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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-04

The Real Estate Owners Protective
Association announced yesterday Two
evenings ~f public discussion of the
play" plan OF schooling, to n" held a. the
Hotel Majestic on March " and MGrch
20 william Writ, superintendent of
schools nt Gary, Ind, viii prrscu, his
side the FIST evening and TriStrHm
Walker Metcalfe, a newspaper school
editor, will present the opposition on ths
second evening
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AT "a HE COMMITS SUICIDE.
David Merritt, '.Grand Old Man" ol
salem, Mass. Ends His Life,

SAiEa. Mass. March 3,-David Mer-
,n'' ono Of Salem's oldest and best
Known residents. committed suicide to.
day hy shooting. He was - RI old.
,u"n retiring last night he was in the
nest OF spirits. In the morning he
Killed himself in bed. Members OF his
FANNY were unable to give any reason
Tor the act.
Nj Merritt was a conspicuous figure
IN salem. lie was Of large stature and
had q long white beard. which earned
MN the title OF "Salem's grand old
mdI.
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Tax Rates Approved.

The report of the finance committee
recommending the tax rates for tho five
boroughs AZ computed from the tax as
sessment rolls and the requirements OF
the city budget was Formally approved
by the Board of Aldermen yesterday
afternoon. The rates m printed Il few
DAYS ago are: Manhattan. 400; The
Bronx. 200; Brooklyn. 3.08; Queens
sos Richmond, sis.
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Guilty Of Mann Act violation.

Mrs. Katherine Brand. a manicurist,
was found guilty In the United States
District Court yesterday OF violating the
Federal white slave act by bringing her
seventeen-year-old niece, Annie Palmer
from Dayton. Ohio. to her manicure en-
t%ablishment at 81 Nassau street. She
wss yemanded for sentence. on Monday
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-04
WaInn9 Declines 70 Run.

Greenwich, Conn. March 3.-Wiliam
English Walling has declined tho In
doIs"ment Of the New Haven Socialists
'oT The i~ubernatorial nomination In Con.
NeCt.Cut,
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
n BRICK CHI RICH

Fif,h Avenue and Thirty-seNeu'h street.
- william Pierson McrriI
M'h'~'e'S Frank Iatim"r lir"wuN.
DIR. MERRILL. viii preach At II and {
Communion at the C,osH OF the morning
service.
Special Musical Service at I o'clock
STAiNERS 'CRtrIFlNlpN" aud Arl,r.
tIoEs from NANDEl'S MESSIAH"
Bible school ~ $40
General bible Discussion Class 81 10 O'Clock
Prof. Charles Thadd"us Terry, leader.
Nidwsek Service, "Wednesday n SIS =. NJ
MODS SERVICE EVERY WEEKDAY.
l.:3o-la -.
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AWAKENING

Awakened persons az. invited - examine
.nIiusir REVELATIONS, ETC.. Transmitted
ItS wut.h t~is,iu~' that iu'r.sues Of
sIihri" ''rr' IF Mars tul relative planets
az" To- c>'"rmluh'" N" total uf the rnrth's
!ubthtt,rt. Nu'N, '",I At - West i2Tth
Sttr"t um'n.iuE $50 l. VI and y T.. ii.
u,;.l Mtr,h li'h
MARGARET ANNE puUGr.Ns. SCRIBE.
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ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH. es West sath st
Rev. Arthur II Judge, Rector.
Services .. II and 9.
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GRACE CHl RtH. B~roadwRy and 10Th II
Rev. Charles lewis SlRttery. u. ~, Rector
s. II Hector. 5 ,Mr. Wnshhurrl.
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St Cbcmds'$ Church

