PRACTICAL SOCIAL WORK By DOMINICAN SISTERS Their Guild Pioneer in Field for the Betterment of Catholic Working Girls. ITS ACTIVITIES GROWING Review of Good Already Accomplished and Institution's Needs for the Future. With none of the publicity usually! accorded social settlement work, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine de ! Ricci. in charge of tile Catholic Guild i at No. 1814 Green street, have for j yea re been doing a great work as pio- • neers in the field for the betterment 1 and protection of Catholic working ] girls. So quietly but persistently has ! the work of the guild been conducted . that in spite of innumerable difficulties ; and lack of funds, an extensive move- ; ment for relieving the poor in their , home has been organized and a perma- 1 nent foundation laid for the assistance, of homeless or frendless young women, i With practically no experience and ' guided only by the desire to help the I poor and the unfortunate, the six | women— all of them young and cultured , —have studied every phase of social I "Pledeed to help and improve the con- 1 dition of the poor, the Catholic Guild : has branched out into a number of • . charitable activities. Visiting the poor ' and the unfortunate in their homes, ; Suggested the securing of employment for many, and a department was instituted where girls and women could I procure work by the day, and be given j three good meals. The need of a i boarding house for young women was i also recognized, and the convent Is I now virtually devoted to that work. ! Comfort for the Poorly Paid. I It has become the permanent home of ' about 100 young women, many of whom were strangers in the cit<\ were ' out of work or could not live on the ' small income received from their work. For the small 6um of $3 a week girls ' having poorly-paid work are giveii a ; comfortable home, good nourishment j and a separate sleeping room, while ' there are many who pay as little as .$1 i • or $2 a week, when their wages are too • small to pay the usual fee. Frequently | girls out of work can find shelter with- , out question of payment, and are placed in good positions by the Sisters. In recent years the young people of i the institution have been given the ad- • vantage of evening classes of instruc- . tion, where they can learn or perfect i their knowledge in some means of earning a livelihood. Every evening sc-cial instructors teach dressmaking, millinery. handwork, stenography and type- 1 writing, music, etc., the charges being ■ a nominal one to insure the attendance' of the pupils. The convent, while small and inade- j quale in many ways, is a delightful, home for the young women boarders. • the Sisters devoting themselves to mak- , - ing them happy as well as comfortable, • and providing them with ample recrea- ! tion. Large parlors are given over to i \jheir entertainment and the entertain- 1 ment of their friends, and fine concerts are frequently provided for the evenings. There is a wonderfully homelike i air and a freedom in the home which is i most unusual in such institutions. Vari- j ous musical instruments are played by ! the girls in the evening after their day's j ! work, while others furnish entertain- 1 ' ment by recitations or story-telling. Get Married From Guild. It is not an unusual thing for the 1 girls to be married from the Guild. A certain amoiint of freedom is permitted the girls in the way of attending ontside entertainments, but only on ^uch occasions are they permitted to ; remain out after 10 o'clock, one of the sisters always remaining up until the . last "child" is in bed. , For the benefit of old women a plain . -sewing circle has been introduced, where those incapacitated for ordinary ■work can earn a livelihood. Some of their work is given gratutiously to or- \ phan asylums, while the remainder is sold for the benefit of the Guild at the usual bazaars and festivals. A corps of social workers visit the homes of the most needy applicants for charity, and a trained nurse has recently been engaged " to look after the needs of the sick, who cannot afford the usual expenses of the sick room. On Christmas and other holidays hundreds of baskets j are sent to the poor, while during the] fear • they are supplied, so far as the i unds will permit, with nourishment j and delicacies. The Guild has recently 'become more of an educational centre, • courses of lectures in the higher branch- , es being given to the public. Retreats ' for professional and business women are also conducted each year by some noted preacher, usually a member of j . the .Tesuit or Dominican Order. While i the Guild is essentially Catholic it does . not limit its benevolence to members | of the church, any respectable, needy 1 ■person being equally welcome. Boarding for Catholic Girls. 1 There is a great need for a large in- ' stitution for boarding Catholic working 1 girls, and the Dominican Sisters are anxious to open up the new field. For I some years the need of such a board- j ing-hoiise, similar to the Young Worn- j en s Christian Association, has been ; freely discussed, but as yet no one with sufficient means has offered to: finance the venture. In spite of the large number of : Catholic working girls in the city, i there are but two small homes provid- 1 ed for them, that in addition to the Dominican Guild being at the Convent -of Mercy, at Broad street and Colum- 1 bia avenue, St. Mary's Home, which : has but a very limited capacity. Many of the pastors especially are anxious ! for the founding of a _ large home where young working girls can be i properly protected, the one point in dis- : pute being the government of such a borne, whether by a religous order or by a secular superintendent. It is generally felt, however, that the new institution will be in care of the Dominican Sisters, and will be conducted along the lines of the New York institution, which accommodates 600 women, under 1 the care of the Sisters of Jesus and Mary. Need for More Funds. j The present home of the Guild, while j ideally located, is far too small for its ; needs, and can accommodate only a ; small fraction of the girls who make ; application for board. Because of its | being comparatively little known among the well-to-do members of the community, the Guild has suffered for lack of 1 funds, and is now considering the pub- 1 lication of a pnmphlet showing its aims ; and needs.

