The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Largely Attended Mass Meeting Held at Odd Fellows Hall Monday Evening in the Interest of the Candidacy of Hon. Oscar DePriest for Alderman of the Second Ward HON. EDWARD D. GREEN WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING AND HE VERY ABLY PUT TO FLIGHT HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT, COL. JAMES T. BREWINGTON AND SEVERAL OTHERS WHO SEEMINGLY WERE IN FAVOR OF BREAKING IT UP OR STARTING A ROUGH HOUSE. THE MEETING WAS ADDRESSED BY CONGRESSMAN MARTIN B. MADDEN, STATE SENATOR SAMUEL A. ETTELSON, DR. J. W. MC DOWELL, REV. E. J. FISHER, PASTOR OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHUCHE, ATTORNEY WILLIAM L. MARTIN AND HON. OSCAR DE-PRIEST. IT WAS PREELY PREDICTED BY EACH AND EVERY SPEAKER THAT INASMUCH AS OSCAR DE-PRIEST HAS BEEN UNANIMOUSLY ENDOSED BY THE SECOND WARD REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION THAT HE WILL BE NOMINATED AT THE FEBRUARY PRIMARIES, ELECTED AT THE APRIL ELECTION AND THAT HE IS ALREADY HEADED FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. Vol. XX. Largely Attended Meeting of Fellows Hour Evening in of the Court Hon. Oscar for Alden Second W HON. EDWARD D. GREEN WAS THAT HE VERY ABLY PUT TO FLIGHT JAMES T. BREWINGTON AND WERE IN FAVOR OF BREAKING HOUSE. THE MEETING WAS ADDRESSED BY DEN, STATE SENATOR SAMUEL REV. E. J. FISHER, PASTOR TORNEY WILLIAM L. MARTIN. IT WAS PREEELY PREDICTED BY INASMUCH AS OSCAR DE PRÉDORSED BY THE SECOND WAY THAT HE WILL BE NOMINATED ELECTED AT THE APRIL ELSE HEADED FOR THE CITY COUN Monday evening the followers of Hon. Oscar DePriest held a largely attended meeting at Odd Fellows Hall 3335 South State street. It was what might be called a run-over or a hold-over meeting from Friday evening, which was held at 3439 South State street, which was addressed by Congressman Martin B. Madden, Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson, State Senator-elect, Alderman George F. Harding and others. At this meeting for the first time in the history of Chicago a Colored man was endorsed for alderman of this city, for at this meeting Hon. Oscar DePriest was endorsed as the regular Republican candidate for alderman of the second ward by the Republican organization of that ward. Nineteen Colored precinct captains out of twenty and thirty White precinct captains came out flat-footed for him, and as there are only fifty precincts in that ward, it is just as plain as your nose on your face that all the Republican precinct captains except one are shouting for him for alderman. Hon. Edward D. Green presided over the meeting at Odd Fellows Hall and he was more than a match for the Hon. Edward H. Wright, Col. or the Hon. James T. Brewington and several other first-class gentlemen who were in evidence at the meeting for the sole purpose of asking a lot of senseless questions, thereby hoping and praying that somehow or other the meeting could or NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. A Thought for the Week.—It is passing strange that we have not seen at the movies photo-plays truly depicting Negro life and characteristics. We have, of course, seen a few mediocre efforts along this line, but the writers of this class of film plays appear to have overlooked their most valuable and prolific source of plots. Instead of attempting the creation of new plots, they should devote their attention to the world of material to be found in the Negro folk-songs, the stories of "Uncle Remus" and the poems of Dunbar. Who could ever forget a photo-play based upon "The Party," "The Rivals" or "When Malindy Sings." Here is the opportunity to produce something clean, interesting and instructive in movie stories and at the same time preserve that which is the only purely American classic—Negro folk-lore and songs. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAX would break up in disgrace and in confusion and that a rough-house would be started. The meeting was addressed by that tried and true friend of the Afro-American race, Congressman Martin B. Madden, State Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, Dr. J. W. McDowell, Rev. E. J. Fisher, the brave and eloquent pastor of Olivet Baptist church, Attorney Wm. L. Martin and Hon. Oscar DePriest, and it was freely predicted by each and every speaker that as long as Oscar DePriest had been unanimously endorsed for alderman by the second ward Republican organization, that he will be nominated at the February primaries and elected at the forthcoming April election—that he is already headed for the city council. It was further contended by the various speakers that if the Colored voters residing in the second ward really wanted a Colored man to honestly represent them in the city council that they had a splendid chance to accomplish that object by standing by Oscar DePriest, as not one thing could be said against him in any direction; that his record as county commissioner for four years was one that anyone could be porud of—that he is a successful business man, property holder, that in every way he reflects great credit on the Afro-American race and that he will make a dandy alderman. Mr. C. C. Amey, a former member of the faculty of the A. & M. College at Greensboro, N. C., has established a broom factory at Durham, N. C. The Loyal Sanitary League and Railroad Arbitration Bureau with headquarters at Newbern, N. C., have succeeded in securing better and more sanitary waiting-room and traveling accommodations on all railroads entering their city. Under the leadership of Rev. J. T. Gaskill, the president, they hope to help other communities accomplish the same results. Mr. R. J. Royster, a former headwaiter of the Hotel Hayward, Boston, Mass., has purchased the Melbourne Hotel situated at 805-815 Tremont St. Following complete overhauling and remodeling, it will be open to Colored patrons especially. Mr. Royster is a well known fraternal man. Miss Elaine Welch, a former student at Howard University, has been appointed head of the sales department of the E. W. D. Welch Furniture Co., [Name not visible in the image] of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Welch is president of the Dallas Negro Business League. Mr. C. C. Spaulding, manager of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association of Durham, N. C., has joined the Buy-A-Bale movement. Mr. J. S. M. Bock, a prominent and wealthy Colored real estate man of Philadelphia, died last week. For the past twenty years Mr. Brock had charge of the buying and selling of property for Mr. John Wanamaker. The Chicago Broad Ax is conducting a live subscription contest. The first prize is a 35-horse power automobile. The Colored citizens of Lexington, Ky., are holding meetings to devise some plan to have a Colored industrial insurance company located in their city. arine Williams and Messrs. Cary B. Lewis, Frank W. Henry and Joseph A. Marshall will deliver the prize essays giving their views on "The Best Solution of the Race Problem in the United States of America." The prizes, a lady's and a gentleman's diamond ring, for the successful lady and gentleman contestant, will be on exhibition at Bethel church Sunday. The essays have already been delivered to the judges who met this week, when rating sheets and special instructions were given them. According to the rules which were published in this paper November 7th, and to which the contestants heartily agreed, the judges were named by the contestants. The contestants were instructed to submit typewritten copies of their essays, but to omit having their names attached to them. The essays were numbered so that the judges will handle them according to the numbers only. Because the writers of the essays will not be known to the judges. The Harding-Cox-Martin Syndicate, a Colored real estate corporation of Boston, Mass., are reported to have added 56 new charter members to their roster within the past ten months. DATE FOR ESSAY CONTEST FAST APPROACHING. Essays Now in Hands of Judges—To be Grand Social as well as Literary Event. Sunday afternoon, December 20th, is fast approaching when the Fifth Annual Essay Contest will be held at Bethel church under the auspices of the Bethel Literary Club. This event will eclipse any similar event held in Chicago in recent years, as all the literary and women's clubs in the city have been sent invitations to attend in bodies. The management are leaving no stone unturned to make this affair the history making literary carnival of Chicago, and because of the enthusiasm and anxiety already manifested it is felt they will not be deceived in their expectations. The Great Burley Girls Chorus under direction of Mme. Eudora Fisher-Lockett, Miss Ethel Minor, the accomplished pianist, Miss Lillian Hunt, the popular organist of Bethel choir, and Mrs. T. A. Smythe, wife of the able pastor of Bethel church, will render selections to give the proper symmetry to the program. Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines and Miss Lenora T. Curtis and Kath- --- arine Williams and Messrs. Cary B. Lewis, Frank W. Henry and Joseph A. Marshall will deliver the prize essays giving their views on "The Best Solution of the Race Problem in the United States of America." The prizes, a lady's and a gentleman's diamond ring, for the successful lady and gentleman contestant, will be on exhibition at Bethel church Sunday. The essays have already been delivered to the judges who met this week, when rating sheets and special instructions were given them. According to the rules which were published in this paper November 7th, and to which the contestants heartily agreed, the judges were named by the contestants. The contestants were instructed to submit typewritten copies of their essays, but to omit having their names attached to them. The essays were numbered so that the judges will handle them according to the numbers only. Because the writers of the essays will not be known to the judges, this will prevent any possible favoritism being shown on the part of the judges to the contestants. This explanation is being made, not because there is fear of any favoritism on the part of the judges, for a most competent corps of judges have been selected, but because there has been some reference made in one of the weekly papers of this city to "fixing the contests." This is not only unfair, but impossible, and if the writer of that article would acquaint himself with the facts and rules governing this contest, which have all been published in these columns, it would be quite apparent that the article would not have been written. B. W. Fitts, M'gr. J. E. Mitchem, Ass't M'gr. HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER, RE-ELECTED CLEER OF THE COUNTY COURT, WITH MORE THAN SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND MAJORITY AT-HIS BACK. HE MAY MAKE THE RACE FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO AT THE SPRING ELECTION. The official returns of the November election plainly indicate that the Hon. Robert M. Swetzer, Clark of the County Court, is the most popular and painstaking official in Cook county, for he was re-elected to his present position with more than seventy-six thousand majority at his back, leading all the Only Seventeen More Days to Work. Extra Votes--Extra Votes One Week Only Double Vote Offer to Close December 14 Madam E.M. SCOTT in the Lead Owing to the great number of promises that most of the contestants have received in the past two weeks, the management will offer one more special offer. This will be absolutely the last offer to be made during this contest, so if you failed to get all the business possible in during the time of the Triple Offer, do not fail to take advantage of this golden opportunity. For one week you will have the opportunity of securing just twice as many votes on business as the original scale indicated. For example, a $2.00 subscription or advertisement will get you 2,000 votes whereas before you could only get 1,000 votes. Remember that this is the last offer and closes at 9:00 o'clock, December 