. ("J 'i 7fJsi' u' U - ' -1 ,. " ' IL. Si !T f K I I , t ' s EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 17 1919 IT' r IV., I . I? V ti p A' b J- M -UNCLE SAM PLACES TAX ON DAN CtiPID Cost of Loving Increased by Levy on Betrothal and J Wedding Rings ' Ts, there's a tat on c. This 13 not nn "April fool" Joke, for those who buy nn engagement rnS or a wedding ring today nnd hereafter will have to pay G per cent tax to the gov ernment. ' - Furthermore, tlio long-winded swnln who talks by telephone more than four teen cents' worth to his girl will have to pay nn extra five-cent tax. But In this Uncle Sam Is u real benefactor, for many ft phono has been tied up In definitely by voluble lovers. The lax perhaps may cause some condensation In their cupldlsh conversation. But It's an lit wind that blows no good. There Is an extra tax on the Roods sold by the theatre ticket specu lator. . In addition to the extra tax of one cent on each ten cents charged for 'theatre tickets, the open-air peddlers must pay G per cent of the excess charges above Iho regular box offlco price, that fs, It the excess Is fifty cents or less. . A tax of fifty cents Is charged It the excess Is more than fifty cents above the regular charge. On May 1, Iho general luxury tax will become effective. Very few things will escape It will come especially hard on the dressers, regardless of sex. Thero will be 10 per cent tax on stocking which cost more than two dollars a pair. Those who dcslro fancy kimonos, waists and other such frills, which cost "more than $15 each, will have to pay a tax of 10 per cent. Picturesque shirts, which cost more than $3, will carry a 30 per cent tax and the same revenue will be npplled to $2 1 neckties. i Toilet articles and hair tonics will not escape. The man who wants to raise a crop on a bald head will also have to raise a tax ot 1 per cent for each twenty-live cents of the price of the tonic Adventures . With a Purse I MAT have remarked before that "elegance" Is a word for which I have but little liking, and yet somehow when I say that these suede handbags havo an air of "quiet elegance" the descrip tion somehow Is complete. The only ad dition I might make is that they carry with them an air of discrimination and good taste. They come in gray trjede, brown and tan. Each Is silk lined and contains a mirror and tiny purse. The bags. are medium sized and are valued at $5. But they have been repriced at $3.95 a real bargain. Some day when you have been in town, i shopping and feel too tired and "done out" to bother with a big dinner here If a Suggestion chicken croquettes. Neither "Jou nor I would give our approval to a 'constant diet of "boughten" food. But every one enjoyo a change once In a while. These chicken croquettes, golden brown and delicious looking, can bo bought for twelvo cents each, or $1.40 a dozen. I'll warrant If you heated them up and served them with a cream dress ing every ono would enjoy 'm. For the names of shops where ar ticles mentioned In "Adventures With a Purse" can be purchased, address Editor of Woman's Page, Evenino Public Ledger, or phone the Woman's Department, Walnut 3000. !, Getting Rid of Papers To comply with Uncle Sam's slogan, "Don't Waste Paper," I bundle and sell It Anydealer In junk will pay a fair price for It Old newspapers and maga xlnes need only be tied In bundles, but all loose paper, such as wrappings, bags, cardboard boxes, etc , must be baled for the dealer. , For this purpose I provided a home made baler from a good-sized wooden box. From1 the bottom I removed a piece of board, making on opening about three Inches wide lengtl-wise of the box. Inside I arrange somo pieces of dd rope, or twine, two lengthwise and two cross wise, leaving the ends extend and hang out over ends and sides of box. Next I line the box lrslde over strings with an old shade, piece of carpet or heavy