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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-11
Indoor Fun For the Riddles

During the holiday school vacation
it is difficult to keep the youngsters
out of mischief and yet keep them
amused. This is especially true in the
evening, when they cannot play out
of doors. A suggested solution of the
problem may be found in the follow
ing games:
Give each child a bowl of popcorn
and needle and thread. At a signal
all begin stringing the corn. The one
stringing the most in d given length
of time is awarded a prize
Give children pencils and paper and
then read a paragraph from a book
backward. Read each word slowly
and have the children write them
down as you read them. When you
have finished have the children begin
at the last word they have taken down
and write the paragraph forward. The
youngster whose paragraph shows the
punctuations placed nearest to the way
they are printed in the book gets the
book as a prize.
Place row of plates on the floor
along one side of the room. Have
plate for each child and let each plate
hold an orange, an apple and twenty
pieces Of candy. An equal number of
empty plates should be placed on the
opposite side of the room. Arm each
Of the youngsters with a teaspoon and
at given signal let them transfer the
| contents of the filed plates to the
empty plates. Only one object can be
| carried at a time, and If it Is dropped
the carrier must return it to the plate
and start over again. A prize may be
given to the contestant who fills his
/ plate first.
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Some Jolly Games For !
The Merry Yule Party )

Tor a new and jolly game which
IL costs nothing to get up fill a good
sized basket with words cut from
newspaper headlines. Each word
should be cut out in small square
Players sit around a large table and
each receives a square of pasteboard
or sheet of heavy paper. In the
middle of the board is placed the bas
ket filed with words. There should
be a couple of bottles of paste or muci-
lage besides.
Each player in turn is given hat
pin which he plunges into the basket
All words brought up on the hatpin
belong to the person jabbing. When
each player has jabbed six times in
turn the pins are laid aside and the
point now becomes to see who can
form the cleverest Christmas tele-
grams from the words jabbed up. AL
low fifteen minutes for working out
these phrases. The entertainer or some
one who does not enter into the game
decides which is cleverest Give a
book of witty sayings as u prize in
this round
A lively blindfold contest results
when guests are required to tie bun
dies on a Christmas tree blindfolded.
The Christmas tree may be IA very
small one arranged in Il bucket on the
table If no trimmed tree is at hand
OF course the blind men start from a
point as far from the tree as possible
Each bundle has a small box of bon
bons or even popcorn ball half tucked
away at its heart. The bonbons be-
long TO the player who is successful in
tying the package to the tree.
A toy race is always jolly too. This
is where wheel toys are pushed over a
certain course with umbrellas or where
mechanical toys are wound up and sent
| trundling across the room at a given
| signal. The person first to push his
wheel or toy over the course is winner
and the mechanical toy which outdis
tances its fellows also wins for its
owner prize. Any toy which over
turns in the race is barred from hon
I ors.
Now, let all gather around the table
and distribute squares of paper Of
pasteboard black on one side and white
on another, with pencils and scissors
| Ten minutes are allowed in which al
! draw portraits (heads) of Santa Clau:
on the white side of the paper or board
Allow as much more time as is neces
sary for each to cut out the portrai
he or she has been drawing.
Each player then signs the silhouette
| with his initials, and the various out
line portraits thus formed are tackeC
up black side out on something white
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AERIAL SERVICE IS
SUGGESTED FOR MAIL
EUROPEAN WAR HAS CAUSED A
GREAT DEFICIT IN PoSToFFlcE
DEPARTMENT, SAILS POSTMAS-
TER GENERAL IN REPORT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE day
when United States mails shall be
carried through the air by fleet of
aeroplanes owned by the postoffice de-
partment was brought nearer when
Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson
recommended in his annual report,
laid before congress today, that $780,
900 be appropriated to advance the
science of aerial mail service.
AS a further means to open every
avenue of communication to the use
of the postoffice department the post
master general recommends again
that a government monopoly of all
telephone and telegraph lines be de-
clared by congress and that this be
placed under the department. Opera
ton of these facilities inherently as
well as constitutionally belong to the
postal service, he says.
Like all the other annual reports of
the government department at Wash
ington. the postmaster generals re-
port tells a story intimately connect
ed with the European war. 1t shows
that the greatest of the neutral coun-
tries of the world today is played upon
and harrassed by the vieissitudes of
war in a manner which almost would
indicate that the country is a par
ticipant in the general conflict.
1.-THE cost of the war to the postal
service is estimated at $21,000,000,'
says the postmaster general. He adds
that this loss has resulted in piling
up a deficit of $11.333,30S for the
postoffice department during the fis-
cal year of 1915. This compares with
SURPRISES of more than $4,OO0,O00 for
each of the years 1914 and 1913. The
deficit would have reached $24,O00,O00
had not the postoffiee department re
organized the service along lines OF
business economy, the report declares
Throughout its war difficulties the
department has placed efficiency above
cost, the postmaster general asserts
Postal revenues for the year amount
ed to s2S7.24S.165. decrease of more
than 20 per cent under the preceding
year. Expenditures for maintenance
amounted to s29S,546.026. an increase
Of 5-29 per cent over the preceding
Year. Mr.. Burleson says that of the
total deficit, but s309,6SS is the result
of increases in employees salaries and
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higher railway mail pay required by

