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New Britain herald., 1923-12-21

yey made by the National Association of Retail Clothers.
 People do not seem to care much about clothing any more, according to resultsof the survey made public to- day, and one state is about as bad as another in that respect. New York. Texas and Iowa seem to have become the most careless about their appear ance, judging from the inquiry just made.
 X large store in one New York state district put on a campaign which in other years had produced sales Of 150 suits and oyercoats, but the result this year was the sale of seventeen suits and overcoats. Across the street on the same day twenty five automobiles were sold.
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
WARS ON WHITE SLAVES.

Geneva, Dec. 2l.--Miss Grace Alb. bolt, of the United States Department of Labor. has notified the League of Nations that the Social Hygiene Btu reau al Washington will contribute to the cost of the investigation into the traffic in women and children any necessary amount up to a maximum Of 5000. The social section of the league proposes to undertake an in- quiry by experts into the white slave practice, with a view to effecting its total abolition. The police systems Of all world cities will be requested to cooperate in this investigation.
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
Rumania Helps Peasants
 Acquire and Work Land

Bucharest. Rumania, Dec. 21.-The present status Of agrarian reform in Rumania is set forth as follows by NJ. Constantinescu. minister Of agricnl- ture. The state is distributing land, within limitations The aim is to put
 the landless peasant in possession of
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
MARKS FOR CONFETTI
Bridal Patys Friends Shower Them
 With Money But Not Pitches

Geneva. Dec. 21.-A young couple married at Beinwil, in the Canton Of Argovie. had money showered upon them if not riches, for their friends found it cheaper to throw German bank notes over them instead of the usual confetti.
 The village children after the de- parture Of the motor car picked up
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
Men Buy Fewer Clothes
 But More Have Autos

Chicago. Dec. 2l.--The average man no longer has Sunday suit of clothes" but he owns an automobile or is buying one on the installment plan, according to nationwide sur
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21

to open at s a. m. and close at D. m. This reform had a profound effect on public opinion, nd the result was a clean sweep for continuance.
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21

the notes and went home million aires" German mark notes have in many Swiss cafes replaced wallpaper.
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21

An elephant can not see an object outlined against the sky at more than thirty yards.
New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
is made certain.

is made certain. Professor Gagei and other econo-
 mists are urging extension of the plan
 to other municipalities.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
ACHIEVING SUCCESS
IN THE LIVING ROOM
A MATTER OF TASTE
Grouping of Furniture in
Units Gives Honey"
Atmosphere.

The room looked messy. Her own
description was not far from The
mark when she said: at looks as
though il had been arranged by a
young, inexperienced cyclone Yet
| the house. and the room itself was
very attractive. and the worried
mistress decidedly so. She also pos
sessed excellent taste, but that room
had been poser for her. 1t was a
large room; woodwork white. walls
well decorated with a quiet. self-toned
paper. and the furniture selected with
discrimination. 1t was a long room
and perhaps a trifle narrow. but this
had been corrected by ceiling beam
across each end supported on columns,
which formed mantel alcove at one
end and a window nook at the other.
SO far the effect was good. but
when the furniture was sent in
chaos reigned. There did not seem
to be an overdose, but everything
seemed to get in its own way. Chairs.
tables. lamps. piano and sofas, all
seemed undecided as TO where they
belonged and just stopped where they
were, to think it over. The servants
and the casters we're fairly worn out
by endless moyings around, but still
things would not locate.
1t did not take long to analyze
the difficulty. The young home-mak-
er had made the mistake of thinking
in terms of furniture. instead of poo
pie. She did mot arrange the pieces
but just sprinkled them around the
room until one needed chart 10 get
across: to do this without collision
was an accomplishment. Attacked
from the standpoint of comfort and
convenience. the problem was quickly
solved. The large sofa was swung
around square in front of the fire
place. giving a cozier effect to the
alcove, and long table was placed
back of it TO provide a place for
lamps, books and other needs Of
comfortable corner. At the window
nook a medium-sized round table
was placed convenient to the seats
which surrounded the space. and
with few large lounging chairs
drawn UP, that corner became inter
esting.
The maid was called in and the
piano moved to a position near the
middle of one of the long walls.
where window cast ample light
on the keyboard during the day,
and q convenient base receptacle
provided current for a stand lamp |
at night. The music cabinet was
placed next the wall within easy
reaching distance of the piano bench |
and a couple Of chairs drawn up
nearby for the benefit OF music lovers. |
A side table, mirror and two
chairs were marshaled against !
n wall space that had hitherto eluded |
all attempts at subiugation. Then
from the number OF chairs and mis-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
GIFT FOR A MAN
Nothing Will Be Appreciated More
Than an Easy Chair.

