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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Deltor
Demonstration

Let Miss Byron, the Butterick
Pattern expert, explain the ad-
vantages of the inimitable Deltor
system of cutting your garments,
Pattern Dept.-First Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Announcing another ship
ment of these fast-selling stock
ings-beautifully knit Of thread
silk and combination Of thread
silk and fiber. Chiefly in white
and black. Fashioned for trim
fit and knit for superior service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Assortments larger and
values better than ever
Washington's favorite mil
linery presents every correct
autumn style, in panne vel
vet and Lyons velvet-par-
ticularly featuring the pop
ular large models. Trimmed
with ostrich. hackle. fancy
feathers, ribbon and orna-
ments. Black and all colors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

A Timely Sale of
Women's ALL
Wool Sweaters
$1.98

Atwood slip-over Sweaters,
with round or V neck. Plain or
fancy stitch. Long or short
sleeves with turned-back or
purled cuffs. White. flesh,
orchid. buff. navy. and black.
Sizes So to 46.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Famous Crompton with the labeD
Corduroy Pants and other reliable
makes ready in immense quantity
at one dollar a pair. Lined or un-
lined. Sises to Is.
Soc and $1.N Belts, 3 for $1.00
Solid Leather Sample Belts with
cant slip" or harness buckles.
Black, tan and gray. Sizes rs to 80.
First Floor-king's Palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Genuine Congoleum Art Mats,
that unite beauty with utility. Rich
patterns. Very slightly imperfect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07

Atwood Slip-over Sweaters.
with plated or plain knit grid
les. V or round neck, long
sleeves. In jockey red, jade,
buff, navy and black.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-04-14
The Seder Feast
BY HERMAN JACOBSOFIN
Written for The american Jewish World)

Good Yom-tobw and delicious fut-
ter runs through the whole house.
A hushed commotion thrills the
light-gilded air, and the family
gathers around the table. The head
takes his place at the plate of three
matzoth covered with a snow white
napkin on which the oldest daughter
has exerted her utmost skill in en-
broidery. A silver cup is filled with
wine and he pronounces the Kiddish
in a joyous chant ringing with dig
nifty and exaltation. After tasting it
he passes it on to the queen
every Jewish mother being queen on
Passover night. She in turn passes
it on to the other members of the
family in order of seniority. After
donning his Kittle and skullcap he
goes through with the ceremony Of
ablution, pouring the water on each
hand three times up to the wrist.
Then he seats himself on couch
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spar in the ceiling, that no rodents
may get at them. The next morning,
both are burned before ten o'clock,
when the family is to have it's last
meal of leavened bread.
Of course, there are many other
little details to go through with, such
as the terumah or the priestly por-
ton and the matzoth shemurim, etc.
II.
At last the table is set for the
Seder, The choicest plate in the pos
session of the family is brought out.
Numerous lamps and candles radiate
an illumination rapturous and spirit
ual. The women are dressed in their
best, fresh and joyous, adorned with
the finest their jewel cases afford.
In black silk gaberdines girdled at
the waist with silk sashes with an
abundance of fringe dangling in
front, the men come in from syna-
gogue with a CHEEKY "Good Yom- tob!
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laid with cushions, on which he is to
recline on his left side in an abandon
OF freedom and well-being, in true
Oriental fashion.
In front Of him on the table the
three matzoths tell him of the three
divisions of Israel, Priests, Levites,
and Commons or Israels. To one side
is piece of the shank of a lamb
roasted on coal to the degree of
charring, which represents the Pas
chal lamb sacrificed at the Temple.
In those remote days it was taken
home and eaten by a group in one
OF their homes, where they portrayed
in pantomime the Exodus from Egypt,
eaten with haste, shoes on feet,
slaves in hand, loins girdled."
The matzoth signifies for him an
other thing. 1t is this: After
Pharoah had been made to see the
folly of keeping his forefathers in
bondage he hurried their departure
so much that they had no time to
wait for the dough of their bread to
leaven. The morsel Of lamb signifies
for him that (since it was taken
from "the first born") Jehovah had
slain all the first born in Egypt and
spared the first born of Israel
Nearby is a dish of Haroseth, a
chocolate-colored paste made of nuts,
raisins, apples, and spices, betoken-
ing the mortar and brick the Israel
ties kneaded and baked to build the
pyramids. A dish of horseraddish,
rather excessively pungent, typifes
for him the bitterness of slavery.
This dish none of the family may
miss. An egg roasted in ashes SYM
bolizes the Festival offering.
A flask Of wine and cups for each
member of the Notwithstanding the
servants and the guests complete
the setting of the table.
After the ablution he breaks one of
the three matzoths and rises as he
chants: "Lo! this is the bread of af-
Fiction which our forefathers have
eaten in the land of Egypt. Let all
those who are hungry enter and eat
thereof, and all who are in need come
and celebrate the Passover"
He takes half the matzoth and puts
it away to one side as "Afkomen"-
dessert which he is to be eaten in lieu
of the usual sweetmeats that serve as
dessert, as a Renaissance of the
duress of Egyptian slavery. And
many are the good-natured pranks
played by the frivolous members be-
fore the pater familias sees it again.
Many are the promises of gifts ex-
torted at the threat that it shall never
be returned.
Then the youngest male of the fam
lily asks the "Four Questions" The
sum total of them is that he wants
to know why this night is so different
from all the other nights in the calen-
dar. The moment he has had his say
the whole family respond:
Because we were slaves unto
Pharoah in Egypt and the Eternal
One, our God, brought us out from
thence with mighty hand and an
outstretched arm: and if the most
Holy One had not brought our ances-
tors from Egypt, we, and our chill
dren and our children's children,
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-04-14
ST. Paul and Minneapois-Friday April H. 1922

