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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
Furs-a Skin Game in More Ways
Than Ore.

In describing the animals that sup
ply most Of the furs on the market, no
account would be complete without ref
erence to the host of imitation furs that
are sold. Apart from their deceptive
appearance, there is nothing fraudulent
about these faxed skins, since the
names under which they are traded are
mostly sanctioned by the London cham
Der of commerce..
Combed skins of white lambs from
Central Asia are called Iceland
fox. Caracul fur comes from kids
Dyed goat is called ''hear goat. -
and dyed hare ''sable hare OF
- fox hare Calf skins pass as ST
berian pony Finally, rabbits, wild
and tame, of various colors, generally
dyed, and often sheared or prepared
In other ways, are traded under q
number of curious titles, such as sable
hare or fox hare.' Calfskins pass
as Siberian pony Finally. rab
bits, wild and tame, of various colors
generally dyed, and often sheared O.
| prepared IN other ways, are traded I'm
| der number of curious titles, such a
sable coney, chinchilla conev. seal o
musquash conev, electric, inland, O
coast seal, mock or French ermine. an,
| perhaps strangest of all-I5altie lynx
Many. too, are the devices, apar
from dyeing and clipping, adopted 70
| Disgusting the identity of cheap furs
| limitations heads of foxes or fitch
with beads for eyes and a piece o
black wood for nose, are shaped o.
the skins of rabbits or eats, and piece
Of cats tails are attached to all man
ner of furs to give them a fictitious re
semblance to sable. Yet so little
the wearers know of natural histor
that they accept these impossible con
binations as unaltered skins of ger
nine wild animals. - r. |. Pocock, /
r. S, in the Strand Magazine fo
| March,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

The bill to repeal the local-option
liquor law in New Hampshire and to
return to statewide prohibition will
come up as special order of business
in the house of representatives at Con
cord Wednesday. The discussion over
the proposed change is more general
and more emphatic than in Vermont
over the Perry bill on the same ques-
ton, providing for a referendum vote.
New Hampshire was under prohibition
IS consecutive years and violations of
the law there were fully as numerous
as in Vermont under q similar law.
One year after Vermont declared for
local option, or in 1908, New Hamp-
shire followed our lead. The law in the
neighboring state is somewhat differ
emit from that of Vermont. The towns
vote on the question of license once in
two years and the cities once in four
wears. Provision is also made for an
| innkeeper : license, under the sanction
of the state commissioners. When the
first test came all of the cities anG
many of tAe towns voted for license
but the number has been gradually re
duced, until today about one hall
Of the cities and large majority OF
the towns are in the prohibition col
umn. 1t is figured that majority OF
at least 1000 people in the state Hv,
under prohibitory conditions. Hobar'
Pillsbury, fair and careful observer
who reviews the situation from various
is strongly of the opinion that the leg
islature will defeat the repeal bill.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
Fatal Delay.

Little Bobby's father was a doctor and
Bobby liked nothing better than to take
his fathers case in one hand, his overcoat
in the other and go down the street for a
block or two to some imaginary patient
One winters day when he started out he
forgot TO close the door
Bobby" called mothers voice sweetly
please close the door
But Bobby was in hurry and went on
Robert. came the fathers sternel
voice, close that door
Bobby returned and closed the door
Some time later he came in quietly, put NJ
the overeoat and started upstairs
Bobby said mother ingratatingly
" how's your PATIENT"
Dead was the laconic answer. Con,
dead while | was shutting that old door.
Hartford Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

tin in the feet and they add very ma
terially to the stock pot There
should never be bone, raw or cooked,
thrown away until it has passed
through the stock pot. The trimmings
from meat and many vegetables are
also an addition TO the soup stock
flavor. The tough end of steak, if cut
in small bits and cooked with vege-
tables, will make most tasty stew,
or cooked with macaroni and gravy
makes a most hearty supper dish for a
chilly, cold night. A speaker promi-
nent in household economics is quoted
as saying that no economical woman
needs a garbage pail The garbage
pail is too often the little leak that
sinks the great ship of household eff
fciency.
What would one say to the woman
who removes the marrow from the
bones of steaks and stews and puts it
into the garbage? Yet this is COM
mon occurrence in many homes. Bits
| of fat that are not liked when cooked
or are left after serving may be rem
dered and clarified, then used for
| shortening. Fats from ducks, chick
ems and geese are by many considered
much better than butter for fine cook
ing.
The small bit of fat which seemed
| too small to save might have been
used to brown the vegetable for the
stew or chowder. Egg shells are use
full to settle coffee and clear soup
Wash eggs as they come from the mar
ket and the shells will then be ready
to use. A half cupful of potato or
cabbage may be used to flavor a cream
soup.
If a cupful of cold lice is left, add il
to two or three beaten eggs and have
a good, hot supper dish. Cold eggs.
either soft or hard cooked, may be
used for garnishing. The soft eggs
should be further cooked until hard.
Chopped egg added TO a white sauce
and poured over toast will make the
children a good supper dish.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