piece of paper, tacking It here and there to hold In place. In this I put all looso waste paper as It accumulates, pounding It down occasionally with a stick to make compact 1 When full I simply draw the ends of the lining over the top and tie securely with the strings. To remove bale from box I turn box over and force It out by using a stick through the naarow open ings In the-bottom J. H. W. in "Mod ern Prlscllla" -V. AJAs-WAYS DELICIOUS NUTRITIOUS SINCE 1865 CONSISTENTLY SUPERIOR i And So They Were Married By HAZEL UEYO DATCUELOR Covvrtoht, 1)19, bu rubllo Ledgtr Co. START THIS STORY TODAY SCOTT Insisted upon taking Mrs. now land home, although sho stiffly snld that It wasn't necessary. "Ot course, it Is," nuth Insisted. "If Scott lets ou wander nround the city nlono It certainly Is nil right for me," Mrs. Hon land said vindictively. "Nonsense, mother, jou know It Isn't the same," Itulh s.ld In a matter of fact manner that she wai far from feeling. Mio vvns very uncomfortable, nnd In spile ot tlio fact tint sho was earning things oft ni though nothing unusual had happened, she wouldn't have given her mother a chance of this kind for nnjthlng In the world There was no telling just where Mrs. Rowland might tell of It, not Intentionally, of course, but caBually to some one of her friends. It would be so easy to say something about nuth's not being ic- . . . , l..nlf ll.tt.rrn nnrl customed 10 denying ireimn " - the very thought ot It mndo Ituth sick to think of. When Scott returned nuth was curled up In bed, a wooly bath robe wrapped about her. lie came In and took her In his arms, and waited for her to speak. Finally she did "Scott, nren't rclntlvc- awful?' "What makes jou care so much nbout It?' ' "Because I know mother and you .,-..,, .....i t inin tn lino her tell neonle 11U11 l. Mill ...... .- - - - : Hint -un are so poor we don t have' enough to eat.' "Ituth, that's foolish " ' O, of course, sh,o won't saj it like that, but she'll manage to suggest It, jou'll see." There was a silence. Finally, ' Scott." "Yes, dear." "I want to nk jou something." "What Is It?" , "How do jou feci about women-working?' "You know how I feel " "Married women I mean ' "Ituth, what are jou thinking?" She twisted around to look upat him, nnd the expression on his face made her want to cry; It was stricken, shamed "Scott, what Is It?" "You know what it is I haven't made good: ever since we'vo been mar ried jou'vo had to undergo some hu miliation because I don't make more money. I know jou re not used to II. and I haven't forgotten how jou feel about women who work." Scott was thinking of Ituth s seaming words when Helen Townscnd had an nounced her Intention of doing some thing. In fact, every time the subject had been broached nt all Ruth's1 atti tude had been ono -of amused tolerance. "You'ro thinking of what I said, aren't jou?' "Of course." "But I've changed, dear; really I have. Do jou suppose I could have learned all the things I have and still gone on with those old-fashioned Ideas?" Scott was silent "Do jou?" "I don't know. Those things are cither born In one or not. For Instance, I don't believe I could have acquiicd raj' own IdeaB about life. Ever since I MS a kid I've been different. I told you how I used to quarrel with my Bister, and It was all because I wasn't conventional and didn't want to do the usual things. I can remember that sh6 told mother once that I never wanted to do the things tho other bojs did, nnd It was true. I've nlwajs been differ ent." "You're willing to have mo work, aren't jou?" Scolt shook his head. "Wh', Scott, surely you don't mean that." "Yes, I do. If I'm not making enough I'll make more, but I don't want jou to neip - "Then you don t look on me as a companion." Ituth'a tone was dewll dered ; she hadn't dreamed that Scott wduld object. To tell the truth she had thought to have a thrill In announcing tho fact that sho had made up her mind to work. Ituth, like all women, jejFur&iHiUiuecj) 1 &fjop, 3fnc. I 1423 Walnut Street 1 FURS I HATS WAISTS 1 CLOTH AND SILK I TOPCOATS - 1 SILK AND WOOL g SWEATERS 1 NOVELTY BAGS a imiiniiinnmstuiiiiinmuiiimTiinuiiiiniiiniTirmitiiiiuimnr:! ugiiitcrmugiiinjimiiixS -i-J. X --f"u; i iPfflifiBli!l $g lailiiiBriiiliiiiiil JfE CREAM FromlbeTop 6 Jcry lolhaVlvma'iaCqpms'' ThrsijBryrStore mjriprurNidbborbooti Lh wanted did. "Yes, full credit for everything sho I do; but jou'ro not the tvpe to w or! 