2 PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS STORYTELLERS IN OPEN MEETING Inspirational Stories Will Form the Program For Club Meeting Tuesday Evening At the next open meeting of the Story-Tel ling Club, Tuesday evening, March 28, held in the assembly hall of the Public Library, "Inspiratlonai Stories" will be the theme of interest To illustrate this finest type of story. Miss Carrie Reinoehl and her com mittee have arranged an excellent pro gram. An ancient story from the Chinese, "Community Fair," will be given bv Miss Carrie Reinoehl. Henry Van Dyke's beautiful "Storv of the Other Wise Man" 'will be told by Miss Flor ence Carroll. The quaint, sweet story "Scairt o' Dyin'," by Mary Trumbell Slosson. has been chosen by Miss Alice Cussack. "A Heroine in Broze," bv James Lane Allen, will be given bv Mrs. Anna Hamilton Wood. E. O Periam's version of "Pippa Passes. ' the lovable little girl whom Robert Browning has made famous, will be told by Miss Mary Snyder. Miss Lois Booker will give an original poem. "The Song of the Soul." Mrs. S. G. Cohen will give her own adaptation of i Xatlianiel Hawthorne's ennobling story, "The Great Stone Face." The members and guests of the club 1 are requested to come promptlv at ■ 7.30 o'clock. An Easter lesson by Georgiana E. > Speare will be used for discussion at! the next meeting of the Story Circle! and several of the members of the club will tell delightful stories. CENTRA I. HIGH NOTES The sessions in Central high school will change Monday. The March meeting of the Philonlan Debating Society will be held at the! home of Russe! Xissley, 703 X'orth Seventeenth street. Monday. March 27. A few members of the grand opera 1 company will sing for the students of • Central high school Tuesday afternoon. ! Students of both sessions are asked to attend. The Rev. Dr. James Fry Bullitt of Bellevue, spent yesterday in Phila delphia. Mrs. M. H. Plank, of 1421 Xorth Front street, is spending the week- i end in Baltimore. Mrs. Henry M. Stine. of 21 South j Front street, returned last evening utter a several days' visit in Xew York City. Mr. and Mrs. Isaau Long, of 1722 Carnation street, will soon remove to Summerdale. Mrs. John Rauch. of Herr street, is visiting her sister. Mrs. Holler, of Ohio. A. W. Myers, of the Myers Manu facturing Company, has returned after i n business trip to Altoona, Pittsburgh j and Johnstown. (Other Personals Page 3) I Enjoy a Breakfast by Using Lm & Perrins' Sauce on the simplest dishes— 49 bam, eggs, sausages, etc. Both on the 0 |/j table and in the kitchen it can be used for the 4 CE I K The only original Worce«tc«hire Sauce ■ K Send postal for free kitchen hanger containing R - 100 new recipes LEA & PERKINS, Hubert Street, New York City fj Two Score Years of Telephony FORTY years ago, Alexander Graham Bell spoke over the feeble instrument he had invented, to Thomas A. Watson—only two telephones in the world and a hundred feet of wire. Recently the same men spoke to each other from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the Transcontinental Line— more than fifteen million telephones in the world and nine million in the Bell System. Twenty-one million miles of telephone wire connect every state in the union, and the wireless telephone has extended speech across our ocean boundaries. A chorus of twenty-eight million Americans is brought into perfect unison daily by the Bell System, that unifier of the nation and harmonizer of distant peoples, which bridges distances, outraces time and makes a whole nation one community, *| The Bell System ■ Book of tlie Opera This will be a great help to better enjoy the coming opera, March 28 and 29. Also call and hear the selections from these operas before performance. Victrolas, sls to S4OO The Exclusive Victor House C. AV. >Si4 ler, Inc. Pianos Victrolas 30 N. 2niSt. ""ZlT a SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG 1&m£& TELEGRAPH MARCH 25, 1916. COMMUNITY CLUB AT BREEZE HILL Interesting and Seasonable Talk on Birds Given by William S. Essick A most interesting meeting of the l Bellevue Park Association was held last, evening at Breeze Hill with Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace McFarland. Dur ing an informal program William S. Essick gave an illustrated talk on "Birds" whicri was l>oth delightful and timely at this Spring season. Mrs. 1 Josiah H. Hillegas sang delightfully i "The Swallows," by Cohen, and "Irish ! Love Song," by Margaret Uiis. i The social committee in charge of the events comprises M. 1. Kast, chair man. and W. K. McCord, W. B. Cor , bett. Mrs. James P. Bullitt. Mrs. Lucien B. Xotestine. Mrs. Walter E. Dietrich. Those present last evening were Mr. i and Mrs. J. Horace McFarland, Mr. and Mrs. X. E. Hause, Mr. and Mrs. I John T. Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Terry, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Olm sted. Mr. and Mrs. William K. McCord. Mr. and Mrs. John lleathcote, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Calder, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Tlioma, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Dietrich, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Corbett. Mrs. and Mrs M. I. Kast, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. I Xotestine. Mr. and Mrs. John Hem perlv, the Rev. and Mrs. .Tames F. Bullitt. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Haehnlen, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hillegas, William S. Essick, Robert McFarland, F. W. Watts, Harold McCord, Robert Xote stine, AValter Dietrich, John Terry, Allen Shirley, Miss Helen McFarland, Miss Anna Taft, Miss Edith Young, Miss Emma Fulton, Miss Pearl Sowers, Miss Marjory Hause, Miss Frances Hause, Miss Miriam Hemperly, Miss Helen Xotestine. Miss Pauline Kast, Miss Marie Tarlow, Miss Mary Eliz abeth Dietrich, Miss Mary Corbet and Miss Margaret Bullitt. Miss Elizabeth Evans of Lucknow was a Harrisburg visitor yesterday. Miss Helen Dunlap, a student at Smith College. Xorthampton, Mass., is spending the Easter vacation with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Dun lap, of 1507 Xorth Second street. HAGERSTOWX WEDDINGS Hagerstown, Md„ March 25.—Miss Edit* Pearl Thomas and George Albert Balthaser, both of Harrisburg, were married here on Friday at the parson age of the First Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. E. K. Thomas. Miss Blanche O. Davis, of Paxtang, Pa., and Harry A. Bowers, of Millers burg, Pa., were married on March 21 at the parsonage of Christ's Reformed Church hyrc by the Rev. Dr. Conrad Clever. Miss Hazel F. Shearer and John I Spahr. both of Carlisle, Pa., were' united in marriage yesterday at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church ! here by the Rev. E. K. Thomas. NEWS FROM CHINA AT FIRST HANDS Donald Carruthers Tells of Chinese New Year and Other Interesting Matter Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carruthers, of State street, received the following letter this morning from their son, I Donald C. Carruthers, who is the I Princeton University representative at jthe Army Y. M. C. A. at Peking, j China. The association is for the diplomatic corps, soldiers and sailors, American, British and German men. "Tlie Chinese Xew Year is now in progress and there are a great many strange customs observed at this time. About a week before the first of their year the Kitchen God is burned up so that he may go to the world of the spirits and report on what was done in the family during the past year. They very cleverly fix it so that he can't say any thing about their deeds and misdeeds for they stuff his mouth with sticks of sweet candy and thus make it possible for him to speak the proverbial 'honeyed words' of our good friend Homer. For the first two days of the Xew Year all the shops in the city are closed and it is im possible to buy things which are usually on sale every day. There is custom also of visiting the graves of their ancestors on Xew Year'-a eve and thus show a certain amount of rev erence to them. It is most difficult for the native Christian members of the family for they do not observe these customs quite naturally and it becomes quite a problem foe them if they be the only Christians in the home and all the other members con tinue to worship in this old way. "I went outside the city the other day to see them worship at the Buddhist Temple on New Year's Day. The custom is to bow three times be fore the image of the Buddha and then to light sticks of incense at the same time in memory of your ances tors. You then buy paper money and burn it in the temple thus assuring you of a successful year. One old woman I saw spent 26 cents for the good of her soul and then went away having paid her religious duties for the entire year. T felt it was not un like working oft the necessary number of chapels when 1 was in Princeton. It was quite pathetic however, to see the heathen in his blindness bow down to wood and stone! In the court of this big temple were all manner of sellers of goods and it was easy to picture the temple in Jerusalem when Jesus drove forth all them that sold and overturned the tables of the money changers. Huge fires of in cense were everywhere burning and more was being constantly cast on the tire by eager worshipers. In one of the rooms of the temple was a figure of a bronze horse with peculiar medi cinal and healing virtues. You were to kiss that part of the beast in which you were bothered and It is not hard to see what an infectious article such an object would be among so many ignorant people. Interesting Visitors "Two very Interesting Germans called in the Army Y. M. C. A. the other day and I pot to know them fairly well. The next day I took them through the Chinese Y. M. C. A. and they were considerably overawed by some of the modern things they saw. Tliey have both been in the Interior of one of the southern provinces