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Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
MiMviNe

The correspondent wishes to oHer
+be chronicle staff and its readers
an apology for not getting the let-
ter in last weeks issue. 1t was VIII
ten. sealed, addressed and put lnIO
mans inside coat pocket and OF
course forgotten until we had mo-
+ored to the. northern cities ana
reached Milford too late for publ
cation. We hope, however, 1t Will ap-
near in this weeks issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Dukes and son
Junior spent Sunday with Mrs MAT
tie Townsend of Wyoming. MIS-
Dukes and Junior extended their
trip to Philadelphia for few days
Mrs. James B. Long of Philadel-
phia and Mr.. and Mrs. George Wa
pies of frankfort were MillVllle
callers on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. w. West enter
tanned to supper on Saturday Mr;
and Mrs. Cove McCabe, Mr.. ana
Mrs. Wilmer Vansant of Ocean
View, Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. West ana
grandson, Alvin Hudson, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. C. Quillen and sons, Ebe and
George, of Millville, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ora Bennett and daughter Elsie
of Bayard. On the menu was good
pumpkin pies, made the old tasn-
ioned way, from pumpkin grown III
1924 and still retaining its good ma
vor. Refreshments were served at
$3.50, after which the company de-
parted, expressing themselves as
having had very pleasant visit.
Many from this place went 10
Ocean View on Sunday to hear an
inspiring sermon preached by the
Rev. W. ]. DuHadaway of Bridge
vile. Rev. DuHadaway was pastor at
st. Georges (Clarksville) AZ years
ago.
Mrs. Janet Quillen after spending
several weeks with her children is
spending a few days at her home
here.
Mrs. Roland West, Mrs. H. B.
Daisy and Rufus Daisey accompan-
led Mr.. and Mrs. R. c. Steele Dy
motor to Haddonfield and Glouces-
ter, N. J., last week for three days
visit.
Lester Phillips of Newark spent
the weekend with his wife here.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Quillen visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner Ellis and their
mother, Mrs. Mary Quillen Of Mills
boro on Saturday.
Chas. C. Derrickson and Master
Billie Ross Ringler are on the sick
list.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26

and is still running; played an en-
tire season in Boston, and even dis
tant Australia is clamoring for the
piece.
white Cargo" concerns four
white men employed by a British
Rubber Company on the West Coast
of Africa. Three of them have been
social outcasts for years. The arriv-
al in Africa of the exception, a
young Englishman, opens the play.
The youth comes to this torrid ex-
panse Of waste with high ideals, but
he like the rest of them, is soon a
victim of "Tondeleyo," a beautiful
French-African vampire, feared by
the native and loathed by the white.
This company comes direct from a
successful engagement at the Wal
nut Street Theatre, Philadelphia.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
You've got
the goods,
Prince Albert

DON'T I know? Didn't cross the burn
ing sands in search of pipe-cOntentment?
And then you loOmed up, like an oasis in
the Desert of Doubt. Cool and refresh
ing, you were, Prince Albert. III never
forget that first meeting.
Why, you just had everything I
wanted in a pipe tobacco. You came
zOOming up the stem like a breeze
through the date palms. You were fra
grant as frankincense. YOuwe friendly
to my tongue and throat, refusing to
mistreat.them
You're still sheik of the smOke-tribe,
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
ShOrtley
School Notes

