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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
SOUTH AMBOY

Clarence Wortley motored to the
home of friends in Perth Amboy yes
terday.
Mrs. John Triggs and son James
were out of town visitors yesterday.
Edward Wallis and John Gleason
have secured positions with the Du-
Pont com pany at Parlin. .
John Ryan is suffering from d
badly injured nose, received while
playing basketball.
Work is progressing rapidly on
the bulkhead of the new ferry. This
part of the work it is said will be
completed about May l.
James Lenahan motored to the
home of friends in Plainfield yester-
day.
James Birmingham and Frank
Lyons have secured positions with
the DuPonts at Parlin.
Edward Ratigan was an out OF
town visitor yesterday.
Alex Zdanevich spent yesterday
with friends at T~ottenville.
Ambrose Watts and John Fitzmor-
ris spent Tuesday night with friends
at Perth Amboy.
James Dugan was an out of town
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
MAKE THE PAY
YOU CAN TURN EXPENSE AND ANNOYANCE
INTO FOOD AND FUN

titles of actual food from a small
space of ground and for this reason
are adapted for growing in the small
garden. Parsnips may be grown as
an early spring crop in the south
and used before the extremely hot
weather of summer. In the north
p~arsnips require the eitire gro owing
season for their development and
may be left in the ground during
the winter and to a certain degree
improve with freezing. =
The essentials for growing root
crops are a deep. rich, well drained
soil, good seed, proper thinning and
frequent shallow cultivation. None
of the root crops, with the possible
exception of beets, can be trans
planted successfully as the breaking
of the tap root in transplanting
causes them to grow rough and dis
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
visitor yesterday.

visitor yesterday.
Joseph and Thomas Meacham OF
Holy Cross College are spending
several days with their parents iii
this city.
A meeting of those interested in
the American Legion minstrel was
held last night in the rooms on Da-
vid street, at which time the entire
cast was selected. Tonight the first
rehearsal will take place.
Mrs. Samuel Newton, who is chair
man Of the Sunshine department OF
the Women's Club, is making vast
preparations for the bakery sale IN
the City Hall, next Thursday after
Don ,,
Mrs. Joseph Weinman was a Perth
Amboy visitor yesterday afternoon.
Miss Anna Kaplan of Perth Am
boy. was a local visitor last night.
Mary Throckmorton. of New York
City. is spending several days with
friends in this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

used for covering them should all
ways be fine and mellow. If the
soil is in the least dry it should Ire
firmed over the seeds by laying "a
board on top of the row after the
seeds are covered, then walking OF
the board.
Thinning the plants is the impor
tant part in growing all root crops
Carrots should be thinned twice. thC
first time to about one and one-k3f@
inches and later when the roots an
large enough for use -ts- "haI2Ar 4
carrots every other one can be ~
moved. The same plan may be to-
lowed in thinning beets, the thin
nings being used as greens and
small table bests cooked and but
tered.
Parsnips and satisfy should
thinned to an even stand of three
four inches at n thinning. AIT
thinning, the soil should be draw
around the remaining plants. IEr
quent shallow cultivation and IN
cation during extremely dry wealth
are essential to the quick growth
all the root crops.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
zRADIO
&

New Jersey.
12:O0-1:00 P. M.-Lenten meeting
under the auspices of the New YORK
Federation of Churches, direct from
the Palace theatre. New York City.
400 p. M.-Recttal by Jennings
Butterfeld, violinist, and Margaret
Butterfield, pianist.
500 p. M.-Henry Kirby Davies,
welsh baritone, and Elinor Edison,
soprano and musical comedy star.
7~:30-9:00 T. M.-Ccncert by the
artist pupils of Lazar S. Samoiloff.
9~:OO-10:00 p. M.-Program by
Gimbel Brothers, New York store;
dance music by the Phoebe Snow Or
chestra.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
RADIO PROGRAMS
Today's radio programs:
MOR
Bambcrger's-NeMark

