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Smyrna times., 1916-10-04

Howard Ellis, aged 10 years, of
Greenbackville, Va. who for two weeks
has been boarding at the home of
Samuel S. Santmeyer. 9O3 Vandever
Avenue in Wilmington, was found
overcome Saturday, September %.
after the door had been broken open
when he refused to answer calls to get
up for breakfast. He was taken to
the Delaware Hospital by the Phoenix
ambulance and revived. Later it was
said he would recover. 1t is supposed
he blew out the gas before going to
bed.
Smyrna times., 1916-10-04
NJ, f, CONFERENCE MAY
MEET At WILMINGTON
ASBURY M. {. CHURCH, WHINING
TONINVITES ITAGAIN NEXT YEAR
Invitations From Down the State to
Entertain Big Body do Not Seem to
be Forthcoming Very Fast

The Rev. L. E. Barratt chairman
of the bureau Of sessions. has inquired
of the Rev. George White Dawson if
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church
would be available for holding the next
session of the Wilmington M. E. An
nual Conference. should the committee
on entertainment decide to meet in
Wilmington. The official board of
Asbury Church in special session Mon
day night extended a unanimous in
vitation for the conference to hold its
next session in that church on the
self entertainment plan. This is the
third time that the conference has been
invited to meet at Asbury during the
present pastorate. The conference. SO
far, has had but one invitation to hold
its next annual session on the old.
fashioned free entertainment plan, an
invitation from Deals Island. 1t is
hardly likely that the latter invitation
will be accepted, since many of the
ministers would make an objection to
going to Deals Island in the month
of March. Should there be no invita-
tinn of the old fashioned variety, AS
bury, Wilmington, the mother church
of Methodism in Wilmington. Will oper
, her doors and extend welcome to the
conference session. The bureau OF
sessions is composed of the Rev. l..
E. Barrett, the Rev. T. E. Martindale,
the Rev. T. R. Van Dyke. the Rev.
G. T. Alderman, the Rev. W. L.
White. The laymen on the commit
tee are: w. o. Hoffecker, l. Elmer
Perry, w. P. Records and Fl. P. Can.
non.
Smyrna times., 1916-10-04
Constitutional
Amendment

An Act Proposing an Amendment to Section l
of Article 9, of the Constitution of the State of
Delaware. in Relation to Corporations.
BE 1T ENACTED by the Senate and House of
Represent atives of the State of Delaware in Gen
eral Assembly met (twO-thirds of all the mem
berS elected to each House cOncurring therein):
Section l. That Section of Article of the
constitution of the State of Delaware be amended
by striking out all of Section of said Article 9,
and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Section l. No corporation shall hereafter be
created amended, renewed or revived by special
act, but only by or under general law, nor shall
any existing corporate charter be amended, re-
newed, or revived by special act, but only by or
under general law; but the foregoing provisions
shall not apply to municipal corporations, banks,
trust companies possessing banking power or
corporations for charitable, penal, reformatory,
or educational purposes, sustained in whole or
in part by the State all of which said last men,
toned corporations shall be created, amended,
renewed or revived only by special act and shall
possess only those powers, rights privileges and
franchises conferred by the special act creating,
amending. renewing or reviving them, and shall
not merge or consolidate with any other corpor-
alton except upon the consent and approval of
the General Assembly two-thirdS of all The mem
bers elected to each House thereof cOncurring
therein. The General Assembly shall by general
law, provide for the revocation or forfeiture of
the charters of all corporations for the abuse
misuse or nOn-use of their corporate powers,
privileges or franchises. Any proceeding for
such revocation or forfeiture shall be taken by
the Attorney General, as may be provided by
law. No general incorporation law. nor any
without the concurrence of twO-thirds of all the
members elected to each House of the General
Assembly, and with a reserved power of amend
ment, revocation or repeal by the General As
Sembly with the concurrence of two-thirds of all
the members elected to each House thereof"
COLEN FERGUSON
President of the Senate.
CHARLES H. GRANTLAND,
Speaker of the House.
Approved March 16, 1915:
Charles K. Miller
Governor.
], Geo. H. Hall, Secretary of State of the State
Of Delaware, do bereby certify that the above
aud foregoing is a true and correct copy of Sem
ate Bill No. 95, entitled "An Act Proposing an
Amendment TO Section of Article g. of the Con
sttution of the State of Delaware in Relation to
| Corporate ms" as the same appears on the en-
rolled Bill filed in the Office Of the Secretary of
| State and approved by the Governor March six
teenth, A. d. 19l5,which said Bill proposing such
Amendment to the Constitution of this State is
published in accordance with the requirements
Of the Constitution of the State
| IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and official
| seal at Dover, this twenty-seventh day
| lSEAL] of July, in the yea- of our Lord, One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Six.
teen.
GEO. H. HALL,
| Secretary of State.
Smyrna times., 1916-10-04
BURDENS LIFTED
From Smyrna BackS-Relief
Proved by Lapse Of Time

