Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 14, 1914, Page 4

Builetin Dusiness. Offico 480, me 383, Salletin Eajtorial Boon its great guns for defensive purposes, ‘because of the inabllity of an attack- ing force to transport anything.of as Sreat power. Germany has demom- strated however by its capture of Liege, Namur and Maubeuge that it has been studying the fortification problem with a considerable degree of success and that the portable siege guns of eleven and sixteen inches are one of the disclosures of the war. They have lessened the possibility of the impregnable fortress and shown the value and availability of this in- vention for the reduction of fortifica- tions. Such engines of war have ad- mirably served the purposes for which they were intended and for which they were built, because there wero good roads by which they could be moved and such is a very necessary juirement for quick work, part which the German siege guns bave played thus far in the cam- paign cannot be overlooked. They call for good roads, but they are a long distance terror to forts. Paris will breathe easier when it has actually escaped them, THE STAR SPANGEED BANNER. Today, the one hundredth anniver- sary of the writing of the Star Span- gled Banner by Francis Scott Key, should mot pass without notice throughout the entire country. Though it has its pecullar significance to Fort McHenry in Maryland, and has been the object of a week's celebration in the city of Baltimore, it is neverthe- less an anniversary which the whole natfon can afford to recognize, mark- ing as it does the occasion of giving to the world the lyric which has be- come a national anthem. The author received bis_inspiration while aboard one of the British ships in the fleet which attacked Fort McHenry, where he had gone as a lawyer to plead for the release of a prisoner. Following the night of fightlng, and of sgreat anxiety, it was the appearance of the stars and stripes over Fort McHenry the morning following which prompted B ¥ CIRCULATION 1901 average.ccesceessees 4412 - 3083 That it should meet with remon- strances from all nations is natural and may have been anticipated with the feeling that they would amount o little since graver matters are oc- cupying the powers, but while, for the sake of holding Turkey to her neu- trality only mild protests are made now, it s quite certaln that they will Pop up for different action later on. FREIGHT TAX. From the expressions which have _been made by many democrats in con- gress the imposition of a tax on frelght is more than they are willing to become sponsors for, and this is re- vealed in no better way than by re- quiring the approval of the president in_advance of its passage. The idea of a freight tax is present- ed at a time when freight rates have been' given widesproad consideration. It 13 at a time when the railroads have, been seeking to do the very thing which the government is plan- ninglto do, but they have been denied because it is unfair to those who will have to meet the increase. Such, however is apparently forgotten when it becomes a question of securing the revenue which such a tax will raise for the aid of the administration. In requiring the approval of the president in advance the democrats understand fully what such a step means. . They recognize the position which the roads and transportation bear to the business of the country, rememberinz at the same' time that the president has said that “the rail- roads are indispensable to our whole economic life, and railway securities Are at the very heart of most invest- ments large and small, public and private, by individuals and institu- tone.” While no_ hardship is directly applied ‘to the railroads, it is not an facenttve to. increased business, and Inoreased business is what the roads and the country want. In seeking the approval of the president the demo- orate aro calling for directions for the writing of the immortal poem. Down the century it has come as a great force for the development of patriotism and respect for the na- tional emblem, the country echoing and reechoing the prayer that “long may it wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Through- out the country and world, wherever army post, naval station, coast guard or fort is located, by order of the president, the flag was saluteq Satur- day, in connection with exercises at Fort McHenry and while that is re- verberating