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The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
For the crowinq Baby.

The baby of IS months to ? years or a little over may wear charming little smock suits made of white lawn and trimmed with bands of checked ging- ham. Hats of gingham and lawn com s,ined often accompany these suits. The straight knee bloomers or trousers button to little separate underwaist, and the straight smock, banded at the bottom and also about the neck and short sleeves, is short enough to expose two or three inches of the trouser gar ment Socks with checked tops almost
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
"Klna,s Tobacco Plpe.p

This is a popular nickname for a peculiarly shaped kiln or furnace In the northeast corner of the tobacco warehouse belonging to the London docks. Here contraband goods. such as tobacco. cigars and tea. which had been smuggled in. were burned. Seized and unclaimed goods are now sold at periodical sales. or distributed among public institutions. but damaged and worthless goods are still burned.
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
CHAPTER XIV.
The Story of a Plot.

It was Macklin, burning with fever, delirious, yet partially conscious once more, uttering sounds which could hardly be distinguished as words, and struggling vainIy to lift his body into an upright position. Through the dusk of the place he stared duly into Shel- by's face, at first without recognition {; then his eyes exhibited terror and he endeavored to wrench away, covering back against the rock wall, as though he beheld a ghost. The horror he felt gave volume to his voice.
 Good God !" he shrieked. "Am I dead? Is this hellT'
 'No. Kid" and Shelby held him firm Iy. his tone full of sympathy. "every- thing Is all right. Lie still and don't worry"
 "But who the h-l are you? Ain't you Tom Shelby?" he laughed wildly. sTord. no; he's dead I''
 ''That is where you are wrong, my boy. I'm Shelby all right, but long ways from being dead"
 "You. Shelby7 Didn't he get you?''
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22

Below at the left a hat of pale pink georgette has a soft round crown, wreathed with seeded grasses and small garden roses, that look like the heart of summer. Next a stately hat chooses black and white hair braid for its graceful body and white georg- cite poppies, with long, black ostrich flues floating out between them, for covering its soft round crown. This is lovely hat for matrons. Another hat for them appears at the left of the group; it is a small shape of white hair braid with a wreath of garden flowers, berries, foliage and grasses laid about the narrow dropping brim- They are yelled with wide lace which falls in the manner of veil from the sides and back. The poke shape of pale pink georgette, at the right, Is distinctly youthful with sash of Hue velvet ribbon that makes a fine back ground for peoples, corn flowers. grasses and little blossoms posed against it.
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
Hats and Trimminos.

The straw hats show, among their colors, jade green, light gray, and bril- liant red. Among trimmings, there are red entrants. These are frosted over and somewhat dulled in effect, SO they are safely used on green straws. also on browns and grays.
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
Sold His Business.

Lady (to couple of beggars at her door)-Well, I declare, two of you at a timel I can only give a trifie to one of you; which is it to be?
 Beggar-Please, ma'am, give 1t to this ere chap; I've sold him my busi- ness, and am now introducing him 10 the customers.-Edinburg Scotsman.
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22

through this rock All got to do Is lie here quiet an take lem on the jump"
 But suppose they rush in on your" Tt don't hardly look reasonable. Still, O course, they might try 1t, if they got a white leader. Indians never would themselves; it's liable to cost too heavy"
 ITO RE CONTINIJEDO
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22

matching the gingham trimming of these suits are available, and altogeth- CT make up a charming little outfit. serviceable and cool.
The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22

Many successful men are those whose mistakes never worried them.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

