Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PLAN TOWNS FOR WORKERS Great Britain and Germany Are Ahead of the United States in This Respect. Henry Vivian, founder of the British co-partnership tenants' housing coun cil, told the City club of Chicago of the great need for replacing tene ments with comfortable, sanitary and livable abodes for working people. He pointed to the manner in which cot tages are being provided for the work ers of London and Liverpool on the outskirts of those cities where suf ficient light and air may be had. Some of the housing ideas now used In England for the welfare of workers have been borrowed from the Ger mans, wb . studiously lay out their towns in such fashion that the great majority of the residents are happily accommodated. Mr. Vivian called Ger many "the country which invented town planning." In view of the increasing impor tance attached to this problem the ex position of city building, organized by the city of Dusseldorf on the Rhine, is of more than passing interest, as the Scientific American points out. The idea of the exposition has been suggested by the decision of the city to call for a general competition for the building of Qreater Dusseldorf, the outcome of extensive Incorporations of neighboring communities. Dussel dorf, the old and quiet town of art and gardens, has, with surprising rapidity, become an industrial center of nearly 400,000 Inhabitants. It was intended to exhibit such plans of modern city builders as would be received in connection with this competition, but 5n order to avoid any one-sided presentation of the subject the municipality invited all the more important communities of the western provinces of Germany to participate in a city exposition embracing all fields of communal life. This invitation was sent out to all townships having more 'than 10,000 inhabitants in Rhenania. Westphalia and Hessen-Nassau, as well as to some firms more directly | connected with communal life. The Dusseldorf exposition thus is a joint intercommunal enterprise of the towns and cities of western Germany, which in its conception is entirely new. About 600 exhibitors are sb wing near ly 4,000 different objects grouped un der city building, sanitary arrange ments, hospital management, civil en gineering and industry. With its historical and modern town pictures, its models and photographs of remarkable monuments and build ings, old and recent, its reproductions relating to the designing of streets and drainage plants, gas and water supply, the exposition is nothing short of an illustrated history ot German towns, and is bound especially to ap peal to those concerned with the char acter of modern towns and their mani fold tasks from a social, educational and sanitary point of view. Flowers in a Mill Yard. In the large interior yard of a New England foundry, in the center of an area bare of verdure, surrounded by the usual piles of pig iron scrap and flasks, with their backing of bare brick walls, is a great circular bed full of foliage and flowering plants. The effect is almost to startle the vis itor, the contrast is so great. The gar den is a striking illustration of the tendency to make the environment of the shop more and more attractive, says the Iron Age. Good light and pure air and conditions sanitary in every way come first in putting into practice the theory that labor cannot be efficient where surroundings are cot conducive to good health and gfcod spirits. Partly for this reason manu facturing plants began to be moved from the city to the country, and it has been demonstrated that the rea son is even more Important than was at first supposed. The Influence ' of restful scenes framed by shop win dows rather tends to output than to lagging effort. For a kindred reason mill engineers are giving greater at tention to the color schemes of the in terior of shops and factories. Village Life. The old-fashioned village life ls rap idly fading in the United States. Back In New England, away from large cities, some of the quaint charm still surrounds the primitive groups of vil lage houses and the ever-present vil lage "square." also a feature of all English villages. For the population village life means much more than city life. Our Illustration presents a view of the village of Braunton, said to have been founded by St. Brannock, an Italian missionary who went there to labor A. D. 300. All those farming for miles about live In the village, not upon the land. Thus a village population easily represents a larger area than that of the larger cities. Early vil lages in this country were founded for like purposes. Ari Confused. "Worried?" a iked the friend. "Terribly." rolled the grand opera manger. "The >rima donna won't do .anything .but k ck, and the premiere danseuse insist? on making a 'hoi ,Jer.'? COCOA AND CHOCOLATE TWO READILY DIGESTED, HIGHLY NOURISHING BEVERAGES. Have Real Food Value and Shouto Take the Place of Tea or Coffee for Children - Few With Whom They Disagree. Of the several beverages used at meals cocoa and chocolate are the two that have food value. Cocoa is th6 fruit of the cocoa tree, which grows in abundance in the tropical countries. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans by the addition of sugar and some starchy materials. Cocoa grows in the form of a bean and several rows of these beans aro held together in a single pod. When re moved from the pod the beans are al lowed to undergo a process of fermen tation, called "sweating," and are then exposed to the sun to dry in order t< develop their fine flavor. Roughly speaking, cocoa contains 22 per cent of protein mattel"-that is, vegetable meat; 29 per cent, of fat and nearly 39 per cent, of starch. Together with the Bugar and milk used In the preparation of the bever age it becomes a highly nutritious aa well as palatable drink, far superior to either tea or coffee. Tea and coffee are wholly devoid of all nutritive sub stances. They are used entirely for the flavor, and, moreover, they are stimulants, and as such are frequently harmful, while cocoa and chocolate are practically free from any stimulat ing effects. From what has been said it ls easy to see that though relatively cocoa and chocolate are dearer than tea or coffee, yet aa foods they are cheaper. A very cheap form of cocoa ls that made from cocoa shells. It Is prepared In the usual way, and is nutritious as well as cheap and wholesome. Cocoa is adapted for the use of most people. 