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New Britain herald., 1920-03-25
HARD LUCK, OLD CHAPPIE.
Prince Of Wales Ship May Not Be
 Able to Get Through Canal.

Panama, March 25.-Et is doubted here whether a channel sufficient to permit the passage of the British cruiser Renown can be cleared in the Culebra cut by Tuesday next when the Prince of Wales will arrive aboard the warship on his way to Australia.
 More than 20 ships are still tied up as the result of the slide in the cut last Saturday. This afternoon an island fifty feet wide and three feet high is visible above the channel.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-03
Conditions

An answers must he In the Of
flee Of The Seattle Star not later
than Tuesday. following the last
issuc Of the Business Guide Of each
month.
The nsmes Of the prisr winners
and the correct answer will be pub
lish~d In Tho star on the first Saturday
A ncw set Of letters will be omitted
Saturday Of each month.
The star Business Guide win be publ
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
by Laura A. kirkman.
MAKING YOUR OWN CURTAINS.

September is the month when the good
housekeeper looks over her home with e
view 20 getting IL in shape for the coming
winter months. If some of the old pieces
OF furniture and drapery need 10 be re-
placed, now Is the time TO make plans for
the new pieces.
Curtains are perhaps the things oftenest
replaced in the interior of the house. A
curtain which is hopeAessly torn, mended
or pulled out OF shape from over-long use,
can give a room such a discouraged
looki Ii any of your rooms have this for
lorn or discouraged" look, ask yourself
If new curtains would not brighten and
lreshen its appearance wonderfully.
And If you decide that they would
make the new curtains yourself So many
women shrink from this task. They fear
faulty hanging. 81 bought a cheaper
grade of material for my curtains than ]
had planned TO buy, SO that j could afford
20 have them made" ] once heard a
housekeeper confess. 81 decided that I'd
rather have them hang right than have
them of finer material and hang wrong be-
cause Id made them myself"
But no woman need fear to make her
curtains If she will but use yardstick In
measuring them and, when she gets one
curtain made accurately, viii pin the
Others by this one, instead of measuring
each one individually A tape measure
stretches and has been the cause of poor
results in many homemade curtain.
With a widow 26 inches IN width, the
correct width Of each glass" curtain
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
SANDMAN STORY.
BY NJ. +. A. Walker =
r,,rriaht 1919, by tho Mcclure News
pnper Syndicate. New YORK CITY.
SOITR Old VINEGAR CRUET.

If the maid had put tho vinegar cruot
on the serving table rs she should nave
done IL never would have happened, hut
she put il on the pantry shelf right beside
tho molasses jug. ~,
When the clock struck II in the kitchen
the Vinegar Cruct began 20 talk.
Mercy me" it said, 'how, do you
two live here all the time in tins shut
in placep you should see my homo IN
the diningroom, all sunny and bright.i
but then we cannot all live IN luxury
80. we do not mind it; we like living
here among all Of our friends, rephod
the Sugar sweetly.
Friends. indeed, sniffod tho Vinegar
Cr,let: "yuu can never be sure VINO are
vot,r friends: can tell you that. Now that
Molasscs jug, ! will wager II is sweet
enough 10 your face, but You do not know
what IL saws when tou arc not around
ooh, / am sure my cousin IS very
friendly" said the Sugar. "She IS very
sweet and We live very happily"
Sweet" shifted the Vinegar Cruet
"some folks are too sweet TO be whole,
some and / shouldn't wonder hIt II
that is the case with the Molassos she
very likely thinks she is much sweeter
than you arc
''Oh. no, / am sure she docsn :, SAID
the Sugar, who had never thought about
il before.
The Vinegar Cruet thought It saw
chance now 20 make fuss, so 1t moved
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
THE GIRL ON THE JOB.
by Jeesic Roberts.
1920. by Whecser Syndicate fnn.
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN COMPOSERS