higher railway mail pay required by
law.
Among the important announce
ments and recommendations contained
in the report, are the following:
Renewal of recommendation for a
change from the weight to the space
basis of determining amount railroads
shall be paid for carrying the mails.
Growth of the parcels post to bus.
mess of million packages a year.
Maintenance of frequent foreign
mail service despite the war.
Extension of the rural free mail de-
livery to two million additional per-
sons.
Effect of the war in greatly increas-
ing postal savings and the money or
der business.
Progress in the fight against lotter-
les and the promoting of fake schemes
through use of the mails.
Recommendation for the establish
ment of a guaranty fund to be raised
by an assessment against postal en-
ployes to be surety for the employees
in lieu of the present bonding system.
Recommendation for the removal of
the 4-pound limit upon first-class mail
matter.
The report declares that the post
office department has been at pains to
develop through the medium of in
creased foreign mail service closer re
lations among the nations of the
American continent A permanent
parcel post convention has been ar
ragged between the United States and
Argentian.
The report states that although
the foreign mail service to Europe
was somewhat demoralized by the out
| break of the war, the only actual loss
of mail occurred when the Lusitania
was torpedoed
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Kitchen kumpany."

To make a success of kitchen KUN
pany," a jolly Christmas game, the
''kumpany" should consist of eight to
ten girls and boys who are all init
mately acquainted.
Have ready q large bowl Of batter
for pancakes. Each boy is provided
with an apron and told to cook a cake.
His partner. a girl, may stand by and
instruct him. but she must not take a
hand in the cooking at all.
The couple making the best cake re-
ceives a prize. Then there can be can
dy making. such as chocolate or nut
fudge, and when all the cakes are
baked the kitchen table Is set and the
guests eat the fruits of their labor.
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Daily Thought.

Friendship is a calm and sedate az
lection, conducted by reason and &C.
mented by habit: springing from long
acquaintance and mutual obligations,
without jealousies or fears. and with
out those feverish fits of heat and cold
which cause such an agreeable tor
ment in the amorous passion.-Hume.
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Uncle E ben.

Some folks" said Uncle Eben,
"gits so thoughtful dey amt much
use De man dat's allus figgerin' what
kind o weather We'll have tomorrow
generally sits aroun' an don't take no
advantage of his information"
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Bacteria In the Home.

The average house. where the rooms
are only fairly ventilated, and the
housekeeper is Indifferent. may have
from 10000 to $4,000 bacteria to the
cubic foot.
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such as square of muslin or sheet
of white paper, where they will show
to best advantage. Some one. who
does not enter the game, is then called
on TO say which is the cleverest, and
the guest whose work this judge pre-
fers wins prize. A candy box rep
reSenting the Christmas saint makes a
good choice in prizes.
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tha Piland Pauline Beverly, Gladys
johnson. Alta Hines.
Seventh Grade.-Marvin Everett,
Edgar Turner. Beatrice Daniel.
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trimmed with wide, heavy Hercules
braid; following this idea comes a
frock of serge trimmed with SOU
tached chiffon.
INTERESTING BUTTONS
Among the button novelties. both
for service and for trimming pur-
poses, there is large gold button,
patterned after the plain, four-holed
porcelain underwear button: another
Is an acron button of brilliants.
COLORED FACINGs
Skirts are being trimmed consider
ably this winter; and there is a mark
ed use of velvet and cloth, combined
and of velvet and chiffon, and velvet
and faille. Many of the skirts are
banded with velvet, wide and narrow.
Some Of the prettiest and smartest
notions along this line are the con-
trasting facings. Early last spring
Paquin introduced the idea in a chic
little afternoon dress of dark blue
taffeta; it is now being applied to
serge and cloth frocks. Many of the
strictly tailored dresses of serge,
gabardine, or broadcloth, show these
bright colored facings; the facing
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-10-28

