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New Britain herald., 1917-09-01

There are certain people who al ways make out every calamity, every impending trouble, every minor mis- han as worse than it is.
 These are the people who tell you that Mrs. So-and-So is very sick, that she ate something poisonous ana the doctor hardly things she Will i've when. as a matter of fact, Mrs. So- and-So has merely had severe put not at all dangerous attack or lndl- gestion.
 They Always Magnify Any Little
 Household Upset.
 These are the people who, when anything goes wrong in a househofo always magnify it in telling the other members about it. The roor leaked in the thunder shower ana they think the guest room ceiling is ruined. The guest room ceiling turns out to have one or two minor disfgurements on it.
 The butcher didn't come ana there isn't a thing in the house for supper. Of course the house yields up per fectly good supper when properly coaxed. She (the alarmist is a "she'' this time) knew it would. but she liked to give the alarm first.
 Johnny's face is all over blotches
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
SIDE TALKS
Alarniists
BY RUTH CAMERON

and she is terribly afraid 1t is the
 scarlet fever, she heard there was .
 case on the next street. It turns
 out to be the chicken pox.
 ''I Have Some Bad News to Tell You" A favorite trick of one type of alarmist is to say, "I have a piece of bad news to tell you," and then, after your heart has dropped into your shoes to tell you something un- pleasant but minor compared with the spectres her words conjured up. Of course after you get attuned to the alramists your heart gets over the trick of going into your boots every time they announce a calamity You get attuned to them, you learn to discount their alarms and wait for second reports from the front. They Are Like Clocks Set Fast. And the funy part of it is that you are apt to over discount them. It's l like putting a clock fast and then depending on it's being faster than 1 it really is. And so the alarmists 1 over-reach themselves and defeat l their own ends. Whatever those may 1 be. I could never quite make out I myself.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
FOOT GUARD BAND
 AT LAKE COMPOUNCE

The Governors Foot Guard Band of Hartford will play the concert pro- gram at Lake Compounce on Sunday afternoon, from to o'clock as- will be given under the direction or William M Redfield, director: Salutation-America.
 March-Boy Scouts of America, Sousa Overture-The Beautiful Galatea Song for cornet-"The sweetest Story Ever Told' MT. Picciolo. "Albion,"- fantasie of English, Irish and Welsh airs Beatens Duet for Euphonlum and Bassoon- Forget Me Not" ..... .Ellenberg Messrs. Bertucci and Ferdinando. The Whistler and His Dog, March
 Characteristic ............ Pryor Solo for Xylophone (selected)
 MT. Beecher. Potpouri of Feist's Late Melodies 1T Hear You Calling Me" (by re- quest.)
 Miss Redfield. The Star Spangled Banner.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
Mrs. Hardy's Eczema a Mass of Little Itching blisters. In One Month Healed By Cuticura.
My right ankle and up as far as my knee was mass of little blisters that would open when scratched them.

was told It was eczema. My limbs were badly swollen and a great many nights l was awakened by the itch ing. The trouble went to my fingers and the skin was infia1ned and red. l had to scratch and the eruption smarted and my fingers used to crack oDen. Mv
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
"SELF-MADE WIDOW"
 ON FOX'S SCREEN

Alice Brady has done more to in- crease her already great popularity by her splendid work in '"The Self Made Widow'' which is the feature of the present Fox program, than any of her previous achievements. To begin with, the story of the picture offers her a decidedly unusual role, that of a simple country miss-who by the way, is not as simple as they try to make us think. She is brought to New York, under promises of marriage, and de- serted. It looks like tragedy, doesn't it? But in reality, it is the jolliest kind of comedy, for she straightway makes up her mind that if she can't be a wife, at least no one can stop her from being a. widow. And all would have been well, if the man whose wife she was supposed to be had not come to life, and found her in full charge of his household. The best he can get out of his own premises is position as gardener. But he takes it, and makes the most of the situa- ton. Then the fun begins and it doesn't stop until some of the most original and Imaginable situations con- ceivable are met with. Pearl White in the eighth and best chapter yet of The Fatal Ring encounters new and extra ordinary dangers, and is given new opportunity to show what a plucky girl she must be in actual life, to take the desperate chances she does merely to entertain her millions of admirers throughout the world. There are a number of other excep- tionally good films on the program, including the latest issue of the Pathe News, Big V Comedy, and a laugh getter from General studios.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01

