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UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAX, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1908. BLUEBLOODED BOSSY "AT HOME" TO VISITORS AT STATE FAIR FAMILY OP 11 LIVE ON $10 PER WEEK w e Make Clothes for Individuals I U Mother Keeps All of Them Well Nourished and Well Clothed. STALE BREAD IS WHOLESOME Brave St. Louis Woman Tells How She Accomplishes Feat. ST. LOUIS. Oct. u. IVpIexed houc wivfe. who Jo not sec how they can pull through on i'2 or even $o0 a week can get a few point-, from Mrs. Anton Do soogalia, of No. 1212 Clinton street, who houses, clothes, educates and feeds a family of eleven persons on 10 a week, .sometime-. le- and occasionally just a trifle more. It is only when she i- lucky that she has 10 a week. Often the sum is only $5 or 8 a week. But, however little it is, she manages to pay the rent prompt ly; she has never heen behind with it yet, and she manages to feed each one of the eleven hungry mouths three times a day. Of course, it's a it niggle she admits that, and she has to do a good deal of clo-e figuring and search ing among the market stalls for thingi tliat are especially low-priced. 'Well, sir, I really can't tell you just kow I do it," she iaid wiien asked by a reporter to tell for the benefit of other housewives how she manages tc get through the week with only $10. "1 couldn't do it, of course, if I just went out and liought at haphazard, or if 1 ran a bill at the grocery store. In that case my $10 would melt away before the week had fairly begun. Make Every Cent Count. "It takes a lot of figuring and good management, if I do say it myself. 1 hare to study and study. There are some things that you can spend a lot of money on, things that haven't much nutriment in after you get them. "Now, there's bread. Some people think that all bread is alike. They pay 5 cents a loaf for it and think they are doing the best they can, and they grumble because they have no money left at the end of the week. But bread at 5 cents a loaf is new bread, and it i-n't half as good or wholesome as bread that bakers call stale or dry. "It is bread that has been on hand lor a little while and it is cheaper than the new bread and goes further. I get two loaves of that for 5 cents. And we eat a lot of rye bread, too, which is cheaper yet and better for the children. "Of course we don't have meat three "times a day, nor even once every day, or that matter. I am always glad When You Want Something Good to Eat, or Something Delicious to Drink Go to Long fr Heiberger Everything That's Good in Sodas, Lunches and Confections Oysters, Jrny Style, a Specialty If Mi Electrical Fixtures and Wiring Tungsten, Tantalum and Gem high candle power lamps Student Lamp Shades a specialty. Phone 4829 712 Broadway C. W. Furtney ss TO STATE FAIR Missouri Chief Josephine Will "Show" What She Can Do at Milk-Giving. MiiMmri Chief .lo-epuine. owned by the University of Minouri. a big Hoi st ein Ikosv, who hold the record in the State for producing the largest amount of milk, will be '"at home" in the dairy cottage at the State Fair. Sedalia, this week, and will le pleased to "show" those who visit her what she has actu ally done. On a shelf above Chief Josephine's stall will be placed 47 quarts of milk in 47 bottles, which represents her re markable one day's record. The accompanying cut shows her about to be milked by Alice Lee Austin, a promising young dairy maid. when Friday coiner, for the children don't expect meat that day. We are Catholics. Soup Bones Diner. "'A woman can vite her whole .$10 on meat in a week if she iiu't caieful. I try and havr meat once a day at least. One day it's a 10-cent soup bone. You'd be surprised how big a lione and how much meai jou can get on it for 10 cents if you onU know whie to gn and how to go after it. How do I do it? '"Well, the butcher-, at the market al mighty good to folks like me when they know they have little money and niut make it go as far a po-sililc. I look around. I don't take the first soup bone they show me. I go from one stall to another, and I pick out a lione with a lot of marrow in it and a lot of meat on it. "And then we have meat oup, with potatoes and rice in it. and some plain bread in it, and that's a good meal. "Then I can get a whole lot of steak for 10 cents, too. Enough to go around i Yes, sir, plenty. And it's jut as good meat to us as the richer folk pay 2.' cents for. and jut as much. too. '"Now, today we had bread and coffee for breakfast, and bread and coffee for dinner, and tonight for supper we will have bread and coffee with potato pan cakes for a change. 