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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-05-20
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-05-20
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-05-20
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-05-20
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1915-05-20
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Still New Enough to Have Novelty
Element Dear to Americans.

Electric Christmas gifts still possess
that element of novelty dear to the
American heart and thus solve the
problem of giving Christmas gifts that
are different Imagine how pleased
most men would be to receive an cleo
trio shaving cup or electric cigar light
er instead of neckties. socks and hand
kerchiefS las usual.
A teakettle for grandmother, sam
Ovar for mothers o'clock teas,
chaing dish for the college girl, disk
stove for the bachelor, fatiron or
sewing machine motor for the prac-
teal housewife all these novel anu
useful gifts will be appreciated by the
recipients.
1t should not be forgotten that these
electric Christmas gifts are all useful
gifts. Each of these devices is de-
signed 20 do some one thing better
than it can be done any other way
whether it is to percolate coffee. toast
bread or furnish the power for rum
ming a sewing machine.
The presence of an electric perco-
lator on any table adds a touch OF
something different and something
better. The electric tea samovar IS
rapidly becoming quite the thing for
the modern tea table.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
Story of the ProdiqaI Son.

The story of the prodigal son is
more than a parable. 1t is based on d
law set forth on a Babylonian tablet
1000 years before the time of Christ
A Yale professor has translated the
Sumerian characters in which the laws
on the tablet-the earliest knOwn-are
written. The fourth law provides that
a son who desires to leave his fathers
house and to set forth on career o.
his own shall receive his portion of the
estate and henceforth be legally sepa-
rated from his family.-Youths Com
panion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
"Wassail! Drinkael!"

The wassail bowl. which is still used
in some old European families at
Christmas. succeeded the skull of the
Norseman's foe as a drinking vessel.
In these old wassail bowls, some speci-
mems of which are of brown ware and
others of massive silver, were placed
the ale. the ginger. the sugar. the nut
meg and the roasted crab apples.
Where the old custom still prevails the
ale is served spiced and sweetened in
the wassail bowl. but the apples are
omitted
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
Christmas Game
For Very Little Ones

Little Jacky Bingo." often played
at Christmas parties, is very simple
game and seems rather pOintless to the
onloOkers. but little children love it.
The players form a ring, with one
left out to be Little Jacky Bingo.
Jacky walks round outside the ring.
The players call out:
"Who is that walking round my
stony wall?'
Jacky answers. "Only Little Jacky
Bingo."
The players: Don't you steal one of
my fat pigs!"
Jacky: Il stole one last night, and
I'll steal another tonight; so come
along"
Then Jacky touches some one in the
ring, who has TO fall out and walk be-
hind him. So the game goes on, the
players falling in one behind another
till at last Jacky has them all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
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Games For Christmas Aft
ernOOn
6rIlO0Il
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Games fill in nicely the time "be-
tween the dark and the daylight" on
Christmas afternoon. A holly hunt
demands holly leaves cut out of green
paper and placed about the house in
plain sight. but in unusual places.
Each child goes a-hunting the leaves
with basket. and the one who finds
the largest number receives prize.
For a cranberry race each couple has
two bowls. one partly filed with
cranberries Each person, using the
left hand. tries to see how many ber-
ries he can move from one bowl to
the other with tiny spoon.
Envelopes filed with cut-up pictures
of Christmas scenes pasted on card
board and passed one to each person
give quiet fun. The contest is putting
the puzzles together and seeing who
can do it quickest.
A variation of the familiar donkey
game is played as follows:
A large tree is drawn on paper and
fastened on the wall. Pictures of
Christmas gifts cut from advertise
ments and catalogues are distributed
among the guests. Each is blindfold-
ed in turn and tries to fasten the gift
on the branches of the tree.
Some inexpensive prizes for Christ
mas contests are blotters, decorated
with holly in water cOlors or oil. and
butterfly needlebooks. Dainty bonbon
boxes may be made of water color pa
per or of cardboard covered with
Grape paper. These filed with home
made candy are always acceptable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

up, carried and dropped into the stock
ing with the wooden spoon. OF course
each player is given a certain stock
ing, which he or she labOrs to fill, re
ceiving no assistance from any one
else. A certain number of apples, ac-
cording to size, is agreed on for each
stocking before the fun begins.
The player who is first of the six
to fill his or hers is winner of that par
ticular round and is entitled to draw
for the prize, the unsuccessful five be
ing barred.
When six have raced another half
dozen take their places, and so on.
The game is a screaming farce
throughout and cannot fail to be jolly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
M 1 wonder if our own children is think

