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New Britain herald., 1925-01-20

water and others will hold a card party at the Berlin community house sometime in the near future to help this fund.
 Officers Elected
 All of the officers were reelected unanimously yesterday and with few exceptions where resignations were submitted, all committee chair men were reappointed. The officers are as follows:
 President. Mrs. George W. Corbin; president. Mrs. W. w. Marshall; second vice-president. Mrs. Harry U. Thompson; recording secretary, Mrs. William H. Horsfall; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ernest E. Woods; treasurer, Mrs. John Pinches; assist ant treasurer, Mrs. George Caldwell; directors. Mrs. William McKirdy. Mrs. William Scott and Mrs. George H. Dyson.
 Committee chairmen are as fol- lows: Layette committee, Mrs George B. Cowles: crutchcs, Mrs. Frank Woods: sick room supplies, Mrs. William McKirdy; investigat-
New Britain herald., 1925-01-20

International Sunshine society held it's 23d annual meeting in the direc- tors room of Trinity Methodist church.
 Mrs. George W. Corbn, who has been president almost ever since the organization was founded, presided
 Reports for Year.
 The reports of the committee, de- tails of which are kept by the or ganization as part of its confidential records, shows much happiness brought to places where it is need ed, ofttimes at the expense of the in- dividual member
 The annual report of the secre- tary yesterday showed that the or ganization has had 19 meetings dur ing the year. These meetings were held at the Y. W. C. A. until Sep- tember when they were changed 10 the Methodist church.
 Eight new members were received during the year and one of the most active workers, Mrs. Mary Crowell, was claimed by death.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-20
SUNSHINE SOCIETY
 ANNUAL MEETING
Reports Indicate Active Year in
 MakinSOthers Happy

How a group of people, mostly women, brings happiness and cheer and sunshine" into homes that would be gloomy otherwise and hrightens up some of the dark places on the pathway of life for many who have fallen Into misror- tune. was told yesterday afternoon when the Canonicus branch of the
New Britain herald., 1925-01-20
7. y. (. 4. NOTES

The Bible class led by Miss Lord, resumes its meetings tonight, with supper at 6 o'clock. Following it will be the regular meeting of the Current Events class in charge of Mrs. Bennett,
 Registrations may now be sent in for dressmaking and basketry classes to start next week if enough register. In the dressmaking class, spring and summer dresses will be emphasized and as all pupils are required to use patterns, the class is suitable for be- ginners as well as more advanced sewers. Both classes will be held on Monday evenings and there must be at least 10 registrations for each class or it cannot be carried on,
 ? lbs, best Butter, s1, Russell Bros. --advt.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-20

ing, east end, Mrs. W. w. Marshall west end, Mrs. Luther Barnes, south end, Mrs. F. A. Schade and north end, Mrs. A. c. Malone; entertain mcnt. Mrs. Luther Barnes; repre- sentative in the Social Workers club, Mrs. F. F, Woods.
 The next meeting will be on Feb ruary 2 and will be a Guest Meet ing when each member will bring a prospective new member. Re- treatments will bo~servcd.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-20

lief society, the camp for Disabled Veterans at Mantle the New Britain fresh air camp, the Young Women's Christian association. the Salvation Army, the fund for a state Sunshine home and to 15 individuals.
 Junior Sunshine society.
 ' Under the leadership of Mrs. George Christ a junior Sunshine so- ciety was formed, known as the Lena Corbin branch. The organization consists entirely of girls and already they are doing good work Mrs. Christ is assisted by Mrs. Ruth Gold On Christmas the young women pro-
Evening star., 1925-11-16
Tasty Cabbage Sandwiches.

Did you ever use crisp, cool-looking.
pale green cabbage leaves in sand.
wiches? Try them in some of the fol-
lowing ways: Use white. whole wheat
or graham bread. Butter the bread and
spread with mayonnaise dressing.
Then arrange two cabbage leaves
large enough to cover the slices, and
so that they will not fall out in hand
ling. and trim the edges of the leaves
neatly with scissors to fit the bread.
Sometimes you can use nut bread with
the cabbage, and brown bread sand
wiches made with cabbage and mayon-.
naise, are delicious. Sometimes you
can place two or three crisply broiled
slices of bacon on top of the cabbage
and mayonnaise, or chop green pep
pers fine and spread over the cabbage
with mayonnaise. Salmon. tun fish and
sardines mashed and spread on top of
the cabbage leaves make good sand
wiches. For variety, use Thousand
Island dressing instead of mayonnaise
Always cut the bread in quarters In
stead of halves. The sandwiches are
then easier to handle.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
Long-Lived China.

