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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
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If old pots are used for pOtting
bulbs they should be thoroughly
scrubbed and washed inside and out
Do not use too large pots for bulbs.
Four-inch pots will hold one hyacinth
bulb and a six-inch pot will hold five
tulips or five Roman hyacinths; three
hyacinths or three narcissi.
When pots of bulbs are placed in
dark, cool cellars or closets, give them
only sufficient water to keep the soil
moist. Examine them frequently and
see that the soil does not become dry.
Six weeks is the usual time that
bulbs require to make a good root
growth, but some may require more
and some less time. When top growth
is an inch high, the roots are possibly
sufficiently developed so the plant can
be started in growth. Stand the plants
on a table or the floor and cover with
newspaper for few days before ex-
posing to the strong light. Allow this
to remain for a few days and then
gradually reduce and admit light. AS
soon as the plant assumes deep green
color it may have unobstructed light.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
Care in Applying Powder.

Applying face powder has become
an art. and there isn't one woman in
q hundred who understands it prop
erly. She either puts on too much or
not enough. Usually she uses too
much and then does not know how to
remove it so that the effect remains
without the powder showing.
First have the face perfectly clean
and choose a powder that suits the
tint of the natural skin. Powders are
offered in six different shades. After
these important points have been OBJ
served, dust the powder over the face
with a generous hand, using a piece
of absorbent cotton in preference to
a powder puff. This is more sanitary
and better for the skin.
Do not forget to powder the neck,
ears and eyelids. For when they are
neglected the face looks queer and the
eyelfds become too prominent. Then
with the finger tips gently manipulate
the face, rubbing the powder in, not
brushing it off, as the ignorant wom-
an will do. Rub under the eyes and
up close to the hair, and for the eye
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
Best Way to Hang Skirt.

The woman who makes her own
clothes is always on the alert for
means which will facilitate the work.
A splendid way to hang a SKIRT hem
is to use an ordinary foot rule folded
together so that it measures six inches.
Place one end of the rule on the floor ;
then put pin or chalk mark on the
skirt where the other end would come,
and continue at intervals all around
the skirt. When done your dress
measures exactly six inches from the
floor and hangs perfectly true. Place
the skirt on the table and measure
down two or more inches, according
to the number of inches you wish your
skirt to hang from the floor.
1t is a splendid idea to hang skirt
by the belt for "a hours before you
attempt to turn up the hem. This
prevents sagging.
The woman who has no one to turn
up her skirt hem will find the follow
ing method helpful: First of all, the
skirt is put on belt and fastened on
the figure. Taking 81 yardstick and a
piece of chalk or pins, a line is traced
around the hips one yard up from the
floor. When the line is well marked.
remove the skirt, and then after de-
termining the number of inches the
skirt is to be above the floor, measure
off the required number from the SO
inches already lined off. For instance,
if you wish your skirt to be six inches
from the ground. merely pin off or
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

takes 10000 roses to produce an ounce
Of altar. War and weather cut the
output this year to 10000 ounces, al
though normally the country does
twice that volume of business.
When the roses rach the distiller he
takes 20 pounds of roses and 10 gal
Ions of water and makes his first mix
ture. From this he gets 80 pounds of
rose water. This is again distilled to
make the concentrated extract. The
altar is the cream that rests on top
of the Redistribution. 1t is skinned off
much like the farmer skins his milk.
There is serious opportunity for the
western culturist in America in this in
dustry. I understand that experts are
studying the Bulgarian reports to see
what real prospect may be found for
us. New York, London and Paris are
the chief markets for the output.
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To Help Rapid Transit.