Mrs. Mobiles visited her son here
last week.
Mrs. Harry Waldo and Miss Annie
Jones are visiting relatives in Will
liamston this week.
Miss Mary Doughtrey of Grifton.
is visiting Mrs. ]. A. Davenport.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Mobiles spent
Sunday in Hobgood.
DR.. and Mrs. B. L. Long left Mon
day for Baltimore where he will pur-
chase his Christmas goods.
Miss Thelma Taylor visited here
last week
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Salisbury With
Misses Irma Hines and Pattie Sher-
rod spent Sunday in Greenville with
relatives.
Paul Simpson Of WILLIAMSON pass
ed here Monday en-route to Tar
boro.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B Sherrod, Mrs.
J. P. Boyle and Mrs. R W. Salisbury
went to Greenville Wednesday.
z. L. Salisbury spent Sunday in
Scotland Neck
F. l.. Gladstone with a party of
friends spent Tuesday in Villa M
ston.
Steve Ewell went to Tarboro Sun
day.
P H. Davenport with Misses Helen
Edmondson, Leila Pippen and Lille
Floyd motored to Scotland Neck
Monday.
Misses Helen Edmondson and
Maggie James Davenport spent the
weekend with Miss Thelma Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Haislip and
Miss Martha Council spent Sunday
in Oak City.
DR.. B L. Long spent last week al
the Raleigh fair where he was homo
rary escort to Secretary Of the Navy
N. w. Worsley and James Rawl:
spent Sunday in Oak City
The Junior Auxiliary of the Epis
! copal Church will give a HalloWe' 'er
Party at the residence of Mrs J. P
Boyle Thursday night. Hallowe'e 'e1
! decoration will be used and tn
! Boyle home will be a scene of rar
beauty. A number Of young ladie
of the younger set will assist in tn
entertaining.
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Items From Route One

Messrs. Leroy Edwards and Tur-
ner Whitehead spent few hours in
Leggett last Sunday
Mrs. A. J Whitehead spent last
Friday eveliing in Scotland Neck.
Messrs Spurgeon Marks, Augustus
Lucas and Eiom Whitby made their
usual visit to Enfield last Saturday
and Sunday.
Miss Nellie Edwards and brother
spent Saturday and Sunday at
Spring Hill.
Messrs Laughter Dickens and
George Wilson mortored over to
L;tIeton last Sunday to see their
patents.
Mr.. jim Rarnes was visitor at
Mir. S F. Harris last Sunday.
Mrs. j. T. Edwards spent a few
hours with her brother Mr.. G.. L..
Brantley last Sunday, On Route, 1.
Mr.. Shade Marks was a visitor at
Mr.. j. NJ. Downing last Sunday
evening.
Mrs. J. W. Sorie spent last Mon
day in Scotland Neck.
Miss Ruth Daniel spent last Sat-
nrday in Scotland Neck.
Mrs. Shack Marks visited her sis
ter, Mrs Enoch Simmons last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Weeks of Leg
get were visitors at Mr.. T. L. Barn
tley last Sunday.
MIR. J. w. Sorie spent day in
Enfield last week on business.
Messers Marion lvey, Leroy Ed
ward. Spurgeon Marks, EIon Whitby
Clifton Lucas and !. S. Lewis at
tended the movies at Scotland Neck
last Friday night.
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On The Water Wagon

The alfalfa delegate was paying
his first visit to city of any size.
Standing on the sidewalk he
chanced to see a sprinkling car t
coming down the street. and no soon
er had set eyes on the thing that he
began to laugh like the boy at a min.
istrel show.
"Say, old pal," he remarked hill
ariously, punching a cop in the ribs
"don't that beat all?"
Don't what beat all?' responded
the wondering cop. Whats the
joke?"
"Just look at that fellow on tina
wagon!" replied the alfalfa party
pointing to the sprinkler, "Tha
derned chump won't have drop o
water by the time he gets home.
Exchange.
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Chapel Hill Letter

