New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1917, Page 14

| | The Home Is No Cozer Than Its Floors Bare floors make a home as uninvit- ing as bare walls or windows. Pleas- ant warmth and cheer enter a room as soon as you install NEPONSET FloorCovering Made in agreeable color designs spcc:ally suit- able for bed-rooms, kitchen, sewing-room, nursery, porch, halls, closets and bath-rooms, Many special patterns for every room. *Sanitary, ecasily washed, waterproof and en- during. A tough, thick, resilient fabric that takes the jar and noise out of walking. Lies flat without tacking and won’t curl. Product of the ceritury-old manufacturing experience of one of New England’s oldest firms. Come in and pick your pattern today. ; “Quick ActionWill‘Save-a-Dollar’ and More for You!” —Says The Newark Shoe Maker. Over 200 Styles in Men's High and Low Shoes at $2.95 smart Newark Styles for Spring and Summer are still $250, $2.95 and $350, despite the fact that shoe prices have gone out of sight, so to speak. If we hadn’t placed our contracts before the wave of high prices set in, we would have to charge you more than $2.50 &%and&fi!orthue fine styles. But when these are gone, our present low prices will be no . more. So we urge you to buy now We certainly have never shown a ‘more select or smarter array of Spring and Summer models. They are beautles Come see them. Newarl( Shoe Stores Co., NEWARK SHOE STORE NEAR R. R. CROSSING. and Mondey and Saturday Evenings. When ordering by mail —3229 STORES IN 97 CITIES.— 324 MAIN STREET Other Newark Stores Nearby—Hartford, Wi Parcel Post Charges. Made by BIRD & SON (Est. 1795) East Walpele, Mass. J.A ANDREWS&C0. BERSON & CO0. ~1GOST OF LIVING IN ITALY STILL CHEAP Restrictions Responsible for Keep- | * ing War Prices Down Rome, April 20.—After two years of war, Italy continues the cheapest country in which to live of all those engaged in the present struggle. 1 In the larger cities the housekeep- i ers menu has become limited by gov- | ernmental degree forbidding the sale | of meats and pastries on certain days of the week, but otherwise the cost of food has hardly doubled. In the country towns and on the farms little or no attention is pald to such re- strictions and there food is scarcely dearer than before the war except for | meat, sugar and coffee. While only brown bread may be sold, its price is filve cents a pound, the government shouldering the increased cost of wheat. Governmental regulations forbid- ding the sale of meat on Thursdays 'and Fridays, and of cakes, pastry, honey and chocolate on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, have not limit- ed consumption but encouraged specu- lation in all foods. When sugar was raised, it became difficult to buy and can now only be had in 5-cent pack- ages or on a purchase of coffee. When meat sales were restricted eggs were sold at 5 to 6 cents each. or were stored for a rise until huge quanti- tles were confiscated by the govern- ment. Politics and Eggs. The difficulties of housekeeping have become such in the large citles that sugar, eggs, and other articles cannot be obtained by family cooks, unless some member of the servant's family has political influence. For this reason it is not unusual to see diplomats, ambassadors, ministers, consuls and others foreign officials go- ing to market and carrying home their own packages, since the storekeepers dare not refuse them the articles re- fused the servants. Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page has been one of the persons in Rome -{to try to solve the flour, ham and sugar problem by making an impor- tation from the-United States. At present his is the only family of the American colony in Italy which has as much as a barrel of sugar on hand. Some American families gave up housekeeping and went to live in ho- tels but there, since the food restric- tions, they are unable to get butter wtih their bread at breakfast, and in many cases have to substitute honey for sugar in their coffee, a food sub- stitute not unlike the molasses sweet- ening prevalent during the Civil War in the United States. LEARNING TO MILK ON ‘DUMMY COWS’ Girls in England Then Go Into Nanny Goat Class Copped Hall, England, April 20.— The “dummy cow” is perhaps the " most interesting part of the machinery of the new schools of farming which are springing up all over rural Eng. land for the purpose of teaching rudiments to young women volun- teers for work on the land. Of these schools, one of the largest is close to London, on the borders of Epping Forest, which is to the British metropolis what Bronx Park is to New Yo The school is on a large ecclestastical estate known as “‘Copped Hall,” where the girls are billetted in towering, lavish buildings of ancient red brick, once the shelter of hooded monks and leisurely friars, # The school boasts of ten “dummy caws,” on which the would-be milk- malds must practice milking. ‘The dummy consists of four tripod legs and an India rubber bag with four red rubber teats. The ‘bag is filled with water, then the instructor adjusts the flow at either “hard,” “medium,” or “‘easy,” and the novice goes to work. ,After a week's practice on the dummy, two hours a day, the students are allowed to try their skill in milk- ing nanny goats. They must spend at least & week milking