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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

Would you trade places with the family living in the
outdoor paradise shown in the accompanying pen-picture
by Artist Satterfeld? Just imagine what it would be like
gorgeous scenery as a constant stage setting for your life,
wonderful trout fishing in a mountain stream at your very
door, a garden in which you could grow most of your food,
as nature intended.
All of us yearn for such a life. We show it by our at
tempts to beautify our city environment by trees, shrubs
and flowers. It's pathetic at times, how this instinct crops
out, as in the tenement where a lone geranfum struggles in
a window box overlooking a steel fire escape and a brick
courtyard.
In a matter of a few generations man has virtually d-
vorced himself from nature and walled himself in a peni-
Tertiary of steel, stone, plaster and brick.
This penitentiary has its advantages, chiefly in the form
of what we call Comforts or ''convenences." But we pay
dearly for gain. Disease thrives with us in civilization, and
increasingly finds us easier prey.
So, especially at this time of year when We reluctantly
return from our vacations in the Great Outdoors to our ar
tifcial environments, we envy the rugged people who live
close to nature.
The chief bright spot in our present Gagged condition is
that the airplane, probably within another generation, will
break up the cities and enable us to live naturally outdoors
amoung beauty and intoxicatingly fresh air. The call OF the
wild is as strong as ever, and the airplane will answer the
call for us.
Happiness is close to nature, for civilized man as much
as for the Gagged jungle tiger.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06
SUNSHINE

The Boy Scouts, Camp Fire girls and other opponents OF the
o~ut-of-doors are enjoying benefits of life in the open. They see
the things of the world in a new light and understand nature bet
ter. They meet friends in the same cause, swap stories and form
congenial companionships. Every student of the big outdoors gets
new object lessons, makes new resolves and forms new links OF
character with the day of sunshine.
Sunshine is the test of summer time. 1t ripens the grain and
fruit and gives strength to the camper. All nature has a smiling
face when the sun causes the plants to grow, the flowers to open
and the fruits to mature. Sunshine induces youth to get out,
amid the fields and forests, drink in the pure air and enjoy the
healthfulness of exercise in the open.
There are profits in sunshine that one does not always reckon
on when planning an outing in the open. 1t creates beauty and
attractiveness and thereby adds to efficiency and usefulness. 1t
helps in fitting one for future work and inculcates a desire for
Keeping young in order to continue enjoying the ~playfelds of
youth. Yes. there are countless benefits to be derived from ming
Ing with the al-out-doors. The sun paints smiles on the cheeks
of humanity in unerasible lines.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

O. To whom belongs the credit for
idea of burying an unknown SOL
aler PA. w. S.
A. When questioned on the SUD
iect in Parliament, Lloyd George
did not reveal the name of the man
who first suggested the burial of an
unknown soldier. 1t is generally
established, however, that the sug-
gestion was made by j. b. Wilson,
newa editor of a London paper.
O.. Is there a camping site for
tourists at Gettysburg?-J. X. q.
A. Hershey Park, two miles west
of Gettysburg on the Lincoln High
way is a camping site with accom-
modations for It's cars
@. Who is conducting a trip to the
Holy Land this fall?-U. r. E.
A. One such cruise is planned
under the direction of the Holy
Land Pilgrim and Tourist Society of
America. A ship With accommoda-
lions for about 1900 passengers will
sail on October 10th for Jaffa, the
port of Jerusalem. round trip occu-
pyirg less than two months.
C. Were there n funds estao-
lished for victims of other great
steamship disasters aside from the
Titanic, such as the Lusitania and
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the Empress of Ireland?-I r..
A. The Lusitania fund totals 23.-
6S4 pounds, Nthe proceeds from
which go to care for 40 depend
entS of passengers. The Empress of
Ireland fund aggregates 1851
pounds and helps sustain IS depen-
dents of passengers and 1872 mem
bers of the crew.
@. Does Minnesota have n
Farmer-Labor members of the
lower branch of Congress?-H. j. T.
8. Minnesota elected n Farmer
Labor candidate, Knud Wefald, of
Hawley, to the House in 1922.
@. What gems are found in Aus
tralia?-K. l..
A. Principal gems found in Aus
tralia are opals, diamonds, sap
phires, pearls, emeralds, turquoises,
topazes zircons, garnets and tour
malines.
Q. Are there any English skylarks
In the United States?-F. L..
A. Sports Aheld" says that this
bird has been introduced success
fully in Oregon, Long Island and
Hawaii.
Q. When did Mrs. Lincoln die?-
j. NJ. C.
A. After the death of President
Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln suffered from
a species of m~elancholia. She trav-
eled in Europe with her sister and
and died at home of her sister Mrs.
Edwards, at Springfield, ILL.,, July 16,
1882.
@. Has America ever fought a
war entirely on the sea?-R. e.
A. Our first war as a nation was
a naval one. 1t was with France,
our friend of the Revolution.
France was offended because she
thought jays treaty gave advantage
to England, with whom she had
hoped America would engage in
war. The U. S. Ship Constellation,
in a sharp battle captured the
French frigate L'Insurgente. When
Napoleon came into power in 1900
he brought hostilities to an end.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06
The Old Town
Street by Street-KnoW Four City
MARY STREET