Chapel Hill, N. c., Oct.-What
the State Department of Education
is doing to eradicate white illiteracy
in North Carolina on a large scale,
the University Y. M. C.. A. is doing
for the eradication of white litter
acy in and around Chapel Hill town
ship. Two or three weeks ago Mr..
w. C. Crosby, who has charged of
the State illiteracy campaign, spoke
in Peabody Hall on the plans for
Moonlight School Month. After the
lecture few members of the Y. M.
C. A. Cabinet met and decided to
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LEATHER AS A TRIMMING

One of the smart innovations of
the season is the three-quartar coat
Of leather, trimmed with fur and
velvet. Paquin introduced this at
her recent opening and also intro
duced leather as a trimming for
fuits and frocks.
FORTHCOMING AND TIMELY
Perhaps the most pleasing thing
about the winter trimmings is the
touch of fur which appears on many
of the 1ndolr costumes and most of
the out-of-door suits and frocks.
The tight, little choker collars of
one of the short haired pelts, beaver,
nutria, or that smart Russian krim-
mer, are decidedly chic and most be-
coming. These collars are being
worn with suits and with the one
piece dresses; generally, they are ac-
companied with a muff, as round as
ball and strongly suggestive Of
Grandmother lay. Wide cape col
lars of fur closed under the chin
with a stiff little bow Of taffeta OF
MORE ribbon are smart, too, with
these small muffs.
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cooperate with the State Depart
ment by opening several moonlight
schools in the vicinity of Chapel HUI.
last week, Francis Bradshaw, OF
Hillsboro, who is at the head OF the
rural Sunday School workers of the Y
M. c.. A., made an appeal to the as.
sembled Student body for volunteers
in the moonlight school campaign.
He informed the students that with
in the narrow limits Of Chapel Hill
township-the home Of the Univer-
sity, there were $50 white persons
who could neither read nor write.
He then outlined the campaign to
be carried on by the Y. M. &. A.
Seven schools, he said, were to be
established, which were to run three
nights out of the week during the
month of November; but, he added,
if enough students volunteered for
the work each student would not
have to go out over four or five
times during the month and thus,
would not get behind in his school
work. AS a result of this appeal
eighty-four students volunteered to
devote part Of their time during
the month of November to this work.
The campaign to be waged by the
Y. M. G.. A. has the active support
and cooperation of the University
Faculty, the Chapel Hill Commun-
ity Club, and the State Department
| of Education.
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"Old OCtOber'S Puft Nigh Gone

Old October's purt' nigh gone
And the frosts is comm on
Little heavier every day
Like our hearts is that way!
Leaves is changin' overhead
Back from green to gray and red,
Brown and yeiier, with the stems
LOOSEN on the oaks and ems;
And the balance Of the trees
Gittin' balder every breeze
Like the heads we're scratchln' on !!
Old October's purt' nigh gone.
| love Old October so,
can't bear to see her go
| Seems to me like losin' some
| Old-hcme relative er chum-
| Pears like sort O. settin' by
Some old friend at sigh by sigh
Was a-passin' out O sight
Into everlastin' night
Hickernuts a feller hears
Rattin' down is more like tears
Drappin' on the leaves below
| I love Old October so
Can't tell what it is about
Old October knocks meet!-
| sleep we'll enough at night
And the bIamdest appetite
Ever mortal man possessed
Last thing ct, it tastes the best!-
Warnuts, butternuts, pawpaws,
/ lies and limbers up my jaws
For raaI service sich as new
! Pork, spareribs, and sausage, too
! Yit fer all, they's somepin' bout
Old October knocks me out.
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TaHhtntta
THE FROCk AND
ITS TRIMMING
Braid on Chiffon: Chiffon on
Serge.---Can. Collars and
Ch0kerS.
New York, Oct, 24.

