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The Washington times., 1914-01-30
Widower's Number
By RELEN RoWLANp.

Copyright. 1914. by the Press Publishing Cor
TIME tenderest. most impressionable
spot on earth is the heart Of 4
i yearling widower.
OF course It is easier to marry a wld-
over than a bachelor. A man who has
been through the fire and slaughter Of
one marriage has no fight left In him.
When widow begins curling her hair
again or a widower begins worrying
about his thinness on top Cupid chuckles
and gets out his arrows and Satan
smiles behind his hand.
In the matrimonial market a seasoned
bachelor Is Just q shop-worn remnant;
a divorcee Is a cast-oR. secondhand
article; but a widower Is q treasured
heirloom, inherited only through death.
After his wedding day man usually
tender noehings in his vocabulary away.
in a pigeon-hoIe and marks them. Not
to be opened until widowerhood."
Perhaps there may not be 50 much
excitement In marrying q widoWers but
there's a lot more comfort In getting
broken to double harness than in LASH
ing yourself to q bucking broncho fresh
from the Wild
A man may forget all about how to
make love during ten years Of matri-
mony, but it's wonderful how quickly
he can brush up on the fine points again
after he becomes a widower.
No matter how unhappy man may
have been with his first wife nothing
on earth will make him hatter her sue
cessor by acknowledging that she was
not a combination Of Circe, st. Cecilia
and the Venus de Milo.
The girl who marries widower may
be a sort OF second edition." but the
girl who marries a seasoned bachelor II
apt to be a forty-second edition.
Some widowers are bereaved-other re-
Iieved. - iaNsA
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drudgifying. but that we do not plan to
do cur tasks in some sort of definite
order. Every time We stop to think,
What shall / do next?'or make n
choice between two different kinds or
work, we not only waste time. bet a
great deal of energy, which could be
utilized much better on the task itself.
Even the Twentieth Century Limited
makes definite stops in its schedule. No
schedule of work is either scientific or
helpful unless 1t has definite rest
periods. The woman who works from
one task to another straight on and
On, without stopping, is not living on 3
schedule, but a treadmill. The we'll
planned schedule allows for definite
rest period. no matter how short, be-
tween various tasks.
. ] recall watching in New England
factory girls who were testing delicate
parts of ball bearings. The tension was
so great that every three hours all the
girls were made to take a rest of ten
minutes to. relieve the eye strain and the
cramped position they had been hold
ing. In other factories and businesses
we find that every schedule has longer
or shorter rest periods, depending upon
the severity of the work. Other things
the more frequent should be the rest
periods. In ordinary hOusewOrk the
Schedule should be so planned as to
allow at least a half hour in the fore
noon, when the woman can be "off her
feet In the afternoon there will prob
ably be one or more hours when she is
free from household duties.
Making a Schedule
II is not difficult to make up sched-
ule. The first thing is TO list the varL
Gus duties which come every cay. Next
estimate the time il takes on the aver
age for those regular duties to nc done.
as washing dishes, making beds, daily
brushing up of rooms. preparing meals.
This list of work. with the approximate
time of eacn task. may be hang in the
kitchen or other conspicuous place, so
that il can be readily seen. 1t is also
advisable to make out weekly sched-
uIe of such special tasks as laundry,
window and silverware cleaning. special
cooking. etc.
Such schedules are not only Of benefit
work. but to the woman who employees a
work. but TO the woman no employs
servsnt. These schedules should be
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the door a little bit and looked out
What has happened to your he asked
And when he saw that it really was
Mr.. Possum all covered with leaves anc
sticks he opened the door and let hin
in.
"Oh, Mr.. Fox, I am so hungry. II
you. could Just give me something hot
to drink" said Mr.. Possum, almost
crying. "I have had terrible night
What has happened" asked Mr.
Fox again.
Mr.. Possum had been thinking all the
way to Mr.. Fox's house what he should
say so when ME-. Fox asked him this
time he was ready with a story.
We'll. you see l caught cold, ne
said. "and / have had terrible pains IN
my head and all over my body. and last
night / called DR.. Owl and he told me
to cover myself with a plaster of leaves,
and he gave me some horrid stun TO
rub on me.
Il rubbed it all over my head and body
and then rolled in the dry leaves, and
v bile ] am much better this mornino l
can't get rid of these leaves, now what
| want is your advice, you are so clever.
what shall do to get this OF my coat" &"
Mr.. Fox looked at Mr.. Possum, for he
felt sure he was not telling the truth,
but Mr. Possums face could not be
seen for the leaves which covered IT,,
although he had rubbed of some Of
them.
well, sit right up here close to the
fire and get warm first" said Mr.. Fox.
and We will see what can be done for
you
OF course. I shall have to charge an
extra fee. for this is a very peculiar
and difficult case"
Mr.. Possum said he knew that it was,
and was willing TO pay anything. Mr..
Fox asked if he would only be quick and
tell him a remedy.
After Mr.. Possum had sat by the fire
for awhile he felt as If something were
sliding off him, and, looking on the floor,
he saw little spots of molasses and the
leaves.
Then he touched his coat, and sure
enough the heat had softened the mo-
lasses, and he could rub most of 1t of
Tomorrow ! will tell you what Mr..
Fox said and what happened besides.
Toutipuad TOmorrouN
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THE microbe mania has driven
many people, to injure them

