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Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
AUTOMOBILE LEARNERS

Almost any good day out on the
roads you can see people learning to
drive automobiles. Every year there
is a new crop of learners, and one
approaches them with some fear,
never knowing what they may do.
And yet they do not apparently
cause any more accidents than those
bold and over confident drivers who
have escaped trouble so far, and
who feel glorious confidence that
they will always be able to avoid it,
no matter what they do. The begin
ners at least are keenly anxious to
make good, and are putting every
bit of their brain power to work on
the problem of learning. AS long as
they have that attitude, they will not
cause many mishaps.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
AN EVERY DAY PERIL

People become vastly excited when
some spectacular tornado or fire or
steamship disaster destroys human
lives. Yet they are much less stir
red by those every day misfortunes
which are constantly the cause of
domestic tragedies, and which take
many more lives than the sensation
al events.
Much could be said, for instance,
about falls in the stairways of
homes, type of accident that is of
frequent occurrence. 1t is one to
which the older people are particu-
larly susceptible. Many a person
of advanced years has been the VIC
tim of such a mischance, which eth
er created Gripping injuries, or has
tened their end, or proved fatal at
once.
The children in their heedlessness
are particularly subject to such falls.
In the long straight stairways which
were common in old time houses
such fall was not quite so danger
GUS. But in the smaller homes of to-
day, the stairway frequently has one
or more angles, and the person who
falls head foremost can easily get a
fractured skull.
Builders of houses do well to give
the occupants of these dwellings
good degree of safety on stairways.
Let them remember how many
thousand times a year the old and
young feet have to pass these steps
in their work and their play, and
make them easy stairways instead Of
difficult and dangerous ones.
Stairways with treads of liberal
width, and a not too steep slope, pro-
mote safety. A good strong hand
railing by the side, firmly attached,
is helpful protection. One source
Of peril in many homes, is the habit
Of placing loose rug or mat at the
top of stairway. 1t has often hap
pened that the people who have
spent much of their lives worrying
about distant and remote perils, fin
ally fell victims to such unremem-
bered dangers of their own homes.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
Home Education
TELLING IMPROBABLE TALES
Mrs. w. B. Bailey

MIS-. W. d. Bailey
As Mrs. Blackford talked with two
of her neighbors, Mrs. Elliott anG
Mrs. Conner, she went on with hel
preparations for the luncheon which
she must soon serve to hungry
school boys and girls.
The two friends had just stepped
into the bright, sunny kitchen for a
few minutes chat. Somehow, they
always felt much more cheerful and
happy after a little visit with this
busy, happy neighbor. She seemed
to them just full of all sorts of help
full ideas.
Bobby, aged five, just home from
Miss DuVal's kindergarten, skipped
gleefully into the room. Mother" ;"
he eagerly began, there's a great
big old freight train down there on
the track and it ruined right over a
little freight train. 1t sure did
Right down there on the crossing. u
Out he skipped again.
"Now if that isn't just like child
of that age! Maudie Marie is always
making up the most awful stories
you ever heard, and she sticks to
them as the TRUTH" said Mrs. Con-
ner.
Don't you correct Bobby for tell
ing such falsehoods, Mrs. Black
ford?" asked Mrs. Elliott.
"No-o," said Mrs. Blackford slowly
and thoughtfully, 81 don't scold him
if that is what you mean. Anyway
he hasn't told a falsehood."
Hasn't told a falsehood? Didn't
he just tell you that one train ran
over another one?" demanded Mrs
Elliott.
Eyes, he did, but to him that is a
truth. 1t really happened. He just
hasn't entirely learned in which
place it happened"
"Will you please explain?" asked
Mrs. Conner sensing good idea
back of all this.
Children of his age are often con-
fused when their imaginations begin
to develop; they are sometimes real
ly uncertain which events are pure
" imaginative and which physically
true. They have two complete and
different worlds, in both Of which
they live actually and actively. One
is Just as real and vital to them as
the other" But at this moment she
heard Bobby returning and stopped
in her explanation.
Her neighbors were anxious to
hear what was to come this time.
The mother calmly continued her
work about the kitchen.
"Mother, there was the incest lit
tie freight train down there on the
track a while ago-puf1ng along like
s-chuff-chuff-" Hands and feet
assisted him in being a train-feet
scufing, arms working like drivers
on the drive wheels. "And directly,
along came a great big old freight
and runned right over the little one
and mashed It fiat. It's right down
there on the track yet" Out he hur-
ried as though to look at the fearful
remains again.
"I am gradually showing Bobby
which world is which, and he will
come out Of it all right" continued
Mrs. Blackford as soon as her son
was out of the kitchen. He'll be back
and explains that he understands the
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
ALL MUST MAKE RETURNS.

