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Evening star., 1917-12-08

American town.
The second picture is view of the
same street from practically the same
spot as the first picture, taken after
the rebuilding.
Another improvement is square
which was opened up through the orig
inal blocks. This was made possible
by the fact that the original lots were
$50 feet deep. small part of which
was occupied by the buildings. the
balance being given up to the usual
collection of tin cans, ashes and gar
bage. By resubdividing the land. how
ever. more public space and business
properties were obtained of a useful
depth.
The value Of the improved architec-
tural treatment is not only artistic,
but in this case is reflected in a prac-
tical way. for the local shopkeepers
by reason of their handsome, clean and
attractive stores, have been able to do
on improved and enlarged business, re-
tanning valuable trade which otherwise
went to the nearest large city.
Evening star., 1917-12-08

The American public has become SO
accustomed to the heterogeneous ap-
pearance of the average American
town that to most of them it has prob
ably never occurred that there were
possibilities of Improvement. Possibly
many of us have admitted the fact, but
looked upon the subject as utterly
hopeless.
Many European cities have at various
times taken drastic steps to improve
undesirable neighborhoods. both from
a practical and artistic standpoint, but
it has remained for town Of the mid
do west-Lake Forest, Ill.-to inau-
gurate such plan in this country and
carry 1t into execution
We do not overlook the fact that
several American cities have adopted
plans for municipal improvements. but
they are for larger type of city and
Evening star., 1917-12-08
do not generally embrace buildings of

do not generally embrace buildings OF
a private character.
There have been several more or less
successful projects for entire new COM
munities. but the feature of the under
taking herewith illustrated is the i'm
provement of a community already ex-
istent. by abolishing the ordinary
hodge podge OF mediocre shops and
supplanting them with a new arrange
ment. improved both as to practical
usage and artistic appearance.
Realizing the conglomerate appear
ance Of the street opposite the railway
station. which gave to strangers a dis
agreeable first impression of the town,
and also because the street space was
congested, a group of public spirited
citizens organized, and. with the aid Of
an eminent architect, took hold OF the
situation and worked out the results
shown.
The first picture presented shows the
business district of Lake Forest pre-
vious to the rebuilding, and it will be
recognized as typical of the average
Evening star., 1917-12-08
ST. LOUIS REALTY MEN
PREPARING FOR MEETING

Plans for raising $4,000 to entertain
the National Association of Real Estate
Boards in st. Louis. at the annual con-
vention of June 1920 were formulated
this week by the finance committee of
the brokers association of that city
William A Giraldin, chairman of the
general committee, selected subcommittee
who will endeavor to line up practically
the entire membership of the St. Louis
exchange in the work of raising funds
for entertaining the visitors 1t is ex-
pected more than a thousand delegates
will be in attendance at the convention
Evening star., 1917-12-08
Government Leases Residence.

The former residence of the late
Judge Martin F. Morris. 1914 Massa-
chusetts avenue northwest. has been
leased to the quartermaster depart
ment of the War Department by his
daughter, Miss Mary A. Morris, who
has occupied 1t since her fathers death.
The ouartermaster department - to
take Immediate possession Of thu -pToDa
aEtx.. s. EaA afAfs6 todaA - ss---s -
Evening star., 1917-12-08

DR.. J. J. Jusserand. the French ambas-
sador to the United States. is to be the
guest of honor at the annual dinner of
the Pennsylvania Society of New York
tonight at the WaldorfAstoria. Col
Roosevelt and Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts are among the scheduled
speakers
Evening star., 1917-12-08
DISTRICT BUILDING
OPERATIONS PASSED
$1,500,00O MARK

Building operations in the Dis
trict of Columbia during Novem-
Der passed the mfllion-and-a-
half-dollar mark. New buildings
involved a total expenditure of
s1,350.625, and repairs, $166,150,
for a total Of s1.516.775. Improve
ments were distributed to the
various sections Of the city as
follows:
Buildings - Northwest, $780,
$50: northeast, $16,750; southeast,
S11,900; county. $115,285.
Repairs - Northwest, $143,250;
northeast. S10.190; southeast.
s1,S00; southwest. $3.50: county,
$3.50.
Evening star., 1917-12-08
Why Prices Declined.

