New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1915, Page 5

It's Easy to Own this Beautiful Dinner Set—Read Bel IF you could see this ele%’ant forty-two-piece dinner set on your own table, you could easily appreciate its beauty of design and color. You'd want one right away. For a limited time we are making an unusual offer that thrifty housewives will instantly grasp. With every pound of WEDGWOOD " Creamery Butter is packed a coupon. Fifteen of these coupons and $2.75 in cash are redeemable for this charming dinner set. This same set of dishes would cost you $10.00 or more were you to purchase it separately. This get-acquainted offer is made to popularize Wedgwood —the butter made from rich cream of bred Jerseys and Holsteins. You must eat butter—why not eat the grocer’s best—Wedg- wood—and get this useful premium for almost nothing. Order a pound today. First-class grocers sell it in pound cartons—never in bulk. P. BERRY AND SONS, Hartford, Conn. Sole Distributers for New England States House_@ld No—z:;: If bamboo furniture is inclined to crack, mix together equal parts of lin- seed oll and turpentine and rub iton the furniture with a soft rag. Fads and Fashions Colors must be subdued. Wear your skirts ankle length. Stripes are advancing in favor. 1 Sales To avoid the expense of rubber gloves, a good substitute is made by dipping old gloves into hot linseed oil; this renders them waterproof. Newest wrist bags are very small. Points all around the skirt obtalin, still To prevent press fasteners from crushing in the process of laundering, these should be closed before putitng the article through the wringer. Some of the new coats are smock- sghaped. Always push a new lamp wick through the top of a burner, wet the lighting end in kerosene, turn low and allow it to stand a day before us- ing. Velvet is particularly popular this autumn. Winter hats will be trimmed with flowers. Navy blue is a good color for the rell suit. If you are going to be away from home for a few days, leave your pot- ted ferns, etc., with water in their Buttons appear as decoration saucers, so that they will not dry out. fall skirts. on ) “All odors end here,” is the in- flexible rule of charcoal. If the char- coal is made red-hot and then cooled before using, its virtues are increased. A great deal of velvet will be used this winter. Children’s dresses soe flaring style, incline to the = A delicious salad is made, by fill- ing tomatoes with minced pineapple, celery and chopped nuts. Mix with mayonnaise and garnish with green. It is said that {he much-loved kimono sleeve is at an end. There will be a profusion of silks The odor of kerosene lamps can end satins used this season. be stopped by putting one teaspoonful of fine table salt into each lamp. Thae 0dd velvet coast will be | salt should be changed once a month with cloth or rep serge skirts. worn A leather bag can be made to look almost new again by first washing with a little warm soapy water, then drying and brushing with the white of an egg. Slashed cloth skirts over velvet or silk are a charming fashion. Satin-faced cloth and velvet make a good half-season combination. Potatoes are not so apt to rot if the cellar is not kept too warm. Sprinkle air-slaked lime among them and cover them lightly to keep the light away. Coats will be of every length, as far as it is possible now to guess. Many autumn models have pointed corsages over full skirts, Difficulty is generally experienced in the cutting of new bread, but if the knife is first dipped into not wa- as fall Chiffon sleeves much as evere dresses. seem to in favor be for Children's hats may have animals | ©Venly as the stale. cut from velvet and appliqued on the brim carefully with a fine camel-halir Gray and vellow 1is a distin. | Prush and a soft cloth. guished and favorite combination of colors. entire surface, after which polish To prevent clothes from becoming streaky and patchy in the process of blueing, add a cupful of milk to the water before putting in the clothes. place a basin of cold water into it, hut do not leave tae door open. This answers the purpose of cooling the food from burning. When darning table linen it best to use a raveling from the goods. fully marching the pattern. darning is carefully done, will not be noticeable. It When separating the yolks the whites of eggs, a little volk will sometimes slip into white. To remove this dip a clean Ketchup Free from Benzoate of Soda will give the touch that makes plain food taste like a luxury. the cloth and it will cling to once. i — When, during {llness, a g00d idea is to put a steamer over a stove, and lay the flannels in steamer, In this way they can be