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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Through Europe's war-swept spaces
 Walking with tarpished shoon Der silent upturned faces,
 There $coraes a saddened June. No little white flowers meet her;
 Only the vivid red And scarlet blossoms greet her,
 That root where men have bled. The lips that whispered trif1es
 To welcome her are dumb; She hears the voice of rifles,
 The rattle of the drum. From where the sweet wild grasses Once grew, there comes the smell Of heavy. acrid gases.
 Like fumes escaped from hell. She sees the ocean folding, Upon it's bosom deep, Many a mother holding
 A child in endless sleep; And women who fell screaming
 Before the blood-mad clans, To find, in their long dreaming,
 Earth's heart more soft than
 mans. She hears the canpon's thunder;
 She hears the labored breath Of boys who gaze in wonder
 Upon the face of death. She sees the torn toblations
 That human folly filings On altars of itsd nations
 To feed the pride of kings. Through Europe's war-swept spaces, Walking with tarnished shoon Ger silent, upturned faces.
 There comes a saddened June No little white flowers meet her;
 Only the vivid red And scarlet blossoms greet her,
 That root where men have b1ed. -Walter Trumbun in New York
 World.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
WHICH TO BE HIS WIFE

Dear Miss Iibbey:
 I am twenty-one, love a girl in the Netherlands. Left five years ago. Were close friends at school; visited her a year ago. Corresponded since I left. We are engaged for some time. I want her to come over here. She is unwilling. Must I urge? She says she loves me dearly. If so wouldn't she come here? I kept company with a nice girl here ten months. She cares for me. I am through college Have a call in another State. If I ask this girl to be my wife she would willingly go anywhere. Is suitable wife for a minister, don't you think? Is it wrong as a minister to ask the Netherlands girl to release me from the engagement? A wife should go with me- from one congregation to another. Which girl should be my wife. O. B.
 You ought to have reasoned this out clearly before you became engag- ed to the first girl. If she will not go with you, tell her frankly of the oth- CT girl, and the needs in your calling and she will decide honorab1y and best
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
A MAN HAS LITTLE RESPECT FOR PICKED-UP
 ACQUAINTANCEsHiPs

The girl who shippers, bIushes and is led by easy stages into conversing g unrestrained1y with him he sets down as an inaprudent bit of pretty femt- ninity who can help one pass an idle hour. but he. inwardly pities the feI- low who is foolish enough to lose his heart to her and place a wedding ring on her finger. She may make a good wife, but the chances are she will aI- ways be looking for admiration from men, and, worst of all, it would not be Sa difficult matter to scrape up an ac- quaintance unless she has changed her ways with wedIock
 The stranger who hatters a girl does not think for a moment that she will be foolish enough to believe what he tells her; realizing that she does not know who or what he is; whether heart whole and fancy free or the hus- band of an irate, overworked wife and father of a bakers dozen of ba- b1es who are running helter-sk over the other end of the park. and whom he is expected to keep an eye on- It is the man who takes it for granted that he has not made an inn pression upon this particular girl who is sometimes anxious to bide his time as to when he can ruin across some reliable person who knows his wor-- thiness to give him an introduction, if she consents to being presented
 It does not weary the man who has received an honorable introduction to near her converse in a candid, natural way that goes Straight to his liking rather than to become aware that she is inclined to be forward or bit smart She inpresses him favora bly, If she is strict about his taking every step alright in the Wooing from start to finish. The more simple she is the more complete she charms. Her in .nocence is established if she persists in repellfng a stranger who talks to her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
SAYS LOCAL WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS HAVE
 LITTLE PROTECTION

< Hartford, June - Women wage earners in. Connect1ci1t are working wholly without protection and with very little chance of bettering their Tcondition-'s
 This statement was made last ev- ening at the open meeting of the im- macuIate Conception Holy Name So- cfety by Miss Charlotte Holloway, special investigator of the conditions of working women in the State of Cannecticut in the state factory in spector's department
 Miss Holloway has investigated the conditions of 81 .OO0 women working in fa5cke1es, stores and other branch es of business in the state.
 Some women employed in stores re- ceived only $2.50 a, week. New ,Ha-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
Rhnharb sherbet.

