Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax A curious case occurred the other day in Chicago, and as the details recorded in the daily papers might * toe called: "Why men come back af ter leaving home," the story will bear another telling. It seems that a Mr. John Franz used to board with a lady by the name of Mrs. Geraldine Cade, who was an excellent housekeeper. Her cooking was such that not once wad Mr. Franz driven to tender retrospec tion concerning his motl\er's pies or coffee. The pies and coffee of Mrs. Cade were so excellent as to create new standards of their own. Mrs. Cade was scon treading the old reliable well-worn footpath to a man's heart—the stomach. And Mr. Franz was going the way of all men • —he was falling deeply in love with his comforts. They became engaged and everything seemed as happy as the final act of an anti-problem play when something went wrong. Perhaps Mr. Franz took a meal • down town and contracted dyspep sia, perhaps he wanted to go to France and become a soldier, per haps as the day approached he got a plain case of church fright—the] details are vague—what he did was to flee Mrs. Cade's house. Mrs. Cade was a sensitive wo man and feeling keenly the asper sions cast on her chicken a la king, Irish stew and biscuit Tortoni, slip sought heart balm to the tunc of $25,000. The Old Reliable Route In the meantime, Nemesis caught up with Mr. Franz, who had taken to "eating 'round lunch houses." How different everything was, now a grimy bus-boy slammed down cut lery, and a waitress, with the piercing note of a callope, called for "beans and—." There was pie to be had, but the less said of that pie the better. Mr. Franz began to realize how blessings brighten as they take their flight. He called up Mrs. Cade's lawyer and said he wanted to go home. He married the lady, and they are presumably enjoying those final chapters of romance, which in the fairy stories of childhood, are sum med up in: "They lived happily ever after." There is a whole library—several libraries, in fact —on the subject of domestic happiness bound up in this story from the daily news. Whern good meals abound, there the heart of man lingers. Something may drive him away, temporarily, but like the cat, he always comes back. Keeping House Well In the face of this truism, why are not all girls irrespective of position or prospects tauffht to keep house well? It they can't be taught at home because their moth ers unfortunately belong to the great school of delicatessen and' "ready-to serve" housekeepers, why can't schools of domestic economics be established in every town, city and community of the United States? I know some attempts in this di rection have been made in the pub lic schools, and it is well enough in .its way, but it doesn't go far enough, (r Domestic science courses should in- I There Is No Monopoly | |1 in the packing industry. pi m Swift & Company, fjv P although the largest pi |y packer, handles not to f|jj S| exceed one-eighth of the EN || total meat production gg m of the United States. B The five large packers do not H ® handle to exceed one-third of K the total meat production of KL & the United States. B |?| Swift & Company is not in S |pj| combination with any other ||| packer or packers to control ® M . prices. £9 There is very active compe -111 tition in the buying of live-stock ;8I and equally keen competition !j| in the sale of dressed meats & and by-products. hit 1918 year book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. mA Address Swift & Company, ||f Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois jjp^ Swift & Company | ■ / . / ' \ !•'*.* t i ' - TUESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL 16, 1918. Bringing Up Father *■' /■' Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•* *•/ *•' By McManus f" ITt> NO U*5E <IOINT HOW HAVE. <*o UP S>T/VRb AND PjT Cits J TTTZT &mzm?A I OOrr trs RAM- TO CONE XOOR COM • WHAT Do Vou. - / /,r-> ~ fflwmm 1 I'LL * V IN THEPARLOR-<lETOur MEAN 1M <,OINC, /\RounO N =*-_• 'lffg =.c§V / ' m A(,<,|£ W SPENDIN' (iA °y HAT - VHX DON'T j|| //y f" 1! ' "" | elude marketing: and a thorough knowledge of meat cuts, and how to get the best results from each in the way of nourishment and flavor. But so many women are lambs —or , rather sheep—led to slaughter, in the hands of the butcher. Girls should be taught to marketj systematically, and taught to buy everything;—meat, fish, vegetables, ■ and then keep cash accounts after- j ward. It is the telephone, and that| fatal "line of least resistance," that| are at the bottom of so much of t "the high cost of living." The war has brought American j women face to face with their short comings as housekeepers as nothing else could have done. They want io[ save, but they don't know how. lni the back part of their brains there has always been a little contempt for; this quality; now they discover it to | be a line art. j For it is a fine art as understood, bv the French that intelligence that gets a full value for every penny ex pended and at the same time pro-, duces results so excellent as never to suggest the sordid. American wo-1 men —I am speaking of the traveled: class have always admired this j quality in the French, but they liavel also felt that it was not for them | to emulate. They were too busy with : large affairs —which they were al ways a bit vague about, when pinned! down for details. j Now with husbands, sons and; sweethearts "over there," they are confronted with a problem that finds' them