The Virginia enterprise. [volume], June 28, 1912, Image 11

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Memorial
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By DOROTHY BLACKMORE
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(Copyright, 1912. by Associated Literary
Press.)
"But, father," Caroline protested,
"surely this is not a part of the
estate, this—this cemetery!"
Col. Darling nodded his head. "Tea,
daughter, it is. I purchased the old
Craft farm, as It was called, without
ever having gone over the 200-odd
acres of its extent. The old home­
stead has so excellent a site over­
looking the water that I took the
acres I could not see pretty much for
granted.
Father and daughter stood in the
arch made from the branches of two
ancient hemlock trees that formed a
gateway to a small and apparently
abandoned cemetery. Here and there,
covered with myrtle vines and creep­
ing wild ivy, were tombstones gray
with age. The little plot gave evi­
dence of having been, in days gone
by, carefully kept, but now it was so
overgrown with trees and shrubs as
to be almost hidden. Thus, It was
little wonder that Col. Darling had
overlooked it when he purchased the
property of which it was a part.
"I'm quite sure I shall never enjoy
rambling in the grounds as I had
dreamed of doing," Caroline la­
mented.
"Tut, but, daughter, that is all non­
sense!"
"Nonsense to you, perhaps, because
you're—well, you're not given to
moonlight wanderings. Now—a girl
is, and I shall feel every time I step
out of the house at night that I am
being watched by ghosts who have
strayed from beneath these stones.
Oh, father, do let us go!" Caroline
begged, slipping her arm within her
father's and leading him away.
"I doubt you could even find this
®Pot again if I were to take you by a
roundabout circuit to the house, my
dear," soothed the colonel. "So—in
your own language, more shame to
you! forget It."
And, since youth easily forgets,
Caroline did forget the wee, aban­
doned burying ground tucked down
among the hemlocks in a remote acre
of her father's estate. It was seldom
that she traversed more than the
half dozen acres which comprised
gardens and playgrounds of the old
farm.
But if the young woman of the
house made slight use of the country
surrounding the old homestead, she
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"Oh, Father, Do Let Us Go!"
made the great, old-fashioned rooms
of the manor house ring with Joyous
laughter and echo the voices of
merry young people. House party fol­
lowed house party, and Caroline was
beginning to think that her father
had not done her such ah injustice
after all in taking her from the gay
life of the city to plant her in the
midst of a 200-acre farm. Never be­
fore had she realized the Joy of being
mistress of a real home and at liberty
to extend unlimited hospitality. For,
when Col. Darling had Induced his
motherless girl to comply with the
desire of his own life to have a home
in the country, he had promised her
that she should have all the com­
panionship she wanted, even If it be
a continual round of entertaining.
The end of May was upon them,
and Caroline was the center of a
Superstition Hard to Kill
French People Surprised at the Sur­
vival of Dangerous Customs
in Brittany.
Every few years some incident oc­
curs to remind a civilized nation of the
survival of the grossest superstitions
in its midst. French opinion is at
present shocked by a recent revela­
tion at St Malo, which has resulted
in the arrest of a dormeuse. The
dormeuse is peculiar to Brittany. She
Is a woman who claims a mysterious
power to heal disease by certain
charms and tre$jvnents, pre-eminently
by inducing artificial sleep.
A St. M-'io workman was suffering
from meningitis, and under ordinary
medical treatment, when a woman, De
lanoe, a renowned dormeuse, was
called in. She arrived with her hus­
band, and sent for a milk white
pigeon. While the man put the pa­
tient Into a trance the woman cut
the live pigeon in halt and placed the
irarm flesh on his forehead. Thia was
happy group of friends from the city,
They had been asked as guests over
Decoration day and had planned th«
time-honored picnic of that day.
"It seems too good to be true,
cried one of the girls, "to think w«
are going on a real picnic on Memo­
rial day."
"Just as all the country lads and
lassies do back in good old Iowa
where I was a child," added a young
man with more than half seriousness
in his expression.
