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The Washington herald., 1915-08-23

ern State, we are told, are 400 to Ioo.-
600, whereas in New York, where
there is no vote for women, the di-
vorce rate is but 20 to 100000.
The State in which, it is alleged,
polygamy is still practiced has been
suffrage for eighteen years.
The State which has recently re-
established itself as the country's
divorce colony is Nevada, suffrage
for year.
In Oregon. which has had suffrage
for three years law compelling an
eight-hour day and room ventilation
for women was recently rejected.
These look like very good little
anti-sufrage arguments.
Oh. of course. Mistress Suffragist
there are answers to them; we know
them by heart. too, SO please don't
send them to us. We are simply an
swcring the challenge and making q
desperate effort to maintain neutral
stand in question about which it is
as hard for a woman to maintain .
neutrality as it is to balance an egg
on ; pencil tip.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
ENOLN
EW"MN
X AER
I BIRTHDAY
AND WkRS
August 23-Elizabeth Seton.

When Elizabeth Seton died. at the age
of forty-seven, there were twenty differ
ent communities of the order of the Sis.
| tiers of Charity of Vincent de Paul in
this country. carrying on a work of char
! ity and education. the good results OF
! which it would be hard to calculate. And
| all this good work was the result of Mrs.
Seton's determination, when she was
about thirty-siN. TO give her life to the
service OF the poor and her religion.
Oddly enough. Elizabeth Seton was the
daughter of a New York family of strict
ProteStants. At twenty she married Will
lam Seton, successful New York bust
ness man, and, although much drawn
into society, Mrs. Seton was noted even
then for her devotion to the POOR and I'M
fortunate. In 1903 her husbands health
failed and Mrs. Seton accompanied him
with her five children to Italy, but with
in the year he died, leaving her practi-
Cally penn.less. Before returning to this
country Mrs. Seton became a Roman
Catholic.
Back in New York she opened a girls
school. but with little success, and 1t
was on the advice of the bishop that she
went to Baltimore and OPENED n school
exclusively for girls of Catholic families
Within a year this school was prosper
ing, hut it was then that she determined
to devote her life to the poor and. with
seven other women of like intention. re-
tired to a farm at Emmettsburg. Nd.
where within a few years the small
community became established as the
American branch of the order of st. Vim
cent de Paul. Here they conducted a
school for poor children and an orphan
asylum as well as their boarding school,
From this small beginning all the other
communities of the name in this country
had their origin.
fCoryrrht
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
Copyright. 1851

NvlSiieh', 4'iS-'
There comes a time in every girls
life when she has correspondents" In
some subtle way her self-valuation de-
ponds upon her popularity as a letter
writer.
How many correspondents have
your" asks one 16-year-old girl of an
other.
"Oh, I am corresponding with twenty
people now" is the self-conscious re-
ply. II wrote ten long letters last Sum
day
Jennie Brown has more than you
have. then She corresponds with
most thirty" says the companion. and
she who has but twenty is. properly
''squelched."
This Is the period in the daughters
life when the mother must be as wise
as the serpent and harmless as the
dove" The daughter in her young
wisdom thinks mother does not I'M
derstand" all too readily as it is. She
does not realize that mother has been
all through the same experience in her
own young days. We cannot blame
the girls for not realizing it, for 1t Is
the rare mother who remembers the
thoughts and feelings and. hopes Of her
own girlhood.
We have. most Of us. seen the folly
Of it," and we expect our girls to take
our word for 1t that it is folly. But
there never lived a girl who did not
want to find out for herself the folly"
of the things her mother tells her not
to do. We can admonish and advise.
dear mothers, but we cannot live our
girls lives for them: we can only stand
aside and watch them escape or fall
into the traps that life spreads for the
unwary. Worry as We will. We can
only stand by
Letter writing is an innocent amuse-
ment. 1t does no harm If the correspond
ent Is not a vicious person, and II we
have been companionable and sympathetic
our girls are not In much danger OF
making friends with very vicious people.
Let the girl have her correspondents.
then, without comment. II you value
your childs confidence, il you do not
want to make her unpleasantly self-con-
scious and unhappy, avoid all teasing and
all sport at her expense. Do not COM
ment before the other members of :he
family on her extensive correspondence.
but take II quite as matter of course. as
It H.
I think the thing that hurts most of US
when this period arrives In our daugh-
ter's life il the fact that she has secrets
from us. When she was small. all the
little interests were shared quite natural-
" with us: now she gives Of herself to
other people. and in her new sense of in
dividuality we are debarred from pArtici-
pating In the fresh experience. We are
Rricyed and hurt because we feel shut
out, and We resent these other people who
have come to claim an interest in our
GIRL. We think the loyalty to the new
friends which, rather SYSTEMATICALLY. the
Girl parades - an excuse for not enlight-
oning n about IL 3okss, The tribuis-
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HOUSE.
WIVES
DAILY
ECONOMY
CALENDAR
BANANAS AGAIN.