a little awkward and inept. I am not thinking of the women on farms or in rural communities, but the city woman who skims through | her housekeeping and gives the fin est flower of her energies to some) philanthropic project away from j home. For, like the poor, we til- ] ways have our Mrs. Jellybys among : us. Something looking. A woman who can't make a home 1 has some vital ingredient lacking, she is as defective as if she were ' color-blind, tone-deaf or like the heroine of that lovely parody on the Blessed Damosel who "had three fingers on one hand." Home-making is far more neces sary than much, she acquires at school. Doubtless she will be taught the name of the capital of Persia, and in the time of Caesa'r, "all Gaul was divided into three parts"—use ful information, certainly, but hard ly as valuable as how to mak? a cup of good coffee, or the best method of preparing a pot roast. Appetizing pot roast and coffee In dicate a home where useful citizens are trained to carry on the torch of civilization—and we can't have enough of them these days—whereas the capital of Persia may change and all Gaul has been divided and subdivided many times, but has al ways come out on top, thank God! Let the girls knit, by all means, and dance and play the piano, and study Greek if they want to, but do not neglect to teach them the dif ference between a rib and a chuck roast, and that the best way of cooking one would mean the destruc tion of the other. Judge Decrees Death to Confessed Murderer Allentown, Pa., April 16.—1n an opinion handed down last evening Judge Clinton A. Groman fifixed the degree of crime at death in the mur der charge against Frank Ressler, of West Coplay, who confessed to the murder last October of Mrs. Mary! Koetusch. At the January term of court Ressler, under an old law, pleaded "generally guilty," leaving it to the judge to take testimony and fix the degree of crime. This was the first time in the his tory of Lehigh County that a judge alone placed the death penalty on a felon. The defendant has thirty days to take exception, in default of which he will be sentenced to the chair. IDaily Fashion! | 1 Hint 1 ! jl Prepared Especially For This j| j I LA \A m 'A OlgM I W~Jk\ & f /i , ® > L fJ * *// / 76021 A ,7G9G ; FOR GENERAL WEAR. Tailored, blouses of linen substt, tutes are very attractive for sport? and general wear this season, especi ally when accompanying skirts oi figured white sports satin. Buttons °a high collar and deep cuffs are th decorative features of the blouse while pouch pockets ornament th skirt. Medium size requires 2Vj yards 36-inch material for the blous* and 3% yards sports satin for th skirt Pictorial Review Blouse No. 7682. Sizes, 34 to 44 inches toust. Price, 20 cents. Skirt No. 7696. Size 3, 24 to 50 Inches waist. Price, 20 cents. Destroyed Steamship Was City of Wilmington New York, April 16. —The Amer ican steamship which was burned off the coast of Nova Scotia on Saturday night has been identified here as the City of Wilmington, formerly the Barber line's reighter Camino. She was a vessel oI 3,309 tons gross and was on a voyage from a southern port for France with a cargo of ':ot ton and flour. The dispatch said the crew was transferred to a United States war ship which had gone to her assistance. HYMN STARTS CHURCH ROW Potts vilie. Pa., April 16.—The fact ; that a hymn was sung in the First Presbyterian Church on Sunday to what is said to have been the air of the Austrian national anthem has raised a storm among members of the congregation. Members said some of the congregation left the service as the loud prelude of the oraran be gan rather than listen to the singing of the hymn, including among them the mother of an officer in the United States service. Wrinkles Vanish Before Your Very Eyes! Do you believe it possible to liter ally erase your wrinkles, crow's-feet and age-lines? Just try this simple experiment: Mix a teaspoonful of plain water, wet your face with this sooth ing emulsion—and observe in your mirror the most remarkable phenome non you have ever beheld! Lines, fur rows and sags actually disappear be fore your very eyes—ln less than ten minutes! And this astonishing result is accomplished without the least harm. The treatment, gn the other hand, is altogether beneficial to skin and complexion. The effect Is not at all like that produced by any cos metic, enamel or make-up—ln fact, the tarkroot mixture is to be removed In a half hour or so, leaving nothing artificial. No one can really appreciate the wonderful rejuvenating effect of pow dered tarkroot, used as directed, with out procuring a package from the druggist and trying it—Advertise ment. t THE FOUR OF HEARTS A SERIAL OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE By VIRGINIA VAN 1)E WATER V J CHAPTER XLiIII Copyright, 1918, Star Co. "You are looking very lovely, child, but thinner than when I last saw you. What is wrong?" Darius Blake asked this question of Cynthia Long soon after they met. The pair were seated at a table in an inner room at the Bilt more—a room with no orchestra and few people. The Chicagoan had led the young girl in here rather than to the crowded room in which many handsomely-gowned women and a few bored-looking men were taking afternoon tea. "It is '.tea' by courtesy," Darius Blake commented dryly. "But I ob serve that in many cases it is served in highball or cocktail glasses." The table he chose was in a cor ner, and nobody was seated near it. Being a man who spent no time in preliminaries, the