"All we can do to make it pre
sactly real," laughed another pretty
girl, "is to go to some graveyard and
sit on the freshly decorated mounda
and eat our lunches!"
Caroline's eyes suddenly flashed
and she jumped to her feet.
"Girls and boys!" she cried, ex­
citedly, "we can do that very same
thing! And let's do it!"
"What?" chorused the others.
"Eat our lunch in the dearest little
cemetery you ever saw," Caroline ex­
plained more seriously. "In this,
very farm there lies a small aban­
doned graveyard and you can't imag­
ine how picturesque it is. I'll take a
bunch of lilacs to put on each of the
old graves that has been forgotten
since—oh, since before any of us was
born," she said.
Memorial day dawned as a perfect
May day should dawn, and Caroline
was down on the broad old colonial
porch in her fresh white frock long
before the others were out of their
beds. She sat beside her father, rock­
ing back and forth in the balmy
morning air and looking out across
the velvet of the lawns. The fra­
grance of apple blossoms was all
about them, for the breezes came to
them across the orchard.
Presently around the turn of the
winding gravel path that led to the
main entrance of the farm there
came a young man. He walked brisk­
ly, and yet there was an expression
of uncertainty In his carriage.
As he approached the two he took
off his straw hat and addressed Col.
Darling.
"Is this the old Craft farm—the
Lorado Craft farm?" he asked.
"It Is," the colonel answered.
have recently bought it. What
I do for you, sir?"
Caroline laughed at her father's
facetiousness with a stranger, and yet
—in her Innermost self—she was sure
the man would not always be a
stranger. Already her father wai
saying:
"If you will, our house Is yours an)
you can remain through the day with
us and return to this spot and car*
properly for the resting place of youi
ancestor. Eh, Caroline?"
"Yes, Indeed, father."
The three returned to breakfast
and Caroline had misgivings as to
the picnic, now that the young man
had come on a serious errand.
He put her at ease in a moment
"What better care than the vislta*
tlon of a merry party of young folk*
could my good grandmother hav
asked? I'll join you. If I may."
And that Memorial day picnic be
neath the hemlocks was a day to b«
remembered by Caroline Darling, foi
it was In the cool, quiet shadowi
there that she first saw into th«
depth of the eyes of the man who
was to become her husband.
Coroner Was Correct.
Coroner Durham, is examining the
effects of a man who committed sui­
cide a day or two ago, hastily removed
a large number of printed cards from
the pockets of his clothing. Without
examining the cards the coroner con­
tinued with his search, remarking
"He's been working for some candi­
date."
Someone turned one of the cards
and read: "Vote for C. O. Durham
for coroner."—Indianapolis News.
followed by bathing the sick man's
feet in some secret liquid and cover­
ing his head with a cloth that had
been soaked in it. As a result of the
treatment the workman died in a day
The dormeuse has been arrested!
and a comprehensive inquiry is to be
made into the superstitious practices
of Brittany. It will, however, need
more than an inqtflry to shake the be­
liefs of the most superstitious and con­
servative corner of France.
A Safe Rule.
Tea and coffee should not be given
to a child under seven, and the longer
the delay the better. A good cocoa is
often enjoyed, milk and water and di­
luted condensed milk may also be giv­
en, and, very Cautiously, plain soda
water. It should never be forgotten
that milk is a food and not a drink,
and that plenty of water flushes the
kidneys. There is no reason why
healthy child should not drink what
it feels thirsty.
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can
am
The young man smiled. "I
looking for the grave of my great­
grandfather, and I was told that it
was in a small cemetery that was
believed to be in the Craft property."
"Oh, father began Caroline.
"It is," interrupted the colonel.
"At least there is such a place some
here hereabout."
"I know exactly where it is, father,"
suggested Caroline.
"Then you might try to tell us,"
the father replied. "Better than that,
daughter, you might come with this
young man and me and we will see
If we can aid him in his search."
As the three sought the hemlock
grove the young man told them of his
reason for seeking so remote a grave.
