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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-22
Meditations of
a Wife
BY Helen Rowland

charge thee, my Daughter, KNOW
THY MANI
For. the world is full of woman
charmers-and the flatterers are full
of beautiful stunts"
Lo, of men there are three varieties
Those who may be driven with 6
whip and spur.
Those who must be coaxed with
sugar and apples.
And those who must be BACKED
into the Garden of Love-like unto a
mule!
Behold. a man came unto me say.
ing. LET me but adore thee! For
alas, ! am weaker than a soft drink
and more pliable than a sofa-cushior
in the hands of a woman"
And my heart was troubled. For,
knew that he was a voman-tamer, and
invulnerable! And all my weapons
were broken against me.
But another came unto me, saying
"Let us be good pals-but take mi
not SERIOUSLY. For, / am wise tc
all women, and their wileS are LOST
upon me. Lo, I have their NUN
BER!"
And my heart was gladdened. For
bv that sign. I knew that he was
EASY. And nv wav was clear he.
fore me.
Go to. A woman-tamer is like unto
the park squirrel which eatcth out of
caught; but a woman.scorner is like
its head in, the sand and thinkcth II.
self SAFE.
7 charge thee. waste not the DAVIS
of thy youth upon n PRUDENT man.
For. he that signcth not his real name
certificate,
writeth wariIy: he tall,eth in hints and
mnkct1 love nv insinuation He is so
careful.
Yea he is one that trembleth 70 GA,
his dinner for fear of indigestion and
passeth up the wine for fear of the
Yet neitber 10 no N he trusted that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-22

this spiritual pilgrimage their hus-
bands go bankrupt. their wives take in
washing, their children 60 to the dogs
and the house burns.
All Of which means this:
If you want to grow n soul, GET
BUSY AND GROW ONE. Don't talk
about it. Dig in and start construc-
ton with the means at hand. A soul
sprouts 100 per cent quicker when
you're making beef stew for a sick
neighbor than when you're Hopping
around in an orchid negligee, burning
incense and talking blah.
No church can find God for you.
God has given you all the wherewithals
to work-brains and hands, shovels
and dust cloths, grins and grit il
you'll use it. Then hop to it and
stop Wheeling around. Salvation
that's bought at the price of every one
else's discomfort and neglect is a
mighty shabby article. It's a wonder.
full way of hogging the limelight, but
I'll bet it doesn't draw many harps
in the great hereafter.
Copyright. 1925, King Features Syn, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-22

rundown, irregular, and had awful
headaches, and my back and side hurt
me so that l could stay up only a short
time. Ny limbs would get so tired and
ache till ! could cry. ] started 10 take
the Vegetable Compound again and
used the Sanative Wash, and it was
not long till was relieved. Now do
all my own work and help others. i
sure praise Lydia E Pinkham' s medi-
cines TO any one meet that is suffer-
ing from similar troubles. think If
mothers with girls would give it to
them when they come to womanhood
it would make them stronger. People
who have known me ali my life are
astonished to see me now as | was
always siekly when in my teens and
until l started taking the Vegetable
Compound. - Mrs. MARY r. BETE-
DICT, s13 Psyson St., Kewanee, Ill.
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TABLE TALKS
Dinner Menu
BY ALICE IRWIN

der. salt and spices and mix well with
rolled oats; then fold into first mix
ture. Drop from spoon on cookie sheet
and bake in a moderately hot oven
PEACH SURPRISE SHERBET
One teaspoon graduated gelatin,
three-fourths cup boiling water. one
half cup peach pulp, one teaspoon
lemon juice, one-fOur:n cup cold
water, one-half cup sugar, oDe.half
cup orange juice.
Soak gelatin in cold wute; and add
the boiling water III which the sugar
has been dissolved. Wnel mixture
cools add prICh pulp, orange and
lcDCn juice. Freeze.
FRUIT AND NUT SALAD
Two oranges, one-half cantaloupe,
lettuce, four tablespoons nut meats,
one cup dates.
Mix diced oranges and cantaloupe
with finely chopped dates and nut
meats. Moisten with French dressing
or mayonnaise and serve on beds OF
shredded lettuce.
WHITE LAYER CAKE.
One-half cup white shortening,
two teaspoons baking powder, one
cup sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt,
one and two-thirds cups sifted flour.
one-half cup cold water, whites of
three eggs, one-half teaspoon orange
or rose flavoring.
Cream shortening and sugar thor
oughly. Add flour, which has beer
'sifted with baking powder, and salt
alternately with wafer Fold in stiff
ly beaten egg whites; add flavoring
Bake in layers % to 30 minutes in /,
moderate oven 1925 degrees).
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CHILDLESS
HOMES
Read Mrs. Eenedict's Letter
Praising Lydia E. Pmkham's
Vegetable Compound

