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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-11-16
START WORK
Laborers are now Working in the
New Republic Plant.

A few aborers are now working
at the new Republic plant out East
Superior street, and within the next
few weeks a full force Of men will be
on duty on the new structure.
The men now working in the plant
are cleaning up the place and getting
il in readiness for the manufacture of
trucks, which has not been started in
the East Superior street plant as yet.
AS soon as the structure is cleaned
material will be put in and the man
ufacture of the new trucks will start.
II is expected that "A full force of men
will be making the new trucks in the
plant within the next four weeks
"The Ne'er-Dd- -Well"-greater than
9th, CnotlarcN IIlobpn9. frbat,t cc,itr
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-11-16
JOINT RECITAL COMES
NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT
SaIvi. Edith Harris and Helen
Brown Read Come on the
Lyceum Course.

The next number of the Alma ~
ceum course will be given at Wright
opera house. Wednesday evening, Nov.
22nd, the attraction being a joint re-
ctal at which Albert Salvi, Helen
Brown Read and Fifth Harris will
appear.
Signor Alberto Salvi, Venetian har-
pist. was educated in the Naples con
servatory, where he completed an
eight years course in five years, win
ming first prize The harp playing Of
Sig. Salvi is revelations; he over
comes seemingly insurmoUntable diff
culties IN technique, phrasing, inter
walls, arpeggios, etc, with greatest
ease, playing pass ges single handed
that are tremendously hard of ac
complishment 10y high-class harpists
using both hands. Artists. critics and
musicians generally who have heard
Sig. Salvi are amazed at the power,
bmlliancy, tone-quayty, finesse and
artistic temperament displayed lie
uses AN especially large-size Wurlitzer
harp, made for him for concert work.
Los Angeles (Cal. l-Signor Alberto
Salvi, who is touring the west, played
yesterday evening TO a large audience
He is an artist TO his finger tips 1t
was an unusual treat TO hear the harp
played in such a mastery manner,
Runs, arpeggois, trills, octaves, har-
monies, the gay, the courtly. the bril-
liant, graceful and tender. all found
their expression under Signor Salvi's
agile fingers.
Helen Brown Read studied five years
with Frau Prof. Petri of Dresden,
Saxony, whose husband was the first
violin of the Royal Opera Orchestra
Of Dresden Then afterwards she
spent two years with Jean de Reszke
in Paris, later studying with Oscar
Seagle. She was member of the
Stadt grand opera of Chemnitz, Sax
ony, for two years. During this time
she sang the roles of Marguerite"
in Faust" in which she made her
dc butt Mimi" in "LaBoheme, /"
Marie" in the "Bartered Bride, .
"Antonia" in the "Tales of Hoffman, -
"Agathe" from Der Freischutz,
Elsa" in "Lohengrin," "Micaela" in
Carmen" and many other important
roles. Upon going to England Miss
Read was engaged to make a tour
with Pavlowa and the Russian ballet.
She sang on each program, with piano
and orchestra accompaniment, arias
from the operas, and 'Lieder" This
tour extended through the principal
cities of England, Scotland and Wales,
and lasted four months. She then
made her home for one year in Lon
don, with frequent trips to the Prov
iNces, where she gave recitals in many
Of the principal watering places and
also sang with a number of the lead
ing orchestras of England.
Following is the program:
Cnpata l. Matnr Crian Co iNri
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-11-16

"The Ne'er- D. Well'-Rex Beach's
masterpiece - Idlehour Thanksgiving
Day.-Ad
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-11-16

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"The Ne'er- Well"--Rex Beach 5
- Idlehour Thanksgiving
Day.-Ad
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-11-16

"The Ne'er-Dd- Well"-greater than
The Spoilers" Idlehour Thanksgiv-
ing Day.-Ad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

This Chicago lady who is getting her
picture in the newspapers as well as
considerable notoriety for her sugges-
ton that babies should be raised
bred" is the word she uses-wirh the
same care given to dogs-well. as
everybody who has read this far has
probably guessed. she's a maiden lady.
There is point, of course. to this spin
ster's proposals, but. as a matter of
fact, ninety-nine babies out of every
hundred are given much better care
than any dog that ever lived, regard
Less of the height CT his degree, or
pedigree. It's only the relatively few
folk, the rare exceptions. who give
more care to their dogs than they do
to their children. Ard they should be
pftied, not censured for their mental
deficiencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
SIDE TALKS
The Little Vanities.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