Cut enough rhubarb to make two pints in small pieces. Boil with a, cup of water and strain through a sieve. Add sugar to taste, and remember rhubarb requires more sweetening than almost any other product, un- less it be gooseberries, and heat to the boiling point. Then cool and add a cup of c1aret or grape juice or two tablespoons of lemon juice to the liquid. Turn it into the freezer, and when half frozen add a cup of crystal ized ginger, shredded. Continue freezing and pack away in ice and salt till wanted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
LAURA JEAN-2 " .. IF HE PROPOSES,
 WHAT TO TELL HIM
Dear Miss Libbey:

Dear Miss Libbey:
 I think a great deal of a young zan have known fifteen years. He is twenty-two. am eighteen. We have been friends the last six years. He says he loves me. Has loved no other girl. I kept regular company with him. He is fine looking; not much of a worker. A month ago, he took teachers examination; intends to teach school. We corresponded often for four years. To this pa rents object. They do not want me to wed him. He hasn't "get-up to take care of me. Will prosper if some one helps him save. One year ago he offered a birthday ring as gift to me. I did not accept. Pa rents say he is not able to buy pres ents. Did do right or not? He
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
CORNER FOR COOKS
Salt Cod in Cream.

Shred the fish and wash it in sew eraI waters. Then cook for 20 min utes in plenty of fresh water. Drain and cover with rich milk. Heat to the boiling point and beat one egg previously whipped. Add a little paprika, and if you have it, a few spoonfuls of butter. Thicken slight 1y with flour and, cold milk rubbed to a, smooth paste. This dish is also very good for luncheon. For variety it may be poured into a buttered bak- ing dish, sprinkIed with minced pars- ley and baked ten minutes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

A cool and pretty costume for sum- mer is this one, consisting of a tailored shirt waist and pleated skirt Each garment can be used separately being designed so that any of the fashionable materials can be used in it's develop ment If made of linen, trimmed with henstttching, the shirt waist will ex- press the last word in tailored eIe- gance-
 Conservative dressers will like. es- pecia11y the skirt which is four-piece affair with a box pIeat each side of the front and back gores. It closes to the left; of the center-front and can have either high or normal waist-line. The average size requires 2M yards 54-inch material.
 To avoid mistakes at the beginning the fabric should be folded carefully so that the, various parts of the pattern can be laid upon it to the best advan- tage in cutting. The front and back gores are placed on a 1engthwise fold Of the goods, as is also the belt, but the belt runs crosswise of the material Opposite the front gore, placed on a 1engthwise thread, are the front and back box -pleats.
 The piecing for the side gore comes between the back gore, laid on a 1engthwise fold and the side gore, placed on a lengthwise thread. For
  shorter length skirt cut off lower edges of gores and box pIeats on small "o' perforations.
 Taffeta and serge are popular in com bfnation and it frequently happens that a serge skirt will be stitched with box pleats of taffeta. or vice versa. Rather startling, but highly effective, are white skirts trimmed with black p1eats, and this idea is easy to carry out since the pleats are applied instead of being folded into the gores in the old-fash- toned way.
 The belt is very pretty bound with contrasting silk or with a narrow stitching of silk braid. The flaps are decorated with buttons of self-material.
 That women will actually revert to the old fashioned. shoopsEzirt even the credulous can hardly believe, but many a skirt wide enough to belong in the summer outfit of civil war time belle will be Haunted bravely along this summers ways.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
IFsSHE TALKS
 TO STRANGERS

