New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1923, Page 2

| after a two weeks' vacation spent at ; ~ " the next two weeks at Indlan Neck. . DR.F.COOMBS Is Your Medicine I Cabinet Ready i a# For Emergencies? Every home needs these simple remedies for small ailments. Be Prepared For Burns, Headaches, Cuts, Sprains, Corns, Indigestion, Fainting Spells, Bruises. —The— Dickinson Drug Co. Stationery Department, 169-171 MAIN ST. 4THE ' GREATEST VALUES OF THE SEASON ". A Group of About 150 HORSFALL MEN’S SUITS At Half Price Fine Woolens and excellent ship——an extraordinary offering—all sizes but brcken lines, Formerly §40 to 865 $20 . ¢ $32.50 HORSFALLS 93-99 Xdsylum Strect Hartford. “It Pays to Buy Our Kind"” PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Daigle of 259 Fairview street have returned home " Clinton Beach. Policeman Patrick Hickey and son, .Jack Hickey of New Haven, were the guests over the week-end of Sergeant L and Mrs. Michael J. Flynn of 1083 Stanley street. * Mrs. N. M. Dow of John street is 14 entertaining her cousin, Mrs. William y Ireland, of Fairfield, Me. Miss Fannie Holmes of Hart street Is spending the week at New London. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Talbert and 4 family of Parkmore street will spend { Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Scott of Lincoln | ! strest have left on a two weeks' mo- | tor trip through Massachusetts. { Mrs R. Milsteti and raughter, i Badye, of 427 Chestnut street, are at : Leonard's Bridge for a three week o A | Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Burke . have returned from a motor trip to | Cape Cod? ' — ! Arthur Marini of Judd & Company t Is enjoying his vacation. A certificate has been filed in City | Clerk Thompson's office of the mar-| riage in Milwaukee on June 13 of Faul T. Bullock and Miss Grace I.| ! Fletcher, both of this clty, Mr. Bul- lock is employed as a traveling sales- | ! man, and Miss Fletcher, who lives at | ! 230 Winthrop street, Is a school teach- er. Smoked salmon 60c 1h., tomorrow only. Cooked Food Shop.—advt. The Naturopath Physician and Oniropractor 252 MAIN COR. WEST MAIN Phone 765 Hours 9 A. M. to 8 P: M, | Genuine Naturopathy adds years | to life, pep, power, endurance and nerve energy. I use the very latest’ and all forms of the electrical. The | 4famous for its Days of Old Cord Bed and Hoop Skirts Recalled by Mrs. Traver New Britain Woman, 90 Years Old, Says’ Prohi- bition is,Good For Country But Advises Moderation in “If I didn't have the love of God in my heart, I wouldn't have lived so long,” said Mrs. Margaret Traver, mother of H. A. Traver of 160 Maple street when a representative of The Herald asked her how to live to be 90 and be happy. Mrs. Traver today Is observing her 90th birthday anniver- sary. “I am only 90 years young, not old," he sald, And she spoke accurately. en though she told the hardened newspaperman that the only way he could worry through a life of journal | ism after the average three score and 10 had been passed many years down the roadway of life was to "Live up to the teachings of God's word,” even MRS MARGARET TRAVER that cynical indjvidual was forced to admit that there must be some cause grgater than the ordinary routine of 'to account for the pleasant smile, the happy mental attitude and the ab- solute ahsence of any sign of worri- ment,on the face of this venerable yet still youthful spirited mother and grandmother, And Mrs. Traver has not lived a life safeguarded from the trials and trou- bles of this world. Lurking far back in the dim recesses of her memory so faded that she recalls them with diffi- culty are faint vislons of the time when as a widow, then hovering near the half century mark in age, she, with the aid of her older son, who has since preceded her to another life, conducted a flve cent restaurant on the New York bowery. The famous, or infamous Bowery of older days. On The Bowery She recalls the old days of Down- town New York when that section was tough gangs that roamed the streets at night and made the saloons of that section dens of crime whose repmtation still exists even though they in their worst form far preceded the advent of national prohibition in