IIFTII WE NNN ND Fl
Rev ERNEST NJ, SrlHitS y l., Rector.
( \ iia.y Communion.
u Morning. service nll S"tmpu 'kectorI.
ENp,sung luA \drrss Re- uri.
T. NJ u mr ui organ Mas
sch Nriu"s .,y. II rul lII",tprI.
pri'y Ltu,cu S,rN..n ~. q !k-,turI
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of the biscuit claim that it Is no more trouble to make them than to slice the bread for the regulation sandwich.
 However that may be, 1t IS necessary to provide filling for the sandwiches, no matter what the outside material, and 1t Is here that the pantry must be called upon. Chopped and deviled meat comes put up to spread upon the sliced bread; fish pastes of various kinds are ready, and the soft cheese which is sold in jars or tins also makes delicious sandwiches with either bread or a cracker foundation. The little pastry like wafer squares which come now in cartons and in bulk are delicious if buttered lightly and spread with jam or jelly and are better than many kinds of cake and quite as wholesome. So are jam sandwiches of thin bread and butter. and these cost less than even a plain cake.
 But for those who wish regular cakes and who have no time to make them there are ready made provisions-not, perhaps, in the loaf cake, although even these may be purchased and will keep we'll for two or three days if wrapped closely and put in tin box. There are cookies and gingersnaps and other little cakes that are put up by good houses and are whole some, as we'll as good to the taste. A store of these should be on the pantry
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Box for Baby Clothes.

"I will tell how made box for baby clothes. l got from the grocery a nice smooth wooden box with a cover, about fourteen to sixteen inches wide, the same depth, and twenty-eight to thirty inches long. I lined it inside with plain white paper. fastening 1t on smoothly, then nailed two strips about an inch wide in each, about five or six inches below the top, and covered them with white paper; these were to support the tray. I then made the tray from pieces of box, just large enough to fit in nicely, like a trunk tray. This I covered inside and out with the white paper and tackled handles at each end, to lift 1t out easily. For these I used white tape and brass tacks. 1 lined the inside of the cover of the box with white paper and tackled across 1t six or eight strips of white tape. making little places to tuck in baby bonnets, bibs. bootees. and so on. The tray used for little dresses and white skirts; the bot tom held diapers. fannels. etc. The out side of the box I covered with blue and white lowered cotton at about 121a cents yard. The cover was padded with cot ton before covering. and could be used as a seat. My little girl is now, and it makes a nice trunk for her playthings. I can send directions for bassinette, too, if wanted. I can send quilt pieces and old wool or rugs if any one wants them.
 MIR"
 Some one is sure to want them. We are grateful for the directions, and those for the bassinette would also be welcome.
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shelf. along with the potted meat or fish and cheese and the jam or marmalade oI jelly glasses. There. too, may be the jai of olives or of pickles which will be well come at the feast, and if fresh fruit may not be obtained box of figs or of datea will. in measure. supply the place.
 In addition to these it is we'll to have cocoa if coffee or lemonade is not desiredi Iced cocoa is delicious drink, if properly made. and it may be prepared and thor oughly chilled before 1t Is turned into tho bottles Or on a cool day 1t may be taken along hot, and either hot or iced tea Is likely to prove popular with some men- bers of the party. The day has gone by when tea basket was an essential on a we'll conducted picnic; the vacuum bottle of some kind has taken its place.
 Thus far all the attention has been be- slowed on the comissariat, but more than this is demanded for well conducted picnic. An air cushion or two which can be defiated. rolled up, and put in the pocket; steamer rug to spread on ths ground to make seats for those who feaf the damp; shawl strap. in which to carry it, and the warm wraps which may be needed in this fickle climate-all these should not only be provided, but held sa- cred to their special use and be always al hand when wanted for an improvised out. ing of any sort.
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Helping Women Who Work.

