Unusual, Are. Being
Tried Out.
HOW ONE CiTY SELLS FOOD
Tex., Handles Fruits and
‘Vegetables in Competition With
Tenants of Its Municipally-
Owned Market House,
Unite
Houston,
{Prepared by the 1 States Depart.
ment of Agriculture.)
Washington. That municipalities
are tackling thelr local food problems
in a variety of ways, some of them
unusual, evidenced by reports re-
celved by the city marketing division
of the bureau of m ited
States department of agriculture,
From establishing curb ma
modeling, building retail
houses, efforts of cities have «
until are actually
supplies, bol ile one city of about
000 population Is
and selling produce
How One City Sells
Houston, Tex., which has a
pally stall market hot
taken three st
ing and handling
tables in cot npetition
In order to he to other re
it charges all overhead ex-
penses paid by other dealers, including
rent, and also pay than
those ther stall Reports
m ten city-
manage
le to buy
is
rket
or
food
ah.
some cellir
operating a farm
from it at
Food.
muniecl-
has
retail,
owned re
over
is vege
Ww ith its t¢
fair tailers
itself with
igher
paid o
week
:
operation
stalls that it YORK
and sell produce Com
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AAPG FEA PLAS PPE EPPA PAGS EEPE ED :
First Battle of the Marne
Cost Nearly 750,000 Men
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Rin Aon : »
: Be
A aaars tine
A most remarkab te
when the steamer Han
cent completed. Steam no up
the water. The Hadnot is 430
knots,
{
|
fu direct
sumers.
larged to include food products other
and indirect saving to con-
to be already
Influence on
ket,
come Interested in the methods of do
prices in that city
and appear anxious to try out prac-
the ir prices,
Allentown, Pa., has
ing on a farm acquired for other pur
poses which, through in mu-
nicipal plans, was lying idle, Un
the direction of one of the city alder
changes
apd selling them at retail In compet
with shipped-in
furm also feeds 1,000 head of hogs on
city gan Local advoen
plan nd propose to include the
of an old brewery as a storag
} r
nd other products
tion
rhage.
oh
NY tse
housa for potatoe
grown by local far
mers,
dependence
the city's on shipped-in
products,
Althoug! the niren y 11
irkets,
riot diy lon is
with
inf ompill
develo piments
ig in
answering
it would be
cities, not as
which are
probl
by other
that have
liTfering fron
‘as a
BITRE
executed at Fall River, Mass,
tanker,
5%
2K
that she |
order ¢
ciel¥oul ts
te
only
five in San F
of the
etter, and so she a ] ¥
Passidenn We knew from her
«he sold razor and knife-blade sharp
eners, walking from piace to place, and
tor care. We will see that she has de
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Denials make little f
aults great.
SUES FATHER FOR $300,000 |
Minnesota Girl Says H He Ordered Her |
Out After Enticing Her to
His Home,
Duluth, Minn, —A damage suit for |
£200,000 has been filed in district court
by Miss Edna ©. Budd, forty-two, of
St. Paul, against her father, Dr. J. D,
Budd of Duluth, department comman-
der of the G. A. R.
Mise Pudd is the daughter of the
Duluth physielan and philanthropist by
Mr. Budd was her father until she had
reached maturity.
She charges that Doctor Budd in
duced her to abandon the name of
to his home in Duluth, where one hour |
after arrival, she said,
and commanded her to leave his house |
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{Mexican Merchants Refuse to
Make Small Sales.
Silver Coine Are So Valuable They Are
Being Hoarded and Sold for
Their Metal,
Mexico City ~The most persistent
enmbio®™ “there is no change” The
| more than the face value of the coins,
many persons and sold for their silver
was not desired.”
Spanish
eampaigns of education along
fa that “cambio,” or
change, has disuppeared and persons
Hons.
make small sales if they are forced to
give change, asserting they would lose
money in the transaction.
