See "The Fashion Shop" Gowns, Then Buy Your Spring Duds Days like these inspire inoughts about our Spring fawns, and girls there's a afloat, that if we want to be positively correct we (-> s? . ,ught to see the glittering 'ray of creations that !i "The Fashion Shop" at lhe Orpheum this week. \*V .JjaK&B Many of them will be exhibited in a splendid 1 ss■' Jk&MM musical comedy of this -- fa,-', title, gowns of every de- iyn* jj^^m scription and gowns for ;very occasion. f < "The Fashion Shop" Is elaborate in staging, and J| JBK n costuming and is a daze of light, song, beauty »nd frolic. The cast, vhich is quite notable in cludes Mr. Hugo Jansen, j ' jjfjK vB amous .fashion designer, , JS <| Krl Corr, Broadway's x favorite "rube" comedian, Jp »nd Blanche Latoll, lately u. | j* 'catured with "Naughty Marietta."—Adv. |WAWJW\VWV.WrtW«WWAV.W.V%SVJW.V.V.".V J ; Merchants Are Wide Awake to Possibilities of Parcel Post [ Growth of System During Last Year Boosts Harris- > burg Up Among Leading Inland Shipping Points \ of Country; Dealers Were Quick to Take Ad- j vantage and Now Many Have Well Organized I; Mail Order Departments Bawawaw.wavawwwwawawawa'awww.v.J The large amount of parcel post usiness done through the Harrisburg 'ost Office and the rapid growth of hia new branch of the government ervice each succeeding month, is u iroof not only of its great popularity nd usefulness, but also an indication f the importance of Harrisburg as me of the leading inland shipping ioitits of the country. The increase of parcel post mail j andled by the local office during last ear was about 45 per cent, over! 913, the first year of the new service.! i> this form of postal business is due; .rgely the estimated increase of 20 er cent* in the gross receipts of the fllce here for the current fiscal year, lthough the sale of stamps for ordi ary classes of mail is also showing a ealthy growth, due to the natural rowth of the city and the increasing se of the mails for advertising and usiness correspondence. The total receipts for the year end )g June 30. 1914, were about $375,- 00 in the Harrisburg office, and, ac ording to indications of the eight lonths passed, the receipts for the urrent tiscal year will be over $400,- 00. This big and steady gain is a ertain sign of Harrisburg's favorable acilities as a shipping point and its rowing importance as a railroad cen i?r, especally in view of the fact that lie reclpts of post offices in many; irge cities are not advancing, and j 1 some cases are falling off. Office Hanks lligli The State legislature is, of course, j large factor in the local postal busi ess. It is estimated the total amount : f receipts from parcel post ship-1 lents and stamp sales for first class; Tail for Capitol Hill will probably i each 135 000 during the present ses lon. The State departments are at all I mes heavy users of the mail, and ince permission was granted to send j ooks by parcel post, thousands oft olumes of department publications | ave been mailed. More than 118,- 00 automobile tags were sent last j ear to individual license holders. Last week several thousand dollars' ostage was received in one day from | carload of catalogs distributed in' arcels from Harrisburg within a ra ins of 150 miles by one of the large' jail order houses. They were the !irst; 3 recognize the advantages of using; reight to ship to a central point for among the small towns nd rural districts by parcel post. Lust ear one Chicago house alone mailed ; ve carloads of catalogs from Harris-' urg and a number of others shipped! mailer lots. Vide Awake Local merchants have also learned iie value of the parcel post. Every ; ay the local office receives wagon mds of bundles from Harrisburg de artment stores,- shoe dealers, s9ed- j len, cigar manufacturers, hosiery fac-; iries and makers of women's wear nd light clothing. These shipments are consigned not' nly to towns in the immediate neigh- 1 orhood of Harrisburg, but to small : >wns and country customers within j ie radius of the 150-mile parcel post l »ne. Local businessmen are develop- ; lg the mail order branch of their ; usiness by the assistance of the par el post, and incidentally they become j irger patrons of the ordinary first- I lass correspondence. Merchandise delivery to local pur-1 hasers in the city and small towns | 'itliin trolley distance is also becom ig popular. A