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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

the lonely little ones. Still, agree with you that there are numbers of women who feel more interest in the welfare of dumb pets than of babies. Your suggestion that some of the idle and bored women should occupy themselves by making baby clothes for mothers without means is good one. l am sorry we cannot publish your application, but 1t is impossible for us to make any specific mention of ar engagements in which financial transac- tions are involved or of such exchanges as you request
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

seems pressing enough to warrant us in relaxing our regimen and printing the needs of this family. who through no fault of their own are reduced to such need The letter of the friend tells as plainly as any longer appeal the wants of the household. Unless some one lived near the expense of sending furniture and such large objects would be heavy, but blank cts and other bedding. clothing. even the rugs and carpets. can be sent by freight, and the smaller articles by parcels post. I have printed the offer of the friend to try to meet the freight charges. but I hope nothing will be SC mt at her expense without inquring from her If the amount is more than she feels able to pay. The blacksmith's family lives in little town and I shall be happy to send the address promptly of the friend who has made the appeal for them. With winter coming on l am sure there will be generous hearts eager to relieve this necessity. I know my Cornerites of old!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Made Homeless by Fire.

am writing on behalf of needy household. The blacksmith's family here had their house burned to the ground a lit- tie while ago. The fire was caused by the explosion of an oil lamp. There are five children in the family and they were alone in the house at the time of the accident. as the mother was at the hospital to see her husband who had undergone an opera ton few days before. He had been sick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Canning ard Pickling.

Seeing a request for how to make or cook what was termed sweet chunks of pickles will send one that tastes pretty good to me, called sweet cucumber pick les. Select twelve large green cucumbers, cut into slices about half an inch thick and soak in warm salt water for an hour. Make thick syrup of one coffee cup of granulated sugar and one teacup of vine- gar. Tie up two teaspoons each of cinna- mon and cloves in piece of muslin; put with the sugar and vinegar; boil all to thick syrup. Drain the cucumbers rinse we'll in cold water. and add to the syrup. Set them back on the range and simmer gently for three hours. Cs.H." Here Is a recipe for canning green pep- pers. I have trledsit for several years and found 1t excellent. Cut peppers into halves. remove the seeds. and cover with boiling water. Let stand for three min utes. drain. plunge into iced water for a few minutes. fold together. and pack in jars. Add two cups of sugar to one quart of vinegar. boil fifteen minutes. pour over peppers, covering them we'll Seal and keep in a cool place. generally use but one pint of vinegar and one cup of sunar if only want to put up few. I can red. yellow. or green peppers and use them in salads or in any way in which one would use pimehtos. MRS o. A. D."
 am grateful for both these reclpes. moi only for the sake of those who asked for them but also because am sure they will be of help to other housekeepers inter- ested, in canning ard picklinR
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

ing a tablespoon of butter into a cup of fine sugar, beating this to cream and seasoning to taste with spice or with va nilla, or whipping little jelly into it.
 LEMON CUP PUDDINGS.
 Chop fine a quarter of pound of beef kidney suet and mix with 1t half cup of flour and a cup of dry bread crumbs. Mix with these four heaping tablespoons of sugar. cup of milk, to which has been added tiny pinch of baking soda, the juice. of lemon, and the grated rind; last, stir in a beaten egg. When all are mixed turn the compound into well but tered custard cups, filling each about half full tic each cup up in a piece of clean cheese cloth, and drop them into pot of boiling water. Keep at steady boil for an hour, take from the fire, remove the cloths. and turn the buildings out on a platter. If they show a tendency to stick dip each ,cup foffan instant into cold water
 These buildings are even better when cooked In a steamer than when boiled. In either case they may be eaten with hard or liquid sauce.
 ENGLISH SUET PUDDING.
 Crumble half pound of suet fine, re- moving all bits of string or fiber. Work a cup each of molasses and of mlt. into the suet, little salt. one teaspoonful of mixed cinnamon and mace. and four cups of flour with which you have sifted two stir in a cup of raisins which have been seeded and well dredged with flour. Turn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

all into well buttered pudding mold with a top. fit this on tightly and plunge the mold into pot of boiling water. taking pains that the water does not come over the top of the tin. Boil for at least three hours, turn out and eat with hard or 3 liquid sauce. Or you may put the pudding into bowl and tie a cloth over the top of it and boil it in this way or cook the pudding in a steamer. The steamed pud ding is almost always lighter and moro digestible than one which has been boiled.
 BUTTERMILK PUDDING.
 Cream two cups of white sugar with half a cup of butter; beat two eggs light and mix with the butter and sugar. Sft an even half teaspoon of soda twice with two cups of flour, taking pains tha. all the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