'This living on $10 a week is all a question of how to buy. There sue lots of low-priced vegetables and other tilings if you know how to buy and make a study of saving. Rent is the Hard One. 'The thing that bothers me most is the rent. It is $10 a month and that we have to pay. I have never made the landlord wait for it yet. It is always ready for him when it is due. And the matter of clothing bothers me. too. "My boy Walter, sixteen ear-. old. is in need of shoes now. He cannot go out to look for work because his shoes are worn out. I will have to get him a new pair some way. We manage to dress clean and tidy. Calico is only '.1 1-2 cents a yard, and it makes a nice dress. There is no school tax to pay now and that helps me some. During the school term I have to pay SO cents a month for the children's schooling in the paro chial school." The Demogalia family consists of the father and mother and nine children, the eldest a young man of twenty-three, who works in the bottling factory and earns $10 a week when he has a full week's work. But nearly every week he loses a day or two. The father is a plumber's helper, and earns $3 a day when he works, but since the hard times began he has worked only a day or two a week, and some times not at all. This is the only in come of the family. There is a boy of sixteen who has not lxen able to find work, although his mother has gone around with him and sought it. SMOTHERED BABY IN FOLDING BED Woman Did Not See Tiny Boy, Covered With a Sheet. NEW YORK. Oct.0. All unconscious ly, yesterday, young Mrs. Mary Storti took the life of her baby son, Ceorge, a life far dearer to her than her own. Weeping hysterically, the mother sat b the tiny baby last night. Across her knees slept the only child lett to her. a girl of two. From llie depth- of the woman's grief had sprung a vague fear that her daughter would be taken from her, too. Mrs. Short i, an American girl of twenty-one. who married a foreigner, lives at Xo. 197 Xevins street, Brook lyn. She was doing housework, yester day when Mrs. Herbert Bauden, who lives in the same house, visited her. Mrs. Bauden picked up the baby and petted him; Mrs. Storti went on with her work which took her to another room. The baby fell asleep in Mrs. Bauden's arms. She laid him on the folding bed. covered him lightly with a sheet and tiptoed out to her own flat. Soon Mrs. Storti, sweeping and dusting, re-entered the bedroom and, raising the end of the folding bed. closed it. Fifteen min utes passed: Mrs. Storti went to Mrs. Bauden's rooms and, as she entered, cried gaily: 'Is he asleep? Give him to me." "It put him on the folding bed," said Mrs. Bauden. With a dreadful shuck Mrs. Storti rushed to her bedroom and. with the haste of desperation lowered the bed. The poor baby was dying. An ambu lance surgeon could not revive him. Po liceman Lawrence J. Donohoe had to ar rest Mrs. Storti for killing her babe, but sympathetically he telephoned the fads to Deputy Police Commissioner Baker, who ordered that she remain at home under guard. LEAVES $25,000 EACH TO FAITHFUL CLERKS Medal Comes 50 Tears Late. L0XD0X, Oct. 6. After 50 years James Shearman of Bristol has received the medal for active service in the In dian Mutiny, and also a special cam paign pension. Henry Suydam Wilson Remembers His Employees. XEW YORK. Oct. 0. Out of an estate valued at $1,490,000 the late Henry Suy dam Wilson, who at the time of his death on Sept. 23 was the oldest member of the Xew York Stock "Exchange, $30, 000 is given to various charitable insti tutions. The Xew York City Mission and Tract Society is given $10,000 and the Presby terian Hospital and the Presbyterian church in University place each receive similar sums. Agil H. Cantor, of Xo. 100 West One Hundred and Forty-first street, who is described in the will as "my faithful clerk." is