To blanch fruit for canning, place it in a wire sieve, lower into kettle of boiling water and let boil from to 15 minutes, follow by a cold dip.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
PERSONALS

Miss Ellen Needham of Wakefield Court will spend Labor Day in Nor folk.
 MT. and Mrs. David Dehm are visiting in Aleria, Ohio.
 Mrs James Dorsey and children of Maple street are spending their vacation in Aleria, Ohio.
 Sergeant Callahan of the 102d United States Infantry has returned to New Haven after a brief furlough with relatives in this city.
 Police Sergeant w. c. Hart and family have returned from their va cation. MT. and, Mrs. J. M. Hallinan and children are spending their vacation in Massachusetts. Registrar and Mrs. Thomas J. Smith are home from a trip through Massachusetts.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
AMMUNITION FOUND
 HIDDEN IN MONTREAL
Rifles, Cartridges and Dynamite Seized by Police and Secret
 Service Men.

Montreal, Sept. 1.-Sixteen hundred rifles, thousands of cartridges and several sticks of dynamite were found in a vacant house in Chateaubrian street yesterday by the police and Secret Service Agents detailed here to watch for plots among opponents of the conscription law. One man was arrested.
 Other small stocks of rifles of model discarded by Canadian forces early in the war are said to havo been found by the authorities, with quantities of ammunition and dyna- mite.
 Premier Borden will appeal to the 1 country soon for indorsement of his ca abinet, which he will first recon struct by the introduction of some | Liberal conscriptionist timber. Par liament may be prorouged in two weeks. Conservatives and conscrip- l tionist Liberals will combine on fu- sion candidates.
 l Quebec, violently anti-conscription will give all it's sixty-five parliament 1 tary seats to Laurier. who is assured 1 of about a hundred seats. | The fight will be close, but the ap- peal to patriotism is expected to win the day for Borden.
 The ugly spirit created by the pros
 pect has been inflamed by the arrest
 of several anti ti-conscriptionist leaders
 on the charge of having conspired to
 murder Lord and Lady Athelstan and
 their daughter in the Carterville dy.
 namite outrage, and the police expect
 further trouble and perhaps some
 bloodshed in the cities and towns. |
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
FIR LUMBER FOR AIRPIAANES

Seattle, Sept. 1.-Announcement of g. contract for 25,0o0,000 feet of Douglas fir, to be used by the Ital- ian government as a substitute for spruce in the construction of aircraft was made today by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. With the successful use of fir for airplane tim Der, 1t was said the problem of fur nishing sufficient aircraft lumber to the United States and the Allies was solved. as there are nearly 20 mills cutting fir to every one cutting spruce.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01

clothing was aggravating to me and when put my hands in water they would smart.
 "The trouble lasted two months before l used Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment. got relief in less than a week. and after using them month I was healed. (Signed) Mrs. James Hardy, Fryeberg, Me-, Oct. 6, 1916.
 Why not prevent these distressing skin troubles by making Cuticura your everyday toilet Soap aided by touches of Ointment to heal the first signs of pimples, rashes, etc.7 No purer or more effective emollients exist than Cuticura.
 For Free Sample Each by Return Mail address postcard: ''Cuticura, Dept. R, Boston," Sold everywhere.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01

Abeautiful complexion is handsome woman's chief glory and the envy of her less fortunate rivals. Yet 8 soft, clear skin-glowing with health-is only tAe natural result 0fbur Blood.
 "I was troubled for considerable time with very unpleasant, disfgu,1ng RasA, which covered my face and for which used applications and remedies without relief. After using "Fruit-a- lives" for one week, the rash is com- pletely gone. am deeply thankful for the relief and in the future, I will not be without "Fruit-a-tives
 NORAH WATSON.
 6oc. a box, 6 for $2.5O, trial size, 25c. At dealers or sent by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, New York;
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
By ADELE GARRISON

Well then, of course, you know how dependent he always was upon her And the thing that worried her most in her illness was the fact that she could no longer look after him. So she asked him to select a nurse to come to the apartment, and look after housekeeping, servants and Friend Husband especially while she was i'll.
 And he elected you " asked.
 "Yes,' Katherine returned soberly, much to my sorrow"
New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
Menu for Tomorrow

