Daily press. [volume], December 09, 1906, Page 13, Image 13

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IT IS A MISTAKE
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Or Make?/* a Charge to Put in Meters!
NO CHARGE WHATEVER ASK THE
The Expert Lady Demonstrator is still ia charge and continues to he glad to explain J
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You Will Be Welcome at the Store Room, Where a Full i iae of Samples Is Displayed.
Masonic Temple, Queen Street, Hampton.
ADVERTISING a bOUK.
How Che Antlior ut "Vntc-rle" Cap?
tured I'm-1 ?tan?, l.unir Atii>.
We bat] some notes n little while
ago on (ho methods which soiuo an
thors have adopted for the advertise?
ment of their books. A correspondent
Bends us an example of this sort of
thing, which Is the belter worth quot?
ing because we have never seen It
quoted In this connection before It !s
taken from a-life of Mine, do Krudnor,
whose novel "Valerie" appeared short?
ly after Mmc. do Btacl'S "Delphine."
"You know quite well." the author
Wrote to a friend, "tliut neither talent
nor genius uor the excellence of one'*
Intentions Is sufficient to Insure s
success. Everything demands Bomo
churlatanlsm." And the biographer
proceeds to tell us how sho translated
her doctrine Into action.
During several dnys, he writes, Bhe
made the round of the fasblouablu
shops Incognito, asking sometimes for
sbttwls, sometimes for lints, fentbera,
wreaths or ribbons, ull "a la Valerie."
When they saw this beautiful and oltv
gant'. stranger step out of her carriage
with an air of assurance and ask for
faue^T articles which she Invented oo
the *pur of the moment the shopkeep?
ers i^vcre seized with u polite desire
to satisfy her by any means in their
power. Moreover, the lady would soon
protend to recognize the article she had
usked for. And If the unfortunate
shopgirls, taken aback by such un?
usual demands, looked puzzled Mine,
de Krudnor would smile graciously
and pity them for their Ignorance of
the new novel, thus turning them all
luto eager readers of "Valerie." Then,
liden with purchases; she would drlvs
off to another shop, protending to
search for that which existed only Id
her Imagination. Thanks to these ma?
neuvers, Bhe succeeded In exciting
?uch ardent competition In honor of
her heroine that for a week at lean
tho shops sold everything "a la Va?
lerie." Her own friends, tho Innocent
accomplices In her stratagem, also vIbI*:
ed shops on her recommendation, thus
Carrying the fame of her book through
the Faubourg Saint-Germain and thtt
Chaussee d'Antln.?London Academy.
The Need of an Easter Greeting.
In Roman Catholic countries the me?
diaeval "Christ In risen," "He is rise?
Indeed," still prevails, but not lu Arne?
tea, and it is doubtful if such a greet?
ing, however slguidcant in spirit, would
And thorough acceptance here. With
1ho growing recognition of the festival,
its celebration by mi sects and classes,
hs is now the case, the wnnt of a ver?
bal expression symbolizing In som*
part all that Easter day means Is
strongly felt. There should bo an Eas?
ter greeting Jus \ us there is a Christmas
and New i'enr'a greeting, and it sbouid
be welcome to nil creeds. The oppor?
tunity Jsjyjng in wait for some feilet-1
tous pnJralcuiaker.?New York Sun.
BRUNSWICK STEW.
A Goatronnrolc Triumph With a So
tlonal Reputation.
This celebrated stew originated In >
Brunswick county, Vii., from which it
takes Its name?a county most famous
in antebellum days for its perfect
culsluc and gaslronomlcal predllec-1
tions. The origiuutor was cither Mr.!
Itaskins or Mr. Stlth, each claiming
during a Ion?: life the distinction of
having made the first stew and dying
without a proper adjustment of the con?
troversy. While made everywhere in
the habitable globe, it Is seldom made
properly. It was Introduced in Paris
by Judge .lohn T. Ma sou of Vlrgiula.
Ouly In BrUnswlck county Is this stew
su appcti/.ing, ko piquant In the season''
lug to be found In all Its perfection.