have no daughters of my own, but have raised several, who had no mother, because my own two hove been dead many years. For their sakes I stand ready to help any girl or woman that it is possible to help, to do something to earn living. I cannot help financially, but have had over twenty-five years experience in mak- ing living. talked to many girls and women this last winter and spring who were looking for employment, and found that few of them were fitted to do any, thing much besides office work. There are more people looking for office work than there are offices to employ them. and the tragic part of it is so few of those who apply for it are competent to hold posi- ton.
 "The mothers seem to think that girls can grow up to do nothing in the house hold. and have no training whatever. either to do work, or have system and or der in taking care of their own belong ings. and yet go into an office and take charge of business and be perfectly competent When the employer tries to show her how to do his work as he wants 1t done she feels as if he has mcrtally of- tended her. by being dissatisfied with the way Sne 1nS1SJS on OOlHg It. <AhotAcr thing. 8 girl has to have had wise mother indeed to be perfect success in an office, and be capable of not seeing or hearing anything that is not intended for her to see and hear, and if she does to keep it strictly to herself. and forget it when she leaves the office. If more moth CTS trained their children to be consider ate at home, and the wisdom of still tongue, and not to meddle in any respect. the children. whether boys or girls, would be better equipped for business than in any other way. Fewer girls would make mistakes that sorrow cannot undo. and fewer boys would be untrustworthy in both business and social life.
 "I came here with my son in order that he might go to school and to be near him have remained some months. As I had little to do, became afflicted with an attack of my old enemy. indigestion. and found nothing would help 1t except ex- ercise. Even walking did not help me. and after being on liquid diet for some time and improving little I saw>that must go to work to effect cure.
 II looked for a location to rent small
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a picnic excellent substitutes may be se- cured at small cost.
 One friend of mine, who has as much pleasure in her little inexpensive car as the owners of superb motors find in their costly vehicles. devised for herself an out fit which meets every purpose and was covered by small charge. She displayed
 it to me with pride the other day.
 "I couldn't afford a regular hamper" she said " so I bought this little straw suitcase and it answers perfectly. Then I found tin sandwich box would cost between $2 and $3, and I had the happy notion of getting brick tin ice cream form. In fact, got two, one quart size and the other to hold three pints. so that I can keep the sandwiches and the cake separately. For dishes I bought the little white and blue enamel bread and butter plates and cups to match. So there I am! With Japanese paper nap kins and a few little pasteboard boxes to hold sugar and the like I am as we'll off as if I had bought a motor lunch basket at S50."
 Other items were pepper and salt hold CTS, plated forks and spoons, and two or three knives, and none of these was ever used on any other occasion. When the basket was brought home after an ex- cursion the contents were washed and aired and then returned to their place. so as to be ready at moments notice when needed.
 Something like this Is valuable even to those who do not own motor cars of even the simplest variety, and who like to take trips on the trolley or by boat and to carry their provisions with them. As a matter of course when the food is to be borne by hand for any distance 1t is disad- vantage to have too much weight, and for that reason 1t is perhaps better to di- vide the load.
 If the drinks are to be cold, paper cups that slide into one another or that are of the folding variety may be provided, or for hot drinks a pair of collapsible drink ing cups may be used.
 The other provisions may also be dis tributed in different receptacles. Excel lent as the sandwich boxes or their equiv alents are for luncheon baskets that go in vehicles, the good old pasteboard can dy box, which weighs practically nothing and can be thrown away when it's period of usefulness is ended. is preferable for
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joice in the economy. At Christmas time or when putting up gifts or other articles to send away the saved boxes are invalu- able, and they are as precious when the picnic season comes around or the time when travellers depart who must take their luncheon with them. have heard people say that in these days of diners and buffet cars there is no longer any necessity for being laden down with luncheon, but on many an occasion have blessed the foresight that moved me to carry with me few sandwiches or crack CTS and a bottle of tea.
 For dining cars are not always ade-
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

