The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 34, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 December 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - INb KEEPING TRACK OF FREIGHT Ingenious Method Which Enables Shippers to Follow Every Movement of Goods. An ingenious method of tracing *every movement of a freight shipment has been invented. The tracer consists of a red cover, a little larger than a post card, in which are a number of perforated post cards which can be torn out. Each tracer has its individual number. The shipper fills out the blanks on its : first page with the rrtimber of the car containing the shipment and other data, and also with any instructions that he Wishes to give agents along the route. U The tracer is turned over to the agent at the point of origin, who fills out blanks showing when#the shipment started. Then he sends the tracer on by railroad mail to the agent at the next big city or division point, or to the junction where the shipment Mis turned over to another line. When the agent there sends the Shipment on, he makes a record of th<j transaction, with the date and hour on a blank attached to the tracer and a carbon 'sheet makes the same record on a postal card, which is numbered No. 1, and also bears the tracer t .number; jThis post card is then torn out amj niailed back to the shipper, r-who files it. The tracer itself goes on t to the hext division point, where the agent makes the same sort'of a record, mailing the post card back to the shipper; aind so on until the delivery Is recorded on the tracer itself. The tracer then is mailed either to the shipper or consignee. If there are indications of damage to the shipment at any point, they are noted by the agent at, the time he receives the shipment on the post card which he mails back to the shipper, who thus can tell on what line the injury is done. It is gsserted that the tracer is invaluable nbt. only in keeping the shipper In close touch with his freight, so that he ean tell immediately if there is any unnecessary delay, and if so, where it i is, but the post cards also give him a history lof! the shipment as it goes forward, which in settling claims ana save aTgreSt amount of correspondence. j ; Argentina. So fajr ifrom being a “trifling country,” Argentina is one of the most important} countries of the earth. Her area is about 600,000 square miles, or nearly three times that of the German empire.' In 1909 the imports were valued at $300,000,000, the exports at $397,00b,000. She is the greatest corn exporter in the world and the first exporter of meats. In the exportation of wool and: wheat she is second, with a fair ch;ance of soon becoming first. In the variety and number of its live stock Argentina surpasses every other country. | Thirty years ago her cultivated land was 1,000,000; now It is 14,000,(|00 acres. More than $900,000,000 of English capital is invested in Argentina. There is not on earth a more progressive land. The Inns of Chancery. Most) of the old Inns of Chancery are no more. Clement’s inn, where Falstaff , antT""Shallow “heard the chimes ,-at ! midnight;;” New inn, of which Sir Thomas ’More' was a member; Lyon’s inn, Coke once taught the students; Furnival’s inn, where Charles Dickens lived; Thavies inn, vfhich was one of the earliest of all the legal settlements in London; Barnard’s inn, where Lord Chief Justice Holt was among the “prineb pals”—all these historic places have, “in the change and chance of time,” disappeared from view. Staple inn remains in its ancient state by the good will of the insurance company that purchased it some twenty year's ago.—Law Journal. Mushrooms. It would be idle to attempt a word on mdshrooms in this narrow space. They are almost of infinite variety, yet have certain permanent marks,by which! they are easily distinguished from the poisonous fungi. A true mushroom is never large in size, but seldom exceeding four or five inches in diameter. As regards mushrodm poisoning and its antidote, the danger ous principle is a narcotic, and the symptoms are usually great .nausea, drowsiness and stupor, attended by acute pains in the joints. The best thing to do in case of ‘mushroom poi soning” is to partake freely of pure olive oil, which will, nine times out of ten, prove effective. \ Nibbles the Wood. “I’m tired of this old joke about a woman sharpening a pencil with her husband’s razor.” “There’s nothing in it. No woman sharpens a pencil. She gnaws it to a point.”—Washington Herald. In the latest Style. Bess —What make of airship Is that just passing over? Dorothy—Oh! that’s one of the old style; all the new ones have star shields for the wings. In 1925. Governor —Get hold of the state aviator. Executive Secretary—And then? Governor —Here is a request for the extradition of one Jones, who is flying over our state and must be caught and returned.