1 There are some with whom the bever age does not agree well, and causes In digestion. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Children take cocoa with benefit, and for them it should always take the place of tea or coffee. Vacuum Clothes Washer. A vacuum clothes' washer le the newest Invention to save labor In the laundry. It operates on the vacuum suction principle, supposedly releasing the washwoman from the necessity of rubbing the garments. All the clothes to be washed are merely put in the clothes boiler with Bhaved soap or washing powder and water, and the vacuum washer. When the water reaches the boiling point lt is drawn automatically from the bottom of the boiler and forced up in a stream through the clothes. The vacuum washer ls made of zinc which is polished, so that it will neither rust nor corrode. It ls in fun nel shape, and is made In ono elze only. This, however, will flt any boil er. It measures twelve and a half Inches high and ten inches wide at the mouth, and weighs two and a half pounds. The price ls $2.50 without the wash boiler, which must be purchased sepl^ately. Any articles may be washed with this device, from fine lin gerie to the heaviest linens. Cheese Salad. Rub thfe yolk of a hard-boiled egg smooth with a tablespoonful of olive oil, thert add a teaspoonful of salt, one of cayenne, one of sugar and one of made mustard, rubbing each in sepa rately before another 1B added. Then stir In half a pound of well grated cheese. The cheese here used should be old as possible without being "high." After all these ingredients are well worked together add a table spoonful of onion vinegar and serve with shredded lettuce or other green salad. Beef and Onion Pie. Take 1% pounds lean beef about the size at walnuts, stew gently in a small amount of water till tender, season to taste with salt and pepper, line the sides of a good-sized pudding dish with plain pastry, half AU it with sliced onions, put meat on top, draining it free from gravy; cover with buttered paper and bake In a moderate oven 1% hours. When done beat the gravy that was drained from meat, pour it over the Are and serve at once. To Clean Feathers. Into a strong paper bag put about one cupful of plain household flour and half the quantity of powdered borax. Shake well to thoroughly mix. Then put the feathers in the bag and shake gently.till clean. If very dirty, repeat this process. This ia much more satis factojy than using soap and water, as lt saves recurllng. Quick Bleaching. Handkerchiefs and white clotheB that have become yellow from use of too much soap, or any other cause, may be whitened in the following man ner: Af"*r washing let them soak over night in a tub of clear water, to which ls added a teaspoonful of cream of tar tar. When Ironed they will be a pure white. For the Fire. The nex* time your fire has almost gone out try throwing a little granu lated BUgar on it. which will have the same effect as kerosene, but Ls not at all dangerous. When Ironing Towels. If you brush the fringe on your tow els and tablecloths with a whiskbroom before Ironing them, it will make them light and fluffy. RUNNING OF THE CHUTE By NATHANIEL DICKENSON. It waa with the bitterness of gall that her captain swung the Marcus Baldwin into the wharves of Blank City.- Disappearing around the bend below were the twin stacks of the Queen of the River. Yes. the Marcus Baldwin had been fairly beaten. To the passengers and crew this had been but a friendly race of boats, but to the captains it had meant infinitely more. Three miles below this landing was the Chute and the locks through which the steamers were lowered past IL To the one first landing at Blank ville, then, it meant first reaching the city, a mlle below, owing to the long delay at the locks. At the city a cer tain young lady had said to these two young captains but a week before that he who first arrived on the re turn trip could marry her. Upstream there had been no race at all, for the boats, being passenger carriers, were booked to arrive and leave on schedule days. So of the down trip until that last day. Then, with their destination within the hun dred-mile mark and some half dozen landings to make, it had been touch and go; the Marcus Baldwin ahead at one landing, the Queen of the Riv er, by some turn of the wheel, at the next Then had come that last long stretch of some 20 miles, when the Marena Baldwin,, ahead at the last landing, had been overtaken at the crucial point by her rival and the dark featured De Witte had almost danced In his exultation as his boat crept by the other, while Banks had eaten his soul out In sullen silence. . And now the race was as good as lost to him-and the giri. So, at least, he reasoned, with the Queen of the River as good as a the locks. And he had given up hope as, her freight aboard, the lines of the Mar cus Baldwin were cast off and she gathered way out into the stream. Yet, the very fact that she was again In motion fanned the dying Bpark. Was there no hope? Had he left no stone unturned? The Queen of the River's engines might break down! What If, her engines disabled, the freshet current In the river should carry her through the Chute? Yet, boats had gone through