To this remark of the writer made to
u gentleman In the far south he re?
plies, "The egotism of n Virginian
suggests perfection in ail things there,1
anil the slow pact; of llie state ample
time to arrive at it." Tbo recipe is as
follows: One of throe kinds of meat is
used?lamb, chicken or squirrel. If
chicken, it is first parboiled, cut up as
If to fry. the outer skin removed, then
put on In hwt water?a-plenty to cover
It?a larse onion cut tine, a large slice
of middling meat cut line, black and
red pepper in 'abundance and salt.
After cooking until the hones can ha
extracted, and hot water added If not
enough, corn cut off the coli and to?
matoes chopped fine are added, with
half n pound of butter, more pepper
and salt. Before serving add stale
light breadcrumbs. Never add Irish
potatoes or butter beans or any vege?
table save corn and tomatoes. Servo
in n tureen. ' It should l?o the consist'
I ency of thick soup and very highly sea?
soned. It is considered one of the
finest of stews and tins a national
j reputation.? Richmond Times.
nun tii.t.n,
j "So you lost your positionT* we ask
I of our young friend, who has demand
j ed our sympathy.
I "Yes; the firm told me I would bars
? to quit"
"What reason was given?"
"I smoked cigarettes."
"Why, tlint seems hardly a BUlBcleX
reason for such drastic action."
"Yes, but I was smoking the bos<
cigarettes, and he caught nie at lt."
Judge.
Matrlniniilnl.
Three Germans were bitting at lunch
eon recently and were overheard din
cussiug the second marrlago of a mu?
tual friend when one of them remark?
ed: "I'll tell you what. A man what
marries de second time don't deserv?
to have lost his first vife."?Life.
"The highways of literature an
spread over," says Holmes, "with th<
shells of dead novels, each of which ha?
been swallowed ut a mouthful by th>
public and is done with."
WASTEFUL AMERICA.
We Are, Sit II Ih Clinrucd, n Slimt
Americans arc Uio opposltcs of tho
Japanese in that they are probably tho
most wasteful ami extravagant people
under the sun. .lames .1. Hill once
voiced a declaration to the effect that
tho greater part of America's progress
had been gained by using up the stored
eapilal Of preceding ages?something
for which we are indebted to nature,
not to our own energies. Soil, mines,
nil and gas reservoirs, forests, llsherics
?all have been drained and drained,
With little or no thought that exhaus?
tion of cither was calculable. We eat!
three times us much ns is demanded
by nature ami more titan Is good for
us, and we throw away annually
enough to feed the whole population of
Japan. Into our rivers in the form of
polluting sewage go fertilizers to the
value of millions, which other peoples
save and which we would be doubly
benefited by saving. We could econo?
mize greatly if we cared to In tho
quantity of iron and oilier metals wu .
use; but. possessed with the infatua?
tion that they will never '?run out,"
we are as prodigal with them as with
everything else, whereas the limit of
the supply is claimed to be easily cal?
culable.
Rut It Is In the wasle of the forests
(hat American Improvidence finds It*
worst illustration. The nation has bc*;il
willing to see its forests so devastat?
ed that the present annual "cut*' and
fire waste ennnot be continued for
twenty-live years longer without de?
stroying every patch of timber In
Anierica.?St. Paul Plonccr-Prcss.
/spiinptin In Knciuu Cltarwnrarm.
A desperate attempt at an cpltniih
In the Nonconformist Cnmpo Santo in
Riinhlll Fields, where Bunynn, Defoe,
the Cromwells mid Mrs. Wesley 11?
buried, Is found on the tomb of T,ndy
Page, a person who seems to have suf?
fered terribly rroni what we coll drop*
bt, but which might have bad another
name In those days:
Here I yes Dame Mary Par*,
Relict of Sir Gregorv Paso (Bart.?.
She depmted this lifo March 11, 172t,
In tho CGlh year of her age.
In C7 months Ehe v.-.ns tapped 68 times,
Mail taken away 210 gallons of watwv
Without ever repining at bor case
Or ever fearing the operation.
A more successful attempt is that
found on the tomb of Vavasor Fowcll,
I who seems to have suffered eleven
I years' Imprisonment for preaching the
] gosnel. lie was known as tho "White
I Held of Wales:"
In vain oppressors do themselves perplex
To find out arts how they tho saints may
vex.
Death r-polls their plou and sets the op?
pressed tree;
Tims Vavasor obtained true ltberty.
Christ him reloaded, and now he's Joyned
among
Cfco martyred souls, with whom ho erl?st
"Rio? lou*r*
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