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The Washington times., 1923-12-17
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Still needed. .......... 1,23
Opportunity No. I2-Shan They
Stay put"

Stay Put"
Left a widow with three small
children to care for she was in a
panic for fear they would be taken
away, for ill-health prevented her
from working. One of these little
children has a positive case Of tu-
berculosis. There is absolutely no
income in the family other than that
received from the Associated Chari-
ties. Twenty-four dollars a week.
or S1,24s for the year, will bring
TINS family happiness and improved
health for the year.
Opportunity No. I3.-Making q
Hard Fight.
Nearly blind from a cataract this
widow (colOred. whose husband
died OF tuberculosis. is making a
hard fight to keep her children with
her. During the past year her eyes
nave improved somewhat and She
is now able to sew a little. There
Is absolutely no income in this
family at present and If this family
is to be kept together $40 a. week
Or a total Of 1888 for the year. is
needed.
Opportunity No. 14-GOOd Cheer and
Wheel Chair.
Sorely crippled and confined To
q wheel chair this mother is bright
and happy and makes the best of
the situation. SIS a week, or $3.50
for the year, will bring three hun.
dred and sixty-five days of hapDi
ness to this crippled mother and
her two children.
Amount asked for.. 5aO
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SERVICE
OFFERED
Continued from Page 49,

Continued from Page 49,
left to fight her way, but she
could not make go of it owing to
bad health. Home" is only two
light housekeeping rooms. $14 a
week or a total Of $72S is needed
if they are to keep their nome
next year.
Amount asked for ......... WIS
Mrs C. c. E......'......... $12.oV
X. A. F. ......s.... o'VV -
Still needed ...............'..- TOS
Opportunity No. Widow With
Children.
Left a widow with a baby five
weeks old and five other children
under ten years of age was the
plight of this mother. $50
month or a total of $3.50 will make
this family happy.
Amount asked for SfZV
Maj. G. c. E..s.. S1vVV
Mrs. c. e. e.. 1U.O0
Miss B. Co.'S. 1.oO
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Coal and Wood

"OOOS P1N "A SOuD
Cut from IL to "a inches, for stove or
fireplace. chestnut; delivered In Die
tTict or nearby Arlington county.
Phone Clarendon EST.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
GIVING THEM THE HORSE
LAUGH

Last Decoration Day we were in
Paris and in the evening afforded a
banquet, given by our Post of the
American Veterans of Foreign Wars,
in the Pavilion Royal, situated in the
delightful Bots de Boulogue. During
the dinner the Adjutant of the Vet
Grams told the following story:
In n hard boiled infantry regiment
there was one exceptionally hard
boiled company. To this company
there was assigned very, very small
lieutenant. The first time this min
nature officer faced his outfit, lined
up in the company street, the raucous
voice of buck private, somewhere in
the rear rank, was heard to remark
"And little child shall lead them. y
The lieutenant made futile at
tempt to discover the author of the
bright remark and then had the COM
pany dismissed.
Half an hour later the orderly
posted the following order on the bull
letin board:
1.-THE company will fall out in TWEEN
ty minutes with full packs and pre-
pare to march twenty miles.
"Apd little child shall lead then
ON a damn big horse Treat En-
Square.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
FIFTEEN FROM THE FARM

'If the farmer is made successful
and secure" said Calvin Coolidge in
his last speech as governor of Mas
achusetts, "there will be no lack of
others to enter the field and use all
available land" There have been
fifteen presidents of the United
States have come from the farm, but
none has been closer to the soil than
the new chief executive. The call to the
White House found him in his faith
er's phoneless, kerosene-lighted farm
house at Plymouth, Vt, where he had
been taking an active part in the field
operations. New England farms are
not as extensive as those of the West,
but their owners are confronted with
much the same problems. President
Coolidge knows from experience what
they are, and the farmers from all
sections of the country can look upoT
him as one of them.---State Gazette.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
ARCH STACKER KILLS MAN