Banana fritters-Put a cup of sift-
ed. prepared -four in a bowl. add one
half tablespoonful of butter. and rub
this and -four together. Add one-half
cup OF creamy milk, one tablespoonful
of sugar, and the yolks of two eggs.
Beat the whites of the eggs to a stin
froth. and add the batter gradually
to them Peel six bananas and cut
each in three lengthwise slices; dip
each slice into the batter and fry to
a golden brown in boiling lard. Lay
them all on a hot dish. sprinkle with
powdered sugar, and serve boiling
hot.
Banana filling for layer cakes
Sponge cake makes the best casing
for this, and the square sponge cakes
of the baker may be used at pinch.
For six persons take the same num-
Der of cakes. which are about four
inches long and three wide. Split the
cakes evenly and pile the bottoms on
a large platter and cover them with
bananas, cut in thin slices. Over these
sprinkle first lemon juice, then pow
dered sugar, and put on top OF
stiff1y whipped cream. Cover the
cakes with the other half. and put
the same mixture on top of each. add
ing. IL convenient. Few candied cher
ries for ornament.
Banana salad-A single banana is
enough for one. Feel and scrape the
fruit of the pithy coating and then
cut 1t in very thin slices. Arrange
these on a lettuce leaf in layers, with
a squeeze of lemon juice and pinch
of sugar between each one.
Steak and fried bananas-Have the
steak cut thick and trim off the toues
end Flatten 1t with cleaver and
broil it over live Goals, turning the
meat as soon as one side is a little
scared. This quick turn keeps in the
Juices. Put the steak on "A hot plat
ter. sprinkle it with salt and pepper
and dot it with Jumps of butter: then
put the dish in the oven. leaving tho
door open. for the meat 10 draw" its
juices.
Take yellow bananas. peel and slice
them lengthwise and fry them in but
ter. Place the fruit around the steak
and then ornament the dish with tn.
two halves of a lemon placed at either
end. Lemon juice is a piquant addi-
ton to cooked bananas, and it is
sometimes liked with steak. Stew.
chopped meat. soup. hash and meat pie
can be made of cold steak and of the
uncooked end
CCoT,Tght. 1872
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23

tions, the great griefs. which are theirs.
Is in some way an affront to US.
1t Is not an affront, dear mothers. nor
Is it so intended. II is only a part Of the
Growing-up process which has attacked
your child. 1t is a perfectly natural stage
of the game, the normal condition for ev-
cry human being who il not to grow up
idiotc or imbecile.
The girl has a right to her correspond
cnts. and she has a right to the privacy
of her letters. I know some families
where the mother opens the daughters
letters quite as a matter of course. /
know others where the mothers ostensi-
bly, allow the girls the privacy of their
letters, but secretly they invade the desk
or the drawer where the letters are kept
and make them their own by stealth.
believe a woman who would do this would
read any letters which came to her hand
If she thought she would not be discov-
cred,
The mother who says happily to her
girl: Here Is another letter for you.
Three this morning. How lovely" and
lets 1t go at that. Is far more certain to
have extracts from the three letters read
to her. and a bit of confidence given her
about the writer's. than is she who ;,ree:s
the arrival of the letters with a sneering:
My goodness! Why do you waste SO
much time over those fool letters?''
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
Answers to Correspondents.