WOR
(Bambcr.er's-NcWark)
ESQ D.. Unpopular piano num-
bers by Bob White.
$3.50 D.. discrimination of the
series of readings from the History
Of the United States.
$40 p. m.-Songs by James j.
MacGehean, tenor.
$3.50 p. m.-SOngs by Harriet HUB
brad, soprano.
$3.50 p. m.-songs by James II.
MacGehean.
S:45 p. m. to 400 p. m.-Songs
by Harriet Hubbard.
6:15 p. m-Lecture by Doris Dos
cher, health expert.
$50 D.. Unpopular selections by
The Victoria Dance Orchestra.
6.45 p. m.-"The Power of an
Endless Life" by DIR. Samuel w.
Grosslin, Director of religious work
Mt the West Side Y. NJ. c. A. of New
york.
7?e1 to.7:S0 p. m.-victoria Dance
Orchestra.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lis p. NJ. Concert by r.. D.
Weimer, tenor.
1899 p. M. Concert by Evelyn A.
Thomas, contralto.
400 p. NJ. Closing prices.
4:O5 P. M. Fashions"
$3.50 P. NJ Farm Market reports.
$500. P. M. Jack Rabbit Stories,
ny David Cory.
$3.50 P. NJ. Radio Shower Party
will be held under the auspices OF
she Radio News, New York.
g:15 P. NJ. Sports" by w. J..
Mocunl.
$3.50 P. NJ. Ampico Series of Dis
singuished Artists concerts.
9%:55-1O:00 P. M. Arlington time
signals, weather forecast.
1901 p. M. Continuation of pro-
gram by the Ampico artists.
WEAF
{American Telephone & Telegraph
sCompany-New York;
1900 "A. M.-"The League OF Ma
Hons" an address by Everett Colby,
FORMER United States Senator from
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
BY W. X. BEATTIE
Extension Horticulturist, United
States Department of Agriculture

States Department OF agriculture
Children are told to eat carrots
if they want color in their cheeks
and beets to be strong and able
to romp and play. Just how much
there is to this is hard to say, but
all the root crops are rich in vita
mines and the elements that aid di-
gestion. Carrots are rich in tho col
oring matter known as "carrotin, .
which is also present in green grass
and gives the rich color to the cows
milk during the early summer. Rad
ishes are effective for warding off
scurvy and similar disorders and
are eaten more as a salad than a
true vegetable.
Root crops such as carrots, beets,
p~arsnips require the entire growing
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

Atlanta, Ga, is building a bache-
ior hall where no woman will be
admitted. Instead of a watchdog
they should get a watch mouse.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22

bridge hand and you at once have the fan.
Spread out the FAM says the Spaniard, and
you have not merely a single hand of
cards but whole deck with which to play
any variation in the game of life.
With this fagotto of tapering, slivery lit
tie sticks for finger play you may tap out
the music of and run the physical gamut
of the five great emotions-love and hate,
joy and grief, and fear. That is if you are
a Spanish senior or sonora or a sophisti-
Gated senorita (and the flapper does exist
in Spain alSo).
Believe me, the shorthand Of the type
writing office is but first reader stuff COM
pared to this double-cross swirling of this
classic weapon of coquetry and its involved
speech of the bepowdered fingers Of al
mantilla yelled senoritd. Seemingly indo-
lent, she can manipulate her fan so vigor-
ously that it's dictation speed would leave
far behind the most rapid silk stockinged,
peekabooed and rouged ddctyliste (they call
them that in the high class speciality shops
on Fifth avenue right now.
The Spanish men are equally proficient
as their women, so naturally it becomes
matching up game.
The cult of the fan comes from the East,
where warm weather and most other
things have come from; is as old as the
world and has been put to as many uses as
life itself. The Chinese claim to have orig
mated the fan in it's long flutterings
through the ages.
There was once a powerful and potent
nodding mandarin, red crested, yellow jack
eted and peacock feather embroidered, high
in court circles of the Celestial Kingdom.
He had a daughter, beautiful as all beauty,
Acknowledged skin like cream, charming as
little Ming porcelain figurine Her name
was Kan-si.
1T was the night of the Great Feast of
the Lanterns, the heat suffocating. Suf
locating, too, were the poor little Chinese
maidens, forced by etiquette to wear masks
in public. Kan-si rebelled, daintily but
firmly, and set new fashion She took
off her mask. But like most reformers,
she found that she would have to compro-
mise. This she did by moving her mask
rapidly before her face, so that her beauti-
full features might not dazzle too COM
pletely q bewidered public.
Thus she saved her face, and also dis
covered that she was creating refreshing
movement of air around her. Naturally,
as a leader of her set she was followed by
the other ladies of her immediate circle, the
smart set of which she was the Gnimdtear
Immediately they, too. made fans of their
masks: ten thousand Of the wise ladies Of
the court spread the fashion throughout
the land says the chronicle.
In this manner the fan was launched and
China still remains the chief productive
center First the fan was a rigid oval,
later becoming half moon shaped but still
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wings before fight and the senorita preens
her fan for flights of fancy There's al
ways happy ending to be had; no wonder
that editors demand it and the public like
it.
AS an appendix to the fan CIPHER code
are certain gymnastic turns which are
made with the fan.
Running the left forefnger over it's ribs
when closed. signifies: II want to speak to
you
Holding the fan against the lips: II
have no confidence in what you say"
Dropping the fan from left hand: Leave
me at once"
And so it goes with endless variation
of meaning known only to the initiated
in fan lore who may have evolved secret
codes of their own that no A. B. G. Five
Letter, Fifth Edition" may unravel.
Fan codes vary somewhat in their APP
plicstions according to- regions. That
practiced in Seville differs from that used
in Toledo. Society of Madrid has inter-
polations that one does not find in Cor
doba. But the fundamentals of the short
hand dictionary of the, Spanish fan Wire
less are the same wherever fans futter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22