their passing. Chat- ham Square and Beefsteak John's res- taurant where the husky stevedores and longshoremen, truck drivers, etc., could get a square meal for a dime, lpr!udlng desert, she remembers, She lived on Canal street and later on €ixth avenue when the horse cars ran in the Metropolis of America and vis- lons of the water front, the Battery, Second avenue and the Bowery, Pell and Mott streets and other gections iong a terror to the New.York police still linger in her mind, Flappers Always Flappers “Clothing,"” she replied in answer to | the inevitable question anent women's | skirts. “Well, I don't know, 1| used to like the hoop skirt pretty well, but it's old fashioned and out 0}_ date now."” Mrs. Traver admitted however, that even in the days of grandmother and her hoop skirt the flappers of the period went to ex- tremes in dresses. Whether they | went so far as to display cotton clad ankles she did not say. “I hope they never go back to those long dresses I had to wear in New | York a few years ago,” she said, | vhich trailed the ground everywhere | we went. They were not good and they were not clean. But I am no lover of the dresses that are too short. Seven Inches from the g ound is the Dress Lengths “What do you think of the girl who smokes cigarettes, wears skirts to her knees and carries a pocket flask 7"’ she was asked with a smile, her in- terviewer already anticipating the re- ply that would be forthcoming. “Don't ask me, she said,”” T might say too much. 1 don’t think a woman was made to smoke,"” Returning to the subjeet of short skints of the extreme style, Mrs. Traver showed her ever ready wit and at the sgame time threw a heavy bombshell into the*flapper camp with the statement: ‘‘When we wore hoop skirts the men looked up to us. Now they look down at the girls."” Wants a Ford “I don't think there is anything I would like better than a Ford,” she admitted. She has had trouble with rheumatism recently and has been somewhat lame from an old fall, so does not get away from home very often and then only with the assist- ance of some one else or with a cane. “But I'm not troubled so much now,"” she says. "I guess the rheumatism has given me up.” “I'll be back to see you next year, said her caller, “I'l_be here 10 years from now,” she replied confl- dently, “and to judge from her ap- pearance and mental attitude on life, she surely will, “Of course, they didn't have any of these modern conveniences when I was young,” she said, ruminating on the early days in New York. Approves of Prohibition “What do you think of prohibi- tion?" she was asked. Again the thoughts of days when New York po- licemen patrolled the Bowery in twos and nary a copper ever appeared alone, returned to her mind. “It 1§ a good thing for the country. I re- member the days when fathers and mothers used to send the children to the saloons fortliquor In pails and cans.” One of the most vivid things in the history of Mrs. Traver's girlhood {s the memory of feather and straw mattresses gnd rope or cord beds she slept in. Smiles cover her face as she re- counts the creaks and ghostly groan- ings in the night from the ropes of the high four-posted cord bedsteads of earlier days. “The man who could sleep in one of these beds and get up in the morning without swearing was a real Chris- tian,” she said. For the benefit of all New Britainites of older genera- tions she requests the Herald to re- publish the following poem, sent her by a friend and clipped from the Bur- lington, ‘Vt., KFree Press, of June 1, 1923: 3 That Dear Old Cord Bedstead We All Loved So Well. How well I remember the house on the hiliside, By wide-spreading maples half hidden from view! The fragrant pink lilacs that bloomed in the springtide, The daffodils, tulips and crocuses too. The smooth sloping lawn and’the garden below it, With plum trees o'erhanging a green, mossy dell; The shady old orchard, running through it, And e'en the old swing that we all loved so well. the brook How sweet to remember the home of my childhood, The fields in the sunlight all spark- ling with dew! The flowers of the Maytime plucked in the wildwood, Sweet scented arbutus and violets blue. The bright, vellow primrose that bloomed