changed easily and frequently, and are much hotter than if wrung out of ) hot water, . TSTOCK MARKET MEN ter you can cut the new bread as Before cleaning bronze dust very Then dip a cloth in sweet oil and wipe over the carefully with a soft chamois leather. When the oven becomes too hot the oven, and the rising steam prevents is ‘Where there is a hole, put under it a* plece of the same material, care- the the hole from of the the cloth into warm water and wring it dry, Touch the yolk with a point of it at constant supply of hot flannels is required, a : saucepan of bolling water on the hot the ARE GOOD SOLDIERS New Britisi "'Arfily Changing Whole Face of Life at Front {Correspondence of tw= Associated Press) British Arm Headquarters in France, Aug. 24—"We are in sight of *the trenches at last, id a pei- vate in what is known as the Stock Exchange Battalion of one of the regiments of the New British Army. “It's been a long pull in a hard mar- ket. But we never missed getting | our shilling a day and our wives have got the separation allow- | ances regularly. | There are privates in the Stock Exchange Battalion who have names well known in the world of finance. Some of them have subscribed for- tunes to the latest War Loan, Awails His Turn. “At home 1 have three bathrooms in my house and sixteen bedrooms,"” sald one. “Out here I am glad to stand up in line with a towel over my shoulder and take my turn with the washbasin. As for sleeping on straw in a barn it is paradise a hard march. I suppose we get these other things, too, like ever body else does in the trenches.” “Bound to, though you have ten thousand a year,” remarked another, “Maybe you have one in your shirt, now.” Prove Good Solider: “What interests E divi- sional staff officer, s not that they are Stock Exchange men, but are they | good soldiers? Many speak German as a result of international financial relations. “It would be odd,” said one, “if T should be shooting at Kauffman, who is on the Berlin Exchange. We went to school together in Germany.” Not all in the Stock Exchange baf- talion are affluent or members of | the Exchange, but all were recruited from the Stock Exchange district. As they march along a road in France, laden with dust, the twenty-five dol- lars a week clerk and the big broker are elbow to elbow and the observer can not tell one from the other. There is another battalion compos- ed of artists, architects, musicians, and men of kindred callings. Many officers have been promoted bhoth frrom the rankg of Artists Riflles and the Stock Exchange Battalion. Then there are battalions of miners, sports- men and companies from the same factory and groups of friends who en- listed in a body in order to be gether. Changing Life at Front. Officers who have been in the fight- ing since the retreat from Mons are saying that the New Army is chang- ing the whole face of life at the front, “We regulars all knew one an- other,” one explained. “We were a sort of family. When an officer was | killed if he were not an old pal At least you knew who he was The names on the casualty lists New Army will anger: Promotion Rapid. Promotion ro- ol s has been rapid. Boys of nineteen who began as secon lieutenants in the New Army a now first lieutenants. There are captains who are scarcely of age. One officer meets another who was a Major when he last say him and finds that he is now a brigadier-Gen- eral or “Brig-Gen.” in army par- lance. Seeing a sign of a corps headquar- ters painted so well that it looked as if it had been carved into the wood, a passerby knew at once that it was the work of a New Army man who was a professional sign painter. Re it a lawyer, a plumber, a bookkeep- er, a carpenter, a tailor or an en- gineer that is wanted one is always forthcoming from the ranks of the New Army. The British regnlar, as a rule, knew only the trade of sol- diering. WILSON GETS PEACE MEDAL, President Honored by School League. Oakland, Cal., Aug. 24—The Amer- | ican School Peace league, in session here yesterday, awarded its annual medal to President Wilson, for dis- tinguished services for peace during the preceding vear. The meeting of the league was tne principal event in today’'s sessions of the National Education association and its subsi- diary and allied organizations. Randal J. Condon, superintendent of schools at Cincinnati, O., was ree- ommended by the nominating com- mittee of the peace league to succeed himself as president. Willlam How- ard Taft is honorary prsident. American GERMANS TO RETALIATE. Berlin, Aug. 24.