EA As i + A a a ; = Fae | | ‘When Ma Was Sick | TOSHOC IND It ‘was Sunday morning. Pa Jenkins | wearing 8 kitchen apron, shirt sioeves | solletd up, nad his arms covered to the wibow with fiour, stood at the kitcher! 4able trying to make bread. Ma sa nearby and directed the operation. *To think [ had to go und slip ana break that arm om a Saturday,” be smoaned Ma, gazing disapprovingly a Ber bandaged right arm, “und eave us | Without any fresh baking for Sunday.” | "Well, your little old Williaza in on hs Joh” cheerfully guoth Pa. “Riong's I've got any muscle we'll have bread” He kteaded with eneriy. “You must not work it as hard as iat” declared Ma “Now cut it into pieces and make loaves, and then 01 have 10 rise again No—-notf like that i That won™ make a nice shaped leaf” “What's shape if it's good to sat?" inquired Pa. “You just stop worrying, | Ma. Everything's going to be ail right, and you'd better le down a while Soom I pet this dough siulf off my | “hands PH make the beds” *1 do hope nobody'll come in today,” assed Ma, thinking of the andpsted house and her inability © provide re | freshpaents. Pa meant well and was | amore than willing to “do his darndest”™ : ‘but of course he couldn't do things right © And company came! Word had gone | abroad that Ma Jenkins had suffered | 28 accident, so avaryhody calied— all! the ‘neighbors and club Indies and | spembers of the Ladies Aid. and the minister's wife and motherinlaw. Some brought! flowers and others brought soeh substantials ax healthy ooking veal Joaf, two beautiful loaves of hoinemsdle whole wheat bread, a nouple of pans of home baked rolls, a Tugs loaf of white bread, 5 piateful of Yuscioys kwking © at jelly tarts, giassel of j»lly and jars of fruit and cookies galore. Besides the flowers 208 he “eats™ all brought cemdolences *nd thrilliag tales of sccidents that fizppesied in other families, related In muck painful detail Finally the caliers had all departed axcept one middle aged woman whose iimousine was waiting for her She was a meniber of Ma's ehureh--.a weal thy woman who seldom had rnvihing to say, and who, rumor said. had tarted life In very poor circumstances | She had brought neither lovers nos | cakes, and while others talked «he «at | sient, loniting ber svmpathe for Ma When they were alone Pa pad one down (ollar to attend to the finn. she baren to sponk hexitsiinely, us §f ft was Jiffiralt to find words 5 ex press her feelines “1 didn’t know fhere sraitern, riaht gawa:s wane. “And I Adda’ AE Rniviling od rather slow Bibeeks 3 ¢ “that way. But 1 did think thee § oenizhe emme in and Tix op your bourse. Jn ®00d at that” "Now thet’s Kind of you aniviered Ma, "hat Pas a= cl Bandy around the douse.” “Bul 8 pian isn't lke u woman fo df Ehinga” anawersd the caller, “apa now how & woman feels nlvui her douse. Now, there's the kitchen fine “ould | Berub that for you! Lot me “be of noma use *1 was simply dumbfouml-d.* said Ma to Pa, afterward “But she trails aneant It. And she's poling to send one ~£ her maids over tomorrow to mins a long as we need her. Now, who'd “3hink a woman as rich as that would “rant to scrub my kitchen floor for “Ewes ssney can’t keep a good Saar down” sentimentally stated Pa. “Hay that was ¢ dinged good batch = brid I tarned out sll right, now i Seacn, nr A Careful Mother *Xew it's time for you to start for mehool, Reggie, darling. Good-by. No don’t kiss me! How many times mus: « 11 you (hat kissing is unsanitary, child, how d you pat the Y We m sterilize you. AN over again 8nd steam them then ave the antiseptic spray or . Them! Now, here are your an gloves. Get your bands into “And here's your individual ea: De careful nob to 100k any ott “Have those shoes been baked sinc: vou wore them yesterday? No? Ther Or nut change them. Heres anoth pedi Just out of the oven. And here's , dearie. It’s bevn well boi! § anil afterward baked w, remember, pul om vour rgb Ber