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Newark post., 1916-02-16

Of the Friendship Fire Company
Of Wilmington, died at his home
there last Monday, aged Ga years.
Two rural mail routes from
abolished some months
ago, have been restored by order
of the Post Office Department.
At the instance of Senator
Salisbury the order discontinue
ing the postoffice at Greenville
has been rescinded.
The Eureka Club a new social
organization, has been organized
at Smyrna with Carl S. Cooper,
president; Homer Deakyne, vice
president, and Harold H. Dea-
kyne, secretary-treasurer. Th e
club has about 20 members and
has secured rooms in the Stoeckle
Building on Commerce street.
Seaford's 1916 Chautauqua has
been set for the seven days be-
ginning September 6.
The New Castle Century Club
is arranging for a Better Babies"
program, March ITO.
John 7. Kirby, Field Manager
of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, in an address to the
Wilmington Chamber of Com
merce at it's MONDAY luncheon
last Tuesday, opposed the Ste
vens price maintenance bill pend
ing in Congress and also the CIV
ing of premium coupons.
Capitalists at Seaford are plan
ming for the erection Of new
theatre with a seating capacity Of
700.
An oyster supper served by the
Senior Philadelphia Glass of the
New Castle M. E. Church, yielded
$1,000.
Seaford Volunteer Fire Com
pany has begun a campaign to
raise funds for the purchase of
an automobile truck and fire en-
gine.
Brooks Pusey and Albert Gold
en-, in and out of the Ferris
School for several years past, last
Tuesday made a dash for liberty
and escaped a pursuing guard
who halted fearing that others OF
the squad of inmates might fol.
low their example.
Chief Judge Constable on Sat
urday drew the panel of jurors
for the March term of the Ceci
County Circuit Court of which
the following residents of the
Fourth district are members: H
Howard Mackey, A. J. Kite
George E. L. Hess, Howard Ewing
and William F. Cox.
E. w. Dawson has presented {
check for S25 to the Singerly Fire
Company of Elkton in apprecia
tion of it's work toward saving hi
home at West Amwell on thu
night of February 4.
The Peoples National Bank o.
Laurel, has purchased from thu
Dashiell estate the property a
Delaware avenue and Marke
street and will have a new hom'
erected on the site.
| Lindlev C. Kent, for 45 years
prominent in the lumber business
in Wilmington, died at his hom'
there on Saturday night, aged 7.
years. He was born in Cheste
county, Pa, and served in th'
First Delaware Infantry in tn
Civil War and quit the service
with the rank of major. His wifi
and one child survive him.
Powder in a pellet press at tn
Hagley plant of the du Pont Com
pany exploded last Sunday nigh
The report was heard all owe
Wilmington but nobody was hur
and the damage was slight.
Three Hurt In Auto Upset
While William E. Harris o
Catopcville Md grain broke
Newark post., 1916-02-16
HERE AND THERE

