CO-OPERATIVE EATING. ONE SOLUTION TO THE VeXINC SERVANT GIRL QUESTION.

■ ••U T.n r»ut» Ud No Coro — A MlchlVllloco Toarboo a Loaooa to tbo Blr Ctlloa ~ l*roblom of Kr.moiatral U*1B( and Mill BavlBK tbo foot. Decatur, a prosperous little village tweniy-Ove mllea west o( Kalamaxoo. Mich.. Is the scene of au interesting experiment with a plan to solve tho problem of economical living and to do away with the servant question. Briefly stated, the Idea is the main-tenam-e of a common table by some twenty-five of the leading families of the town, about one hundred persons being served in this way. A place for the experiment was found in a vacant ahop building, w'klrh had been fitted up for the purpose. The first week the coat averaged II 1-2 cents a meal for each person. The second week the cost was 10 cents. L. Q. Stewart, a merchant, ’first thought of the plan. Mr. Stewart was asked to tell about the undertaking. "There were two chief conslderalions." he said. "First. I thought It would bo a great convenience for the business men of the village, who are -oft(n hurried at lunch time, and do not. like 'to leave their stores. “Then!, even in Ibis little villag^. the sen's A question cuts considerable, of a figure. ' The girls prefer to work in the shops or~l!l -tbe-fnrtt fields and li is difficult to get competent hwlp. I had experienced some difficulty these respects and so I began to figure. "The result was the organization of this cooperative scheme. We do not have a formal organization, nor keep elaborate books. The best people in the village are interested." Mr. Stewart proceeded to explain the practical working of the plan. Two competent cooks were engaged and a sufficient number of waiters to serve the different families promptly. Each family has its table, except that several families, consisting of only two persons, may be seated at one table. A strict account of everything Is kept and at the end of each week all bills are audited and the expense divided pro rata. In this settling of accounts everything is included, such as rent, fuel and lights. When the bills fop the week are Settled the organization owes nothing, and has as assets' whatever may be left over in the commissary department. "We get the best of everything." said Mr. Stowart, "the best groceries and the best meats. Our butter is creamery butter and all the rest of the materials are equally good. ‘'The management is in the hands of an executive comlttee of five elected for thirty days and the menu for each week Is prepared by' another committee of five. "I believe that the same plan could be worked to advantage in the large ttfties. and it would go far to solve the vexatious servant question. It seems to me that it would be feasible to se-

tance, a It woi

takes considerable reiponzlblllty off my shoulders. If the scheme were carried out l{a>a little different wav we could go still fufthar and hare a laundress come in and do the table linen, which would take some more care ofi our shoulders." Mrs. loimond explained that the waiters had been neatly attired in white aprons and caps and aald that altogether quite a homelike effect had been acompltsbed. Some difficulty bad been found in buying from one of tne butchers. One was willing to sell his meats at wholesale, but the other j refused to do so, arguing that the peo- | pie who had gone into .the project i would have been good customers at I retail prices if they had not conceived this notion, and that they must | continue to pay accordingly. Those who are managing tne enterprise expect to hare no dlfflculty in improving the service and making it | a success.—New York Sun. QUAINT AND CURIOUS, Visitors to Stratford-on-Avon com- , 1 lain that small boys run after them, ‘ calling “All about Shakespeare for a ha'penny." The wife of a potter named Braemer. ! In Velten. has died through kissing her dead child. Sue contracted bloodpoisoning. which proved fatal. The hominy-pounder was the first attempt at a corn-mill In the United States; but the first water-mill was made In Virginia in 1621 by George 'Sandys. an English poet. The first turkies—which are natives of America—were seen In South Am , erica in 1523. by a Spanish explorer. In 1608 the settlers in Virginia sent : 20 to England—the first sent from the country Included in the United States. The largest tree .ln_the world is said to have recently been discoverej j in Africa In the region of the Upper Nyanza. Its height is said to be half sgala that of the tallest trees in California. and its thickness double that of the largest giant redwoods> The particulars are. however, suspiciously

then be possible to have private dining rooms only the cuisine being com-

mon."

Mrs. H. C. Lamond who is a member of the executive committee was asked lor a sample menu. She furnished the following: Breakfast. Breakfast Food. Fried Potatoes. Eggs. Cookies. Doughnuts. Coffee. Chocolate.

Dinner.