II there is anything more luxuri
Gus to the mind of man than al
easy chair which admits Of a com
Portable tilt and is we'll adapted fol
resting, it is some article of furniture
yet to be discovered.
No statistical study of the relation
between men who like to go out
evenings and the lack of comfortable
chairs in. the home, has ever been
made, but there is no doubt in the
minds of those who have given the
subject thought, that more than q
casual relationship exists between the
two.
When the corner saloon was OPP
Grating, one thing always to be OBJ
served was the comfort of the
chairs. The proprietor knew better
than TO test the endurance of his Gus
toners.
And after sitting through the early
part of the evening on straight. hard
chairs at home, it was small wonder
that father would put on his coat and
announce that he was just going
around the corner for o little while,
and would be back shortly. The min
utes sometimes heightened into hours.
but father sunk deep into the COM
Portable 6urves OF real chair, was
unmindful Of the time.
If the man of the house doesn't
have 4 favorite chair-if he seems
to be just as willing 70 sit in one
place as another-there is something
vitality wrong 10 be remedied.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

cellaneous objects that had been ban
ished to the hall during these opera
tons. one piece after another was
brought in and tucked away where
they seemed likely to do the most
good or be most out of the way, and
a few that seemed inclined 20 make
nuisances of themselves finally disap-
peared in the direction of the attic.
When the job was completed, we
stood in the hall doorway and looked
il over. Several distinct centers had
been arranged so that one group
might be gathered in front of the
fire, while another was enjoying a
game Of cards at the other, end OF
the room and the unsteady inclined
could use the piano. Best of all,
there was room TO get around with
out climbing over people or moving
them.
1t was so simple that she won
dered why she had not thought of. it
before. The answer was that she
had been thinking in the wrong terms
and had been trying TO do the difficult
instead of the simple thing. She had
tried to marshal her army as a whole,
instead of first organizing it into
small units and giving each unit a
place. ii she had just invited in a
group OF friends some evening. turned
them loose to have a good time and
made them feel so much at home
that they would have felt free to move
the furniture around to suit their
convenience she would probably have
found the room next morning with
the furniture left much as we had
just arranged it.
In arranging a room, think oil
people
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
GOOD MATTRESS PROMOTES
BODILY COMFORT. AND MAKES
POSSIBLE RESTFUL SLUMBER
Every Household Should Have New Mattress for
Each Bed at Least Once in Every Six Years.
Elasticity, Durability and Softness Are
Qualities to Be Considered in Buying.

we believe him. A good mattress is
magic panacea for fatigue and il
somnia.
The essentials of a good mattress
are many. 1t should be elastic, in
order to afford buoyancy durable, to
be practical uniformly soft, to be
comfortable. 1t must also be non
absorbent. dust proof and easily
cleaned. The foregoing essentials are
contingent upon the 'stuffing of the
mattress, the material with which il
is filled. 1t is not any trouble to
procure q mattress covered with O
good quality of lasting material, even
the cheap and less desirable possess
attractive and durable coverings. but
when purchasing mattress. the two
dominant factors TO be given careful
consideration are the filling compost
ton Of the mattress and the workman
ship on it.
Feather Bed Uunsanitary.
The feather stuffings of our grand
mothers and mothers day have now
been replaced by several other types
of mattress Filings. Feathers were
considered unsanitary; they were
heating, and because of their ten,l-
ency to work through the ticking,
they were also uncomfortable. Today,
the materials in most common use for
filling are hair. Eapok. cotton. moss,
excelsior. jute and wool. Hair is con-
sidered to be the best of any Of these
materials because il conforms to all
the essential requirements OF an ideal
mattress filling. II buoys up the
body. for when curled it acts as so
many fine little springs. 1t is dur
able. and if carefully renovated. will
last for long period of time. Many
grades of hair are. of course. en-
ployed in mattress manufacture. and
sometimes hogs bristle is used for
purposes OF aIlulteration in some of
the cheaper hair mattresses. This is
illegitimate for it is deleterious to
the life of the mattress. Kapok.
silk cotton or fibre provided by ma
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

