The Broad Ax

BROAD AX The Sullivan Wing of the Democratic Party and the Deneen End of the Republican Party Triumphed at the Aldermanic Primaries; The Leaders of Those Two Factions of Their Respective Parties Will Control the County Committees for the Next Two Years and Name the Delegates to the National Conventions MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON AFTER HIS LONG AND TERRIFIC FIGHT UNHORSED TWO OUT OF THE NINE "REBEL" ALDERMEN WHOM HE SAYS HE "DESPISES WITH ALL HIS HEART AND SOUL." IT SEEMS THAT HIS HONOR THE MAYOR WAS TRIMMED MORE CLOSELY OR KEENLY THAN HE SUCCEEDED IN TRIMMING HIS BITTER ALDERMANIC OPPONENTS. IT IS HIGH TIME THAT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THIS CITY AND THE CITY FATHERS REFRAIN FROM THEIR BABY OR HORSE PLAY, STOP THEIR FIGHTING, LOUD CUSSING, GET DOWN TO SOLID BUSINESS AND DO SOMETHING SOME WAY OR OTHER IN THE WAY OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEASURES WHICH WILL REDOUND TO THE LASTING BENEFIT OF ALL THE CITIZENS OF CHICAGO. ALDERMEN JOHN J. COUGHLIN, JOHN RICHERT, THOMAS J. DOYLE, JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH, S. S. WOLKOWIAK, JAMES B. BOWLER, JOHN H. BAULER, WILLIAM R. O'TOOLE, HENRY P. BERGEN, JOHN TOMAN, HUGH NORRIS, WILIS O. NANCE, JOHN N. KIMBALL, WILLIAM J. HEALEY, JOHN KJELLANDER, FRANK J. LINK, JAMES RAE AND ERNEST M. CROSS WERE RE-NOMINATED TO MAKE THE RACE AT THE ELECTION TUESDAY, APRIL 4, IN THEIR RESPECTIVE WARDS. HARRY HILDRETH, JR., WON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD AND WILL WAGE A HARD FIGHT TO BE ELECTED FROM NOW UNTIL THE POLLS CLOSE. LEO J. DOYLE, DEMOCRAT, AND JOHN A. SWANSON, REPUBLICAN, WERE NOMINATED FOR JUDGE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT. Vol. XXI. The Sullivan End of manic Their mittee to the MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMAS RIFIC FIGHT UNHORSED THE ALDERMEN WHOM HE SAY HEART AND SOUL." IT SEEMS THAT' HIS HONOR THE CLOSELY OR KEENLY THAN BITTER ALDERMANIC OPPON IT IS HIGH TIME THAT THE CHIEF THE CITY FATHERS REFRACT PLAY, STOP THEIR FIGHTING SOLID BUSINESS AND DO SO THE WAY OF CONSTRUCTIVE TO THE LASTING BENEFIT O ALDERMEN JOHN J. COUGHLIN, JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH, S. S. JOHN H. BAULER, WILLIAM JOHN TOMAN, HUGH NORRIS BALL, WILLIAM J. HEALEY, JAMES BAE AND EENEST M MAKE THE RACE AT THE ELEVEN RESPECTIVE WARDS. HARRY HILDRETH, JR., WON THE ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND FIGHT TO BE ELECTED PRO LEO J. DOYLE, DEMOCRAT, AND WERE NOMINATED FOR JUDG Now that the smoke of the battle which was one of the shortest and the hottest ever waged in an Aldermanic contest, has cleared away, and the dead and the wounded have been properly cared for, it is very easy to discern that the wing of the Democratic party which belongs to the Hon. Roger C. Sullivan, and the main end of the Republican party which is under the control of the Hon. Charles S. Deneen, won out or triumphed at the primaries which have just come to a close, that Mr. Sullivan and his followers will elect 25 to 30 of the new ward committee men out of the 35, at the primary, Tuesday, April 11, which will be the means of causing the county committee to fall under their control for the next two years. Mr. Sullivan will also decide who shall be and who shall not be selected delegates to the Democratic National convention, which will be held at St. Louis, Mo., June 14. The Hon. Charles S. Deneen and his faithful followers will stand at the head of his end of the Republican party, and like Mr. Sullivan he will point out the gentlemen who will be chosen delegates to the Republican National convention, capturing the majority of the ward committeemen—giving him control of the Republican county committee for the next two years. At the same primary election on Tuesday the Deneen and Sullivan candidates for Judge of the Municipal court Leo J. Doyle, Democrat, and John A. Swanson, Republican, were nominated over and above all the other candidates who were in the race, showing the smooth handiwork of Messrs. Sullivan and Deneen. Mayor William Hale Thompson, after waging a long and bitter fight, succeeded in unhorsing and mushing up two out of the nine "rebel aldermen" It is reported that Mrs. Alone Townsend, 3648 Prairie Avenue, who is one of the most popular and dashing grass widows in this city, will soon become united in marriage to Mr. Williams. The brides dance and reception at the Appomattox Club last Friday evening was a most enjoyable affair. whom he says he hates with all his heart and soul. The great majority of the wise politicians around the city hall all contend that His Honor the Mayor came out of the scrap more completely trimmed than he succeeded in trimming the aldermen who have been bitterly opposed to him in the past. It does seem to us after all that has been said and done that neither side has much to their credit to brag about; that it is high time that Mayor Thompson and the so-called wise city fathers refrain from their baby or horse play, stop their fighting and loud cussing and settle right down to solid business, and honestly endeavor to do something some way or other which will be of lasting benefit to all the people residing in this great city. Alderman John J. Coughlin, John A Richert, Thomas J. Doyle, Joseph Higins Smith, S. S. Walkowiak, John H Bauler, William R. O'Toole, Henry P Bergen, John Toman, Hugh Norris Willis O. Nance, John N. Kimball William J. Healy, John Kjellerand Frank J. Link, James Rae, Ernest M Cross and M. J. Dempsey were nominated in their respective wards. Robert M. Patterson put Alderman N. A. Stern to sleep in Third Ward, and Alderman Frank H. Ray fell on the outside of the breastworks in the 13th Ward. Those were the only two sitting aldermen who were winged by Mayor William Hale Thompson and his faithful city hall crowd. Harry Hildreth, Jr., easily won the Democratic nomination for alderman of the Second Ward, and he will wage a strong and very hard fight to be elected to the city council, and as he is very popular his hosts of warm friends freely predict that he will make it mighty hot for Alderman Hugh Norris. Mrs. U. Grant Curtis Dailey was the center of attraction, and she has been selected as one of the prominent leaders of the younger social set. Attorney S. A. T. Watkins will in the near future start on a trip to New Orleans, La., where he will be engaged in a law suit in connection with the Knights of Pythias. CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916 DENIED RIGHT TO ADOPT HIS MULATTO DAUGHTER. Evansville, Ind., Feb. (Special)—Clifford Yarborough, 48 years old, a white man, said to be a wealthy grain broker living at Pulaski, Tenn., appeared with his attorney, W. C. Vawter, before Judge Duncan C. Givens on Tuesday and asked the privilege of adopting Eugenia Murray, a mulatto girl, 17 years of age, saying the child is his daughter. A petition signed by the mother of the girl giving her consent was filed. Yarborough was placed on the witness stand and talked freely. He said he wanted to right a wrong done many years ago and give her his name, to which she is entitled. "I have plenty of money and can take good care of her," he told the court. "I brought $8,000 with me to Evansville." Judge Givens could never consent to granting the petition. He said it would be the same thing as sanctioning the marrying of whites and blacks, and this he could not do. Yarborough left the courtroom seemingly very much disappointed. INFORMAL CHARITY DANCE AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE "OLD FOLKS" HOME. Alderman Oscar DePriest And Many Other Public Spirited Citizens Are Working Hard To Make The Affair A Grand Success. There will be an Informal Charity Dance given at the New Eighth Regiment Armory, 35th Street and Forest Avenue, Monday night, March 6th, in the interest of the "Old Folks Home." A committee of one hundred matrons, prominent in social and civic affairs, together with large committees composed of men and women of the younger set, are working to make the Dance a huge success. The object of the Benefit is to wipe out the entire indebtedness against the "Home," and every man and woman with a spark of pride should help to make the returns from this affair the largest in the history of such events. Tickets of admission 50 cents each. RICHARD E. MOORE, JR., DONATED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO THE OLD FOLKS HOME. Mr. Richard E. Moore, Jr., instructor of the Villa Dancing Class, donated $25.00 to the Old Folks' Home, Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, and received following letter: "Chicago, Feb. 25, 1916. Mr. R. E. Moore, Instructor, Villa Dancing Class, Chicago, Ills. Dear Sir: On behalf of the Board of Directors and the inmates of the Home for Aged and Infrim Colored People I desire to express to you their sincere gratitude for the receipt of your draft for $25.00 to be applied upon the current indebtedness of that institution. As you know, the 'Home' is in great need of funds, and I am sure that the sum you have given will help materially to reduce some very urgent bills. Again thanking you for your public spiritedness and wishing you much success with your class, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, GEO. R. ARTHUR. Secretary. Chief clerk for the Sanitary District of Chicago, who will be selected as one of the district delegates to the St. Louis convention. Chief clerk for the Sanitary District of Chicago, who will be selected as one of the district delegates to the St. Louis convention. HYDE PARK NEWS Bv L. W. Washington Miss Neomi Reymore gave a reception to her many young friends in honor of Geo. Washington's birthday. A very pleasant time was spent. Mother Coleman, one of the officials of the Hyde Park A. M. E. Church, lost her daughter, who left in her care two grandchildren. We are pleased to note the wedding of Mr. Edward G. W. Lewis and Miss Gladis W. Lee at the home of the mother of the bride, 5624 Lake Park Ave. The Rev. H. J. Callis, Pastor of the Zion Mehodist Church, 38th and Dearborn Streets, officiated. The best man and lady were Mr. J. Jones' and Miss Alice Callis. The bride and groom have the best wishes of The Broad Ax. * * * Miss Marie Brooks won the prize at the A. M. E. Church spelling match last week, and Miss Lavinia Miller, 2nd prize. * * * We are very sorry to learn that Mr. Purdue, shipping clerk at the Fleisherfield grocery store on Kenwood and 55th Street, gave in his resignation after working with that company for seventeen years. He was not only a credit to the store but an honor to the race. Disagreement with the late management, he states, is his reason. A grand rally Republican meeting was held at the Hyde Park A. M. E. Church, 5626 Lake Park Ave., Tuesday night, which was a "Jim Dinger." Mr. Webb drove the truth home to his hearers, and set the pace for those who followed after him. MR. JOHN McGILLEN the Sanitary District of Chicago, who will elegates to the St. Louis convention. NEGRO SEGREGATION BILLS CARRY AT ST. LOUIS POLLS St. Louis, Mo., March.—Unofficial returns early show both the proposed segregation ordinances have carried by a majority of 34,344, the vote being 52,220 for segregation and 17,876 against. Homer G. Phillips and George L. Vaughn, leaders among the Negroes in fighting the segregation ordinances, have conceded that the ordinances have been approved by the voters. The election was free from serious trouble at the polls. The two propositions voted upon were similar in character. One of the ordi- nances provides that a Negro may not become a resident in a block occupied entirely by those of opposite color. The other imposes the same restrictions in blocks containing 75 per cent white or the like percentage of Negro residents. UNIVERSITY SOCIETY The University Society was given a treat on last Sunday afternoon in listening to Prof. Philip Seman, Superintendent of the Chicago Hebrew Institute. Prof. Seman is quite an orator—a man of wide vision and regard for his fellowmen. Other persons contributing to the program were: Mrs. Myrtle Scott Thompson, reading, Mr. Davis, Violin solo, and Mr. Lumpkin at the piano. Many visiting friends were present. After the program refreshments were served. Next meeting will be a business meeting held at the residence of Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, 5155 Wentworth Avenue. POLICE MUST PAY FOR ENTERING LODGE ROOM Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. (Special.)—John McArdle, a white police officer, must No.24 pay $274 to John M. Banner and William Woody, members of Pythian Lodge, which the police officer raided while candidates were being initiated. The two men brought suit against the officer and the jury brought in a verdict for $137 for each of the men. Attorney F. R. Steward was the counsel for the Colored men, and it is probable that other suits will be entered against the trespassing policeman. MEDAL OF HONOR FOR- SFANISH WAR OFFICER. Duluth, Minn.—Thaddeus W. Stopp, 623 Fifth avenue, who served as a lieutenant with the 8th Illinois under Col. John R. Marshall during the Spanish-American war, has been given a medal of honor by the government for distinguished services during the military occupation of Cuba, 1899-1902. Lieut. Stopp is a native Chicagoan, but has resided in Duluth for the past seven years. He is a photographer. HAITIAN TREATY RATFIED; U. S. WILL CONTROL ISLAND. Senate Takes Unanimous Action— Draft Establishes American Protectorate Over Small Republic. Washington, D. C., Feb.-The senate late today unanimously ratified the treaty with Haiti under which the United States assumes a protectorate over the turbulent island republic, taking over control of its finances and police, guaranteeing its territorial integrity, and undertaking to develop its resources. The treaty already has been approved by the Haitian congress and its terms virtually are in operation under the eye of a strong American marine expedition. PAGE TWO Poisonous Flowers. Flowers of the jonquil, white hyacinth and snowdrop all possess a poisonous nature, the narcissus being also particularly deadly, so much indeed that to chew a small scrap of one of the bulbs may result fatally, while the juice of the leaves is an emetic. The berries of the yew have killed many persons, and it is known nowadays that it is not safe to eat many peach pips or cherry kernels at once. The lobellas are all dangerous. Lady's slipper poisons in the same manner as does poison ivy. The bulbs seem to be the most harmful. Lilies of the valley are also as much so. There is enough opium in red poppies to do mischief, and the autumn crocus, if the blossoms are chewed, causes vomiting and purging. The leaves and flowers of the oleander are deadly, and the bark of the catala tree is very mischievous. The water dropwort when not in flower resembles celery and is virulent—Country Gentleman. Cutting Off Noses Rameses II. of Egypt cut off the nose of any person convicted of treason or arson. Actisanes, another Egyptian ruler, punished robbers in the same way. After each nose had been amputated back even with the bridge the culprit was sent to a colony of noseless felons, the place of banishment being known as Rhinoconum, from the nature of the punishment its colonists had undergone. In England in 1671 Lord Coventry, then "great keeper of the British seal," had his nose cut off by order of the king because he had dared to ask some questions about an actress then playing at Drury Lane theater. A conscript who protested openly that he had been enrolled in the army of Frederick the Great in a fraudulent manner had his nose amputated by order of that sovereign, who spoke of the punishment as an "indelible mark on the front side of the face." Uses of Bicarbonate of Soda. Bicarbonate of soda should always be kept in an easily accessible place in the kitchen. Applied immediately to a burn and moistened it will relieve the pain. A pinch added to any fruits or vegetables will make them more palatable, and less sugar will be needed. Use a quarter of a teaspoonful to two quarts of fruit, fresh, or to one pound of evaporated fruit. Fill new cooking utensils with cold water to which one teaspoonful of soda has been added and boll it. Then wash the utensils with good soap and water, dry, and they are ready for use. Bicarbonate of soda added to the water in which old vegetables are cooked will make them green and fresh. It will also make tender a tough piece of stewing meat. It will sweeten milk which is about to turn—New York Sun. Did as He Was Told. One evening, just as it was getting dusk, a laborer walked down the main street of the city. Coming to a poultry dealer's place, he stopped and gazed admiringly at the fowls and game displayed on the window slab. One turkey of about fifteen pounds weight took his fancy. After running his fingers through the coins in his trousers pockets a few times he decided on having that turkey. Picking it up he entered the shop. The shopman was very busy "Jest weigh this bird for me, will ye?" said he. "Why don't you take your bird somewhere else to be weighed?" snappily replied the poulterer without looking up. "Oh, I kin do that all right," he replied, cheerfully picking the bird up and walking out with it—London Tit-Hits. Bukowina's Stormy History. Bukowina, the Austro-Hungarian province, has undergone sundry political transitions. According to many Austrian authorities, it was wrested from Transylvania in the fifteenth century by Moldavia, but it not long before that formed an integral portion of the latter state, to which it belonged until it was ceded to Austria by the Turks in 1775. Bukowina, which means "Beech Land." abounds in wood land and mineral wealth and rears large numbers of cattle and horses. London Globe. The Puzzle "I wonder how Flubdub can afford an auto. Don't you?" "No, I don't wonder how he can afford an auto. I know he can't afford an auto. But how do gazaboes like him manage to get hold 'of autos? That is what flabbergests me."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. Shocking. "They tell me Dubbs is in the hospital. What happened to him?" "Oh, he saw a piece of wire lying in the street and tried to pick it up." "Yes, and then?" "He discovered that the wire was busy." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Very Annoying The eldest daughter says she wishes dishes were made of rubber so they wouldn't rattle so when maw is washing them and she has an early evening caller—Florida Times-Union National Nicknames. Just as the British talk about John Bull, the French talk about Jean Crapaud and the Russians about Ivan Ivanovitch Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.