His grandmother, recently deceased,
had begged It of him as a final re­
quest that he find the burying place
of her father and care for It. She
herself had been unable to do so, and
after much effort the young man had
traced it to the Craft estate.
They found the old flat stone with
the carved letters telling of how one
Qeorge Alexander John Carstone had
lived and died, etc.
"And do you bear one of the
names?" asked the colonel.
"I am John Carter—I beg your par­
don for not having Introduced myself
at once," the young man hastily re­
plied, extending a card to Col. Dar­
ling.
"Not so lengthy a name as your
great-granddaddy's, eh?"
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HATSweight,
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for outing wear are prop­
erly simple in shape and trim­
ming. They should be light
in shade the eyes, and
small enough to be out of the way
of everybody. One may find them,
answering these requirements, In
all sorts of materials and qualities.
There are grass hats (which are pret
try with a light scarf draped about
them) that cost only a quarter, and
there are good looking straw hats for
60 and 75 cents. And at the other ex­
treme are fine South American Pana­
ma hats that cost as much as one
wants to pay. White felts and white
fabric hats are in the running also,
with the new native models develop­
ing considerable strength.
The pictures given here will serve
to show about the simplest and also
the least simple methods of trimming
used on this character of millinery.
The hat of pique bound with a fold
of the same and finished with a band
and fan, could hardly be simpler. A
hat In similar shape of Jap straw is
bound with velvet and trimmed with
velvet ears supported by wire.
Against these Irish crochet balls and
LOOP TO REPLACE BUTTON
Far Better on Delicate Materials and
Not at All Hard to Put
Together.
In putting together a lingerie waist
it is often impossible to find a place
in the delicate trimmings for button­
holes. As a substitute loops are used
and a quick and easy method of mak­
ing them Is given herewith. Use a fine
thread and tat single wheels of plain
tatting the size you wish for the but­
tons to be used. Break them off
with sufficient thread to sew them on
with. They are easily sewn in place
and are substantial.
An easy way to make the wide
tucks over the shoulder of shirt
waists: Crease the goods at the per­
forations In the pattern, measure your
tuck and put the goods under the
needle at the right distance from edge
to make the tuck the required width,
attach your cloth gauge to the bed­
plate of the machine so that the edge
of the cloth touches the gauge, and
etitch the tuck—taking care to keep
the edge against the gauge the full
length of tuck.
Popular Feather.
A notable novelty, and one that is
appearing on every side in Parisian
millinery, is the high knife feather or
"couteau," carried out in curled os­
trich plume. They are forthcoming in
black, white and every modish color
of the moment, and are exceedingly
pretty. A couple of white "couteaux"
and an edging of white plume on a
black trlcorne shape, or black upon
white, are fetching and becoming.
FLOWERS NOW IN PROFUSION
Delightful Table Decorations Are Eas­
ily Possible at This Favored
Time of Year.
With the return of the flowers
comes the desire to have the table
decorated with some arrangement of
blossoms.
It is rather an expensive proposi­
tion during the winter, but flowers at
this season are inexpensive or we
may call upon the woods and fields to
provide bouquets for the table.
An effective decoration is to fill a
bowl with moss and arrange snow­
drops and crocuses as if they were
growing in their native home..
The bowl should be shallow and
wide. Twenty snowdrops and a few
violets are enough to fill the bowl.
They are more effective when not
clustered.
Small glass or china troughs na7
be purchased for the purpose of deco­
rating the table.
Each of these is an arc of a quar­
ter circle, and may be arranged to
iena. aaiqr designs. Short-stemmed
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ornaments are served. This is as
elaborate as one would care to have
it, for an outing hat.
The most elegant hat of all for out­
ing wear is a good Panama. The fine
ones stand a great amount of bending
and wear and are successfully
cleaned. Also they hold their color
in the sun, and the color of the genu
ing Panama Is very beautiful. These
hats are most appropriately trimmed
with scarfs of silk or bands and orna­
ments of ribbon.
