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instruments operate. Notice that the
wire from the carbon element of one
battery connects to the zinc element
of the other battery. This is import
ant. When the keys are at rest, the
electric circuit is open. No current
can flow over the wires from either
dry cell, because there is a break in
the connection at the switch. Only
the batteries are cut out, however
The circuit is always closed as far as
the saunders are concerned. When Ell
Their key is operated, the battery cir
cult instantly closes, and the sounder
of each telegraph set responds.
Figure 8 shows the Morse telegraph
code. With the diagram before you.
practise sending the lette,s on your
set until you have memorized the code
alphabet, then practise on words. With
this simple set you can learn many
valuable lessons in telegraphy.
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good, no matter how small the guam
tlty, may be utilized in soup The
trimmings sent from rOasts, the bones
OF fowls as well as the feet may be
used. The soup course planned and
prepared from such combinations as
above mentioned may be served at a
very low cost. An occasional day of
cream soup may be served to add va
riety.
Clam ChoWder.-Pour two cupfuls
of water over one quart of solid clans;
rinse and remove bits of shell, If pres
ent. Strain the water and clam juice
through a double cheese cloth. Re-
move the hard portion from each clam
and chop fine. Cut one slice of salt
pork into small cubes and cook until
well Drowned with enc onion sliced
thin; when the onion is yellowed, add
the water and clam juice and simmer
ten minutes. Parboil one pint OF
sliced potatoes, drain, rinse in cold
water and drain again; pour the wa
ter from the onions and pork over the
potatoes; add more water if neces-
sary; also the Clipped CLANS, and let
cook until the potatoes are tender. add
the soft part Of the clans and cook
three minutes Make a sauce of one
third of a cupful of butter, one-thrd
of cupful of flour, one teaspoonful
of salt, one-half teaspoOnful of pep
per, three CupfulS Of milk; cook until
smooth and thick, then add one cupful
of hot cream; combine the two mix
lures and serve at once.
Cream of Satisfy Soup.-Scrub six
good roots of satisfy, cut off tops and
let stand in cold water until ready to
cook. Cook In boiling water until ten
der, press through a fine sieve. Put
the pulp with a sliced onion and two
sprigs of parsley into a double boiler.
Add a pint of milk and let stand on
the fire until needed. Melt One-third
of cupful of sweet fat, add one-half
cupful of flour and cook until smooth.
Add one teaspOOnful of salt, One-half
teaspOOnful of paprika and one quart
of bubbling hot milk. Then add the
satisfy and milk and press all through
fine sieve. Reheat and add two we'll
beaten eggs mixed with cupful of
cream. Serve hot. The yOlks may be
cooked in the soup and the whites
beaten stiff and placed on top Of the
hot soup as a garnish.
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the sliced comics game, and paste upon
strips of cardboard. Then with sharp
knife cut up the strips Gigs. 10 and
~, thus making. a pile of hats, heads,
bodies, legs, etc. Gig. 12). Place the
parts upon a table, picture-side down,
and direct the girls and boys to draw
the parts from the pile, in turn, and
assemble them to form valentines. He
whose completed valentine isgvoted the
most comical is winner of the game.
Another way to play this game is to
dissect the figures into smaller parts
eyes, mouths, ears, etc. Then, instead
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-03-03
A Feeling Of Security

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp-Root.
1t is scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and is taken in
teaspoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for everything.
1t is natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kidney, liver and blad-
der troubles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root
If you need a medicine, you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
in bottles of two sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kimer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
--------------------
Talk is chpap hut not when Won are
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CREAM FOR CATARRH
OPENS UP N0STRlLS
Tells How to Get Quick Relief from
Head-CoIds. It's Splendid!