The blasting off of a 15-foot layer
of rock from the top of Coenties reef
in East river, New York, just east of
the lower end of Manhattan, and, at
the same time, the boring Of two tun-
nels under this reef, constitute a dual
engineering undertaking now in prog
ress that is calling for unusual precau-
tons and skillful procedure, says Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine. The tunnel
will serve as q new rapid-transit link
between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The
cost Of cutting down the reef is being
borne by the federal government and
New York city. At mean low tide the
reef has been % feet below the sur
face, a distance that is not regarded
as safe for some heavily laden boats.
The new depth of 40 feet will be more
sufficient, it is believed. The tunnel
ing, which could not we'll be delayed
until after the channel was deepened,
is progressing ahead of and faster than
the river-bottom excavating, which is
proceeding at right angles to the tun-
nelS.
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With Fur and Beading.

the upper half is of another material
trimmed in bands of fur or beading or
embroidery, or possibly contrasting in
color with the bottom of the bag and
covered by an open mesh network of
beads.
Bags, oval or round, like the one
with alternating bands of fur and
beading following the oval or circular
lines of the bag; and effects some
what similar are secured by making
The bag of silk, velvet cloth or metal
hc cloth and setting the circular or
oval lines of fur upon this surface
so that q line of the material shows
alternately with the line of fur.
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DECORATING THE TABLE
By l.. MI BENNINGTON.

1t is not necessary to have any IN
limited bank account or big credit with
florist in order to see that the table
ia supplied with tasteful decorative
effect. Plants grown in the window
can be made to do the double duty of
frightening the house and giving a
finishing touch to the table.
There is nothing better in the whole
list for making the table CHEEKY than
the Asparagus Plumosus. The dainty
foliage of this fine plant is like lace.
The plant can be made to take the low,
broad aspect that is so essential to ia
BILE decoration. All that is required is
to pinch the young fronds as soon as
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

the scenarios. Take any retail dry
from the cash girls to the store super
intendent is writing scenarios on the
side. Also, Zapp, if you go into a
street car and q fellow opposite YOU
IS talking to himself, y'understand, yot,
might think he's a lunatic, Zapp, bur
as a matter Of fact he amt crazy by
from three to ten dollars, on account
l. is doping out a scenario which he
would sell for sOmewheres around that
price to a moving picture concern.
Furthermore, if you see a man stand
still on the sidewalk and make marks
on an old envelope with a pencil, that
amt no sign that he's trying to figure
how it could be he is overdrawn at
the bank two dollars and fOrty-five
cents. No, Zapp. A Teller could make
a living nowadays collecting old enve-
lopes and selling 'em to people to
make memorandums of scenarios on"
slow do they do it?" Zapp ex-
claimed. 81 could no more write see
mario and get away with it as check
for million dollars"
That's because you amt never tried
to write scenario" Birsky said. 'All
you've got to do is to take a play like
Hamlet for instance, and you call
Hamlet Ned and the king Mexican
Louis. Then you dictate the main
points to a stenographer and send it
to moving picture concern which was
formerly in the plumbing supply bust
ness or children's knee pants, and
you're bound to get away with it,
Zapp, because the only plays them fell
lers knows anything about is shows
they used to take their customers to
see, and if you are trying to sell a
customer goods, you naturally don't
take him to see Hamlet Am / right
or wrong?"
"YOu don't take him to a moving
picture, neither" Zapp said.
81 know you don't" Birsky replied.
asking a customer to go to tbeay-
ter and then taking him to a moving
pictures, Zapp, is the equivalence Of in
wiling him to lunch and then blowing
him at a drug store to an egg choco-
late with matted milk
"At that, there's lots of people
makes a luncheon off of chocolate
matted milk" Zapp said.
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ROSES GREATEST PRODUCT
BY ELIZABETH VAN eENTHUYsEN.