14, 1914. The Reason. We are offering this double vote offer on account of the great number of promises that the greater number of contestants had for payments of subscriptions and advertisements after the first of December. This gives every one an equal chance to secure such business that has been promised, but were unable to get it in on the triple offer. Therefore we cannot impress on you too strongly to get all the business in that you possibly can on or before the 14th of December and secure the double vote offer, which is the LAST. Mme. E. M. Scott Leads. Mme. Scott, 3611 South State street, by her hard work now leads the list of contestants. She for one took advantage of the great Triple Offer and therefore has gained the lead. But this double vote offer gives the balance of the contestants a chance to pass her and probably win out. It is simply up to yourself whether or not you are at the head of the list on December 14th. The time is so short that you must do it now if you are ever going to do it. Do not be discouraged but stick to it and MAKE all your friends give you an advertisement or subscription; that is the only way that you will be declared a winner. Almost Ninety Dollars a Day. Almost ninety dollars a day—that other candidates, both Democrats and Republicans, who sought the votes of the electorate of this city and county at the November election. Mr. Sweitzer may be persuaded to make the race for Mayor of Chicago at the coming spring election. If he should decide to do so he would be elected with both hands down. THE STREAM OF DOUBT. In South America a stream I found that ran up hill. "Tis not a molly coddle dream, For it flows backwards still. Abram Dale Gash. No.11 is exactly what it means to the contestant who gets busy now and wins out in the Great Race. Have you ever before made such money as that? Then why not exert yourself to the limit in order to win out in this, the greatest chance of your life time? Do not stop for a minute; keep after your friends continually; if you cannot see them, phone to them or write to them and tell exactly what it means to you if they support you. Remember that you can secure business anywhere in the country or the city. For the effort that you put up now you will be well repaid if you fail to win the big $1,500.00 automobile, as the second prize, the $650.00 Steven M. Meyers player piano is a beauty and a lovely addition to any one's home. Never Too Late to Enter It is not yet too late to enter the contest, as you are just in time now to take advantage of the Great Double Offer, which starts today and closes December 14, 1914. So you can see where a few yearly subscriptions will place you in the race. The Time is Short. Yes, indeed, the time is short, as the contest will positively close on the 21st of December, 1914. So there is no time to be lost now. Look over the prize list again and see the beautiful things that have got to be delivered on the night of the 21st, and see if it is not worth your time to never cease trying to be declared the winner. Also notice the list of contestants and note what a few "live ones" there are in the race. Don't wait but get out now and get the business and be the proud possessor of the $1,500.00 automobile. New Vote Scale for Ten Days Only. New Vote Scale for Ten Days Only— Ends December 14, 1914. Ends December 14, 1914. This scale changes to old scale Dec. 15. 1 year. $ 2.00. 2,000 votes 2 year. 4.00. 6,000 votes 3 year. 6.00. 12,000 votes 4 year. 8.00. 20,000 votes 5 year. 10.00. 30,000 votes Votes on advertising will be issued exactly as per subscriptions. THE NEW ATLAS THEATER CON- TINUES TO RUN TO CAPACITY HOUSES. The beautiful new Atlas Theater located on the east side of State street just south of 47th street, continues to run to capacity-houses at each and every performance. It is by far the best and most up-to-date moving picture house on the south side and D. A. Dooley, progrisor and T. E. Murphy, manager, are well pleased the support the Atlas has so far received from its patrons, who are at full liberty to occupy any seat in the house which happens to strike their fainey. PAGE TWO Woman's World Mme. Matzenauer's Baby May Some Day Be a Great Singer. Photo by American Press Association. MME. MARGARETE MATZENAUER AND BABY If heredity counts for anything the baby pictured here may one day be a very great musician. Its parents are two world famous singers. Baby's name is Adrienne Matzenauer-Fontana, and she is the daughter of Mme. Margarete Matzenauer, the celebrated contralto, and of Signor Edouard Ferari-Fontana, the Italian tenor. Little Miss Adrienne was born in Boston and has traveled much with her parents, who fill many concert engagements besides singing in grand opera. This year she has settled down to a comparatively quiet life, for her parents are appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for the season. Mme. Matzenauer is a Viennese by birth, though most of her life was spent in Germany. She has very sensible ideas of how a baby should be beared and is much prouder of her little girl than of all the applause with which great audiences reward her arias. Papa Fontana is inclined to spoil baby, and their friends, who include all the famous musicians of the Metropolitan, are enthusiastically devoted to the little tot, who, although not a year old, seems to have a singular appreciation of music. There is no doubt that no other baby in the world is put to sleep to such beautiful hullies as soothe the little Matzenauer Fontana baby to rest. FANCY UMBRELLA TOPS Novelties to Suit All Purposes That Make Ideal Christmas Gifts. A sensible gift for a friend is an umbrella. It is an article that never comes amiss since one's stock needs to be so often replenished. While it is to be feared, with most of us, the possession of a really handsome umbrella is a joy too brief, the careful soul who M WATCH UMBRELLA TOPS. never loses one may have a good frame recovered or the elegant handle removed and placed in a newer umbrella. Separate handles for umbrellas are sold in the shops. They come in all styles and at prices to suit all purses. Illustrated here are novelty umbrella tops of carved and plain wood and artificial ivory. Tiny watches are in set neatly in the top. Colored Handkerchiefs Colored handkerchiefs are being used. They are made in dye linen to match the costume. if the color is light. To go with dark gowns the handkerchiefs must be virid, such as red, orange, green or purple. They are made of an exquisite quality of linen and hand hemstitched, the hems being about a quarter of an inch wide. The monogram is embroidered in a darker shade than the handkerchief. Saving on Rampers A man's shirt that has worn through at the collar may be made the foundation for rompers. There is a saving of time as well as material, for the pattern may be so laid on that the buttons down the front of the shirt come at the back of the romper. This leaves only the buttonholes in the seat to be made. The little sleeves come out of the big Good form Christmas Parties For Children. For wee folks' Christmas parties early hours are considered best. From 8 to 6 o'clock is the favorite time. The invitations are generally written by the mother, as hostess, but the children's party paper may be used if preferred. For children from six to ten years old the games chosen must be selected with an eye to keeping all amused at the same time. In many instances there is a Punch and Judy show, a magician or an expert with a stereopticon machine. Sometimes a professional woman plans and leads the games. Where this is not done, then the mother has to be the leading spirit. The salmagundi idea solves the difficulty of keeping all amused at the same time. At each table, at which four children play, is a different game. There are a first and a second prize table, and the winners advance after each game. Old maid, jackstraws, table baseball, Uncle Sam's mall, mixed pickles, pussie building, electric questioner and any of the new games that will be found in variety in the toy shops may be used. Then, after a game of blind man's buff, magical music or throw the handkerchief, they will be glad to sit down for their refreshments, which should be ready at 4:45 o'clock, so that they may have a little fun afterward with their mottoes and prizes before it is time to start for home. Acknowledging Christmas Gifts Courtesy demands that Christmas gifts should always be promptly acknowledged. There is, however, a growing tendency, particularly on the part of the young people, to put off acknowledgments, both of holiday gifts and of invitations, until the limits of good breeding are exhausted, and it is largely the tolerance of the parents which allows such a state of things to exist. Mothers hate to nag, especially in vacation time; but, since the notes must be written sooner or later, they might just as well be composed at once, and the day after Christmas is an excellent time for the purpose. The host of friends and relatives who have endeavored to add to the children's pleasures at Christmas, even though they may not have made a happy selection, would feel much more as though their gifts were appreciated if a prompt acknowledgment were received. The point is lost if a tardy note of thanks is received somewhere after the first week in January. Mothers are blamed by outsiders for many things for which they are not really at fault, but beyond a doubt the habit of prompt replies to correspondence of any sort should be inculcated in early childhood or it will never become a habit, and unless it becomes second nature the fault is never corrected. The mother must make herself responsible for prompt replies until the children reply without her prompting. Convenient Correspondence Cards. In the acknowledgment of Christmas gifts, the writing or acceptance of holiday invitations, the correspondence card is a great convenience. Although the ordinary correspondence card has fallen into disfavor, there are some which illuminate the present tango craze. The border, which runs across one side only, is made up of tiny black silhouette figures in various poses of the dance. A fine line in the new brilliant tango shade runs just beneath the border. Another attractive style for those who prefer the card to the note paper was seen the other day in an exclusive shop. About one inch of the card was folded back to form a flap and the monogram was designed in the center of the flap. Amusing After Dinner Trick An amusing trick to perform by the amateur magician for after dinner amusement on Christmas is the following: Take a dinner plate and fill with water to the depth of an eighth of an inch, perhaps a little more. Then put a small bit of candle in the center, light and over it place a tall glass tumbler, such as lemonade or ice tea is served in. Just as the inverted tumbler touches the plate the water will rise within the glass. The taller this covering the more effective the trick. CRANBERRY TARTS. We are all more or less familiar with cranberry tart at Christmas time. Sometimes the tart shells are filled with plain sauce, while pie crust is latticed across the top. A cupful of seeded and chopped raisins may be added by way of variation. Whole berries cooked in sirup may be used with a meringue top. If the uncooked berries are used they should be mashed and well sweetened before being placed in the crust. It requires forty-five minutes to an hour to thoroughly make the tarts in this case. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 5, 1914 ```markdown ``` BROCADE EVENING COSTUME If you are planning a costume for the Christmas week dance the gown illustrated here has many style points to recommend it. The dress is of silver brocade, with the bodice cut on very straight lines. From beneath the latter falls a double tiered skirt of ecru lace. At the back and sides the brocade is draped up under a large flat bow of the same material. UPHOLSTERING FURNITURE With Bright Colored Chints a Dingy Set Can Be Successfully Done Over. A young matron recently did over her living room at the minimum of expense and the maximum of beauty. She did practically all the upholstery herself. The walls were left the same—a pale green—but the furniture, which was in velvet of a deeper shade, was covered with chints in a big rose design, the colors soft and contrasting beautifully with the pale walls. The chints was purchased at 25 cents a yard. She first fitted each chair with a paper pattern, cutting and fitting the cover in this way before cutting the chints. The result was that her covers were almost perfect in fit, piped with a green braid and finished in an entirely professional manner. Not content with this she decided to add another new touch to the room by making window hangings of chintz. These were straight pieces of the goods edged with a pretty ball fringe she had purchased for a few cents a yard. The thin under curtains were of white scrim edged with a heavy imitation cluny lace. Homemade cushions of imitation fillet lace, made over pink covers, added to the general scheme of dainty comfort, and several pretty lamp shades, made with her own hands, added just the soft light the room needed. When the whole was finished the amateur upholsterer surveyed her work with pride, and she was quite justified in doing so. CHRISTMAS HINTS. Yule packages are intensely exciting if each gift before being tied on the tree is wrapped in successive papers, with successive addresses, so that no one knows if the present will stay with him or whether he must hand it on to another. ```markdown ``` Christmas bags offer a pleasant diversion. They are made of tissue paper, 18 by 9 inches, and filled with bonbons. Suspend each by a thread in the doorway, blindfold each child and let him try to knock one with a cane. If successful at the second or third effort "to the winner belongs the prize." 统统 If the foliage of a Christmas tree is brushed here and there with mucilage and then sprinkled with common salt a very pleasing result is obtained. A pretty drapery for the tree is made by cutting long strips, about four inches wide, of tissue paper, then cutting it closely, partly but not entirely across the widths, making fringes. If the strips be dampened and held over a hot stove the fringed edges will curl and look quite ornamental. 就 A green ball to suspend over the Christmas dinner table is made by fastening two keg boops together, one within the other, turning each way, like an open globe. Twine pine around each hoop and put in sprigs of holly here and there. ```markdown ``` PLAID GINGHAM DRESS. Possibly you may have noticed that all the little girls of your acquaintance are wearing plaids. They are favored for school frocks and are usually of some washable fabric. Tub frocks are popular even for winter, and worn over warm clothing they are quite practical. Pictureed here is a plaid gingham dress, which is practical for school wear with an outer coat. Smart in the yoke, it has rounded flounces, white collar and cuffs, with low belt for the shapeless girl of the lanky age. HOUSEHOLD FERNS. How to Pot and Care For These Popular Plants. The idea that ferns must have no sun is wrong. Ferns may live in the shade. There are some sorts, of course, that are scorched by the sun. But most ferns that are cultivated in the house like much light and some sunlight. Window boxes should be sprinkled lavishly with water twice a day. If it is dry and dusty the leaves should be well shaken before sprinkling. If possible get the earth with which to fill your boxes from an old hotbed—rich loam and rotted manure about half and half. Failing that, take any which is handy and enrich it with ammonia and bonemeal, mixed well through. A heaping teaspoonful of the bonemeal or a tablespoonful of manure is enough for a six inch pot of earth. Liquid fertilizer, likewise, must be kept off the roots, stems and leaves. Make a hole at one side or a trench just inside the pot rim, pour in the fertilizer and let it sink, then put back the earth and water the pot well. Black Neck Ribbons Black moire ribbon one-half inch wide is used for lorgnettes in place of the usual grosgrain. In fact, moire ribbon is used exclusively, and every one is wearing it around the neck, hanging to about the waist line, a pendant of some sort hanging from it. Gold or jeweled slides are frequently seen, and they naturally correspond with the pendant. GIFTS TO INVALIDS. A word of warning in regard to holiday gifts for sick friends. Let them be selected with care lest you make more work for the nurses who have other duties each day that must be done. Too many flowers, for instance make extra work, as they must be freshened in the morning and put out at night; even the most patient relative often lets the invalid see that the work is a burden. Better one fine rose in one of the new single stem vases which enables one to study and enjoy it by itself. 较较 Find out before you take or send fruit whether it can be enjoyed by the sufferer. Often she must by the doctor's orders merely feast her eyes on the lovely peaches or grapes, and often the wine jelly you have made with such care has to be handed over to others, because she has been told that alcohol will not be good for her. 就 就 Use paper plates, napkins, etc., whenever possible in sending food, for your nervous invalid worries until plates, cups or napkins and all accessories are returned in good order, and this requires thought and care for the patient helpers. If you send books select those of a light or humorous character. Avoid those which are dull, pessimistic and end unhappy. A heavy, roughly bound book is inconvenient for an invalid to handle. Cookery Points CHRISTMAS DINNER. Oyster Soup. Crackers. Celery. Salted Almonds. Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly Mashed Potatoes. Onions in Cream Chicken Pie. Fruit Pudding. Hard Sauce. Mince Pie. Ice Cream. Fancy Cakes. Fruit. Nuts and Raisins. Bonbons. Crackers. Cheese. Coffee. The Christmas Fowl. To prepare the turkey for roasting remove the pin feathers and singe off the hairs over an alcohol flame; then thoroughly wash and wipe with a soft cloth; then draw the fowl and wash inside with warm water. Cut off the neck close to the body, leaving the skin to fold over the opening. Then bend the leg back and carefully cut the skin on the joint, just enough to expose the sinews without breaking them and draw them out by a fork. Then break off the leg at the joint, the sinews hanging to it. Cut the oil sack away. Now it is ready to stuff. Put the stuffing that is to be used, a little in the neck, the rest in the body, and sew up the opening. Draw the skin of the neck smoothly down and under the back, pressing the wings close to the body and fold the pinions under the back, holding down the skin of the neck. Press the legs close to the body and slip them under the skin as much as possible. Press the trussing needle, threaded with white twine, through the wing by the middle joint, pass it through the skin of the neck and back and out again at the middle joint of the other wing. Return the needle through the bend of the leg at the second joint, through the body and out at the same point at the other side; draw the cord tight and tie it with the end at the wing joint. Thread the needle again and run it through the legs and body at the thigh bone and back at the ends at the drumsticks; draw the drumstick bones close together, covering the opening made by drawing the fowl, and when roasted cut on opposite side and draw out Jallied Peaches. For making these drain the stirp from a jar of peaches and cut the fruit into small pieces. Measure the stirp, and if there is not enough to make one pint add enough water to make the desired quantity. Heat the stirp to the boiling point and stir in one tablespoonful of granulated gelatin softened in one-half cupful of water. Stir until dissolved; add one tablespoonful of lemon juice, let stand in a cool place until it begins to thicken; then add the peaches, turn into a mold and let harden. Serve with whipped cream. Fresh Fruit Cake. Two two eggs with the whites and yolks beaten separately; one cupful sugar, one-half cupful boiling milk, a little salt, one cupful pastry flour, one one-quarter teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with orange. Bake one-half hour. When cold split and fill with the following mixture: Stiffly beat the white of one egg, grated rind and juice of one-half orange; confectioner's sugar to spread and not run. Frosting.—One-half white and one half yolk of one egg. A little orange juice and confectioner's sugar to spread. Corn Salad With Mayonnaise. Line a salad bowl with small white leaves of a head of lettuce and heap the kernels of stewed canned corn in center. Pour the mayonnaise over the whole, being sure to have plenty of it. The toothsomeness of corn as a salad ingredient is just becoming known. It is much better eaten alone with a mayonnaise than mixed with other vegetables. Purse of Sweet Potatoes. Peel and boil sweet potatoes about one hour. Or if convenient bake them, as this increases their sweetness. Wash through a coarse sieve add a large tablespoonful butter and enough hot milk to make soft and yet retain shape when heaped in a mound. Season. Pile on platter, make depression in center and fill with rich tomato sauce. Keeping Chicken Fresh A chicken not to be used for a day or two may be preserved without fear if wrapped in cloth. Cheesecloth will do nicely. So often when left in the ice chest unwrapped or wrapped in paper the skin becomes sticky and one is really fearful of using it. HOW TO ROAST A TURKEY. To roast a turkey properly, says an authority, singe, draw and truss the bird for roasting, peel fifty or sixty chestnuts, bianch them in boiling water and then boll them until soft and chop fine. Empty two marrow bones and mix marrow and chestnuts together. Stuff turkey and roast it in a hot oven,asting it constantly with butter. When cooked place the bird on a hot dish and pour a little chestnut sauce over it. For the Children Christmas Comes With Holly and Mistletoe. THE FILM OF "THE LOVE OF THE WEEK" BY JOHN H. HARRIS, WITH A FILM BY JOHN H. HARRIS, AND A FILM BY JOHN H. HARRIS. Winter's in her glory come. The skating will begin. Icicles are round the home; The fire glows within. Christmas comes with holly bright. The girls and mistletoe. Join to make a merry sight As o'er the snow we go. Come with me into the wood. How dull the colors now! Birds can scarcely find their food. So deep it lies in snow. Squirrel in your cozy nest, A warm bed have you there Warm and cozy for your rest. Yet you're in winter's air. Christmas is a merry time, The merriest of the year That ever comes to this clima With bells all ringing clear. Christmas Customs Many countries claim that they have given the Christmas tree to the world, but its early days are so hidden in antiquity that it is difficult to say positively how it came to be. In the days of the early people of Europe trees were associated with their various observances. The pine tree was especially revered, and during the winter it was the custom of the northmen to hang gifts upon that tree for their gods. When Christianity descended upon these heathen people the idea of gifts was translated into a custom where offerings were made instead to the Christian God. Gift giving at Christmastide had this early origin, and since the early part of the nineteenth century the Christmas tree and the spirit of Christmas have been inseparable and will be for many years to come. Riming Dates One person is given a date by the hostess. He must use this date and some event connected with it in forming a riming couplet, as: In seventeen hundred and sixty-three The Boston men threw over the tea. After forming his rime he is at liberty to give a date to any person in the room, who in turn must continue the riming, and thus the game continues. Talking about dates, can you guess these dates? An office seeking date. Candidate. An overflowing date. Inundate. A heart shaped date. Cordate. A fear inspiring date. Intimidate. An obliging date. Accommodate. A date that adjusts and settles Liquidate. An anticipating date. Antedate. A date that makes solid Consol date. A. Drawing Affair. A DRAWING The materials required for this art tertainment are a fair sized black board, white crayon and slips of paper on which have been written names of familiar birds, animals and other obj ects. These slips are placed in a nat and presented to each guest who draws one. Upon call of the hostess each guest passes to the board and draws the named object. He is also required to write a poem of not less than six lines beneath the drawing. The poem is then read for the benefit of the assembly. This is a very amusing entertainment. ment the other similar game is known the Blind Artist. The guest is blind- folded and then asked to draw a certain object. A Jack Horner An excellent adjunct to a Christmas party at table is a Jack Horner plea, made of crape paper that exactly imitates the real old English plum pudding, with the branch of holly in the top, and all. This should be brought in with the dessert and be placed in the middle of the table. It is, of course, filled with favors and a ribbon runs from it to each guest. food for the mind? Bacon. What game do the waves play at? THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO. DECEMBER 5. 