen the amount
Of heat given out,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25

store. Each mouse has a piece of yell
low ribbon tied about it's neck, with the
other end in the hand of the doll Gin
derella.
OF course, this big pumpkin is sim
ply a rather unusual Jack Horner pie.
For at the other ends of many strands
of ribbons that come from the pump
kin are small favors. At the ends of
the ribbons that show there are place
cards, each decorated with pump
kin.
Another Halloween idea that is good
is big Japanese paper parasol COW
cred with yellow crepe paper. with two
eyes, a nose and a mouth cut out OF
black paper and touched up with white
paint. These are fastened on the out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25

TACH year there are so many new
r. decorations for Halloween and so
many good old ones revived that
the only shame is that Halloween
doesn't last for a week. And surely
never before were there such attrac-
tive Halloween decorations as there are
this year.
For one thing there is a lovely shade
of blue crepe paper that is used for
some of the decorations, and it strikes
a new note 1t can be used to fasten
against the wall as a background Tor
cut-out witches, pumpkins. cats and
ghosts in black and white and orange
paper. 1t Is made into attractive Ian
tern-shaped shades for electric lights
mounted in black paper frames and
decorated with little cut-out figures OF
appropriate sorts.
yellow. Of course. is still the accept
- rIa11ouoaD color bright ROlQel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
Veal Goulash.

/" HIS is timely and tasty dish.
Cut pound Of lean veal into
inch pieces. Put tablespoonful
of olive oil, drippings o! butter in
frying pan and drop into 1t table
spoonful of minced onion. Cook a
golden brown. then add the meat well
seasoned with salt, pepper, and dredged
with flour. Toss until slightly Drowned,
then add one cup of stock, gravy or
hot water. Cover and simmer for an
hour or longer, as veal must De wei
done. Add one cup of diced raw pota-
to, cook fifteen minutes longer, then
serve. A cup Of tomatoes may be
added instead of the stock, IL pre-
ferred.
Homemade Sauce.
A good substitute for imported sauce
is made in this way: Measure quart
of the best white wine vinegar. add six
ounces Of sugar and stand over the
fire. stirring occasionally until dis
solved. Take from the fire, and add
four tablespoonfuls each Indian soy
and walnut catsup, two teaspoonfuls OF
cayenne pepper, one tablespoonful salt,
two nutmegs broken into bits. two
ginger, the peel of a lemon and six
cloves of garlic. Pour in a wide
mouthed bottle and let stand month,
shaking it well every morning. At the
end of the month pour of the sauce
and gently strain it through piece OF
cheesecloth. Pour into small bottles
and seal.
While Meat Is High.
Take the little summer squashes,
peel. remove the seed and slice cross
wise or lengthwise, according to the
shape of the squash. Dip the slices In
beaten egg and cracker crumbs and
fry in deep fat. Cucumbers peeled
sliced and fried in the same way are
| also excellent.
Stuffed Tomatoes.
Select half dozen ripe. even-sized to-
matoes. cut off the top. empty the in
side on to a dish. Set aside. put in a
pan four strips of finely chopped bacon
Let fry, add a finely chopped onion
three tablespoonfuls Of cooked rice
the inside of the tomatoes. Let sim
mer slowly half an hour. then season
| with pepper. little nutmeg. salt. TWO
| yolks Of eggs. Set mixture on dist
to cool. When needed. stun the TO-
matoes with mixture, bake In moderate
oven about fifteen minutes. This maker
a good luncheon dish.
A Salad Quickly Prepared.
Chop and mix lightly in a bowl any
leftover potatoes. beans. celery
pickles. raw cabbage. apples. sweet
peppers and nuts. Any OF these, Of
several Of them, may be omitted. Mil
with any simple salad dressing ant
arrange on lettuce leaves. Surround
with sliced beets or cold peas. II peal
and beets are lacking, serve only thu
vegetables.
The Ounce Incidentally.
l MedicfnalIy the mica Of the ounce ii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25

question, betting is unquestionably IN
yery bad taste at a card party. Even
If the stakes are only a cent, game.
when played for money, is lifted out OF
the realms of simple recreation and
amusement. Besides. betting for small
stakes leads to betting for large
stakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
SUNDAY MENU.

.tes.s.teaN -Es&751 y II Asst.
Sliced Bartlett Pears with Cream.
Cereal.
Green Pepper Omelet.
Batter Cakes without Eggs.
Coffee.
DINNER.
Cream of Potato Soup.
Celery. ~ Pickeled Pears.
Chicken Pot. Pie.
Mashed Potafoea. = Turnfps.
- sLettufe and Tomato Salad.
y9es 's.si Waters. Cheese.
Cranberry Pie.
= Coffee.
SUPPER.
Cold Baked Beans. Chilli Sauce.
Cider Apple Sauce.
Tea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25

The separate coat of velvet, bordered
with fur, is quite the smartest outer
garment now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25

yellow, of course. is still the accept
Cd Halloween color. A bright COLDER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
The Ounce incidentally.

