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KB HOUSEHOLD
FLJ TALKS
MB! Henrietta D. Grauel
A Room for the Children
In the average American house there I
Is room for everything but the children,
the moat precious possession of all. If
a room is given to the growing boy it j
is usually at the top of the house or in
some out of the way corner. While the
girls' rooms are made too dainty aud
delicate and "pretty' to be of much
actual satisfaction to their users.
lloiu.es aim to tit individuals for
places in the universal life of the race, I
ami housekeeping is a success only j
when it accomplishes this end. The
first tiling that parents wish to guard
their children from is contact with as- |
Bociations that are not good. Such as j
fociation need not be people, especially, i
They may be found in untidiness, care
less actions in keeping the children's ,
belongings in order or in rot having
a comfortable place for children to ex
ercise their natural desires to play and
work.
Young folks are born imitators so
that, models that are not good, whether
persous, objects or actions, become
dangerous to them.
So wise mothers and fathers plan
to let their children have their own |
part of the home. A place where they
can keep their simple little treasures
and think and plan and pretend with
out interruption, as they love to do.
They will say, "This room is all my
own, I fixed it myself. Mother showed
me." Is there anything else that can
give a child such independence of
thought and action as to leave the
actual work of arranging its very own
room to a little girl or boyi
Such a room should be for service.
The walls should be of some soft shade (
of tan, or buff, for this does not fade
as blue or pink does and pictures look
well against it. If oile wants it more
elaborate, gray, old rose and silver are
beautiful. In the border one can have
decorations suitable to the tastes of the
youngster. The furniture should be
made to withstand hard knocks and the
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HOTEL IROQUOIS
South Carolina Avenue de Beach
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
Pleasantly situated, a few steps
from Boardwalk. Ideal family hotel.
Every modern appointment. Many
rooms equipped with running water;
100 private baths. Table and service
most excellent. Rates SIO.OO, $12.00,
$15.00 weekly, American plan. Book
let and calendar sent tree on request.
David P. Rahter Sllaa Wright
Chief Clerk Manaeer
Calendars of above hotel can also be
obtained by applying at Star-In
dependent office.
Mr. C. F. Welzel
Announces that he has opened a new and thoroughly
up-to-date
Merchant Tailoring Establishment
No. 11 South Third Street
Prices from $25.00 up—Unsurpassed workmanship.
DOEHNE BEER
Unrivaled for Purity and Flavor
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and flesh overworked persons
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Bell H'M L Order It Independent 318
EVERY HOME
Has Its Real Value ®
The wants of many business people and home de
mands are realized by its use. Let us act for and
with you—now. Call at our office or
Bell Phone 3280 Independent 245 or 246
; rugs should be of -material that may
' In- easily cleaned. The writing desk
is one ot' the importaut articles of fur
niture for it teaches young folks les
j sons of expression through drawing,
paiuting and writing. Over it book
shelves may be hung to hold books of
worth. Everything that a growing child
comes in contact with has an influence
upon its character. A young girl grew
j up with a desire to be a nurse and noth
' ing her family could say would dissuade
her. In later years she attributed her
ambition to a picture of a nurse on duty
that hung in her room where she saw
lit the first thing in the morning and the
j last thing at night.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
i "Please repeat directions you gave
to prevent embroidery silk from tang
ling while it is being used. I clipped
the article but mislaid it."
Reply.—l do not recollect writing
advice on use of silk but I am told that
if you will twist the thread, as you
draw it through the material it will
keep it tight and smooth.
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"Please tell me some uses for potted
|or tinned meats."
Reply.—Serve it sliced thin as it
comes from can, use it for forcemeat
and fillings in pates, for making cro
quettes and timbales for creamed meat
on toast and for stuffing tomatoes and
other vegetables. Excellent in Irish
stew.
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In response to request for recipe for
cabbage soup I send the following one
which is well liked at our house. Bill
ings.