ture as a carrying agent and found
surrounding the seeds of a tropical
tree which grows in Java, is pos
sessed of lifting and sustaining quail
ity greatly like fine goose down. and
is therefore considered next best to
hair as mattress stuffing. This ma
terial is blown into the ticking by a
specialized process. Cotton, the light,
fluffy, cellulose material from the
Sunny South, is also used in mat
tress manufacture. Cotton Inter. the
fibre attached to the cotton seci. ia
commonly used for this purpose. This
is also blown into the mattress bag,
but this method is not so satisfactory
as when the linters are felted to-
gether and formed into three-iuch lay
ers OF what we popularity known as
cotton batting" The felted linters
are piled layer upon layer until de
sired thickness is reached, and then
these are carefully placed in the bag
Tufting the Mattress.
The mattress is tufted inter the
Filings are packing into it, Every
housewife acquainted with the art
OF quilting appreciates the value of
this performance. Without proper
tufting the mattress would cause much
bodily discomfort, this preventing rest
full slumber. ...
Mattresses. in such intimate con-
tact with the body, naturally absorb
body odors. and it is therefore i'm
portant for them to be frequently re-
noyated. Hair, kapok and cotton mat
tresses should be given frequent sun
batrs. for this REEVES their rcsiliency
and keeps them in a sweet, clean,
sanitary condition.
When selecting mattress for dur
ability. do not expect it to last q
life's time. Every household can we'll
afford TO have a new mattress for
each bed at least once in every six
years. This would only necessitate
an investment of . cents per night.
and surely this cost is not exorbitant.
for after all. what function OF a home
Is more important than that of Of
fering perfect comfort TO its mem
bcrs? y COOL mattress, the perfect
bed. promotes bodily comfort, sweet
repost and restful slumber. I
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

The climate of California is such
that the sturdy construction re-
CURED 10 make a home habitable
the year around in many other sec
tons. is not required. As a conse-
quence there has been developed
along the Pacific coast in the neigh
borhood Of Los Angeles and south
of that city, type of home that
has been designated the California
bungalow" A good example of this
style of architecture is shown in
the accompanying illustration. Here
is a white cottage of simpl- design
made beautiful by the addition of n
dormer in the roof and the pergola
porch.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

While an exact duplicate Of the
building shown would not be prac-
ticable in other than the warm sec
tons of the country. the style MAJ,
be followed, using of course the
standard construction required to
make home comfortable in the
climate irf which it is located.
From its exterior appearance this
bungalow seems TO be small, but. as
shown by the floor plans. it contains
five rooms, living and dinins rooms
and kitchens and two bedrooms besides
bathroom Three French d,ors lead
off the pergola porch into the living
room, which is IA feet deep and "a
feet vide. At the left connected with
the living room by a double-cased
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
Arrangement OF Furniture.

The arrangement OF your furniture
depends upon conditions of room size.
wall spaces. built-in features, your par
ticular use for the piece and its intend
cd position. For instance. cabinets.
bookcases. large consoles and COM
modes are wall pieces and 50 cater
corner arrangement is wrong. Simi-
larly, davenports. tables. desks must
be against right proport 'oned wall
space or at right angles to it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

opening is tn. dining room, II by IA
feet. This is light, attractive
room, made so by the bay window in
which are set three large windows,
each having an exposure at an an
gle. Between the dining room and
the kitchen is large pantry. The
kitchen is by o feet. 6 inches.
TIE two bedrooms are located OF
the right side of the house. One is
connected with the living room.
while both open off a sh,rt hall
that is reached through the dining
room. The bathroom is between
them.
A home such as this bungalow is
suitable in almost any surroundings
that have touch of the natural.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
Protection Against Fir

