Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 4

&orwich Bulletin and Goufied 125 YEARS OLD Subseription price 13 & week: IM¢ 3 month; 3.9 . rear, Estered at the Postoffics ot Norwi®, Coma., 2 sscond-cles matter. Tetepaone Cally, Bulicdn Basiness Offies, 480, Bulietls Kaliorial Rooms, 35-3. Bullatia Job OTies, 35-3 Wilimantic Offics. 23 Cburch St. Telephone 106 Norwich, Monday, June 13, 1921. MEMSER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Assoclatd Press jo exclusively entitied fo the ase for republicativn of all news despaich- o credited o i or not otherwise credited 1o this yaper and also ise iocal wews publisbed CIRCULATION 11,155 THE COMING COUNCIL MEETING. ht tfie adjourned annual is to held in town ha acting upon the esti- en submitted and P s to come of vital concern to and ever ¥ T It is the time « who have been selected to p affairs for the ensuing o people to indicate by fation done t of funds what they in the way of meeting community. certain expenses of course N must be met anyway, and theré ms which have been submit- w remains for the taxpayers f or disapprove. The action of cting thercfore should be that and representative a gather- zens as possible instead of be- L few ¥ g Is for the purpose or a chance to be heard majority an opportunity at s desired, The esti- te en presented and it be- shown what | ended to do with m what the tax rate will fa action js taken on the ns it rests with the citi- . a h action or 1o c therein as will ac-| t v Vs, Likewise there ain appropriations sought for ex- t remains with the voters to ther the necessary funds to meet rovided or not thing to do is to attend the esting and let your voice be heard for us items. Don't stay ea it to someone else to d nd then feel disgruntled bec ar viewpoint was not presented ar ws regarding expenditures were ‘ ting should mean a large n rs and taxpayers tha may play their proper part as stoc rs n the municipal corporation WHAT UNCLE SAM SEEKS, n s re Mexi Satin rted from President 0 wants no recogni- States doubts that subjects and their prop- protected, it ought to be ap- to the head of the Mexican go t that this country has reason for ting such protection as its subjects | ecelve in the neighbor republic. true that there is a different gov- here than has existed in res There are reasons why this government feels that it can look toward cognition of that government but been times in the recent past t has been inclined to expect much n Mexico and a new government only soon after that it was mis- under Obregon may be inclined vrepared to protect American sub- That is its duty under interna- aw, but that was also the case that long period when Americans w impunity and their pert roved. This government n to take such chances wing the obligations of Mex- es that country to acknowl- m before the world in order to repetition of conditions under se Obregon cannot overlook the is a provision in the arter which gives the Mexicaa the to confiscate the n Mexico. That ion of inter- t must be fully and it is possible government does not to exercise its authority thereun- t is the intention of the United of foreign in lirect law. That 1 by Mex present 1 & h ve an understanding to such efect before there Is any recognition. e course is heing followed because of experlences with Mexico and tertainly if Mexico doesn’t intend to make of that objectionable part of Its Constitution there ought to be no hesi- v ts part In saying so. It shouid « to =ay whether it intends to nternational law or not. FIRE LOSSES HEAVY. ith all the efforts that are made in It of preventio nand all the appall- g losses that are caused each month fires the monthly record of fires for and Canada fails to show 1 change for the better. Losses from month to month and from to year but the tendency is toward increase instead of a decrease. In ther words in spite of all that is being lone to change the situation the forces work for destruction man- e to outdo those that are fighting in [ aly decid vary at osition During the month of May the fire losses for the two countries reached a total of nearly $24,000,000. This loss wWas nearly million less than for the same month a year ago, but it was seven million greater than it was for May 1919, For the first five months of teh year the fire loss totals almost $176.