1914 (Ae, fe J a! ‘ Ay ee F ee oS te ame ert vie. ey a a ees A i a : its i ag ee nA ee e ee L mo a fe i — See a a Ae \ 5 ae Aya (Photo by American Press Association Farmhouses in Flanders, usvally of stone or brick, are used by combatants am both sides as forts. e — r ps an ee Esa rene es es ar ne? 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THE GERMAN CRUISER KARLSRUHE. oa fae A ca fe Pe Sea A Sah ‘ . fe re Pa : ee nae: Se ae a 3 ‘Tate worship has been Gesteoging eummerce tn the West Indies and near the const of South Ametion. THE YALE BOWL, WORLD'S FINEST STADIUM. Peers NCEE cn tn ES ea Rite rp ncn Fi n 3 7 i r 3 Fe meray eerie st 2>| 5 eee So MAES min! bl Bom owe 5 ree a Ses Foe nee | Sry £s.- : ao , OI TT Rg ¥ Sa Bere sac aN | Sie haat : {GALE 5 a 9 Ae OE Lal eae Ma Mies ae Oe y, Pe BE LAS 3g Le J et Fe kak WN yas Ea a eee SAN ees ee gieiate Shea sae. aN BNA oe a eS eye a ee NS) } ‘This new athletic field at New Haven will seat tore than 70,000 \CANADIAN- TROOPS CHEERING KING AND QUEEN. iff : ; ate iy, iit ef ay ti.7 $3, > ad } ee Ap ane nif ep ces Le Ue ah a tN | wir faba fie tela Ngee AN al ha a ie el | || Ta tea a Aaa eS ; Me RIRET TB y cle SE iy ae ee ia if r an ae eee ee _ SS ANSE CO SS eee ey GERMAN SOLDIERS IN CAMP. NS eee Ne ee ays Oh alae “ 5 ng <p BA ey Pn z ae Cae Geren ar lA As Se Re | OB 8 eee eo Sy Sees 8 a as . os Na ee ae PF Mees Foe teaeeY: as Pay itera 272° | BELGIAN GUNNERS IN FLANDERS. > SyY 41 | pote (AN i ee A j Fi , J ae zy 2 ——_ ae <a, | te hase br hime Pio sna ere ‘This rapid fre Geld plece is stationed among the sand dunes, PAGE THREE PAGE FOUR THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $8.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5007 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE DREXEL, 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1903, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. "JIM CROW" LAW HELD INVALID BUT U. S. SUPREME COUET REFUSES TO ENTER DECREE IN OKLAHOMA CASE. CALLS SUIT DEPECTIVE. Washington, D. C.—A majority of the Supreme court joined in an opinion that the Oklahoma "Jim Crow" law proviso permitting railroads to furnish sleeping, dining, and chair car accommodations only to the White race was unconstitutional, but they did not so decree because of imperfections in the petition. The case was one in which five Negroes, claiming that the entire law was unconstitutional, sought an injunction to restrain five railroads in Oklahoma from enforcing it. The Oklahoma federal courts dismissed the petition, holding the law constitutional. Affirm Dismissal of Suit The majority of the court affirmed the dismissal today because the Negroes had not shown they had applied to the railroads for accommodation under the law or that the railroads had notified them that they would be refused certain accommodations. The majority, through Justice Hughes, stated, however, that they could not agree with the lower court that the proviso regarding sleeping, dining, and chair cars was constitutional. A minority, consisting of Chief Justice White and Justices Holmes, Lamar and McReynolds, concurred merely in the order of affirmance. Holds Lower Courts Were Wrong In the opinion by the majority Justice Hughes stated that previous decisions that laws for separate coaches for the two races were constitutional were not to be questioned. The justice then pointed out that defects in the petition presented an insuperable obstacle to the granting of the injunction. Some of the ablest White and Colored lawyers in this city and in other parts of this country are firmly of the opinion that if the celebrated "Jim Crow Car Law" case of Oklahoma would have been properly presented to the United States Supreme Court that that august body would have without the least doubt declared it unconstitutional but such was not the case. At this distance from the scene of action it does seem that the Colored people residing in the "Jim Crow" state of Oklahoma would have displayed rare wisdom if they would have raised ten to twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum of money would have enabled them to select one or two eminent fair-minded White lawyers to assist the Colored lawyers who had charge of it; to have placed it square on all four of its feet before the Supreme Court, so that there would have been no possible way for its members to sidestep the main issue or contention by dodging behind tightly closed doors or darting through a loophole. The side talking of the Supreme Court Judges will not have the slightest hearing on the main points at issue one way or other if the case ever comes up for final adjudication by the highest court in the land.-Editor. PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE COLORED SLAVE AND THE COLUMBIA SHOW. President Jefferson was one day riding with his grandson when they met a slave who took off his hat and bowed. The president returned the salutation by raising his hat but the grandson ignored the civility of the Negro. "Thomas," said the grandfather, "do you permit a slave to be more of a gentleman than yourself?" It is convicuous, of course, that President Wilson should have "turned down" a Negro delegation's protest against segregation, a protest in which was embodied a principle as broad as human liberty, because their spokesman lacked "tact" in presenting their --- case. By the same token one might ignore a drowning man's cry for help on the ground that it was not uttered in a pleasant, persuasive tone of voice. —The Reporter, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 28, 1914. CHICAGO'S HEALTH EXHIBIT The people of Chicago who are interested in making it a better place to live in, should embrace the opportunity for studying the city's needs at the Public Health Exhibition now being held under the auspices of the Chicago City Club, which opened December 1st, and will continue to January 16th. This means that every good citizen should feel it his duty to visit not only once, but repeatedly, this exhibit. In his introduction to the booklet, which is intended as a guide for those who visit the exhibit, Prof. E. O. Jordan, Chairman of the Public Health Committee, well says that the public health is the most important material interest of the community and the state. Then he adds "Either the financial loss that preventable sickness and death bring upon a community or the blunting and disabling effect that illness has upon all the higher and finer forms of human activity would be sufficient reason for placing the conservation of human life and health as the most important function of normal community existence. The purpose of this great exhibit is to present in visualized form so far as can be done, Chicago's needs for better protection of its people's health, comfort and happiness, and in addition to show now these important adjuncts of city life may be secured and maintained. In this exhibit, which occupies practically the entire building of the City Club at 315 Plymouth Court, there will be presented in a visualized way, facts and figures showing how thousands of Chicago's lives and millions of its money can be saved. By charts and diagrams and by carefully compiled figures, the yearly losses from the preventable diseases are shown; and better still the methods that may be employed to reduce the needless waste of human lives and money. If you visit this exhibit here are some of the things that will be presented for your thought and study. Nine out of every ten school children in Chicago have serious or minor defects, which will impair their future efficiency unless cured. Appropriation of $125,000 by the city for infant welfare work will save $7,000,000 in human lives. Tuberculosis costs Chicago $28,000,000 a year. A procession of Chicago's tubercular victims marching four feet apart would extend from Lincoln Park to South Chicago. One half of the children who dies before two years of age are killed by impure food. Proper inspection would save nine-tenths of them. Defective health retards 12,000 school children, a year, causing an extra expenditure of $48 each or a total of more than $500,000 a year by the Board of Education. In order to see and study the exhibit in its entirety, it is suggested that visitors take the elevator to the sixth floor and work down; but before doing so, they should stop at the office on the main floor and procure the hand book which will give the location of the various health exhibits together with much other interesting information. ABEAM D. GASH WINS FAME AS MASONIC POET LAUREATE. Takes Prize for Song-Poem Offered by Edgewater Lodge. Abraham D. Gash, chairman of the Illinois State Highway Commission, is a poet. He is poet laureate of Edgewater Lodge, A. F. and A. M., having scored highest on the "muse meter" of that body. A song-poem contest was held, and Mr. Gash's effort, "Edgewater Lodge," was accepted by the judges as the best submitted. Here is the verse, which has been given to Robert E. Peters, director of the Edgewater Lodge Glee Club, to be set to music: EDGEWATER LODGE. When we meet around the altar In our consecrated fane, Every heart is bound together Sanctifies our presence here, In the fullness of each lesson That the lofty all revere. There's a maxim that each brother Has a will to her portrait In the lives of one another Bliss that never fades away; Duty glorifies the giver, Sacred cares we never dodge; Till we fly away forever We will love Edgewater lodge. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 5, 1914 Virginia A. H. W. MISS SINCLARE WHITE The noted young and charming violinist who has for sometime been making "a great killing" in the eastern cities and who is more than likely in the near future to appear before the footlights at one or two of the show houses on the State street stroll. The contest was anonymous, and was under the direction of William Karr Steele, master, and Charles H. Kern, secretary. Following is the introduction of the announcement which inspired the poetical compositions. Mr. Ben Clark has moved his family from Mound City to Mounds in his spacious new cottage. Mr. Clark is our energetic barber. Mound City "America' continues to be our national anthem because none better has ever been brought forward to take its place. It will ever live as a monument of patriotic praise and devotion. Would you seek admission into the temple of undying fame? Would you write your name indelibly on the page of your lodge's history? Here is your opportunity: We want a poem—a song—dedicated to Edgewater lodge and composed by a member of Edgewater lodge, singing its glories; telling its story, its purposes, its ideals." It is very pleasing to note that Col. A. D. Gash, author of the above lines, has been one of our steadfast friends for almost twenty years, first meeting him in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1895. He has the honor of being the first non-Mormon to be elected county or state's attorney of Provo county, Utah. Mr. Gash removed to Chicago in 1898 and opened his law office in suite 619, Oxford Bldg., 118 N. LaSalle street, where he has been located from that time to the present, where he has met with great success in the practice of his profession. His business card has appeared in another column of this paper every week, month or year since August 1, 1899, to the present time. Col. Gash is a classical writer, one of his productions be "The False Star," which flashes across the mind, a true pen picture of Utah; its far-famed valleys; its "Treasury walled cities of the gods" and its people—Editor. ST. MARK CHURCH NOTES. By A. A. J. Nimrod Rev. John W. Robinson preached a very pathetic sermon to a large congregation on last Sunday morning. Selecting his text from "The Acts," 10th chapter and 48th verse, which reads, "And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord." Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. It was truly spiritual and instructive and was received gladly. Eight persons were baptized and received into the rapidly increasing fold of God. You are cordially invited to come and worship with us. Services begin 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Rev. G. R. Bryant, D. D., Dist. Supt. of Indianapolis, Ind., will preach the regular quarterly meeting sermon on next Sunday morning. You would benefit by hearing him as he is a great divine. Gold bonds are being issued by St. Mark Church at a flattering rate of interest payable semi annually at 6%. A bond may be bought for the sum of $25.00, $50.00 and $100.00, up to a thousand dollars, giving as security about $50,000.00 worth of church property; the bond has both a marketable and negotiable value and can be secured at the Kenwood Trust and Savings bank, 47th St. and Grand Boulevard NEWS FROM MOUNDS AND MOUND CITY. St. Paul's A. M. E. closed their Thanksgiving rally Sunday night. The church divided into two clubs, namely the red and blue. The blue club raised $198.71. Mrs. S. J. Carr, President. The red club raised $101.86. Mrs. James Bushing, President. Total amount, $200.87. Rev. J. W. Wiley, Pastor. The Presidents of these clubs certainly deserve much credit for the efforts they are putting forth in diminishing the church debt. dist who has for sometime been making and who is more than likely in the near it one or two of the show houses on the Mr. Ben Clark has moved his family from Mound City to Mounds in his spacious new cottage. Mr. Clark is our energetic barber. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. Rice entertained very prettily on last Friday evening in honor of Miss Mand Kennedy of St. Louis, Mo. Miss Kennedy being the house guest of Mrs. Rice's Every one present enjoyed the evening very much; dancing and games were indulged in until a wee, wee hour. The school at 507 E. 34th St., established by Mrs. L. B. Bishop of the Chicago Beach Hotel, will have its night school regularly and invites you to attend. Another department has been added to this school in the day, a sewing school for girls. She will be pleased to have applicants for management meet her at the school, 507 E. 34th St., at 10 a. m. Monday. AN EVENING OF PLEASURE The Young Womens' Social and Political Club, will give their first Annual Entertainment and Dance next Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs S. M. Carter, 5227 Lafayette Ave. Admission 10 cents. Mr. A. H. Roberts will address the Club. IT WOULD JUST BE THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, PH. D. D. D. TOO MANY LOVE THE PASTOR— PREACHER ASKS POLICE TO PROTECT HIM FROM COURTING GIRLS. Worcester, Mass., Dec. 2—Frederick Nicholson, pastor of the First Spiritual Church, appealed to Chief of Police Hill today for "protection against love-sick maidens and scheming mothers." For weeks his life had been made unhappy by love letters and telephone calls. He gave the police a package of letters, some daintily colored and richly scented. Policemen subsequently visited one home and advised that attentions to the pastor cease. It would be a fine thing indeed if the enterprising and public spirited citizens of Chicago would club in and raise a public fund for the sole purpose of sending the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D., to Worcester to reside as it is dollars to doughnuts that he would never toss the sweet-love-sick ladies over his broad shoulders. —Editor. By L. W. Washington After our publication of the destitute condition of the Simmons' family at 5473 Kimbark Ave., there came to our door on Sunday morning a little band of White missionaries whose ages ranged from 6 years old to 14, led by a kind lady of 45. They brought with them baskets of provisions and money for their sustenance, as a representative of The Broad Ax we directed them to the place where they carried happiness and sunshine. This spirit will erase prejudice from our land and dry up every tear. Tickets are on sale for the great benefit to be given by the United Societies of Hyde Park for the benefit of the Simmons' family. This concert is a worthy one and should be supported. Some of our people are too selfish to live. They are forever asking others ```markdown ``` Mound City ANNOUNCEMENT. Mrs. Willie E. Wilson, Pres. Mrs. O. Morgan, Sec'y. HYDE PARK NEWS Miss Hattie Winslow, 3535 South Wabash Ave. 9,200 votes Mme. E. M. Scott, 3611 S. State St. 9,800 votes Miss Ethel Cole, 3600 Wabash Ave., Flat 44. 9,000 votes Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave. 8,720 votes Miss Bertha Moseley, 4331 Forestville Ave. 6,100 votes J. R. Winston, 4016 Cottage Grove Ave. 6,000 votes Miss B. Forston, 2962 Wabash Ave., flat 6. 6,010 votes Mrs. L. Q. Dean, 3616 Calumet Ave. 5,060 votes Mrs. Gertrude Towson, 529 Bowen Ave. 5,040 votes Miss Amy Boger, Columbia St., Aurora, Ill. 6,020 votes Miss Marie Jefferson, 6119 Loomis St. 5,020 votes Mable J. Lucas, 230 Macomb St., Detroit, Mich. 5,100 votes Mr. N. J. Allison, Y. M. C. A., 3857 S. Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes Rev. W. S. Braddan (chaplain 8th Reg.), 5008 Fifth Ave. 6,150 votes Alma G Rowens, 3228 Calumet Ave. 5,000 votes Col. H. H Biggs, Pythian Hall, 39th and State Sts. 6,340 votes Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn St. 6,340 votes Miss Margaret Hall, Beach & Columbia Sts., Aurora, Ill. 5,000 votes Miss Cora Mason, 11 E. 34th St. 6,050 votes Miss Pauline D. Owens, Mounds, Ill. 6,010 votes Miss Emma Shaw, 3315 Rhodes Ave. 5,000 votes Alphonse Saxton, 57 E. 36th St. 5,000 votes Lula Weathers, 3532 Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes John H. Williams, 3552 S. State St. 5,000 votes Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4925 So. Wabash Ave., Pastor of St. Mark church 5,000 votes to help themselves, and their cause, but are never willing to help the other fellow when he is struggling for success. I mean that it is better to give than it is to receive, but most people believe that it is better to receive than to give. Another thing we should learn to be frank with one another and less deceptive for too much of this thing is wearing our souls away. A hint to the wise is sufficient. CHIPS Mrs. John R. Marshall, 3630 Calumet avenue, to the great delight of her many friends continues to steadily improve in health. Mme. Rosa Lee Tyler has closed up her ice cream parlors at 3313 S. State street and she is making an extended theatrical tour through the east. Mr. William R. Sobers, the up-to-date tailor, 5606 Lake Park avenue, is again able to be around and attend to business after a brief spell of sickness. Hon. S. A. T. Watkins, assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, will, if all signs do not fail, be elected President of the Appomattox Club this evening. Dr. Henry R. Smith will soon return home from London, England, where he has been taking special medical instructions at the London University for the past six months. Mrs. Mattie Wilson of Atlanta, Ga., sister of Mr. Charles Smith, 5363 Dearborn street, passed away in that city the first of this week. Mr. Smith left Tuesday for Atlanta to attend the funeral services. Mme. Sumner Byron who has been residing in Paris, France, for some years past, arrived in this city the first of the week. She is stopping with her sister, Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Avenue, and when the war is over she will again return to the old country to reside. Science Siftings. The largest telescope in existence does not make the planet Mars appear any bigger than the moon is through an opera glass. In the opinion of a French scientist the swinging motion that often breaks electric transmission lines is due as much to terrestrial magnetism as it is to wind. The weight of one cubic foot of water usually adopted in hydraulic engineering is 1,000 avoiddupois ounces or sixty-two and a half pounds. This is also its mass here on the earth. Take it to an infinite distance from any other matter its weight would be zero, or nothing, but its mass would be the same. Town Topics. Baltimore will keep on fighting till it gets rid of all obnoxious blue laws.—Baltimore American. New York is now confronted by a fear that the bomb man will prove worse than the gun man.—Washington Star. With its lake front beautiful and its municipal harbor Chicago will soon begin to feel like a lake port again instead of a switch yard.—Chicago News. Boston, which has barred "Old Kentucky Home" for fear of offending the negroes, has not yet barred a lot of tango tunes which offend whites. But a start has been made.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BRIGHT BRIEFS An obstinate man does not hold opinions—they hold him. NICE FIVE ROOM FLAT TO RENT For Rent—Nice five room flat, newly decorated, fine plate rail in the dining room, elegant china cabinet; modern in other respects. Free rent to December 1st. Call at 5027 Federal street and inspect it. If we could see others as we behold ourselves this would be a most pleasant old world to reside in. Every day people are walking up to the marriage license clerk's desk and settling the home rule question. The bishop of London looks forward to a thousand years of peace. He must have overlooked Mexico entirely. Statistics are being cited to show that war's mortality is on the decrease. War's morality, however, remains unchanged. This would be a fine world if you could convert experience into cash as readily as you can convert cash into experience. A New York dealer who was found with 9,000 bad eggs in his possession pleaded that he was no judge of eggs. But his customers were. Pert Personals. Mr. Edison says the main trouble is that we are too rich. Speak for yourself, Tom!—Washington Post. George Bernard Shaw is bound to be talked about, even if he has to do the talking himself.—Philadelphia Press. The thane of Skibo says he doesn't feel at all sure of going to heaven, though he'd like to do so. There, then, let's hope for the best anyhow.—New York Sun. "His royal highness sings and smokes a brier," reports a headline about the Prince of Wales, but you are not to suppose that H. R. H. performed these feats simultaneously.—London Globe. The Open Hand. Speaking of international character, there are the widow and the orphan whom every nation should help—Chicago News. Was there ever a time when the United States was not poormaster for some portion of the globe?—Buffalo Commercial. Among the titles of honor which the United States can rightly claim none is greater than this: "The nation that gives."—Chicago Herald. Charity's call at home and abroad imposes the necessity of self sacrifice in the cause of humanity. And let none be lacking—Baltimore American. Echoes of the War. The various nations continue to admit that the losses of the other side in battle are enormous.-Chicago Herald. Europe will need about 100 years of peace before it will feel cheerful enough to celebrate anything.