The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1913 PAGE THREE Rid the House of "Clutter" To Cheer It GOSSIPS LINK THE NAME OF ELIZABETH SANDS WITH THAT OF HFRE'S YOUNG MILLIONAIRE HAVING JUST A DANDY TIME ON HIS FARM VINCENT ASTOR; HIS MOTHER SAID TO FAVOR NOTED BEAUTY HAVE A DESTRUCTION DAT, THB OW OUT ALL rTRMTl RE, PICTURES AND ODDS AXD EXDS THAT ARE UNNECESSARY AXD YOU WTLEi )LKE YOUR HOME MORE ATTRACTIVE UNDEferVfltf THE PORT HURON TIMES-HERAUB. (SuvDCawOQD y. 5 Everyone certainly, at least every S.S it I Mft iW -A i Vincent is Ready I 1, ft S-f Si! 1 to Start. has taken a firm hold, but women are realizing that cleanliness must extend to the community at large if it is to be efficacious; the unsightly dumping ground outside the city limits, the squalor and lack of beauty, these things come within the province of the woman.

She is tie one best qualified to work reforms, and realizing her ability she has gone to work. The records would fill many a volume. That Visit Brand 4 ft -XV is 1 -4 Vincent MacLean, one of America's richest boys. Is visiting his farm at Black Point, near Newport, R. He puts in a erreat deal of time with a goat he is training-.

He aLso is well provided with other gmp-al. playmates. But in spite of the fact that we could not get along w-ithout this civilization, we rail against it whenever we are tired. We blame it for ill-health and bad tempers, and the problems of housekeeping and managing servants, and short accounts and envy and many other human weaknesses and troubles. Instead of blaming it, we ought to change it.

It really rests with each woman to simplify her method of living, the atmosphere of her home, to such an extent, that she and everyone else who lives in the house she manages will forget that civilization is a curse. Have a Destruction Day To put this new system of simple living in effect hesrin with a destruction day. Fix in your mind that it is the clutter of civilization that really bothers you. and determine that you will rid yourself of much cf this clutter. Begin in your living room.

Think of the beauty of Japanese houses, the furniture of which consist of a few screens, a few pieces of good pottery, and some embroidered wall panels. Get a picture of a Pompeiian house and study the effect gained therein by bare spaces and roomy airness. Be sure that you wean yourself from a love of the sort of interior that you see in pictures of the drawing rooms of old-fashioned English country houses, where dozens of ottomans, fire screens, rugs, and small chairs clutter the floor and hundreds of photographs and vases and jars and knicknacks clutter the tables and book shelves, and where the pieces of furniture fairly push each other for elbow room. W7hen you have once filled your mind with a desire for space and simplicity, begin the process of destruction. Take down all but the best of your pictures.

If you don't want to throw them away, give them away, and if you don't want to do that, put them in the attic until you have forgotten you like them. Next tackle the ornaments. Put, or throw, or give away all that do not fit in with the needs of the room, and do not keep any that do not contribute something to its beauty. No table should be covered with ornaments. Half a dozen are all that any shelf or mantle over a fireplace can stand.

And these should be well chosen. A single pair of ten-cent pressed glass candlesticks on a fire shelf is more effective than a conglomeration showing a Sevres jar, a Chinese idol, a silver photograph frame surrounding the picture of relative, a miniature framed in brilliants and colored enamel, a couple of prized books, a figure in ivory, a cut glass vase, and a piece of Indian pottery. If you have many really valuable and interesting ornaments put them in a cabinet with glass doors, where they will seem what they really are a collection of curios. After you have rigorously thinned out the ornaments and pictures tackle the furniture. Remove any of it that is rickety and broken, and either have it mended or else throw it away.

At any rate, have every piece of furniture left in the room in usable condition. Go through the house thus, eliminating unnecessary ornaments and furniture. This is not a plea for the WOMEN AS MUNICIPAL HELPERS Left to right: Mrs. At Willing Astor, Miss Elizabeth Sands and Miss A. Powell at Newport.