in the meadow, The bluebirds that sang in the deep shady dell; The pearl tinted sunsets with hues of the rainbow, wide old all loved so well. we The How well I remember those days in the springtime ‘When house cleaning frenzy our peace overthrew! When upstairs and down . stairs from daylight to bedtime, Like soldiers in skirmish the furniture flew, The walls gayly revealed in newly lald paper, The wood work and ceilings in new coats looked swell, proper length and that is a sensible length.” | ‘The chairs and the varnished all over, CHAS. DILLON & CO. HARTFORD Spe’cial Group of CANTON CREPE FROCKS Violet Rays, Alpine Sun Rays and Mechanical Massage treatments. For | those convalescent there are no treat- | wents that can be compared with genuine Naturopathy, and for those | who. have failed to find relief, regard- | less of what disease or ailment or how ““long sta .Ag, or how many specialists | treated with. This ad Is of tremen- | dous importance to you. The treat- ments are not embarrassing for wom- | en; are painless and act as magic for thildren. e ‘ | ROGER F. HOLMES WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, A. B, will tator in New Britain during July PHONE SOUTHINGTON, 4-4. ADDRESS, 230 NO. MAIN STREET, BOUTHINGT 7% CONN, and August. | | $25.00 $39.75 $45.00 Excellent new modes for present and early autumn wea r. All sizes All Suits, Coats, Wraps, Children’s Garments Greatly Reduced At This Time backporch that we| bureaus were | And e'en the cord bedstead we all loved s0 well. How well I remember those scenes, when at twilight | My ‘father and brother returned s from the field! Where faithfully toiling they'd been since the daylight, The brown earth preparing rich harvest to yield. O, then with dismay they looked at each other, The task that awaited they knew very well; "We need you to help with these plecess” said Mother, Yes, e'en the cord bedstead we all loved so well. They rattled that furniture, well I re- member; Next the rag carpet laid with straw padding quite new; Then, armed with the bed wrench they flew to the chamber, Alas! from thelir lips potent adjectives flew. They straightened and twisted, they tightened and pounded, - Their powerful blows on the wooden peg fell, Anon, down the staircase their deep volces sounded, As they cussed the cord bedstead we all loved so well. At last there was sllence. The struggle was over, The straw tick was placed on the tight web of cord, Then with feather bed tick, white blankets and cover And big bulbous plllows—sure 'twas fit for a lord. whippoorwill sang shadowy wildwood, As over the household a hlessed peace fell, Then T slumbered and dreamed the sweet dreams of my childhood, In the dear old cord bedstead we all loved so well, soft The in the The creaky cord bedstead, The high posted bedstead, The dear old cord bedstead We all loved so well. ~—HELEN MARVIN ROBINSON. Boston, Mass.,, May 29, 1923, (From Burlington, Vt, Free Press, June 1, 1923.) PRELATE HERE T0 SAVE - ALTARS OF PALESTINE Places Made Sacred By Presence of Our Saviour Are in Danger of Becoming Neglected New York, July 31.—The sacred places of the Holy Land, the places hallowed by the human presence of the Saviour are in danger of hecom- ing shabby and neglected. That is the word {ssued by Archbishop Pan- teleimon, representative of the Patrj- archate of Jerusalem, who has come to this country to interest the Chris- tians of America In saving these places and maintaining them in the dignity to which their sacred assoclations en- title them. The locations include the Holy Sepulchre, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Mount of Olives, and others woven into the life of the Lord. They have been maintained in the past by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, one of the four great branches of the Orthodox Eastern church. But today the Pa- triarchate faces the rapid exhaustion of its funds as a result of conditions following the world war, and the archbishop is here to cooperate with the American Committee on tfie Pres- ervation of the Sacred Places in the Holy Land in making good the de- ficlency. The committee is under the joint chairmanship of the Rt. Rev. Willlam