not too much trouble will ask another favor. I have two little girls. aged 10 and 12 years. who would be glad to get remnants of laces and ribbons for mak- ing household tidies. They are fond of making things. but we are poor and un- able to furnish the materials for them.
 MRS. N. c. R." The address of J. c. P. has been sent to so many correspondents that am afraid she has no more pieces to bestow. Has any one else pieces to give this corre- spondent. and the remnants she asks or her little girls? I will send her address on receipt of stamped. addressed en- velope.
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space in some store, to make home made candy, which is the thing know most about. I finally went to bakery and made an arrangement with the owner to help wait on customers for space in the show window and the privilege of making candy in the kitchen and having my lunch there. It was this last arrangement that started the real business. Several people coming in to get rolls or bread saw us eating and begged to have sandwich and a cup of coffee. After talking it over with the propretors told them would give them plate of soup and a sandwich at 5 cents each. I had so many custom CTS that I had to take my twelve quart aluminium kettle to my fireless cooker for soup, and with 15 cent soup bone. a 10 cent can of tomatoes, and an onion, had fine soup The meat I put through grinder and easoned 1t nicely and creamed 1t in saucepan and spread 1t between buttered bread, for the sand wiches. I went from that to roast beef and ground ham. and all the sandwiches I made sold
 The main trouble was I could not get one person who was willing to help me for the three hours I served to keep the dishes clean, and help wait on customers. But it paid, and only stopped because could not wait on all who came in, and nearly had nervous prostration trying to do it all. 1 went down at in the morning to let the baker start his bread, and did not leave till closing time. which was 7:3O. And surely did get rid of my indiges- tion.
 Now If several women who cannot get anything else to do will get together and open a place where people can get sim pie lunch for small amount, say i5 cents. and others, who will agree to do so. can get ready cooked meals to take home with them. 1t will be only short while when . community kitchen can be started, with an auto delivery. to all parts of the city, to those who do not want to tent servants. and the dishes are the only thing to do at home. It would do away with a kitchen In apartments, and many housekeepers would not be worried to death to know what to cook, and the wonl- en who run 1t would live and make some money. too.
 When you have letters from girls and women who are at loss what to do will be glad to help them decide some thing of the sort. I will be glad to know the addresses. MRS. R. F. F.
 This is a long letter. and have cut out much of it, but the part retained is 90 full of helpful suggestions and wise
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OW are the housekeepers who read
 the Corner provided for arranging [" family excursions and picniCs? | Although this is the time of year
 to take them, there are few homes in which a hurrying and scurrying does not ensue if any one suggests an i1n- promptu outing.
 Yet such outings do more than one would at first believe to keep freshness and vigor in the members of the houss" hold who cannot get away for long vaca- tions. The Saturday half holiday In the woods or fields, the long trolley ride which terminates in a supper out of doors, the habit of breaking away early from work in order to have the evening meal in the orchard or the near at hand meadow If one has time for going no further away. all do their part in reviving the fiagging energies which have been taxed by work during the heated term.
 My memory goes back fondly to sum- mer many years ago, when circumstances held us in town late into the season in- stead of permitting the exodus which was our usual habit. We we're fortunate in living at that time in a town from which there was easy exit to beautiful wood- land spots, and to those we repaired every pleasant Saturday afternoon. To those family picnics,' as we called them, we asked one or two young people besides those of our own circle, and usually we numbered from six to ten in the party. The older members of the family made their way to the appointed place in sur- rey, drawn by one stajd old horse, and into this conveyance were packed the bulkier and heavier provisions for the supper. The younger contingent took the trolley to a near point and walked the rest of the way.
 Part of the equipment was a block of ice wrapped in many papers and put in box in the foot of the carriage. Or if the weather was cool, we carried the coffee in bottles and heated it in tin pail over an alcohol pocket stove. We would have held up our hands in wonder at glimpse of the motoring baskets and boxes pro- vided for the eXcursionist of today!
 While these are readily found nowa- days, they are not as easily purchased by persons of small means. and delightful as 1t may be to have such hampers to i'll with eatables and drinkables to carry on
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the party who must go on foot and bear their own food. If the sandwiches are made shortly before leaving and wrapped in waxed paper when they are put into the box they will not dry out before it is time to eat them Two or three of such boxes may be tied together and will not compose too heavy a burden for any one of ordinary strength
 In my own household long ago made a rule that no good boxes were to be thrown away if there were space to keep them, and many a time have had reason to re-
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the subject with which we began our talk. The mother of family or the housekeeper who is so fortunate as to number young people = either boys and girls or those a little their seniors in her home-should show her efficiency by having everything ready for such an outing as we have mentioned.
 More is required than the baskets or bags to hold provisions, the pasteboard boxes. the paper cups, the Japanese pa- per napkins, or even the little outfits of wood pulp or something of the sort that one can get nowadays and which com
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quate to the demand and there is little comfort in knowing that hot meal is being served in the next car if the tables are all filled and the vestibules choked with line of waiting and hungry pas sengers My private store has saved me and others as we'll headache and faint ness on more occasions than can recall. So even when making ones departure in a train the little outfit for nasty lunch con may not be out of place.
 But it is not to this that wish to call particular attention now. but rather to
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visions from day to day with little extra labor
 Sandwiches are, of course. the great standby for picnic luncheon. and there is no end to the changes that may be rung upon them. Those made of sliced bread spread with some filling are the most popular, and yet I know of one family where the picnic plea Is always that the cook may make up batch of quick biscuit to be buttered and have slice of cold tongue or ham laid between the two sides. Nothing else seems to be quite as satisfactory, and the advocates
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Hclp in Time of Need.