Running parallel in the rear of
Alpine cemetery is Mary street. It
runs from Kennedy street north
along the cemetery for about two
blocks. There are some Improvements
on the block and the street is grad
ed but not paved. Mary street is
so feet wide and there are quite
a few shade trees along the street
which has many houses.
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Oueaions-Answ

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any question by writing fhe Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Ruraau Frederick ]. Haskin, Direc-
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plies strictly to Information. Vhe
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does not attempt to settle domestic
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your question plainly and orietly.
Give full name and address aus eh-
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to the inquire or.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

The CLASSIFIED Ad that tells all the
facts Is the c'esslhed ad that gets quick,
profitable resu. 3.
Each advertiser on the classified page
has a message for at least one reader.
Have you received your message YETI
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06
Sick Folks Are Pernickity

She had proof that cooks who
were ordinarily skillful often could
not prepare food that sick people
could eat. She reasoned that New
York had many sick people, and
very likely they had the same diff
Guilty as her friends and relatives.
Eventually the fatal step was TAX
en-, and a little kitchen and office
though she had to sell some we'd
ding presents to pay for the advance
rent and for circulars.
Broths were the standard food for
typhoid patients and for many other
sick persons, so the Home Bureau
advertised only broths and %jellies.
But as the trade in broth slowly
grew, customers began to demand
fresh eggs, c~ustards, and other food
for the sick. The bureau met each
new demand and added the article to
the rapidly growing list of stock.
Even when a doctor rushed in one
day and said that he must have a
stretcher, Mrs. Willard remembered
her business principles and calmly
said of course she would get one for
him. The doctor had tried the hos
pitfalls. There was nothing for the
bureau to do but buy a stretcher and
and rent it to the customer. The
emergency purchase took all of the
money in the coin box, but the
streteher was turned over to the doc
tor in less than half an hour.
Later" she says, the stretcher
was rented out enough to pay for it.
self several times over. but it took all
the courage ! had to spend my last
| dollar for 1t that day
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06
STARTING WITH A BOWL
OF BROTH EACH DAY
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. o.
Strange business projects which
could not hope to struggle along in
smaller communities, thrive in this
city. With nearly 100000 people
in reach, there are chances for trade
in some most unusual specialties. OF
all the persons and firms who have
realized this and succeeded in turn
ing their ideas to profit none is
more picturesque than Mrs. Mary
Hatch Willard and her Home Blu
reau.
This bureau grew out of a prosaic
bowl of broth which a girl sen to a
typhoid patient 80 years ago. To-
day she not only sells broth, custards
and various foods for sick people of
the city, but she renders other serv-
ices to the sick. Her porters trans
fer patients from one floor to another
or from a house to a train. She
sells medical supplies, and MAIN
tains rest rooms for invalids. She
is said to be the only person who
has ever specialized in some of these
services and made a commercial sue
cess of them. Her bureau is gener-
any dNoIAA bNd &c alAA1dts
1t is the service idea that appeals
to the owner of this bureau. In 80
years she has never lost her enthus-
lasm for her business, because all
the time she has been helping peo-
pie. Whenever she has a new idea
for charging the bureau it is based
on the principle that what one per-
son needs and cannot get is likely to
be needed by others as well. The
bureau hastens to smooth out the
difficulty by offering to provide the
needed article or service.
This may seem an ordinary way
of developing q business, but Mrs.
Wizards story shows that she has
an unusual gift for recognizing OPP
portunity when it comes around IN
unobtruisve DISCUSSES.
The only time she hesitates to take
advantage of an inspiration was
when she started out on her career.
That was in a decade when women
did not work, least of all women of
social standing, and this young wo-
man was a prominent bankers
daughter. Financial reverses came,
however, and she faced the prospect
of depending on relatives through
years of monotonous, economy-rid-
den existence.
That was the conventional course
for a girl to follow, but young Mrs.
Willard kept thinking about the
daring scheme of selling broth.
AS a debutante she had studied
cooking and ~concocted fancy dishes
while other girls worked at music
or painting. Later she had become
known among her friends for the
~delicacies which she sent to the sick.
When a brothers wife had typhoid,
she made broth regularly for weeks,
because the cooks efforts were not
safisfactorV
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06
Bible Thought For Today

