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The great crowds which has thronged our store for the past moth isjevidence
of the fact that this sale is a direct and original appeal to the ecomical instinct
of thinking people to whom the saving of a dollar is equivalent to the earning of one.
A SALE AT THE RIGHTd
No sale could be more comprehensive==none could offer a greater variety,, of
seasonable merchandise.
NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME. Do not wait until the time is out and then
want to kick yourself because you did not buy while you had an opportunity to
buy cheap.
We cannot impress upon you too strongly the importance of taking advan=
tage of this wonderful price cutting sale==the sale that stands preemenent in the
matter of values
Remember the sale will close Jan 1. Come now==your money back if
satisfied.
Yours for business
LANE
Senior Union.
Following is the program of
the Union for Sunday, Nov. 1:
Topic—“Magnifying Christ.”
Leader, C. J. Hurst.
Opening Songs, 39 and 88.
Scripture Reading by Leader:
Phil. i. 12-21.
Prayer. W. L.
Musical Selection. Mrs.
Shipp. By J.
Outline of Paul’s Life.
W. Parker.
Prayer.
Song No. 64.
Paul’s Stay in Philippi. Mr.
T. H. Wilkinson.
Questions in Quarterly by
Leader.
Song No. 150.
Miscellaneous Business.
Dismissal—Lord’s Prayer.
A COMMON KITCHEN
Is a Boon to the Farmer,
Co-operative Cooking
a Paying Industry.
A kitchen is nothing but a
v orkshop—just like a carpenter’s
stop, or a blacksmith’s shop, or
a shoemaker’s shop, says Char
lt tte Perkins Gilman in the No¬
vember New Idea Woman’s Maga¬
zine. Why not let cooking be¬
come a world industry—let it be
organized and specialized and
made to pay?
Here are twenty families living
on small farms within a radius of
two miles. In each family the
man works as. a farmer and the
woman works as cook and general
house servant.
The time and labor of a woman
able to do housework well is
easily worth nine dollars a week
The farmer is losing the equiva¬
lent of that money, one dollar
THS PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1908
and fifty cents a day, nine
a week, thirty-six dollars a month,
four hundred and sixty-eight
lars a year—for the twenty
lies, nine thousand three
and sixty dollars. If, instead
twenty kitchens, there were
chosen and fitted for larger ser¬
vice three women, working but
ten hours a day, could cook
those twenty families.
They could do it more cheaply
by far, because of buying the ma¬
terials in larger quantities and
more intelligently. How could
the food be served hot? By the
modern asbestos-lined food con¬
veyors. A simple pole-and-wire
system, erected at small expense,
would delivor a good meal, hot
and savory, at ones very door, at
the hour desired, returning dishes,
the meal ended, by the same way.
Three other women, in a well
appointed laundry, could, in ten
hours a day, do all the washing of
the twenty families; the average
of five persons to a family is al¬
lowed. Two women going in
pairs from house to house could,
in a ten-hour day, do the cleaning
and sweeping. One woman, in
ten hours a day, with a machine
and the skill and speed of prac
tice, could do the sewing.
That is, ten women in ten hours
could do the work now done by
twenty women in fourteen hours,
and do it better. Where the la¬
bor of the twenty cost one hun¬
dred and eighty dollars a week
for the group of families, the ten
women at the same wages would
cost but half that, and save four
hours a day beside. The ten who
were doing the work would be
earning their nine dollars a week
in cash, and would have four
hours a day to rest, to study, to
enjoy.
Equal to the Occasion.
Cotint Tolstoy’s anecdote of the abash¬
ed Moscow hangman who hid from the
artist and would not consent to sit to
him recalls many illustrations of the
natural repugnance with which such
functionaries are regarded. An amus¬
ing example Is given in Dean Ramsay’s
“Reminiscences.” A certain Stirling
laird had annoyed his clergymen by
dilatoriness In paying his teinils, or
tithe, and was admonished that he
must pay up at the proper time. Next
term the money arrived punctually,
but the minister thought he recognized
the messenger, who proved to be the
hangman of Stirling, sent by the laird
as an affront to the minister. But the
minister was equal to the occasion.
He wrote this receipt: “Received from
Mr. -by the hands of the hangman
of Stirling, his doer” (agent or man of
business), “the sum of —.”
—London Chronicle
The Girl of the Period.
Having greater liberty, greater self
reliance, better health, larger oppor¬
tunities, the girl of the period, with all
her drawbacks, is a finer and a better
creature than either her mother or her
grandmother.—T. P. O’Connor in Lon¬
don M. A. P.
Comprehensive.
“Hubby, is my hat on straight?”
“Wei!, if your hat is, your hair isn’t,
and if your hair is, then there’s some¬
thing askew about your hat.”—New
York Journal.
Caller (trying to be complimentary)—
I notice one interesting peculiarity
about your cunning little boy. He is
ambidextrous.
