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MATTER OF ADVICE
Young Lawyer Secures an Inter-
esting Case in an Unusual
Manner.
SIB GEORGE ALARMED BY AMERICA’S GAIN
Anglo-American amity means world
supremacy or these two nations, a-c
cording to the opinion expressed by
Sir George Reid, high commissioner
for Australia at the British capital,
in an Interview given out the other
day. With a rupture of the friend-
ship between the United States and
Great Britain—and be sees no indi-
cation of unpleasantness—other pow-
ers might seek to change the balance
of pswer, the commissioner said.
Sir George and Lady Reid have
just finished a tour of the United
States that extended over several
weeks. Of course, he is duly im-
pressed with the remarkable growth
of American industries and American
fortunes. But, do you know, Sir
George actually thought at one time
ithat the bally American foundation
jjvasn’t. solid. He says so himself.
•Listen:
“To one who lives as far from
the United States as I do your tre-
mendous strides and development appear so rapid that it is hard to believe
they are built on a solid foundation. One feels that the bubble must burst
some day. But my visit has convinced me that you have builded solidly,
and that impression of wl-ich I spoke%as been entirely dissipated.”
FEDERATED CLUBS
Mrs. Pennybacker, a picture ol
whom is herewith presented, was re*
ceritly elected president of the Feder
ation of Women’s blubs. It is said
to be her idea that women, whose
activities are directed to affairs oipt
side their home circles, consist ol
three classes: First, those “Who work
for their daily bread; second, those
who are moved to action by the
economic conditions surrounding
working women and political abuses
which affect the general public and
strike particularly ' hard at women
and children; third, those who are
interesting themselves in public af-
fairs as a means of broadening their
mental horizons and acquiring a more
liberal knowledge of the ways, of the
world.
In the first class there are in the
United States six million women.
Six million women are working foi*
their bread and shelter. Their activ-
ities are, with few exceptions, com-
piilsofy. They work because hard practical necessity compels them.
It is almost impossible to estimate the number of women in the second
class. They "are in every city and village.
The third class form the majority of the club women.
JILTS A PRINCE TO WED AN AMERICAN
The engagement of Miss Kather-
ine Britton, who, it is reported, jilted
a prince to wed E. H. Harriman’s son,
Averill, Is’ expected to be announced
shortly. Young Harriman will in-
herit much of the millions left by his
father, an,d Miss Britton, as the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
Britton, will come into a large for-
tune.
Miss Britton spent the summer in
Europe and at Narragansett Pier.
She won fame in social circles at the
national capital last winter by appear-
ing at a dance with a golden snake
twined about her corsage. The effect
was so lifelike that it startled the
guests until the wearer assured them
it was made Of jewels. As a de-
votee of aviation, she has also gained
some prominence, having made sev-
eral flights on the speedway with
famous aviators.
At the time of Miss Britton's
debut, several years ago, she was a
member of the exclusive coterie of debutantes known fas the “Big Six.”
When Prince Koutacheff of the Russian embassy was transferred re-
cently to another post it was reported that she had given him his “walking
papers.” **
j DR. PAGE MADE BISHOP OF NEW MEXICO
Rev. Herman Page, rector of St.
Paul’s Episcopal church, East 50th
street and Madison avenue, Chicago,
has been chosen bishop of New Mex-
ico by the Episcopal house of bishops.
The announcement of Dr, Page’s
election came as a surprise td the
members of his parish. None of the
members had heard of the possibility
of such action being taken. Some
were inclined to express doubt as to
whether Dr. Page would accept the
appointment.
Only one other promotion was
made by the house of bishops, that
being the election of George Biller
Jr., formerly of New Jersey, to the
bishopric of North Dakota. The
house of bishops was in session for
two days.
Dr. Page has been rector of St.
Paul’s church for twelve years. He
came to Chicago from St. John’s
Episcopal church at Fall River, Mass.
The newly appointed bishop was
graduated from Harvard with a degree of bachelor of arts in 1888. In 1891
he received the degree of bachelor of divinity from the Episcopal Theological
seminary at Cambridge, Mass. In 1906 he was awarded the honorary degree
of doctor of divinity by the University of Pittsburgh.
HEAD OF WOMEN’S
By JOANNA SINGLE.