Grover Bergdoll, the most con-
temptible Stacker of the United
States, last Saturday shot and killed
Karl Schmidt. Swiss, who in COM
pany with Roger Sperber, a French
detective. attempted to kidnap him
from his hotel in Ebelbach, Ger
many, and bring him back to this
country. Schmidt was shot three
times and died Immediately. Sperber
was shot twice and dangerously
wounded.
Ex-Lieutenant Griffith, of the
American Army, and Faust Gagarin,
Russian prince, We're arrested out
side the hotel in an American army
automobile, on the charge of being
implicated in the attempted kidnap-
ping. Together with Sperber they
are being held on the charge of COM
plicity in a murder conspiracy. But
Bergdoll is free.
This is the second attempt made to
kidnap Bergdoll and bring him back
to face justice in this country. 1t is
a pity that he was not the one killed.
And it's a travesty of justice that he
is still free after all his crimes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
COMEDY HAS ENJOYED LONG
RECORD RUN OF THREE
HUNDRED YEARS

One good way to judge play
is by the number of times it has
been played. If audiences enjoy
it, they recommend it to their
friends, and so it plays night after
time. Consequently when we see
a play advertised as having played
1900 times in New York" or 1000
times in Chicago" we know that
it is pretty likely to be an enter
tanning play.
4, What shall we say then of a
play that has run not for 800 per
fOrmances only, but for 800 years
Surely that indicates absolutely
that it is an entertaining play!
THE Tanning Of the Shrew" made
its audience roar with laughter
when it was first produced at the
Globe Theatre, in London. more
than 300 years ago, by William
Shakespeare, the most popular play
wright of his day. Since then it
has been played all over the world,
has been translated into nearly all
languages, has been enjoyed by
literally millions of people in every
quarter of the globe, and today is
Just as entertaining and just as
funny as it was the day it was
written.
It's author has been pronounced
not only the most popular play
wright of his day." but the greatest
poet and dramatist of all times.
lie knew what would make his
audiences weep, as his great
tragedies will testify; but he knew
equally well what would make his
audiences laugh, and no play bears
stronger witness of this than the
hilarious story of "The Tanning of
the Shrew."
There is also rollicking roman
tic element to the story in the plight
of Blanca, the pretty younger sis
ter, whose father will not let her
marry until her elder sister, the
ill-tcmpered Katharine, has found
husband, The efforts of Bianca's
sutors to find some man brave
enough to marry Katharine; their
meeting with the staggering, I'd
venture-loving Petruchio, and his
boast that he will marry Katharine
and make model wife of her;
the way he carries out his boast,
an' the fight among Bianca's low
erf as tt which one shall marry her
after her sister is safely out of the
way, make up play that is comedy
and romance from beginning to end
When the play is given here rs .
part of the Chautauqua prograss,
tn, role of Katharine will be psayed
hy Miss Grace Halsey Mills. a wb4-
known player of Shakespearean
roles, who has appeared as leading
woman with Ben Greet and Other
prominent stars. Miss Mills con-
siders Katharine one of her favorite
characters. She viii be supported
by company of capable and ex-
perienced actors.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
Ink From Other Presses
VITAL QUESTIONS
DISCUSSED BY
LEADING EDITORS
OF THE COUNTRY
STANDING ARMY OF TAX
COLLECTORS GREATER
THAN ARMY AND NAVY