Kewanee, Illinois. When ! was
married about year and a half took
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Helpful Hints

So many fish in Lake Geneva died
from n mysterious disease that their
bodies made a silvery layer on the
surface of the water.
Canadian orchards grew fruit worth
$24 900, 900 last year.
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Cold Meats.
Potato Salad.
Sliced Tomatoes.
Black Berries.
Oatmeal Cookies.
Iced Tea

lOtu Lta.
During the time that school Is in
session Saturday is often the busiest
day of the week. But now, during
the summer vacation period, Saturday
may become the same as any other
day. except for the planning and
preparation which Sunday dinner in
wolves.
Since the man of the house is usu-
ally at home on Saturday afternoon
and there are many recreational activ-
tiles which all Of the family may
share, Saturdays dinner should re-
quire n minimum Of time and labor.
Everyone who is acquainted with
the fact that the lowly onion is my
pet aversion will know that ] would
be sure to omit them from potato
salad. That. of coursc. would spoil the
salad for some folks just as their
presence would spoil II for me. SO /
will put it in the recipe and you may
leave it out il you wish.
1t is amazing how difficult il is to
find n recipe for plain, everyday po-
tato salad. The first one l turn to
calls for beets and parsley; next comes
one which requires pecan nut meats.
Others call for such little known in
gradients us chives and truffles.
Hero is the simple method l fol-
low: To two cups of cold boiled pota-
toes cut into cubes and one cup OF
celery cubes. MoiSten with French
dressing, sprinkle with salt and pep
per and mix with mayonnaise. Turn
into lettuce-lined salad bowl and gar
nish with hard-cookel eggs. There! |
forgot the onion, after all. As much
minced onion as yoI desire may be
mixed with the celery and potatoes
suggest one-fourth cup. If celery is not
availablc-or sometimes in addition TO
the celery-one cup cucumber cubes
may be used.
am somewhat unwilling to suggest
that any one spend morning in the
kitchen baking cookies when the
month of August is slipping by so rap
idly. But homemade cookies are so
much appreciated that often the time
seems well spent. So here is the recipe
for
OATMEAL COOKIES.
Threc-quarters cup shortening,
one cup sugar, two eggs, three tea
spoons baking powder. four table
| spoons candied citron, four table
spoons candied orange peel, four
tablespoons candicd lemon peel,
threc-quarters cup chopped nuts,
one quarter cup milk, one-third cup
flour. three.fourths cur raisins, one
third cup flour, three-fourths cup
raisins. One-third teaspoon salt,
three-quarters teaspoon mace, one
quarter teaspoon cloves, thrse-quar-
tiers teaspoon cinnamon. three cups
rolled oats.
Cream shortening; add sugar and
cream again. Add one egg at a time
and cream thoroughly after each adj
dition. Add fruits and nuts, then milk,
and stir well. Sift flour, baking pow
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-22

Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable
ompound b e.
causeof i'll health.
/ did not have any
children. / now
have two healthy
little girls and /
am sure ! would
nothave had them
had itnot been for
your medicine.
Last spring and
simmer I 0nf all
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14

fire wardens. The lakes are shown
and in one there is a small boat with
a lead keel and which, by means Of
magnets and electric current, is made
to travel back and forth from shore
to shore. There Is an automobile drive
around the entire display with a mini
ature car propelled by an invisible
endless belt system and some idea of
the size of the display may be gained
from the fact that it requires five
and one-half minutes for this auto
mobile to make complete round
trip. There are 35 of the Business
and Professional Women's Clubs in
New England, 10 of them in Maine,
and Mr.. McFadden has made a mini
ature club house to represent each
city in which they are, located. The
houses have gabled roofs painted red
and are cute little affairs.
Mr.. McFadden has heen more than
month making this display, and
every bit of the handiwork is of his
own making. 1t is set up on wires
with a paper mache base. The houses
are of paper construction and so is
the automobile, which Is less than
two inches in length, but which re-
quired six hours to complete. 1t is a
splendid testimonial to Mr.. McFad-
den's ingenuity and skill. Two years
ago he sent a model representing
Maine to a iimilar convention which
was displayed in the lobby of the
Hotel Commodore in New York. This
is the most pretentious display he
has ever made.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
nuh1ic snectacle In the Bolshevik

