New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 3

Boston ston Store _An Interesting Showing of Ready to Wear GINGHAM DRESSES For Girls from 2 to 14 years of age, Ranging in Price from 59¢ to $1.65 each The finest assortment we have ever assembled. Artistical- ly designed and carefully made. In Our Infants’ Wear Sec- . tion you will find many dainty creations in long and short Dresses, Caps, Bonnets, wor- sted Goods, Carriage Robes, etc., etc. Some very swell Designs in “Sport Suitings” have just ar- rived, in a variety of styles # and colorings, at 25¢, 38¢, 42¢ and 50c. These will be the leading fabrics for the coming season. Special Attractions in MIDDY BLOUSES The combinations have never been so pleasing as . See what we arosllow- o mg, at 98¢ each. Coughs and Colds (on cheet and another ‘betwoen shoulder blades) When the Feet Burn ‘When you feel that you cannot take another step because of the awful €% burning, painful sensation ¥ in your feet, get a bottle of Id\ &00d old reliable Minard’s liniment. In a few min- /= utes you will know 'why - .1 everybody recommends Min- d ard’s liniment for poor, ach- J ing, sore feet. It reduces the inflammation that causes the ftch- Ing, burning and swelling. It helps the blood to circulate and soothes and cools—and does mnot stain, burn or blister. It gives relief quickly-because of its healing, antiseptic properties and frees you from foot misery. POST CARPET (0. 219 ASYLUM ST., CORNER HAYNES ST., HARTFORD. PAPERS OF DISTINCTION and UNUSUAL BEAUTY The above heading describes our 1917 spring display. Not necessarily high-priced papers, but a showing of Wall Papers in every new and desirable pattern and coloring within every price range. Let us suggest and advise you as to color schemes. AMERIGAN WOMAN IN WAR-BITTEN LAND Chairman of Surgical Dressings Committee Writes of Experiences Thrilling experiences at the war front by Miss Carita Spencer, chair- man of the National Surgical Dress- ings committee, are related by Miss Spencer in this week's installment of news concerning the activities of the committee, which has a local branch consisting of a number of society leaders. Miss Spencer was the guest of Belgium's queen and she had many adventures which befall few American women at home or abroad. Part of the recital of her journey, as penned by herself, follows: The train crawled on abaut as fast as a horse would jog. I wasg hungry, as, with civilian-like lack of fore- thought, I had provided myself with no lunch or dinner. I-sat close to the window, looking for lights of Calias, which never came. The train stopped and a kindly conductor with a white badge on his arm, which shows that he is mobilized ,helped me to stumble out in the dark. There had been a “Zep” alarm, and not a single light was visible in the overcast night. I pushed along with groups of soldiers into the station, where, in an inner Toom, an officer sat at a small table with a small shaded lamp and ex- amined passports. He was duly suspicious of me until I showed him the legation paper. Stumbling and groping like the blind man in “Blind Man’s Buff,” I was finally rescued by a small boy who piloted me across the bridge to a door which he said was the G—— hotel. They refused to give me food because not even a candle was permitted. In the dark I went to bed. In the Queen’s Motor Car. The palace motor car came prompt- ly at 12:30 and I got into it with my little bag, wondering whether I was going into Belglum to Temain two hours, two days or two weeks. I noticed that the car had seen service, The glass was cracked even where protected by wire netting and the upholstering was threadbare in spots, but there was nothing the matter with the engine, and we whizzed along at a goodly pace. And now began what I call the saluting habit. All the two weeks that I was in Belgian soil I was of course never unattended, and if any passing soldier did not salute the officer at my side or the official motor in which I rode, I was con- scious of an extraordinary omission. My official motor carried a special horn which cleared the road of man and beast. The flelds on all sides were tilled. I wondered who the workers were, when what do you think I saw? Forty children in a row, boys and girls, all ages, from the little tot to the boy who would next year be in the army, each with a hoe. In front of them