- WITH ALL YOUR HEART-And we shall seek me and
find me when We shall search for me with all your eart-Jer
miah 29:3.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

Very few things that could hap
pen seem to do it.
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only commas when she talks.
The trouble with running away
with a bunch of money is you have
to go further than it does.
Imagine the apology of a Dallas
(Tex.) woman who hit a burglar by
mistake for her husband!
Horse meat is being shipped
Europe. A horse on Europe.
A cops auto was stolen in Chicago
while he wasn't in it, so they didn't
get him.
From July to August was out of
the frying pan into the fire.
An economist is a man who fig
ures on living.
The June husband tells US mid
night seems like eleven o'clock in
stead of just nine now.
A waitress tells us they ought to
put rouge in the coffee because it is
so pale.
Loud bathing suits keep the men
from going to sleep.
The mad college graduate tells us
he has done nothing all his life, but
has finished doing it.
Women are entering all branches
of business. One hit a baggage man
in Spokane.
Crops are a little late this year
because the farmers have to wave
at the tourists.
Some men move so slowly these
hot days you could take a time ex-
posure of them running.
We will soon have the harvest
moon, and harvested moonshine.
If you want a man to feel at home
let him raise cain because the dinner
is late.
Salmon should never be left in
the can unless you have rich kim
folks for dinner.
The third crop of straw hats is
about ripe.
Women have the most sense. Men
S the most sense.
Several presidential candidates are
running against the wind.
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Some marry for better or worse.
Some to start an argument.
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The reason young people don't
know any better is they are not old
people by a few years.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

Boil weevils are running so much
cotton they may start making wool
suits out of WOOL
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

Paying bills is about the mos ex-
pensive thing on earth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

Mosquitoes are small but not small
enough.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

A woman is a person who uses
only commas when she talks.
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You can't have a good time and
keep it, too.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-06

The trouble with running away
with a bunch of money is you have
to go further than it does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-11