'O, but I am Scott. How do jou know, any way, when I haven't had a chance lo show jou what I can do" "You're doing It because jou're sorry for me, not becauso jou want to You'ro doing It for tho money wo lack rather than because jou want tho thrill ot doing something. I've learned a lot Blnco 1 vo been married, and I know that there arc two kinds of women the ones who work because It Is natural nnd becauso they want to, nnd the ones who work because they are forced Into It." "I'm going lo convince jou that jou're wrong about me" Ituth's tone was confident In her mind's eje she could seo herself competent, efficient, the right hand of some Important man. herself of real Importance In the world. Work to Ituth Just now was the next npple out of reach. , (The next limtnllmriit of Ihl nerlut in railed "Kiitli'n Adventure") For Little Boys and Girls Illustrated World km m iK.fv, Tll And now comes tho chair that will navo been ,on!lte(I to tll0 organization help the (.mall boy nnd the small girl to or bought specially for the new head fl their clothes orderlv for tho night, quarters a. pegs garments and a shelt beiow, where little shoes can neatly rest all night. '1 he clnlr Is enameled In white and then at tractively decoVated In this case with a panel which shows some good Utile chll dren. DOGS ARE REAL ESTATE At Least Real Estate Assessors Must Keep Tabs on Them By a ruling of the State Department nf A rr-l, nHiirn rn! ftKtntf nsspHsnrf rmust keep count of the number of dogs in ineir districts ana report unlicensed canines Most of tho assessors are past middle life nnd little relish their new task. Under the act of July 11. "1017, com monly referred to as the dog law, dogs are personal property and the owners are omigeci to paj- a lax or license upon each animal. Ui to the present time the Police Bureau has, In a. measure, kepi track of dogt, but It now develops upon tho dignified assessors to take over this work. The receipt bv the assessors gf a let ter from Frederick Rasmus-sen, of the .State Depirtmenf. Imposing the duty ot dog watching and dog nssesslng upon the assessors caused much good-natured comment and loculniltv. but the office holders affected can see little humor in the situation HEINZ OVEN BAKEri BEANS r L One of UNION OF TEACHERS OPPOSED BY GARBER Should Think More of Work nnd Less of Money, Says Superintendent Dr. John V Garbcr, superintendent nt schooH, has declared himself unqualified. ly opposed to tho union recently formed by tho teachers "lo obtain nn Increase In salaries nnd a more dignified recogni tion of their profession." "I nm not opposed to labor unions on general principals," said the superin tendent, J'but I nm opposed lo teachers doing that sort of thing. The objedt of this union, I understand, Ii lo obtain higher salaries. There aie things which a teacher should consider more serious than monej-. Tho spiritual phase of the profession should be a greater con sideration. ' The teachers should remember that thej are Instructing the children of men ot all classes They hro teacnlng the son and daughter of tho capitalist ns well as tho laboring man If theie is a light between capltnl nnd, labor, ns some people seem to think therc 13, tho tench-er- should not take one side by forming a union of their own." Members ot the Board of Education were not Jncllned, however, to attack the new union. Thomas Shallcross, a mcmbci of the body for man J ears, N.vld he was not opposed to It, I think," he said, "that we shall be nble to give the teachers nn Increase in ularlcs next jear. I think thej ought to June It: every teacher is underpaid. W A lint a llann on. Ini rv.nM.r .. !. ...a I we could to mike the Increase possible Wo shall not have enough money this vear to grant the rises, but next jear the funds mny be available It the' i.egisiatute passes tho bin which I we shan'have the 'S - "" '" rn" UlKL btuUlS MOVING ,.11..... 