Mrs. Struckoyle (with a gleam in her
eye)—Not at all, Mrs. Iligbsome. His
legs are just as straight as anybody’s.
—Chicago Tribune.
Some of the Chinese newspapers are
printed in a roll, so that when a por¬
tion has been read it may be torn oft
and thrown away.
Golfthatmia.
Golfthalmia is a poisonous and in¬
sidious bacterium which, in my dreams,
under the powerful lens of my heated
imagination, assumes the shape of
something between a niblick, a golfer’s
oath and a caddie’s smile—m.v caddie’s.
A strange, unsightly, grewsome, twist¬
ed, creeping, muttering thing.- Throne
and Country.
The difference between a man’s hand¬
shake and the wag of a dog’s tail is
that the wag is always sincere.—Mar¬
ion (Ga.j
When Theory Didn’t Work.
The new teacher surveyed her wrig¬
gling, restless charges with some dis¬
may. But, true to her oft studied book
of instructions as to the best manner
of Implanting knowledge in the young
mind, she began:
“Now, children, what Is it that a cat
is covered with? Is it fur? Is it hair?
Is it feathers? Is it wool? Johnny
Halloran, you may answer.”
Johnny, seven, soiled and starved
looking, arising in a state of mingled
contempt and perplexity, replied:
“Say, honest, is youse kiddln’ or ain't
youse never seen a cat?”
While There’* Life There’s Hope.
“Oh, Jack, have you seen father?”
“Yes. I have come straight here
from his office.”
“And did he give his consent?”
“I couldn’t quite make out He
seemed disinclined to commit himself
definitely.”
“Why, what did he say?”
“He didn’t say anything at all.”
“Did you ask him?”
“I said: ‘Sir, I wish to marry your
daughter. Have I your consent?’ He
turned and looked at me a minute.
Then he began to grow red in the
face, and then he grabbed me and
threw me over the banisters, and be¬
fore I could ask him again he had
slammed his door and locked It. But
he didn’t say anything either way."
A Rush of Comprehension.
He thought 't would be a good idea
to get up a sociable for the benefit of
the church, so he called on an ener¬
getic young woman whom he had visit¬
ed for about a decade to see if they
could arrange It.
“I called to propose”— he calmly be¬
gan.
“At last!” she cried hysterically and
fainted In his arms.—Baltimore Amer¬
ican.
Proof of Japanese Enthusiasm.
The spectators at wrestling matches
In Japan pelt the winner with their
hats. This is a custom with the Jap¬
anese for showing their appreciation
of the skill of the winner. The hats
are gathered up by the attendants and
handed to the champion. Eventually
the owners come forward and redeem
their hats with presents of various
kinds. The custom In question Is, it
is explained, due to a recognition of
the fact that enthusiasm is likely to
cool down shortly after the event
which excited it is passed. So to
prove the genuineness of his admira¬
tion the Jap gives his hat as a pledge,
to be redeemed In his cooler moments.
—Baltimore Sun.
Eccentric Millionaire (with more
money than brains)—James, step out¬
side. a moment and see whet time it
is on the sundial. James (returning a
moment later)—The sun has set, sir,
and I can’t see a thing on the dial.
Eccentric Millionaire—Well, why don’t
you take a lantern?—Circle Magazine.
Earthquake shocks nowadays an*
comparatively slight compared with
those that shook Urn earth millions of
years ago.
Islands in Now York City.
"I was showing an Englishman our
city a week or two ago,” said a New
Yorker, “and was surprised to hear
him express astonishment at the num¬
ber of islands within our municipal
boundaries. ‘Is this entire island a
part of New York city?’ he asked as I
took him on several trolley rides over
on Staten Island. ‘And all these Is¬
lands, too, are they New York city?’ he
Inquired another day as he went up
the East river. His remarks put me to
thinking, and I’ve discovered that not
one of the really great cities of the
world has so many islands within its
boundaries as New York. Staten Is¬
land in itself would make a good sized
city. Some of the other islands, of
course, are hardly more than specks,
but they belong to New York city just
the same.”
Smelling Out Eels.
Along the coast of Normandy, In
France, dogs are sometimes employed
In fishing by a few of the elder fisher
women. One of the latter, armed with
a basket on her left shoulder and on
the other a pickax with a very long
handle, closely followed by her dog,
wanders along the shore until she
comes to a place where the sand runs
for a considerable distance into the
body of the rocks. Here the surface is
usually broken by a number of little
mounds at low water. On seeing these
the dog becomes excited and runs
back ancr forth, smelling of the little
hillocks. In a moment he will begin to
scratch and whine like a terrier on
watch at a rat hole.
On hearing this the woman rushes
toward the animal, brandishing her
pickax. On reaching the spot she
looks which way the hole runs and
then begins tearing up the sand with
her implement. After half a dozen
vigorous strokes out tumbles a conger
ell, which is quickly picked up and
flung with great force on the hard
rand, stunning the creature, after
which it is put into the basket and the
Ishing resumed.—Boston Post