The metal fabrics used in c6nnec-
tion with cement stucco have
proven more or less Of a success.
In many Of the earlier structures
fhe metal fabric was not complete-
w. imbeddcd in the cement. with the
remit that the metal has rusted out
spd the cement stucco (which was
only three-nuarters If an inch
thick) has broken badly. In later
years the manufacturers have rec
omm"pded that the fabric be thor
ourhly incased in the cement. end
have advocated hack plsstering
where possible and the use Of a pn-
ncr backing where back plastering
is not possible.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
STATE OF MAINE.

HANCOCK IS.
At probate court held at Ellis
worth, In and for said County of Han
cock, on the twenty-second day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-three, being
an adjourned session of the May A. d.
1928 term of said court
A certain instrument purportfng to
be a copy of the last will and testa-
ment and codicil of William G. Beale,
late of Chicago, in the county of Cook,
and state of Illinois, deceased, and of
the probate thereof in said State of
Illinois, duly authenticated, having
been presented to the judge of probate
for our said County of Hancock for the
purpose of being allowed, filed and
recorded in the probate court of our
said County of Hancock and for letters
testamentary to issue to Elizabeth c..
Beale, executrix named in said will, she
first giving bond without sureties
Ordered, That notice thereof be
by publishing copy of this order
worth American, a newspaper printed
at Ellsworth, in said County of Han
cock, prior to the twelfth day of
June, A. D. 1923, that they may
appear at a probate court then to
be held at Ellsworth, in and for said
County of Hancock, at ten o'clock in
the forenoon, and show cause, If any
they have, against the same.
BERTRAND e. CLARK,
Judge Of Probate
Attest: ROBERT p. KING,
Register.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
Records Patients Rest.

Recording continuously the slightest
movements of a patient in bed, and
thereby determining the hours Of COM
plete and untroubled rest he has had,
Is an idea recently introduced. This re-
suit Is obtained by first placing sheet
of rubber beneath one Of the bed
posts and attaching special apparatus
to the post. The apparatus consists,
briefly, of lever. one end Of which Is
fastened to the bed post, the other
having a recording pen affixed to 1t.
Underneath the pen is located a clock
work drum containing a chart divided
into "a hours, SO that a continuous
curve Of the sleeper's movements Is
kept and may be consulted If 1t Is de-
sired to ascertain how he has rested,
or to convince a patient that he has
moderated his hours Of rest.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
EaSfhrOOk

Herbert Jellison is expected in
town this week with his household
furnishings. He plans on doing
quite a lot of repair work. All his
old friends will be glad to see him
back at his old home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Googins are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of son, Erwin Walter, born
May 13.
Harold Kingman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Clark, Mrs. Jennie Mer-
chant and Mrs. Sylvester Bunker
were home from Northeast Harbor
for the weekend.
Leland Merchant has gone to Jor-
dan pond for the summer.
G. S. Googins is making repairs on
Minnie Bunker's cottage at Green
Point. She has let it to weekend
parties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Giles have a
new automobile.
Miss Lizzie JOY, who has been
working at Bar Harbor, is expecteG
home this week.
May 81. Gem"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23