Roast Beef. Roast Pork. Gravy Dressing. Green Corn. Boiled Potatoes. Tea. hot or cold. Tapioca Pudding. Apple Pie. White Bread. Brown Bread. Supper. Cream Potatoes. Cold Menu. Warm Bread. Cake. Plum Sauce. Tea. hot or cold. She was asked If the plan worked we., and if it was economical. "It has Its advantages and sou.*-dis-advantages." she replied. "Whether it is econmlcal or not depends somewhat on the style In which a person la accustomed to live; whether one Veeps servants or not. for Instance. But. considering merely what is furnished it certainly U economical. "We are atrte to get better dUhes at lower cost than If we set a separate table. The plan enables us to buy at wholesale and w« reap the advan-

tages.

“Take the matter of roasts, as a point of illustration. A good roast of meat Is not »n economical thing for a small /family to buy. You cannot get a good roast unless It weighs several p^nds. and the small family finds /bn its hands a large remnant, not Ail of which can be Well uUllzfd. no matter how clever the housewife (s in plstnnlng. "By this method we get twentypound roasts and of course we get the 4>««t. Then our bread is baked fresh overy day. In our own ovens and that Is a fine feautre. “We have our Individual tables. At •our table there are three families, each consisting of husband and wife. "We each furnish our own silver sad ,we have a vase la the centre of the table which we keep filled with flowers. We tgke turns in furnishing the table linen. Our sliver Is taken «p. cleansed and pul back la the i places we occupy respectively^ “You see, we save a good deal of work, we save on our linen and altogether 1 have found that the plan

PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Better the feet slip than the tongue. There are more men threatened .

than stricken.

Friends unjustly gotten are seldom oemlortably enjoyed. The best little difference is betwixt good deferred and evil done.

success is a square often false,

ways uncertain.

Tho spoke in the wheel which creak , eth most doth not bear the greatest

burden In the cart.

Some have sluices in the consclen ces. and can keep them open or shut, j

ss occasion requlreth.

Evety fool knows what is worst to , be done, but a hat is best to be done

is known only to .he wise.

Determining to win that which was lost instead of pondering the past, ; 1 as kept many men out of asylums for

the Insane.

There is something divine In march lag straight to death for the sake oi i a people of the future whom we have |

never seen.

A GIRL'S CHOICE.

Dogs have a g-eat history. They did not spring from the wolf as p ularly believed, but frotp species

wild d

pop s of

dogs, which still exist In some countries. They have been worshipped by the ancient Egyptians; Queen Elizabeth had 800 trained blood-hounds to fight the Scotch; | Alexander built a city in honor of a ! favorite dog; and In England dogs u»«*l to be fattened and driven to j market for table use like our hogs.

Sait Bow Kagar TbU Maa Waa to C t’p to Her fttaadanl. "Please tell me what sort of i a love with," he pleaucu. •test Indolence, ease, luxury. He must love to deny himself,’ said Eihel, with the usual ripple of low

laugh.er.

“1 am sure I have got up all these Gays at 5 o'clock." said Oliver, fairly

glowing with hope.

"He must be unceasingly active; he must have some;hlng to do every |

minute of the day.*’

“Don't If"

“He must be an adept in all manly ;

ride, the bicycle.' j

mine comes, you

have promised to teach me."

Ethel's gaze had wandered, and her interest seemed to flag for a moment ' “How must he look?" Oliver now de 1 manded with the tone of one whose ear is unsatisfied with hearing, who

must know all.

"He? Who?" abe said dreamily. “Wo are talking about the man you could be In love with.” said Oliver

reproachfully.

Ethel pulled herself together. “He must be very handsome." she Insist-

ed at the corner of the Rue des Mathurins in Paris recently. A man in his zhlrt sleeves was seen, holding a string, the end of which was down a sewer grating. A hook was attached : baited with meat. An enormous j crowd gathered, and the man caught 14 rats in 23 minutes. He was liter- ' ally fishing for them. The police interfered. and the man, with two bas-

ketfuls of rats, was taker

f.:

lice station. He explained that , was catching the rats for a rat-killing I ''contest tor dogs, and was released. I Man has not a monopoly of cough- j ing. Before there was a vertebrate : on the earth, while man was in pro- ; cess of evolution through the vegeta- , hie world. Etada Tusslen—that is J what the botanists call him. while we j

blew dust out of Ms 1 lungs. Recently botanists have been , giving special attention to this bean, and tell Interesting things about It It Is a native of warm and moist trop ical countries, and objects most emphatically to dust. When dust settles on the breathing pores In the leaves of the plant and chokes them a g*fa accumulates inside, and when 1t gains sufficient pressure there comes an explosion with a sound exactly like coughing, and the dual is blown from Us lodgment. And. more strange still, the plant gets red In the face

through the effort.