There are several reasons for this de-
cline in prices. At first the manufac-
turers were able to market cement at
good pice, but. the enthusiasm for
embarking in the business grew. a
Tremendous overcapacity resulted. and
surplus production over the demand op-
erated to lower the price. The psyche
1ogfeal grip which the new project took
upon the imagination of business men
resulted IN an overcrowding of the field
of,-manufacture- OF course, production
1lEs$ce6e of the dsmand became q po-
80 fa3tcG ~ 1oHpE pE1eaa. and ozars
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
"--and Yell for a Doctor"

money game from start to finish. What
is better still, he is fighter from the
word go-what you might call a joyous
fighter. Suppose you drive out tomor-
row or next day and pry into him a
little"
The rancher-president had relspsed
once more into the slough Of discOur-
agement.
'YOu are merely grabbing for hand
holds, Bartley-as was minute ago.
We are in q bad row of stumps when
we can sit here and talk seriously
about roping down young hobo and
putting him into the financial harness.
Let's go around to Frascatl's and eat
before you go back to camp. It's bread
time. anyway"
The chief of construction said no
more about his joking suggestion at the
moment, but when they were walking
around the square to the Brewster Del
monicO's he went back to the dropped
subject In all seriousness, saying
"Just the same, wish you could know
Smith and size him up as I have. /
can't help believing, some way, that
he's all to the good"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Recess Was Called.

A real estate agent was testifylng IN
court recently in case involving the
exchange CT q picture show for a farm.
1t was contended that the theater was
not worth what it was represented.
owing to its locality. The attorney
asked the witness to state what the
surroundings of the theater were.
"Next door to it was a shoe shining
place." he answered, then came a
garage, and next was saloon. and
that's as far as 1 got" When the ex-
element subsidized, the judge observed
that that was good place to stop, and
the customary midsession recess was
called.-IndianapoIi News.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Causes of Nervousness

There is an article on the care OF
children in the Woman's Home Com
panion in which the writer says:
Nervousness sometimes Is the ne.
suit of some physical defect. Malnu-
triton, anemla, defective eyesIght. bad
teeth or adenoids may be the predls-
posing cause. Nature offers the best
cure. Plenty of nOurishIng food aud
wholesome outdoor life are essential
and these children should be encOur-
aged to play and TO take regular ex.
ercise, such as walking, rowing and
swimming. Real country life is always
the best. and camping is a cure In it.
self, first for the outdoor life and
beautiful exercise and. second. be.
cause the nervous child needs the com
pnniOnshlp of other children"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
CHAPTER v.
The Specialist.


Though the matter of calling in an
expert doctor OF finance to diagnose
the alarming symptoms In Tlmanyoni
ditch had been left indetermInate in the
talk between Colonel Baldwin and him
self. Williams did not let it 60 entirely
by default. On the day following the
Brewster Office conference the engineer
sent for Smith, who was checking the
output OF the crushers at the quarry.
and a little later the ''betterment" man
presented himself at. the door of the
corrugated-iron shack which served as
field Office for the chief.
williams looked the cost-cutter over
as he stood in the doorway. Smith was
thriving and expanding handsomely In
the new environment. He had let his
beard grow and II was now long enough
to be trimmed to point. The travel
broken clothes had been exchanged for
working khaki, with lnce-boots and leg
gings, and the campaign hat Of the en-.
gineers. Though he had been less than
a month on the Job, he was already be
ginning to tan and tougher under tho
healthy outdoor work--t0 rot CHEN, a
/ well, his late. fellow members of the
Iawrcrcevile CotilloE club might have
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Too Much for Him.

Transcription has, maybe, saved the
country growled the strapping young
soldier, "but what l object to Is the
company it drives a man into. l am a
practical plumber by trade, an honest
workman, yet I'm compelled to suffer
the society O. sich professionals as u
lawyer, minister, and an auctioneer."
"Not a bad selection, Jock" re-
marked his friend.
"Oh, maybe no In way; but when
the minister and the lawyer start an
argument on Egyptian law in the mid.
die o. the night across half a dozen
beds. with the blessed auctioneer as
umpire, what chance has even prac.
tlcal plumber O. stoppln the gas leaks
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
(To BE coNTINUED.)
Servants as Hosts.