soldiers who died upon the field of battle,
and in the name of those that persisted in
the skeleton clutch of famine at Anderson
vile and Libby-whose sufferings he So
eloquently remembers-Illinois dominates
for the next President of this country that
prince of parliamentarians that leader of
leaders, James G. Blaine"
In spite of Col. Ingersolls great speech
the nomination went to Rutherford B.
Hayes, who was elected Blaine was nomi-
mated in 1884 and was defeated by Grover
Cleveland.
| have heard Lincoln speak, but he did
not have the oratorical gift of arousing
emotion possessed by Ingersoll and Wen
dell Phillips. Lincoln's speeches were de-
liberate and logical.
There is no man in public life to-day
that know whom L can compare with some
of the speakers of the last century. That
does not mean, however, that 1 think the
day of great orators is past. Give man
the ability to sway his hearers and human
nature will be the same in 1922 as it was
fifty years ago.
OF my own speeches-and L have made
1000 or more-there are four that 1 re-
member with the most pleasure
The first was in 1880 at the dedication
in Tarrytown of a monument to Major
Andre, the British officer who was exc
cuted for his part in the treason of Bene-
dict Arnold. The second was at the I'M
yelling of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
in New York Bay in 1885, The third was
at the centennial of the inauguration of
General Washington as first President of
the United States in front of the Sub
Treasury in Wall street in 1882 and the
fourth was at the opening of the Column
bian Exposition at Chicago in 1898.
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The Best Speech
[ Ever Heard
By CHAUNcEY M. DEPEW.

States Senate I do not remember single
great speech. heard a great many good
speeches., but no great ones. The most
effective nominating speech at a national
political convention ever heard was the
famous "Plumed Knight speech of Col.
Robert G. Ingersoll in which he proposed
James G. Blaine for President in 1876.
The, convention was held in Cincinnati.
It's preliminary acts showed no especial
tendency toward sentiment but when Col.
IngersoIl rose to name Mr.. Blaine great
shout went up. During his speech he was
interrupted constantly by applause.
In his peroration Col. Ingersoll said:
"Our country, crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements Of it's first
century, asks for a man worthy of it's
past, prophetic of it's future-asks for a
man who has the audacity of genius
asks for a man who is the grandest COM
bination of heart. conscience and brains
beneath the flag. That man is James G.
Blaine.
"For the Republican host, led by that
intrepid man, there can be no defeat.
This is a grand year-a year filled with
the recollections of the Revolution; filed
with proud and tender memories of the
sacred past; filled with the legends Of
liberty; year in which the sons of free
dom will drink from the fountains of en-
thusiasm; a year in which the people call
for a man who has preserved in Congress
what our soldiers won upon the field; a.
year in which we call for the man that
has torn from the throat of treason the
tongue of SANDER; man that has snatched
the mask of democracy from the hideous
face of rebellion; a man who, like an in
tellectual athlete, stood in the arena of
debate, challenged all Corners, and who
up to this moment is total stranger to
defeat.
Like an armed warrior, like a p1umed
knight, James G. Blaine marched down
the halls of the American Congress and
threw his shining lances full and fair
against the brazen forehead of every de-
famer of his country and maligner of his
honor.
For the Republican party to desert
that man now is worse than if an army
should desert their general on the field
of battle. James G. Blaine is now and has
Deen 40f years the bearer OIL the SACRED
standard, of the Republic. call it sacred
because no human being can stand be-
meath it's folds without becoming and with
out remaining free.
Gentlemen of the Convention, in the
name of the great Republic-the only Re-
public that ever existed upon this earth
in the name of all her defenders and all
her supporters; in the name of all her
soldiers living, in the name of all her
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22

