Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-23
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| State Fire Marshal Joseph L. Bald
win is making an effort to interest
| houskeepers, now that housecleaning
| Is the order of the day, in q fire pre-
vention propaganda. and thousands of
circulars are being issued to people
throughout the State. Preventing q
fire is easier than putting one out,
gays the marshal in his warning cir
cular. "A tidy housewife is the worst
enemy of fire waste. This is concurred
in by the leading insurance men. Poor
housekeeping is the cause of a great
majority OF fires. Keep rubbish out
OF the home and take care in getting
rubbish out of the home. If it is a
windy day, don't burn and don't pile
II up against building and then start
hre. Don't leave a smoldering fire.
IL rubbish was removed immediately
1t would make housecleaning much
easier and lessen the cause of many
fires. Don't permit children to burn
rubbish" Marshal Baldwin said in
discussing the circular: Every one
Of the warnings have given in that
circular is the result of a fire. We
have found fires caused by those very
things that l am warning against.
There are lot of people who think
that fire insurance replaces lost prop
erty. They have the idea that fire
facts and figures to show that ii does
not Just as we have on file in the
office reports on fires caused by the
very things have mentioned"
State officials are showing signs of
becoming thrifty and some of the de-
partments or branches of the govern
ment which are just opening up addi-
tional offices are finding that they do
not get new furniture. Some of the
offices of the latest boards have been
given secondhand desks. Some were
err, UFsl1 G1-a. -.
clference, but there were some which
were not and 1t caused a howl. But it
did not matter. The desks stored
about the Capitol are being put into
use and precious few new ones will be
bought this winter
Thirty-six square inches of white
Iaper will be necessary to accommo-
date the entire ballot, including the
nonpartisan Offices. the questions of
constitutional amendment and the city
bonded debt increases for the Walnut
street bridge and the motorizing of the
fire department on the November gem
cral election ballot. The ticket will be
the largest in years, according to the
layout of names and other matter
which was approved by the County
Commissioners yesterday in prepa-
ration for the printers.
"One has plenty of opportunity in
this bureau to wonder just how Cupid
manages to make up some of the
matches that lead TO the altar" OBJ
served the clerk iii the Dauphin county
marriage license office the other day.
There are all sorts of curious COM
binations of names and occupations
given by prospective applicants for
wedlock. For instance''-and she
nointed out the filled-in application of
one couple-"here's a girl who gives
thn ff,Y, ,Nf I, Fs,F L.
lister of the gospel and her mother as
a-hairdresser!"
These are the days that make the
red corpuscles leap and you simply
| have to do something. to work off the
energy which the bracing air puts into
| you. No matter how hard you work
in the office nor how many annoying
| things come UP to bother you, YOU
| have but TO get out in the open and
your worries will vanish like hot cakes
| on cold morning. Housewives are
| busy putting up the curtains for the
winter and those of us who have the
pleasure of looking after the furnace
| must needs get busy and make the old
steam pipes sing again. Real fall has
| been late in coming this year but il
seems to be here to stay, and unless
winter pushes itself to the fore before
its time we can look for some bracing
weather for couple of weeks at least.
And Wen take care of all the scrapple
and sausage that you can bring on, too.
DR.. e. e. Campbell, president OF
Irving College, at Mechanicsburg, who
was recently initiated into membership
! in the Rotary Club, neatly lodged
making a speech the other evening.
He was called upon to talk and re-
piled: 81 have been president of a
college for young women for twenty
five years. You would hardly expect
me to be able to speak,"
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Amos H. Mylin, of Lancaster.
former State senator and former
Auditor General. General Mylin spent
several hours visiting the Capitol and
meeting old friends.