—As the result of increasingly serious reports concern- ing the treatment of German civillan prisoners interned at amherst, Nova Scotla, according to which men housed in an unventilated and unsanitary fuctory building has been punished for attempted escape and less serlous infractions of the rules by confine- ment in brick oven, the German nuthorities are now contemplating re- tallatory measures against Canadians, both soldiers and civilians, imprison- ed here, Approximately 700 Ger- mans are now interned at Amherst. Are Women Naturally Despondent ? A prominent writer so claims. Women are constituted with a deli- cate organism und In nine cases out of ten mental depression may be at- tributed to an abnormal conditlon of the system, which expresses itself 'n nervousness, sleeplessness, bachakche headache, causing constant misery and as a result despondency, Lydla E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, | a simple remedy made from roots and herbe, Is the one great remedy for this @ Mitien, It goes to the rooct | pran or thz %ouble and overcumes A pen®R . T.o--advt, LARGER OUTPUT OF 3 GOLD AND SILVER | Mint Director's Statement Shows In- ereased Production in v, S. for | Calendar Year of 1914, Woshington, AUR . 24—Increased production of both gold and silver in the United States for the calendar vear of 1014 as compared with 1913 is shown in a statement issued yes- terday by director of the Mint Wooley. JThe gold output was 4,572,976 fine cunces, valued at $94,631,800 and sil- sl 72,455,100 fine ounces, the com- mercial value of which was $40,067- TC0. Gold produced was greater by 5,647,600 fine ounces, or $3.126,500. Navada and Utah showed the prin- cipal diereases in gold production £411,200 and $193,300, respectively, while the increases were: Colorado ,900; Cali- al 31,792,700: A a $1.3 fornia $1,010,600 and Mountana §8 700. ldaho showed the largest gain in sil- | ver with 3,096,700 fine ounces, valued at $1,712,500. Today's figures ahead of last vear compilation Leing hastened he of the ex- traordinary interest in the question of the gold suppl months FANSSON PROBABLY LOST STE tter Unable to Get plorer, Coast Guard C Word from Aug. 24.——The Unit- suard cutter, Bear, mails to Point Bar- northerly point of re resterday, re of Vilhjalmur by Ole Ander- torkerson, left M of the mouth of the April 7. of Iast yea the ice in the hop and expecting, in Nome, ed States which carried row, the most Alaska, returned h porting that fansson, accomnanied son and Storker tin Paint, west Mackenzie river, going north over of find new land the event that their ques failed to turn east_and reach Banksland. The Mackenzie river opened with a rush in the spring of 1914 and poured out a torrent that hed away the ice connecting Ranksland with the land ice further east. The Bear reported that nothing fur- ther had heen heard of the gasoline schooner New Jersey, herctofore re- ported missing. The New Jersey left Nome last fall under command of Cap- tain Orin F k, a trader. who had with him a crew of Bskimos, in- cluding four who had been ship- wrecked with {*aptain Bartlett on the Stefansson ship Karluk. Wreckaze from the New Jersey ashore at Cape Thomson, Alaska. Alaska, coast word o of waler w came JOHN IVES DEAD, Former Meviden Dry Goods Merchant Passes Away at the Silver City. Merid Aug John Ives, until s retirement as head of the Tves, Uphams & Rands Co., and probably the oldest dry goods merchant in Connecticut, died at his home yes- terday in his 90th vear. This was his native city. He was left or- "ihe age of four, was in New York stores beginnir hit 19(h vear, and 847 his first store here oriive his enterprise it character of what now “department He was clerk from 1865, had been a director the first National Bank since 1863, and in many ways had T:een indentified with the business development of the city. Mr. Tves is survived by a son, Le- land Howard Ives, and a daughter the widow of the late United States Judge James Platt. He amassed wealth dquring the long business carcer. an clerk with opened entiarzed the wed a town took ter store.’ 1854 to in BOSTON WOMAN MURDERED Found Dead Throat Slashed. Boston, Aug. -—Mrs. Emily Russ was found decad in her tenement in the Roxbury district last night with two cords tied tightly about her neck and her throat slashed deeply with a razor. In another room was her 11- months-old baby asleep. The officers did not learn of the af- fair until the woman’'s husband, F. Russ, a painter, rushed into a police station and told of his ghastly find after returning from work. He said he had been forced to break in a win- dow to get into the house, as both front and rear doors were locked. Associate Medical Examiner Waters said that the woman probably had been dead several hours. Either the cards, or the wound might have caused death, he said. The police questioned Russ late last night. M Russ With Her Pcople Again Buying Jewelry Good Evidence. New York, Aug. 24.