1t is surprising to learn, from
report just made public by the State
Tax Department, that 10000 Della
wareans have ignored the legal re-
quirement that they make income
returns, so far as the last tax year
is concerned. Although it is reason
able to assume that practically all of
these delinquents are not liable for
tax, their earnings not exceeding the
amount for which they are exempt,
there is no excuse for not filling out
the blanks sent them and returning
them to the tax office.
Some may be ignorant of this
legal requirement. This does not
seem probable, however, for the
newspapers have repeatedly made
clear all obligations imposed upon
the public by the law. Furthermore
ignorance does not legally justify
failure to comply with any statutory
requirement.
A legal method of compelling the
filing of returns is provided, in the
event that voluntary action is lack
ing, and the Tax Department may
now have to invoke it, in which event
the delinquents are liable for pen
alties they would escape by making
the returns when they should have
done so.-Every Evening.
Some folks will never learn even
by experience. See 10000 failed to
fill up tax returns and send in at
cost of 2 cents. Now it will cost
about $500 to pay fines and costs
for just plain fool negligence, etc.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
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RURAL BEAUTY

People who have nice country
homes in such lovely locality as
Kent and Sussex counties, are to be
congratulated. Many Of us travel
many miles to see things no finer
than these scenes not far from our
homes.
The beauty of the countryside of
Delaware is something quite marvel
lous just now. Nature has favored
us with a varied landscape, which
has its charm at every season, and is
never better than in these autumnal
months when vegetation is at the
height of its beauty.
The works of man often deface
the appearance of nature. We erect
various buildings, and these decay
and deteriorate, and soon fail to look
respectable. But nature in all her
moods is beautiful. The old tree is
just as lovely as the young one, and
so long as anything has life, 1t is
covered with a garment of beauty. A
rough and hilly country charms us
with its irregularity, while smooth
and fiat landscape is equally lovely
in the long and airy vistas.
The flowers by the wayside, and
the very lovely ones cultivated in
many gardens, add a touch of bright
ness and beauty. A ride through
these country scenes is just as good
as vacation travel thousands of miles
away. People who have such a
country or village home, and who.
can find means there for earning a
decent living, should think long and
hard before they give it up for the
hurry and scurry of cities. I
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
NO SERVANTS FOB HER

Miss Florence Trumbull, who by
the time these words are printed
may be Mrs. John Coolidge, is to do
her own housework and get along
without servants. There are many
young women in equally prominent
social position, who would have felt
a little above cooking and sweeping.
1t is an expensive thing to start
even a little home in these times, if
the new household is to have every
thing considered essential to modern
living. The girls who are able to
take hold and do their own baking
and cleaning make it possible for
their homes to start on higher
basis of culture. They are to be
honored for their industry and good
spirit.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
THE COUNTRY TOWNS STANDING