Bradstreet s Review brings an en-
eouraging report on business conditions,
finding that while they are still below
normal the trend is noticeablv upward.
Buying is in small quantities for the
most part: business is conservative and
cautious, but it is not panic-stricken. \
turn in the right direction is all we can
hope for-and we may enthusiastically
believe that it is the first step towards
a real upward climb to something like
reasonable prosperity. Idleness has
decreased, and with that decrease comes
a logical increase in industrial and com
mercial activity, and the better feeling
throughout the country that spells hope
and builds well. Confidence is the fac
tor most needed, and when a genuine
Improvement is discernible people in
general and newspapers in particular
ought to spread the good news broad
least.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

How will you have your water,
bleached with hypochlorite of calcium
or natural with typhoid baeill? That s
the question which confronts the
householders Of Rutland. DR.. c. S. Cav
erly of. the state board of health says
the water supply for domestic purposes
of the city is polluted worse than in
1910, when 101 cases of typhoid fever
were reported. He recommends the
use of the chemical named for steriliz-
alton of the water. When similar ex-
pertinent was tried after the typhoid
outbreak there was no more cases of
fever in the city except such isolated
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
It Isn't Your Town, It's You.

If you want to live in the kind of
town,
Like the kind of town YOU like,
You needn t slip your clothes in grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You II only find what you left behind
For there's nothing thatr's really
new.
It's knock at yourself when you
knock your town.
1t ism t your town-its you.
Real towns are not made by mer
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead
When. everyone works and nobody
shirks
You can raise town from the dead
And if while you make your persona
stake
Your neighbor can make one. too.
Your town will be what YOU want t.
see.
1t isn't your town-it's YOU.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
woMAN's BEAUTY NO SECRET

1t all lies in the care she bestows
upon herself and in keeping at bay
those dread ills peculiar to her sex.
The flashing eye, the elastic step and
the clear complexion never accom-
pany organic troubles. The dis
tFessed expression, lassitude, head
aches and mental depression are only
the tell-tale symptoms. Women 50
troubled should take Lydia f. Pink
ham 5 Vegetable Compound, that sim
pie remedy made from roots and
herbs, and restore their health to a
normal condition.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
What ignorance!

The new pupil teacher had arrived at
the school, and the budding geniuses and
others were doing their best to form am
accurate estimate OF her abilities, temper
and general character,
The first lesson was to he one in natural
history, and the teacher had chosen the
interesting but complex subject of the cat.
Now, children she said, tell me what
sort OF clothes pussy wears. No reply.
Come, COME said the new teacher, de
termined to extract the right answer by
naming everything that pussy didn't wear
Does she wear feathers:'
y panied expression crossed the face OF
a little boy in the front row.
Please, miss, he asked pityingIy
''ain't you never seen a cat:''-Stray
Stories.
Germany at the last census had 800,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
READ THE FOLLOWING
Buy Home Sermon
AND NULL OVER II

Kersmith & Kickshaw deal in wax
and Chinese eggs and carpet tacks.
They are good sports in every way;
they cough up money every day to
make the town a better place in
which 70 live and push your face.
They hire a dozen clerks or more,
who wait on patrons in their store.
Our cross roads burg they would up
build, and see it with glad people
filled, and TO that end they blow
their scads like truly patriotic lads.
Bue when we need of eggs few, we
send away to Timbuctoo; and when
a carpet tack we wish its shipped
from Ypsilanti, Mich. Each has the
notion III his dome that things are
best away from home, and so we or
der hods and hats, and humming
birds and Maltese cats, from
strangers in some town remote, who
would not know us from goat. We
ship away our hard-earned kale, and
get our fourth-rate junk by mail.
Say, are we seers, or are we fools?
Those strangers don't support our
schools. or keep the peeler on his
beat. or help to pave Commercial
street They do not paint the vii
lage pump or build a fence around
the dump. If our old burg were blown
away, they wouldn't care bale of
hay. Kersmith and Ktckshaw ought
to get the local trade already yet.
Walt Mason.
Copyright by Adams Newspaper
Service.)
9. Crosby 81 Co.
Office 104-1O5-75O. Retail Store 135
Elevator $50.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; %
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
CLASSIFIED advertisements - Five cents
a line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents a line first
insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change
of copy.
Position, 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

