New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1918, Page 6

ts That b It backs the guns of tHelYar As its rippling colors Sway To the marching feet down dusty street— The Flag of the U. S. A the | I greet vou, It flirtters free on the Jand and | sea. | its Red and its White and Blue: Wherewver it goes against its foes Tis tollowed by soldiers true. the rattling thrum of the throbbing drum Tt gleams in the battle fray, And mever. as ver, has its match i been met— | Flag of the U. S. A. With To The | It waves and with the frowning guns No matter in war or peace; Midst the cannen’s cry it bravely fly the sounds cease. runs will it of the conflict With its filmy stars and itas blood-bought bar: Men follow it day by day And die to defend to the end— The Flag of the U. S. A, 4 —E. A. BRININSTOOL. | SOLVED. | final TRANSPORT PROBLEM half transported and a American i to Burope | A million troops can be this serted withhold but the Senate has Thers are not enotigh American bottoms for the purp but offer land of has avallable tonmage, 8 cownted on from neutral sources, is.satd te amount to four million tons, and it is expected that another four m#Mon tons of mew shifhing will ho | tormed omt this year. “Thos there is| in sight mueh more than the 7,500,- | 00@ tons of shipping said to be nec- essemy - to transport and maintain an Bty of | 560,000 men in France il So-the transport of this number of ' troops-by the end of 1918, pronounced | by an uninformed senatar as ‘pre- | posterous,” within the hounds of possthility It seems see the training, provisioning of this great army over-sea serviee, and to elude or| crushthe German water-serpents that | will seek the destruction of the| ships. In this last particular | been very fortunate hitherto, torpedoing of the with 200 a disaster of and then is inevitable vear, Secretary Baker a The government preferred the for the incredulous as | to | facts present, autery in the brought pablicity from Eng- million tons of shipping accepted. Our present together with an H one been i what is well only to to equipment and ! for | carrying wo have but the Tuscania, more than shows that transport | loss of | soldie \ the reported American this sort now | A BATTUE-ROYAT. There is some depate 3s to whether what is new going on in Russia is | civil war or war of the r ~—war with or news des tar order, The hazy against Germanv. patches are somewhat One man's interpretation of them ix as interpretation of another | that if Russia { is stifl | she is in civil war, good a Man. Some ® nation the just as truly the United States of America fou 186 gument it is ‘troops have sheviki another ht a between the years -of | and 1865. In support of this ar- pointed Polish Bol- while | out that hattled against the the Minsk district, army in Polish has made great advances ping stone activities of Lgainst Smolensic Moscow Nor must the the Cossacks be formot- ries of the Cassack he that Petrograd rais- to ten. The ar wronght such havoe leaders like Krylenko are now in ing an army ta compete against fiery fighters of the hills. Then again, there are v: rumors to ihe effect that the deposed Kerensky is now en- gaged m gathermg to his an smoag#o lead against his ememies. On ue side | torial in | called you iin | culed | Prussian, astounding | Kerensky | ing turn, | known | 170,000,000 of free people | to | Tonight the | | I NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25 0, 1918, Alexicff is content. ki rdcr R bis h foris onz the Bolshey o Kiev, and B iz icded Odes be civ nics of tho Kai- Russia over A ndred miles bate as to ot we should all lo in our baitle- a war the casc is are se e their Biferel s 6 remiins To b ) “hiz , all the he next ntil some hin N\ As ingpthe fth, <o with. the it is a not a eivil hattle- @ leszer 11 shall know HOS WORDS. newspaper is a great 4 . " ow an whi, v now pen had he_. itted night Janbary of Tacoma one newspaper- wishes his on i memor- able when he de- livered in \ himself the Joined edi- the Times As to another, one newspaper nan T.ean Trotzky! And T apologize. Like the rest. 1 azy at first. T took stock the aecusation thal you were a Cierman least a toal of the Pot We spy, or : am gan and vo ridi our all of us panned vou, and thercby showed ignorance Because You are nat crazy. nor nor a peanut Whether vou fail completely in your world peace plan—whether vou launch Ru t the first So- | cinlist natien or ave overwhelmed by | the immonsify of the task, as was onty (he =erolls of the com- | months tell But which ever way the wheel shalt | have at least | pregnant can vou. Leon Trotzk the sensation of man who has swayed a ago lecturer and a York Russian paper. Sinec then world in its vear You