Elwood Pierce lay at full length*
on the fallen leaves under a great
tree in the September woods and won-
dered whether, summer over, his law
practice would not begin to pick up a
bit The season was dull, and he had
so little work that he would hardly
have recognized a real case if he had
met it on the street. The young man
tousled his smooth hair with an impa-
tient hand, and decided that he would
like to be counsel in a really interest-
ing case—something that would make
him sit up and take notice mentally.
Unusually enough, his father and his
grandfather had made the money
question of secondary interest. What
he wanted was to get on in his pro-
fession.
From the lake came girl-voices in
laughter—voices from which he had
fled. Knowing his weakness and his
determination not to be caught until
he had “something really his own to
offer her,” he often fled—in fact, he
was socially an unstable quantity,
though for hie' very elusiveness great-
ly in demand. The latest was Mrs.
Wharton’s note asking him to meet
her cousin Nancy from “down south”
at a dinner. Therefore, to make good
his non-acceptance, he was out of
town a few days at this country re-
sort.
Suddenly through the languid noises
of the , woods came a brisk, . steady
little patter, louder and clearer, and
a great snapping of twigs. He sat up
and there flashed toward him a girl,
rosy, dark-haired, panting, her rose-
colored frock gathered up about her:
She rushed almost upon him, breath-
less anxiety in her face, and crushed
herself carefully behind his big tree
before she saw him as he rose and
stood at attention.
“Oh, hush! ” she whispered, putting
out a hand and drawing him toward
her. “Do please lie flat or something
so we won’t be seen!”
There was real distress in her voice
and he obeyed promptly. The look of
her would have made a slave of any-
thing masculine. She was breathing
hard, and he saw that she had lost
one small pump and stood on the
other foot to spare her pink silk
stocking and a tender sole. She clung
to the tree in something like terror.
“I’ll—look after you,” he ventured
in a low tone, lifting his head a bit
to look at her. She made a frantic
little gesture which flattened -hlfi out
again. ,
“Oh—hush! ” she breathed again.
“He is coming!” She drew herself
together in a sort of little bunch, her
eyes wide and blue, bluer than eyes
have any business to be to go with
black hair. Indeed Elwood heard a
tremendous crackling, and in a mo-
ment a shout, a clear call.
“Whoo-ee-ee!” And then, “Where
are you? Whoo-ee-ee!” With his
khaki clothes, tannish fair hair, and
recumbency, Elwood was practically
Invisible at a distance, so he turned
his- head a bit and from his knoll saw
in the pgith below a square-set, dark-
eyed, determined looking man strid-
ing along, and calling at every third
stride, “Where are you, Annie?”
The girl was motionless, save that
she poked out the pink-stockinged
foot and gave Elwood’s arm a furtive
poke. Then she gave herself a little
trembling shake.
“If he’d—only—pass us!” she whis-
pered. Her eagerness spread to the
young fellow on watch at her feet.
“He’d better!” he muttered in a
tone between threat and petition.
And—he passed, but not without a
cursory glance in their direction
which only the protecting tree trunk
kept from seeing the girl. In a mo-
ment he was crashing on in another
direction, his call becoming fainter.
Elwood rose cautiously, and the girl
sank to the ground, her feet coiled
under her skirt. She spoke as she
might have to a brother, and Elwood
decided that he would have preferred
her to be less friendly. He hoped he
did not look too “safe,” though, of
course, he wished her to have confi-
dence in him.
; “He might—come back,” she warned
anxiously—“and you’re so tail! Do sit
down! ” •
“If he does, I should hardly permit
him to eat you alive, unless you
wished it,” he snapped.
“Everybody’s cross,” she sighed.
“But nobody’s as cross now as Cousin
Mary will be when the—but there, I
need a guardian, I think—or a law-
yer! It’s one of those ridiculous will
things,” she explained, without en-
lightening him, “where somebody
dies and leaves you money if you mar-
ry somebody you just won’t marry!
Be can have auntie’s money! I would
rather work for a living—than—” she
flushed brilliantly. “Work—is self-re-
specting, I suppose,” she said forlorn-
ly, looking down at two beringed little
hands which had obviously not even
speaking acquaintance with workaday
matters!
“I’m a lawyer, if you need one,”
commented Elwood a bit drily. “Oh,
I could have him arrested for disturb-
ing the peace, if you like.”
She caught the humor in his eyes
and laughed outright, then clapped
her hand over her mouth and list-
ened.
“He—might come back! I couldn’t
stand being-—asked again!” Then she
looked entrancingly at the young man.