Those who have the say about the
expenditure of tax moneys frequent-
" speak of the wastefulness of ar
mics and navies. They wish, as does
everyone else, that such national
safeguards were unnecessary and
that the funds needed for their main
tenance might be diverted to other
purposes.
But as rule they have very little
to say about ire standing arm of tax
collectors and spenders, which is
more than five times the size of our
army and navy combined. In this
connection the recent report OF the
taxation committee of the Michigan
Bankers Association is particularly
interesting.
The committee asserts that, in the
past fifteen years, more than l,0OO,-
900 laws have been passed in this
country to control the lives and bust
ness activities of our people, and that
one individual in twelve of our popu-
lation is supported by the taxpaying
public in one way or another In the
state of Michigan, so per cent of the
wealth newly created every year goes
to pay for goverment-state, local
or national.
The United States Government
pays salaries to 100000 civilians and
sever al states have more than twice
that number on their payrolls. Add
their families and dependents and you
will understand the surprising to-
tails and the cost Of our governmental
Housekeeping.
Is it any wonder that taX-free Sc
curities are popular, and that so
many supposedly upright citizens are
to be suspected of forgetfulness in
the matter of their tax return? Is
it any wonder that most business men
hold up their hands in horror at the
thought Of government ownership or
operation of utilities Evansville
Und.) Courier.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOUR
CANNING

Cucumber Catsup requires one doz-
en- large cucumbers, one quart of vim
egar, one tablespoonful of salt, one
quarter teaspoonful of cayenne pep
per. Gather the cucumbers before
the sun strikes them and keep in a
cool place until used. Peel the Gu
cumbers and run them through food
chopper. Drain off the water. Heat
the vinegar and pepper and salt to
boiling point; pour at oncec over the
cucumber pulp, bottle and seal. Gu
cumbers bottled in this way retain
their fresh flavor and make par
ticularly good sauce to serve with
beefsteak.
Grape Catsup is new to many. 1t
requires four pounds of grapes, two
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one
Tablespoonful each of cloves and all
spice, quarter Of a teaspoonful Of
cayenne pepper (if desired), one cup
full of vinegar, one teaspoonful OF
salt and one and one-half pounds of
sugar. Wash and stem the grapes
and steam them over water until soft.
Put through a colander or sieve, dis
carding the skins and seeds. To the
portion which passes through the
sieve add spices, sugar, salt and VIM
egar, andl ct simmer for fifteen min
utes. Bottle and seal. Use whole
spices tied in a cloth while cooking
and remove before bottling. Grapes
of the acid variety are preferred to
very sweet ones.-Fam Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
HOME "STUFF"
PEACH SHORTCAKE FOR
MILLIONS THIS WEEK

New Jersey orchards will furnish
the filling for one million peach short
cakes this week, the State Bureau Of
Markets estimates in the survey OF
the early crop. The peaches now be-
ing picked and marketed in this state
and its immediate neighboring cities,
is great favorite with cooks for
shortcake making and the supply of
fruit is reported to be sufficient to
furnish feasts for every home, res
taurant, and hotel within its market
ing zone.
The peach harvest is now at its
height. Thousands of pickers are
engaged on the farms in Central and
South Jersey where the early peach
thrives and hundreds Of trucks and
several trains day are rushing the
luscious fruit to quick-buying mar
kets.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
HOMES ARE NEAR OUR HEARTS

1t has been demonstrated that the
home owner makes the best citizen,
Hi taeed-t is always where his treas
me is, and as he acquires his own
roof and fig tree" he becomes a bet
ter citizen.
The man who owns, or is buying,
his home, is always in greater de-
mand than the floater. The home
owner is not floater There is
something mysterious that works
upon mans character and life when
he can stand upon a piece of Gods
solid earth and call it his own.
But the man who rents never knows
where he will be the next monitor,
if he has a yearly lease, he doesn't
know where he will be next year.
This uncertainty works upon his char
acter so that he is not as solid and de
pc ndable as the man who can say
"THIS IS MINEp
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17