ones as would naturally occur with a
population of $4,000 at railroad and
travelling center. 1t is a serious situa-
tion which confronts the city of Rut-
land as the use of hypochlorite of cal
cium is not permanent solution of the
problem. One of the greatest assets
for any community is an abundant sup
ply Of pure water, and in this Brattle-
boro is unusually fortunate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim Of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
cooperation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt report should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person,
by telephone or postal card, thus enabl-
ing the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

Pittsburg Gazette Times: 1t may BE
true that men viii wear bright -colored
silks next summer, but the time is a
long way off when they will have a tail
or come and board at the house for a
couple of weeks to DO their spring sew
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
Didn't Realize the Libel.

Lawyer-'EHow is it that you have wait
ed three years before suing this man Jones
for calling you a rhinoceros?'
Because / never saw one Of the
beasts till yesterday at the Zoo.-Stray
Stories.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

ways OF exercising that
excellent quality is in
saving food stuffs. Hard
ly one woman in a hun
dred would think it
worth while to save the
feet of two or three
fowls. Yet there is a
large quantity of CELIA
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
IZAeMFEGHEN


No one can live happily who regards
himself alone, who turns everything
to his own advantage. Thou must live
for another if thou wishest to live for
thyself.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02
THE ROAD TO WEALTH.

Economy is said to be the good road
to wealth, and one of the best possible
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-02

Germany at the last census had 3O0,-
600 more women than men.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
 4 CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a
 sick child.

Look back at your childhood days. Remember the dose" mother insisted on castor oil. calomel. cathartics. How you hated them. how you fought against taking them.
 With our children it's different. Mothers who cling to tine old form or physic simply don't realize what they do The children's revolt is welifound- ed. Their tender little 'insides" are injured by them.
 If your child's stomach. liver and bowels need cleansing, give only deli c!ous California Syrup of Figs" It's action Is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take 1t; that 1t never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweet en the stomach, and that a teaspoonfui given today saves a sick child tomor- row.
 Ask at the store for 50-eent bottle of California Syrup of Figs" which has full directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Adv.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
FALLING HAIR MEANS
 DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your Hair! Get 25 Cent Bottle of Danderine Right Now-Aiso
 Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scrsggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
 There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of it's luster, its strength and its very life: eventually producing a feverish' ness and itching Of the scalp, which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen ard die-then the hair falls out fast. A little Danderine tonight-now-any time-will surely save your hair.
 Get 25 cent bottle Of Knowlton' s Danderine from any store, and after the first application your hair will take on that life, luster and luxuriance which is so beautiful. It will become wayy and fluffy and have the appear ance of abundance; an incompatible gloss and softness, but what will please you most will be after just a few weeks use, when you will actual ly see lot of fine, downy hair-new hair-growing all over the scalp. Adv.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
NOT TO BE CAUGHT MAPPING
ton and the Doctor Lost His Bet.

There lives in a certain Vermont town a quaint old character known as Uncle Tobe," who is so conserva- tive of action and speech that it is most difficult at times to get any thing definite from him. Uncle Tobe, like the Father of His Country, has the reputation of never having told lie, and in addition he is so cautious of statement that he has never been known to tell an innocent untruth.
 On one occasion his doctor, in con yersation with friends touching Uncle Tobe's characteristics, ventured to lay a bet of five dollars that he could cause Uncle Tobe to tell what wasn't so. A neighbor promptly took the bet.
 The doctor walked into Uncle Tobe's house next morning, and while he was talking with the old man, the neighbor who had taken the bet drove up to, the gate. Uncle Tobe went to see what he wanted. and then the doctor, as he had agreed to do. went out the back door and hid in the barn.
 Good morning, Tobe," said the wis itor, is the doctor in your hOuse?"
 He was there when ! came out, said Uncle Tobe.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
He Frame of Mind.

