niB CITIZEN, FIUfDAY, DECEMBER 100t. THE CITIZEN KmiSHKD KVEBT WSDHI8DAY AMD FRIDAT BT TUB CITIZEN rCBLUniHO COXFAHT. Bntered as second-class matter, at the post oQlce. llonesdale, l'a. B, B. IIARDENBKUGII. - - PHKSIDENT W. W. WOOD, - MANAGER AND BKC'Y dirkotobb: o. b. DonrLmoEB. m. b, allkh. LEHBT WILSON, I. B, 1IABDXNBEBOU, W. W. WOOD, FIIIDAY, DEO. 8, 1000. Dr. Crumblne, of the State Board of Health, of Kansas, has commenced an official crusade against whiskers. Ho claims that a man with a long bunch of neck whiskers furnishes a roosting place for all sorts of germs, and especially germs of Infectious diseases. ' He observes that a man with a flowing beard on his chin never gets soap or water to his skin; that the whiskers simply fill up with germs and tho germs turn hand springs at county fairs and thus disentangle themselves and get among tho people andcause all sorts of diseases. It seems that tho Kansas Demo crats are mostly given to long beards these days. It used to bo the Popu lists, but since that party has dlsln tergatod and gone to pieces, Demo cracy is the bearded populace. And Dr. Crumblno Is doubtless right. Tho concensus of opinion that If the Doctor, while scientifically working, will clean up the beards, bale them and work them into mattresses for Alaska and other cold countries where the germ would die, he will also succeed In making Kansas un animously Republican. The whisker has long been cele brated in song and story, and es pecially has It been celebrated In Kansas. It was there the bewhlsk ered Peffer made good; it was there Jerry Simpson, sockless, but not beardless, held the boards, and Colo nel Carrie Nation would have worn chin whiskers If she could have Bprouted them. The whiskers should go, and we hope the crusade started In Kansas will spread out Into Missouri and Arkansas, really the home of the long beard and the neck whiskers. The Democratic hand book advises all followers of Jefferson to grow a beard in order that straw votes may easily be taken on trains, but If the germs are to be given life in this, Democracy must make way for sci ence. The school bouse put De mocracy out of power and If the -whisker is taken from It it will be everlastingly put out of business. Tho man who wants to use a few whiskers should grow them on his vpper Hp, because then, if a Demo crat, in taking a drink the corn 11k ker Will kill the germs, but as there is no way for the Ukker to penetrate the hirsute appendage on the neck the germ is. allowed to disport him self In all his pristine glory. And the gratifying Information l that Doctor Crumblne Is making great progress and unless Norman Hack enters protest with his Har mon boom, the chances are that by next spring the beard that made Ab salom famous will have disappeared and a smooth faced populace will walk up and vote, with one accord, the Republican ticket. Pretty Good Advice. In one of his Southern speeches, President Taft said: "If I were advising young mon who bad no predilection for any profession, I should advise them to become farmers. I don't know but down here I ought to say planters, Perhaps that gives It additional dig nity, but I am inclined to think that the men who call themselves plant ers are ordinarily lawyers or doc ors, who do a little farming, and they do not Improve the farm by the pursuit of tho other profession." And that Is all wool and a yard wide. The farmer is indeed the King he holds sway over all. And the young man who leaves the farm makes tho first and saddest mistake of his life. The President of the United States, oppressed by the cares upon him, looked over the farms and wished that ho were a boy again, so that he might go to farming and live a life of peace. Think this over, all young men who read The Citizen, and if you aro on the farm stay there and make a man of yourself. Food for thought. At the Wisconsin experiment sta tion the five poorest cows In the herd te $140 worth of feed and returned 143. The fire best cows ate $204 worth of feed and returned $395. There Is a chance to do some think ing on that showing. Thousands upon thousands of farmers have herds do ing tho same kind of work as those fire poorest cows and they do not yet Jcnow about it INTERESTING MEETING. Local Institute, Held at Wlnwood, Was An Enjoyable Affair. The local institute of Buckingham and Preston townships, was held at Wlnwood, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1909. It convened at 10:30 with Mr. R. O. Sanford asspresldlng officer. After Btnglng and prayer a very Interesting paper was read by Miss Sadie 'Madlgan on "Music." MIbs Grace Monaghan followed with the subject "Reading." Both papers were excellent and represented thoughtful preparation. A general discussion followed In which many helpful Ideas were expressed. The teachers In attendance were then organized Into a class with Miss Adelaldo Watson as teacher to In struct In the Ward system of read ing. Many interesting questions were asked by Superintendent J. J. Kochler and fully answered by Miss