- 000,000, while for the correspondi months of last year the amount was two and three-quarters of a milion larger, the reduction in May of this year over May of last year being responsible for more than two-thirds of the improve- ment. The five months' figures, however, show a monthly average of over $7,000,- 700 so that the May losses do not indi- cate the average monthly loss. Fires spring from many causes, but two come apparently dangerous conditions and to direct more attention to the cut- ting of such heavy losses through pre- ventive flame and smoke continues to be tremen- | neglect ror permit to be neglected the ed- ! ucation of the children. We have a hard that which goes up in dous. Yet there is no actual way of tell- ing just how much larger it wowld be if those counteracting influences ‘were not persistently at work. R T SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. ‘When the new commissioner of edmca- tion just appointed by President Hard- ing directs attention to the fact that there are 5,000,000 enrolled children who are mot attending school, it looks ag if| it meant that truant officers would be called upon for greater service. There are of course various reasons for such a state of affairs such as child labor, a strange attitude by certain par- ents to education and a desire of course on the part of many children to keep as far away from the beneficial effects of school as possible. But it nevertheless represents a ‘condition which calls for serious attention. We cannot afferd to problem in trying to bring about a re- duction of illiteracy but it can never be accomplished by ignoring the fact that so many children are today failing to Zet a proper education. We look to the children of today as the We are constant- ing to leep high and improve the rd of citizenship but with so many = to attend school ome of the important avenues to such an end is| being disregarded Certain states have recognized the im- portance of yreventing just such fail- ure to attend school. The duty to thel children is recognized and there is an insistence that they improve their op- portunities anl thus be able to take care of themselveg and a credit to the state. In others, however, there is a different view taken. Education seems to take a secondary place, More importance is attached to what the child can produce as a worker, and while such conditions R have been undergoing changes-for the Detter there is still room for more im- provement. That the children ‘ail to proper value to education attach a is not sur- prising. It is because of that and the fact that they fail to get the proper en- couragement from parcnts that compul- ucation laws became necessary, There ¢ in nnot be too much effort devoted behalf of school attendance. IOLDING UP IMMIGRANTS, manner in which ecircumstances have served to create an unexpected sit- uation in the larger ports of the country as the result of the new immigration law is illustrated by the number of allens who are held up because of the restric- tions on immigration and the effortg that are being made to overcome the situa- tion. Under the law restricting the number who could be admitted to a percentage of those here it was realized that if there was not some way of distributing the number over the entire year it -would mean a rush of !mmigration immediate- ly in order to get into this country that would swamp the immigration offic! But in try to avoid that situation one quite as puzzling has bee ncreated by those who have come to this country in| excess of the percentage admissable monthly. There are already more Italians knocking at the door than can be ad- mitted in June. So far as known they are a fit as any oth , but the June Lmit has been reached and unless re- lief legislation is adopted they will have to w and become part of the July quota. Dut just what assurance there will be that this situation will not de-{ velop each month is not made clear. It isn't a question of admitting them as fast they came until the limit is reached and then putting up the bars for the period that the restriction covers but it means doing that thing every month, with immigrants coming in at several points. The fixing of a certain number for cach month has prevented the entire quota of a nation from rush- ing immediately to this country but it has not for the first month at least served to keep the applicants to the stip- ulated number, Apparently as many have come or been allowed to come as deSTred. They have come early to avoid the rush, or to get in ahead of the restrictions and been caught, There are thus revealed conditions which seem to make the monthly quota a bit hard and rather than take the chances of being caught in a like predicament, unless additional lexislation changes it, ® may have the effect of checking the rush until the pe- riod of the restriction has passed. ITORIAL NOTES, The news almost every day furnishes convineing evidence of the growing dan- gers of the highway, The man on the corner says: The days of detachable eyebrows bring added wor- ry to the absent minded. It may be a bit cool as we approach the middle of June but no recent depar- tures for Florida have been recorded. in the value of the United ipping board vessels has just ed but it took place some The fall States