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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15
FIRE DESTROYS
PUYALLUP HOME

PUYALLUP, Sept. 15.--The
$4,000 residence of F. B. Parks
was destroyed by fire yesterday.
The Payallup fire department was
unable to save it because of lack
of water.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15

BY MABEL ABBOTT z-.s..z
What would think a who, she had
great Jewels would sit and look indereny while
somebody pried the golden setting finest
used it to make Filings for teeth?
You'd she probably. =
Well, Tacoma is looking indfferently while
derul repacabe setting pried off finest Jewels
and to make houses barns and chicken coops.
Returning travellers bring word that logging
operations has been begun the edge of Clear lake.
Clear lake little lake like black original
miles
Vile.
half a mile wide and three-fourths mile
its surface Is $50 feet above the Chop valley.
s a geological phenomenon, being
depth explained hypothe-
that it an old crater.
Lake offers loveliest
above its greenrmmed mirror that
to be had from lake in that region.
timber around it is mostly fir and hemock, the
thrifty enormous size
the standpoint
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15

The third line is the last re-
naming trench to have been built
by the Germans prior to the great
allied drive.
1t, like the captured first and
second lines, was exceedingly
strong and permanent in nature
much of the construction being OF
concrete.
All lines back of the third have
been built under the terrific Brit
ish bombardment, and conse-
quently are comparatively flimsy
In character.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15
Are you a good spellerf
Also an early riser?


! The Times will give two free
tickets to the photoplay ''oivilIza-
tlon,y to open Sunday at the Ia
coma theater, to each of the first
four persons who finds afx van q
spelling In any classifiep DIV
the classified page of T<the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15

to keep the lights turned ON
the statue Of liberty. She'll
be going into tho movies
next.
The finest after-dinner speaker
In the world issthe man vho saya:
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city In Mexico where every ~
but tho Americans u heppy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15
SUFFER A
BIG DEFEAT
ON SOMME

LONDON, Sept. 15.-Brit-
ish troops have broken the
German third line i'm the
great assault inaugurated
this morning, said Reuter-
dispatch from Press head
quarters at the British front
this afternoon.
1t is reported that the village
of Flers, a mile and one half
northwest of Ginchy, has been
captured.
The British are sweeping east
ward toward the village of Nor
val, about two miles directly
north of Combles, in a great
movement that threatens to sur
round the Germans in Combles
and effect their capture.
The greater part of BouleauX
wood, mile northwest of Com
giles, has already been captured
by Gen. Haig's men.
The British advance, ac-
cOrding to fragmentary bulle-
tins received here tonight, is
the greatest made by Gen.
Haig's men since the OPEN
ing day of the allied often
sive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15
Highway Builders Must
Revise Ideas, Says Expert

These are not the days OF gen.
tie horses and narrow wagons,
when men were content to pass
tehir fellow-tr travellers at speed
of three miles an hour" said r.
II. Thomson, of Seattle, address
ing a joint session Of the associa-
tions of county commissioners and
engineers in the Commercial club
rooms Friday on Country Pave
ments."
Builders OF country roads," he
prophesied, must prepare for
constantly increasing loads to be
moved at constantly greater
speeds: pavemelkzl nm have q =
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15

mo permanent pavement
should be constructed anywhere
so as to produce a grade crossing
with either steam or interurban
railway. and there should be no
deadman's curves"
Prof. II. X. Benson of the Uni
yersity of Washington pointed
out an opportunity to avoid wood
waste.
Enormous quantities of wood
are now destroyed" he said, I'm
saw mill incinerators and IN land
clearing. II charcoal were utiliz-
ed locally IN brIQuetted fuel. and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-15

All Tacoma papers agree now
that Poindexter is nominated on
first choice votes.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
How to Make Pretty Bedspread For
Your Bedroom.

When a bedroom or small dressing
room is papered with anything but a
plain or neutral paper, bright colored
or Powered chintz should never be
used, but often little color is needed
to add tone to the room.
Select plain white spread of good
quality and rather heavy.
Cut from chintz a bunch of roses or
a spray of gay colored flowers and
basic one in each corner, with a larger
one for the center.
Sew to the spread and finish the raw
edges with fine feather stitch or with
long and short buttonhole stitch.
This idea can be carried out for
scarfs to cover the dressing table and
bureau. Make the scarf or linen cut
to fit the top of each and finish the
edges with a scallop or a hem, and fin
ish this with the stitch that was used
on the spread. Cut out the flowers and
applique to the edges of the scarf.
Bunches of the same flowers can be
added to the corners of the white cur
tains with good effect.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
Activities of Women.

