The Broad Ax

THE BROADAX Mayor William Hale Thompson Continues to Wear a Broad Smile Which Has Not Come Off Since Primary Day for on That Day He Started on a Still Hunt and Hit the Hot Trail After Some of His Political Opponents and He Now Has the Political Scalps of Some of His Bitterest Foes in the City Council Securely Fastened and Dangling from His Broad Belt. His Honor, the Mayor, Is Planning to Come Back Into the City Hall in 1919 ALDERMEN EDWARD J. WERNER, VINCENT S. ZWIEFKA, CARL T. MURRAY, ELLIS GEIGER, JAMES A. KEARNS AND ROBERT M. BUCK ALL FELL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BREASTWORKS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE WARDS AND ALDERMAN CHARLES E. MERRIAM CONTINUES TO HOLD ON BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH. SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN SIMAN, CITY CLERK OF CHICAGO, THE CITY HALL WILL BE CLOSED IN HIS HONOR TODAY. MICHAEL G. WALSH THE EXTREMELY POPULAR DEPUTY CORONER OF COOK COUNTY WILL MAKE THE RACE ON THE REPUBLIC TICKET FOR ALDERMAN FROM THE 30TH WARD, EVERY COLORED MAN AND WOMAN RESIDING IN THAT WARD SHOULD ASSIST TO BOOST HIM INTO THE CITY COUNCIL. Vol. XXII. Mayor W Smile on The Trail Now Foes from to Co ALDERMEN EDWARD J. WERNER, W BAY, ELLIS GEIGER, JAMES H ALL FELL ON THE OUTSIDE RESPECTIVE WARDS AND A CONTINUES TO HOLD ON BY SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN SIMA CITY HALL WILL BE CLOSED MICHAEL G. WALSH THE EXTRE OF COOK COUNTY WILL MAKE TICKET FOR ALDERMAN FROM MAN AND WOMAN RESIDING TO BOOST HIM INTO THE CITY Tuesday, Feb. 27th, will long be remembered by the small fry politicians, or the would be politicians and the noisy tin-horn statesman for it seemed that the Gods in the high heavens were really at war with each other on that day and after the smoke of the primary battle had cleared away the Hon. Edward F. Cullerton who is one of the old war horses of the city council, who always looks like a highly educated sanctioninist shouting methodist preacher and who well remembers when it was said "that in the good old days that some of the boys were able to pick up two or three hundred dollars in easy money long before breakfast time" deemed as he was engaged in fumbling in fingers and looking very wise that he never beheld so much knocking down and dragging out of so many old tried and true members of the city council in all of his born days and if Alerman Cullerton with all of his ripe wisdom is unable to account for the defeat of so many of his old associates in the city council, it is no use for anyone else to attempt to account for the wonderful and the unprecedented upheaval on last Tuesday. One year ago Mayor William Hale Thompson with a loud brass band and with plenty of fireworks started on the rampath with an army of loud mouthed and Colored retainers and shouted tagging after him, bent upon wings or bagging all of the aldermen who had utterly failed to fall or bow down to him, but in the final roundup one year ago his Herd, the Mayor received a very severe polt in the neck and every alderman whom he had bitterly opposed was rejected to the city council with increased majorities at their hacks and after being successfully routed, horse, baggage and all, then Mayor Thompson retired to his tent, for no other purpose than to learn or to study political wisdom or foresight. This year Mayor Thompson played foxy he started off on a new track. He declared in the presence of the newspaper men so that all the world would know it that "he was not interested in the outcome of the primaries; that he would not do any talking in any of the words in the interest of any of the meeting aldermen nor raise his voice in the interest of any of the new aspiring candidates for aldermanic honors." That kind of soft stuff or talk on the part of Mayor Thompson complete unhorsed the wisest of the politicians who were unfriendly to him and those aldermen who had in the past fought him the hardest in the city council enclaimed that it was peaches and cream that having no fights or ```markdown ``` contests on their hands that they would not be compelled to spend one dollar for advertising in the newspapers until after the primaries that no body but some unknown mutton-headed mutt was running against them and that the opposition to their re-nomination didn't amount to anything. So many of the aldermen who have grown fat and rich in a few years time who are never able to see anybody except when they want to use them, went fast to sleep at their posts and when they woke up on Wednesday morning they thought that the world had come to an end for Mayor Thompson had their political scalps dangling from his broad belt, for he had gone on a still hunt after them and he has very successfully stripped them of their honors and political power and now he wears a very broad smile which nothing can remove