—Washington. Fortunes In Earthings It is well known that shopkeepers make pounds by ignoring farthings or by giving something for them that is worth far less than a farthing, but where shopkeepers make the pounds banks and the English government make their hundreds of pounds. If a farthing is due from you in taxes you are charged onepence. On the other hand, you are never paid onepence for a farthing. The same principle is applied to fractions of pounds. Banks in reckoning interest for themselves call any part of £1 a full pound, whereas in reckoning interest for you odd shillings are left out of account. Thus for a deposit of £99 9s. 11d, you would receive interest on £99 only. It is amazing how the state profits by not paying fractions of pence. The government has a special fund in which are placed the fractions of pence withheld in paying dividends on government stock. This fund amounted to more than £150,000 in ten years before being used for other purposes. As far as the government is concerned, farthings mean a lot.—London Answers. His Little Lot. There were some interesting episodes in the life of Sir Charles Euan-Smith. Once in the market place of an Afghanistan town he was fired at by a native. He lodged a complaint with the ameer, who appeared to take no notice of the incident, merely remarking, "That's all right." Sir Charles complained again and met with the same reply. He still thought that the ameer was treating a serious matter with less consideration than it deserved, but thought it advisable to say no more on the subject. About a week afterward he was invited by the ameer to ride with him. They rode for some distance outside the town, and they passed gibbet after gibbet. At length Sir Charles said, "Your highness has been busy of late." "Oh, no," replied the ameer; "they are your little lot." He had seized all the members of the would be assassin's family and hanged every one of them Be Natural. Holmes says that there are six people present whenever two meet in conversation—the real A. the real B. A as he sees himself. B as he sees himself. A as B sees him and B as A sees him. The remark comes back when one goes out upon the street and considers himself and the other people who pass, particularly those who seem on the slippery road to success. It is not they themselves who go by; it is what they would have other people think them. If they are young and inexperienced they must tighten up their faces with an artificial solemnity; if they are getting on in years they must affect an artificial snappiness. They wear their outward aspects like clothes. One feels like crying in the ears of young men: "Be natural. Live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish, but be yourselves."—New York Globe. The Primrose The primrose has suffered injustice from the poets, who seem to regard it as a floral weakling. Shakespeare wrote of "pale primroses" that die "ere they can behold bold Phoebus in his strength;" Spencer regrets "so fair a flower" should perish through "untimely tempest;" Milton laments the "rather primrose that forsaken, dies," and many later poets have written of it in similar strain. Why? For the primrose is a hardy plant and will be found where few other flowers can exist, on the mountain heights of Europe and Asia and even on the highest ranges of the Himalayas. And Disraeli recognized its color in the fried eggs upon his breakfast table.—London Notes and Queries. He Was Right. A man rushed to the entrance of a lunatic asylum in the middle of the night and yelled to the keeper to let him in. "Let me in!" he cried. "I have suddenly gone insane." The keeper woke up, thrust his head out of a first story window and bellowed down in a rage: "What? Come here at this time of night? Man, you must be crazy!"—Brooklyn Eagle. The Unexpected. Amateur Photographer (touring in the country)—Pardon me, sir, but would you object to my taking your daughter just as she is? Farmer Green—Well, this is sudden; but take her, and be happy. Keep yer eyes on him, Sal, till I scoot round for the parson.—London Mall. Just a Suggestion. "I'm still waiting for you to pay me that $ you owe me, Dubson." "Oh, don't let that worry you." "That's what I'm trying to do, but I would feel greatly encouraged if you would let it worry you occasionally."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Curious Fishing Plant. There is a strange vegetable growth under the sea called the fishing plant, which opens and shuts periodically, like a big mouth. When fishes are near enough to this wonderful plant, all of a sudden it closes its "mouth" and swallows them. The Best Hour: "Bobby, why aren't you playing with your cousin Ethel?" "Gee whiz, mother! Don't I get an hour off at noon?"—Puck Roor Experience "Experience is de best teacher," said Uncle Eben. "but gittin' arrested ain' no way to study law."—Washington ktar. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916 Science and Nations. The Lure of Far Land. True revolutionists, believe me, the real men of action, who are promoting truth and justice for the morrow, are scientists. Governments fall and pass away; nations grow, shine with splendor and decay. But what matter? The discoveries of science will go on, will increase, will give mankind more and more light and certainty. The close of a century is a small matter; the march of human progress will always be resumed; human nature will insist on having knowledge, whatever may be the obstacles. It is foolish to object that we can never know anything; we have got to know all we can that we may attain the greatest happiness. And therefore I say, How foolish are all the political disputes that excite nations! While the salvation of progress is supposed to be involved In the fate of a ministry, it is really the scientist—the man of learning—who will be the master of the future when he shall be able to enlighten men with a new spark of truth. All injustice shall cease when truth shall reign.—Emile Zola. A Doctor of the Old School. Doc Robinson never looked wise and kept things to himself about a case. He'd let one tell him, every little symptom and listen respectfully, and he'd never go and whip out one of those surveying instruments and go all over a patient as if he were laying out a new state road. No! He'd crack jokes, gossip delightfully and suddenly turn around and ask Margaret if that wasn't a brand new dress she had on, feed little peppermint candies to the children and sit with several on his knees while he talked. He made his call a pleasant affair. Every one in the house enjoyed it and got the benefit of it even the invalid. "Well," he'd say reluctantly. "Kit and I've got to jog along, though it's mighty comfortable sitting here by your fire. We gotta go 'way out on the Cild Mill road."—Helena Smith-Dayton in Cartoons Magazine. The Habit of Saving. The United States is thrifter than it is commonly given credit for being because statistics most frequently quoted do not give all savings deposits and because a vast deal of savings goes on inside of savings institutions. Yet it does not live up to its opportunities by a long way. One of the country's oldest business men said not long ago that any one could tell whether he was going to succeed or fail by his ability to save. If he could not save he could not succeed. At any rate, inability to save for a man with an income above the bread line and no unusual ill luck implies a lack of self control that is not conducive to success. Like nearly everything else, it is a matter of habit, and with a little determination to begin with the right habit is as easily formed as the wrong one. Try it—Saturday Evening Post. Gladstone Never Prime Minister. Gladstone Never Prime Minister. Gladstone would probably have protested if any official document had described him as one of the principal secretaries of state, for he was keen on correctness in such matters. When giving evidence in a trial he was asked whether he was first lord of the treasury. He demurred at once to this description and explained that he was one of the commission for executing the office of lord high treasurer, "and I believe my name stands first on the list." In the same way it could be argued that Gladstone was never prime minister, for that post was first recognized officially eight years after his death. Sir Robert Walpole told the house of commons that he claimed no such title, and Lord North would not permit its use even in his own family. -London Spectator Where Van Tromp Died. Texel, the low lying island at the entrance to the Zuyder Zee, was the scene of much fierce fighting between Dutch and English in the seventeenth century. It was off Texel that one of the greatest of Dutch admirals, Van Tromp, lost his life in 1653 in an engagement with the British under Blake, and near the same spot, almost exactly twenty years after, De Ruyter was defeated in a desperate conflict with the British and French under Rupert and D'Estrees. On Oct. 11, 1797. Texel again witnessed a heavy defeat of the Dutch, this time by Admiral Duncan—London Mail. Briar Is Really Heath. Brier pipes are not made from the wild rose brier. The name is a corruption of the French word bruyere (heath). The earliest brier pipes were introduced into England in 1850 and were made from the roots of the French white heath (Erica arborea).—New York World. Good Likeness "Did Miss Sourgirl have her photo graphs taken yesterday?" "Yes." "Good likeness?" "Yes, must have been, for she are fused to have them and demanded an other sitting."—London Globe. Suitable. "What kind of an apartment did the singer get?" "I suppose nothing less would satisfy her than a suite thing in A flat."—Baltimore American. Wise Girl. Maud—Would you object to a husband who smoked in the house? Marie—Most decidedly. But I shall keep quiet about it until I get one.—Boston Transcript. Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.—Fuller. The Lure of Far Lands. With a reasonable capital, youth, strength, character and a knowledge of the language fortunes can be made relatively easier on the frontiers of civilization than at home. There are, however, many privations to be borne. You are away from friends. Mails at best come once a week. News is scarce. Daily papers exist only in metropolitan towns, and the data they contain are meager. In many localities fresh vegetables cannot be had. Drinking water is positively dangerous. Fleas, bugs, mosquitoes and a host of winged, singing, biting insects are present to annoy during day and night. Most hotels are bad and the food strange, unpalatable and poorly cooked. For women but few real opportunities exist. I know of but two women lawyers in Latin America, and there are perhaps the same number of doctors and dentists. Relatively small proportions of the fair sex follow commercial callings. In the far east and Africa caste, the system of "purdah" and the general belief that woman is inferior to man have retarded her progress.—W. E. Auginbaugh in Leslie's. Keep In the Sunshine. There are only two kinds of people in the world—the people who live in the shadow and gloom and those who live on the sunny side of the street. These shadowed ones are sometimes called pessimists, sometimes people of melancholy temperament; sometimes they are called disagreeable people. But, wherever they go, their characteristic is this—their shadows always travel on before them. These people never bear their own burden, but expose all their wounds to others. They are all so busy looking down for pitfalls and sharp stones and thorns on which to step that they do not even know that there are any stars in the sky. These folks live on the wrong side of the street. And yet it is only twenty feet across to the other sidewalk, where sunshine always lies.—Newell Dwight Hills. Divorces In Ancient Rome. In the earlier period of the Roman republic divorces were quite unknown and were rare right up to the time of the Sullan wars. In the old days the husband and wife who wished to separate appeared for the last time before the common hearth, a priest and priestess being present. As on the day of marriage, a cake of wheaten flour was presented to the husband and wife, but instead of sharing it between them they rejected it. Then instead of prayers they pronounced formulas of a strange, severe, spiteful character, by which the wife renounced the worship and gods of the husband. From that moment the religious bond was broken, and, the community of worship having ceased to exist, the marriage without further ado was forever dissolved. -Exchange. The Double Balls Shuangh chi'u-er, although the name may sound like a disease, is not a form of writer's cramp. On the contrary, "their" purpose is to prevent it. The words mean "the double balls," and shuangh chi'u-er are two iron balls an inch or so in diameter, which nestle in the right hand of every Chinese man of letters for hours each day, one being revolved about the other until they are worn bright. They are just large enough to make a handful, and the action of shifting one about the other brings the fingers into play and lends them that suppleness and digital dexterity which are necessary in the manipulation of the Chinese lettering pen or fine pointed brush. Of what a simplicity! Ways of the Mole No animal is more wonderfully adapted to its kind of life than is the mole. Moleskin is famous for its exquisite smoothness and softness. The finest velvet cannot bear comparison with it. This is evidently a provision of nature for enabling the little animal to pass rapidly through its narrow underground galleries without impediment or friction, going backward or forward with equal ease. It fits its burrow like a piston and pushes itself swiftly with hind feet. The burrows and nests, too, are lined with fine, soft vegetable fibers.—New York Journal. Making It Last. Mistress (to chauffeur, who is crawling downhill)—Why are you driving so slowly? Clauffeur (ex-coachman)—Well, ma'm, you told me to be as economical as possible, so I was putttn' the brake on to make the down'lill last as long as possible—London Punch. Banner Carried by Cortes. In the national museum in Mexico City there is a very interesting relic of the Spanish conquest of this country known as the banner of the conquest. It is said to be the original standard carried by Cortes in his wars of conquest in the land of the Aztecs. A Festival of Flowers At Genzano, Italy, near Rome, during the festival of flowers one of the streets is carpeted with genuine flowers in elaborate designs. The work and designing are done by the people who live on the street. This festival dates back to 1778. The Dulling Touch of Age You can never tell. Perhaps the man who says the most fool things now used to get off something bright and sensible when he was a baby.—Houston Post. In youth we learn, in age we understand. To grow old is to receive sight.—Von Ebner Eschenbach. When Beethoven Played. When Beethoven played. In that moment I could have sworn the pianist became a little black man with a lion's head and eyes that burned. The brow was ponderous with brooding, and the lips were straight with suering. The lil fitting coat was cut as once long ago coats were cut with a high collar--humpy about the shoulders; trousers too ample. Then I saw again the wild, tossed hair, the gloomy brows and eyes that burned beneath with strange fires, and as he played the white keys faded and the great black sweep of the concert grand and the huge headed man stood quite alone, shaken by blasts of music that were hot as passion, bitter as salt tears, penetrating as the infinite stars. "Heavens," said some one at my elbow, "that is Beethoven!" Then the music stopped. I tell you it was still as morning, and a little, swarthy man grinned and bowed without a hand to clap him for full ten deep breaths, and when it came, the harsh, long rush of clapping hands, it seemed that great golden things were being smashed and let fall down jarring to the earth.—Exchange. Spiraeas Awaken Early. Just as if it had an alarm clock to awaken it, the spiraea opens its eyes in the morning before its companions are stirring. It's one of the earliest risers among the flowers, and you'll find it often before the moon flower and other night bloomers have gone to bed. It grows in the rich soil of wet valleys, often from three to ten feet high, where it is called goat's beard. Its tiny, creamy flowers are born in gorgeous plumes. Its leaves are strongly veined and grow luxuriously. Its seeds are very small and shining. The plant bears its plumes of flowers proudly, and well it may, for it is a near relative of the aristocratic rose. But it is through its early rising habits that we know it best. Long before sunrise, between the hours of 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning, it opens its petals. Naturally it gets sleepy before the other flowers, which has given the goat's beard the other common name of "go to bed at noon."—Philadelphia North American. Insect Travelers. Ship cargoes are often responsible for the introduction of quite new species of insects in different lands. Banana bunches often hide poisonous reptiles and insects which travel long distances, only to bite or sting the hand of some receiver of fruit. Often they escape alive and breed their kind. Many venomous snakes have thus been introduced into lands where none existed before. Strange creatures have been imported on the blooms of orchids, and West Indian insects have traveled in Easter lily blossoms. Destructive moths migrate in fruit ships. Flying insects often follow ships. One curious case was that of a vessel from the tropics followed by a swarm of butterflies. Out of sight of the shore, they hid in the cabins and holds, emerging forty days later when the ship reached England. Thus originate quite a new species of butterfly in the British isles Where Lean Year Is Legal In Scotland the leap year privilege for women appears to have a legal foundation, for many years ago the following law was passed: "It is statut and ordaint that during the rein of his maist blissit Megeste, for ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden ladye of bothe highe and lowe estalt shall he liberte to bespeite ye man she likes; albeit he refuses to take her to be his lawful wife, he shall be muteted in ye sum ane pundis or less, as his estalt may be; except and awis gif he can make it appear that he is betrothit anither woman he then shall be free."—London Express. Told Him How. A minister who lives in a small town is noted for his sententiousness both in and out of the pulpit. As he was coming down the street one day a man accosted him with. "Sir, can you tell me how to find a sheriff's office?" "Yes, sir." was the ministerial reply. "Every time you earn $5 spend $10." And he walked on, leaving the astonished man gazing after him—Harper's Magazine. Empty: Assurance "Bilgignis is always willing to apologize when you show him he's in the wrong." "Yes, but he invariably apologizes in such a way as to open up the possibility of further controversy."—Washington Star Cook Learning "Do you think we have too much book learning?" "There isn't any other kind. As soon as a man finds out anything worth knowing he proceeds immediately to write a book about it."