1t is not often in this war-ridden pc
Rod that any gentle bit of information
comes from the zone of cannon and
shell, but here is q most vitality inter-
esting bit of knowledge which has been
turned up, as it were, by the point of
the bayonet and sent to US officially
from Sophia.
1t puts new light upon altar of
roses and offers not only an intensely
interesting insight into the most valu-
able character of rose culture but, per-
haps, valuable light for the guidance
OF the American culturiStS, notably
along the Pacific coast, where roses are
raised in many places so prOfusely that
hedges and lamp post and telephone
pOle-OrnamentS are fashioned from the
virile growths.
Once We had the Idea that a weird
procession of camels, winding Slowly
along the Persian heights, brought sea-
ward the altar of roses and that the
shah's domain had d monopoly in this
line. Later the Turk came to be re-
garded as competitor for the hOnors
of getting the most concentrated eS-
sence known from the blossoms.
Now comes the official information
that Rose Valley, in Bulgaria, is the
worlds greatest source of the costly
perfume and that the Bulgarian pro-
fusion of rose culture has cut the price
OF altar of roses from the old $50 an
ounce down to So.
We learn these things, and the ac-
cOmpanying absorbing detail, all be-
cause the BulgarianS are disturbed in
this gentle occupation by the more
pressing business of meeting the
allied arms on the south and the
Roumanians and the Russians to the
north. We have little interest in their
clash of arms on this page, other than
as it interferes with the worlds great
est rose garden.
The Bulgarian rose district lies on
the south side of the Balkan mountains
IN territory that once belonged to Tur-
key. 1t is 1900 feet above the sea
level and constitutes a district about
as long as Long island and twice as
wide. There are in Rose Valley alone
10000 acres of roses and the atmos-
phere is SO pregnant with the Odor
of the blossoms that it is like standing
in the doorway of a flower shop to
enter the fairy realm.
The roses are both red and white,
although the red, being the stronger,
is preferred for making altar of roses.
The young rose bush is planted Is
inches deep in mixture of earth and
manure, and when it is once tucked
away, after May of the third year it
becomes paying property for the next
20 years.
The distillers take from the Bulga-
rian realm every year about 100000
roses. 1t is estimated that it takes 200
roses to make a pound and that the an
nua1 crop is about twenty tons. 1t
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

~ MET Sam Polongin in the sub
way this morning" Barnett
Zapp, the waist manufacturer,
said, as with the aid of his thumb and
quart Of gravy which remained from
his portion Of potatoes and gravy, he
demonstrated the capillarity of a slice
of rye bread.
"And how is the herring businessW
Louis Birsky the real estater asked.
What do you mean-the herring
business" Zapp demanded. ''The her
ring business is now a side issue for
Sam. Him and J. Schlapp Of Katz-
berg & Schlapp in the pants business
has formed the CharOSes Fillum
Company and next week they are
going to release their first fiIIum by
the name The Fatal Murder"
'1he way it looks nowadays" Biz
sky said, Everybody has got two
businesses-his regulsr business and
the moving picture business"
"All except the feiler in the cheap
candy business" Zapp said. There
amt nothing in the cheap candy bust
ness no more. Bissky, on account If
lady gives her six-year-old boy five
cents he should buy himself q taffy
on stick, understand, he goes right
away to moving pictures instead and
blows in the nickel to see Thou Shalt
Not COvet Thy Neighbours Wife a
feature fillum in five reels"
Not alone cheap candy" Birsky
said, "but every business Is feeling the
effects of the moving picture business
"a few businesses favorable, like the
delicatessen and lunchroom business,
which the nearest some married men
has got to home-cooked dinner since
the moving pictures started is q half q
pound of sliced bolony NIT kartoffel
salad. Then there is the spectacle
business, which while in former times
ladies whose husbands made from
thirty dollars week down used to get
hOusemaidS knee from keeping the fiat
looking as neat as pin, understand,
they have now got to be fitted with
glasses for eye strain from watching
moving pictures every afternoon up
to five minutes before six or five min
utes before whatever time the hus-
band comes home"
well. there's one business moving
pictures amt improved none" Birsky
said. land that's the regular theayter
business. Even on first nights nova
days the fifty-cent gallery and balcony
is empty excepting the ushers and a
couple of dozen reporters with false
mustaches and smoked glasses which
was barred out by the management
for claiming that the. FolIies should
ought - be stag. The theayter man
ayers is kicking something terrible
about she way the moving pictures is
eating into their business, Zapp."
Sure know" Zapp said, land they
are their own worst competitors, Bir-
sky. It's like if all the saloOnkeepers
would become temperance lectures be-
cause they seen a chance to make a
little money on the side and then COM
planned there was no more profit in
the liquor business, understand.
Every theayter manager has got also
q chain of moving picture houses. They
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
Lightens Wash-Day Labor.

