New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1916, Page 6

Herald,: 3 COMPANY. Herd Second Ciass Mall Matter. ed by carrien to 15 cents a week, s fo §3¢ » month to be sent by mail, 60 cents a montk, e advazze. dvortising medi tion hooks and n to advertisers n Fress und on 12nd St. and Broad Zoard Walk, A y, ana Hartford Depot. BIG APPROPRIATIONS. There is little room complain bout the advancement of the army nd Since the great prepared- e took place il over vear to navy. demonstrations that the United States ‘ncle Sam is in a fair way of having bne of the greatest navies in the world The "army, too, will be up to a That t costs a great deal of money to bring bout this desired condition will be leen from the following figures. For | e current fiscal year the army has ppropriations of $303,000,000 and its ppropriation next year will be $70,- 00,000 more or $878,000,000. The| avy this fiscal year has appropria- ions of $313,000,000 and next year ill realize $379,000,000. It will be gen that the appropriations for both | ranches of the service this year total 616,000,000, a sum gigantic in itself ut not to be compared with the $752,- i 00,00 which both organizations will | Bceive from the Federal Government | e next fiscal year. When it is con- dered that before the European war took less than half a billion dollars p defray the annual expenses of the ederal Government the enormity of | e sums appropriated for the army | d navy may be realized. | last efore long. prought fair standing. But they | e the outgrowth of popular demand id when it comes to footing the bill fe American people will not falter der the burden of taxation, GENEROUS SOULS. THREF In the maze of politics, in the whirli- of everyday life, with the lure of © playhouse, the amusement park, e social forum, there is little thought ven to those who are in the throes f pain. For them there burns only e dim light through the long silent ght, the night that never seems to d: It is human nature to forget | e miseries of life and dwell on the fie that attracts, the gayety of it all. bt, there are three good women in is city whose daily devotion is to fend to the affairs that are left be- d by the seekers after divertise- ents. Throughout the year they il at their Day after day, [ght after night, in sunshine and in rm, they pursue their way, admin- ering to the poor, taking care of y, nursing the sick. Were it bt that the association to which they long demands an annual report little ight of their endeavors htside of those circles wherein such These tasks. be heard ndly presences are known. omen are the visiting nurses. During the year that is drawing to close these women,—and their mes are here given because they ould be deserving of all recognition at comes to those who accomplish ings worth while, Miss Sarah Ham- k, Miss Anna Heath, and Miss ene Feeney,—~made more than seven ousand separate visits to their pa- knts, some of whom were so poor ey could in no way pay for the rvices. Indeed, were these women p wait for recompense the death te in New Britain would increase rapid ratio. In all, these three gal- nt and brave little women attended 9 cases, out of which scarcely one ndred paid for the trouble involved. jhis is the kind of work that should p extolled, the work that is prompted b the love of humanity rather than om mercenary reward. With the owing of New Britain there will be ore need for visiting nurses of such hlibre as the three aforementioned But they must sacrifice too not be ex- much in the comfort and other. conven- The work they do is the work the city. Bach and every individual fiving the interest of the city at heart ould ponder over these things and, omen. peted oy to of nce: called upon, render aid in a finan- way. The Visiting ciation is one of the real al or other urses’ orthy chariiies of the city. There is no one particular class of gople benefitted by the work of the | isiting nurses. pinister to raw no line of These women who ad- sick and the dying demarkation between e poor and the vich. They know no b vor a the they cater to Their fleld is a bigger and - one than those open to most ions in that they go where Three nurses who ek eally in the course ‘ have accomplished a gigan- 1t that each one call pake 7,122 racans nart of the city | at_Hota- | no one sect | visited approximately 2,564 sick | was evenly divided, that | averaged seven calls every day in the | 366, { - I | tal work knows what a strain that is, each nurse No one unfamiliar with hospi- i and toil exercised in the discharge of such duties. If every one in the city realized what it all meant there would be | be & mammoth demonstration in honor | of these three wonderful women, three generous souls. | g % | THE HOU S PROBLEM. | Housewives in five great cities of the | Unitea States have officially boycotted | exgs from the list of of | life. This has been done of | the action of one man in Chicago who | stored seventy-two millions of the ! species in a big warehouse and refused to let them out until the price per | dozen had reached an exorbitant level. ! In Cléveland the boycott is to last for | six weeks, beginning last Monday. On the same day the first organized boy- | cott an the Pacific coast went into| effect when the women of necessaries because Portland, | | Oregon, barred eggs from the list of | ' household necessaries for a period of ! two weeks. In Chicago, New York and Detroit the same condition obtains. If the entire nation places a boy- cott on eggs there must be some other food equally as nourishing to which the people can turn. What it? Varlous parts of the country have offered suggestions, but as yet no one has come forward with a substitute for the nutrative substance contained in the strange little spheriod. From the morning meal until the midnight luncheon the egg plays an important part in culinary arrangements. To settle the coffee to a nicety the chef usually places a few egg shells in the percolator; the egg then finds its way to the breakfast table in various forms,—in the shell, fried, scrambled, poached, In the noon- time it greets the luncheon guests in almost everything on the menu from the mock turtle soup to the choice bit of cake that ends the meal. At dinner, the same thing holds true. The egg is there, hidden or visible. And at supper, too, the egg takes its stand with the foodstuffs of the nation. It makes no difference what is offered the egg is somewhere, either in the pudding or the pie. It is a very im- portant part of life, this edible that once broken cannot be put together by all she king’s horses and all the king's men. o, then, how far can a boycott on eggs go without causing the housewife all sorts of trouble? That is the question the men wha hold a corner on eggs know the women and men of the nation must answer sooner or later. Man food commodities from the earth, from the waters that are under the earth, and from the air | n is omelet, etc. gets his that ig over and above the earth. the tide-water country the people who are considering a boycott eggs complain because sea-food has reached an extravagance In price never known before. Down Baltlmure; way where the turbulent waters of the Chesapeake sing on their to the sea they have given hope of making terrapin and the can\‘a‘s-back duck‘ take the place of the egg. Even | oysters from those salted waters hav reached the fabulous price of forty- five cents a quart. That does away with a substitute from the sea. The earth which is producing lamb at prices hitherto unknown can find no fruit, vegetable, or comestible of any kind to take the place of the egg. And the ailr? Not with quails selling higher than domestic squabs, Geese are as high as they fly.,, So, the end, raised against the egg, one of the prime necessaries of life, must fall be- cause man in his greatness cannot pro- duce a substitute. It is a sad com- mentary. on way up all the diamond-back in Russia, according to an American engineer just returned from there, is building railroads so rapidly it will be ready to make war in earnest two years from now. On the other hand they might be making peace in earnest completed. before the railroads are FACTS AND FANCIES. The New York World says that Tammany ig dead. ‘Well, the Lord knows we don’t care.—Albany Herald. Germany's food dictator's great trouble seems to be that there isn't enough food to dictate.—Albany Jour- nal, Our idea of total depravity is to murder the king's English on mono- grammed stationery. Galveston News. The president’'s wife desires the res- toration of the inaugural ball; she she is not the only one who feels like dancing.—Atlanta Constitution, Tt is not probable that the woman member of congress will patronize Dr. Mary Walker's tailor.