A curious custom exists in the town
of Port of Spain, In the island of Trim
idad. Every year the servants. who
are all black. give q grand ball for
their masters and mistresses. The
Princes building, huge place where
all public entertainments ere held, is
engaged, and everything is done In the
best style. There are two halls for
dancing, one for the servants and tina
other for their guests. both Of which
are beautifully decorated.
The best band in the island is en-
gagged, and the guests are given a
champagne supper. Etiquette is very
strict and precedence rlgidly observed
by the servants, the governors butler
and hi' lady going In before the chief
Justices groom. and so on.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

| out reference to mountain ranges OF
Othe< natural barriers"
williams nodded.
swell, as say, one corner of the Es-
calante reaches over the Hophras and
out into the park, covering about eight
or ten square miles Of the territory
Just beyond us on our side Of the river.
Starbuck told me yesterday that a big
Eastern colonization company had got
a bill through congress alternating that
tract"
The chief Of construction bounded
out of his chair and began to walk the
floor. by Georgel" he said; and
again: "By Georgel That's what
we're up against, colonel Where will
those fellows get the water for their
land? There is no site for dam lower
down than ours, and, anyway, that land
lies too high to be watered by any
thing but nighttime dltchp
"Nice little brace game, isn't it2"
growled Baldwin. IF we hadn't been
lot of hayseed amateurs, we might
have found out long ago that someone
was running In a cold deck on us.
What's your notion? Are we done up,
world without end?"
williams laugh was grim.
"What we need, colonel, is TO go out
on the street and yell for n DOCTOR" he
said. "It's beginning to look as If we
had acquired a pretty bad case of ma
lignant strangle-itis."
Baldwin ran his fingers through his
hair and admitted that he had lost his
sense Of humor.
This Eastern crowd Is trying to
freeze us out, to get our dam and reser-
voir and ditch rights for their Esca-
lante scheme. When they do, they'll
turn around and sell us water-at fifty
dollars an inch, or something like
that -
"What breaks my heart Is that we
haven't been able to surround the sure
enough fact while there was still time
to do something" lamented the ex-
reclamation man. 1.-THE first thing we
know, Stanton will own q majority of
the stock and be voting us all out of
Job. You'll have to come around to
my suggestion, after all, and advertise
for DOCTOR" 1t was said of the chief
Of construction that he would have
jolled on his death-bed, and, as fol-
lower for the joke, he added: "Why
don't you call Smith in and give him
the job?"
you don't really mean that, Will
liams, do you?" growled the colonel.
'No, I didn't mean 1t when said It,"
was the engineers admission; 81 was
only trying to get rise out of you. But
really, colonel, on second thought, l
don't know but it is worth considering.
AS 1 say, Smith seems to know the
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
DANDRUFF AND ITCHING
Disappear With Use of cuticura Soap
and Olntment-TriaI Free.

The first thing in restoring dry, fall
ing hair is to get rid of dandrufP and
itching. Rub Cuticura Ointment into
scalp, next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Prevent
skin and scalp troubles by making CUT
cura your everyday toilet preparation.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

troubled with cramps and feel Ike a
different woman. I cannot praise
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound too highly and / am recommend
ing It to my friends who suffer as | did. !"
Mrs. GEORGE r. NAYLoR, Box u,
Marysville, Pa. ~.
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
headache, dragging down sensations,
fainting spells or indigestion should
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
Write for free and helpful advice TO
lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. ICON
fidentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Only women
open and read such letters.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

IMITATION IS slNcEResT FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita.
tlon has not the worth of the original.
Insist on Ia Creole" Hair Dressing
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price $1.00.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

would nave 10 stay
in bed several days
every month. l
tried all kinds Of
remedies and was
treated by doctors,
but my trouble con-
tinued until one day
/ read about Lydh
E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound and
what it had done for
others. l tried It
! and now ! am never
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
SeIf-Evident.