1T. V . r . . . -v fettling Lp fccw Ouaitcw at Amc-, tCCIltlt and Walnut Street? The Girl Scouts are leaving their ofllce and a half" on .Seventeenth Rtreet Iniliir inii m iMiinr nr. ih.i- i,.i.w.i goods In four rooms on the third floor of tho French W'nr Itcllef Committee uunuing. 1801 Walnut street. Miss Cecily Barnes, with a truck, will (TnlllPr trtD'(1int rlltra om,1 nMilliii-n tl.nf One featm e of the new home Is the clubroom which the 3500 local nirl Scouts will use for ofllrlnl and unofficial meetings Another room will bc used as a library. j In addition to the third-floor rooms, . the Scouts have obtained jnrd privi leges for drilling and the use of the poiches during tho warm weather. j In a couple of weeks, when the new furniture l In place ami nosters lire. !,unB' ,ner1 ""' be a reception and uvuvuuinNis lor ine troops and inviicu guests JOBS FOR ARMY DOCTORS Stale Labor Department Offers Aid in Placing Them in Industrial Plants Harrll,urc. April 1 (By A I) Walter Mc.Nlchols, acting commissioner of labor and industry, has offered the sei vices ot the state to enable indus tries and phvslclnns nnd surgeons to get together because of numerous re quests for Information as to opportuni ties for industrial service In I'cnnsjl vnnla from phjslclnns nnd surgeons lenving tho army nfter eervice during the war. Heads ot Industrial establishments have beep Infoimed In n circular that Dr. Francis D Patterson, chief of the bureau ot hvglene. will look aftei this feature of state work. take the weight on ine lamiiy pocketbook With meat so high, and not so good for us anyway, what a boon to have a food so rich, so good, so nutritious and so easily prepared as Heinz Baked Beans I the Eat them Every Day Heinz Baked Beans with Pork and Tomato Sauea Heiaz Baked Pork and Bean (without Tomato' Sauce) Boitoa alyla Hainx Baked' Bean ia Tomato Sauco without Meat (aUrian) Haiu Baked Red KWaejr Beoca BANK TAKES FRANKFORD MANSION ' ,' J 'iff LwFlm-fBnKc! wS ' crfSBSSfsK !, ay' liiwiffitmilr iiffl$,w 1-41"! The Frankfonl Trust Company has purrliacd the historic old mansion at 1340 rrankford avenue, home of Dr. William Jefferson Guernsey. The iuaniou's foundations were laid in 1701. It was the home nf the ances tors of Martin Van Burcn. eighth President of the United Stales JJ TQ TTIT? Tf 7? J? 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JtllO 1 JlxLj JO JtlA.l Jr UltU JtlU U OJtL , 200 YEARS OLD, SOON TO GO , . , , Homestead Once Occupied by 1 Which Lafayette Was Welcomed on Visit to America, Required by Banking Institution mill: last chapter In the hlstorv of JL "ne of the historic old mansions ot ,,llMade1phla lhe ,lome ot nr wniiam Jefferson Guernsey. 4340. 1'rankford avenue, Frnnkford. has been begun T1,e Frankfonl Trust Corapanv has nurhased the building and grounds wlth ,h "flg down of the famous i old structuie bv the bank tho last worn In Its hlstorv nf more thin 20u jears will hive been written The mansion's foundations were laid In 1703 When lis walls sprang Into being in tin- nildt ot spacious grounds land fountain" as the home or tlio an cestors of Mil tin Van Buren eighth rrcsldenl nT Hie United Slates, Frank ford was far different from the Frank ford of todav I What Is now Fiankford avenue was 'the King's lllgliwa.v. and few nnd far I between weie the mansions of the resi dents