ed. The infection is thought to
have been due to a run from
which part of the schools water
supply is obtained.
The cannery at Harbeson is
contracting for tomatoes for the
coming season at the rate of 16
cents a basket.
The recent Cabaret Show"
given by society women of Will
mington in the State Armory
yielded $1,000 for the relief of
European war sufferers.
The Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal closed for a week for re-
pairs to the lock at st. Georges
was re-opened on Saturday.
Wilmington bank clearings last
week tot a led S2,021,1S3.13
against S1,616,612.35 for the like
week last year.
Charles L. Causes automobile,
stolen in Wilmington on Friday
night, was found badly broken,
near the Ferris School, on Satur-
day.
The Heptasophs Hall at Bridge
vile has been sold to a stock
company for 1925.
Wilmington's Street and Sewer
directors are considering a plain
to lower the grade on Fourth
street hill, west of Tatnall street.
James Chase, the oldest and
wealthiest colored resident of
lower Delaware, died at Seaford
on Thursday, of pneumonia, aged
it is stated, 103 years.
Socialists of Wilmington have
adopted resolutions urging Sena-
tors du POnt and Salisbury and
Congressman Miller to support
the Woman's Suffrage amend
ment.
Wilmington machinists have
complied with the request of
Mayor Price that they and their
employers appoint committees to
meet with Hon. George Gray,
with a view to settling the long
continued strike.
Julia Merceilles, aged II, and
Giovanni di Gemnoia who disap-
peared from New Castle last
Monday night later in the week
notified the formers parents that
they were married at Elkton on
Thursday morning.
Robert E. Hurd, former Chief
of Police of Dover fell from a
stable loft on Thursday, breaking
two of his ribs.
Willard S. Ellis, for ten years
cashier of the Sussex Trust Com
pany Of Laurel, has resigned to
engage in business for himself.
The Wilmington Park Commits
cin, octi ~, ofoc fhof C10n 000 Wy.
be needed for the purchase of new
park sites and will urge Council
to appropriate the amount re-
quired.
A new automobile mail route
between Glendale and Miltor
serves the latter town with letters
and papers at noon instead of 9 p
m. under the old service.
The Dover Century Club enter
tanned clubwomen from various
points in the State at luncheon
on Wednesday.
During 1915 the Wilmington
Sunday Breakfast Mission fec
1900 men, an increase of 2496 ovel
the total for the previous year.
An amateur dramatic entertain
ment given at Georgetown yielded
S34 for the benefit of the Parent
Teachers Association.
A new 25-mile mail route from
Milford has been established will
Howard Boyce as carrier.
Subscriptions totalling nearl.
$4,000 have been made to nev
stock series of the Laurel Build
ing and Loan Association.
Newark post., 1916-02-16
Three Hurt In Auto Upset

While William E. Harris of
Catonsville, Md, a grain broker
in Baltimore and his wife were on
their way to Philadelphia on Sat
urday afternoon in an automobile
operated by their eighteen-year-
old son, Ralph, the car skidded, on
the Elkton-Perryville road at the
small bridge just west of North
East and running down the en-
bankment was overturned. Mr..
and Mrs. Harris were thrown for
ward and their heads striking the
metal supports of the car top
were badly injured. The son was
also badly bruised about the
body. Another car was follow
ing the Harris auto and brought
the injured people to Union Hos
pital, Elkton, where DIR. H. A.
Mitchell gave them needed atten-
ton. A physician and trained
nurse from Baltimore arrived on
Saturday night. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harris narrowly escaped instant
death and hopes are entertained
for their recovery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
ALIEN COLONIES

A correspondent writing to a New York newspaper expresses fear of the non-English speaking colonies that grow up in so many places With their foreign language papers, and hearing almost no English spoken. they are very separately from American life. This writer sees danger in this condi- tion. He would break up these nests of alien congestion. This of course would seem abritrary and autocratic under our free soil
 Yet all is not well in these little Italys and Little PoIands and Little Hungarys that are growing up in so many places. Often these newcomers have been educated at home in schools of grades similar to our high schools and colleges. But if they can't re- ceive the simplest kind of instruction in English, they are helpless. Hence the abnormal sight of many well edu- cated men digging ditches.
 The foreign language papers could do a great deal for these people if they would Ignorance of Egnlish is the great obstacle in their way. Why could not these papers make a point of running in each issue little sections of English lessons? These should not follow the lines of our school reading books, one purpose of which is to arouse a cultivated literary taste. They should deal with the simplest phases of our life, making change at stores, taking orders in a. factory or house hold dealing with customers in re- tail trade.
 In a foreign speaking colony, wages are low and the children are generally taken out of school as soon as the law allows, to help support the family. The youngsters leave study too early to gain any idea of our civic ideas. Their parents can answer no questions on these points.
 The children will grow up able to readand write, and will become -Ve- ters But they have no conception of our institutions and are not making a good start in citizenship. The parents need education as well as the children, and the foreign language paper is the agency that could do it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
WOMEN LEARN RAPIDLY
 IN NEWS JOBS
Show Particular Aptitude Handling Smaller Ma
 chimes In Shops.