“You don’t suppose you could—find
my shoe? It’s like this.” She thrust
out a patent-leather pump.
“I—could,” he answered imperturb-
ably, “but I prefer staying here until
you’re sure.”- Her anxiety suddenly
left her.
“Oh, he’s gone now. He’d have to
be to get that last train. Otherwise
he’d miss dinner! He’d lose his life
before he’d commit an unconvention-,
ality! He wasn’t perfectly sure he
saw me, anyway, I ran so fast when
I saw him coming. He’ll think I went
in the motor with the Thompson’s,
and they’ll chink I went with the Gid-
dings! Everything will be lovely un-
til they all turn up but the guest of
honor! Cousin said we were mad to
motor out here when we’d have to
rush to get dressed. Now she will be
wild! There’s somebody she wanted
me to meet—-he was to take me out
to dinner. Poor Steve,” she sighed,
and Elwood knew she meant the man
from whom she had hidden. “Poor
Steve—thought he’d like it settled
before then! You see, he doesn’t
wan the money half as badly as he
—wants—me.” Her tone was demure.
“Naturally,” remarked Elwood with
conventional compliment.
The girl made a little saucy face
at him. “Not naturally,’’ she mocked..
“It isn’t natural for him to leave his
lazy lolling on a southern ranch and
chase after a mere girl clear to
Rhode Island when most of the other
girls back there wouldn’t need chas-
ing!”
With a quick, graceful movement
she rose, ruefully pulling together a
great tear in her skirt.
“Nancy,” she adjured herself,
“you’re an Impossible person! You I
tear your clothes, and lose yourself
from your own dinner party, and you
sit unchaperoned in the woods with
a strange young man who politely
tries not to seem shocked and bored.”
Elwood laughed and drew her hand
under his arm.
“Come, I’ll counsel you—and if j
you’ll lean on me we’ll find your
shoe together, and if you really want
to get to that dinner—I can get Fred
Holly's motor in ten minutes and take
you in. We might be late, but Mrs.
Wharton might forgive us—-if—”
“Us!” she said with belated and un-
necessary hauteur. He stopped and,
dropping her arm, took some papers
from his pocket. Finally he handed
her a monogramed envelope.
“Oh,” she said, recognizing the
hand, “oh!”
— “That asks—Mr. Elwood Pierce
to a dinner for Miss Nancy—Some-
thing—”
“Nancy ‘Something!.’” she said in-
dignantly. “In that case, what were
you—doing—out in the woods?”
. “What were you doing? running
away?” he mused.
“You—tried to—get away! You—
didn’t want to meet me—-and you—
are punished,” she chanted joyously,
starting briskly down the path. He
corrected her.
“I am—everlastingly—happy,” he
said gravely. “If that happens—
which I intend <to have happen.” He
did not finish, but meeting his eyes
-her own glance sought the ground.
“There’s;—my shoe!” she called joy-
ously. And as he put it on her foot
she said quietly, “Much—might de-
pend on how fast you got me back to
cousin Mary’s—and up her back
stairs. I could dress in ten minutes,
at a pinch. Could ^we make it?”
He pulled out his watch. “I—be-
lieve—if you’ll trust my driving—that
even yet I can give you twenty min-
utes to make yourself unnecessarily
lovely in! Just wait on that bench
under the tree. Back in a minute!! ”
He was off for Fred Holly’s car.
Haste, and need and excitement
made the young man so inarticulate
that Holly hoped heaven would for-
give him for letting him have the car
He tore off, driving at indecent speed.
An hour later, just as dinner was
announced,/ Miss Nancy Mason ap-
peared.
“Nancy,” said that lady, “where
were you! But you can explain later!
Meantime, we are waiting, and this
is Elwood Pierce who* for his sins, is
to take you in.”
Nancy gave him a sidelong glance
of great sweetness. “Do you.—mind ?”
she asked, as if she had not seen him
before.
“Not in the least,” he said gravely,
“the pleasure is—perfectly earned,
you little hypocrite,” he added undpr
his breath, as they filed to their
places at table.
(Copyright, 1912, by the McClure News-
paper Syndicate.)
Seeker After Knowledge.
A wpman witness recently admitted
that she stole a letter from a man’s
pocket while he was sitting on her
knee. “Well,” she explained, “if you
are going to marry a man you must
know something about him.”