There are other things to think of in
buying china besides it, durability,
but certainly none which are more
important for the most of US. We
want appropriateness in our dishes,
of course, and we like to have some
beauty. But except for a few show
pieces, which every woman INDUCES,
durability needs to be regarded as the
point of first importance.
But whether or not any piece of
china will be doing service many
years after its purchase depends on
variety Of things. The care with
which 1t is used will count more
than anything else. But the inherent
wearing quality of the dish itself is a
many sided virtue. If housewives
would only recognize this, and not be
satisfied as to the dura bility of a piece
because of some one phase of its ap-
pearance, there would be much less
cause for regret in the choice of china.
The real life and usefulness of a
dish depend quite as much upon its
being able to hold it's color, finish and
design as upon its ability to with
stand actual breakage. In fact, it is
probably true that we regret the pur-
chase of a set of dishes a great deal
more, If they become unsightly after
some time, than if they actually broke
and disappeared from our memory.
VIII the design, the trimming, the
decorating, last as long as the dish?
is question of prime Importance in
coming to a decision on the purchase
of any piece of chinaware. And that
depends, in turn, on number of
things. Unless the surface and the
body of the dish have been mixed and
fired to about the same degree of den
sity. Grazing" or patchwork cracking
is likely to result after some usage.
This weakness shows up commonly in
poor quality mixing bowls and cheap
heavy dishes. 1t will tend to appear
somewhat in those Of better
grade unless the quality runs clear
through
The coloring on chinaware will be
impermanent, too, unless it is under
glazed''-that is, unless this decoration
is applied before the final surfa cling is
baked on. Gold trimming is known to
be most fleeting of all, but even this
can be reasonably fast to wear and
washing if it is coin gold and has been
fired under approved conditions.
Ungainly pieces, however well con-
structed. will not be durable, because
our habits of handling things are not
such as TO protect the odd shapes.
dies which stick out at unseemly
angles, they are not only more fragile
in the first place, because it is harder
to attach them solidly, but the knocks
they get are much more frequent. If
all your dishes are chosen with such
shapes that they can have been mold
Evening star., 1925-11-16
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WlNIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

Interesting to notice how ones
speciality gets into everything" as
Elizabeth lays about the. aristocracy.
The strong and splendid heroine of
recently published story is so domi
nantly taking the center of the stage
belonging, supposedly, to the ultra
sophisticated little f1apper who is the
narrator, that the latter, brimming
with feminine guile, asks one of the
fascinating males whether he supposes
Agnes can ever develop any charm -
w Whereupon, with masculine obtuse-
ness, he responds that for his part she
Is tar less queer than you skinny,
sullen little girls
Probably the author was far from
any wish to instill lesson in die
tetics into the minds of her readers.
but the lesson is there.
The experienced nutrition person has
no dlff1culty in tracing the all-conquer-
ing, quiet strength of Agnes back to
a Well-fed childhood. 1t Is "a cinch, ="
as our small boys would say. that
Agnes drank milk instead of coffee:
that she ate such foods as furnished
her with the protective vitamines:
that her bread was spread with good
sweet butter, the butter to guard her
nervous system; that her desserts were
OF fruits and her lunches of vegetables
and salads,
NO we are not trying to prove that
such fare will beStow "personaIity"
upon d SplneleSS moron, but, granting
normal heritage, it gives it's eater
iar better chance at the good things
OF me- the dynamic power of making
lrlends and meeting situations. than
comes to the child raised" on an
oVerelaborate diet.
AS 10 the skinny and sullen little
girls it is to stop and think,
Let the f1apper beware of a break
iast OF fruit juice, a luncheon of one
lettuce leaf and dinner of a
meager unaccompanied chop, For
to be skinny" may easily mean to
be 'sullen." The latter quality NAV
by frank family be set down to a
oad disposition, when in reality it is
simply the protesting wall of unfed
nerve ends. unprotected tissues and
unregulated bodily processes.
The distracted dietitian has long
sought a fresh talking point" for
use when adjuring the girl of the
period (how that smacks of Victorian
lsm) to eat, mark, learn and inwardly
dlgest plenty of good food, The am
bltlon to be beautiful served us we'll
Tor time, but these are swiftly NOV.
ing days and the girl is apt to flash
back that she is eating fruit and has
given up pastries. so what would we,
But the imagination of the fiction
writer has saved the day. To be beau
tiful girl need but pay attention to
the laws Of hygiene, but to be popu-
lar, also, All, that were a thought
worthy of the interest of Helen of
Troy herself,
And, mark you, the tactless man in
the story said queer when summing
up the characteristics of the "sullen
and skinny little girls Queer,
Painting with words the portrait of
a popular girl, we begin with .inheri-
tance," add a splash of spinach.
green another of "tomato-red," fol-
lowed by some sturdy strokes of
wheat brown" and "butter-yellow"
and "milk-white." Then we add a
generous quantity of exercise" and
last and most important of ALL a
finish of Character" and there YOU
are, or rather, there she is,
Copyright. 1925D
Evening star., 1925-11-16
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM, BRADY, Nj. ID.