from his smiling face and if there is anything in the signs of the times he is planning to break or bust back into the City Hall in 1919. The following big or prominent aldermen fell on the outside of the breastworks in their respective wards: Edward J. Werner, Vincent S. Zwieffka Carl T. Murray, Ellis Greiger, James A. Kearns and Robert M. Buck and at this writing Alderman Charles E. Merriam after a hard fought battle the worst and the bitterest in the history of the Seventh Ward continues to hold on by the skin of his teeth. All in all it was a royal primary fight or battle in which many of the leading members of the city council went down to defeat. The following were the successful candidates for city clerk, city treasurer and for aldermen in the various wards throughout the city both Republicans and Democrats. Republican John Siman, City Clerk James J. Cullen, City Treasurer, Aldermen William A. Brush, Ward 1; Louis B. Anderson, Ward 2; Frederick W. Patterson, Ward 3; Michael B. Demith Ward 4; Louis B. Reitman, Ward 5; A. A. McCormick, Ward 6; William R. Fetzer, Ward 7; John E. Tyden, Ward 8; Hiram Vanderbilt, Ward 9; Alva G. Wood, Ward 10; Bernard A. Weaver, Ward 11; Stephen A. Thieda, Ward 12; John R. Anderson, Ward 13; Charles E. Graydon, Ward 14; Dan A. Roberts, Ward 15; No candidate, Ward 16; Lewis D. Sitts, Ward 17; John R. Lewis, Ward 18; Onofrio Taglia, Ward 19; Herman E. Miller, Ward 20; Robert H. McCormick, Jr., Ward 21; Adam J. Fruenholz, Ward 22; Thomas O. Wallace, Ward 20 (Long term) Walter P. Steffen; (Short term.) Herman E. Gaadt, Ward 24; Henry D. Capitain, Ward 25; William F. Lipps, Ward 26; CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917 James H. McFarland, Ward 27; Harry E. Littler, Ward 28; John Hrubec, Ward 29; No candidate, Ward 30; David R. Roller, Ward 31; Albert J. Fisher, Ward 32; Irwin R. Hazen, Ward 33; Joseph C. Blaha, Ward 34; Conrad H. Jahnke, Ward 35. Democratic candidate for City Clerk, James T. Igoe; for City Treasurer, Clayton F. Smith; Aldermanic candidates: Michael Kenna, Ward 1; Fred E. Wenig, Ward 2; George F. Liff, Ward 3; David R. Hickey, Ward 4; Joseph B. McDonough, Ward 5; No candidate, Ward 6; No candidate, Ward 7; Ross A. Woodhull, Ward 8; Henry V. Meeteren, Ward 9; Frank Klaus, Ward 10; Ed. F. Cullerton, Ward 11; Otto Kerner, Ward 12; Thomas J. Ahern, Ward 13; George M. Maypole, Ward 14; Ed. J. Kaindl, Ward 15; Stanley Kunz, Ward 16; S. Adamkiewicz, Ward 17; Barney Grogan, Ward 18; John Powers, Ward 19; Henry L. Fick, Ward 20; Bernard Conlon, Ward 21; William P. Ellison, Ward 22; Fred V. Maguire, Ward 23; (Long term) Oscar Danner; (Short term); Frank F. Roeder, Ward 24; Elijah Funkhouser, Ward 25; Frederick Dunham, Ward 26; Edward E. Britton, Ward 27; Robert E. Hulsman, Ward 28; Felix B. Janovsky, Ward 29; William J. Lynch, Ward 30; James A. Long, Ward 31; John Heckman, Ward 32; Lester F. Clow, Ward 33; Joseph O. Kostner, Ward 34; John S. Clark, Ward 35. Owing to the sudden death of John Siman, City Clerk; the City Hall will remain closed today and on Monday the Republican County Committee or convention will come together for the purpose of selecting some one to make the race for City Clerk in his place. Our old friend Michael G. Walsh, who has a whole army of warm friends in all parts of this city and county will make the race on the Republican ticket for alderman of the 30th Ward and as there is no trouble in talking to him at all times therefore every Colored man and woman voter residing in that ward should assist to put him over the plate at the election, Tuesday April 3rd. A SURE SUCCESS "The Birth of a Race" Has Passed the Doubtful Point. There is always a time in the life of any new enterprise when there is a doubt as to whether the men in charge can do what they started out to do. Two months ago there was some doubt as to whether that big photoplay "The Birth of a Race," could be financed—as to whether enough stock could be sold to insure its production. For this reason many people waited. The doubtful time has passed, and there is no reason for any one to wait any longer. Since the first of January the sales of stock have increased every week, and they have now reached the point where success is assured. Hundreds of the best known business men in Chicago have subscribed for stock. At present the Chicago stockholders represent about 400 White men and women and about 100 Negroes. In addition stock has been sold in Ala- M. Prominent and successful lawyer, who occupies an extensive suite of law offices on the 14th floor of the Conway Building, Washington and Clark streets, who would make a cracking candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1919. bama, Texas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Montana, New York—in fact all over the country. The subject of "The Birth of a Race" — racial understanding and