None have more pride than those
may labor against vain glory until you
conceive that you are humble. and the
fond conceit of your humility will
prove to be pride in full bloom
Sturgeon.
What are you the most conceited
about? Someone pumped that ques
ton into silence in one of our after
noon chats on the veranda the other
evening and the resulting conversation
was most interesting.
Try it some time. If you can get
people to be honest you will get some
worth while sidelighrs of character.
People are seldom proud of the
things they have the most obvious
reason to be pleased with.
The brainy man or woman frequent
ly takes less pride in his mental ability
than in some minor accomplishment
or perhaps some single physical
beauty.
Do you remem bers, in Little Wom-
en-" how 10, the clever member of the
family (and presumably the plainest) i,
wept bitterly the night her mother
was called to her sick fathers bedside,
and when her sister, assuming that she
was worried about him tried to COM
fort her, she confessed that it was real
ly because she had tried to help out
the family finances by selling her one
beauty, her splendid name of chestnut
hair.
That little human touch was one of
the many that make that wonderful
book SO real and 50 beloved.
One of the confessions our talk
brought forth was from a successful
business woman who has made her
own way in the business world since
she was sixteen, who is an excellent
pianist and a fine housekeeper. But
the thing she is most proud of is her
endurance as a pedestrian. She has a
walk of eighteen miles to her credit
and she is more pleased to be told that
there aren't many women over thirty
five who could walk as far in a day
than at any other compliment.
Another was from a writer who is
more proud of his tennis game than of
any of his books or the honorary COL
lege degrees he has received
The two things that it p1eases me
most to be complimented upon are
my skill at darning stockings and my
horseback riding
So it goes.
OF course I don't mean that these
people would sacrifice the larger for
the lesser gift Perhaps when YOU
analyze the subject they are not real
ly more proud of the lesser, only thew
have come to take praise and admir-
alton for the larger for granted, and
therefore are more pleased by COM
pliments on the less obvious accom-
plishment.
In any case it is interesting to
watch for these little weaknesses.
Even without badly bringing the sub
ject up you can detect them by watch
ing for them. The socially clever wo-
man does not need to be told this, she
always knows what everyone's weak
In "a ifx- i've fc
upon it--tCopyright by George Mat
thew Adams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

to avoid the threatened congestion of
our security markets and pave the way
for a new bond issue later on. The
situation therefore is encouraging in
spite of perplexties- Steel shares are
strengthened by the -act that further
big munition orders are coming or
have come this way. indicating vigor-
Gus prosecution of the war by the
Allies. When the war ends it is prac-
tically certain that big foreign orders
Will be received from abroad for rail-
road equipment. industrial plants and
ether reconstruction requirements
which Europe cannot meet. L has
been estimated by high authority that
5000, 100000 will be required TO re-
place the necessary plants and prop
erty thus far destroyed in Belgium
and France, and that a goodly por-
ton of such orders must come to the
United States. If this supposition
proves true our export trade. especial
ly of steel products, will continue act
i've after the war, with a consequent
stimulus upon many other industries"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