of medical custom, we name diseases
after their discoverers or the investi-
gators who first describe them.
l do not believe anybody ever
catches any disease in the common
bath tub: at any rate, I'm fairly
certain I'm not going to catch any
thing there. ! hold no retainer for
the plumbers organizations; l have
never been invited to address their
annual convention. In fact. l am
not an ardent advocate of bath tubs
In family practice. So | ought to be
sufficiently disinterested witness.
Yet / must say it took my time here
the other day when | saw a beau
tiful s2,6S0 announcement in pop
lllar periodical to the effect that by
means of an antiseptic nostrum
lady could duck her bath in case of
great hurry and get away with it.
There, / contend, we have the apoth~
costs of antiseptic, for if dab of
smelly antiseptic will suffice instead
of a bath, why. then, children, were
all wrong, and won't some kindly
person take our hand and lead US
out of the woods?
Back in the days before the World
War the public health authorities at
Washington announced that the Ma
lloll plll lol billlc'cSSdlS y
medicines was about $780, 100000,
and that If only necessary medicines
were purchased the saving would
amount to about $4,000 per annum
for every qualified physician then
practicing in America. I say that S
what it would amount to-of course
the doctors wouldn't get it; the
deadbeat and unpaid accounts of
doctors mount up to an average of
$4,000 per annum. I do not know
whether these figures of the Fed
eral authorities included the money
annually squandered on antiseptics.
How many dollars a family may
save in year by. dumping the anti
septics in the sink is a minor ques-
ton. The important question, in my
mind, is how much better it will
be for the general health Of the fam
lily after they have put away childish
fancies about antiseptics and stepped
briskly forward into the aseptic era.
(Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-11-16