Reply.—Cream of Cabbage Soup—
Chop enough outside leaves of cabbage
to make one quart. Add two table
spoons of chopped onion and a few
chopped stalks of celery, or celery salt
to season. Put this in a deep kettle and
cover with boiling water and cook slow
ly until cabbage is clear and the water
about half boiled away. Press all
through a vegetable sieve aud add a
pint of milk, one tablespoon of butter
rubbed into one tablespoon of flour.
When thick and smooth take from fire
and add black pepper and salt to sea
son. Strain again through very fine
sieve or cloth.
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KARRISBTJRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1915
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COPY#/c#rfir rweooAs mrtß/u. ooHPtmr .
_ r*vicnoune snooK out nis snort
hairy body and came out of the oasis
pool into the sunlight and trotted Into
the Arabian village
Fatou Ann! parched corn in a bra
zier before her house. Her house
was a mud hut with yellow walls. It
had no roof and war open to the sky.
Fatou Ann! was ninety years old,
straight as a lance —straight as one
of the lances the men of the village
carried when they went to dispute
with white people. These lances with
which the men had foueht, had
won tnem the last battle. Tney nau
been victorious on the field.
Fatou Ann! was the grandmother
of many men. She had been the
mother of many men. Now she
parched corn tranquilly, prayerfully.
"Allah! that the corn should not
burn; Allah! that it should be sweet;
Allah! that her men should be al
ways successful."
She was the fetish of the settle
ment. In a single blue garment, her
black scrawny breast uncovered, the
thin veil that the Fellaheen wear
pushed back from her face, her fine
eyes were revealed and' she might
have been a priestess as she bent
over her corn!
"Allah! Allah Akbar!"
Rather than anything should hap
pen to Fatou Annl, the settlement
woultj have roasted Its enemies alive,
torn them In shreds. Some of them
said that she was two hundred years
old. There was a charmed ring
drawn around her house. People sup
posed that If any creature crossed It
uninvited. It would fall dead.
The sun had risen for an hour and
the air was still cool. Overhead, the
sky, unstained by a single cloud, was
blue as a turquoise floor, and against
it, black and portentous, flew the vul
tures. Here and there the sun-touched
pools gave life and reason to the
oasis.
Fatou Annl parched her corn. Her
barbaric chant was interrupted by a
sharp bark and a low pleading whine.
She had never heard sounds just
like that. The dogs of the village
were great wolflike creatures. Pit
choune's bark was angelic compared
with theirs. He crossed the charmed
circle drawn around her house, and
did not fall dead, and stood before
her, whining. Fatou Anni left her
corn, stood upright and looked at Pit
choune. To her the Irish terrier was
an apparition. The fact that he had
not fallen dead proved that he was
beloved of Allah. He was, perhaps, a
genie, an afrit.
Pita'ioune fawned at her feet. She
murmured a line of the Koran. It did
not seem to affect his demonstrative
affection. The woman bent down to
him after making a pass against the
Evil Eye, and touched him, and Pit
choune licked her hand.
Fatou Ann! screamed, dropped him,
went into the house and made her
ablutions. When she came out Plt
choune sat patiently before the
parched corn, and he again came
crawling to her.
The Arabian woman lived in the
last hut of the village. She could
satisfy her curiosity without shocking
her neighbors. She bent down to
scrutinize Pitchoune's collar. There
was a sacred medal on it with sacred
inscriptions which she could not read.
But as soon as she had freed him this
time, Pitchoune tore himself away
from her, flew out of the sacred ring
and disappeared. The he ran back,
barking appeallngly; he took the hem
of her dress in his mouth and pulled
her. He repeatedly did this and the
superstitious Arabian believed herself
be called divinely. She cautiously
left the doorstep, her veil falling be
fore her face, came out of the sacred
ring, followed to the edge of the berry
field. From there Pitchoune sped over
the desert; when he stopped and
looked back at her. Fatou Anni did
not follow, and he returned to renew
his entreaties. When she tried to
touch him he escaped, keeping at a
safe distance. The village began to
stir. Blue and yellow garments flut
tered in the streets.