TINE microbe mania has driven
many people, to injure them
selves in refusing to drink or
binary water. according to Henry
Savage Eandor. The explorer declares
that water even from sources consid-
cred impure is often harmless and
cites instances when he has drunk
from polluted streams.
When you boil water you devital-
ize it," he explained in a recent dis
cusssion of drinking water. Il have
been drinking from streams and ponds
in the tropics and all over the world
for twenty-five years, and I am con-
WINGED that people are wrong in be-
Iieving that there is any danger in
water that is dirty or that may ac-
tualIy have disease germs in it.
IT remember five weeks trip took
with one of the American expeditionary
columns in the Philippines. The doc
tors laid down absolute rules that no
soldier should drink water until II had
been boiled or take a bath in any river
or lake because cholera was about. The
pack animals were loaded down with
tins in which to boil the water and dur
ing all that expedition 1 do not believe
a single soldier or officer drank water
that had not been boiled. or ventured
to bathe in any of the creeks or ponds
than we ran across. was. the scandal
of the party because I insisted upon
drinking from the streams and lakes
and refused to drink the boiled water.
was the only man in the expedition
.
Contrary to the prevailing view, Mr..
Landors experience is that in doing
without food one does not care much
for water. He and two native servants
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many women say they never have
any time for that new novel, that bit
of practicing or personal grooming in
which their hearts delight. Many
mothers feel that they live in a tread
mill of work, which never ceases. a
schedule will enable these women and
mothers to secure that little half hour
of time to themselves which hit-and-
miss work and scattering energy will
never give them.
The housework train Is really a
pleasant, stimulating and advantage
Gus route by which to travel, but you
must know where you are going and
how long it takes to get there be-
fore you can enjoy the trip.
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TIMES BEDTIME STORY
Mr.. Possum Visits Mr.. Bear
Part ii.

s I told you yesterday. Mr.. Pos
| ~ sum found himself very sticky
- and felt very uncomfortable,
I but. knowing that Mr.. Bear was
liable to awake at any moment he did
: not stop long to think about being un-
! comfortable.
He opened the pantry door a little and
looked out. He could see Mr.. Bear now
| as well as hear him, and he tiptoed
very carefully past him TO the door and
drew the bolt.
OF course he left mola sses everywhere
he stepped and on everything he
touched, but he opened the door and
closed il softly, and then Mr.. Possum
ran, and he ran fast, TO.
He didn't stop until he reached home,
and then he began to wonder what ne
could do to rid himself of the molasses.
Finally ne decided to roll over and
over on the ground was the best thing,
SO he found a place where there were
no stones, only dead leaves, and here
he rolled and rolled.
When he was sure il must all be off
he got up, but he felt something on his
coat seemed to make him bigger and
his head felt as If he were covered with
something. Mr.. PCIssum shook himself
but il was no use, he could not make
himself feel right.
"TH go down to the river" said Mr..
Possum and see what is the matter
with me-
So down to the river he went, but
when he saw his reflection, Mr.. Possum
almost tumbled into the water.
He looked like bundle of leaves and
sticks, for the molasses had made every
thing he touched stick TO his coat, and
he was wondering what he could do
when he heard the sound of dogs bark
ing, Mr. Possum ran, but he saw the
dogs coming, and forgetting all about
his covering of leaves hiding him he
rolled over on his back. playing dead.
the leaves. then they barked again, and
Mr Possum thinking his end had come
this time did not wait for the man with
the gun. which he was sure would fol-
low. but when one of the dogs began to
paw too hard Mr.. Possum wondered il
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More Than Faith.