Mrs. T. p. n. writes: My six-year-
old boy can read and he knows the
multiplication table up to the sevens.
but because he cannot write the teach
ers say he must go into the first grade
at school. He Is SO quick 1 am afraid
he won't care to stay back with that
grade. What do you Think"
/ think / should apply to the super
intendent or the board to have him
entered higher up; or. II you can at
ford 1t, send him to a private school.
Bright children are often made dull
by the retarding process of a public
school system where the authorities
take no initiative with the exceptional
pupil.
Mrs. d. s. writes: please give me
the names of some of the books on
prenatal influence you said you knew
Of 1 am. interested, in that subject
just now"
I must ask you to send me private
letter. enclosing stamped. self-address-
ed envelope for that I never give
those lists in these columns.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
HOROSCOPE.
The stars incline. but do not compel

| The stars incline. but do not compel
Monday. August 23, 1918.
Astrologers read this as a variable
day. but 1t is not at all fortunate in
its influences. Uranus is in a place
peculiarly threatening. while Jupiter
and Mars are adverse.
Uranus is read as warning the
world that it will be overwhelmed by
disaster. and 1t is prognosticated that
the next few months will be forerun-
ners of times in which all the horrors
of war will be accentuated and the ma
lions of Europe Frustrated to such an
extent that governments will totter
into nothingness.
More than a year of supreme travail
for the world is to follow the con-
junction of Mars and Saturn. Septem-
Dor IL. During this time of darkness
spiritual forces will be at work. the
seers declare. and the light of a new
knowledge will dawn. Then old re-
ligions and outgrown faiths will crum-
BILE. the prophets believe.
= One of the signs of the times will
be the appearance of teachers who will
minister to humanity and point the
way to the establishment of a new or
der of things.
Bankers Of the United States come
undnr malevolent sign today. They
should be exceedingly cautious.
Theaters are subject to a sway that
is promising for better achievements
in art
There is a sign believed to fore
shadow criticism and gossip relating
to the United States army.
Magazines still have a direction that
is not encouraging for hopes of great
profit.
The death Of a member Of the cabi-
net of the King of England is fore
told
Discomfort and trouble in certain
districts of Prussia are prognosticated.
Belgium. also. will be the scene of
desperate and futile protests where
German rule prevails
Earthquakes will add to Italy's
problems concerning the conservation
of life. and Sicily will have a fatal dis
aster of of some sort. II Is said.
Chicago is under a sway that indi-
Gates labor discomfort and a strike
more lasting than any of recent his
tory.
not travel or change the abiding place.
They should keep a strict watch on
business and domestic affairs.
Children born on this day will prob
ably be fond of travel and adventure.
These subjects of Virgo learn easily.
are fond of literature and art, and find II
difficult to succeed In business.
Copyright, 1851
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
TOMORROW'S MENU.

"A previously hearty sirloin OF beef
/ looked as il IT had suddenly been
seized with the palsy."-Dickens.
BREAKFAST.
| Baked Apples
| Rice and Cream
Soft Boiled EGGS
Wheat Puns Coffee
LUNCHEON OR SUPPER.
Liver and Bacon
Baking Powder Biscuits
Orange Fool
Cake
DINNER.
Scotch Broth
Cold Roast Beef
Escalloped Potatoes
Peppers Stuffed with Corn
Tomato Salad
Almond Cream
Wheat puffs-wheat puffs are a
dainty muffin. To make them mix a
third of a cupful of butter with half
cupful of sugar. When they are
Creamy. add two egg yolks and the
white of one egg. Then add q cup
full of milk. alternately with three
cupfuls of -four sifted with four tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and q tea
spoonful of salt. Bake in hot muffin
pans.
Orange fool-Orange fool is made in
this way: Beat the Juice Of six oranges
gradually into three eggs and two
cupfuls of cream. Add sugar to taste
and a little grated nutmeg. Stir In
double boiler over hot water until
thick and then chill Serve cold in tall
stemmed glasses.
Almond cream-whip a quart Of
cream and add five tablespoonfuls of
sranulated sugar and two cups Of
blanched almonds put through the
vegetable chopper or else chopped
very fine. Freeze.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
THREE WORDS FOR CHILDREN
ditor of the woman's Herald.

