16 OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN Does It Pay to 15, v BEATRICE FAIRFAX Are you one of the people who have lived for ten years in a great apart ment house and have no idea who oc cupies the floor above them, the floor below, or, perhaps, even the apart ment across tho hall? Nowadays very few people are friends with the "folks next door." The kindly little word in which peo ple shared the joys and sorrows of the neighborhood has grown from sim ple town ways to over-dignified city ones. Down in the village from which your grandmother came you shared whatever of good or ill came to the people in the houses around and, incidentally, their butter, or eggs, when you happened to run short; and there was a great deal of happy warmth ii\ hearts and manners. City life has changed all this. Now you don't know anybody until you've been introduced, and, unless you want to lose your social position, you put on your hat and gloves when you are going to the shop around the corner! The chill, stiff, staring attitude of the average fashionable street in a big city is calculated to make a new comer want to eqiigrate back to the country or even to the swarming slums where everybody knows everybody else. There can be nothing more dis heartening than the chilly state of things which meets the family com ing in to the city from some warm little village of ten thousand gossipy, inquisitive, but altogether neighborly and friendly people. A Lofty Dignity Sitting in lonely, lofty dignity and ignoring all the pleasant people about you seems to be considered quite the correct thing in the city. It isn't cor rect—it's only dreary and foolish and stodgy and altogether absurd. y .€&s/„■'' i. LET'S SURPRISE MOTHER Daddy and the children schemed for weeks about what to give Mother. They finally decided on a gas reading lamp and a gas iron. So Daddy arranged to have them delivered just before Christmas. Imagine her delight when she came down stairs Christmas morning. The gas iron will save her many weary steps and she will be happy doing her sewing in the clear, mel low light of the gas lamp. Daddy will enjoy the long Winter evenings reading and the children will not strain their eyes over their books. Our showroom is full of Christmas suggestions which reflect good judgment. Make your selection now and we will be pleased to deliver it whenever you desire. If you wish, convenient term payments will be arranged. HARRISBURG GAS COMPANY 14 S. Second St. Bell 2028—Cumb. Val. 2221 What Is Christmas without a rousing fire? Think of a Christmas day spent in a cold, damp room. The poor who may do without the warm comfort of the fire- during other days, find Christmas in the cold a day of bleak despair. Many persons are in need of the necessaries of life. Many homes are without a father, and the mother is making desperate efforts to keep "the wolf from the door." And many fathers are not able to work so that . these families have little for which to be thankful and are really suffering for want of a warm room. The charitable organizations can always tell where to put some coal where it will make a poor home merry. The city doctors, the police, the dis trict nurses, your minister and all who deal with or are in touch with the poor will gladly tell you the names of those in need. We will deliver any amount of "Christmas Coal," no difference how small the order. United Ice & Coal Co. Forater & Cowden Hummel & Mulberry Third & Boas 15th & chestnut Also Steelton, Pa. t , The Telegraph Bindery Will Rebiad Your Bible Satisfactorily — _ .. A WEDNESDAY EVENING, Be Neighborly Dotted all over our land there are villages where the Kindly country ways are still enforced. There people drop into each other's houses at all hours of the day and night In the happy fashion of genuine friends. No one is ever too busy or too cold bloodedly absorbed in his own affairs and his search for money and position to refuse a lift to a neighbor who needs help over a rough place or sym pathy with some one who is bursting with good news he "just has to tell." One of the tragedies of city life is that far, far too many of us have learned to