I.
AS feast, the Seder has no equal.
1t is the most beautiful we have. It's
symbolic ceremonial, it's dignity and
solemnity, it's atmosphere of delicious
JOY and miraculous nominees, make it
unique among the festivals Of the ma
tions of the earth. There is hardly
another to equal it. No wonder that
when the Catholic church needed a
ceremonial for it's most solemn occa-
sion, the Mass-needed something i'm
posing, grand, dignifed- adopted
our Feast of the Seder.
The Seder is not a religious cere-
monial only. In addition to many
other things, it is essentially our an
nual family reunion. 1t is the yearly
occasion for the gathering of the
whole family around the hearth In
the Old World of decade and a half
ago, no matter how distant one was
from home he managed to get there
for the Seder. The peddler laboring
the year round in far off provinces
shouldered his pack around Purim and
turned his face homeward-
amid the glow of welcoming faces he
forgot his tolls and was king for a
day. The merchant in distant cities
left his business unfinished and sped
home to join his folk. The interna-
tional fnancier ordered an extra load
of steam on the boiler at the head of
his private car, to fetch him home
in time for the Seder. Nothing short
of death served as an excuse for an
absence from the Seder.
The house was secured and
scrubbed days before. Indeed, three
months before, the housewife began
preparing driblets and giblets, began
to render shortening and fat for the
innumerable dainty dishes served dur
ing the Passover week. Wine for this
occasion was made in some places
half year in advance. A special
brew of mead from honey and hops
was made few months ahead. A
month before, the house was per-
meated by pleasant fragrance of
Passover borsht. Matzoth was baked
weeks in advance. There was a stir,
a BUSINESS, an atmosphere of mys-
terry about the very important act of
selling "Hometz" and the cleansing
dishes.
The night before the Seder the
pater familia came from the syna-
gogue with an air of extraordinary
Importance. His whole domain
(reshut) had to be purified. All
leavened bread had to be gotten out
Of the house-Bedikat Hamez. He
took tuft of feathers and wooden
spoon and set out upon the search,
accompanied by some one holding
wax taper. He made for the window
sill where few crumbs had been de-
posted to serve as lucky starting
point. Of course, every bit of leav-
ened bread had been cleared away be-
fore hand, but he went upon the
search as if he did not know it. AS
he sweeps the few crumbs into the
spoon he says in Aramaic: "a leaven
which perchance remains in my do
main and which has escaped my OBJ
servation shall be destroyed and be
like unto the dust Of the earth"
Then the spoon and the feathers
are tied together and stuck under a
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painting by Prof oppnheim his of illustrations
family life
cushion divan The the black gaberdne evidently made
doubt
whose spiritual wealth worldly
telling worthy
explains happy marriage
by gone by.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
RUSH TO CELEBRATE
WITH 5OO-LB. CAKE

