New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1923, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 28,1923, youngest a baby of but a few months, held in the arms of a little girl of eight, All were seated in a row on A wall from Mamie ‘greeted the |, \wooden bench, with their feet dang- . young state trooper's statement in the ling and their little faces ~ “hoose gow,"” and that he had frlsh!-j-""“k"‘ with tears, ‘Oh, ence | Onedr:‘l:;eht:filldren into obedience with [ing over to the sroup, “How cramped 1n | this child must be holding this baby." “Oh, let me go to the children! b k she pleaded, and T spoke quickly, The young officer looked uncom- "What harm can she do? And|fortable. That he was natursily a the children must need her terribly.” |Kindhearted boy was patent, but he “She can upset the evidence, the|Was 80 impresced indeed obsessed, voung trooper replied amazingly, “if|“Ith the linportance and dignity of Bhe's as strong and as quick as her 1|8 Assignment that he had lost all mother, But come along"—he pulled ) ®Us® of proportion, the girl toward the house—'and re.| “If vou'll be responsible for them member that if you try any monkey! M#'am” he eaid uneasily, “T'll be g glad to let them down and move business, I shoot.” “Oh, 1 won't do anything ;" Mamie 2round the house. sobbed. ‘“Just let me go to the chil. they can do here. We gearched er every room before my buddy took the young ' ™Man and woman to the village, “Better comé along,' the % officer flung back superfluously at “Funny thing about this ! he ex- We never expected to find Katherine and me, for we were close Claimed. behind him, “and see what we found # 5till here. We were hunting for in the house here when we came in S0mething else in here,’ which we & little while ago.” He flung open the door to the 41.. Katherine and I exchanged signifi- lapidated old house, and we saw be-, cant glances. Was there somthing fore as a dingy kitchen whose fur- after all in Junior's prattle about a nishings were a stove, a table and|man getting out of a window? two broken chairs. But on the stove — was a queer copper contrivance from | ‘which liquid was dripping, and on the floor two wash tubs with a brown- ish, muddy liquid covred with white flecks. “Dot vere my tub go" Katie's voice sounded behind us and the of- ficer whirled to face her. ““What's this?” he said. ‘‘Another one? What d'ye men, your tub, and ! . Who "’:s,z:““"s' Apologisd? ‘the al;lyhur ends of matches in the Katle put her arms akimbo, and :;:u’?‘!u::ut"}'lzdp;::u‘m""“ faced the young fellow unabashed. | ? “I mean dot's my tub, you foony ! boonch of soup greens,” she hegan truculently, but with a swift move-: ment I thrust her behind me, whis- pering an imperative command for sflence, and faced the young officer sulted | ;‘;flt‘:‘ ;"_';::}fs"1:':':‘:"‘E:m_,f_’"’""°' about 15 minutes, then polish with a | “he is my housekeeper, Officer,” T 4T Plece of velvet. said quickly, “and she means that e the people here camo over to horrow “_‘“"‘h Meat one of our tubs this morning saying over, put your fresh. meat directly | they had an extra washing to do—" 9% the ice in the paper in which you | “Vashing”’ snorted the irrepressible g:‘"‘:h‘"d it. Lay it.on a porcelain | Katle. “Foony kind of vashing, ain’t “'%% Sn i eet? Taking my tub to make dot 2 Sewing Hint 1 divty hootch. 1 never can clean eet) ” e IRl Bhcost amel) dot sturr! | If cloth is so thin that you pucker Und, | o ¢ 'lor stretch it as yvou sew it on the ma- l‘".’k‘ All .M'r i Aopr f1ag) chine, lay a plece’of paper just under ‘Yes, we've seen that, Katle.” T said |, " 4 stitch through. When you impatiently, and, Indeed the uneven ... .way the paper the stitching will floor boards were soaked with the perfectly flat. stuff. “But you must apologize to the < gom el officer for what you said just now."” + “Vy vot I say?” Katie demanded with just a little too obvious inno- cence, and she looked the young of- ficer straight in the eyes. “T no re- member say notings, ‘Fef you tell me vot 1 say dot's bad. 1 say I'm sorry B oper lot.” Keep a plece of blotting paper “'The young state trooper swallowed |, 4er the cover on vour dressing his dignity. There was nothing else (;p1a Then if you spill anything it to be done in the face of Katie's ap-| i) be absorbed before it has a pnren! gutielessness, Significant Fact “If she's your housekeeper, Ma'am, it's all right,”” he said with an effort at nonchalance. “But you can't hmnw\ me for being shy of these dames.