be cruelly suspicious of people we don't know, and so are afraid to give the benefit of the doubt to folk about whom we have not an absolute written guarantee of re spectability. A few years ago in the Middle West men used to boast that they always believed a man honest unless he proved himself a thief. But in the big cities the rule seems to be to be lieve people thieves until they prove themselves honest! Can't we recover some of the old neighborliness of heart and spirit which will make it possible for us to give a friendly greeting to the people who live about us? Can't we learn to feel that the joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears and the moments, great and small, of those who have been brought close to us in the congestion of city life are really close to our hearts too? So many of us fear to be neigh borly. We imagine our kindly mo tives will be questioned and our friendly impulses put down to all sorts of self-seeking, cold-blooded, mercen ary or otherwise evil intentions. Everyone in the world is more or less lonely—looking and looking for understanding and sympathy. Can't we bring a little of the neighborliness of the country into our city life? SERGE IS USEFUL IN GYM COSTUME Plaids Are Prt'lly For Young Girls With Trimmings of Plain Goods 9238 (With Basting Line and Added Seam Allowance) Girl's Gym nasium Costume, 8 to 14 years. This is a frock that can be made adapted to school wear or to the gym nasium. It is accompanied by sepa rate bloomers. The bloomers are of circular shaping, plain at the waist and full at the knees. The dress itself may be made as it is on the figure or with a square neck and without sleeves, or it may be made with a high neck and short sleeves. For the gym nasium the shorter sleeves will of course be desirable. For the school frock, the treatment shown on the figure is in every way desirable. There, a plaid woolen material is trimmed with plain. Blue serge is pretty made in this way, both for school and for the gymnasium, and a great many mothers will like to use the pattern for linen and pique and gingham and galatea and washable materials of such sort. The bloomers also are good to be used separately. For the 12 year size the dress will requiie, 5? Is yards of material 27 inches wide, 4 yards 36, yards 44, with % yard 36 inches wide for the trimming; for the bloomers will be needed, 2 x /> yards 27, I % yards 36 or 44 inches. The May Manton pattern No. 9238 is cut in sizes for girls from 8 to 14 years. It will be mailed to any ad dress by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of fifteen cents. Gear MWs Scalp Of Dandruff Mill Stairooos (ullcuia Soap Preceded by touches of Cutieura Oint ment to spots of itching, dandruff, crusta and scales. Absolutely nothing better. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. book on the akin. Address post-card: "Cutieura, Dept. 2F, Boston." Sold everywhere. FLORIDA "BY SEA" Baltimore (u JACKSONVILLE (Calling at Savannah) Delightful Sail fine Steamera. Low l-'nrcH. llrnt Service. Plan Your Trip to Include ■Finest t iiastwisc Trip* in tlie World" Illimtratetl llooklct on Kequeat. MKIU HANTS A MINIMIS 111 AN S. CO. . p. TI.K.NKH, G. I*. A. ilalto.. Bid. fltajfitt 3519 STREET Bet. sth Ave. & Broadway. ~i Fireproof—Modern—Central. 1 300 ROOMS WITH BATHS. | . tin: I able d'hote and ala Carte I WHITE KOU ROOKI.KT. , i I*. IIITCMHY. PMOP. I Use Telegraph Want Ads HAP RISBURG TELEGRAPH MEALS SHOULD BE WELL BALANCED Be Sure You Provide Proper Foods For Your Family I have heard mothers say with an assumed anxiety in their voices that their children had such enormous appetites "actually going to the pan try for more to eat right from the table." The veneer was so thin that the delighted pride in what they con sidered the abundant health of their offspring shown through their appar ent concern. Dear Mrs. Housekeep ers, will you be shocked when I tell you that such a thing is the result of a form of starvation? Perhaps your meals have been composed of too many starchy substances and too little protein: too much fat and too little minerall foods. An unnatural crav ing for more food when