—Washington Star. Good Memory. "Has your wife a good memory?" "Splendid. We've been married twenty years and she's still reminding me of all the promises I made when we were courting."—Detroit Free Press. A Sign. "Do you think that Boggins has any sense of humor?" "Why not? He told me yesterday that he enjoyed being alone with himself."—Judge. Old Dutch Custom In many Dutch villages and towns the chief door of a house is never opened except on the occasion of a funeral or of a marriage. Lowell's Dread of Old Age I have said that Lowell was the youngest man I ever knew. It is also true that I never knew any other man who had a greater dread of growing old than he. He would sometimes say to me (I was twenty-five years the younger). "Oh, you'll begin to feel it pretty soon." The last time I saw him he gave me a curious and somewhat pathetic indication of his interest in this subject. I happened to be in Boston for a day and went out to see him in the teeth of a terrible March blizzard. I thought he seemed rather lonely. He told me that Hoppin had called upon him not long before. He said that he looked well and seemed to be in good health, but he noticed that when he went out he was a little awkward in getting down the front steps. When I left Lowell came to the door with me and stood there, evidently waiting to see how I negotiated the front steps. At the age at which I then was there was no reason why there should be anything the matter with my action. But the incident was characteristic of Lowell and of his intense interest in the subject of youth and age.—E. S. Nadal in Harper's Magazine. Glever Amateurs Dozens of old graduates were back, and they talked a lot about themselves and a lot more about others not so fortunate as to attend. "Most of our old crowd are married and happy," said one. "Married, anyhow," said another, with the grin that always accompanies this silly joke. "I accept the amendment," returned the first speaker, "but chiefly on account of poor Billy Tompkins. He had an unfortunate marital experience." We hadn't heard of it and begged for particulars. "Why, the girl he married turned out to be a professional pickpocket." The men who had first spoken sighed, but his eye twinkled. "Well," he observed, "I guess the rest of us drew some pretty clever amateurs—what?"—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Kilted Eyzone The Greek soldier may present to some a highly humorous picture in his ballet skirts and tunic. Despite his peculiarities of dress—which, by the way, are scarcely more peculiar than those of some other nations—he is an excellent fighting man. The evzone, as he is called, would no more abandon the skirt than would a Scot his kilt. It is a part of his national honor, a part of his personal being. It is a right handed down to him from ancient times. A bas relief of the soldier who fought at Marathon shows him in similar costume. His costume is no ephemeral piece of clothing, for it is worn with the dignity of ages behind it. The evzones are ignorant of fear, and if they look anything but soldierly their appearance is belled by their ability to fight under extraordinary conditions. — Syracuse Post-Standard Puzzle of the Eagle and the Whale. There are two animals that puzzle naturalists more than any others. They are nature's submarine and aeroplane, the whale and the eagle. It is known that whales occasionally descend as much as 3,000 feet below the surface of the sea. Why they are not injured scientists have yet to discover. It is this pressure which prevents a modern submarine descending even 300 feet, let alone 3,000. Eagles have been seen through telescopes to fly with apparent ease from 30,000 to 40,000 feet above sea level. At that height no human being can live owing to the rarefaction of the air. How the birds live and fly at far greater heights than man can endure for long is a question still to be answered. -Pearson's Weekly. Percentage. "That's some hat you've got there, Bill. It must have set you back all of $10." "It did, but I figure I'm saving money on it at that." "How do you make that out?" How do you make that out? "Well, when I wore a two dollar hat I had to give up 5 per cent of its value every time I checked it in a fashionable restaurant. With this one it costs me only 1 per cent."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch Saving Labor. "This agricultural journal states that apple trees ought to be planted on a slope." "What's the idea?" "So when the apples ripen and drop off they will roll down to the farmer's doorstep. I suppose" - Louisville Courier Journal! Ugly. "What an ugly disposition he has!" "Yes. You remember how cross your husband is the first week of every year when he gives up smoking?" "Yes." "Well, he's that way all the time."—Detroit Free Press. Voice of the Bells R. L. Stevenson said that "there is so often a threatening note, something blatant and metallic, in the voice of bells that we have fully more pain than pleasure in hearing them." No Chance For Him. Knicker--Enjoy your ear? Bocker-- It might as well be a milk wagon. The only time the rest of the family don't use it is between 4 and 7 in the morning.—New York Sun. Everything that exists depends upon the past, prepares the future and is related to the whole.—Oersted RIDER-HAGGARD ON WORLD TOUR Mission to Keep War Veterans on English Soil. Sir Rider Haggard, who a quarter of a century ago was very much in the public eye as the author of "King Solomon's Mines" and other stories of adventure, has left England on a trip around the world with a mission from the Royal Colonial institute to investigate the chances for empire building after the war. His idea, backed by the institute and its important officials, including Lord Curzon, is to prevent the emigration to foreign countries of soldiers and their families after the war and to direct steady streams of these war veterans to the British colonies, thus recruiting the population with a sturdy and intelligent class and holding them within the British empire. It is the latest phase of the imperial movement which seeks to bind together [Name] SIR RIDER HAGGARD. the mother country and the overseas dominions into a vast confederacy. The effect of the movement would, of course, be to keep war emigrants from going to the United States or South American countries, where their status as imperial subjects would eventually be lost. While Sir Rider is one of the interesting literary figures of England, he is, besides, a justice of the peace of his home town in Norfolk and a student of land settlement, unemployment and agriculture, and this qualification led to his choice as commissioner for the Royal institute to investigate the outlook for retaining war veterans within the empire after the war. He goes first to South Africa, then eastward to the Straits Settlements, Australia and New Zealand and will be in America next summer or fall, going from the Pacific to the Atlantic, most of the time in Canada, arranging for the influx of war veterans and their families. "I am going to inquire," said Sir Rider in a recent interview, "into the possibilities of the British empire, or, at any rate, of a large portion of it, with reference to land settlement and the employment of service men after the war. It is obvious that during the turmoil and change of conditions resulting from so great a struggle a large number of men will become dissatisfied with their former employment, especially at the desk or counter, and will wish to begin a new life under new circumstances, often overseas." OF PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER. Elihu Root Is Numbered Among the Foremost of Republican Possibilities. The recent speech of Elihu Root strongly advocating preparedness has echoed the country, and has J. B. Photo by American Press Association. ELIHU ROOT. helped to make him one of the likeliest candidates for the presidential nomination by the Republican party. The former senator has reached his three-score and ten, but he is still vigorous, both mentally and physically, and his name looms large in Republican calculations. SIRES AND SONS M. Briand, the French premier, never wears gloves. George W. Perkins believes in relaxing on Sunday and goes to bed that night at 8. John Redmond, the leader of the Irish party, is among the wealthiest representatives of the Emerald Isle in parliament. Formerly he was employed as a committee clerk in the house of commons. Major General Thomas H. Barry, commanding the Philippine department, who has been in Manila since early in 1914, is to be relieved on April 1 and will return to the United States to take command of the central department at Chicago. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, has for years been making a hobby of United States naval history. He owns what is believed to be the largest collection of books and pamphlets on the subject and knows most of them by heart. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, president of the Navy League of the United States, has been a member of the league since 1902. He is a graduate of the Annapolis Naval academy in the class of 1830 and has long been president of the Naval Alumni association. Echoes of the War. History of little nations in three reels: "Brink, break, broke!"—Washington Post. Repudiation of debt is easily imagined, and yet indemnities are collected.—Washington Star. The basic trouble with international law is that it has never been international.—New York Sun. Now and then Roumania makes a move just to show that she's on the chessboard.—Atlanta Constitution. As all the European armies are now pretty well supplied with ammunition, they are proceeding to waste it before "the war begins" next fall.—Atlanta Constitution. Tales of Cities. Oakland, Cal., has a new shipbuilding plant, this being its third. The population of the city of Panama increased by 6,000 during the last year. The total population is now a little over 65,000. In Los Angeles, Cal., every hotel, apartment building and private house must have a tag on it bearing the name of the owner. The name of the port of Archangel is properly Archangelsk, and it was founded in 1514. It was named after a monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael. For about 120 years it was the only port of Russia. Pert Personals. Chow Chu Chi, the Chinese minister of agriculture, sounds like a pickle grower.—Chicago News. Whenever an Englishman desires further particulars about subjects of gloom he can consult Rudyard Kipling.—Washington Star. Absolutely no surprise will be occasioned by the gazetting of General Popoffsky to the command of the Russian bomb corps.—Boston Transcript. Baron Astor has his title, and now he should devise a motto. In the light of his Manhattan connections somebody suggests "Front!"—Chicago News. Political Quips. For the presidential bee it's summer all the year.—New York Sun. Perhaps you have noticed that it doesn't take much of a spinner to run for office.—Philadelphia Telegraph. There are candidates who think that the threshold of the office is a good place to wait for the office to seek them.—Atlanta Constitution. PITH AND POINT. Lots of men aren't quite so foolish as they look. They could not be. The bird with the brightest feathers doesn't always have the sweetest song. A Frenchman declares America lacks poets. She has many other good points too. Golf balls are to be both cheaper and more durable, so they will "go farther." The nations at war seem to take the view that separate peace will lead to separate war later on. Perhaps you have noticed that it is a whole lot easier to break a dollar than to gather up the pieces. When everybody becomes thrifty the fellows who are after the easy money will have to go to work. Sometimes diplomacy doesn't think it's the real thing if it doesn't make its case as clear as muddied water. The military expert who predicts a long war now merely confirms popular impression and produces no surprise. One objection to the withdrawal of American marines from Haiti is that it leaves the situation darker than before. Although the open face sneeze has been troubled by publicity, it still flourishes where the white light of knowledge has not entered. Shortage of dyestuffs causes some apprehension, but a nation can be peaceful and prosperous in spite of interference with its color scheme. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916. DANES PLANNING WEST INDIES SALE Recent Strike Revives Agitation of Question. THE recent strike of negroes in the Danish West Indies has reopened the old question of the sale of the islands to the United States. The general belief is that if the question of the sale comes up again in the Danish parliament it will receive a favorable majority in both houses, provided the United States offers a greater sum than that offered in 1902, about $4,300,000. M. Hageman, the wealthiest planner in the Danish West Indies, has recently published a pamphlet on the situation from the point of view of the most influential Danish residents of the colony. M. Hageman favors the sale. In the pamphlet he recognizes the efforts made by the Danes to improve conditions in the islands, but views their future under Danish rule pessimistically. He particularly points out that the population is decreasing alarmingly. Infant mortality, he says, is very high, having recently reached $63\frac{1}{2}$ per cent, and the sanitary conditions in the islands are very bad. The pamphlet says the economic conditions for the time being are fairly good, as the sugar crop is excellent. This, however, is not considered by M. Hageman as sufficient, and he expects a return to bad conditions as soon as the prices of sugar have fallen. Once in the Lincoln administration and again in the Roosevelt administration the proposal to purchase the Danish West Indies received favorable consideration from this government. In 1902 the United States came within an ace of getting the islands by purchase from Denmark. On Jan. 24, 1902, a convention was signed at Washington by John Hay, then secretary of ```markdown ``` VIEW OF ST. THOMAS AND NEW BREAK-WATER. state, and Constantin Brun, Danish minister to the United States, for the cession to the United States of the Danish West Indian islands. The convention was ratified by the senate on Feb. 17, 1902. The treaty was approved by the lower house of the Danish rigsdag, but on Oct. 21, 1902, the landsthing, or upper house, declined to ratify it. It was intimated then that foreign influences were at work against the ratification of the treaty by the Danes. The Danish archipelago includes the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. The islands lie to the east of Porto Rico. They have both commercial and strategic value, especially since the completion of the Panama canal. The chief industry is the cultivation of sugar, and the trade is chiefly with Denmark and the United States. The inhabitants are mainly negroes, the Danish element being represented almost exclusively by the officials and their families. The chief language is a Spanish dialect, but English is generally spoken at the ports. The islands have an area of 142 square miles and a population of 32,786. Undoubtedly the sanitary conditions of the islands would be improved under American rule, while the agricultural and other industries of the islands would be systematically developed. There is no doubt that we might in time make of this group of islands a possession nearly as valuable as Porto Rico. But the United States will never buy the Danish West Indies solely for the sake of gaining more territory or for any purpose directly related to sugar growing, trade or industry. The purchase, if it is ever made, will be to strengthen our means for the protection of the Panama canal and to prevent the purchase of the islands by any other foreign nation from Denmark. It seems probable that the question will be taken up again in congress. That the Danes are almost persuaded at length to get rid of their West Indian possessions, which are not profitable to them, has been known for some time. A new Danish treaty may possibly be drawn up in the present session of the senate DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt records that among the things she most dislikes is a sea voyage. Mrs. Lloyd-George has taken up the study of French in the past six months and now speaks that language with some fluency. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was recently chosen president of the American Woman Suffrage association, is also president of the International Association of Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Delloria Gates, widow of John W. Gates, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harold L. Judd, have made $8,000,000 in the past year, due to the jump in the price of Texas oil stocks which they own. When Mime. Melba was in Ottawa, Canada, recently she was decorated a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The Duke of Connaught, governor general of Canada, is the head of the order, and he bestowed the decoration on the diva in recognition of her success in raising money for the Red Cross. Current Comment. Wall street permits no "wolves" in its zoology—only bulls, bears and lambs.-Chicago News. "See America first" is a motto which may now be coupled with "Safety first."-Washington Star. With the work of saving the babies the first big step in the defense of the nation is being taken. - Baltimore American. In Mexico the difference between a de facto government and a defunct government is only a matter of time.-Washington Post. The argument that modern war is a question of machinery doesn't frighten Kansas, with one automobile for every nine of population.-New York Post. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Neutrality is the art of displeasing everybody. People who live in glass houses should screen their windows. Too many outward gains are obtained at the expense of inward losses. Many a self made man might be happier if he could blame the job on somebody else. A popular fallacy at Annapolis is that every student can become a Midshipman Easy. Keep your mouth shut and you will gain a reputation for wisdom and also avoid grip germs. Mars is now relatively near the earth, but no great alarm is felt, as it is still out of airship range. An expert is a man who can always get away with an argument on some subject that you know nothing about. Unexpected leap year attacks on the trenches are calculated to make the enemy exclaim, "This is so sudden." Suicide is said to have declined in Europe since the beginning of the war. Enlistment probably furnished a substitute. Among the prophets who are predicting the end of the war in 1916 is a sprinkling of those who forecast the windup in 1915. Twenty years hence, Grahame White predicts, there will be a fifteen hour transatlantic aerial service. The time limit is long enough to forget it. Short Stories. Japanese artists push their pencils instead of pulling them. There are about two miles of deck on a great transatlantic liner. In India there are over 300,000,000 images of the various gods. Ironclads were originally wooden vessels protected by iron plates. A saturated solution of celluloid in banana oil makes a durable lacquer for brass. Denmark has reformed its time, adopting what is known as the twenty-four hour clock. For instance, 1 o'clock p. m. will be known as 13 o'clock, and so on until 24 o'clock, which is midnight. Town Topics. There is still another difference between Indianapolis and London. London reports that coppers are active.