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The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Hot Toast for Sunday Evening.

After a hearty noon meal on Sun
day, the evening meal has become a
simple matter. Oftentimes a bowl of
crackers and milk, a little fruit, cake
and coffee suffice.
But a long automobile drives makes
the menu seem zestless, SO we have
substituted hot milk toast.
Toast the bread a delicate brown
and remove crusts. Heat the milk to
boiling, salt to taste. Mix thoroly a
tablespoon of flour to a pint of cold
milk. Stir in the heated milk, stir
ring until it is a smooth cream. Add
a good-sized piece of butter at the
last and pour over the toast. Serve
steaming hot.
Economy Meat Recipes.
Meat From Soup Bones-Before
thickening the soup or putting in the
vegetables, take out a large bowl of
the liquor Take the meat from the
bones. chop it fine, season with catsup
and spices. Pour over the liquor
(Which should be thick enough to
jelly when cold). put into molds and
serve cold in slices.
Left Over Meats-Cold cooked meat
cut in pieces; add one and one-half
cups potatoes (cooked), one cup veg
eta BILE fat drippings, one onion chop
ped fine, one teaspoon chopped par
sley, salt and pepper to suit taste. Put
mixture in a creased baking dish,
moisten well with stock or leftover
gravy, put on a rich biscuit dough one
inch thick, prick with a fork and bake
in slow oven one-half hour.
Ground Steak with paghetti-Take e
I one pound ground steak and three
small onions sliced, and fry almost
done Have one pound spaghetti
cooked in salt water, one can of toma-
toes. Mix tomatoes, spaghetti and
meat together; salt and pepper to
taste. A little chilli added is very nice.
Sausage Biscuits-When making
buttermilk or baking powder biscuits,
cut as usual. then roll each biscuits
larger. Take the cake of sausage and
place in the center of dough and bring
all edges up till sausage is entirely
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

want to go to his tree pantry If Reddy
should be around in sight-that would
be giving information away for sure,
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT


To Our Waitress.
Girl, I am patient, goodness knows,
l almost never hunt for trouble
And yet this here 1 now compose,
This modest bit, this metric bubble,
win meet, | hope, your peppers, then
Perhaps thereafter you Will have
More careful way about you when
You serve my Java!
For though, indeed, your stylish hair,
Plump arms and other charms possess
me;
Though-you know what mean-you're
THERE,
Still, do you ofteatimes distress me,
I have been cross-I'm getting crosser.
on't-always-let-the-co coffee spill
And-fill my -saucer!!!
Natural History Studies for Children.
Baby whales never scratch or bite
till after they have cut their back
teeth.
Baby whales never suck their
Little boy and girl kangaroos like
to play hop-scotch.
a baby rhinoceros is very old be-
fore it's grown up. Most of them
are about the same age as your papa.
Then, too, they are very stupid.
Baby monkeys like to fall out of
bed.
The titmouse eats lots of titcheese.
Ant-eaters are very kind to their
uncles, however.
O1ten the dnlIldlS get together
and giraffe off a silk umbrellaphant.
The most beautiful animal is the
wallpaperus.
Familiar sayings.
"But, fellows, this little girl is
different!'
zone more round and then we'll
quit
IT'S not so much the initial cost
'
81 get up for women with babies or
old women"
isn't this weather unreasonable"
"Have some more of the peas"
We've been going out very little. ''
81 love just to look at the people,
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

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The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12
BED TIME TALES
FOXY FILLS HIS PANTRY.
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

my holes filled up
nuts and acorn cups.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Big nuts. little nuts.
With walnuts, hickory
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