RUSHVILLE, Ind, June IA 800
pound birthday cake has been baked
for Rush county's centennial celebra-
ton, and is on display in the window
of the bakery where it was made. The
cake is composed of four layers, each
about a foot thick and is AZ by 80
inches in size. 1t will serve 1000 per
sons and will be cut Thursday after
noon.
The CONNECTION which is fruit cake
and cost 35 cents a pound, used the
following quantities of materies: sug-
ar for icing, 131 pounds; sugar in
cake, 80 pounds; eggs, 60 pounds
flour, so pounds; butter. so pounds;
milk, so pounds; currants, 48 pounds;
raisins, 80 pounds; figs, is pounds
citron, Is pounds
A hundred candles for the cake
were contributed by Mrs. Alice Nc.
Millen of Indianapolis, great grand
daughter of William Laughlin, founder
of Rushville.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
Keeping Books In Condition
BY FREDERIC }. HAsKlN

WASHINGTON, June IA = Book
binding standards are changing. The
old belief that leather is the only
worthy and durable binding for a
good book is now almost discounted.
Libraries no longer add regularly to
their rows of old volumes bound in
aristocratic red and brown leather
Buckram, unitarian and unromantic,
is supplanting morocco and calf.
The library of congress, which
binds 10000 volumes a year for its
own shelves, says that this is a nat
ural development of our large scale of
civilization. When leather was pre-
pared by hand by European crafts
men, it was undoubatdly a material of
great lasting qualities. But now fac
tory methods prevail. and leather is
efficiently tanned with acids. This
process does not affect shoes, purses
and other articles that are expected
TO last only few years at most But
when it comes to a valuable book
that counts its lifetime by decades and
centuries, an acclaimed leather is
in for an endurance test that it can
not be expected to stand.
This development has contributed
to the rise of buckram. This material
is said to outlast the modern acid
tanned leather, and it is even con-
tended that it will wear longer than
the old hand prepared, acid-free leath-
ers. 1t will be some time before this
point is settled, because buckram has
been in use only about % years, and
fine grade of old leather has been
known to stand more than two cen.
turtles of wear.
For few years, the library of con
gress has been able to get acid free
leather for some of its valuable books
Strangely enough, it is not the latest
magic of science which is making
this possible. The leather is obtained
from savages of Africa who prepare
the skins of the Niger goat by some
crude native process.
This leather is in demand for ole
and heavy books Buskram, however
is being used to bind even important
collections of documents in the library
Of congress. A trip through the
stacks in the manuscripts division
shows long series Of volumes encaseC
in olive green, brown, or gray buckran
covers, with panels of leather of the
same color decorating the backs ant
| forming a dark background for tbs
gold lettering of the titles.
Library Binds Books.
This library, with the country's larg
est collection of books to keep il
order, attempts to solve most of it
own bookbinding and repairing ques
tons. Old volumes cracking with ag
and new paper-covered additions t
the shelves are bound in the big l
brary building by a force of worker
detailed from the government printin
office.
/ Few visitors know of the existenc
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
PICTURE OF WEALTH
FADES AT NEWCASTLE

NEWCASTLE, Ind, June IA
promising romance was shattered here
when marriage license was refused
20 Esther Stewart, of Denton, Kans.,
and Cecil Thomas, of Newcastle. On
appeal to Judge Cause the refusal
was sustained.
Miss Stewart, who is not yet IS,
and who came to this city about
two weeks after graduation from high
school, obtained Thomas's name from
a package OF butter in which it had
been placed by a friend. A cores
Dondence was started, and Thomas's
picture of his affluence encourag ed
the girls infatuation, which finally
resulted in the girls trip to this city.
Contrary to his statements, how
ever, the intended groom was found to
be less affluent than had been ex-
pected Miss Stewart, on the other
hand, will become the owner of $4,000
to $4,000 worth of property on coming
Of age this summer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
AUDITORIUM SOUNDS
HEARD BETTER WITH
WOMEN IN AUDIENCE
(By Associated Press

