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New Britain herald., 1917-02-28

being the most mysterious woman of
the screen world. Her very person.
ality is shrouded in mystery. Many
attempts have been made to tear
away the veil of secrecy surrounding
this beautiful and fascinating woman
but it is far easier to discover the
secret of the Sphynix. Miss Bara was
asked to give an estimate Of the num-
Der Of letters she received and how
many photographs she autographs in
the period of a month. II have about
given up the attempt to keep an &C
curate account said Miss Bara. I do
know, however, that my expenditures
for postage, photographs and other
sundries are in excess of $500 a
month. This does not include the
time of both my secretary and my
self spent in opening the letters adj
dressed to me. AS can be seen, it
is quite an expensive proposition, but
can frankly state that the expense
does not bother me. l am more than
delighted to send the autographed
photographs to the many admirers 1
have made since 1 first appeared for
William Fox
Friday and Saturday at Fox's in
addition to Miss June Caprice who
appears in the five-act feature, "A
Child of the Wilds,'' Mrs. Vernon
Castle in the third and fourth chap
ters of the popular serial "Patria.'
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
SIDE TALKS
RUTH CAMERON
These Wond erful Words.
BY RUTH CAMERON

What wonderful things words are!
to think of it, that you can read that
sentence and know what / am think
ing.
Talk about the wireless telegraph.
Here | am sending my thoughts to
you without even knowing who you
are or where you live.
The wonder of this medium, Its
f1exibility, its strange contradictions
came over me the other day after two
little misunderstanding about words
What Does "BuIbs' Mean to You.
The first was this: | said l was
going to give my nephew some bulbs
as one Of his Christmas presents.
For the tree?" asked someone.
For the trce?" I echoed, COM
pletey puzzled.
"WhH, yes" she said, you mean
those little colored electric bulbs for
the tree, don't you?"
" And what l had really meant was
some narcissus bulbs.
1t had never happened to occur 20
me before that the word had two
meanings.
The second misunderstanding hap
pened day or two later. 1 have an
Armenian friend who. with the won
derful ambition of his race. is trying
to put himself through college while
at the same time working inTa butch
er's shop. He brings his compost
tons t.,Al for help in English. One
day he w. scribing an old man and
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
MERRY MERMAIDS
WITH hip, HIPS"

The fancy diving championship of
Hartford and vicinity will be decided
on the stage at the Grand theater on
tomorrow and Friday evenings of this
week, Manager Dan d. Scullen and
the management of the Hip Hip
Hooray Girls" this weeks attraction,
having arranged for contest open
to all amateurs for which suitable
silver cups will be given The con-
test has no restrictions, except that
all contestants must be amateurs.
Already many entries have been re-
ceived. The contest is held in con-
junction with the appearance of the
Diving Bellies in the show which is
scoring very decided hit with Grand
theater patrons. Local interest is
centered in the appearance in the
show 9f Helen Vreeland and Carrie
Pillion, two former Hartford girls.
Two performances are given daily.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Understanding Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, a Well-Known
Ohio Physician

DR.. F. M Edwards for II years
treated scores of women for liver and
bowel ailments. During these years he
gave to his patients prescription made
of a few wellknown vegetable ingredi-
ents mixed with olive oil, naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, you will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause nor
NAL action, carrying off the waste and
poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have pale face, sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head
aches, listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts. inactive bowels, you take one
of DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women as we'll as men
take Or. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
successful substitute for calomel-now
and then just to keep in the pink of con-
dition. 1Oc and Csc per box. All druggists.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28

he said, His white buckles hung
down over his shoulders
BY Buckles He Meant ''Curls.''
I was puzzled for moment and
then he made descriptive gestures.
"Oh, you mean curls." l said.
Yes" said he, happily.
But buckles doesn't mean curls,"
1 corrected.
ooh yes" he persisted. We turned
to the dictionary and ! actually found
that "curls" was one of the meanings
given for buckles.
queer confusion, wasn't it? But
when 1 fell to musing about this
misunderstanding I began to think
how marvellous it was, not that we
should have such Commissions but that
we should have so few of them.
Why Don't We Have More Confusion?
Here we are with just twenty-six
letters out of which we make?
If you turn to the dictionary you
will find that most Of these words
have two meanings, some as many as
seven or eight.
And yet how seldom we misunder-
stand each other because we don't
take the word in the way it is meant!
OF all the miracles Of civilization
is there, after all, anything more
wonderful than this concerted action
by which millions of people agree to
use these symbols in approximately
the same way?
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
Drive AWAY HEADACHE
Rub Musterole on Forehead
and Temples