the stomach should be satisfied is only nature'a way of asking for the necessary health giving properties which have been denied. We see this instinct in the domesticated animals. Watch a dog or a cat when turned outdoors. They hunt up the long juicy grasses to eat because suet, food is never pro vided tor them. As far as possible every well-balanced diet should have foods containing proteins, starches, fats, minerals or acids and liquids. The average housewife who is ignor ant of the laws of chemistry (yet I have heard higher education decried as unfitting a woman for the kitchen) cooks by blind instinct. The result is the deadly sameness to which so many American families are the victims to day with the ensuing train of low vitality, exhausted nerves, anaemia, etc. If a Utile careful thought is Riven lo the combining of foods for a meal, a less amount will be really needed and household bills will be reduced accordingly. This is because the chemical value of each particular item of food has its work to perform on . a particular part of that marvel lously intricate piece of machinery, the human body. When every bit of body and brain tissue is supplied with a portion of its own individual life giving property, the craving for food stops—in other words, the appetite is satisfied. The following suggestive menus are arranged on the scientific food value basis and in accordance with the pre vailing high cost of materials. I have used left-overs wherever possible and have added receipts for such dishes as I thought might need especial ex planation. Monday Breakfast Baked apple slices, cooked cereal and cream, baking pow der biscuit, coffee. Dinner Stuffed shoulder of lamb, brown gravy, mashed potatoes, spin ich, bread pudding:. Supper—Welch rarebit on toast, escalloped tomatoes with rice, lettuce with French dressing, mixed nuts, and tea. Tuesday Breakfast Stewed apples, shred ded wheat biscuit with cream, fairy toast, coffee. Dinner—Bean soup, green peas, lamb croquettes, escalloped potatoes, chocolate cornstarch. Supper Fried bananas, mashed turnips, lettuce with mayonaise, cake, tea. Wednesday Breakfast Sliced bananas, sliced bacon, creamed, pancakes, coffee. Dinner One rib beef roast, brown gravy, baked potatoes, string beans, brown betty. Supper Potato bisque, tomato omelet, escalloped onions, vegetable salad, mayonaise, wafers, hot cocoa. Thursday Breakfast Oranges, boiled hom iny grits with cream, fried French toust, coffee. Dinner Meat pie: (potatoes, onions, meat, stock), fruit salad, may onaise, lemon jelly, cake. Supper—Fried eggplant, macaroni with cheese, hot popovers, fruit. Friday Breakfast Stewed prunes, pre pared cereal with cream, plain toast, coffee. Dinner Broiled halibut or salmon steaks, boiled cabbage, French fried potatoes, lemon pie. Supper Broiled sardines on toast, baked beans, nut salad and mayonaise. cake, tea. Saturday Breakfast Orange juice in cups, shredded wheat biscuit with cream, sausage, hurry-ups, coffee. Dinner Baked liver baked pota toes, boiled custard. Supper Toad-in-the-hole, celery, fried apples, tea, preserves. Sunday Breakfast Grapefruit, kidney stew, plain toast, coffee. Dinner Roast chicken, browned potatoes, Virginia corn pudding, creamed asparagus, ice cream, cake. Supper Hot cheese sandwiches, cold salmon, crackers, peanut butter, nuts, cake, hot cocoa. Where the heavy meal is preferred In the middle of the day the supper menus can be used as luncheon. Fairy Toast. Remove crusts and lay bread tlat on the broiler. Before toasting butter thickly and grate lemon peel over the butter and a very small pinch of nutmeg. Hurry-ups. 1 cupful Mother's Oats or other uncooked cereal, 1 table spoon shortening, 1 cup flour, 1 table spoon sugar, 2 teaspoons baking pow der. 1 teaspoon salt, one-half cup milk. Drop on greased pans and bake in quick oven. Baked I.ivcr. Select two to three pounds beef liver in one piece. Soak in salt water one hour. Cut small holes in the liver and insert suet. Dice one bunch carrots, 6 onions. Add one can tomatoes. Pour all over liver and bake. Thicken the juice left in the pan and serve as gravy. Toad-in-the-llolc. Chop any left