that safely. And with this thought Captain Banks grew of a sudden quite dizzy, for what had been done might be done again, he reasoned. Ordinarily a good ten feet of water ran in the Chute. With the river at its pr?sent height he could fairly count or. finding 15. For a width of 100 feet the Chute was clear of rocks, and the water ran In great olly seas. Yes. it was possible, yet the risk I A wrecked steamer, lives lost, maybe! But when a man loves as Banks did he throws cost to the wind. A quarter of an hour later the Mar cus Baldwin rounded the bend above the Chute. Below her lay the locks. Half way through these, Banka saw the tall st?c?rs and upper structure of the Queen of the River; a half hour and she would be through them. It needed but this to steady him in his growing resolve. "Wilson," he aald quietly to the pilot, "I will take the wheel now; you may go on bow." With a six-mile current hurrying her on and her engines forcing her through lt at a 12-knot clip, the Mar cus Baldwin swept on. As she neared the Chute, Banka could see that the atrong wind from the aouth had stir red thia into a maelstrom of frothing waters. Yet, there was not time to turn now, even if he had BO wished. On past the lock slip swept the steam er. For a moment it seemed she hesi tated on the brink of the yawning Chute, paaaengera ahrlnking from her forward decks In horror, then she bowed majestically and plunged for ward. Before she had gone 100 yards she sheered herself halfway across the channel, ?Bting horribly the while. With the energy of despair Banks spun the wheel to meet her. Her bow rose for the moment on a huge created comber, and the rudder once more controlling, she shot back across the Chute, burying her stern to the lower deck and sending the spray clear over her Again Banks met her erratic fllgt.., but to have her zig-aag back across the storming current this time, missing the white hill of a 8pray-drowned rock by the width of her sheer. This could not last Again she rose for the charge. In the flash of a glance Banka saw the crowded decks of the rival ateamer in the laBt of the locks as she drove by. Down plunged the bows of his own hoat again, at an angle which nearly broached her, too, and in which passengers, crew and even captain thought her last mo ment had come in the shocking roar of waters and blinding apray. Then she rose, Blowly at first, and then as a dog, shaking the water from her, and swept into the calm water below the rapids. Far astern, hopelesaly out of the race, Banks Baw the Queen of the River pulling out of the last of the locks. . And the captain'a reward? A month later there waa a wedding. (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) His Favorites. "The man I meet so often la the library is a pedicurist" "Then I suppose he is after tiie works of Foote and Bunyan.'* Compensation. "Does your wife play bridge?' "Yes, but then I generally bold rood ooker bands." Studebaker Automobiles I I desire to inform the public that I have accepted the agency for the celebrated Studebaker automo biles, than which there are no better cars on the market for the money. Thev manufacture four or five sizes and stvles of cars, but the mest popular are the two passenger runabout and the four and seven passenger touring cars. The manufacturers pride themselves upon putting quality into their cars, just as they do in their farm wagons. The word Studebaker stands for merit and quality. Drop me a card if you con template purchasing an automobile and I will call to see you. I G. D. MINIS, Clark's Hill, S. C No better buggy made than the Brookway. Have you ever used one? Let us show you our stock. Wilson & Cantelou. The late models that are out in the American lady corsets to fit all figures, Rived Bros has and sells them.-Adv. When you want a good buggy try a Tyson & Jones. They have stood the test of Edgefield roads for years. Wilson ifc Cantelou. A beautiful assortment of mat ting art squares. They are cheap er and more appropriate for the summer season than the heavy vool art squares. Buy one for your front hall and you will not regret it. Ramsev & Jones. We can supply you with roof paint, a good quality, in red and black at 50 and lo cents per gallon. Just as good quality as that which costs more. Penn <fc Holstein. A lot of odds and ends in summer goods that can be found at Rives Bros at a price-Adv. A full supply of mineral water always on hand. Can furnish either Harris or Glenn Springs water. Penn & Holstein. For farm wagons there is noth ing better made in this country than the celebrated Studebaker wagoBS. Ask the man who uses one what his opinion is. Use a Studebaker once and you will always use them. Wilson & Cantelou. Boys dress and work shirts in all sizes at Rives Bros. Treat your eyes fairly. Do not deny them the help of a pair of glasses if they need it. Remember you will need them for a long time. Geo. F. Mims. Men's and boys summer under wear sold by Rives Bros. Gun metal, patent leather, tan, in lace or button, at cost. Smith-Marsh Co. Come in and look at a pair of oxfords at cost. Smith-Marsh Co. Shoes of every style and quality that are made of solid leather can be found on sale at Rives Bros. D?l IS YOUR CREDIT GOOD? The Representatives of The ? Merchants' Credit Co Are Arranging for the Publication of a Credit Guide FOR THIS DISTRICT AS A BASIS OF CREDIT By this system each individual is placed on record showing how many places they secure credit and with what degree of promptness they pay their bills. The book will show, not the financial standing, but the credit standing? of everybody, man or wo man, who trades on time, and as it is not a financial rating the poor man who pays his bills promptly will secure a higher rating than the man of means who does not. I NOW IS THE TIME TO PAY THE OLD ACCOUNT AND SECURE A Good Credit Rating,