"Allah Akbar," Fatou {Anni .mur
mured, "these are days of victory, of
recompense."
She gathered her robe around her
and, statellly and impressively, started
toward the huts of her grandsons.
When she returned, eight young war
riors, fully armed, accompanied her.
Pitchoune sat beside the parched corn,
watching the brazier and her meal.
Fatou Anni pointed to the desert
She said to the young men, "Go
with this genie. There is something
he wishes to show us. Allah is great.
Go."
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When the Capltaine de Sabron
opened his eyes in consciousness,
they encountered a square of blazing
blue heaven. He weakly put up his
hand to shade his sight, and a cotton
awning, supported by four bamboo
poles, was swiftly raised over his
head. He saw objects and took cogni
zance of them. On the floor in the
low doorway of a mud hut sat three
lltttle naked children covered with
flies and dirt. He was the guest of
Fatou Anni. These were three of her
hundred great-great-grandchildren.
The babies were playing with a little
dog. Sabron knew the dog but could
not articulate his name. By his side
sat the woman to whom he owed his
life. Her veil fell over her face. She
was braiding straw. He looked at her
intelligently. She brought him a
drink of cool water In an earthen ves
sel, with the drops oozing from its
porous sides. The hut reeked with
odors which met. his nostrils at aver*
breath he drew. He asked In Arabic:
"Where am I?"
"In the hut of victory," said Fatou
Ann).
Pltchoune overheard the voice and
came to Sabron's side. His master
murmured:
"Where are we, my friend?"
The dog leaped on his bed and licked
his face. Fatou Anni, with a whisk ot
straw, swept the flies from him A
great weakness spread its wings above
bim and he fell asleep.
Days are all alike to those who lie
In mortal sickness The hours are in
tensely colorless and they slip and slip
and slip into painful wakefulness, Into
fever, into drowsiness finally, and then
luto weakness.
The CaDitaine de Sabron. althoush
he had no family to speak of, did pos
sess, unknown to the Marquise d'Es
clignac, an old aunt in the provinces,
and a handful of heartless cousins who
were indifferent to him. Nevertheless
he clung to life and in the hut of Fatou
Anni fought for existence Every time
that he was conscious he struggled
anew to hold to the thread of life.
Whenever he grasped the thread he
vanquished, and whenever he lost It,
he went down, down.
Fatou Anni cherished him. He was
a soldier who had fallen in the battle
against her sons and grandsons. He
was a man and a strong one, and she
despised women He was her prey
and he was her reward and she cared
for him; as she did so, she became
maternal
His eyes which, when he was con
scious, thanked her; his thin hands
that moved on the rough blue robe
thrown over him. the devotion of the
dog—found a responsive chord In the
great-grandmother's heart. Once he
smiled at one of the naked, big-bellied
great-great-grandchildren Beni Has
san, three years old, came up to Sab
ron with hip fingers in his mouth
and chattered like a bird This proved
to Fatou Anni that Sabron had not
the Evil Eye. No one but the children
were admitted to the hut, but the sun
and the flies and the cries of the vil
lage came In without permission, and
now and then, when the winds arose,
he could bear the stirring of the palm
trees.
Sabron was reduced to skin and
bone. His nourishment was. insuffi
cient, and the absence of all decent
care was slowly taking him to death.
It will never be known why he did not
die.
Pltchoune took to making long ex
cursions. He would be absent for days,
and in his clouded mind Sabron
thought the dog .was reconnoitering for
him over the vast pink sea without
there —which, if one could sail across
as in a ship, one would sail to France,
through the walls of mellow old Taras
con, to the chateau of good King Rene;
one would sail as the moon sails, and
through an open window one might
hear the sound of a woman's voice
singing. The song, ever illusive and
Irritating in its persistency, tantalized
his sick ears.
Sabron did not know that he would
have found the chateau shut had he
sailed there in the moon. It was as
well that he did not know, for his wan
dering thought would not have known
where to follow, and there was repose
In thinking of the Chateau d'Esclig
nac.