betterment—appeals to all people. For this reason the stock is selling faster than was expected. Many men and women are interested in the subject. They believe that a photoplay, such as "The Birth of a Race," will do much good. For this reason alone they are willing to invest. But when they realize that, in addition to doing good, their investment has an opportunity to earn from 500 to 1,000 per cent within the next two or three years, the sales of stock are quickly closed. The photoplay is a new art—a new industry. It is still on the upward climb. Five years ago the photoplay, "Quo Vadis," at fifty cents, was considered a thing unheard of. Then came "Cabiria" for a dollar. People opened their mouths and gasped, "What! a dollar for a moving picture?" Then Mr. Griffith said he could produce a picture that the public would pay two dollars to see. Even motion picture men shook their heads at this, and some of them smiled and said, --- successful lawyer, who occupies an extensive door of the Conway Building, Washington like a cracking candidate for Mayor of Ch. "Poor man, it has gone to his head." But "Quo Vadis," earned a half million dollars in this country, "Cabria" earned a million and a half, and Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" has earned upward of ten millions. A lot of folks said it was an accident, that the time was ripe, that Griffith couldn't do it again, and so on. But Griffith did it again. His "Intolerance" is doing a bigger business than was done by "The Birth of a Nation." But that is not all "Civilization," "Ramona," "The Crisis," and several others are making a great deal of money. The men who make money are the men with horse sense enough to see an opportunity, and with gumption enough to seize it. A lot of people can say, "I had a chance to invest in 'The Birth of a Nation,' but I didn't.' The man who smiles is the man who did invest. "The Birth of a Race" is the first big photoplay to offer its stock to all the people. For this reason some of the doubtful ones think there must be something the matter with it. They are waiting. Many of them will wait too long—will wait until all the stock is sold. No.24 PROF. ALONZO J. BOWLING RE CEIVES MORE NEW HONORS. The Rev. Alonzo J. Bowling, assistant pastor of the Institutional Church and moving picture censor for the City of Chicago, was signally honored at the South Congregational Church, 40th and Drexel Blvd., Sunday evening, February 25th, in being elected as one of the directors of the Oakland Council No. 1 of the Committee of Fifteen. Superintendent Samuel P. Thrasher and the committee are to be congratulated on their broad spirit and keen foresight in securing Colored representation. Mr. Bowling has had experience in the work with Judge Black of Columbus, O., and Charles Woods of the South End House, Boston, Mass.—"C." MERRIAM WINS, OFFICIAL COUNT; FETZER DENIES. Discover Irregularities in Seventh Ward Tally—Recount Likely. On the face of the tally sheet returns from the Seventh Ward Ald. Charles E. Merriam was renominated by a majority of six votes. 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Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Ensauier Misrbcers Pelosi iy pasha Phone Mai 2017 Automatie 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chieago A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicage Suite 615 t= e108 PHONE MAIN 2214 On Seventh .venue the other evening I saw a smal red headed fool of a boy throwing cay. “An excitement crav: ing. empty bh ded kid.” 1 said to my- self, driving .y. On the next block 1 saw a girl w ib red curls, dressed in furs, rather dashing. who gave me a little provocetive smile as I passed. Did I say to myself that she was an excitement caving, empty headed kid? She was, but I didn't. On the con trary, for the moment at least, I felt quite drawn toward her. Yet she and that boy mig it easily bave been broth- er and sister and twin rowdles at heart. Why did one of the two go at- tract me and the other repel? ‘The strange lure of sex. It was ready to blird me to the mental de. fects of that girl. It was ready to 6x my thoughts on her cheeks or her bair it Td sat with her. Now, isn’t that odd? I should never have given a snap for her kid brother's hair or cheeks naturilly. I'd have looked him Well over aid seen at a glance he hadn't much character and maybe less brains, but uid I have seen what she lacked once I'd felt her attraction?