10 HOUSEHOLD TALKS i Henrietta D. Grauel Foot Pads for Housekeepers Tired, aching feet are responsible f -r many irritating actions nml sharp words. The pity of this is that it mij;ht sill be avoided with u little thought, l'tit the housewife gives little attention to her house shoes or to her tloors ex cept to see that both are neat looking. Rubber heels should lie put on all shoes and foot pads should be placed before, the ironing board, the sto\e ami work tables, or wherever you stand. If you have an aching back or head these simple things will give quick relief. An old comfort or quilt makes a splendid pud. It should be about two feet square and an iuch and a half thick. Tack firmly and cover with bur laps. This not only prevents one tiring from standing but keeps the feet warm. Scrubbing, happily, has gone out of ■fashion, but there are times when one must work on bended knees and then a pad like the one described above is a convenience. The knee pad may be thieked and not so large as the foot pad and its tinder side snould be covered with oil cloth. There is another pad that one can make at home for use when polishing hard wood tloors or waxed articles. It i> made from a block of wood about the size of a brick, hollowed out su it can be grasped at the top. A scrub brush worn smooth does nicely. Cover with many thicknesses of cloth and lastlv a thick piece of leather outside. Keep HINDU EGG DANCE Curious and Difficult Feat Performed by Girl Jugglers Of the many wonderful feats per- : formed by Hindu juniors one of the most remarkable is the egg dance. Usually it is executed by a girl fan tastically dressed. She ma km use of a willow wheel, around which at equal distances are threads, and at the cud of each thread there is a noose held open by a bead. This wheel the girl place* on her head, while she carries a basket of eggs on her arm. When the music l strikes up she begins to dance, and the w heel begins to spin around. She then ' takes an egg from the basket, places it in one of the thread nooses and throws it from her with sufficient force to draw the knot tight. The spinning of the wheel keeps the thread stretched with the egg at the end of it. She then takes another egg from the basket, plaices it in another noose and repeats this until there is an egg in every noose. Her fantastic costume, her perfect motion and all the eggs swinging on stretched threads at once present a curious sight. It requires much art to execute the dance, for one false step would cause the eggs to be dashed together and the dancer to be disgraced. After dancing for some time with all the eggs swinging round her head she takes them out of the noose one by one, all the time keeping the wheel bai anced and in motion, and again places them in the basket on her arm. After the performance the spectators :irr allowed to examine the eggs to sec tiiat they are real.—Loudon Ideas. FLEE TO HILLS IN ARIZONA Yaqui River Flood Causes Loss of Life and Much Property I>ouiglas. Ariz., Jan. 2.—The Yaqui river in Southern Souora is in flood. Stock has been drowned, bridges wish ed out and crops, farming improvements and irrigation drtehe* destroyed, ac cording to men arriving here vester- The inhabitants have sought safetv in the hills, and it is rumored some of them have l>een drowned. Saves Incendiajry Mule ljancaster, Pa.. .lan. 2.—A mule kicked over a lighted lantern left too near it in Frederick Brown's barn, near Ouarrvvilie. Thursday evening, ami the building was burned, causing $2,000 loss. The farmer saved the mule. <" ~ " " - «■'" - " - --v Directory of Leading Hotels of Harrisburg HOTEL VICTOR No. 25 3outh Fourth Street Directly opposite luiuu Mnlloa. multiped nltk all Modern Improve.' aieuta; ruuoing water In every tuomi km- liuth; perfectly *anl(aryi nicely turulalied throughout. Rate* moderate. European l'lan. JOSEPH GIU6TI, Proprietor. THE BOLTON Market Square L*rge and convenient Sample Rooma. Passenger and Baggage Elevator. Klee trie r l«rs to and from depot. Electric Light and Steam Heat; Booms en suit* or single with Baths. Kates, $2.50 per day and up. J. H. « M. S. Butterworth, Props, THEPLAZA iAifZH Market St., Harrlsburg, Pa. At the Entrance to the P. R. K. Station EUROPEAN PLAN r. B. ALDINGER, Proprietor HOTEL DAUPHIN~ 30tt MARKET STREET European Plan. Kates |1.(I0 per day and up. Rooms sinirle or en suite, witn private oaths. Uuucheou. 11.30 to 2 p. m„ Xit Dinner daily. 5 to 8 p. m., GOc Special Sunday Dinner. 