Some novel hats made of silk or
other fabrics, shaped by rows of shir­
ring on cords or fine wires, have
been lately Introduced for traveling.
They are reversible and give one the
advantage of a change, as the Inside
and outside are in different colors.
An ornament may be pinned or sewed
to such a hat upon occasion, and it
will serve for regular street wear,
especially if further decorated with
a lace veil. It may be flattened out
and carried in a suitcase if necessary,
which is the great point of advantage
in these flexible hats. For a sea
voyage they are idehl.
JULIA BOTTOM LEY.
LAST WORD IN MILLINERY
The Flower-Trimmed Hat at Its
Smartest.
Top Coats of Corduroy.
A Fifth avenue shop recently had a
window display of corduroy velvet top
coats which aroused considerable at­
tention, says the Dry Goods Economist,
it being most unsual to use vetvet at
this season of the year. The coats were
in various colors, including white,
navy, golden brown and green, and
are lined with bright colored satin
linings. They button over slightly at
the side and can be fastened high at
Vhe neck, if desired. Advertised as
the new seven-eighths length, they ex­
tend to a few inches below the knee.
They are Intended for seashore or
mountain wear, automobiling and sim­
ilar occasions.
flowers, pansles, violets, lilies-of-the
valley.
The center or corners of a table ar«
the proper places for flowers. Quanti­
ties of vases and holders, narrow and
shapely, are made for the purpose of
holding table flowers.
Trunk Linings.
Little bags of lavender in the com­
partments of trunks that must stand
for any length of time sweeten won*
derfully the air that is so apt to grow
musty. If trunk linings are slightly
scented in this way dresses and un­
derwear are more daintily fragrant at
the end of the Journey than when one
folds a sachet among the garments
themselves.
Chiffon Poplin.
Chiffon poplin with a rich bordei
design in flowers strewn o*er satin
cross stripes comes in the most beatt
tiful colorings. It is very wide, reach
ing ea8ily from the wadstline to th#
ground, the border twins tfca oaij
trimming needed.
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MERIT8 OF PAPER BAG COOKING
REVIEWED,
By Martha McCulloch Williams.
In this final paper on my experi­
ences with M. Soyer's paper bag cook­
ery, it may be well to sum up briefly
Its claims and its performances.
In the claims, item one, economy,
more than vital in the present state
of finance high and low.
Item two,,nutrition things cooked
in paper bags certainly set better
upon the stomach and return more
strength of mind and body than the
eame things cooked outside it
Item three, prevention—the preven­
tion of ptomaine and other obscure
poisons, bred betwixt food and air.
Not the wiliest microbe of them all
can survive baking in the oven—and
after the baking the basr is thrown
away.
Item four, increase' and bettering of
flavors, which means increase and
bettering of food itself.
Item five, the making tender of
tough, hence indigestible fiber, as in
round steak, old fowls and such like
things.
Item six, prevention of smells—an
advantage so apparent as to require
no more than bare mention.
Item seven, the crowning mercy,
the abolition of scrubbing out pots and
pans.
A fine array truly. But -not the
whole tale of benefits. The whole
might be tedlou3. Any way, in the
littie remnant of allotted space, other
things press to be spoken.
Words of caution, for example. In
cooking in paper bags mind, not your
p's and q's, but the simple directions
for use. Namely, to grease the bags
well, not to overfill them, to fold
over the open end three times and
fasten the fold with wire clips, to lay
the filled bag always seam side up,
and if by chance it breaks, to put it
instantly inside another bigger bag,
to finish the cooking.
Buy clips in several sizes. They are
cheap and almost everlasting. Use
them freely in fastening up the bags
—they can be pulled off before the
bag is thrown away and used over
and over.
