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The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that The Annual
meeting of the Stockholders df the Car
rier, Babcock, Mclean Company will be
held at its office in Punta Go1da. Florida,
on the End Tuesday in January, the
same being the 1lth day of lsaid month
1916 at 10 a. M, for the Purpose of e.
lecting Directors for the e1suing year,
and for the purpose of traIsacting any
and all business that may be properly
brought before said meetinAN
c. M CARRIER. PresidM n Carrier,
Babcock, Mclean CompaM ~
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23
TAX ASSESSORS NOTICE

/ will be at the following places on CIV
en- dates, to take Tax returns for 1916
Court sets too late in the year to see me
Court week. Do not wait for it. This is
important to all, Can't YOU spare at
least ten minutes out of year?
Limestone, January 10th.
Lily, January 18th.
Horse Creek, January 18th.
zOna, January 18th.
Fort Green, January 18th.
Bowling Green, January is and nth.
Avon Park, January 18th and 18th.
Sebring, January goth.
Sweet Water, January gath.
Crewsville, January 25th.
Venus, January 27th.
Palm Dale January 2Sth.
Citrus Center. January 29th.
LaBelle, January 31st.
Bermont, February, End.
Cleveland, February, 3rd.
Ft Ogden, February 4th.
q Platt, February 5th.
Owens, February 7th.
Pine Level, February Sth.
Oak Hill February 9Th.
Brownville. February 10th.
Gardner, February 18th.
Zolfo, February 18th
Mccall, February 21st.
Murdock, February 22nd
Charlotte Harbor. February 23rd.
Punta Gorda, February 24th 25th, and
goth.
Nocatee, February, 2Sth.
Wauchula, March, Sth, 9th, 10th and
18th.
Arcadia, March 18th. to 25th inclusive.
Respectfully
II. G. MURPHY, Tax Assessor.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23
An English Christmas

The mistletoe is still hung up
in farm house kitchens at Christ
mas and the young men have the
privilege of kissing the girls un-
der it, plucking each time a berry
from the bush; when the berries
are all plucked the privilege
ceases.
The Yule Clog is a great log OF
wood, sometimes the root of a
tree, brought into the house with
great ceremony on Christmas
Eve, laid in the fireplace and
lighted with the brand of last
years Clog. While it lasts there
is singing and telling of tales.
Sometimes it is accompanied by
Christmas candles, but in the cot
I tages the only light is. from the
blaze of the fire. The Yule Clog
was to burn all night; if it went
out, it was considered a sign OF
i'll luck.
This Clog is still burned ir
many houses in England, anC
there are several superstition
connected with it. If a squirting
person comes to the door, or ;
barefoot person enters the house
it is thought to be an i'll omen.
The brand remaining from th'
Yule Clog is carefully put away
to light the next years Christ
mas fire.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEET
ING

The stockholders of the Puhta Gorda
Bank will hold the regular ANNUAL meet
ing, Tuesday, January llth, 1916, be-
tween the hours of 10 a m. and p. m,
at the office of the Bank, for the purpose
of electing officers for the ensuing year,
and to transact any and all such busi-
ness as may be legally brought before
them.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23
Baptist Church

Christmas tree and children s
exercises at the Baptist church
tomorrow friday evening, COM
at Z 0 clock.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23

education $6,81S; American Bible
Society $149; presiding 1,
$17,84S; pastors $36,602; biz IS
81 AT; number of churches
houses of worship 1888; valt bt
houses of worship $1,022,977 n-
debtedness $152,474; pas al
charges, 1870; parsonages, A9
value, $649, 9,150; Indebtedness
$29, SIG; churches damaged by
fire, three; amount of damage
1851; insurance carried, $453,P10
premiums paid, $2,426; collected
on losses, $44; copies of general
organ taken, 1926; conference or
gan, 5000; raised for orphanage
$70,052; Sunday school special
81, ,119; district parsonages, 1886
incidental expenses, $26, 1884; 9th
er objects, $943,683. Grand to
tai funds raised, 1870.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1915-12-23

JAS. o. BICKLEY,
Co. Supt and Sec'y
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
WIFE AND STENoGRAPHER.