CHICAGO, H., June 14.-Women's
modes have direct effect on audi
forum acoustics, according to Prof.
+. r. Watson of the department of
physics of the University of Illinois.
Speakers and singers can be heard
more easily when their audience ia
composed chiefly of women than
when it is preponderately masculine"
he said. This is because women, as
experiments have shown, absorb more
sound than men, owing to the cloth
ing worm
Prof. Watson, who analysed the
acoustic properties of the Municipal
Pier here. and whose recommends
lions for Improvements were adopted
by the city authorities, has devised
an instrument that simplifies acoustic
analysis. 1t is an arc-light reflector,
which sends its Kissing together with
a beam of light to inaccessible ceiling
surfaces TO determine the presence
and paths of any echoes. As the
sounds and the light take the same
path, the light indicates the point in
the ceiling surface where the sound
strikes, and the angle of sound reflec-
ton is then automatically computed.
A standard organ pipe is blown and
the time taken for the sound to die
out is measured with a stop-watch.
Walls Cause Trouble
1.-THE usual trouble in an auditori-
UNI" said Prof Watson, results from
the fact that the walls do not absorb
sound to any great extent, and conse-
quently the word uttered by the speak
er takes a long time to die out. In
the mean time other words are spoken
that become confused with the sound
of the first words. In some cases
curved walls produce echoes and con.
centrate the sound in unexp ected
ways. Sound-absorbing materials are
the usual corrective; cushions in the
seats are quite efficient, but in some
cases hair felt should be placed on
the walls. The amount of felt needed
is readily calculated from the acoustic
properties of the room.
I'm small room there is almost
never any difficulty, but in large
rooms the troubles increase, so thai
1t is necessary to add sound absorb
ing materials in addition to the natur
al furnishings. The closer the wall;
are to each other, the more numer
Gus are the reflections Of sound pei
second, and the more rapid is the alb
sorption of sound.
Sound travels from a speaker a
the rate of about fifth of a mile Z
second. 1t is reflected from the wall:
of room and very rapidly fills the
entire volume. Because it's action i;
a mystery to many laymen, though
the theory has been carefully worked
out by scientists, wrong ideas have
grown up about acoustics.
For example, as much as sever
miles of wire ha4 been strung in ar
auditorium although wires as a prac
teal corrective for acoustic Difficult
ties are useless.
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of the hbrary's book bindery, hidden
away in the basement in long rooms
opening off red and white corridor.
Here 20 people work at an endless
job of book-binding. There are nearly
3.000,0 900 books in the governments
library and about 100000 new books
Many of the new works have only
flimsy paper covers, and all of these
must be either put in envelopes or
serviceably bound. Then there are
$50 volumes of newspapers to be col
lected in huge tones every month,
and besides all this there is a cons
tant stream of worn books to be re-
paired.
The book bindery merely tries to
keep from being swamped It can
not accomplish nearly all the work
it would like to do if appropriations
permitted. Some year the superinten.
dent of the division hopes to have
a sufficiently large appropriation so
that he can conduct a grand overhaul
ing and see that every book on the
shelves is in first class condition
But that is only one of the castles in
the air which government chiefs and
supervisors ike to build. There is
scant prospect of any extra sized ap
preparations from congress for patch
ing up books that are unobtrusively
disintergrating on library shelves.
The binders in the library shop dc
thorough work Cover boards are
laced into each volume, making tho
binding part Of the book, and moi
merely glued on covering. The bind
;ngs in heavy sbooks are reinforced
with a cloth joint
The library workers can replace {
cheap, worn out cover by a durable
one, but they are practically helpless
before the inferior grades of paper OF
which the cheaper modern books ar,
printed. Some of the popular novel.
go to pieces like the "one-hoss shay
of Holmes poem. Not only to TIL
covers wear out, but the paper edge!
tear, and the threads cut through tn,
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paper where the book is sewed to-
gether. Books of this grade and popu-
larity have short, intense career
and are discarded when they can no
longer be repaired.
Preserving Newspapers.
How to preserve newspapers is
more difficult problem The New
York public library has hit on plan
which it regards as satisfactory. Each
page of news print In bound volume