gloves when working at (be black hoard, and usp your own cup to drink “from und here's the antiseptic J } use om your desk. “had hr re to cube of om "Her your doctor's certificate i aver undertaken his wen i this condition exists even on the! VALUABLE FLOOD DATA AVAILABLE | Comprehensive Survey Gives Aid to the State L——————— bs ‘SEEK TO REGULATE RIVERS Sr a——— A Flood Waters Stored During Half of Year Can Be Used to Aid Navigation During the Other Half. When the next state legislature be gin to Investigate the feasibility and | dexirability of undertaking river reg | alation works for the combined pur : poses of flood prevention and ald to | navigation it will find a great deal of | valuable data at its disposal Such | works have been sucoessially oper | stad] In this and other countries and | { mathy Investigations have been made | which will be of considerable value | Mm approaching the tank of finding | i the best method to parime Ist Pennsylvania one of the most | somprohensive and complete studios | consam- | mated by the Flood Commission of | itisburgh, aided by the State | Water Supply Comtalsasion The en | ginoers of the Flow Commission re port In favor of ths construction of | storage reservoirs a3 the best means | of preventing floods. Their studies | developed the fact that these reser | volrs would farnish an aid to paviga ton. the importance of which was equal to if not in excess of that of Sood | prevention. It was found that the ficods usuaily occar between the months of November and April and that all the severe ones have taken place during hat pmriod It wis | ktiown that between the months of | April and November there are fre quent periods of drought when no navigation Is possible and other peri ods when navigation is uncertain Investigation further showed that Muosoniabeln river whieh bes 8 co plete apsterm of hocks 2nd dame and | that ft would stil exist after the Toderal Governsoen! has coanpler its expensive task of camalizing the Ohio and Aleghetiy rivers. which projects are now in progress Store Flood Waters With thesn fio in mind the Fi LEnam asian” PHEIGnes ware Bre ad the Foiwl witers vember and Aoril 15 relieve the Yar? WW ea og fia % i a ke wh Toad a4 CE GE LF HETIL ee woe % HL about to possible, Tie GTHE parties resgil Eaveral roger gGnrded g snl ent g1Hre anond t of the piling add flow. food and rami available It wis found hat Ba doniid such ressivoirs wogid we nesses id Ww (ontingous ssTizs foo the Ohio snd that aninter ix commerce on that important wi% oul not even be Bpprox intated in any other way. A oomprehenaive survey of the Monongahela and Allngheny basins and those of the trilgtaries thereof | wat made by the Flood Commission an well as a complete investigation | s und about Pittsburgh. This led tc the conclusion that, while much could | ba done to protect We lower portions of tha «ity from foods by ralsing streets snd building walls, the fullest mot practical and niost permanent redte? would oome only through Wee control by means of storage musrvoird, and suck reservoirs would Hn alt other public besefits which sould riaks thar comstruciion pot sir dBzirable but also necessary, Netural Rassrveir Sites I wis found that natural reservedr tn Bie at ibe headwaters of sma wise combined oa “dent to hold back the largest known flood the crest of the flood seni protection means y complement to yale would prevent pverfowing thedr end the wnmmal 5 Ey fhe af communities Bg periods of dreaih : sanitary conditions in. the better ut the sara periods gives Fadiled Importance ty the plan of SLrage reservoirs. There gre man 0A a t known instances of whole towns he ing practically without water supply in the sammer time and with sewage pouring into empty rivers the men. ace to health was not only apparent but often actual. Along the properiy regulated stream sach conditions could mot exist. It is known too | that floods in the