ing met his nose, and then a voice
from the doorway called: Every
things ready to serve You are exact
ly ON time"
He ran a comb through his hair
before a cracked mirror on the porch
and went inside The odors. long
strange to his bachelor nose, made
him ravenously hungry. There was
no table set, however, much to his
disappointment The new cook saw
the look. sYou have company, so
we're eating in the dining room," she
laughed.
Hodge Strengthened. The smell of
good cooking. a woman in the house,
table with a white cover and flowers
he could see through the dining
room doer-brought a current of
thoughts into action that had been
stagnant for years. Here was a sit
uation for him to act the gentleman.
81 I'D better change my clothes!"
he said.
She didn't discourage him. How
long will 1t take?"
Five minutes"
very we'll. Things will be served
then" crisply.
He came down. There were bagsy
knees and a fringed collar, to be sure,
but Hodge no longer slouched. There
was a snap in his eye and his head was
up.
Such a meal. And such a woman!
Now, Mr.. Perliss," said the latter,
after a dessert of fluffy pudding that
had melted down his throat, Il am
going to surprise you when l tell you
the things you need. You are expect
ing to hear of rocking chairs and
dishpans, bedSpreadS and washing ma
chimes. No doubt you need them all,
but I'm going to tell you what you
need more than that There's big
world going on at a rather amazing
rate outside of your valley, and you've
FORGOTTEN it. You eat and sleep aod
feed your cows and go on forever III
the same monotonous way, never get
ting anywhere. What you need is en-
worlds work. It's terrible to any one
who goes away and comes back to
see how you waste your lives here"
Goes away and comes back!
Yes. Don't you know me, Hodge ?"
He looked at her hard for a minute.
You're not. and after long
time-''Lily?'
She nodded. There were tears in
her eyes. Yes, Lily plus twenty
years"
Then suddenly he saw things as
they were, the sordidness. meanness
of his own surroundings and the
splendid thing she had made of life.
He held out his hands in supplication
! st know what 1 need more than
anything, Lily, but I'm afraid you
can't help me with that I-need-a
wife"
Yes you do, Hodge" She turned
away II might offer suggestion if
| you don't mind!'
| go on!''
| There's a picture on the sitting
room mantle in front of the clock
Wouldn't she do?"
.-Lilyi''
Hodge, dear, I've never cared for
any one else" Copyright, 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

Who said that the presidential cam
paign was in the doldrums. that IL had
been slaughtered by that military
genius whose mere touch is so fatal,
General Apathy? Big and enthusiast
tic crowds are greeting Governor
Hughes on his swing around the cir
Gle. And as soon as President Wilson
knows, officially. that he is the Demo-
cratic party's presidential candidate,
and makes the customary and proper
response, and then gets busy with his
end of the campaign, the probabilities
are that it will be enc of the warm
est and most interesting of the presi-
Dental contests that have peen staged
in this country in many a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
southern Chicken Recipes.

To Pot Roast Chicken-Clean, pick
and cut up one stewing chicken the
same as for frying. Take a generous
piece of butter and all chicken fat
obtainab1e; place in iron vessel (if
possible) and heat very hot. Have
chicken well wiped, add to hot fat,
browning quickly all over (take great
care not to burn); have one large
onion chopped fine, add to chicken
and season. Lower the fire and allow
to simmer slowly in own liquid. When
dry, add one cup hot water and cook
until tender. Just before serving add
as much water as you desire for gravy
and when boiling fast shake flour in
but do not stir: add a generous por-
ton of flour so gravy will thicker
well, cover tight for five minutes.
Chicken and Macaroni-Boil chick
en- until tender, remove and cool,
take all bones out and pick to pieces.
Now boil half pound macaroni until
tender (break into small pieces). But
ter deep baking dish, put a layer of
cooked macarcni on bottom, then a
layer of minced chicken, bits of but
ter, salt and pepper, then some liquid
the chicken came out of; continue this
until dish is filled. Pour over all one
cup cream and bake one-half hour.
Serve on hot platter garnished with
parsley.
Creole Chicken-Boil a large chick
en- until tender, IN enough water to
cover Without cutting liie CHiCheH up.
When tender remove from fire and
add to the chicken water half can to-
matoes, some minced parsley, two
chopped red sweet peppers, two small
chopped onions, salt and pepper. Stew
down good and rich. Now make a
stuffing of mashed potatoes, moist
ened with this gravy; stuff chicken
and brown in quick oven. Serve with
what is left of the Creole gravy.
The Table.
New Kind of Fruit Cake-One egg,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
QUAKER fluctuations.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Some girls go in for the high brow
stuff, others prefer the low neck.
Life is full of uncertainties, such as
betting on a sure thing, for instance.
A pessimist is a person who would
look for the proverbial thorn in a bed
of roses.
When we say a woman doesn't wear
well we don't necessarily mean her
clothes are unbecoming.
When q man realizes he is unable
to govern himself says the Cynical
Bachelor, he gets married.
It's all right to be generous. but
our friends sometimes thank us for the
advice we keep to ourselves.
Some people come to grief because
they can't help it, but it's a matter of
business with the undertaken.
You never can tell Even the peo-
pie who suffer from insomnia may &C.
casionally be caught mapping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
BED 7 IMlE TALES
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON
FREELY STARS