Many of the women engaged in in
dustry in England have donned mas
culine garb.
In recent efficiency auto run, Miss
Eva Cunningham of Haverhill, Mass.
took first prize in the contest with SO
man competitors.
Miss Florence Powdermaker has
been made assistant chemist in the
Baltimore board of health, a position
never before held by woman.
The Countess Benchendorff, wife of
the Russian ambassador in London, is
one of the best lady bridge players in
that city.
In two Cleveland foundries 800 wom-
en- run great punching and drilling ma
chimes, working side by side with the
man machinists.
Miss Ella ]. Slutz, blind student
at the Ohio State university, while
only a freshman in the college, ex-
poets to finish the four-year course on
time Miss Slutz is alone in the
world and in her eagerness to fulfill her
ambition to secure an education, is do
ing odd jobs about the school for
which she receives room and board
free
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
"Jennie Catfish" Dead.

Jennie Catfish" is dead. In the
northeastern part of the city Jennie
Catfish was as celebrated as the muf
fin man of English fame or the old
chimney sweep of Charles Lambs
time, states the Philadelphia North
American.
Her call, Amy catfish? Any catfish p
has rung through the streets of the
city for nearly half century. Resi-
dents of the northeast say they cannot
remember when she did not cry her
wares night and day. Many remember
it mingled with their childish dreams,
the shrill, piercing, long-drawn-out
wall bringing picture of a little wom-
an, who always had seemed old, walk
ing swiftly along back streets and al
leys with tray balanced on her head.
To the children she was Jennie
Catfish" which was their translation
of her cry. To her neighbors she was
Mrs. Amelia Wilson, eighty years old.
She had been ill for some time and
had been taken care of by a neighbor,
who the other day entered her home
with a postal from a niece. She found
the old woman dead as the result of
pneumonia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
GERMANS DRINKING TEA

Encouraging testimony as to the de-
creased consumption of alcohol in Ger
many was given Miss Mary E. Brown,
director OF the National w. C. T. u.
exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton, by an engineer who showed great
interest in the literature exhibit. He
said that with 46 other engineers he
visited Germany two years ago. While
there the group investigated eight
manufacturing plants and they found
the men taking a pint bottle of weak
tea with their one o'clock lunch in
stead of using beer with or per
cent alcohol as formerly. The tea is
prepared in the building and sent up
in bottles at about one-half the cost
of beer. Since substituting tea for
beer the efficiency of the workmen has
increased from Is to 20 per cent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
ALCOHOL CAUSE OF WAR.

Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis, eminent
physician, psychologist and scientist
Of Chicago, says the great world war
is but the logical outcome of "gener-
atoms of alcoholic saturation, with
the resultant deterioration of the hui
man race and degeneration of the hu-
man mind"
81 have taken kennel of Great
Danes" says the doctor, magnificent
animals, and given them just a tea
spoonful of alcoholic beverage daily,
mixed with their foods, and then bred
them, and carried on the experiment
for five or six generations, until the
Great Danes had dwindled physically
to small size, and their even disposi-
lions had changed until the product
has been snarling, whining, fighting
ours. How much more so this must
be with humans extended over thirty
or forty generations. The parallel
may not be pleasant, but it is a nice
one, and that is what has occurred in
Europe" A.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
Public Defenders Idea.

What in heavens name is the use
of sending to Jail man who ought to
be with his family? What's the use
of giving man a bad name when a
good word will set him right?"
That's what the first public defend.
er to appear in Pittsburgh's police
courts asked at the end of his first
days work.
There's no use following that old
method. but we've been a long time
finding it out. Sending a man to Jail
is a poor way to take care of the mans
family, but it's the way we've taken
for ages.
Giving a man a bad name instead of
offering him the good word his heart
is aching to hear is wasteful, but it
was easier, we thought, than the right
way. The strange thing about these
matters is that the wrong way always
seems easier.-Pittsburgh Leader.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
AN AID TO MEMORY.
How to Make a Calendar That Just
Fits the Kitchen.


A useful and unique calendar that Is
indispensable to every systematic
housekeeper can easily be made with
out expense. A very light colored
cardboard can be used, but light gray
or white is the most effective. The
cardboard should be about IA by 8
inches and should have smooth edges.
First of all, rule off a border about
one-third of an inch and fill it in with
gilt. Take but very little on the tip of
your brush and run it along carefully
so as not to run over the edges. Then
you should obtain pad 2 by inches,
containing the dates. This may be de-
tached from some cheap calendar
which you have or can purchase at
any bookstore. Holding the cardboard
lengthwise, attach this pad so that its
base will fall along the edge of the
border ON the base of the cardboard.
IN the space above the pad containing
the dates form two columns. In these
print neatly in alphabetical order
complete list of articles which you are
accustomed to purchase from your gro
Ger. After giving these a coat of gilt
you will have an attractive daily re-
hinder for your kitchen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
ALCOHOL AND ATHLETICS.


Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univer-
sity has issued pamphlet in which
he gives the result of his investiga.
lions of the liquor problem. Concern
ing alcohol and athletics he says:
I'm studying the conditions of health
and efficiency during the last ten
years, the conditions which enable an
athlete, for instance, to be at his best
l have had occasion to examine the
conflicting popular ideas concerning
alcohol. | began the study quite WILL
ing to be convinced that alcoholic bev-
erages have some virtue. But have
ended in the conviction that they have
none, and | have found that this con-
clusion is almost universally reached
by those who have examined the facts.
These facts demonstrate that a man
who takes alcohol, in even a moderate
degree, is harming himself physically,
mentally, morally and economically.
THAT alcohol increases fatigue is
now commonly recognized by athletes.
Alcohol gives no increase of muscular
power. 1t is not what we can prop
erly call stimulant, but depressant.
It is apparently stimulant, because
it puts to sleep the nerves that indi-
cate fatigue, so that the person thinks
himself relieved of fatigue. What it
does is to make one unconscious of
his fatigue. Various kinds of tests
and exercises have proved that alco-
hol is decided hindrance to muscu-
lar or athletic power"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
DENTAL HYGIENE.
How to Have Well Kept Teeth That
Last a Lifetime.

Last a Lifetime.
We cannot all have small, even
white teeth, but we can all have per.
fectly kept teeth. A careful mother
begins the attention to her childrens
teeth as soon as they push through the
gums. She cleans them with a bit of
absorbent cotton on the end of her
scrubbed finger, and as the child grows
older she brushes them. Nowadays all
the teeth of all school children are
inspected, which will result in better
teeth, with no false teeth before the
age of fifty, except under unusual con-
ditions.
The teeth should be brushed after
every meal and cleaned with a paste
at least every other day. Do not use
any of the powders that are gritty.
however cleansing they may be. Teeth
cannot be treated the same as a bath
tub. Always after eating anything
every particle of food should be re-
moved from between the teeth with
dental floss. This is really the only
safe means of dislodging foodstuff.
Brush up and down on the surface of
the teeth, not across. Gritty powders
in time destroy the enamel. and brush
ing across the grain has the same eff
feet. Brush the inner side of the teeth
as thoroughly as the outer, being care
full to cleanse the mouth well. Now,
the average woman is apt to feel she
has done her duty when the teeth are
brushed. This is not true. A mouth
wash is just as necessary. Rinse the
mouth daily with any good alkali
wash
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
OYSTER Catches a Duck.

A sheldrake duck, diving into the
bay at Smiths Point, L. l., varied life's
monotony by capturing an oyster and
being captured in turn.
OF course all that the residents of
Smiths Point know about the remark
able catch is what they heard from
Will Murdoch, who tends the draw at
the Tangier bridge, and who admits he
has an excellent reputation for yerac-
ity. Will took duck and oyster to
the Smiths Point Coast Guard station
and exhibited them to prove the story.
Where did he get them? Oh, he
caught the duck after the duck had
caught the oyster. The fowl pushed
its bill into the shell of the oyster,
Murdoch said, and the bill stuck fast.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
PEARLS IN TOY DOGS TAIL
Man From Tokyo Had Gems in Silk
Vest and Cigarette Box Worth
Large Sum.

A little toy dog, with stubby tai
and pointed nose, which would emf
a bark like a grunt when pressed
stood on the table in the office of Jus
tice Wardell, surveyor of the port Of
San Francisco surrounded by collec
tion of cultivated pearls.
The tip Of his tail was missing, as
was the end of his nose, both of which
had been cut away by customs inspec
tors.
The dog was only one of many clever
contrivances used by Y. Nakane
wealthy pearl merchant, when he made
declaration at the cuStomhouse say.
ing that he carried only $500 worth of
pearls.
An investigation of his baggage by
Custom Inspector J. b. Brosman re-
vealed pearls valued at more than $5,-
900.
aboard the Tenyo Maru and declared
to the customs inspector that he had
$500 worth of pearls in small jewel
case. An examination of the case
showed that it had false bottom, and
pearls valued at $1,000 were revealed
with the destruction of the case. This
was the first lot to be discovered.
While the jewel case was being
taken apart Nakane drew from his
pocket a dainty Japanese tobacco box
and proceeded to roll cigarette.
The beauty of the box attracted the
attention of Wardell, who asked to see
it at closer range. The box, when ex-
amined, revealed another $1,000 worth
of the precious gems. Nakane re-
moved his coat to assist in the work of
unpacking his cases
Again Wardell was attracted by the
beauty of silk vest and made an ex-
animation and found that in the CEN
ter of each of the buttons was set a
small pearl, which was so near the
color of the shell-like buttons that the
gems could only be detected by an ex.
pert.
In the bottom of one of the mer-
chants trunks the inspector found a
toy dog carefully wrapped in tissue
paper. Nakane explained that it was
to be gift to child relative here.
An examination of the outside of the
toy revealed nothing; finally the tip Of
the tail was removed with pair of
scissors and it was found to be filled
with pearls. A like find was made in
the dogs nose.
Nakane then confessed he had tried
to smuggle the jewels into this coun-
try. lie gems were confiscated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
How to Cover Buttons to Match Your
Erock.