|ghqywi, decorates the full skirt of a The woman I found here with this ¢mart bouffant frock of black crepe still was as quick as a cat. She had’,)e chine, one tub partly upset hy the time I got through the door.” | 1 The girl, Mamie, looked around the\ kitchen wildly. “Where's the children?” she asked ! |gray georgette turban and a quaveringly. | stiver fox. lfl here.” | As he threw open the door to an- other room as bare as the first, we saw six forlorn little children, the - steps of stairs in helght, the|cven more popular for fall than eldest, a boy of verhaps ten years, the | has been for spring and summer. The “Evidence” the Officer Showed Madge and Katherine Gossip’s Corner Household Plants If the roots of your household plants seem infested with worms, stick Old Straw Hat To make a black straw hat look as bright and glossy as it did when you bought it, smear a little butter on an old plece of velvet and rub the hat with it, Leave the butter on for Cut Flowers Shave a few thin slices of a mild 1soap into the water before putting in | your cut flowers, They will stay fresh much longer. Dressing Table Embroidered Skirt Embroldery in rich shades, looking | e All in Gruv A smart tailored sult of siiver gray | matelasse is worn avith gray shoes, a smart Pleated Apron The pleated apron is an addition to Letter From John Alden Prescott to to me. She looking out of Sydney Carton. n B just lles there the window, as though she wanted | to pierce through the sky into the Great Beyond—into that Never-Never Land, which Barrie has described as being the abode of baby souls wait- ing to be born. She has never said a word to me about our baby. In fact, I do not !hlnk she has mentioned it to any- body. But every one of us can sec that because she knows now this child which she has longed for will never be hers, she herself does not want to live, had a of the has nd n Dear Byd: You can imagine, old chap, how gour letter messed up my emotions a8 well a3 my nerves. 1 don’t wonder you felt like moral-| feing a little. It's a queer thing that is happening to me just at pres- ent, isn't it? And yet I expect, if we only knew it and could look into, the hearts and minds of our friends and acquaintances, we would find| there are iust as many secret places where they fiave hidden away things they hardly confess to themselves, I &8s we have in ours. one No wonder you feit like moralizing, | ilton 8yd, but to tell you the truth I|York, éon't feel like moralizing like pretty Kicking myself all over the lot as far Poor darling, Leslie! Poor that Perrier! hody Actnally, Syd, woman pa would probably . science that helongs to elt those girls than my own this mo ment. 1 tell the torments of the damned have nothing on me Some people might think it gerrible for me to speak of Paula in the same breath in which 1 apeak of Lesiie, but poor little Paula was more sinned against than ne, and 1 am sure that 1.es heart, would understand I am the that mentioned Iy I am rignt of the time . e pe i v et Bhe is not all like her Byd. better suggest to your mother-in-law Bhe hasn’t mentioned in the alightest that she go Chitd Way that she would care to Home and pick out a little hahy bed bring it to vour Y have kKnown She accepts that: 1n Noms I Bt smile of hers, t Tomorrow golng to take for her. But Ao will to live nted $H a0 Eke word during with Ham- New long talk yesterday specialists that Mr. bronght down from he suggested that he was rly at the end of his string she He was not there with 1 feel concerned mind, and He told that was nothing the matter And yet T think I her, except the fact that nothing in- rather have the con- terested her, er of “I1f you could take little | said her her me you are right. “The really out of her should receive shock, might rmal. As it is, there is noth- physically, think &elf,” he said she great physical her back az 1 can see ing the matter with but 1 am sure thateshe is only ing of one thing “or some it bring very as vou to no far her hetter said any y weeks, "™ you to take and he one should not see if the un " to Leslie, an Souch mnder her no nothing over to the ren's wife with hat the loes not hardiy a whole time 1s awake, and 1 come in to falk to her at night in the morn- ehe scarcely pays any attention that acionus CRset are do to i we geem Leslie to a T asked answered yon coms speaks her if the she vish me to even when volre JATK or give myself. were | sald Katherine pititully, go- | There's nothing | didn't find and stumbled upon this.” | This will | chance to disfigure the wood beneath. | as if had been copied from a Spanish | like | a\lmost any frock and {s going to be| it | and | DATLY FASHION SERVICE Smart Coat Dress The coat dress is notable always for Its smart line. It ls that which has| given it long life, success and dis- tinction. There is only one way in which Its| | tailored trimness can be approved-- | that is, by the new fabrics, They come in new weaves, i