PUTTING UP PICKLES
HOUSEKEEPERS ALWAYS DO,
AND WILL, PREFER THEIR OWN. ,
Expert’s Opinion of Preparing Small
Onions for the Winter Dining Ta-
mM—Proper Arrangement of
the Delicious Cauliflower.
Despite, the fact that excellent pick-
les may be bought in the stores at
little expense, still,' where there are
vegetables in plenty and to spare
housekeepers will always prefer to
put them up for winter use rather
than buy. It goes without saying the
cost is less, while there can be no
doubt as to their purity.
Some people have luck, as they say,
putting up pickles cold, but the only
real success in my experience has
been with small onions put up the
following way:
The outer covering of the onions is?
removed, and then they should bej
packed into clean, dry glass bottles;
and Covered with cold vinegar, adding!
the usual pickling spices, whole.
The bottles should be filled brim?j
ming full, and then be sealed down.)
Onions pickled this way are very firm
and have a fine flavor, but it is said
they do not keep as well as the boiled
pickles. They will keep during the
winter, anyway. It might be well,
however, to use them up first. They
are so little trouble to put up that
with the vegetables at hand a few
may be preserved just as one found
time for doing it. ‘
To pipkle cauliflower with cold vin-
egar, the vegetables should be cut
into small pieces and sprinkled with
salt. They should lie for a couple of
days thus, and then be packed into
glass jars and covered with cold
spiced pickling vinegar.
Some housekeepers boil the cauli-
flower with salt until the vegetable*
Is a little tender, instead of laying it
in the salt raw. A bed of nastur-
tiums will supply enough seeds to>
make quite a number of jars of pick-
les.
I know a family where nasturtium
seeds are used as a substitute for
capers and are often used as an addi-
tion to sandwiches, salads and similar
dishes.
A jar of vinegar, made rather sweet
and quite spicy, is kept on hand and
into this'the seeds are dropped as
they ripen.
To pickle mustard seeds in hot
vinegar the, seeds are put into a cook-
ing pan and covered with salt and
water. After lying there an hour or
so the pan Is put over the fire and'
the seeds brought to a boil. They
should be removed carefully into a
stone jar and then be covered with
boiling hot pickling vinegar.
The pears peeled and halved are
laid in a preserving pan in layers,
alternating with one and one-half
pounds of sugar. The brown sugar
is the best. Pour over a quart of vin-
egar and drop in a thin bag contain-
ing half an ounce each of cloves and
cinnamon and a little mace. A sliced
lemon is considered an improvement.
The whole should be gently boiled un-
til the pears are tender. They are
then placed in jars carefully and the
syrup boiled for half an hour or so un-
til thick. Fill the jars to overflowing
and seal at once.
White wine and sugar vinegar are
considered the best kinds for cold
pickling, but if other vinegars are
used they should be boiled first, then
cooled, and perfectly freed—by
straining—from any sediment, as this
would cause the pickles to ferment.—*
Chicago Daily News.
Bread Griddlecakes.
The . bread griddlecakes - are made
thus: One and one-half cups fine stale
bread crumbs, iy2 cups scalded milk,
two tablespoons butter, two eggs, y2
cup flour, y2 teaspoon baking powder;
add milk and butter to crumbs and
soak until crumbs are soft, add eggs
well beaten, then flour, salt and bak-
ing powder mixed and sifted; cook
same aS other griddlecakes.
With the Young Housekeeper.
When cooking peas or squash or oth-i
er green vegetables, add one teaspoon-
ful sugar to each quart of water used.
It will bring out the flavor ofthe vege-
table and is very agreeable, especially
with peas cooked with cream.
Hot chocolate, unsweetened wafers
and crystallized prunes form a dainty
course for luncheon or supper.
A friend who is an excellent cook
tells me that she always puts into her
sponge cake the grated rind of an or-
ange and a tablespoonful or two of
the juice.
Very Fine Ipeans.
Wash the beans and soak over night!
ih water. When needed cook as usual
until tender. Pour off the water, and
in place of it add enough sour cream*
to moisten the beans thoroughly. Set
over a slow fire and allow to simmer
for half an hour. These are very fine.
Salmon Souffle.
One can salmon, iy2 cupfuls rich:
cream sauce, 2 tablespqonfuls butter,’
whites of three eggs; mix salmon with:
cream sauce, fold in whites of eggs,
Bake in slow oven.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3399, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 16, 1912, newspaper, November 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889695/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.