In that part of Kansas where they
need rain certain church congregations
have united to petition for it.
Didn't 1 see your husband going to
church today?' one Kansas women In
Quired of another.
Yes, he went to ask for rain"
His faith must be pretty strong?"
Yes, he wore his raincoat and took
his overshoes and his oldest umbrella. IS
1T didn't rain?''
NO; but he brought back a much
better umbrella than the one he took
away."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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LAUGHS AT BOILED WATER

were without food sixteen days during
his exploration of remote parts Of Bra
zil. I'VE had plenty Of water during
this starvation period" said he. "out
we took very little because we did not
want IL. With extreme hunger went
also the desire for water"
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Taking No Chances.

Editor-I see that some half-baIxed SCI
enlist schedules the end OF the world
for next Saturday.
Star Reporter-Yes, yes. I've. got the
story all ready. It won't happen
Editor-Better write up the other side,
though. II it does happen. We don't
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Balky Tom.

IID UN upstairs, Tommy, and bring
baby's night gown" said
Tommy's mother
Don't want to-" said
Tommy.
"Oh, Tommy If you are not kind
to your new little sister, she'll put on
her wings and fly back to heaven"
Tonmy's reply came.
well. let her put On her wings and
fly upstairs for her night gown
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Tie Oh Gssfis4ss
VIE Likss PstpsyDisf5

Some people say that we don't
have time for sentiment these
lays" said the Old Gentleman,
''but I know bener. Every time
come here / see a little Of it.
Maybe that's one reason why / like
to come here so often.
Now you see that solid-looking
chap over there-a banker or a
broker, / should say. He's buying
buttercups-iooks as if Il were a
custom Of his.
He's going to mail them, too.
Like as not there's a little gray
haired old lady somewhere up
state who viii get thar package to-
morrow and know that her son is
thinking of her and Of the meadow
and brook on the old farm. He's
not too busy to remember her,
and TO let her know il.
No, people don't comeahere
just for things to eat They come
for memories and happy. thoughts
too.
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dition she will so arrange Gf it is
good schedulel, that after lunch she is
allowed q half hour for cleaning cut
the pantry. She knows that after she
proceeds from the dishes TO the next
point she goes to the next task, and so
on, with a definite time for preparing
for lunch. so that the day finds her
having accomplished just as much work
with far less effort than the woman
first described.
Waste of Energy.
No one but psychologist could show
as the amount Of gray matter we waste
uselessly thinking of what to do next.
1t is not because much of our house
work is hard, or that the task itself is
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How the Housewife May Take
a Lesson in Efficiency From
the Way Our Railroads Are
SyStematized.
Let Her WOrktTain Stop at
Center Stations on Schedule
Time and She viii Save
Time and Money.

By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK,
Author of "The New Housekeeping,
Founder of the Applecroft Effc.
ency Kitchen.
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fair in every case, and they more than
anything else. will assist u good servant
irt doing good work. How often mis-
trcsses say, Il wonder what Kelly is
doing now?" II they had worked out
with KATY careful fair schedule, they
would know what she was doing at that
moment Such a schedule would ALSO
allow for more definite time off, for
the many Katies who complain now that
their work is never done"
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House Wiring and Wiring Supplies.
Electric Webster, III Jth.
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A Square Deal.

The schedule enables the house
keeper not only to get more work
done in less time and with less effort,
but to give herself "fairer deal" So
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Virginia Theater. Today. "Gene Gaun-
tier in ION the Fighting Line" Coming
Feb. g., "kathlyn," Part Ill.
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a told you yesterday. Mr.. Pos
~ sum found himself very sticky
- and felt very uncomfortable.
= =
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LOCAL MENTION.

Continued Tomorrow
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-01-01
N LION CUBS
HAPPY HOUR
savage Young Beast Escapes From
Owner n Kills Two Dogs Be
fore Being Captured.