The housewife who does most of the
washing at home needs no reminding
that washing day is one of the hardest
work days in the week, and not the
least troublesome part of the work is
the hanging of clothes on the line, for
it entails continually STOPPING, first for
the clothes and then for the pegs.
The novel little article shown in our
sketch will at any rate make the work
of hanging the clothes lighter, and it
can be easily made with a remnant Of
unbleached linen or other suitable ma
terial. 1t consists of n double row OF
small narrow pockets into which the
pegs may be slipped.
These pockets are sewn to band
that can be tied round the waist in the
way shown in the small sketch on the
right of the illustration. In this posi-
ton the pegs can be removed one by
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

Cut down the dead stems of peren-
malls to within five or six inches of the
ground.
Hardy flower beds are benefited by
forking over and being given a good
dressing of well-decayed manure.
Clean your lawnmOwer with kerO-
sene, then coat with heavy oil before
storing it.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
Hone for Poor Writers.

Motion pictures are being employed
for the purpose of making scientific
study of the various movements in
writing with q view TO aScertaining
how poor writer's can best be taught
TO improve. Motion pictures have
been taken of children of two groups:
Good writer's and poor writer's. These
pictures have been thrown on the
screen for the purpose of Analysing the
kinds of movements which character
lie good as distinguished from poor
writer's. The Investigators are not yet
ready to make final deductions as to
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

They're welcome, for all of me-"
Birsky said, 'but so long as I've got
the price I would stick to soup, meat,
dessert and coffee, and I'm the same
way about going to q show. When
| go broke, I'll be moving picture
fan too, Zapp, but as it stands, when
l feel like taking in theayter 1 want
to see a show which was written by
an author, not a truck driver. Also
l like to hear an actor as well as see
him, Zapp."
'Me too," Zapp agreed, "and if he's
got other talents besides falling out of
an oitermobile GO thirty miles an
hour, BirSky, so III Il the better"
Copyright New York Tribune)
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
He Had Them

There We're three brothers at the
place where we spent our vacation this
year. They were playing with a stout
string one day. the two older boys
pulling against the youngest boy. They
were pulling around a tree stump and
didn't see little Bill when he put the
string in his mouth and held it with
his teeth, and naturally but fatally
they kept on pulling. In a moment
they heard terrible yell, and ran
to find Bill with blood-stained hand
and mouth and the news they'd pulled
his teeth out.
They all went solemnly to their
mother, who pulled little Bill into her
arms and wept over him. "Oh. Bill.
you've lost your teeth and you'll have
to wait until you're man to have
Others
NO. I won't, mamma" Bill said, and
stopped crying long enough to unclasp
his little blood-spattered fist. 81 didn't
lose them. Here they are."-Chicago
Tribune.
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BAGS IN VARIETY
WOMAN MAY MAKE CHOICE OF
KIND SHE PREFERS.
Color Schemes and Shapes, Where
Beads Are Employed, Are In
numerable-Many of the Most
Effective Made at Home.

, 1t is Strong-minded woman who
is contented with one bag this season,
and it is stole who is contente3
with a cheap bag.
Bag temptation turks in every shop
window, and if one cannot afford to
buy the bag of ones hearts desire
perhaps one can make it. a host OF
women have turned to bag making
are crocheting, embroidering, stitch
ing bits of velvet and fur or old bro
cade and fur together, and some OF
these amateurs achieve surprisingly
good results, though most of them
despair.
1t would take talents more than or
binary to produce rivals to some of
the bags shown in the shops. Beading
plays an important role in the max
ing of most of them, but the ways of
using the beads are many and the
color schemes and shapes are infinite,
~ varied.
Pouch shapes, big and little, fat OF
slim, are made up in many materials
but usually in soft stuffs so that they
are more or less collapsible. Some OF
them though, of supple silk or velvet
or fur or crocheted silks or woods
are kept from faintheartedness by
reeds run into shirrings around the
center or by some slightly stiff band
set under an encircling band of bead
embroidery or fur.
Often the lower part of pouch
bag will be of one material, fur, silk,
solid beading, velvet or cloth, while
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27