T. Manning, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Rev, Charles S, Macfarland, general secre- tary of the Tederal Council of Churches of Christ in Amreica; The million-dollar extra girl they call her in the movies at Hollywood. Mary Louise Hartje, an extra girl, recelving $7.60 a day, who lives with her mother, has four autos and a retinue of servants. She's a grand- daughter of John 'L, Scott, former president of Pennsylvania R. R. and made her debut in Pittsburgh society three years ago. She eloped with a prominent soclety man, from whom she has since obtained a divorce. Then, tiring of life in the “upper strata,” she joined the movie colony. ICE CREAM AN OUTLAW Laws covering eale of refreshments in England would make Mr. Volstead green with envy. London, July 81.,(A. P.)—England does not have to conntend with prohi- bition but according to the ideas of the Ice Cream and Temperance Re- freshment Trades Federation, the re- gulations against the sale of ice cream and soft drinks would make Mr. Vol- stead envious. Under the present law the sale of this class of refreshment is prohibited after nine-thirty in the evening. The bone of contention is that the West End Clubs and hotels are allowed to sell ice cream until midnight, while the working classes cannot buy it after half past nine. The regulation was en- acted as a wartime measure. The Federation will urge the Labor Party to place the matter hefore the House of Commons. ,» VETERAN BANKER DIES, Boston, July 31.—Charles A. Vialle, a director of the National Shawmut tank and a former vice-president, died here early today. He had been connected with Boston banks for 69 years. PERUVIANS CELEBRATE. Lima, Peru, July 81.—The celebra- tion of Fiestas Patrias, commemorat- ing the 102d anniversary of Peruvian independence, is at its height. The celebration program includes presen- tation of an athletic stagium to the nation by the British colony. Denatured alcohol used in the manufacture of cigars, cigarettes and chewing tobacco is mixed with nico- tine and a yellow and blue dye. RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUNN 127 Main St. Opp. Arch St. Tel. 1409-2 For Wednesday Morning AT $2.59—ALL OUR $3.98 WASH DRESSES S—ALL OUR $6.98 WASH DRESSES 93c—A Small Lot of BLOOMER DRESSES; Values to AT price $2.00, 00; sizes 2 to 6 years 93¢—BLACK DROP STITCH SILK HOSE; regular 93¢—EMBROIDERED KLOCK HOSE; value to $2.00 AT AT 12, PER YARD—TO PROOF MALINE 21c—WHITE LISLE HOSE for Women, value 39c. CLOSE OUT—25¢ RAIN- National Meat Stores Co. 70 WEST MAIN STREET TEL. 483 LARGEST RETAILERS OF QUALITY MEATS IN U. S. WEDNESDAY MORNING SPECIALS PLATE CORNED BEEF 2 LEGS LAMB.......... FRYING CHICKEN .. BEST PRINT BUTTER LB. . LB. : LB. Tc 35¢ 39¢ 46¢c VEAL BREASTS ..... 'DOOR SCREENS WINDOW SCREENS SCREEN CLOTH Black — Pearl — Bronze FLYOSAN-—The Famous Fly Killer Herbert L. Mills HARDWARE 336 Main St. Speaking of 'BARGAINS:| The moonlight was superb. “Darling,” he whispered, “will you be mine?” “Yes,” she answered softly. “I know I am not worthy of you,” he said, “and I was afraid you were going to refuse me.” “I Intended to refuse you,” she answered hesitatingly, “but——but you know my weakness. I never could resist a bargain, and you looked so awfully cheap I simply couldn’t [ let you go.” Our Bargains Are Cheap, but They Don’t LOOK Cheap. The Reason-is that they are Reduced Our Sale For Example:— DAVENPORT TABLES $19.00 GRASS RUGS B. C. PORTER SONS | SO FLOOR LAMPS $19.95 REDUCED 1-3 e SLOAN BROTHER' 185 Main Street for Old Nature is forever renewing her. self. Nature constructed the human body so that it might be nourished, strengthened and renewed by the very act of performing its work. This is especially true of the feet. Give them a chance to perform their natural functions, in freedom and comfort, by wearing the flexi- hle-arch Cantilever Shoe, The Cantilever Shoe is made of fine, lightweight leathers, lasted on natural sole lines to fit the {ndi- vidual foot. The tie is ample yet trim and good looking. The heel is low, medium or Cuban, as you prefer, Don't let another week of this year slip away with. out buying a pair of Cantilevers. They will in- increase your comfort and happiness immeasurably, antilever Sho for Men