— Clarence Diy. Jr, in Metropolitan Magazine. la ae | A small and simple experiment can be made by any reader which will go far to convine him or her what @ good thing it is we have sunlight, which en. ables our eyes to take advantage of the beautiful hues of nature, Make # room quite dark und then burn some car bonate of sola in the flame of a bun. sen gas burner, It will burn with an orange yellow light sufficiently strong to illuminate everything in the room. but you wil realize with a sudden shock that. bright though the light 1s. all distinctions of color have vanished. Only light and shade remain. A crim- son carnation, a blue violet, a red ta- blecloth, a yellow blind—all look gray or black or white. The faces of those Present look positively repulsive, for all natural color has disappeared. No other experiment will so well convince those who have witnessed it how great & loss would be that of our sense for color. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917. As Near As Your Telephone : poss Get ka aida ks ne IN a Metropolitan City ofthis size, mia Deer a ca doer aes acta sod not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the - price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in_service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaign has Delt for me one of the largest and most meguicens establishments in the world. “a ‘A visit will convince you. MG; Consult me, I'can save you Worry, Time and Money. } Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile / —— YY Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and a Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. * —— Ernest H. Williamson, Desist AUTOMATIC "438° Undertaker “75-867 fs 5028 and 5030S. StateSt, - - - - Chicago, Ill. Signing Diplomatic Notes. No one can say exactly why our sec etaries of state sign diplomatic com munications with their surnames only. except that it has always been so. We copied the custom from European chan- celleries, and it probably has its origin in the habit of royalty, which is to sign with one name only. Thus King George of England signs himself “George, R. I.” (Rex, Imperator—King. Emperor); Sir Edward Grey signed al- ways as “Grey;” the democratic Mr. Bryan when secretary of state affixed his signature to diplomatic notes as “Bryan.” At first sight there seems to be a profound flattery implied in the custom. It assumes that the signer cannot be mistaken; that there is only one “George,” and “Grey,” one “Bry. an.” And generally there is only one in the diplomatle world where these exchanges take place—New York Sun. Site of Mien “Arsenic, as science has long told us, fs an accumulative poison,” said 2 Grogzist. “When one takes it elther by Brescription for the upbuilding of at appetite or for the bleaching of the ‘skin he does not feel any ill effects for several years. The effect of the druz 4s bracing and makes a person feel Ike eating. It also aids the digestion. ‘The average user of the poison takes it in such small quantities that he does aot realize how much of it will ac- eumulate in his system in the course of four or five years. “Belng an eccumulative polson, it often takes thut length of time to see the results of the drug. Then the user may complain of not being able to con- trol his fingers or toes. Subsequently he loses control of his hands and arms. Paralysis, superinduced by arsenical poisoning, is the fearful result.” Got There All Riaht. Many years ago, at the beginning of November, a missive bearing the St Albans postmark reached St. Martin's ‘The envelope was addressed “Iud mar lunding.” Neither tail nor head could be made out of this by the staff, so the envelope was opened for a clew. The letter read. “kenyobiauosfoyosho bil tgs.” ‘The practiced St. Martin's decipherer of puzzles promptly made out the sig nature as “Bill Higgs.” With the key this afforded the rest was deliciously easy. The messuge was, “Can you buy @ horse for your show?” and “Iud mar” meant “lord mayor.” So the let ter, with an official translation consid erately appended, was delivered to the lord mayor elect.—London Mail. lei a i Sawdust is valuable. It can be used for almost anything except food. Used as an absorbent for nitroglycerin it Produces dynamite. Used with clay and burned it produces a terra cotta brick full of small cavities that, owing to its lightness and its properties as @ nonconductor, makes excellent fire proof material for walls or floors. ‘Treating it with fused caustic alkali Produces oxalic acid. Treating it with sulphuric acid and fermenting it with the sugar so formed produces alcohol. ‘Mixed with a suitable binder and com- Pressed it can be used for making moldings and imitation carvings. If mixed with portland cement it pro- duces a flooring material—Philadel- phia Record. Ivory In Siberia. An enormous suppply of ivory exists in the frozen tundras of Siberia, which, it is thought, will probably suffice for the world's consumption for many years to come. This ivory consists of the tusks of the extinct species of ele- phants called mammoths. The tusks of these animals were of great size and are wonderfully abundant at some Places in Siberia, where the frost has perfectly preserved them. Tres ta @ Chimnen On the island of Trinidad ts a lone brick chimney which once was part of @ sugar mill long since gone to ruin. ‘The chimney has remained intact, and & tree has grown up through the cen- ter and pushed its branches through the top. oe At twenty love is a rosy dream, at thirty it is a thrilling reality, at forty it is a calm contentment, and at fifty it is a reminiscence. —— Rebber! Tom—So you heard that Bill stole from his wife. Sam—Yep, he hooked her dress.