1 Since the arrival at Newport of Mrs. Ava Willing Astor the gossips have been busy with a new name-which they have linked with that of her son Vincent, who is now head of the Astor family and chancellor of it exchequer. The rumor now is that Miss Elizabeth Sands, the beautiful daughter of Mrs. Frederick Sands, and Vincent are ec traced. Mrs.

Astor is known to look with great favor upon the young woman. "The Big Corner Store" Just Two More Days of the Sale of Table Linens (Basement Salesroom) Is Really No Vacation at All It's Simply Brain Dulling Work and Boredom Extra Bed Coverings i will now be needed OUTING BLANKETS, 65c to $1.00 up to $3.00 WOOL BLANKETS, $3.25 to $5.00 up to $7.50 COMFORTERS, $1, S1.50 to $3.50 up to $12.50 woman sometimes undergoes a re- I vuibiii agaiusi luuigo. 1 oi.tx? queries are clothea so complicated? Why must they be changed continually for others of a little different fashion, and why must they be of ma" terials so fragile that they will not stand ordinary wind and weather? Why must the rooms of one's house be filled with books and pictures, ornaments and carpets and hangings that catch dust and harbor disorder and need attention from one year's end to another just to keep them where they are? Why must the table be so formally elaborate? Wherefore all the plate and china, and glass and linen that make the care of the dining room a burden? And why the overstocked refrigerator, the endless rows of spice and seasoning boxes and bottles, the four or rive different kinds of flour, and the piles of recipe books a yard high? Wliy Not the Simple Lire? Why not live in a bare room, with a couch in one corner, a shelf in another, containing a jug of milk, a loaf of bread, a basket of fruit, and some cheese? And why not wear some simp.le garment cut on the lines of a sheet and draped gracefully over the body, held in place, perhaps by a golden girdle? For if our other wants were so easily supplied there would be a big balance in the bank, which we should doubtless spend in buying golden girdles. There is no very plausible answer to all these whys. Why, indeed? we echo as we think the question over.

)f course, tb. re must be some substantial human good in civilization. complicated and nerve racking though it is. And when we live for a month in a back-to-nature camp, and get thoroughly acquainted with simplicity as it is evidenced in bare boards for tables and pine boughs for beds, we find ourselves treacherously longing for the sights and sounds of plain, ordinary, despised civilization bright silver in formal array on a white cloth, a chiffon evening frock that it takes fifteen minutes to get into, a din of unintelligible and forced small talk and the close and scented air of a crowded theatre. of Vacation In turn you listen to all the thing your relatives have said, done, heard, seen, worn, thought, believed, surmised, guessed or even dreamed.

Pine change and recreation, isnt It? Doesn't it Just give you inspiration to come right home and do it all over again Of oonrse one Is Interested In relatives, and visits just have to be paid occasionally; but wouldn't it be well to call a visit a visit, and make a visit as a without trying to delnde one's mind Into thinking that a visit is a vacation It's nothing of the sort. A visit Is a repetition. A vacation is a change. And there can be nothing In common between a repetition and a change. No; there's nothing to a.

visiting vacation, except boredom. Visiting as visiting is all right, when one is in the visiting mood. But it's work, and might- tiresome work for everybody concerned. And th person who really wants a vacation should keep a long way off from visiting. Always Good (BY BLANCHE DRAPER.) Don't you Just abhor the visiting kind of vacation? I mean the kind when you spend all the days when you would just love to be getting rest and recreation being bored by tales in which you're not the least bit Interested about people whom you never saw nor nev er expect to see? And yet that's exactly the sort of vacation which innumerable people plan each year.

They go to visit their aunts and cousins, and other more or less distant relatives, and spend trueir whole playtime with them. Can you imagine anything worse? Just think what it means. It means going through every little detail of the past year of your life. It's almost like a confessional. You tell all you've done, all the laces you've been, all the dresses you've had, all the guests you've entertained, and everything else you've done.