public spectacle In the soisheViK
capital. .s..
The Soviet authorities argue tnat
nendicancy, vagrancy and unempioy-
nent are the inevitable concomitants
of war and revolution, that Russia
probably has no greater snare OF
these evils than other war-anected
countries, While the government Is
trying in every way possible, on the
slender means at its disposal, TO
ameliorate the lot of the unemployed
and the destitute, the problem is SO
huge and so immediate that 1t Is al
most beyond control. The re-estap-
lishment on a sound basis OF us
sia's factories and industries, the re-
entry of foreign capital into the
country, and the tapping Of Russias
enormous natural resources, foreign
observers say, offer the only remedy
for the existing evils.
That the problem Of child vagran-
cy Is beyond the control Of the state
is admitted even by Lunacharsky. In
his appeal to the public for private
funds he says: 1.-The state alone can
not eradicate this evil. Therefore,
every person with a responsive heart
must assist by sending subscriptions,
otherwise all efforts will be useless,
and the great stream Of vagrant chill
dren will, not only pay horrible
tribute of death, but will develop into
a polluting flood poisoning the entire
current of life"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
Migrants and Children
Official Russia Worry

Moscow, June 19-(A. P. by MaiD-
One of the Soviet Russia's greatest
unsolved problems is to relieve the
thousands of vagrants, destitute chill
dren. beggars and unemployed which
overflow every city. The greatest of
these evils is the appalling number of
|vagrant and destitute children, which
Commissar of Education Lunacharsky
characterizes as the most terrible ul-
Ger on the Soviet Unions body" Many
of these juvelines are addicted to
drugs. Others are infected with dis
ease. All are positive menace.
Hundreds of thousands of these
children" said Lunacharsky in a re-
cent appeal on behalf of them, "have
degenerated into a state of semi-sav-
agery, some bordering on idiocy,
while others have had their wits so
sharpened and excited by collision
with life that they have become dan
gerous enemies of society,""
"Of almost equal proportions are
| the legions of adult paupers and
mendicants that the American visitor
finds cluttering every street and
squatting in front of every church.
| Their constant cry is, "Khleb, pasha =
lista! Khleb. pashalista!" ("Bread
please. bread, please!" In all other
outward aspects. the occasiona
American traveller who finds his way
to Russia these days is agreeably
| surprised to find Moscow quite a nor
NAL city, although the most expensive
in the world. This army of sorrowful,
pauperized Russians that assail one
! at every turn, is the most evident
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
NO CAUSE FOR APPREHENSION

1t is gratifying to learn Of the evil
dence to show that prohibition is not
responsible for any appreciable In
crease in the number of drug ad-
diets. Police surveys in New York,
Boston, Chicago. Detroit and San
Francisco are to the effect that less
than one in 1000 Of habitual drug
users had taken dope as substi-
tute for alcohol.
Reports from those cities have in
dicated there was little inducement
to seek drugs as a substitute for al
cohol, but this aside. 1t Is quite ap-
parent that the apprehensions of this
are not to be confirmed by events.
An association has made a survey
and reports to General Andrews that
the country over the drug habit has
not been increased by the Volstead
law. Were the truth contrary to
this there would be indeed cause for
apprehension
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
Editors Letter Box
Cause of High Prices

Editor Journal:
AS a protest against the high cost
of living why. single out any class in
the community that are receiving
war prices for their labor and SER
vices, when everybody practically is
doing or would do the same thing if
within their personal discretion?
The physicians and surgeons in
fixing their fees are below the per-
centage of increase as measured by
the 1914 standard Of comparison.
Some transportation companies
have advanced the fares 10000 and
merchants in the clothing line, not
withstanding many wooden mills are
idle for lack of orders, are not far be-
hind them: and governments in as
sessing taxes along with the labor
unions are in the same generaliza- =
ton.
Causes beyond their control, ex-
cept farmers of this and other states
form equalization up to this exalted
standard and general practice, yet
the universal rule, unaffected mega
lively. that the seller of any commod
.;ty or personal service will get as
much therefor as possible, and this,
without limit Is an attribute of our
fallen human nature, with perhaps
an element Of self preservation in
volved in 1t.
Although my memory Is somewhat
impaired by age, 1 can remember
when potatoes sold for 10c per barrel
and not whimper of dissent from
the farmers because of this extortion.
And just so far today as the eco
nomic situation permitted, they and
all others would do the same.
Hardly nybody-except bootleg
gers. blackmailers and extortioners is
satisfied with the existing industrial
and economical situation and difficult
of solution as it is. the remedy is
largely in the hands of the people
themselves.
The standard of living Is too high
for the people to meet and they are
responsible for all the hardships ex-
perienced in the attempt to live the
luxurious life
Government under the exiSency OF
war set the example of extrava
CANT expenditures and now the gen.
eral government, under a common
sense President is prescribing the
! true and proper remedy for return
to prosperity-a reduction of taxes
to normal, with an obligation and op-
portunity in the part of the several
states to effect it within their own
jurisdictions.
ITS up to the people," and If they
| possess the qualities of power and
character given them by Mr.. Bryan
they have only to invoke the remedy
In the matter of high prices which
! appear and are extortionate we ex-
cept the coal owners and operators
from classification even under this
head.
! They are pirates and are to be
ranked with bootleggers, blackmail-
ers and hijackers and like their ind
of the high seas they should be driv-
en- from the land by the whole power
of the government.
! J. IRVING WOODBURY..
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
Editorial Comment
Thoughts On Our Prison System
On. Y. Worldl