—Toledo Blade. | The mountain counties of the Blue Ridge will continue to &> republican rooms during that time, or, if the work | it would seem that all boycotts | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8§, the democratic vote with the regular nominee.~—Houston PPost. The blacklist and the proposed em- bargo have at least this in common: { Both are based on the right of the government to control the activitias ¢f ite own citizens.—Chicago Herald. The income tax is a @ood producer revenue. Receipts from it in- »d fifty per cent, in the last fis- year.— Buffalo Counler. After Balkan wars, the Venizelist army are not likely o dete by German threats of no —Springfield e~ publican. o cres cal two the Greeis red The Last Trail. (Jack London— 4 1916. words were silver, your silence now is golden."”) Nay it shall never be That somber requiems are tolled for thee! But there shal] be wild music from the shore Of flowering Wai-ki-ki; door Of morn opens wide upon blue Fris- co Bay, Then let a rollicking fo'c'sle song Be lifted loud and long To cheer thee, comrade, shadowy way . ! where, above the pines, clouds are drifting And Nome's white lights grow weary with the dawn. thou the sledge-dog calling, calling, ‘While Winter's ohains are falling. 'Tis thee they mary, old comrade, thee they hail “Musha! Musha!” Sitka Trail. But hush!—the wind from off the Yu- kon's ghifting, And thou must hasten on! and when the on thy See snow- Hark drivers, With down the Thou wert indeed adventurous life— Yea, life was but adventure keen for thee, Ev'n as Ulysses on the moonless sea. Like Jason, too, thou sawest much of strife, Yet camest home at last, From al] they. journeys vast, To domesticity. with O King of proud adventure, fare thee well! Master of silver words, with tales to tell, May thou by day have hunters’ winey zest, And, by thy nightly campfire, happy Test, ‘Whether through sun or rain or snow- lashed gale, On this which is for thee the last— The Unknown Trail J. Corson Miller in New York Times. History Without War, (Waterbury American.) A great historian has defined his- tory as a record of the crimes and follies of mankind. Whether Gibbon would have placed war under the first or the second head or under both, he would undoubtedly have said that the greater part of the record of past ages | must necessarily deal with wars, and doubtless he would have described as impracticable the repeated suggestion that wars be practically eliminated from the school histories of the United States. Omne of the reformers, the principal of a girl’s school, would omit all description of battles and even the names of military commanders, mere- ly giving the date and the issue of the conflict. He complains that even girls like to read about wars and that when he tells them to skip the battleg in their school histories they answer: “Why the wars are the most interest- ing part of the whole book.” Worse still, many of the girls under his charge say they would like to become Red Cross nurses ‘‘because of the ex- citement it would be.” He thinks all this is very harmful and says that the sooner war is eliminated from the school histories, “the sooner shall we be able to educate the youth to ideas | of peace,” confidently predicting that i schools universally adopted ‘peace histories’ in one generation wars would be a thing of the past.” With- out seriously discussing a rainbow chasing proposition of this sort, it is pertinent to remark that ‘peace his- tories’ for schools would be rather thin volumes and ivould contain little | to interest boys and girls, the philo- | sophy of causes and blems of statesmanship being beyond their mental grasp. Moreover, the fact can not be ignored that the youthful appe- tite for gore (through the medium of the printed page) is prodigious and demands at least a measure of satis- faction. A mother, looking for a tale of adventure in a book store, was once heard to declare with manife pride that her boy wanted “killing on every | page Omitting wars from school | hooks would not eradicate the primor- | dial human instinct responsible for the fascination of a battle and would con- | voy but a limited and incorrect view of past history. To point out to the young reader in a convincing manner that most wars are avoidable and therefore