been ad time since. Quite a little talk is going round about the cool nights. How eagerly they will be wished for about the middle of Aug- ust, if not before. —_———— Faulty distribution is what causes many of the floods but that cannot be said about those who are overcoming the bone dry cenditions. Dodging ice floes is a sport that few steamship captains should be willing to indulge iny There is too much invelved in the way of lives and property. From the fact that there are 350 looking for appointment to the 50 posi- tiong there is apparently something at- tractive about the new state police jobs. With a Florida writer telling of the perspiration run down her face as she wrote, we in New Ingland have much to be thankful for in a cool June. It would be'a grand good idea if those who have been committing murders in Connecticut of late had -been subjected to disarmament proceedings some time ago. Obregon apparently hasn'’. gotten con. ditions .at home where he feels he can afford to give assurances of the protec- tion of lives and property of Americans. That means Mexico isn't what it should The prospects of a large wheat yield this year doesn’t look as if the farmers had been. discouraged because of the rop in prices, but as if they had gone off the water. ture. Save pretty pictures from old ealen- dars or magazines, and when a new cal- endar comes with just advertising upon SUGGESTIONS FOR If milk has become very it, paste on a picture. and . put top of the even, quite serviceable chemises and corset covers to wear about the house mora- ings. Drop cooky dough instead of eutting and time is saved. In place of shelf paper for a china closet cut out pieces about six inches wide from gome remnants of curtain net. After hemming them on the machine cro- chet a simple pattern into the edge. The most successful way to soften paint brushes when the paint has hard- ened on them is to place -them in vine- gar. Heat the vinegar to boiling point and allow the brushes to stand in it for a waile. It you intend using only a little of the lemon juice make an incizion in the top and press out the juice you want rather than slicing the lemon. It will kcep then. fer several days and you cam use it again, TO FRESHEN ROLLS, Muffins, gems, corn bread and bran bread are seldom all eaten durimg the evening meal and some is left over. The question comes to the conseien- tious housewife: “How can I serve them again in their original freshness?” It can be easily done. Grease a piece of brown paper, using plenty of grease. Wrap in it the muffins or bread. Place in hot oven for ten or fifteen minutes, unwrap, serve and they will taste per- fectly fresh. WAY TO MAKE TEA. 1. Use an earthenware or china tea- Dot. Thoroughly warm the rinsing with hot water. Put enough tea into the pot to suit requirements. Two teaspoons is ample for four cups. 4. Alwavs use freshly drawn water and have it briskly boiling when poured on the tea. 5. Allow the tea to stand no longer than seven minutes. 6. Add cream and sugar to suit taste. Don't use a metal teapot. Don't boil the tea. Don't use water that has preéviously been bofled. teapot by HEALTH AND BEAUTY. Even though vou haven't a nic2 ver- Anda, your baby needs its heur the air in the morning, so dress it warm! and push its crib or carriage up to open window. ‘The best time to treat the elbows !s at night before going to bed. Scrun them wth hot water and then rub in the oil or the cream. Many women say they like bath water that has a very little soda adiel to t— but this is drying and showd not be used except for those with very oily skins. Perfumed toilet waters and toilet ammonias are always pleasant and make the bath particularly refreshinz. Hnt salt baths are wonderful. Feed the nalls oils, vegetable oils that THE HOUSEWIFE sour- slightly ed it can be used for baking by adding a touch of soda. _A carmot or two added to the dried lima beans you are ecooking will add much to the flaver. Grapefruit and oranges may be peeled very easily if they are first sul in boiling water, thén in cold water. Shake the pan in which you have your boiled potatoes after you have drained It will improve their tex- One can save gas by doing a baking along toward noon away in back to bake. Boil vegetabies in the roaster and heat water there or on ‘Potatoes From chieap, unbleached cloth, also eld sheets and night dresses, oné ean make A black straw capeline med with twe peacock feathers the crown, was worn with a dress. SHEER STOCKINGS The warmer the Weéather grows sheerer become milady’s stockings. The sheérness of chiffon silk in stockings be- gan with the blacks, but now has spread to many of the fashionable of which all s0 much to the the sheerness as to make to see if any stockings at all. The cobweb Wekves are coming within reach this be had now in