On. \. WorldD
There Is food for thought a-plenty
in this report on New York prisons
and jails made by a committee of
which former Attorney General
Wickersham is Chairman. It will not
surprise many of US that three
fourths of those serving time are. de
fectives, that they are in Jail because
they cannot help being in Jail, and
that having got into Jail once they
get in many more times. But the re-
suit of this condition is startling.
Since under our penal system the
criminal is rarely cured of his alb
normality, he remains a criminal
the committee finds "the institutions
and over again, locking up and turn
out the same individuals"
If this is true, and it sounds plaus-
ible, we have sardonic comedy on n
vast and terrible scale, a gigantic
social torture mill, with human be-
ings fed into one end of the hopper
and spewed out at the other end; and
as they limp away, caught and
dropped in Igain-while Judges lee
ture them between terms, police
boast proudly of arrests, indictments
and convictions, preachers demand
the whipping and crime -four
ishes unabated. Is it the lesson we
have to learn that we must get our
minds off crime" and tackle the
criminal?
If most crime is traceable to patho-
logical impulses, then applying retri-
butive punishment is as sensible as
fiogging lunatics to drive the devils
out. There may be sound sense in
what the committee says. that the
really constructive work in the fight
against crime will be done by ply
sicians psychiatrists and vocational
training experts.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
,,s, !, t,v David Cory,

Here am. Mother" shouted Lit
tie Jack Rabbit as the Old Brown
Horse stopped at the little gate In
the white picket fence that ran all
around the dear Old Bramble Patch.
"Yes, was very careful not to
trot," said the kind old steed. as the
bunny boy hoped down to the
ground. And l held off a cough SO
he wouldn't bump off," went on the
old horse, with a wheeZy sigh.
"Ha, hal" crowed the OLD Red
Rooster, leaning on the rake with
which he had been smoothing the
rose garden,
You can trust the old horse
AS a matter of course.
But look out for a jolt
From a frisky young colt.
and with another cock "a -doodle-do
in answer to a neighbor rooster s
call, the old fowl set to work again
We'll, I'll eat some grass now that
the bunny boy has had his ride,
said the Old Brown Horse, and off
he walked to the Bubbling Brook
near which the grass was sweet and
green. with daisies dotted in be-
tween. Goodness me! There goes
"Remmy," my old typewriter, into
poetry. Wonderful machine I have
eh, Little Readers? Talks in poetry
as we'll as n prose, and maybe bet
ter, goodness knows.
How is Uncle Lucky?" asked the
little rabbit, as the Old Red Rooster
leaned over to pull up a stubborn
weed from Lady Loves pretty rose
garden.
Hale and hearty, my little bunni-
kins," answered the old fowl with a
flap of his wings. When did you
last see him."
Yesterday, I think" replied the
little rabbit. But it seems longer
Gracious me, how fond the little
bunny is of his dear old Uncle. Only
a yesterday seemed like a week.
Just then the telephone went tim
kle, tinkle, and when Lady Love, the
bunny boys mother, picked up the
receiver, she heard the dear old gen.
tleman rabbits voice ask:
I'm coming over quick as l can
To call on my little bunny man."
Uncle Lucky will be over soon,
promised the little rabbits mother
from the back porch. Don't &c
away"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
Folsom notored to Hampton Beach