In one minute your clogged nostrils
will open, the air passages of your
head will clear and you can breathe
freely. No more hawking, snuffling,
blowing, headache, dryness. No strug-
Cling for breath at night; your cold
or catarrh will be gone.
Get small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen
etrates through every air passage of
the head, soothes the inflamed or
swollen mucous membrane and relief
comes instantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed-up
with a cold or nasty catarrh.-Relief
comes so quickly.-Adv.
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cold boiled potatoes into half-inch
cubes to make a quart. Chop fine in
a wooden bowl one small, peeled onion,
one tablespoonful of picalili, one ia
blespoonful Of capers, six branches of
parsley, eight olives and half of a
green sweet pepper. Add six table
spOonfuls Of olive Oil, three tablespoon
fuls of vinegar one teaspoOnful of
salt; mix well and pour over the po-
tato; let stand in a cool place for
two or three hours before serving.
When ready to serve sprinkle with
minced parsley and serve garnished
with heart leaves Of lettuce with rad
ishes cut to resemble tulips.
FrikadelIer Danish. - Take one
eighth of a pound of suet, three
fourths of pound Of round steak,
one small onion; put through a meat
chopped twice, add salt and pepper
to taste. Mix one tablespoonful Of
flour with a cupful of rich milk and
mix all together Have a hot skillet
well creased. Dip a spoon into hot
rat and shape the meat into oblong
cakes; fry q nice brown and serve
with vegetables.
Pork Cake-Take one cupful each
of chopped fat salt pork and boiling
water. Cook together for three hours
on the back of the stove two cupfus
of chopped home-dried apples, and one
cupful of molasses with one teaspoon
full Of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful
each of cloves and nutmeg. Add flour
to make of the desired thickness; mix
all together with one teaspoonful Of
soda and two teaspoonfuls Of cream of
tartar Add one-half cupful of raisons
| at the last Bake in loaf for at least
| one hour in moderate oven. This
cake will keep, improving in flavor
when a month old.
IN y.
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A SIMPLE LINE TELEGRAPH.

Far from its being difficult or ex-
pensive to build, line telegraph is
something which you and your chum
next door can easily and inexpensively
install to operate from house to house.
In Fig. 1 l have shown a very simple
scheme, one which requires for each
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1t is difficult to be always true to
ourselves, to be always what we wish
to be, what we feel we ought to be.
AS long as i've feel that, as long as
we do not surrender the ideal of our
life, all is right Our aspirations rep
resent the true nature of our soul
much more than our everyday life
Max Muller
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of each sheet, and paste the strips to
the frame around the outside and in
side edges. This makes an excellent
lace-valentine.
Cut pictures of people and animals
from newspapers and magazines, for
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hammer the sides of the lever close
together, thus binding post G secure
ly between them. Cut standard block
E of the shape shown in Fig. 5, notch
It's top to receive the lever and drill
a small hole through which to drive
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set one dry cell, one electric bell or
buzzer, one telegraph key.
Before going into details concerning
installation of the instruments, let me
show you how to make the simple key
in Fig. 2. Lever A is a strip q inch
wide and 10 inches long, bent in half,
widthwise, then in half lengthwise
Gig. -. Knob B is a spool end Gig
~, and it is supported on the peg post
c, which slips between the folds of the
lever. Glue the knob on to the post,
then drive a brass headed tack (D)
into the lower end of the post and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-03-03

Pure blood is essential to good health.
Garfield Tea dispels impurities, ceanses
the system and eradicates disease. -Ady.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-03-03

Nothing succeeds like success; ex-
cept a blush when it gets good,
healthy start.
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bles as potato, beetS,
cabbage or others should
be well seasoned or mari
mated with some sea-
soned dressing long
enough to penetrate the
vegetables before it is to
be served.
otato Salad, Cut
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-03-03

If man is ignorant he may learn,
but If he knows too much there is no
hope for him.
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of FASTING these upon cardboard, place
them in pile and furnish the girls
and boys with paper, brush, paste and
pencil, and have them select parts and
paste up comic valentine, drawing
in pencil portions they wish to add.
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SEASONABLE DISHES.

A potato salad is a favorite dish
with the majority Of people. A salad
Innln from sllnL
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wv H. JOHNSON, of Portland,
W. Ore, who says ne one could
have done him any greater kind.
ness than the friend who advised
him to try Tanlac. - Gains fifteen
pounds.
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The Kitchen
Cabinet 40
co. 1921. Western Newspaper UniOn)

The happy man is he who is cheer
full with moderate means; the unhappy
he who is discontented in the midst
of plenty.-DemoCritus
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A man suspects he is wrong a long
time before he finds out for sure.
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b e e f or + 70 m
tongue, a cupful
of gravy or less,
C e ! cry lie a yes,
parsley these
last may be dried
and kept in bot
tles-in fact any
t b in G t h a t Is
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SERVE SOME SOUP.