School Notes
On February 18th a constitution
for the school Literary Club was
drawn up. The club was named "Ihe
Busy Workers Club" The first meet
ing was called to order by MISS
MYRTLE L. Atherton. The officers
elected were: President, Pauline
Workman; vice president, Paul ELL
OFT: secretary, Gladys Workman;
treasurer. Thelma Workman. Pro-
gram committee appointed by the
president is as follows: Sallie Work
man, Dale Workman, John jones'
Elsie Jones. Miss Myrtle Atherton
was elected critic. The first meeting
of this club was called to order on
February 18th. Our second meeting
will be held Friday, February 19th'
in Shortley school. The following
program will be rendered:
Opening address by the president.
Song.
Reading by John Jones.
Recitation by Thelma Workman.
Story by Preston Workman.
Song by first grade.
Current Events by Elsie Jones.
Jokes by Gladys Workman.
Report of critic.
Song.
Honor Roll for February
First grade: Grace Conaway,
Madelyn Workman, Alline Conaway.
Second grade: Charles Workman
Grace Jones.
Fourth grade: Thelma Workman.
Sixth grade: Elsie Jones and John
Jones.
Eighth grade: Pauline Workman.
Gladys Workman, Sallie Workman.
ShOrtley Alphabet
A is for Alline who wears a sweet
smile. If you get in her CON-
pany you will linger awhile.
B is for busy and so are we.
C is for critic who corrects our
mistakes.
D is for Dale the fellow of today.
He is a nice little boy so all
girls say.
E is for Elsie who is but thirteen.
She goes everywhere and she's
easy to be seen.
F is for flag our colors so true.
G is for Gladys with pretty blue
ewes. She studies a lot, and Of
ten gets prize.
H is for Hilda whose hair is so
white. She acts like a chicken
out at night.
I is for industrious which we all
try to be. This you know for you
plainly can see.
J is for Johnny who is small, not
only by name, for he isn't tall.
K is for Koran, the scripture OF
the Mohammnedams.
L is for long, and long workers
we'll be.
NJ is for Myrtle, our teacher you
know, and tell you she helps
us to study also.
N is for noble and noble we are
striving to be.
o is for on, and on we go.
P is for Pauline, in eighth grade,
you know, and I'll tell you what
she studies also.
O is for Queen. We have several so
they say, but when a king comes
around we chase them away.
R is for Ruth, for she tells the
truth.
S is for Sallie, symapthizing girl.
She is in the eighth grade and
her hair is in curl.
T is for Thelma, by name, IN time
to come her name will change.
U is for united, united we stand
We will remain united, come
take us by the hand.
v is for Virginia the name OF
state. =
W is for willing and willing work
ers we are.
K, Y, q we'll leave them out-fo1
have not them you see-we wish
we could supply you with those
which are the last three.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
SAMUEL, ]. WILSON & SON
MILTON, DELAWARE
Funeral Directors and EmbalmeFl

We have added to our funeral equip
ment a pew Motor Funeral Car, for
which we make no extra charge. We
have still retained both our Black ane
White horse drawn hearseB, which
therefore places us in q position to fur
hearses.
we are the best equipped and carry
the largest stock Of funeral supplies
south Of Wilmington.
Call phone. Office No. ~, re1iden9e
No 2S. Phone service day and night Il
calling after 10 ,. m. call No -. Al
calls promptly answered. No extra
charge for distance, use Of hearBe or
wife's services.
we also carry q large and comDlete
assortment of Furniture, CarTl9geA
Runabouts, Farm Wagons, Rack WaS'
on1 and Farming LmPlementB.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
ANNA K, GREGORTUS, D. c.

Days in Milford: Tuesdays,
Thursday and Saturdays, and every
evening. Phone 157. Milford, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26

Snring is approaching. 1t won't
be long now until the baseball sea-
son and the war in Morocco will be
on again.
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26

Prince Albert. I'm FOR you hundred
per cent. You and my trusty jimmy-piPe
go with me everywhere, smoothing out
the wrinkles in the roadway of life. The
tongue you've been SO kind to will always
speak good word in return.
Maybe there are some other chaps
roaming the hOt-PiPe desert, at the
mercy of the bedOuins of bite and the
pirates of parch. I hope they are listen
ing in. Pm putting on all the power I've
got to tell them what lot of comfort is
waiting for them in the tidy red tins
marked s'Prince Albert"
Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26

Robert ]. Clendaniel and Burton
]. Millman, of Ellendale were in
town Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. II. Downs and son
Leroy of Wilmington spent a part OF
last week with his parents, Mr.. and
MIS-. w. H. Downs here.
DR.. Joseph B. NAPLES left last
week to join his wife and sister in
Florida where he will spend a
month.
Trade that old watch in on one of
our new, styles. We will make a
good allowance on your old watch.
We also are in a position to do your
watch repairing in a very efficient
and prompt manner. We employ the
only matchmaker between Whining
ton and Salisbury. All work guar
anteed, with reasonable prices for
the service we render. N. M. Stokes,
Jeweler, Milford, Delaware. f26-2t
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Child Training for Parents
By II. L. MANNING

