Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT PmMMmm Ivery Kvanlnt Except •veday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall. 20 cents Per Year, by mall *2.50 Single Coplea 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. This is the longest day of the year—giving you more time to boost if you use it. Did you? The annual June sale of Decatur merchants opens tomorrow and the indications are that ft will be a great success. It ought to be and you ought to help make it a ten-time winner. Buy and boost. Mr. Bryan may be down and out, but say, he is certainly there for a “dead one” when it comes to getting first-page advertising in wholesale quantities. There are concerns in this country that wolud give a million dollars for the space he has received in the past week or two. The jitney bus is putting the street car out of business in the cities. At Muskogee the trolley cars have quit and in Philadelphia it is estimated that the street car company is losing business that will total a million dollars a year. It’s a serious proposition for the man who has his millions wrapped up in a city street car property, but the jitney man and the public care little for that. Decatur has pretty homes and is getting more. Take a walk or ride | over the city and you will agree with us that this is an ideal place in which to live. It's a great big park with its splendid streets and drives, pretty homes and play grounds, well kept yards and modern buildings. Then why not say so, and along with that, it's a prosperous and happy community in which every one who wants work has it. Delphos is rejoicing over the tip that they are to retain the Clover Leaf terminal. While we feel they are a little mature and don’t understand ( how they or their attorney can ascer- ■ tain the decision of a federal court a week or ten days in advance of the time fixed by that court to announce ' same we of course, have no way of con- , tradicting the statement. However. , I we will save our congratulations for i a few days. They may be just whistling to keep up courage. CHERRIES. ■-■ - I Cherries $2.00 per bushel. Call Geo. j Burkett, West Monroe street, 'phone 615. 147t3 ; - Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miller, Dan : Niblick and family motored to Vera

I BIG BANNER VALUES IN | ? GOOD SERVICEABLE SUITS i j FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN g y r\UR!NG these 3 Days Sale we offer our customers a choice lot of suits we H y have left at a mere fraction of their original figures—no description will H y ever look as well on paper as this choice lot of suits will look to you- a little H y foresight and quick action NOW will save you some money. « 28 MEN S SUITS. 47 YOUNG MEN'S SUITS. H g y $22.50 Values, now $12.50 $20.00 Values, now $20.00 Values, now SIO.OO $15.00 Values, now g 8 95 $17.50 Values, now g 3 25 SIO.OO Values, now g €> 25 $15.00 Values, now g 7'55 $ 7.50 Values, now g 4’98 8 TpREE with every boy’s suit sold during these 3 days •T sale we’ll give a dress straw hat, waist and belt. ’ | Men’s Novelty Felt and Stiff Hats Odd Lots of two-piece Summer Underat greatly reduced prices. wear: j $3.00 Quality, now $2 25 ’ $2.00 Quality, now gfso sl '°° Va,UeS ’ "° W ’ Suit "50c $1.50 Quality, now sl.lO $ " 50 Values, now, suit 35cH The above is only a partial list of the many bargains we have prepared for this occasion. t I THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY j

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER AUNT MARTHA’S CAKE

"I do not want to decry beauty,” said the Hoosier Observer, "because I like pretty things just as much as anybody. The land knows if I did decry it, people need only look at me to know that the most biting jealousy was gnawing. I have so little of it myself. But when I see people sacrificing true worth to appearance. I tong to rise in wrath and fling 'Aunt Martha's cake' with ail its brown, spicy, sugary, plain ugliness at them, and say: 'Looka that, tasta that an’ te' me what y’ thinka that!' Aunt Martha’s cake is my household proverb. although I have never repeated it aloud. Probably no one has ev?r heard me speak of it, and 1 surely have never written about it. Aunt Martha is now dead and although she was the last of her family—she is not my real aunt at all—she will never be forgotten as long as I live because of her cake of which my mother told me. As I said, she was not a real aunt, but one of those good, plain motherly souls, sharp and spit fire and blunt though she was —one who had never had any children of her own, but who with a imssion for mothering. had taken into her home, five or six orphans, the lame, the halt and the blind, and cared for them. The reason she was so good, so plain, so ugly and her house and cakes lacked the frostings and trimmings and worthless gymracks' is because they bios-1 somed out into a real service other-1 wise. Now. about the cake. My girlhood came before 'domestic science' was generally known. Still we girls, at ten or twelve, had the normal desire of females to reved in the cook book and try our ‘luck’ at baking. The most ornate cakes, such as ‘gold ar *d silver stack cake,’ Delmonlco's wedding cake and others, requiring pounds of butter, dozens of eggs, etc., for the inside, as well as the outside, with splendid frostings and designs, appealed to us most. But the family larder was not always prepared to meet the impromptu demands of childish decisions, hence it would have been necessary to curtail the measures, or make a less pretentious cake. On such occasions I begged my mother to let me curtail —to cheat the ’aside of the cake of an egg or two. or use a scant measure of something else, that I might have more for the ■frosting.' Making the cake look pretty, was. I fear, the chief pleasure tn making the cake. It was then that she trotted out ‘Aunt Martha’s cak?.’ The story is this. Aunt Martha with others of the community went to a social, or surprise party, or some other such common event of those times. Each took a cake and other thi igs for the spread. The committee in charge Cruz Sunday afternoon where th, ;• were entertained at the home of Michael Hennford. DISTRIBUTIN AGENTS—Either sex. Earn $12.50 per 100. Giving free packages. Blume's Perfumed LatinDry Starch. All or spare time. 612 Blumer Bldg., Lincoln and Rose, Chicago. 146t2