is enclosed in thin Japanese tissue
To prepare one volume of a news
paper, containing only months is
sues, by this method costs $45. But
with an eye to the future, when the
newspapers of today will be valuable
old historic documents, the New York
library is using this tissue for cur
rent, newly bound papers.
The library of congress does not
go to this expense and labor in keep
ing its great collection of newspapers.
There is an extremely fine grade of
| tissue, called crepeline, that is used
on important papers to keep them
| from falling apart, and the library of
congress has used this material on
one or two volumes of its Oldest news
papers.
! Great skill is required in applying
| this crepeline to sheet of paper
| The material is a sort of chiffon, a
mixture of silk and merceriZed cot.
ton so filmy that it is almost trans
| parent The page that is to be pre-
served with the tissue is first treated
| with fine flour and water paste. The
paste must be exactly the right grade
and the big camels' hair brush must
lay it over the paper so that no brush
marks are left, and so that the coating
is absolutely smooth. Then the crepe
line is laid smoothly on top and the
page is put under heavy pressure be
tween parafine sheets. The paste il
taken UP by the parafine, but enough
is left to fasten the threads of the
tissue to the paper
J The agreement of secrecy of the
: Continental Congress and the onl.
} surviving draft of the Declaration o
independence are among the docu
/, ments that the library of congress
has preserved with this Transparent
covering.
Caring for the governments CO..
!, lection of books and papers include
not only the rebinding and repair1n
of them when necessary, but ais
keeping them clean. The task Q
) busting so large a collection may b
imagined from the fact that 1T take
, a man with a vacuum cleaner mont
, 70 clean the books on one deck OF
stack. To make the round OF tn
. stacks in the building at this rat
would take three years.
Books in this library do not collec
! dust so rapidly as books on shelve
: in a home. The stacks are as nearl
dust proof and damp proof as possible
: Windows in the stacks are neve
' opened. A ventilating system keep
the air fresh.
n Because of the dryness, the hbrar
> has no trouble with ants nor bool
q worms. Insects of this sort sometime
/ get into imported books, especial
!. when they are brought over in tn
i hold Of ship, but such books are gel
orally disinfected before being place
\ on file and in the dry and uncol
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genial atmosphere of the stacks any
survivors would soon die.
The cockroach is the only INSECT
that has ever annoyed the library Of
ficials by insistent vitality. At one
time cockroaches got into some of the
books and developed an enormous APP
petite for the glaze in the buckram
covers. They also ate the gold off
the titles and decorations because of
the albumen it contained. The library
got rid of these expensive boarders,
however, and now it uses kind of
buckram that is guaranteed to offer
no attraction to insects.
The weather, insects, action of sun
/ Eight, and dust, are all guarded against
in the governments big book collec-
| ton. Only the human element-the
wear and tear of handling the books
| defies regulation.
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University Students Aid
In Plating 2O-Mile Road
CBy Associated Press)

IRONTON, Ohio. June 14.-Fifty
Ohio State university engineering col
lege students are here working in con-
junction with Lawrence county sur
veyors in plating a 20-mile stretch Of
the Black Fork road, which is to be
improved.
The students will camp at various
places along the road as the work pro-
ceeds. Their expenses are to be paid
by the county. and the only compensa-
ton they will receive will be the ex-
nerience
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
Expect ), 900 Delegates
Toe. E. Convention
CRv AssocIated PressI

AKRON, Ohio. June 14.-Plans have
been made for the entertainment of
5000 delegates who are expected to at
tend the annual state convention of
the Ohio Christian Endeavor Union
here June q to 90
According to present plans the con-
vention speakers will include Francis
f. Clark, Boston, founder of Christian
Endeavor. and possibly Senator Frank
B. Willis of Ohio.
1t is expected to be the largest con-
vention held in Akron this year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
MABEL NoRMANp SAILS

NEW YORK, June 14.-Mabal Nor
mand, film star, left for London yes
terday on the Aquitania.
please don't discuss that" she said
when mention was made of the case of
William Desmond Taylor, movie direc-
tor murdered in his Los Angeles home
some months ago. I've been running
away from it for months" she said.