package bought from a ; [arrisburg merchant can be delivered j > the customer's door in Camp Hill, ; liddletown or Rockville, or anywhere , 1 the city, for ti cents if under two | ounds weght. In connection with the j dephone the parcel post is getting j > be one of the chief l factors of time-1 ivlng for busy housewives or retail i lerchants in the rural districts. Eggs Mailed Regularly The parcel post is also growng rap- j Uy as a carrier of farm produce to j ity customers. Thousands of eggs re mailed to Harrisburg people regu- 1 irly, and butter and other solid ma •roials are also mailed to some ex int. Harrisburg is growing in favor as a ranch center for large mall order ouses who will use the parcel post < their form of dolivery. Among ie first to use this method exclusively the S. S. Kresge Company, which CASTORIA or Infants and Chilclrm. Bears the The Klrd You Haw Always Bought falKn ot' olo MONDAY EVENING, . will soon open a branch here to handle five-and-ten-cent goods entire ly through the mails. Cat and Kittens Mailed All kinds of peculiar things are sent through the parcel post, and especially at the start the clerks often had trou ble in handling oddities and articles improperly prepared for shipment. I Garden spades, brooms, rolls of blue j prints from architects, small articles jof furniture and packages of butter I in. danger of melting, are among the I things mentioned by the men at the local office. Last year a cat and five kittens were received here addressed to an uptown physician. The clerks were all per plexed by the strange consignment, which was absolutely against the rules of the department, and they appealed to l'ostmaster Frank Sites. What did Jlr. Sites do in this case? Well, he was never known to have a hard heart, so he stretched the rules a bit and allowed the menagerie to be de livered rather than be strict and starve the kittens by shipping them back to the sending office, which was at fault in permitting such a parcel to be sent. Running Smoothly Although many such blunders were j made at the start of the new system, few are allowed to ocur now. and . the machinery is in line running order. |lt was simply a matter of educating I the public to properly prepare pack ages for shipment, and to train the employes to handle the strange as ; sortment of things never before | thought of in the mails. | "Newspapers." said Frank Sites, the j Harrisburg postmaster, "must be ) given credit for their part in the ad vancement of the parcel post system, j There is no provision made by the government for newspaper advertis ing, and the only general publicity, aside from official posters, is in the news articles printed by the daily [ papers." j Four delivery wagons are used in I Harrisburg for parcel post business I exclusively, and in rush times, as at < hristmas and Easter, special clerks j are put on duty to handle the heavy traffic. In ordinary times the parcels are handled by the regular force of 354 employes under Postmaster Sites in the local office and branches. Parcel post insurance and collect op-delivery service are features of the system that are growing rapidly in popularity. Last year in this office the I insured mail increased 300 per cent. I and the C. O. D. service'6oo per cent. | over the previous year. Parcels may be insured on payment of a fee of 5 cents for value sot ex ceding $25 and 10 cents for value not over SSO, in addition to the postage. ' Packages may be sent C. O. D. by pay ment of a fee of 10 cents in addition jto postage. Detailed information can be ob j tained at local offices from clerks, or (on consultation of circulars given to I the public. Parcel post guides and I maps of rate zones are prepared for shippers and can be purchased for a j small sum from the Third Assistant i Postmaster General at Washington. |GETTING HEAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF LANDSCAPE i Nearly all hand cameras are fitted : with lenses of such short focus that I the pictures obtained have violent per- Ispective and give incorrect impressions of the grandeur of the scenery por | trayed. Large bodies of water shrink ito ponds and mountains to mole hills in the blighting eye of the snap-shot i kodak because the. photographer se i lects his viewpoint where he can get jthe. foreground objects to look right I in the tinder and lets the big things in [the distance take care of themselves. ! A short-focus lens gives a small Image j of anything far away, while it is gen | erally possible to get close efiough to ; tfle trees, rocks, or buildings to make I them show as large as desired. And Iso in the finished picture, skeptical j friends judge a lake to be a puddle since It occupies about a third as much of the scene as a tent in the fore ground. The remedy for such improper per spective Is a lens of long focus or a •telephoto attachment. These cost a good deal of money and have other disadvantages, but they do produce beautiful pictures.