l trotted out all the prettiest and best , looking cakes and cut them, making a fine showing. Aunt Martha's poor plain cake did not make its appearance but was kept in the back ground, amid whisperings that did not escape Aunt Martha's vigilant ear. You know, “love me. love my cake and cooking” is a woman's jealous watchword. Well, the supply of cakes ran short and Aunt Martha's was finally cut. The women tasted of it before putting it on the plate, and great was their surprise to find that it was the best of all of them. Aunt Martha's sharp ears heard and she said in her spit-fire style: ‘Yes, I didn't put it all on the outside 1 saved something for the inside of my cake.’ I well ro-j member another party that was given. Among the cakes was a splendid looking one, white-frosted, bearing a red. white and blue sugar ‘Cleveland fl ig' on its top. This was passed witli the others and everyone took a sample slice of what was thought to be the ‘show cake' of the evening. My father got one slice, and amid dryness and choking, managed to get down a mouthful, before the joke was told. It had heen made of corn meal to fool the people. Titus things are not wnat they seem. Funny how little things in life, such as ‘Aunt Martha's cake' will have a bearing upon one’s whole life. Os course, the principle of the mat- ' ter was taught me by my mother, othj erwise who was one of those who believed in the true worth plan instead of appearance, only. Her whole teaching was to be just as fine and true and good on the inside, or more so than on the outside, whether In matter of dress morals, religion, >r other things. If there is anything that must be curtailed. let it be the out side. Whenever I see a plain, uglv. quiet, non-assuming person, whether man or woman, that many would, perhaps turn up their‘nbW4Mt;4 iminediately begin to look for some hidden spicy fragrance of goodness, plums of virtue, and achievement, and sugary sweetness, not apparent in the outward adornment, for I think they may be ‘Aunt Martha's cakes' Usually, you are not disappointed. When I see some Christmas-tree looking person, splendidly adorned, with pompom: manners and over-bearing. 1 immediately think of the frosted corn-cake, and get ready to swallow them with a glass of water to help along the dryness. Os course there are exceptions in people as well as cakes. There are some who have just as much to expend in making the outside attractive as well as ‘he inside, but they are few. Where there is perfection on one side, there is often a sacrifice on the other." MEN —Our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade in few weeks, mailed free. Write Moler College, Indianapolis, Ind. LOST —Valuable gold watch; was lost somewhere on First or Second streets. A reward will be given to the person finding it and returning same to this office. 145tf

DOINGS IN SOCIETY || I —§ WEEK'S CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. Pytblau Nr-cble Club— K. of P. Home Wednesday Atternoou "500'' Club— Mrs. Dr. Neptune. Young Women's Bible Class —Central School House. Tuesday—Baptist Men's Lawn Social for Women of Church —43. E. Shamp Home. Tuesday. Baptist Men's Lawn Social for Women of Church —S. E. Shamp Home. Afternoon Club —Mrs. Charles Voglewede. Wednesday. — Ziun Lutheran Ladies' Aid —At the Church. Ruth Circle —Fanchon and Jessie Magley. Thursday. Evangelical Aid—Mrs. J. H. Rilling. Friday. Ciiristian Indies' Aid —Mrs. Dr. C. 11. Weaver. Saturday. Class Social —Isaac Nelson. The world is still deceived by ornament. * * » » * * Look on beauty, And you shall see tis purchased by the weight; Which wherein works a miracle in nature. Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped, snaky, golden locks, Which make such wanton gambols with the wind. fpon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head. The skull that bred them, in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guilded shore To the most dangerous sea: the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word. The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. —Shakespeare. One of the enjoyable dames of the season was given at the K. of C. hall by Raymond Kohne. Herman Ehinger. Leon Crawford am! Raymond Harting, fourteen couples being guests. Miss Bertha Kohne and Elmo Smith furnished the music and the grand march was lead by Herman Ehinger and Leah Hensley. Raymond Kohne and Miss Dorothy Dugan gave out the programs. The Pythian Needle club will meet this evening at the Knights of Pythias home. Miss “Tid” Groves of Bluffton was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Green. Sunday they entertained at dinner and supper in her honor. Miss Agnes Meihers and Free Frisinger also being guests. In evening the party motored to Fort Wayne, where they were joined by Hoyt Hartman.