—Indianapolis News. Since New York has been forced to confess that crime is on the decrease Baltimore will be swaggering around more proudly vicious than ever.—Washington Post. Boston is hard put to it to suggest a design for a municipal flag. We would suggest a scandalized codfish chasing September Morn out of Massachusetts bay.—New York Sun. Labor and Progress. A new gasoline engine uses only one twentieth of a drop of fuel at a charge. The first American linotype machine in Tripoli recently was installed by an Italian newspaper. Good paper, it is said, can be produced from refuse hops that have hitherto been thrown away in breweries. The use of rope for driving machinery is on the increase. The efficiency of rope in this capacity varies from 87 to 97 per cent. ROMANCE OF ROYAL LOVERS Joachim, Kaiser's Youngest Son, Settles Down. With the marriage of Prince Joachim Albrecht, youngest son of the kaiser, all the children of the German emperor are settled down in domestic felicity. The Princess Marie Augustine of Anhalt, Joachim's bride, is eight years his junior, as she is only seventeen years of age. She is the eldest of the four children of Prince Edward of Anhalt and the niece of Duke Frederick II. The engagement of the young couple was announced on Oct. 14, 1915, and the wedding was set for March 11, 1916. When the princess was a child of about ten years Prince Joachim was [Name] PRINCE JOACHIM. getting his first notoriety by cutting capers that required his banishment to Africa. That was his first romance, when he was intent on marrying a pretty girl named Marie Sulzer. Marie happened not to belong to royalty. And such a thing as marrying her could not be thought of. And so the kaiser found an army post across the Mediterranean that needed the presence of the seventeen-year-old princeling, where he might cool his heels in the burning desert and get over his foolishness. The banishment, which has been forgotten in the general ruck into which Europe has fallen, was the talk of the day back in 1907, when there was no war to occupy the public mind. But all this is forgotten now. Prince Joachim is a captain of hussars, has received his baptism of fire and has earned his iron cross. The young prince has settled down, and life has been a serious matter to him of late from the point of view of a German trench. To the little princess, wedding in wartime, there come mingled emotions of love and fear. Hardly more than a child, simple and innocent in her charm, she already knows the anxiety of having dear ones in the conflict. Her father is fighting with the crown prince, her lover was reported wounded in Flanders, and her husband, after a honeymoon in uniform and under arms, will be obliged to tear himself from his bride and go back to the front, leaving the young bride to wait and think and fear. THE AZTEC CALENDAR STONE. A Replica Now In the American Museum of Natural History. A replica of the famous Aztec calendar stone has been made and placed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. The calendar stone, or "stone of the sun," has long been one of the chief treasures of the National Museum of Mexico City. The Photo by courtesy of Travel Magazine. THE AZTEC CALENDAR STONE. calendar of the more advanced Mexi- can tribes was quite up to that of the Spanish conquerors. The year consisted of 365 days, in two parts—300 days, divided into eighteen months of twenty days each, and five intercalary days. Each day of the month had a proper name and a graphic symbol. The interpretation of these symbols has taxed the ingenuity of Mexicologists from the beginning. PAGE THREE SHORT AND SHARP. A wise man says little and saws wood. Beware of the small expenses. Together they make the great deficit. Among the unpopular pastimes in Canada just now is being an alien. These may be trying days for kings, but it is not half so hard for them as for their subjects. In an air battle the main desire is to fall back on the base of supplies as gently as possible. Edison says he'd rather work than attend a banquet, having in mind, no doubt, some of the speeches. Satisfactory flood prevention methods await the arrival of the genius who can train water to run uphill. Eggs are falling, says the market price. But somehow the housewife makes no effort to get out from under. More land is said to be needed for canal defenses. Why not take some of that sliding land and keep it out of the ditch? College women marry as often as other women, says a Baltimore lecturer. Well, about how often does the average woman marry? "Congress won't be advised," says one critic. And still another thinks that what's the matter with it is that it takes all the advice that's coming to it. Flippant Flings. Professor Garner is going back to the Kongo to study monkey talk. Human chatter is too confusing.—New York Sun. Ireland is excluded from the conscription bill. You don't have to force an Irishman to fight.—Boston Transcript. The Swiss are said to be the best soldiers on earth. Maybe they learned how to charge at the hotels over there.—Florida Times-Union. According to French medical men, the army trenches are a veritable health resort. Well, everybody knew they were dug to prolong life.—Kansas City Journal. Professor Edward Sonnenberg of Berlin is said to have removed nearly 2,000 appendixes. We like to see a man carving out a career—but not that way.—London Standard. The Writers. H. G. Wells, the English author, is the son of a professional cricketer. Edwin Lefevre, the writer, is an American citizen, but he was born on the isthmus and served at one time as the Panaman minister to Spain. Sir Gilbert Parker was lately forced by ill health to take a rest and recuperate at Brighton. His health has now improved, and he has returned to his duties in parliament. Besides being a successful author, Payne Erskine (Mrs. Emma Payne Erskine) is the proprietor of several hundred acres of land in the most desirable part of the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. When not writing Mrs. Erskine is busy designing and building cottages for occupancy by northerners. Fashion Frills. Lower necks and shorter skirts are predicted by fashion. And will end ever meet?—Baltimore American. Chicago fashion experts announce milady's waist line is to be located "in its original place." We await further details.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is rumored that bustles and hoopskirts are coming back into style. Even the fashion makers are thinking up atrocties nowadays.—Detroit Free Press. New York clubwomen suggest a censorship over women's dress. There are plenty of volunteer censors already, but they don't seem to be very efficient.—New Orleans Times-Placayne. The Royal Box. At the German court it is against etiquette for the emperor to shake hands with any one who is not of royal rank. Prince Erik, son of Prince Waldemar of Denmark, has crossed the Atlantic to study practical farming. He expects to remain for several years. His family is regarded as the most democratic branch of European royalty. The Grand Duchess Olga is probably the most popular of the members of the imperial Russian family, although she is by no means pretty. She atones for her lack of beauty, however, by her agreeable manners and her brains—for she is extremely clever. Where Are They? What has become of the old fashioned countries that indulged in "pour parlers?"—Washington Post. What has become of the mud scraper that used to adorn the front doorstep of every well regulated home?—Kansas City Journal. What has become of the old fashioned man who used to worry for fear the bicycle would make us a round shouldered race?—Exchange. What has become of the old fashioned girl who thought she was being extremely wicked if she ate a cream puff and a dill pickle before going to bed?—Chicago News. --- \gents and Correspondents Wanted to Handle THE BROAD AX. Liberal Commissions to Live Agents. Address, Julius F.Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Av., Chicago a f ALDERMAN JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH. ‘Warm friend of the Afro-American race, member of the License, Building and other committees of the city council and Democratic candidate for re-election to that body from the 14th ward. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comment On Men and Women. EDISON, AT 69, TALKS OF FOOD, DRINK AND WORK. Orange, N. J.—Thomas A. Edison celebrated his 69th birthday by doing just what be has done almost every day of his life, and the thing he likes most to do. He worked hard. He gave himself over to the newspaper men for just a few minutes, but two things were tabooed—polities and the navy. That is to say he refused to go into details about either of these interesting things. Here is what the wizard has to say about eating: ‘Cut your food down to one-third or one-fourth of what you have been eating. I eat three meals a day. That’s habit and nothing else. But I eat a quarter of what the average man does. I know it because I see it at my own table.’’ Prohibition is a subject that always interests Mr. Edi- son. He is opposed to strong drink but not to beer, and the lighter beverages. ‘Man isn’t perfect yet, he says, and you cannot take aleohol away from him all at once. If you do he'll resent the act. Beer has 4 per cent aleobol, while whis- key is almost wholly alcoholic. His solution of the vexed question ap: parently is that whiskey, gin, and heavy beverages should be suppressed. Beer and the lighter wines, he seems to feel, would not cause the vexatious dis- turbances that have almost caused anarchy in some parts of the country. It has often been a mooted question as to why cleavage should not be estab- lished as between the heavy, alcoholic products of the distiller, and those made from barley, hops and grapes. Public opinion would readily seek a solution of the whole question along Edisonian lines if this cleavage were established, and if it were made known that intox- ieation would be reduced, if not wholly removed, by some such action as Mr. Edison advocated on his 69th birthday, namely a slight reduction in the al- coholic content of beer and the lighter beverages. As usual, Edison leads the way. RACE PREJUDICE IN NEW ENGLAND. Colored Girl Loses Position—Judge Loring Bules that Dr. French of Medfield Insane Asylum Acted Within His Rights. Boston, Mass—That Dr. Edward French, superintendent of the Medfield Insane Asylum, was within his rights, under ‘the probationary clause of the civil service rules, when he discharged Miss Jane R. Bosfield, a Colored gitl, as stenographer, is the opinion ex- pressed by Judge Loring in the Su- preme Court, who dismisses the petition of the girl to seek reinstatement. Miss Bosfield testified that she had passed a civil service examination as stenographer and that when she had called on Dr. French in regard to a position, he had expressed surprise and had said he wished the services of a white woman. Governor Walsh’s at- tention was enlisted and he brought the case to the attention of Dr. O’Meara of the State Board of Insanity. Last October Miss Bosfield became stenog- rapher at the Medfield asylum. Dr. French, while denying that he was prejudiced against Miss Bosfield on account of her color, testified that he believed her coming would lead to trouble among the other employees and would tend to lessen discipline. He testified that he arranged that she should take her meals and have her room in a private house half a mile from the asylum. After a short time, the woman of that house notified Dr. French that she could not keep Miss Bosfield longer. Then he gave her a room in the chapel, which he admitted was not far from the morgue, with the understanding that her meals were to be sent to “her on a tray. Later, he said, she insisted on having her meals in the regular dining-room and for eighteen or nineteen days made re- peated efforts to enter that room at meal times. He said he thought he had a right to have employees eat where he wishes; and beeause of her alleged in- subordination he sent her a written notice of dismissal, to become effective January 28. Charles L. Williams, clerk of the juvenile court, said Miss Bosfield had been employed by the firm of Williams & Williams, and that they never had a better stenographer. Warren Dudley, secretary of the civil service commis- sioners, explained the civil service rules. Assistant Attorney General Brown, appearing for Dr. French, contended the latter had acted solely within his rights. Charles L. Williams said that, while acts like that of Dr. French might be tolerated in Georgia, they ought not to be countenanced in Massschusetts. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club held an in- teresting and large attended meeting at the Reading Room Wednesday. Al most the entire evening was devoted to the business of making arrangements for the national parade. A large num ber of delegates from other clubs were present and signified their intentions to co-operate with the Alpha Suffrage Club in making their section of the parade one of the best in line. ‘At the meeting Wednesday night of last week Dr. M. R. Bibbs and his cam- paign committee occupied the evening. Delegates for the City Federation were chosen. IDA B. WELLS BARNETT, President. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916. ‘he Royal Life Insurance Co., Alfred Clover, President, Has Passed Into the Hands of a Receiver. Many Color- ed People Who Would Not pay Out One Dollar To Support a News- paper Published in Their Interest, Have Been Caught by Its Failure for Thousands and Thousands of Dollars | FOR SOME TIME PAST ONCE EACH WEEK ITS PRESIDENT GAVE AN ELABORATE BANQUET FOR THE COLORED END OF THE COM- PANY AT 39TH AND STATE STREETS WHERE THE UNSUSPECT- ING VICTIMS AFTER FILLING UP ON FREE EATING WERE INDUCED TO PART WITH THEIR MONEY AT $50 PER SHARE FOR STOCK AND FOR LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES WHICH ARE NOW OF NO VALUE. © AT THE TIME THAT THE COLORED END OF THE ROYAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY WAS ORGANIZED EARLY LAST FALL PRESIDENT CLOVER, WHO HAILS FROM GEORGIA, DECIDED TO WORK UP A CONTEST BETWEEN TWO COLORED MEN, AND THE ONE SELLING THE LARGEST AMQUNT OF STOCK AND TURNING IN THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF MONEY WOULD BE SELECTED SUPERINTENDENT AT THE 39TH AND STATE STREET HEAD- QUARTERS OF THE COMPANY. COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL AND FRANK L. GILLISPI ENTERED THE CONTEST AND AT ITS END MB. GILLISPI SURPASSED COL. MARSHALL IN TURNING IN MONEY AND NEW BUSINESS AND HE WAS SELECTED ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT AT $150 PER MONTH. ON THAT OCCASION AT A SWELL BANQUET HE WAS PRESENTED WITH A GOLD WATCH AND CHAIN AS THE MOST POPULAR COL- ORED MAN IN CHICAGO AND FROM THAT TIME TO THE PRESENT A STEADY STREAM OF MONEY FROM THE COLORED PEOPLE HAS CONTINUED TO ROLL INTO THE COFFERS OF THE ROYAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. On Monday of this week the Royal Life Insurance - Company, Alfred Clover, President, accused by many of its white shareholders of crooked busi: ness methods, finds its way into the Superior Court before Judge Charles M. Foell, who appoints a receiver to take charge of its affairs. Alfred Clover, the Jean Valjean of the insurance world, is in trouble again. It was Alfred Clover who some time ago boasted that he had started life as an orphan newsboy and wharf rat, and had started the Royal Insurance Company of Chicago on a ‘shoe: string’? and ‘‘got away with it.’” Monday, on a petition filed by eight stockholders charging fraud, Judge Charles M. Foell in the Superior court appointed a receiver for the company of which Clover is head. ‘As soon as the petition had been filed inquiries by phone began pouring into The Tribune office from stockholders, mostly druggists and physicians on the northwest side, who claimed to have been victimized by Clover. Asveery Makes Benet At the same time a report of an in- vestigation into the concern’s busines: covering the year ending December 31 last was handed to Rufus M. Potts state superintendent of insurance a Springfield, by J. Fairlie, actuary o! the department. The report shows tha: the financial condition of the compan} is decidedly grave. ‘The complainants in the petition for a receiver are Chester C. Moe, Catb- erine O. Moe, Harold Rossiter, Madel Oehlsen, C. 8. Krysinski, Julius Shief. fert, Adolph Pearson, and Wildon Ohl- son. They complain that Clover has dominated the company to the extent of refusing them permission to audit the books or examine the proxies by which he was elected president. They charge him with collecting an annual salary of $13,000 instead of a purported monthly stipend of $99.99, with viola. tion of the Wisconsin state insurance laws regarding the sale of stock, and with allowing impairment of the capital ‘Total of $750,000 Collected. It is set forth that a total of $750,000 has been collected in premiums and through stock sales, and that $625,000 has been paid out. Only $40,000 was left at the beginning of the year, the bill recites, after the liabilities had been accounted for. ‘The impairment on capital stock on Dec. 31, 1914, amounted to $51,269.69 and on Dec. 31, 1915, to $135,960.76, showing a net loss in surplus of $84, 664.07, according to the report. “T paid $1,200 for forty shares of stock,’” said a north side druggist. ‘It was supposed to be selling for $10 at par, but Clover charged $30, saying he had to deposit $10 for each share with ithe state insurance department under the law and had to have the other $10 for operating expenses. He’d send out cards announcing stockholders’ meet- ings, but always urged that the stock- holders send proxies instead of attend: ‘ing.”