were a half-paid reporter on a New have climbed to the of Russia’s yau commanding place in the council foreign minister you have jarred the staid old British empire, the happy- their al- to go-lucky United States and lies: You have forced them rest of The And Austria to Hohcenzollerns state and to the the world | we fight too. vou just why expericnce was good for us yon have to a Tiin- That brought Germany and crisis mighty distasteful the denburgs and { also is good for evervybods. A mutt could not have done that. You zKy are nobody’'s mutt, Leon Trot- Remors my thoughi: A home so far away. Where | passed my happy with my playmates Zay To the little church where so many When my heart wa and life turn fondly to shildhood, young and and schoolhouse, hours T've spent light and happy my was innocent. There 1 had my bovish fancies and I dreamed my bovish dreams: (That was long before wealth's glamor seared my heart with ugly seams) Then our simple country homestcad was to me a wonderous place the fairest picture dear old mother's fare sweetest And was my the and While iy to m Wave passed too quickly sit alone thoughts are Aty turning Tiappy home anding in Oh vears tonizht | hovhood's my mother old. familiar place With her 3 stretehed me in motherly 1 can sce the to sreet embrace Oh, the honrs that have heen squan- dered in the sorbid Tust for goid, | the lives that have been ruined and the souls that have been sold. heartaches have caused And sorrows 1 all these The throu for riches. now are blinding tears In my cagerness seen through turn lace, So tonight my thoughts sadly that old E rd give wealth of just to my mother's the vears have wrought ihat once, so to | fami the And Suttans, face sad | s in happy hom aned ~1th te me are given, ittir here alone. \. M BEARDSLEY ower but 1I'm FACTS AND FANCIES. hat the on the much portanes on west part of Germany has had too publicity to be of mueh im- Middletown Penny-Press thing as being “too too. Jim Thorpe the prize ring if he weren't afrald that if he ever hit a man as hard as he could, he'd _break his wrists.—Meriden Recard. big drive front such a fight There's strong to says he'd into = BY LIEUT: FITZHUGH GREEN, U. FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY s, N Glands God man who first rkespeare. He and tho sense in the blackest wit: and with the in- veated sleep shouid have of humor.” For deep of life lio jewels of sparkles everywhere most delightful inconsistency’ Licture the stern ymetallic matter- of-factness of a battleship’s engine room. Glittering steel, cold and hard and sharp. Crisseross rods and arms, the of a modern main-enzine. Wouid you think to look at one glinty capsule of the mechanism that therein lay a juley kernel of humor uldpd sloom humoy giant tabric Glands they are called under and fits wera repair one around a h particular bits day in port. A piston-rod where it passes out of a cylinder and prevents steam leak- A gland is secured fo the piston ana is in two parts with soft stton or metallic packing between it and the rod. By settinz-up on screws connecting these fwo parts the pack- ing is passed in tizht and plugs the space through h steam and water cscape sistant m his His p fere Smith.” he 0 tell th e some might The sweat enzineer offieer with a was e wiped 2 rimy’ usted to oiler, ands are in to see them.™ disappeared up the on the ship brow ind ence said the chief these 1na The messenser ladder, He he ought was new WOMAN, LOVELY WOMAN. Did You Fver Beautiful While On Ankle Spos (Kansas City Star). Ever since the slit skirt began some vears ago demand her ‘serv- ces, the ankle specialist has bcen kept busy rubbing encroaching fat away from nicely built ankle bones She is coining money, the ankle masseuse, and bids fair to supersede the Vernon Castles in making money out of feet Very woman who Stop to Consider Fow ful Woman Looks to auietly, almost secretly, the aiptures shapeless ankles into shapeliness has plied her trade. At first she dared not display a sign. and was supposed merely to transform faces impart to wrin- kling hands a® appearanc of vouthful roundnes But vou were told by your be friend that new beanty parlor some one *ho could wond take cvery ounee of off them, and in such a short time.” It vour ankles weren't kind vou climbed the were told when you cret parlor within a climb was just the to reduce your ank must be careful to sct every time. When observation that your foot couldn't be set down flat in a high-hceled pump you were told that jt vou let it cxtend over the ed step. The finatly and and nec “the do nkl the two flights, reached parior thin hony and the se- that the You needed ut that you vour feet down after you religiously did