Watson which were very helpful to the teachers of primary reading. In the discussion that followed Mr. Koehler expressed the belief that the average child could not master more than five new words a day, but those should be used by the child to form sentences and should bo un derstood. At 1:30 Prof. Van Horn of Buck' Ingham High school, took up tho subject of Arithmetic extemporane ouBly. Tho pupils should bo accurate In reading numbers of all denomina tions. Teach the fundamental prin ciples of Arithmetic and explain the reason for every step taken. Too much time is taken In teach ing complex fractions. The study of Decimals is very Important. Frac tional forms should be used in teach ing Percentage. Use practical meth ods in every division of arithmetic and Insist upon the work being systematic and accurate. In the dis cussion which followed many helpful Ideas were given. Be practical In teaching fractions. Square Root and one method in Simple Interest should be well taught. Insist upon the pupil doing the necessary work whether he likes It or not. The public schools are more near ly meeting the demands of the times than any other institution. "Crimes and Cruelties of Chil dren" was .the subject of a paper given by Miss Anna Guettolf In a very Interesting manner. The spirit of envy and of Jealousy lead many children to acts of cruelty. A child imbued with such a spirit should be placed where it cannot harm others. An excellent paper, on "Morals" was presented by Mrs. Flora Tall man. As teachers of the public schools we need to have a well-defined idea of what we are expected to accomplish. We are not to teach the books but the children. The child Is compared to a tender plant springing from the ground, which dally needs training and guiding to keep It from falling. A strong hand must support It, and, , at times, there must be pruning to bring out all. that is best in the growing plant. Our work is to so train that strength and beauty of character may be the result. Fortunate Is the child who, on entering school finds a teacher who knows the se crets of true education and will train the pupils In habits of unsel fishness, promptness, regularity, truthfulness and honesty. Our lives should accord with what we teach, and our pupils will be more anxious to obey our wishes and follow our example. A paper On "How to Teach the Classes," was read by R. Grace Winner. Whlttler's "Snow Bound" was taken as an example. The children can learn many lessons from this beautiful poem. Train their memory by having them memorize certain selections of exceptional beauty found in the poem. They can be led to see the beauty In their surroundings, and In the homely characters with which they dally come in contact. If these classics are well taught there will be awakened in the soul of each child a love for literature, and life to him will be sweeter and nobler for having seen and felt the beau ties of "Snow Bound." After a few closing remarks by Supt. J. J. Koehler, and the song "America," the institute adjourned. R. GRACE WINNER, Secjy. "ST. ELMO." Another Wonderful Play Coming to the Maple City. "St. Elmo," Vaughn Glaser's pro ductlon of the dramatization of Au gusta Evans Wilson's popular novel, comes to tho Lyric theatre, on Fri day, December 10. Edgar Lewls,fan actor of ability, has the leading role, that of St. Elmo. He Is ably assisted in the female role by Irene Cammell as Edna Earl. Miss Gammell is clever actress and has appeared In many of the best productions of the country. A strong cast has been selected to support them. The scenes are laid in the shadow of Lookout Mountain, at the home of the Murrays. St. Elmo Murray finds himself in a duel with Murray Hammond, the son of a venerable minister, andas he BlayB him, Edna Earl, the blacksmith's daughter, appears on the scene.- Although tit Elmo Is fully Justified in slaying the minister's son, tho young girl does not understand the reason, and believes him to be a murdered, but she saves htm from arroBt by the sheriff. St. Elmo learns to love the girl who leads him to a reconclllat ion with the father of the boy he killed. NOW IS THE TIME TO ADVER TISE YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS. A Belle and Benuty Busted. The newo that Mrs. Henry Clews, Jr., the one time pretty Hiss Loulso Morris, and considered the handsom est woman in the United States, has been granted a .divorce, from her painter husband, a sporting man and a millionaire among other things, has caused the newspapers to spread It on thick. The woman In the case explains her conduct by saying she arrived at the conclusion that she and her husband were "out of har mony." Now that Is what wo like to hear. We like to see these rich, these painfully and vulgar rich, looking for something, God knows what, suddenly discovering that they are out of harmony and asking a di vorce. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, last week, also was separated from her darling and got as a side swipe ton millions of coin. That was also a case of inharmonious action or something or other. Too bad that the sacred marriage vow is made Buch a cheap football' by the rich cads and caddies. The Baltimore woman and the New York woman were simply out of their spheres. Beauty was op pressive to the one and the other had so much money she didn't know what to do with It. Then they ran riot. We don't know as they were Immoral, It wouldn't make any dif ference to either side of such a house If they were. But they really had so much money and found no way to spend It, that they thought a divorce would help some. Of course they will all be married again. Some rotten affinity will show un: thnv will take another dive In the matrl-! monial sea and then after awhile they will ask for divorce again and get It. God fixes the purse proud and the very rich. He seems to make them very miserable. You can't tell us that money removes human nature not even a little bit. The Balti more belle was the same with her millions as she was without them. The millions only gratified her van ity and her desires for the body. The soul knows nothing about gold and the beautiful woman who would have made some poor man a happy home made for the rich sportsman a place for awhile and then they were both weary and both willing to give It up. Old John Rockefeller and Andy Carnegie and all the bunch of rich ones are grop ing about day after day and at night toss on their pillows wondering how to get rid of the burden, and they can't do It. The beautiful women who marry the millions soon find that the simple country maid who milks the cow and washes the dishes and goes out with her brave lover for a buggy ride is far happier than the well dressed, luxuriously groom ed and gourmand fed flesh that sports the name of a millionaire. Surely Kipling didn't have to see a picture of a Vampire to write about " a rag and a bone and a hank of hair " because any society woman in New York with a few extra mil lions would have suggested it to him, The newspapers feed their readers on this kind of dirty stuff; the di vorce proceedings of the millionaires who are vicious and vulgar and coarse and colorless unless they paint It on. The automobiles are killing many of them; the others are killing themselves and happiness is unknown to them? Happy is the girl who has no mil lions. Happy Is the woman who Is the wife of the sturdy man who works and tolls, and thrice happy when she has a family of little ones to call her mother. When she reads of the doings of these very rich; of their dirt and their slime, thankful she should be that 'God found her a husband who wasn't rich only in mind and heart. These divorced drabs and these hemale bawls who go after beauty only to debauch It and make It mis erable will some day be down and out. Gradually, but surely, the world Is getting away from them. Think of It the handsomest wo man in the United States marrying a man with a million and then scandalizing the good old mother who brought her Into the world by discovering that she and her hus band were "not In harmony." Think of the excuse and think what courts mean In allowing such flimsy pre texts to break the marriage vow. ' Bee" Notes. Many little things can be done ahead of time to have bees In best shape for winter. This has been a good season for white comb honey. As Boon as it Is well cupped over take It off before tho bees travel-stain it with their feet If you wait for bees to swarm be fore putting on supers you may lose half a crop. When the first super Is half filled, put another super under It Always know what your bees are doing by going Into the hives. See that they have plenty of room and a good place to store the honey they gather. Put supers on Just before thoy will be wanted. It put on too early the bees gnaw holes In tho foundation, and If put on too late there Is a loss ol honey that would have been stored. In the middle of the super It Is well to put a few bait sections filled with last year's comb. This Induces the bees to begin storing early. By wise manipulation much more honey is ob tained. CASTOR I A For In&ati and CMldraa. Jki m Yh Km Atop Butf Bears the ftgutwf 1 Notes and Of Interest to (Women Readers IDEAS FOR LUNCHEON TABLE. Delicious Jtleal Served by One Hostess that Can Be Very Easily Duplicated. Stuffed potatoes are prepared from baked potatoes by cutting them In half so as not to Injure the skins, re moving the pulp and mixing it wtth butter, salt, pepper (sometimes add ing grated cheese). One hostess who has toured around the world and eat en In every tongue served this ideal menu at a luncheon: i I I 1 1 t t 1 1 It. I I I .