AN wonder if our own children is think
in o. Jane ar me;
If they heard some organ sendin' the
song, do They Miss Me at Home?
Through the holy Christmas morn1n'
through the holy Christmas gloam,
If they heard their children shoutin' in
pleasure beside their toys,
Would they think once more o the home
stead, where they lived when girls
an boys.
The young has the world before 'em, but
fer US it lies behind
A dim, dear land o. memories, where even
/ keep in mind
Wee, faded clothes in the attic, broken
toys long laid away,
AS watch Jane fixin' knickknackS fer
the dinner on Christmas day.
Will T. Hale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
Still BRING In the Bears Head.

The ancient Christmas ceremony Of
bringing in the boar's head is regu-
larly performed on Christmas after
noon in the hall of Queen college. Ok
ford. England. The head is borne in
on a silver dish, shoulder high. at the
head of procession formed by the col
lege choir augmented for the occasion
singing THE Boars Head Song.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
When Jane Fixes the
KniCkknackS

w LIKE to loaf in the kitchen while
Jane in her wifely way
Is putin the finish on knickknacKs
for the dinner On Christmas day.
Say, tollible early o. mornin's, when
the coffeepots simmerin' low,
An the ROSTERS is CROWN for daybreaK
like nobody else didn't know
An out through the white curtained win
der the stars is beginnin to FADE,
An the hills that was hid in darkness 10
at last comm out O. the shade.
Directly a silence settles, so plain it is
mighty nigh seen,
An me an the past stand together, with
scurcely mint between,
Fer 1 feel unusually tender-in glad
half sad sort O. way
While Jane is f1Xin' the knickknacks for
the dinner on Christmas day.
A person don't never, / reckon, dlSremem-
Der the old folks at home,
No matter how feeble he grows an no
matter jest where he may roam,
An they show pretty clear at such MINUS
true an brave as in days gone BY
Till 1 push my chair in the shadders-
a-hidin' the mist in my eye
1 see the grave face Of my father as he
reads by the candlestick there,
An hear some hymn Of my motner as
she rocks in the hickory chair;
Then the freight falls on the celhn with
the rose O. the old time glow
AS I dream only dreams O the future std
O. dreams o. the long ago.
Heigh no! What a world o changes from
the lad to the man now gray,
Watchin' Jane as she fixes knickknacks
for the dinner on Christmas day!
Then my thoughts travels on an onward
rom mists Whera the old folks he.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

CANES y
AND SPORTS
Trying to Fill the Stocking

LIVELY scramble game. fine for
"A Christmas time, is played by
stretching a clothesline across
the room and pinning heavy worsted
stockings to it with clothespins. A
basket of rosy apples is provided and
as many wooden spoons tied with holly
ribbon as there will be players con-
testing at once. Six is good number.
for the ordinary sized living room will
hardly accommodate more than half
dozen lively contestants at one time.
The object is to see which of the six
can soonest fill his or her stocking with
the apples. which have to be dipped
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