western part of the state are becoming more frequent | and more destructive while the Virginia's golden sunshine The rich, golden tobacco leaf that grows under Virginia's sunny skies is famous the world over for the character ®t gives s Character being that refreshing hveliness which smokers like and thst only Virginm tobacco can give. The tobacco in Piedmoat’s is highest- Sade Virginia—ALL Vir, sunshine of the an VIRGINIA TOBACCO PFAYS NO DUTY ALL THE VALUE BS IN THR CIGARETTE. irginia! Mellow as |¥ LL SOTA RNC PO SO A KITG HEN N| wd Fras Lad Bde TE a SVR INNER foMuArtana "Bie ken i Ok Cabbie Pals bilsg Mard Rage + THE CAKE BOX, FARBLE CALE ~One cupfal of : Lutter, two and a half cuphils of sugar, three errs, a cupful of milk, Tires and a hail coals of «I0ad four mited with two teaspoonufals bak. ing powder, shoe or flavoriag to taste ¢ Paar into 3 yous ir greased amd puper lined ran to the depth of ao luch Pot ina myer of dark fruit cake sliced a little thin: then pour in another joch of the cake hatter and bake Frowt if liked Cheap Glugerbread. —A cupfual of nao lasses, salt ginger a taldespoonful of lard, a cupfal of hot water, a fesspoon- ful of soxia, Date Bodow Cakes One cupfal dates one cunful brown sugar ope cupfal cooking molasses, one-lal! ressponu salt. tensponnal king soda, one ten spear ful each of cinnamon and ginger and one-half teaspaenfal grated aut meg four to make real sof} sail serth fourth pesnd choiped almomiis, temcapfal cocanat and a plans of salt Beat batter to 8 oream ad gradoaliy bent in the sugar. then 8 wine: boat the egg whites to a wif froth and stir into the Lutter and sugar: add the flour, which is sifted four times, with the baking powder: last of all the fruit. almonds. citron and cocoanut. Arenas J LACY only result ROIITRT=ION = Aad x aud. won K that al. trat . L. use of intoxicating Lguors 1 tw on profibtatory aw dates to supprens, or drinks, have shown that failure in enforcement that ny Satute not respected 4 citizens of a community falls of its van weithte-that the of alcoholic Baveranes Fina so Us, © 3 NH % 2 Scutrern 3 Prehubition 99 per cent. of these illegal di distMeries 'S ar where Prubibit 18 No E o> ok v er sus a.iacies AA a MI BL LS MAI 5 J pine A RO SC 3 Dt SRR a 1 wr iT an ANDES ar armament, om wn gh . 1s + pa the TAT aa 3 ae wn watt co the wale gmc i 3 v _— Hn. 3 | — " : wi ET the FACT reciains (222 2] ooperuments made by » po 8 1 prey y ¢ % i «& 52% bony al “e =i a3 samaatingg Proton laws have proves a ¥ of prohititory laves araimst personal rots na been the driving of men i3t0 the LXWisss mrt.C >and sang » 8 LL JOTRATIO A A ek Li Late ot 18s $000 abt ns ph Georgia, Horta (arclinz, Tcoanessee, Virgina, Florida, Rentuci:y and Scuth Carolina. In spite of the most earnest ¢liorts of Internal Revenue agents of the (init Stes Guvernment to enforce law, there have been uncow- er>d ond setred during the last four years in the States men- t.oned above nearly 13000 illicit sells 11 1383, just previous to the time that Prohibition ideas * in the South kad gained some footing, there were only 743 lawless liquoer-making stills detected. In 1903, the illicit eiills raaded had 3 increaced to 1083 In 1910, there were 1811 lawlens srils ro last wear the “moonshine” Dizm Lguer-maling (rns {orroted our Lad grown to 3577-—and setion cf v ww wn gi #0 hy with ths Government laws ba ¥ in any gwen a a wot en Tag dik NTERMNA y ei yw oom 1 REN ite ~SEWTIERW Ela. Sa phe se jeog! distiller Bae Ci Shen i Aa 01s * 5 an i J Temes staring FACT T bent os & Bo © TTY VIP fore than . a. Tor gig ai : yom FC ube srles an 10erd ae Mega. Cas is shown by the Gove Muon obtaiss. of Pennsylvania State Brewers’ Association Ww : ET hn ARIA Ss ———————] » ca Re HI RH I a ———— cr io ap a CIN YIN EI si RR ADVERTi - IN THE COURIER stream flow in the summer time is | gradually growing less. |
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