Jacquard pat- | | terns, in brocade designs, in vague or| striking plaids. | A coat dress made of any of them| | asks for no trimming—it {s sufficiant- |1y smart in itself, b | BY SISTER MARY USES FOR SOUR CREAM | During dog days every house- keeper is sure to wake up some morn- ing to find the cream sour. In and of itself this is at best inopportune and at worst a tragedy, but after the immediate need for sweet cream is | supplied this sour cream will make some sort of u special delicacy. Of all frostings sour cream is one of the best. It never gets dry and rFugary and has a “taste” all its own. Sour Cream Frosting One cup sour cream, 1 cup granu- lated sugar, 1 cup nuts, 1-8 teaspoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon vanilia. | Cook cream, sugar, nuts and ealt in double boller till a soft hail is formed when a drop is tried in cold water, It will take a long time to cook, Beat till cool, add vanilla and spread «n cake, 134 tedspoons cream of tartar, 1 tea- spoon salt, 2 tablespoons eugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1'% to 2 cups sour cream, Mix and sift dry ingredients, in butter with tips of fingers. Cut in sour oream with a sllver knife The dough should he as soft as pos- sible ‘to roll. Roll about one-half inch thick and cut with a cookie cut- ter. Bake on top of the stove or on a well greased griddle Split and spread with butter t. serve, (Copyright, 1923, \YL\ Service, Rub Inc.) THE YOUNG LADY AGROSS THE WAY Salad Dressing One cup sour cream, 1 tablespoon 116mm\ juice, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1-2 { teaspoon salt. | Have cream very cold and whip | until stiff, Add lemon juice, sugar and salt and beat slightly. This ! ¢ressing 18 very nice with fruit salads, This Is an old-time cookie rule used by my grandmother, who be- leved in a full cookie crock. Cookies { Three-fourths cup bntter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, few grat- ings nutmeg. : Cream butter and slowly add sugar. Beat whites and volks of eggs sepa- rately. Add well-heaten yolks to but. ter and sugar. Mix thoroughly and add sour cream. Sift soda with flour and add to mixture, Fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Roll thir dough as soft as -ossible. | Certain kinds of flour will use more | than four cups, but add the last amount after adding whites. Roll Gough on a well-floured board, ahout one-fourth inch thick. Bake in a quick oven. Johnny Cake | One cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon | roda, 1 teaspoon salf, 1-3 cup sugar, 1 egg, 3-4 cup flour, 3-4 cup corn { meal. Beat egg well. Add ealt, sugar and flour and mix till perfectly smooth. | Add cream and corn meal. Dissolve soda In a little boiling water and stir | 1ieves it will be for home consumption ly and in her opinion the open in the last thing before baking. Bake|Oon {tn & moderate oven for twomy'b‘"k" shop is doomed, minutes. R s 5 | This Johnny cake is delicious wum Coloved Facings & cold luncheon of salad and cold| Colored facings are used on some | meat, tea and Johnny cake heing the of the most picturesque large hats, | only hot dishes. and white lace frequently relieves the ! Scotch Scones sombreness of the all-black under- | Four cups flour, 11 teaspoons soda, | prim. | - - -TIME Thadement CUFFY BEAR BY, ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY A QUEER FAMILY. and glared at Bear began to wish he hadn't| going on 80 long a vaca- tired of travel- a day from his| tisfying meal. | The young lady across the way says if beer ever does come back she be- ‘ iTAT ISBERS Rogiotanedy rose from behind it them. Fond as he was of pig, he made no move to join them at their feast He was too enraged to eat just then. “A fine way you've treated me!” Mr. said he tion. He was heartily ing back home twic cousin’s den, to get a “1 ought to have told Mrs, Bear 1 ex- rected to be away oniy one day,” he muttered to himself. “But then she'd| have saved her house-cleaning until my vacation was over. Maybe I did the thing, after all. Anyhow,| (his is the last day 1 shall spend at Cousin Tom's."” Mr. Bear had had his breakfast| with his own family. And now hr«f was toiling hack to the opposite side of the mountain, where his cousin Nved. “Let's zee,” he drew near and his family ate one ‘em right after daybreak went to sleep, just before 1 for home. Thoy'll b2 asieep still.” Mr. Bear planned to slip in softly and 1ie down and go to sleep himself. leaving his Cousin Tom and h s Cousin Tom's family none the wiser for Mr. Rear's morning jaunt RBut | when Mr. Bear came in sight his Cousin Tom's dooryard he had a great purprise. There was Cousin Tom and| his family, busily engaged in the| pleasant pastime of feasting on a pig The merrymakers 4id not notice Mr. Bear, who crept up seftly peeped at them from behind a clump of biackberry bushes. 