dislike my

modestly. He seemed inclined to press a little closer to her. but Ethel waved him off with her rod of bamboo. "Perhaps." she sa^l. '‘something might be done to improve you." As she spake abe lifted her stick to bis hair and ran a parting through the middle. “I fancy." she said, “it Is your hair I don't like." He pondered this statement a moment in silence. “I hope you don't want it cut off?" “No. I am no Delilah. There."—she had succeeded in running the partlni through the middle—“ibere. that is better, only It, looks so flat. If the ends could be curled." Oliver brightened. “Should you like It better If I curled the ends?"

"Vastly."

“I’ve got irons. HI have Julius Jo

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS. Latest Happenings Glesaed From Ail

Over the Stale.

Samuel Grccnxgc. who murdered Constable Buck and killed himself, was b-rried in the potters held at the almshouse. Bridgeton. None of bi* relatives would have anything to do with the body and his wife expressed her gratification at being freed from his cruel treatment. Dr. K. L. Diament, the countv physician, after an examin-. axion of the body, stated that Grecnage It'd shot himself in the mouth with a revolver and that the bullet had lodged

near the left car.

Plans have been perfected for the inauguration of -Pr£»idcnt Woodrow i Wilson. At PrincclW. The ceremony T will take pace October 25 and will be | held in Alexander Hah. President | Roosevelt and ex-President Cleveland 1 have accepted invitations to be present, j Joseph Bateman, of Newport, fell while trying to get off a moving trolley | car at that place and sustained concusI sion of the brain. He was taken to a

! hospital at Bridgeton.

| John Lynn, a plasterer, about SS j year* of age. was found dead in bed at ! his home in Gloucester. He had been ] ailing for several days. The coroner I gave a certificate of death from heart

[ disease.

A silver half dollar came near causi ing the death of a little three-year-old child of Antonio Berber. Mullica Hill. ; The silver piece became lodged ip the child's throat and it was with difficulty

j that it was removed.

Charles Rain, aged 75 years, ol Salem.- was badly injured at Jones & Ayar's canning factory. He was standing over some shaftipg when the apron lie was wearing caught in one of the fly wheels. He was whirled around and around several times and all his clothing. shoes and stockings were torn from his body. His face and body were

, terribly bruised:

! Carl, a/young son of Job Griscom. ' of Lower Alloway. came near bcing^ujr- ' ed to death by a ferocious cow. The little fellow was jatpmed up against the | j barn, but happily the cow's horh* went | ! astride the iad and prevented him from j : being suucezcd to death. The father. | i too. had a fierce fight before the cow |

world give up the boy.

While Mrs. Dow was passing _ the j : home of Miss Kate Morton in NVestville. she stooped over the fence to pat | a large St. Bernard dog. when the ani- ! mal bit her in the face. A derp gash j 1 was tom just under the left eye and I ! another nnder her chin, from which the j

blood flowed freely.

| The Globe Window Glass Company, j 1 capital," $250,000; the Admiral Anchor j ! Company, capital. $100,000. and the At- j i lantic City Moveable Sidewalk ComI pany. capital 5i.ooo.ooo. filed articles of { incorporation in the County Oerk's

) office at Camden.

Pastor E. E. Somers, of the M. P. church at Pennsgrove. has received a unanimous call for his return during the next conference year. B. G. Wood has been elected a delegate to the conference which nets a: Pleasantville

nth.

• Thomas H. Taylor, the popular boot and shoemaker at No. 418 Washington afreet, does all repairthorougbtly and . ice*. He has been iss in Cape May fot Rips in uppers sewed

mg neatly at reasonable price*. He has been doing business in Cape May fot elven years. Rips in uppers sewed oy machine with silk to match. Lost or broken evelets or hooks replaced.