Do you cover your own buttons? 1t
means a saving and gives variety to
a costume. 1t can be done by crochet
stitches or by needlework as well as
by bits of fancy silk. too insignificant
for any other use. Objections have
been heard on the score that the re-
suit is not as satisfactory as profess
sional work, but the answer to that is
the injunction to do all the work neat
ly. Slipshod methods are to be con-
demned everywhere, although, to be
sure, time is wasted in the inside finish
of frocks. Even expensive dressmak-
ers have taken a hint from Paris and
concentrated on eXternals.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
How to Develop the Art of Saving Gas
When You Cook

To get the greatest amount of heat
from a gas range and not waste gas
the gas should not be turned any high
er than will give perfect blue fame,
When the flame becomes n yellowish
red the gas is being wasted and giving
a heat that smokes and smudges cook
ing utensils and shortens their pc
Rod Of usefulness about one-half. In
cooking have the fame about one-half
inch Of clear blue and after the article
being cooked reaches the boiling point
reduce the flame to only such a height
as will keep it boiling. This also APP
plies to oven jets.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03

to be, and when off the figure
mark still more clearly by chalking OF
colored basting. Cut the opening care
! fully-for heavy materials sharp
knife is best-baste over a small edge,
press fiat and run a row of fine, even
stitching around the edge, being care
full not to stretch the opening For the
pocket cut two pieces about an inch
wider than the opening about four and
a half inches long. One piece, intend
ed for the under, must extend beyond
the other about an inch at the top, and
both pieces at the top should be the
. same shape as the opening If the
garment be unlined the pocket is made
of the same material, no facing is nee
essary, and the pocket is stitched
round to the opening. From the wrong
side hem neatly the shorter piece of
the pocket to the under edge of the
opening, allowing half an inch to ex-
tend at each side.
Now turn the garment on the right
side, lay fiat, basic the longer section
of the pocket up in place and sew
either through the stitching or slip
stitch from the back. fastening tightly
at the corners and taking care to keep
the edges of the opening as close to-
gether as possible. Sometimes pip
ing of the material is set in along both
edges to close them up still more effec-
lively. The arrowhead or crows foot
makes an excellent finish for the cor
ners of the pocket, and they are used
extensively at present. Bar stay tacks
may also be used to insure safety.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
SEVERAL ISSUES.

There are several other issues in
the hearts of the people that tower
above all others and are bound to be
written into some party platform two
years hence. One of these questions
is that of national Prohibition. You
might as well try to sweep back the
tides of the ocean as to stop or delay
the progress of the Prohibition move
ment-Governor Carlson of Colorado.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
How to Pull MoIasses Candy Without
MAKING IL Touuh.

When the candy is ready t. pull
handle as little as possible. Throw it
over the hook or nail and take hold o.
1t with thumb and middle finger II
you can. and through this method
throw 1t over the hook lightly. When
pulling put the flavoring on the candy
a little at a time and pull It in. 1t
is much niser than putting fiavoring in
while hot. One can make candy tough
by pulling the wrong way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
How to Wash a Shawl So II Will Look
New.

To wash a Shetland shawl make a
good lather of soap and lukewarm wa
ter and press and squeeze the shawl
in this till clean, but do not rub soap
on it. Then rinse in two lots of weak
suds of the same temperature.
Rinsing in weak suds makes the
shawl look fluffy and new, but if rinsed
In clear water it will be spoiled. Aft
er the final rinsing press out what wa
,er you can and throw it in a heap on
a clean sheet pinned to the floor, turn
ing occasionally till dry. Now stretch
it on the sheet to the shape and size
you wish it to be, pin it firmly down
and sprinkle well with cold water.
When dry it should look like new.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-03
JOHN BARLEYcoRN UNPOPULAR

Insurance people have come to the
definite conclusion that booze and in.
surance mix about as well as oil and
water" remarked Edward A. Woods.
president of the National Life Under.
writer's association. I'm other words"
said Mr.. Woods, "a drinking man is
mighty poor risk. Cold figures have
proved to us positively that the drink.
ing man-even the moderate drinker-
has less than half as much chance to
live out the life of his policy as the
teetotaler. The mortality of the
teetotalers between the ages of thir-
ty-five and fifty years, when men are
of the most use to society, is only Sc
per cent of the average mortality.
Not even the war has been the sub
ject of as much consideration among
insurance men as has the liquor ques.
tion." -