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Jtt 1 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 ill 1 1 1 A lllil J Cold Soup (Consomme). Escallopcd Cauliflower, Baking Powder Biscuit. Broiled Chicken, Butter and Lemon Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Asparagus and Lettuce Salad. Cake with Strawberry Sauce. Coffee. j-,l""I""T"T"T,lI,,I,lT"l"l"T"I"T"T"r,T"T"PlT"T"T"T"I' The cold soup was served In cups, .the cauliflower In ramekins. The salad wa3 especially pretty. The as paragus tips were passed through a ring of pimentos (Spanish pepper In oil). On one side of the plate was a little rosette of lettuce. French dress ing was served. The dessert was a slice of pound cake over which was poured a sauce made of ripe strawberries prepared as for shortcake and sweetened with creamed butter and sugar flavored with vanilla. The hostess cut the cake and poured the sauce over it at table, so It had no chance to become soaked and soggy. At a dainty Sunday evening tea -he menu was cold consomme, a fruit sal ad, toaBted crackers and cream cheese, and ice cream served In Individual forms, and wafers. The fruit sa'id was served on a tall compote. Around the edge slices of apple stood up like a frill. In the center was a combina tion of grape fruit, orange, pineapple, and berries. - When Going on a Journey. When starting on a Journey be sure to look ovor your possessions, and see If you have: A small workbag or "housewife" completely furnished with small sew ing materials, thimble, needles, pins, sc'ssors, black and white thread and sewing silk, darning cotton, hooks and eyelets, and buttons. A fruit, or pen-knife. A fountain pen, lead pencil,- writing paper, envelopes and a tablet, as well as a portfolio to hold these epistolary articled. Brush and comb In a neat case; whisk broom, and clothes brush. Ad dress book, with your own name and address written on the first page. A bottle of smelling salts (laven der a bottle of Jamaica ginger, sweet spirits of ammonia, soda mint tablets, ".nd a small cc'Hpsabla drinking cup. A hot watet bag. Tooth brush and powder, toilet lano llne or cold cream In tubes. A hand mirror that will hang up. A rubber-lined sponge bag, filled with wash cloths and sponge. A tiny hair pillow to use In case of headache. A box of crystallized ginger, and a package of sweet chocolate; no bon bons. .Talcum powder In a sifting can, so no puff will be required. A dark colored silk or woolen wrap per. ' If you wear laced boots or ties, be sure to carry extra strings and rib bons for them. And provide your selves, men and women, with a plen tiful supply of neat neckwear. These things are imperative for future com. fort Hints for the Home. If you are ironing with tho patent handle irons and using a gas range, it is a good idea to put a tin cover on top of the Iron as It sits on the fire. The cover keeps the heat from escap ing, and your Iron with Its help will get hot much quicker. On a good sized blaze two irons of this kind cov ered with a tin or copper cover will heat as soon as one. To prevent making a great dust In sweeping use moist sawdust on bare floors. If the floor Is carpeted mois ten a newspaper, tear It Into small pieces and scatter over the floor. The carpet will look much brighter than If Bwept In the ordinary way. In serving oyster or clam cocktails, Instead of putting them In glasses, try serving them from the Bhells. In the center of the plate place a green pepper hollowed out and fllled with the condiments. Each oyster Is dip ped into it before being eaten. Fairy Cakes. Mix together one cup of butter, two cuptuls of strained honey, a little gin ger, halt a -nutmeg, grated, a little grated rind of lemon, and two table spoonfuls of flour. Dlssolvo a heap ing teaspoonful of baking powder In a cup ot water, pour Into the mixture and add sifted flour until it is stiff enough to roll out It should be baked In a sheet like gingerbread, and may be eatan hot or cold. Remember in removing stains that all alkali stains can be removed by a weak solution ot cltrio aeid, while Mid stains cab be removed with am-uoala. Forecasting the Next Year's Crop. A York county bankor, who is In terested in fruit growing, wrote to State Zoologist H. .A. Surface, Har rlsburg, asking him If It Is possible to tell In the fall or winter what peach trees will be heavy bearers next year, and how this can be done. The reply of Professor Surface, which Is given below, will Interest many persons. He wrote: "I note with Interest that you ask if we can tell in the fall which trees are going to be heavy bearers the next year, and If so In what way. I can say that while the peach grower cannot tell for certain what trees will be heavy bearers, he can tell which will be tho heavy bloomers. The point Is that the tree may blos som heavily, but not bear fruit. However, If his tree Is In healthy condition, and the roots properly protected by mulch during the win ter time, so that they do not freeze, the owner may be reasonably certain of peaches where there are blossoms, and blossoms where there are blos som buds or fruit buds. "These fruit buds are conspicuous on the buds of all peach trees at this time of the year, and in fact during all of the fall, winter and spring. They are present In the form of large, gray, roun'd, conspicuous buds. If you will examine your peach trees again you will find two kinds of buds present. Those of light or gray color