In Sweden wooden Candida
bra like the one in the picture
are frequently used instead Of
Christmas trees for the display
Of gifts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
6heSOUTH'S99 Sis.
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G|;S;I.AFTER AeMR
MSk -

e. Bryan in Uncle RemuS'
Magazine. A number of the negroes
still inhabited the. old quarter" but
they were too de@ rallied and I'M
settled in mind to work.
The cotton crop had been a failure
and old debts had swallowed up the
proceeds. No boxes and barrels con-
tanning good things for Christmas had
been rolled from the steamboats, out
upon the plantation landing, as in bet
ter times. But Christmas morning
there was the old chorus, Merry
Chris SINUS" under the window.
The master of the house flung open
the window impatiently and called
out, There's no Christmas for you
here; you will have to make your own
Christmas now" An old patriarch of
the tribe stepped forward and barred
his gray head. yves brought III
Christmas 'membrance for master and
mistis, please, sah," he said. They
went i'll then. Each had a gift and
laid it on the table in silence.
One brought a dressed chicken, an
other a dozen eggs, and the patriarch
brought a baked possum. A pair of
home knit socks, bag of hickory nuts
and a basket of walnuts were among
the offerings.
When their gifts had been deposited
they started to file out, when the man
of the house. affected almost to tears.
called them back and thanked them.
The children poured out the contents
of their Santa Claus stockings to share
with the visitors, and the house mother
brought out a jug of homemade wine.
There was little Christmas cheer
after all. The hard feeling melted
away. Every heart responded to the
prayer uttered by the negro leader
when he was departing:
DE Lawd bless you and your fam
bly,. master. and hep US ter feel an
ack right towards one anuder"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
Its Sort.

military courtship must be trying"
Naturally. 1t is a sort Of court
martial"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
THE
jefferson School
FOR BOYS

Charlottesville, Va.
The most highly specialized school
preparing for the University Of Vir-
ginia. More than SO graduates there
now.
Pupils prepared under university in
structors for university courses.
Address
e. REINHoLD ROGERS, NJ. A., Pm
D., Headsnaster.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
gleside Seminary

FOH COIAJHEO GIKI1S
Burkevilie, Va
school for higher education OF
pred girls. under the direction OF
Board Of Missions for Freedmen
the Presbyterian Church. U. 8. A.
Ping. cooking, kdressmaking, house
laundry woft" taught.
Fhe literary courses are thorough
] of wide range. Bible studies
Py and a high moral tone is main
ped. For catalogue. address
nv. G. @. CAMPBELL President.
Burkeviiie, Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20

A Standardized Junior College. free
of debt. with strong Departments of
Music. Art, Expression and Domestic
Science. Four years Preparatory and
two years college work. Graduates
enter Junior year at Westhampton.
Randolph Macon and other standard
Colleges.
Location, high and healthful. 2,00o
feet above sea level in beautiful South
west Virginia; not a trace of malaria
Equipment, all modern conveniences'
School plant worth $4,000.
Faculty of twenty-five University
and Conservatory trained men and wo-
men from fourteen States. and two
from foreign countries.
Music a specially.
One Of the Leading Junior Colleges
in the South. Write for catalogue
Address, III. G. NoFTsrNGER, A.
NJ, President, BOX 103. Bristol. Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
Fishburn Military School
Waynesboro, Va.

WaynesbOFO, va.
Noted for its able instructors.
thorough work and high standard OF
scholarship.
Location and climate unexcelled: al
titude 1,400 feet: thirty-six successful
sessions; an instructor for every ten
cadets; moral and Christian environ
ments; modern equipment; annual
spring encampment:- highest endorse
ment by v. NJ. T. and state Universe
ties. Rate, $4,000. For catalogue.
address
Maj. NJ. III. HUDGINS, b. s.. Principal
p. o. Box $50.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
EASTERN COLLEGE,