Folsom notored to Hampton Beach
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Chapman and
children Ruth and Marion, have re-
turned to Gardiner after passing the
week end at the home of Mrs. Geo.
Chapman.
Kenneth Baker is substituting as
mail carrier for Percy Larkin who
is enjoying a short vacation.
The regular meeting of the Harry
G. DeAker Post American Legion,
will be held this Tuesday evening in
the Legion Hall.
Troop No. L of the Boy Scouts
accompanied by. Scout Master Will
lard Brier and superintendent of
Schools John S. Tapley have return
ed from a camping trip to Mount
Bigelow. The trip to the foot of the
mountain was made by auto. The
boys climbed to the summit and
camped Friday night, returning
home Saturday.
Mrs. Carolyn Eamon has return
ed from a business trip to Lewis
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rowe motoreo
to Cornville Sunday and visited Mrs.
Rowe's son, Elmer Trask and fam
lily for the day.
daughter Ruth and the Misses
Gladys and Marion Princepato
passed Sunday at North Pond.
The United Baptist Sunday school
will hold their annual picnic at
Sandy Beach at j. o. Gosselin's S
camp, North Pond on Wednesday,
July 22nd.
Eugene Perry Is confined to his
home on Main street with an attack
of the grippe.
Among the recent arrivals at
Musquemoosie Camps, East Pond
are Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell and son,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker and daughter,
of Boston, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. Burt
and son and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Barbrow and son and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradbury and son,
Drury and MIR. Kahn of New York
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Pooler. son,
Charles and daughter, Beatrice, Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Wort, and Charles
Bates passed Sunday at North Pond.
Miss Louise Benson, who passed
the week end at her home in town
will return today to. North Anson,
where she will be employed for the
remainder of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Harding
and daughter, Gwendolyn. Mrs. Ida
Palmer, Miss Beverly Palmer of
Randolph were guests Sunday of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harding of New
port.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Larkin have
gone to Cape Porpoise to visit
friends.
Miss Louise Clark, who has been
teaching in Massachusetts the past
year is passing the summer vaca-
ton with her mother, Mrs. Russell
Clark of Fairfield street.
Mrs. Ethel Moore and two chill
dren of Newport are visiting Mrs.
Everett Harding.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sands and
daughter Grace who have been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton have re-
turned to their home in Wilton.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
DOvER-FOxCRoF7

Miss Iona Foss Of the registry Of
deeds Office passed the week end at the
home Of her parents in Sebec.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Warren were
callers in Dexter Friday.
Mrs. W.. A. Burgess and daughter
Wilma are passing the summer at the
Burgess cottage at Sebec Lake.
Miss Eva Lanpher of Sebec was in
town Saturday.
Miss Mary Hughes, DR.. and Mrs. E.
D. Merrill and Miss Marion Merrill
have returned from q motor trip
through New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Hoxie and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Libbey passed
the week end at the Warren cottage,
Sebec Lake.
Miss Carolyn Annis Of Sebec was in
town calling Saturday.
Mrs. Nellie Dexter passed the week.
end in Guiford the guest of relatives.
Dean Nettie NJ. Runnalls has sailed
for Europe where she will enjoy six
weeks of travel.
Flora and Sarah Robbins of Fort
Kent are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Q. Robbins at the Exchange.
Thompson Guernsey Is attending
summer school at the University of
Maine.
Mark B. Emery who has been clerk
at the Blethen House for more than
16 years. has completed his duties
and has gone to Cambridge, Mass,
where he will enjoy a long vacation.
Miss Mercedes Ortega has gone to
Spruce Point Camps where Miss Orte-
ga will be employed during the sum-
mer months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter ]. st. Onge and
daughter of Torrington, Conn, have
been the guests Of relatives in town
and are now passing "a few days at
Sebec Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Locke and
Mrs. w. d. Oaks are in Toledo, Ohio.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
BEARING FRUIT

The alarming inability Of law and
authority to cope with criminal ac-
tivities - certain parts Of the coun-
try is bearing legitimate fruit. but
that does not make the product
wholesome or to be commended.
A bank in an Indiana town has
equipped its vaults with Lewisite,
the deadliest gas known to science
and which was going into general
use had the last war not ended when
II did. This Of course does not pre-
vent the burglar from equipping
himself with gas masks but even 80
would cumber his movements.
Out in Chicago a bankers associa-
taon has offered . reward of $4,000 to
my person staying q bandit, who re-
sists arrest while robbing or at
tempting to rob bank. There is
too little inducement nowadays to
effer rewards contingent upon con-
viction,