—Michigan Gargoyle. —_—__ Poor and content is rich and rich enough.—Shakespeare. en JESSE BIN = BAN ‘ i a ae $. E. Gor, State and 3 R Re oh Pe, 5 Telephone Dougias 1585 GENERAL, BANEING ae 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts | Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Yea REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT eee aear eransot acess oekiigtetea, scones Net ae Saeeie ties the patronage of Chicago business men, How Wood Shrinks. Students in the college of forestry at the University of Washington have proved by experiment that a cord of full length wood when sawed and re- piled in the ordinary stack shrinks on an average 24.76 per cent. As dealers buy wood in full lengths and usually measure it for delivery before sawing it, they are often accused of giving short measure. A “cord” {s the standard measure- ment of wood, and it is defined as 128 euble feet of wood. measured by a pile four feet high and eight feet wide of logs four feet long. ‘The discrepancy between the cord as bought by the dealer and as delivered to the customer, according to Professor Hugo Winkenwerder, dean of the col- lege, 1s not entirely explained by the sawdust. When wood is piled up in four foot lengths there are many spaces between sticks, caused by knots and curvatures. These spaces are elim- inated when the wood is cut up small. The- Cranford Apartmeit Building, 3600. Wabash in, a fo EF jeae pW Cae oe eee a Ancestry of Modern Dogs. According to Charles R. Eastman writing in the Museum Journal, out modern dogs have a varied ancestry some being descended from Asiatic and some from African species. The spitz in all its varieties is a domestl. cated jackal. The mastiff and St. Ber. nard and their kind are descended through the molossus of the Romans from a huge, wolflike creature that was already domesticated by the Assyro- Babylonians 3,000 years before our era. ‘The Russian borzol and the Sicilian hound had their origin in the Cretan hound, which fs still common in Crete, and it and its cousin, the Ibaza hound of the Balearic islands, came from the ancient Ethiopian hound, which was a domesticated wolf. The collie or shep- herd dog seems to come down direct from a small wild dog of the paleolith- fe mented The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chica Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey,’ Agent, ‘Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WAS =INGTON ‘STREET. . ee eee ee ee ee ee In the American Magazine a write: says: “Here's a funny thing, by the way. that I've noticed about hotel guests: You leave a soiled towel in a room and the guest will probably complain, but you can leave a bucket of paint and a paper hanger’s scaffold in the hallway and cbmpel the guest to craw under a stepladder to get to bis room and he will put up with it cheerfully, because he knows you are painting or Papering by way of making an im. provement and he is in sympathy with that. It doesn't cost much to make over a carpet so that a bare spot in front of the dresser will be eliminated, but such little details are a vast help in making a hotel prosper.” “ All Eye Trouble SEE Dp. Lovie UsseLMn : The Practical O tician THA MOST COMPLETE Gericne ROOMS IN THE CITY e BEST QOODS AT THELOWEST PRICES } Comukation or examination | 3150 S. STATE ST. (Codec a tor | Phone Douglas 5308 earantes to give satisfaction. CHICAGO eeeeees eee eee The “Only Child.” ‘When parents have an “only child” it seems to get as much attention as six or eight children in a large family. Some statistics show that out of a bun- dred “only children” eighty-seven were nervous, the girls suffering worse than the boys. And then the statisticians say the only child lacks self reliance, 1s precocious, vain and unsociable, is often extremely timid, being afraid of dark rooms and of sleeping alone— Exchange. JOHN BLOCK! & SON PERFUMERS = G0 10 === C. E. KREYSSLER, Druggist 5057 South State Street NOT ON THE CORNER FOR HIGH, GRADE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND EDICINAL PREPARATIONS | All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded BLOCK!’S IDEAL & BLOCKI’S FLOWER | IN BOTTLE PERFUMES — ee OO)Q)Q, It’s an Ill Wind. “Rejected you, did she, old man?” “Yes.” “Too bad! No doubt you bad plan ned to buy her a ring and all that?” “Yes.” “Had your money all saved up, eh?” “I should say so. Had $50 all ready.” “I say, old man, you—er—couldn’t Jend me that $50 till you find some oth. er girl who will have you, could you?” —Boston Transcript. Woree Still “Does you father ever comment on my staying so late at night?’ “No, Algernon.” “That's good.” “But he sometimes makes sarcastic remarks about your staying so early in the morning.” — Birmingham Age- Hel 4. r.copezos, ee ouatas $75 Seo on § ‘ The Elite Cafe | AND BUFFET 3080 STATE STREET cHICAG? Cause and Effect. She—So you danced with Miss Light- foot at the ball last night? He—Yes. Did she tell you? She—Oh, no. But I saw her going into a chiropodist’s this morning. Meseeite Mettine. | Mosquito netting is an ancient Greek if not Egyptian invention, even if it does seem a Yankee idea. Sana It is easier for the generous to for- give than for offense to ask t—Thom. on. Dan M. Jackson Geo. T. Kersey David A. McGowan Ahmed A. 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One is amazed when he stops to consider that the material for these buildings were transported long distances and up the cliffs upon the heads and backs of these human burden bearers. Their graveyard consumed forty years in building by reason of the necessity of bringing earth from the plain below, and their church must have cost the labor of many generations, for its walls are sixty feet high and ten feet thick. and it has timbers forty feet long and fourteen inches square.-Exchange. A Story of Longfellow. In Longfellow's journal, in which he chronicled daily things that came under his observation, he notes that upon a certain occasion he attended a church where the minister took as his subject "Progress." He was very flattered when the latter quoted about half of the "Psalm of Life." After repeating the verses the minister said, "I could never read that poem without feeling the inspiration with which it was written." To this incident Longfellow adds: "But I had the conceit taken out of me on the evening of that day, when I happened to meet a lady at Prescott's and in our conversation she referred to the sermon in the morning and added, 'He quoted some beautiful verses, but nobody knew whence came the quotations.'" We, the People. Estimating the world's population as 1,600,000,000, the whole human race at present living could stand comfortably shoulder to shoulder in an area of 500 square miles. Taking the number of generations in the past 6,000 years as 200, the room taken up by them all on the above plan would be less than the area of the state of Colorado. To bury all the people on earth would need a graveyard little larger than that area. What Is a Hawaiian? A correspondent inquires whether it is proper to speak of a Hawaiian as a "Kanaka." The term is masculine. A "Kanaka" is a male Hawaiian. A "wahine" is an unmarried Hawaiian woman. A "wahinemare" is a married Hawaiian woman. These definitions are from the Hawaiian dictionary—Bellingham American Review. Inherited, as It Were. Professor—Yes, sir, your daughter is pretty well grounded in French, but it will, of course, take some time and trouble for her to acquire fluency. Father—Well, you know, that's rather strange to me. I had an idea that the fluency would have come sort of natural to her—Exchange. Explained the Matter. Papa—I'm surprised that you are at the foot of your class, Tommy. Why aren't you at the head sometimes, like little Willie Bigbee? Tommy—You see, papa, Willie's got an awful smart father, and I guess he takes after him.—London Telegraph. Made a Difference "Why do you fire me? I work like sixty." "If you were sixty that might be excusable. But you're only twenty-five." —Louisville Courier-Journal. Happy the man who learns the very wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.—Goethe. PAGE TWO PHONE DREXEL 3244 Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT uel Jackson g Co., Inc. Automobles for hire Automatic 73-657 BLIARD ACADEMY CLEAN AND RELIABLE Res. PHONE DREXEL 2082 Champion & Co. State Brokers INSURANCE State Street Chicago Outside the House. Outside the House. How many beautiful homes on which money has been spent lavishly to make them complete are marred by some defect in the landscape work! A few hours' motor trip through the suburbs of almost any city in the country will reveal many such cases. The most frequent jar the trained eye receives is from the poorly laid out walks and driveways in which badly arranged curves are used or walks made to curve around an oval grass plot placed in the center for no other reason than to make pedestrians take time to circle about that particular grass plot. Postmen, messenger boys and others take a short cut, and soon a path in the proper direction is worn across the sod. When a curve is used in a walk or driveway there should be a reason for it. If there is no other reason plant one; place a tree or two or shrubs in a position so the curve will seem necessary. People then will keep on the walk, and the plan will seem reasonable—New York Sun. Making