Mr.. Foster had been engaged in organiza-
tion work for years, and he interested Mr..
H. Eugene Southard, community service
organizer. and they in turn induced Mr..
Mexican to join his efforts with theirs
These three men by working day and night
secured the signatures of 100 Waterburv
merchants to contracts binding them TO give
members n cash discount Of 10 per cent on
all OF their purchases for period OF one
year. That was early in November and
since have been added 35 other merchants.
AS the membership grows other stores will
be added, and the second year will show a
growth of 100 per cent. in stores and mem
bership.
The list of merchants who are cooperatlnp
includes stores in every line OF business. but
over half the stores are groceries and meat
markets, and these are in all sections OF the
city, as well as several Of the larger markets
In the main business section. It is. of course
on the table that the average member
realizes the greatest saving, but the list
includes drug, furniture, dry goods. mems
and women's clothing, shoe, hardware. auto
mobile dealers &c.
The plan encourages cash buying though
several credit concerns are listed and also
promotes buying at home and neighborhood
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

the following: Daughters of Isabella, Sons
and Daughters Of Liberty, Ivy Temple,
Pythian Sisters: Daughters of Rebekah,
odd Fellows Germania Benefit Association.
New England order of Protection. United
Order of American Men, Ancient Order of
United workmen, Loyal order of Moose.
Foresters of America, Independent order of
Foresters, knights of Columbus. Knights of
Pythias and many others.
waterbury claims that 1t has solved the
problem there, and what 1t has done can be
done in any community, but the organizers
must expect hard work and many heartaches
before success crowns their efforts. The
Thrift Association hopes to hear of chapters
being formed throughout the country and
later welded into one mammoth organiza-
ton that will take up national questions,
and then good night, Mr.. Profiteer. 1t can
be done and it will be done If few deter
mined people i'm each community will band
themselves together and make the good
fight The message is to the thinking people
of other cities and now is the time to act.
With unemployment becoming more acute
daily and wages being reduced 1t is squarely
up to the people to cease talking aput
ways and means and act. A saving OF 10
per cent on your expenditures for 1921 is
an argument for thrift that means some
thing.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

the war. Like their royal colleagues in mis-
fortune and the industrial and financial
kings of Austria and Germany, the Haps-
burgs sent their priceless treasures Of
jewelry, which were unequalled except, per-
haps, by the Romanoff collection, to neutral
countries. Their securities and immense
sums of money went to Switzerland. That
is one of the chief causes why the little re-
public i'm the Alps has such an abundance of
money that its bankers are at loss what
to do with il.
When the eight Austrian and Hungarian
war loans were offered, Emperor Charles
subscribed a hundred million crowns to the
Austrian and equal amount TO the Hun
garian war loan. Also the Hapsburg Princes
and Princesses were heavy subscribers. They
deposited securities with the banks, but did
not pay one heller (one-fifth of one cent at
tho normal rate OF exchange). Then they
withdrew their securities and forwarded
them together with as much cash and valu-
ables as could be scraped together. across the
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

banks, or otherwise invested in foreign
countries, a part, and a large part at that,
of their wealth. 1t has never been reported
that any part Of it has been sequestered or
seized, although such a fact undoubtedly
would have been published The Hapsburg
holdings in the Kingdom of Hungary" and
their private property in Austria are safe
only the crown lands having been confis-
Gated in Austria, Czecho- -Slovakia and Jugo-
Slavia.
The former realm of the Hapsburgs has
been impoverished. While the masses of the
urban and industrial population are starving
the wealthy grow still weather. and the
agriculturists prosper as they have never
prospered before. The large estates which
are still owned by the Hapsburgs are OF
vastly increased value and yield propor-
tionately larger incomes than prior to the
war.
Since 1915 the statesmen of the Central
Powers and the advisers of the ruling princes
were full well aware that they could not win
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

difficulty in retaining his balance when he
strikes on his feet. In fact, after several
close calls he gratifies the crowd tremen-
dously by sitting down. Having done the
split-possibly unintentionally-he starts to
lift himself by drawing his legs together. but
half way up he gives up this scissors move
ment and raises himself by hand power.
Then he does a hand-stand amidst in
creasing uproar, whereupon huge sand-bag
is lowered swiftly from above and clips him
off his hands. squad of stage hands stream
out from the wings and rout him, knocking
the surprised expression off his face with big
balloons.
The sweet singer of the Gas House district
next makes the hit of the evening with the
beguiling melody of broadway Rose"
though he nonchalantly waves aside the pit
tance gathered from the stage on his exit,
whereupon an indignant voice from the gal
lery booms: ''Wassamatter George-gettin
stuck up since yer took ter singin?"
diversion is created at this point because the
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