bride paths, is the only national
park in the East.
Ellsworth has it's own beautiful
Leonard Lake, and within a few
miles in every direction are other
lakes as we'll as brooks galore where
it is said, with small proneness to
exaggeration, swarming denizens Of
the fnny tribe eagerly await the
anglers hook. In those lakes abound
salmon, black bass, trout, white
perch and pickerel. Game also is
plentiful.
Ellsworth could sit still and con-
tinue indefinitely to profit every sum-
mer from it's proximity to all this
Elysian region and its contiguity to
both fresh and salt water resorts.
But as sole occupation 1t regards
that as sluggardlike, and only
seasonal prosperity of that sort as
parasitic. So it plants the seeds of its
deeply rooted progress and prosper
ity in the soil of productive energy
1t always has something substantial
to fall back upon whether essentially
summer trade is brisk or brackish.
Not that it purposes to hide the
light of the multitudinous summer
attractions that revolve around it
under bushel of modesty. 1t proud
ly and properly proclaims the fact
that it is the hub of an earthly Gar
den Of Paradise. 1t glories in the
good roads and magnificent drives
that radiate from it like the spokes
of a wheel
While 1t frowned on the profiteer-
ing which here and there was an in
evitable corollary of the flood, it is
only humanity jubilant, in the face Of
the completes with which that vista
ton afflicted it, that prospects are
bright for the best summer business
in it's history 1t regards that re-
ward as rightly due to it's peculiar
position, just as the owner of yoke
of oxen, who posted them at mud
hole in the road to Bangor during
flood week deemed the $50 much per
pull" he exacted from every stalled
motorist as rightly due to his.
But all the summer resort business
in the world could not induce Ellis
worth to part with it's industries,
which are it's greatest pride and the
basis for it's steady growth in a per-
manent population whose honest toll
does not go unrequited.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
Motortruck Used by Louuers.

Nothing Is more characteristic Of
logging rs it was done from 1900 to
1900 than the sight Of huge truck,
piled high with logs, and hauled
through the muck and over the cor
duroy Of the woods trails by four, six,
or even more husky horses. If there
is one place in the world where q
truck might be expected to fail, 1t Is
here. But with the right kind of equip
ment it seems just as easy to get the
logs out by gas as by horse; and there
need be no argument over the PROPOSE
ton that, If 1t can be done at all by
gas, it can be done more cheaply So
Scientific American.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
West Sullivan.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Havey of Ban
gor were weekend guests at H. H.
Haveys.
Mrs. B. X. Joy is spending week
at Seal Harbor with Mrs. Alvin
Stinson.
Mr.. and Mrs James Kerr of Rum
ford, were recent guests at H. H.
Haveys.
The first ball game of the season
here was played Saturday, when Sui
Ivan high defeated Cherryfield
academy, Az. The grammar school
went to Bar Harbor and was de-
feated, 27-1.
Mrs. Harvard Havey was in Lewis
ton last week attending the grand
temple of Pythian sisters.
Miss Harriet Hooper, who is teach
ing at East Sullivan, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Hooper.
May 81. ''Une Annie"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
Eacts About ,Eaces.

No womnn's face lasts man more
than a year or Two. However beauti-
full II is he knows all about II; he may
not be sick of 1t, but he ceases to take
get repulSive. II doesn't matter what
one looks like; you may catch man
with your face, but it's with something
else you hold him-with charm, If
you've col any. with interest In his I'M
mensely Important affairs, by making
him feel he's a god, your god, and that
nobody understands him as you do
From The Stiff Lip by W. l.. George.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23
WEDNESDAY, MAY %, 1928

Some people wonder how the
Pacific coast states have been able
to come to the front during the past
twenty-five years with such rapid
strides as they have, where cities
there have grown overnight, but the
solution is simple. They have had
thousands of men like 'Sherm"
Douglas and Hiram Kicker, where
Maine has only few of them-men
who not only believe in their home
state, but know the wealth that is
locked up, waiting to be released for
development to benefit every person
in it; men who know of the hidden
resources that await the hand of man
to return millions to the whole
State, and few there are who ap-
preciate what such men as Mr.. Doug
las and Mr.. Kicker are doing every
day for their native State. They are
not doing this for any selfish motive
or for any pecuniary gain, but simply
because they are so imbued with the
spirit of telling people of the beau
ties and grandeur of the State of
Maine, in all of it's different aspects,
that it is a habit with them. What
the State of Maine needs is not the
hundreds of men such as these two
we have mentioned, but thousands to
talk Maine, to breathe Maine, and to
tell those who do not know, what a
paradise the grand old State of
Maine is, and the wonderful things
that are only waiting to be loosed, to
return dollars for every cent in
vested.-Houlton Times.