—March Outing. EXTINGUISHERS II VET 111 SERVICE Commissioner Jackson Calls At tention to Necessity of Having Them Ready As a result of, finding the lire fight ing equipment in manufacturing plants in many parts of the State unfit for service inspectors of the Department nl Labor and industry have been di rected to pay particular attention to such appliances and to make every effort to have them put into proper condition. One inspector of the de partment recently found over 100 lire extinguishers inoperative in the estab lishments in his district and another inspector on visiting a plant where there had been a lire three weeks be fore his inspection discovered half a dozen chemical lire extinguisher.-? which had not been recharged. Dr. John Price Jackson, the State Commissioner of Labor and Industry, in a statement 011 the results of these inspections, says "The inspectors have found too many establishments where the lire fighting equipment is unfit for use. There seems to be a feeling prev alent that equipment of this kind it! once placed in position will not need s any attention until a fire occurs. For : example, it is not infrequent that hose' connections have been placed through-' out plants and inspection has revealed , that much of the hose has been in po sition for such a long time or has been j so used for other purposes than fire! that it has rotted. Installations of this! kind cost m/ney and should be in-1 spected at frequent and regular inter-1 vuls. Chemical extinguishers should | be examined frequently and recharged | every year, preferably every six months." The commissioner has given official j notice that fire fighting equipment should be regularly inspected so that lit shall be ready for instant use and recommends that all fire fighting equipment be placed in charge of some capable person and that person be held rigidly accountable for main taining it in condition for immediate use. The inspectors will closely follow up the condition of fire fighting appli ances in their visits to plants. Six Members of Tank Steamer's Crew Die as Flames Threaten Ship New York, March I.—Six members of the crew of the Norwegian tank steamer La Habra, carrying a cargo of benzine, were lost at sea in an open boat they had launched in an effort to escape from flames which threatened their vessel, according to an unusual shipwreck story brought to this port from Horta, Fayal, by the Holland- American freighter Zaandyk. The fire aboard La Habra was caus ed by an explosion of benzine while she was on her way from Talarabay, Peru, to London, by way of the Pana ma Canal. The captain ordered the crew to take to the boats and stand by. The chief officers and five men were in a boat towing astern when the painter burned off and they drifted away without oars in a heavy sea, he said. "The fire was extinguished by giant waves which broke over the ship and the captain took her safely into Horta February 7 by dead reckoning for his navigation instruments were burned. In-breeding Blight of Many School Systems By Associated Press Washington, March I.—A city may easily have too much "home talent" in its teaching force as a result of preference for graduates of its own teacher-training school, according to a statement to-day by the Federal Bu reau of Education. "No greater misfortune can come to any school system than to have a steady in-breeding of "home talent," the statement declares. "The board of education should insist upon the se lection of at least one-third of the new teachers each year from outside the city limits. In-breeding is to-day the blight of a great many school sys tems in this country." THE MASTKII MI\I)S The egg is the most universal of foods and its use dates from the be ginning. but what is more mysterious than an egg?