"That was the most enjoyable af-
fair / have attended in a long time"
said Mrs. Sawyer.
"She is notable hostess replied
Mrs. Finn. The art of entertaining
was included in her education"
'Don't you wish our daughters
could some day attend a wonderful
school like that" said Mrs. Green.
Then Mrs. Finn made one sugges-
ton and the two friends added others.
Finally they sat down on the Green's
front steps and planned their cam
paign.
1t was decided that every week one
of the mothers would undertake the
responsibility of the proposed lessons
in hospitality. The members of the
three households. and the neighborhoOd
children were to be the guests. Moth
ing was to be expensive, but every
detail of the party was to be carefully
considered and carried out to perfec-
ton. And because it added a delicious
thrill 10 this new adventure in social
affairs, the little girls were allowed
to array themselves in grown-up finery
-as every little girl adores to do.
So far several months Rosemary,
Jane and Frances were not only ex-
ceedingly happy in creating their own
amusement, but they learned some val
liable lessons acquiring grace and ease
which many older women would like
very much to possess.
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BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Forget Yourself!
Be Kindly to
Others

ence that we can't hold interest ami
affection that way.
Two women were seated at the tea
table next mine the other day. One
began a long anecodte with as many
Is sprinkled through it as there
are in your letter. The other woman.
obviously her hostess, tried to seem in
terested.
Quickly the speaker grasped this
situation and deity shifted the CON
versation. BY a few eager, tactful
questions she drew her hostess into
talking of her own hopes and plans.
Immediately the woman who had
been bored became all interest. So
delighted was she TO find a sympathe-
tic audience that she at once invited
her friend. the good listener, to
charming opera party she was plan
ming.
Men are like women in that they
love to talk about themselves to an
eagerly interested audience. Nothing
bores man so quickly as a woman
who insists on talking constantly
about herself.
Do you wish TO hold the interest
and friendship of the man who in
terests you and if possible to attract
also his lasting affection? Then
study him. Adapt yourself TO his
moods. Play the games, read the
books, see the plays, learn the music
that he finds thrilling.
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Rosemary, Jane and Frances were
all dressed up in their mothers
clothes. Not only were they dressed
up but they had somewhere to go
and that place was a party.
The party this time was to be at
Rosemary's house. The next week,
Jane would be hostess and the week
after that Frances would entertain
her friends in the most approved style.
= Before the three little neighbors
had donned their glorified costumes,
they had combined their efforts in
preparing the refreshments. The
dainty sandwiches were beautifully
arranged ON platters and the small
cakes were invitingly placed on shiny
silver baskets. And there was the
punch-lemonade pure and simple
all ready in the sure-enough punch
bowl, with the dozen cut-glass cups
sitting majestically beside it.
Rosemary had been delegated to
serve the punch and duly instructed
in all the things TO do and not TO do.
Jane was to receive the guests at the
door, and she knew how to greet them
and where to tell them to go. Then
Frances would introduce them, exact
" as ladies and gentlemen should be
presented.
Several days preceding this happy
event. Mrs. Finn. Mrs. Greene and
Mrs. Sawyer, the mothers of the three
little girls had been TO reception to-
getheE
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LISTEN, WORLD Light i: "a. Candle s,s s' il. Nov
By ELSIE ROBINSON