stood an old man who beat time with a stick while the children plied tI hoe, and I warrant they had a happy time doing it, In a small villa I met the Queen, pretty, charming and gracious, with wonderful eyes that seemed to look straight through me and beyond. We talked for quite a long time, and she asked me what would interest me most to see in the little corner of Belgian Belgium. I replied that I should like to see everything that waa being done in a constructive way for the soldiers, civilians, children. With the promise that my wish would be gratified I took my leave. “What in the world is straw fixed up that way for?” I asked. “That is a curtain of straw which stretches for miles along the road behind the trenches to hide ‘our motors from the enemy. A motor means an officer, and if they could see us we would not be here long.” We stopped behind the straw screen and got out, crawling under it into a communication trench. I had better call them ramparts, for this district, you know, was the inundated land of the Yser. One hundred vards in this winding alley of concrete and sand- bag wall and we reached the main trench, a solid substantial rampart of concrete, sand-bags and earth, with the grass growing on the side facing the enemy, Here the soldiers on duty lived in their Zttle cubby-holes in the wall And, if Sou please, do not suppose that- these : damiciles went unnamed or unadorned. One was inscribed “Villa Netienfaispas”—Don’t- Worry. How commonplace trench life has become after these two long vears of habit! Nowadays men do not go to, the office and the shop. They go to the trenches.for daily duties. These trenches we were in were main-line, where the enemy was not supposed to penetrate unless rude enough actually to break through. . So. .the soldiers portioned off the rough earth beside the board walk that ran parallel to the rampart, and first they had a little vegetable garden, and next"to it for beauty’s sake a little flower garden, and next to that little gravevard, and then the succession repeated. FKive hundred yards beyond the main lines, across the inundated fields streaked with barbed wire stick- ing up out of the water, was the front line trench, a rougher rampart, maostly of eaTth, and when it rained—oh mud! I sat outside on a bench one morn- ing talking to a young Belgian officer who was so badly wounded the first year of the war that he will probably never go back to the front. We were talking of beautiful things, music, painting and such like. One of the ambulances drove in. He paid no at- tention, it was such a common occur- rence, but I was all eyes. You have seen the ice wagon dripping on a warm day? The ambulance was dripping too, but the drops were red! One stretcher was lifted out and an orderly standing by raised the cover at one end. I saw something that had once been a head with a human face on it. The next stretcher contained a Chesterfield CIGARETTES of IMPORTED and DOMESTIC fobaceos — Blended ' Zoge dllen & o HARTFORD Corsets Never So Charming As This Sprmg Today it is easily possible to buy more, dollar for dollar, tha‘ ever before. Corset Department. You can prove this any time by paying a visit to UW This is a season of practical innovations and values. Royal Worcester Corse‘ts‘o reflect in your figure the latest by fashion, Every woman needs at least two f lines and lovely curves as demanded pairs. Perhaps she has bought one of our more expensive corsets for better wear but wants another pair that costs less. Such women and others who prefer to pay, $1.00, $1.30, $2.00° or $2.50 will do well to buy the Royal Worcester. Corset Specialists and. Com modious I-‘m(ng Rooms at Our New Corset Shop. Leonard and Herrmann Co. - NEW THINGS SEEN IN THE STORE. CRETONNE BAGS for Laundry and Fancy Work purposes. They sell at 50c, 75¢, $1.00 each. Made of very pretty floral patterned cretonne, beautiful colorings. See Them, When You're in 165 Main Street, New Britain Dleasing the taste Here is a cigarette that, in addition to pleasing the taste, ‘does a mew thing, the one thing you’ve always wished a cigarette would do— Chesterfields let you know you are smoking—they “SA T ISFY ny And still, they’re mild! The pure, natural Imported and Domestic tobaccos are blended in a new way—that’s what doesit. And the blend can’t be copied. If you don’t believe there can be more to a