EASTERN COLLEGE,,
Manassas. Waffle Battlefield City
Thirty es.pfrom Washington, D. c.
For young men and women. Stand
ard A. b. courses. Also for high
school graduates two-year courses
leading to Lit b. and Ped. b. de-
grees. Superior music conservatory
Also preparatory, domestic science
and commercial courses. Four mod
ern buildings. Gymnasium and ath-
letics. Beautiful for situation.
national patronage. $3.50 a year
Catalog.
PRES. III. @. ROOP, Pm. D., LIZ D.,
Box lie.
Newark post., 1915-03-31

men in the farmers family in
cases where the men hired are not
congenial people.
Among the suggestions for i'm
provement in the condition of farm
life for women is the establish
ment of cooperative laundries. 1t
is not generally known how very
cheaply family washings could be
done and the "flat work" ironed
if it was done in a central plant,
as cream is disposed of at cream
cries. The time women spend on
washing, if applied to almost any
other form Of farm labor, would
more than pay the cost of such
laundries. With the patronage as
sured, the amount of work to
come known long in advance, the
work could be done very cheaply.
Some have thought the power used
in creameries might also be used
for a laundry in an adjoining
building. The cooperative laun-
dry plan has been studied and
Farmers Bulletin 353 gives the
results of the Investigations. 1t
can be had of the Department for
five cents in currency, or a money
order. (Stamps not taken.)
Newark post., 1915-03-31

service and opportunities for
amusement; at least to get rid of
the work they occasion the house.
wife.
This seems to cover the main
ideas of the women who wrote. Of
course the Department can not
deal with question of politics and
perhaps the women did not men
tion the possibility Of govern
ment help to secure what they
need. But there is no reason why
the Department should not help
the people to get the things named
The telephones are doing we'll but
they do not reach to millions of
isolated people who ought to have
them and the furnishing to such
people at cost of telephone SER
vice is not wrong or impossible if
the government authorities decide
to do it. The parcel post service
is improving. Good roads will
come but they are coming far too
slowly and the government ought
to expend as much for them each
year as it did yearly for the Pan
anna Canal. The government can
not we'll do much at present as to.
cooperative boarding houses for
farm help but it can give informa-
tion and encouragement. Autos
at cost would occasion much ridi-
cule but some day the government
may supply them. The co-opera-
tive laundry is probably practical
and the Department should estab-
lish few as experiments, in each
state. Sometime the government
may undertake to handle the lead
ing farm crops and supply them to
the consumers at about the cost of
transportation, manufacture, and
sale. Until then the farmer will
Newark post., 1915-03-31

A general belief is shown by
the women that better roads and
cheaper autos would do much to
make farm life better. One wo-
man thinks the great sums spent
on rivers and harbors would be
better employed in improving the
rural highways. A missouri wo-
man says that though she is hard
working and poor she will have
an auto when the roads are i'm
proved, getting it on the install
ment plan by the work of the
whole family and then nothing
will be too far away"
Summing up the reports one con-
cludes that they show that women
are quite generally overworked on
the farms, that they are generally
isolated; either by poverty, bad
roads or the large farms they are
on, and that they are increasingly
discontented with their lot. AS
for remedies they favor cheaper
telephones, better rural mail SER
vice at lower rates, better roads,
cheaper autos, cooperative laun-
dries and some plan to put the
hired men to board in a camp or
house designed to give them good
Newark post., 1915-03-31
:ial And Labor Needs
OF Farm Women

The United States Department
Agriculture asked rrty-five hun
{d women, heads of the house
DIS of it's crop correspondents,
the Department could best
b farm women; wnat the wom-
#Of the farms want and what
ir problems are. Two thousand
twenty-five of these answered
questions with definite state
BITS. These statements were ar
tged in a hundred lists, by the
partment, and each of the SEN
ces in each letter was put un-
one of the hundred headings.
his way the Department found
bit the women of the farm think
y want and was able to see how
|h problem appealed to the wo-
of each of the four main di-
ons of the United States. The
|ort of this makes a very inter-
ng document.
Fhe dominant note of the letters
ms to be the complaint of the
men, first of overwork and long
RS and second of isolation.
IN complaints come from every
Fe. Many women assert that
n the social life of market days
enied them; the men doing the
rketing. There is a general de-
Fation that the work is too
d. Yet the fact that from the
le counties where such letters
be other letters have been writ
saying the women are not
@Worked or isolated, would in
&hte that the income of the fam
q is the determining factor in
~ work done by women and in
ir social life, or lack of it. The
Ely settled states, like the Da-
hS, of course have isolation for
n the more well to do, but the
billy with an automobile gets
ial life, usually, anywhere. One
nan says that they would
her have free telephones and
K moving pictures than free
h.
IN Arkansas man suggests thai
it would help farm womer
fe most is law making it {
Rinal offense to work womer
fields or at heavy farm
A Colorado farmers daugh
chman's wife, teacher ant
superintendent of schools
the farm women are no
pntented With farm worl
tion but that they dali!
e so. She thinks th'
is the board of hire;
Newark post., 1915-03-31