12 noon to 8 p. m„ 75c A la carte service, 6 a. m. to 12 D m HOKTI.VU * MINGLE. I'roprietm The Metropolitan Strictly European For something good to eat. Every thing in season. Bervic* the beat. Prices the lowest. j this dry and use only for polishing. The laundry pad i-> useful too. It is made with a square block of wood cov ered with old. white cotton or linen plentifully sprinkled with shaved par atiine between its fokls. I'sed for smoothing irons. l.ast but far from least important is the silver polishing tiad. This protects tlif hands and insures a better polish than can be had without it. I'se au old mitten or canvas glove for the pocket and cover the inner side with a ! thickness of lamb's wool or several | thicknesses of soft flannel. DAILY MENU Breakfast Stewed Fruit with Cream Zweihaek Fried Sweet Potatoes jThin Slices of Ham with Poached Kggs Wheat (.'akes Coffee Luncheon Hash with Poppers Hominy Hot Short CaUes with Preserves l.emon Meringue Tea Dinner Indian Curry Veal Roast Stuffed Veal Baked Onions Tomato Relish Macaroni Potatoes Creamed Chicken Salad Canued Plums White Cake After Dinner Coffee GIRL PRINTER WINS SIO,OOO Alleges She Contracted Lead Poison ing at Type Cases Chicago. .1 an. 2.—Miss Marv Shoots, a printer, who alleged she contracted load poisoning at the typo eases. yes terday was awarded a verdict of $lO. I 000 in hor suit against the Interna j tional Harvester Company. The case 1 is said to he the first in which lead poisoning in printing shops has been proven. Miss Sheets testified that after two years as a type distributor in the Har vester Company's printing plant she be came ill of lead poisoning. The evidence showed she is now u partial paralytic. More than oO printers testified, a large number of them saying they neve heard of load poisoning resulting from work in a printing plant. GIRL SUICIDE LETT «415.000 Grandmother May Get St. Louis Heir ess" Estate St. Louis. Jan. 2.—The body of Mar ian Howard, wealthy St. Louis girl who killed herself in Atlantic Oitv. readied; bt. Louis last niyht. and the funeral was held from the residence of her grandmother, Mrs. Henry Kind, to-day. It is not known here whether she lo'rt a will. In the absence of a will it is I thought the fortune of $415,000 will go to the grandmother. WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD Her Father Was Indian Figher and Scout in the Revolution Latrobe. Jan. 2. —"(Keeping strictly abreast of the times, 1 ' is the reason given bv Mrs. Hannah S. Dial for her longevity. She has completed arrange-' ments to celebrate her 100 th birthday t Sunday at her home in Jacobs Creek. She is a daughter of Robert Slemmous, a noted Indian fighter and Scout in the Revolutionary war. She hue a toma hawk taken by her faithor in an en counter with an Indian. Man In Mine Rescued Wilkes-Barre. Jan. 2.—Lost in Xo. 1 shaft of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western mine at EdwardsviHe since Monday of this week. Adolph Russnock, aged 22 years, was found yesterday, al most dead from hunger. He haul travel ed about the old and abandoned work ing and walked many miles in efforts to got to the foot of the shaft. He had water for two days, but no food, and when searchers found him ha had fallen from exhaustion. t Grand Duke Nikolas At the feast of the Preobrazhenski | Regiment in St. Petersburg, shortly ; after the Russian-Japanese War, Sir, lan Hamilton was watching the great ' jworld arrive, one after another. He! himself was present as a distinguished: British General. Both individually ami i collectively the Russian Guards of ! ticers are a fine lot. But he suddenly j | ejaculated, "By Jove, who's that?''! !He pointed to a towering figure, at i least six feet four in height, with elose | cropped black hair shot through with i gray; short, pointed Vandyke beard: j keen eyes; extraordinary " length o fj j limb, but lean and graceful, with ex | ceptional ease and power of movement —a magnificent figure of a man. It i | was the Grand Duke Nikolas Nikolaie vitch. The Grand Duke, now commauder-in ■•hief of the armies of Russia, was horn the year after the Crimean War and was 58 last October. Rut he still radi ates an impression of easy power and strength. His grandfather was the son of that Czar Nikolas I, whose physique was famous in Europe. When a moti gathered in the Sadovaya, in those ear ly days, a story is still" current of how the great Czar drove to the scene, got out of his carriage, and strode out alone, gigantic and threatening, and with a single mighty roar produced a stunned silence through which, he lec tured the huddled crowd like a stern but just tather and sent them awav, tamed. His great-grandson inherits niuch of his physical power. Although the military career of the Grand Duke Nikolas has attracted little attention outside of Russia, largely liecause he has concentrated whole-heartedly on each phase as he met it, his present su preme command is nevertheless the log ical result of a consistent rise through all ranks, not because, but almost in spite of, his imperial blood.