Rooms with high ceilings are al
ways somewhat of problem to the
decorator. There are many ingenious
ways of apparently lowering the
height of a room. The principle of
the method is founded upon optical
Illusion The use of horizontal lines
in high room causes the eyes to be
carried around the room, rather than
up and down. Perpendicular lines
would cause the reverse and would be
acquired by the use of striped wall
paper or striped curtains.
To lower the height of room one
could drop the ceiling line, that is
cary the paper on the sidewalks up to
within a foot of the ceiling, then use
the same paper as is on the ceiling
in the space between the ceiling and
the sidewall paper. A narrow mould
ing painted the color of the wood
work would accentuate the dividing
line
Valanees used with over curtains
at the long windows will add another
horizontal line. The window in the
above sketch is shown with a draped
valance This does not obviously add
a horizontal line but it accomplishes
the same purpose by breaking up the
long window space. If the window
were not arehed, it would be advis
able to use a straight valance, made
perfectly plain or pinch pleated. The
higher the room and the window, the
deeper the valance may be. Always let
the depth of the valance in any win
dow treatment be governed by the
size of the windows and The height
of the room. Proportion must al
ways be studied for good decorative
results.
The same principle applies to the
choice of aterials-whether they be
plain, striped or figured and to the
size of the figure. Large figures
will be in proportion to a large
room and therefore will apparently
diminish the size of the room. Mas
sive furniture can also be used to adj
vantage in a large room. In fact,
it is much better to use few large
pieces, well pro2ortioned, than to use
many small pieces.
For small room the converse is
true; use small figures in chintzes or
upholstery, with some plain material.
The same principle applies to color.
Large areas of brilliant color tend to
decrease the size of a room, while
large areas of neutral tone will add
space and perspective to any room or
group of rooms Color used i'm small
areas will be all right in any size
room, but remember the smaller the
room is, the smaller the areas of
color to be used. In large rooms it
is always possible to use larger areas
of color, and of more brilliant color.
In the room in the sketch the cur
tains are made of large patterned
linen, with brilliant colored flowers,
soft green leaves and neutral
ground. The chcair is done in mo-
hair with an all over pattern. The
rug is plain. The lamp shade in the
sketch is of plain silk on a figured
base while the other shades in the
room are of parchment with the flow
cred design adapted from the chintz
used on them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
VIRGINIA VETERANS TO ERECT
MONUMEN ITO FRENCH

Erection Of a national monument in
memory of French soldiers and sail
killed during the Revolutionary War,
is proposed by Col. E. E. Goodwin,
commander of the Virginia Depart
ment, American Legion, and other
legionaires, who will bring up the
matter at state and national conven-
tons Of the organization. One plan
proposed is for the Legion to obtain
an appropriation from Congress for
the construction of the memoria.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
BONUS CHECK SAVES SOLDIERS
HOME

Timely arrival of an Iowa state sol
diers' bonus check for 1886 will en-
able former Lieutenant, Guy Bacon,
an aviator during the war, to house
his wife and eleven months-old baby
in a home in Rockville Center, L, |.
Bacon, who enlisted from Daven-
port, Iowa, found himself few days
ago with exactly one hour within
which to make a payment on lot he
had contracted for weeks before. At
that time letter from Iowa arrived
with the bonus check which was am
pie for his needs. Within an hour he
had clear title to his future home.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
OPTIONAL COMPENSATION
VETERANS COLUMN"


The three-way plan for compensat-
ing the ex-service men is preferable
1t will include all classes of ex-ser-
vice men-the educated, the uneduca-
ted, the rich, the poor, the skilled
the unskilled. The three-way plan is
this-that the Government give the
ex!service man his choice of compen-
sation, either in money, land or edu-
cation.-Treat En- Square.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
A PEDlGREED CAT

"My small daughter recently ac-
companied me on trip to neigh
boris purebred stock farm" says a
writer in The Farm Journal "She
was particularly impressed with the
Holstein cattle Just as we were adj
miring them, black and white cat
strolled into the barn. oh, Daddy,
look, look, they even have Holstein
pussies to match"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
SMILlN THRU
THE UPWARD LOOK
BY GEE SEE