BUILDS MINIATURE HOME FOR HIS CHILD . ' - ~ ' -Si I r HK ~ : - - ill I -a wSkm * r .. 1.11 •< v ;■ ~ raj? ij -FS-I H • i 4' A’*- w f L ‘ l- A ’ 'v NEW YORK. —To give his ten-year-old daughter Maria a practical training in housekeeping, F. Waldemar Hooslep has built a miniature home for her in the rear of his residence at 71 Linden avenue, Brooklyn. Her parents supply her with money each week, and she must pay all her bills out of this allowance. The little building is equipped with every culinary appliance and everything needed to keep a house in order. The child appears to be delighted with her experience. She has a “day-at-home” when her friends drop in for a chat around a well arranged tea table. Dominoes is the game. Instead of bridge whist. Little Maria has to pay a separate water tax and tender the building rules a three-foot stone foundation had to be built

HOBBLE SKIR T JOKE

Parisian Designers Got Idea From Cleverly Drawn Cartpon. Cartoonist Now Apologizes, Declaring, Never Thought Such Mode of ; Dress Possible—lntended to Ridicule Low Waist. London. —Who is responsibly for the invention of the “hobble” skirt? Some famous fashion creator of Paris, every one will say, by no means. W. K. Haselden, the cartoonist, enyolved it out of his inner consciousness many months before it was’actually created as a dress. Oh Feb. 14, 1909, he thought of it as a hideous possibility which might some day come true. The next day his conception of it appeared as a .car; toon, in company with other products of his imagination; later a Parisian fashion expert saw the cartoon and seized upon the idea. Some months later the hobbld skirt appeared in Paris, and in December, 1909 j was actually being worn in London, and speedily became the ralge. In one or two cases enthusiastic adopters of it were so overzealous that they had hobble skirts made for them which were so tight they prevented their getting in or out of vehicles, and broken bones resulted. wierd dress designs wehe “the knee-and elbow-room dress,” a quaint conceit which showed balloons round the knees and elbows; the “Punchinello pattern,” the woman in this case wearing an artificial hump and a very voluminous skirt; “the donkey’s ear shoulder,” an ordinary costume with a trailing skirt and two long, pointed projections rising from the shoulders to a distance of three feet above either side of the head; and “the pyramid” and the “diamond” deslgm These,have not “come true,” but Mr. Haselden thinks it highly likely that their day will dawn. Asked upon what lines he worked when creating such fashions, he said: “I think of all the most outlandish, things in the way of dress, being at

SQUIRREL MAKES GOOD FIGHT’ «dittinisters Severe Bites to Several Youngsters Who Would Ho'<o Animal in Captivity, Birmingham, Ala. —A squirrel, 10 bloody boys and a crowd at curious spectators entered to produce one of the strangest and most wnusing incidents that has occurred at the Terminal station since (Lat place was opened. ' The Incident way efforts of sev eral; boys to bold a small squirrel which did not like captivity. One youngstek grabbed the squirrel and attempted -to place it in a bag. The boy’s hayds were lacerated terribly by the captive, and j immediately surrendered to another one The second tamer grabbed the little animal only to be bitten about five times on the hand. Blood spouted over everything nearby. This process of exchanging was gone through with until every youngster in the bunch was bitten and scratched by the fighting squirrel. Finally a passenger, unable to witness the blood of the kids, suggested the-placing of the squirrel in a paper bag. Strange to say, when this was done the kids walked off with the squirrel perfectly tame and quiet. After biting the boys and scratching all of them many V /nett, marveled at the tameness of t. creature when ft was placed In the bag. It could have easily broken through the paper and escaped. The boys, bleeding in several places about the hands, marched off proudly -dth the squirrel.