around the world let there ‘be a liberal display of Old Glory and proper thought directed to its full significance and privileges today, the actval anniversary. SHADE TREES AN ASSET. Perhaps the best evidence of the value and popularity of shade trees is to be galned from the extensive use which s made of them. It can be pretty accurately said that shade trees are sought and maintained be- cause they are an asset to property and to highways, and this is especially true of residential streets. According to a bulletin {ssued re- centiy by the Massachusetts Forestry assoclation, it has been trying to de- termine what is the actual value of shade trees on streets. It has asked this question of a large number of real estate men: “How much, in your judgment, do fulul grown shade trees along the street improve the value of the adjoining land for houselots?” Naturally the answers have varied, but it is a fact nevertheless that in a great majority of the cases the value has been placed at from ten to fifty per cent, while a fair average would Place it between 35 and 40 per cent. Coming down to actual money yalue, the bulletin shows that expert! tree appraisers conslder a shade tree in good condition and well placed to be worth one dollar a square inch of cross sectlon measured at breast height, bringing the value of a tree one foot in diameter up to 3113 and that of a tree two feet in diameter to $452. Just how the individual would value shade trees depends entirely.upon their location. Plenty of Instances are known where they would not be part- ed with for “any amount of money” while nothing but “actual necessity” would accomplish the removal of others. Opinions may vary as to num- Dber and location, but individuals are few and far between who place no value on shade trees, EDITORIAL NOTES. Everybody but a hay fever pa- tient realizes that things might be worse. Reports from Holland indicate that maintaining neutrality is as difficult as sitting on the lid. The man on the corner says: War is powerless to de'ay the opening of the griddlecake season. The British pounced upon that North sea mine layer as if it was a twen- tieth century bonanza. As a scientist says, a skunk is one of man’s best friends but he has a pe- culiar way of showing it. Once again the lessons of the erim- inal court room stand out as one of the best arguments that crime is not a successful or laudable occupation. The claims and denial of admissions by the respective sides in the war in Burope are more exclting even than the most interesting election contest. Delaying the day of prayer until ‘he fourth of October may have been for the purpose of allowing sufficient {i7e for the ending of the war other- se. War is certainly worse than the ordinary run of politics, but now that the effect they are likely to have upon public opinion. The strength of this femana wil! be revealed by the result of the appeal, BIG GUNS, ROADS, FORTS. In every war, defenses and attacks are planned in accordance with the lessons which have been gained from past conflicts. New ideas are devised for overcoming past weaknesses, so that the prains of one nation are matclied against those of the other both in preparations as well as in the Ristribution end guidance of the fight- Ing forces, It is only dy actual war that the real merits of the latest inventlons tan be properly tested and at the pres- st timo fortifications and siege guns ire coming in for much study. Great jelisnce bhas beem placed in the past bpon the modern fortifioation, with they have begun to hand the short and ugly word about, the interest will increase if thé fighting doesn’t. When it comes to the bottling up business the Germans are as clever as the French, even in the champagne district, but the fun has started by the allles’ move to pull the cork. The Czar declares he is going to Berlin if it takes his last moujik. Whatever that is, he probably has the same sort of a feeling that the Kaiser has about Paris and his last pfennig. Tt should not be forgotten that it B e e e S S s T e R e -~ —— e~ R D BULLETIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 T R PN ok T SUGGESTIONS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Minutes count with busy mothers, and one way to save time is, when changing the elastic at the knees of children’s rompers, bloomers and wash sults, fasten the new elastic to the end of the old, and as the old is pulled out, the