so, acquiring the habit when going wit it a somewhat un- ir-mounting, consider how woman looks or descending that is lar ustom of \merican home: custom of feat- gardens and in the dim ankles are freed eritically exam- benu- when the vou ever st tifnl a graceft she is stairs? T ascending think for uring staircases in and for the very old uring them in Italian Safely up the stai little “parlor” the of their covering and ined by the cxpert After enduring few moments, vou “Do you think them S “Why, sponsible the new for a inquire: reduce the anxiously vou can scrufing but sonie ves,” is the responsc it will take a little timo and work outside. vou know The truth is, you haven't seen those anKles for scveral years, except in a mirror, but you recall with mreat distinctness how slim they were once upom & Hme You thrill with the thowght that the slimness may storafl Thae massage begins. strokes are toward the curious to know why that the npward stroke has a tend- eney to remove tha fatty growth in the direction of the finger strokes. Of course, most of it is disposed of altogether by this means. but part it {s much better to have it cling the calf than to the instep You agree with this and sink on vour ecushions to enjoy the manipulation of vour perflous tis- and to dream of the day when shall be able to wear a frock reaches just below the calf with a heavy band of fur all around the bottom will have a tend- ency to make vour veduced appear still mora reduced. You earry with you from ‘parlor” a rather formidable | instructions for the outside work, vou faithfully perform the exercises recommended, alwavs with visions of that fur-trimmed skirt in mind. As 4 child vou siept in carl papers qoite ~heerfully the aay before your birth- say party and vou haven't lost vour femininity. Now there are calties in New York street sign may be minute in Kansas City. Always the calf. vou tol to ba ok sue yom that which, several ankle spe- citv, and a expected any Quest of Hidden Wealth. (New York World.) The great financial problem con- fronting Premier Lenine in Russia is how to et the hidden wealth of the country. If he were popular and re- rcted he might negotiate a loan. Tf. he were powerful he might levy taxes, Having none of these aqualities, h, summons a choice azaregation of ma. rauders and instructs them to pro ceed into every province on errands of confiscation With expenses 28,000,000,000 of , @nd had to Hence the | ; TODAY'S TABLOID TALE | | you ventured the | could if | of the ; Pid | feat- be re- | Being | of | and | ankles | ask his way “8ir,”" he says to tell are bad and And pardon the trouble is right.' answer, to siek bay to the chief reported, “Mr. vou, sir, that his | yYou ought to sece me, sir, lower down.” was the “now go and tell the you have some castor him in about ten minutes Tha man went aw muttering stor oil may do,”" he said to him- self. “but It's new glands is what she needs.” He had to explain twice to the steward before he could gef a pint of the Jubricant, which scemed entirely flicient for a six fool piston rod. After a brief surgeon entered the sick- Steward,” he said a ‘m afraid Mr. Lemk's fon- coming on a W can't an cpidemic her the he zat tha dosa of oil? ‘Well sir,” the steward replied. “1 ent him a pint, and bout two minutes his man came say that it was all two maore to room Lemiy glands them think “All prompt back to let 'l sea officer’s zht steward and stra oil ins space the ship's bay dispen- little anx- Wiy did bick siied for said one and And zallons wanted use 1 1lso it vou otter stead.” When the chief ~well he had a which we niay any luck y sular engine zrease in heard sense of ‘hout it be humor, for al] thank God Ry Joe Blast It Makes the World Round Young Holdem stridily through the forehead wrinkling wrinklinz like as it always did Off thought for a dense unpleasant almost Sl the they do Go off paced park, his and un- an accordion when Holdem deeply. Lixcept fog and a stead drizzle. it was perfect evening. have to decide plur tonight, are to it, to wait young man and take that's all it simply won't no longer.” the thought determin- caly, Foi reader the benefit who are acquainted with of the many not already Holdem Off's predicament, we will that for many weel pulled this the wdely varied overwhelming young women Murphy now peculiar expli he hi been and ¢ hy but equaliy charms of two Ollie Margs Thisbe Pox dened by the determined way Arine unti mad e make his girl uncertaint to choiee the abide by Oof with velons ind e lucky he reasoned » ‘Ollie is a ms cook and her scalloped peanuts arve At for a king, not to speaik of her twissled toma toes Western stvle or her pan- ned pan-American pancaies but then Thishe's china