—Basil Miles, in the January "World's Work." The Buffalo's Hump The hump of the buffalo is not a mass of faft, as some people suppose, but is formed by neural spines in length fully -double those of domestic cattle, aud by the huge muscles which lie alongside these neural opines and the ribs. EARRTSBFBG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2. 1915 IftUnis \ i _- - I C.orr#;GHT/sasav £/tfMQU) SMCGM7W 7 /?vr/r<3# QfmmfQvrAf&ix £rc. Then the comedy came to an end by the appearance of our separate orders. I threw c-jtde the ca:d~> and proceeded •o attack my dinner, for 1 was hungry. From time to tine 1 caught vague fragments of co?iversai.ion between the girl and her uncle. "It's a fool idea.'' mumbled the old gentleman; "you will got into some trouble or other." "That doesn't matter. It will be like a vacation,—a flash of old Rome, where 1 wish 1 were at this very mo ment. I am determined." "This is what comes of reading ro mantic novel 3,- with a kind of gram ble. "I admit there never was a particle of romance on your side of the fam -v." the girl retorted. "Happily. There 1* peace In the house where I live." "Do not argue with me." "I am not arguing with you; I should be only wasting my time. I am simply warning you that you are about to commit a folly." "1 have made up my mind." Ah! lq that case I have hopes." he returned "When a woman makes up her mind to do one thing, she gen erally does another. \\ hy can't you put aside this fool Idea and go to the opera with ir.e?" I hare seen Carmen in Paris, Route. London and New York," she replied. ( Evidently a traveled young per son.) *. armen is your favorite opera, be sides." "Not to-night,"—whimsically. "Go. then; but please recollect that If anything serious comes of your folly, I did my best to prevent it. It's a scatter-brained idea, and no good will come of it. mark me." "I can take care of myself,"—trucu lently. "So 1 have often been forced to ob serve." —dryly. tl wondered what it was ail about.) "But, uncle dear, 1 am becoming so dreadfully bored!" "That sounds final." sighed the old man. helping himself to the haricots verts. (The girl ate positively nothing.) But It seems odd that you can't go about your affairs after my own rea sonable manner." "I am only twenty." The old man's shoulders rose and fell resignedly. "No man has an answer for tba!." "I promise to tell you everything that happens: by telegraph." "That's small comfort. Imagine re ceiving a telegram early in the morn lng, when a man's brain is without In vention or coherency of thought! I would that you were back home with your father. I might sleep o' nights, then." "I have so little amusement!" "You work ti|ree hours a day and earn more In a week than your father and I do in a uionth. Yours is a very unhappy lot." "I hate the smell of paints; I hate the studio " "And I suppose you haie your fame?" acridly. "Bah! that is my ca:d to a living. The people I meet bore me." "Not satisfied with common folks, eh? Must have kings aad queens to taik to?" "I only want to iiTe abroad, and you ? [fi ni J J Lr Mi •It's a Fool Idea." and father will not let me."—petu lantly. The music started up and I heard no more. Occasionally the girl g'.anced at me and smiled in a friendly fashion. She was evidently an artists model; and when they have hair and color like this girl's, the pay is good. I found myself wondering why she was bored and why Carmen had so sud denly lost its charms. It was seven o'clock when I pushed aside my plate and paid my check. I calculated that by hustling I could reach Blankahire either at ten or ten thirty. That would be early enough for my needs. And now to rout out a costume. All I needed was a gray mask. I had in mj» apartments a Capuchin's robe and cowl. I rose, lighting a cigarette. The girl looked up from her ooffee. "Back to the dime museum?"