Paris, May 23-The whole number of women employed in intuition mak- ing in France, according to the secre- tary for munitions is 1O9,3e0. Of these 26,293 stre in state factories. A very large propo2 tion have had to learn their business from the begin ming.
 In other directions -he secretary says, learn very quickly, particularly the use of the smaller machines which in some cases they master in a day; and if as class they are not very strong they gre, in compensation very handy. Speaking of the success full way in which the wives of mobi- I:7aG wholesale and retail merchants. shopkeerers, aa1 other traders have carried o-n their !lusbands' bus1nse ses, the secretary explains it by a fact not very generally kIown abroad.
 "The mobilization of husbands and male relatives" he says, Increased the responsibility of the wife without producing any disorder or crisis. One in France is based on a close cooper alton between husband and wife in industrial and commercial enterprises. AS a rule the husband keeps the wife fully informed about his undertakin and looks on her generally as his best adviser. This state of things is one of the great forces of resistance to national disorganization and has not seld dons saved the nation at/ critical periods of it's home and foreign his tory during past centuries.''
 After noting that figures show a progressive return to the normal con dition of things in agriculture, cattle raising, anad milk products before the war, the secretary concludes:
 Neither the wealth nor the resist ing power of France, nor it's future position in the world, has been affect ed by the unjust aggression which was meant for their destruction. On the contrary, the French feel more solidarity than ever, and the female part of the population iss howing as much energy in the peaceful tasks i'm posed on them from day to day as the male population is showing in the operations of war;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23

Some one who was more or less or d philosopher has told us regarding the way to judge ages that we should rest content in the belief that "a woman IS as old she looks and man as old as he feels'' Father Time is wary old fellow, but he is surely fooled to the top of his bent by the dear women of today.
 Some jolly stories to good to keep are told, presumably with the nope 10 spur women on to a sense of what IS pretty and becoming in dress and what is really ridiculous. can Vouch for the following tales:
 A pretty young thing entered a re- tail she store in New York the other day and, stepping up to clerk whom she evidently knew, lisped tim1dIy: We will keep the pair of white kld shoes you sent on approval for me. l found them a trif1e too high in the heels, but the dear old lady across the street who was calling when they came fell in love with them at once, declaring they would just fit her and were what she had spent lots of time shophipg for but couldn't find.
 A New York woman, fair, fiat and forty, was making the rounds of the shops in search of a street costume for her 20-year-old daughter, whose betrotha1 had just been announced in the kpap pers At last, she came upon a stunning creation that took her eye on sight. That would hardly suit my daughter she said. ''It doesn't come far enough below the knees, and she's so old fashioned and finley about the length of her dresses. But I could wear it nicely. I'll buy 1t for my self'f
 The third incident also occurred in the gay metropolis where the costum- ing of our American girls and women makes foreigners and people from the far-away towns and villages stare and gasp. This startling attempt to hood wink Father Time occurred recently lat the Grand Central station in New York city. A spinster and well known neighborhood gossip who went to the depot to see a woman friend off es- pied her neighbor, a supposedly staid, respectable married woman, rushing creature who had but just a1ighted from an incoming train. After a sharp, hurried glance about to see that nobody was noticing, he planted a hearty kiss on the rouged cheek she turned up to him. The tale-bearer carried the story straight to his wife. She looked about twenty,s' she added. ''but of course I couldn'tS tell exactly she was so dolled up and you could have scraped the paint off her with a knife.'' That lady is my mother,' ,'' replied the embarrassed wife. My husband went to the train to meet her.''
 A Columbia day scholar was walk ing down the avenue when he noticed, across the street, a slim, dainty little creature with fluffy yellow curls, short, natty dress ank1e-1ength, white kid boots, gloves, and sporting a white veil and fur, trying to attract his at tentfon. Excusing himself. fora mo- meth from his companions, he joined her, returning soon after to his friends. Do tell us who the little beauty is!'' they all c1amored in one breath. The young. student drew him. self up to his fullest height, assuming g g. dignity he was for from feeling, as he answered huski1y, but firmly ''The lady you saw me run over to speak to is-my-gra ndmotheri"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
COLLEGE GIRLS ATHLETICS

A recent observer of the Women's s college reports a tremendous growth in interest in athletic exercises. For merly the college girl might play cro- quet and few of the more strenuous tried tennis. That was about all. Their sporting fields were called recreation grounds, and even the word athletic" was considered unladylike.
 To-day the college girls are playing baseball. polo, basket ball. lacrosse, they have swimming and hockey and about everything but football. In tercol1egiate sports have become com mon.
 The time may even come when wo- men will compete with men in these sports on even terms. When you consider how women of primitive ages did the hardest of manual labor, there seems no reason why women may not before many years acquire physical strength equal to men. It would be a terrible blow to some of the mems colleges to be beaten by the girls. Yet the latter will keep training rules bet ter, and will think quicker. There may be a dreadful downfall one of these days for the kings of sport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
 LITTLE BENNY'S
 NOTEBOOK } F.
 (By Lee Papc)
(By Lee Pape)