Ambitious girls with talent for musical
composition write To me from time to
time, asking whether there is money To be
made in song-writlng.
OF course there is. But it is only the
very few who get it,.
Women like Carrie Jacobs-Bond, whose
Perfect Day" sold some 4 ,0OO, 900 copies,
and who is head of the Bond music shop,
with headquarters in Los Angeles, and
important branches in London and To-
ronto, can certainly be said to have made
money. She has always reached the
popular taste, and has other songs to her
credit with a record Of more than million
copies. She explains this popularity by
saying that it is the human touch" that
wins.
Then there are such successful writer's
MS Gertrude Ross, whose song OF this
years vintage. Dawn in the Desert" has
passed the half-million mark, and Blanche
Ebert Sewer, who dioes much work for
musical comedies, as well as incidental
songs and pieces for orchestra, and such
suites as her "Baby's Catechism."
But the road to success in song writing
is difficult and peculiar Once YOU have
made hit, all the publishers are eager for
your work and prepared TO give you tine
royalties. Sales of popular pieces are often
astonishing, and the returns from the
phononaph rights for song that the
whole world is singing are very large. How
ever, there seems to be no rule OF success.
What viii make a great success at one
time will fall fiat at another. Originality
is by no means "A sure help.
You've got to have feeling for the
sentiment of the moment" one song
writer told me- He has sold his thousands
! upon thousands of copies, and his advice
| comes from long experience. You need
TO know what is coming down the pike, so
that your SONG win hit the popular desire
when il comes out. There are certain per
manent things TO count upon, like young
love, stars, swans, happy old age, things
that can be strummcd on ukelele in a
canoe, and these will bring you in a steady
| income once YOU get known. But you
must make hit first, and that hit making
seems to be secret. No one knows just
why hit turns out 20 be hit. You have
| TO keep trying, that's oil.
| Perhaps tiak is the secret' 1fy ags0
| keep on trying. The woman whose success
have mentioned did all that. Mrs. Bond
| SAYS that there are fortunes to be made in
songs. aud she knows. She also says that
| it takes hard work, many disappointments
and good business instinct TO make that
| fortune plus talent that must exist. IL
need not be great talent but IL must
| be genuine must be capable Of transating
| the humor, the sentiment and the event
of the day into music that Is easy to sing
and pleasing TO listen TO.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
LETTERS OF TESSIE AND JOE

Dear Tessie:
I'm glad your Cousin Grace's wedding
went off without the best man tripping
over the ring or nothing like that, but
personally I'll never cease being grateful
that ! didn't have TO kiss the bride. /
know that don't sound any too affection
ate, her being your cousin and all, but
there's certain people that the very thougt
OF kissing goes against my grain and your
Cousin Grace Is one of them and most of
the rest of your relations are Others. You
certainly were the flower of your family,
Tessie, / got to hand it to you for that,
though when you come right down to
analyze 1T, that's more OF an alibi than a
compliment.
Weddings are funny things, as you get
to realize when you look at other peoples,
because of course everybody takes their
own serious enough and in fact the groom
takes it so serious that it's practically a
funeral as far as he's concerned, which is
fairly far, as you got TO admit when you
think Of the consequences. Nothing per-
sonal, Tessie.
Anyway, other peoples weddings are
funny things. Two pale people of op-
posing sexes stand there feeling as if
feather could knock them down and half
wishing one would, and minister that
maybe neither of them ever saw before
whistles off some magic words while all
their friends and relations sit back gloat-
ing over them, and after that they have
the right to say any darn thing they
please to each other, and they generally do.
Oh well, j don't regret / married you
Tessie. Believe me, you're one in
million, with all your faults. The best |
can wish the baby when he grows up is
that he'll find carbon copy of his mother
for his wife Is he growing up any, by
the way? You know height is mostly
matter of legs SO of course it has nothing
to do with brains, but at the same time
I'd just as soon have tall son. 1t might
not do any harm to pull his legs a little
every morning, just easy.
I'm wearing the necktie you sent me
for my birthday and SO far have not
been molested.
Your aft. husband,
Joe.
Look Out Belowl Tessie is Thinking
of Making Joe Couple of Shirts. Par
| ticulars Tomorrow.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