the smart shops prices. Some of the sheerest shades grays, sand, beige, cordbvan, African, SUMMER BREATHES IN EVERY LINE AND BIT OF COLOR IN THESE NEW SPORT HATS Some of them are a bit audacious—piquant bits of head- + new with a newness which is most pleasing. There’s a brown and blue. - SUNSHADE HANDLES Newest in handle details is a design of natural wood with a tip or a narrow band of bakelite to lend a bit of eclor. Carved wood animal heads are undergo- ing a revival, it is said, and there are numerous variations of the leather h: dle. One is woven handle of gray with tan leather, another has a straight wood handle capped with bakelite, and a new fashioned leather strap to hang over the wrist, a loop fastened over a small bakelite ring passed through the wond handle itself. TAUNDRY HINTS. / When laundering white sitk er white crepe de chine do not hang out to dry, but roll it in a Turkish towel and let it re- mgin 12 hours before ironing. To sotten water, use soda, lye or ammo- nia, being careful net 1o use a bit more than will give results, as they are apt to rot clothing. A simple way to bleach faded elothes white is to just use a strong soap to which has been added one tablespoon of cream of tartar to one galion of water. . When the rollers of a clothes wringer become darkened through use, rub them with kerosene and then wash thoroughly. FOR GIRL GRADUATES. The entire graduation eutfit should be one that the girl may wear to church or for afternoon occasions during the sum- mer. purposes, although when the girls agree on color it is possible, and often the af- fect is quite loveX, if pale shades of.pink, blue, orchid and yeliow ies are used. Organdie is 2 youthful crisp material. Many of the shops are showing it with & small check, which may piease more than the plain materiall Both machine hemstitching and picoting are attractive additions to graduatidn dresses. Sashes add much to the dress and may be of the same material with the edges hemme dor picoted. Satin and silk sash- es, while not altogethér bad taste, are not so good. A cotten material, gemerally speaking, should not be combined with silk or satin, which are both mere expen- #ive and pretentious. Ruffies used in moderation on an organ- die frock are sometimes good. There are many young girls, however, whom ruffles and frills do_not become. The tall slender &irl is apt to look weM in 2 ruffied dress, but the shor® of stature child, or the tall stoutly built girl should beware of rut- fies. Tucks and hemstitching are better for the latter type—with a bit of fme narrow Valenciennes lace. The neck of the dress may be round or square, according to the shape of the wearer's face. The girl with the round face should wear a square neck, and the thin faced child may be sure that a round neck in her dress will be the mest becoms they will absorb. Keep them as nice as possible by clearing away dead euticle and by keeping them filed so that they will not break. And buff them every day. This alone will do more than anything else to stimulate them since the friction of the buffer will bring up the blood to the nails and undeér the nafls and will keep them pretty and pink. JUNE BEAUTY IS NATURAL. June is here! And lugging along her wealth of roses, with incidentally a touch of tan. June is the month which shomld mark the end of the indoor manufacture of beauty and the beginning of the brand made chiefly by sun and air. Whether you are 15 or 40, in the summer it is wise to dispense with massage and heavy creams and give nature her opportuni- ty. Fro just as your mind needs change an ddiversion, so dees your hair and your skin. Wash your face in cold /- ter in the morning. Then if you are zo- ing out, shopping or fer sport, dust it lightly with a fine rice powder. Don't rub it in! Fluff it on lghtiv. For rubbing powder in continually will soen result in an oily skin. A. CHILD'S CHARACTER. Tt is a difficult matter to make a chid feel that every one has a right to life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The individual is born with impulses which lead him to take advantage of oth- ers. A child does not easMy take (ne point of view that every human beux is struggling _to live—is endeavorirz o surmount th® obstacles’ that lié in the way of his reaching the goal of lifa. A chlld would be helped to ga.n ths point of view if he could have exparie in his own garden, observing how pianis struggle tolive, how they develop root, branch, and leaf svstems to take advan- tage of the conditions in their environ- ment ; how they bend this way and that i norder to avoid obstacles and_fight vallantly to resist their enemies in or- der that they may attain the object for which. they exist. Having a‘rained fr, they glve up their life. This view impressed upon the ehild day after day and year