the same time assured that nothing is too impossible for women to wear. “Indeed, the real difficulty is to invent anything that looks impossible. There \was one really sensible thing I invented. This will not, I fear, ‘come true,’ because it is sensible. I refer to the pneumatic hat for matinees, a drawing of which appeared on Aug. 29, 1908. “It was a large hat blown up with atr and capable of being deflated w r hen the wearer had taken her seat in the theater. “I am afraid that if 1 designed a really artistic and useful dress women would not wear it. 1 “The very last thing on earth I wanted was to gdt women to wear hobble skirts, but I had a fear. I did not think it unlikely that they w’ould adopt it. It is so very silly, you know. 1 “When I read of the lady, who, owr ing to a very hobble skirt, broke one of her legs in getting into a taxicab, I felt indirectly responsible. I kept silent about my invention because I did not wish to be found out. “I am very penitent. I know I ought to be broken on the wheel. If any other man had done it I would get up a society to have him broken on the wheel. But I will not get up a society to have myself broken on the wheel. '*hat is for other people to do. “At present, you know, we are going back to eastern dress fashions. The thing now is to hide the face and show the figure. You can’t see more of a woman’s face nowadays than her chin. Breaking on the wheels is quite conformable with eastern ideas.” Two New Popular Games. London.—Two new games are popular at country house parties this season. One is called fantasio, and is a sort of table bowls on which heavy bets are made. The other is roulette with cards. Four packs are used, the players placing stakes on cards instead of ordinary numbers. Hostesses are delighted with these two games, which serve to amuse visitors unable to play bridge.

EXPLORE BIG AUSTRIAN CAVE

Party Runs Short of Food Before Completing Examination of Subterranean Wonder. Vienna.—The “mammoth cave of fcurope,” as the newly discovered series of subterranean chambers near Obertraun in Austria is now called, is described for the first time by Hermann Boch, an engineer, who with a small party of Alpine climbers explored the cave, which is situated under the Dachstgin, a mountain in upper Austria 9,800 feet high. The entrance to the cave is at an elevation of some 4,500 feet. Italian road menders knew of the existence of a small grotto here, where they had bee" looking around for gold. Behind a great boulder at the end of this grotto the party discovered a natural tunnel which a powerful stream in earlier ages had followed out of the rock. At the bottom of this tunnel there was a six-foot deep river bed, formed by what remained of the earlier stream. Here and there pools of crystal clear water continued for 1,000 feet and led to an apparently bottomless abyss. The party crawled along the edge of the precipice and up a gallery 150 feet high, also seared with the action of dried up mountain torrents. At th op a narrow hole was found wh led upward to a series of stalacti.. caverns and then narrowed down again to a curving passage leading downward for 1,500 feet Suddenly the party came upon a vast hall leading portal like to another still larger dome 340 feet high. Here a cave-in

>|GIRL, 16, ON $20,000 A YEAR New York Woman Estimates What Her Daughter Needs to Live on Comfortably. New York. —A girl of 16 can get along on $20,000 a year and live com fortably, according to the estimate ol Mrs. Emily -Ladenburg, who has ap plied to County Judge Edgar Jacksou at Mineola, L. 1., for that amount for her daughter, Eugenia. Miss Ladenburg is heir to a fortune, the disposition of which is at present in the hands of the court. Her mother, who is a member oi the Meadowbrook colony, filed a petition asking for the allowance mentioned. In the petition Mrs. Ladenburg saya that her own income is only SB,OOO year and that it takes all that for the bare necessities of life. Her schedule of what her daughter needs for the next year is: Maid, S2O a month. Governess, S6O a month. Clothing, ?§7 month, with SI,OOO more for traveling and evening clothes. Maintenance of an automobile, $2,000 a year. Maintaining two horses, $34 a month, with extra horses, amount not specified. Groom, S6OO a year, with extra grooms, amount not specified. Tickets to Europe, Miss Ladenburg and maid, SSOO. Traveling expenses, $240. Theaters and other amusements, $250. Hotel expenses abroad, ten months, $5,500. Maintenance of country place at Westbury, $5,000. Rent of apartment on return from Europe, $720. Tuition and dancing lessons, $1,250. Treatment of teeth and jaw trouble, SI,OOO. Music and incidentals, amount not specified. Decision was reserved. Walks 800 Miles to Wed. Tacoma, Wash. —Allan Rowe of Fairbanks, Alaska, walked 800 miles to Forty Mile after navigation had closed, that he might marry Mrs. Lawrence.

had piled up a cone-like heap of debris 250 feet high. From here radiated a maze of other halls, passages and galleries, many of w-hich ended precipitately in dark abysses. As food was running short the party had to return. Arrests Rooster to Save Man. Geneva. —City Marshal Fred Baker arrested a bantam rooster and locked it in the city jail as a possible means of saving the life of Henry Kent, a typhoid fev.er victim, in the Geneva hospital. The rooster insisted on crowing near Kent’s window and the noise annoyed him so much the physician in charge advised the incarceration of the rooster. Wireless From Ireland to Canada. Pisa, Italy.—William Marconi personally directed an exchange of communications between the wireless station at Coltano and the stations at Clifden, Ireland, and Glace bay, Nova Scotia, thus inaugurating a new service by which It is expected the rates of wireless dispatches to America will be greatly reduced. RxJns Black Cats. Woodbury, N. J.—The fact that some one unloaded about two score of black cats in this city aroused W. T. Cozens, an agent of the S. P. C. A. The cats, however, all found good homes. They are of jet black variety, and as a whole look as though they had. come from a cat farm.