in the South of China, just north of Burma. They are under the direction of the Dresden Museum and are collecting birds and butterflies for the Museum. One of them last year alone collected ! more than 30,000 perfect specimens of the butterflies of South China—rep j resenting more than 2,000 different species. It will require 5 or 6 years' j work to mount them and arrange them -when he goes back to Germany i and after that he will then be ready to classify them and study them. I told him in my best German that he sure was a typical German student. The other chap is interested in bird migration and has collected nearly .',500 birds of more than 870 species. In Kurope to-day there are but 250 species and this increase is quite note worthy. He has added one or more whole families to the known birds of China. Naturally I found the men in teresting. "I have begun to give the scries of lectures in Industrial History and in Economics which I had planned. The men in the course are very keen and ' understand English to a marked de gree. I find it quite enjoyable teach ing men a subject about which they j have never heard or thought. It is ! like planting in a new soil only I find it difficult to find the proper seed at times. "I took two marines and a professor ' just out from America (H. Vinace who j just left the Princeton Graduate Col lege in January to take a position in a Tientsin Government school) to the Forbidden City to look at the museum and painting collection. This last i was on exhibit for this week only, so j I was mighty fortunate to get in be-1 fore the collection was permanently; closed. I doubt if I have ever seen i any finer bits of realism in painting j than I saw there in one of the paint ings of a waterfall with a majestic old j eagle sitting just above it. It was the finest thing of its kind I have seen in a long while and doubt if I shall ever forget its charm. The two marines and the other cliap were likewise particularly struck by its beauty. When they saw the gold scabbards studded with diamonds belonging to the previous emperors they could hardly contain themselves for they | had not thought such things possible 1 in China. One man said: 'I wouldn't have missed seeing that museum for anything. I w-ouldn't have felt that I had seen China if I had not gone there." Political Matters "I note that you are all quite' anxious over political matters in China 1 now and I suppose this may be partly ' caused by American press reports. : There is one thing sure—Peking will not be troubled —and the foreigners! by no means. Everything up north! here is as quiet as one could desire. | It looks as if the south would split j into a republic and the north would i remain a monarchy. But wo don't know." Miss Lillian Shcetz and Miss Dorot' Oden, of Winchester, Va„ are II guests of Mrs. George M. Whitnei 1605 North Second street. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saunders and small son Howard started this morn ing for their home in Toledo, Ohio, after a visit among relatives in Har rlsburg and Steelton. Mrs. Thomas Leighton, of Blngham ton, N. Y.. was a recent guest of her sister. Mrs. K. F. Geiger, of State street. SINGS IN WIIvKKS-BAKRE Abner W. Hartman. bass soloist, has returned from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he asisted In the annual con cert of Alexander's Band, of that ' place. Mr. Hartman sang a group of three songs which were well receiver' by a critical and appreciative audienc< The concert was held In the Masoni' i Temple of Wilkes-Xiarre, ( Willing Class Band Elects New Officers The Willing Class Band of Calvary Presbyterian Church met at the home of the teacher, Morris Taylor, 111 South street, Thursday evening. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Ross Mount*, president; Mrs. Paul Stam haugh, treasurer; Mrs. C. A. Waite, secretary. After the business meeting a social hour was held, during which the class enjoyed music and games. Refresh ments were served to the following members; The Misses Esther Conrad, Emma Mason. Catharine Light, Alma \ ost. Mrs. Lewis Long, Mrs. Paul Stambaugh, Mrs. Chester Waite, Mrs. Ross Mountz, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Schwam, Jr., of 2224 Xorth Second street, are spend ing some time in Atlantic City, where Mr. Schwarz is recuperating after an illness. Asa A. Weimer, of who Is spending several days in the city, will be a guest at the banquet of the Engi neers' Club this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rogers have gone home to Toronto, Canada, after a brief stay among relatives in town. Miss Maude Hartman, of Troy, X. Y., was a recent guest .at> the home of her cousin, Mrs. Wilson Haynes, of Market street. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Irons, Third and Maclay streets, are in Xew York for a few days. Mrs. James Brady and Miss Maude Brady, 510 Xorth Second street, are spending the week-end at Ardmore and Xew York. Miss Henrietta Richards, of Phila delphia. is visiting her relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Deane, of Market street, over Sunday. Miss Hestei\ Reed and Miss Xorma Reed are in Pittsburgh for a week on the way home from Cleveland and Chicago. Mrs. Charles Crawford, of Wash ington. Pa., is the guest of Dr. and Mis. William L Keller, 2225 Xorth 1" ront street. Mrs. Harry Blnk. of Paxtang. was hostess for the Tuesday Embroidery Llub this week. Bejainin M. Xead, 204 Xorth Second street, is spending a few days in Pitts burfch. Miss Harriet Harris, of 1110 Herr street left to-day for Devon where she will enter upon a course of training preparatory to entering the Presby terian Hospital at Philadelphia. «„*> i » SS r' J {i artha . M " ,er - a student at Smith College, is spending the Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Miller, of 2321 Xorth Third street. worm Mr. and Mrs. Irvin C. Seighman, 403 fourteenth street, announce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Iva. Sat urday. March 18. lflie. Mrs. Seigh man was formerly Miss Emma Mav Smith, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hol 1 .OO Voile and organdie lingerie / Striped crepe de chine blouses; blouses. $1.25 value. fiQ / Jggit JMH& $3.49 value. Mon- d»Q or- Monday only UJ7C VWm day only SO.ZS Blue and white linen blouses, ll'/'lflC' $1.50 value. Monday QQ la'WVT 4 ' 4f\\l All 98c stli P c d voile and mad only OOC \ • Xl} !j\j 'A ras blouses. Monday OO \ r \\ § oniy ooc Marquisette blou?\ with new \V ======================= handkerchief effect, bordered in st >'* es lingerie coral and Copen blue. QQ Kill/ \i\VvS^ s^f: » 'douses, not mentioned QQ Monday only OvV* \1 above. Monday only .. Petticoats Petticoats Petticoats of best quality, sateen taffeta fin- Black sateen petticoats; 98c value. 7Q ish, in black, old rose, plum, American A Q Monday only t%J C beauty. For Monday only T" O Taffeta underskirts of high grade 1 QQ Taffeta silk underskirts, of finest d*o OO changeable silks quality; worth $3.98. Monday only, VWiOO SKIRTS Poplin, serge, crepe, granite cloth . cordur °y skirts, iu navy, black, w I!; ' n| / Skirts of better qualty, in serge, pop- ti j 5 A \?y l' n > Chudda cloth, granite cloth, wool jM t TI I I " JmMm "• $lO "Ifill || IP u Silk taffeta and poplin skirts from /[ (A $8.98° $15.00 Black and white check skirts; worth SI.OB. Mon- AA J to -J day only *J) L •VrV/ FURS Ready - to - Wear Made - to - Order nod Remodeled. Gentlemen'* Fur-lined Coats. Skins for Millinery Purposes. R. Gerstner PRACTICAL FURRIER tIS I.ocu*t St. Opp. Puat Office asked a friend of mine. "It is always so delicious." "Sometimes we boil it and sometimes we make it in the per colator," she replied, "but the reason it is always good is that we use onlv Studebaker's Special Blend at 32c a pound. It is the best coffee I have ever tried, though I have often paid more for inferior qualities." This seems to be the general opinion in regard to this coffee, and it seems that the flavor is uniformly delicious. The Studebaker Grocery Store, Second street at* the crossing of State, makes a specialty of coffee, priced from 25c to 4 0c a pound, though the Special Elend at 32c is a feature. Amateur Photography With the Spring of the year comes a universal interest in photography, and the amateur who goes "a-kodaking," whether he be a child, a young man or girl, or a grandma, or grandpa, will find all his need well supplied at the C.orgas Drug Store. 16 Xorth Third street, while the experienced pho tographer who appreciates the best of kodaks, and understands all the subtle differences of lenses, shutters and special attachments will be Just as well able to select his favorite from the big Gorgas assortment. Prices range from SI.OO to $25.00. Both Style and Comfort The discomfort of a bunion is aggra vated by the embarrassment of having: to wear unsightly shoes, and anyone who has a corn or bunion will appre ciate the special shoe shown bv the Walk-Over Boot Shop, 226 Market street. To the uninitiated it Is simply a dressy patent-leather shoe, with cravanetted cloth top, and smart Cuban heel, but the interesting secret of it Is that the last Is so constructed as to practically combine two widths In one' —that. Is, the front part of the shoe is built on a wider last than the waist and heel, allowing perfect com fort where needed without destroying the beauty and good line of the shoo. Tt sells for $4.00. OPENING J§ Spring- Millinery » of Kolbeoschlag's ill 11 Tues., Mar. 28, Wed., Mar. 29 11 \m\ 208 N. Third Street /f / Knox Hats Hair Ornaments /mi -Mjk Parasols Hand Bags /Mfc 7/te Sliaff Petite Gnuid ' i 1 Sit Assures youof«J>solute Jit perjsclwn in the highest \JM mrofj/djio construction Wrf( w? znct/i&n won tAe admire- tion of the most critical •sssa pttrchteeYhy its exclusive ?■/ 1 high standard o£ T — L supreme excellence. « I • Z4.N.&»conJ S/r I mmmmm i&fi. | , , Try Telegraph Want Ads Try Telegraph Want Ads