in which Billie Burke is appearing, a perfectly good
seven passenger automobile is driven straight out
into the Atlantic ocean off Palm Beach, Fla. This
may be termed recklessness or pure extravaganza,
according to ones point of view. Needless to say
the damage done to the car by its immersion in the
salt water was considerable.
To prove that the film manufacturers aren't the
only people who can be reckless, Miss Burke wore
n Lucille creation that had been specially designed
for her use In the picture, and utterly regardless
of the certain ruin of the frock she hoped out of
the runaway auto as it cleared the first line of
breakers, found herself up TO her knees in the surf,
laughed gayly and then waded ashore.
Auto Jumps the Gap.
In order to eliminate as much danger as pos
sible, this scene was carefully 9taked beforehand;
that is, everything was simplihed. A sloping plat
form was erected at the place where the leap was
TO be made and well REINFORCED. Across the ditch
some thirty or forty feet away a pile of brush wood
had been placed to break the fall as the car landed.
Down a slOping piece of ground approaching the
jumping-off place Miss King came with lightning
speed in her little machine and took the leap while
the cameras clicked. She landed without serious
mishap in the pile of brush, and beyond a severe
shaking up and a few bruises was none the worse
for her experience.
"It's the butts and ifs connected with such stunts
as these" she remarked later, that make the dan
gers undergone really greater than they seem to be.
If something had gone wrong there might have
been a very different story to tell. But-and here
the but comes in-I suppose it's all in the days
work, so / have nothing to complain Of" she con-
Guided with a laugh.
s The dangers have also to be faced by the camera
man. An example is the recent experience of a
news camera man in Mexico. A pictorial weekly
representative, hearing that Villas body was being
brought to Chihuahua for Identification, hurried
thither.
"From the time l crossed the border until l re-
turned" he said, telling of his adventures, II was
a constant target for Mexican abuse. 1t was not
until / reached Chihuahua, however, that sny
physical violence was offered. Then there was q
demonstration in the market place despite The fact
that / was under the protection of a Mexican army
officer. Shots were fired at me and l was glad to
get back to the good old U. S. A. with a whole skin
but got some pretty good pictures, after all"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
Profit In Paint.

II paint didn't do anything, but
make the family feel more cheerful
and give them more pride and self
respect, 1t would really be worth all
1t costs, but in this day of ~high-priced
lumber and building material, paint
really pays two profits--pays one
profit in beauty and a second profit
in lumber and dollars saved. Back in
the day when the South was full of
magnificent timber and we didn't
think of trees at all except as ONE
thing nightly in the way when we
wanted to clear a new ground" back
in those days a man might have lived
in an implanted house and consoled
himself that he wasn't losing much
except cheer and beauty. But that
day has passed. It's true that paint
Ing now pays its way besides adding
beauty. In other words, you can get
the fun and satisfaction and good
cheer that come from living in a house
that's painted-you get all this free
gratis" as a sort of surplus b~y-product
of the good common sense business
deal that you make when you have
your house protected by paint.-Pro-
gressive Farmer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
PLANT TREES ON HIGHWAYS
They Make Travel a Delight and In
crease the Value of the Ad-
Joining Property.

Perhaps the idea of trees of one va
riety is a good one. But why not a
variety of varieties? Also, why shade
trees alone, if these be understood to
eliminate all consideration Of peach,
apple, pear and the remainder of the
81 or more of precious memory? No
man who has been a boy in rural life
can see other than wisdom in the sug-
gestion. AS for willful rapine, what
boy ever stole from the tree that hung
its fruit invitingly over the ancient
worm fence?
Here is an opportunity for the pres
ent generation of farmers everywhere
to do a bit of missionary work that
will cause the coming race to rise up
and call them blessed. They them
selves will live to enjoy the sweet
shadows of the trees. Every motor
list will find fresh delight in the drives
along the bOsky roads. The value of
the farm lands adjoining will be en-
HANGED far beyond the cost of the ex-
pertinent. If the shadow of a rock
in a weary land moved the ancient des-
ert prophet to a metaphor adequate to
explaining the solaces of his life's
lean journey, how much more high
ways, ~glistening white between an in
closing vignette of green would serve
to illustrate the delights of a far
better country!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