Editor Of the woman's Herald.
Dear Madam: We have made public
education our great concern in America
and perhaps the public school system is
our most distinctive achievement. Yet
there are $4,000 children between the
ages Of 10 and IA years who cannot read
or write and $4,000 OF them are in the
Southern States. Is It recognized that
one cause of this Is the exclusion of
women from the school boards, at least
In Virginia?
Who understands the education of the
child better than the mother. and ID II
conditions under which they are edu-
Gated.
The work Of the Patrons League shows
what the women accomplish and where
the mother interests lie AMONG the in
novations introduced by women In the
schools are cooking. sewing and other
household arts. A school of domestic
arts and sciences was established and
managed by the club women OF Chi
cago: a school Of "mothercraft" was es-
tablished in New York. and music. art and
dramatic taste as civilizing elements in
school study have been acknowledged
and fostered by women.
The women's clubs in Chicago. Mas
sachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecti-
cut have promoted vocational training.
and IL was through the initiative and
energy OF Mrs. Hemenway. OF Boston.
that physical training was advocated in
the schools, and DR.. Jessie Newkirk. Of
the Kansas City board Of education. has
made extensive survey Of athletics in
the girls schools Of the country.
Among the efforts made by women in
the educational line are the visiting guild
for crippled children and extensive work
with mental detectives. vacation schools.
garden clubs. night schools, visiting
teachers. vocational guidance. education
al and Industrial unions and trade
schools.
Women are also especially fitted to
plan school buildings. and Mrs. Alice Dur
kin, Of New York, has recently been
given the contract to build Public School
81 in the Bronx. and she has already
built schools IN Jersey City and Brook
iyn. She came out second In the comps-
tition for the sxtsnsiss g ~ Metro
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
WILL SEE MODERN WARFARE.
Veterans to Witness Exhibitions
by Fifth Cavalry.

The boys Of So who come here to
attend the encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic next month will
be given exhibitions of modern warfare
by the Fifth Cavalry at Fort Myer
each day of the enCampment. The drills
will be an interesting feature OF the
celebration for the veterans. as 1t will
enable them to see the progress that has
been made in military training since they
fought for their country.
Another interesting feature of the en-
campment will be contests in wig wag-
ging between members of the Signal
Corps of the civil war and those of the
present day. The methods OF the past
and present will be strikingly contrasted.
1t is expected that hundreds of those
who will come to Washington during the
encampment will visit the several his
toric places on the outskirts OF the
city.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
Aunt Chatty's Mothers Club
Conducted by Mrs. Charity Brush
THE GIRLS CORRESPONDENTS.

7 HIS real Mothers Club for the benefit of mothers everywhere
who struggling with questions OF discipline. training eduea-
clothing for the children Write Aurt Chy Of problems
which vexhs and she will advise and help solution Of
them Write to her o, of discoveries Of methods have
found successful smoothing the rough paths of life for the tender
childish feet that through the Mothers Club be of
benefit other mothers still tangled the web OF perpexy
you have so happily unra'eed
Cooperation the any why
the business of motherhood that highest and hottest calling which always
has been always will b. Of glory. what
other of usefulness may be opened herr Address Mrs.
Charity Brush. c: thi. paoer
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
CONGESTION Is INVESTIGATED.
Utilities Bonrd Looks Into Condt-
lions ut Fourteenth and + SITS.