new will be drawn in. The rust which collects in the hot water boiler is the chief destroyer of water-backs. The life of the ‘hot water system will be prolonged if you will open the faucet at the bottom of the boller occasionally and draw oif a few gallons of water. ‘When the table cloth shows signs of wear, cut it into cloths the size of napkins. They will often save your good napkins, and will come in very handily for the picnic basket or to wrap about a dainty bit of food which is sent to the neighbors. An omelet pan should be used only for omelet. Nevt scratch it in any way. If any piects of egg have stuck to the pan, put in a tiny piece of dripping and allow this to get hot over the fire. The pieces will then come off easily TG, . People who keep houses dark for fear of sunlight spoiling their carpets or furniture, have no idea of the disease-destroying influence of sun- light and air. Buckskin shoes can be cleaned by making a lather of good scouring soap, Take a small brush and rub the lather thoroughly into the shoes. When dry, brush off again. DUST PROOF VEILS, The desire for bright colors is in- cluded in the new veils in lovely shades of violet, gray, green, taupe, tan, purple and blue. There are most charming shaded veils of chiffon and & marquettelike fabric, which shades from a light blue to deep tones of the same color at each end. Flesh color over the face, shading to deep rose red at the ends, is a becoming shad- ing. Palest lavender shading by de- grees into deepest purple of a royal tint is another lovely veil Then there are pale yellows shading to rich orange, faint greens to dark green and many others. The new all-over patterns on veils are on (emeptionally sheer fine meshes, Tune designs are delicate in character, and scroll-like or trailing in effect, accomplished by means ‘of a woven or hand run thread combined with dainty leaves and flowers. Bor- ders are narrow and very fine in ef- fect. Little silk auto caps, made in a soft style to be pulled down over the head, have the ~plain colored and shaded veils run through the turn- over rims and designed to be crossed in back and brought front to tie under the chin or ear, NOTE_ PAPER FAD. All the smart women are having thelr note paper made in their favor- ite color, and some of them have lately taken up the cubist notion of black paper, on-which they write in vivid cerise’ or white ink. The en- velopes are, of course, to match. Animal lovers are having a picture of their favorite pet inscribed in the corner or of their special mascot, such as an owl or black cat. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. Olive oil is now being used to allay sunburn. It is applied the same as cold cream. It relieves the burning Sensation and keeps the skin from blistering. A good remedy for damp, moist hands is to make a lotion consisting of one-fourth ounce of powdered alum and one teaspoonful of spirits of ammonia in a pint of boiling water. Bathe #he hands with this, To prevent the skin from discolor- ing after a fall or blow take a little dry starch, moisten it with cold water and lay it on the injured part. To restore a voice rendered hoarse by much speaking eat a piece of an- chovy. If there is no cold or fatigue the effect is almost instantaneous. For perspiring feet bathe them fre- quently with warm water to which a little ammonia has been added. After drying, the feet should be _dusted over with boracic powder. Bathing in alum water will afford relief to burning and tender feet. There is nothing more strengthening to the feet than salt. Tht smarting caused by sunburn is relieved by dabbing with the follow- ing lotion: Pound twenty bitter al monds into a paste with a little wat. add two grains of bichloride of mer- cury; add sufficient water to bring up the quantity to ten tablespoonfuls. Keep tightly corked and labeled “Poison.” If your face lacks intellectuality, the only way to remedy it is by ex- ercise of the mind. Take up a course of reading and study. beyond that WOMAN IN LIFE AND IN THE KITCHEN. which you have hitherto attained. To put it fguratively, cultivate the muscles of the brain as you would ocultivate the muscles of the body. It is the action of the brain that will influence the expression. HERB USES. Mint, for meat sauces. Angelica, for flavoring cakes. Lavender, for oil and distilled water. Sage, for sausage and meat dress- ings. Sweet fennel, leaves used in fish