after year, as it relates to his plants, will deveiop a re- spect for life such as he canndi wet %o well in any other way. TO FRAME SNAPSHOTS. Simple old gold or dark browa are charming tints to frame a snapshot em- graphr is g woodsy scene printed in artis- tic browns. DICTATES OF FASHION Chenille dots are being intreduced on crepe and ecloth frocks, and this ferm of trimming is replacing embroidery. Day- time wraps are similarly decorated. Gray fox is a popular summer fur, all Kkinds of gray fur being favored, includ- ing sdnk. Dyed leghorns trimmed with Valenclennes lace dyed to mateh and and having crowns of organdie are among the midsummer millinery favor- ites.. A newer fringe trimming is achieved by fringing the fabric itaelf. One fAinds plaid sport skirts finished at the edge in this way. Jumper dresses of wool jersey are de- signed to wear over shirtwaists. Peach is a popular shade for organdies and lingerie. % narrow up into decidedly wider and often mueh trimmed skirts. for the smartest edats and dresses, straight sleeves fitting into them. W spite of the work that is done to over- ahead with favorable weather condition: to bridge the gap. The girl who goes in for smart sport togs will find herself in ‘wool all summer. Many of the smartest soring suits have Thin fabrics a8 well as silks are made Almost waist deep armholes are used ing kind. While French voile is a beautiful mate- rial, it is not so youthful nor capable of lending itself to the charm and crispness that is much to be desired in a graduation froek; it seems to belong more to the mature woman. Georgettes, silks of any kind, aatins, and crepe de chines are unthinkable and in bad taste. This is the day of all days when the girl's personality must net be obscured by finery. SELECTING THE COHINA. In china, one is surs to appeal to fine taste in coler if the pieces or sets are all in one color. Breakfast sets, creamers and sugar bowls, tea sets and salad bowls come in such tints as furquoise, lavender, mulberry and primrese. Some- times this chinaware has a rainbow luster over the plain celor. Blue and white decorated china is sure to be useful, fér it is hot tiresome and will help fill eut by harmonizing with other Dblue sets. CONCERNING WOMEX. Petersburg, Va., has a colored police- woman. France proposes compulsory physical training for school girls. Fau Claire, Wis., has recemtly ap- pointed its first poli¢ewoman. Women of Minneapolis are to have their first opportunity to vete fer eity officials at the June eléction, Missouri’s first woman mayer is Mrs. Mayme Ousley, who has been elected chief executive of the Town of St. James. I¥ THEY ETICK. If one tumbler sticks within an other, fill the inner one with eold water and put the outer one in warm water and they will separate easily. A WEDDING GIPFT. Altogether different and new &8 & weds ding gift and one that is especially suit- able for the couple who will spend the honeymoon motoring is a radiator orna- ment for the automobile. This is a new field for scilptors and many artistic and distinctive designs are being produced, 36 |* why not choosé sométhing of this sort? ¥, RECIPES. Sardine SomMe—To make sardine souffie use two tabiespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, two tabléspoons sauce from sardines, pffinch of soda, three yolks of eggs, three whites of eggs, one- half eup scalded milk, one-half teaspoon sait, one can cardines. Remeve [skin and bones from sardines and flake into swmall pieces. Melt buttér, add flour, and when well mixed add to mixture two table- pin¢h of soda, then add scalded milk: Add salt, eayenne and flaked sardines. Remove from fire, add the yolss of eggs beaten until lemon-colored. (ool the mixture and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Pour into buered baking dish and bake 20 minutes in slow oven. Serve at ence. Cream Finger Rells—Scald one-half cup of cream in 2 double boiler ; pour ever two tablespoons of sugar and ene-fourth tea- spoon of salt; when lukewarm add ene yeast cake softened in one-fourth eup of lukewafm water; then gradually stir in onc and _one-half cups of fleur; When weil mixed, turn on a lightly floured board and knead until smeoth and elastic. Return to bowl, cover and set to rise ina warm place. When double in bulk, turn again on te a lightly floured board, knead siight- -fourth ineh thickness. Shape with a small lady fin- Arrange iy and pat and rell te o ger cutter, first dipped in flour. evenly on a buftered baking sheet, cov: and again let rise until light. Bake 15 minutes in a moderate oven. ‘White is always the best for graduation A spodns of saude from the can and a Just before removing from the oven hrush over with the white of one egg slightly beaten and diluted with & tablespoon of eeld mitk. hot with the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Favers the Cormivals | Mr. Edito Well !