buying, three things that merchants in all
communities have always wanted to do.
The original plan was too complicated,
but the plan worked out by Messrs. Foster,
Southard and Mexican is simplicity itself.
Each member receives a membership card
good for year They pay SO year
into the association, which covers initiation
fees dues. &c. That is all they pay, there
are no assessments. Over 5000 membership
cards have been issued, and the enrolment
is going steadily forward. The average
member saves the cost of membership during
the first two weeks, and the aggregate saw
ings of the members amounts to thousands
of dollars yearly
The member is not compelled to purchase
certain articles or to make purchases of a
certain amount or to save sales checks,
coupons &c. Each member carries his or
her card and shows 1t when making pur-
chases. and simply pays 10 per cent. less
than the marked price. For example, IL a
member buys meat amounting to $1.20 she
pays $1.0S or If she buys 10 cent spool of
thread she pays cents, each transaction
being complete in itself
Active cooperation has been received from
the officers Of other organizations. who de-
serve great credit for their efforts in this
welfare work Prominent among these are
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

frontier to neutral States. That was at a
time when the Austrian crown was quoted
at above ten cents in New York. So ex-
Emperor Charles alone sent more than
$40, ,000, 900 all at once to places of safety
To increase his rainy day fund" he drew
on illegal strictly confidential vouchers
signed by Minister of Finances Won Plener,
Minister of War Won Stoeger-Steiger and
Gen. Rahm nearly 100000 crowns from
the Austrian Hungarian treasury. In the
same way every Archduke of more than
eighteen years. every married Archduchess
and some single Archduchesses cheated the
treasures of Austria and Hungary out of
large sums that were carried across the
frontier
Leading statesmen and parliamentarians
of the former dual monarchy-Chlumecky.
Berchtold, Geza Andrassy. Revertera Hun
yady, Lobkovitz and others-nearly every
one of them an enthusiastic Republican after
the overthrow of the Hapsburgs until
Charles's gold spoke in convincing argu-
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

IF youse can do any better, come on DOWN." :"
Comparative silence having been restored
by this challenge, the five-piece orchestra
breaks out in a rasping asthma, and the per-
former, in voice with the musical qualities
of good file, begins: ION de sidewalks Of
NYawk-" Instantly he is riot without
meaning to be. A gallery wag sings out:
Back to woik"
Twenty efficient stage hands make n
massed play on him in football formation.
lay him low with flying tackle and belabor
him with balloons, while hose is played
over the mess. The rest is pandemonium.
The announcer yells:
Miss CohAN-songs." And the crowd
grows delirous. Miss Cohan. hardly tall
enough to be seen above the footlights, comes
out and sings, though one can tell that only
from the movement of her lips In a lull in
the storm caused by her shimmying, she
shrills:
i've got the Teno-see blues"
"She's got the Jim jams!" hows a merry
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
10 the Archduchess Matrimonial Ad as an Improbabity

Archduchess who is resolved to sch her
social position to wealthy man tried and
more efficient channels than newspaper adj
vertisements would be open and would be
resorted to.
Now to the main point. a point that must
be known to anybody who is even remotely
acquainted with European affairs-the
Archduchess now tired of a miserable life
without money"
The Hapsburgs poor? They were, next to
the Romanoffs (the former ruling house of
Russia) the richest dynasty of the world,
and have not been impoverished by the war.
BY such an "escapade" as the advertise
ment for a rich American or English hus-
band, an Archduchess would not only invite
the enmity of her next Of kin but also lose
the considerable allowance from the I'M
mense family fortune.
Like Nicholas II. of Russia, Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, the Hohenzollerns and other ruling
houses the Hapsburgs had deposited with
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