a Magnet The simplest way of magnetizing a bar of steel is that known as "single touch." The bar to be magnetized is laid on the table, and the pole of a powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to twenty times along its length, always in the same direction. If the north pole of the magnet is employed the end of the bar first touched will also become a north pole, while the opposite end, at which the magnet is lifted before returning, will be a south pole. There are other and more complicated methods, known as "divided touch" and "double touch," in which two and even four magnets are employed. A steel bar can also be magnetized by placing it within a coll of insulated wire, through which a galvanic current is circulating. The magnetism induced in this way, however, is weak compared with that which can be procured if the same strength of current is employed through the intervention of an electromagnet. Many William Shakespeare. There have been many William Shakespearees in the past. Among the burials in the registers of St. Clement Danes, in the Strand, there is the entry, "Jane Shackpeer, daughter of Willm, 8 Aug., 1609." Warwickshire records show, among other things, that a William Shakespeare "paid 8s. to the Lay Subsidy, Walton super Olde," another W. S. priced the goods of "Robert Shakespeare of Wroxall" on March 10, 1563; another, a shoemaker of Coventry, made his will March 18, 1605-6; still another William Shakespeare, "gentleman," had "his daughter Susanna" (singularly enough) baptized on March 14, 1596, and yet again another W. S., a shoemaker of Warwick, fell into the Avon and was drowned. These are a mere fraction of the full list.—London Chronicle. Falling Up Out of a Balloon. If a man falls out of a rising aeroplane or balloon he will not go toward the earth, but will continue rising into the air for an appreciable time. If the air machine were stopped in its ascent at the time it could catch the man as he came down. If the airship were ascending at the rate of thirty-two feet a second the man would rise sixteen feet before beginning to fall toward the earth. Thus, by reducing the speed of its ascent, the vessel might keep by the side of the man and rescue him. The reason why the man rises is the same as the reason for a bullet's rising when shot from a gun into the air—both the man and the bullet are given a velocity upward, and it takes some time for gravity to negative that velocity. --- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. MARCH 3. 1917. What Are You Worth? Have you any idea? Did you ever capitalize your wages and figure it out? This is the way to ascertain how much your labor is really worth. For instance, a man who has saved $20,000 and invested it at 5 per cent receives an annual income of $1,000 a year, or about $20 a week. The clerk in the office or the workman in the factory who gets $20 a week therefore receives the income at 5 per cent on an investment of $20,000. He is a $20,000 man—that is, he is getting as much week by week as the man with $20,000 who depends solely upon the income from his investments and who does not work for a living. The man who earns $40 a week has about the same income as the investor with $40,000 put out at interest at 5 per cent. So labor is capital. It has a market value. It can be called a commodity because it can be sold by its owner the same as any other possession he may have. John A. Sleicher in Leslie's. Shotguns In War. That shotguns should be largely utilized in modern warfare is the contention of a number of military experts. It is pointed out that such guns would be particularly useful to sentries at night time, as an intruder might more easily be crippled and captured by a spreading charge of heavy shot than by a single bullet. Moreover, a person moving quickly might often be missed by a shot from a rifle, whereas a snapshot from a shotgun in semidarkness could hardly fail to find its object. In the trenches shotguns could be used with success. A shotgun loaded with about forty-eight grains of powder and one and a half ounces of big shot, with about twenty-five pellets, would be of much more value than the rifle, as during a night attack, either for attack or defense in semidarkness, a single charge would hardly fail to inflict serious wounds on one or more of the enemy.—Exchange. The Swiss Admiral "As much business as a Swiss admiral" is a term sometimes used satirically. But the little inland nation actually had an admiral once. He was an Englishman, too, a Colonel Williams, who joined the Swiss colors in 1790. This Colonel Williams got together a small fleet on Lake Zurich and was ordered to oppose the French army, which was preparing to attack the Austrians and Russians massed near by. The French attacked their allied foes and routed them. Admiral Williams calmly watched the battle that was in progress on land. Then, enraged at his own inaction, he discharged his crews, scuttled his vessels and went back to England. Switzerland now has one armored boat on Lake Lucerne, but its commander is only a captain.