In fact, you live your year right over again. buwiiub oi anyminf wntcn nas no utilitarian purpose from our houses. FRUIT DESSERT Peaches and bananas sliced togeth er aK a refreshing and dainty combination few, people realize. Cut peaches and bananas together about a half hour before serving, sugar well, and add about four tabieapoon-fuls of water, cover and set on ice; serve with thick cream. Ginghams Voiles Dotted Swiss Tissues 10c These stocks are clean and new, and a splendid big assortment to select from.

Our basement salesroom is a busy place these days. Don't fail to visit this place when on your shopping tours. atuiirdiay Their Leasrue Has lit i-oino a Power. When the Women's Municipal League of New York opened its 1 in "Greenwich village" tin po'cy captain of that precinct requested, as a special favor, that he he permitted to attend their first meeting. The Municipal Leasw.

with its 1000 to 1200 active members, is a force for good city housekeeping, and city officials are awakeninx to the fact that they are helpers, not meddlers. When the league presents any kirul of a memorial or petition. appointments are made ahead, thf committee is promptly and courteously received. The nature of their work makes them complaint bearers, but the information they have to impart received with deference and Kiven full consideration. They have their regular district organizations, their committees on streets, tenements, police, parks and other departments beside special committees.

And they sre reoosnized as invaluable aids in New York city housekeeping, fcays the Modern Priscilla. The situation is sufficiently interesting in itself, but as an indication of the actual participation of women in public affairs it is most striking. That the movement extends from one end of the country to the other, that there is no task too immense or too trivial to encase their attention, is an epoch-making fact. These women are not waiting for suffrage, they are doing the work that lies at hand, and they are blazing a broad trail to power whether to suffrage or not does not matter to them. For these women are in truth following the advice of centuries and attending to their homes only they realize that within the province of the home comes everything that effects the welfare of the home.

The home does not end at the doorstep, nor do a woman's responsibilities end there. When the home was a manufactory women had little time to attend to anything outside the door, so busy was she that she had not even time to think that perhaps her interests vere affected by untoward outside conditions. Gradually the heme burdens have lightened, ami with leisure these trained housekeepers have come to a realization of the fact that municipal housekeeping is no diiferent from he other kind, except that it has ieen so well done. And the women lave their brooms in hand and they re sweeping to the center of the street and they have a care, too, hs to what goes under the street. For, from forest conservation to sewers, Irom parks and playgrounds to wat er-supply, from clean streets and proper sanitary conditions to noisj regulation, there is nothing that does not directly affect the home, and the umen nave realized this and gone to work.

Sanitation in the home A Menu for Tomorrow MErVU FOR THURSDAY, SUIT. BKKAKFAST Vrwit ieat Omelet Delmonioo Potatoes Graham Gems Coffee LUNCH meet Hlce Vegetable Salad faplced Grapes Cocoa DINNKR Macaroni Soup Broiled Steak with Mushrooms Mashed l'otatoes Corn Pudding Cold Slaw naiers Cheese Peach Whip Coffee PPICFOD GRAPES. For spicing wash, and stem the grapes, rejecting all that are imiw.i-foi-r ini- oj- hand, dropping the pip into an ninr. neat gently over a slow nre and stir freouentlv until the seeds readily separate, then press through a sieve. To this sieved pulp ud the skins, then measure.

For (lnarts allow a half pint of good cider vinegar, three pounds of granulated sugar, one ounce of whole cloves, a half ounce of cassia buds and two ounces of srtick cinnamon. Jie the spices in a bit of cheesecloth. Put into a kettle with the vinegar ana stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the grape mixture and boil until almost as thick as marmalade, then bottle and seal. PEACH WHIP Peach whip calls ir one cupful of pulp sweetened to The whites of four eggs are snipped to a etlff drv froth and the Pulp added, a spoonful at a time with ng continuous beating until the mixture is very light.