sake. And I'm asking you to anticipate
that need by talking to him sometimes
about death, and by your quiet,
healthy speculation trying to rob it
of any of its terrors.
do not mean that you should talk
to him of death in religious way.
do not think that death has a pecu-
liarly religious, significance. | think
it was meant that we should regard
it simply as we now regard a jour
ney to Europe or China. And I'm
sure that, if we would so regard it,
great amount of our suffering would
be removed.
1t is in that sense that l am ask
ing you to talk to your child, while
you can still talk to him. 1t will
not be hard to make him think about
these things in happy way. Remem'
Der, your child's fresh mind holds no
horror, unless you put it there. He
has no doubt, unless you give it to
him. He comes into the world be-
lieving in miracles and only your own
skepticism kills that belief. Naturally
he is eager and hopeful about all
things, and gilds all subjects with
beauty until life furnishes his power.
And if death should lead him from
your side, and set his feet upon that
lonely trail, that eagerness and faith
will make his going bright if You
have not spoiled that for him.
So, though your own mind be dark
ened and indifferent, my friend, do
not let your darkness or indifference
blight the prospect for your child.
Begin to light the candles for him
now, so if the night comes it may
not be so dark. ,.-
ELSIE ROBINSON.
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FOXY GRANDPA STORIES
Bobby Thought 1t Was a Leaf. But

Ever since Bobby was little boy
he has collected flowers and leaves,
pressed them and put them in a book.
/ think this is a very nice thing for
boys and girls to do, because then
when you walk through the woods or
the country you are always on the
lookout for new specimens and plant
life will be of wonderful interest to
you all your life.
So naturally, when we were down
in South America, Bobby was con.
tinually stopping as we walked
through the tropical forests to pick
the unusual flowers and leaves oil
the various trees to put in his hat
and take home to dry and press for
his Botany Book. just think, down
there he found growing in profusion
the rarest orchids and gardenias which
at home We only see in the glass cases
at the florists.
The forest was so thick that we
couldn't tell where the sun was; but
as / started to look at my wrist-watch
Bobby pulled in his belt, laughed, and
said:
WelNe " ClOCh Dy my luulhlg'
Foxy Grandpa. Lunch time"
"I'm feeling rather empty myself,
Bobby" laughed. Il think it's time
to STOP"
SO we sat on the ground under a
beautiful big tree and unpacked our
lunch while the monkeys and parrots
chartered over our heads.
"You found some good specimens
today, didn't you, Bobby?" l asked.
"Yes SIR" replied the boy. Just
look at all these findings have in my
hat" and we took each flower and
leaf out and examined it carefully.
Then Bobby loked up at the tree
over our heads. 1--WE never seen this
tree before, Foxy Grandpa, he de-
clared. Il think I'll take one of the
leaves"
With that, Bobby jumped up, reach
cd up to the lowest limb and put up
his little hand to pick a leaf off Of a
small branch; but as his hand touched
the leaf, he gave start and jumped
back.
ut isn't a leaf at all, +" he exclaim-
ed. 1T looks exactly like a leaf and
it's a bugl"
Il do believe it's one of those Stick
and Leaf Locusts which remain on
tree for hours initiating a leaf, while
they wait for smaller insect to COB
bic mp"
BY this time We we're all on our
knees examining the little fellow ana
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res syndicate, Incorporated.
sidered that the Dalton-Sturges Cor
lporation cannot afford to be mixed in
with odd-er-connections."
I'm an undesirable member Of
the family, then" 1 said rising grimly.
I'm disgracing you when 1 try to
make an honest living. I'm not n
credit to you-but l would be if |
chung to man who doesn't want me.
This much 1 could say, but no
more. l could belittle myself-but
not him. i wondered if some day |
would be sorry l had spared him.
And then l knew that come what may
| shall always be glad that | have
not belittled my love-even if my
lover is unworthy of the devotion 1
shall give him until 1 die.
/ rose. Pat followed suit. His re-
lief at getting rid of me and termin-
ating this interview was evident,
''You won't reconsider? You won't
give me back even part of your ac-
COUNT" / asked.
my advice is this, Alanna," said
Pat with strange pomposity: $50
back to Jim. 'Tis not myself can ally
myself with a firm that has none the
best of regulations. owe better
treatment to Carlotta and the memory
of my father. IT'S not myself can
risk going against my own wife
Jim's sister"
l had Inundated myself in vain.
"All right" / cried. We'll see.
I'm not at the end of my string yet"
And so / ran out of the office. |
still had hopes of Loren Haldane.
Here no family pride was at stake.
Would my old boss" help me?
ITO Be COntinuedD
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Who Said Ii and Where