Even spoonfuls of leftovers Of vege-
tables, steak bones, broth from corned
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Talk is cheap, but not when you are
hiring lawyer to do it for you.
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GA~ &zzaA,
coFfRioHT ~ vnrtH hEvspAPts UNION
Coatee Blouse.

Coatee Blouse.
Coatee blouse best describes q new
type of blouse developed in satin and
bead-trimmed.
Evening star., 1921-03-20

favor.te niece. and when the estate
is settled
Il see" says /, 80 you thought
you'd splurge a bit on the strength
of it
Caroline persuaded me that
ought to-" admits Stacey. You see,
I'd given the other method quite a
thorough trial. and il didn't seem to
be much of q success. SO she is really
backing me in this venture. OF course.
legacy is available. 1t seems rather
reck less Honestly McCabe. 1--we
spent an awful lot in the last few
weeks. This isn't all. you know
He goes on to give me the details.
They'd given up the rooms over the
Lease on that cute little Pinkham
place. down on the Post road. Got
il all furnished. And Caroline had
gone to town and hired a. couple as
Country Club and Stacey has begun
taking dancing lessons. Hes learning
TO toddle.
Just waiting for you to come back
shorty" he says, 80 We can give our
first dinner party. How about We'd
nesday night
| said that would be fine. But how
does the new scheme work." | goes
on. Got 'em coming your way yet?"
Well there has been no rush of
clients" admits Stacey. oh. I've
pick ed up a few little odds and ends
by being over the bank here. And
Judge Smiley has taken to speaking
TO me. With an office just across the
hall from his suite. ! suppose he
thinks he must I think l caught a
day when he was out of town. A Mr..
Randle dropped in to have contract
drawn.
."Randle?" says /. ~. r.: Why.
Evening star., 1921-03-20

petuous on the bed and start sobbin'.
Course. Stacey Apologies. She's just
having her first fit of homcsickness. 81"
says he. she misses the crowd Of
young people she has been brought up
W!tE---the parties and dances and all
that sort Of thing. And of course. not
knowing any one here and not go
ing around any or having friends to
talk To, makes it hard for her. But all
that WIFI bc changed in time
Huh" says !. Tell you what you
ought 10 do. Stacey: join the Country
( club and start mixin' with folks
! He shakes his head. oh. couldn' I
AFFORD that" says he. IL should have
10 buy new clothes and-and il would
lead 10 expensive habits. That
wouldn't look well--wouldn't be ac-
! cording to my program. you know.
I SO / let it ride at that. But | was
/ Kind of sorry for the little doll baby
bride. ] even worked up more or less
! sympathy for Stacey. He was good
/ deal of a nut. of course. but he seemed
10 mean wei. L tried to steer a little
! extra business his way by hintin' 10
! friends and neighbors that when the Y
had any small legal matters that need :
: ed atteadin to they'd find Stacey Giles
/ right on the job. Nobody got enthusi-
! astic over il, though
w hat. That fourth-rate shyster"'
they'd say. why. he's no good. is
| he?''
| My plan for gettin' Mrs. McCa5e to
do something for the Stacey Giles was
/ just as much of fiivver. And usually
| Sadie is strong for taking up new
| people.
/ But. shorty she protests. They're
I impossible. She is rather a cute-look-
/ ing young thing. but he's such a
shabby freak. And living over Felt
| ner's bakery-it simply can't be done"
Which was where ! quit. didn't go
! near Stacey's office again for six
! weeks or so and saw him only cas-
= uaily at the boards meetin's. Then l
Evening star., 1921-03-20