An investigation into traffic conditions
at Fourteenth and F streets northwest
and the overcrowding of street cars pass
ing that intersection has been under
taken by engineers of the Public Ctilt-
ties Commission. A report of the COM
mission places the disorder to INSULT
Gent number of cars during the rush
hours.
The engineers of the commission are
10 devise methods by which the street
railway companies may operate more
ears past the corner. as under pres
cnt conditions the tracks apparently han
die maximum of coaches.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23

Her Finance this first appearance
IN swtmming-costume)- the
matter Gear? Don't you know me?"
His fiancee-''Oh. Jack. was
afraid Il was you."--Judge.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
Thirty-nrst Annual Grand

poiitan Museum and third in the COM
petition for the New York public u
brary.
There are many other lines where
women's help Is valuable and they have
proved themselves efficient as superfn-
tendents Of public schools in Colorado,
Idaho. Washington and Wyoming. With
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. Of Chicago. at
the head as one Of the most able. pro-
gressive and successful superintendent
in the country.
There are now fs5 women county SUI
perintendents in the United States. and
in Montana one man only holds the Of
fee Of county superintendent Virginia
is one Of the four backward States that
provide no State college for women. and
the progressive men and women are
working hard for II. against settled
lethargy and unintellieent prejudice. II
is to be hoped that the children Of Viz
ginia will not have to wait until their
mothers vote to have their share Of the
results of the mothers work OF the State
and they need the blessing Of the mother
heart and the masculine Judgment In
everything that effects them. and wQm-
en- here have no right to leave all The
work of caring for their country to tho
men, and their children's educati-n above
all else. and they are bound to contrib
ute whatever faculty God has giver
them to make II and keep II a pure. safe
and happy land. and why deny them the
power to do their duty.
He who SAYS a word for women sayt
two for men and three for children.
Sincerely,
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23
e. l. ROBINSON

p. s.: In New Zealand. where woneu
vote. the infant death rate Is the lowest
In the world and the high school girls
are taught the care OF babies by practicsl
DEMONSTRATION with real live babieS q
II II evident that voting women DO 81
neglect the home and children.
Clarendon, Va. Aug. IL
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23

But we must not evade the chal-
lenge: What are the very good ar
guments against woman suffrage?"
First-and we believe this is back
ed by Judge Observation-Disclosures
is twenty years ahead of Colorado
in regard to remedial legislation and
statutes for women and children.
Colorado also has the most savage
conflicts between capital and labor.
and yet Massachusetts women have
not the vote and women in Colorado
have voted for over twenty years.
And the divorce rates in that West
The Washington herald., 1915-08-23

Copyright. 1851
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
Shippensburg Civic Club
Plans Fourth Celebration
Spccidl to Tie Tcleeraoh

Shippensburg, Pa, July Under
the auspices of the Civic Club. Ship
pensburg will observe Independence
Day Monday, July 8, along the lines
OIL safe and sane Fourth" A SINH
lar affair last year was highly success
ful IN every way and won much com
Inendation. The committee this year
fully expects to exceed the effort of
last year and plans are being worked
out with that in view.
At $50 o'clock p. m. parade will
be formed of the patriotic organ
izations, fire companies, Boy Scout
troops, Camp Fire Girls, school chill
dren, ETC., which will follow a route
over the principal streets to the Ath-
letic Park, in North Prince street
where the program will be completed
A patriotic address will be given by
Professor j. K, Stewart, of the normal
school faculty. The Edward Shippen
Military Band has been engaged for
the occasion and a large chorus is
preparing to lead in the singing of
patriotic songs. The display of fire.
works has been selected with great
care and will have many fine pieces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES

on nave read that trenches have
changed war; that the, life of a soldier
is regarded as so precious by those
who devise the war machines that
everything is done to protect him.
Digging in and "trenchwork"-re-
assuring phrases for those who do not
know or for those who do not think.
BY statistics l tried to show how
safe" the trenches are. Yes, every
thing is done to safeguard the SOL
der; he is valuable to the State. But
If trenches were devised to save the
soldier, modern artillery and explo-
sives we're devised to kill him; and
the only thing that makes you won
der about the trenches and their rela-
tive value to life is how man can go
into them and be alive at the end of
the war.-Christian Herald.