Breakfast
 Cantaloupes Fruit Mush Sugar and Cream
 Creamed Potatoes
 Corn Muffins
 Coffee
 Roast Beef
 Mashed Potatoes Creamed Corn Scalloped Onions Apple Salad Lemon Sherbet Coffee Supper Fruit Salad Peach Shortcake Tea Lemon -Sherbet-Squeeze all juice from six lemons and one orange. Put into thise grated rind of orange, one of three of the lemons, let it soak for one hour. Strain and add two cup fuls sugar and pint water. Mix we'll and put into freezer and freeze. Fruit Salad-Remove skins and seeds from one cupful white grapes, put them in a basin, add three banan- as cut in cubes, cover at once with lemon juice. Remove skin and white pith from six oranges, add cut in pieces. Mix with mayonnaise and ar- range in lettuce leaves.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-12

out prospective immediate employ
ment," the report reads, land there
is an increase in the number going
from good homes. That is due, doubt
less, to the high cost of living. Trac-
ing children impresses parents with
the Practicabilfty of returning their
sons and daughters to school if en-
plOyment is not secured. If neither
at school nor at work, they are apt
to develop into delinquents."
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-12

LOADS OF CHILDREN INTO
FACTORIES AT LOW WAGE
How the high cost Of living has hit
the children of Chicago is shown in
a report on the industrial survey
being made by the compulsory 'edu-
cation department of the board Of ed
Ucation. Hundreds of children be-
tween the ages Of IA and 16 are I'M
necessarily at work, says the report,
and about 1000 of these are from
well-fXed homes. W. L. BOdine, head
Of the department, turned over his
dope to Sup't Shoop Thursday. 1t
showed the results Of an investiga-
ton of 1920 children to whom work
ing certificates have been issued.
High cost of food is blamed for
the increase in the number of little
workers going from good homes.
After securing certificates, 1,216 chill
dren returned to school. 140 more
have promised to do so later 500
are neither at work or at school and,
400 are shown at work.
The average pay is below S.
week, and Sc of the working ones are
getting 81 and 50 per week. 667 are
on piecework and no figures are
given on their salaries. OF the 4,023
working at a fixed pay, 1888 get be-
tween 81 and $6 a week. One lad gets
S145O.
General conditions are shown in
the following figures: Certificates
issued to boys, 4,617; to girls, 2,7O3;
necessarily employed, 4,289; working
more than 80 days, 1874; less than
80 days, 966; in factories, 1872; in
offices, $50; in stores, 563; other
places, 1857. There are Sc physi-
calIy deficient and four mental de-
fectives.
Home conditions are recorded this
way: Fair home, 21,451; bad envi-
ronment, 1876; extreme poverty, 800.
Weekly wage runs as follows: 8,
getting $3.50; 128, So; 122, $3.50;
Ell. 81: 1853, $3.50; 1,156. SIS: 1874.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-12

at school nor at work, they are apt
to develop into delinquents."
|. -O-O
REDlSTRIcT WARDS AND ELECT
FEWER ALDERMEN LESS
OFTEN, KERNER SAYS\
To save money and time of public
officials, Aid. Kerner presented a new
plan of city government yesterday
at the council meeting.
I Divide the city into so wards, pay
aldermen $4,000 a year, make the
term of Office four years and pro-
vide for the recall of counciImen,
declared Kerner yesterday as he
handed the council an ordinance to
accomplish these ends. The saving
between 1919 and 1923 would be
about 100000, Kerner said, be-
cause Of the reduction in the num-
Der of aldermen and elections.
The council also:
Accepted resignation of John
HIGHLANDER, elected clerk of the SUI
perior court.
Passed an ordinance to allow the
city to borrow 81, 100000 to meet the
January payrolls.
Voted through an ordinance re-
curing reporting of all cases of food
poisoning for health dept investiga-
ton.
Ordered judiciary committee to
show how city might operate a mu-
nicipal bank.
Paved way for law allowing city to
operate automatic phone properties.
U. S. EMPLOYEES ORGANIZE
U. S. employees organized in Ma
sonic Temple meeting last night adj
dressed by Oscar F. Nelson, vice
president Chicago Federation Of
Labor An interstate organization e
to be effected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
GIRL SHOT BY IRATE
WIFE MAY RECOVER
Miss Charlotte Porter Somewhat
Better Today, Hospital Ply
stefan Reports.