paris.-A former favorite in the
Paris music halls, who in the decline
If her glory, acquired 4 wild beast
ow, had a singular adventure when
he came UP from St. Germain 10 buy
/ lion cub at the Jardin aAcciimata-
ion the Paris ZOO
In striking Il bargain she tried to in
luce the authorities TO Include a cage
n which to take her new purchase
lway. This meant more money. how
Yer, and she took the young lion
way in her arms, and boarded a tram
:ar with it. The animal scratched
ler, however, and made her release
Ter hold.
1t then scampered away playfully
nto the Bois de B~olougne, and before
t could be captured ii had killed 4 fox
errier ard a deer hound.
The eX-dancer now realizes that her
concmy was u false one, for she had
o pay for the t@o dogs, ana had also
@ finish the Journey to st. German in
, taAicab, witch the lion cub lying
4felS tied UP inside.
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DARKNESS SLOWS
CHICAGO MARKET
CATTLE AND SHEEP SELL.
STEADY. WITH SHADE LON
ERR IN PRICE.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill
HOGS-Estimated receipts today,
10000; number left over from yes
terday. 1914: estimated receipts for
Friday. 27.000: official receipts yes
terday, 36,549: official shipments yes
terday, l0,140; market slow, owing
10 darkness. Price 5 cents lower
than Tuesdays average. Bulk OF
prices. S7.S00 7.95; light, $3.50 a
7.9O; mixed and butchers. $3.50
500; heavy, s7.65@S 500; rough
heavy. s7.65@7.75; workers.. $50
a 7.S5; pigs, $6.75@7.70.
CATTLE-Estimated receipts to-
day, 1880; market steady TO shade
lower. Beeves. S6.7oM $50: COWS
and heifers. $3.50 $50; Texas
steers, $1,000 40; stockers and
feeders, $1,000 7.45; western cat
lie, $4,000 7.S5.
SHEEP-Estimated receipts today,
$4,000; market in sheep steady but
lambs a shade lower. Native sheep,
S4.75M 6.10; western sheep. Si.75@
6.1O; yearlings, $5.S5@ 10; lambs,
5000 500; western lambs, $6.15@
$50.
No marke. on Thursday, New
Years day.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-01-01
SWEAR OLD
GIVES POISON
PITTSBURGH TOT IN This Wty
STOPS SISTERS CRYING
OVER BROKEN DOLL.

Pittsburgh, Pa. Playing doctor. }
year-old Margaret Sheppard gave her
2-year-old sister Mona s|trychnine
pills to stop the younger child grieN-
ing over the accidental breaking O.
a doll left by Santa Claus on Thurs
day The small patient died IN less
than TWO hours.
Last evening the baby accidentally
broke the head of her new doll and
erieyed all night While in bed This
morning She Wept and the older child
gave her the pills from a bottle On
the mantle,
When the baby was seized With
commissions the mother Was summon
ed, ana later a physician, but the
child WAS beyond hope.
Ten Years ago today, a baby dau@h-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Sheppard
died as a result OF burns sustained III
a Christmas tree fire.
Following the dcath the Christina,
tree which had been used for the liTc
little Sheppard Girls was taken dow
and the house OF happiness gave way
10 the chamber Of death.
The little doctor lispcd TO her
mother the story Of how she had siv-
en- her baby sister medicine. 1t ha'
not been determined how much OF thu
poison was given the child.
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MEM ROLL
E DBY DRINKS
New York Veterans. However, Hold
Drumhe9d Court
Martial.

New York There viii be no more
drumhead court martials in the early
morning along broadway because The
veteran policemen have been replaced
by iS5 nice, new. maiden coppers,
fresh and shiny from the police school.
They haven't learned yet how to
handle conditions that are not covered
BY The beck Of rules.
The saloons close at che O'Clock in
the morning., said the man who
spends his time on Broadway. and the
stews start weaving their way down
Broadway. Most of them are quiet
and reflective. But here and there
some warlike n stops to paw the dirt
ana rap his horns at a lamp post. The
veterans regard him YEARLY.
You they say be on YOU way, Go
on home and beat your Wife
's0metimes 4 regular citizen won't
stand for that sort Of tam from mere
policemen. lie Props himself and gets
balelHl.
No cop'on talk that way TO me.
en- Lick amy
80 then the onnaied policeman
whose beat he is infesting signs and
ra9s his club ON the pavement. Four
or five other policemen hurry up and
draw a human curtain between the de.
fant gentleman and an unsynpathetlc
world. Then the policeman who found
him hits him where the marks won't
chow and shooes him down the street.
It w a trip to court, ii sometimes
saves a reputation and the spanked
citizen never complains. Unlawful
F, or course
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NEW | N OF
RURAL SCHOOL
COMPLETE FREEDOM is LOT OF
CHILDREN TAUGHT PRAC-
TlC.AL SUBJECTS BY CAR
OLINA WOMAN.

