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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Small Home Gamer

Sara Day, in July Southern Womans
 I have grown so used to the conven- fence of the canner that we never store ours away. It is kept where it can be set down for use readily, and there are without calling it into requsition for some purpose or other. In hot weather we set it under a tree in the back yard, and in winter it stands in the open hall.
 We use the capping steel to melt off the caps when we open the cans, which are then washed, dried thoroughly and stored where they will not rust We use them a second and even Ia third time, thus making the cost for cans very light-less, in fact, than it costs to keep new rings and lids for glass jars. I still use the glass for putting up pickles in vinegar, for times when I have only three or four cans to fill, and for other odds and ends But we see much diff ference in the flavor of products put mp in the new way, none is lost during the process of cooking. An added ad- vantage of the canner is that all the family can help and a greater amount can be put up in a day.. The tin cans also store in much less room, may be moved about without danger of breakage, and if properly sealed cause no loss from mold or broken rings, as often happens with glass jars.
 I remember reading somewhere that a little western girl had found 99 different products to be put up with home can ner. We find 1t paying thing with one-tenth that number or even less. We do not can to sell at all, though when we have a surplus we always find a ready sale. But it certainly adds much to the year-round living and lightens the degrees.
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cluding industrial. economical and I litical problems and questions; a that the use of the school plants sho be extended to all the people all time.
 The chief recommendation of all the demand for reorganization of
 methods of the board of educati They urge that a system which allol the board to waste its time in pc detail and delegate matters of impos ant policy to secret committee disc sion be replaced by one of policy-'F termination, with relegation of dets to the proper administrative offictt
 Some promise of the changes to col may be had from those that have ready taken place. The board of e,l cation has grappled with the reccl mendations when they came out sE has already adopted an impressl number. Before the survey repoE were drafted the board had establish junior high schools. had introduced nj geography and arithmetic courses, II adopted a new policy for the social | of schools and had inaugurated te! porary policy of financing new bull ings entirely from bond issues
 As result of survey recommens tions the board has adopted a methodl taking the school census that helped one year to locate 12,000 additional q, dren for whom the city receives $21 from the state funds. It made rule Il the compulsory attendance office be quired to secure a health certificate ii a child before the child be given wcs ing papers. It experimented with g platoon plan. It added four school nuIi to the existing force. It took over !. dental clinics formerly supported by 4 Mouth Hygiene association. It raised salary of the lowest paid teachers, lens ened the academic high school day SC to equalize salaries, appropriated $1S for supplementary reading material troduced course in elementary scieS into the grade schools, standardized r school marks. improved toilet roo made school libraries an adjunct of X school plant, and completely reore ized the teaching of English and ci to immigrants. M
 In conclusion 1t should be said q the Cleveland school survey has fos nothing radically wrong with the Clt land schools. It has found much tos approved and much to be improved. x a result Cleveland and its schools sho be immensely better off in the futurel
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to me at times. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re- stored me to health and want to thank you for the good they have done me. I have had quite bit of trouble and worry but it does not affect my youth ful looks. My friends say Why do you look so young and well?' I owe it all to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies" Mrs. RoBT. SToPIEL, Moore Avenue, Washington Park, Illinois.
 We wish every woman who suffers from female troubles, nervousness, backache or the blues could see the let ters written by women made well by Ly- dia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable Compound.
 If you have any symptom about which you would like to know write to tho Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass, for helpful advice given free of charge.
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and, above and beyond guarding his flock, he must rise to the spiritual plane of those who inspire to peculiarly serve the Master.
 Do you recall the words of old Silas, a resident of the East Side in New York, in F. Hopl1nson Smiths charming novel. Felix ODay," when he says:
 GO up to Twenty eighth street and look in at St. Barnado's. Its doors are open from before sunrise until near mid night. When you are in trouble, either hungry or hunted, and most of the poor are both, walk in and see what will hap pen. You will find that a priest in New York is everything from policeman to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Bernhardt Frightens Reporter

In the August American Magazine Is an amusing story of the experiences of a Swedish reporter while interviewing Sarah Bernhardt. He asked her how she played La Tosca." The result was a demonstrat tion which drove him in terror from her private car. In describing his experiences to his city editor he said:
 With each step she took toward me, ranting, screaming and brandishing the paper cutlass, I backed the chair toward the door, dragging my belongings with me. Finally she stood before me, pale breathless. knife in the air., ready to strike. When she made the final lunge. just had strength enough left to fall out of the chair and half ran and rolled into the vestibule. In the scramble I had left my overcoat. When I got on my feet the madame had disappeared I made a dash for it, just as she protruded her head through the pale blue portieres. pre- sumable to view the corpse; Eat es La Tosca,' m'sH
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should appreciate the privilege of his fold, which is the church.
 How many, many nights the priest Of God fares forth to serve at Gods altar he is no more exempt from physical ills from daily duties than other men, yet sick or well, he must go forth about his Masters business; continuously he serves with faith, love and patience; with the same patience men display In their daily duties, only the other men are working for themselves-the clergyman works for others.
 The business man must satisfy himself; the pastor, or priest, must endeavor to divine and satisfy the needs of others;
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whether he be interesting or uninterest- ing, the one vital thing is that he know that he carry the young lambs tenderly, and close the bar of the sheepfold against danger at night
 Doub tless the days are often long to him-eventless days of service and hard service at that; if the lambs stray away, he must go after them; if ewes are weak, he must restrain his pace to their strength he is in all things a guardian, and that is what a clergyman should be; he guards his people and leads them to paths of glory, and his flock, like the sheep, should keep close beside him,
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of relief from toll; the humblest laborer works upon day shift or night shift; sician, the faithful clergyman, has no time to call his own save by accident the former may not be mindful of the physical pain that needs his skill, the latter of the claims of suffering souls; both have consecrated their lives to their fellowmen; both go patiently from duty to duty.
 And what reward do they get?
 Too often the physician remains un- paid; too often the clergyman sermon is criticized as failing to meet the in dividual approval of large body of peo-
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Exclusive Service The Survey Press
 Bureau)
 The cockpit at Verdun, the great Rus sian drive against the Austrians, the diff faculties of the American troops in Mex ico, the political conventions at Chicago and St. Louis, sensational murder and di- vorce cases, and the high standing of the home ball team in the American league, all have their places in the consciousness of the average citizen of Cleveland but deep down below any of these impressions is new and surpassing interest in the public schools
 Chamber of Commerce members at luncheon gravely discuss the merits and dcmerits of the school system. Swarthy groups in the smoke filled back room of John Blatnick's saloon toss back and forth, in their broken jargon, arguments showing less understanding perhaps, but not less interest.
 KNOWS ITS SCHOOLS
 As little Geraldine and Arthur romp in the nursery, their mother, worried, quavers to her guest over the afternoon tea, T wonder if the school is doing all it should for my little ones."
 Cleveland knows its schools today as perhaps no other city has ever known them. The schools have been brought close to all the people, not merely as structures of brick or stone or wood, with desks and teachers, requiring the pur- chase of certain text books each fall, not merely as places where their children are kept out of mischief five hours a day, but as human institutions having a vital re- lationship to the affairs of daily life, with possibilities of serving each and every citizen. Cleveland not only talks about It's schools; it knows about them, thinks about them, and intends to act about them if action be necessary.
 Such is one result of the school survey of the Cleveland foundation, just com pleted after more than year of work and the expenditure of $50, 900, under Allen T. Burns, director of the survey commit tee of the Cleveland foundation, and of Leonard P. Ayres, director of the school survey.
 The first factor in this popular under standing and interest has been the publi- cation of reports not in bulky tonnes, but in 20 small volumes of pocket size and relatively few pages. These reports are written in popular style and we'll illus trated
 REPORTS PRESENTED TO PUBLIC
 A second element in the success of the survey has been the fact that all reports have been presented at public meetings, where one of the officials of the survey
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fered with female trouble, backache, nervous spells and the blues. My chill dren's loud talking and romping would make me SO nervous I could just tear everything to pieces and I would ache all over and feel so sick that l would not want anyone to talk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
GOWNS OF BLUE TAFFETA
Superauous Hair
 Must Be Devitalized

Unlike pastes and rub-on preparations. this wonderful liquid attacks hair under the skin as well as on the skin. It does it's work quickly. then evaporates. Re suits from it's use are immediate and last ing. Buy a bottle of the genuine Dc
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a hospital nurse, and he Is always on job. When nobody else listens he tens; when nobody else helps he he out hand. I haven't lived here 60 ye for nothing."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23

Miracle to-day ana you will get the original liquid hair remover, W h i c h alone has the power to devitalize hair. We'll groomed wo- men always use De Miracle for remov- ing hair from. the limbs to prevent it fro m s h o W i n 2 through stockings. Also for removing hair from under arms. To avoid dis appointment, refuse limitations or sub- stitutes. Be sure to buy De Miracle by name and you will get the only depila- tory that has a hsrIf-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23

The purpose of this department is to help you with your remodel problems l will be glad to answer questions or to supply ideas for your individual require- ments. description of the color and style of your old gown, together with a description of your figure and coloring, will enable me to reply to your questions more intelligently and in greater detail Address Gertrude Beresford, care of this paper and enclose a stamped addressed envelope for a direct and prompt reply. Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndicate.)
 In looking at a gown with an eye to making it over. you will usually find that is is either worn in the sleeves and un- der the arms-and consequently is in need of a "glorified guimpe" such as meets SO many requirements of childhood. For grownups we cut part of the old gown away, following some idea of line to make it look as though we allowed nature to take her course, without actually having to employ the pruning scissors. On the other hand you may find the sleeve and underarm sections in good repair and that your gown is too tight across the bust and in need of a set-in piece which will not look obvious. The skirt may some times be too short from shrinking, but usually it is either too narrow around the hips, too narrow around the feet, or too narrow everywhere. I have shown you in these two sketches how to cure any of these ills, excepting the case of skirt which is too narrow everywhere. That condition requires a set-in overskirt or flounce which I have already talked to you about and which I shall soon dis cusS again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
A Good Dog, Too

From Tit-Bits.
 A British sentry had considera trouble with a batch of German prison who behaved in a high handed and in lent manner. On being reprimanded ( of the latter, drawing himself to his height, exclaimed:
 Don't you know I vos a Pomeraniar
 .'It disna matter if ye were a Newfoul land" was "Tommy's' answer; we've tae gie in tae the British bulldog"
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RECOMMENDATIONS MADE

Out of this principle and method have sprung the findings that commer- cial schools were being useful to girls rather than to boys; that trade schools should be established in Junior high schools to take the place of the old apprentice system in certain indus tries; that the compulsory school age for boys should be raised to IS years, the present limit for girls; that reading should be largely silent rather than aloud, for most knowledge is acquired through silent reading; that reading should. moreover. start instruction i'll community affairs and activities, in-
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this day and generation when
 all the world is impatient of restraint, when nobody wants to
 serve any authority other than their own will man ara nroua
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
BROCK OF PINK AND WHITE

The other dress is of white batiste and pink and white dotted muslin. The sketch shows you how to set in a new front if your gown is too tight across the bust. Sheer white batste, null or net may be employed for this. The jabot effect of white lace makes a very soft and becom- ing finish around the throat. Little scraps of batiste are used on waist and cuffs. The bib of pink and white muslin is held in place by buttons covered with pink taffeta In this gown the old sleeves are retained. A new wide skirt of white batiste is mounted by m-stitching on the old skirt whose front is cut away in an apron-life effect In many instances this sketch will serve in the reverse fash ion also. I mean the new sections of a gown may be patterened after the dotted goods in this drawing. If you have a. thin gown which needs freshening up, there are many lovely materials in dots and stripes. A short length will supply this new bib and sleeves which may be cut by kimono pattern. running the goods on the straight fold at the front, so as to avoid a seam. and leaving the bias part of the waist at the back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
ADDING NEW SLEEVES

Take for example dress which is In need of a ''glorified giumpe." In the word guimpe I include sleeves. In the sketch with the surplce waist I nave shown you how to cut away an old waist and add new sleeves and underarm sec tions, by a kimono-lke addition of chif- fon cloth or Georgette crepe in the same color as the gown. In the case of linen dress, thin white batiste or handker
 chief linen will make an attractive con trast. The small vest of white IS set in following the surplice line of the jumper. A vest of this kind makes the throat and face. and it should usually be white, flesh color or pale ecru. Very dark colors next the face are seldom effective. unless the woman possesses a complexion so lovely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
l OWE< :.
 MY HEALTH
10 Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound.

Washington Park, Ill. -"I am the mother of four children and have suf-
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Li'l Honey, no Gal ever Kisses agin' her Will; dars CT HOOK" uv Warnin' in CT 'Oman's Eyes dat Freezes de mos Oudacious RascaPs Impertinence an meks his Conscience Strike thro' an Button Right up de Back. Yassum!
  enter into the bondage of servce-not to one master, but to many.
 They are apt to forget, for example, the untiring service of the clergyman.
 Like the true physician, the true clergy mans vocation is one of complete re- nunciation of self; practically neither has any time they can call their own.
 Even hard worked men who serve big corporations have some specified hours
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binding guarantee in each package which entities you to your money if it fails. In 50c $1.00 and $2.00 bottles at your dealers, or direct. postpaid. in plain wrapper De Miracle Chemical Co.,. Dept. A-3. Park Ave. and 129th St.. New York. eolo ana recommended by Collier Drug
 Company.
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that nothing seems to hurt it. An error in judgment of this kind is shown so often by very sallow women. l have seen many of them choose green, which is such trying color. If relieved with white or ecru, it might "get by but worn near the face unless the complexion is really good, green is quite impossible. Navy blue relieved with white and perhaps a touch of coral is a much better choice for the sallow woman.
 GOWNS OF BLUE TAFFETA
 The gown in which this giumpe was employed is of blue taffeta. The new sleeves and underarm sections are of Georgette crepe in the same shade of navy. The vest and outstanding collar are of white, as I have said The cuffs are cut from the old sleeves and finished with a ruffle of crepe. The old skirt is cut into wall of Troy flounce to be mounted on new gathered ruffle of
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TOILETTES

oo y o
 "Has proved it. self superior to electricity, x-ray or ranything else." Genuine nlaga- zines of the high est character en- dorse on ly De Miracle. Beware of so-called en- dOrsenaents of bogus magazines which are used to exploit the sale of auestfon- able depilatories.
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to underestimate the sacrifices made by the few groups of men who voluntarily
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Making School Facts To7Un Topics
By ELwOOD STREET

made verbal summaries and explanations.
 These meetings came weekly during a large part of last winter following luncheon, in the assembly hall of one of the large downtown Cleveland hotels. In- vitatons were sent especially, to social workers, business men and women, school officials, public officials and others who it was thought would be interested, while a wholesale invitation was issued to the
 general public. An average attendance
 of 300, in city woefully beset with luncheon meetings, speaks for the success of this device.
 The third and most important e1e-
 ment in the general acceptance of the
 survey findings. but dependent on the other two. was the remarkable pub licity given the reports by the news
 papers. This publicity was obviously facilitated by the digestible form of the reports and stimulated by the fact that , they were given at public meetings, but it was motivated chiefly by the evident relationship of the survey find ings to community needs and by the feeling of editors that the reports were filling a gap in the community con- sciousness long vacant.
 In consequence, while it is hardly fair to say, as one enthusiast did, that con several occasions the report on school conditions has backed every thing else off the front page except the date and the weather" it is undeniable
 that the school survey has taken pre- cedence generally over every local hap pening and has been given mass of news space and editorial comment. In its method the survey aimed at the
 needs of the people. It first attempted to find what the city's children re- quired in the way of education; sec ,, ond. how the schools were meeting htrd h nhr, ,1c
 might improve their service. Of pri-
 mary importance Is the fact that the survey kept continually in mind the conviction that education should train for actual life. In this. it has been social rather than scholastic.
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 of a really good dress may be prolonged. REVERSING USE OF THE SKETCH Now let us put the reverse English" on this proposition. Suppose this gown were too tight across the bust and around the bottom of the skirt. We would first split the waist open down the front and even down the back if necessary. We would then add to the surplce section Of the waist in taffeta or linen or whatever goods best meet our need. A straight piece of taffeta about nine inches wide is set on the back from waist line to neck, extending over the front and in two straps If you desire. Finished with thIe button moulds and the end of the surplice either tide in a sash at the back, or fin ishing under a small self-covered buckle, we have an idea for letting out almost any waist. To widen the skirt around the bottom new flounce of taffeta may be set on in the manner indicated in the illustration. If you care to have the back view of the gown, I will send you a sketch of if.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
REVERSING USE OF THE SKETCH

Georgette crepe. In this manner the life of a really good dress may be prolonged
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REPORTS PRESENTED TO PUBLIC

second element in the success of the survey has been the fact that all reports have been presented at public meetings,
 where one of the officials of the survey
Evening journal., 1916-07-14
$1,000 Gift FOR The
GARRETT settlement

All interested in the work Of the
Thomas Garrett Settlement will be
pleased 10 learn that white friends OF
the Settlement have recently con-
tributed $1,000. $500 Of which went
toward the mortgage fund. while the
other $500 will be used toward de-
fraying expenses Of the summer work
The Thomas Garrett Settlement is the
only colored settlement in the city and
its work among that race is note
worthy.
improvements at the Settlement
are gradually being made. including
the cementing OF the yard. Play
ground equipment, including see saws
slides. and swings Is needed and as
this is the only colored playground
in the city Il is hoped that it can b,
thoroughly equipped. Miss JeaI
Stubbs and Miss Beatrice Hall, VIII
have charge Of the morning work a
the settlement report an excellent at
| tendance.
Evening journal., 1916-07-14
farmers BANK TO
enter TRUST BUSINESS

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER. Del, July 14.-At meet
ing Of the directors and stockholders
Of the Farmers Bank of Delaware,
held az the home bank here this morn
ing. the stockholders endorsed an
amendment TO the charter Of the
bank giving the three banks al Dover.
Wilmington and Georgetown. full
trust company powers. and the cor
poration to act as executor OF adj
ministrator or as trustees in all
cases.
The authorization Of the amend
ment grew out Of the fact that the
bank had received many requests to
become executor or trustees under
Wills and deeds.