Of a. kiss at loves beginning
 When two mutual hearts are signing
 For the knot there's no untying.
 Love he comes, and Love he tarrieS,
 Just as Fate and Fancy carries;
 Longest stays when sorest chidden,
 Laughs and flies when pressed and
 bidden.''
 down in sthe lectures parents read to their young daughters just budding into womanhood that it should not be wondered at that the pretty young things fail to acquire half of the knowledge that was supposed to have
 taken firm deep root. Especially is this the case in regard to the oppo- site sex. The one warning which should be first on the list of "don't ts, |"
 but which is usually overlooked, is not to hold conversations with strang- CTS.
 This does not apply to the business girl across whose path strangers are the shy, modest maiden whom bold trihers select, as a target toward which they man direct their wi1es-a
 girl too innocent to look out for her self. Men of that stamp usually in fest the parks, for it is there young girls are wont to turn their steps when I the air is balrny with the breath of spring.
 Few men would have the temerity to open 8 conversation with a young woman without a certain amount of encouragement from her. To find a lovely young girl quite alone, sitting
 on a. bench, is the bold mans oppor- unity. He takes a seat at the far thest corner and begins his scheme of 1 flirting by eyeing her covertly. Once
 aware that she has taken note Of his presence, then he bodily opens siege 1 by commenting on the weather taking
 his chances as to whether she is lady
 enough to rebuke his advances or
 silly enough to be led into conversa-
 ton. l If she betakes herself to another
 bench when she is removed from his
 unweIcome impertinence, though his
 vanity is ruff1ed by the quiet rebuff,
 he cannot help respecting the lass, admiring her all the more. That is the girl he cannot forget and in his l musings he wishes that it might fall l to his lot to win sue ha golden prize for a wife. A husbands love and honor would be so secure in her keep ing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
Lamb Hash With Green Peppers.

Chop the lamb remaining from Sun days dinner very fine. Mix with an equal quantity of hashed potatoes and half a green pepper, also chopped fine Flavor with salt, pepper and a few drops of onion sauce. Moisten with gravy should any remain. If not, milk will. answer and cook in a tablespoon of butter until well brown ed on the under side. Fold over and serve
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
MISS LIBBEY'S REPLIES
 TO YOUR LETTERS

Correct name and address must be given to insure atten- tiOn, not to print. Use ink. Write short letters, on one side of paper only. Address Miss Lfbbey, 916 President street, Brooklyn, W. Y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
Hadish and Cucumber Salad.

Measure two cupfuIs of equal DOT tions of thinly sliced cucuTnbers and radishes. Soak in salted water for one-half hour, drain and mix with two stalks of finely chopped celery and one tablespoonful of onion juice. Arrange on lettuce leaves, dust with paprtka and serve French dress ing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

ven and Bridgeport appear to be the greatest culprits. In one store there has been no raise in the payroll for 20 years. In connection with the small wages paid to women she said that the marvel is not that there is so much vice in the country, but that there is so little Since the investi- gation made in Bridgeport, an asso- citation of retail clerks has succeeded in bringing about somewhat better conditions than were previously in existence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

The boys are dreading school ex- hibitions, probably not so much or account of recitations as because they have to wear their best clothes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

It is now up to the college student to get out on the road and sell the farmers that illustrated history for $50, the principal substance of which you can get at a good book store for $1.38-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
POINTS OF INTEREST

Exceptional values in white and black hemp straw hats, Panama hats and natural I.eghorn hats, sport hats in great variety at prices much less than you would expect to pay at E H. Dillon & Co.'S, 1,1O5 Main street. Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Toothbrush week has been observed in many public schools, and the boys will find them useful to clean theil bicycle chains with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Following the discovery that May nard Bray, chief engineer of the steam yacht Wacouta, owned by James J. Hill. had contracted smallpox, the crew and boat were placed under quarantine at New London
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

z The Small Boy never feels quite SC much on his native heath as wher he is trampling down the grassy banks that the old man has just sodded.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Mrs Martin Brown of Austin. Pa. who is bitterly opposed to the sound of auto horns, shot and slightly wounded Dr. Phillip Horn, when he began testing his auto horn near her home.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Some young men aren't satisfie with their appearance until they get fitted out with new white socks soiled by a weeks continuous wear.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
or Seashore

Striped mo11eton suit. Jacket bot tom is cut diagonal1y. Lawn collar and cuffs with openwork hem Mate rial neclztie. Skirt with inserted side plaits. bottom cut diagonal1y, ga1alith buttons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