Onlv the wealthy in tlic-e davs lived north of the creek, such as the Guernsev s and the Smediejs. who came over with William Penn These peo ple, ns a rule, spent the larger part ot the winter In their town houses In the city. The original title to the Guernsey mansion describes It as "situate on the King's Highway below Jolly Post Inn" In the hejdej of Its Colonlnl fame It far outshone nny of the houses of the period for oclal actlvltj-. Washington nnd Jefferson, when Phil adelphia was the capital of the United ' States, visited there. One of the greatest dajs In the his- torv of tho Guernsey minsion whs In September, 1824, when I-afajetto vis- Ited Philadelphia. Mn his toui of the United States A triumphal arch was ' raised over rrankford avenue from the front of the old mansion nnd beneath it tho great Frenchman and ft lend of America passed, amid the iliudltK of a mlghtv throng To commemorate the event a bronro tablet upon n house across Frankford avenue from the JMieat 3Egprr BS - . , . ormer President Van Buren and Giiernsev mansion hears the following Inscription Kiected by the people of Frankfonl to mark the Rite of an arch where, on behalf of the citizens nnd assisted bj a choir of tvventj-four joung lidle, l.enei U Isaac Worrell welcomed Gen eral Marquis de I.nfajette, Septem bei.1824. In the evening of that eventful day Iifaette called at the old Guernsey mansion and partook of its hospitality nnd over his wine pledged anew tho filcndshlp of France to the joung Sinciknn republic Doctor Guernsey and his two joung daughters, tho Misses Graco K and Helen R Guernsev, both ot whom are members of tho Frankford Sjmphonj" Orchestra, of which their father Is a director, wero loath to leave the old mansion The erection of the elevated railway I on j-rankford avenue and the repeated efforts of the trust company next door to purchase the building and grounds nt last prevailed upon the Doctor to sell, and so title to the historic place l.'i about to pass. r Patronize the Fountain Where Your Soda Is Served in a Lily Glass Germ? are no respecters of persons. Rich and poor, young- and old readily contract disease through im properly washed glassware. LILY Glasses are a necessary precaution against dis ease. Every mother should warn her children against drinking after other children, or after adults have finished with a glass. Everywhere, the best and cleanest soda fountains use LILY Glasses. Patrons enjoy their sodas more if served in clean, paper glasses that haven't that "soapy" appearance. LILY Glasses are always clean. A soda tastes best Soda Fountain Proprietors Lily Glasses cost thrown away after beinc: used once. No washincr no breaking. Twov. soda clerks can do the glasses, always reauy lur use. uuy viiasst.5 save unie auu uiuney anu make for greater cleanliness and sanitation in your store. Best of all, Lily Glasses will increase your business your patrons,?? will appreciate your desire to give them "quality" service. They'll bet,v nloasfld and thev'll nrove it bv tellinc others. . ' ", 't , 11 T -, M-1 install ljiiy uiass soda business. , For your patrons' health use. Lily Glasses. i PURITY SPECIALTIES COMPANY APRIL PLA YS A ON SCANTILY ( Heavy Frost Over Widespread Area alas of Springtime j Even the robins plan to wear frost proof ear-muffs tonight. ' Fair and continued cold tonight and' Wedncsdaj-. with freezing temperature tonight,' warns tho weather man. But he f.ijs the winds will be moderate and from the northwct. There was fret this morning over a wide area II extendia as far south n" 1 uguta, (i.i Coj Aprils entrance was anwhlng but one of those graceful nf- I fairs suggested by fluttering draperies and esthetic dances. March, In passing last evening, began I hammering the temperature down even I before the sunset on Its new daylight- saving schedule At C p m 3D degrees wero icglsterfd steadj' decline fol lowed