hesitated, but urged on he braced his forefeet and
prepared to reach the bottom in safety. Every
thing moved swiftly. the camera men ground their
machines and the director shouted encouragement
through his megaphone. But about twenty feet
from the bottom the horse caught his foot in a rock
fssure. stumbled and hurled Miss Little over his
head. She flew through the air head first, landing
in a ciump of mesquite bushes more than ten yards
away.
Spectators rushed to her side, expecting to find
her either dead or seriously injured, but aside from
the shock and a number of scratches she escaped
unhurt. The dumb actor in the scene was less for
%tunate, suffering two broken legs, and had to be
shot.
This untoward incident in making the scene
caused a complete revision of the scenario.
Miss Gertrude Mccoy is known as another dare
devil of the screen. She gives a good account of
herself in every branch of athletics, besides being
a skillful driver of Il motor car. Miss Mccoy drives
her own machine and has used it to advantage in
many of the pictures In which she is starred. Her
most recent exploits have been in connection with
what Is known in the movie vernacular as water
stuff" Strange as 1t may seem, the stunts in her
latest picture do not show up with the same dam
gerous thrills that really characterized their max
ing. This is often the ease in motion pictures;
what looks hard is often easy.
Foolhardiness Meant Injury.
A "water-stun" picture which almost put Miss
McCoy's life In jeopardy was taken for The Isle
of Love" and was made near Jacksonville, Fla. In
one of the early scenes of the photoplay the star
yields to the temptation to go bathing in a pool
upon n rocky bit of coast. The shore at the point
where the picture was taken happened to be made
up of myriads of shells and pebbles compressed
into a crumbllng. jagged stone formation. The wa
ter, moreover, WAS far more shallow than Miss Nc
Coy suspected.
Despite the warning of her director, Edwin Mid
dleton. she jumped boldly into the water, cutting
her feet. ankles and legs severely. She was too
good u picture player, however, to stop while the
camera was grinding. Although suffering from a
number of extremely painful cuts she bravely fin
ished the scene. This episode, which certainly
was not down on the program, laid her up for near
ly a week.
AS the final punch" of Lost in the Everglades"
which is part of "Gloria's Romance" the film serial
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
Value Of a Clean City.

When a stranger visits a city the
lasting impression which he carries
away with him is usually his first i'm
preston. If the city is neat and at
tractive his first thought about it is
apt to be enthusiastically favorable (;
If the city is unkempt and ugly he is
glad to leave 1t, never to return. He
is far more likely to come and settle
down in an attractive city than he is
in an unattractlye one, and the citi-
zen take an interest in and are proud
of their city just in proportion to its
attrnctiveness. 1t is the duty of our
city to be nttractive,-From the recent
report Of the city plan commission of
Newark, n. j..
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
IT]0IMItTGENN
6A&
o~~S9
TO EXTEND USE OF PARKS
Minneapolis Has Been Considering
Suggestions for Improving Recrea-
ton System.

Minneapolis has been studying sug-
gestions for extending the use OF
parks. The subject was embodied in
a report by f. s. Staley of the bureau
of municipal research of the Civic and
Commerce association.
1.-THE conspicuous flaw" says the re-
port, "in the present recreation sys-
TEN is the inadequate provision for
active play of men and women more
than 20 years old. Children will come
to the Fairgrounds almost without in
vitation. 1t is more difficult to reach
adults, yet they need the outdoor life
quite as much as the children. The
park is a more logical center than
the school and park buildings a be
readily adapted to such purposes.
"The park board should increase Its
efforts to make the parks real COMPETE
tors for the saloon, the commercial
dance hall and the movies. This will
involve obtaining park areas adjacent
to the thlckly populated districts, a
policy to which the board is al
ready committed"
The survey also urges a park to
care for the floating population.
Thousands of men temporarily out
of work." 1t reads, "spend their time
In the saloons and cheap lodging
houses, where they are permit
ted to sit down. This privilege Is
denied them in Gateway park. Both
from the health and police standpoint
they are better off outdoors than In
cheap houses open to them"
Everyone who has visited Mime
apolis will remember beautiful Lake
Harriet and its park. 1t is surprising
hen to see that this report advocates
publicity to advertise parks to the peo-
pie Of the city.-Kansas City Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