? $25,000 was filed against Clover by M. M. Lyons he issued a statement to the effect that he was being harassed by persons who knew of his past record. He admitted having gone under other names and violated the insurance laws. , Remnant of Civil War. «I am a remnant of the civil war,’’ he said. ‘<All of the other members of my family in Georgia are dead. ‘Some were killed in the war and others died soon afterward and I was left an orphan to get along the best way I could. I sold newspapers and slept on wharves and in wagons. I got a job as office boy for the Prudential In- surance Company and taught myself to read and write during spare hours. I worked my way up until I got the name of being one of the best insurance writers in America. I made plenty of money, but I gave it to my friends. I was too liberal. | In order to keep going I changed ‘my name whenever I changed towns, because of the understanding between insurance companies not to employ an- other company’s agent within two years after his leaving any one company. Insurance papers have attacked me time and again. «A couple of years ago I gave a note for $1,000 to a friend to help him out. He was unable to cash it. After I had started the Royal Insurance Company on a shoestring and he heard I was making it go despite all the harassing, he cited me to the debtors’ court. I went into bankruptey to keep him from trimming me. That is some more of my past, I suppose.’’—The Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, Feb. 29th. President Clover, it seems, was past master in the art of working his white fellow citizens, as well as understand- ing how to work his Colored fellow citizens to perfection. In order to more suecessfully work the money out of the pockets of his Colored fellow citizens once each week, President Clover would give an elaborate banquet for the Col- ored end of the Royal Life Insurance Company at the Colored headquarters, 39th and State street, and some of the most prominent Colored folks in this town felt highly honored to be in evi- dence on such occasions, and after filling them up on free eating or doings they would induce their vietims to freely part with their money for stock in the Company at $30 per share and for life insurance policies which are not now worth ten cents on the dollar. At the time that President Clover established the Colored end of the Royal Life Insurance Company, coming from Georgia he claims that he under- stands the Colored people, he decided "to start a contest between two Colored men, and the one selling the largest amount of stock and turning in the greatest amount of new business and the money would be selected superin- tendent at the 39th and State street headquarters. =“ Our highly esteemed friend Col. John R. Marshall and Frank L. Gil- lispi, duly entered the contest, and it seems that Mr. Gillispi succeeded in turning in more money and new busi- ness than Col. Marshall, and he was selected as assistant superintendent at $150 per month. Not long after that exciting event | swell banquet was given at the Col ored headquarters, and Mr. Gillispi was | presented with a handsome gold watch aad) [chain | and loudly proclaimed Ithrough the columns of the ‘greatest | weekly newspaper in the world’? the most popular Colored man in Chicago, and from that time to the present a steady stream of money from the Col- ored people has continued to roll into the coffers of the rotten Royal Life Insurance Company. At no time either for money nor for the love of the thing did we do any boosting in favor of it nor any knock- ing against it. But as a matter of fact we never have much faith in any White company or business concern whose head chiefs feel that they must make @ special effort to gather in their! Wealth or ill-gotten gains out of the pockets of the Colored people. | ELITE CAFE NO. 1, 3030 STATE _ ‘STREET, IS STILL DOING BUSI- NESS AT THE SAME OLD STAND. Arthur F. Codozoe and J. H. Whis- ton, managers and owners of the Elite Cafe No. 1, 3030 State street, are pleased to announce that everything in connection with their cafe is running im apple pie order. That they employ first class enter- tainers and see to it that their patrons receive the best of attention and that they are still doing business at the leame of ciand. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. The Negro Fellowship League will have a symposium on ‘‘Lessons from the Aldermanic Campaign,’’ Sunday, March 6, at 4 p. m, at the Reading Room, 3005 State St. Speakers: Geo. W. Ellis, Dr. M. R. Bibb, Richard E. Parker, and FP. L. Barnett. All inter- ested in our civie welfare are urged to be present. Last Sunday was ‘‘boy problem’? day. Judge Harry P. Dolan, Dr. M. E. Lyon, and ‘Big Brother’? D. G. Smith made eloquent addresses and brought out many new facts in connection with the problem of the colored boy. This subject is to be continued at another date. JOHN E. HUGHES, Secretary. NOTES OF THE PEERLESS CLUB By Carl L. Cotton, Cor. Sec’y The Peerless Club shall meet Tues- day evening, March 7th, at the res- idence of Mr. Trust, 5818 LaFayette Avenue. A large attendance is ex- pected and a splendid program has been prepared. Dr. J. W. MeDowell, 3509 S. State Street, is successfully engaged in con- dueting clinies at Provident Hospital. Each Wednesday from 2 to 3 p. m, children troubled with their eyes, ears, nose and throat, will be properly cared for and reeeive the best of attention. William F. Harrah, sergeant-at-arms of the city council, has been working early and late recently in an effort to keep the eity daddies straightened out around the council eommittee rooms while they have been exeitingly dis- cussing their fight with Mayor William Hale Thompson. Chas. E. Morrison, who faithfully served as special messenger for Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and who is serving im the same eapaeity for Mayor Will- sam Hale Thompson, has been laying ow, looking wise and attending strictly to his own knitting, while His Honor the Mayor has been busily engaged in a hand to hand fight with the nine St yaieal eldermen.?* Prof. W. E. Dubois, editor of The Crises, New Y ork City, and prominently connected with the ‘‘ National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People,’’ was the latter part of last week and the first part of this week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Charles E. Bentley, and on Monday evening he addressed a large audience at the West Side People’s Forum, Robey Street and Warren Avenue, on “The World Problem on the Color Line.’’ Household Hints. Dipping in a solution of alum wil fireproof paper candle or lamp shades. Keep tacks in bottles; it saves open- ing many boxes to find a particulai “kind. Salt thrown on the fire once a day prevents the accumulation of soot ia ‘the flues, A pail of boiling salted water should be poured down the kitchen sink every ‘week to prevent its becoming stopped. Cotton gloves to wear in doing house- work are better in every way than old kid gloves. If bought especially for this purpose get a size larger than usually worn. Sparks of Fire. ‘To protect wood against fire, silicate of soda is the most effective remedy. There are traces of an organization for the extinction of fire as far back as 2,000 years B. C. There is no doubt that the original method of finding fire was'by the fric- tion of two pieces of wood. No Greek or Roman army crossed 8 frontier without carrying an altar om which a sacred fire always burned. The origin of fire varies, according to old time fables. The Greeks held that Prometheus brought to earth the torch he had lighted at the sun, and hence there was fire. . Leap Year Musings. During the glad leap year a woman also has the last word first —Washins- ton Post. ‘The question is whether in = lea? year wedding the bridegroom shouldat Promise to obey.—Pittsburgh Chront dle. One woman explains that the only difference in leap year is that the me? then Toy at the women are pr Posing.—1 Herald. With Mr. Bernard Shaw's revelt tion that woman does the proposing Ia nearly all cases anyway. leap sett lost much of tts significance —Chicas” eral. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300 So. State Street Phode, Douglas 3617 SEX EDUCATION The bearing that sex education has on health is obviously of the greatest importance. It is a moral crime to permit the young to meander in the dark in the matter of sex education; but that is just what has been done from time immemorial. The great wave of enthusiasm concerning efficiency bids fair to introduce adequate instruction along all lines. It shall no longer be the plan to hold ignorance above intelligence. Humanity is about to learn to look the facts in the face. The educators are beginning to ask that the public schools teach the pupils the facts of sex education. Like all progress the growth in this matter will be slow. There will be those who will oppose it. The unfortunate victims of sex ignorance should be examples DAMES AND DAUGHTERS General von Mackeusen's mother, aged eighty-nine, lives in Geglenfelde, West Prussia. Perhaps the finest-pearls in the world are owned by the Duchesse of Marlborough, to whom they were given by her father. They formerly belonged to the Empress Catherine of Russia. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, the wife of the famous novelist, is regarded as a mascot where flying is concerned, for although she has made scores of aeroplane flights both as passenger and pilot, she has never met with the slightest mishap. Mrs. Timothy T. Lew, who has received the degree of master of arts from the Teacher's college of Columbia university, is a well known Chinese educator, who was sent to Columbia by the Chinese government. She possesses eight diplomas and degrees from American institutions of learning. She is shortly to return to China, where she will have supervision over the kindergarten of five provinces. Flippant Flings. Do all the advocates of preparedness heed their wives' advice and wear their rubbers?—Pittsburgh Dispatch. A New York man was fined $400 for hugging a dressmaker. They're an expensive set, those dressmakers.—Detroit Free Press. Gasoline is so high at present that a man whose clothes have recently been renovated is likely to be investigated by a commission on suspicion of being a malefactor of great wealth.—Chicago News. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley asserts that 68 per cent of the men of fighting age in the United States are physically unit for military service. Most of them, however, are capable of running for office.—New York Sun. SHORT AND SHARP. Promissory notes are in reality nothing but paper waits. The time for cultivating repose is not during working hours. The best way to seek health is to forget your ills and troubles. Be sure you are right—and then take out a little accident insurance. Easy is the descent of an unsuccessful Mexican general into oblivion. Always keep your temper; it's worth more to you than it is to anybody else. If we could see ourselves as others see us a lot of mirrors would be snushed before sunset. A man's home is where his wife is, ruled a New York justice. He must have meant a department store. Golf is said to be popular in Japan. All that game needs to win popularity anywhere, it seems, is an introduction. You never know what invincible ignorance means until you meet a man who absolutely refuses to agree with you. Imagine, too, the feelings of some United States consuls who went to Europe before the war looking for a nice, soft job. Some of the statesmen seem to be in doubt whether militarism conduces to pacificism or whether pacificism invites militarism. It is not an unknown experience for a sturdy advocate of preparedness to have an empty coal bin rise up in righteous judgment against him. J. E. H. enough to convince the authorities of the need of sex instruction under competent instructors. Such instruction should be begun at a time in the life of the individual that will help and not hinder. The consensus of opinion among social workers seems to be that sex education should be begun before the age of adolescence. Our system of education today ignores the existence of the sex question almost entirely. Unless the individual enters medical college the matter of sex education is never adequately presented. It has been frequently demonstrated that almost all persons in the social system of today get their sex knowledge haphazard and from lame and unprofessional sources. The result must be in keeping with that instruction. SIRES AND SONS. General Joffre wears on his little finger a ring that he has not removed for six years. Charles Upseon Clark, who has been elected director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome, is assistant professor of Latin in Yale university. Sir Douglas Haig, succeeding Sir John French as commander of the British forces in France, is a Scotman, fifty-four years old, and has been in the army since 1885. He served in the Sudan and South African campaigns, winning distinguished honors and promotions. Dr. Abraham Jacobi, who has accepted the presidency of the Germanistic Society of America, was identified with the revolutionary movement in Germany and in 1851-3 was held in detention in Berlin and Cologne for "high treason." In 1853 he settled in New York and devoted himself to the practice of medicine. Major Robert R. Moton, successor to the late Booker T. Washington as president of Tuskegee institute, has been commandant of cadets at Hampton institute, Virginia, since 1890. He is a native of Virginia, of pure negro parentage, and the work to which he has devoted himself has won him a wide recognition as an educator and able administrator. Fashion Frills. Fashion ought to have a heart and spare poor women the horrors that some of these thin soled shoes entail.—Chicago News. If the dresses of women are made much shorter there will be no necessity for buying bathing suits.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Seems kind o' rushing the season for the spring clothes to appear in the show windows before the fall ones are paid for.—Indianapolis News. One reason why we know high top boots in bright colors will be fashionable is that every pretty girl is wearing high top boots in bright colors.—Washington Post. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Vanity can be fattened on the cheapest of food. Some people speak as they think, while others speak oftener. Thank heavens, worn out autos can't land in the butcher shop anyhow. If you never learn to take orders you will never know how to give them. Many people throw money away, but very few people ever find any of it. The top round of the ladder of success is usually the most slippery of all. There are two ways of remaining neutral—your way and the other fellow's. Chinese revolutionists remain active regardless of the nominal form of government. It is just as well to remember that the best time doesn't always cost the most money. In the cemetery all men are equal, no matter what the tombstone inscription may be. If you cannot look on the bright side of things better keep your eyes closed as much as possible. The theater of war, says a philosopher, charges the highest prices for admission. And yet there are many dead heads. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916 Charles E. Stump Wends His Way West, from Chicago Tarrying in Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, Mo., Kansas City, Kans. In St. Louis He Visited the Extensive Establishment of Mrs. Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone, 3100 Pine Street, Who Employs an Army of Clerks and Stenographers. Lately Prof. and Mrs. Malone Gave $5,000 to the Y.M.C.A. of That City Kansas City, Kans.—I am once more back on Kansas soil looking after my farm for the spring, and then I am going to try it again. I want to say a few words to you before I turn my attention to the farm, but it is hard to say where I will be when I write to you next, because I have already arranged to have a man take charge for me and put in potatoes and other things. It seems that everything and everybody are making me welcome back to Kansas, even the trees seem to say something to me. The dogs are all smiling with their tails, the horses are having their say and the mules are muling, so you see I am happy to get back here, but I must not talk about Kansas just now, because I must tell you some experiences I have had on this trip. You remember I have been to Chicago again. I am getting so I like to go to Chicago and see what's going on around there. I had the pleasure of having a long talk with Dr. A. J. Carey, one of the next bishops of the A. M. E. church, and from there I went to Ebenezer Baptist church. But there was another sight I shall never forget. I went down to a big store there known as Siegel, Cooper and Co., and I shouted right out in the store. There were a hundred people around me in a few minutes. I was shouting because I had seen a real sure 'nuf clerk in there. It was Mrs. Mattie Johnson-Young, clerk in the grocery department, and you would never mistake her for a white woman, and that's no joke. She is of a fast color warranted not to run or rub. She is polite, courteous, and I tell you she has some people to buy from her. She is kept busy all the time. I was informed that she was one of the best clerks in the store. I went to Bethesda Baptist church, had the pleasure of seeing the pastor up there. No, he was out of town and Rev. E. H. Fletcher was in charge, and he is some preacher too, but I did not hear him preach. After walking around in Chicago, calling on Mr. James Hale Porter at his palatial home, meeting his wife, and other friends, calling on the police department and shaking hands with one of the Chicago policemen. Meeting Mrs. Pitts, who passed the examination for a police woman, and meeting Mrs. Eva Hooper, the great church worker, talking with Mrs. Alice Liles and her daughter, Mrs. Bell, going to the home of Charles Stewart, meeting him, his wife and son, calling on Editor Taylor, I left for Alton. I shall tell you about my visit to Evanston in another letter. I spent a day in Alton, and this is an interesting place. It was here where Owen Lovejoy pleaded for the slaves. Where he painted the horrors of slavery in his paper and his printing press was destroyed and I am informed put in the Mississippi river. That is history. I spent a little time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blanton, and thought I was going to stop at their daughter's home, Mrs. F. A. Adams, in East St. Louis, but did not. St. Louis was reached, and I went to call on Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, but just before reaching his home, I found Dr. S. A. Moseley on the street, and he shook my hand, bade me welcome—in fact, invited me to stop with him during my stay there, and being of the Baptist faith I accepted the invitation. The next thing was to get a man to haul my many trunks. I found Mr. Woods, who is one of the best in the city. I left the checks, and then went on, but when I went to the house at night or to church was informed that some one had stolen off of the wagon my baby valise. It was the machine I had just bought on time. I have been informed that you had to have a writing machine to be a good newspaper writer, so I purchased one. I am spelling fairly well on it. I at once informed the St. Louis police about it, and was informed that they would have the machine and the man before I could get my breakfast or even before I could go to sleep. "We are the best police in the world." I thought they were just playing with me. Bright and early the next morning I went down to arrange to buy another machine, because Mr. Woods said he would make good. But was there informed by the boss machine man that the police had captured my machine and the man as they told me they would and wanted me to come right on. I reported it at 8:40 and 9:45 the police captured the man and machine. He is now in jail. But I had some other experience in the city of St. Louis. A man told me where I could get a job that would pay me $50 a week. I told him I wanted to be a reporter and he said it was on a daily paper there. I was anxious to get such a big job, and paid him $5.00. He went down to the office of the Globe-Democrat where I was to get the job. He left me outside while he went to see the editor. Then he came out and said that the editor was across the street getting his lunch, and he would go over and get him, and I have not seen the man or my money since, and when I went to see the editor he laughed at me. Going up the street, I noticed the Poro College, 3100 Pine street, so I thought I would go in there and see what I could learn there. I was informed that it was a place where people were taught how to care for hair. I thought it meant heads. I walked up and pushed the button, and a lady came to the door. It was a fine looking young woman, and I told her that I wanted to have my head examined, because some one told me I had head disease. I told her I owned all the buildings in town, and all the money in the banks belonged to me. That young lady told me that I was in the wrong place. Just then another one saw me, and invited me in. I did not know that there was so much in this hair growing business. This was the college of Mrs. Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone. She is one of the leading women in the hair business in the country. She invited me in to see the place, and assured me that I did not own as much as I thought I owned, but some, of the buildings were mine. She was glad to know of my wealth, owning all the banks and all the money, and treated me just like I was worth my millions. I wish you could have seen them clerks looking at me. She had about fifty of them, or perhaps more. They looked at me. I got to shake hands with the following: Mrs. Alberta Hoagland, forelady, and Miss M. A. Goins, filling a like position; Mjss Maudelle McMurray, private secretary and bookkeeper; Miss Hazel Slaughter, stenographer, and then there were Misses Blanche O'Den, Hannah Andersor and Sadie Boyer, stenographers, Miss Lillian Higginbotham, filing clerk. I did not say anything about the many shippers and packers. Their fine car, in which I had the pleasure of riding, because I thought it was mine, and I just allowed them to keep it for me. Mr. Williams is in charge of the car. Mrs. Malone was as busy as could be, and I was proud to see this. Prof. A. E. Malone is the business man from Businessville. I had a chat with him and he with me. They have helped so many people and because of this they have schools all over the country and furnish employment to hundreds of people. They are making money. Mr. and Mrs. Malone in order to help out the Y. M. C. A. put down $5,000. When you can give five thousand dollars to one enterprise, this is doing things in great shape. I was real proud of her. She is doing something. I looked around and then left. The fight will be over in St. Louis by the time you get this letter, so I will not talk about it. The segregation fight. I will reserve the right to discuss it in another letter. Will you kindly let me hear from you. I am in this place and at the home of one of the mail tooters of the town, Tilford Davis. He is some poet, believe me. He knows how to write and is doing some writing. He wrote on Booker T. Washington. His daughter is now in high up school. His son will be ready to enter next fall. Mrs. Davis is the writing woman for the Grand Court of Calanthe for Kansas. Look out for my next. I will tell you what they are doing for the next session of the National Negro Business League. Recent Inventions. A Michigan inventor has patented a milk bottle with a hole in one side through which cream can be drawn without disturbing the rest of the milk. To protect mail boxes from thieves, spring wrist gratings have been invented that permit letters to be inserted in the usual way, but prevent them being withdrawn. A newly invented compressed air jack can lift thirty-five tons at a speed of from six to twelve inches a minute or from ten to twenty times as fast as most screw or hydraulic jacks. Three Reels. Cinematograph pictures are taken at the rate of from sixteen to twenty a second. Free motion pictures are displayed in amusement parks at Seville, Spain, the profits coming from refreshments sold or from a tiny rental charged for chairs. There are now 18,000 motion picture houses in the country. The daily attendance is estimated at 15,000,000, and the nickels and dimes that the girls in the glass cages receive aggregate $1,000,000 a day. Echoes of the War. All armies now wear "oh, say can you see" uniforms—that is, clothes that you can't see. The utilitarian panoply of war is "something that won't show dirt" because it looks like it—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As Japan views the conditions in Europe, the white peril grows beautifully less every day.—Washington Post. Echoes of the War. Now, they are all "fighting for peace," and when they get it the dead can't break it.-Atlanta Constitution. A London professor says the war is a blessing in disguise. Isn't it about time it removed its false whiskers?-Detroit Free Press. Red Cross authorities estimate that 95,000 soldiers have been made blind in the war. But scarcely so blind as are the diplomats.-Detroit Journal. People used to say that any modern war would be a short one. That was before they became familiar with the dread word "attrition."-Chicago News. The astrologer who announces an end of the war in June has a fine twelve to one shot so long as he refrains from mentioning the year.-Washington Post. PAGE FIVE THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the last named place and news items and advertisements left there will find their way into these columns. Short Stories. Cholock waterfall, Yosemite, is 2,864 feet high. The Peruvians and Bolivians make boats of straw. Corrections made recently in maps of Greenland have shown it to be about 150,000 square miles larger than formerly believed. In former days mountain climbing in Japan was almost exclusively limited to the dosha or pilgrims, who ascended a peak for religious purposes. It is officially estimated that the Crownestern coalfields in British Columbia alone contain coal sufficient to supply 5,000,000 tons of fuel a year for 7,000 years. Dress Hints. After thoroughly drying a mackintosh, when not in use, brush and fold and place in a drawer. It will last twice as long as if left hanging in the dust. Wax the thread thoroughly before attempting to string beads or to sew them on any material. This makes the work easier as well as stronger, and the thread or sewing silk will never knot. Using a warm iron when cutting out a garment will do away with pins on tissue paper patterns. Lay the paper on the material and press lightly with the warm iron. The pattern clings to the cloth. BRIGHT BRIEFS. After a rough lie has been polished it is called hypocrisy. Can't is a longer word than can, but it seems easier to use. The road to success is full of the ruts of other men's failures. Speed the day when they will beat the war stocks into plowshares. What has become of the old fash- loned steer that grew the cheaper cuts? Remember that the money you intend to save doesn't draw any interest. Every man was born at a very early age, but some of them never seem to get over it. The man who is too poor to lend money to his friends will never have many enemies. If the price keeps going up one may soon have to mortgage the car to buy gasoline for it. A pint pot that knows its own measure is worth more than a quart that thinks it's a gallon. After a man becomes about so old it seems to him that the country elects a new president every few minutes. Pullman cars are not to be as elaborately decorated as formerly. Travel is now recognized as a necessity and not a luxury. Without waiting for details it may be assumed the fine imposed on a Swiss editor for writing a poem was based on general principles. Anyway, the young man who's proposed to in leap year ought to demand to be supported in the style to which he has been accustomed. PAGE SIX Newly Elected Treasurer of New York State Suffrage Party. Mary MRS. OGDEN MILLS REID. "Ever since I was a girl at Barnard college," says Mrs. Reid, "I have had the feeling that life outside the home was incomplete without woman's direct contribution to the making of public affairs. This is an age of specialization, and if women specialize in anything it is in a sense of the value of human life. "This idea of conserving life as the best investment any state can make is needed in political affairs. I believe in all the other arguments for enfranchising women, but this seems to me the most urgent. Woman's own specialties, those things which make up her peculiar province, such as guardianship of home and children and her better knowledge of housekeeping, are needed to make up a good world for men and women just as much as man's knowledge of business and finance is needed. Men have surely realized that women have had success in their own province. Why should they deny the world the value of this special skill? This great mass of influence and expert knowledge could be used for mankind. It should so be used." Born in Appleton, Wis., Mrs. Reid is a true western woman. She has the point of view which sees the United States as stretching from coast to coast and not as a thin line along the Atlantic seaboard. As one who has herself been a wage earning woman she believes in woman's economic independence. "I certainly hope my daughter will have this same wholesome experience, for I believe every girl should be given the chance to earn her own living," she says. She voices the newer call for woman's political freedom not alone because women are denied a privilege when the ballot is withheld from them, but because the world needs the enfranchisement of its women and because politics as well as domestic life needs her point of view. Spring Cues. Blouses formed of net, either used singly or double, are most charmingly dainty. They are severely tailored or made with ruffles and frills. Chiffon hems on fallle frocks are finished with overlapping folds of the fallle. An oblong pict edged piece of chiffon was attached to the underside of the seams of a dark blue fallle and chiffon frock. Sleeves are full below the elbow and in many cases flowing, with under-sleeves that are often of extreme daintiness. How are the women of spring to disguise themselves—for during the winter it was a wise husband who could recognize his wife at a little distance. The chin-chin collar hld her chin and mouth, while the small, close fitting hat hld all her hair and even obliterated one eye. So, given one eye, one had to recognize one's fashionable friends. Of course, if feet and ankles are individual enough—and, goodness knows, some are—one had a generous view of the latter. Corsets continue to hug the waist, are still short on the hips and the bust remains medium in height. Even if the waist is to be smaller do not order a smaller corset to obtain this effect, for it will not only not wear well, but will be uncomfortable. The same effect can be obtained by getting a corset of your own size that is cut to fit in at the waist. Fashion Hint. Evening dresses are sleeved! Sometimes the sleeves are mere wispes, 'tis true, but yet they cover to an extent miliady's pretty shoulders and make them even prettier for the velling. A few evening dresses will be sleeveless, but they will be the exception. The 1800 drop shoulder is also forcing itself upon fashionable notice, and a few extreme evening gowns show its charming lines. Shrimp Salad. Chop shrimp with celery, if large, and add a little onion. Place in a salad dish and pour over it mayonnaise made very thin and garnish with sliced boiled eggs, sliced lemon, beets and celery tops. It may be served on lettuce leaves if preferred. How to Recharge Your Battery Did it ever occur to you that rest is an antidote for more things than every day physical weariness? It is one of the weapons with which a man or woman may fight emotional strains of any kind. And the reason is an extremely simple one. Let us resort to the faithful old device of a diagram. In the center of the chart suppose we put the word "energy." That is the thing that we have to work with in this life. Now on one side let's write a list of our expenditures—all the things which call for an outlay of energy. In this list is brain work, physical or manual work, emotion and diversion. These are the things that we spend our store of energy for. Every day we spend ourselves either physically, or mentally, or emotionally, or in some manner which may be a combination of any of them and which constitutes our diversions. So much for the expense account. What shall we put in a list on the other side of the column that we might call income? How, in other words, do we accumulate energy? Here are some of the ways: 'Food," of course, and then "rest," "good air" and some of the other lesser ways which are productive of a renewed sense of energy, such as good grooming and inspiring associations. And it is pretty true that you may add to your bank account and thus offset any sort of an expenditure with any sort of an income. That is, if we are working hard and playing hard we need a little more fuel in the way of food to keep the supply of energy up to the standard. And so, too, a little added rest will offset not only a physical, but an emotional strain. Sometimes sleep is a better antidote for suffering than diversion, because diversion, after all, calls for an expenditure of energy, while suffering or an emotional strain of any sort has already taken a pretty full toll of the supply on hand. Study the chart, then, and learn not only to spend wisely of the things that represent our outlay, but learn, too, to collect generously from those common sources of supply which are open to every one—food, fresh air and rest. FOR TODDLERS. How Modish the Two-year-old May Be This Spring. White line cut with kimono sleeves, the neck and sleeve bottoms being edged with narrow torchon, gives this attractive little frock. A bolero is DIMINUTIVE STYLE. outlined with hand embroidery, and the crushed girdle run through a crocheted buckle is pale blue taffeta ribbon. Cake Fillings and Iceings. Filling for Orange Cake.—One medium orange, juice and grated rind; two tablespoonfuls butter, one egg, one cupful sugar; beat sugar, orange juice and rind and butter, add beaten egg, cook until it thickens; use cold. Butter Frosting.—Two cupfuls powdered sugar, two tablespoonfuls milk, two tablespoonfuls melted butter; two tablespoonfuls vanilla; stir until creamy. Cake Filler.—A good cake filler, easily made, is a cupful of sugar and one half cupful sweet milk; boil until it "hairs;" beat until cold enough to spread. Lemon Filler.—One egg, well beaten; one cupful sugar, juice and grated rind of one lemon, piece butter size of egg; cook over hot water until thick. Pineapple Iceing.—One and one-half cupfuls of confectioner's sugar, one tablespoonful of shredded pineapple, one-half teaspoonful of vanilla, boiling water to make creamy. Spread at once. Chocolate Iceing.—Two teaspoonfuls of cocoa, two tablespoonfuls of hot water. Cook half a minute, cool, add one tablespoonful of milk; stir in iceing sugar to the right consistency. Meat Scallops. Materials.-Two cupfuls cold roast beef, stale breadcrumbs, seasoning, a tablespoonful butter, a tablespoonful flour, a cupful stock or gravy. Directions.-Mince the meat finely, removing any superfluous fat, and season highly with salt, pepper, a little mustard or horseradish or stock sauce. Blend together in a saucepan the butter and flour, add the stock and when boiling cook for two or three minutes; then put in the meat and mix with this foundation sauce. Turn into greased scallop shells or small individual dishes, sprinkle buttered crumbs over the top and bake fifteen minutes. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916 Jersey Cloth Is In the Lead Both For Street Wear and Sports. A SMART AS THEY COME. This silk jersey suit is in deep tan color, with brown glacied leather for cuffs, collar and pocket lids. The stringy belt and novelty buttons give a natty finish. A simple tan straw sailor goes with the suit, which is one of the spring's successes. --- Every woman, young and old, knows what it is to have cross days—days when, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same, every mortal thing seems to go wrong, no matter how hard one tries to have them go right. For that matter, one always does try harder on such days than on the happy go lucky ones when life flows on smoothly and harmoniously, like "a grand, sweet song." Goodness knows, there is enough conscientious effort wasted on a single cross day to balance half a year of ordinary days. Why is this? Is crossness a disordered state of the mind or an overwrought condition of the nerves or simply the reflection of an inexplicable but unanimous "crossedness" on the part of things in general? And if it be any or all of these is there any way of preventing or overcoming it? Crossness, like most other conditions of life, is the inevitable effect of a perfectly natural cause. Good humor, like fine weather, cannot possibly last forever. If it could it would inevitably become an intolerable bore. Being eternally pleasant and agreeable is all right theoretically, but it is a terrible strain on the nerves. It is dreadfully wearing, too, on other people. Did you ever have to live in the same house with somebody who was always placid, always even tempered, no matter who else was worried and distraught? And were you not sometimes seized with an unholy yearning to do something perfectly awful and fiendish, that you might for once startle, that placid be out of hls or her maddening imperturbility? Dates With Lemon Jelly. Soak one-half a box of gelatin in one-half cupful of cold water for about twenty minutes. Dissolve in two and one-half cupfuls of boiling water and add one cupful of sugar and the juice of two lemons. Strain and half fill a mold and set on ice. When almost firm, drop on the dates, which have been stoned and stuffed with blanched almonds. Add the rest of the jelly to fill the mold and chill. Serve with whipped cream. Waffles With Maple Sirup. Two cupfuls of flour sifted twice with one teaspoonful of baking powder and the same of salt, three eggs, one tablespoonful of butter and two cupfuls of milk. Beat the yolks smooth, add the milk and turn this upon the prepared flour. Whip lightly and quickly for one minute, add the stiffened whites and drop by the spoonful into heated and greased waffle irons. A Jabot From a Collar. Another use for the flat Dutch collar of value is to make it into a jabot. This will require no cutting at all. The collar should be gathered or plaited at the center of the back and the two pointed ends turned directly underneath. It is then hung from the front of a stock collar. Of course a soft collar of lace or lace trimmed batiste will fill in this purpose best. 1 CHIC AS POSSIBLE. A black and white checked worsted is banded, collared and cuffed with heavy black satin for this suit. Wide revers and a black-patent leather belt are the interesting motifs. Please observe the trig sailor with a leafy crown topped by a perky pink rose. ON MOVING. Common Sense Hints to Make a Bore Somewhat Easier. Few people move right, and it is a good plan to know how to pack things for moving, even though you are not threatened this year. When you know you are going to move begin at once to save newspapers and boxes. Several small boxes are more practical than the huge packing cases sometimes used. They are not so hard to handle and consequently receive better treatment. For the same reason barrels are more advisable than boxes for dishes or fragile articles. If boxes are used for this purpose they should be conspicuously marked. When preparing pictures or mirrors for shipment it is considered a good plan to wrap and crate them instead of boxing, so people handling them can see what they are. In the same way a strip lid adds to the security of the box of glass fruit jars or similar articles. Books should be packed in small, strong boxes. Of course the way things are packed depends largely upon their destination. When hauled in a van they require comparatively no packing, the movers assuming all responsibility for scratches and breakage. When preparing for shipment the packing cannot be too carefully done. This work should also be guaranteed. In case your effects comprise more than one load it is essential that the first one should contain the carpets, the dining room and kitchen equipment, for, while they are the last things needed in the old house, they will be demanded first in the new. The importance of carefully made plans cannot be too highly emphasized, nor can the advantages to be derived from securing the expert and competent services of a reliable moving concern. How to Make Javelle Water How to Make Javeline Water. Javeline water can be bought ready made, but it is absurd for a woman who has much washing to do not to make it for herself. The following are the ingredients: One pound of washing soda, one-half pound of chloride of lime, one quart of boiling water and two quarts of cold water. Add the boiling water to soda and let it dissolve. Dissolve the chloride of lime in cold water and when it has settled strain off the clear solution into the soda solution. Let it stand until all the sediment has gone to the bottom and then strain off the clear liquid into bottles, cork tightly and store in a cool place. When needed for removing stains do not use plain, but dilute with at least an equal quantity of water, and do not leave the goods more than twenty minutes in the solution. Rinse thoroughly in several waters, adding a little ammonia to the last. Panned Baked Sweet Potatoes. Bowl sweet potatoes until done, drain, peel and slice. Butter a baking dish, put in layer of the sliced potatoes, sprinkle rather thickly with light brown sugar and dot with bits of butter. Add another layer of potatoes, with sugar and butter, and so on. When dish is full put in oven and bake, covered for half an hour and uncovered for half an hour. Variety The Spice Of Life No one problem is daily more vexatious than "What shall we have to eat?" Not only once but three times a day does the same plaint arise. Most families are in a peculiar rut as to their eating and manner of cooking. For instance, in one family there is a too frequent appearance of pot roast, mashed potatoes and brown gravy. Another family will not tolerate anything but broiled meat and runs up expensive bills for chops and steaks. A third family never has soup, and still another has every dessert a pudding. Is it not possible and easy also to vary more greatly our American menus? Is not this just the time of year to install some new methods of cooking the old familiar dishes? Why must rice always be used as a cereal or as a basis for tasteless rice pudding? Other countries use it with meat, with a spiced gravy, and make it the basis of a meal either as a curry or pilaf. Is it not possible to take the piece of chuck and cook it in some other way than as the unending pot roast? It could be seasoned with sage or capers stuffed with dressing and served with a tomato instead of a brown sauce. In the matter of soups, many of us go on in the same unvarying way of vegetable bouillon and tomato bisque. How about all the other purées, green dried peas, yellow split peas, onions, carrots? How about the many kinds of soups with balls, with noodles or spatelle? There is not a foreign nation but excels in the variety of its soups. So, too, with potatoes. Why always the same mashed, boiled or creamed? Under the hands of a competent cook they become tasteful, varied and really interesting. Cheese, brown stock, lemon juice, all these can be added to potatoes, and there is even a book on 101 different kinds of potatoes. No one thing will make for greater economy in our cooking than greater variety. Instead of the steak that we think must always be broiled we can use a "skirt steak," or flank, and have a delicious casserole dish at half the price. Instead of the soup that uses expensive vegetables we can have a simple stock or purée for less money. Instead of a dessert needing three eggs or more we can create substitutes which taste and look just as attractive, but in which only a single egg or none is used. Variety in cooking, new dishes, new flavors—these will help the housewife set a better table at less money. A WATTEAU MODEL. A Pretty Spring Bonnet Reminiscent of Other Days. This milan straw is strapped with wide blue velvet ribbon, a flat shape with a bunch of little pink flowers FOR JUVENILES. massed in, the back. The effect is charming for youth and a grateful variation from the banked, high designs. Millinery Jottings Buttons have entered the realm of millinery and are used on sports hats, and by this are meant real buttons, buttons used for fastening purposes. Hatpins, too, in either pearl, brass or nickel add an ornamental touch to many a hat for spring. Ostrich novelties effectively change an ordinary hat into one of unusual effectiveness. Wing shaped are some of these ostrich novelties, which may be bent into any desired shape, for the quill is easily persuaded to assume any shape or position. Many straw ornaments are used on the Paris creations, and most of them are formed of the modish shiny straw. Appliques of fruit are most popular, and all the small berries are to be had as well as the larger fruits. Quite as unusual are the flowers that are seen in profusion, and after a period when flowers were not considered smart we find that the designers have turned out more beautiful and original models than have ever been seen before. Mint Sauce. Pick all the leaves from a large mint stalk and mince as fine as possible. Place in a large bowl with six tablespoonfuls of sugar, three-fourths of a pint of vinegar, one-half pint of cold water and one tablespoonful of salt. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon; then place in a large bottle, cover tightly; shake the bottle always before using. Instead of the ordinary plebeian "apple sauce" the addition of mint turns it into a highly tempting dessert. Snow and Ice Make Sport For Little Folks. ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. Not for many years have the children of New York enjoyed such a winter as the weather man has provided this year. There have been half a dozen snowstorms, and some of the time the lakes have been covered with ice for skaters. You may easily believe that skates and sleds have been much in use. Little New Yorkers do not let such opportunities go to waste, for some of them remember winters when there was not snow or ice enough to give them a chance to enjoy the sports of winter. The young lad in the picture has probably seen very little snow in his lifetime. However, he is making up for whatever time he has lost. His name is Duncan van Norden, and he was shoveling snow in Central park when the camera man happened along. The Chickens' Surprise Party. In southern California the dry season lasts from six to eight months, so there were some good sized chicks in our yard that had never seen rain, writes a correspondent of the Orange Judd Farm. One morning a little cloud suddenly began to send down some big drops on the dry soil. The chicks evidently thought some one was throwing grain to them. They flew at the drops, this way and that, trying to pick them up. Peck as fast as they would they could not get a bite of anything. They heard the pattering; they saw the spots on the ground; they jumped about like crazy chickens, pushed each other about and looked skyward in their funny sideways fashion. When the shower became heavy they flew to shelter, huddled together and cheeped pitifully. How we wished we could have understood what they said to each other about then! The River Jordan. Among famous rivers must always be included the Jordan, nearly as sacred to Christians as the Ganges is to the Hindus because of the baptism of Christ in its waters. The Jordan, except near its source, is below the level of the ocean, and the Dead sea, where it empties, is a quarter of a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean. There are four old fords of the Jordan. At one of these on the Monday before Easter the pilgrims of the Greek church, often thousands in number, who have come down from Jerusalem escorted by Turkish soldiers, perform the well known ceremony of bathing in the sacred stream. A short distance below this is the point where the river loses itself in the lifeless waters of the Dead sea. Natural Snow Bridges. A slow thaw, following a heavy fall of snow, is almost sure to form, here and there, miniature natural bridges of snow, over which a rabbit or even a fox might run without crushing the short span. According to the lay of the land, the melted snow water collects at a certain place and gradually eats its way under another part not melting so rapidly, and this tunnel, growing larger from the increasing water, soon forms the span. In the same manner natural bridges of earth and rock are formed after hundreds of centuries of erosion, while the snow bridges are formed in a few hours and often disappear as quickly. Under the Bridge. Under the Bridge. Under the bridge the trains go by. With whistle and shriek and puff. And I mean to go right off in a train When I am big enough. I shall go to a land where bananas grow. And oranges, too, on trees; Where every one eats whatever he likes And no one says, "If you please." I shall drink my milk from a cocoanut And munch the sugar cane. And when I am tired of that faroff land. Why, I'll come home again! - Infant's Magazine P4no in room alone with dust-proof cover on each one. 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SPECIAL RATES ON STORAGE of Household Goods, Pianos and Trunks For the next thirty days to fill our New WarehBuse we are giving Special Rates FIRST MONTH STORAGE FREE New Acquaintances. If a man does not make new ac. quaintances as he advances through Ufe he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.—Johnson. An Artist. Mr. Banks—Don’t you think my wife paints very nicely? Miss Millburn— Charming! It makes her look so much younger. I think.—London Telegraph. God sends a new duty to conquer each new pain.—Adelaide Procter. ____ THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916. SSS SSS SS ‘Thackeray's Satire. 2 Geograpny. ‘Thackeray created quite erroneous | Geography is the sum total of all tmpressions of himself by often indulg- | Pl#ces-in the map that we don’t ki ing in irony in the presence of people | #D0Ut. Geography is made up who were incapable of understanding | boundary lines, river lines, dots | it. Onecurious instance which he gave | 4ashes like a telegraph system | was this: Thackeray had been dining | Shaded places which represent at the Garrick and was talking in the | high spots. it is also colored to | smoking room after dinner with vari- | the taste and in such a manner ths ous club acquaintances. One of them | takes a bacteriologist to make happening to have left his cigar case | KNOW the difference between the at home, Thackeray, though disliking | and the dry land. Historical geo; the man, who was a notorious tuft | Phy is ordinary geography with wi hunter, good naturedly offered him one| ever you don't know about hisi of his cigars. The man accepted the | added to it. Historical geography « cigar, but, not finding it to his liking, | sists of migrations, cedings and of had the bad taste to say to Thackeray, | fora and fauna to suit. To mak “I say, Thackeray, you won't mind my | historical geography get a few rm: saying I don’t think much of this ci- | and distribute them according to y gar?” Thackeray, no doubt irritated at | fancy over a pink area in var the man’s ungraciousness and bearing | shades to show how they spread In mind his tuft hunting predilections, | As a matter of fact, they did nott quietly responded, “You ought to, my | of the sort. But that makes the good fellow, for it was given me by| torical geography all the more in a lord.” Instead, however, of detecting | esting. In the hands of schooltes the irony, the dolt immediately at-| ers geographies are frequently belic tributed the remark to snobbishness on | in for years by confiding pupils.—I Thackeray’s part and to the end of ee his days went about declaring that Ballads au Menopanere: Thackeray shad boasted that he had| ‘The ballad or that form of it w been given a cigar by a lord. fs associated with the broadside, ees one predecessor of wspaper Show Your Gratitude = i of the ne te ao Gratitude is one of the prettiest posies in the bouquet of human virtues. Cultivate it and it will bloom always. Gratitude costs nothing, but repays much, and yet it is a gem of character that is rare indeed. Never forget the friend who threw you the life line. ‘To do that is treason of therankest kind. Keep green in your heart the memory of every obligation and lose no opportunity to repay it Show your gratitude for a kind act done you by doing a kind act for some one else. A grateful “Thank you!” for a seat In a street car relmburses the man who hangs to a strap. Silently accept the seat as a matter of course and you have started that man on the slide to selfishness. Kick out of your selfish shell and ex- press your gratitude on the least provo- cation. If you never give gratitude never expect it. In proportion to your gratitude so will you be graded by your fellow men.—Boston Post. “Uncle Sam.” The application of the term “Uncle Sam” to the United States had its be ginning in Troy, N. Y., during the war of 1812. A commission contractor of Troy named Elbert Anderson had a shop in which the stocks were always examined and passed by a government inspector called Samuel Wilson, who was generally known as “Uncle Sam.” When the boxes were passed they were always marked with the initials of the contractor and the nation, “BA-US.” One day the man who was doing the marketing was asked what the initials stood for and replied jokingly that they were the initials of the contractor and of “Uncle Sam.” Tht joke spread among the men, got into print and long before the end of the war had become known all over the country. Mr. Wil- son, the original “Uncle Sam.” died in Troy in 1854.—New York Times. Match Sticks. Certain kinds of matches are shaved with the grain from sawed blocks. Others are cut both ways by saws. In still further varieties the blocks are boiled to make them cut easily. By some machines a boiled or steamed log fs revolved on its own axis, and 2 shaving the thickness of a match Is cut round and round. This shaving is at the same time cut into lengths and split into match sticks. It may be said that there is hardly a limit to the vari. eties of methods employed. Round matches are made by forcing them through dies.—Harper’s. The Capacity to Sleep. Very enviable is the capacity to sleep in any position, which has been attributed to Chinese soldiers. In his “Chinese Characteristics” Dr. Arthur H. Smith, the American missionary, says: “It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men—nay, of 10,000,000—tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows. with head downward, Ike a spider, their mouths wide open and a fiy in- side."—London Opinion. en Shae Mice Wien “I beg you to observe,” said the tal- ented pianist, displaying his technique to some of his admirers, “how exceed- ingly: light is my touch.” “I don't have to observe,” muttered a saddened citizen on the edge of the group. “I know by experience.”—Rich- mond Times-Dispatch. Not Much Difference. Brown—Now, my wife always con- sults me abont everything she buys for herself—dresses, hats, shoes, gloves— everything. Robinson—So does mine— that is, she always asks me for the money. Comes to the same thing in the end. Rather Rough. “Here's hard luck.” “What's that?” “Flubdub’s wife wants him to pay the income tax on the alimony he gives her.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Just Like a Man, Mr. Baggie—Confound that tailor! These trousers ate a mile too long. Mrs. Baggie—How much shall I tarn them up? Mr. Baggie—About half an inch—London Answers. _ it ieee “I wonder why the oldest person in the world was a man?” “Why, because no woman would ever have acknowledged it."—Florida ‘Times Union. Geoaranhy. Geography is the sum total of all the places in the map that we don’t know about. Geography is made up of boundary lines, river lines, dots and dashes like a telegraph system and shaded places which represent the high spots. It is also colored to suit the taste and in such a manner that it takes a bacteriologist to make you know the difference between the sea and the dry land. Historical geogra- phy Is ordinary geography with what- ever you don't know about history added to it. Historical geography con- sists of migrations, cedings and other flora and fauna to suit. To make a historical geography get a few races and distribute them according to your fancy over a pink area in various shades to show how they spread out. As a matter of fact, they did nothing of the sort. But that makes the his- torical geography all the more inter- esting. In the hands of schoolteach- ers geographies are frequently believed in for years by confiding pupils.