\ 1 see now by the paper that a few of our people here in Norwich are trying to take the rights of the peopie away from them by trying stop carnivals from coming 1o eur city. 1 hope that the ones who have the proper autiority will certainly not listen (0 any such petitiin as has been handed o them by a very small ma, hope for on: that we ail siill see otaer amurements than the the- atres. I like the theatres and am not kpocking them, only 1 say live live. Of evarse | believe in ma' carnivals live up to their agreement thers recpectable, o1 from showing in our oty ng away a whole lot of our I ¥ and rights. hoping we will still be ab.e see tae carmvals and other amute- Thents from out of town. Yeurs, . d course. H. W. LUCAS, Nirwich, Jume ilth, 1921 Carsiyals i Our City Mr. Editor: In the columns ef your papér this (Saturday) merming I ne- ticed an article reférring 16 theatrical in-. terests emtering a protest agaimst ear- nivalr coming o our city. May I ask how leng since it has been customary for the public in general, to have to ask a few amusement men what Kind of pleasuré and amusement they must seek? How many children are ther; in our midst if it wasm't for carnivals eoming to odur city would ever have ths pléasure of enjoying the whip, Fertis wheel, and other amusements which a éarnival ef- fers? The theatrical meén claim a earnival takes toc mue¢h money from our eity. How much does 5 one night's engagemant troun spend in Norwich? Does it bal- amce on & 50-50 dasis with the meéney that carnivals run under the auspices of a fraternal order spend: WARD J. MULLINS, Norwich, Jume 11, 1821, Return them to the oven to glaze. Serve|shed, and nearly all escaped. the twenty-eight prisoners They were chiefly Tories, and in accordance with a con- certed plan rose upon the guard succeeded in accomplishing their design. At 10 o'clock on the evening the wife of one of the prisomers applied for per- mission to visit caverns. The privilege was not refus- ed. All but two of the guards were off duty and had retired for the night. the man to descent the ladder to the shaft, the prisoners officers on duty and made themselves choice too, as to coloring and strange if we cannot find one you will be glad to take away FROM §1.98 with you. Not the least TO $7.50 and her husband in tae As latches were raised to allow the who were on the ladder rushed up, seized the muskets of the two master of the guard room before the sleeping guards were aware of the sit- uation. One officer was killed and six others serfously wounded. Every oner fled and only a few, such as hap- pened to be wounded were retaken. Newgate continued to be used as a prison until 1827, and two years later the property was sold to a chartered company by .whom mining eperattons| ‘were resumed for a time. The place Is now 5 picturesque ruin, but of great in- terest on account of its -historical asso- ciation. (Tomorrew—Washington and His Ene- mies) Stories That Recall Others Just Tike a Brother. It was Mary’'s birthday and her young man had teasingly told her that he was going to give her a rose for each year of her age. Fearfully Mary waited for the flowers to arrive. She wondered whether he really knew how old she was, That night she thanked him for them. Just as she ended it her little brother came into the room. He went over to the flowers and was studying them fixed- 1y when the young man asked: “Do you think your sisters flowers are prett Yes, sir, I do,” little brother answ- ered, “but what made you send her 20 too many?” Giving Sister Away. Little Eleanor gazed long and thought- fully at the young man who was calling on her grown up sister, Kate. “May I climb on your knee, Mr. Greene? NTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE NEWGATE OF CONNECTICUY One of the most unique prisons ever devised in thé United States was the converting vf & mining shaft in Cornec- ticut for such purposes abéut the begin- ring of thé Revelutionary war. Th copper mines of Simsbury wers distover- ed about 1705, and furnished the copper for the first United States coinage. Tie working of the mines, however, ruined a nutnber of susteasive propristors, and the shaft wis finally ¢onverted inte 5 state prison. Mining in Simebury eloséd in 1773 and the eolony spént about 3375 in Atting up the mine for its new purpése. The main shaft wak near the top of a smaAll hill, and the Buildings &t the mouth, the walis surréunding tiem and the naked hill sioping déwn in front of it, must have Added a shade of horror t6 the unknown future in the mind of the Teory, who was approaching it fer o:nfinement. Cer- tainly it is that hardly anything was so dreadful"t6 the Tory mind as the pros- pect of incarceration at Simsbury. In 1731 congress applied