 Us fellos was wawking a1awhg and Puds Sinkins picked up a hole roll of 1 little tickets, eetch ticket saying on it, Good for one soda at Martells drug store.
 G, wat do YOU no about me, I found sumthing, all rite, sed Puds.
 Wacky, wacky, was looking at you wen you found it, wacky, sed[ Sam Crawss. .>s
 Waeky, wacky, we all sed. And Puds sed he wood wacky half of them with us and keep the uthir half, and he gave us eetch 13 tickets, wich after we had them everybody remembered that nobody moo ware Martells drug store was.
 Lets ask a pIeceman, I sed. Wich we did, wawking along till we saw one, being a pIeeceman with big red mushtash, saying, Sure I no ware it is, it's about a mile down that way, it's a pritty good wawk frum heer. O well, wats the diff, wat do we care how far it is, sed my cuzzin Ar tie. Wich we dident, eetch having F tickets for sodas, and we started to wawk to it, Skinny Martin saying, ] bet I can drink 10 without stopping all chocklit, to.
 1 And we all sed how meny we bet we cood drink without stopping, Puds Simkins saying 27, and nobody con- terdicting him on account of him hav-
  passed about 6 drug stores with all diffrent names on them, and it was a pritty good wawk,< all rite, and we came to another one. and Puds sed Maybe this is it.
 Serteny it 1aint, done you see the name on it, it ses. Merfys drug store Merfys aint MartelIs. is it? sed Sid Hunt
 Lets go in and ask, enyway, sed Puds,e Wich did. and it wa sent and we kepp wa,wkink, and we passed more drug stores and then we came to a little one with a big sine saying, Martells Cut Rate Drug Store ony there was boards up on the win dow so we coodent SC in, and we tried the door and it was locked, and kid was standing there and he sed, Wats you trying to do, that phase has bin closed for a munth. l G, we sed, and we all wawked back agen, going into every drug store on the way back to see if the tickets was eny good to them, wich they wasent and by the time we got back we was so thersty we all went to Reddy NIer- fys back yard and drank wattir out ot the hydrant, taisting almost as good as if it was soda.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
THE CHESTNUT TREE

The late Bugs Raymond, for all his eccentricities, had one virtue. He never forgot his debts. An instance of this kind is recorded by Fred SIer- k1e. The first year Bugs was in New York he borrowed a. five spot from Fred MerkIe. Two years passed and Merkle had almost forgotten the incident, when one day hem ct Ray mond. Said Bugs earnestly:
 Fred, I owe you five dollars"
 '"That so?' said Merkle. ''I had almost forgotten it.''
 Well, don't think for a minute that I have,'' said Raymond. f'I never 1or- get such things. If I live to be a hundred I'll never forget that I owe you five dollars And then the ir- repressible Bugs stroIIed away.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
STRAWBERRY CHARLOTTE

.-- For this dainty dessert crush a quart of ripe strawberries and sprin- kle generously with confectioner's su- gar. Put in the refrigerator to chill and when thoroughly chilled drain in a wire sieve. Use only the solid part, reserving the fruit juice for sherbert, punches or sauces.
 Whip until very stiff a cupfu1 of cream and sweeten with two table spoonfuls of powdered sugar. Have ready a stiffly beaten white of egg and add to the cream with the chilled ber- ries. Split small lady fingers and ar range in log cabin fashion on plates. Pile the strawberry mixture into them and serve.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
DON'T OBJECT TO HER
 GOING WITH OTHERS

A. B. writes: Met a young man a month before he left. Has been away two years. Looks for steady position and promotion. Corresponding stead fly. Says he loves and only cares for me. Goes with no other girls. Is it right should go with other men? He does not object to it. Am to ask him to come and see me this year? What does it mean to put a cross after words good night when writing to him ?''
 If not engaged and there are no ob- jections, you would be unwise not to go with others. Yes invite him to visit you this year. No sensible mean ing to cross after good night" All is well that ends well.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
HER MOTHERS CHOICE.