The Danish Diet unan1mo11sly adopted the new constitution which confers suffrage on women and abol- ishes the special electoral privileges formerly exercised by the wealthieI classes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Six hundred steel shells are being turned out daily at the Newcastle, Pa, plant of the Standard Steel Car
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Summer dress of checked natural silk. Blouse bodice with tu1le pIas- tron and collar. Narrow bias trim r1ings of taffeta- Gathered fitted skirt with double material belt and buckles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

never proposed. If he does, what am I to tell him? A. G.
 Accept him on probation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

Count Leopold von Berchto1d, for ner Austro- Hungarian foreign minis ter. offered his services to the Austrian army in the Italian campaign as a vol unteer chauffeur.
 A heavy storm swept the south Att 1antic coast, damaging many vessels and flooding the streets of Norfolk, Va
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
 BOUQUEdS JOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07

DEALERS Bridgeport Gas Fixture Go. 1S3 Fairfield Avenue
 Geo. B. Clark & Go. 1O57-73 Broad Street Gas Appliance Exchange 304-08 Fairfield Avenue HadIey Furniture Go.
 1921 Broad Street. Geo. E. NothnagIe & Son. Corner Main and Elm Streets Wentworth Furniture Go. Broad and John Streets.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
Isn't It a Low Down Trick?

1t is downright mean for those
wool buyers to be paying % cents
per pound for wool in the face of
all the predictions that the wool in
dustry would be killed if wool
should be put on the free list. Those
buyers should have more respect
for the word of those who predicted
disaster for the sheep man-Queen
City Leader.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
Ready to Reap.

A long wisp of artificial grain
that served as a stick-up on the
sweet girls hat was placed horizon
tally, so that it tickled up and down
the face of the man who sat next
to her in the street car, until it
came to a resting with the end nest
ling in his right ear.
After the car had Travelled few
blocks, the man was seen to remove
from his pocket a large jack knife
which he proceeded to strop on the
palm of horny hand.
Excitedly the girl inquired:
why are you doing that?"
"If them oats gifts in my ear
agin." the man calculated. there's
gonna be a harvest. Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

Aclod Of earth may not seem to
have any romance about it.. but it
is one of the most wonderful things
imaginable. The soil is a living
machine. where microbes so small
that ten to one hundred million are
contained in enough earth to cover
a penny are working together in a
systematic way. They cannot be
seen and are only known by their
work. and the greatest benefactors
to the human race are those who
promote their activitie' The wise
gardeners look after Their well-beine
for without them there could be no
plant life and no human life. since
all nutriment is drawn from the
soil Times.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
The Glories Of War"

Magnificent war! Thousands OF
human bodies rottine in shallow
graves and thousands still lying on
the fields where they fell; 100000
people starving in Poland; millions
foodleSs in Belgium and France and
Austria and Seabia and even in the
Holy Land; beautiful cities of yes
terday heaps of ruins; once fruitful
fields plowed by shot and shell and
made desolate.-Edeert0n Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
The Rot of II.

There is a lot of fal-da-rol going
the rounds about the brotherhood
of man; our experience has been
that man is brotherly when there
is a S in sight, and when that has
been transferred, the brotherly af-
lection stops: this is an age of 90 up
or get down, the rich getting richer,
the poor poorer; this gushy brother
hood sentimental bosh isn't worth
two whoops on the back lot in bust
ness, and that is the predominating
idea of success in life as the world
sees it today. - Corning Mirror.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20


Mrs Mile Francis was severely
burned at her home in this city Sun
day, when her dress in some way
became ienited while passing a
stove. A blanket was thrown
around her and the fire put out. but
not until one side was badly burned.
Had not some one been in the house
at the time. it might have proved
fatal for her. Mrs. Francis is SO
years of age and during the last two
years has suffered three lparalytic
strokes. Her many friends hope
she get over this last misfortune in
a short time. -Shelbina Torchlight.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
II Was Real Unkind

Former Governor Ammons OF
Colorado says that Mr.. Rockefeller
jr., and Mr.. Ivy Lee and the others
did not write his letters for him. II
really was unkind of Mr.. Rookie
teller and the others not to let Mr.
Ammons know who was doing it
St. Louis Republic.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

Miss Bessie Montgomery. violinist
and E. A. Thompson cellist. both Of
Monroe City, took part in the Music
al Festival at Paris last Friday and
acquitted themselves with credit
Both are artists of more than ordi,
nary ability in their line. Paris
Appeal. p
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
We Will Not Worry.