for permis- mion to ude it as a prison fer state of- fenders; but the aimost immediate ce: sation of hestilities relieved the natfon- al authority from any such necessity. The numbér confined here, both of or- éinary offenders and of Tories, probably never excedded thirty at one time; but the number ©f insurrections and éscapes war disproportionately great. The shaft Was néarly & hundred feet déep, but the eells were in the galleries, nont of them more than sixty feet be- low the surface. In spite of the fre- quent escapes, public confidence in the security of the place was unimpaired, And it was the ordinary state prisoa from 1780 t6 1827, when the new prison at Wethersfield took its place. In defenss of the establishment of the prison in such a location, It may be urged that such a step was net con- ered improper anywhers at the time; that the terrors of the place were more 1n imagination than in reality; that the health of the prisoners was good and time must not de judged by the more civilizsed theory of a later era. 8o l1ate as 1307 a traveler visiting the Simsbury Newgate, after Newgate, the famous England, could g6 no farthér in remre- hension than te ma: “For myself, 1 canndt get rid of the impressian that, ‘without sny extrasrdinary eruelty in i-s actual eperation, there ik ssmething very Ifke erusity I the dewics and design. How much mere l2afent mast have bheen Simsbury Newgate. ‘The fact of its belng underground naturally added to the terrors of & eon- fmement. The dhrkness made only the Aarker By the dim flickering light of ta! low esndles, the water gérmetually drip- ping frem the resky etilimg, and the wtter Isolation af its IntAates from the living world. made it. to the eammm mind. very like the “Inferne” of -Dante. But there in no svidenee that prisen- ers were mors seversly treatad In these dumpeons than W any otir pricans of the thme. Among the Tories confined at Newgate, was a elergyman, the Rev. Si- mon Baxter. whe was a most uncom- promising Teyaltst. and made ne conceal- ment of his aninien. e preached sermén to his feflodr prisdners which was afterwards nrintsd m Leaden. Tt ad voaatad in the hanner tha as- sasslnati-‘n of Washington and the whole Continental Congress. Tn 1780 NMewgate was the mcene of Angpernte eonfifet, 1 with blood- “Yes, of course, dear,” smiled the young man who wanted to make a hit with the family. “Want to pull my hair h No: I want to see if I can find that ord? What word?' asked the visi- tor, puszzled. “I heard our Kate say this morning that if ever a man had the word ‘idiot’ written all over his fact it was you." T T T 47 N T ST | CHILD TRAINING AT HOME l CHILD ACTIVITY By Mary F. Wilcox, Teacher of Man- ual Training( Wastboro, Mass. Children like to be active. Of course there are things that the child must d6 whether he likes it or not, but there is much entertainment and de- velopem: that he can gain through the activities which he craves. The use of tools may furnish endless opportunities for helpful, happy acti- ity. The remark of one little girl who used to visit me is significant, "I like to eome up here, because 1 can do things.” Because the child does enjoy creat ing and doing, he learns unconscious- ly; and how much there is to be learn- ed through the end of his fingers! Skill ful hands, concentration, observatiom foréthought judgement, are all devel- oped, and best of all, respect rather than scorn for manual labor is im- planted in the child when he is young and impressionable. =3 In making gifts to children, give them toys or tools with which they can create. Most children cannot have a complete work bench nor join a class in manual training, but any nor- mal child can get hours of helpful, happy activity from the use of &uch alds as can come hin reach. A hammer, saw some nails and a few small peices of wood; paper, scissiors paste, colored crayons or water color paints are all splendid mediums for selt-expression. Let the child's work be supervised sufficiently to guide his activity into doing some definite ob- ject. Method in activity is of the great. ‘st importance, whereas aimless act- ivity neither entertains the child for any length of time nor does it help him to develope skill and concentration. Let whatever the child makes be something which, from his viewpoint is worth while. . Neot long ago I bought a playtime circus for a boy; it consisted of sev- eral sheets with the outlines of differ. ent animals. I gave him a box of the best colored crayons, a pair of scissiors and eéome paste. With a little super- vielon, he cut, put together and color- od one animal at a time and then we began a frieze for his roolm by pasting them on to a strip of paper about ten inches wide. Ile was delighted with the occupation. It called for careful execu- tion with scissors, appreciation