they have reached a growth of from II
to Is inches. Then the lower branches
spread and the plant takes the iati-
tude that it would never get if it were
allowed to follow it's own bent.
A few long-stemmed flowers, placed
between the fronds will give the plant
all of the color and relief that one de-
sires. Roses, carnations, narcissus,
and half a dozen other flowers can be
made to do duty in this respect, the
choice depending upon the region, the
taste of the owner and the circum-
stances of the case.
For the best results, give the plant
a soil of rich garden loan, lightened
with sand Water should be used very
moderately, indeed, and the plant does
not need sunshine. 1t should be show
cred several times each week.
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Here is how thousand dollars or so
looks when it is turned into clothes.
This suit is made of blue black vel
vet in Russian blouse effect. The
hat is one of the latest transparent
models.
chalk off 30 inches along the bottom
of the skirt measuring from the line
placed about the hips. At the lower
traced line the hem is turned up.
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Classified.

A young woman called at the Boston
post office and inquired if there was a
letter for her. Business or love let
ter?" jokingly inquired the clerk.
Business" was the hesitating reply,
accompanied by a deep blush. AS
there was no such letter to be found
the young lady took her departure.
She came back. however, after little
while. and said, in faltering tones,
please, would you mind looking
among the love letters ?n-Woman's
Journal.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-27
Must Match frock.

slippers and stockings should match
the evening dresses" said a well
known dressmaker the other day.
Where the dresses are so short in
places, or so transparent, If a different
colored stocking is worn the silhouette
is wrong. No matter how lovely the
dress may be, the effect is spoiled If
this is not covered.
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and supposing, for instance, he's got
restaurant In it, understand, then
every night that show plays in New
York or Grand Forks or Sandusky or
wherever it happens to be, they put
on the stage real restaurant, with
coffee machines and gas griddles, and
they broil right there in front of the
audience every day steaks for ten or
fifteen dollars, because Mr.. Belasco is
very artistic that way. If he puts on
restaurant, it's put on right; it don't
make no difference what it costs; but
you take a moving picture feller, and
if he has got a fillum with a restaurant
in it, all he does is to go to reStau-
rant and ask the teller that runs 1t he
should allow for a five-dollar note the
movie actors TO carry on there, and
pictures is taken of it with a camera.
understand me, they flash on the
screen:
NED DISCOVERS HIS SISTER IN
A FASHIONABLE BROADWAY
RESTAURANT.
and afterwards they show the fashion
able Broadway restaurant, and on the
wall is a sign:
CHILL CON CARNE, 15c
That's the difference between Mr.
Belasco and moving picture fellers.
What do they care about being arts
tire If it's going to cost an extra ten
dollars, Zapp? All they want is to
keep the expenses down"
THAT'S where you make a big mis-
take" Zapp declared. Moving pic
ture fellers is eaten up with expenses.
For instance, the wages which NOV
ing picture fellers pays to their actors
is something terrible. Five hundred
week is small already"
well, why nOt?" Birsky retorted.
Look what moving picture actor is
got to do to earn his money. We will
say, for example, that he goes to work
at nine o'clock. At half past nine he
goes up to Central park and falls out
of a OitermObile running thirty miles
an hour. The first time he falls out,
maybe, the Teller that works the cam
era wasn't looking, so he's got to fall
out again This time somebody moves
the camera, so he falls out third time,
and one way or another they keep that
actor falling out of an oitermobile 60
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are killing the hen that laid the golden
eggs"
That's all right, too" Birsky re-
torted, "but compared with the golden
eggs which moving pictures is laying
the old-time thayter was a rooster,
Zapp. And not only is the moving pic
ture fellers making big money. but
they amt got TO invest not near as
much capital as regular theayter
manager. Take this here Belasco, for
instance, which he specializes on re-
elastic shows with telephone switch
boards, restaurants and doctors offices,