"A headache remedy without the dam
gers Of headache medicine" Relieves
headache and that miserable feeling from
colds or congestion. And it acts at one I!
Musterole is clean, white ointment,
made with oil Of mustard. Better than a
mustard plaster and does not blister.
Used only externally, and in no way can
affect stomach and heart, as some in
ternal medicines do.
Excellent for sore throat bronchitis,
Group, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, con-
all pains and aches of the back or joints,
sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains,
frosted feet, colds of the chest lit often
prevents pneumonia
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
Ho.z to Help Thousands


Most everyone is anxious to help in
some way to remove pain and suffering
that is why so many homes now
have on hand. ready for instant use,
bottle of Minard's Liniment 1t is sold
by druggists everywhere as the one de.
pendable liniment for stopping pain Of
all kinds For backache, lumbago,
rheumatism. soreness. stiffness and for
sore hands and feet, Minard's Liniment
quickly and surely gives instant relief.
1t is absolutely pure, entirely stainless
and cannot burn nor blister It soothes
the fevered wounds and bruises and
heals healthfully. Be sure your bottle
Is not empty. You may need it any
moment Nothing can take its placa
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
FadS and Fashions

Cartridge tubing is to be used in the
new belts.
A few coats will be curved in at the
waist line.
There will be much stitching on the
spring suits.
Blouses with triangular peplums are
novel idea.
The most fashionable of skirts will
be box plated.
Smart sports hats are covered with
checked stuffs.
Frocks have necks banded and cuffs
Of white linen.
Brick red is combined with navy
blue and jade green.
New mats for spring will lean to the
mushroom styles.
That fancy belts are to return is
the prediction of Paris.
Embroidered linen and organize
are used for spring smocks.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
Household Notes

Oatmeal bread Is both wholesome
and an agreeable change.
Seeded raisins will add flavor to
a lettuce and cheese salad.
Boiled beets with salt and oil
make an agreeable salad
Sirloin steak has no more nutrition
than cheaper cut.
Good homemade ice cream is nu-
tritious and not expensive.
Ham should never be fried or
broiled to the point of hardness.
Baked Indian pudding made with.
out eggs can be most palatable.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
News For Theatergoe1y and Women Readers
MUST BE TERRIBLE
TO BE POPULAR

Theda Bara's latest De Luxe pro-
duction The Tiger Woman" will be
shown at FoX's theater for the first
time this afternoon. In this. her
latest success Miss Bara out does her
brilliant success in THE Darling of
Paris" This is the much heralded
de luxe production of the present
month and is made up of six full
reels. Miss Bara is credited with
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
Menu for Tomorrow
Breakfast.

bFcstkIISI.
Fruit
Planned Chops
flashed Potatoes
Pop Overs Coffee
Baked Meat Custards
Canned Fruit Cocoa
OK Tail Soup
Veal Pot Pie
Mashed Potatoes
Buttered Beets
Maple Cream Layer Cake
Apple Snow Coffee
Maple Cream Layer Cake-Cream
together one cupful butter and one
cupful and half powdered sugar;
add gradually one-half cupful milk,
one scant cupful -four and one scant
cupful corn starch. Beat well, add
ten drops bitter almond and two
tablespoonfuls orange flower water,
then stir the stiffly whipped whites
six eggs and one teaspoonful baking
powder. Beat hard for five minutes
and bake in jelly tins.
Filling-Put cupful and a half
of shaved maple sugar in a saucepan,
add a teaspoonful butter and a half
cupful thin cream and boil slowly
until, when dropped from the point of
spoon it will spin heavy thread.
Take off, add one teaspoonful vanilla
and beat until quite thick, then spread
between the cooled cake layers.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28

Half the battle in the use of Pals
lev shawling is the use of some very
rich plain color with it-russet OF
wine red for instance.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-28
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON

with evidences Of Jacks love and care
for my mother and me. Then reluct-
antly, and with bitter remorse, |
thought of the way in which / had
requited that faithful, tender affcc-
ton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
DIR. WORKMAN REELECTED.