closer to the Molasses jug and said
Sugar thinks she is sweeter than you
are. but doubt II very much.
Perhaps she is, replied the Molasses,
who was slow to anger.
Stupid said the Vinegar Crlet.
"you do not seem to understand that
she has insulted you.
Just then Vinegar espied the pepper
shaker and over it went to its side, What
a black looking affair, he said, 81 Ike
white pepper better than black.
''No one cares whether you do OF not,
snapped back the Pepper, who was very
uuick-tempcred and hotheaded. you
are sour old thing yourself and you
want to make everyone else feel the same
way.
Don't you talk to me like that .
said the Vinegar Cruet, giving the Pepper
a shove, and over it went, spllllng out
on the shelf, but as it fell ittipped the
Cruet and out came the vinegar, running
all about.
"Oh, dear mep' said the Cream in the
pitcher close by. ''I must try TO smooth
things over between those two, and over
went the Pitcher and the Cream mixed
with the Vinegar and Pepper, but 1T did
no good; they kept on quarreling until
broad daylight.
The next night the maid put the Cruet
where it belonged and the pantry was
quiet again, but the Molasses remarked
10 the Sugar, II never knew before how
one sour disposition could upset whole
family"
ut did not upset us, cousin" replied
the Sugar. II have sometimes thought
that YOU and ! were too sweet, but
know now that it takes a great deal oi
sweetness to keep from being upset wheL
the Vinegar is around"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
BY Lee Pape.

Last mite me and pop and ma was up
IN the setting room and ma sed 10 pop,
Well WillylIm, now that you've enjoyed
your support | can tell YOU the bad news
lzzent that eheerflll and homelike. sod
pop, and ma sed, The fact Is, Willyum,
the landlords agent was GROUND this
aftlrnoon and he told me the rent will be
10 dolleS a munth more after next munth
Well izzent that sweet, oonfownd all
landlords, simbody awt 20 stand them
all up agenst the wall and then take the
wall away, | wish Id bin home wen the
rutiian called, that's ALL sed pop.
Wv William, you couldent of done
enything, scd ma, and pop scd, The
doose / couldcnt, ! could Of done every
thing, could of prevented the rent frum
being raised, that's wat | could Of done
! Suppose you jest stood there like statue
Of butter refusing % melt
! did nuthing Of the kind, | stood
there like eny other woman having her
rent raised, sed ma
Well | wish Id bin there, that's all,
III never Geese regretting that ! wascnt
there, sed pop, and ma sed. Well wy
don't YOU call up the landlord himself
if you're so powerful and influential and
everything?
That's a good suggestion and | bleeve
Ill accept it, Ill call him up rite now at
his home, sed pop. And he looked in the
book for the number and called 1t up.
saying, is Mr.. Jenkins there? Is this MIR.
Jenkins, this Is Mr.. Potts, Mr.. William
Potts it has Jest bin called to my atten-
tion that my rent has bin raised 10 dollers
munth and | wish to demand an expli-
nation and | wish TO state that consider
il an unwarranted imposition and absi-
lootly uncalled for, and watts that2 Wat
that? You say it wi II be Is insted of 10?
Watts that? Wait minnit, wait minnit,
confOwnd it he's gone. And pop banged the
telefone down, ma saying, Hee-hee, hee-
hee.
beg your pardin, watts the joak? sed
pop.
No ioak, hee-hee, sed ms.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

when finished is IS inches at the top.
This will give plenty Of fullness. II cur
tain ia made too narrow at the top II II
ALWAYS yanked to draw 1t together, and
this naturally causes 1T to wear out
quickly.
If ono wishes to- use rings, she should
take the width of the window and make
curtain which measures that width when
finished. She should then make groups OF
little plaits and sew on q ring NJ each
urounI As the fullness has thus been dis
fributed evenly by the small plait-groups,
the curtain will not sag between the rings
when it is pulled together.
Material 2S inches wide will require
eight rings on each curtain, the rings
about two and one-half inches apart.
The small plaits shouldlbe whatever size
is necessary, three plahs accompanying
each ring. When this curtain Is drawn
together. the fullness will be evenly dis
tributed.
Hemstitching gives a very professional
look To a curtain. This is easy TO do IL tnc
scrim is not too fine. A fairly deep hem
looks best and hem which is turned in
twice will make the curtain hang better'
| as it will give it weight.
If it is desired to have q French head
| ing at the top of the curtain, one should
| first turn a wide hem and then stitch 1t
both at the hem itself and then little
above--thus leaving n narrow channel
| through which TO run brass rod.
And now comes the question, How
long shall the curtain be?" Tnis depends
upon circumstances. II the wood work Is
unattractive, the entire trim may bo
covered. A room which is large and
formal in decorative treatment and fur,
nishings, requires full-length curtains and
over-draperies. But in bedrooms or rooms
in home where simplicity is the keynote,
curtains reaching to the sill, or few
| inches below, are appropriate.
Tomorrow-Fancy Preserves for Guest
| Suppers.
All inquiries addressed to Miss krkman
| in care of the Efficient Housekeeping
| department will be answered IN these
columns in their turn. This requires con
siderable time, however, owing to the
great number received. So if a personal or
quicker reply is desired, stamped and
| self-adclressed envelope must be enclosed
with the queston.-1'he Editor.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
CARNIVAL PERMITS.
Mayor Cooperating With Police De-
partment i'm the Matter.