The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded, as it fell;
The chilling want Of sympathy
We feel. but never tell
The hard repulse that chills the heart
Whose hopes were bounding high
In an unfading record kept
These things shall never die
receive more letters on the follow
Ing subject than most people would
imagine: Are Stenographers Treated
Better Than Wives ?" There is somuch
snap in an epistIe just received, I print
it in full: Dear Miss Libbey-I should
like to hear your opinion in an article
dealing with the subject of naughty
stenographers and cringing wives. My
husband employs a very handsome
young woman in his Office at a salary
of eighteen per. She runs his office.
I, his wife, run his home, and our three
small children in it. l never have
eighteen dollars, all my own, year in
and year our. Ny husbi nd says his
stenographer is an angel; that she
always greets him with a pleasant
good morning. while I greet him
with, did you bring home the money
for the butcher, the Baker and candle
SHOEMAKER, adding, don't you see lit
tie Marys toes are sticking out of her
shoes, that calls for a new pair. Jamie
is poking his elbows out of his jacket;
little Dick can't be in swaddling
clothes any longer. Then, there's the
coal. Don't wait until we freeze to
death before we get it in. Yesterday
the girl broke the kitchen range. and
well, l might go on mentioning needful
things to be done for an hour. He
jumps up from the table in a rage,
hurting cuss words back at me. hear
he arrives at his Office as sweet as a
Maytiower. Now, why should he think
her an angel and me Just the opposite {?
Mrs. D." There's much food for con-
temptation for the husband who keeps
a young woman stenographer, in this
letter. She can look happy and serene.
because she has nothing TO worry her.
If she has only five sheets OF paper to
write seven letters on. her employer
sends out and gets new full box to
place at her disposal. Her pay en-
velope is put into her hand punctually
every Saturday night She has no
cause TO be anything but angelic to her
employer. He would see quite another
side of the angel if she were obliged
to nag him repeatedly for her salary.
Shed soon tell him she had her share
of the rent TO pay: she must have
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Prices of Gems SOARING.

If anyone notices a broad and be-
coming smile on the fair countenances
of their favOrite actresses, there's a
reason. It is because the prices of pre-
ciOus stones are soaring to the sky.
Nearly every prominent stage favorite
has acquired a bushel or so of dia-
monds, rubies, emeralds and other val
liable stones. That is the reason they
are happy. Under present conditions
they are not required to go before the
foOtlights and sing and dance or do
whatever their speciality is. What's
the use when they can attain wealth
without effort? Diamonds are as valu-
able as war babies" The war has
sent the price of precious stones way
up and dealers say they are still soar
ing. This is because very few stones
are being imported. Then again there
has been a boost of ten to twenty per
cent in the tariff on cut stones, and an
other thing, the diamond mines in
South Africa are shut down. If you
have promised your lady friend a dia-
mOnd ring or a baubIe with precious
stones you may as well be prepared to
see your bank roll fade away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
HAT HINTS WORTH NEEDING
Woman Must Consider Relation of
Millinery to Her Particular
Type of Individuality.

If you are inclined to be stout and
short-necked, don't attempt to wear
a broad brimmed hat with a suit hav-
ing a muff1er collar, or with the broad
fur scarf which one nowadays wraps
about the lower part Of the face, and
thereby distort the lines of neck and
shoulder.
A girl with a girafelike neck may
get away with the big hat and choker
collar, but even she sometimes pre-
sents a grotesque picture. The proper
thing with the present style suits is
the small, cloche-fitting hat, which may
be as tall as one likes, but which must
be absolutely lacking in breadth sug-
gestion of the silhouette.
The suit or gown with the high
collar which is not of the chin-chin,
mufier or funnel varieties may have
as it's GROWING finish a hat of the
Gainsborough type. So long as the
neck line is close and follows natural
contours, the broad-brimmed chapeau
will be found all right.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Sweet Box Office Man.

A stylish girl, whose toilet included
fur-topped Russian boots and a steel
plush helmet, a la Berlin. rushed dis
tractedly up to the box office window
of a city theater and laid before the
ticket mogul a handful of tiny bits Of
cardboard. 1t represented one re-
served orchestra chair for a matinee
soon to begin, which she had put care
fully in an envelope and then torn up
while cleaning out her handbag.
Would, oh, would he let her go in?
He did.
And as the girl joined a same-style
companion whose ticket, next, was in
a state of perfect preservation, she ex-
claimed, happily:
tits all right! I knew he wouldn't
mind, because the last time they
passed me in after I had dropped my
ticket in the mail box instead of a let
ter, don't you know? Sweet of him,
wasn't it?"
And it truly was.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Nameless Inventors.