g
By
HENRY MORTON

! copyright. 1916. by w G. Chapman.)
: Rev. Arthur Smith and his young
wife stopped simultaneously, Mortified,
In the market place of Travancore. A
crowd Of HindUs had gathered about
a a who lay, with n placid look
upon his face, on a bed of sharp-point-
ed nails.
After stretching himself out as If
ne were on a comfortable mattress,
the fakir rose up, smiling, and held
out his copper bowl for aims. The
pice of the %populace clattered against
the sides.
When the bowl was thrust out to
the missionary he turned away with Il
frown and drew his wife's arm through
his.
Sometimes, Mary, 1 doubt whether
these people can be civilized" he said.
FWhat a disgusting exhibition! And
they call that u holy mani
Dir. Smith was only a year out from
the theological college in Iowa. He
had felt n call to act as missionary
among the heather. He was a young
man of ardent mind and intensely in
earnest. but a little narrow, "A little in
capable of entering into the life of the
Indian. Nevertheless he had accom-
plished a great deal of good in Travan-
core, and of the people whom he was
inclined to think u~namenable there
were many who spoke with good will
of him.
1t was three days later when he was
surprised to see the fakir confronting
him in his study. How the man had
got In he did not know. for his native
servant had not admitted him.
mo" said the missionary sternly.
you not give pice to poor fakir?"
asked the man, smiling.
'"I am here to heal mems souls, not to
encourage such barbarous exhibitions.
Do you suppose you can do any good
to yourself or others by those self
inflicted tOrtures?"
The fakir looked at him gravely.
"There are things you know nothing
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

A monument has been erected by
public subscription to the memory of
S~chinparelli, the distinguished astron-
omer, at his birthplace in Italy.
Recent observations of Saturn at
the Lowell observatory show a remark
able change in the color and bright
ness Of the planets ball, which is
now of a pinkish brown tint and strik-
ingly darker than the rings. Compare
sons Of the stellar magnitude of the
planet with Capella. Pr9cyon and Mars
also show that its brightness Is less
than that predicted in the ephemeras.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
sImnIe Rules Prevent Eires.

Here are SOM instructions given by
the states insurance department for
prevention of fires:
Don't put ashes in wooden boxes or
barrels. Use metal cans.
Don't throw hot ashes against fences
or buildings.
Don't fail to burn all rubbish, and
don't leave 1t until the fire is out.
Don't use coal oil to start a dire.
Don't fill an oil stove after dark, and
aever fill one while 1t is lighted.
Don't permit rubbish, paper and
greasy rags to accumulate.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
GATHERED FACTS

California has 1870 mountain peaks
more than $1,000 feet high.
In about fifteen years Argentina has
trebled its are of cultivated land.
A patent for a ~nonalcoholic beer has
been granted a Minneapolis inventor,
A novel umbrella Is equipped with a
storage-battery electric light in its
handle.
German metallurgists have brought
out a substitute for tinfoil that is made
OF zinc.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

The first watches made by machin-
cry were turned out by a Boston fac
tory in 1850.
Receipts from telegraph administra-
ton in China last year amounted to
$3,000,000, which was nearly 81 1000, 900
in excess of expenditures. The gov
eminent owns and operates its tele-
graph lines and is acquiring its tele-
phone service as rapidly as possible.
The French city Of GrenobIe plans to
make Itself a health resort by piping
to baths curative waters from a lake
miles away.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

Your brother is a great
r, / hear.
sure is. And he's quite
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

NE way Of earning a living is bv
jumping from one speeding train to
another. by riding motor cycles Oft
open drawbridges by running pell-
nell over moving freight trains, only
to clutch an overhead cable and to
hang suspended in midair; by Crap
bling with an Infatuated nan in the
cab OF an onrushing locomotive, and
in a hundred ways risking life and
limb. This is what scores of motion
picture actresses and actors do every
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22
HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

WANTED-A young lady to assist in
 Dental office. Dr. l.. E. Dary, 252
 Main street. 9-22-tf
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22

500 Women and Girls Wanted for Work in Tobacco Shops. Steady Elm ployment all winter. Good Wages Earned. Experience not necessary. Apply Monday Morning, Sept. 25, 1916, at o'clock. Come ready to go to work.
 Shops at
 American Sumatra Tobacco Co.,, 22 Burnside Ave-, East Hartford. J. B. Stewart, East Hartford Storage Ware house, 31 Clark St., East Hartford. Silver Lane Warehouse, Station IS, Glastonbury Car, East Hartford. L. B. Haas & Co.,, 152 State St.. Hartford. Steane Hartman & Co.,, 96 Commerce St. Hartford. A. & s. Hartman, 231 State St., Hartford. Hathaway & Steane, 12 Mechanic St., Hartford Meyer & Mendelson 65I Windsor St., Hartford. Griffin -Neuberger Tobacco Co.,, 81 Commerce St., Hartford. The Keiser-Boasberg Warehouse, Station 5S, East Windsor Hill Conn. Floyd vile Warehouse, Tariffville, Conn.
 Apply at any one of above shops. Go to one nearest your home, or apply at THE CONN. LEAF TOBACCO AS SOCIATION Employment Office, 241 State St., Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22