Coal and wood ranges are net so
well adapted to paper bag cooking as
gas ranges. Stili, bag cooking can be
done with any kind of heat—the
knack lies in the regulation of it The
theory of paper bag cooking is this:
A cold bag put !nto a hot stove gets
warm very quickly throughout, and
the paper of it crisps wherever it
touches nothing but air. This quick
heat is essential—It vaporizes the
liquids or the juices inside the bag,
and makes a medium for softening
and flavoring the food fiber. But If
the heat is too long continued, it de­
stroys the tensile strength of the bag,
tnakes it break of Itself, and spill its
contents. Hence, the importance of
lowering the heat, and quickly, before
this destruction is accomplished.
There are several ways of doing
this. They may be used in combina­
tion or separately. First, push in the
(tampers, then open the oven door,
find set Inside upon the oven floor a
Shallow pan of cold water. Leave the
oven door ajar for two or three min­
utes, with a strip of white paper on
the shelf beside tho bag. If the paper
turns pale yellow the heat is suf­
ficiently reduced. If it turns brown
very quickly, set the door wide, take
out the water pan and refill after
emptying, with fresh cold water, then
set again upon the oven floor. Keep
the door ajar until the test paper
There Are More Pleasant Tarks on
Earth, According to One Who
Has Done It.
More Fish
By Nicholas 8oyer, Chef
8ele Bourguigone: Thoroughly but­
ter a bag, place Inside a well trimmed
sole or flounder, add three small peel­
ed uncut onions, a bouquet garni and
a glass of claret Mix a large tea
spoonful of flour with an ounce of
butter, place this mixture oh the sole,
seal up the bag and cook for twenty
minutes in a hot oven.
Sole or Flounder or Cod, a ia Com
tesse: Grease a bag thickly. Take
six or eight fillets of soles, dust them
lightly with salt and white pepper
and sqneese a little lemon juice over
each fillet. Put them in ft bag and
add to them an ounce of finely minced
mushrooms, half a heaped large tea
spoon Ail of finely minced shallot or
chives, a heaped large teaspoonful of
minced parsley and a heaped dessert
spoonful of freshly fried breadcrumbs,
all mixed together. Add also half a
Birds and animals do strange, things
in their babyhood. The first thing
the baby ostrich does on its arrival
in this world is to turn round and eat
his own eggshell, this being by way
of preparation for the days, when, a
full-fledged gourmet, it shall take bar­
bed wire as hors d'oeuvres, with horse
shoes as the plat du Jour.- But the os­
trich stands proudly alone in the ani­
mal world, and digestions generally
are much more delicate than those
of humnnB.
Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, lecturing to
the Royal Institution in London the
other day, told of isn experience he had
with a bear to which it was desired'
to administer a dose of castor oU. With
an asslstant he tried to force it down
Bruin's throat Brtdn resisted. Miih
utes- passed, and thelr dothea Were tt
ri|ion% and at end «f Wt f»
ty th^ ttme the
dimper* should have .dog^thelr w®*t~
the door,
leavfog*lnslde anotherstrlp of $lean
whit# paper, in thre* riftnutes look
at Jt^-iflt Is browniflg too fast, *et
the, door again but ifmerely yel­
lowing let the door stay closed.
This regulation of heat la a .-vital
part of the problem,vbatmuch leas ln*
trlcate than it rounds. A gas range
too hot needs to have half the flame
turned off, and what remains reduc­
ed as low as is safe.
In baking pastry and cake it Is e»
sentialto make very. tlny holes In the
tipper side of thq bag before they, go
in the oven. Th£ holes should fee In
the highest part, of the .bag,, bjjt not
very close Wether.
TA8TY FISH DISHES.
Now that paper, bag cooking has
robbed, fish of their harmful odor, the
tang that hung, to the house through
days and days, Friday has lost a ter­
ror and gained a charm,
A baked flsh
rm.
any sort Is the bet­
ter for stuffing. Buy your flsh with
regard to the size of paper bags. If
you need a very big fellow, make up
your mind that it must be cut in
fillets. Two medium fish, stuffed and
baked, are much belter than the same
weight in one. Have the head and
tall cut off and the scales very well
removed. Wash quickly, wipe dry
with a damp cloth and keep very
cold until ready to' cook, but do not
salt—It draws out the juices.