ment, rags, nor awkward movements
prevented him from seeing the patri-
otic ardor and yalor of the men. He
spoke no English, yet he Immediately
formed a military school of 125 men,
drilling them in marching twice day
and in shouldering and handling
weapons. In two weeks they knew
pie maneuvers.
Others were anxious for this dis
cipline and training, which gained
popularity. Soon the entire force
was drilled in companies. Later
battalions were formed. then brigades
and divisions. Won Steuben was up
at dawn in order that he might give
! personal attention to all details of
drilling and inspection.
| In May, 1778, Congress gave him
the rank of inspector general. His
| book of regulations, which was ap
proved by Congress in 1879. was
known for years afterward in the
United States Army.
This monument erected by Con-
gress to his honor notes his abilities
and the service he rendered the Ma
ton. The two bronze figures on the
northeast face Of the monument rep
resent military training" Mars is
seated, holding a shield in one
| Ild1lu. he has Dt6H lIlt
youth who stands in front of him
in the art of warfare, for he holds
| his hand as if to test the sharpness
| of the blade of the sword the young
| soldier holds toward him. On the
opposite side of this monument by
| Albert Jaegers the bronze figures
carry out the idea of commemora-
ton. A woman is seated as If tell
! ing the story of heroes and patriots
l..
/ intently listening and helping to
graft a branch to Steuben's memory
! in the tree of fame. Bronze medal
| lions on the southeast face of the
monument picture Col. William
North and Maj. Benjamin Walker.
aides and friends of Gen. Frederick
William Augustus Henry Ferdinand
| Baron Won Steuben.
| (Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-11-16
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Last mite after dinnir pop was smok-
ing and thinking and ma sed, Now
Willyum l think that's simply dred-
full.
You may be rite, wat is? pop sed.
Wy, that bathroom spikkot, / can
heer 1t leeking all the way in heer,
ma sed.
o, haven't / fixed that thing yet?
pop sed, and ma sed, You know very
you can heer that you haven't, jest
lissen to it. its enuff to give a persin
a perpetual nightmare.
Wat we need in this life is a little
variety, pop sed. The cerse of mod
ern times is dedly uniformity. Wy
should all houses look ixactly alike,
wy should all spikkots be as silent as
the grave? Now 1 rather like the
sound of that dainty inoffensive leek.
Its gentle drip drip drip reminds me
of a country brook, pop sed.
1t reminds me of an insane asylum
and If its not fixed soon Ill be in one,
ma sed. I'm going to call the plummer
up. that's wat I'm going to do, she sed.
Now don't go annoying eny plum
mers, I'm going to fix it as soon as 1
smoke this cigar. pop sed
You've bin going to fix it for the last
week and its still in it's original state
OF not Delns HXed, and now I'm going
to the movies to get away from the
sound of it, and if it's not fixed wen
/ come back Ill start proceedings for
a divorce or something, ma sed. /
don't intend to go spikkot crazy on
your account, she sed
And she went to the Little Grand
and left me go with her for company,
the pickture being called Souls for
Diamonds and not having eny horses
or f1tes in it and. not making mutch
sents, and wen we got home agen we
herd 2 sounds, one being pop snoring
to himself in his morriss chair and the
other being the bathroom spikkot still
leeking.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
HOW 1T STARTED
"Hussy." "
BY JEAN NEWTON.

Strange and labyrinthian are the
ways of words! The most prosaicIy
used words today may conceal in their
syllables a fascinating story of by
gone days, while others of more color
full meaning today may bark back to
a most insignificant origin.
1t Is in the latter category that we
must place the word "hussy," which,
although taboo in polite speech. is IA
miliar to all of us as a scathing and
contemptuous characterization of a
worthless woman or girl. 1t is of the
day of the Puritans, of the ducking
stool and whipping post. when public
opinion was not as broad and charita-
BILE as it is today, that the term re-
minds us. For 1t is in literature Of
that period that 1t Is most frequently
found, the women of those days being
free in denunciation of other women
for the slightest offense. particularly
in the case of those who were more at
tractive to men than themselves!
''Hussy," as 1t Is known to us, Is
merely a corruption of housewife,
which in early English took the form
Of "huswife. Usage in the interven-
ing centuries shaded Its significance
to the connotation of the word today.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
NV Neighbor Says:

Before washing and eiderdown
quilt. tack 1t across a few times
as YOU would to quilt. to keep
the feathers in place, then wash
as YOU would fiannels, but do not
mangle Shake it several times
in drying.
In making custards, If you
break a piece of stick cinnamon
into the milk when you are beat
ing it. 1t gives the custard faint
cinnamon color without darken-
ing 1t.
In selecting fish, remember a
fresh fish has bright red g1lls,
the eyes are bright and protrud-
ing and the flesh is firm.
To clean coral beads, dissolve
a teaspoonful of borax in pint
of warm water. Dip the coral
and when clean pass through
tepid water. Dry by rolling IN a
soft towel.
An onion sliced and put in a
basin Of cold water will absorb
the smell of new paint in a
room.
1t may be useful to the cook
to know that French cooks add
a teaspoon Of sugar to each
quart of water in which peas,
marrows and other green vege-
tables are cooked. This brings
out the flavor Of the vegetable
and is very agreeable. especially
in very young peas, which the
French cook serves, pods and
all, with cream.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
Time Waits.