criminal would “educate to ideas of peace” much more effectively than to attempt to comceal the facts. It might be well, however, for the | writers of school histories to touch | lightly upon the horrors of war, leav ' ing the feeding of the appetite for “killing on every page” to the inju- dicious parents. Pointed Paragraphs, (From the Chicago News.) The setting hen may be peevish, but she’s on-nest. Ever see a boaster looking | chance to make g00d? for a Money doesn’t always make mare go under the wire first. the Say the right thing at the right time and some fool will envy you, A pound box of candy will win a girl quicker than a 100-line poem. to mention your ; he is sure to get Tt isn’t necessary lawyer in your wil until Andrew Jackson ceases to split i his share, McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” Christmas Shopping Going on Now in Earnest Each department in this sotre has something that should interest you. EARLY SHOPPING IS ADVISABLE. While our assortments are extreme- ly large just now, orders for this grand selection of Gift things were placed months ago, and we know many items cannot be duplicated again when sold out. Furthermore, values offered today are remarkably attrac- tive. COATS AND SUITS MARKED DOWN to make room for Holiday display: Mixture Coats now $8.98, value $12.98. ‘WOOL PLUSH AND WOOL VELOUR COATS Now $12.98 and $14.98, values to $18.98—in women’s and misses’ sizes. TAILOR-MADE SUITS that were marked $19.98 to $30.00, reduced to $15.98 and $22.98, (alter- ations free.) FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS Bath Robes, Kimonos, Sweaters, Furs, Infants’ wear of all kinds. HANDKERCHIEFS in Xmas boxes. 10c to 98c box. Initial Handkerchiefs in boxes, 290, 39¢ to $1.50 box. Dainty Hand Fm- broidered, lace trimmed, all linen Handkerchiefs, 12%c to $1.00 each, Crepe de Chine novelties at 25c each. BROADCLOTH NECKWEAR 49c to $1.98 Twenty new styles in collars and sets, with new cut-out open work edges, hand embroidered and beaded designs, the new things you’ll always find here first. SEE OUR LINE OF LEATHER 25¢ to $4.98. 191 6. Main BOOK ) Floor Six Polar Bear Brothers $32.50 Women’s and Misses’ Woal Plush Coats, with wide Shakespeare collar, full loose back, lined throughout with guaranteed satin. For Satur- $13.98 AND $15.00 EVENING Chine, and high color silks, d’esprit lace, shirred at waist, bouquet. Hand Bags, in all colors, 49¢ to $7.98 each. Collar Bags, travelling cases, military cases, manicure sets, etc, in leather cases, priced 25¢ 1o $6.98. MESH BAGS AND BEADED BAGS. 49c to $4.98 Large variety of French Ivory, Pea rl, silver and gold ewel cases, skl 5, jewelry novelties, holiday § gs, seals and cards: SILK HOSIERY FOR XMAS GIT'TS. ‘k, white and color 5c to $§2 pr. Fancy striped, Silk clocked and open work Silik Hose $1, $1.15, $1.25 ‘to $2 pair. 100 DOZEN MEN'S SILK S/0X black, white, navy and gy, 6 pairs in a box $2.00. him a box for Chrig.tmas. in pair. Buy LINENS OF ALL KIN/DS . .Scarfs, doilies, napkins, Juns *h cloths, table cloths, fancy towels, i new de- signs for Christmas. SPECIAL NOTICK Bring in your photos and 'have them enlarged to a 14x20 size (cw nvex style) Portrait for 19¢. Saturday will be the last day we take orders. i, Moli)LAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEH IN COMN. (Continued fror p Fifth Page.) aver the dividends paid a year ago. There was an increase in the surplus of thesc companirf of $7,178,959.39. Water (‘ompanies, The Windsor 'Wfater comy sale to the Windlgor fire distri to be a public fervice company. } June 21, 1915 the Cornwall Water company whiclo was incorporated at the 1915 sesslon was organized and has already angaged in supplying water for pul/lic and domesttic uses in the village ‘of Cornwall. The total amount invested in plant and equip- ment of all ‘yater companies in Con- necticut we $28,591,325.83. The operating nevenue of all companies for the year was $2,382,020.17, and tho operating expenses were $1,015,660.88. The net operating revenue was $1,366,- 359.29, am, increase of $142,475.26. There wps a total increase In surplus of $241,27/1.04. n It camnot be true that the Germans are weakening. They are merely giv- ing up all they bought so dearly at Verdur; because they see other places they 1like better.