sauces. Dill, the seeds are used to flavor pickles. Borage, leaves boiled as dandelion or_spinach. Thyme, in gravies and dressings of stuffed meats. Chives, leaves used for flavoring soups and salads. Borage, baim and catnip are useful Where one has bees. Tarragon, leaves useful in giving flavor to vinegar and pickles. Corlander, fennel and caraway eeds are used for flavoring fruit syrups and cakes. Among those having medicinal value are arnica, hops, catnip, bene, pennyroyal, belladonna, sage, Tue, horehound, marshmallow, wormwood, hyssop and peppermiat. RUST SPOTS. To remove rust spots on bathtubs and basins and discolorations in toiiet basins and sinks apply muriatic acid with a mop. As soon as the discol- oration is removed the acid should be thoroughly rinsed off with clear water. The-acid works Ifke magic; it is almost instantaneous in its effect and the labor of scrubbing is saved. DICTATES OF FASHION. Dashing sport coats of golfine or wool are unlined, while the quiet tailored coats have the most brilliant “pussy willow linings.” The great novelty of this season in tallored suits is the return of the redingote, for all of the tunics are merely adaptations of the circular ruf- fle idea. In the evening at the theater you &hould carry a long knitted and beaded purse with a_little bag at tached to-one side of it which will contain @ folded fan. Charming wraps of absinthe, char- meuse or water-moss green golfine are lined with self colored liberty and fastened with cartridge shaped buttons of pearl. Many women are carrying little leather vanity cases which measure about five by four inches, and are four inches deep, These cases con- tain little gold toilet requisitesi as well as a place for the purse. Some coats are almost as wide as are the short capes. Very pretty hats are made of a kind of very light erin- ‘oline lace through which the halr is quite visible, a delighttul invention for fair haired girls, LINEN CLOSET. The European housewife inclines to chests for her linen and the accumu- lations for the future are begun when she is a tiny gisl. But in America, cven in the smallest homes, a little corner is set aside for the linen closet, and it is digtinctly more convenient than a chest In the matter of hahdling the_contents, The shelves begin, three or four feet from the floor and extend as high s it is easy to reach. On the lowest shelf are kept the eheets, bedspreads and bath rugs and towels, On the next may be the tablecloths, napkins, serving cloths, dojllies and all the linens which are of dining room use, though, if the linen closet is upstairs, it may be easier to keep these things in a sideboard drawer or dining room closet. On the next ehelf are the face towels, wash-cloths, pillow cases, covers, etc, A good 'way to insure equal wear for all articles in_ constant use is to always take out from the bottom of the pile and when the linen is freshly laundered put it on the top of the pile. If the door does mot close .tightly, and at any rate in cities, where there is alwave dust, a good ‘idea to keep the shelves protected is to tack a plece of linen or heavy muslin along the edge of the upper shelf and let it hang curtainwise, to within & foot of the floor. One daintily equipped closet has a curtain for each shelf on a little brass rod, so that when anything is wanted the little curtain may be easily pushed aside. This is more work, however, and the simple white curtain keeps things just as clean. Many housewives cling to grand-mother's ideal of delicately scented linen, and scatter a few lav- endar bags among the linen, or get an infusion of heliotrope in the closet for a few moments. This is easily made by putting a few drops of oil of -helitrope into a pan of boiling water; a deliclous and lasting odor is the result. their THEN——-and One hundred and ninety-eight years ago today the first light- house erected along the shore of the American continent cast its feeble beam from Little Brewster Island across Boston Harbor. It was a crude structure of rough boulder stone, hooped with iron bands, and built by the Massa- chusetts Colony at a cost of about $11,100. Its erection marked a long step forward in making coastal navigation safe. ~ Before that day mariners were warned of danger Dy open fires, as is witnessed by a Dbill presented by the people of Nantucket to the General Court of _Massachusetts for “fire bales of pitch and ocum,” which they had supplied for