for shades of color, and best of all he felt that he was creating something while. s Of course there are children who are not interested in making toys or household objects, but any child should learn to use his hands by having certain regular home dutles and re- ponsibilities. Even a small child feels ihe pleasure of sell reliance and self- respect that come from responsibilities for eome regular duties. A child "of three of four years can put away and care for his own toys even when it might be easier for his mother to do| 80. Ownershi; and it may also develope generosity: for without possessions, how can we share? As soon as a child has a little 'responsibility placed on him, he be- .xins to develope self-reliance and self- respect; he becomes an intelligent in- dividual who thinks for himself and feels for other people, who senses and respects the rights of other people. Only as our children are taught to appreciate the feelings and regard the rights of others can the citizens of the_ future become more humane and law- less inconsiderate be relegated to the past. IN THE DAY’S NEWS Tealy, Reclamation projects are under way for making the famous Roman Cam- pagna what it was ‘before the fall of the Roman Empire, thus restoring to Italy a region which once was dot- ted with busy villages and luxuriant fruit trees, newspaper dispatches state, “This now dreary plain, of which only one tenth has for hundreds ot generationg been turned by the plow- share, is the burial place of scores ot Etruscan cities. Its desolate and fever- laden atmosphere has for centuri given to Rome a splendid isolation and filled the sleep of the summer travel- er to the city with malaria-haunted dreams”, sdys a bulletin from Wa ington, D. C., headquarters of the N ional Geographic Society “The Campagna di Roma, that trict of Italy which so nearly cor ponds to ancient Latium, lies along the west coast of the country from Ci- itavechio to Astura and the Pontine Marshes ag far ‘inland as the Alban and Sabine Hills, where Horace wish- ed for a little farm that he might en- joy the ‘golden mean‘ of life. Rome lies near its centre. In Horaces day it was cultivated and dotted with towns and villas. Today the ruins of aque- ducts, once a mark for the Campagna pride, =olemnly speak of their past grandeur. “It is almost improper to speak of the region as a plain. It is rather a volcanic sea extending on both sides of the Tiber. Once the Medite probably pushed far up the valley and most of the area resembled an pelago. Then evidently there was great volcano ppheaval, the earth rose near the coast'the sea was pushed bac] the streamg from the Alban moun- tains found no outlet, and the marshy stagnant waters have swallowed citics leaving no trace of them—merely their memories and their names. Tufa and ashes partly covered up with water, creating a marsh which became the home of the elephant and the stag. “Outside of Rome this expanse has lain for centuries, breathing its fev laden breath upon the city. It ha: seemed , almost to await to ewallo the Eternal City itself. Now Ital realizing that this vast area can be made to yield excellent fruits and grain and thus enable her to hold her pla as the.commercial mistress of the Med- iiterranean, has drained and irrigated the whole of the Campagna will be un- parts of it, and it is hoped that soon der cuitivation. “In some places the undeveloped area consists of unproductive grazing lands, 1 to which in the autumn herdsmen drive | their cattle and horses down from the mountains to graze: in others there are shaggy grassgrown ditches and deep holes made searches for catacombs. the big expa of loneliness, the homes Occasionally a farmhouse will break which are often enough picturesque little nests, are wretched and dirty. Malaria has chilled the bones of the inhabitants. The region is moderately cold in winter and there is occasional snow storms. In winter. In the summer the oppressive heat parches the soil in #pots and produces several inches of dust. The careful guidebook warns the traveler that evenings the Campagna are not in keeping with the day. The sun ecems to drop suddenly out of the =ky, and a clammy penetrating cold wells up. “Perhaps it is the atmosphere of the surrounding Campagna which gives Rome part of its lure. Its faint whis- pers, its strange smells, and the mist that rises over it speak of the relent- lessness with which it has swallowed evervthing that ventured to live in it “ It is probable, however, that as It- aly reclaims this desolate and deserted region to its former state of prosperity the old saying applied to the Campag- na ‘You get rich in six months but you die in four.—will pass into history, Clean Shavings GIVEN AWAY FOR THE CARTING Peck-McWilliams & Company Nickel Plating UNITED METALS MFG. ! COMPANY, Inc.