—Florida Times. BIG "Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. GYR DAILY $22.50 to $32.50 SEAL PLUSH COATS $22.50, $35.00, $29.00 and $83.50 Plush Coats, mostly one of a kind, many of platn, others handsomely fur trimmed. PARTY DRESSES, SATURDAY ... .Several pretty styles to choose from trimmed with point \ WISE, AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PURCRASES Daily Delivery in New Britain, Flmwood, Newington, Cedar Hili. Maple Hill and Clayton. TOMORROW.---SATURDAY LAST DAY OF THE ANNIVERSARY SALE AST DAY OF FREE SOUVENIR All Souvenir Coupons Will be Honored up to Saturday Night But Not Afterwards == WISE, SMITH & CO. Hartford HEAPS OF FUN FOR THE YOUNGSTERS Come and bring the children to see the SIX POLAR BEAR BROTHERS in their big Northland Iceberg Cave. animated holiday attraction we’ve ever shown. The most novel THE KIDDIES HAVE LOTS OF FUN HANDING 25¢ TO BIG BROTHER BEAR AND GETTING A MYSTERY T OY PACKAGE FROM THE BIG ICE- BERG CAVE. elevators. Any coat in the lot Baturday $20.00 Women’s and Misses’ plain wool Velour Coats, full back style, with collar, cuffs and pockets trimmed with Chase’s Beaver Plush. For Saturday $16.98. AND $9.98 Crepe de SATURDAY in dinner. messaline. with rose corsage STORE HARTFORD This attraction free to all—Ninth Floor. $16.98 AND $18 EVENING DRESSES SMITH & CO. Take south Saturday at $18.00 Some them samples. . . .$18.00. $32.50 very stylish Velour Coats, lined throughout with Sol Satin lining, full loose back. Skunk Racoon collar. For Sat- $11.98 For the social season—dainty frocks for dance or BEight styles to choose from in taffeta and One Merriest Place in Town HARTFORD’S GREATER TOY LAND Entire Sixth Floor of the 1s an 1deal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. to Be Reaim of Lithuania Rehabilitated Washington, D. C.,, Dec. 7.—It's a dull week in the chronicles of diplo- matic mancuvers when the birth of a new kingdom or the rebirth of an old one is not announced in the family of nations. The khedive of Egypt, a de- pendent of the Turkish sultan, was deposed early in the war and a sultan Nile country enthroned under the Britis protectorate; the Grand Shereef of Mecca recently solicited fe- licitations in the name of the infant “Kingdom of Arabia'; the Teutonic Allies only a few days ago announced the restoration of the ancient kingdom of Poland, much of the territory “ceded” being at the present time in possession, and now comes the rehabilitation of the medieval realm of Lithunia, carved from prov- fnces which Germany has conquered and others which she desires to con- auer from Russia. Concerning Lithunia, from according to cable advices, the mans hope to reeruit 150,000 citizens for service under Ficld Marshal von Tlindenburg, the M 2! &iv the following informa- tion in a war geography bulletin: “Wher the third and final dismem- berment of Poland was accomplished in 1795 bpractically all of the me- dieval principality of Lithunia, which had been amalgamated with the king- dom of Poland nearly 800 years pre- viously, passed into the possession of Russia. Its area at that time was about equal to that of Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania com- bined, and comprised the territory now embraced in the Russlan gov- ornments of Kovno, Grodno, Vilna, Minsk, Mohileff, Vitebsk, and Suwal- ki Much of this land is now ococu- pled by the German armies of the cast front. “Lithuamia is an uninviting region as a whole. It is a succession of fens and forests, ill-suited to agricultural pursuits of any sort, but the 2,000,000 Tithunanians and 1,300,000 Tetts who inhabit the land gain a livelihood chiefly by the culture of bees and the raising of cattle and horses. The Dnieper, the Niemen, the Pripet, the which, numerous rivers which flow through the country, and as there are few ele- vations, the courses of these water- ways are usually extremely and spread over wide areas forming extensive marshes. " “The Lithuanians are an independ- [ Union, ‘(‘nt pbranch of the Aryan race, and, Ger- 1 ional Geosraphic | Bug, and the Duina are among the | sluggish | owing to the swamp nature of their homeland, were able to maintain their integrity as a people in spite of the fact that during the early middle ages they suffered constantly from in- vasions by their more powerful neigh- bors. The Order of Teutonic Knights and the Livonian knights of the Or- der of