the beacon at Allerton Point. _ To maintain the lighthouse on Little Brewster Island it was ordained that all vessels using Boston har- bor should contribute the sum of one pence for each trip they made past the light. The first light- house keeper in America bore the neme of Worthylake, and that he was conscientious in his trust is evident by the fact that during a great storm hé concentrated his attention on keeping his light blaz- ing, although the hurricane was sweeping his flock of sheep over the cliffs into the raging sea. In the same year that the United States adopted the constitution, in 1789, it took over the elght light- houses then standing along the Atlantic coast from New Hamp- is the Kaiser and his government azajnst which the aliles are fighting and when that has been overthrown neace will return. The regret prob- ably is that =o many German pecple must be whipped before that can bap- pen. shir to South Carolina. They were placed under the Treasury Department, and in 1852 the present Lightncuse Service was established NOW Today more than 1,500 light- houses” and beacon lights along the coasts and inland waterways from Maine to Alaska are illum- inated each night at sundown. To further safeguard the mariner there are thousands of other danger signa's—gas, whistling and bell buoys, postlights, fog signals, un- lighted day beacons and submarine bells. The exact number of all inds of aids to navigation in use in the United States at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1913, including the 76 lightships in com- mission was estimated as 13,434. To keep these in the highest order of efficiency requires nearly 6,000 employes, of whom 27 are women. The cost of the service for this year (1914) is estimated at $5,071,~ 230, not including the sum of $722,- 600" for new lighthouses and vessels. The United States Lighthouse Service has been_declared the best in the world. Its signals range from the red lantern hung on the branch of a tree in the St. Croix River, which is regularly inspected and maintained by the government, to the 20,000,000 candle-power electric lighted lighthouse at Nav- esink, on the coast of New Jersey, whose powerful light is visible to the mariner twenty miles out at sea. In type, the lighthouses range from the old-time cone- shaped bulwark to hollow steel pillars_standing in_the ocean on long spidery steel legs. Today a new friend to the mariner, the wireless telegtaph, is serving to warn him of danger, and it has been predicted this will become the chief aid to navigation, usurp- ing the present commanding po- slition of the lighthouse. - TP ALL THIS cannot hope to duplicate. At 250—58-inch Mercerized Table Damask, five patterns—at 25c a yard At 37)zo—64-inch Mercerized Table k, six patterns — at 37%c a vard, value 50c. At 49c—70-inch Mercerized Table six patterns—at 49c a yard, value 65c. At 69c—68-Inch TRISH Table Dam- ask, pure linen, five patterns —at 69c a yard, value 85c. Table Napkins, All $248 a dozen, value $3.00. 100 Pattern Cloths, size 66x66 inches, pure Irish linen and all hemmed, value $1.75—Special price At 6%o—Huck Towels, value Sc. Also splendid values in Huck Toweis—at 9¢, 14c, 25¢ and 3% Guest Towels at 19c, value 25c— at 296, value 37%c—at 37Vzc, value | 5oc. At 30—Cotton Twilled Crash—at 3¢ & yard. orieous & THE SPECIAL OFFERING ELS, TOWELINGS, ETC. — ALL AT PRICES THAT MAY NOT BE EQUALED IN YEARS. We strongly advise every housewife within trading distance of this store to visit our Linen Department dur- ing this week and buy her season’s needs at savings she " Table Linens In All Qualities Size 5-8 Table Napkins at the follewing special prices: at 690 a dozen, value $1.00—at 95c a dozen, value $1.25—at $1.28 a domen, value $1.50 —at $1.68 a dozen, value $2.00—at $1.95 a dozen, value $2.50 — at 25 dozen of size 27-inch Dinmer Napkins of Irish “hand-woven” manu- facture, in two patterns, snowdrop and satin stripe, extra fine quality— Special price $6.98 a dozen, value $12.50. " Pattern Cloths-Two Special Lots 51.49‘ Towels and Crash Toweling [ ichell (o It Will Continue OF TABLE LINENS, TOW- At 79c—70-inch Irish Table Dam- ask, fine quality, six hand- some designs—at 78c a yard, value $1.00. At 95c—Extra heavy TIrish Table Damask, eight choice designs —at 95¢ a yard, value $1.25. At $1.00—T1-inch Silver Bleached Table Damask, soft finish and absolutely all linen, very durable — at $1.00 a yard, value $1.50. Sizes and Qualities 75 Pattérn Cloths, size 66x82 inches strictly all linen, of very good quality, value $2.00—Special price $1.59 Turkish Towels at 14e, value 19¢ —at 19¢, value 25c—at 24c, value 35c. Linen Crash for Toweling at 5c value Ti%c—at 7lc, value l0c—at 9lzc, value 12%c—at 12%0, value 16c—at 16c, value 20c. THE PORTEQUS & MITCHELL CO. NEEDLEWORK NOTES. Should you get your work spoiled with blood through a finger prick, roll ordinary sewing cotton into a ' bail and soak it and lay on the spot and it will completely remove the stain. Round boudoir pillows are most elaborately embroidered and those made of white linen usually have lace thrills; while the colored ones have shirred satin puffings encjrcling them. Before you hem the bottom of a dress that is likely to ehrink, run a nice tuck in the hem on the wrong side with a very coarse stitch, nearly at the top of the hem. Then run in the usual way but be sure not to take the stitches of the tuck with the hem- ming. Then if it shrinks you can easily rip the coarse ctitching,in the tuck and let it down without undoing the hem. Almost any of the scraps of prelty sllk ribbon that are in the family rag bag may be fashioned into a needle- book small enough to go into the average sized purse wiinout over- crowding the receptacle. At the inner side of one cover which, of course, is mounted over thin cardboard, should be a tacked down sheet of fine flannel in which may be stuck needles of sev- eral sizes and at the inside of the op- posite cover should be straps of the silk through which reels may be run. These reels, formed of silk, covered matches or toothpicks, should be wound with a few yards of black and white sewing silk, black and white linen thread, black and white or tan sik floss, and thus equipped, the shopper is prepared to repair any ordinary mishap to her garb. TO ADJUST A VEIL. To adjust a face veil properly so it won't elip off the hat and at the same time not have that “drawn tight” look one so often sees, gather the top edge (with thread the same color as the vell), beginning about ten or twelve inches from the end, and continue until the same distance from the other end. You will be surprised how comfort. able and at the same time how “safo’ you will feel in your new vell, if you follow instructions. WICKER IN WINTER. In the clearance sales of furniture many a bargain In odd pleces of fur- niture may be picked up by one who “ » Wicker chairs in all colors and tones of varnish finish are up- holstered_with cretonnes and leather, and will be as acceptable for use in the living room in the fall and winter as they are for the porch or summer cottage mow. WHITENING FLOORS. To whiten hardwood floors add two tablespoonfuls of paraffin to the hot, soapy water used for washing the floor. This 1s an old remedy, but a good one, for it not only cleanses the boards, but also destroys any insects that may be lurking in cracks of the floor. CONCERNING WOMEN. Japan has 152,011 school teachers. Nine states now grant full suffrage to women. College girls have the best chance of matrimony. Berlin, Germany, has a sanatarium for workwomen. Police women in Pittsburgh will re- ceive $75 a month. Berlin, Germany, has nearly $3,008 unmarried women. One in every eight women in Great Britain is a widow. The government of Kanab, Utah, is entirely run by women. Siamese women now have the right to vote the same as men. MONOGRAM TOWELS. The towel mondkram is now being enhanced by an embroidered frame for the initials. Sometimes the frame is composed of a simple wreath of forget-me-nots or similar small flow- ors and frequently the frame is an embroidered ribbon or a simple ad- ded oval. THE MESH BAG. When the silver mesh bag becomes tarnished make a paste of cooking soda and ammonia (water is good if ammonia cannot be obtained). Rub bag well with this paste, using a good, stiff brush. Then wash bag in warm soft suds, rinse and rub hard with eoft cloth until perfectly dry and it looks new. RECIPES. Green Tomato Catchup—Remove the seeds from four red peppers and chop them with seven pounds of green tomatoes. Add them to one guart of vinegar and cook together for two hours. Then put into the kettle one pound of brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls each of salt, ailspice, mustard and cinnamon and one teaspoonful of ground cloves. This should be cooked again very gently for another two hours, then strained