mount, at the Belgian frontier
The windmill in the background
shows the marks of the enemy's
guns. Friends here are glad to
note his romotion, won by service.
Newark post., 1915-03-31

he above photograph shows
IS Heidemann, at the German
ut. Mr.. Heidemann spent a
r in Newark, where he made
ny friends. For several months
Newark post., 1915-03-31

after the beginning of the war,
Mr.. Heidemann was with the avia-
tion corps. He has since been
transferred to the artillery. The
picture here shows him on his
Newark post., 1915-03-31

suffer, often, from poverty. It is
a cooperative age and the farmer
being still nearest the competitive
Arizona republican., 1915-05-05
.erman Gases
 Nuke Victims
 Life Imvalids
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1spArcH1

LONDON, May 4.-.Allied soldiers gases suffered much pain and many were reduced to a condition pointing to their being inValids for life. This was the report Sir John French, com rander in chief of the expeditionary force on the continent. The report as serts that the Gremans falsely report ed that the British troops using these gases in order to forestall the neutral and possibly domestic criticism Of their own use of gases
 The effect of this poison is not merely disabeling or painlessly fatal" says the report. as suggested in the German press. Those victims who do no succumb on the field and can be brought to hospitals suffer acutely and in a large proportion of cases die a painful and lingering death. Those who survive are in little better shape as the injury to their lungs appear to be of a permanent character and reduces them to a condition which points to their being invalids for life''
 Speaking in the house of com mons this afternoon, H. J. Tennant, parliamentary secretary of the war office, said that Great Britain had under consideration the suggestion of employing similar eXpedients" against the use by the German troops on the battlcfields of asphy yxia ting gases.
Arizona republican., 1915-05-05
SEBASTIAN |S
 LEADER IN THE BACEFOR MAYOR
Misses Actual Election By Narrow Margin in the Primary Election - Col lapses from Stress of Trial Which is Halted
IAssoc1ArEp PRESS p1sPArcHI

LOS ANGELES, May 4. - Missing actual election by a narrow margin, Charles Sebastian, suspended chief of police was chosen by the people of this city in the primary election for the first place on the mayoraIty ticket in the general election next month.
 Frederick Whfffen, apparently, will De the opponent of Sebastian, but re- turns at midnight indicate that Robert Allen is running him a close race.
 Sebastian received approximately two -fifths of the vote, which will prob ably not exceed 65,0O0, of the city's to- tai registration of 20O,O00. It rained nearly all day.
 Sebastians showing in the trial of Mrs Lillie Pratt, which is not yet con- cluded, and the supposed attempt on his life last night when two bullets were fired through the window of his home, admittedly had an effect upon the voting. Commenting on the result tonight. the police official declared it verificatiOn of his prediction that the immortality charges against him were the manifestation of a political plot which would have a reverse ac- ton with the voters.
 From the stress of the trial now in progress and the shock from the shots being fired into his house last night Sebastian collapsed today. His condi tion and the slight illness of Robert Reese. an aged juror in the trial, ne cessitated postponement of the case.
 Search for the would be assassins brought no definite results, although detectives. it is said were set to watch one suspect. and if an attempt to leave is made will make an arrest.
 Friends announce that a bodyguard of six men has been engaged for the chief.
 The grand jury sent out a large number of subpoenas in connection with the renewed inquiry into condi- ttons prevailing in the police depart ment