theory of how permanent law prac-
tice should be worked UP. Don't you
think 1 am right
"Ye.e-es. l expect so" says I.
right here over the bakery with the
new Mrs. Giles"
oh. certainly" SAYS he. There's
,notper room that We can have for
our living quarters. and We shall be
4uit cozy. Then Caroline will prob
ably want to learn stenosraphy and
,SIyewriting and she can help me in
he Office. We mean to live modcstly
and unassumingly. you know"
"if that's what you're after" says
luck Our first board meeting is next
Tuesday night and Wen look for YOU
30 be on hand
As Brick Hartley had hinted. Stacey
,:ilos had more in his head than you'd
suspect He Strengthened US out in the
,ourss Of a week or so. fixed up com
oromise with the contractors and got
~ let of easy Course, a real law shark
ukc ex-Judge Smiley. might have got
better terms. but then, Smiley would
nave soaked us "A good fat fee. 50 We
'gured that we saved money by having
stacey Giles.
And naturally got to know Stacey
,retty well | discovered that he was
4 cagcy. coutiOus bird. ON" of the
>inl that never took Il chance. He
wouldn't let us cut any corners ar
arrow any bluffs. Not him. Where
ned been in the habit OF going anead
whether we had funds in sight or not.
trus,in' 10 luck that we'd get Che
money from somewhere. Stacey made
rs stick TO the appropriation. Hc'd
sit up half the night goin' over 'Ion-
'racts and bills. scalin' down a few
!ol,ars here and a few cents there. and
'hinkin' up ways OF runnin' the schools
more economical.
Seemed TO come natural to him. That's
Re way he did everything. An original
.tard boiled egg. Stacey was Why, |
,auEht him ironiu Il shirt che day.
Evening star., 1921-03-20

why not" SAYS he. These laun-
dries charge outraSeously.
; So he'd go around wearin' that same
shiny black suit and that rusty old
overcoat. Most of his collars mad
saw edges and his high crowned black
felt hat was an antique. We Couidn {
point with pride to our legal counsel,
but We had a balance on the right side
of our ledger.
What I was eXpectin' in the way OF
ma am with a pinched mouth and a
sacky shirtwaist. But say. when he
shows up with the new Mrs. Giles |
had to gasp. They do raise some easy
lockers down in the Blue Grass country.
and Stacey sure had picked one that
didn't hurt YOUR eyes any. Some little
doll baby. if you ask me: lot OF
henna colored hair. big blue eyes. and
pouty red lips. How he ever hooked
one like that | couldn't imagine, unless
be found her in some little four corners
where there was a surplus Of village
queens.
Anyway, there she is, established in
three rooms over Feltner's. and look
ing about as much at home as but
terfy in an egg crate. L could Just
imagine her doin' experimental cook
in on the kerosene stove. tacklin' her
first family wash, and sittin' around
that barren Office inspirin'- Stacey To
We'll. that's as far as l got. What
there was that she could inspire him
to do. with no clients to do it for. was
too much of a strain on the imagina-
ton.
Once. when I dropped in on some
school board business, / found her
sittin' with her chin propped up on
her hands starin' out across Main
street at the New Haven tracks.
Course. Stacey introduces me and l
has to ask how she likes Rockhurst.
wouldn't you say that was an inno-
cent question? But il seems it was
Just the wrong thing to say. Instead
of answering. she puts her hands over
her eyes and goes dashin into the
back room. Through the thin partition
could hear her throw herself i'm
Evening star., 1921-03-20

J was away for a couple Of weeks on
! that Pincyillc trip and it must have
| been ten DAYS or so after | came back
before happened to be downtown ana
: noticed this new brass sign on the
| doorway lcadin' up to the ofhces over
the Rockhurst National Bank.
| Hello" says I. stacey must have
! moved
And sure enough. just as I'm gawp-
| in. who should drive up in a classy
/ closed car but Stacey Giles himself
! that is. the party is wearin the same
! thick glasses and has the sam" pop
eyes Otherwise there amt much
that's familiar about this sporty
dressed gent in the nifty checked suit.
the gray fedora and the castor gloves.
So ! follows him up to make sure.
/ wasn't cutie quick enough. though.
! for in the neat furnished reception
room I'm held up by young lady
stenog. who lays Off the keys long
enough to ask if ] have an appoint
mcnt with MIR. Giles.
No. but maybe / can make one.
! says /.
Perhaps he can see you now, says
she. "i'll ask
And Stacey could. finds him at "a
big fat-topped mahogany desk with
his feet on "A Turkish rug and a lot
OF imposin lockin' documsnts spread
out before him.
Well we'll" says !, lookn him
over curious and slancin' about.
What's the idea. Stacey? Been made
general counsel for the Steel Tius,, or
som, thing like that"
lie shrues his shoulders and shakes
his head. No use trying to fool you.
Shorty" says he. You know all
about me. This is all-wcll. | sup
pose you would call il dressing the
shop window
"Eh?" says /. "A prosperity bluff"
1t isn't wholly bluff" says Stacey.
We have had windfalI. At least
we've had word that one is coming
our way. Caroline has lost an aunt.
Quite wealthy old girl. l understand
stock faTT,. tobacco lands and all
that scrt of thing. Caroline was her
Evening star., 1921-03-20