WAS SHE A HEROINE? By CLAUDINE SISSON Miss Myrtle Ashmore was not sitting in a graceful position. She was leaning back in a rocking chair, her hands clasped behind her head and one foot positively in the air. She was staring at a blank spot on the sitting-room wall as if she had never seen it before. Her mother had to speak her name twice before she aroused with a start and explained: “I was thinking, mother.” “Well?” “I want to be a heroine.” -“What nonsense!” “But I do. Just think! I am most nineteen, and nothing has ever happened to me. I haven’t been rescued from the flames or a torrent. I haven’t been chased by a wolf or a bear. I haven’t been kidnaped and held for ransom—just the same old thing day after day.” “But heroines are only in books.” “No, mother. I read in the papers a while ago of a girl that swam out to an overturned boat in a river and saved three lives. Why couldn’t I have been there?” “Because you can’t swim.” “And I was never in a hotel when it took fire and a young man lowered me from a window.” “You’d have had your hair and eyebrows singed off.” “Mother," continued the daughter as she rose up to pace the floor, “I shall not die content until I am a heroine. It may not come for years, and it may come—” “Perhaps that’s it,” laughed the mother as the telephone bell rang. “Hello, sister Myrt.” “Hello, brother Tom.” “Say, sis, I’m in a pickle and you must help me out. You’ve heard me speak of Arthur Chope?” “Yes. You were chums at college. He’s in South America.” “But he isn’t, you see! He’s here in town. I ran arcoss him two hours ago and invited him to go home with me on the six o’clock train. Boss has just told me that I may have to stay till midnight. I’ve telephoned Chope to go right out on the six o’clock, and that he’ll be met at the station.” “Well, I’ll send Henry, although Found the Gate Open. there’s a cold rain here, and it looks like snow to come.” “But I want you to drive down in your cart. Chope is rather queer. In fact, I have told him that you.’d meet him.” “It seems to me you are rather queer yourself. It’s a four-pound box of candy if I go.” “I’ll make it five.” “There won’t be anything heroic about it, but I’ll go,” said the girl after explaining to the mother. “The road is a glare of ice. If the rain turns to snow and a blizzard sets In—” “Then I may have a chance to be a heroine. I met Mr. Chope. I handed him a scarf to tie around his tender ears, ahd a muff to hold to the nose which has been peeled by a tropic sun. With him I plunge through the awful blizzard. We are fast in a snowdrift. I put on the whip. We are through. I drive up here with a whoop-la! and lift the frozen Chope out in my arms, and after an hour of playing the piano to him he revives and pops the question. I say yes, and marriage and a bridal trip to Europe follow. Bless you, my mother —bless you!” “Myrtle Ashmore, you are a hoyden!” “Ma Ashmore, you are the best ever!” Six-forty was the train time at Meadville, and the railroad station and village were a mile away. At 5:30 the rain turned to snow. At six there was half an inch of the beautiful on the ground. Ten minutes later Miss Myrtle Ashmore, would-be heroin*, set out with the pony and cutter, and she had hardly started when the wind came down from the North Pole with a howl that meant danger. It had come to stay, and it had brought Doctor Cook’s long mism-cg : records from Etah. Os course, the pony was smooth Bbod The coachman had figured it out that it was to be a winter without ice. Twenty rods from the gate the animal struck an icy spot and went down. He got up again all right, but the fall had made him cautious. With his face to a blizzard and his looting insecure he preferred to walk. The gale brought more snow. It j, didn't fall straight down, as a girl'!