The first singer retires, bearing few scars
of the conflict. BY this time the audience
is warmed up. and when the announcer
squawks, Miss Elliott, singer" the simple
statement gets the first real yowl of the
evening. Miss Elliott proves to be even more
than was expected-about $50 pounds more
She makes an easy target for the coins
while her voice seems distinctly under
nourshed. However, the fat demoiselle with
the thin voice is allowed to remain, not so
much out of chivalry as the fact that the
stage hands would emerge battered from any
effort to drag her off. Before she has fin
ished the audience is singing the same song
several bars ahead.
The next offering is a male quartet
greeted at first with a shout of back to de
penitentiary" because a late entrance is made
by the fourth member, a pugilistc young
man whose fashionable Fourteenth street
evening attire of brown is topped off by
khaki flannel shirt. But they make a hit.
not only because the audience gathers from
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Busy Thrift Association Hits the Profiteer Hard
r VERYBODY talks about the
r. weather, but nobody does anything
- about it." Mark Twain remarked

..T vERYBODY talks about the
weather, but nobody does anything
about it." Mark Twain remarked
that. In like manner a lot has been said
about thrift, and during this year the plat7
forms of the country will be filed by
speakers on thrift, but very little of a prac-
tical nature will result
1t was up TO Waterbury to be practical IL
the town were to recover from the effects
of war conditions, because being munition
centre during the war IL was among the
first to feel the effect of a return OF normal
conditions and is still feeling IL.
The Equitable Thrift Association is in
debted for the idea Of the plan to Mr.. c. L.
Mexican OF the Liberal League Of Philadel-
pha. who gave n talk cooperation and
thrift at a meeting of one of Waterbury's
women's organizations Some of the women
present later got together and decided to
put the plan In operation In this article
space will not permit recounting the mis-
takes made and the disappointments en-
countered, but It will suffice to say that al
the association was about to abandon all
hope Of success Mrs. F. G. Foster became
interested, and IT is to her and Mr.. Foster
that the town owes most of what has been
accomplished.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

ments rally around their Lord" at Prangins,
who to-day maintains, outer appearance not
withstanding a more expensive court than
formerly at the Vienna "Hofburg," for his
present titled servants are costly suite.
Since Count Mensdorff, who had been
designated to represent the House of Haps-
burg at the Court of st James's was persona
non Drdtd at London Slatin was chosen to
take care of the interests of the Hapsburgs
especially of his Imperial and Royal" mas
ter Charles on the Thames. That increased
the cost of the unofficial London embassy.
for Slatin is not willing to pay his own BILL
as Mensdorff-a rare bird among the Haps-
burg conspirators-would have done.
Baron Seidler, Austrian Minister 20 Berne
is another diplomat in the employ of Charlie.
He suggested to the Austrian Government to
pay a subsidy to the pro-Hapsburg dgence
centrale. Such a preposterous proposition
one might assume. was Immediately thrown
into the waste basket? To the contrary.
The Hapsburgs have their paid agents within
the Vienna Government. Privy Councillor
Sepel O. KID the plan, which was frustrated
only because the Berner Td0icdcht published
the text of Baron Seiders letter to the
Vienna Foreign Office.
At the Hotel Rome. Bern. expensive
Hapsburg propaganda headquarters have
been established under Baron Heye, while
Baron de NalmOnt, austrian CONSUL at Ge-
neva, Is in charge of Charles's propaganda
bureau there. OF all the Hapsburg propa-
gandists in Switzerland Baron de Valmont-
he was j. Steiner prior to his mobilization by
Charles-is probably the only one who does
not receive any remuneration for his mon
archist activities
SO extensive a propaganda costs money
and lots Of It, Only multimillionaires can
stand such financial drain. The Haps-
burgs, like all ruling, or formerly ruling
families are financially a unit in so far as
every member is paid an appanage propor-
tionate to the family wealth and irrespec-
tive of their private fortunes
Even IL the Hapsburgs were hard pressed
for money they would be taken care of.
Out of monarchist solidarity, the reigning
royal houses of Europe would see to Il that
none of their kind lives in poverty. Pas
sions of war and nationalist antagonism
never influence their actions.
A Hapsburg Archduchess, tired of mis-
cradle existence without money" looking for
wealthy husband through a newspaper adj
vertsement? Ridiculousi
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Amateur Night Howing Succession the Audience