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USEFUL TURPENTINE If applied before the Ink gets dry. turpentine and white soap will remove it A very few drops of turpentine on a woolen rag will remove dust and grime from tan or patent leather shoes. White stains on wood, caused by water or any hot objects set thereon. ' can lie removed by turpentine and linseed oil mixed in equal quantities. Ivory ornaments or statuettes that have turned yellow from age can be restored their former color if rubbed briskly with clean rag moistened with turpentine. Winter clothes may he protected against moths if sprinkled with turpentine and wrapped carefully in newspapers before they are laid away for the summer months. Again. Brown is revived for autumn and winter PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS — The needs are many. —Some public health needs are Insistent. —We have fine beating appnratus. but where, alas! is our "cooler?" —Hot weather is as much a menace to health as cold, but we have no cooling systems for homes and public buildings. —Probably the most pressing need we have is for a system of public convenience or comfort stations In towns and cities. —Other urgent needs are better sewage disposal, cleaner streets, wider knowledge of hygiene and sanitation, and health boards, conscientious and competent.

SNOW DRIFTS MOVED ALONG Wooden Construction Which Prevents Blockades on Railroads. An extremely ingenious method of avoiding snowdrifts on railroads forms the subject of a recent patent grant. The formation of snow drifts usually takes place at the same points each year, and is due largely to the contour of the ground forming a pocket in which the snow accumulates. These drifts rarely take place on level stretches, but in cuts where the tracks are shielded by hanks. These hanks facilitate the formation of drifts. The new system of drift prevention calls for the construction of a sort of an openwork scaffolding, sup. ported at a point Just over the ground and extending up above the top of the embankment. The theory of this is that the wind Is carried with Such force under these constructions that there is no opportninty for the snow to lodge. It is carried right along with the wind and deposited on the leeward side of the SCORE CARD NOT EVIDENCE Sunday Ball Arrests Fail When Games Were Not Seen. Hazleton. Pa.. Sept. 12.— The crusade of the Men's League of Zion's United , Evangelical Church of Hazleton . against Sabbath desecration, which led , to the arrest of 1!) members and officers of the Hazleton Heirhts and Swamp Pirates ball .clubs, charged with Sunday playing, collapsed at the office of Alderman Sherry, when it was shown tl>. at the names on the warrants had been secured from a score-card and that witnesses could not swear that they saw the defendants actually in action.

NO KNEES IN TROUSERS Reinforcement Which Keeps the Material From Creasing. | The offensive "knees" will not develop | 'n trousers, as they are worn if the gari | ment la supplied with a pair of crease i eradicatore, which have been patented by . u tailor of Haverhill, Mass. The Idea con- . sists of a pair of padlike devices made of . stiff material, and yet yielding to a cer- ■ tain degree in order that their presence , may not be made noticeable. The shield ■ is of circular proportions, several Inches • in diameter to cover the area where the "knees' generally develop. The apparatus i is held in place by a springy band ex- ■ tending across the inner surface of the I trousers legs and secured to the seam at i the side. ; UP THE SCHUYLKILL VALLEY ! , ••• - Corn thieves raided the fields of John Rudy, at ML Penn. .... Reading textile plants are being hnndlcapped by war shortage of dyes. . .. .Kutztown Poultry Association will notd ita poultry show December 7 to 11. \wlmnl" Armstrong was elected month Phoenlxville, at $40 per i •■••A carload of cows sold by J. H . Kceley at Phoemxvllle brought the high average of $80 a head. * 1 • • • .Dallas M. Blatt, a newspaper man - i'lrn-tss ffiSffifeiassf ; i„i -rfsf wB'tesrs'ftftsa shot In the head and Is in a serious condi , 7Y° thousand .six hundred and flftv- : nine dollars and 17 cents will be distributed to the 50 heirs of the late Stover Worman, of Boyertown. ....Charged with stealing about 200 pounds of chickens from a Neffsville farmer. Harry Kaftroth. arrested by a Reading detective, was held for Court.