falls from u etaerry tree, but'it sailed around in rings and wreaths and clouds, and neither girl nor horse could see five feet into the flurry Down went the pony again and again, and twice he blundered into the road side ditch and almost upset the cutter. Could the depot and Mr. Chope be reached? The driver asked herself the question, and the pony answered it There was a farmer’s barn os the toad with a wagon shed attached He had ; often noticed it. As he reached that point in his struggles, and as he found the gate open and felt the blizzard growing stronger, he turned in. He had no sympathy with would-be heroines. Miss Myrtle figured it out that they were under a shed, but she couldn’t figure where nor how to get out again. The pony absolutely refused to budge. He didn’t care for all the Chopes in the country. He stood there and listened to the screeching gale and the driving snow and was glad he was no nearer Hudson’s Bay. Could the girl find the farmhouse in the storm? No. Could she go forwards and backwards on foot? Impossible. Could she make any one hear her screams for help? Impossible again! What she could do and did do was to cuddle down. There were fur robes and blankets in plenty, and after crying for an hour because she was no heroine she fell asleep. The pony shook and shivered and shed tears - that froze an inch from his eyes, but he had to stand it. Once, as the shed threatened to come down under the pounding of the gale, Miss Myrtle woke up enough to remember how hot it was last Fourth of July, and then slept again. Again, she sort o’ dreamed that the pony had backed out of the shed, and that he was going home by the light of a lantern. When she did actually awake she was being carried into the front room of her mother's ■ house in a strong man’s arm, and as he deposited her on a lounge she heard him saying to her mother: “I found her in a farmer's wagon shed off the road, but it was a mere chance that the pony' whinnied at just the right second. No; I don’t think she has come to any harm, as she had the robes over her. You had best give her a hot drink and then let her sleep as long as she will. Yes; the drifts are very bad and it waa hard breaking away for the pony and if there’s nothing I can do I’ll go* to my room.” That blizzard snowed up the country for a week. Then Mr. Chope went away to be gone a week and r& turn. Then he was off for a day ot two at a time, but he made the house his home. Tom called him “old man’ and pressed him to stay for a hundred years and mother and daughtei got to think he almost belonged there. On that blizzard niglft. not finding any one at the depot, he had made hie way to the house and then gone back to the rescue of the maiden. “Myrtle,” said the mother one day when she caught the girl craning het neck to look down the road, “thal was a bad blizzard.” “A horrid one, mother.’* “But are you not glad it occurred?" “Glad? Why should I be glad?” “Because, you had both little toes frost-bitten and made a heroine of yourself.” “What foolishness.* 8 “And because if Mr. Chope doesn’t ask you within another month to be •his wife then I never saw love in a man’s eyes!” “You silly mother!” But he did. A Polish Funeral. The abbe describes the pomp of weddings and funerals. At the funeral of a prince three cavaliers entered the church on horseback. One carried the deceased’s saber, another his javelin, the third his lance. Riding at full speed, they broke their weapons against the side of the bier. The last rider then let himself fall from his horse, as if he were dead. Priests seized the horse, and he was obliged to redeem it. Money was thrown to the ground. Confusion reigned; in the scramble bishops, priests and noblemen were thrown to the ground. At tie end of the ceremony the ecclesiastics had a great feast, at which Hungarian vine flowed copiously.— George A. Dorsey in the Chicago Tribune. The Story of a Cabinet. The Swedish consul at Marseilles has received a modest but interesting memento in the form of a cabinet foi papers for transmission to King Gustav V. The history of the cabinet is interesting. It is made of junipei wood, and the tree was supposed to be a thousand years old when it was felled. It had grown on an estate near Marseilles which had belonged to the Clary family. One f the daughters married Bernadotte, the founder ol the royal hov- of eden. Bonaparte, it is said, used to e- ’oy sitting undei this tree. Some time before the death cf Oscar 11. the present king visited the home of his ancestress and expresseu a desire to possess some souvenir of the place, and the cabinet is the outcome of that wish. Trdp Nests Pay. Some people say a trap nest is more trouble than it is worth, but others who are really interested in the chicken game find it to be of great benefit In fact, there is no other way of telling just what each individual hen does, ’ t they require the attention of some<dy who can be on hand at all hours during the day to open the traps and Ist out the hens.