P. S. writes: Like others, I ask aid.
 Am a girl of IS. sAcquaintances are
 two young men of especial notice. Pa rents object to one for trif1es. I love him. We kept company for six months, fell out, quit. Seems not to care for me now, yet asks to keep company again. Parents want No. 2 to see me, as he asks to visit. I do not care for him. only to please mother, not self Am I to accept mothers choice or my own ?'' -----.- -.-- 4---- ----.--..
 Give many earnest days thought before deciding. Parents have your heart interest. If you made up with No. he is apt to fall out again Other may love you steadily.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
 TODAY'S POEM
AMBITION

The nob1est service comes from
 nameless hands, And the best servant does his work
 unseen. Who found the seeds of fire and made
 them shoot, Fed by his breath, in buds and flow
 CTS of flame? Who forged in roaring flames the
 ponderous stone, And shaped the moulded metal to his
 need? Who gave the dragging car it's rolling
 wheel, And tanned the steed that whirls it's circling round? All these have left their work and not their inames,- Why should I murnur at a fate like
 theirs?
 Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
IS THEIR ROMANCE OVER?

F. M writes: tsAm a girl of g. In the country this winter I kept com panv with a young man. Ought I to have invited him to my home or should he have asked to visit me? He hinted I didn't take the hint, as he never came right out. Is it proper to write to him now and ask him to come and visit? Or am I to wait till he writes?"
 As you are pretty well acquainted, no harm in sending him card of friendships printed verses. Enclose a few lines, ending by inviting him to visit your home:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
All Girls Like the Shock This Yea-.

dressler in effect than the regulation m1ddy blouse and seems to better Justify the efforts to make it smart looking. A white linen smock with a dress of checked gingham or linen is the last word in both fashion aud serv- ice The model shown here is typical of the best smocks and is trimmed with the dress material. The collar. and cuffs should be detachabl so that they can be changed as often as desired, In medium size the smock, with hich t0- days home dressmaking lesson dea .s particularly, requires 3 yards 3G-iuch material
 The home dressmaker who studies 4hc cutting guide before she attempts to do anything with her material never makes a mistake, for the various sections of the pattern are placed upon iA to tbe best possible advantage Five sectiors it will be shown, are placed on a length wise fold of the goods, the back, front stay, yoke and collar. They are ST. ranged one after the other, from left 10 right. The pocket is sandwiched b4- tween the back and front, on a lenStt- wise thread, near the selvage edge Ths shield, cuff, sleeve and back and sleeve stays are also placed on a lengthwiss thread of material
 If shocking is used, place it betwecA the double '',r'' perfora tiens
 Shocking is not difficult to do. and it is one of the most fashionable trim mings of the season. Not only does ;t appear on junior frocks, but for those for grown-ups as well.
 Many beautiful plaids are shown among the new ginghams. Red seemA tG be popular color and is effecti5 e com bined with brown. blue. black and green. At least three colors are min gled in the latest cheeks and plaids.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
STRAWBERRY sHORTCAKE

When all is said and done probably strawberry shortcake is our faVorite strawberry dessert. To make it try this recipe. Cream together a cupfuI of butter and half a cupfuI of sugar and add a, beaten egg. Then add half a 'cupful of iced water and a teaspoon full of baking powder sifted into enough flour to make a dough thick enough to knead. Bake in two layers and bake quickly until brown. Split each layer and either make two short cakes or one of four layers. Put to- gether with crushed sweetened- straw berries between the layers and whole berries on top. Pile with whipped cream.
 Another sort of strawberry sf=04-t- cake and one equally delicious is made with regular layer cake foundation. Make a light cake and put the layers together with crushed strawberries, with the whole sweetened berries on top. Serve with whipped cream. Ii whipped cream is not available a very good sauce can be made by crushing strawberries and covering them with sugar and letting them stand for half an hour in the refrigerator before serving Pass this sauce with the sh ortca ke.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23
MISS LIBBEY'S REPLIES
 TO YOUR LETTERS

Miss Libbey's answers to your letters. Correct name and ad- dress must be given to fn- sure attention. Initials printed. Write short letters on one side of paper only. Use ink. Per- sOnaI letters cannot be answer ed. Address Miss Laura Jean Libbey, No. 916 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y.