--Wlliam Jennings Bryan. A horse has no troubles of his own. He does not pour into your ear a sad tale of woe.—Elbert Hubbard. War is man's business.—Miss Jane Addams. Of course, peace must inevitably follow war.—Andrew Carnegie. LL.D. Not even Jefferson could make the Russian peasant a democrat.—Thomas R. Marshall. Rough seas prove the good sailor. Anybody can hold his own in a calm. —Herbert Kaufman. X have never known a man who was born without an imagination.—Gerald Stanley Lee. The millennium is a good way off yet.—Theodore Roosevelt, in March Smart Set. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a I month before she married him and | what she thinks of him a year after | ward, and you will have the truth | about him in a very handy form.— I March Smart Set . I Two's company: three is a story in itiie 15-cent magazines.—March Smart ■ Set. Do not be deceived by appearances. The virtue of a man is not to be meas ured by what he does while his wife is watching. Women, as a class, have very little sense of humor. Nevertheless, most of them have enough for an occa sional quiet snicker at their husbands. To inspire confidence In women it Is only necessary to avoid being sincere. CAX YOU BEAT TlllSf I From the National Monthlv] On a dilapidated narrow Kauge rail road in a certain State a traveler was strui'k with the general air of hope lessness of the entire country. Run down farms, fences falling to pieces and houses unpainted and dismal, were seen as mile after inile was reeled off. Finally a countryman sot on and the two fell Into conversation. "Country around here looks fearfully dilapidated," remarked the traveler. "Yaas, but jest wait and ye'll see sumpin' wuss," replied the country man. The train stopped. They looked out and saw a rail missing ahead. The en tire crew clambered out. crowbars In hand, proceeded leisurely to the reaf of the train and in due time loosened a rail and carried it forward. It was spiked Into position and the train pro ceeded. "Somebody stole a rail?" asked the traveler. "Yaas, about twent" years ago, I reckon. Evah since they hain't no body bought a new one. When the train comes back they've potter stop an' tear up a rail liehind 'em. Ain't that the dllapidatedest tiling ye ever see. stranger?" $50,000 FIRE AT AVOCA Si-ranton. Pa.. March .1. —Fire at Avoca to-day destroyed the Demko Hotel and Dunn's Nickelet and dam aged several adjoining properties, causing a loss of >50,000. harrisburg afiSSlsi TELEGRAPH ► ( ( y Demonstrating Tomorrow Demonstrating Tomorrow ► how to bake apples in how rice may boil dry in ► Ever Roasters on top of the " MM Wear-Ever Aluminum with * stove. out burning. J Call 1991—Any Phone Founded 1871 ) ► " ~~ \ New Siiks---Exquisite in Design; Splendid Qualities and Yards By the Hundreds Enter This ► Commencing To-morrow, Tuesday, And Continuing Until March 11th They're new—they're gorgeous! The weaves represent the latest that "Fashion has authorized. Designs ' are rich in new features and clever effects, while a beautiful lustre gives distinction. Effort has been made to secure only the most serviceable qualities from reliable manufacturers, and as to L values, well, The Following Low Prices y Print Warp Taffetas Silk Poplins regularly Striped Messaline Suitings y xV regularly $1.25; 22 inches 50c; 24 inches wide; perfect —24 inches wide; white pin t wide, 1 O shades of sand, Rocky Moun- stripes on all shades, ► " yard * tain blue, wistaria, Battle- yard L J Wash Habutai regular- ship gray, navy, Russian Silk Serge Suitings reg ly 85c; 36 inches wide; white green and black, ularly $1.50; 36 inches wide; o nly, 68c yard pin stripes in navy, Copen ► #J \ * " Gros DeLondres ' fMST ■ 98C " N l\ |L regularly $2.00: .16 inches £ " y JUac and hlack Merry Widow Taffeta - " W w, ~j t regularly $2.50; 40 inches : I t\ yard ...... ..... 33c £de; Arizona sU-JJ^gg ► jfif \ \\\ Silk Faille regularly Messahne Striped Suitings Pussy Willow Taffeta U] | 1 $2.00; 36 inches wide; in regularly $1.00; 32 inches rn c ft . 