New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1915, Page 4

VIONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915. Lm_ Néws for Theatre _—Goers én_zd Wo men Readers GRIPPING STORY IN LYCEUM PLAY The Conspiracy will be presented this week at the Lyceum, is a pdwerful play. It teaches a strong moral and has a story that is gripping in its interest. The human emotions are stirred by development It is one of the new and achieved a long run in New which | | | | ayers { of the action. i play | York. “The Conspiracy’” largely concerns Margaret Holt, a voung girl who has been a white slave victim but has { made her escape. She and her broth- | er, Victor Holt, assistant district at- | torney, devote their lives to wiping out the Scarlet Band, as the gang of white slavers is known. In order J‘ to get information for prosecution of { the members, Margaret secures & po- | sition as stenographer for Pedro Al- var he leader of the gang, who ; poses a cutlery manufacturer un- { der the name of James Morton. Be- hd IROBERT | cause of Holt's activitics the mem- ! Lers of the Scarlet Band resolves. to | Kill nim, and to prevent the murder ; of her brother Margaret Kkills Al- | varez Members of the gang cap- ture Holt and hold him hostage to prevent Margaret from going to the palice, Margaret keeps in hiding and through the assistance of John Howell, a newspaper m , enters in ! the service of Winthrop Clavering, an A { author and amateur detective who is Rctis Druz ) iter on crimes of the day. at the time is engaged story hased the Morton and Margaret writes he dictates The girl's ion arouses the suspicion of Clav- ng and she is accused of the crime. { Clavering threatens give her up to { the police, thereby cnc her brother . Margaret in operation and Clave ing the end saves her other's lifc. “The Conspiracy” is a play that appeals to the interest ot all theater- zoers «ure to see it. The usus matinees be presented Tuesd Thursiay Saturday afternoons. BIG MUSICAL COMEDY hiree \cts as uisda) and {{[SN Ten- recial w writing a murder story on as to ngering stucceeds cecuring in n KERS. | ast BERS. Ekeoteh, ANS. ity While hooking agency has not | announced the name of the act, a was received here this morning 2dvising the local management that A big musical comedy has been booked ! for at headline attraction at Keeney's == | guring the current week, The meagre information received the CTURYES. advancs cern the heen specialties Tt is musical seen here. hest headlined at local theater but the booking ents believe it will be 1o1 big box office returns. Fesides this exceptionally fine turn, the r ment ha secured a comedy ffering in The Make There are seven ! the comedy which p In other cities where it has been given s have been unanimous in giving praise and they predict that be ver successful when it is | turn that has ever heen pularity (e people in dram- famous will { given a metropolitan presentation. the | {reviewers believing that it will be a i big card with vaudeville devotees in Gotham. L Another hig turn : week, is the acrobatic turn offered by The Three Romans, Européan tum- ble who have been making a ve- { markable hit since coming to this ceuntry, Their act expected to = | prove a strong dyawing card. Hibbett and-Myers, character come- dians, will, undoubtedly’ find favor Jariford | ; ! with patrons and Billy W entertainer, will el t at $:15. 2:30. g booked for, this £y is ance of the program The Hearst-Selig weekly shown tonight, There will } other first run pictures. he he will also Miss Ityan has a number of special i bargains in afternoon and evening ! gowns which she placed on sale today | at her she Pratt street. Hartford, | at $20, but they won't last long. They are lovely silk crepes in the most e { auisite colorings, such as apricot and { lovely pink taffetas with chiffon { over-draperies, one flowered white taf- | feta—dresses that have been $48, $50 land up to $70. Several of them are | right up to the moment in style, and some little “touching There are some remarkable among them.