please put Betsy into the first
grade today. II you don't she'll lose
six months. She says she doesn't
learn anything in the kindergarten,
just sings and plays and skips about
She can count and read Mother Goose
almost. Please attend to this"
Betsy was 511, and blissfully uncon-
scious of readers and tables and set
exercises. She was in the kindergar-
ten and belonged there. But her
mother thought she was losing six
months. and that If we put her into
the grades she would be graduated six
months earlier and be on her way
ahead Of time. But, of course, she
wouldn't.
You see, it takes time for a child to
grow up. That is something that the
the mother, be she ever so eager and
pushing, have nothing to say about
Time will have to be allowed his part
in the play or the play will not go on.
What is Times part? Time Is fly
ing says the eager mother. "It takes
so long to educate child. Twenty
years. The days fly by and the child
is left behind. Do hurry. You are
keeping us back
and we fly. We have all the time
there is. 1t stands there as it did
yesterday and all the days before and
will stand there for all the days to
come. 1t is not flying. There is no need
for us to chase it breathlessly. Think
of it the other way. Waiting calmly for
US to use it so wisely that the chill
dren will grow fully. So carefully
that the children will have a chance
to stretch their minds far. far out In
the direction their instincts lead So
steadily that there will be no check
in the growth, no jerks, no halts, no
mad scampers. Just a steady for
ward push past old Time, who makes
no sign as he feeds out the scroll of
our days.
Hurrying won't help. It's the intel
ligent planning. the hard thinking,
the thorough doing that makes the
child grow.
To some of them Time feeds their
scroll slowly. They write the tale of
their days in slow measure. No
pushing or prodding or slipping Time
waits, they pass on. Pass on to his
measure.
To others he feeds out the scroll
very rapidly. 1t is long and they must
write fast. but. fast as they write,
there is no haste. They write to their
measure and pass on. You cannot
slow them much nor can you speed
them beyond Times measure.
Time stands still and the long pro-
Evening star., 1925-11-16
WHEN WE co SHOPPING
BY MRS. HARLAND III. ALLEN.

ed in one piece, you can reasonably
expect them to have q much longer
life.
English potters have proved that
thet addition Of bone to the substance,
of a dish greatly improves its general
strength. But care in baking and
firing is the supreme virtue. A proved
brand of china will give you assur--
ance on that score, but one needs to
know also that a dish which Is ex-
tremely thin cannot be very durable,
and one which is too thick will have.
the same weakness. Any contrast III.
density within the substance of q,
dish is likely to cause 1t to break.
Evening star., 1925-11-16
Paving for Your Fancies.

4 correspondence school soph set
ting out to haze a freshman has
simple task compared to the task L
have fooliShly essayed, namely, eX-
planning what the aseptic era, In
which, as you should know, we are
now living, means. BY getting off
few talks on the question l do, OF
course, put off little while longer
that dread day when l shall have to
go back to work, but that isn't my
motive, honestly. Anything rather
than a feturn TO honest work is my
motto, but the real object OF these
talks about asepSiS is, as | said at the
outset: | want to prove | am good
teacher, and if l can save YOU some
money and at the same time lmpart'
10 you knowledge which Will rather
increase your wellbeins. you'll tell
the world, will you not, that 1 am a
good teacher?
A queer way to save citizen
money. YOU may interpose, advising
him to DUMP his collection of antlsep-
tic nostrums in the sink. / remember
how l nearly lost my head by going
10 the Stockroom of a hospital where
for a time | practiced on the patients
and dumping several quarts or that
old standby, digitalis, down the sink
because | had found the preparation
the hospital furnished was inert. The
hospital was conducted by keen lay
men, business men, not physicians,
and they failed to see the wisdom or
economy of such waste. If you are so
keen in your business judgment that
you can't consider your own we'll
being, keep your darned nostrums
and dose yourself until you can't see
around a corner, for all l care.
1t is certainly remarkable, and l
he ,1riy Of
one remarkable remark about 1t, how
widespread is the use to which the
sanitary or hygienic idea is put by, of
all people, the business men, who, of
all people, give the least allegiance
and support to real hygiene and san
itation.
The other day l became tender
hearted and sought to provide covers
for the radiators-this is going to be
a long, cold Winter. Even there I
was up against the old Game-the
cover man, an experienced hardware
salesman, included in the price of the
goods a free dissertation upon the
health-conserving power of his metal
lie blankets, and | think he must
have included in the price the date
and street number, too
| find that this free health feature
of innumerable wares comes high
But it appears that most people want
their health knowledge to come that
way. This explains the pandemic of
Billings complaint-and for the bene-
fit of the Iowa correspondent who de-
mands to know, I'll explain that Mr..
Billings said the trouble with SO many
plain people is they know so many
things which amt so. AS a matter