Much remains to be done in Della
ware towns and elsewhere, to make
the life of rural communities seem
wholly desirable. But recent years
have made great changes in these
towns. Their prospects for the fu-
ture are better than ever before.
Most of such towns in Kent and Sus-
sex counties, are already very de-
sirable places for homes, and people
realize it when they move away
from them.
There was a time some years ago,
when bright and progressive people
disliked to admit that they lived in
country towns. They regarded it as
stamping themselves as out of the
world and unfamiliar with modern
life, if they spoke of living in some
small town.
Today large part of the brightest
people of the country are residents
of small towns. They may not carry
on business there, but they fire.
quently live in such communities be-
cause they enjoy the country life,
and then travel to the nearest town
by automobile or otherwise to do
their work. Many very successful
manufacturing industries are locat-
ed in small towns, and the people
who manage them enjoy the life in
these communities and take thor
ough interest in their progress.
If the dwellers in rural communi-
ties will get together and provide
themselves with the activities that
they need, they can get just as much
out of life right at home as they can
anywhere else. The Chronicle looks
forward to the time when every vii
lage in our neighborhood will be an
ideal home community, where people
will enjoy the pleasures of rural life,
and find here in Milford an ideal
place in which to trade and do bus
mess and enjoy educational and en-
tertainment opportunities.
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Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20

Mock Chicken a la King-Melt
2 tablespoons butter in saucepan
and fry in it for minutes 1 can
mushrooms or "a pound fresh mush-
rooms cut in pieces. Add 4 table
spoons -four and stir until we'll blend
ed. Add 2 cups milk or cream, and 1
tablespoon butter. Cook until thick,
stirring constantly. Season with salt,
pepper and Worcestershire Sauce.
Add 3 chopped, hard-cooked eggs
and "a cup stuffed olives chopped.
Serve in patty shells or on slices of
buttered toast. Garnish with slices
of stuffed olive.
Boston Rolls
can baked beans; cup grated cheese;
tablespoon chopped onion; cup bread
crumbs; u cup milk.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
OLD MEN IN INDUSTRY

The complaint is often made that
elderly men are not given a fair
chance in the working world, and
are turned down when seeking en-
ployment. 1t is remarked that many
concerns refuse to employ them af-
ter they reach a certain age, and
often they find it extremely difficult
to get anything else to do. Some
firms, it is said, are unwilling to
hire men over 40 years of age. This
products a bitterly hard situation for
many men who are really only in the
prime of life.
An acquaintance who is familiar
with the house painting and paper
hanging business, remarks that if a
house painter employs an elderly
man and sends him out on some job,
the householder is apt to complain,
and to tell him to send young man.
But, said this painter, in most cases
the elderly man is the most efficient
worker. He makes few mistakes,
and he has learned as the result of
experience how to do the most work
and do it the best.
Elderly men sometimes fall into
kind of rut in their way of working,
and can not take in new ideas. 1t is
up to them to be very progressive.
and to realize that methods are al
ways changing, and they must be
prepared to take advantage Of new
ideas. But the idea that man has
passed his best usefulness at 80
years of age, or even at 60, is all
wrong.
In the business world there are
plenty of men still going strong at
70 and over, and who as the result
of familiarity with all the ms and
outs of business can still do more
than the average days work. 1t is
the same in both as respects manual
labor and clerical work. Al great
deal of potential good work is aban-
doned when man is thrown out
merely because of his age, and re-
gardless of the results he actually
achieves,
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
By JOSEPHINE B. GIBSON
Director. Home Economics Dept,
H. j. Heinz Company