oh. Thisbe's china Bt Ollie makes most stunning seraps of thix remnants of what there's blue blua the out of and know hand saney little Then Oltie i< never wastes make a dollar Brew be- dimples, dresses and nobods that hut o This nose to think of. naturatly thrifty a cent and can grow where if never fore- but Thisbe's hanz it they'd be awful hard to up for ever. O lia or Th Ollie or This bie? Ollic has a wonderful mind- reads Shakespeare and Yleanor Giyn and all those writers, and can cntertain fellow for hours—Dbut Thisbe's giggle. darn it. Thisbe's gig. sle! That decides it —she's {he perfect wife!” And he ran be's the otl all house and opred. and iater the judge confessed the cutest ever been the way fo Th and months propose was A thirfeen court wns had divoree that wife he that him litle up before 1918 by George Matthew Adams) rubles yearly 000.000.000, ment finds and an income the revolutionary that the only to bankeuptey Is theft. Tt will shock the Junkers, of course, to hear that first of all their friend Lenine is go- | ing to steal land. and so he can hard expect any valuable assistance in that | quarter. Since it is hidden wealth that he covets, he will miss the oppo tunity of his life if He fails to consuit the falent (o be found at Constanti- nople: Clever as they are in many the Turks ables. of 3 zowern- respects, Germans are no match for in uncovering In the Teutonic empires still adhere to the ancient practices of ng. borrowing and inflating, but is coarse work in comparison with the financing of the bashi-bazouks, | who apply fire to the feet of the reluc- tant capitalist until he gives up his possessions. secreted valu- Tt is hardly possible that Talaat Bey and Enver Pasha have any patent on this device, and so, as a dear friend of their dear friends in Berlin, Premier Lenine would be fully justified in ap- plying to them for instry | | | i but I} the | they ! | u'd altermative | g Watch tomorrow’s paper for the Connors Halloran Announcement. GELEBRATING ANNIVERSARY QUR 26th With a Monser Sale SALE Morning, Feb. 26th BECINS THESday at 9 0°Clock St And Continuing Through Wednesday and Thursday superior quality are offered APPRICIATION of the libe l.l‘ of viling people 6th AN- In this sale vast quantities of merchandise market prices, AS AN EXPRESSSION OF OUR of New Britain and vi W NIVERSARY CELEBRATION. FROM OUR READY-TO-WEAR DEPT. THESI: ANNIVERSARY SALE OFFERINC Adjustrite Wash Dresses House Dresses Sizes 36 to (6—of fine quality ginghams in stripes, | of fast color gingham and pepcales, regnlar $2.50 checks and pla colors. These dresses are real | values. Anniversary Sale Price $1 86 . KACH Chi.dren’s Raincoats TS ganienmany Ge P 86¢ waon S ohs faer) $1.46 Children’s Wash Dresses Look for Second Floor e e Bargain Tabie versary sale pi Remarkable values far less than pr [).lllun price ripes $1. and plain colors, values. . 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ASE OF WHITE TURKl SH TOWEL" e 29¢ racu BED SHEETS YARD One Lot Fancy SpTing Checks and plaids, 75¢ values An- 39c values, Anniversary 59¢ Turkish Towels at LACTE 35c Turkish Towels at Size, 20 For Value $1.98. i $1 -66 FACH quality with Pequot ACH $1.00 Unbleached Table Damask This ably KNIT UNDERWEAR .AND "HOSIERY EVERYDAY NEE AT ANNIV SARY SALE SAVINGS ( hndren S Woo, Un.on Suits | Women’s Wool Union Suits RIIT81.36 $1.76 $1.46 $1.56 ""fl?flui"l"'EJ"IZ";TOL“.,$l 36. $1 56 66¢ $1.50 Part Linen Damask at compares favor- sheets. grade at grade at grade a SUIT HILDRENS WOOL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, $1.00 values at EACH PLEKCED SHIRTS A MEN'S RIBBED ND DRAWERS, 85¢ values LACH KNIT SLE Value$1.00 16c, 29(:7 36C7 590; 96C and Silk Hose values to 50, values Valne $1.00 | WOMEN'S HOSE—special PAIR will find vou Lisle Hose 65C—THC at BOYS All BLOTUS Styles. ACH 39¢ values at EACT this sale BACH 39C Anniversary ‘TY-FIVE DOZEN M Al now.spring styles, GLOVES, NECKWEAR, CHIEY'S, that ave remarkable. values for this Sale TOPS \T THOUSAND UMBRELLAS Children’s 86(: W $1.15 v $1.26 Men’s and Women's at $1.46 ., $4.96 1.98 t» $7.98. CAMISOT, values value §1 YARDS FOR 36(: $1.96 $2.86 ., $5.96 $2.00 zrade GEORGETTE C(REPE, sale price $1 76 YARD WIDE RIBBONS of all kinds, regular OSTRICH BOAS, priced value $1.98 FOX SCARFS, priced Drapery and Rug Dept. Anniversary Sale Offenngs : “* $1.46 | | 8 in the lots. Valne $1.6 | BLANKETS $2.25 value $2.25. ' $1.36 TWO HUNDRED PAIRS CURTAINS AN made with valance complete, ready to for this sale $1 .26 SIX HUNDRED POUNDS WOOL KNITTING $1.00 value. Anniversary sale price Sixty-eight Carpet ‘i\vfl*p«m niversary sale price FACH | price e WOoort, Regular $3.98 v sale FINT % HE D value. hang, ‘ l l‘r‘\"‘\