until bj midnight the mercury stood at 28 degues And then at 1 a. in today It slumped to 21 degrees. While some snow fell during the earlj' morning hours, it was not measurable. LAUDS REDCROSS WOMEN Philntlelpliiuii Overseas Writes They Ate Alwas Cheerful Unstinted pralo for the women who mo carrjlng on for the Red Cross In Krmce Is contained In letter received bv 11. II. Fell. 5848 Pine street, from his son Winfleld, a private In the Thlr tv -third Engineers, now stationed at a Bed Cross base at .Severs. ' Their work of cheering up the ntor ViAro' ini men producing results, that are invalui bli"." 1 e writes. 'They work In eight - hour shifts, and no matter how tired thev might be they are niwaja S -3siihs have a smile rnpiiri uiiu ni- WlvriEr.D rni.I, for the doughboy w ho comes under their attention "Any man who has fought and suf fered in France will testify to the high regard with which these women are held bv everv one nnd to their splendid cour age In the face of many privations and arduous duties And they have been re el ulted from among the best families in th United Stales, many of them from Pcnnsslvania " Fell enlisted with the engineers about a vear age, and last May he was sent ntross from Camp Devens He was at the front all during the final campaigns with an ammunition train and is now nwaltlnr the order which will send him back to this country. Mayor Approves Contracts ' Mayor Smith wns ieported today as being verv much Improved, and was al lowed to be about his room for a short time He signed a number of grading and street repairing confracts and other documents requiring his signature. in a LILY Glass. work of three or four. ---- L- J?-.. LI' EclpE I service now tu care lur uus summers mcreaseu m DENCKLA BUILDING Bell Phone, Walnut 45S9 MEAN JOKK CLAD ROBI8 rjrr- and Trace of Snoty Greet &? roir and Continued z hV .V The Weather Bureau officially records txA But even that trace wag someflfhatiy. unusual lor an April morning. uuniiyyj one out of everj three Aprils passes. 'i nilnuui ceil n uaka u, biiuiy, jLiirijrit amazing exception wan cue .easier Bionn-'mi of April, 1915, when more than nineteen. rj!jt jl Inches of snow fell ' rrJi At 8 o'docl. this morning the offlclA thermometer recorded 29 deg Down nt the Delaware Breakwater 'A' a degrees were registered, with the -WflrjiIfM whistling along at a forty-mile clln.anc. snow falling T ' ia Past performances may give sSm.f 3 clue of what is to be expected thljf 'jl April. jasL jear during April iner, -o-a were 4 42 Inches of rainfall and a tract VJ of snow The mean temperature fQ-; l.n, mnnlli un u R O antrt-AA. n lli nhno tli nveracTA for thpt fonrf t-U month The April mean temperate average for forty-eight years was H' degrees. . IV' ... . r rKUUUlb L1M KLAUI M 1 cniptinp Chance for Houscwivet' I i nictio j. uoi -fa A list of 600 farmers who are ready jfi tn suddIv nroduce to consumers in this city through the truck parcel post ser Ice will be mailed to consumers through out the city todaj-. M. J. Mullen, as- ta slstant superln'endent of mails. In fist charge of the sen ice, has gathered the '1 nnnies Ul . irtiri' iimnwci w, t-uunuuicia fvip who have made Inquiries and the step viS taken today win nring ine producer anu,,! consumer into reauy communication witn. Dflnh otbpt. A special effort is being made to reaen fni-mpm that reside outside of railroad facilities and give. them tne benefit ot & prompt transportation tor ineir produce- ri' 1 k -m 11 toiZM AZ a new novel by ' ELEANOR H. PORTER SZuthor of "Just David" , "More than any one else, Mrs. Porter gives back to U3 tha, joy of knowing that this ia a beautiful world." llluttrated. $1.60 net. At all boohttov Houghton Mifflin Cofflpay i LILY Paper Glasses "Worthy of Touching Your Lips" so little that thev are.?jS Lily Glasses mean clean $1 $ - !. 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