Apart from the sheer human won
der aroused by the wireless telephone,
the most remarkable fact seems to be
that this application of research has
been carried out by a business cor
pOratiOn, and that the inventors and
scientists remain anonymous. AS evil
dence of human motives there is
much to think about here. What is
the incentive which impeIs these IN
known workers, what secret have
these corporations discovered which
enables them to tap so inexpensively
the most useful minds in America
When next we read that enterprise
would collapse without dazzling re-
wards. that human nature is so and
so, we shall not be able to refrain
from thinking of these nameless bene-
factors of mankind. Their incentive
seems somehow to be as good as
those of the men who are piIing up
fortunes in war speculation, or Of
those who had grandfathers with vi
sion of real estate development.-New
Republic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

and poor couples quarrel over about
the same things. The bride feels her
self aggrieved over the lack of Ca
resses, such as she believes her young
husband should lavish upon her The
husband becomes annoyed at the no
ton that they should sit and court of
an evening in the park now that they
are welded. She accuses him of his
love growing cold. He accuses her of
being far more of a foolish girl, than
he ever imagined her to be- She ac-
cuses him of not wanting to take her
out of an evening, yet passing those
hours away from her. He retaliates
that he has to work overtime to pay
their bills, adding that he didn't cal
culate it would cost so much more to
keep two than one; continuing he
finds he has to put up for the cost of
whole army of people, for that's
what the entertaining she insists upon
doing, amounts to. What woman will
&uow a man to have the last word?
She retaliates. Because she is married,
does he expect her to shut herself up
in the house, never see a human face,
or the light of day outside of the four
walls? He suggests that wife's place
is at home, not gadding. This adds
fuel to the fire of her wrath. She
splutters holly. Her eyes are being
opened to the fact that it is a cook
and elderly woman of all work he
zhOuId houo coo77rod apI not q xvO11p q
wife to be finding fault with. If the
one or the other turned the first re-
mark off with a smile, refused to an
swer back, much trouble could be
avoided. One angry word brings on
another. He turns moodily away,
leaves the house without his goodbye
kiss, that made his duties, his life and
the world so sweet to him. She misses
it quite as much; but finds little salts
faction in resorting to tears, crying
herself into headache. There is still
a trace of it when he comes home at
night in her swollen face, bloodshot
eyes. She thinks he does not notice
1t, when she has her hair so nicely
curled. and her best bib and tucker
on. But he does. Each is repentant
to be sure. It's the one who shows
the first overtures towards peace, that
gives proof that such little tiffs are
danger signals, to wreck future hap
piness. Each young married couple
should make a compact that they will
never, never, quarrel. but keep their
hearts happy with love.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
An African Woman.

Today on the road I saw a woman
so small, so perfect, so black, and so
comely that l looked at her with
wonder. She walked with her arms
folded, before a big carrier. She wore
a leaf bandage supported by Grim
son strap which held in place low on
her back one of those curious bustles
which are the pride of the people from
the interior a thick. even, glossy
bunch of dried grass that looks like
black horsehair, and is jaunty to a
degree. Her dark skin was in per-
feet condition; her beautiful slender
limbs moved with elastic precision;
above her slim shoulders her head
was poised with a sort of nervous
pride, and her hair was charmingly
and deliberately dressed. Fairly she
seemed to glitter in the sunlight
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie in the At
lantic Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
SOLDIERS AND sWEETHEARTs.