—advt. D ts now. pssel al College. TEL. 578. need a values If your soup is too salty, try add- ing a few slices of raw potatoes and cook a little longer. The potatoes will upll’s heme | svsorh the surplus salt. DPULAR SHOE STORE THE ENGLISH LAST in | the | 1 the act indicates that it is one | that | announced | responsible | big | Mischief | sents this turn. Court, | make up the | ’ the women,” whis || . Daily Fashion Talks BY MAY MANTON FOR COLD NIGHTS AND CHILLY MORNINGS UST such garments as these are sure to be necded when the nights are cold and the mornings chilly, for they represent real comfort. The little wrap, No. 7598 is loose and simple, to be slipped on over the night-gown. ’pem very simple and can be made in almost no time while the scalloped’ edges give Jst the dainty touch that is certain to mean delight. In the picture, the ma- al is a light weight flannel in a pretty shade of k with white collar and If the scallops mean too mucfi labor, the edges can, of course. be under- faced and stitched. In place of the collar, the neck can be cut a little to form a small V, but for the present season, just the effect illustrated is a desirable one. For the 2 year size, will be nceded 313 yds. of mzterial 27 in. wide: 215 yds. 36; and 24 vds. 44 in. wide, with 5§ yd. 27 in. wide, for collar and cuffs.” i The night gown at the center of the group is tucked to form a yoke, conse- quently it is quite like those of the grown-ups and is certain to please. The V-shaped neck is fashionable, but if greater warmth is needed, the neck may be made higher with a turned over collar. The model is a good one for the . cuff IS ON KEENEY'S BILL| 2 ild's Wrapper, 2 to 8 years. 7705 Girl's Tucked Night Gown, 4 to 12 years. 7520 Child’s Night Drawers, 2 to 8 ycars. con- | ashable flannels as well as for cambric and long cloth. The finich of briar- stitching with scalloped cdges is a pretty one. For the 8 year size will be needed 3% vds. of material 27 in. wide; 3 vds. 36; and 255 yds. 44 in. wide. Night drawers are always needed for the very little children. 0. 7520 is a thoroughly comfortable model. It may be made cither as shown in the figure or with the leg portions extended to form coverings for the feet that are war- ;:flnr':(]i t% keep the llt;l/c 1305 warm, no matter how restless the sleeper may be. or the 6 year size 314 yds. of material 27 in. wide, 3 yds. 36 with 14 vd the collar and sleeve bands. ! SUSISt i At e The May Manton patterns No. 7598 and 7520 are cut in si No. 7705 is cut in sizes from 4 to 12 years. addressby the Fashion Department of this paper, l _sizes from 2 to 8 They will be mailed to any on receipt of ten cents for eachs Irvin Cobb Returns From Europe a Suffragist and Says Woman’s Vote Wouldn’t Stop War He States That Women Are Fighting European Conflict and He Didn’t See a Coward Among Them — They Bear the Cross. Big jovial, dynamic Irvin Cobb It cuse for the big war nowadays, since it has ceased to or romantic."” “Mr. Cobb w room Mrs in their apartment at 110th d Riverside Drive, New i Teaned back in his chair, rolled his cigar round in his mouth, and gazed abstractedly at a caricature of him- self that Montgomery Flagg had jnst sent over. Suddenly he jerked for- ward and threw the cigar at the wasre basket come back from the warring countries a determined suffragist. Mr. Cobb is the it but it was with great serious- sitting in the work- A humorist best of our time, is said street, York. He of ness that he spoke of the bravery women in the stress of war. “In the final analysis that old bromide seems the only way to ex- press it—'the burden of war falls on were his first words. “They alone carry the cross, and it is only just that they have some voice in the government which declares a war in which they suffer. | Women Vote Won't Stop War. | “But I do not believe by giving | women the vote war will be stopped. | As a matter of fact, the women are fighting this war by standing back of their men. Men only go to war when they know their yvomen are’ behind them. The women of England and France and Germany are all volun- | teering to do the work of men that their men may go to the front. The southern women were the real war- riors for the confederacy. “This, of course, is perfectly natur- al, since nationalism is as strong in | women as it is in men, and the pur- ! pose of war, in the end, is to preserve | the home, which concerns the wom- i en particularly. | “No, I am quite sure that women, had they had part in their govern- | ments, could not have stopped the | He had made some funny Too Many People Voting Enough. “The trouble with us,” “is that therc too voting and not cnough.” and Not he burst ont, are many people Mr. Cobb can’t help thesc paradox- ical epigrams. They just come with- out warning. “T mean, of course, that there are too many -illiterate people voting and not enough