Tip for Women with Nothing to Do. Corner How much we see about people offering a good home to kitten or of those who say they would give away some kittens if they could be sure the little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Three Copies and Offers of More.

wish to thank you for your kindness in publishing my letter asking for an old song. l received three copies of the song and offers of more, although hardly ex- pected at all to get 1t, for the song is an old one. A doctor who wrote to me said he had copied the song over fifty years ago I still have the patterns for any one who wants them. MRs. J. c. M. ."Ns
 print this note of thanks as an evi- dbnce of the prompt reply which comes to our appeal for almost any form of help. am sure Mrs J. c, M. will be as glad to give the patterns as she was to receive the songs, and shall hold her address tr send to any one who calls forss
Evening star., 1914-04-26

Special CORES i-,udence "f The star
PARIS. April Ii. 1914.
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great roads-the ordinary or the '"pis-
tole.
The rank and file of bad life have
their ordinary.
Nye, fine creatures the successful and
the arrogant. go in magnificent. An
hour later. they are laughing and slang
gether, promenading the gravel. reading
novels, shiikin. work in the ateiers. all
alike. in the gross ST. Lazare skirt.
apron, blouse and tichu.
Girls you have seen queening in the
supper restaurants make it a point of
honor to fling aside AL pretensions, and
rally to the great and humber crowd.
Their money treats dozen 10 meat
klishes, cheese fruit wine from the can
tine They do not ask the 'pistole.
True they might or might not get IT.
Down in the directors cloakroom are
their furs and diamonds. In care OF
sister are their gowns from Klein and
Paoun Boisterous. they give up to
the pale ascetic ''Ioure Bleu' perfume
bail and Guerlan kohl powder pun case
and Rue de la Pax'' dress sachets.
Like swimmer. dsembarrassed, they
plunge in the great common ocean of
their kind. High hearts. It IS their one
noble gesture
Al others ask the ''pistole' when they
have money.
Women awaiting trial have a right to
it, on payment Those arrested admin
istratively often have it thrust on them.
Frail beauties who ignore solidarity beg
for it as a favor Proud adventuresses
go its limit
The pistole, Has it limit at st.
LaZare?
Here you have the type Of ancient
prison, last of its kind. In that old
world. favor and the arbitrary walked
hand-in- hand with very personal justice.
Prisons We're farmed out to their diree-
tors. Mems rank determined their COM
fort and the price they paid in board.
Often when man of rank could not
even pay a pistole per day. he got his
luxury just the same. and the director
made 1t up on others And SO, from
state prisoners down to footpads, to get
comfort, one paid board in prison.
How old-world st. Lazare is you may
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killers. great advcnturesses. financial
mystitiers notable international danes
not specifically accused and whole
category Of Paris beauty and fashion de
tanned under lock and key by admins
trative orders.
1t is the women : prison of Paris. old,
complicated. contradictory, with strange
luxuries and ptiable dark lights,
The director Of It. Lazare gives two
million-franc bond. His safes and TIRE
proof "cloakroom" often contain above
that value in jewels and precious furs.
ON the other hand. the daily rations OF
the common detained or condemned
tunder TWO months are charged the state
by the contractor l. cents per head. but
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the large infirmary section brings this
average up to 20 cents.
And the food of a punishment cell costs
one-fifth Of cent per day.
st. Iazare is not prison build nS. but
a vast old monastery transformed a
hundred years ago to prison uses. There
are shady gardens and green lawns, but
there are also lusubriouS exercise
grounds Of dirt and gravel.
There are soherly elegant old ecciesias-
ticaI ha Is high-ceiled immaculate, where
soft-voiced sisters Of charity ser1e tn"
'.pistoe" in the home Of their great
founder and slip down to pray IN the
dim chapel There are long. cold gal
leres monks doors become iron-griled
for the punishment Of mothers. Also,
there are corridors Of comfortI bic cells,
where their sick children lie in iscla-
ton.
There are long, cold dormitoyies where
Young women who have never had a
trial-rior ever will have-sicep from
three days up to Two months, on the
autocratic word of bureau chief OF the
prefecture of police. And there are
double rows of barred cells clean ana
comforta BILE. although called, the ''menas-
cries" where such same girls who con
duct themselves well-and get laughed
at by the others-arc permitted to so Oft
and sleep III peace and private,
Other dormitories other cells and
rooms and rooms rooms, both great
and small St. l.azare has held 500 al
a time. AT present there are not over
500 on an average; say 300 awaitins
trial, 80 of the special category dont
three days to two months E0 arrested
..adminstratively" both high and low
80 again of the special category undel
treatment in the infirmary. thirty littl
girls and about as many babies. Al
average of sixty babies are annually
born in this sad refuge and their moth
ers awaiting trial or just put away
have a special. spacious, picturesque ant
even noble old pillared dormitory, and
shady garden.
Yet, every girl and woman sent to 81
Lazare, on entering, follows one of TIVE
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wall han=inGs, flowers and new up
right piano
All this is exaggcration. but with
enough truth behind 1t TO make the
''pistole' at 81. Lazare the most striking
prison regime in the world
Mime. CaiIlaux certainly does have her
meals sent in from an elegant restaurant.
but so do others. Her cell is truly a
vast. old castlelike room, but other pris-
oners have occupied it. Furniture, rugs
and hangings have been brought In. but
II is often done. as YOU will see. Flowers
were denied and then admitted-both in
the Paris papers and in prison: nor is
tins new.
one word tells the story-a certain sec
ton Of the -. Lazare 'pistole Is af-
fected to notable accused women. great
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The ''Water Telescope"