Oh, there are struggles and striving;
Oh, there are cares, there are tears;
Now is the time to be smoothing
The frowus and the burrows and fears.
What to closed eyes are kind sayings?
What to hushed heart is deep vow?
Naught can avail after parting
So give them the flowers now.
There are those who would stand in
the way of pretty. attractive girl be-
coming the sweetheart of a soldier.
He leads a life in which home plays
little or no part, they contend, and try
to dissuade her from her liking for
the lad who belongs to the army and
his country. The soldier sees the girl
whom he loved and might have won
drift out of his life. 1t is not given to
every man to love a second time. In
the dark watches of the night, tossing
on his rude bed, or doing lonely SEN
try duty, under the light of the stars,
he yearns for a sight of that one loved
face, and brushes away tear perhaps
when he thinks of what might have
been. 1t is a cruel mistake to have a
girl withhold her love for a soldier be-
cause of his calling. The life these
noble fellows lead is lonely. joys are
few and far between. If they have no
refining influence to hold them in
check life is gray and drear for them,
under any sky. The man who goes to
battle with the foe, leaving no one be-
hind who cares whether he lives or
falls, fights reckIessly and mechanical
ly. He does not press forward with a
prayer on his lips, that he may be
saved for her dear sake. And, oh. what
a boon, direct from heaven, is a sweet
heart to a wounded soldier. Her CHEEKY
letters do him more good than all the
medicine and doctors in the world can.
He reads over every line until each
word is inscribed indelibly on his
heart. The wounded mate who lies
next him and has no sweetheart looks
on with hungry eyes, manfully repress'
ing the sigh that rises to his lips.
What would he not give for the knowl.
edge that in some part Of the world a
sweet and loving woman cared for
him and was praying for his recovery
His heart grows sad with its unsatis-
fed longings. Heaven bless those who
encourage the love affairs of the maid
en- and her soldier lover The very
strength of his affection for her will
bring him unscathed to her, from the
worst of battles. He will trample over
red-hot plowshares to reach her side
again, and to clasp her hands in his.
The hope of love rewarded, some day,
not far distant, is the soldiers beacon
light. His life will not always be de-
voted to the army. After he has served
in the ranks honorably, his allotted
term, love may draw him from the
ranks. His after years will be all the
better for his army training. Yes,
soldiers do need sweethearts, every
one of them. The boys of the regular
army need love even more than their
brothers at home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
AS IN DAGUERRE0TYPE DAYS
Afternoon Gowns With Short Sleeves
and Low Cut Necks Are
Now in Order.

Short sleeves and a low cut neck in
an afternoon frock is one of the pref
test new ideas that have been sent
over from Paris. Long ago such
gowns were worn - way back in
daguerreotype days. Those who may
not wish to go about with bare arms
and uncovered throat will probably do
just as they did in those days-wear
tucker and undersleeves.
Another fashion is that of after
noon gowns of fragile materials, like
chiffon and net. They are in black
or dark colors and have a certain
heaviness given them by the trim
mings of velvet or satin. In some
models they are almost covered with
encircling ribbons of velvet or satin.
This seems to give such gowns the
quality of solidity needed in daytime
light
Drop skirts that do not come to the
transparent hens of these gowns
make them look disconcertingly short.
They give a filmy dress edge that is
almost necessary in the abbreviated
frocks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
A Corpulent One.
"Thev have a family skeleton"

It's rather curious about the Gads-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
MANKIND UNFAIR TO HORSE
If Beasts of Burden Could Talk inhu-
nanity Might Well Be Subject of
Indictment of Their Masters.

If horses could talk those of US
who know them best have no doubt
as to some of the things they would
say. Mans inhumanity to them would
be the chief subject of their converse
ton, at least if they are half as hui
man as we think they are.
To require a locomotive to haul a
train of cars over track that wrecks
it before half the days of usefulness
should be over and then send it to the
scrap heap, is an economic folly. To
ask horse to drag our heavy loads of
coal, ice, iron, lumber-the merchan-
disc of all sorts by which cities grow
rich and great-over streets that wear
IT out even before it has reached its
prime, is not only an economic folly,
it is cruelty that not only horses but
all decent men must condemn
There are streets where, no small
part Of the year, the pavement is so
slippery that it is torture for horse
to travel on them. There are others
so full of holes, so uneven, so wretch
eddy out of repair, that no self-respect-
ing horse, left to himself, would ever
set foot upon them.
To be jerked and pulled, now this
way, now that, because the loaded
wagon you are straining to drag to
its destination sinks into a hollow
here, or bangs into an elevation there
to go home at night with feet bruised
and shoes torn off by pavements, with
legs aching in every muscle because
no clean level surface has been pro-
vided where the feet could get a grip
if We we're horses, who of US would
not start a union for self-protection
and strike before the week was over?
But horses do talk. Their language
is not. audible, it is visible. You see
it in that swollen joint, that sprained
tendon, that limping gait, which speak
of the roads over which men have
made them travel.
Money? No money to put our
streets in order? We are robbing our
taxpayers Of their money by refusing
to do it-saving at the spigot and
wasting at the bung hole. We are do
ing more. We are treating with posi-
tive cruelty, every working day OF
the year, thousands of the most faith
full servants of our cities, without
whom we would have had no cities
worthy the name.-EXchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Metal Embroidery.