-Chicago News. Those who predict that the war is nearer the end than it was are right. It is four months, or thereabouts, nearer. Pbila delphia Press. e=threatened, many ways by which the worm might have been averted, but how to stop it is the practical question now. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. English Etchings. No British sovereign has personally participated in a battle since George II. led his army at Dettingen in 1743. The purchasing power of money in London has fallen $12\frac{1}{2}$ per cent since 1900. Wages have risen not quite so much. to British girls applied for positions as Red Cross nurses, but insisted their mother "prefers it is officers we purge." nurse. The Alhambra theater, London. offers two private boxes nightly for the use of convalescent wounded soldiers home from the front. Fashion Frills. We fear that those men who are objectioning to the hoopskirts are but paying the way for their return.—Washington Herald. ington Herald. New York society women are urging that American women wear dresses designed and made at home instead of depending on Paris. It is high time— Boston Herald. Boston Herald. It may be necessary on account of the war to make our fashions in this country now, but they will have to go to Paris and come back before some people will approve them—Philadelphia Press. 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In accepting nominations all candidates must accept and agree to abide by the above conditions. ```markdown ``` Phone Douglas Managers ne Douglas 7877 蜀 Read The Rules Enter Your Name Today PAGE SLX DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Miss Signe Bergman, president of the Swedish Society of Woman Suffrage, is also chief cashier of the State Bank of Sweden. Mrs. Mazzuchelli of Cormarthen, England, left a bequest in her will of $5 a year for which to pay for the cleaning of the marble of her grave with soap and water. Mme. Curie, the famous woman scientist, has installed at her own expense a radiographic apparatus for the wounded at the Pantin hospital, near Paris. By means of this apparatus bullets and shell splinters and fractures can instantly be located—a powerful aid to the saving of life. Dr. Mary M. Crawford, who has been chosen as one of the six American surgeons selected through a fund started by the Duchess of Talleyrand for hospital and field service in France, is a resident of Brooklyn. Dr. Crawford was born in Nyack, N. Y., in 1884. She was graduated from Cornell university in 1904 and from the medical school three years later. Flippant Flings. "Mines Scare Away Lobsters," says a London headline. One disaster after another in this awful war!—New York World. Anyway, nobody is offering a free trip to Europe for being the most popular something or other.—Philadelphia Ledger. If, as one scientist says, the woman of the future will be bald, how in the world are we going to tell the blondes from the brunettes?—Philadelphia Inquirer. Somebody suggests a censor for the Congressional Record. That's right. Take an ax to the ballot box and put a torch to the constitution.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Honesty is the best policy for the man who would avoid worry. When nations fall out the troops have to do a lot of falling in. Going to war is easy. It is coming home from war that is difficult. The "made in America" movement may even extend to world peace. The great monetary problem of the age is how a Mexican war is financed. It's all right to pray for peace in Europe, but don't wear a frown at home. Engineers are hoist by their own petards and war vessels by their own mines. What is the use of talking about the horrors of war when an army retreats in automobiles? "Millions for relief!" is almost a better cry than the familiar one of "millions for defense!" A lady writer claims crime is rare among actors, but perhaps she has never seen some of them act. Pockets for skirts are predicted. In which case hubby may be able to recoup himself if he can find the pocket. Judging by recent financing, we are willing to lend Europe money on the condition that it doesn't try to take it away. An insurance company in London is taking wagers on the length of the world war. There are men who would bet on a funeral if they had a chance. For the first time in 214 years a spy has been shot in the tower of London. Incidentally, that is about as far back as the war has thrown European civilization. Short Stories. More than 800 Americans live in Barcelona, Spain. Helgoland was at one time the Greta Green of north Europe. A gravity railroad will take visitors around the Panama exposition. The crater of an ancient volcano, in which there are numerous hot springs, is utilized as a sanitarium in Japan. To help the cotton situation in the south the members of the Indiana Equal Suffrage association have voted to wear only cotton stockings so long as the war in Europe lasts. Pert Personals. King Albert of Belgium seems to be living up to the ancient standard of royalty.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Dr. Wiley is seventy years old, which may explain why he's so fussy about what he eats.—Detroit Free Press. Carranza may have his failings, but he takes the best photograph of all the Mexican leaders.—New York World. "We now propose to render war impossible," says Mr. Carnegie. But why the delay, Andrew?—Cleveland Leader. Town Topics. Portland, Ore., and Portland, Me. are alike in having prohibition.—Boston Herald New Yorkers are reported to be drinking less. The times there must be hard.—Detroit Free Press. Philadelphia is considering the advisability of selling bread by weight. Then let Philadelphia look out for the cobblestone biscuit and the granite block loaf.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A woman's life is a fact, but her age is fiction. The rolling stone acquires a polish along with his bumps. The industrious man prays for work; the lazy man for a snap. In the matter of war neither might nor dynamite makes right. The best lessons a man can learn are from his own mistakes. 'People who take themselves too seriously never have any fun. Cheer up! Sunshine will eventually puncture the thickest cloud. A woman always wants another woman to help her keep a secret. War is just as bloody, no matter which side seems to be winning. No real hustler is satisfied with the things that come to those who wait. At least the Swiss navy will not do anything to complicate the situation. If there is anything glorious at all about war it is the Red Cross nurse. In this war nothing is sure but death in Europe and taxes in America. China still sits by the "open door" wondering what is going to blow in next. Some fellows strike out for themselves, while others depend on a pinch hitter. A man's appetite gives doctors an opportunity to experiment at his expense. It is easier for a young man to make love to a girl than to make a living for her. The pen may still be mightier than the sword, but only the pen wielded by the censor. Paraguay has signed a peace treaty with this country, and, of course, every little helps. Turkey seems to be getting ready to get it in the neck once more about Thanksgiving time. While Europeans are dodging bullets Americans are dodging the "when I was in Europe" stories. The aviation corps of a country's forces is the only one which can fly without running away. A New York doctor claims that it is injurious to put sugar in coffee. To the sugar or to the coffee? If there ever is an international hay fever association it should always hold its convention in Kinchauch. Where is the old fashioned man who used to predict that the next great war would be fought on the seas? It may have been noticed that few of the fashionable honeymoon plants are including a trip to Europe. If war cuts off the entire supply of dyestuffs blonds and brunettes will be shown up in their true colors. For purely linguual reasons the American reader is grateful that the war is not to extend far into Russia. Don't spend too much time boasting of your grandfather. Fix it up so that your grandsons will be proud of you. The European war eagle, with wounded wings, must envy the tranquillity of the much maligned American peace dove. A diplomat can take his choice between being called loquacious or being described as preserving an ominous silence. Money makes a powerful ripple on the waters, but it does not always turn the tides. There is a little of the war spirit in all of us. Note your own sensations when some awkward gink trampler your corn. A diamond trust has been formed thus threatening still further to increase the cost of living for deserving prima donnas. The discovery of a new comet is reported from Bulgaria. As a presage of war it arrived considerably behind schedule time. One difficulty with a war correspondent's life is that if some hasty officer shoots him as a spy the mistake is so hard to correct. To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in public life. One way to circumvent the advance of food prices, announces a New York investigator, is to eat less. Which will be dismissed by the average healthy and hearty American as no remedy at all. "Blessings on the barefoot boy," as the late Mr. Whittier remarked. That boy never smashed glass on any thoroughfare. Auto tire bills would be lower if there were none but barefoot-boys. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 5, 1914 SIRES AND SONS. Joseph Hume Cook, prime minister of Australia, is a Methodist lay preacher. Count Zeppelin, inventor of the German dirigible, is "the greatest German of the twentieth century," according to the kaiser. Dr. H. Oliviera Lima, who will teach Latin American history and diplomacy at Harvard university, is a native of Brazil and noted as a diplomat and educator. David Watson Taylor, who will succeed Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt as chief constructor of the navy, graduated from the United States Naval academy in 1885 at the head of his class and excelled the highest record ever made there up to that time. Max Joseph Baehr, who has been made United States consul at Berne, Switzerland, has for twelve years represented this country at Havana, Cuba. He is a native of Bavaria, but came to America in 1878. In 1898 he began his diplomatic career as American consul at Kehl, Germany. General Baron Carl von Plattenberg, commander of the German Guards corps, the flower of the kaiser's troops, is also a general adjutant to the kaiser and very high in his favor, their friendship dating back to the days when they served together in the First regiment of foot guards. The Writers. Mrs. Corra Harris has gone to Europe to write a series of magazine articles on the woman's side of the war. Hugh Walpole, the author, is a son of the bishop of Edinburgh and a cousin of the Earl of Orford. He lives half the year in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall, where he does most of his work. Sir Rennell Rodd, whose name appears in the white papers as that of British ambassador at Rome, spent in 1908 some months in America. He greatly distinguished himself at Oxford, where he carried off several honors, including the Newdigate poem prize. He is well known as the author of at least half a dozen volumes of verse, of monographs on Sir Walter Raleigh and Emperor Frederick. Fashion Frills. Economy is the order of the day. The ladies have even taken to wearing shorter dresses.—Philadelphia Press. If the short skirts become much shorter there will be a falling off in the demand for dress goods and burlesque theater tickets.—Chicago News. In order to increase the sale of cotton why not suggest that the style makers make it fashionable for women to wear more clothes?—Sloux City Tribune. From some of the hats we've seen it's quite clear that busted sixteen inch shells have suggested ideas to the quick witted designers.