—The fact that Is people are again buying jewel was cted by T. L. Combs of Omaha, Neb., | rresident of the American National | Retail Jewelers Associotion in the | opening sesslon of its convention here as evidence that good times are re- turning, The convention began yes- terday and will remain in session until Saturday. = “The jeweiry business is & good barometer,” sald Mr. Combs. “Poeple are now buying jewelry and | there seems to be no tendency to hoard money. In the jewelry business the panicky war times are no more."” Samuel Hershensteln, assistant United States district attorney, an- rounced to the jewelers that an effort will bo made in congress amend the penal code so that the time during which a bankrupt is absent from the Jurisdiction of the state will not be fnecluded In granting exemption unde: the statute of liminations. to GETS CHAIR OF PHILOSPHY. Boston, Aug. 24.—Professor Emil Carl Wilm, of Bryn Mawr, college has | Leen appointed to the chalr of philos- phy at Boston University made va- | cant hy the recent resignation of Prof, IZenjamin W. Van Riper, it wag an- | nounced today. Prof. Wilm was formerly head of the philosphy de- | pertment at Wells College, | have an Ash Hod with a Coal Hod beside it (patented). The Ash Hod is deep and catches all of the ashes. It is easy to remove and carry and doesn’t spill. Both hods free. The old, clumsy ash pan is hard to remove and strews ashes over floor and stairs. The wonderful “Single Damper” [patented] makes perfect control of fire and oven. Better than two dam- pers. Have you scen it? Gas ovens if desired; end FOR SALE BY . 0. MILLS & C NEW BRITAIN AGENTS Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., Makers, Boston MAY BAR HER LANDING. of Hartford in Arabic Episcode. Aug. 24.—F William Riding Miss Violet SUBMARINE HEADQ London, Aug. the Navy Josephus irspecting the New Lo £tation yesterday annound vard would soon be © headquarters for sub tated that the station cdapted for the purpo the heart of the invents | and electrical establishs country. Secretary Dam on the United States thig morning. AUTO ACCIDENT FATAL, Stamford, Aug. John Kolyes fourteen vear old, died at the hospi- tal yesterda a result of being slruck Sunday night by an automobile are en-| The machine was ariven by George of Bast| Weldon of Mount Vernon, Y., who H.| Wag arrested but later releascd under promise to appear for the inquest to- mong | i cay or tomorrow survivors of the Arabic will to land in this country, the cabled report that lost the sight of one likely to lose the sight thc other through injury from vreckage of the Arabic. Should 1ot be allowed to land, Mr. Riding de- ciares he will take ge for Liver- | wag recovered some time later as was pool and there the YOung | (ne team and the wagon woeman nd return this country i L 5 his wifl UNDERGOES OPERATION, talqit Montreal, Aug, 24.—Sir William Uil ) VanHorne, former chairman of the (Ll U heard of directors of the Canidian Curtis, in the superior ol S Pac Railroad operated upon | restraining order was i (flicials cither in the jurisdiction of | yegterds M eaver of Meaak ¥ A Conneeticut New York for the | mr Wi {e il D ad et e il ynaintenance of Miss Alderson as soon by ot et ukis A sheineacheaiihis countiy neighborhood. Decision New Bride-to-he Man Injured Hartford, tertained East i ot as | rs e by Liartford, whether Alderson, his fiancee, who w be be- Miss | eeye of the she the allowed cause of Alderson and was DROWNED IN R Staffordy Aug cher K old reservoir here team of two horses backed over the gank. The hor were drowned also! ‘The body Belcher | IVOIR. David Bel- drowned in a when his | with him was vesterday ARGUMENTS ON IN Bridgeport, Aug. 24 were heard yesterday on | of the Seymour Manufl | pany, to modify a tempe tion recently granted (peration at night of tactory in Seymour, by Ji marry to with M informat e <t m ted < Com- led stood ready the proper i he to make S absce and sur- the operation | Ever know a real boy who wasn't on time for meals when there was something he liked? Boys are always ready for breakfast when they're go- ing to have the New Post Toasties These delicious, new com flakes bring to your table all of the delightful flavour of sun ripened corn. They're made by a new method that keeps them crisp and firm even after cream or milk is added—they don't mush down as other corn flakes do. Notice the little pearl-like “pufls” on each flake—a distinguishing char- acteristic; them direct from the package without cream or milk and you'll get the real corn flavour of