come some blessed healing and purifica- tion-almost as though he had been re- created.
 He felt new strength mastering within him. The morrow possessed no terrors, now that he had mastered himself. Fate had led him hither and yon it must lead him straight, at last, he thought. But when he retired to his bed a very demon of unrest seemed to possess him. Gradually the feel ing of dread obtruded itself. Something like terror crept into his heart as he counted the possibilities to her should fortune go awry. After what seemed hours of fever ish tossing from pillow to pillow, he arose, dressed himself and descended to the street.
 The rain that had begun to fall earlier in the evening was still coming down with a soaking persistency that showed it prob ably would continue until morning.
 Unheeding the storm, he walked the gleaming streets with long, tireless strides. The very atmosphere seemed to breed gos- sip. Late as was the hour, people were con- thoroughfares, needless of the rain talking eagerly of the trial and of the death of the principal state witness, details of which had spread like wildfire throughout the town. They spoke in low, hissing tones which women adopt when discussing se- crets. Their burning glances caused Bris- tow to enter abruptly an unfrequented side street.
 The lawyers aimless wanderings brought him at last to Crestmere, which had been closed ever since its dcsertion by Miss Wrightson.
 With a shudder he turned away from the place which closely connected events had invested with strange horror for him. He walked rapidly in another direction. In the course of ten minutes he again found himself before the gloomy old place, hard ly knowing how he came there.
 Again he directed his steps in an oppo-
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ever, had taken hold of him. By a pow erful effort he shook off the uncanny feel ing and entered the study.
 Like the rest of the house, the room was enveloped in darkness. The atmosphere was progressively redol,nt of the odor of old books. It gave Bristow feeling as though he lad stepped from the free air of day into the musty recesses of tomb.
 Quickly striking another match, l-e peer ed about him, half expecting to see some demon of destruction crouching for death spring. But no such terrifying sight met his gaze.
 On the writing table in the center of.the room stood large Argand lamp. He lost no time in lighting it. Its glow partly dis sipated the gloom. The interior of the study was crowded with favorite articles of the physicians collection of curios. There were a few rare paintings by old masters, some curious Egyptian and Persian vases but the greater prt of the apartment was taken up by rare Venetian furniture. There were chairs and tables more than two centuries old and of the oldest designs.
 The chair in which the physician had been found dead was one of Dr. Selden's favorite antiquities. Massive in construc ton, it was covered with strange figures carved in the mahogany of which it was composed. Those on the back of the chair
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l developed mania for collecting curios and antique furniture. My researches in this direction led me one day to the shop of Giovanni Marlitti. an old curio dealer in Naples. From Marlitti I purchased many pieces of rare furniture.
 "One day, while in the old Italians shop. met his daughter, Nerissa, an extremely beautiful girl, with whom fell violently in love. My infatuation was reciprocated and, at length l asked the father for her hand Tn marriage. He demurred for a time. owing to racial and religious differences, but finally consented and I was made the happiest man in the world.
 "For year my wife and lived in veritable paradise on earth To us were born boy and girl-twins- our happiness was complete. The daughter was reproduction of her mother and the son lovable little fellow of whom any pa- rents could be proud. But their coming, instead of being blessing, proved curse to me, for within three weeks after their birth my angel wife died.
 "Crazed with grief, I placed my children in the hands of their grandparents and travelled for year. When my sorrow was partly banished returned to Naples only to find fresh grief. My little son had been abducted Although I searched for yaar, no trace of him could I find Then a longing to revisit my native land pos sessed me. I resolved to bring my little girl to America.
 "When I made known my resolve to Marlitti he flew in a terrible rage and swore that he would kill me if I ever att tempted to deprive him of the child. See ing how much he loved the girl and realiz- ing that he was desperately in earnest, I temporarily gave over my desire and settled down in Naples for an indefinite stay It
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site direction, but once more some instinct of fate guided him back to the spot. This time he remained.
 As he stood gazing up at the shuttered windows of the room where Dr. Selden had been murdered an unaccountable impulse to revisit the scene of the crime possessed him. In vain he endeavored to banish the desire as one leading to a needless enter prise which might require unpleasant ex- plantations were he discovered in it's accom- plishment.