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JOB PRINTING That brings results • 1 Is the kind done at THE HERALD OFFICII

•Tomorrow! How am I to wait till tomorrow? I must have It done this Oil plncott's Magazine.

next month

At the annual business meeting of the First Methodist Protesunt Church. Bridgeton, the return of Rev. Dr. Louis D. Stulu as pastor was unanimously asked' for. John W. Kidd was elected delegate to the annual conference. The shortage of the hay crop in Gloucester county will partially be made up by the immense com yield, the stalks being heavy and well filled

One of the great western railroads

has In force a system of education for the trainmen which rests upon a more sclen.lflc bull than has. until recently, been recognized as needful. The fundamental principle lies In what the mental scientists term reflex action, or subconscious control. The .brain may be .taught to-act according to the signals of -the .various • senses without conscious, thought. The first step Is the complete training of the trainmen to their duties, so they respond on the Instant, almost involun-

tarily. to any emergency.

In the life of the railroader there is no time for thought or reCKBjn; He must ect instantly. If the ent'.ae driver is called upon to save s train from wreck he will be the more like ly to succeed if his brain has been so

stances will call forth certain actions, regardless of his own volition, so the man It put through a regular course of practical railroading before he is employed at all. The applicant for a position mast hot only be able to answer the ques-

Tha Hawaiian na a Dlrar. In an article on "Our EqdkiojU) Islands" In the Century James D. Hague describes, among other things, the remarkable diving feat of a Ha-

waiian:

'The working crews of the island? were quartered In suitable camps near their field of labor. They were native Hawaiian*!, good fellows, willing work ers. admirably adapted to the duty required of them, which was largely in boats and in the water. I well remem ber one who excelled In diving. On e certain occasion, when the placing oT a deep-water mooring had Just been accomplished, it became necessary to detach under water the end of a hawser, which had been made fast to the submerged part of a spar buoy, about 40 or 50-feet below the surface of the sea. The man was told to take bis sheath-knife down with him and cut the hawser a* near its end as be .could, so aa to loae as little as possible of the valuable cable. Taking bis knife in his teeth, he disappeared beneath the water, and remained out of right so long that he was almost given tip for lost, when the suddenly reappeared, and. on being asked if he bad cut the hawser as he had bees told to. reported that he'had unbent it without cutting off and part of It whatever.”

his replies without hesitation or he Is rejected. The habit of quick action must be strong upon him. - .TT*.; Ixoog experience and close observation have demonstrated that moat men after the age of *0 or »6 are not capable of acquiring this habit The future trainman moat bagfi young. Bo, in this, as in other branches of learning. the pupils are yonIMuL

Ulast Trees Hear Landes. There are atlll to be found, even within the sound of Bow Bells, some trees remarkable enough both tor height and girth to deserve a visit Churchyard* are good placta to look for large trees besides the funeral yew. The Ivy Is not. strictly speaking, a tree, but It Is hard to apply any other designation to the venerable plant whose foliage cantloa Old Chingtord church. Its truck has become veritable timber, and It can .scarcely bi younger than the fabric to which It clings. If we go further afield numerous instances may be recalled of giant trees—gigantic, that is to say. for these temperate regions. It is to be feared that they are doomed to perish when they grow in the outskirts of large towns.- 4 -London Globe.

provements io the Pedricktown chi and for other additions has been by contributions from the parishioner*. The auto line from Mullica Hill to Mantua is in operation again after a breakdown, and the company has or-^ dered two more vehicles.' - The twenty-ninth annual convention of the New Jersey W. C T. U. will be held in Cape May for four days be-

ginning October 7.

Gray squirrels are playing havoc with

fields of cofn located near tracts of

woodland in'-Hunterdon county. Ah agent ha* beeh\scouring Salem buying up old apple tree butts.

tin a cord,

ybf Wenonah. ha? an thirty fine' oranges

ir picking.

'oodstown Borough Council has donated $50 to the PiTesgrove Library

Association.

The Gertfian language is to be taught in the Woodstown public school this

term.

The third anniversary of the Camden }Y. M. C. A. trill be held Monday. October 6. Boy will Maks His Mark. Body Burdltt, Buel, Texas, is a 15-

old

linger. fo\ We

orange tree with thirty nearly ready ' : " 1 ' : —

Wood

pick

tbo money earned he clothed himself and saved three dollars. With this three dollars he bought a pig, kept ber

a four months' old oolt for five dollars and sold her later tor fifteen dollars. He now has fifty-five dollars loaned at 10 per cent Interest.

■ale by aucUon of. a local meadow. Long ago. when the world was not so busy as it Is to-day, the landlord of the “white brown meadow" at Bourne bequeathed the meadow subject to an auction sale which evety now and again adds to the gayety of this hirnl population. At each bid a boy seta out to rnn to a given point soff the “white brown meadow" is let to the bidder whose offer U unchallenged

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