Zone, two, three, four, five, six,
seven-seven stars all close together.
And did you know that every star is
wish, every one 2?
Eyes, every star is a golden wish
and 1 see eight"
fairies were talking. Who else knows
so much about stars and wishes and
all that? Yes, two little fairies, perch
ed each on a flower in the pretty back
yard garden, swayed in the twilight
and talked about stars.
But don't you think it's a pity"
ADDED one, that all the stars have to
be in the sky? I'd like so much to
see a star close to-real close up, SO 1
could touch it."
so would ~ said the other, and
then, after a minutes thought, he
added, Lets find the fairy queen and
see if she can't bring some stars down
from the sky. Maybe she can, and
maybe she will"
All right. let's" said the other fairy.
So they both slid down from their
flower seats and ran off to find the
fairy queen.
First they went to the lily pool in
the center of the garden. many a
time they had found her here, comb
ing her golden hair by the aid of the
mirror pool. But tonight she was not
there. Then they searched through
the rose bed, and the great clump of
beautiful delphiniums the fairy
queen loved those-but, though they
searched and called, no fairy queen
answered.
Where do you suppose she has
gomez" asked one fairy.
Lets look in the front yard gar
den," said the other, and away they
ran.
They looked among the geranIums,
the saliva and the cannas-but never
a sign of a fairy queen did they see.
Just when they were about to get
discouraged they noticed the beautiful
big moon-vine blooms that climbed up
the front porch clear to the roof
Maybe she's there with those
blossoms said one fairy. Let's
look"
Yes let's" and they scurried over
to the moon-vine~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

There are sure to be many and Wig
orous protests from poor, old Mr.
Consumer, over that feature of the
federal court order in the gas case
which gives the distributing gas COM
panies a minimum rate of $1.00 a
month from each and every consumer
And such indignation will approach
the righteous, too. Nor would there
have been any cause for it either, If
the Kansas public utilities commits
sion had been able to see its full duty
in the gas premises and awarded the
gas companies a rate of proportions
that they insist they need if they are
to increase the gas supply. The COM
panies asked for no such minimum
rate in their pleadings with the state
commission. But the federal court
awards it, and possibly the only thing
the consumers can do is grin and bear
it However. it won't be SO bad if
something like an adequate gas supply
IN all seasons is provided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

one cup sugar, four tablespoons
melted butter or fat. one cup sugar.
one cup fruit (stewed or raw. accords
ing to the kind used). half teaspoon
soda dissolved in a little water and
stirred into the fruit, one and one-
half cups flour and two teaspoons bale<
ing powder. Bake in two layers. Zoe
and put together with a little fruit
stirred thick with confectioner's sugar.
Almost any kind of fruit can be used,
Baked Peach Dumplings-Sift four
cups flour and one teaspoon baking
powder, add one-half teaspoon salt,
one tablespoon shortening; mix to.
gether, add water enough to mix
dough; roll out and cut in squares
Slice peaches. put in with sugar. pinch
tightly together to keep juice from
running out when baked. Can be
eaten with milk or cream. Bake in
morning and will be ready for sup
per. These are nice when going out in
afternoon and don't want to get much
supper.
Poor Mans Delight Cake-One cup
sugar, one cup flour. one cup scalded
milk, whites of two eggs, three tea
spoon baking powder, pinch of salt
Sift dry ingredients together four
times. Do not grease pans.
Fruit ngerbread-One-ha1f cup
butter, one cup brown sugar, two
eggs, one cup Orleans molasses, three
cups flour. 3 Y teaspoons ginger, two
teaspoons baking powder, one cup
seeded raisins, one-third cup currants.
one-third cup citron and orange
candied, one-half cup sweet milk.
Beat butter and sugar till light and
creamy, add beaten yolks of the eggs.
then raisins, currants, candied orange
and citron (chop last two fine): add
the molasses, also flour, with ginger
and baking powder sifted with flour.
Then add whites of the two eggs beat
en- to a stiff froth. Bake in well-greas-
ed pans in moderate oven until clean
straw from a broom can pass through
cake without sticking. Remove from
oven then and cover (after taking
from PAM with a cloth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