Struck by an automobile driven by a woman in Phoenixville. Thomas Bruin, 72 years old. of Red Hill, was severely brnlsed and is in the hospital. • ■•Miss Elizabeth Mirlal Fox, of Readlug, will leave for Los Angeles, where she will be married to Ward Hayes, a scenic artist for a motion-picture company. ....Company officials occupied the first train to pass over the new double-track concrete bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad across the Schuylkill River at Phoenlxville yesterday. William McNabb, of Mnxatawny was burned about his neck and arms when the current suddenly was turned on a wire which he was helping to Join at the Kutztown-Iteadlng traction plant. Harry Whittier Frees, of Oaks Montgomery county, has published a hook entitled "The Little Folks of Animal Land." made up of his own photographs tume S' pupp other pets In cosPaul J. Renninger, of Reading, entered ball before United States Commissioner Henry Maltzberger on the charge of making a false oath In the United States Circuit Court in the case of Glnn Co. against the Apollo Publishing CornBrussels Sprouts au Gratin. Boll the sprouts tender in salted water, drain . and cut each sprout in four pieces. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter ana 1 flour and when tbey are blended pour upon I them a scant pint of milk. When yon have a smooth sauce ' stir the quartered sprouta into this. Season to taste, turn all Into a greased pudding dish, strew thickly with crumbs and 1 bits of butter and bake to a light brown. | ' Serve In the dish in which they were baked. (

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FRESH BRITISH WARNING CM" SI LLOYBEflBEE Minister Points to the Teuton j Superiority in Equipment and Material of War. 'SEES DISASTER POSSIBLE Victory Assured, He Says, if Preparations are Marked by Grim Resolution. London, Sept. ;2.— That the central Powers- still have au overwhelming: sttperiority In all the material and equipment of war, anil that the allies to win must put forth all their strength, is the statement made by David Llord(lenrge. Minister of Munitions, In the preface of a book containing his speeches since the outbreak of the war. mititled "Throng hi Terror to Triumph. " "After 12 months of war," he says, ••my conviction is stronger than ever that this country could not have kept out of it without imperiling its security and its honor. .We could not have looked on cymcally with folded arms while a country we had given our word to protect was- being ravaged, trodden on by "lip of our own co-trustees.- . If British women and children were being brutally destroyed on the high sens by German -I'bmariiies. this nation would have insisted on calling the infautieide Empire to a. stern reckoning. ■•Everything that has happened since the declaration of" war has elearlv demonstrated that a military system so regardless of good faith, honorable obligations and the elementary impulses of humanity constitutes a menace to civilization of the most sinister character. and, despite the terrible cost of suppressing it, the well-being of humanity demands that such a system should be challenged and destroyed. "The fact that events also have shown that the might of this military clique has exceeded the gloomiest prognostications provides an additional argument for its- destruction. Faith in Victory Strong. "Nor have the untoward incidents of the war weakened my faith in ultimate victory, always provided that the nations nut forth the whole of their strength ere it is too late. Anything less must lead to defeat. The allied countries have an overwhelming pre- ■ ponder, nice in the raw material that goes to the making of the equipment of arnuos, whether in men. money or accessible metal and machinery, but this material has to he mobilized and utilized. "It would be Idle to pretend that the ! first 12 months of the war have seen l this task accomplished satisfactorily. Had the allies realized in time the full strength of their redoubtable and resourceful foes: nay, what is more, had they realized their own strength anil resources and taken prompt action to organize them, today we should have witnessed the triumphant spectacle of their guns pouring out a stream of shot and shell which would have deuleed the German trenches with fire and scorched the German legions back across their frontier. "With the resources of Great Britam, France and Russia— yes, of the whole industrial . world— at the disposal of the allies, the central Powers still have an overwhelming superiority in all the material and eauipment of war. The result of this deplorable fact is exactly what might have been foreseen. The. iron heel of Germany has sunk deeper than ever into Belgian and French soil: Poland is entirely German, and Lithuania is rapidly following. Russian fortresses deemed impregnable are falling like sand castles before the ruthleas tide of Teutonic invasion. Need But War Material. "When will that tide recede or be stemmed? As soon as the allies are supplied with an abundance of war material." Lloyd-George says that he is recalling unpleasant facts to stir his countrvmen to put forth their strength to amend the situation. There has been a great awakening, lie says, and prodigious efforts are being made to equip the armlea, but, adds the Minister: "Nothing but our best can pull us through." He asks: "Are we straining every nerve to make up for lost time? Are we getting all the men we shall want to put into the firing line next year to enable us even to hold our own? Does every man who can help, whether by lighting or providing material, understand clearly that ruin awaits remis"How many people in this country fully apprehend to its full significance the Russian retreat? For over 12 months Russia, despite deficiencies in equipment, has absorbed the energies of half the German and four-fifths of the Austrian forces. Is it realized that for the time being Russia has made her contribution to the struggle for European freedom, and that we cannot for months to come expect the same active help from the Russian armies we have hitherto received? Who is to take the Russian place while those Russian armies are re-equipping? Who is to bear the weight which has hitherto fallen on Russian shoulders? 'France cannot be expected to sustain much heavier burdens than those she now bears with a quiet courage which has astonished and moved the world. Italy is putting her strength left °Dly Bri^in "Is Britain prepared to fill up the gap that will be created when Russia retires to the rear? Is she fully prepared to cope with all the possibilities of the next few months in the west without forgetting the east? Upon the answer will depend the liberties of Europe for many generations. A shrewd and sagacious observer told me the other dav that in his judgment the course pursued by this country during the next three months would decide the fate of tne war. "If we are not allowed to equip our "S? and workshops with adequate labor to supply our armies because we must not transgress regulations applicable tonormnl conditions: if practices are maintained which restrict the output of essential war material: if the nation hesitates when the need is clear to take the necessary steps to call forth its manhood to defend its honor and existen?e: decisions are postponed until too late; if we neglect to make ready for all probable eventualities; if, in fact, we give ground for the accusation that we are slouching into disaster as if we were walking along the ordinary paths of peace without an enemy sight, then I can see no hope. "But if we sacrifice all we own and all we like for our native land, and if our preparations are marked by grim resolution and prompt readiness in every sphere, then victory is assured." *

