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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.
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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,
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■ 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.
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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<e, of 1103 A
Cowdcn street, announce the birth of
a daughter. Beatrice Elizabeth Hoke,
Tuesday, March 21, 1916.
, I ' l^ n L lru }, l il '' s - George A-. Morrlssev,
or loOi Allison street, announce the
birth of a daughter, Tuesday, March
-1. 1916. Mrs. Morrissey was for
merly Miss Mary Johnson, of this city
Mr. and Mrs. William Bitner. 42
Linden street, announce the birth of a
daughter, Evelyn Claire, Thursday,
March 23. Mrs. Bitner prior to her
marriage was Miss Jennie Dissinger.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Elicker, 43 8
Harris street, announce the birth of a
son Thursday, March 23. Mrs. Elicker
was Miss Mary Belle Shettel before
her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman, 1104
Green street, announce the birth of a
daughter. Sunday, March 19, 1916.
Mrs. Hoffman was formerly Miss
Agnes May, of Shamokin.
WHAT THE SHORSiS
ARE SHOWING
The Spring bonnet for the child Is
most easily selected in the new Chil
dren's Salon in the Astrich Store,
Fourth and Market streets. This store
has always made a specialty of chil
dren's millinery, and as they make a
feature of dainty hats for children
trimmed in their own workrooms, it
is always easy to get Just the most
becoming style for the child even at
the most moderate price. The Chil
dren's Salon is located on the third
floor of the building in the room for
merly used as a French room, and the
French room is even prettier than be
fore in its attractive corner on the
main millinery floor.
Luxuries For the Home
Perhaps you've been wishing for a
fireside chair, a big. overstuffed daven
port, a pretty wicker rocker for the
bedroom or a dainty boudoir lamp, or
new furnishings for the dining room.
"The high cost of living" is often the
only reason that these things are not
mil-chased, but now the wonderful
525.000.00 furniture sale at the Chas.
F. Hoover Furniture Co., 1415 North
Second street, gives everyone an op
portunity to supply their furniture
needs at prices so low that luxuries in
furnishings may be purchased at the
usual price of necessities.
•Success
"Nothing succeeds like success,"
they say, and it is certainly true that
the good qualities that create success
invariably receive theirdue recognition,
so as to be their own reward, and the
manufacturer who takes the trouble to
make a really fine product will soon
find it famous. Thus it has been with
the Penn Comfort and Penn Perfect
furnaces, which are sold by the Himes
Hardware Store, 10 North Market
Square. They are a fine product, care-:
fully and correctly made, and their
success is the natural result of the
pains taken in their manufacture.
Coffee Conversation
"How do you make your coffee?" I
CVLI Flower Specials
Donatello Ferneries ©VSrtJ da.\J
A new Idea In pottery—ar
tistically done in green and
brown. Seven patterns from
which to select.
Special This Week
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313 Market Street " FLORIST
A QTDIftPC Market and
AO I Klltl Dj Fourth Streets
Pin stripe voile blouses, 98c Striped silk blouses. $1.98
value. Monday /1Q r* / V ■ \ value. Monday d» -| Q Q
only **I7C / jfi LJLA on i y 4> 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
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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 /
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