—Milwaukee Journal. Train and Track. Nearly one-half of Spain's railroads enter Madrid. The average express locomotive consumes twelve gallons of water for each mile traveled. Nearly half of the main line of the Canadian Pacific between Fort William and Vancouver is now double tracked. More than 350 miles of double tracking has been completed this year. The new Union station in Kansas City, Mo., which cost $6,000,000, is the third largest in the United States. All the improvements around it made in connection with its erection cost more than $40,000,000. SHORT AND SHARP. The mining industry still leads in Europe. Europe has not time to sow grain, as she is too busy reaping a whirlwind. When Turkey appoints a censor here's hoping he'll be a pasha of many tales. All now admit that it was well the war was not named while it was young. Very few farces and burlesques are now being played in the well known theater of war. Even Canada may now begin to see that the Monroe doctrine is not a bad port in a storm. In Paris they have changed eau de Cologne to eau de Louvain. Will the Germans now rechristen plaster of paris? It might have been worse. Suppose the foot and mouth disease had started in Europe, where meat is already scarce enough. Heating swords into plowshares has been delayed, yet when we think war drums may be converted into bagpipes the outlook isn't so bad. A London leather man says that "the war will be won or lost on the standpoint of leather." and "standpoint" would here appear to be the exact word. The new United States type of submarine can stay under water longer than any other kind. That has been one of the prime faults of some submarines. 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It is always easier to find fault with other people than to lose our own. Most of us would be satisfied with the silver lining without the cloud. The only result of all those battles in Europe seems to be still more battles. Whoever was responsible for the foot and mouth disease certainly went to extremes. Success is always due more to the ability to stand the bumps than any thing else. If busties really come into fashion again there'll be a chance to utilise the overplus of flat tires. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 5.1914 Please others and you may please yourself. They can't get a new dance out of the war anyhow. Though you have money, you cannot buy what is not to sell. Everything must be at sea when the nations can't even float a loan. When bad news travels it always throws on the high speed lever. Lots of royal kinsmen in Europe now do not speak to one another. The European situation is a reminder that cousins frequently quarrel. Some men are like mules—they have no kicks coming; they are all going. Many a politician has found it easier to make a record than to explain it. Belgium is bitterly opposed to being the international cemetery of Europe. Europe will find the bread box is more vital than the ammunition chest. The colleges' courses in European history will all have to be changed this fall. Some people's curiosity is as crooked as the interrogation point that goes with it. The great decisive victory will be won when General Starvation takes command. Anyway, Holland should have no trouble in placing her enemies on the water wagon. America is at present enjoying a supremacy based on plowshares rather than on swords. It takes a good deal of care at the spigot to save a waste of $50,000,000 a day at the bung. 'A great many actors are said to be stranded abroad. Just as many are that way over here. No doubt it is worrying the czar a great deal these days to know whether his Poles are negative. They were so successful in localizing the war in Europe that pretty much every locality gets some of it. When this war is over there probably will be no complaint for some time that Europe is overpopulated. To say that the unexpected always happens is merely to confess our ignorance of what ought to be expected. As war is expensive Canada is probably sending those million bags of flour so that England may have the dough. Those still searching about for a name for the present war shouldn't overlook the hunch General Sherman gave. When it comes to going to extremes you have to hand it to the doctor who says wearing of tight shoes causes baldness. This is the first time on record that Latin America was as anxious to do business with us as we are to do business with it. We thought music was the only universal language. But how about the roar of the cannon and the wall of the widow and orphan? The way merchant ships are already passing through the Panama canal further confirms the conviction that it is filling a long felt want. Men are discovering in the red light of war that many things which they considered permanent and immutable are nothing of the sort. A manufacturer is making gloves with coin pockets in the palms. A one armed man is going to have a fine time getting at his change. There are to be some more new football rules this year, but even the changes may not make the reason for football clear to some people. A state of neutrality requires only that every man shall attend to his own affairs and respect the rights of his neighbors to do the same thing. The government has issued new charts showing the approaches to the Cape Cod canal, and foreign governments can buy them if they will. Mr. Carnegie spent enough money on peace palaces to be pardoned for expressing some indignation in regard to the way The Hague has treated him. Those Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts and other terrible ships of war appear to be having fairly good luck in keeping out of each other's way. Whether the British-American peace centenary plans proceed or not, it is becoming evident that Ghent was an unfortunate choice for the central celebration. PEN, CHISEL AND BRUSH. Mrs. Ruby Ross Goodnow, the writer, and Ray Adams, the architect, are collaborating on a book which will deal practically with problems of home building. Robert Eugene Pougheon, to whom the Grand Prix de Rome for painting was recently awarded, is a French artist who has already attained a high place among painters of the world. A little French girl, Mile. Huguette Vitoy, who is only fifteen years old, recently had admitted to the exhibition of the Society of French Artists a plaster cast of a little girl putting her doll to sleep. George Annard MacKenzie, who recently obtained his M. A degree at Cambridge university, is deaf and dumb. Five years ago he won unusual academic success by taking the degree of bachelor of arts. He has already wooed art with success and has become both a portrait and a landscape painter. Current Comment. An apple crop of 210,000,000 bushels ought to provide a very agreeable per capita circulation of ple.—New York World. Just at this time there is no disposition to look down on the American diplomat merely because his legation building is not supremely ornate and elegant—Washington Star. The announcement that the Panama exposition will open on time is based on the sound theory that now is the time for Americans to do business, not to quit it—Chicago Herald. Would Be Prophet Voliva says the end of the world is at hand, but you would be wise not to sell your last winter's overcoat on the strength of the claim—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The All East War. The dove of peace has turned turtle!—Washington Post. To a landlubber the European navies are acting as if they are seasick.—Dallas News. Uncle Sam's ship of state may yet prove the Noah's ark of nations.—Chicago News. Europe is nearer to a universal language than in many years. But the mouths of cannon speak it, and it is of no use to the Esperantists.—New York World. Well, you who would like to have lived in great days, like those of Caesar, Washington, Napoleon—you are living in them. Are you conscious of it? Are you greatly affected?—New York Tribune. Fashion Frills. Silk stockings may grow scarcer, but there's nothing to prevent a grown man from wearing white socks and a wrist watch.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. If we can't get our fashions from Paris any more perhaps we shall be able to invent some fashions of our own which we will not feel so much disposed to ridicule.—Philadelphia Press. A house dress with a single fastening is advertised, but there is no relief for the husbands who are accustomed to earning contempt in their capacity of lady's maid when a party gown is in order.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Short Stories. Prophets are predicting a cold winter. The coast of the state of Maine was at one time lined with volcanoes. The Arabs were the first to use orange blossoms as bridal wreaths. Wilkesland coast, in the antarctic regions, is said to be the windiest in the world. Vacuum carafes, permanently installed in the rooms of new hotels, will disband the "ice water brigade." English Etchings. The leading daily newspapers in London number twenty-five. There are coal fields in Great Britain that have been worked for at least 700 years, yielding every kind of coal except anthracite. A London physician practicing in the poorer districts of that city says that 25 per cent of the children coming under his observation wear charms and amulets under their clothing. Science Siftings The pulse of a horse is a little more than half as rapd as that of a man. According to a German scientist, hailstones are formed by the electricity of the thunderstorms which they accompany. Distinct traces of light have been detected in the ocean at depths of more than 3,000 feet by an English oceanographical expedition. Ways of Women. Very few girls look queenly in a wrapper.—Kansas City Jurnal. What a pretty girl likes to be told is that she is clever too.—Detroit Free Press. From a woman's point of view, to be compelled to suffer in silence takes all the pleasure from it. — Philadelphia Record. There may be a depression throughout the land, but the visible supply of silk stockings does not indicate it.—Baltimore American. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 CAPITAL, "$200,000.00 SURPLUS NICKELS CENTS Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vault Mortgages and Bond This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors: will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. DE WITT H. HARDIN LAWYER NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 8 Johnson Bldg. 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HALSTED ST CHICAGO AS 4482 33-974 44-478 HARRY A VERDO BUFFET AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIG street AS 3256 Aur JONES A. F. C THE ELITE LA VERD IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC 3100 State Street IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street CHICAGO HENRY JONES CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d'Hote in the City 4 p. m., to 1 a. m. BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCK IN BLOCKI & S PERFUMERS GO TO S. Kreyssler, Drugs 1957 S. STATE STREET NOT ON THE CORNER Grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Pres. All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF I's Ideal & Blocki's F In Bottle Perfumes lahed 1890 JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. JOHN BLOCKI PERF C. E. Kreyser 5057 S. STA NOT ON T For high grade Drugs, Chemical All Prescriptions C ALSO CARRY A Blocki's Ideal & In Bottle Established 1890 C. E. Kreyssler, Druggist 5057 S. STATE STREET NOT ON THE CORNER For high grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flower In Bottle Perfumes Tel. Douglas 9069-9222 Automatic 72-105 Office 1270 Douglas AL. RUSSELL BETAU N. E. Cor. 35th and State Sts., Chicago DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Chicago's municipal market is managed by Miss Kathryn V. Kelley, who has the title of marketmaster. Miss Catherine Dolan has been sworn in as a member of the bar in Massachusetts, being the fourth in her family to become a lawyer. Mrs. Katherine Nichols of Cincinnati has invented and patented a telephone device consisting of a double receiving tube which compels the user to speak directly into the transmitter. Mrs. Fischer, widow of Professor Fischer, has the honor of being the only woman art director of a museum in the world, having succeeded her husband as director of the East Asiatic Art in Cologne, Germany. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt befriended a Senegalese infantryman in the course of her Red Cross work in Paris, and when the soldier was leaving the hospital he invited Mrs. Vanderbilt to return with him to Senegal, where she would be made a chieftainess of an African tribe. --- Phones {Douglas 4482 Auto 73-374 Auto 74-478 Phone: Douglas 3256 3030 State Street JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. J. BRADLEY real Estate Loans Plate Glass Insurance RDO BUFFET HOISTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES CHICAGO Automatic 72-379 A. F. CODOZOE F. W. BLOCKI, Trenae. BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO Keyssler, Druggist ESTATE STREET IN THE CORNER Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations Options Carefully Compounded ARRY A FULL LINE OF Real & Blocki's Flower Little Perfumes The Royal Box. Princess Margaret, cousin of King Christian of Denmark, has entered the University of Copenhagen. Dowager Queen Alexandra of England has been compelled to pawn her gold and silver dishes so as to raise money to meet her obligations. King Ferdinand of Roumania, succeeding the late King Charles, was in 1889 declared prince of Roumania and their apparent to the throne. Physically he has never been very robust, and the threat of tuberculosis has hung over him for years. He is said to have little taste for soldiering, his mind leaning rather toward science and his education has been along this line. He is described as shy, reserved and unbending. In time of peace prepare for a war tax. Will Switzerland come to blows with Bolivia? Happiness is mostly a matter of the imagination. One of the war needs is a self pronouncing geography. The geographer is having his troubles mapped out for him. An exchange of compliments is equal to trading green goods. When some men think, they make a noise like a boiler shop. HARRY J. KELLY Prop. Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. Mme. Rosa Lee Tyler, ice cream cafe; 3313 S. State St. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St. near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. PITH AND POINT. Pacifying Mexico is a perpetual tion job. Everything in Belgium has been a up but its courage. Possibly the warring nations are heated to mind the rigors of a win campaign. Another of the mysteries of life Why does a man want to be presid of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks at door when there's a gloomy face the window. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand. 3800 $ \frac{1}{2} $ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell & Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3128 $ \frac{1}{2} $ South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. J. S. Williams, ladies and gents shoe dressing parlor, laundry office and news stand. 12 E. 34th street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. A. Turpin, cigars, confections and news stand, 3511 S. State street. PITH AND POINT. In enumerating his virtues many a man counts his money first. The man with an easy look often has a time lock on his pocketbook. The only time some people ever count the cost is after they get the bill. If you have a bad temper starve it by giving it nothing on which it can feed. When the world owes a man a living it takes most of his time making collections. The unfortunate thing about good resolutions is that they are so often made too late. A fool can ask a lot of puzzling questions, but it never does him any good to have them answered. England will soon be aroused to the seriousness of the war. Already the taxes are being doubled. Before embracing an opportunity it is a good plan to find out who has been embracing it before. Whether a spy is called a patriot or a traitor often depends on which national language is used in writing his biography. That man who was going to cross the Atlantic by aeroplane will wait until there is a safe place in Europe to land on. In an appeal to arms it is always important to know who fired the first shot. And of equal importance is it to know who is going to fire the last one. The Writers. Miss Margaret Anderson, the writer, is literary critic of the Louisville Post and a poet and lecturer on art subjects. Florence Barclay, the author, is in private life the wife of an English vicar and a most enthusiastic church worker. Herbert Putnam, on whom Brown university has conferred the degree of doctor of literature, has been librarian of congress since 1889. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published numerous articles in reviews and professional journals. Train and Track Dec. 18, 1913, there were 25,843 miles of trunk line railroad in France. Moving pictures are used in a school of electric railway employees in Los Angeles to show how all sorts of accidents occur and how many of them can be prevented. Pittsburgh still has a horse car on the Sarah street line on the south side. The preservation of the railway company's right to the tracks is the cause for keeping the car in operation. Many days it passes back and forth on its trips without a passenger. PITH AND POINT. Pacifying Mexico is a perpetual motion job. Everything in Belgium has been shot up but its courage. Possibly the warring nations are too heated to mind the rigors of a winter campaign. Another of the mysteries of life is. Why does a man want to be president of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks at the door when there's a gloomy face at the window. And think of the volumes of explanation of defeat that will be written after the war is over! Wood alcohol has too innocent a look. It ought to fly a skull and crossbones in its name. Old ocean's bed seems also to be paved with a fine assortment of armor plated good intentions. Holland behind its dikes and Switzerland on top of its glaciers may manage to keep out of the war. Now that they have carried the war into Egypt, the correspondents may be referred to the sphinx for news. The notion that artillery fire produces rain, as the basis of rain making experiments, is receiving a severe foul. Thom. Edison remarks that "Our present civilization is only a thin veneer." Yes; and in a large share of Europe the veneer is entirely scratched off. In placing orders for hardware with this country, European countries continue to overlook our special facilities for producing plowshares made from swords. Current Comment. In order to have no further perplexities over the question, "What is whisky?" a number of states have decided that there will be no whisky.—Washington Star. The United States has in actual gold metal almost as much as any other two nations together. That illustrates the wisdom of not going to war.—Philadelphia Ledger. Is it a sign of the times that the Princeton students vote 960 to 199 against compulsory week day chapel, or is it a proof that boy nature never changes?—New York Sun. Some day there will be a fool proof, crook probf voting machine that will make voting an agreeable pastime and give the result as soon as the last ballot is cast—Chicago News. Echoes of the War. European maxim, "There's gore enough for all!"—Washington Post. He is a wise ambassador who keeps his trunks packed these days.—Chicago News. Turkey is making the mistake of thinking it can beat the other fellow's game.—Detroit Free Press. The people who had an idea that the European war, begun after breakfast, was going to end before dinner have long since revised their opinion.—Philadelphia Press. When the war began it was in Europe, but was not European. Today it threatens to develop into the nearest thing to a world war of which history has any record.—San Francisco Chronicle. Facts From France. Firing at its highest speed a French battery would take thirteen minutes to cover every square yard within range. The stores of Paris that are still doing business, even the big department stores, are reported now to be closed for an hour at noon because there are not enough clerks left for one to relieve another at lunch time. French candle makers have been detected saving wax by leaving three small holes around the wick lengthwise of the candles. Thin portions of wax at top and bottom cover the cheat. Melted wax fills the holes as the candle burns. Industrial Items. About one-third of Great Britain's telegraphers are women. Over 2,000 women belong to New York printing trade unions. There are about one and three-quarter millions of children between the ages of ten and fifteen engaged in earning their living in the United States. Before the war nearly all the copra produced in the Philippines went to France. That market being closed now local vegetable oil factories are being built to dispose of the cocanuts. Tree Branches. There are 500 recognized species of trees in the United States. The oak begins to rot at the heart at the age of about 300 years. A count of the annual rings of a California redwood tree indicated that it began its career in 550 A. D. The yellow poplar or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. 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A single Gas Arc actually and burns one cent's worth A Huge Volt for Little We RENT these Gas Arc lighted and most economically factories and warehouses in The Peoples Gas Peoples Gas Building for a store-full of gas arc light costs far less full of any other light—and gas arc light is by t and most diffusive. single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 burns one cent's worth of gas an hour. A Huge Volume of Light for Little Money the RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to and most economically managed stores, shop es and warehouses in the city. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co Gas Building Telephone Ran For a store-full of gas arc light costs far less than a store-full of any other light—and gas arc light is by far the softest and most diffusive. A single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 candles and burns one cent's worth of gas an hour—that's A Huge Volume of Light for Little Money We RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to the best lighted and most economically managed stores, shops, lofts, factories and warehouses in the city. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Telephone Randolph 4567 ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. UNN FIFTV-FIRSt STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. One railroad company plans noiseless cars for the sleepless. Have they actually perfected a device to insure noiseless sleeping? As the shortage is chiefly of textile dyestuffs, there is no reason for fearing as yet that complexions will be appreciably affected by the war. Influential Americans have become acquainted with ocean travel in a way that may eventually lead to some improvement of steerage conditions. If the capture of guns by all the armies continues at the recent rate none of them will have any artillery left by the time the war is half over. --- --- FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES! FRANK DUNN J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WINSTON STREET ond Look At— ight Across the Way. arc light costs far less than a and gas arc light is by far the y yields a volume of 400 candles worth of gas an hour—that's volume of Light le Money rcs—95,000 of them, to the best ly managed stores, shops, lofts, the city. Light & Coke Co. Telephone Randolph 4567 and ARMOUR AVENUE St. and L. S. & M. S. ARMOUR AVE. CHICAGO The shoe that pinches looks just as well as the one that does not irritate your corns. How some of those war poems get by the censor is something that ought to be explained. About the blackest touch on the night side of warfare is what calls it- self "reprisal." Add to the list of the horrors of war: A Canadian firm is advertising a mili- tary wrist watch. Consistent neutrality must be as hard an ideal as the frictionless pulley and the invisible lens. TEL. OAKLAND 1550,1581,1662 CHICAGO 1