"Please lady," begged the very dirty
tramp Mt the back door, "can you help
poor man that lost his job three
weeks ago and amt been able to find
no work since?"
"What sort Of job was it?" asked
the lady.
81 was workin' in a soap factory"
swell, It's plain to be seen that you
were not discharged for dishonesty"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
EVanescence.

Does your family have any trouble
with servants?"
NO" replied Mr.. Crosslots, 81 don't
believe any of them stay around the
place long enough to become really
troublesome"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Cen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
COVETED RY ALL

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store 1t to its former beauty and lus-
ter by using la Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with LA Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, ia the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price, S1.00.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Real Sporting Blood.

The kind-hearted woman stopped to
reprove the youngster who had chased
cat up tree.
'You bad boy! Suppose you were a
eat would you like to have anyone
chase you in that fashion,"
Gee, wouldn't I, though, If could
climb like that" said the youngster,
Zrinning.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
EnuIish as She is Smoke

"That was great send-off they gave
Jabbs."
ayes, if there is no comeback to IT,"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
DID He Understand?

Wife-Big checks for dresses will
will not be in demand this season.
HuSband-Thank heaven!
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

Some real opportunities come
TO- "John Smith, but the fear
OF detection and capture worries
him deeply. Some big develop
ments are given In the next in.
NStallment.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Even So.

"Blinkins is an odd specimen"
Flows that"
HE never tries to get even"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Aid the EnemN.

MANY Teller Is sorry his love
letters weren't censored. "-Columbu
Citizen.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
Fittinu Fate.

THE fellow you shot accidentally Is
n birdman."
And I winged him"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12
THOSE awful
CRAMPS
Suggestions that may save
Much Suffering

Marysville, Pa.-'For twelve years
suffered with terrible cramps. J.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

Smith, cashier
and Trust bachelor society leader
HIGHLANDER heess wrongfuly
his urged a scapegoat
Smith strikes Dunham
a
the Rocky gets rough
Job.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-12

If you have talent for criticism, don't
fail to use 1t on yourself.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-09
Advice to a Young Man.

Give up money. give up fame, give
up science, give up the earth itself and
all 1t contains, rather than do an i'm
moral act. And never suppose that
In any possible situation, or under any
circumstances, 1t Is best for you to
do dishonorable thing, however
slightly so 1t may appear to you.
Whenever you are to do thing, though
1t can never be known but to your
self, ask yourself how you would act
were all the world looking at you, and
act accordingly. Encourage all your
virtuous dispositions. and exercise
them whenever an opportunity arises (;
being assured that they. viii gain
strength by exercise, as a limb Of the
body does, and that exercise will make
them habitual-Thomas Jefferson.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-09

creased pan in hot oven 25 minutes.
Serve from the same dish with a
spoon.
cornmeaI Fish Balls. - Pick over
and soak cupful of shredded
goldfish to remove the salt. Add two
eupfuls of cold cornmeal mush, one
egg and tablespoonful of butter. Mix
well and drop by spoonfuls into hot
fat. Drain on paper. These balls
taste as good as those prepared with
potato, and are easily made.
Cornmeal mush poured into u square
breadpan and allowed to become cold
will slice and fry in neat pieces, max
ing a most acceptable breakfast dish.
Castard Corn cake.-Beat two eggs
add quarter of a cupful of sugar and
mix thoroughly. Slft a third of cup
full of wheat -four, teaspoonful eacl
of soda, a cupful of sour milk and one
and two-thirds cupfuls of cornmeal
Mix all the ingredients. Melt two ta-
blespoonfuls of butter in the pan
grease the sides well and pour in the
batter; over the top pour cupful OF
cream. Bake twenty to thirty min
utes. When cooked there will be q
layer of custard on top of the cake.
Indian Pudding.-Scald quart of
milk and stir in very gradually two
thirds of cupful of cornmeal, stirred
with little cord milk, cook until
smooth. Add another quart of milk
cupful of sugar, a half-teaspoonfu
of salt, cupful of finely chopped suet
cupful of raisins. grating of nut
meg, two beaten eggs. Mix well ant
pour into a baking dish. Dust the tor
over the suet generously with flour
which Will make a beautiful brown
crust. Bake slowly three hours.
Hoecake.-These may be baked like
griddle cakes, mixing cornmeal, sal
and water to the consistency of Q
pouring batter. Cook slowly on botf
sides. These cakes were originally
baked before an open fire.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-09