Backache is heavy burden;
Nervousness, dizziness, headache.
Rheumatic pain; urinary ills;
All wear one out.
Often effects of kidney weakness.
No use to cure the symptoms,
Relief is but temporary if the cause
remains.
If it's the kidneys, cure the cause.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney
ills. Read about your neighhor' case
Here's Smyrna testimony.
The kind that can be Investigated.
A. R. Spangler, Smyrna, says:
Il suffered from a lame back for
many years, sometimes so severe that
l could hardly stoop over. l had
headaches and dizzy spells. l tried
many medicines and doctored, but it
was not until used Doan's Kidney
Pills, procured from the Clifton &
Jones Pharmacy, that l ever got
benefits. Two boxes gave me fiue re-
lief and l am glad to recommend
Them" Statement given June Is.
1911.)
DOAN'S NEVER FAIL.
On March 25, 1916, Mr.. Spangler
said: 81 can recommend Doan S
Kidney Pills to-day as highly as did
in 1911. They help me whenever l
use them.''
Price SOC. at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills--the same that
Mr.. Spangler had. Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

take deeper breaths during sleep and
this helps the complexion, when pure
air pours in at the opened windows.
The dry. dust laden air of the city
will tougher and dry-out the skin
and leave it coarse-textured unless it
is kept scrupulously clean and soft
and moist. Every night the face
should be scrubbed we'll with pure
soap and warm water, with a dash of
cold water afterward to close the
pores If cosmetics are used on the
face-even only the most harmless of
tafcum powders, so over the face with
cold cream before the bath with warm
water. The thorough application of
cold cream every night in removing
makeup" is what helps to ketp the
actress complexion young, in spite of
the cosmetics her art demands. Never
go out of doors imm ediately after
bathing the face: and wear rather
close meshed veil when a raw wind is
blowing and dust flies about ine the
streets. Protect the complexion with
special care when motoring in cold
weather. Do not touch water to the
face for hours after coming indoors
Wipe the skin clean with cold cream
and a soft cloth and dust with talcum
to take off the shine. Half a pint of
rich. sweet cream, rubbed over the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

and the steam heat turned entirely off.
If ones head feels cold, a silk cap
will protect it in the cold, we'll aired
room Eight hours of sleep are i'm
perative. If one can sleep but six
hours one night, the full measure
should be made UP the following night.
one can retire at midnight and rise at
eight, week in and week out without
any very apparent bad effects: but ten
o'clock to six; or even eleven to seven
will give a better complexion and
more steady nerves at the end of the
season. There is great virtue in the
beauty sleep" which comes before
nidnight-and no lazy hours in bed
after the sun is we'll up can equal the
before-midnight snooze in beneficial
effects.
The woman who wants to keep a
smooth. unwrink1ed complexion sleeps
on a low pillow. AS the body sinks
downward in sleep, the face slips down
the high pillow and the skin is pushed
into creases around the eyes. By and
by these may result in tiny wrinkles.
if one is a heavy sleeper and a quiet
one who does not turn about much in
sleep. A low pillow also keeps the
back straighter and wards off round
shoulders. The head and shoulders
lying straighter, too, one is apt to
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