Miss Charlotte Porter. nineteen years
old, soda water clerk in a Pennsylva-
MIA avenue drug store, who yesterday
morning was shot three times by Mrs.
Dorothy Washington Burns. wife of
John Burns, also a clerk in the drug
store, may recover. DIR. A. Magruder
Mcdonald, superintendent of Casualty
Hospital. this morning stated that the
patient was resting comfortably and
appeared to be somewhat better. al
though it was too early to tell just
what the outcome will be.
Miss Porter, who has not been I'M
conscious at any time since she reached
the hospital, made a brief statement to
Dir. Mcdonald. She said she believed
Burns was hopelessly separated from
his wife and had been led to believe
that Mrs. Burns was in Maryland.
The patient told Of the visit Mrs.
Burns paid her at the store Wednesday
afternoon, when, she stated, she learned
for the first time that the couple were
not separated. She said she told the
wife that she no longer would receive
attentions from her husband. This
statement is in direct contradiction to
her arrest. Her statement was that
Miss Porter said she was waiting for
her husband to get a divorce so she
could marry him.
Mrs. Burns. who yesterday refused
to sign written statement of the
shooting, did not hesitate to discuss
the affair with the police at the house
of detention. She told of the purchase
Of the pistol for the purpose of shoot
ing Miss Porter, repeating the state
ment that the latter had broken up her
home.
1t was said at the house Of detention
this morning that the husband Of the
prisoner had not visited his wife. She
had received no visits from friends, II
was stated. nor had she sent out any
messages asking for assistance. II
will be some time before she will be
given a preliminary hearing in Police
Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
JOHN L. CLARK REPORTS
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
Says He Lost Diamond Pin, Watch
and $8-Others Victims
of Footpads.

John L. Clark, 814 B street northeast,
last night reported to the police that
he had been assaulted by three men and
robbed Of diamond pin and watch,
valued at $3.50, and IS in cash. His
story was that young man met him in
front of the Belasco Theater and invited
him to take walk When they reach
ed 18th and B streets, he stated, two
other men responded to his compan-
ions whistle. knocked him down and
robbed him.
Henry Clinton Grayden, Rutledge,
Ala, told the police of how he was as
saulted and robbed of $50 this morning
about 1870 o'clock. He came here to
attend the reunion. he stated, and was
stopping at 1875 6th street. Early this
morning. he alleges, two colored men,
who pretended they wanted to buy him
drink. escorted him to Goat alley,
knocked him down and robbed him.
Pleasant D. Lane. Long Island, Va,
reported the loss of IS in cash, a re-
turn ticket to Gretna. Va, and a due
bill for s35. He said he was robbed in
the rear Of Convention Hall by q young
colored man.
An unidentified colored man visited
the store of Jacob Wolf, 400 Florida
avenue, yesterday afternoon and as
saulted him with a blackjack, inficting
SO painful a wound that it was neces-
sary to take the grocer to a hospital.
1t Is believed the assailant intended to
without taking anything.
The theft Of $50 in cash and a gold
watch and chain valued at $50 was re-
ported by Robert Williams, 903 r street
He said the robbery was committed at
his home last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
NINE. BIMONT WILL SAIL
IN TWO WEEKS FOR FRANCE
Will Help to Restore to Health the
Invalid Orphans of France-Sub-
scriptions Solicited.

Subscriptions for full payment of
twenty beds and other contributions
amounting to s22 SO far have been re-
ceived by Nine Blanche j. Bimont
Washington high school teacher, who
seeks to raise q fund with which to
help restore to health the invalid or
phans of France.
Nine Bimont will sail in two weeks
for France, where she will help direct
the work of the Maison Familiale, I'M
der the auspices Of the Orphelinat des
Armes, an organization which is to
care for those children of soldiers who
need hospital treatment.
Nine. Bimont today acknowledged the
receipt of the following contributions:
Mrs. Mary w. Weeks. Cleveland Park
s1275; Miss Hannah L. Wessling. 1926
Massachusetts, avenue. IS; anonymously
given in memory of two relatives,
$3.50; Mrs. Annie p. Phelps, Catskill-
on Hudson, s12.75 Mrs. Mary A Loux,
New York, SIS; Miss Bertha GuilIaume,
Washington, s1275; Mrs. Hildegarde
Won Brockdorff, New York. IS; L. J.
Stone. New York. IS; Mrs. NJ E. Miller
New Jersey, 81.
Through arrangement with a Wash
ington merchant Nine. Bimont is able
to purchase a bed and complete equip
ment. for $12.75. She will seek to take
as many of these along when she sails
az possible, in order to begin work at
once when she arrives in France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
BRUEN HOME CHILDREN
ARE TO BE GIVEN PICNIC
To Have Outing at Country Home of
Mrs. Grosvenor as Twentieth
Century Clubs Guests.