1t is long road, indeed, without a
turn. But nothing in the recent war
news was probably more surprising to
most folk than the report from the
Fighting zone east Of the Suez canal
about a whole division of the Turks
being caught in such a trap that they
had to surrender to the British forces
operating there. 1t has all been the
other way on these battle grounds.
But British pluck and perseverance
are undeniable. There is no such thing
with the soldiers Of England as giving
up and quitting the game until they
are all dead or captured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
GLOBE SIGHTS

[From the Atchison Globe
Most people overwork their good
foot.
A lazy man wants to get rich by
inheriting his riches.
A lie often goes around masquerade
ing as imagination.
One often feels that the thermome-
ter is too conservative about it.
Stick to the ship. especially if your
well-enough-alone is on dry land.
Political promises are not the only
ones broken with considerable regu-
larity.
There is so much sympathy for the
under dog the wonder is he doesn't do
better.
Link Preston, who is always in
tough luck. went into the umbrella
business last spring.
The world is largely composed of fat
folks who want to reduce, and thin
folks who want to gain weight.
Police court is no place to take your
proud old family name if you want
to keep it out of the paper.
Occasionally there is a bold man
who starts an argument with his wife,
but that is no sign he can stop 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
JAYMAWMER sJOTS

1t has reached the point, says the
Larned Tfller and Toiler, at which a
man can attract a good deal of atten-
ton merely by having full head of
hair.
A Dodge City laundress does four
washlngs day, reports the Dodge City
Globe, and it adds: And some women
think they have a hard time just liv-
ing in this hot weather.
You've probably heard of, if you
haven't seen those curious little jump
ing beans. But the "Hopper-Bean'
headline in a recent issue of the New
ton Journal designated a wedding.
Attention is called by the Coffeyville
Journal to the fact that another nut
has broken into the game of giving
advice on how to keep cool One of
his precautionary suggestions Is ito
drink coffee without cream or sugar"
The Sedan Times-Star reports that
in its vicinity there has been grown
this year a good crop of melons,"
(cantaloupes, which is not the same
thing, of course, rs crop of good
time have reached the conclusion that
there ''ain't no SIGH thing" anyhow,
or very rarely.
These are the days, according to the
lola Register, when all of us will rec
ognize the power of mental sugges-
uOnS. 1t is not enough without
imagining it to be unbearable and
fearing we are to be i'll at any mo-
ment. Instances have been known
where persons have worked them
selves into a serious and fatal illness
by brooding over the weather. Keep
cool. It's hot, but you can make 1t
hotter by thinking about it.
Written for Women, Men not Barred,
by Mrs. Tom Thompson, in the How
ard Courant: 1t is better to spend
money for bread than for bullets, any
day. The worst bored people in
the world are those who, having moth
ing to do, haven't character enough to
do anything. 1t is a mighty
seldom youth who is willing to take
the word of those who have been over
the road before him. Lazy folks
always take the most pains. A shift
less man provides for a rainy day by
marrying wife and raising up a fam
lily to work and take care of him. And
sometimes, he gets away with it. E.
The persistent advertiser not only has
something to show for it. but so do
you. A man cannot declare a high
quality very long if his goods do not
agree with his story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08
DINNER STORIES

Dozens of old graduates were back,
they talked a lot about themselves and
a lot more about others not so for
tunate as to attend. Most of our old
crowd are married and happy said
one Married, anyhow, said an
other with the grin that always ac-
companies this silly joke. II accept
the amendment" returned the first
speaker "but chiefly on account Of
poor Billy Tompkins. He had an I'M
fortunate marital experience" They
hadn't heard of it and begged for par
ticulars- why, the girl he married
turned out to be a professional pick
pocket" The man who had first
spoken sighed, but his eyes twinkled.
WELL" he observed, 81 guess the rest
of US drew some pretty clever anna
teurs-what
Children" said the Sunday school
superintendent, this picture Illus
trates today's lesson: Lot was warned
to take his wife and daughter and
flee out of Sodom. Here is Lot and
his daughter, with his wife, just be-
hind them; and there is Sodom in the
background. Now, has any boy or girl
a question before we take up the study
of the lesson? Well, Susie?"
''Pleathe, thir,'' lisped the latest
graduate from the infant class, where
it'll the fiea?'