enough in itself these days to satisfy
Madam Mode. 1t must be fashioned
in the prevailing lines or one might
as well wear ordinary wool material.
Furriers are always on the qui vive TO
catch new fashion ideas and one of
the most pronounced of this season is
the stiffened, stand-up collar which
adorns CD the ermine opera wrap
pictured. The very last word in coat
collars is this rigid affair, and one
notes the young woman who has
chosen it, has adopted also the new
severe hairdresslng than which moth
ing in the way of coiffures could be
more trying. Rigid pompadour and
rigid fur collar in combination, how
ever, make an indisputab smart ana
correct enect-so far as fashion Is con-
cerned. This wrap is made OF pure
white Siberian ermine pelts, matcheo
SO that the skins take an oblique d.
rection on the wrap, and run straight
I'D and down on the long scarf-end5
that extend from the collar. Count
less black ermine tails trim the wrap,
collar and scarf-ends-
Small capes or peIerines of ermine
for theatre wear are extremely pop
ular. and though these little wraps cost
a considerable amount they are by no
means as expensive as full length
coat of ermine. An enchanting five
pointed cape of ermine; two points at
the front, one at the back, and one
over each arm, has the white ermine
SKINS running up and down at the top
of the cape, and following a border
pattern around the edge, black tails
dropping in a close fringe from this
border There is a wide collar, also
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

TEL the cosmetics in the world
~ cannot help the winter com
plexion as much as a simple
~ p little course of nature doctoring
The sallow skin of midwinter, the
tired eyes with dark circles under
meath. the pale lips with a droop at
the corners that suggests cynicism but
is really only dead WEAKNESS, the lack
luster eyes and tresses that have no
spring or life in them-these are the
direct and almost unacceptable results
of late hours, too little sleep, too much
rich food, a never ceasing nerve strain.
Even the fresh debutante, just out OF
the schoolroom cannot stand the pace
and has to be taken to Aiken or Hot
Springs about Christmas time for
week of respite and rest and in order
to pick up rosy cheeks and sparkling
eyes out IN the good open, under the
winter sky. A week helps the debu-
tante amazingly, but the faded woman
who has been through many such sea
sons cannot hope to recuperate so
easily 4 month of nature treatment
at least will be necessary to restore
vitality to complexion, eyes and hair.
and relaxation TO taut nerves.
The actress, who puts more cosmetic
on her face than anybody else, man
ages to keep an astonishingly young
and fresh look off the stage. This is
because, she Of all women. realizes
the Importance of nature treatment
for skim. eyes. hair and nerves. She
allows nothing TO interfere with her
morning sleep and rounds out her
eight or nine hours religiously, even
if her window shades are kept drawn
until noon. The society woman, dane
ing and supping much later than the
actress as a rule, yawns herself awake
by nine o'clock at latest, looks over
her correspondence, interviews her
housekeeper and visits her dressmak-
err. All these. things must be done
before luncheon, since the afternoon
will be taken up with bridge. matinee.
musical or some other affair. A maid
and a professional beauty specialist
do their best for the poor complexion;
but by the time Christmas arrives it is
a faded complexion indeed.
Sleep is the absolute first require
ment of the nature treatment; exercise
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

hundreds and hundreds of the tiny
skins forming a beautiful striped pat
tern, and the cape is voluminously
draped, tool A broad band OF the
almost priceless silver fox outlines the
foot and edges a wide collar of spot
less ernine. This ermine collar runs
back as a lining in the upper part OF
the wrap, making a very rich effect
when the wrap is thrownsEopen. From
the deep ermine yoke-lining, a gath
cred lining of flesh pink soiree silk
extends to the foot
Errnine And Skunk.
Another wrap pictured has an
ernine collar edged with skunk in
deep cape, effect. This wrap. Is Of
broadtail and has the close line over
shoulder and arms and spreading eff
feet in the skirt now fashionable.
Broadtail is enormously expensive and
is usually selected by the older woman.
although even the debutante may
wear broadtail if she is dressing in
mourning. Trimmed with black fox
or lynx, broadtaiI Is deep mourning:
in half mourning. it may be trimmed
with Australian chinchilla. ermine or
opossum.
Tne mink coat is of the type called
a twilight and dark fur wrap: that
is, a wrap suitable for dinner or late
afternoon wear over formal frocks,
and quite correct for evening wear
because of its richness and distinction
though it has the coat, not the wrap,
Shape. 1t is built of matched mink
skins and the surplice cape collar Is
smart feature. Coming well over the
buttoned boot top. it covers UP the
frpck beneath and il practical coat
for day and evening use.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

in blue china for her breakfast table
and will not need some parts of the
dinner set at all. The stock pat
terms have a wide range Of prices
In a very charming English blue
Chelsea design half a dozen dinner
plates cost but s2.25; half a dozen
dessert or salad plates. s1.75. Mar
row border patterns are always in good
taste and a fashionable pattern just
now is IN amber and black Floral
designs should be avoided in dinner
china, and the wise bride will not look
at gold bordered ware at all. until
she is able to afford something really
handsome. That will come by and by.
when the stock pieces selected in the
happy days of furnishing the first lit
tie home have been relegated to sec
ond-best use.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