Fish stuffing heeds to be rich and
tasteful Make it of breadcrumbs
well seasoned with butter or chopped
suet of mashed potato, seasoned with
onions and tomato catsup, or of crn
meal beaten up with an egg and milk,
and fried brown in hot bacon fat.
Wipe the flsh afresh Inside,
Bait
light­
ly, dust -"lth black pepper and lay
in a little lump of butter or suet Stuff
and tie firmly, then season outside,
grease well all over and pop into a
well greased bag. Cook twenty to
thirty-five minutes in a hot oven, re­
duced after a while. Sliced tomatoes
and onions or tomato catsup in the
bag with the flsh increase the flavor
admirably.
If you like fillets well browned, sea­
son them after wiping clean, dip In
sweet milk quickly, roll lightly in
flour and put into a thickly greased
bag with a lump of butter proportion­
ed to the number. A pound of ftlleta
requires a large spoonful of butter.
Cook in a hot oven ten to twenty min­
utes, shifting from the high shelf to
the low, or vice versa, after ten min­
utes.
Stew flsh with vegetables after this
fashion: Cut up in neat pieces any
good white flsh that is firm and
fresh. Free the pieces from skin and
bone, wipe well, season lightly, dip
in melted butter and lay together
while you pare and cut In thin slices
onions, turnips, carrots, potatoes, as
many as you like. Lay a thick mass
of the sliced vegetables In the bottom
of a well greased bag, sprinkle lightly
with salt and pepper, then imbed in
the mass as many flsh strips as it will
hold without danger of crowding the
bag. Put on more vegetables, stick
in more flsh. When all are used, put
in a scant cupful of slightly salted wa­
ter and a lump of butter rolled In
flour. Seal bag, lay it on trivet, tak­
ing care that the corners are very
fast Set upon the grldshelf in a hot
oven for five minutes, then reduce
heat at least a third and cook for half
an hour to forty minutes according
to the weight of the bag.
Rich flsh, as salmon, are delicious
cooked in win*.
Any good, firm-grained flsh of deli­
cate flavor can be creamed in a paper
bag. Cut it 1ft thick slices, wipe
clean, season, roll in flour, and lay in
a thickly buttered bag. Add a lump
of butter the sise of a walnut for
each half-pound of flsh, and half a
pint of thick cream. Seal bag tight,
set on trivet, cook forty minutes In
moderate oven, the heat of which is
reduced as above directed. Haddock,
sole, flounder, or white flsh can be
made very excellent in this fashion.
Serve with hot brown bread, very
sour pickle, and baked apples dress­
ed with sugar and rum, or a very sour
salad.
(Copyright, 1911, by the Associated
Literary Press.)
of Brooks' Club, London.
wineglassful of sherry mixed with this
sam amount of either good flsh
stock or ordinary stock. Clcze the
bag and cook in a moderately hot
oven for eighteen to twenty minutes.
Feeding the Baby Animals
To mcke the flsh stock, put the
bones and trimmings from the flsh in
a clean small stewpan with a gill of
water and a bit of turnip, carrot,
onion and celery, all first well washed
and sliced, and simmer fifteen min­
utes. Strain off and rae.
Whitebait: Clean and dry one pound
whitebait and roil In flour. Melt on*
ounce of butter, season with a little
cayenne pepper, a finely chopped
shallot, and a tablespoonful of vino
gar. Sprinkle fish frith this mixture,
seal in a well buttered bag' and cook
for five minutes in a very hot oven.
(Copyright, 1911, by Sturgis ft Walton
Company.)
hour something like a very email tea*
spoonful had been forced down the
patient's throat. Then the exhausted
men had a happy idea. They put a lot
of castor oil in a saucer, and stepped
out of the ring. Bruin walked to
the saucer, swallowed the whole dose,
and looked up pathetically for more!