This is to be rvd at once with cream or a chill-a boiled custard nds Mahar's Big STORING EGGS To pack eggs for winter use, put them in wire baskets, immerse ii boiling water, hold five seconds and remove and pack in bran, oats, salt or any way which will hold them point downward. The hot water closes the pores and eggs will remain fresh for months. Los Angeles Express. RICH, RED BLOOD RESISTS DISEASE Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Make Pore Blood and Restore Health Thin, pale people lack the power of resistence to disease that rich red blood gives.

Nervous breakdown is the direct result of thin blood. Pale people are always nervous. Such people need Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla These pills are a doctor's prescription, not a patent medicine. The prescription was used by the doctor in his private practice and was found to have such a wide field of usefulness that this efficient remedy was given to the world by being placed on sale with complete directions for use, written by the doctor himself.

Good blood means health; impure blood means continued ill health. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make pure, clean healthy Don't put off trying them any longer, but get a 50-cent box from your druggist and begin the treatment today. Advertisement. 6 bars Eels Naptha Soap 25e 10 bars good Laundry Soap.

1 oz. boxes silent tip Matches 40c 2 qt. Economy Pint cans, per doz. 50c 1 qt. Economy and Sehram, per doz 40c 1 pt.

Economy and Sehram, per doz 30c CAIN 1 EXCURSION I TO Wall Choice Per Yard EU3 AJESTiC Mid-Summer Celebration NOW SHOWING "Rflissldlewiid B. C. Whitney's Best Musical Farce w-ith H. T. MacCONNELL as "President ot fhe 13th Club 20 SINGERS, DANCERS AND THE BEAUTY CHORUS Matinees, 10 and 20c.

Nights, 10-20-SO-50C 93 Oxford Sale Do not fail to take advantage of this sale, as it means a saving-of 25 per cent to you on men's and women's low shoes. Men if you are in need of a work or light shoe, do not fail to see our two lines of shoes we are closing out at $1.48 Extra values in Ladies' shoes at S1.48-$1.98 Until Saturday we will sell all Boys Patent Leather shoes, button or low at .20 per cent off. P. H. MAHAR, 230 Huron Av.

330 Huron Av. THURSDAY, SEPT. 4th Last Trip of the Season Fare On Steamer OMAR D. CONGER gAfi Boat Leaves Port Huron at 8:30 a. m.

No More Sunday Excursions to St. Clair In making BREAD, we use only the very best of materials. Our faciHtir3 are simply perfect. There is no lock or chance with us. ss FM SILVER Tea Spoon fob 15 Aztec Cracker Coupons MAH COUPONS TO Akiman -B ak ery Co.

PORT 31 RON THE BASKET STORE 621Water Street Next to Hoffmann's Bazaar CASH ONLY NO GOODS DELIVERED UNDER $2.00 Groceries at wholesale. W7e can save you money in everything you buy in staple groceries. We will have another large shipment of fancy picnic hams Friday. I is always good ani it's always made cJearu SoW only in dainty, waxed wrappers. Why then take a chance with bread of whose quality yon arc not sure? It's as pure and clean as the morning dew ybcrr grocer sells it in 10c and 5c loaves SOc good Talne Coffee, per lb.

40c unoolored Japan Tea, per lb, 2c, 4 lbs 19c, 3 lbs 4 lbs Fancy full Jap Rice 23c 1 qt. can Scudder's Pure Maple Hyrup 35c 8 Rolls Toilet Paper 25c C. L. ENOUGH'S BAKERY FORT HURON, MICH. Cepyrleiit 1913 MAJESTIC mc I 3 MATINEES AND NIGHTS 3 j-J Thursday, Friday.

Saturday Matinee Daily, 2:30, 10 and 20c. WW Nights, 8:15. 10c, 20c, 30c. 60c. 1.