The horse had run away and was- tangled up in the wire fence al. dives side of the muddy road. It's h. ted owner had kicked and 8 tried to lift the animal antI out of sorts and covered with d home
 A well-groomed man came took in the situation. and sugges,eS Spring the fence back. then he can get his feet free"
 The owner of the horse did as he vas told Now give him a cut with the whip and hell get up himself
 This the owner did. Then he looked at the horse. up and ready for travel looked at himself covered with mud. and looked at the immaculate gentle man in the road. Wrath filled his, soul
 Well" he grumbled, thank you just as much as if you'd helped me"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03

of luxury and who doubtless would have been stupefied if he had been told six months ago that presently he would be dwelling gayly a month and a half in a ditch without even taking of his shoes: from the workmen and from the small shopkeepers, to the sergeant who was a genuine count Of the old Breton nobility-all in their several ways expressed thstr joy at being able to sleep in a good barn on thick straw. wash themselves and stroll restfully about.
 Worried About Their Trenches.
 They did not seem to realize that they exemplified truly astonishing courage and hardihood. The only thing that really worried them was their trenches, which would be occupied these four days by young recruits. who might. because of their mex perience, let the rain get in.
 The lieutenant told me smilingiy that he had luxurious room back there, the fitting of which cost him 25 francs tsj), and he was afraid that during his absence the rain might pierce the ceiling and even reach his library. He reproached himself for having left behind some books which, on returning, he might find in bad condition.
 Meanwhile the entire company sought Co make the best of these four precious days of repose, cleaning themselves and their clothes. greasins their rifles and eating and drinking. am sure they returned to their ardu ous yigils in the icy trenches in better | spirits than ever. Their orders are simply to hold, and hold they will you may be sure. to the very last man
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
MIR. BUSBY AS A HUMORiST
But on This Occasion He Failed to Score.

Busby-I see tn Turks have been kicking up tn sand around the Suez canal
 Mrs. B. (faintly interested )-SOme religious ceremony?
 Busby-No-o-o. It's war. They're fighting. The report from Berlin says they've licked tn British army to a frazzle. It looks as if the canal would fall into tn Turks hands.
 Mrs. B. lcalmly)-I cant see what good 1t would do them.
 Busby Oeading up to his climax)- Why. they'd loot it.
 Mrs. B. tinnocently)-Of what?
 Busby (triumphantlyl-Of the hard ware. They'd take the locks, Of course. Ha, ha, hal
 A brief silence ensues.
 Mrs. Busby (sweetly)-But there are no locks in the Suez canal.
 And it wasn't any consolation to Busby to remember ttSt he had no one but himself to blame.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
TRENCH PAPERS IN BELGIUM
Journals Publish Special Editions for
 Soldiers at the Front.

washington.-The Belgian legation has received copies Of trench edi- tions" of Belgian newspapers in which the main feature is columns of per sonal paragraphs addressed to sol diers in the Belgian army by regimen tai and company designations telling them of the whereabouts of their fami- lies. Many of these paragraphs con- clude, Send news"
 These trench editions" are circulat- ed in an effort to re-establish commu- nication between the men at the front and their scattered families. many of whom are now in France, England or Holland.
 Besides the personal paragraphs the papers carry news of the war and lam- poons against the enemy.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
DYING MESSAGE OF SOLDIER
Vivid Picture of Pathos of Man Pass ing Away in Foreign
 Land.

London.-At Hull the other day the archbishop of York read a letter from one of his own chaplains at the front. giving vivid picture of the pathos of soldier dying in a strange land for a cause he only dimly understood. Kneeling beside a wounded soldier in a little tent lighted by a candle flicker ing in the wind, the chaplain was ad- dressed thus: Am I dying, sir?" Yes, sonny, you are" My God!" Then a pause. Please break it gen tly to my missus. She is expecting my first baby just about now" The chap lain took up a crucifix from his neck and held it up. The soldier raised his head, laid it down again and began to smile-"the loveliest smile ever saw. says the chaplain
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
FIRE 4,OO0 BULLETS APIECE
Extraordinary Expenditure Of Car. tridses Required to Kill One
 Man in This Wa.

London.-One of the things frequent. ly noted by soldiers at the front in writing to relatives and friends is the required to kill man. A German re port says that many German soldiers fired 1000 cartridges apiece during the first month of the war. An English observer estimated that 25 German shells are wasted for every man killed by them. In 1870 it was calculated that the Germans fired 150 bullets and six shrapnel shells for every wounded Frenchman. In the Russo-Japanese war it is said 5000 bullets were fired for every life lost.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-03
No Hurry.

Do you believe in long engage. ments?" he asked. after she had con. scented to be his.
 Yes, dearest" she replied. 'I have always thought 1t was such a mistake for two people to rush into matrimony before they learned to really know each other"
 Well, about how long would you wish the engagement to be-
 Let me see. Would you think it was too long if we didn't get married until week from next Thursday"