—ban teringiy. "I have a few minutes to apare," said I. By the way. I'fongot to ask you what card you drew." "It was the ten of hearta." "The ten of hearts?" Her amaze ment was not understandable. "Yes. the ten of hearts; Cupid and all that." She recovered her composure quickly "Then you will not blow up the postofflce to-night?" "No," 1 replied, "not to-night." "You have really and truly aroused ray curiosity; Tell me. what doea the ten of hearts mean to you?" I gazed thoughtfully down at her. Had I truly mystif«?d her? There was some doubt in my mind. "Frankly, I wish 1 might tell you. All 1 am at liberty to say is that I am about to set forth upon a desperate adventure, and I shall be very fortun ate If I do not spend the night in the lock-tip." "You do not look desperate." "Oh. I am not desperate: It is only the adventure that is desperate." "Some princess in durance vile! Some villain to smite? Citadels to storm?" lier smile was enchantment itself. I hesitated a moment. "What would ycu say If 1 told you that this adven ture was merely to prove to myself what a consummate ass the average man can be upon occasions?" "Why go to the trouble of proving it?" —drolly. "1 am conceited enough to have some doubts as to the degree." "Consider it positive." 1 laughed. "I am in hopes that 1 am neither a positive ass nor a superla tive one. only comparative." "Rut the adventure: that ts tha thing that mainly interests me." "Oh. that is a secret which 1 should hesitate to tc.l even to the Sphinx." I see jou a _ e determined not to illuminate the darkness." —and she turned carelessly toward her uncle, who was serenely contemplating the glowing end of a fat perfecto. I bowed and passed out into Sixth avenue, rather regretting that 1 had not the pleasure of the charming young person's acquaintance. The ten-spot of hearts seemed to have startled her for some reason. I wondered why.' The snow blew about me. whirled, and swirled, and stung. Oddly enough I recalled the paragraph relative to Mrs. Hyphen-Bonds By this time she was being very well tossed about in mid-oceaa. As the old order of yarn- , spinners used to say, little did I dream wha' was in store for me. or the influ- i ence the magic name of Hyphen-Bond* was to have upon my destiny. Bismillah! t Whatever that means!) CHAPTER 11. After half an hour's wandering about 1 stumbled across a curio-Bhop. a weird, dim and dusty, musty old curio-shop, with stuffed peacocks hanging from the ceiling, and skulls and bronies and marbles, paintings, tarnished Jewelry and atic!e;it armor. ! rare books of vellum, small arms, tap ; estry. pastimes, plaster masks, and musical instruments. 1 recalled to mind the shop of the dealer in an i tiquities in Baliac's l.a Peau de Cha grin, and glanced about inot without i a shiver) for the fatal ass's skin, tl | forgot that I was wearing it myself that night!) 1 was something of a collector of antiquities, of the inani mate kind, and for a time i became lost In speculation—speculation ra.'h- I er agreeable of its kind. I liked to j conjure up in fancy the various scenes through which these curios! j ties had drifted in their descent to j this demi-pawnshop: the brave men and beautiful women, the clangor of tocsins, the haze of battles, the glitter of ball rooms, epochs and agee. What I romances lay behind yon satin slip- j per? What grande darae had smiled behind that ivory fan? What meant luat tarnished silver mask? Th" old French proprietor was evi dently all things from a pawnbroker 10 an art collector: for most of the jewelry was in excellent order and the pictures possessed value far be yond the instrinsic. He was wait ing upon a customer, and the dingy light that shone down on h!s bald head made it look for all the world like ar. ill-used billiard ball. He was exhibiting revolvers. From the shiniiig metal of the small arms, my glance traveled to the fare of the prospective buyer. It was an interesting faca, clean-cut. beardless, energetic, but the mouth impressed me as being rather hard. Doubtless he fell the magnetism of my scrutiny, for he suddenly looked around. The expression on hie face was not one to induce rne to throw niv arms around his neck and de clare 1 should be glad to make hit acquaintance. It was a scowl. He was in evening dress, and I could s°e that he knew very wall how to wear it. All this was but momentary. He took up a revolver and balanced it on hit palm. By aud by tha proprietor came sid ling along behind the caaes. the slip shod fashion of his approach inform ing me that he wore sljppers. "Do you keep costumes?" I asked. "Anything you like. sir. from a crusader to a modern gentleman."