PRAISE GINGERBREAD IT IS GOOD FOR YOUNGSTERS AND GROWNUPS. Would Be Better for Children If School Stores Sold Gingerbread Rather Than “Tootsy Rolls” and Other Confections. The popularity of gingerbread among the small fry has greatly waned. It would be far better for the children if the school stores sold this dainty rather than the “tootsy rolls” and other penny confections, and if these same children could say, “Os al) the cakes my mammee bakes give me good gingerbread.” It is good and good for them and grownups, too, especially those who are taking on too much flesh. Poor Hepzibah Pyncheon’s first customer to her little shop in ‘The House of Seven Gables” was a small boy attracted by a Jim Crow in the window, executing his renowned • dance,” in gingerbread. “Shakespeare makes one of his clowns say: “An I . had but a penny in the world thou shouldst Lave it to buy gingerbread.” In several countries of Europe hot gingerbread used' to be hawked about. In London there were gingerbread booths by the Thames. In. Holland it was in greater request than elsewhere, and its manufacture guarded with a jealous secret and the recipe handed down as an heirloom from father to sori. One of the most unique uses of the hard ginger cake was to have it as a barometer. These were made in the form of a man or woman. The slightest change in atmosphere has an effect on hard gingerbread; the slightest moisture makes it soft. In dry weather it is hard and tough. In a French, story this barometer is called the “General.” Each morning the master asks his servant, “What does the general say?” The man applies his thumb to the figure and says:-‘The general feels flabby about the chest; you’d better take your umbrella.’ 8 There are many entertaining facts about gingerbread in some of the curiosities of English literature. Soft Gingerbread—Mix together onehalf cup of brown sugar and a scant half cup of meat drippings. Add one egg well beaten, one-half cup of light -New Orleans molasses and a half teaspoon each of ginger and cinnamon. Into one-half cup of boiling water stir one even teaspoon of soda. Fold in one and one-half cups of sifted flour. Bake with a slow fire for half an hour, if baked in a sheet, or-a* little less if In muffin pans. Serve warm. Gingerbread I —One-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of molasses, onehalf cup of sour milk, one-third cup of butter and lard mixed; scant teaepoon of soda, one egg, teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon cloves, onehalf of ginger, and two cups of flour-One-third of this is sufficient for b meal. ’Gingerbread II — Cream one-half cup of brown sugar with one-half cup e of lard and butter mixed. Add one teaspoon of molasses, stir two evea teaspoons of soda in one cup of boil- » ing water, then add two and one-half cups of flour and spices to taste.'Lastily, add two well beaten eggs. Chicken and Salt Pork. a Singe a young chicken, remove pin feathers, cut off the neck on a line with top of the wing bones; cut the chicken down through the backbone and clean on the inside, wash and dry both inside and out, flatten the - breast with a cleaver; in a double roasting pan lay several thin slices oi fat salt pork, on these lay the chicken, skin side up, dredge with flour and lay over the top several thin slices oi pork, turn in half cupful of hot water or bro/fc, cover and let cook one hour and three-fourths; baste several times with the dripping in the pan, dredge with flour after each basting, more broth may be added if needed. Cannelon of Beef. Chop the remains of yesterday’s beef, mix with of a pound of minced ham; season with pepper, salt, grated lemon peel and a little onion; moisten with yesterday’s gravy with a little flour stirred in and bind with a beaten egg or two; make some pie paste or such as you would use for dumplings, roll into an oblong sheet, put the beef mince in the middle and make the pastry into a long roll, inclosing the meat; close at ends with round caps of pastry, the edges pinched well together; lay in a dripping pan, the joined side of the roll downward and bake to a good brown. To Clean Irons. When irons begin to grow rough and smoky rub them well on a board on which has been sprinkled a littla fine salt This will prevent them from sticking to starched articles, and will make them quite smooth. It is a good jlan to rub each iron on the board before putting it back to heat so that no starch will remain to be burnt on. When Ironing starched things rub the fiats over with a cloth slightly moistened with paraffine before using. It makes them slip over the surface litea magic. Bananas With Pecan Sauce. Chop up half a pound of pecan nuta and stir them into a pint of cream Add to this four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and any flavoring that Is preferred, and mix it all to gether thoroughly. Slice eight ba anas and pour the sauce over th? fiarve cold. —Harper’s Bazar.