Admiral Peary asserts that a
hundred years hence the United
States will either be obliterated as
a nation or we will occupy the en-
tire North American continent In
either case it won't worry US a par
ticle-a hundred years hence
Worth County Times.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

Smallest Mother in the World
Up to Monday afternoon, Adair
county could boast Of having within
her domain the smallest mother in
the world. Mrs. w. L. Edminston, of
Yarrow, a daughter of Mrs. Perry
Geiger, Of the Yarrow neighborhood
says the Kirksville Graphic. Mrs.
Edminston is SO inches in height
and weighs SO 1-2 pounds, and
wears a child's shoe No, z IL. She
is A years old. has been married
and has given birth to six children.
Eve Of which are dead. The child
living is a bright girl. five years old
and gives promise of musical talent
Of high order. An expert who took
the child's measure at two years old
says she will be five feet and six
Inches in height at maturity He
figured that at the age Of two years
she had reached one-third Of her
height when full grown. The entire
family left Monday afternoon for st.
Paul, Mimi where they will join the
carnival company for the season.
Oae Of the proprietors Of a com
pany was in charge Of the family.
The salary for the summer is SIS
per week. and all expenses paid. in
luding the railroad faresto St. Paul.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
He Is a Back Number.

The partisan. who is so narrow
that he can't enjoy prosperity under
any party other than his, is a back
number. - Nodaway Democrat
Forum.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

A doctor advised his patient.
who was a merchant. to take a
vacation. but the merchant re-
piled that he did not have time.
We'll them" said the doctor. you
will have to quit advertising"
Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
What the Missouri
Editors Are Saying
Where, Oh Where! Is He?

Where, oh, where is the fellow
who six months ago was bowling
himself hoarse over the war taxi
Henry County Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

Judge John Gatson of Vandalia.
owns five farms and he has offered
a SIS suit to each Of the five tens
ants if the corn on their respective
farms averages As bushels to the.
acre. 4
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20
Motherhood.

When l look on the beauties Of.
nature,
Created in love for us all.
My heart goes out to the Father
above
And His touch enriches roy soul.
But after all these, He created man
In His image. Could there be
anothers
Yes, He formed woman and placed
by his side.
And gave her the heart of Mother
- she she carries and natures her
little ones,
So close to her heart of love,
God smiles on His wonderful Great
i've powers
And gives her new joys from
above.
His great heart gave His own son
to the world, :
Can His sacrifice really be known
Except by the one who gave of her
life
To clasp in her arms, her son?
He honored and sanctified Mother.
hood
When He made it hers to endure,
That the world might possess a
fresh new life,
While she rests in His love secure
Alb. beautiful sheltered Motherhood
So blest in our Christian land,
Can we close our eyes or turn away
From His pleading outstretched
hand?
There are little widowed mothers,
Whose lives are full of woe,
Of cruel hatred and scornful sneers
And the vicious, brutal blows. %
The Mother of Girls" a bitter tho't
That this should be a title Of
shame,
And the babe is tortured or put to
death,
AS if it could be to blame.
Oh! ! am so thankful, the Father
of all,
Has gwen to us test,
il We love the Christ, who honor
ed us,
We will send them peace and
rest,
While God looks down from His
home above,
With a love that is not under
stood,
And gives grace and power, peace
and joy,
To our worldwide Motherhood.
The above poem was written by
Mrs. E. B. Redd, wife of Rev. Redd
of Shelbina and was read at the
Christian Church at Rensselaer,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

Mrs. Van Powell of Palmyra was
here Thursday, enroute home from
Sedalia, where she was called the
first of the week by the serious ILL
ness of her brother Parker Tate
He was employed in the freight
office and was hurt while on duty.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-05-20

American continent. The echo Of
the calamity bowler is submerged
in the rising wave of prosperity -
Carrollton Democrat.