York dog does not have a particularly
good time, leashed and muzzled-one
feels bit sorry for him, poor fellow!
but he is doing infinite good to his
mistress. AS one gentle little upstate
lady. visiting the Metropolis, put It:
New York is a wonderful place: but
it does make my heart ache to see so
many blind people being led arouno by
dogs"
Failing the dog who must be aired
each day, the seeker after a fresh COM
plexion despite the demands of so
ciety) should go in for deep breathing
exercises upon arising in the morning.
With a warm bathgown over the thin
nightdress and window thrown wide
open. at least twenty-five long. deep
breaths should be taken. and slowly
expelled, until every crevice of the
lungs has been treated to a bath of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

trimmed with the tails, which aay be
worn high, in choker effect, or turned
back over the cape. From Premet
comes a beautiful evening wrap of
white panne velvet with wide bands
of ermine at the foot and on the
sleeves and "A deep collar of the ePmine
that can be lifted in choker style and
fastened with two ermine buttons
For some reason or other the short
haired white furs-ermine and its
humble cousin, white coney-are
more fashionable this season than the
long. fluffy white fox, for trimming
handsome wraps. Perhaps this is be-
cause the summer girl rather did
white fox to death by disporting it all
through July and August until one
rather sickened of the sight of it.
Mole And Mink The Winter
Combination.
Two furs that are travelling in close
company for the first time this season.
are mole and mink. Nobody ever
thought of putting them side by side
before-in fact they were rather kept
away from each others proximity
but, used together now, they have sud-
denly become very beautiful as COM
panion furs. One sees the most superb
Limousine coats of mole with broad
band trimmings of mink. and one coat
of mole has actually f1ounces of mink
from edge to knee and a ripple cape
of mink over the shoulders. There
are hats of mole and mink comb ined,
also: and much use of mole gray vel
vet with mink fur trimming Mole,
silver fox and ermine. have been COM
bined in q new and sunptuous effact.
on one. OF the wraps pictured. The
wrap itself is of matched mole skins.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

man, standing in a tub. trod upon the
buttered skin with his bare feet until
it was well .Ieathered" and soft and
pliabIe as flannel Then the mink
skin was strained and pulled over the
edge of the tub toamake it still softer
and more pliable. Overnight it lay
soaking in strong salt water solution
and next was drawn back and forth.
back and forth, across the edge of a
sharp knife until the soft leather be-
came as thin as it could become and
not tear apart. Then, back again to
the treading-tub. this time Mahogany
sawdust being used instead of the but
ter to clean the fur and restore its
beauty and gloss. Finally the skin is
cleaned in a contrivance called a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28
No Excuse for
Credseless Trousers

ONCE the advent of the handy cleo
trio flatiron, and the equally handy
~ small gas stove which can be
hitched to the lighting apparatus of
any hall bedroom. one hears no more
about the impecunious young man
VINO used to <old his neither garments
between his mattress and bedspring
when he lay him down to rest each
night Yet the picture one calls up
of the lonely bachelor, bathgown-
wrapped and pressing out his single
pair Of trousers on a bathtowel spread
over the bureau is almost as pathetic
as vision Of the same young man
laboriously repairing his own socks
with darning needle and thread
Therefore one halls the advent of a
convenient trouser- pressing contrap-
ton, made of light fibre-board with
nickel clamps and hinges. The affair
weighs scarcely more tLan a pound
and can be folded, with the trousers
in it. and tucked into a suitcase.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