Philadelphia, April 6.-Dr. J. M. Workman has been reelected presi- dent of Henderson-Brown college, the college board taking advantage of the opportunity at the annual meet ing this week to extend its hearty compliments at the growth and pros perity of the institution under his management.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07

Free Cooking School and Home Economies Course
 April 2 to 7, Inclusive.
 Shriners Temple,
 Direction
 Mrs. Helen Harrington Downing.
 Under Auspices of Starts at 2 D. m. Each Day
 Program for Saturday.
 Emergency Menu.
 Tomato Soup.
 Tuna Salad. I Duchess Potatoes. II Peaches with cream. Tomato Soup (Canned: |I Method-Open can and turn soup II into an open sauce pan and allow t to take up oxygen from the air. %1,~ fo o1v od1y n serve, heat the soup to the boiling point and serve very hot. Duchess Potatoes: Two c. mashed potatoes. Two t. butter One-half t. salt.
 Yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Shape in form of croquette. Brush over with beaten eggs diluted with one t. water. Brown in oven. Tuna Salad: One large can tunna fish. Two cups chopped celery. One bunch parsley. One bunch lettuce. Two t. chopped olives. Six t. olive oil Two t. vinegar. Salt.
 Onion juice. Paprika. , Method-Cut the tuna into half inch cubes, and the celery into pieces of similar size then add the chopped ! olives Mix, marinate with French dressing. Arrange on salad plate lined with lettuce. Sprinkle with . chopped parsley. Peaches (canned) with cream: One can canned peaches (halves). One cup whipped cream. . One dog. Marischino cherries. Three t. sugar. + One t. vanilla. Method-Arrange the half peaches. cavity up. upon desert dish with a . little of the juice. Sweeten and flaw or the whipped cream and place a tablespoonful on each half peach and s sprinkle with chopped cherries. Serve aS desert
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-07
H..R,{ COMMENCEMENT

Philadelphia, April 6.-President !. M. Workman of Henderson Brown college has announced commence ment speakers as follows: Bishop E. D. Mouzon of Dallas, Tex, June 3, sermon to class of 1917; Skipwithe Adams of Helena, baccalaureate ad- dress. June 6. Graduating recitals will begin June 13 at the college.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-16
WONDERS WHAT THE NEIGHBORS THINK
DOLLY-ETTES
There are few MEN in the World successful enough
to have SECRETS, and no-WOMEN.

head to begin with. But I'll not nurse
you, sir; I'll not give you one drop
of medicine or wait on you II you
take pneumonia and-and, oh, Mr.
Caudle. would feel 30 differently If
only 1t had been for anything worth
while. but when 1t comes to your as
ISOLATION with that horrible old .crea-
ture Tattle-tale. I Just can't help being
resentful and peeyish. Besides, you'u
never get your money back from old
Tattle-taIe he neve. was known to pay
a debt and money he borrows from
friend is Just as good as gone Where
do I hear such rot? From everybody
who knows old Tattle-tale. Didn't Mrs
Gottrox tell me only the other day
that her husband had been stuck Just
the last week for $40 by old Tattle-
tale Now, can you deny that? What's
that? You don't believe tt2 Certainly
not; never heard of anything you
did believe except something you told
yourself. And by the way, Mr.. eau
die, that's a dreadful habit you've got
into, of saying every time anybody
tells you anything. I don't believe it,
You must correct yourself of 1t.
Another thing. Mr.. CaudIe. associat-
ing with man like old Tattle-taIe
brings other bad association other
old buns and rakes see you putting up
money for him and they will ask you
to do the same for them and the next
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DOLLY-ETTES
HASTE-to get to the Table, Sir Epicure, maketh-
WAIST!