1 thought he'd never go for good.” Bear heard Cousin Tom remark himeelf to a piece of hraim never guessed that we didn’t have our real meals untll he was out of thé way Di4 you notice that little frog Cousin Tom and his into roars of laughter. Then, all at once they and looked a around They teard another roar And it from a certain clump of blackberry &b‘)s]’\fl nearby, And then Mr. Bear | “Why, Ephraim!"” exclaimed his Cousin Tom. "I didn’t understand [what you said this morning. I ! thought you were going for good. I thought you “erent coming back. wisest Mr. Bear murmured, as | his cousin’s den. “Tom | frog among | Then they | started of and ¢uessed that we didirt have he was cut of the wag. thundered | Tom 1| I will now| I see Rear So I Well you at forever. uttered those words, Mr. and stalked oft see,"” Mr understand farewell Cousin last Mr as he helped the piz once | say Having Bearr turned about woods. , my vacation | remarked to Mrs. Bear reached home. “I shall Cousin Tom's family ne | he | is ended,” when never visit again. morning?” burst this tamily jumped came| though (Copyright, 1223, Metropolitan News- paper Service). . hWRY FRON, ALASKA Harding and His Party Leave and Are Due to Reach Vanocouver, B, 0, On Thursday, By The Associated Press. On Board the U, B. B, Henderson with President Harding, July 28— The navy transport Henderson bearing President and Mrs, Harding and the members of their party ploughed steadily southward today after the last visit to Alaskan ports pald yesterday at Sitka when farewell and good wishes for the territory's future de- velopment were sald informally, The next stop scheduled s at Van- couver, B, C,, Thursday morning. The president was welcomed on landing at Sitka by the entire popu- lation of the town gathered on the old parade grounds near where the actual transfer of the territory was made more than a halt century ago. EXPECT AGREEMENT Both Union Leaders and Coal Opera- fors Bay They Think They will Fnal- -~ Iy Reach Settlement. By The Associatad Pre: Atlantic City, July 23.—Four union leaders and as many anthracite mine operators gathered here today to re- new negotiations Interrupted 10 days ago to permit miners to attend a dis- trict convention at Wilkes-Barre, John L. Lewis, president of - the United Mine Workers of America and 8. D. Warriner head of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. and spokes- man for the operators were confident they would be able eventually to reach an agreement, The miners have made 11 demands three of which the operators have evinced a willingness to concede with- out argument. GALE BLOWS OVER CITY Elements Concentrate in Ten-Minute Attack, Blowing Down Signs, Trees and Telegraph Poles, Trees and telegraph poles ‘were laid flat signs were blown from buildings, telephone and trolley wires were broken, plate glass windows were smashed, street lights on nu- merous circuits were put out of order and hundreds of shoppers were drenched in a heavy rain, accom- panied by driving wind that lasted less than 10 minutes, Saturday night. At 2:30 Park street, a sign was blown off Thomas Fitzpatrick’s store and crashed through a window. A sign was blown from a store at 73 Church street and carried more than 20 feet up the street. In the Belvl- dere section trees and telegraph poles were laid low, On Stanley street, near St. Mary's cemetery, a tree fell across the track holding up trolley traffic and making it necessary for other vehicular traffic to detour. On East Main street, a tree fell in front of the Tanders home, ripping off several feet of flag sidewalk. Lone Amencan Winner In Swedish Contests Gothenburg, Sweden, July 23.—Bill Lux of the Brooklyn Central Y. M. €, A, sailing under the burgee of the Sheepshead Bay Canoe club, won the cliampionship for decked sailing canoes in a regatta held under the auspices of the Gothenburg Tri-Cen- tennial in the waters of the harbor here yesterday. The solitary Ameri- can cntrant was at the helm of his own canoe; a craft of his own de- sign, which he brought from the Unit- {ed States last month. Striking Dock Workers Persuade Others to Quit London, July 23.