intelligent ones. We mu | chop off the illiterate voters and g on some intelligent ones by extending the vote to women. I don't think wo- men will be made any happier by be- ing allowed to vote, but 1 do think the government will be better off.” The Biggest Argument for Suffrage. Before he was sent to Europe as { war ondent Mr. Cobb passively interested i | | | corr was not even in suffrage. remarks the most favored wear. Is certainly of all for young women's The medi- um, toe and low broad makes them the shoes for all ‘round wear. narrow heel most comfortabie In tan and black, with leather or rubber soles or leather soles and rub- her hee Prices: $2.50 to $4.00 THE SHOEMAN, 941 MainSt,, HARTFORD ELERK FOR S. & H. GREEN STAMPS | present war. It would not have come | f SuEtr so suddenly, and there would have ‘]‘;"’,“‘ RARTEAR, R, T been more mature deliberation before | M@ never given the feminist nient particular thought. | it broke out, but it would have come. | "¢ 5 | < 7 e The biggest argument for suffrage i War Will Always saw was down in Southern France, | *1 think. too, that there will always | where some men were trying to clean war as long as there are human | out a hospital. Whenever 1 see a man ions, which means as long try to handle a broom 1 he move- xist. | be be either profitable | . C'obb has fitted up for hiwn | | pas }vhm-o are human beings. But this is ! probably the last of the big war | There will alwavs be small jobbing | transactions. but war as a trade | doesn’t pay any more. It used to be that the victorious nation in a bi ‘_ war was enriched. But now the coun- try that wins is still a loser. i “In addition to that, the clamor 1 and romance of war ig all gone. { make war popular that clement must exist. Our machine guns have put an | cna to it. So you see, there is no ex- realize® his limitations. But the women—well, the women were marvelous. They did all sorts of unpleasant. nauseating labor about the hospital. and were so skil- ful and deft about it. I'rom the pea- sant women and prostitutes to well- horn ladies, they all help.” And now that he has rveturned a believer in the ability of women to take part in government, Mr. Cobb 18 set ahout upsetting some (Continued on Ninth Page.) B CityTtems Breakfast. Cereal With Milk Shirred Eggs Doughnuts. ] Coifee. Tunch, Tish Souffle, Celery Salad. Gingerbread With Apple Tea. Dinner. Beef Soup. Chicken en Casserole. Boiled Potatoes Stewed Celery. Walnut Tee Cream. 3 Coffee. | Gingerbread. — Sift three-fourths | pound flour into a basin, add one-half | teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful | baking soda, oen teaspoonful ginger, oen teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful grated nutmeg, { ounces choped peel, and ounces cleaned Sultana raisins. togecrher in a saucepan three spoonfuls butter or lard, four spoonfuls brown sugar, one cupful molasses and one-half cupful milk. Then cool and add to dry ingredients with two well-beaten eggs. Pour into a buttered and floured cake pan, bake in. moderate oven for three-quarters of an hour. | Chicken En Casserole.—Clean and \ truss a chicken, put it into an | earthenware casserole dish with two | tablespoonfuls butter and cook over a hot fire. After the chicken has ob- tained a light brown color, moisten it with omne-half cupful of rich brown gravy and one-half glassful of white wine; cover and cook over the fire or in the oven from fifty to sixty minutes, according to size of bird. et the liquid reduce to a half glaze. | When ready to serve dish up the chi ken after untrussing and jointing it. Cover the whole with sauce and serve. i Hot two four Meit table- table- “PINAFORE,” PARSONS’, HARTFORD, TONIGHT At the Parsons theater, Hartford, tonight and twice tomorrow, the New York production of | “Pinafore” Extensive | preparations have been made on the theater stage for the The task of erecting the emormous repro- duction of the good ship Pinafore, which apparently floats minia- ture lake, also requires The masts of this vessel than fifty feet high and Hippodrome will be seen. opera. on a much are to more that of the Parsons theater. Small hoats’ are used in carrying a. number of the characters around tae stern to | the side of the ship in full view of the audience. The engagement of | “Pinafore” for two nights and a . special matinee on Tuesday. is and made its raphy easy to millions of people through tie medium of his marvel- Husly beautiful