LOST-Ring with about nine keys in
 Kensington or New Britain. Find
 CT return to Herald Office. 9-1S-tf
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22
DOST.

from 63 Lincoln street, gray and white cat, with col lar. Answers to the name of Trixy. Return to 63 Lincoln street. reward.
 9-20-3dx
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22
HOUSE FOR SALE

Eight room, Berlin Street, Berlin, electric lights, gas, furnace, large barn, fruit, quarter acre of land. Tel. 66S-13 or Address Box 9XX, Herald Office.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22
NAGLE SANLTARIUM AND PRIVATE
 HOSPITAL. 5O CEDAR STREET. NEW BRITAIN.

Medical Surgical and Obstetric Patients Quiet location, excellent surroundings, free from institutional atmosphere. The limited number of eight received assures close in diyiduaI attention. All physicians entitled to recognition.
 Conducted solely by
 MARY E. NAGLE, R. N.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-22

WANTED-SecOnd maid. Two in family. Mrs. William T. Sloper, 55
 Lexington St., 9-222d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-15
CLOSE CALL
To BIG SHELL
FIRST siNTEEN INCH SHE'LL.
EVER FIRED ~ L. =. PASSES
THROUGH HOUSE.
TORE GREAT HOLES
The Shell Crashed Through Room
Adjoining One Occupied by
Woman and Three Children.
Shook the Isuil,iing.

WASHINGTON. Sept i5.--,TIow
a 16-inch solid steel shell tore Its way
through "A home near tae big gun
testing grounds at Indian Head,
passing through room adjoining
that in which was woman and
three daughters. was reported in
Washington today.
II was the first 16-inche shell
ever fired in the Emitted States
Sailing from the mouth OF the first
l6-inch gun ever set up TO be tested
Il tore through the thickness of
armor plate. then tore up huge
sand bank, and fitting upward as a
result of this resistance. described
a mile long arch through the air.
Mrs Mary Swami had just finish
ed the midday meal for her hus-
band. William O. Swami. one of the
men engaged in handling the big
gun. Two of her smallest children
followed her into the dining room,
joining her 1S-year-old daughter
There was a terrific roar and crash
and the house shook. When Mrs.
Swami recovered from her fright
she ran into the kitchen There
were great gaping holes in the op-
posite sides of the wall. Outside
the huge mass of steel was still hot.
The accident occurred about three
weeks ago. Indian Head is fifty
four miles from Washington, but is
almost as isolated as desert town.
That is the explanation given as to
the difference in the time between
the occurrence OF the accident and
the receipt of the news here. Few
persons come and go between the
testing grounds and this city.
Little Bessie Swami. aged 4. is
now using the big cylinder as a bobby
horse.
The gun has been fired several
times since without al accident
Ii is said this is not the first time
a big shell has penetrated armor
plate, shot upward and ricochetted
for dangerous distance. The
houses at Indian Head, like that of
Swann's. was supposed TO be far
enough away to be safe.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-15
BRITISH TAKE
GERMAN LINES
SURROUNDING MOVEMENT II
THREATENED IN VICINITY
or tOAIBLEs Is CLAIM.
|FLERs IS CAPTURED
Following Their Successes the british
sweep Eastward Toward the VII
iarc Of Morval Which, n
Near Combics.

LONDON. Sep. l5.---British troops
have broken the German third line
In the greatest assault yet launched
says Reuters Dispatch from head
quarters. The village or Fiers,
mile and a half from tho town Of
Ginchy, has been captured along
with prlaonarB.
The British are sweeping eastward
toward tho village OF Morgai, about
two miles directly north of CONF
bies. In n great movement that threat
ems TO SURROUND the Germans at
combles and effect their capture.
The greater part of the Houleaux
woods. mile northwest or Conbles.
Is already In the hands of the
British.
The British advance. according to
fragmentary bulletins received to-
night. is the greatest yet made by
General Haig.