Winter fashions have been fuilv
settled upon and it is gratifying to
say that for many season, if ever,
they have not been as attractive as
they are this year. There is charm
ing variety. Fabrics are rich both
in quality and coloring, trimmings
are artistic, and designs are sim
plicity itself.
TRIMMING NOTES
The simple serge and gabard;ne
frocks, SO much favored for all day.
time occasions, are trimmed effect
lively with braid, designs in soutache,
| Hercules, and n',velty braidings;
bat the touches that render them
distinctive are the curious color
Eotes that are being introduced for
contrast on many of the smart new
French models.
! Pink silk embroidery is often seen
on frocks Of dark blue serge, and a
dull reseda wool embroidery is unu-
sually smart on dark blue: this wool
embroidery is one Of the new no.
tons of the winter; it appears on
collars, cuffs, girdles, and trimming
| bands or frocks, coats and blouses.
Heavy wool worked out in a rib eff
feet to initiate wide Hercules braid
is detail of many of the imported
serge and gabardine dresses. The
various conventionaliZed soutache
patterns on a foundation of net or
chiffon, often edged with a band of
a fiat silk braid or an edge of fur
is much in vogue for trimming the
more dressy frocks; the wide braids,
in numberless attractive designs, are
popular as well The standing SOU
t,sche designs are favorable for yokes
and chemises ses and for the half
belts so much feature of the smart
panel Princess dress. The wide
braids are often used for an entire
panel or yoke on a skirt; also for
cuffs, and the standing band collars
which appear on so many of these
cloth dresses
CAPE COLLARS AND CHOKERS
Another quaint and becoming de-
tai! of these dark cloth dresses is the
collar. Many of the plain redin-
cote serge gowns are made with sim
gle or double cape collars Colored
collars of all descriptions are being
worn; turnover collars Of colored
velvet add smart touch to the cho-
ker of the simple dress, and the idea
of the colored chemisettes of the
summer is being carried out for win.
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generally comes down and finishes
the lower edge of the skirt with a
narrow piping of the color. Blue
gowns are faced with rose, red, old
gold, and back velvet; the effect is
wonderfully attractive and harmonic
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-10-28
Both Telephones la
Clee Vaughan


Virginia Beach. Va.
Three-story Cottage, very wide
verandas, directly on ocean. fine
table and good service. Near 17th
st. Station. For terms address
MRS. A. B. WILLIAMS.
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4!Fttr1'H
The Happenings
IN Nearby Towns

Events of the week Briefly
T0!d bV Our Correspondents
Which Will Interest Mahv:
Read What Or. Writer'S
Have to Say.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-10-28

When a fool hen takes notion to
sit she doesn't care rap whether
there are any eggs in the nest or
not. Lazy men are built on the
same plan.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-10-28

Our idea of a hustler is a man
who can work as fast all day as he
can dress in a cold room in the
morning.
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Braid Trimm Check Costume

Braid Trimm ed Check Costume
ter in failles and brocades, striped
and figured velvets. Chemlsettes OF
pale pink faille, made with high, un-
lined, unboned collars, buttoning at
the side and wrinkling about the
throat like mousquetaire glove.
are worn with gowns of serge or
velvet. The neckline of the dress
is usually rounded in an old-fashlon
ed curve and finished with straight
band of the material.
At one Of the fall openings IN
Paris chiffon afternoon frock was
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MORTGAGES of all kinds bought
and sold. Notes discounted II
you wish to convert your real estate
into cash we can do it for you
thinner Bros, 179 Golden Hill ST.
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Sail Maker
GhfEopractie

JOHN a. KEaIAARs d. q. lGradaate
Palmer School of Chiropractic)s
Loeated years in Bri dgeport, Tel
1872. ConsuItafion Free Office
Hours: to 3 an TO 4 p. m., q
Ito p. M - : g 2 g ~ dss
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Practical Horsesnoer
Patent Attorneys

PATENTS secured promptly by At
torneys Chamberlain & Newman, 1S
Cannon ST.. Sanford Building. Con-
sultation free. s 16 So"
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automobiles
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GEO. N. SEARS, stenographer and
Notary Public. 1O3 Meigs Building.
Phone 922-4. L %tf
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Furniture

sCAI1Y BROS. 4o5 STATE ST.
Largest dealers OF second hand fur
ntture in the state. We pay more
than others; we have no rent to
pay. 10 all"
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Motor Van

n. S. WAKELEE, local and long dis
lance moving, storage for pianos
and furniture. lowest prices. Phone
SAT. Offica 167 Cannon st.
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EDWARD BROCH automobile vans
for furniture and piano moving.
Holland Ave, Bridgeport. Conn.,
Phone s64 and 1919. U II aiis
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Pianos For Sale
Printers and Stationers

PRINTING and Fac Smile Letters
5000 Bond Letter Heads, $3.50; l.
600 Fac-Simile Letters, $500. Spe-
cial prices in quantities. Siksay. So.
Retlley street. U25 "tf