EISHEIsMl1N ia various parts nf the
world. particularly in Scandinavian
waters. employ rude sort ot water
telescope Of their own invention. \
tube is procured. made Of tin and fun
nelshaped, about thre6 and onchalf
feet long and nine inches in diam
eter at the broadest end II is
made wide enough at the top to take
in the observers eyes and the INSIDE
is painted black. Al the bottom. or
vide end. clear. thick piece of glass
is inserted. with . little lead in the
form of ring I" weight the tube.
When the Instrument IS Immersed IN
clear water il is said that the OBJ
server can see down AN astonishing
number Of fathoms.
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.DRUDGERY OF AUTHORSHIP
l~>>>N<>>>N>>N>~NNN>N> OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

usually requir,. so long a time. many u
his novels being finished in a year. and
most Of the short stories in a few days.
Though il is said that cUnereEe could
prepare a drama for the stage iu few
DAYS four or five times that period nas
given to the work of revision and reool-
struction after the play WAS given 10 the
actors
Nearly five years was taken bl Irxng
in the writing Of THE Life Of George
Washington. though t required no nirt.
than ten days to write the first 10 pass
Of Bracebritst Hall. The -Aihamhra
written Gufjn., the three months he
spent III that palace.
Fruude consumed seven Years in the
preparation Of materials for and in the
writing of his History Of England. IL
was very accurate. and often spent daNs
il effort to verify a single date or
l,ict
Evening star., 1914-04-26
THE FAMOUS INSTITUTIONS OF ITS KIND