Whether the MONDAY meal Is eater
ut home or in cafeteria or restaurant
outside the home, it is an important
meal and should be carefully chosen.
Lunches which do not contain the
proper foods, eaten day after day, may
seriously affect health.
A large city high school, in con-
ducting a "Better Lunch" campaign
for its students, suggests the follow
ing simple chart as guide for choos-
ing we'll balanced lunch. This plan
may be followed in selecting lunch
away from home or in preparing the
luncheon in the home.
As basis, choose ono or more Of
these:
A hot cream soup
A vegetable
A meat substitute, such as q bean,
or egg or cheese dish
A substantial salad
Add bread and butter, beverage
and simple dessert such as fruit or
custard pudding.
The following are recipes for sub
stantial and appetizing dishes which
may be used in planning lunches ac-
cording to the above luncheon plan.
Luncheon SaIad-Heat one med
ium can of tomato soup to boiling
point, add one tablespoon plain ge1a-
tin soaked in "a cup cold water. Add
two packages Philadelphia Cream
Cheese and l cup mayonnaise dress
ing. Cool and add Il cup chopped
celery, "a cup chopped olives, and
green pepper chopped. Mold in large
mold or in individual molds and serve
on nest of lettuce garnished with a
spoonful of mayonnaise dressing and
a sliced olive.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
WORK AND HEALTH

Thomas A. Edison recently suffer-
ed from an attack of pneumonia, but
his physician remarked that in spite
of his 80 years of age, his natural
vigor and powers Of resistance en-
abled him to overcome the infection.
Mr.. Edison has always been a very
hard worker. Some people might
imagine that his prolonged labors
would have weakened his physical
constitution. Probably the great ma
jority of men could not stand any
such sustained effort.
One secret of Mr.. Edison's fine
health and ability to resist disease
is that he has always worked with
enthusiasm. Instead of finding the
tolls of the day drag on his body
and spirit, they inspire him. He has
always been happier working than
he could possibly be at idling.
It is a pity that more of us here
in Milford can not acquire that at
titude. We need to bring our point
of view into a greater harmony with
our daily toll, and when we do that,
our mind and body work as a unit
and they accomplish their maximum
result.
The attitude which people take to-
ward their work has much to do with
their physical condition and their re-
sistance to disease. Our ancestors
did not have modern science and
medicine, and they worked very long
hours. But they threw themselves
into their work with enthusiasm, so
that work became play to large ex-
tent. Thus they avoided mental fric-
ton, and their hard toll did not hurt
them so much. They acquired
physical vigor and mental health
which we in this more scientific age
do not always have.
It is one Of the ironies of exis-
tence, that where we gain in one re-
spect we lose somewhere else. But
a philosophical mind like Mr.. Edi-
sons can make every possible use
of modern science, while yet retain
ing ideas and habits of the past that
have proved useful.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
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THE NATIONS BEST WISHES

The whole country offers its best
wishes to Miss Florence Trumbull,
and John Coolidge, who are to be
married September %. These promi-
nent young folks have had their
troubles through their period of
courtship. At a sentimental period
when young lovers naturally desire
seclusion, the country's curiosity has
been prying into their affairs, eag-
erly seeking to learn every detail of
how they looked and behaved.
Now they should be given a quiet
and peaceful honeymoon. The pub
lie should not demand that the news
paper people hunt them down to
whatever retreat they may seek out,
and record the slightest detail Of the
way they take their new experience
of matrimony.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
FORCES THAT CREATE WEALTH

Wealth is created not merely by
labor directly employed in creative
processes like farming and manu-
featuring, but by any practice that
save needless expense, and facili-
tates the movement of business.
For instance, automobiles are not
merely method of spending wealth,
but they create it. They make it
possible for people to move around
more quickly, to pursue certain ac-
tivities more efficiently. That direct
ly increases their creative power.
When a family acquires an auto
mobile, it is frequently able to use
that car in a way to add to its
wealth more than enough to pay for
the costs of the machine. When a
country buys many automobiles, pro-
duction should be so speeded up that
the country is richer rather than
noorer by reason of having those
cars.
One of the forces that thus helps
to create new wealth, is that of ad-
vertising. The effect of advertising
is to concentrate business in fewer
hands. The people who advertise
get a lot more business than they
had before. That enables them to do
business on smaller margins, to buy
more cheaply, to reduce the expense
Of handling each unit of merchan-
disa That is Just as much creating
new wealth as the work OF the far
mer who brings products out OF the
coil or the manufacturer who makes
things in his factory.
AS the result of advertising great
quantities of goods that would be
purchased by the public without
thought and foresight and planning,
are bought from concerns that are
doing business in such an efficient
NAV that their costs are greatly re-
duced. Thus the people get their
supplies at smaller COST which
enables them to buy things they
could not afford before, which leads
to the employment of more people,
and helps keep the country busy.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
IT. Does Just That