lawyer went straight to the point. First of all, he told the girl such facts with regard to her father's affairs as she had already learned from her uncle. There were still left, Jie informed her, some three thousand dollars belonging to her. "When your uncle wrote me of your engagement," Mr. Blake ex plained, "he informed me that you wished to use this money for your trousseau. One could get a very superb trousseau with that sum, I should think." His eyes twinkled, but Cynthia looked grave. "It is of that that I must talk to you!" she burst forth. "I want to pay for my own wed ding. instead of allowing uncle to pay for it" At this juncture their conversation was interrupted by the waiter, who appeared with the order of tea and buttered toast. When this had been placed on the table, and tlie attend ant had moved to a discreet dis tance, the elderly man looked sharp ly at his companion and made the above comment on her appearance. "What is wrong?" he repeated. "Are you not well?" "I am perfectly well," Cynthia assured him. He continued to regard her keen ly. "There is an expression in your eyes that was not there in the old days," lie insisted. "But I will not pester you with questions. Instead, I will say a few things that may set your mind at ease if you have been worrying. Did your uncle tell you how your father happened to make the investments through which he lost his property?" His Love For the Girl "Yes, uncle said that father's dis ease obscured the clearness of his judgment. I know dad was not to I blame." "Indeed he was not." Mr. Blake affirmed. "It was his love for you, and his desire to put you in a po sition where no need could touch you that made him risk all—or nearly all —he had in the hope of getting a ] vast sum of money for you." "I was sure that was the cause of his action," Cynthia murmured. "I thank you for telling me." "And now," with a kindly smile, "what else is troubling you? I am sure It cannot be the fortunate young man to whom you are en' gaged. Mr. Livingstone wrote me of how fine a chap he is. In Chicago, where he Is known, he Is well spoken of. I took the liberty of looking up his record there—just for my own peace of mind, you know." She nooded; but did not spetik. "Well?" he said at last. With an effort the girl voiced the thought that was uppermost in her mind. "I am worried, Mr. Blake—l may as well confess It—because my uncle declares that he is going to pay for my wedding. I have enough money of my own to get my trous seau and pay for my wedding—and I mean to use it for that purpose." She spoke defiantly. To her sur prise her companion did not agree with her. "We will not discuss just now the question as to how much money you have or would need for the pur poses you name," he said slowly. "But let me ask you one very plain question. Why should your uncle not pay for your wedding and for .every thing that may be connected with the affair?" She stared at him in astonish ment. "Why, Mr. Blake, surely you cannot be willing to have me place myself under such obligations to Uncle Stephen? Do you know that he has paid some of—some of poor Dad's back debts?" A Few Unsuspected Facts "Yes," Darius Blake replied calm ly, "I know that he has paid them all. And I also know that It is exact ly what he should have' done. I approve of it entirely." "But," Cynthia protested, "I have no claim upon my uncle beyond the fact that my mother was his sister. Surely that does not mean that a man must pay out thou sands of dollars for the sake of making his niece comfortable, and to give her a handsome wedding." "In this case It does," her com panion said gravely. She gazed at him, mystified. Then, as he remained silent, she asserted herselftonce more. "I will pot allow It!" she exclaim- Ed hotly. "Why should I allow it, Mr. Blake?" . The man leaned across the table and spoke solemnly, first glancing about to see that the waiter was not within earshot. "Dear child, I hoped not to have to tell you certain facts. I hoped that, now that you are going to marry a prosperous man, you need never know them. But it Is evident that you will be unhappy unless you do know the truth." Slie looked at him wide-eyed." "I can trust you to mention what I tell you to nobody," Darius Blake said. "Perhaps it would be as well for you not to tell it even to Mr. Stewart until you are his wife." She shivered slightly. "What are those facts?" she demanded in a tense whisper. (To Be Continued) CITY STANDS WEI.I, Harrisburg stands far up in the list of cities and sliows a percentage in crease in building construction work for March, according to a table com piled by the American Contractor. During the month construction work started in the city increased 180 pel cent. over the March, 1917, total, due to the big school building permit and the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending works plant which was built. Har risburg is third in the list of 117 cities. PITTSBURGH SAI.OONS FEWER Pittsburgh, April 16.—The Alle gheny county license court in its re port made public last night decreased the number of licensed saloons in the city of Pittsburgh by thirty-one, and the number in Allegheny county is lessened forty-seven. AVIATOR CROSSES ANDES Buenos Aires, April 16.—Lieuten ant Cendelaria, of the Argentine army, to-day crossed the Andes by airplane from Zapala. Argentina, to Curice, Chine, a distance of 120 miles. The machine crossed the mountains at an altitude of 3,700 yards. 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