nanny goats be- fore they are allowed to touch a real cow. It is a great occaslon for a girl pupil when she is allowed for the first time to milk a cow, Goats Are Very Nice. “I've been promoted,”” remarked one student with a proud smile. This is my first cow. I have had a week at milking the dummy in the ‘cow school’ over the hill, and another Week in the goat stables, getting my Wrists and fingers into trim. The 8oats are very nice, but the dummy cows are not popular. It is very good practice, but it's.very much like prac- ticing on a dummy piano. You can’t get any sympathy out of it. Some of the girls close their eyes and try to imagine it is a real cow, but it takes a lot of imagination.” The students are supposed to com- plete their course in all-around farm work in about six weeks. Then they are scnt out to take places on regu- lar farms, where they usually work in groups of five or six. The superintendent of the Copped Hall school, who has been a practical farmer for thirty years, is enthusias- tio about their wark. ‘“The experi- ment promises to be much more suc- cessful than I ever thought it would be,” he said. “The giris mostly take very well to the life, which is healthy and interesting. Best of all, the cows and horses take to the girl labor quite naturally. Girls are more sym- pathetic with the cows than men or boys. Even our viclous cows and ‘kickers’ are much .better behaved than they were in the old days of man labor. When a man is milking a kicking cow and she suddenly lashes out, he usually retaliates by kicking back, and this double show of temper is bad for the cow and worse for the milk. The girls don’t kick back, be- cause a girl cant’ kick with any effect. They try soothing words in- stead, and it is wonderful what the human voice will do with animals.” Most of the girls thus far recruited are of a little above the average middle class socially. Some of them have been aristocrats. A young graduate who was sent to a farm about three miles from the school a short time ago gave her new employer quite a shock when she appeared with her trim leather suit, knee boots of Russian leather, and a servicable “farm hat” worth perhaps $25. The next day the school superintendent re- | ceived a note from the farmer’s wife: | “Dear. Sir: Our new farm hand has ' arrived and is entirely satisfactory, But we are in a quandary. Does she live with the servants or should she dine with me?” CHOKEN COMPANION TO DEATH. Annamites Dispose of Unpopular Com- rade in Own Fashion. Billincourt, Department of the Seine, France, April 20.—Seven An- namites of the Colonial corps sta- tioned here have just been sentenced | to penalties ranging from a year's imprisonment to death for taking the | life of a Nguyen vah Lock, ome of| their comrades, In Indo-Chinese fash- ion. Van Lock, the only Annamite sol- dier here who spoke French, was un- popular with his compatriots who ac- cused him of brutality, cheating at | cards, and usury; he lent them small | sums at 100 per cent. interest, they claimed. Seven Annamite conspirators, ap- proached his cot silently one night. | Four of them seized him by the legs | and arms and held him while another chosen for the execution seized him by the throat and strangled him to death. All seven then gave vent to exultant joy, each one in turn ap-'! proaching the victim and simulating | the act of strangling him. Ninety-three Annamite soldiers were in the barracks ward where this assassination was committed but not | one of them would reveal it. It was| == Fifty-Five Thereis not the slightest = manipula- ‘tion in Hart, Schaff- ner and Marx fab- rics. $18 and up. styles, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. Children’s Wash- able Suits in variety and quality, $1.00, $150, $1.75 and $2. . only the finger marks upon the vic- tim’'s throat that gave the surgeons traces of the crime. TO DISOUSS MINERALS. * London, April 20.—One of the topics to be discussed at the forthcoming | conference of ' representatives of Great Britain's colonies is a proposal to establish a government depsrtment of minerals and metals for the pur-' pose of developing the mineral re- sources of the empire. A branch of the department will be a bureau of mineral information which will supply facts as to all mineral deposits in the British Dominions. The New Britain Co-operafive' Savings and Loan Association (SUGGESTS PREPAREDN:SS) The man who uses hook and line Pulls in his single fish; They who join hands and pull a seine, Get all that man can.wish. And each man’s share is greater far, In size as well as weight. The secret of success is this, CO-OPERATE. ! Annual meeting of the Association Tuesday, April 24, 1917. Balloting for officers. and amended and revised by- laws from 7 to 9 p. m. ($15,000.00) will be paid shareholders in the 38th an T, series, these shares havmg matured. Subscribe for share now, in the new series. THE SECRET OF SAVING. Saving money is a pleasure if you have a special obje to save for; That is the secret of saving wifllflt feeling of sacrifice. ] o] 3 If you borrow money from this Association to build or? buy a home you have a definite object in view. You. seldom find a saving family paying rent. Our monthly: payment plan will enable you to own your home. Office Room 210 National Bank Buildm. Y. J. STEARNS, Secret: ki d 4 i