and bottled. Incidentally, when ground mustard is one of the ingredients called for it should be mixed smoothly with cold water or some of the vinegar before being added to the other ingredients. Steak Hash—Take a remnant of steak and chop fine, with one small onion and potatoes, two-thirds of po- tatoes to one-third of meat. Heat stock or water in frying pan and add hash. Let simmer slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, watching it so it will not burn. The tough end of sirloin and porterhouse steak makes the finest kind of hash. Serve poached eggs on hash and it makes a nice breakfast dish if you use water in- stead of stock. Put a piece of butter in the hash. pepper. Season with salt and EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS LIVE NOBLY, ACT FINELY. Some can write or speak, paint, sing, invent beautiful harmonies of sound or of texture; these are the gifts of the few. But, all can live, can do, can be. We must not be cast down if we find ourselves in the vast ma- jority of those who have only aver- age abllities. We may be sure that We possess that finest capability of all —we can live nobly, we can act finely. Though our dreams gway be poor and colorless, our actions can be grand. And for this very reason life is a greater thing than art, art being only a reflection, an echo of the actualities that concern our existence eternally. 1t would not indeed be justice were the only possibilities of great achieve- ment given to persons of notable gift, of rtarc brillance, of keen intellectual power or magnetic churm. These have their possession to do their best with; probably they have corresponding dif- ficulties, secret weaknesses and priva- tions of which -the world guesses lit- tle. Tt is not given to them to attain the only gres s of which life is capable; there other greatnesses; they e no _monopoly. The thing that we can do may be 3s sood as DAVIS THEATRE AR SPEGIAL TODAY ONLY THE KAISER'S CHALLE~GE IN TWO TERRIFFIC REELS—FIR BATTLEFIELDS MYERS, LEVINE & CO. I Comedy Sketch, The 3 O’cleck Train JACK MACKIE, Scotch Comio — MUTUAL WEEKLY, War News 1uesday, Sept. 15th, PHILLIP BARTHO! MUSIC BY Sl ST ACTUAL SCENES FROM THE TOD and BILLY Two Live Wire Comedians THE MILLION $ MYSTERY KEYSTONE COMEDIES ONE NIGHT « NLY LOMAE Presents JOSEPH SANTLEY IN THE MUSICAL COMEDY OF YOUTH WHEN DREAMS GOME TRUE ILVIO HEIN ENTIRE ORIGINAL COMPANY—Including f-thryn Rowe Palmer, Mig- osep! non McGibbeny, Ruth Randall, Ada Sterl Taber, Edwa Frank B.V.n-nkm Sthrldug:nd in _the World. Featuring the Hume, Saranoff, (Russian ne Kernell, Richard ,) Ciyde Hunnewel the Most Youthful Dancing Chorus ng, Jose intley Tango. Prices $1.50, $1.00, 75¢, 50c, 35c, 25¢ SEATS NOW SELLING Mon., Tues. Wed. The Va AUDITORIUM lie Trio ACCORDION — VIOLIN — GUITAR DUMONT Magician Extraordinary GARDN. & LOWRIE | Singing and Talking TREY O’'HEARTS — Espisode Five MAGGIE’S HONEST LOVER BURLESQUE MELODRAMA Same Cast as “Lion COLONIAL THEATRE Six Reels-THE DRUG TERROR-- Six Reels Don’t ‘Miss It. The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made. and the Mouse,"—Lubin GRANGE FAIR NORTH STONINGTON, CONN., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 15, 16 and 17 A Fair Devoted to Agricultural Interests ‘Wednesday—Pulling Contest For Cattle Thursday—Pulling Contest For Horses Special preparations are being made for an : Antique Exhibit Thursday—Children’s Day All Children under 12 admitted free Admission, 25 cents Children, 15 cents theirs in its own differing way—as good for our immediate companions and for our own souls, We can yield ourselves to repining at our narrow opportunities, our limited gifts. our mean or lowly sphers of action. “By such repining we are deliberately choosing the little where the large is possible; we are dooming ourselves to small ways, closing our doors and windows. The art of life cannot al- ways be selective; its materials are found. The final question is not so much what we have as what we have done with it, It is easy to squander great gifts, but it is easy to waste little ones also and tha folly is the same. OTHER VIEW POINTS Exchange comments that the Rus- sians are profiting by the lessons taught them by the Japanese. Ex- perience was about all the Russians got from the Japs—Bridgeport Tel- egram. Our idea of a simon pure grouch is the man who will not jump and pretend to be frightened out of his boots when bhis little son sneaks around the corner of the house with a pumpkin jack-o-lantern—Water- bury Democrat. Dawggone if e weren't pretty peppery words Marse Heary at Coney Island. “The bull moose stands half way between hell and the iron works,” and a few others just as hot. The Kentucky brand is powerful strong.