until 1t Is ricn ana
brown, add a pint of rich milk, two
eggs, little salt, sugar and spices to
taste, bake an hour In good rich
crust. Ginger and few drops of
lemon extract make flavoring well
liked by those who have tried it.
Preserved Pumpkfn.-Cut slices from
n good-colored. ripe, sweet pumpkin,
then cut in chips about the size of n
dollar. Weigh them and allow pound
of sugar to each pound Of chips. Peel
the thin yellow rind from few lemons
and squeeze the juice into bowl; al
low a half cupful of lemon juice to
each pound of pumpkin. Add sugar
and lemon juice to the pumpkin and
let stand all night. In the morning
cook for half an hour until the pump
kin becomes clear and crisp. 1t
should have the appearance of candy.
When done take out the pumpkin. put
into jars or glasses, pour the sirup
over and cover as for jelly. This sweet
meat may be served and eaten like
preserved ginger.
Steamed Pumpkin.-Cut pumpkin In
pieces and steam until tended, mash
and season with salt, pepper and but
ter, and serve as vegetable.
Baked Pumpkin.-Cut pieces of
washed seeded pumpkin in sections
and bake In hot oven. Serve as
baked squash, mashed and seasoned
with butter, pepper and salt, or dot
the sections with butter and serve them
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-09

mixed herbs, one teaspoonful of salt
Mix thoroughly and add sufficient hot
milk to moisten; cover and let stand
for ten minutes, add one more cupful
of hot water and turn into n buttered
tin. Bake one hour In a moderate
oven
Nut 6iscuits.-Take quart of
Hour, one quarter of cupful of sugar,
half pound of finely chopped nuts.
one-quarter of pound of butter, three
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der and a half teaspoonfu of salt.
Slit salt and baking powder with the
hour, add sugar and rub in the butter.
Beat the eggs, stir them into the mix
ture and add enough milk to make a
soft dough. Roll out in a half-inch
sheet, cut into rounds and bake In a
hot oven.
Nut Bread.-Sift together two cup
fuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of bnk-
ing powder, half teaspoonful of salt.
Beat one egg, add half cupful of
sugar, cupful of milk stir In the
Hour mixture and three-fourths of a
cupful of walnut meats. Let stand in
the bread pan In which it is to be
baked twenty minutes before putting
into the oven Bake in a moderate
oven forty-five minutes.
Stuffed Green Peppers.-Cut the pep
pers in half and parboil for ten min
utes, removing the seeds and nth.
Drain and chill then fill with seasoned
bread crumbs, nuts, little tomato or
rice, In fact any combination that is
well seasoned will make palatable
dish Pour little boiling water
around the peppers, cover with but
tered crumbs and bake until the
crumbs are brown.
Fruit Salad.-Almost any combina-
ton of fruit with half-cupful of nuts,
makes most acceptable salad, but
few know how good few blanched al
monds are In potato salad, making 1t
quite a dainty dish and out of the or
dinary.
Turkish RoIIs.-Pound a cupful OF
blanched almonds to paste, put into
double boiler with one pint of milk.
a pinch of saffron, one tablespoonful
of sugar, n teaspoonful of salt and u
tablespoonful of butter. Heat to the
scalding point. remove and cool until
luke warm. then add half yeast cake
dissolved in little luke warm water.
Mix with flour to make a soft dough
and knead ten minutes. Put into a
warm creased bowl and cover, let
stand until light. Make into long
rolls, place an inch apart in the pan
to rise. Brush with the white of egg
and sprinkle with finely chopped nj
monds. Bake in hot oven.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-09

as they come from the oven, piping
hot.
Pumpkin Puffs.-Take cupful of
sifted pumpkin, two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter, quarter of a cupful of
milk. salt and two well-beaten egg
yolks, mix and then fold In the beaten
whites, turn into buttered mold. set
in pan of hot water and cook until
firm. Turn from the mold and serve
with a cream sauce.