slim WASTED and broad hated. he also
carries small type of fan similar to
the larger form. the prerogative of the sig
mailing Scnoritd.
This is the Spanish fashion in fans,
The fan of the senorita is the large size.
the fan of the sonora somewhat smaller
and the smallest the fan of the senior.
Then there are fans for summer and win
ter, fans for all sorts and classes of func-
tions-weddings, funerals, to walk out
with, for the house, the city, the country
and the bullfight the latter decorated
with flashing scenes in the arenas, por-
traits of favorite reigning matadors. the
"Bombas' and "Chicos" and their gay
cuadrillas.
The most important of Spanish fan
makers is a house of ancient lineage in
Valencia. its product selling from half a
peseta to five hundred pesetas, ten cents
to a hundred dollars. Parchment paper
fans are most in vogue, gayly painted.
Large fans are used by ladies as attenu-
ated sun shades. The men carry their
fans in their vest pockets or up their
sleeves, but in warm weather they seldom
leave their owners hands, particularly
at the hour that the noUias appear on
their drilled balconies or take their daily
walks in palm lined plasas. The whir-
ring of fans in the all but stagnant air at
this moment is like the winged passage
of many birds.
I have the secret at last! The fan is
designed on the plan of the wings of a
bird. Yes it is! The bird preens it's
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
Opera Scenery

~ ORIS ANISFELD, Russian impress
IN sionistic artist who made the design
for the costumes and settings of The
Snow Maiden" for the, Metropolitan Opera
Company last season, is busiest in the
summer. Then he and his assistants
spread the canvas on the floor that is laid
down over the orchestra seats in the opera
house and are able to work without inter
ruption. 1t is very curious to see this
scenic artist doing his work with brushes
as big as brooms and great pals of paint.
Harmony is the aim of this impressionist
and he seeks it in form and color. He says
that while figures in a stage picture must
be distinct from one another they must at
the same time combine and give singleness
of effect.
Anisfeld makes a series of small paint
ings REPRESENTING the various scenes. He
seeks to visualize the life in color and
dress Of the period as each opera demands.
and that period receives long and earnest
study. Before he made a drawing he had
worked two months on THE Snow Maiden"
The problem was to treat an ancient Rus
sian period in terms of fantasy. To make
his careful little paintings took another
month and five more months were required
for the scenes themselves
Copyright, 1922, by The New York Herald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
Borneo's Venice
TYHE city of Brunei, couple of miles
up the river of that name on the
island of Rnrnen. known as the

TYHE city of Brunei, couple of miles
up the river of that name on the
island of Borneo, known as the
Venice of the East to jewellers in that land,
but known not at all in the outside world,
is one of the worlds unique cities. 1t is
built entirely on piles placed over the
river, and stretches for a couple of miles
on each side of the river. 1t is really
lot of little towns in one, with population
of 10000, mostly Malays.
The respective trades are segregated
each to an area of their own; thus you go
to one part of the town to see the fisher
men, another to see the metal workers and
the merchants Streets of bamboo inter-
sect the rows of dwellings. Upon the We
randas children entirely naked play or fish
or dive into the river below. Children here
are expert swimmers by the time they are
four years old.
The city market is the only one of its
kind in the world for all marketing is
done in boats on a certain portion of the
river set aside for the purpose. Here
daily the people of the town meet the
people from the jungle and exchange man
Gfactured goods for fruit, vegetables and
game.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
Ship From Dawn.