around from pillar to post like ship at
sea. No. 1 have too much respect for
myself even If 1 haven't for you, to
indulge in scathing remarks before out
siders about the husband of my heart
and the father of my children!
Il should like to know. Mr.. Candle
what the neighbors think of your per-
formances anyway, driving up in taxi
cabs at 2 and o'clock in the morning!
I've always been a decent, law-abiding
citizen and I've tried to maintain my
self-respect and position in this com
munity People being disturbed at all
hours of the night with chugging auto
mobiles putting and blowing in front
of the premises and you coming in all
mussy and mad and growing like a wild
man, is certainly disgraceful. Indeed, 1
never knew you'd develop into such
creature when 1 married you, Mr.. Caudle,
or there's nothing on the top-side face
of the earth that would have ever
made me do it."
What's that you say? Your being
out late all came about through your
having to take care of old Tattle-tale?
And what's that you say about not de-
sorting a friend when he needs you?
That's all very we'll, Mr.. Caudle, but
that's just the point I'm coming to;
your friends 1t seems genuine pity to
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me that with all the nice, respectable
men in the world you should make a
boon companion and associate of old
Tattle-tale Don't tell me he's been ILL
used, and that has driven him to drink
and other things Old Tattle-tales not
the man to be ill-used by anybody.
What's that? It's his home life that s
SO wretched and that termagent of a
wife he's tied to? Mr.. Caudle, don't you
dare say such a thing to me again, sir; 1
won't listen to abuse of Mrs. Tattle-
tale; she's Christian woman; good
woman; she stands for everything that's
fine and splendid, and I won't have you
say that her treatment of old Tattle-
tale has caused him to behave as he
has"
What's that? She nags him nearly to
death and you feel sorry for him? Id
like to know what knowledge you have
of nagging? You certainly have never
been nagged you don't know what
nagging wife Is. but then that's all the
credit I'd expect from you; there's never
tine when you see me in the right
light. as the faithful, devoted loving,
self-sacrificing wife that I've been to you
for over rs years. Not you"
"How's that? If Mrs. Tattle tale.
would be kind to old Tattle-tale and
treat him half way decent he'd never
run away from home every night and
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months; waiting for you to say those
very words. And yet you've upbraid-
ed me and scolded me and kept me
awake nights quarrellng with me be-
cause 1 said old Tattle-ta1e was roue
"a sofa disgrace to any self respect
ing community Leader of the purity
squad is 1&at you called me I be-
lieve: the kind of woman you said
whose motto is: To the pure all things
are impure Oh. you, you did, Mr.. eau
die; you talked outrageously to me
and now you've come up admitting
that old Tattle-tale is everything that
said he was. That's Just what I've
been wanting you to say. sir; now we
will proceed.
What's that? He got into trouble
and he called on you to lend him some
money so he could straighten matters
out and you got in late because you
stayed at the club talking the matter
over with him and before you knew
1t the hours had crept up into the
morning? Go tell 1T to the marines,
MIR. Caudle! You can't bluff me that
way. You were UP to no good with old
Tattle tale and you needn't try to make
me believe you were. I've cut my eye
teeth, sir. and 1 know few things
even If 1 do look like a greenhorn.
And such a night tool Raining and
storming and you with a cold in your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-16
GARRY ON LETTERS IN WAR

TIME"
BY Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson. with
an introduction and notes by his father
w. ]. Dawson) F'rontispiece. The
John Lane Co., publishers, New York.
Absorbingly interesting as all these let
tiers are, with their vivid phrasing which
tempts to endless quotation, the, very
last, written when the news came to
the front that the United States was
"threating to come over and help u.s."
Is to Americans one of the most inter
esting of them all For America is Mr..
Dawson's adopted country, and here he
writes of his hopes for her, his dread of
what may happen to her should she re-
fuse to enter the conflict; America as
a great nation will die, as all coward
civilizations have died, unless she ac-
cepts the stigmata of sacrifice" To
those Americans who are preparing to
take their place at the front to those
fathers and mothers who must stay at
home and wait, this little volume bears
fine an Inspiring message. Here is the
spirit we want to have, the spirit which
should animate us as a nation, expressed
very clearly and very simply. And to
those who have ever dared to doubt the
capacity for heroism of the men of today
this book gives a complete and SPLEEN
did answer
No better title could have been chosen
for Mr.. Dawson's book than the slogan
os the indo1nitable Canadans-"Carry
On
OUR PART IN THE GREAT WAR"
BY Arthur Gleason. Frederick A.
Stokes Co., publishers. New York
Those who think that Americas role
in the war is only just beginning, will
be surprised to learn that there are at
present 10000 of our fellow countrymen
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Tears Caude J DeiDer Veru Pointed Curtain Lectures
v cuD o v THEM sTmu1 100000