Accidentally. the juice Of the ounce II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-25
RECIPES OF THE SEASON

said to stop persistent hiccoughs when
all else fails.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23

Of every 200 persons who live to
be 40 years Of age, 125 are married.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23

Apparently mistaking Judge
Thomas for the warden the mutt
neers fired volley of shots at him.
He sank to the floor, mortally wound
ed.
Fearing an alarm might be given
by the telephone operator, Mary Fos-
ter, the three men next gave their
attention to the telephone switch.
They turned it over and tried to dis
connect it.
"You come with u.s." they shouted
as they dragged the girl into the
prison yard, holding her before them
to keep the guards from shooting.
Use Girl as Shield.
Shielded by the girls presence and
cheered on by 1,5OO convicts, the
three men made their way across the
prison yard. Only one shot was fired
at them and it struck the girl. AS she
sank to the ground wounded the con-
lets sprang to the prison gate. With
the keys they had taken from Turn
key Martin they unlocked it and were
free. Outside the gate the horse and
buggy of the warden was hitched.
The three men sprang into it.
On the walls the big guns began to
belch forth at the fleeing convicts.
= Guards and prison officials quickly
mounted horses and the pursuit of
the convicts began. 1t was short lived.
The heavy load that Warden Dicks
horse was pulling soon ended the
fight. The guards were overtaking
the prisoners.
you'll never take US alive" shout
ed Reed, as he stood us in the buggy
and fired at the approaching officers.
The other conyicts bent low to avoid
the scattering bullets. Reed fought
the fight alone Fear stricken, the
others crouched behind the stagger-
ing horse. The guards poured mer-
ci'ess fire into the buggy.
The horse fell and the convicts
ceased firing. The, three mutineers
lay in heap in the bullet-ridd!cd
buggy, dead.
Although there was great con-
fusion among the 1,500 prisoners, the
guards soon subdued them and none
escaped.
Warden Dick tonight was unable
to account for how the convicts OBJ
tanned the revolvers. 1t is believed
they were secreted near the prison by
friends.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23
BUGGY COLLISION
KILLS w. A. GRIFFIN
Prominent Greenville Man Meets
Death and His Negro Driver is
Seriously Hurt In Accident.

GREENVILLE, Jan. ia head
on collision Of two buggies late this
afternoon just beyond the city limits
resulted in the death of w. A. Griffin.
q prominent Greenville man, and the
serious injury of an unidentified ne
gro who was driving for Mr.. Griffin.
The other buggy contained three ne
groes, said to be drunk, and driving
at rapid rate. An automobile con-
tanning Chief of Police Holcombe and
a private. here tonight in search
of the negroes.
Mr.. Griffin was we'll known in this
city and had many prominent connec-
tions in this part of the state. He
is survived by his widow and four
children. Mr.. Griffin was past middle
age. He was brother of H. H
Griffin, who is in Florida for the win
ter.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23
LOCKHART JUNCTION

The weather the past week has
been cold but fair and some farmers
have begun to break up their land for
another crop. The past year, it seems
to me, has been year of plenty, and
most everyone has something ahead
for a rainy day. The farmers are
taking more interest in the ways of
preparing land, trying to make more
to the acre. Mr.. R. G. Haney gives
his estimte of how much cotton he
made off few acres which he gives
to me to put in my write-up, and I
am always glad to get such news to
publish:
Experiment on Three Acres.
Broke the land in the fall of 1912.
with reversible disc plow; breaking
the land to the depth of to 9 inches.
Narrowed in Spring, just before
planting with a disc harrow. Laid
off rows to feet wide with a Cole
distributor with 10 inch shovel at
tached. Put 3 hundred pounds of
guano per acre in furrow, followed
furrow with doublefoot with 2 tongue
plows on it, ridging same. Followed
same with cotton planter, putting 3
hundred pounds guano per acre with
seed. Planting Hastings Union
Big Boil seed. Owing to the dry
weather didn't get stand until about
the first of June.
"The first cultivation was running
through middles with -cultivator.
Next ran over row with cultivator:
then shopped the plants out to a
stand, followed with a tongue plow
and 12-inch bow. Ran through mid
dies few days later with cultivator
to keep down grass. Plowed next with
6-inch shovel and 16-inch bow.
About the first of July put 200
pounds per acre of guano in furrow,
followed with 10-inch shovel and "a
inch bow. About the second week of
July ran through middles with a 10.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23

There is more Catarrh in this Sec
ton OF the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur
able. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment,
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only Constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful.
1t acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case
1T fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
AdSs.ess: F. j. Cheney & Co., Tole
do, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23

Latest reports show that more than
$4,000 men are employed as coal
miners in the Pacific Northwest.
1t takes fifteen days for the average
human body to recover from the los ss
of two consecutive nights sleep.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23
Colds to be Taken Seriously.

Intelligent people realize that COM
mon colds should be treated promptly
If there is sneezing and chillness with
hoarseness, tickling throat and
coughing, begin promptly the use of
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It
is effective, pleasant to take, checks
a cold, and stops the cough which
causes loss of sleep and lowers the
vital resistance.
For sale by all dealers everywhere.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23
Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank the people of Ot-
taray and Monarch for their Kindness
during the illness and death of our
dear father, Mr. j. A. Blalock. May
Gods greatest blessings rest upon
them forever. His Children
1t I'D.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23

"A portrait of President Wilson,
~ pepgth and life size, will soon
Fang lin place of honor upon the
walls of one of the main buildings
of his alma mater, the University of
Virginia, from which he was gradu-
ated in the school of law in 1881.