Daily Fashion Talks BY MAY M ANTON X REAL COMFORT

CO n OUT eiderdown in a rich dark-blue is the material that makes this robe and is one of the most satisfactory to be had. It is warm and light, thoroughly satisfactory' to wear, and durable as well. The trimming is silk binding. The robe is a perfectly tially masculine style and that in itself recommends it to the small boy. There are big patch pockets which a boy will find a real joy. If eiderdown is too heavy or seems overwarm, a light-weight flannel can be used, for there are beautiful ones made for the purpose, or terry cloth can be used, and cotton terry cloth can be- obtained in beautiful bordered effects that are suitable for such garments. Also, there are bath-robe blankets that are especially good. In addition to all its other advantages the robe is a very simple one to make, there being only the underplain sleeves stitched to the generous armholes. Cord and tassels appropriate fastening and, at the waist line, the cord is slipped under straps that hold it '

For the 6-year size will be needed 3^2 yards of material 27 inches wide, zYz yards 36, 2% yards 44. with % yard 21 inches wide for the bands. The May Manton pattern No. 8425 is cut in sizes for boys from 2 to 8 years of age. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten cents.

Design by Mcy M anion. 8425 Child's Bath Robe, 2 to 8 years.

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OOMBINA. garments are the favorite ones just now. In this one a corset cover or brassiere and drawers are made in one and the result is- most satisfactory. The fortable, easy to adjust, and anything that reduces the built of the underwear is sure to be welcome. The leg, portions may be- left plain or may be drawn up and finished withi bands, and the neek edge can be cut round with armholes, or the upper portion can be cut off straight above the bust line and shoulder straps, attached to hold it in place. In the largest view, the garment is made of crgpe de chine trimmed with washable silk that is finished with picot edges. In the small front view it is made of fine batiste seal-, loped, and the back view of the same material with trimming of lace. The _ garment is a very

simple one to make and is, perhaps, especially desirable beneath evening gowns. For the medium size there will be needed 2}^ yds. material 36 or 2 yds. 44 in. wide, with % yd. of washable silk 27 or 2H yds. insertion for The May Manton pattern 8521 is cut in three sizes, small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, large 42 or 44 in. bust measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten cents.

Design by Hay M anion 8521 Combination Undergarment, 34 or 36, 38 or 40, 42 or 44 bust.

8273 Twn-Piece Skirt, 32 to 33 waist.

8632 Skirt with Plaits at Sldatt 24 to 32 waist.