It grew terribly hot. Fatou Anni, by
his side, fanned him with a fan she
had woven. The great-great-grand
children on the floor in the mud fought
together. They quarreled over bits of
Colored glass. Sabron's breath came
panting. Without, he heard the cries
of the warriors, the lance-bearers —he
heard the cries of Fatou Anni's Bons
who were going out to battle. The
French soldiers were in a distant part
of the Sahara and Fatou Anni's grand
children were going out to pillage and
destroy. The old woman by his side
cried out and beat her breast. Now
and then she looked at him curiously,
as if she saw death on his pale face.
Now that all her sons and grandsons
had gone, he was the only man left in
the village, as even boys of sixteen
had joined the raid. She wiped his
forehead and gave him a potion that
had been pierced with arrows. It was
all she could do for a captive.
Toward sundown, for the first time
Sabron felt a little better, and after
twenty-four houra' absence, Pitchoune
It Grew Terribly Hot.
whined ai the hut door, but would not
come fc. Fatou Anni called on Allah,
left hsr patient and went out to see
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Here Is a picture of "Billy" Sunday, taken in Paterson, N. J., where the noted evangelist la
against the devil. It shows blui with bis wife, "Ma" Sunday, and his son, George.
wnai was ine matter witn tne aog. At
the door, in the shade of a palm, stood
two Bedouins.
It was rare for the caravan to pass
by Beni Medlnet The old woman's
superstition foresaw danger in this
vHsit. Her veil before her face, her
gnarled old fingers held the fan with
which she had been fanning Sabron.
She went out to the strangers. Down
by the well a group of girls in gar
ments of blue and yellow, with earthen
bottles on their heads, stood staring
at Benl Medinet's unusual visitors.
To Be Continued
Makes 01 Feel Like 10
"I suffered with kidney ailment for
two years," writes Mrs. M. A. Bridges,
Robinson, Mass., "aud commenced tak
ing Foley Kidney Pills about ten
months ago. I am now able to do all
my work without fatigue. I am now
61 years of age aud feel like a 16-vear
old girl." Foley Kidney Pills strengthen
and invigorate weak, tired anil deranged
kidneys; relieve backache, weak back,
rheumatism and bladder trouble. They
are tonic in action. Geo. A. Gorgas, 16
North Third street.—Adv.
LABOR CHIEF STRIKE UMPIRE
Is Accepted as Third Member of Board
to Settle Dispute
Wilkes-Barre, I'a., April 10. —The
directors of the Wilkes-Barre Railway
Company at a meeting last evening ac
cepted John Price Jackson, State Com
missioner of Labor and lildustries, as
the third member of the arbitration
board to settle the wage dispute be
tween the traction company and its
striking motormen and conductors.
The men have been on strike eight
days, during which time not a car has
moved.
Following this iction orders were is
sued bv the company and strikers to
resume the operation of cars this niorn
ing.
To Test Constitutionality of Law
Ilazleton, April 10. —Court action
I attacking the constitutionality of the
! act of 1911, disfranchising the voters
of the middle coal field poor district
and giving the Judges of Carbon coun
ty the power to ap;>cint the Poor Di
rectors was ordered by Ilazleton City
Council. District Attorney J. H. Bige
low was instructed to invite Freland,
West Hazleton, Foster and Hazle town
ships to join in the case.
The Daily Fashion Hint. I
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A pretty arrangement of the modish
hat streamers Is shown In this model.
It Is of a pink hemp, the crown encir
! cled with a wide piped band of blue
ribbon the shade of the streamer ends,
and a fine wreath of forget-me-nots
and roses follows the outside edge of
the brim.
i Artistic Printing at Star-Independent.
TO BORROW PHILADELPHIANS
Fifteen Hundred of Them Are Expect
ed to Follow Easton Industry
Easton, Pa., April 10. —'' Within six
months 1,500 men, women and children
will have moved from Philadelphia to
this city," was the statement, made
yesterday bv General Traffic Manager
W. 'H. Frederick, of the Taylor-Wharton
Iron & Steel Company.