one. Immediately the curtain behind her is
lifted by grimy hands, and there sprawl the
stage hands, leering at her politely Miss
Cohan, whose name the announcer mispro-
nounced, flees this mad world.
Henry Lewis will play his ocarina!" The
name of this instrument alone is enough TO
set the crowd yelling for blood. Henry
emerges small wisp of young man with
the spectacles and shrivelled manner of
psychical research librarian, taken aback by
his tumultuous reception and hugging his
small egglike wooden ocarina to his chest as
though afraid some one will take it away and
hurl it at him. He manages to extract from
it the piercing notes of dog who suddenly
discovers pain in his dreams However. as
he plays it in lively tempo his performance
merely draws this comment
who's the ocarina?"
After getting a mild amount of applause
mainly for the novelty-he makes his big
mistake He gives an encore Meanwhile
the disorder increases. Presently flood of
ally smothers his harmony. Henry retires in
bad order from the scene of combat.
Next the announcer bears out in state
three chairs, two of them safe and sane
enough, but the third with badly leaking
seat. The mob whoops it's appreciation at
this, for such elaborate scenic investiture
betokens a big act. Sure enough, a violinist
and two banjo players come out with their
instruments of torture The banjoists sit
down in the reliable chairs, but the violinist,
after one look at the untrustworthy chair,
decides he can be just artistic on his feet.
AS he scrapes while the others twanke a
voice scars down, as 1t were from heayen
"Sit down-you look more yooman!"
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

states that "$1 a week starts you Off on
furniture, pianos and Photographs while
two mysteries appear in advertisements of
automobile tire and hat store that sells
golfing and touring caps. These are mys-
teries with relation to their value to the audi
ence.
Among the spectators are number Of
sailors with their gals, family discernible
through the smoke screen that rises from
good five cent cigars constantly stocked dur
ing the evening by sincere devotees of the
weed. A single whiff of this aroma is enough
to convince one it isn't incense burned in
honor of the muse of drama, but the per-
formers don't seem to mind it, somehow Also
sprinkled throughout the house are Chinese
and Japanese. looking slightly bewildered at
the high jinks going on in the name of art
An announcer steps almost over the foot
lights and brays out the title of the opening
act, and the audience, taking a firm grip
on its cigars, settles down, having been
starved for this kind of entertainment for
a decade and awaits the onslaught of the
stage hands armed with all the equipment
except the hallowed hook consecrated to
this saturnalia of the stage struck.
The first victim manages to put a song
over, mainly because it is a yawp to the
effect that "Dere's no place in de woild to
live in like de good ole Gas House district"
Throughout the evening it is noticeable tha.
those who wall a ballad celebrating the Gas
House district are suffered to live a while
longer. So now the patrons exhibit their
appreciation by throwing nickels and dimes
at the performer, the aim being not merely
to shower him with vulgar wealth but also
to soak him on the bean"
A few do hit him. but he sings on with
the coins bounding off his face. Most of
them clatter on the stage. whence they ara
scooped into a shaving mug by uniformed
attendant, as it seems to be considered un-
ethical for the performer to pick up the
sordd money during his act since that
might affect his amateur status. Moreover
If he stoops to gather up the loose change
he only exposes himself dangerously to
bombardment. So the chicken feed is poured
into his hand at the end of his performance
by the attendant, who not only works
harder than any one-even the amateurs
but braves the fusillade of metal more than
they As he gathers the harvest innumer-
able hands can be seen waving from the
wings directing him to coins he has over
looked, while plump damses in the boxes,
who have become sirens via the peroxide
route, also lend a kindly hand in pointing
out stray dimes