Judge by this: There is gossip that Nine.
Caillaux occupies lie logis du roi' c'the
kings apartmento.
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~UCkLE devoted nearly twenty years
to the collection of material for
his History of Civilization lie
wrote only a portion of the Introduction.
which remains a monument to his ut
erary achievements. If the work had
hean finished on the same scale as begun
a hundred volumes would have scarce
sufficed.
Bancroft devoted nearly thirty years
10 his History of the United States
which strictly speaking, is not a history
of the country at all, since is ends whefs
the history of the United states prop
er,v begins. Had the work been con-
tinued on the same scale down 70 th9
present he must have Nlit1'h
five or eighty volumes
Scott is said to have written " aA r
lev in less than six weeks tie cohlposea
very rapidly, seldom revised, ana as
consequence his novels contain many
errors of fact and anachronsms
Burns committed his poems to memory
before he wrote them, and when ne sat
down to write he had before MN 4iitie
labor of composition, since he had ohiS
the task of writing down what ne had
already finished
a period of twenty years WAS con-
sumed by Gibbon in the labor OF writing
the ..Decline and Fall of the Roman En-
pire' Tiis was one of the most SUI,
pendous literary feats ever accofnpiisheo
by one man.
1t took Thomas Moore two wears 10
search for and prepare the material neS-
essary to the composition OF L-aitd
Rookh." and TWO additional years Were
REQUIRED for the actual writing OF that
work.
George Eliot is said to have written
.Middlemarch'' in four months: Some
doubt however. is cast upon this state
ment by the fact that she commonly
worked with great care and deliberate
and made few erasures after the work
was done.
Evening star., 1914-04-26
An OminOuS Remark.

A PROPOS of the Goelet divorce suit
\ Phiiadelpnan said at the Markham
club:
Mrs. Goeiet's suit gives significance 10
a cynical remark ] heard her make not
long since at a Whelen dinner partA. =
The modern husband can't blind tie
modern wife by throwing dust in her
eyes she said even when its gold
dust
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disposition. She is occupying two roerns.
they say.
Why not when they are women OF
merit?
\ woman OF merit. IN this connection
is sine who has oinelhinG-richss. Sotta
connections. valuable boots. or desi'aAie
or dangerous knowledge.
For such the supple od-world System
has the iron hand II the glove OF NttLet-
STERLING HEtLlG
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WEARING THE ST. LAZARE SKIRT,
APRON. BLOUSE AND FICHU.

made seemingly real by complicated law
suits In the past ten years one other
woman only is known to have mad the
.losis du roi'' all to herself
d,nlomatic dilemma, who, according to
some, the foreign affairs found to be like
the bear which the man caught by the
tail-he could not hold on and did not
Evening star., 1914-04-26