—New Haven Journal-Courler. Not only from the maritime prov- inces and from Quebec and Onmtarlo, but from the prairie and Pacific coast provinces the regiments are being organized for oversea opera- tions. - The war office at London had good reason to feel pleased at the re- sponse being made by the Dominion. —Springfield Union. The truth is that Americans are a nation of idealists and a people of deep religious convictions. Careless of appearances and averse to making a parade of their feelings as a very large proportion of them are, the fa: is as stated. Though we are remotely affected by the most terrible and seri- ous consequences of the war, the Dresent crisis brings this fact more in evidence. President Wilson's appeal will strike a responsive chord in every community, throughout the country- Bridgeport Standard. One thing that is seriously the matter with the political situation in Waterbury is that our two senatorial districts are one-sided partisanwise. The idea in drawing the district lines was to put as nmearly as possible all the democratic voters into the six- teenth district and all the republicans into the fifteenth. The result is that whoever secures the nomination of the dominant party in either district is reasonably sure of election unless it is discovered that he has been con- victed as a horse thief.—Waterbury Republican. Some drivers of automobiles should have special interest in _the new doctrine that disasters in driving are not_so largely accidental as that word is commonly understood, but due rather to a very common lack of the nobility to do the particular sort of quick thinking .and acting which the safe Tunnning of an auto- mobile requires. Probably no one will deny that there la_something in the suggestion: the question will be how many persons have that Ine born iendency. As to shis it is at present impossible to determine, but experiments are said to have been made to a limited extent. The ex- istence of the peculiar defect is said to be sufficiently well known. The sooner the subject is so well learned that people unable to meet the ordi- nary exigencies of the-road are de- barred from driving the better it will be for them, their friends, all who use the highways.—Hartford Times. ADVISES LUMBER MILLS TO SHUT DOWN In Southern New England in Order to Sell Supply on Hand. At the annual meeting of the Lum- ber Manufacturers’ association of southern New England at Savin Rock, W. E. Demoud. of North Adams, sug- gested th#t all _the lumber mills in southern New England be closed to give dealers a_chance to rehibilitate their fortunes by stopping production so that the supply on hand can be sold. . Mr. Demond said he would shut his mill down for that period of time, and he thought others should do the same. The idea was strenuously cried down by another one of the director ‘Thom- as H. Barber, of Arcadia, R. who declared that such a course absurd, that it would be in restraint of trade, and hence open to prosecu- tion under the Sherman anti-trust law and that members of the association would agree to no such proceeding. The suggestion was not put to a vote. The following officers were elected at the business meeting which fol- loweq the dinner at 1 o'clock at ‘which forty members and their guests, many of them women, were present: Presi- 2 3 v, Manchester; vice ident, C. ‘A. Tilinghast, Danoury: g::‘reu.ry and treasurer, T. L. Bristol, Ansonia; chairman of sales commit tee, which it was voted to call here- after the chairman of the advertising bureau, on account of the po: ibility of governmental prosecution in restrint of ‘trade under the old name. W. Demond, North Adams; directors, John McLaughlin, Cumberland Hill. R. who in the past few years has carri oh extensive lumbering in this vicini and W. G. Tomlinson, Southbury: members of the conference comm! tee, the executive officers of the a. ciation. P For a Weak Stomach such eat” ac- great i longer “can't there are no complaints as or “indigestion” Get quainted with _the building-up powers of UREMALT The Perfect Tonic ! ASK ANY DRUGGIST Descriptive Booklet DEPARTMENT 36:38 Hawley $t Boston —— \ = i