This Mr. Mitchell told to illustrate the
undesirability of attempting to force
food upon an (uiimaL
With the alligator, however, the case
is somewhat different If he refuse!
food drop him Into a warm bath, tak­
ing care that it is something under
boiling point This should* make him
lively, but If he still refuses to eat,
stuff him forcibly. You tlekle the side
of his month until he opens his jaws,
and then ram the food down with th#
handle of a toothbrush. ^And if he
weeps,1 do not say hastily and dls
paragingy that these are mere erioeo
dile tears. They may bis the «qjMr
sion of hie
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CHREATENS TO KILL
Wife Gives Up Own Valuables, Babies'
Bankv and the Contents1 ef Her
Husband's Trousers—8he Re
calls Neighbor's Tragedy.
Chicago.—At two o'clock, the other
morning Mrs. John C. Kuhns, whose
husband is assistant purchasing agent
of a big railroad company, Entered
into and carried out the terms of an
honorable agreement with a burglar.,
The agreement was made in Mrs.
Kuhns' boudoir at her residence, 7120
Luella avenue, by the glare of. the
burglar's flashlight In a chamber ad­
joining slept the woman's husband
and her two children in blissful igno­
rance of what was happening.
The agreement was something like
this: Mrs. Kuhns was not to grow
hysterical, cry out or waken her hus­
band. In return the burglar was not
to murder Mrs. Kuhns or molest her
husband.
And in the fulfillment of her pariPof
the compact Mrs. Kuhns proceeded to
turn over her own valuables, slip into
the chamber beside her sleeping hue
band, remove his trousers, rifle them
of ten dollars, break open the bank8
of her two babies, push the contents
into the hands of the robber, and then
escort that person to the front door
and bid him good night
"Why did I do it?" Mrs. Kuhns re­
peated. "Please remember the case
of Clarence D. Hiller a year and a half
ago. He was our neighbor. One
night a negro burglar entered the
room of his two daughters in their
house out here. Mr. Hiller, awakened
by his wife and the cries of the chil
fldren, ran up and seized the robber.
Mr. Hiller was killed. The burglar,
Thomas JenningB, was hanged on
finger print evidence for his murder.
"That all came to me when I saw
the white circle of the burglar's elec­
tric lantern creep slowly across my
dressing table. I sat up in bed. Tho
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burglar threw the blinding light in
my face. In his hand was a revolver.
"'If you scream, lady, I'll have to
kill you,' he said. I wanted to scream.
But I didn't After a while I said:
'My husband and children are asleep
in the next room. Please don't wake
them. Ill do anything you say.'
"He pulled out the dresser drawers,
found a few trinkets, put them In his
pocket, and then started for the door
of my husband's room.
"'Where are you going?' I asked
him. 1 think he said: Through tho
house.'
'"You promise me you'll sit right
here and 111 get you everything of
value we have,' I replied. know
where everything is and I don't want
anybody to get hurt'
"He thought awhile and then prom­
ised. He sat down in a chair with hia
revolver on the door as I softly
opened it I went to a chair beside
my husband's bed. He moved in hia
sleep and held out a hand. I stroked
it quietly while I reached with 'the
other hand for his trousers. Then I
slipped back to my own room.
"We went through the pockets—the
burglar and I together. We found
purse and ten dollars. I gave it to the
burglar. Then I went back to the chil­
dren's room. I took their two little
banks and gave them to the man.
"He wanted to go out a window of
the dining-room, as he had come, but'
I induced him to tiptoe down the
stairs and opened the front doo^
"Thanks, lady,' he said".
"'Good night' I replied and shut
the door.
"Then I went and awakened my
husband. I waited until the burglar
could get safely away so there was
nothing for Mr. Kuhns to do but tele­
phone the police."
Have Individual Minds
Holypke, Mass.—Doctors are surei
the "Siamese" twins born to Mrs. John .
Griggs, Joined by a ligament at tbei&j
hips, have individual minds, because
one cooed and the other cried ItQitily.
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Albany, N. Y.—Miss Anna Mel^ea-^.,
stein was restored to life after her1?T"
heart action stopped while undergoing
a surgical operation, but her memoijr^Jl
la gone.
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