the Sword were especially vig- orous in their onslaughts upon the semi-savage tribes which adhered to their pagan worship long after most of Europe had acepted Christianity. “One of the legendary heroes of Lithuania's early struggles was Ryn- | gold, but the first definite historical | facts concerning the country and its chiefs - date from the time of Men- dowg, Ryngold’'s son. This chieftain was recognized by Pope Innocent IV and ruled for twelve years, from 1251, but the real founder of the king- dom was the resourceful and states- | manlike Gedymin, (1318-1341) who built the city of Vilna, which became | his capital. He entered into negotia- tions with Rome looking toward the Christlanizing of his country and thereby gained a brief respite from the depredations of the Teutonie Knights. When the time came for the Grand Prince’s baptism, however, it | was found that the pagan faith exer- cised so strong a hold on the imag- | ination of his people that the cere- mony was postponed. Gedymin ex- tended the bound of his domains far to the south and east, at the expense of the Russians, and in his recogni- tion of the advantages of western civ- {lization. as indjcated by the welcome which he extended to immigrants he anticipated the far-sighted policies of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great. “Gedymin had seven sons who aft- er a protracted perfod of rivalry, acknowledged the supremacy of Ol- glerd, the most adroit of their num- ber. Olgierd’s heir, Jagiello, founder { of the Jagellon dynasty, was one of the most potent faotors in the ad- | vancement of Lithuania’'s power. He introduced Christianity in 1387 and erected a cathedral in Vilna on the site of the ancient pagan temple. By ; his marriage to Jadviga (or Hedwig) daughter of Louls the Great of Po- ,land, he eventually ascended the throne of that country under the title of Wiadislaw, but following his death the two countries had separate | rulers for 100 years. The union of | the two governments under one sov- ! ereign in 1501 was securely cemented » by a decree of th Diet of Labiin, six- ty-ight years later, and from time the history of Lithuania merged into that of Poland. ‘At the beginning of the fifteenth century the Jagellons held sway over a vast domain extending to the south- east as far as the sea of Azov (the northern boundary of the Crimea) and embracing Kiev and Haji-bev, (the modern Odessa). “In Napoleon’s Russian campaign the Lithuanian capital of Vilna was made the center of strategy of the French lines, and after the disaster at Moscow the retreating emperor again visited the city, leaving it in disguise on the night of November 24, 1812, ‘“Unlike their Russian and Polish neighbors, the Lithuanians have blue eyes, light-colored hair and fair com; plexions.”” that wal ‘Winter Walking. (The Cleveland Leader). Winter weather diminishes greatly the ttme spent in the open air those who ride in automobiles. It comes near putting bicycles out of use. From steamboats to canoes, there is almost entire cessation of wa- ter outings. Al] of which means that more walk- instead of less ought to be done in cold weather. There is no other way of moving about in the open alr which keeps a healthy human being's feet so warm amd brings such a glow of warmth from the body Itself. If * the pedestrian is properly clad, es- pecially in respect to keeping dryshod all of the effeots of winter walking should be benefloial. With a little care and discretion sach exercise can be made as agree- able as it is wholesome. Usuall there 1s no dust. Often the temper- ature is neither too low for comfort nor too high for vigorous exercise without weariness or lassitude. Rightly ttmed and kept within bounds, winter walking i{s a good pre- caution against the 11l effects of seden- tary life and too much indoor air. by Are We Completely Chinafied? The last of married men’s inalien- able rights s tn jeopardy In the West- chester courts, and yet nobody seems to rally to its defence. A woman actually asks for a separation from her husband on the ground that he stayed out late at night playing poker. g If the roads to the White Plains Court House are not clogged this day , with married men ready to die in the last ditoch in defence of man’s sacred privilege, guaranteed under the con- stitution, then indeed are we a molly- coddle nation.