Times have known when Beauty
came to me,
Long watching on vast where
vision fails,
AS to one shipwrecked by lonely sea
A ship glides in with dawn upon her
sails.
From that yet starred horizon which
she passed
About her cling sprayed traces of
the stars,
A loneliness half seen, too frail to last
Among the dawn lights surging
through her spars.
Upon us come moods of desolate
shore
Where we have waited, while far
sails passed by,
Feeling ship would come that way
no more
While vast of sea surged into vast
Of sky
But one who has no fate like this to
brave
May never know how Beauty comes
to save!
GLENN WARD DREsBAcH.
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Rockabye.
TO David. ~

Swing away little birds Of Baltimore,
Sway away high in the fat apple
tree
While the sun laughs down upon
you and me.
Mammy'll come soon to help fill yore
Bright wide beaks with a welcome
store
OF bugs and slugs of ev'ry degree
SO you can go on a little bird spree
While Nanny sings of oriole lore.
Swing high, swing low, in yors ham
mock so high
Yore Pappy wears such a flaming
bright vest
After yore dinner you all go rocka-
bye
Twas he that built that Hammocky
nest;
Oh, some day youth fly away high
away
Trying your wings in the great blue
sky, away.
SEABURY LAWRENCE.
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THE best speech I ever heard, for
power and effectiveness. was deliv-
cred by Wendell Phillips in 1855 or
1856, when I was at Yale. Phillips at
that time was the leader ofthe anti-slavery
movement in Boston and was considered
one of the greatest minds in New England.
His subject was slavery. The auditorium,
Brewster's Hall in New Haven, was
damned and the audience of about $500
persons, mostly New Haven folk, was in
tensely hostile. Before he finished Phillips
had captured them all.
The city of New Haven on account of
its manufactures was violently pro-slave
When Phillips arose such a booing and
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
BY BLANCHE McMANUS.

opens fire with great strategical move by
placing the letter. IN the palm in reversed
order, starting as he does with the tail
end of the alphabet. He puts the z at
the joint of khe left thumb base as it joins
the wrist. and following up the pole of the
thumb 81 comes at the second joint, B is at
the third joint. while A finishes at the
point of the thumb.
The pole of the first finger of the left
palm has at the base joint, L at the sec
ond joint, C at the third joint, with E at
the finish of the first finger. The second
finger left palm has T as a base, S at the
second joint, D at, third joint and 1 for the
finish. The pole of the third finger ha
R for it's base, and this is important, as it
carries the wedding ring. M is at the sec
ond joint, F at the third joint and o for
the finish
The pole of the little finger and the
fourth finger carries J for the base, N
for the second joint, G for the third joint
and U for the finish. In the rhomboid of
the left palm proper, between the first
and second fingers is Y, between the sec
ond and third fingers x and between
the third and fourth fingers V, while Q
closes this unique fan dictionary as a
glove is buttoned with a single press clasp,
at the wrist
This arrangement with its variations
works out for the right palm, with the i'm
portant difference that the, letters are
mapped out on the back, or outside, of
the hand These too indicate the small
letters, the lower case in printers par
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
M Our Poets
Back Yard
Happiness.

The leaves come floating softly down,
My heart is filed with happy song
And sunlight through the whole day
long
Here in the country, miles from town.
do not fear stern winters chill.
1 do not dread his snow and ice.
have my friends-and they suffice
My friends upon this wooded hill.
feel have attained my goal,
My ak is ready to my hand
1 hope that you may understand
do not have to purchase coal!
r. L. NJ.
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its single stem when, at a
recent day in fan annals,
the collapsible fan was in
vented in Korea in the
fifteenth century, brought
to China and from there
spread by the manufactur-
ers all over the warm coun-
tries of the Mediterranean.
The Spaniards, intriguers
ever and with a passionate
love for the secretive daily
ings and philanderings,
from love making to bust
ness, which characterizes
the trace of donS and
hidalgos, seized with avidity
upon the fan when this
handy article arrived in
trading ships returning
from the China seas.
The Spaniard diverted the
warlike ceremonial, litur-
gical and useful functions
of this really attractive
accessory Of dress and
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22

like 10 hear poet sing
OF jasmine white or golden
But I had rather smell the blooms,
And be to them beholden,
like to hear a story told
OF cunning or of daring;
But l had rather be afield,
And in the danger sharing.
Oh, books are good, oh, books are fine;
And their sincere lover;
But life itself is dearer far
The wide world over.
d. H. VERDER.
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The Spell of Beauty.

Beauty has gripped me by the throat.
And left no voice to sing it's praise;
Only dumb awe, a GREATNESS hope
TO have it with me all my days.
Once sang glibly of the joy
1 had in Nature and in Art;
Spinning bright eulogies of song
With nothing of it in my heart.
Something has happened-I am dumb:
The polished rhymes l wrought so
well
Fail. l am silent now that I
Have fallen under Beauty's spell.
ADELE DE LEEUw.