-—One thousand dock workers participating in the un- official strike who started marching last night from London reached Til- bury this morning as the workers there were signing on at the docks, The marchers persuaded several hun- dred of the Tilbugy men to join the BOTH WERE Theodore ('Mara ~ of street, aged 20, and Miss Anna Firt- nak of 86 Cleveland street, aged 19, applied at the office of Clty Clerk A. L. Thompson for a marriage license, Saturday afternoon. Both being minors, the city clerk advised that the consent of parents would he necessary. The young woman se- cured the consent of her parents, but O'Mara said his mother and father are dead, whereupon the consent of Selectman Charles P. Walnwright was sought and secured. T A T P ST . i T PR UST Johnson's Baby Powder where the rolls of tender flesh rub together and cool the fiery irritation with healing comfort, You want the best powder for your baby. You get it in Johnson’s. That is why babies, the world over, ars powdered with son’s. 257 YOUR DRUGGIST IS MORE THAN A MERCHANT Try the Drag Store First Best for Baby-Best for You [T vktins i ‘-n/ v Uniefd sthorirlos Indismbod, fHEALFIERI, OIS0t R0 reviowd I SRIN gl ¥oh ‘e wrltten hy the press agencles for the respective amusement company. RICHARD DIX AT PALACE The film offering at the Palace starting today for the first half of the week presents Reginald Barker's mas- terplece "The Poverty of Riches." Mr. Barker selected an excellent cast of popular stars for the roles and fea- tures Richard Dix and Leatrice Joy, hesides Louise Lovely, David Winter, John Bowers and Irene Rich have im- portant parts, Happiness—what it 1s? Contentment—what is it? Other fllms include Larry S8emon in his new comedy “The Barn Yard,"” a real laugh provoker that will he en- joyed. The vaudeville bill has four cloever acts and presents Cavanaugh and Cooper who will offer a fine sing- ing, dancing and musical act that will be well liked; Kinnear and I‘rabito are two comics with a new line of funny songs and talk; John Neff, “the ‘barnstorming comedian,” guarantees to make you laugh at his nonsensicali- ties, and the Canton Trio close this fine bill with Oriental novelties, Start- ing Thursday, Alice Brady, Nita Naldi and David Powell will be seen in “Anna Ascends.” Hearing on Chill Room At Municipal Abattoir Butchers interested in®the proposal to install a chill room and refriger- ating plant at the city slaughter house will be given a hearing to- night by a special committee of the common council, The committee has plans for the addition of two rooms to the present building, one as a re- frigerator and one as a chill room. The fees for slaughtering will be in- creased to an amount which, figured on the slaughtering done 'last wil provide an income of This will maintain the thdhlilhment pay the interest on the new invest- ment and $1,000 on the principal, it is clajmed. The committee proposes an ordinance to require that all beet be allowed to remain in coolers six hours before the stamp is affixed, and would make a charge for storage cver that time. Poli's PALACE HARTFORD (Ftarting Tonight POLI Presents 0LI PLAYERS otable Attraction A H. WOOD'S “The Girl in the Limousine” Featuring Frank McHugh and Mary Ann Dentler. This great farce hit is the work of Wilson Collisin and Avery Hopwood, authors of “Up in Mabel's Room.” Coming Next Week, Sensational Engagement MR. WM. RICCIARDI, in “PAPA JOE.” it appear 40 of the LYCEUM THEATER. I'or those who are interested in the life, both publie, professional and private, of the movie folks, the Ly- ceum theater today, tomorrow and Wednesday showing a plcture that will have a strong appeal. “Mary of the Movies,” said to be the most startling and realistic expose of life! at Hollywood, {8 the feature and in leading screen personalities, both male and female. The story is a real one and not fle- tion, concerning a young country girl who goes to the motion picture center believing that there she wilt get an opportunity to rise rapidly to fame and fortune. What she does experience, her trials and her tribu- lations, against the ,genuine Holly- wood background, make this picture cne of the best. On the same bill s round eight of “Fighting Blood,” accredited by mo« tion picture magazines as being one of the best serials yet produced. For the final half of next week the Lyceum has booked “Notoristy,” one of the strongest dramas of the pres- ent day. The underlying theme of “Notoriety” and the plot of the play is woven around such a person, on the stage whose publieity cravings bring about a tragic downfall. The Lyegum next week, for the first ‘three days, will present “Side- walks of New York,” one of the greatest storles of New York ever written, PALACE Tonight, Tuesday, Wednesday Richard Dix —And— Leatrice Joy —Tn— “The Poverty of Riches’ Children or Success? Which Would You Choose? LARRY SEMON, In “THE BARN YARD" VAUDEVILLE Cavanaugh & Cooper Kinnear & Frahito John Neff Canton Trip NOW PLAYING For a Cool Refreshing Drink— Phone 1271 And Have a Case Delivered The Nearest You Can Get Ask Your Grocer For Krueger’s Distributor - MORRIS ROTSTEIN 348 PARK STREET New Britain, (onn.