pure cigarette than good taste—buy a package of Chester- Shad ‘Halibut Haddock Smelts Scallops Two Stores DAINTY BOUDOIR CAPS in the newest effects. Made of pretty laces and fine quality silks. Wonderful assortmet to choose from. Selling at 50c, 75¢, 89c, 98c, $1.50 each, the Next Time. 227 Main Street, Middletown * | FRESH FISH SPECIAL Sea Bass Cod Steak Mackerel Herrings Oysters Finnan Haddie Clams MEAT SPECIALS Vermont Turkeys Roasting Chickens Native Veal Broilers Fowls Spring Lamb VEGETABLES " Celery, Lettuce, Egg Plant, Asparagus, Bunch | Carrots, White Onions, New Cabbage, Sweets, New Potatoes Grape Fruit, Oranges, Bananas. C. A. HALL, 238 Main Street TEL. T! YOUR HOUSE Fitted Compleie With ELECTRIC LIGHTS| AYEARTO PAY FORIT or 5% FOR CASH 4 Months Lighting FREE - Mazda Lamps FREE Let Us Tell You the Rest THE SPRING & | BUCKLEY ELEC. CO. man wounded in the legs. One of the nurses spoke to him and he tried to smile. The next was carried without com- ment to the ti stone hut in the fast-growing little gravevard just back of the house. These kind folk would find time to bury him and send a picture of his grave with a few words of how bravely he died, to- gether with the number of the chain at his wrist, to headquarters to be forwarded to his fami CENSUS OF FERTILIZER. Industry Preparing Figures to Show Stocks on Hand. Na- an- Atlantic City, April 12 he tional Fertilizer associntion nounced today as a measure of na- tional defense, the appointment of an advisory commitice to make & thorough sur of the indust to ascertain stocks of raw materials on hand, together with an estimate of what will be required for a period of one year beginning July 1. These flgures, Says a Atatement by * tomorrow. the executive committee, *will be n_\ed in any way that may be of ser- vice to the government or the indus- MAIOR BURKS DEAD 75-77-79 Church Sireei Safety First—TE[, 9((—Quality Always | try to maintain a normal production of fertilizer without which food pro- duction in the United States would be reduced to an alarming point. Famous Indian Scout Was Associated With “Buffalo Bill” Neavly Half Beer, Wine or Liquors, Order Same from PHILIP BARDECK, 185 Arch St. Century as His Publicity Agent. ‘Washington, April 12.—Major John M. Burks, former scout in Indian wars and for nearly half a century as- sociated with the late Col. William ¥. fare and the necessity of co-operation | Cody, (Buffalo Bill), as publicity rep- between the parents and teachers for | resentative, dled of pneumonia here the best development of the child ! early today, aged 74 years. He had were among th~ chief subjects of dis- | been visiting friends here for scveral sion at the opening session of the ; weeks. venteenth annual convention of the | roe for D D.D. Connecticut Congress of Mothers. for 15 years the standard remedy for all lkln Instant The delegates were welcomed by Mrs. E .8. Schwerdtle, president of diseases. A liquid used exlel'n rehtJlroml q 50c and $1. {wrm\q ihe Parents and Teachers’ association h. $5c, 'k if the first bottle does not bring yom ullel. . Soap. +RESS MEETS. Discussing Child Welfare and operation With Teachers. Bridgeport, April 12—Child wel- MOTHERS' CON Co- CONSTRUCTIVE ADVERTISING SEM us for ORIGINAL IDEAS for yoar PRODUCT. A poatal will have our salesman explain our illustrating department. The A. PINDAR CORP. 6168 Arylum St., mmom, ">hone CIL 1141-2 lawson, superintendent of schoois. on “parents’ co-operation with the teachers.” Election of officers will take pla of this city: The program for t he “Ask also about D; D. D. day included an address by Samuel Clark & Brainerd Co., Druggists. If You Want Good Bottled ’lene 482-2 FRESH CARLOAD WILL ARRI TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1917, Banner load of season. Fresh Stod Clever and well-broken, ready to hard work. Several matched pairs 1 pair fancy brown geldings, 3500 b a real quality team. 1 pair black] 3150 ms. 1 pair browns 2950 Ibs, pair fancy chucks, 2750 Ibs. Sevel real chunks, 1050 to 1600 Ibs. Al several acclimated horses, taken in change, ready to do a lot of work, at a sacrifice price. 1 pair bay 6and 7 s 0ld, 3000 Ibs, 1 real go chestnut, 1 1bs, and several ho: 1100 to 00 1bs. These horses on the bargain counter and must sold to make room for nnuther C load. P. H. CONDON & CO., Ine 30 Laurel Strect. Bristol, ‘Phone 58-3. Co