The small inmates Of the Bruen Home
for Children will be the guests tomor-
row at a picnic at the country nome OF
Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor. arranged Tor
them by a committee of the Twentieth
Century Club. The Bruen Home com
mittee of the club is organized under
the civics section. of which Mrs. Grosve-
nor is the leader. Mrs. Hoyt Gale is
chairman. other members being Mrs. w.
F. Ham. who also represents the club
on the Bruen Home board; Mrs. George
r. Putnam and Mrs. Henry S. Graves.
The picnic tomorrow is to be an all
day affair for the children. Through
the kindness of Mr.. Ham, who is vice
president of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. a special car
has been provided to convey them
without change over the 1lth street,
Georgetown and Wisconsin avenue lines
to the Grosvenor station at Bethesda,
Md. where they are due to arrive at IL
o'clock. Another special Will take
them home at o'clock. Mrs. Grosve-
nor will furnish ice cream for the
party, and other members of the club
have provided sandwiches and other
good things to eat.
On the same day a tag day has been
planned. with the Bruen Home as the
beneficiary. The women of the board
and their friends will be stationed at
kets to ask help in the support of this
home for orphan children, which is de-
pendent entirely upon the private sub
scriptionS which they can procure. 1t
is the intention of the board to change
the name of the home, which, they feel.
is misleading, since 1t is entirely with
out endowment. 1t received its name
from the founder, who, unfortunately.
died without giving it any endowment.
Since then it has dragged out some
what precarious existence from the
voluntary contributions that have been
made to 1t from time to time. During
the last year 1t was SO seriously af-
fected by the high cost of living that
an entire change of policy was made
necessary. The number Of children was
reduced from more than 100 to sixty,
and that number will be further re-
duced to thirty in the fall
About month ago the home was
moved from Georgetown to it's new
quarters at 3535 18th street. At that
time the twentieth century committee
garden which should help in reducing
living expenses. as well as provide
valuable training for the children. The
loan of the vacant lots on either side
of the house was secured for that pur-
pose, and through the help of Mrs.
Grosvenor, Mrs. Graves and other mem
bers the ground has been ploughed
and planting has begun. The crops
raised will be confined to soy beans.
have already been donated for seed.
but gifts of seed potatoes would be
gladly received by the committee. The
committee would also welcome gifts of
money or cast-off clothes for the chill
dren at any time. Contributions should
be sent to Mrs. Hoyt Gale, 1902 Jocelyn
street. Chevy Chase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
HOLY NAME SOCIETIES
ON U. S. SHIPS FAVORED
Resolution Passed Here Indorsing
Project Started in New York.
Would Improve Morals.

Resolutions indorsing the project
started at general headquarters in New
York for fostering Holy Name societies
on ships Of the United States Navy were
passed at a meeting Of the Holy Trinity
branch Of the Holy Name Society last
evening.
The resolutions state that the forma-
ton of societies on board vessels is es-
pecially desirable during the present
crisis, because such organizations will
improve the moral and the general eff
ficiency of the men in every respect"
Recently Rev. Ignatius Smith, o. D.,
head Of the Holy Name Society, and
Rev. A. L. O'Hearne of Catholic Cniver-
sity had an interview with Secretary
of the Navy Daniels regarding plans for
this effort
Rev. Eugene Del. Mcdonnell S. p,
spoke last evening on the lessons of the
Confederate parade. Rev. Edward Ma
grath, S. j.. moderator. spoke of the de-
sire to enroll Holy Name men as mem
bers of the League Of the Sacred Heart
President John Hadley Doyle of the
Washington branch of the Holy Name
Society urged prayers for an early
peace, but, he added, eff God judges
otherwise, pray that our flag may come
out of the carnage stainless in its vic
tory and unsullied as it always has been
in previous conflicts"
A musical followed the business
meeting, at which George Herbert
Wells, Samuel S. Edmonston and Theo-
dore Howard entertained.