Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 273, 20 September 1912 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX TELEGRAru, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.

THE LOCAL SCHOOLS TO OBSERVE DAY Fire Prevention Day, Oct. 9, Will Be Observed by Schools and Clubs.

Fire prevention day will be observed in the local schools and by the Commercial club on October 9, pursuant to a proclamation of Governor Marshall issued yesterday. The purpose of the day is to wage a state-wide battle -in the interest of fire prevention by means of education of school children against a careless use of combustibles and through municipal and commercial agencies. To lower insurance rates Is another purpose of the fight. The proclamation of the governor in full. "To the People of the State of Indiana, Greeting: "Notwithstanding an organized movement looking to the prevention of fires which resulted in a general observance last year in thirteen western states, on October 9, the anniversary of the great Chicago fire, estimates made now indicate that a total los3 of $250,000,000 will be recorded for the year 1912. This is a large increase over the 1911 total. Much of this loss might be prevented, a great part of it being due to carelessness, personal and public. "The schools of Indiana, municipal authorities, commercial bodies and property owners desire fewer fires and lower insurance rates. The public in general, interested as it is in the conservation of life and health, demands a decreased hazard. "Now, therefore, I, Thomas R. Marshall, Governor of Indiana, do hereby proclaim October 9, 1912, as "FIRE PREVENTION DAY in the state of Indiana, and do call upon all citizens on that day to give personal attention to the removal of rubbish and debris from their premises; to setting their heating appliances in safe and proper condition for winter use; to examining chimneys and flues, that breakage and cracks may be properly repaired. I also suggest and recommend that on this day instruction be given to the children of the public schools with reference to the fire hazard of matches, gasoline and volatile oils, and that simple methods of fire prevention and resCue work be taught. I call upon the commercial bodies and the municipal authorities of the state to aid in disseminating knowledge relative to methods of prevention against fire and to urge .a cleanup movement in their respective communities."

The Kilt Pleating Shown in Knollenberg's large Window are styles now popular with the Parisians. American women are taking up the fuller flrocc ' irlai few iYta nminr

winter season.

IBSEN AS A TAILOR.

ThV Orrfy Help He Needed Wat In ' ; : i .Threading the Needle. Ao interesting story of Ibsen as a tailor is told in a Paris contemporary. Jonas Lie, a Norwegian poet, was accustomed to spend part of the summer at Berchtesgaden, lit the Salesburg Alps. On one of these occasions, while sojourning in the neighborhood, Ibsen turned up at his friend's residence and asked to see Mine. Lie, adding that they need not disturb the poet. When madame apieared Ibsen apologized. It was only a trifle a button had come off. lie had purchased a needle and thread. Mme. Lie, womanlike, offered to sew on the button, but the poet would not hear of it. All he asked was that she would aid him hy threading the needle. He had found It most difilcult. The lady of course, complied, and Ibsen went on his way rejoicing. Mme. Lie did not meet Ibsen again until some days after the needle difficulty was surmounted. This time he called to see the poet. There was no demand for an interview with the poet's wife. In the course of conversation the lady, "wishing to get her own back," inquired somewhat satirically if she could be of any service to her husbaud's friend. Could she thread another needle for him? "A thousand thanks, my dear madame," replied the author of "The Doll's House." "I took care when you threaded the needle for me to make the thread long enough to last the whole summer." London Globe.

CHANGED HER MIND.

THE SLANTING SASH.

Noval Not on Now Nightgowns.

ONE OF THE LATEST MODELS.

Ribbons run through beading at the

base of the yokes are familiar enough trimmings on nightgowns, but this oblique adornment on the robe de nuit Illustrated is decidedly interesting. The ribbon beading slopes upward at the front and back and meets just in front of the left arm.

WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS. They Started Newspapers Over a Century Ago. One of the men of broad minds Joseph Pulitzer employed a large number of women as writers on his very successful newspapers, and yet when he made the gift of $500,000 to found a school of journalism appended the provision that women should not be permitted to attend the school. The provision has caused much wonderment. During the past fifty years women have developed the qualities that go to make a journalist remarkable. They lire more and more adapting themselves to meetiug the requirements of the alert reporter. It has been less than fifty years since women entered seriously upon newspaper work, though, according to Robert McWades, the first daily 'paper published was started by a woman; the first newspaper in Rhode Island bad a woman as its publisher, as had also the second newspaper started in New York city. The Maryland Gazette, the first paper established in Lord Baltimore's colony, was started by a woman, and the same is true of the Virginia Gazette, the first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence. Looking the field over, women have done very well in newspaper work, and they will continue to do so notwithstanding the Pulitzer school of journalism.

Black Frocks the Rage Just Now. The braid trimming on this black cbi'Ten frock is arranged with open

AESCHYLUS.