Some of the latest creations for aft
eruoon wear are made Of serge, EN-
broidered in metal threads. These
embroideries sometimes appear on the
border of the skirt, sometimes only
on the collar and cuffs, sometimes on
the waistcoat.
Dark copper embroideries on navy
HUE serge are effective. Recently a
full skirt and short basqued coatee
of this material was seen which had
metallic embroideries in dark copper
on the hem OF the skirt, on the roll
over collar. and again on the deep
gauntlet cuffs.
In addition to these embroideries
there we're narrow bands Of caracul
on skirt and coat. It was an excep-
tionaIly good model and one which
could be worn on almost any occa-
sion
Dull gold embroideries On black
serge are also fashionable. but these
are q triie remarkable for street wear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

Paris, especially enc in Powered pink
tGfeta with lace. The bodice of this
frock is merely an extra high girdle
which drops in almost a straight lire
from bust to waist, placed above a
skirt that is extended by a reed above
the knees so that it has the appear
ance Of a lamp shade.
Instead of the fullness below falling
in to the figure, it stands out, leaving
a conspicuous contrast between the
circle that is formed by the hem and
the feet. Surely this is not a good
gown to dance in, or to skate in; the
two diversions are promised to US all
winter, especially the latter, which
threatens to become the madness of
the hour.
When drapery with a certain
amount of stiffness is used for a
frock, it is not necessary, so the de-
signers think, to employ reeds or to
give the new effect. They bunch the
material high at the sides, or inter-
line it with crinoline. This treatment
of material is the only way, so far,
in which bustles are obtained. The
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Against Law to Be Patriotic,

According to a recent ruling OF
Justice Gould of the district supreme
court the law as it is now interpreted
permits a theater manager to eject
from his house of entertainment d
patron who rises to his feet when the
national anthem is played. The Gus
tom of rising when the national an
them is played is a matter Of taste
and not particularly of right 1t is
a most excellent practice, worthy of
emulation. It should be universal.
In the particular case in point a
grave error of judgment was commit
ed by the theater management in
trying to put out the man who pa
triOtically insisted upon standing.
Those who churlishly called upon him
to resume his seat should have been
the objects of corrective attention.
From the Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
finish for Pillows.

Ruf1es, which had so long been
eliminated as finish for pillow GOV.
ers. are again being used, especially
for those made of the gayly patterned,
printed stufs, such as cretonnes and
chintz. The rufdes. so far. are gen
orally confined to the round shaped
pillows, which are in favor at pres
ent.
The rufies should not be more than
two inches wide and the material is
usually folded double and either
plated or gathered. II the material
is cotton Of a rather stiff quality. a
plated ruffie would be smart. but If
the fabric is of thin silk, in one Of the
futurist patterns. gathered rufle,
which when folded double would look
not unlike a pu1 around it, would be
most effective.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
SURE DEATH TO THE BUGS
lnsecticide That Has Given Abundant
Value When Required in an
Emergency.

Here is an insecticide invented by
DR.. Herbert E. Brooke, port health Off
Ger Of Singapore, where they have to
deal with many varieties of bugs. He
sends it to the London Lancet and
says it is far more effective than cyl
lin, phenyl, benzine, petrol, kerosene,
turpentine or soap. 1t is made as fol
lows:
Carbon disulphate, one part; kero-
sene, 20 parts; mixed by shaking. Then
add lysol, seven parts, and keep in a
stoppered bottle. When needed for
use, make a ten per cent solution in
water, adding the water to the stock,
and not the stock to the water. 1t
should be used with a spray.
Doctor Brooke says bugs are
killed within a second or two, and
two applications proved sufficient to
kill all the lice lover 10000 and their
eggs on small pariah puppy; while
the government veterinary surgeon
here, Mr.. P. Scott Falshaw, reports
that it is the only agent he has used
which is capable of dealing instanta-
neously with cattle ticks