are the blossom buds, and by open ing them carefully now you will find the elements or rudiments of the blossom. Often these are arranged in pairs with a small pointed bud between. This Is the leaf bud. To ward the tips of the twigs you will also see more leaf buds. These are small, pointed, and dark colored. "The prospect for next year's crop depends, of course, to a great extent uopn the fruit buds. Thus you can tell now by examination whether many of these are present or not. However, It must be remembered that every healthy tree, as a rule, sets many more buds than it should. Many of our best fruit growers ad vocate pruning either In winter, or early spring, In such a manner as to remove at least one-third of these fruit buds. If your peach trees are like my own at the present time It would be disastrous If one-fifth of these buds would produce fruit. It would result in small fruit, broken branches and disheveled trees, which would be the more easily Infected with disease and more readily In fested with Insects. Also such heavy drainage upon their bearing during the summer would doubtless reduce their vigor so that they would not set many fruit buds for the follow ing year's crop." Why Don't You Go to Church? You are "too tired to go to church." That'B sheer nonsense. There isn't a place on this conti nent so restful as the church. You are going to He around the houBe all day; dose in a hammock, loll In a rocking chair; go to sleep over a book. That Isn't resting, that's loafing. Tell yourself hon estly, did you ever In your life see a loafer who looked rested? Did you ever see a loafer who didn't look tired all the time? The peo ple who try to rest are always tired. Resting Is the hardest work In the world when you make work of it. Two hours in church; two hours in the quiet; the music, the ser mon, the reading, the uplift which comes from the new channels, Into which your mind Is led, will rest you more physically, morally, in tellectually, than all the day spent in trying to rest. Why don't you go to church? Bob Burdette. The new winter Ladles' Waists at Menner & Co. are the late models mado of silk, lawn and fancy wait ings. HENRY Z. RUSSELL. PRESIDENT. ANDREW THOMPSON VICE PRESIDENT. HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK. This Bank was Organized In December, I836r and Nationalized In December, 1864. Since Its organization it has paid in Dividends to its Stock holders, $1,905,800.00 The Comptroller of the Currency has placed it on the HONOR ROLL, from the fact that Its Snrplus Fund more than equals Its capital stock. What Class 0 are YOU in The world has always been divided into two classes those who have saved, those who have spent-the thrifty and the extravagant. It is the savers who have built the houses, the mills, the bridges, the railroads, the ships and all the other great works which stand for man s advancement and happiness. The spenders are slaves to the savors. It is the law of nature. We want you to be a eaver to open an account in our Savings Department and be independent. One Dollar will Start an Account. This Bank will be pleased to receive all or a portion of YOUR banking business. RECOGNIZED AS A STATESMAN.' Candidate's 'Scheme at Once Soon to- Bo tho Production of a Master Mind. "Our end of the town Is complete ly without police protection," said the aldermanlc candidate in a lively speech.. "Elect me and I promise to have this section of tho city literally swarming with police." The next night he was denounced by the opposition as a four flusher and asked to outline his plan for se curing proper protection. "Ladles and gentlemen," he be gan at the following meeting. "I was called a bluffer by our friends, the opposition, last night. I now propose to show you how I will make good in my promise. First of all I will start the movement for more police protection by hiring two new cooks. Let every man ot family In this audience hire one cook and keep her and we'll need' an exclusion act to keep the cops out of our ter ritory!" Pandemonium broke loose. A new Bolivar had appeared in their midst and at the election his rival was swamped Into oblivion. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA TARRH THAT CONTAIN MER CURY, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when enter ing It through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reput able physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken In ternally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Come and help the boys pay for their uniforms by your presence at the ball of the Maple City F. & D. C. at Alert Hall, December 3rd. 3t A new line of Red Fur Muffs, Collars, and Neck pieces at Mennor & Co. OHO mm BENJ.H. DITTO.- - LESSEE V 1 1 THURSDAY Dec. 9 Return Engagement. THE GREAT AMERICAN PLAY PAID IN FULL Prices: 35-50-75-1.00 and i.50 - SEAT SALE opens at the Box Office ais:uua. m., weanesuay ukk. om. EDWIN F.TORREY CASHIER. XLBERT C.LINDSAY A8BISTANT CASIIIEB
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