Speaking of the reported action Of the
Board of Police Commissioners on Tues
day in requesting that the Mayor refuse
the granting Of permits for carnivals,
Mayor William G. Taylor has stated
that no notification Of such action has
been received by him. His practice, he
explained, has been to issue such licenses
only when approved by Chief Of Police
Black, or someone acting for him.
Objection has been made by property
owners near the lots used for carnival
purposes, on the grounds of inconve-
nience suffered by them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

safe buying universally
associated with Wana-
makers.
D EAUTY, too, is a
ID feature in which
Wanamaker furniture
confessedly leads.
How can it be other
wise? We keep experts
''on the job" wherever
fine furniture can be
seen, studied, bought,
made;
"The job" being to
select the handsomest
and most desirable, the
most novel and dis
tinguished pieces and
suits in the worlds mar
kets, that Wanamaker
customers may suit
their varying tastes
from a splendidly varied
assortment.
Beauty, quality and
service-could one ask
anything more in furni-
ture?
Whether one asks it
or not, one gets some
thing more than these
from Wanamaker fur
niture.
The furniture we sell
has personality.
Fine wood, fine work
manship, fine covering,
or fine stuffing will not
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

Any piece of furni-
ture you may buy in
Wanamaker's, w h a t.
ever its price, has
honest workmanship
and is constructed of
the best quality of wood
for its grade.
In grades there Is a
1eadline here, and ought
to be one everywhere.
That's what makes the
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

Sale, which start
ed last Monday,
is still the greatest thing
afoot at Wanamaker's.
That's a great deal to
say--but we say it!
This whole Store is
full of the newest and
best Drchandise pros
durable, covering the
whole range of home
and personal needs,
save fuel and food; but
there is no assemblage
within it more impor-
tant than the assem-
blage of furniture.
Furniture, that is to
the house what the
bones are to the bodyl
Furniture, that gives
the home its stability
and serviceabilityl
Furniture, that can be
a thing of beauty and a
Joy forever, the creator
of an atmosphere more
gracious and refined,
more hospitable and de-
lightsome, than many a
crude or grim human
personality is able to
diffuse!
MO hard featured
l y furniture is sold
at Wanamaker's = al
though there's plenty of
in at large in the retail
market.
No under : seasoned,
poor ffbred, knotty,
gnarly, or ill-condition-
ed wood can "brazen it
out" beneath a slick so
ciety" veneer under the
severely critical eyes of
those who judge furni-
ture for the Wana-
maker trade.
To see that no tow
gets into our upholster-
ed furniture, we make
the finer grades of it IN
our own sanitary fac
tory, and what we order
from other factories we
don't hesitate to test, If
under suspicion, by rip
ping open, nor to send
it trundling back where
it came from, if decep-
ton has been employed.
A physician, walking
in his garden, sharply
reproved his gardener,
an Irishman, for having
dug in the wrong spot a
hole which he was oblig-
ed to fill in again.
"Och, Docther," re-
torted the man, "an'
I'm not the only wan
whose poor wurrk the
airth covers!"
ONLY those in the
~ furniture business
are in a position to
know just WHY most
cheap" and flashy fur
niture doesn't wear; or
what frequently lies
beneath the camouflage
Of brilliant furniture
polish and gay cover
ings.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
$40
$500
$500
D.11UV
SI55
to
S2345

closely those mere chairs
and sofas, desks, tables,
bookcases and such
things, have to do with
human emotions and as
sociations!
Mothers rocking :
ehair-father's desk
she wife's workable
baby's high chair
these ought to be
worthy of the tender
and intimate thoughts
that will cluster round
them with the passage
of years.
Without personality,
a piece or furniture is
like those people whom
one calls respectable,
but hesitates to pro-
nounce good.
G. GOD furniture,
from its very be-
ginning-even its birth,
so to speak, in the fac
tory - incarnates the
dreams and the ideals of
the expert craftsman
who designed and pro-
duced it.
Later, when it stands
in the home, it realizes
the dreams and long
ings of the men and
women whom it helps in
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
Mammals on Delaware.