bequeathed $25,000 while John A. Stow, of No. 218 East Tenth street, also a faithful clerk is given $25,000. Other employees and sen-ants are be queathed sums ranging from $500 to $1,000. The residuary estate is given to the widow, Caroline A. AVilson. It is valued at $861,000. Phi Beta Kappa. It is desired that all residents of Columbia who are members of Phi Beta Kappa, whose names are not yet in scribed on the roll of the local chapter, shall send their names to JOHX PICKARD, Secretary Missouri Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, 50 Academic Hall A Notice to Voters. I am going to leave it to the vote of those who have not paid their bills here whether I shall have an overcoat this winter. Those who vote "yes" will do so by "check;" others will please come and vote in person, explaining their reasons. UXCLE DAN. here, no two suits alike; every gar ment possesses that classy individ uality so eagerly sought for by particular dressers. Come in now and select that new suit and overcoat 3r H y y The "Fenmore Now while variety is unlimited. Our new fall and winter models are the handsomest ever shown; colors are beautiful and styles exquisite. We will please you. Overcoats $18 to $40 Suit prices begin at $18. . ML 0'f tiuf-'jKmMM s.. Mil . J &TeIi. -rH rf ismhyHMMMMk m : ' -- W-Mm. I- -- r WS kz" I M4wmmmm F fl W'tllH f ? 1 ' f-ft " -K Pill rail H 11 PI -HI "Our Guarantee Afever Ends" Columbia Tailoring Co. 8 Horth Hlnth Street Phone 299 THOUSANDS OP PUPILS HUNGRY IN CHICAGO Plans to Feed 15,000 School Children Discussed. CHICAGO, Oct. 6. What can be law fully done to help the 15,000 school chil dren who daily go hungry is a problem that is absorbing the attention of the members of the board of school manage ment. Whether lunch counters shall be put in the schools, where most of the pupils go, or whether some other means of providing them with nourishment must be found is the question the school board is trying to solve. A special report made after months of investigation by Superintendent Bo dine, aided by the special truant offi cers of Chicago, say 5,000 pupils daily go to school without their breakfasts. Ten thousand are constantly hungry. An unusual number of cases of tru ancy arc directly caused by hunger. It is estimated that for $30,000 the city could establish and maintain for a year lunch counters that would feed these pupils. Whether the school board has a legal right to do" this is a question that its attorneys will be ask ed to decide at once. Some measures will be quickly adopted, school author ities declare, to feed the hungry children. OLYMPIC CANDY KITCHEN Fresh Candies Every Day Best in Columbia ICE CREAM SODA 5 CENTS 1010 E. BROADWAY a t GOOD THINGS TO EAT Fresh Every Day Get Our Prices Phone 204 VAN HORN (Bt. SMITH ALFRED AUSTIN BREAKS INTO SONG ONCE MORE English Poet Laureate Has Verses in Independent. XEW YORK, Oct. C Alfred Austin, poet laureate of England, has broken forth into verse. Ilis latest effort, en titled '-Unto the Last," is published by the Independent. Here are three verses: When the plover flaps O'er the idle plow And the woodpecker taps On the rotting bough; When the starved rook pecks At the tight-stacked grain And the tattered nest Flecks the leafless lane, Then, then will you love Me, and still no less When the grass waves above My dreamlessness? There are four more verses as good as these. I 'y rpHE Newlyweds and their kid - and everybody else eat Nadja Caramel Chocolates and Pin Money Gum Drops Made by the BIankeWenneker Co, On sale fresh every day at THE CO-OP. TIGEH RARBEll SHOP Five first-Class Barbers Splendid Equipment and Best Service We Will Please You I r.i., iu Trial WANTED at The Wardrobe, several experienced student pressers and tailors. Apply at once. Champion Fisher in Hard Luck. LONDON, Oct. 6. Fifty-two competi tors in the English angling champion ship contest, which was held at Tydd, in the Fens, only succeeded in catching three small fish between them in five hours. 1 V 1 SEND YOUR CLOTHES TO THE EUREKA LAUNDRY t or Hiehefet Grade Steam and Chemifcal Cleaning and Pressing Our Laundry Work pleases the Most Fastidious. Try Us! PHONE 116 EUREKA LAUNDRY CO. 11 m TSl m 1 r'ail sMa.lgg ' 11.fi "afflnTTT" - . n ?.