 After moment of hesitation he groped his way up the walk and onto the veranda. He tried the door. To his surprise it was unlocked. He entered the gloomy hall- way. Within the house all was black si- fence. The very atmosphere of the place seemed dead.
 Bristow struck match. By it's dim, flickering light he made his way up the broad staircase to the study. In the mo- ment when he stood with one hand on the knob of the door leading into the room which in his heart he was convinced held the secret of Dr. Selden's death, there came over him creeping sense of fear such as he had never before experienced as if some grave danger lurked beyond the closed portal some evil presence were near. An irresistible impulse. how
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had he been so blind as to embody that sickening story into the confession? He cursed his own stupidity.
 Finally, wearied and broken, he threw himself into chair, hopelessly crushed be- vitality that had upheld him throughout meath the weight of defeat. All the militant the ordeal of the last three months was gone.
 It was hard, he told himself bitterly He had devoted himself so completely, so un- selfishly to this case and to her. He had crowded his days with action, his nights with pondering of the intricate phases of the puzzle, only to meet defeat before the sole hypothesis any sane man would have formed from the damning chain of evi- dence uncovered on the first day of the trial. Every personal pleasure and luxury had been abnegated. He had hopelessly, he thought, lost his reputation as a lawyer, estranged the leaders of his political party and the financial consequences had been disastrous. He had less than fifty dollars to his name.
 What the future held seemed discourag- ing enough. He had lost faith in every thing and everybody-no, not quite that. He still had faith in the woman he loved and had tried in vain to save. Perhaps in a new field he could rebuild his shattered fortunes and wasted career.
 His heart quailed before the thought of another day, when he knew he should wit ness the conviction of his client, the con- temptuous stares of the pitiless public. He alone, he felt, would be to blame if he de- liberately barred the gates through which he might pass into smoother, if not happier, ways. The consequences would be of his own making, and he must bear them as best he could. His most poignant regret was that she must suffer. Yet he was de- termined to do what his heart told him was best for them both.
 The elusive hope that something might turn up at the eleventh hour to clear the girl recurred to him insistently. He tried to throw it off. He had trusted to fate all along and that goddess had treated him cavalierly. Dared he trust to time and chance now?
 He drew the confession from his pocket. He read the dead woman's words again and again until he knew every sentence by heart It was clear and comprehensive that
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story of a woman who had her all on the altar of love and-lost. Undoubtedly it would free the girl he had rlsked every thing else to save. Yet it would condemn her to life of self-repulsion and shame.
 Was it right, he wondered, to cast aside this last chance without consulting her? She ought to be the one to decide. But to place before her the dread knowledge of her fathers past was more than he dared do.
 The public would have to know her shame else the confession would be of no value to her. He knew her sensitive, high strung nature too well to entertain for a moment the idea that she would accept aught at such price. Bristow dared not urge himself against his conscience, winch was speaking to him like voice from the grave.
 Moved by a sudden impulse, he stepped forward and thrust the confession into the fireplace. He lighted match and ap- piled it to the paper, but the blaze seemed reluctant to take hold. After a moment he was successful. Flames flared up and with in the moment the confession became naught but tiny pyramid of charred paper and ashes.
 But in the moment when he had cast asidev the only apparent means of saving Nerissa Selden he was stung by poignant remorse. Then . reaction set in his con- conscience applauded the act, and, as he stood watching the sraying shred5 there in the fireplace, he felt that to his soul had
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He inadvertably touched a concealed spring. A small drawer flew open. In this reccp-
 tacle Lay . morocco-bound book.

were gruesome, but the work was superb. There were angels, basilisks and devils all commingled, but the center figure was that of a huge serpent. The eyes were of opals which glittered with baneful glow The mouth was slightly open.
 Bristow was possessed of a compelling feeling that the solution of the mystery shrouding Dr.. Selden's murder was near at hand. Imbued with this thought, he made systematic search of the rooms on the upper floor. No discovery of consequence rewarded him until he came to the writing table in the study.
 This piece of furnitue was old, massive and handsomely carved. In examining the exquisite workmanship on the edge of the top he inadvertently touched a concealed spring. A small drawer flew open. In this receptacle lay morocco-bound book. A hurried examination showed it to be a diary in Dr.. Selden's handwriting
 Feverishly Bristow conned page after page, interest increasing with every line, until finally he alighted upon an entry that