M 81 LAS, Mr. Caudle, if poor
IN women only knew what they
GSA have to go through What
with buttons to sew on and
three meals a day to look after and
swarms of children SO thick that they
look like can of bait, and one thing
and another it it almost too much and
woman'd never tie themselves up-not
TO the best man in the world, I'm sure-if
they only knew! What would they do?
why, they'd do much better without
them Women are not dependent upon
men for their happiness; no, not by a jug
full"
Whats that you say? Somebody asked
you the other day If coffee kept you
awake at night and you said it did when
your wife drank it for dinner? 1 sup
pose you think that's funny, Mr.. Caudle,
but l see nothing funny about it; it's
coarse, and common and very familiar
and personal and think that man who
would joke at his wife's expense would
do anything But then you are never
so pleased as when you are doing some
thing at somebody else's expenses; that
is one thing that makes you sore;
expense. But we won't discuss that now;
what l will say right here, Mr.. Caudle
Is that you can't get funny and familiar
with me. No, stree. There's nobody
who can be familiar with me, ard if
there's one thing that ! abominate above
all others, it is personalities Besides, if
I INDUCED in anything personal with
you out in company I'm sure you'd be a
disgraced man. I'd never think of speak
ing of how you keep me awake at night,
coming in at all hours of the morning,
sometimes half intoxicated and 1unging
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-16
The Ideal Aerial Bomb

From the Popular Science Monthly
An aerial bomb which exp1odes about
six feet above the ground, regardless of
the height from which it Is dropped, has
been tested out by the ordnance depart
ment and probably will be manufactured
in large numbers.
The novel feature OF the bomb is that
1t eXplodes before 1t hits the ground
whether 1t is dropped from a height of
2OO0 or 10000 feet. The difficulty with
bombs used in the past is that they have
been fired by contact with the ground,
burying themselves In the earth before
exploding. Thus 80 per cent OF the force
OF bomb dropped on ordinary ground
Is expended against earth, instead of
scattering its fragments over a wide
area above ground.
Inventors have been aware of this de-
ficiency of the pear-shaped bomb for a
long time. The idea uppermost in their
minds has been to develop a bomb that
would explode head high and whose
bursting fragments would cover wide
circle before reaching the ground. So
far as Is known no foreign country has
such bomb in its possession. The bomb
which comes closest to realizing the
maximum of efficiency, as the ordnance
department interprets that term, is this
bomb devised by Mr.. Barlow.
The above-ground explosion is made
possible by rod that protrudes from
the point of the bomb after it has been
dropped from the aircraft carrying it.
This is about six and one-half feet long.
AS soon as its point touches the earth
1t sets into operation a detonator con-
tanning about 200 grains of illuminate of
mercury, which Immediately sets off the
explosive.
The bomb weighs about 100 pounds. 1t
contains about 40 pounds of trinitrotoluol
and the steel casing and other metal
parts of the bomb, which are blown into
fragments by the explosion, have total
weight of about 90 pounds.
The bomb Is about six feet six inches
long and the diameter OF the war head
Is about six inches. At fits upper end
there is a stabilizer which keeps 1t true
to its course. The bomb is carried sus-
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What She Lost
e washington Star.

From the Washington Star
The coal barons and the steel
barons promise to give the people a
square deal during war time, but I
guess there's no real danger of their
going too far and robbing themselves
in the peoples behalf"
The speaker was Samuel Gompers
Yes" he went on. there's no dan
ger of their acting like the young
lady at the shore. who said to her
father:
Papa, 1 lost my heart on the
moonlit beach last night, and accept
ed old Rake Harduppe. Poor Rake
is no longer young. I know, but, as 1
said, I've lost my heart
Z" 'Humph,' snorted her father, L
think it's your head that you've lasA =
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thing you know youn be a regular
banking house for every old sot ia
town, and that would be a beautiful
example to 20 down to your children
I'm sure they'd want to change their
name from the old, time honored and
highly respected name OF Candle to-
to-well, anything. Smith or Jones or
Brown. What's that? Won't 1 please
go to sleep? Certainly not. until you
have promised me that you viii stop
associating with such pernicious char
acters as old Tattle.tale. What's that7
You'll never promise anything so silly
and foolish? You don't believe in hui
moring a womin in any such whims2
All right, Mr.. Caudle. then I shall take
the matter in hand myself and ths
very next time old Tattle-taIe darkena
our door 1 shall walk straight UP to
him and ask him TO turn around and
walk right outl Moreover. shall tell
him precisely why; I guess that VIII
hold you for while. sir"