Washington, D.. C.-Complete
freedom from restraint is the lot of
the children who attend the expert
mental rural school at Winthrop
College, Rock Hill, S. c., as described
by Mrs. Hetty Browne in Il bulletin
OF the United States bureau OF edU-
cation.
There are no seats or desks in the
school, no classrooms. no rule OF
silence, but a free activity, guided
and directed by a woman who is in
complete sympathy with country
children and country life.
In this and other respects observ-
ers have noted a resemblance to the
Montessori schools: but Mrs. Browne
began her work several years ago
quite Independently of the theories
of Madame Montessori. Furthermore,
the Rock Hill school makes no claim
TO a deliberate scientific basis; it is
essentially an 'eXperimental' school,
where it is hoped to learn by actual
experience what kind OF a school is
best adapted to rural life.
The school building is a farm
house, with rooms fitted up as Sit
tins ROOM kitchen and Workship. \
Veranda surrounding the house is
used tor the midday meal, which il
servd by the pupils at the school, and
tor other purposes. There is plent,'
OF ground about the school, including
space for a large garden
The garden is the center about
which instruction reyolves. From the
study OF soil and seed in the winter
time to the actual planting, cult
waiting and harvesting at the other
seasons, the garden remains the ce'i-
Ter of the children's interest and act
WITTY.
Arithmetic, spelling, etc, are not
taught as subjects, but only as the
need for hem arises in connection
with the activities OF home and gard
en-. Laying out the garden involves
arithmetic, and over geometry, both
oil which are absorbed by he chile
rem Without effort.
Words and numbers are given the
children only as the need for them
develops, and then With as little foF-
mality as possible. The whole idea is
for the children to find out things, |,
possible. without being told.
The children in this rural school
are not assigned to classes anc
"periods'', as in the traditions
school. A visitor will see one Sroul
working in the garden, another sroLi
ON the veranda sewing, another II
the kitchen at a cooking task an,
still another doing numbers oil
reading with the teacher in her room
The aim OF the Rock Hin scho9
is thus summarized by DR.. A.. =
Bourland in an introduction to tn
bureaus bulletin:
The resolve was to make a schoo
that will train the farm children TO
their future work in the home, OF
the farm and in the social life aronn'
them. Hence we begin frankly Wit
+ the activities of the farm. The ala
was not "a cut-and-dried plan, bH
rather a working idea to enable tn
teacher to create a growing agen"
for the development of farm life.
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%patronizes that every gown she does
not care about when it is completed
may be returned.
The German empress is, Of all great
royal ladies, the least modishly attired
Her majesty holds the opinion that in
matters of dress royal ladies ladies
of the royal house OF Hohen2ollcrn, at
amy rate-should be a law unto them
selves.
The German empress orders the
bulk of her eowns in Berlin, her bills
for which run to from $4,000 to $4,000
a year. one OF the dressmakers patron
lied by the German empress was Tor
merry a dressing maid at the German
court. She retired from the royal ser
vice on ccoun of i'll health when She
was about forty years old and to silp-
plement her pension she started dress
making in a small way, and her for
mer royal mistress most graciously
gave the woman her patronage.
Queen Mary is also most economical
ly attired for the consort OF "a great
European sovereign.
Her majesty's bills for gowns when
She was princess of Wales ran to
! about $4,000 a year, and as queen they
do not much exceed that figure. The
queen, of course, does not wear out"
any of her gowns, but she never al
lows a morning or afternoon gown to
be put out of the royal wardrobes until
She has worn it at least a couple OF
dozen times.
For her evening gowns Queen Mary
pays from $125 TO $500, and for morn
ing or afternoon gowns from $50 to $40,
and for tweed walking dresses from
$50 to $40.
There is a custom existing among
most royal women. as well as among
others who spend large sums on
dresses, of disposing of the dresses
and gowns that are put i of their
wardrobes to certain dress agencies,
aud the money 50 realized is used to
defray part OF their dress bills. Two
large dress agencies in Paris have the
handling of most OF the left off dresses
OF European royalties. These transac-
tons are conducted by the chief dress
ers of the various royal women and
the former are allowed to lake a Ger
tain commission on the sales.
The sale OF The e of spain's
dresses annually amounts : +, about s4.-
600. and OF the czarina to about a hun
dred pounds less. Neither Queen Mary
nor the German Empress, however,
ever sell their left-off dresses. Queen
Mary's left-of gowns are given away
TO the poorer dependents of royalty
or are distributed through certain
charitable agencies to Door gentlefolk
The German empress ~disposes Of
h her left-oT dresses in much the same
: way. except that they are practically
all given to people in some way Oh
other connected with the court