— with grim and appropriate irony. "■What is it. you are in search of— a masquerade costume?' "Only a gray mask." I Answered. "I am to go to a masked ball to-night as a Oray Capuchin, and I want a mask that will match my robe." "Your wants are simple." From a shelf he brought down a box, took off the cover, and left me to make my selection. Soon I found what I desired, and laid it aside, wait ing for M. Priard to return. Again I observed the other customer. There It always a mystery to be solved and a story to be told, when a man makes the purchase of a pistol in a pawnshop. 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"Fifty cents; It has never been worn." 1 drew out my wallet. I had ar rived In town too late to go to the bank, and 1 was carrying an uncom fortably large sum in gold-bills. As T opened the wallet to extract a small bill, I saw the stranger eying me quietly. Well. well, the dullest being brightenß at the sight of money and its representatives. 1 drew out a small bill and handed it to the pro prietor. He took it. together with the mask, and sidled over to the cash register. The bell gave forth a muf fled sound, nor tinlike that of a flre bell in a snowstorm. As he was in the act of wrapping up my pur chase. I observed the silent custom er's approach. When he reached my side, he stooped and picked up some thing from the floor. With a bow, he presented it to me. "I saw it drop from your pocket." he said; and then when he saw what It was, his jaw fell, and he Bent me a hot, penetrating glance. "The ten of hearts!" he exclaimed, In amazement. 1 laughed easily. "The ten of hearts!" he repeated. "Yes; four hearts on one side and four on the other, and two in the middle, which make ten in all,"— raillery in my tones. What the deuce wns the matter with everybody to night? "Marvelous card, isn't it?" "Very strange!" he murmured, pull ing at his lips. "And in what way is it strange?" I asked, rather curious to learn the cause of his agitation. "There are several reasons," —brief- ly "Ah!" "I have seen a man's hand pinned to that card; therefore K is grew ioni»." "Some card sharper?" He nodded. "Then again. I k>«t a -This Is What I Want." small fortune because ot that oard,"- diffldently. Te Be Continued. .j..j..j. ,j. i- <. <.« •{.+.j.■}.-j. <. .j. <|> s.{..}. $44 | If You Are Looking s For a Pure Beer— ♦ Made of the finest Malt and Hops—Sparkling Fil- ;; | tered Water—and Purest Yeast —by the best Saui % tary Methods. Order DOEHNE Beer. < 1 DOEHNE BREWERY Bell JOS L Independent :$ 18 •: ;• .>^,;, .j. ,J A.;.,j {,A SPEECH AND THE CHIN Maybe at One Time the Tongue Proved Mightier Than the Teeth In man the en in seems to project more and more as he progresses toward his modern civilized condition. This must imply that immediately the huge lower canines degenerated the part took on some other function of vital importance to the race and that the need has increased with his intellectual and social advancement. My theory, then, is that the chin is essentially a part of the mechanism of articulate speech. It is tempting to theorize a little fur ther and to suggest that the human chin perhaps bears testimony to a pre historic change from carnal weapons to ofters which, if not exactly spiritual, were such as appealed to the part of us where spiritual forces work, for ap parently long ago before the pen proved mightier than the sword the tongue proved mightier than the teeth. Tf one could only prove this one might show tiiat even before the glacial epoch parliamentary institutions (using the term in its widest sense) began to take the place of lethal weapons in settling disagreements and that the sub stitution of arbitrat'au for* war is not merely a doctrine ot latter day moral ists, but is a part of the ordered march of cosmic progress as inevitable as the other evolutionary changes which have brought us up from among the brutes. #NEW®I3 iHOTEIP®! VENDIGf I PHILADELPHIA H I 13 Sts £ 2 Minutes from PENNSYL- p | vania. and PHILADtLPMIA I P | READING TERMINALS. —* | ' NEAR TO EVERYWHERE j |1 2-50 'OuttM&e | 1 J&Wftt&wiiA jftatfiand 1 IS HI fii.oo ant) xtp. %ffiopu/cir Gafo, I anc) %/^Ojtaura nt~. B |ia James C VVJxlsh j| fJIuHT r WINTER TERM BEGINS B»NDAY, JAN. 4TH DAY AND NIGHT SESSIONS SCHOOL JF COMMERCE 15 S. ftARKET SQUi RL IIAfUSBURG, PA. Cumberland Valley Railroad In lifect May 34, 1911. Train* Irf«v«linrrl»l»ur*— For Wincfcsier -ind Martins burr. M 6.03, *7.50 ii.ni., *3.40 p. in. For Hageitown, Ch&nibersburg and Intermedial! stations, at *5.03, *7.5(1. -11.03 a. I, *3.40. 5.33. *7.40, 11. uti p. m. Addition! trains for Carllala and Mechanics!)! g at 9.48 a. m.. 2.18. u.3u, 5.30 um. For Dllfturg at 5.03, *7.50 and *11.41 a. m.. 3.18*3.40. 5.33. 6.30 p. m. •Daily. 411 other trains dally mxc,*ai Sunday. J H. TOfjQB. H. A. KJDLB. G. P. A. Su 0t