pictures, will be heard { for the fi time in Hartford on | Wednesday evening, when he will present his newest travel talk ‘““Around the Mediterranean’” at the Parsons {heater under the auspices of Jrartford Grade Teachers’ club. | truvel talk will be profusely illustrat- ed with colored reproductions from Mr. Elmendorf's original negatives and numerous out-of-the-ordinary motion picture, The attraction at the Parsons thea- ter on Thursday, matinee and night, will be Neil O'Brien and his Ameri- can minstrels, an organization which had its birth over two vears ago and which 'nas since been unusually suc- cessful. No greater stage favorite ex- ists with minstrel lovers everywhere than Neil O’Brien, who has been coming here for vears. Now, at the head of his own organization, he will undoubtedly receive double wel- come. TIiis company is spoken of in the highest terms and contains mostly new people since e last ap- peared here. The entertainment has | also been provided with a complete new scenic dress, with all new ward- robe and other accessories all new this season. ————————————————————————— | YOUR SICK CHILD | IS CONSTIPATED! i LOOK AT TONGUE| ized the world If cross, feverish or bilious give “California S;rup of Figs. No matter what ails your child, gentle, thorough laxative should al- ways be the first treatment given. It vour little one is out-of-sorts Sauce. one-half | time. | raise | | them requires much dexterous manip- | ulation, even on such a large stage as | Dwight Elmendorf, who has visual-' Reog- | the | The | been closely adhered toin the | notices from New York, it W/ Simply Say “Chargelt” It's Simple, It's Easy, It's Satisfying It's Just Like This You come here and find the largest and most varied stock of men's, women's and children’s cloth- Ing, hats and shoes in Hartford For example carry more men’'s suits, morse women's sults than any other store and it is the same in each of the other departments, we Your choice is therefora broader and eure of being correctly fitted from this stock. you are immense When you find the goods vou wish to own sim- ply tell the clerk to CHARGRE IT-—payment may be made in small weekly or monthly payments, If our clothing wasn't good our business would not increase as it haa, Ifourterms were not help- ful, we could not hold our trade-—if we were not a good store we would not grow-——therefors we say to you—COME IN AND LEARN OUR BENE- FICTAL METHODE, WE CLOTHE THE WHOLE FAMILY TRECAESAR Misch STORE ! 687—693 MAIN STREET Hartford New Years and the Battle of Peace BY RUTH CAMERON: Good evening, reader friends, [ wish you all a Happy New Year Now do not tell me that in this war-ridden world there ig not thing ag a happy New Year. To be sure, there may not be many prosper- ous-madce happy New Years just now, hut there are plenty of happy New Ycars ready for those who have the grit to make them out of their own optimism and courag2. And after all, home-made, heart.-made happy New Years come pretty near heing the best kind hecause they're less casily lost or destroyved. I doubt if there is one o” you who is not in some way affected war, We've all got to help fight in it wheiher we want to or rnct And the big question is, how are you1 fighting your little share of 11¢ bhattle? Are vou letting all this discouragement and financial depression diive you into the slough of despond? Or are you facing it with that unconquerable eoul which is the essence of the finest bravery. Are you fighting it v itk the true nights lance of optimisnm and hope und covrage? Suppose Your House Were Sacked. You may have some material sacrifices 1o make on account of the war, Most of us Have. Are you making them in a spirit or irritation and selfish disappointment? Or are you renouncing, cheerfully, nay, even thankfully when you stop to think of vour immunity from the real sufferings of war Suppose you could not look up &t the cternal stars without fearing to see a death dealing Zeppelin darkening the Heavens. Suppose you couldn’t leave vour home to go to work in the morning without dreading to find it burned or sacked at night. Suppose you lived in daily fear of seeing your men folks lined up and shot? 1ppose yYou think of some of these things and face your fices with good courage, or if, by any possible chance, you make, suppose you try to help someone who has I don’t believe in using other folks' miseries as a background to set off our own good fortune but T do believe in using them as