over meat and put in baking dish with 1 beaten egg. 1 nint milk 1 cup Hour, one-half teaspoon salt, pepper and celery salt to taste. Bake in moderate oven. Hot Choose Sandwiches. One roll snappy cheese, 1 beaten egg, 1 table spoon catsup or Worcestershire sauce, one-quarter teaspoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon mustard, bacon, bread. Cream and cheese, add egg and sea soning. Spread on the bread. Place a thin slice of bacon on each piece and bake in quick oven until bacon is crisp. —ANNA HAMILTON WOOD. Your teeth may be discol ored; —a week's use of SANITOL Tooth Powder or Tooth Paste will improve them; continued use will transform them. It's White Because lt*s Pare Ui|kel Award Piiaaaa-Pacllla Ctaasliiaa *USE THE "ST [DIALiai i (gfifiM Better Service— And IT COSTS LESS /"ARYssiLLf M ENOLA• PAX TON/A • DEPOSIT m VJFS7FAIRWFU/+ 9ROCKV/LLE 9//ORfIFRSV/LLE % M/VfW PROGRESS* lf< •SWAM \ f • K/N&STONWOtMLEYS, • ~ 1 iSHmmNSTOWN /o+k •••■* • HfRSHFyI ! I 9W %[ £ l •STBeiTOv'" I mwHswe J • COHBffiiflNO +MIN)LE~£ ■ MARKET Would you pay sixty cents a dozen for cold storage eggs when you can H get them "fresh from the farm" for forty-five? Why not apply the same hard business judgment to your telephone service? Not only do you get quicker, surer, more accurate service when you use I The Automatic but the rates are much lower than on the out-of-date manual system with its tiresome waits for the operator, "wrong number" nuisance, premature "discon nects," false "busy" reports and so on. • Not only are the rates in the city lower, but you have free service to all II points within our "Free Zone" instead of paying your good, hard cash for "toll" H as on the manual. Compare the rates for yourself! When you see how much you save with the superior Automatic, Dial 2289 and order the service to-day. Annual Rates Compared (In the City) RESIDENCE AUTOMATIC MANUAL Private Ring Party line SIB.OO One and Two Ring Party Line .... $24.00 SK Private Line $36.00 Private Line $36.00 H BUSINESS— ■ Private Ring Party Line $24.00 One and Two Ring Party Line $39.00 Private Line $48.00 Private Line $60.00 (In the Suburbs) II TOWN AUTOMATIC MANUAL TOWN AUTOMATIC MANUAL |H Marysville Free $.lO Shellsville .... Free $.lO ■j New Kingston Free $.lO Union Deposit . Free $.lO 111 Mechanicsburg Free $.lO Hornersville .k. Free $.lO jS* Shiremanstown Free $.lO Swatara Free $.lO H Grantham .... Free $.lO Hummelstown Free $.lO H Bowmansdale . Free $.lO Hershey Free $.15 Dauphin Free $.lO Hockersville .. Free $.15 Give yourself a Christmas present that will give you satisfaction and save you money ■ —ALL THE YEAR 'ROUND. 1 Cumberland Valley Telephone I Company of Penna. j For Quick Reading I i / NEW LONDON, Conn.—A mistaken boll signal given by Captain John H. Gurney, of the tug T. A. Scott, Jr., when that vesset and the German sub marine Deutschland were drawing close together In the swirling waters off Race Rock, In 1.,0ng Island sound, was responsible for the collision be tween the two vessels on November 17 which resulted In the loss of the tug and its crew, according to the finding of the federal steamboat Inspectors, made public yesterday. Captain Paul DECEMBER 20. 1916 Koenig, of the Deutschland, is ex onerated from blame. WIMCKK-IIAKIIK. PA.—a IK>IICT in the engine room of the Jefferson pub lic school at Plttston exploded yester day afternoon, wrecking the basement and violently shaking the building. The pupils, who had just returned for the afternoon session, were marched to safety in charge of their teachers and none was hurt or injured. The explosion caused several hundred dol lars' worth of damage, breaking the CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought slgn of ture windows and cracking several of / walls. The cause of the accident 1 not yet been determined. MATAMOHAS KIWEItTAINMEN'I Halifax, Pa., Dec. 20. A Chr< mas entertainment wil bo held by ( nethel Union Sunday school of Mn moras on Christmas evening, Dece ber 25. An excellent program is preparation and the entertainmc promises to be the best held in tl place for several years.
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