Until November /, the Tea House serves
hot luncheons, afternoon teas and chicken
dinners. Telephone Holly Oak k227W.-Adg
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

creating their Ideal
home.
With time it takes on
the personality Of those
who uses it, to whom II
symbolizes the home IT,
self--the place Of shell
ter, rest, comfort, re-
freshment, inspiration,
love and j@; and this
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

piece of dumb wood
talks to you elo-
quently Of old
times, takes on the
aspect Of an old and
valued servitor in
the home.
You may go all
over these floors
and select any piece
Of furniture, the
costliest or th e
most inexpensive,
the most magnif-
cent or the most un-
pretentius, and 10
will be a piece of
furniture that de-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

W t"' .sS. kNAssshS
well chosen, beautifully
made, certain 70 give
you comfort, and salts
faction, and pleasure as
long as you can look
ahead.
There is no room on
our floors for any other
kind.
Nov, it is from reg
l ular stocks of
Wanamaker furniture
of this character
handsome, sound, and
almost entirely new
that the large collection
offered in this sale at
special prices has been
drawn.
Is it not a wonderful
opportunity?
Representing no re-
jections, job lots, or a
clearance Of any sort,
but a careful selection
from among the new,
inpouring goods that
the factories are zeal
ously working TO fur
nish us, it consists of the
wanted, we might say,
the sensible things.
Dining-room 5 uits,
living-room suits, bed
room suits-so that one
could furnish ones
whole house and save a
neat half, or at lowest,
a third. on prevailing
prices!
Odd pieces, too, are
included, since these,
too, are always needed
Porch pieces, also,
several hundre6--every
piece among these is eX-
actly half pricel
We are glad to spread
this feast of opportun-
ity for the people Of
Philadelphia and vici-
nifty; but while we well
come all comerS, those
who come soonest viii,
Of course, get the larg-
est helpings.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

necessarily make the
piece - whether chair,
sofa, desk, buffet--that
you "just love" and
want to leave in your
will to your favorite
daughter.
Maybe you have never
stopped, be-
! fore thi 8 -
minute, to ~
think how Il
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

These tags, bearing the former and the present
prices, that the goods have been
reduced for this Sale from 30 TO so per cent below
regular market ratings, and that
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
Prices Lou
Savings High!

"1E Do as we please with
Wv our own.
We value service 70
manufacturer and consumer above
large profit.
These arc the reasons why some
of the most desirable suits and
pieces TO be found among the
stocks displayed on our Fifth.
Sixth and Seventh Floors bear
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23

safe buying universally
associated with Wana-
makers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
HIGH SCHOOL
WILL GIVE PLAY
Will Present the "Elopement of Ellen
At the School Auditorium Next
Tuesday Evening.

The students oil the Dawson high
school, under the supervision of the
faculty, will present a play, The
Elopement of Ellen" at the school au-
ditorium on the night of Tuesday,
December 21st. Rehearsals thus far
give promise of a performance of I'M
usual excellence.
The play is a delightful little comedy
in three acts, with rapidly moving in
cidents and humorous situations untan-
gled in delightful manner. June Ha-
verhill, student of economics at
Wellesley, making a special study of
the servant problem, hires out as maid
to Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ford. This
complexities matters. since the Suppos-
ed maid is OF vital concern to two of
the guests at the home OF Mrs. Ford,
Robert Shepard and Max Ten Eyck
Unusual conditions of will one or
two pretty girls, an omnipresent, alb
sent-minded rector, all these tend to
make it a play of frills, thrills and un-
expected denouement.
The cast is made up of the follow
ing: Richard Ford, a devoted young
husband, Lucius Lamar; Holly, his
wife, Ella Beck Colley; Robert Shop
ard, Molly's brother, julian Jordan;
Max Ten Eych, chum OF Roberts,
Louis Petty; Dorothy March, engage
ed to Max, a guest of Mrs. Ford,
Eleanor Hatcher; June HaverhiIl,
Wellesley 90, who is doing some spe-
cial investigation in economics, Vir-
ginia Hollingsworth; John Hume, rec
tor of ST Agnes, Parmalee Watkins.