4n • . Oregon green, Arizona sil- wide; in Oregon green wis- regularly s—o. 4 ,n^ ► vcr covert and *1 OO taria, navy, black and OQ. wide; ,n navy $l # gg ► m navy, yard JM -OO Belgian> yard OOC only, yard ...... * * "^ s Wash Silk Waistings Striped Taffeta Suitings— Crepe de Chines legu * Silk Crepe de Chines; reg- regularly $1.25; 32 inches regularly $1.25; 36 inches 40 U J\ia ularly $1.25: 40 inches wide; widc; satin Roinan stripes in wide; triple stripes of white $1 .98 ►in ivory, wistaria, Russian wh.t.;ri» a«d as. Qgg on black and navy, 9 g c > chiffon' Taffetas - regu green; 98c ; 1 • : larly $1.50; 36 inches wide; : de Chines'- rcgu- ASSO tJT' a "' i e sl" 38 * larly $1.50; 40 inches wide; I~> 1 I pv p *fl A yard * * all street and evening LjLCLOfC J-Jf&SS iLrCS a\.V & Checkered Taffetas —26 " shades tf» i qq t f rn • i,ldles wide 5 overplaid of ; yard a>i.o» a reature ot This and 7Bc * Satin Messalines regu- n/r Z- O 7 r~~ —' - —• ' ■■■ ■ ■ * larly $1.00: 36 inches wide; I\LCLfCTV ► in seven ol the newest street , Du „ | and cveumg shades, 78c Chiffon Taffeta, at ".8f from #B.IB from $2.50. .i p din, \au v £ rom $100; ► Satin Foulards —2O in- from $1.19; 98.so; ffiSOT ■ "'J'""' sl.lß 36-inch satin Imperial, at at *1.48 from $1.75. ► - , , $1.58 from $1.75. 40-inch Black. Crepe de j \ y Crepe Meteor regularly 36-inch Satin De Luxe, at Chine, at sl.lß from $1.39; L^~\ $1.85; 40 inches wide; street $1.58 from $1.75; $1.98 #1.48 from $1.69. TW - and evening d? "1 CO from $2.25. i 40-inch Black Satin Char v shades, yard Main "Fioor-BOWMAN-s I meuse, at from $1.39. _ ► ~ ' A PARLOR MAGIC EXPLAINED,, &BY THURSTON,™® MAGICIAN & I ■ LL '" ' 4 PAPER AND COINS jj@ & CIGAR FROM SMALL PURSE MTHE MAGNETIZED P£NQL|J PAPER AND COINS How to extract a coin from a fouled piper. The paper should be square, moder ately «ttff. and about four times the diameter of the coin each way. Place the coin In the center, and fold down each side fairly over It, showing at each stage that the coin is still there. Two sides having been folded, take the paper and coin upright in the right hand. Kold over the upoei- end, at the same time allowing the coin to slide down into the lower. Fold this latter over with the coin In it and give the packet to some'one to hold. The paper still contains the coin, but Instead of being, as the spectators suppose, In the middle, it is really «in the outer fold, whence you can let It slide into vour hand at pleasure. A pretty and effective finish to the above effect, is to set Are to the packet, and afterwards produce the coin as your fancy dictates. THK MAGNETIZED PENCIL A lead pencil Is laid upon the right hand, and. while the left hand makes passes around It and above it, the pen cil moves and slowly rises until it stands erect. A bent pin is attached to the bottom of the pencil, as shown in the iilustra-, tlon. This point is stuck lightly Into the skin at the base of the fingers. At this stage, the fingers are slightly con tracted. Gradually straighten the lingers, and. as the skin tightens, the pencil will rise accordingly. This ac tion of the fingers is unnoticeable, and the pencil can be made to rloe and fall at will. After the trick the pencil is replaced Into the pocket, and, if requested, an other pencil of duplicate make removed and passed for examination. MARCH 1, 1915. CIGAR FROM SMAI,L PURSE! i Hold a small purse, with moutli open. ! In the left hand: fina-er and thumb 011 [ either side. Place right hand with concealed ci I quit, ' he said to the farmer at the end iof the month. "You promised mo a. I steady job." I "Well, haven't you got one?" was ; the astonished reply. ; "No." said the man, "there are three j or four hours every night that I don't , have a tiling to do. and fool my time . away sleeping." CHILDREN HATE FILLS. CALOMEL ; HID CASTOR OIL If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs" Look back at your childhood days. Remembe' the "dose" mother Insisted on—castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children It's different. Mothers who cling to tne old form of physic simply don't realize what they do. The children's revolt is well i founded. Their tender little "lnsides" ! are injured by them. If your child's atomach. liver and I bowels need cleansing, give only deli- I clous "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take it; that It never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach, and that a teaspoonful given to-day saves a sick child to-mor row. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot tle of "California Syrup of Figs." which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. See that it is made by "California Fig Syrup Com pany." Refuse any other kind with contempt.—Advertisement. 3