Judge by this: There is gossip that Nine.
CaillaUX occupies lie logiS du rol tne
kings apartment J.
Who knows what part of the grand old
pile dates from the fourteenth century
monastery of St. Lazare? Its monks
began by caring for lepers and ended BY
lodging the old kings Of France before
they made their solemn eptries into Paris.
1t being just outside the city walls here
kings received the oath of the municipal
authorities after breakfast and continued
the triumpha entry.
Louis XIV. coming up from his Span
ish marriage. stopped overnight in the
kings apartment alleged to be the same
vast room of seven beds actually occupied
by Nine CailiauX. She does not occupy
the seven beds. MI We're removed and
a better one brought in.
Surely. the name "lo"iS On roi STICKS
through the centuries. IT is unlikely that
the royal apartment Vas destroyed when
st. I.aZare was gwen over 10 ST vincent
de Paul. III 1e'2. He made il the central
home of his priests of the mission. and
now YOU know why in America they are
called LaZafiStS.
So also when st. Lazare became a
women's prison the old ways of prisons
stuck along with old terms and tradi-
tons There has always been a "ioSis du
roi and a little" kings apartment and
a .courtiers' suite
In old prisons you had decent room
for a pistole per day, better for :: pis-
toles I'd elegant board and service for
10 1t was an old coin worth 10 livres-
about 81 To live la pistole meant to
live high.
).
Nine. Steinheii awaiting trial for the
mysterious death of her husband was at
the pistoe in this same 'logis du roi,
the room of seven beds Before Nine.
Steinhei Nine. Humbert had it-she who
raised so many millions from the Paris
money lenders on supposititious legacy.
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never came to trial. Or that subtle ad-
venturess who as the Narchesa ",
fetched off jewel swindles in the Rue de
la Paix to the amount OF half a million
The influential tradesmen clamored tor
the government to get their jewels back
She had hid them. and they got some.
after the negotiations. Or the lady OF the
trio of Baron de Wiega. alleged chamber
lain of the Pope. Who had authentic Ger
man and Spanish noble orders al their
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ARtS is stirred by
the alleged luxury
of Nine. Caillaux 8
prison cell ~ not A
cell. they say. but
vast and spacious
old-world M o n as
terry room trans
formed to boudoir-
parior.
She waits trial,
they say. amid fine
furniture. carpets.
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dare let go 1t was she who is supposed
to have tempted an unfortunate young
etat-maior clerk at Marseille mot a
French ofiicerl to abstract from the safe
the mobilization plans of the Army ol
the Alps What had she done with them?
Were they already in possession of an
other nation? On the other hand she
claimed 10 hold secreted, at heavy
price a certain desirable forty-page brief
of a great powers artillery. drawn up for
its illustrious chief. or something like IT,
They handled the Dame X delicately.
Just like Nine. Humbert or Nine. Gail
laux The ''logis du roi" has regularly
seven beds in it. Women worthy OF us
exclusive use are rare In ordinary times
its noble space is shared by six or seven
woman prisoners at moderate pistoie
prices, which go down as low as 20 cents
per day per bed Those beds are ordinary
camps coarse linen, but immaculate.
Such moderate prisoners. after all, most
profit by the pstole regime. OF an aver
age 200 awaiting trial, perhaps eighty OF
them frightened. respectable creatures,
some Of them innocent take infinite cour-
age pending their defense by waiting in
real rooms instead of cells. Prices are
compassionately elastic-all according to
the person. So are the accommodations.
rooms and rooms. The food comes in
from many II restaurant at varying
prices And there is the prison cantine,
coarse none too good and very cheap.
And the good sisters. sweet, calm and
confident in the house of st. Vincent de
Paul. come and go and slip down to the
dim chapel.
Quick, shift those cheap dodgers else
where.
The lugis du ro is wanted. Drag the
seven beds out The Dame X is COM
ing! Scrape the antique black oak floor
ing with iron shavings. wax it, polish it
with loaded brushes tied to feet of wom-
en- Wash the walls down-they are ripo-
lin Hooks are in their place Tor tapes
tries a lady of merit!
\ big bed, furniture and rugs. Some
times the woman pays. sometimes the
state. Dame X. for instance, VINO
never paid anybody, never came to triai-
Nine. Steinheil. who had no money, was
tried and acquitted. II is denied that she
had wall hangings. 1t is a trif1ing de-
tail Al any given moment. OF the class
detained adninistratively, a varying pro-
norton live in only lesser state, fright
ened, yet hopeful.
Elegant young women from the race
track. bois and palace hotels are held and
nersuaded to give up their guilty knowl-
edge of family secrets, financial plots and
gaming conspiracies.
Or again, there are creatures like her
who accompanied an alleged archduke 5
son in renting and furnishing mansion
and procuring deal of credit. She lived
worthily in the lesser royal chamber. with
flowers, rugs, screens and a piano. She
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In his preface to David Copperfield'
Dickens says he spent two years in the
composition of that work. He did not
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Where Nine. Call
laux Awaits Trial.
Furs and Diamonds in
the Cloakroom he
Kin g's Apartment
Where Well Known
Woman Prisoners Are
Held-NIeals Furnish
ed by First-Class Res
taurants-Money Fur
nishes Wealthy Prison
ers With Luxuries.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-29
RATE INCREASE
Scales 20 Be Used in Making Five Per
Cent Increase Submitted to In
terstste Commerce Com.
mission.

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Dec. Is
Scales Of rates TO be used in making
the general increase OF FIVE per cent.
In class rates recently granted the
Eastern railroads by the Interstate
Commerce Commission have been sub
mitted TO the commission by c. c. Nc.
cain, chairman of the Trunk Line AS
ISOLATION committee
To points Intermediate between
New York and Chicago. taking II per
cent and higher of the New York-Chi-
cago class rates. the new tariffs will
become effective on January 10, and
TO points taking a lower percentage
OF the rates. they will become effec-
tive February l.
The first class rate between New
York and Chicago will be ISIS cents a
hundred pounds. and the other FIVE
classes will be graded proportionately
lower.
From New York to points taking 50
per cent. of the rates. the charges on
the various classes per hundred
pounds will be as follows:
First class. AS cents: second. al:
third. 3l.5; fourth. 22.1; fifth. 1873. and
sixth. 1913. To the same destinations.
the rates from Philadelphia will be
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first class traffic. and about the same
amount lower on other classes: and
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