The Evangelical Ladies' Aid society will meet with Mrs. J. H. Rilling on Thursday afternoon. Misses Euia McKinney and Flora Fledderjohann and Mrs. G. E. Steele were entertained at the Franklin Andrews home near Wren, Ohio, yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reppert, Miss Lydia Miller and John Lind of Cincinnati, Ohio, motored to the Crunim home near Honduras where they were pleasantly entertained. Helping Hand —Mrs. Fred Heuer at German Reformed Church. The Christian Ladies’ Aid society will be entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs. Dr. C. R. Weaver. A jolly little crowd had a delightful impromptu picnic supper in a grove about two and a half miles west of tiie city Sunday evening. Those present were: Marguerite Gerard, Stella Howard, Agnes Kohne, Germaine Coffee, Irene Gerard. Frank Brown, Joe Johns. Francis Schmitt, Veigh Chronister, Lynn Shoemaker. Mrs. Fred Heuer will entertain the Helping Hand society Friday instead of Thursday at the German Reformed church. The Zion Lutheran Indies’ Aid society will meet Wednesday afternoon at the parochial school house. Mrs. Schumacker’s of the United Brethren Sunday school will have an ice cream social Friday evening at the Isaac Nelson home, corner Eleventh and Madison streets. ——o FOR SALE —Complete Bed room suite. In first class condition. Inquire of Fred Baker, 1015 Jackson street 14113

SPEND A FEW MINUTES AT OUR STORE During the “Get Acquainted Sale” June 22-23, and 24th. and take extra pay for your money. The only fault we can find with the three lots °* .Fancy Suits we are offering you at reduced P have’nt found anybody to buy them. May be its ou they are certainly worth more than we are asking lorcnemLot 1 Consists of 35 Suits, Sizes 34 to 38 Former Prices SIO.OO to $15.00 Sale Price - - - ’ Lot 2 Consists of 25 Suits, Sizes 34 to 40 Former Prices $13.50 to $20.00 Sale Price - - ' " Lot 3 Consists of 50 Suits, Sizes 34 to 42 Former Prices $15.00 to $22.00 Sale Price - - ' One Lot Straw Hats Yacht Shape, Sizes 6’4 to i Former Prices SI.OO to $2.50 Sale Price - - - - Joe One Lot Straw Hats, Yacht Shape, Sizes 6’4 to Former Prices $2.00 to $3.50 Sale Price - • sl.Jo We want you to see these Special Values. We’ll be glad to show you. Store open every evening during SaleHOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys Special Sales Day Bargains In I furniture j ( 20 Per Cent DISCOUNT 20 Per Cent [ I We Offer Our Complete Stock at 20 Per Cent Discount g ” DAVENPORTS — — ~ . . I BEDS H ROCKERS hl'lll ‘ JI SPRINGS 3 8 iCi ■’ H TABLES ‘ I MATTRESSES 8 | CHAIRS RUGS 8 8 In fact every thing that goes to make the home comfortable and happy we offer you at special discount of 20 per cent for cash. All goods delivered. An opportunity to till your wants in household goods y •j at BARGAIN PRICES y n H I GAY. ZWICK & MYERS I :: :: mt::: -.a:-jr.u:. TAILOR MADE SPECIALS For Made To Measure Suits $19.75 7 We have made arrangements with our tailoring house whereby we can f < I offer you for one week the greatest /\\ ) -\\ values ever given in Northern IndiQ yA\ ana * n W t 1/M TAILOR MADE SUITS | ll One suit is of regular suiting-fancy I /’w blue serge worth regular from WK-1 S2O to $25. The other is a Palm _ Beach worth regularly $8.50 to $lO Two Suits For Less Than The Price Os One VANOE HITE ~