—Life. illiitin in Chae *Be ballad, or that form of it which is associated with the broadside, was one predecessor of the newspaper as a commentator on events. It was writ- ten for the people and sold to the peo- ple. Printed on poor paper and passed from hand to hand, copies of early bal- lads were seldom preserved. Fortu- nately several men of the seventeenth century began to make collections of ballads, and the copies of broadsides printed before 1700 that are now in ex- istence are supposed to number about 10,000. Soon after 1700 the printed form of the ballad was changed, the “black letter” disappearing. but the ballad continued as a chronicler of hap- penings and a commentator on politi cal, military and other public events until the middle of the nineteenth cen: tury and in the United States as well as England. The “topical” song of to- day perpetuates the satirical function of the ballad.—Springfield Republican. eae eee Belgian Kongo, founded thirty years ago, is still in the early stage of devel- opment. So far practically no manu- facturing industries have yet been es- tablished, and, aside from the impor- tant copper mines in the Katanga dis- trict, the only large industrial enter- prises are the railways and river trans- portation services. It may be said that all business activities in the colony are devoted to the collection of tropical products—rubber, ivory, gum copal, palm of! and kernels, cacao, ete—and the railway and river services are in reality only accessories to these activi- ties, having been established primarily to aid in the transportation of these products to the seaports. The gather- ing of rubber in Kongo has never re- covered its former activity, and in all probability will never again be so rich a source of income to the colony as it was previous to 1912. adn Shee Charles 1. was badly in need of mon- ey, and his attorney general in the course of his antiquarian researches Aiscovered that in the dim ages of the past the crown had issued writs to the cities and towns on the coast requiring them to provide vessels for the royal needs, and he suggested that this an- cfent right might be brought into use again. Instead of the actual vessels a money contribution might be exacted instead. Thus the king would be able to tax a larger part of the realm while theoretically observing the laws. Writs for ship money were accordingly Is- sued, but the patriot Jobn Hampden declared that they were illegal and raised such a protest against them that they were practically nullified. Weed Pests. Of the 200 species of ferns native to this country a few have become more or less serious weed pests. The most troublesome are the hay scented fern and the brake. According to a bulletin of the department of agriculture, cut- ting off the tops close to the soil sur- face twice a year for two years will kill out nearly all ferns. The best times to do the cutting are just previ- ous to sporing. or about the middle of ‘June, and the middle of August. Life In Bermuda. A feature of life in Bermuda which always impresses the stranger is the apparent prosperity of the natives. white and colored alike. Distressing poverty is unknown, and even the poor- est families can boast of a stone house and a garden.—Argonaut. The Twins. We have heard of several cases wherein twins have borne a remarka- ble likeness to each other. But the most curious was the case of twin sis- ters who had to be told everything to- gether because it was impossible to tell them apart. Corrected. “My husband tells me that he was out late last night with your husband.” “That isn't so. I want you to tnder- stand that my husband was out with your husband.”—Detroit Free Press. Put Out. “Why do writers always talk of an- sry flames?” “Because, if you notice, flames are usually put out”—St Louis Globe Democrat. Calendar Time. Mr. Bacon—What are you doing with ‘that old, faded calendar? Mrs. Bacon —Oh, I just Hike to look into the dim ‘and distant past!—Yonkers Statesman. A trick is at the best but a mean ‘thing—Le Sage. Lincoun STATE. BANK OF. 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STATE STREET CHICAGO panpp eyeren ere ore ee ae Phone Main 2017, Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ) ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW | 4 Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. | 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jeflerson Av. Se Phone Midway 5515 Chicago THE BB0AD 6 CHE BO 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: N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, no- tion store and news stand, 5012 8. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, 8. E. cor- ner 5Sist and State streets. 8, Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 61 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 8. State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cig ars and news stand, 18 W. 3ist St.. near State. R. M. Harvey’s barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to baceo, confections and news stand, ‘5244 State Bt. 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 McGlofin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. EB. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and sews stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near Btate. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 &. State St. George MeFaro, shoe shining parlor and news stand. 3800% State strest, PAGE SEVEN ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2216 Residence 1262 Macalister Place ‘Telephone Monroe 2718 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313.329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington sts. Phones Soo ai3i8 cHicaco Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 6202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 8, State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. S9b street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Shahin tan en Deion ‘When | look back on the shifting scenes of my life, if | am not that al- together deplorable creature, @ man without a country, I am, when it comes to pull and prestige, almost equally bereft, as I am a man without a state. I was born in Indiana, I grew up in IIt- nois, I was educated in Rhode Island. ‘and it 1s uo blame to that scholarly community that | know so little I learned my law tn Springfield and my politics in Washing.on, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have a farm in New Hampshire and desk room in the District of Columbia. When | look to the springs from which my blood descends the first an- cestors.I ever heard of were a Scotch- man who was balf English and a Ger- man woman who was balf French. Of my immediate progenitors my mother was from New England and my father was from the south. In this bewtlder ment of origin and experience I can only put on an aspect of deep bumility vim any gathering of favorite sons and confess that | am nothing but an American.—From “The Life and Lat- ters of John Hay” in Harper's Mags chee TEENAN |JONES’ PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 SSS SESS The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY “TEENAN” JONES, Proprietor. sehen eee The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET Roy 3036 STATE STREET CHICAGO JOHN BLOCK, Presicent F. W. BLOCK, Treasurer JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS == Go To == C. E. KREYSSLER, Druggist 5057 South 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 > Sen Re ee ee SSS All Eye Trouble . Sea) Z Ss se. a SEE 6 24a ON 3 jBes The Practical Optician . Ss THt MOST-COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY See Gooos AT THE LOWEST PRICES Consultation or examination | 3150 S. STATE ST FREE. We have 28 different a Says of testing the eves and Phone Douglas 5308 , guarantee to give satisfaction. CHICAGO PAGE EIGHT When you talk of maintaining a principle be sure that it is not a prej- dice. ‘The man that feels like being kicked seldom allows another the pleasure of doing it. Unless all signs fail, this year will be a record breaker in the making of world history. Next June will give both Chicago and St. Louis new opportunities to pose ‘as summer resorts. Everything can be overdone. Many @ fellow has been fred with enthu- siasm by his boss. ‘The drug shortage is so acute now in England that many chronic invalids are rapidly becoming convalescent. If every man who was “a little odd” had to be arrested there wouldn't be enough men at liberty to enforce the law. Saying the right thing at the right time is equivalent to keeping your mouth shut when you have nothing to say. In another year the nation will again be giving earnest thought to the ques- tion of whether there is going to be ‘any inaugural ball. It couldn’t have been the landlord class that agitated the war as some would have us think. People in Bu- rope are many millions of dollars be hind in their rent. Political Quips. No lack of preparedness anywhere for presidential nominations.—Atlanta Constitution. Politically speaking, the rising tem- perature bulletin is already out for ‘ext June.— Washington Star. Some of the presidential candidates mow in the race won't get much for their run except the exercise—Phila- elphia Press. It is wonderful how clearly a public @fficer can see what ought to be done— after his term of office is over.—Pitts- burgh Post. Ohio bas six native sons in the Unit- ed States senate, not to mention the Jong waiting list for the presidency— Cleveland Piain Dealer. Courting In Spain. In sunny Spain etiquette is so very restrictive in the matter of courtship that it is a wonder that young people ever manage to get married at all. Bven when, after many difficulties, the engagement is accomplished, the par- ents have a deciding voice in fixing the date, and, as they prefer long en- gagements, the wedding day is usually fixed somewhere in the dim future. The best man and maid of honor are expected not gnly to fulfil the usual uties, but t0 contribute—sometimes ‘Yery substantially—to the expenses of the wedding feast. Wedding cake is unknown, but instead packets of sugar- ed almonds are distributed among the guests snd sent by post to those who are unable to be present.—Kansas City Star. A Ticer Story. ‘There is a story current at Kuloang, central China, about a tiger which gave trouble in that quarter. A missionary and his wife had been worried by the tiger prowling nightly around their home. They determined to be rid of it and one night tied a cow up in the back yard and a dog at the front of the house. Then they armed them- selves with guns and kept watch. The tiger appeared. The missionary fired and killed the cow. The wife rushed to see what bad happened, and in her absence the tiger ate the dog.—Ex- change. Lazy Idleness. Beware of lazy idleness. It will have its effect on your whole system. It brings on degeneration of the muscles and the internal organs. sometimes re- sulting in an unhealthy accumulation of fat and sometimes in internal adhe- sion. In some constitutions it results im shrinkage and premature old age. Within Reason. Mistress—Jane, didn't you hear the doorbell? New Servant—Yes, mum. Mistress—Then why don't you go to the door? New Servant—'Deed, mum. I ain't expectin’ nobody to call on me. It must be somebody to see yourself. mum.—Passing Show. Evil Enough. There is evil enough in man, Got knows, but it is not the mission o: every young man and woman to de tall and report it all. Keep the at mosphere as pure as possible and fra grant with gentleness and charity. ‘Dr. Jobn Hall. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 4, 1916. 4 rn ry E = a a aa f N " See , be. a Ss 2 > 7 a peer) e va Les’ + i, . 26-Passenger Coaches Cariee Conse Paced hes tee Connery ealRotacn Greater Elegance, Half the Cost Mac" tage saree od hae, stay toes tr Suse Pages at tered aos Seve More than Half the High Cost of Carriages and Automobiles Tel. Kenwood 455 Cats Pronpty Anreered Dey erNig Auto, 73-867 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON pavare caret. =» © UNDERTAKER NOTARY PUBLIC 5028-5030 S. State St. Astomobies for at Oceans Chicago, Ill. The sycamore tree bears fruit after twenty years’ growth. It has been found that the olive will live longer under water than any other tree. | Flowering plants should never be ‘watered with cold water. It chills the plants. The cactus and other desert plants have thick stems instead of leaves in order to reduce the loss of water by evaporatiog to a minimum. Nicotine is found in only one plant besides tobacco—a large shrub known to botanists as Dubolsia hopwoodit. which is native to the interior of Aus tralia. PITH AND POINT. A temptation well resisted is the best tonfe a man could have Many a good reputation has been stabbed by a pointed tongue. As nearly as can be figured out, s savant is a scientist on foreign soil. It 4s better for the drowning man to clutch a life preserver than a straw. Even persons who never tried it wil WHI you thet honesty is the best pediey. Many a man who prides himself on bis physical strength cannot even hold his tongue. Aren't there enough peace palaces? A common sense palace seems to be the great need. Copper is the one basic necessity of the war, making it a copper bottomed war, so to speak. If the New York restaurants ealy charge extra for it the horse meat sep. ay won't equa! the demand. ‘Tee big ot of Mving ceases to command attention when the high cost of destroyins life ix «omputed. There ix one dou't tn this grip bust | wom Worth 2 (4 others—~tat om ae oo ae ate It’s all well enough to warn us about getting the grip, but the trouble is that Wwe never know we've got it until tt's got us. : sae Breathe through the nose and keep the mouth shut, says a doctor, giving advice on the <ubject of health. Lots of people owe u ripe old age to keeping the mouth shut. _ The Royal Box. Princess Henry of Battenberg, gover nor of the Isle of Wight, is the only British woman ruler. King Peter of Servia is not a mili tary man at beart. Rather is he 2 scholar and philosopher, as is shown by his admiration of John Stuart Mill, whose works be has anonymous; translated into Servian. King Gustav of Sweden is a teetotal er, and he and the entire royal family ef Bweden are at the head of the tem. perance movement in Sweden. His mother for over forty years devoted her time and money and influence to the cause of temperance, Flippant Flings. France forbids the export of nuts. We show a welcome disposition to en- sourage it —Wall Street Journal. Judging from the number of generals Joffre has retired, one would say he was bent on a general cleaning up— Chicago Herald. Horse meat hus been placed on the New York bill of fare by the health board. A saddle of colt ought to be palatable.—Detroit Journal. New York warehouses are full of cold storage food for Europe. If any- thing can make them quit fighting this prospect onght to.—Pittsburgh Dis patch. Fashion Frills. ‘Women don’t object to old fashioned things if they are in style.—Philadel- phia Inquirer. Hosiery manufacturers, it is said, are making tremendous profits, and now. ‘days it is easy to see where our earn. tugs go.—Baltimore American. ‘The news that women are wearing the farthingale doem't distress us in the least. It's so much better than oops.—New York Sun. January Clearing Sale Sy All goods must be sold at cost price Hs) Nemo .Corsets : $1.89 5 $2.88 lj ) _ Ruttenbersg’s MONA Dry Goods Store| »25|\\\, 3534ISTATEISTREET oA) } 3 Phone Donglas 2824}; = ZL ze The Cranford Apartmetit ~ Building, 3800. Wabash Ave If it takes two to make a quarrel tt also takes both sides to keep the peace. A good many fellows can grasp an idea without being able to bang on to it. It ts better to lose than have the fruits of victory leave a bad taste in one’s mouth. Some folks are so used to looking for trouble they dou't recognize Joy when they meet it Europe has lon been noted for eheap- nese. Now she bas made human Ufe the cheapest thing. Even Norway has borrowed $5,000,- 000 in New York. Pretty soon every- body will be owing us. Occasionsily the charity that begins at home never gets through warming its shins at the radiator. Nearly all of us do without things we actually need in order to be able to afford a luxury now and then. Prince Firman Firma is the new Persian premier. There should be noth- ‘og unstable about his government. Under present conditions Europe sees thing paradoxical in the simultane ous promotion of a war loan and a moratorium. A German has invented an instru: ment which measures the ten-millfonth of a second. The trouble is that after tt is measured It is teo much of a back ‘number to be useful. Fee - ee ieee : Mn se 3 oy See hae 4 Co ae: a i ieee 3 : ic BE Fy F | | 4 i Bt | See So we 3 . * ic os ee Sek ee i aa es ae The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey,’Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WAS INGTON STREET. ge CHICAGO s Still uses a candle . eS and a flat flame Eas 7 \ burner to test the By Ye gas she now burns in y A 1,500,000 Mantle Lights ff F COURSE, THE CANDLE POWER OF i THE GAS HAS NOTHING whatever to do with light from a mantle. . 4 \ The flame inside the mantle is a blue-green. ey SN This flame heats the mantle to a white heat—the "i hotter the flame the whiter and brighter the . h mantle, y a In short, the value of gas for mantle light pur- / 3| I \ Poses, depends entirely upon its “heat units,” | Hy | a not candle power. Dax = The ordinance which compels Chicago to test her Yi . gas for Candle Power, is an old timer. 1 1 pay It is a relic of the days when our streets and homes 4 Be / x were lighted with flat-flame burners. - | In those days the ordinance was a good thing. But Wo / think how times have changed. / 4 |. . The old flat-flame burner is on the way to a shelf J } 1 / in the Field Museum. ; 2. / \ It is a “has-been” because the mantle unit gives j x i six times more light and consumes half the gas. y For this reason, 98% of the gas used for illumina- ! tion is now burned in maniles. : The Candle-Power-clause in Chicago’s Gas Ordi- \ . nance should, therefore, be eliminated. IAS It is an embarassment to the City and an insur- i mountable handicap to the Gas Company in connection with its efforts to make gas cheaper 4 j and more efficient for lighting, cooking and i 1 industrial uses,’ 3 | Any Gas Company employee in our branch stores j iO or our big salesroom downtown, can explain y this to you in a few words, in connection with the demonstration of ari Amber Glow Mantle - } Vong Gas Light—any time you care to call. i The Amber Glow Light gives a huge volume of brilliant light for very little money, and i candle power of the gas has nothing to do with the case. $ Telephone Wabash 6000 The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Fajies itis: