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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
TRY TO BE
 OPTIMISTIC

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 I"l UNSHINE and rain alternate H one with the other during the N spring months. Life itself is
 not unlike spring. weather with it's alternate joys and, sorrows, one following close on the tracks of the other. And just as in spring a shower may occur, even on the bright est day, so in life a sorrow may come even in the time of greatest happiness.
 We do not allow a short shower to ruin an entire day for us. If the sun shines brightly most of the day, asmo-! mentary cloudburst does not affectsour1 enjoyment of the bright weather.
 We should learn in the same way-tof look only for the sunshine in life .andl to disregard the clouds as much as possible. To those of us who are 1n-' clined to make much of every little trouble, this philosophy of lookingson; the sunny side of life will come hard at first. As a matter of fact, the ma jority of us are too much given to- exaggerating petty troubles Instead of talking and thinking principally of the hapy occurrences in our lives, swe9 let the small mishaps blind our eyesi to the big bits of fortune which come, our way.
 So, why should we a11owsthessun-I shine of the present tosbe overcloudedl by petty showers, which doanot amount to anything? Only once in a while does a big storm occur which, bringsl real disaster in its train So, whyi spend the time in worry about tha' present and anxiety for thesfuturef
 There are so many of usswho allow a little disturbance to-worry ~ussfor & whole week and often longer It isj not as, if worry would help tossmoothI out any trouble. Sorrows, anx1ety,j fear for the future are alIsmistakesi and should be shut out of'theemind as quickly as possible. They-accomplishl no good and only serve torunderminei the vitality of the person vwhorenter~ tains them in his mind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
THE PRICE
 OF SUCCESS

UT oOOOGOO @Il VERY one is at times confront Ma ed with some difficult piece of @ work. We wonder how we
 are going to master it, and then begin to envy the women of our acquaintance who are not called upon to do such things. Envy is always un- charitable; besides, envy has never yet helped any one over rough place. So forget all about these fortunate" women, and look at this hard work in a practical way. A cool head accom- plishes wonders, and the woman who goes resolutely to work determined to master the hard task before her not only acquits herself most creditably, but discovers that the hardest part was after all, comparatively easy.
 A good motto to follow is, Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today" Many of the no-accounts and failures can trace their present condition to this bad habit of putting off until tomorrow" They did not want to be bothered with that business deal today. Tomorrow they would look over figures and hear all facts In the case. What was the use of tirlng their brain with such matters now when life was sweet and the sun brightly shining? Tomorrow-well, before that tomorrow arrived their competitors "got busy" and when they. the dreamers, awoke, they found them selves high and dry on the shores of failure.
 Shirking never made any work easi- CT. We all find ourselves in tight place now and then, and surely we must use our best efforts to get out of it. To put hard problem behind us is the poorest policy we could pursue. The world takes off it's hat to the man who bravely tackles a hard job. but merely shrugs its shoulders when the shirker appears.
 If hard piece of work confronts you, do not lose confidence in yourself. At least give yourself fighting chance, and if you are determined to win out, if you declare you will put your very best efforts into this prob lem before you, you may rest assured you will succeed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

" N healthy persons the tiny
 sweat glands of the skin are s always active, and the secre-
 tion, save when it is excessive, passes of as soon as formed: or, more exactly. immediately 1t reaches the surface. It does this by being changed into vapor. Hence the skin never
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

looks damp. Any fatty material on the surace of the skin will impede this evaporation and make the liquid collect in drops.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

">vERY time you give way to inn
 patience or anger you shorten your life by calculable por-
 tion of time. The next time Sou get vary angry just study yourself
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
NNlDlDS IHH IIDzl zls1

4e I - o prevent noise round pads of ] F. leather, cut from old boots - and nailed to the legs of
 kitchen chairs, prevent the grating noise upon brick or tiled floor which is so distressing to the nerves of sensitive people.
 t6" OLES in the knees of stockings UIf are usually good sized and aft lN CT they have been washed it
 seems impossible, iN many leases to darn them. They may be imended easily, however, if after the stocking is taken off, you wet the place where it is torn, then lay the stocking over some flat surface, where it will dry quickly, and pull the threads to- gether with your fingers while it is lstill wet.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
I'll OTHING weakens 8 face more
 than a retreating chin. Un-

IT7l OTHING weakens a face more IUN than retreating chin. Un- lNI fortunately, comparatively lit-
 tie can be done for it. It can be remedied to a certain extent in childhood by rubbing from the. throat up and out, holding the head well up during the process. Sometimes, too the trouble may be caused by the way the jaws close on account of the posi- ton of the teeth and good dentist may often be of help. Bandages worn round the chin at night, so placed that the lower jaw is forced forward. will sometimes remedy the defect slightly, especially when begun on quite young children. Learn to carry the head up and slightly thrown back and study the style of hair dressing best adapted to conceal the receding chin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

KtVI away. A StatlStlclan has been lgG trying to answer the question.
 After Investigating thou sands of cases of assertions he finds that the, husbands action can usually be ascribed to one of the following causes:
 III health and peevishness of the wife.
 Slouchiness of the wife either in her own person or in her housekeeping methods, or both.
 The wife's habit of nagging or gos- siping.
 Dislike for children on the wife's part.
 This statistician found that the strongest incentive to. reconciliation in cases of family discord is almost in variably the child. He.also found that very few wives are deserted who are:
 Physically big and mentally cheer full.
 Able to contribute to the family in- come either by outside labor CT by frugality in home management
 Affectionate and home loving.
 Sympathetic and considerate of their husbands.
 The very interesting and valua able statistics which he collected prove that native American husbands are more prone to desert their wives than are the foreign born.
 They also show that married life is the happiest when husband and wife are nearest alike in age. nationality, religion, moral standards, tempera- ment- health and physical strengtL.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

(E 1l T is a curious season as regards
 color schemes. Possibly they lA may be classified into s2I1- mary that will haln ihnsa Inn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

 HOLIDAYS
BY MRS. McCUNE.

1" HAT fabrication is to an engine. NY an automobile or a motorcycle. A vacations are to a woman and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

thence, threatening even to hide the face of the wearer from the gaze ot an admiring world. But there are limits even to women's submissiveness to the tyranny of fashion, and this, year compromise has been arrived at. While it points an upward way at the back and at either side, the collar re- mains open in front, the intervening space across the neck being frequent ly bridged by couple of narrow bands of silk or velvet fastened by fancy studs A novelty in neckwear Is the stole-end collar. Made of tulle or rib bon, or chiffon, or lace, it fastens close and high round the throat and is pro vided with long, fluttering ends reach ing to the waist or below it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

m LMOST all women are heartily glad that larger hats are to be A the fashion. There is mys-
 terious allure about the big shady hat which shadows the face that is wonderfully softening and be- coming. To young faces the new hats which curve deeply down at each side make really bewitching frames, espe- cially when they are of some dark col or and lined underneath the brim with some soft and delicate tint such as eggshell blue, oyster pink or the pale putty shade that has proved so va;u- able for the purpose. Never has there been such catholicity of choice as fl1is season. For, according to your re- ouirements and what becomes you best, you can have either the close fit ting swathed toQue, the tall, practical Wv brimless hat of Cossack fame, sur mounted by a cockade or a chou of ribbon, the dainty dropping Watteau Or Dolly Warden, the charming and less exacting bell shape. or the great "cart wheel" always dear to the feminine heart-and head.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
URING the reign of the Empress Eugenie bathing in milk was
 practiced by every fashionable

luxury. This custom was carried. to such an extent that there became a great scarcity of milk for domestic purposes until at length the police dis covered that the vendors were in the habit of buying back the milk which had been used in the bath and selling 1t over again to their tea and coffee drinking customers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
D NE of the most frequent ques- Il tions asked the beauty special-

superhuous hair?" The only certain way is by electrolysis. She who decides to try this cure must reconcile herself to rather severe pain for the moment. The electric needle is inserted to the depth of the hair root and the patient has to endure the burning of the current for about half a minute.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
.| ANY amateurs will be interested VIII in the new climbing water . melon, for the vine may be

fence, where it will take but little gar den space. As the melons grow only as large as cocoanuts they may be served in the same way as musk E:el- ons, and will prove a decided novelty to the amateurs guests. The meat is crimson in color and of good quality and the plants bear for a longer sea- son than most kinds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

ESyl HE old-fashioned remedy of ap-
 plying cold compress is one of the best that can be used
 for sore throat To make it a bandage, such as a folded handker- chief, is wet in cold water and wrung not very dry. It is then bound around the throat and over it entirely ] to cover the wet cloth flannel is se- .curely pinned to keep it in place. No part of the bandage should be left ex- posed or the air. striking the skin i through 1t, will make the cold worse.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

N any well thought out scheme
 of dress the collar is of para mount importance. Last year fl roco f0 ,,pnrooodontod am-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

may be recommended as an effective substitute for bath where the latter is not at hand. as the rough glove or brush cleanses the skin of small par, ticles which are apt to cling to it from the clothing that Is in daily contact with the body.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14

To one cup mashed potatoes add one egg yolk and beat well together,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18
GOES TO
ELECTRIC CHAIR

sent for Assistant District Attor-
ney Delehanty and confessed that
he had been shamming insanity
up to and during his trials.
! He then proceeded to tell Mr..
Delehanty that Anna Aumueller
had died as the result of a GRIM
sinal operation. The papers In
opposition to Schmidt's motion
for a new trial reveal that be-
sides the statement made to his
own attorney, which was subse-
quently told in affidavit form,
that he made two other contra
dictory statements, four different
stories In all.
Still Another Version.
Schmidt's contradictions final
ly resolved themselves into an
affidavit which he made on Oct
30, 1918, and which was used as
the basis for a motion for new
trial.
This was to the effect that a
friend had performed an opera
tion on Anna Aumueller, as a re-
suit of which she died, and that
another woman had been present
In the capacity of nurse. A DIR.
Leo, he swears, was called N
after her death and asked to is
sue a death certificate. but re-
fused.
Then he asserted that his
friend cut up the body. He swears
that his previous statements we're
made In an effort to shield these
people.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18
LONGS FOR LUXURY:
WEEDS RICH INVALID

A tired girl with honey-colored
hair worked in public library
telling stories to youngsters.
One day she realized that she
wouldn't be young so very much
longer. She wanted to have a
Rose Garden and Riddles, and a
husband.
But the opportunity never
came-until Mr.. Guenthers, The
gray haired corporation lawyer,
and his meek little wife, came to
her with a bargain. She was to
have her Rose Garden--and a
manned, invalid son of a rich
woman for a husband. The law
yer had looked her over. She was
satisfactory.
She was weary, and longed for
the luxuries of life. And SO, one
day, kneeling before minister,
beside her half conscious BRIDE
groom, she guided his hand as 1t
slipped the wedding ring over
her finger.
Then the terror of what she
had done, and the swift impulse
to 20 back to her library! Sine
knelt on the threshold of new
life, already bitter-sweet with Its
weird mixture of misery and lux
ury.
But the tale of "The Rose
Garden Husband" Margaret
Widdemer's enthrailing book, il
only half finished when Miss
Braithwaite marries. This novel,
one of the most widely-read
works that has come off the press
in recent months, will appear
next week in The Times. 1t will
begin Monday, and will be ended
Saturday.
; 1t is only the first of long
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18

& OSSINING. Feb. 10.
!; Hans Schmidt calmly walk.
ed to the electric chair early
this merning and was cleo
trocuted. f 49,
Schmidt was the unfrocked
priest convicted of numbering his
sweetheart, Anna Aumueller, and
throwing her body in the Hudson
after Remembering 1t. u
s. He told his attorney he wanted
to die in the electric chair in the
hope that his innocence would
afterward be established and
capital punishment thereby
woulJ be stopped.
rs Body OF Servant.
II WAS on Sept. 8, 1913, that
the upper part of Anna Aumuel-
ler's dismemhered body WAS
found in the river off Woodcl.ff,
Nj.
The body was identified as
that OF a former servant in the
rectory of st. Boniface's church,
and Schmidt who for three years
had been performing the func-
lions OF a priest in New York,
was arrested. z
On the day of his arrest the
priest made a full confession. in
which he admitted that he killed
the girl and cut her body into
nine pieces.
His statements on that occa-
sion were SO startling that his
sanity was questioned. and rx-
pefts we're called. A month later
they pronounced him sane and
shamming insanity.
Is Convicted.
At Che first trial two of the
jurors held that he was insane
and disagreement resulted. At
both of them the state based its
case largely on his own story at
the time OF his arrest. At the
second trid, although he inter
posed the same defense, he was
convicted.
He was sentenced on Feb.
IL. Three days afterward he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18
SWa NE
Pest of
eut0nS
BY Mary Boyle O'Reilly

LONDON, Feb. 18.-There Ia
certain kind of joking in Bel
GUM called SWANZE.
1t is neither humor nor wit but
a kind of mockery which is IN
tended to rankle.
Since the occupation of Bel
GUM by the Germans, swanze
has become almost entirely con-
fined to the children, but they
have not fallen short of the pc
culiar national standard which
was established ages ago.
Urchins Learn How.
When motor car footing was
limited by special decree to Ger
man military machines, with pre-
scribed modulations of toots,
every street arab in Brussels in
stantly Communicated a horn,
whistle or trumpet.
This instrument of torture he
carried at considerable risk IN
der a torn shirt or within his
woeful trousers. And the in
slant a German officer ventured
into the street regulation "toots'
followed him in haunting itera-
tion.
Can't PenaliRe 1t.
Probably the most irritating
swanze was invented by little
boys who, making a hole in the
middle of their caps and sticking
carrots 'picklehaub" wise
through the crowns, would se-
riously execute the goose step
until a leader ordered "Qulck
march to Paris" when the ras-
Gals would walk backwards!
That performance was hard to
stop for. the German military
governor could fix no penalty
upon children for putting carrots
on their heads.
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Robber, Displeased at
Paper Exaggeration
ofLoot's alue, Mails
It to Times Writer
With Quaint Note

on the night of Feb. is. A burg.
lar had entered the home by prop
ping a snow shovel against tho
side of the house and clamberina
up to bedroom window. The
family was away at the time. Hit
brunn is proprietor OF the Cres-
cent Realty Co.
In the envelope sent Cynthia to-
day were a cavalier with pearls,
earrings with jewel drops, baby's
signet ring with initial "a, two
ruby rings, ladies' agate ring,
and locket on heavy gold chain.
The locket had been forced open
with a knife, apparently, as IL
was badly battered.
Tacoma newspapers valued the
loot at S200.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18
LITTLE SAMMY
TRIES TO KEEP
E. A. BRYAN OUT

SPOKANE, Feb. 1S.-S. A.
Perkins of Tacoma, would-be O.
o. p. boss, 10 here scouting
around.
He is mortaiiy afraid that
there are going to be too many
republican candidates for the big
jobs, and he is using his talents
to persuade receptive individuals
to step aside.
Yesterday he had a long talk
with e. A. Bryan, former w. s.
C. president. The latter is THINKS
ing of shying HIS lid into the ring
for U. s. senator, to succeed Poin-
dexter.
III he did, he would be oppos-
sing Congressman Humphrey,
and Perkins is seeking to prevent
this.
Following the conference Bry-
an said he wouldn't know for 10
days or two weeks whether ned
run or not.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18

Cynthia Grey receives
many novel letters every day.
But she experienced a new
and genuine thrill of excite
ment today when she opened. 8.
her mornings mail.
AS she SLIT the envelope OF a
particularly fat letter-one that
was addressed in cryptic capital
letters, rather grotesquely smear
ed over the entire face of the
PACKAGE piece of fragile gold
chain slid out.
And after 1t came an assort-
ment of rings and lavaliers and
earrings. There were diamonds
and rubies in the assortment.
Cynthia's excitement knew no
bounds.
But the greatest thrill of all
came when Cynthia opened the
letter that accompanied the brill
liants.
From a Real Burglar
II was from burglar! A real,
GENUINE bc'oHu-btOlN man
The dramatic effect of receiy-
ing a note from a professional
burglar overcame, for the mo-
ment, Miss Grey's possible hopes
that the jewels were not gifts
from an admirer.
DEAR CYNTHIA GREY
wrote the burglar.
His words were all spelled out
in capital letters half an inch
high. 1t was a capital disguise
even IL Cynthia should be SO
mean as to turn over the note to
the police.
ITS LAUGHABLE ENOUGH
TO MAKE GOD LAUGH. THE
LIES SOME PEOPLE TELL.
BOTH THE LEDGER AND THE
NEWS COME OUT WITH A
STORY OF A $500 ROBBERY. /
SEND YOU THE JUNK EN-
CLOSED FOR RETURN TO
OWNER. IT'S WORTH ABOUT
SIX BITS TO ME. HOPE YOU
WILL FEAST ON THE BRIL-
LIANCY OF THE BRILLTANTS
AND THE RICH COLOR OF THE
GEMS.-B. s. T."
From Hiltbrunn Home
The jewelry, II developed later,
all came from the home of WILL
lam Hiltbrunn, 2101 No. Fife St.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18

NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. II.
A globe-trotting romance Of
Latin-America has resulted here
In the wedding of Miss Eliza Mar
cal, 1S-year-old beauty of Guate-
mala, to Virgilio r. Beteta, dis
tinguished Guatemala attorney,
trade delegate and editor.
At the Pan-American financial
congre& Beteta was chosen u
member of the international high
commission, and at the San Fran
cisco exposition he was elected
president of the International
Press congress.
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His bride is the daughter of q
wealthy cotton planter.
They were engaged to wed sis
months from now, but when Be-
teta, In New York, learned he was
to represent his country at the
foreign trade conference in New
Orleans, he sent cable to Miss
Marcal.
While he came here on a train,
she travelled on the steamer.
They arrived the same day, and
the wedding was one of the fea-
lures of the important trade con-
feranco
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18
RUSSIA DRY FOREVER
AS RESULT OF YEAR
y. WITHOUT VODKA

PETROGRAD, Russia. Feb. Is
Russia has taken along breath,
raised her solemn right hand,
and sworn:
Never again."
A year without vodka has con-
WINGED sle officials, from the czar
lcsvp- chat prohibition will al
wavs se the rule in Russia. Here
are some results of the first
twelyemonth without liquor, az
reported officially and semi-of-
ficially from all over the coun-
/, try: ..as
Crime GALL kinds) has decreas-
ed 81 per cent.
Absenteeism IN factories has
fallen so per cent.
suicide rate has dropped en-
ornonsly.
Hospitals formerly overcrowd-
cd are not filled.
Efficiency In factories increas-
ed 10 to 15 per cent.
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FLASHES

PARIS-German agents have
financed native plot to over
throw the government OF Mada-
gascar, it was declared today.
BERLlN--1n an attempt to re-
take the position near Ypres, Bel
GUM, recently captured by the
Germans, the English have been
beaten back with heavy losses.
SEATTLE-Thomas Blair, 70,
and Thomas Edwards, 40, were
seriously injured this morning
when their auto crashed into
street car in heavy fog.
BERLlN--A mutiny of Hindu
troops in Egypt is reported today
by a news agency. II is said an
entire regiment mutinied, killing
II officers.
NEW YORK-The police to-
day took extraordinary precau-
lions TO safeguard guests at q
ball to be given In Madison
Square Garden tonight by the
knights OF Columbus. Governor
Whitman and Cathos:v sdigni-
taries are expected to be pieseh.,
The police fear the work of pois-
on plotters.
WASHINGTON, ID. Clear
ing of the qualifications of Louis
d. Brandeis was postponed for Q
week because OF a shortage in
witnesses.
Ell PASO, Tex.-Men and
women at Sierra Prieta have 10
clothing as the result OF a raid
by Villa bandits. The bandits
took 1t all. Adam and Eve FASH
ions are In vogue.
The progressive party state
convention will be held in Sc
attic May 4, State Chairman Roy
Slater announced today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-18

list of book-sized, popular novels
that are to be published every
week in The Times. The editors
of The Times overlook no oppor-
tunity to give their readers the
best they can get for the money.
Publication rights to these copy
righted books have been purchas-
ed, at no little expense, from the
original publishers. 1t is a new
idea in Tacoma complete nov
el in a newspaper every week
Be sure to start the first one, "A
Rose Garden Husband" Monday.