Mother" said young Edwin when
he first heard a hound bray, that
dog barks and then just lets it
coast" THE Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
Imagine Her Disappointment

The greatest shock of a brides
life is when she compares her hus-
band to the pictures in the B. v. D.
advertisements.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
IF THEY WOULD ONLY LET us

Whether roses or violet's
Are sky blue or pink
It's time to let up on them now
Don't you think?
The Pathfinder
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20

train episode was imaginary-a
story. have watched and helped too
many safely through the same thing
to be at all alarmed about it. 1 was
so embarrassed and worried about
my Oldest son, though, when he had
this experience. Sometimes dogs
were bears; horses, elephants; and
once crows were negro angels"
Here he comes again." whispered
Mrs. Conner.
This time Bobby came more slow
ly, riding a horse.
Mother, there's just one train
down on the track. It's just the same
old freight that's down there every
day, but that was a good story
wasn't 1.-THE one I told about the
big train and the little train?"
"Now the trouble with u.s." said
Mrs. Elliott, sis that we should have
told the boy he falsified at once and
made him so stubborn he could nev-
er have seen the straight of the
thing"
"You have suggested the only dam
ger about the whole situation" re-
sponded Mrs. Blackford. Continual
ly tell an imaginative child that he
lies and he will very likely begin to
practice real deceit. We need to try
to understand the little mind, and to
help from the child's viewpoint, not
ours"
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
The Supreme Test

My little boy said just after a.
hearty meal: "Well, I guess better
stop eating; can't punch myself in
anywheres." The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
Nor Did the Ark Have to Refuel

Those endurance flyers still have
to go some to say off the ground as
long as Old Noah did.-The Path
finder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20

Drain sauce from beans, chop them,
add crumbs, onion, cheese, salt to
taste, and enough milk to moisten.
Form into small cakes or rolls, place
in buttered baking dish in moderate
oven for 80 minutes. Basic several
times while baking with one cup boil
ing water to which has been added Ii
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
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IF YOUR TOWN is simply some
one else's town, for which you feel
no responsibility, your town will
never grow much better. It may
grow worse.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20

1T MAY BE TRUE that men tea
chers often have wonderful effect
to straighten out unruly boys. Yet
there are millions of successful men,
who today give much of the credit
for their advance to the ambitious
ideas and high principles of industry
and service that were communicate
ed to them by some idealistic school
marin.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
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TO PUSH a community ahead
takes something more than sitting
around in stuffed chairs and pointing
out its faults.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20

"No one more than the psycholo-
gist of childhood realizes the insis-
tent need for kindergartens sufici-
ent in number and so sitauted that
every child of this nation can be
reached at the proper age."-Naomi
M. G. Ekdahl, Assistant Professor OF
Educational Psychology, University
of New Hampshire.
If no kindergarten has been pro-
vided for the little ones of your COM
munity, the National Kindergarten
Association, West Fortieth street,
New York, will gladly aid you to get
one opened. Write for leaflets and
information.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-20
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HENRY FORD recently remarked
on how as a boy, he used to slip into
machine shops whenever he could
and watch how the machines in
those shops worked. Boys here in
Delaware who thus early begin to
study how the worlds work is done,
are likely to be the ones who will
later have high places in managing
that work.
Boys who show an interesting in
mechanical processes, indicate the
possession of gift that should be
cultivated. Parents should buy sets
of tools for them, and give them
working places where they could
make thing themselves. Boys that
have that tendency should not be re-
quired to put all their attention on
books.