Mexican 20.pess
plece (gold) ia practically useless a:
money In stores or cafes when the
purchase is for a small amount,
“I might as well be broke as have
on azteca,” complained an Americar
who was hungry and could not find ¢
[Sate to change his gold. Later he hi:
upon a uglque scheme, He deposited
| the “axtecn” with the cafe proprietos
{ and proceeded to eat at Intervals unti
{he had no more credit, which, witl
| prevailing prices, was not a long time
“azteca.”
or
a a
Child Put $1,050 in Kitchen Stove,
Sioux City, In~When Nikola! Pelel:
gold his little home he received £1,090
in bills. The following morning he
{gave the money to his wife, who lal
It on the table and stepped Into anoth
er room. While she was gone her five
year old child placed the roll in tw
kitchen stove,
Is There a
Santa Claus?
York Journalist Affirming
a Little Girl's Belief
t appeal of a li
told
Hy exists,
Frank PP. Church, was an accom
Journalist and wrote
subjects, but his fame will rest chi
on this beautiful forth of
eternal truth. With Dr. Clement Clarke
Moore's “A Visit From 8t. Ni
it is one of the great
Christmas season
much on mar
setting
classics of t
The answer to the eternal question
as printed in the Sun follows:
“We take pleasure In answering at
once, and thus prominently, the come
munication below, expressing at the
same time our great gratification that
its faithful author is numbered among
the friends of the Bun:
‘Dear Editor] am eight years old
Bethe of my little friends say there is
no Santa Claus. Papa says: If you
soe it In the Bun it's so. Please tell
ae the truth: is there a Santa Claus?
“VIRGINIA O'HANLON,
* qi West Ninety.first Street.
“Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of a skeptical age. They
do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is not
comprehensible by their little minds,
All minds, Virginia, whether they be
men's or children's, are little. In this
great universe of ours man is a mere
insect, an ant, in his intellect, as com-
pared with the boundless world about
him, as measured by the intelligence
capable of grasping the whole truth
and knowledge,
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist, and
you know that they abound and give
to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! How dreary would be the world
if there were no Banta Claus! It would
be as dreary as If there were no Vie
ginias. There wonld be no childlike
faith then, no poetry, no romance, to
make tolerable this existence, We
shoyld have no enjoyment except in
sense and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world would
he axtinsuighed,
“Not believe in Santa Claus! You
might ns well not believe in fairies!
You might gat your papa to hire men
I AR,
Br
| Guke a Chcishimng
ghrating, \\[,
9
I | Singles fae ) =
Aly wou fuse.
be mA
Bad put els
belo, IS t
¥
to watch in all the chimneys on Christ
mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even
if they did not see Santa Claus com-
ing down, what would that prove? No-
body sees Santa Claus, but that is no
pign that there is no Santa Claus. The
most real things in the world are those
that neither children nor men can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the
lawn? Of course not; but that's no
proof that they are not there, Nobody
can conceive or imagine all the won-
ders that are unseen and unseeable in
the world.
“You may tear apart the baby's rat
tle and see what makes the noise in-
side, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest
man. por even the united strength of
all the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart, Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the
supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is
it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this
world there 1s nothing else real and
abiding.
“No Santa Clans! Thank God, he
lives and he lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times
10,020 years from now, he will con
tinue to make glad the heart of child:
hood.”
Christ Is Born
by
Louise F. Elmendorf
urn
Whose Sureting a thousand
homes fo hells,
The wonder of the ages, “Christ
is born
Our faith in God has brought fo ue
the goal;
War-weary lands have peace on
earth again;
And in the scarred and fire-
purged hearts of men,
Made sweet and strong by suffering
of the soul,
Through travail of a world once more
made whole,
Anew in human hearts the Christ
is born,
Dear God, the Christmas songs are
fraught with prayer
That Thou wilt be with those
whose tears still pay
That we may have the glory of
this day;
That men may live their thanks;
that lives may bear
Eternal wiiness for Thee, every-
where
Proclaiming that in us the Christ
is born.
: : :
Changed His Mind.
Doris-1 thought you and George
were going skating?
Marjorie—So we were, but when he
saw I had my hat trimmed with mis
tietoe he asked me to go for a walk,