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Miss Ethel Buel Allen
Miss Ethel Buel Allen, formerly
d Geneva, N. Y., Milwaukee,
s., and New York, N. Y., died
early this morning after a pro
longed illness. She is survived by
two sisters, Misses Elizabeth and
Edith Allen;
Miss Allen was an alumna of
Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity, and taught three years in
the Collegiate School for Boys in
New York City. For many years
she was a Visiting Teacher on
the staff of the Public Education
Association in New York City,
and later years was editor of The
Recorder, A Bulletin of Visiting
Teachers Work, the official orgjin
of the National Association of
Visiting Teachers. Miss Allen
has resided for the past year with
her sisters in Try on.
Funeral services will be held
a Friday at 2:30 p. m., at the
ie. The Rev. Chas. L. McGav
ern, will officiate. Inter.ment will
be in Tryon cemetery. The pall
bearers will be Walter Howell, W.
W. Creasman, William Gray,
Stephen Dorr, C. L. Clingan, Dr.
John Z. Preston and Dr. Allen
Jervey.
Ladies to Have Program
At Brotherhood Meeting
The Baptist Brotherhood will
hold a ladies night program on
Friday might at 7 o’clock at the
church dining room. The program
will be in charge of the ladies.
About 50 plates are being reserv
ed.
PA AND THE TURKEY
The Three great holidays of
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year have come and gone and
with them milloins of American
turkeys. And thereby hangs a
tale. The pater familias in millions
of homes ahs been subjected to
the annual humiliation caused by
having to carve the turkey.
For most men this carving of
the turkey on any of these fall
or winter holidays is full of dyna
mite. To illustrate: The com
pany is seated at the table on
which the piece de resistance is
a beautiful fat gobbler or hen
roasted to a tempting brown.
Then father comes to bat, so to
speak. With great dignity he rises
to the occasion with a bifurcal
dagger, known as a fork, in his
left hand and a carving knife
in his right.
The technique is to remove the
leg and wing of the bird on the
“nigh” side before attempting to
slice the white meat of the breast.
Father views the roasted bird
with the eye of a surgeon. The
fork takes hold and the knife
makes the incisions that are sup
posed to enable the carver to sever
the joint. But somehow, in the
majority of cases, Pa’s technique
is blocked by an obstreperous
bone. Vainly he endeavors to dis
joint the leg. Tenaciously the joint
resists his efforts. His face
grows serious, his hand begins to
tremble, on his forehead beads of
sweat accumulate.
The hungry diners look on with
anxious faces. Pa attacks from
several angles but his strategy
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