1.-THE highest hills are miles below
the sky and so far is the Iightest
heart below true happiness"
True happiness is never attained,
Bailey declares in "Festus."
II can call spirits from the Vastly
deep.-Why so can L; or so can any
man. But will they come when you
do call them?"
Shakespeare question in Henry
", might appropriately be put to
some modern mediums.
How odd a single hObgOblin's non
entity
Should cause more fear than . whole
hosts identity"
We fear only what we do not
know, Byron observes in Don Juan. y
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and loneliness and confusion. And
you will be wishing with all the
strength of your mangled spirit that
you had prepared your child better for
that far journey.
1t may be that you doubt this. You
may be quite positive that you do not
believe in a future life, and that il
your child goes you will have no such
concern, but will simply give yourself
up TO your sorrow.
You think you don't believe in q
future life, my friend. Bat take. it
from me, il your child goes, the only
thing you will want to believe in will
be that future life-the only thing
that will hold your interest will be
that future life. Then you will turn
with fury on anyone who insinuates
that there isn't future life or who
suggests that God will not be good
to that little spirit, stumbling down
the black trail ;lone.
That is how death will leap on you,
Pal. And if your own unpreparedness
brings you to such a pass, what will
it mean to that child whose peace and
happiness are dearer to you than your
own? If, as we hope, that child steps
from its own worn body into another
land, with the personality that it had
upon this earth, it will carry with IT
all the hope and doubts, all the wis
dom and ignorance which that person
atty held upon this earth.
IL in its life there come no thought
Of or familiarity with that land, how
strange and lonely it will seem when
he awakes and finds himself without
you.
/ am not saying this to brighten
you. 1 am only trying to make you
foresee his need for his own dear
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Meditations of
a Wife
By Helen Rowland
The Monday Roast.

Love is not over, until the kiss that
was once thrilling temptation be-
comes a moral obligation.
A wise man~is one who knows when
to feed a woman sweet lies covered
with hot-fudge sauce, and when she
will swallow nothing but the plain,
unsugared truth.
If car is prettily painted and up
holstered and has vanity case, n
woman never stops to ask the sales
man what sort of thing it has under
the hood: but then, that's the prin-
ciple, dear heart, by which most men
pick out a wife
Asking a young man to. give up
tically asking him to give up his whole
life-work, these days.
When a man feels himself falling in
love, if he would only ''let CO." and
enjoy the sensation as a woman does,
he would discover that marriage, like
ether, is so much easier to take,
when you don't struggle against it
Once a vamp has succeeded in max
ing a dent in a mans heart, it is not
very hard to make a crack in his
conscience.
After marriage, a man talks only in
grunts and monosyllatles; but at that.
it's sort of comforting, just to have
something alive sitting around the
house, evenings.
The man who falls in love with q
sudden plunge is the first to swim
way out beyond the breakers, where
you can't catch him.
This is the time of year, when a
man with even the best intentions
needs a string tied around his finger
to remind him that he's married.
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Dear Every Father and Mother:

Dear Every Father and Mother:
We have talked together, you and l.,
about the food your child should have,
the books he should read, the plays
he should see and the love and disci-
pline he should receive. You have not
always agreed with what i have said
but / hope that, somehow, through
that talk l have made you feel the
deep and loving concern l share with
you for that child.
May j lean on that understanding
now as | speak to you of another ex-
perience which / have never seen
touched upon in any daily paper, yet
which some day may press harder on
you and on him than anything on
earth?
l want to speak to you about the
death that will some day come to that
child.
You shrink from the thought. You
almost hate me for mentioning it. Yet
some day the memory of these words
may be hand to lift you across the
hard place.
Some day your child will die. You
think you can imagine what that
death will mean to you if you are liv.
ing. Sometimes for fleeing, shudder.
ing instances you have visioned it.
You have thought of the agony you
would feel, and the devastating lone
illness. You're sure you can see the
whole terrible picture, but, unless you
have lost n child, you can't.
For, if that sadness comes to you
its deepest bitterness will not be what
you now expect. You will not be
counting your own pain and loneli.
ness and confusion then. You will
only be thinking of your darling's pain