dor. Maine or Canada. Mink from
Arizona and other southwestern To-
calities is coarser and lighter in color
and is sometimes streaked with dye to
initiate the more costly northern va
riety. Chinchilla. comes from the
mountains Of South America and the
choicest skins have a dark blue cast,
shading in the lighter tones to soft
gray. The chinchilla is also a tiny
animal and his pelt is becoming harder
and harder to procure-and therefore
more and more costly. Australian
chinchilla. g really beautiful and dis
t.nguished fur, much used for trim
ming on coats and wraps OF MORE,
caracul or broadtail, is really another
name for a species of opossunl-the
Australian 'possum being quite diff
ferent from the American variety and
having. coat shading to blue and
gray tones which needs no aid from
the dyer.
Sable. which has stood for magnif-
icence and luxury for generations, is
now almost extinct, but the little sable
has a rival in kolinsky, an animal of
the Russian marten family. KoIinsxy
approaches closely to the beautiful
texture and color OF genuine sable. yet
its price is very much less.
Raceoon is a humble fur which is so
beautiful that it is not despised as a
trimming for rich evening coats. Rae
coon is entirely American and every
boy who lives in the localities where
raccoons are plentiful has built fire
by night to attract an adventurous
coon" in order to have for his own
jolly "coenskin" cap for winter wear.
Ernaine Wraps Have stand-Up Collars.
Handsome fur is not handsome
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

with. say four, or at most six pieces
of each kind The supply can be in
creased to eight and then to a dozen
pieces gradually. and another advan-
tage in supplying from a stock pattern
is that broken pieces can easilysbe re-
placed. The little bride beginning
frugally in a small apartment. per-
haps acting as her own maid, will not
require every sort of piece a dinner
set" includes. If bouiIlon cups, for
instance. have been among her we'd
ding presents, she can dispense with
soup plates. Very likely, also, some
charming after-dinner eoffees have
come to her as engagement cups"
and it will not be necessary to possess
every size of plate numbered in the
regulation dinner set" Perhaps. also.
she will prefer to have a few pieces
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

one of the items that young Mr..
b and Mrs. Newlywed find some
" what staggering. when the new
home comes to be furnished. is the
dinner set" Fifty or sixty, or hun
bred and fifty dollars does seem good
deal of money to put out for mere
dishes; and a proper dinner ser"
does seem a stupendous affair with its
tiers of plates in various sizes, its
platters, toureens, cups, saucers and
odd pieces. Most of this elaborate
"set" will be an elephant on the
brides hands, for her table will he
set only for. two, with now and then
four and rarely, six, places. when
is done. The wise New
lvweds pick out a good stock pattern,
something that is smart yet conserva-
tive and of which they will not be
apt to tire as time goes on, and begin
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

in the open air the second. Even the
ministrations of the bath are less i'm
portant than these two. The prole-
tariat who digs in a ditch ten hours
a day and sleeps like a log from dark
to dawn and who washes his face
only on Sunday often has a skin I'M
blemished and showing a rose flush
the society women would give thou
sands Of dollars to possess. 1t is fresh
air. exercise and sleep, these three.
that no amount of cosmetics can hope
to rival as beautys first aid
When all is said and done, there is
no greater aid toward a fresh COM
plexion than a dog. Rain or shine,
snow or sleeC, fog or wind, a dog must
be exercised every day of the three
hundred and sixty five-or he will run
down in condition. If he is a valuable
canine. this is not to be thought Of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

drum" in which 1t is stretched and
whirled rapidly for hours. 1t is then
fairly ready to be made. up into an
evening wrap for milady. though it
will have to pass through several
hands first.
The smaller animals who have the
finer, softer pelts, furnish the evening
furs. Siberian ermine is the evening
fur past compare, no other pelt can
dislodge it from favor as the gasiight
fur of pre-eminence. The best ermine
is very soft and pure white A specifies
of weasel which turns white in. ex-
tremeIy cold weather is often sold. as
eFmfne, but this pe1t is apt to turn vel
low after time. The tiny mink, silky
and dark in color, comes from Labra-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-28

~ i far cry from the frosty
northern woods where a proving,
four-footed furry thing steals in
u the moonlight to investigate an
allen object in his own particular for
est-and finds himself irrevocably
caught in the hunters steel trap; to
frosty Broadway on a moonlit winters
night where the selfsame furry thing,
four paws. brush and all, adventures
into the brilliant glare of the opera
house, slung across the shoulders of q
velvet evening wrap. During the
interim. the four footed furry beastie
has had many experiences, but his
knowledge of them, one mercifully
hopes, ended with the click of the
steel trap jaws. If. in his forest in
carnation. ne was a Canadian mink
one Of fashions fur favorites just now
his skin was turned flesh side out
and rubbed with butter and a work