Curious Fate That Overtook the Father of Greek Tragedy. Aeschylus, the celebrated Greek dramatic writer. Is universally refer red to as the "father of Greek trage dy. Bora of a noble family at Eleu-

sia, in Attica, 525 B. C, at the age of

twenty-four he first presented himself

at the festival of Bacchus aS a com-!

petitor for the public prize and fifteen years afterward gained his first victory. The pre-eminence which he thut acquired was successfully maintained till 468 B. C, when be was defeated in a similar contest by his younger rival, Sophocles. Aeschylus, mortified at the indignity he thought this put upon htm. quitted Athens and went to the court of Hie ro, king of Syracuse. Of the remain ing period of his life but little is known, except that he continued to prosecute his favorite pursuit, and that his residence in Sicily was of some duration may be inferred from the fact that it was sufficient to affect the purity of bis language. The thirteenth and last victory of Aeschylus was gained In 458 B. C. On the manner of his death, which was singular, the ancient writers are unan imous. While sitting motionless in the fields his bald head was mistaken for a stone by an ea'.e which happened to be flying over him with a tortoise in her bill. The bird dropped the tortoise to break the sheP. and the poet was killed by tue blow. Aeschylus is said to have been the author of seventy tragedies', of which only seven are now extant.

THE PRICKLY PEAR.

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This III Natured Fruit Is Remarkably Tenacious of Life. The prickly pear is sjid to be so tenacious of life that a leaf or eren a small portion of a leaf, if thrown on the ground, strikes out roots within a short time and becomes the parent of a fast growing plant. Mischievous though the African prickly pear may be, it is not without Its good Equalities. Its juicy fruit, though rather deficient In flavor, is delightfully tool and refreshing in the dry heat of summer, and a kind of treacle is made from it. Great caution must be exercised in peeling this curious fruit, the proper way being to Impale the fruit on a fork or stick while one cuts it open and removes the skin. The' individual who undertakes to pluck this treacherous fruit with unjruarded fingers meets with an experience he does not soon forget. Concentrated essence of stinging nettle seems all at once to assail hands, lips and tongue, and the skin, wherever It comes in con

tact with the ill natured fruit, is cov- J

ered with a group of minute bristly hairs, apparently growing from it and venomous and irritating to the last degree. In dry weather these spiteful little stings do not even wait for the newly arrived victim, but fly about, light, al thistledown, ready t settle on any one who has not learned, by experience to give the prickly pear bush a wide berth.

The Measure of Life. There is no use in repining: that life is short. It Is not to be measured by the quantity of its years, but by the quality of its achievements. Philadelphia T,ert"r.

Aunt Sally's Advice to Beauty-Seekers

black chjtfon gown with touch or OKANGE. medallions, under which is laid orange colored velvet, the deep orange shade forming a striking contrast with the black chiffon costume.

C. M. P.: The neck should receive similar attention to that given the

complexion, so color and texture of

skin will be the same. A yellow neck and a white face give a discordant effect. I advise using for both neck and complexion, the treatment recommended to "Monica." F. M.: First, stop scowling, if you would get rid of the lines between the eyes. The best application for such lines and all wrinkles, is a solution

of powdered saxolite, 1 ounce, dissolved in witch hazel, pint. Bathe the face in this daily until entirely relieved. Monica: You hardly need such a list of cosmetics as you mention. Ordinary mercolized wax will help you more than any or all of them. It will gradually absorb the withered, discolored complexion and you will soon have a new, youthful and healthy-looking skin. You needn't get more than an ounce of the wax, which will cost you little at any druggists. Apply nightly, like cold cream, washing it off mornings. Woman's Realm.

Strategic Game In Domestic Economy the Husband Played. Strategy can sometimes be made as effective in domestic economy as in the operations of war. By way of illustration consider an instance that recently arose in a certain city. An ambitious young housewife there had an opportunity to buy at a great bargain a handsome rug which she needed. The price was only $200, but the owner declared that the rug was actually worth ?400. The young woman's husband gently protested that even $200 was more than persons of their income could afford for a single article of household ftirnishinjr, but after much persuasion he consented to the purchase, as most husbands do In such cases. But this particular husband played a strateirie game. When he gave his wife the money to pay for the rug it was not in currency notes of large denomination, but in the form of 200 round, sound silver dollars. Tho young woman was astounded. Until the money was counted down dollar by dollar she never had realized that It would take so many to pay for that rosr. She decided to buy a sixty-five dollar rug, but declared that if the money had beeu given to her in two notes of $100 each she would have bought the costlier one without hesitation. New. York Mail.

Kitchenettes. Onion salt in a handy shaker, at 15 cents, saves the time and trouble required to prepare an onion for seasoning, t Never put soda in the water in which you wash china that has any gilding on It. Soda injures the gilding. Instead use soap, which answers just as well and has no ill effects. To clean a decanter take a small raw potato, cut it into tiny pieces and put them into the decanter with a little warm water. Shake up and down till clean, then rinse in fresh water. If you or your laundress runs your fine linen through the wringer it will make wrinkles that are almost impossible to iron out Do not allow this. Have the fine linen sorted and wrung out by hand. It is worth all the extra work.

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S HIGH TOP O g SCHOOL SHOES H " at Feltman's. g $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00.

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