Here where my body pressed the
friendly earth
The grass was crushed and flat
tened in the sod;
When / rose it proved its tough
ened worth
By struggling upward sturdily to
God.
When doubts and griefs have
stunned me with their weight,
And strife and toll have crushed
my soul in spite,
| ask no greater boon than this
of Fate
To struggle up again towards the
light!
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
SMALL TOWN PHILOSOPHY

An automobile is no longer sign
of success. Ii mortgages were blan-
kets half the automobiles in the
country would be covered up.
The latest fashion in London of
wearing evening gowns that can also
be used for bathing suits wouldn't in
terest girls in this town (You can
think up the answer for yourself).
This so-called" friendship"
for men that certain "emancipated"
women yawp about, is just another
case of fooling with gun that they
didn't know was loaded"
Beware of the woman who can
never find anything to talk about
with her own husband. but who be-
comes a regular chatter-box when
she can buttonhole some other wo-
mans husband!
The woman who accepts the kisses
of a man who can't show decent af-
lection for his own wife especially
when the woman poses as friend to
the wife), is worse than snake in
the gl'ass-you always watch out for
the snake in the grass, but it's the
snake hidden in the fruit basket that
does the dirty work!
+*&#$s
Amt it grand and glorious feel
ing when you have paid a man bill
you have owed him for long time,
and can meet him on the street and
greet him with clear conscience?
&*#*%s
Last week the Lambertville Beacon
printed under the heading, Sunny
Things Seen and Heard" the follow
ing:
Because of our crowded columns
we are unable to publish all our
items,' and
1.-THE directors of the Amwell Ma
tional Bank at a meeting on Friday
elected Chas. A. Smith"
&.ssss
And the funny thing about it is
that they didn't know ii was funny
ssss%s
When the cab of one of Joe Fin
kle's trucks burned last week the heat
was so great it melted the solder
around the opening of the gasoline
tank, but it didn't explode!
Which is more than could be said
of the horse with the heaves which
Joe had when he first came TO Lam
bertvillel
We look for the price of sheets and
pillow cases to go up since the re-
ports from Trenton and Titusville say
that the Ku Klux Khan is organizing
therel
s&&sss
If the Khan klucks, would you say
that the Cuckoo koos?
sR&eNs
How many Klux would the ku Klux
kluck if the ku Klux kould kluck
you?
ss&sA&
One of our readers writes in and
wants to know if Frying Polly is the
dear old lady who got her eye squirt
ed full of fly exterminator last week
when she was looking thru the key
hole of local residence.
asasss
Yesl But Polly wants it definitely
understood that it was ONE eye, and
that the other is just as good as everl
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17

Since our latest article we have
been feeling rather disconsolate. 1t
seemed as though the world were
drab, and our spirits leaden. Will
stead's essay so depressed us that we
contemplated literary suicide.
We We're stringing along with Cato
and Hamlet, when Havelock Ellis
latest book, "The Dance of Life
flashed across our mental horizon.
Speaking Of Arthur Schopenhauer.
the great philosopher and apostle of
Pessimism, Ellis said:
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
For Auto Tourists

All kinds of Pickles-Dilfs sweet
and sour, sweet mixed, etc, both loose
and in bottles.
Phrosto Fruit Juices for summer
drinks.
Meats, cliced and canned; cheese
in wide variety, to suit every taste;
olives, salad dressings, Sar-a-Lee
Spread and other good things galore
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17

He possessed a marvellous flair
for fine sayings in remote books, and
these he would now and again let fall
like jewels on his page, with SO hap
ply skill that they seemed to be
created for the spot on which they
fell"
That" says we, "is what we are
aiming at"
Do you wonder that we perked up a
bit, and determined to keep on, to
travel hopefully, even if we never ar
rive?
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17
Two Hundred Thousand Men to
Feed RatSf

The biological survey says, 1.-THE
nations rat population needs 100000
men working full time to support it. >
That's the damage by rats each year,
some of which YOU pay for. Rats
carry disease, enger your health,
are menaceA and yaurs. De
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