a goad to sting oneself into shame when one dares fret at little troubles, Soldiers of Peace. Peace hath her victories no less than war and she her cowards, too. We soldiers of peace can show ourselves and fine as the soldiers in the trenches. And as our battle strange new year 1915, let us take intn our hearts the finest ever written for the battle of life, “One wWho never turned his back t Never doubted clouds would bres Never dreamed, though right were wors Held we fzll to rise, are bafficd to fight Sleep to wake.” such a by minor sacri have none to hax hei heroes and as brave cong for this marching song arched breast a ) forva: ed, wrong Letter. —~ROBERT TRy COMEDY DRAMA TO BE | minute. SEEN IN FOX FILMS tomorrow would triumph BROWNING pdeviile turn of veter studies, i'or Mr. Sands will render mimicry and three Baulevard 2 number that is n veritable hawl, “My Wife Is Dancing Mad,” another popular hit and “Mon key Honermoon,” rendered in a fash ion that made Mr. Hande wherever he has appesred today selections, “On the French character “Mre. Wiggs of Cabbage Patch,” the comedy drama known the country over for its convulsing the famous com- edy situations and tense dramatic climaxes has ‘been visualized in motion pictures by the Willlam Brady-Shu- bert combine and the iirst presenta- tion on any sereen in America will be scen at Fox's today and tomorrow with .Beatriz Michelena playing the stellar role. The play anG novel have picturi- advance is destised to prove one of the best attractions of the day. A circus troupe of hundreds of performers were engaged for the E— Household Notes_| Cake should alwa e mixed an earthen bowl in ets iz a Pot of Dbrisi economical dinner dish zation, and judging from roasi of peas, beans entils meat stock foundation. Soup or re quires ne half-sick, isn't resting, eating and act- ing naturally—Ilook, Mother! see if tongue is coated. Tt is a sure sign that it's little stomach, liver bowels are clogged with waste. When cr irritable, feverish, stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throzt, full cive a teaspoonful eof “California yrup of Figs,’” and in a few hours all the constipated poison, undigested food and sour bile «ently moves out { cf its iittle bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. | Mothers can rest eucy after giving i harmless *‘fruit laxative,'™ be- | cause it never fails to cleanse the lit- tle one’s liver and bov els and sweeten and they dearly love its | nleasant taste. Full directions for habies, children of all ages and for grown-ups printed on each bottle, Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask vour druggist for a 50-cet bottle “('alifornia Syrup of Figs'”: then | that it made the “Cali- | forniu Fig Syrup Company.” the stomach is by see |t ana | €ver enacted in motion pictures. | sides this excellent attraction | reel Ke of cold, ! circus scene, one of the biggest scenes in the production, and it is said that is one of the most realistic scenes Be- a two one comedy is also offered for today and tomorrow, “Dough and Dynamite,” which has in fits cast such principals as Charles Chaplin the highest paid motion picture actor in the business, Mabel Normand, the inimitable comedienne and a host of others making the production one of the biggest laugh provokers ever re- leased. Today's Pathe Weekly, de- Codfish ple is a g06d substantial dinner dish for the economical house keeper Salt meal fresh meat, eparingly i not 0 nourishing therefore should be ured as Hot plates. and dishes way towards the the plainest dinner 20 enjoyment A long of ever After washing a tam rrevent it from shrinking by shanter, this ¢ picting the most recent and important happenings in our country, and also the latest news from the theater of war will also be shown As an added atraction all thiz week commencing with today the manage- ment has made arrangements with Irving Sands, the popular nut come- dian, who has a host of followers in New Britain to render some of his popular song hits, and Fox patrons will be treated to one of the pleasant- est this seaxon during the entertaining features his fifteen surprises of placing it ever a dinner plate When should until bread the least twice to fall making to at begi sponge rise its size or it o not consult the invalid as to the menu, a& the various surprises will serve to tickle his appetite Cake should be removed from the AN AR sOOn AR it comes from the oven and placed on a sieve to cool.