"I wish to thank you for your prompt attention to my plea in the Helping Hand. I received the hearing horn from the friend who offered it without having to write to her direct and appreciate her kindness much. I have tried other hear ing devices. but had not heard of the hearing horn until I received 1t. 1tshows that your Corner gives information as we'll as help in time of need. May the good work go on and be crowned with the suc- cess it richly deserves! J. c. H.
 It always gives me pleasure to print sucb acknowledgements as these. which prove the work done by the Corner in sending light and joy into dark and sad quarters. 1t is good to receive appreciation which ahows the help that has been given.
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prises plates, spoons and drinking ves- sells. all so light and cheap that no one need feel guilty of extravaganza in cast ing them aside when they have been used once with the paper tablecloth that comes with them.
 The articles which are to go into these receptacles are fully as important as the holders themselves. It is possible to have In every pantry the materials for putting up a pleasing luncheon at short notice, and the woman who has made a study of such matters may vary her pro-
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to try to make little money. but times are SO hard nobody has bought them. would like to give them in return for a canary. I send this recipe for nice pud- ding made with apricots: Half pint of milk. one pint of cooked and strained ap- ricots, one cup of sugar. one slice of bread, two eggs. Beat the eggs and the sugar together. mix in the bread crumbs and the apricots. and bake until the GUS tard is done. Eat cold with cream.
 "C. A. H. The canary offered has been given away. Has any one else one to bestow? The pud- ding recipe sounds as if 1t would have a good result. and no doubt peaches could be used instead of apricots if these were not attainable.
 Ground Cloves for Moths.
 II would like to tell the friends of the Helping Hand that if they will use ground cloves in tho places where they store woolen clothing they will not be troubled with moths. have proven the value of this recipe for the last nfty years.
 "J. G. w." A useful recipe to receive at this time of year and one that is much pleasanter than the advice for many of the remedies employed to ward of moths in woolens. We are glad to have 1t.
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chemicals and not directly from flowers, and cannot be made except with a lab oratory equipment. Can any one give in- formation on this subject? If so will give the address of Miss A. J. on receipt of a stamped. addressed envelope.
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Making Various Perfumes.

"Can you tell me good. lasting pre- scripton for making lilac perfume. and can you direct me to book can read on making different perfumes especially lily of the valley and lilac perfumes?
 Mss A. J." Most of such perfumes are prepared with
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In Return for q Conary.

"I sec that Mrs. w. A. R. has canary to give away. and as cannot afford to buy one would like much to do some hand
 work in exchange. or some sewing. have some corset covers already made would like to exchange. made them up