old-time carnival of Nice. Only one
feature survives-the flour bombs
or bombs of powdery plaster of Paris.
which burst when they hit you and
cover you with white. You have got
TO wear wire mesh mask at the
Nice carnival even today. The mil
lionaires don't really Ike il.
But the grandness of it
A frightened F'renchman was tele-
phoning from his bedroom. next 10
mine. in the first-clasS hotel where
we arc all growing poor. It has the
elegance of bedroom telephones. long
distance Riviera. local) THE
cannons," he exclaimed. they are ap-
proaching What is it-that can
nonadinS,'
"ft is just the fireworks" the
front" answered. But ii did sound
like the drum fire 1T Compicgne in
1917. Those fireworks cost the car
nivai budget $4,000.
Enaccounted hundreds of thousands
of dollars are spent on the carnival
proces ession. with its "hoatS." giants.
heads" triumphal arches. miles of
festooned electric lights and gratis
costumes lent to the young popu-
lace of Nice to make the procession.
The lass of rich hotel proprietors.
the municipality. the two casinos.
the big +. l.. NJ. railroad and the
French government itself timaginf
Washington helping out New orleans.
st. Louis or Philadelphia shooters
with n rich appropriationJ ask Just
one thing-no accountinS-just mag
nificence.
The designers of rcs'un0" oars
and gian s are great artists. sculptors
decorators-the .tuzello. Musso. In
audi, Sidro, Calviera. The giant fig
dres. some as high as the third floor
of houses. are seen in no other fetes
of Europe. The tradition of them
is from Constantinople of the east
ern empire. before the Turks.
1t is called "the" carnival But.
in fact, it is very plural. by repeti-
ton. 1t has not stopped: it is wait
ing for mid-Lent. and glittcring at
fractions will continue to proiong
the season" and permit hotels to
double their prices and the natives
TO tax visitors as much as cultivated
NERVE may risk. for climate.
The Nice season has its grand ac-
complice-climate. When Paris lies
Evening star., 1921-03-20
Always the Same.

pOOTH HARRINGTON was talking
about the cowardly attack that a
gang of Germans had made on a soli-
tary French officer in the restaurant of
the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
'"The Germans" he said. were un-
spsakab.e in the beginning. and they
will be unspeakable to the end
He shook his head thoushtfully.
People can't change" he said. "Hspry
Labouch"re was born a fearless Wit.
and fearless wit he died. A kew
hours before his death. you know. ka-
bouchere's nephew upset a tiny spirit
lamp that was burning by tho bedside.
The dying man awoke out Of htful
dozc and saw the miniature confagra-
tion.
FLAMES" he said. Not vet. think.
"And he laughed quiSzica'iy ane
dozed again 60: ~ =. q,
Evening star., 1921-03-20

in chilly dampness Nice is basking in
radiant sunshine. all that they claim
for it-town of eternal spring. Queen
Of the Riviera, coast Of enchantment.
shimmering road to the purple sea,
the seaboard of the setting sun.
and fSiryland on business
principles!
ORGANIZATION saves the new
~ Nice from herself. Because, OBJ
serve. the natives appreciate their
climate just az much As you or do.
Their problem had always been to
enjoy it while getting a living. Now
that wages arc four to five times
what they were. before the war, they
Evening star., 1921-03-20

not be tourists all the week round.
1t bobs up laughing bitternessp in
the carnival procession. The pro-
cession is made of three elements:
(a) Floats and the giant figures.
OBJ groups of dancing Pierrots OF
both sexes. in blue-and- arnber, and
tcl topical groups. who act. i'm
promptu, in costume, as they walk.
taking off the topics of the day, as
in a theatrical review.
Now all this figuration is done by
the Nice populace. They have in
herited Q talent. q tradition, from
the days when it was all their own,
when no corporation organized them
in glittering silks and spangles.
Within limits. it is still their own.
!, This season there is a TOPICAL group