The men, heads of families, are now
employed in subsidiary plants of the
Taylor-Wharton plant in Philadelphia.
The big plant is nearing completin, and
the hiring of the force to operate it
will commence in six or eight weeks.
In Jail as Bam. Burners
Bellofonte, Pa., April 10.—Deputy
State Fire Marshal T .G. Ryan, of l)an
ville, probably captured the leaders of
a gang of alleged barn-burners when he
arrested and landed in the Centre
county jail yesterday Edward Ickes,
j of Scotia, and Bert Finnegan, of Wil
liamsburg, Blair county. They are
charged with burning the house and
barn of H. A. Ellis, in Bald Eagle Val
ley, in February, 1914. Five or six
other barns were burned.
Tunnel Wreck Halts Traffic
Altoona, Pa., April 10. —A break in
the air hose resulted ii) the wrecking of
' a freight train in the Pennsy's east
bound tunnel at Gallitzin yesterday,
and eastbound tratlic over the main
line was tied up for tw,> hours. Three
cars in the center of the tunnel were
derailed and thrown crosswise.
AWNINGS
Place your order for Awnings I
. j with us now, before the rush starts, j
Estimates Gladly Given
General upholstery, slip covers i
I and carpet work done.
Jos. Coplinky
Successor to H. A. Vollmer
. 1208% North Third Street
Harrisburg, Pa.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad!
In Effect May 24. If 11.
Train* Leave Hnrrlaburg—
For Winchester ixid Martlnsburg. at
5.0J, *7.60 a. m- *3.40 p. m.
For Hagerstown, CUamberaburg ana
intermediate stations, at *5.03. *7.681
*;l.n3 a. ni.. '3.40. i.Zi. *7.40. 11.0#
p. m.
Additional trains lor Carllal* ana
Mechanlcsburg at *.48 a. m.. 2.1t. *.37.
li.io. y.30 p. m.
For Dlllsburs at 6.03, *7.60 and
a. m„ 2.18. *3.40, 6.32, <.30 p. m.
•Dally. All other trains dully •soap'
Sunday. J H. TONOB.
H. L RIDDLE. Q. P. A gupt
BUSINESS COLLEGES
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Begin Preparation Now
Day and Night Sessions
SCHOOL of COMMERCE
15 S. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa.
HBO. BUSINESS OOLLEOE
320 Market Street
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Directory of
Leading HotelM
of Harrisburg^H
THEPLAZV
423-426 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa
At the Entrance to the P. B. B. Station
EUROPEAN PLAN
F. B. ALDINOEB,
Proprietor
HOTEL VICTOR
No. 25 3outh Fourth Street
Directly opposite Lnloa Station,
'Quipped with all Modern Improve
meats | running water la every rooni
Inc bathi perfectly aaaitaryi nicely
(urulshed throughout. Rates moderate,
European Plan.
JOSEPH QIUSTI, Proprietor.
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Coal Prices Are
Lowest Now
Thousands of tons of fresh
ly mined coal have been re
ceived at the, Kelley yards
in anticipation of a'rush of
orders in consequence of the
lowered prices—in many in
: stances the saving is 50c a
! ton.
Let Kelley fill your bins
now for next Winter—get it
done before housecleaning.
H. M. KELLEY & C
| • IN. Third Street
Tenth and State Streets
$3.00
TO
NEW YORK
AND RETURN
SUNDAY -j Q
APRIL lO
Special Excursion Train
From Lv. A. M.
HARRISBURG 3.3d
Hummelstown, 3.50
Swatara, 3.55
Hershey, 3.57
Palmyra 4.04
Annville, ✓ 4.13
LEBANON' 4.24
RETURNING —Leave New York
from foot West 23d Street 0.50
P. M., foot Liberty Street 7.00
P. M. same day for above stations.
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