—Kansas City Star. A Father Vaughan Story. Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous English Jesuit preacher, says what he means and means what he says and is never afraid of directing his criticisms even against the most powerful sections of society, especially the idle rich. An amusing reference was once made to the fiery methods of denunciation he employs when in the pulpit. He had been preaching in Rome and had, as usual, dealt out plain truths about everybody with his accustomed force. One of the cardinals remarked that he preached like an Italian. "Yes," said another dignitary, "but he is an Italian. He was born on Vesuvius, and we only sent him to England to cool."—London Globe. Salt and Toothbrushes Our dentist tells us a very interesting thing. Ordinary salt is one of the best methods for sterilizing toothbrushes that are known. But not only because it sterilizes it is so excellent, but because it has the effect of softening the bristles and making them expand in a way. One of the troubles so frequently met with is that the bristles come out and are swallowed, causing appendicitis. The salt causes the bristles to swell and so remain in the brush. This may be but another of the several million theories. It is important, however, that bristles do cause appendicitis—New York Globe. Substitute For Tobacco Throughout the tropical orient the natives employ a substitute for tobacco consisting of a slice of areca palm nut, wrapped in betel leaf, flavored with a fine lime made of native seashells and colored with carmine. The habit is universal, especially with the women, and sellers of "betel nut" may be seen on many of the street corners in Saigon and other cities of Indo-China. Handsome Serenity "George Washington was never guilty of deception." "Maybe not. I don't believe, in fact, that he ever looked like his pictures on our postage stamps. But, of course, he wasn't responsible for them."—Washington Star. Logical Conclusion: "Electric wires must be quick tempered." "Why?" "Because it seems so dangerous to cross them."—Baltimore American. No Hangings. Him—How did you like the stage hangings in that Shakespeare show? He—There weren't no hangings, 'y boob! He killed 'em with a sword.—Cornell Widow. Men who are low and are falling do not revolt. It is men who, although they may be low, are rising who revolt.—W. G. Sumner. YOU HAVE READ MUCH! THOUGHT SOME BUT NOW IS YOUR TIME TO ACT Your opportunity to be a part owner----to share in profits of "THE BIRTH OF A RACE" is passing. The shares of Capital Stock have been turned over to a strong firm of brokers. The sales are big----in Chicago----all over the country. The shares are going very fast. Soon they will be entirely gone, and your chance to make a lot of money gone also----unless you get busy. Not Next Month But TO-DAY or Next Week This Master Photoplay is of interest to you. It will help you and your race, and make money for you at the same time. President, EDWIN L. BARKER, a man who has produced real motion pictures. Secretary, JOHN C. WILLIAMS, for 6 years Attorney for Sanitary Dist. of Chicago. Treasurer, JOHN GULLIKSEN, Assistant Cashier of the Union Bank of Chicago. DEPOSITORY FOR FUNDS, Union Bank of Chicago. CLIP, fill out and mail this coupon to-day, and circular telling all about "THE BIRTH OF A RACE," will be sent you at once. There is a Monthly Payment Plan which makes it very easy to own a few shares of stock. Life of a Battleship. We are continually reading in the newspapers that various battleships have been completed, launched and for how long they have been commissioned. There are probably few people, however, who know how long a battleship lasts. The average life of a modern battleship is about fifteen years. In the old days a battleship was on active service nearly the whole time of its commission, which was about a hundred years. The Victory was forty years old when she fought at Trafalgar, and the Royal William, which was built in 1670, was not "scrapped" until 1813.—London Mail. A squab grows enormously the first twelve hours and still more rapidly after the third day. Squabs are at first sparsely covered with long filaments of down, the root of each filament indicating the point from which each future feather is to start. The down for awhile still hangs on the tips of some of the feathers during their growth and is thought by some to be finally absorbed into the shaft of the growing feather. "Oh, come! Stop borrowing trouble." "Borrowing! Gee whiz, man, trouble isn't like money! When I borrow money I can forget about it right away."—Boston Transcript. --- ```markdown ``` Using the Scrub Palmetto. Once a prolific and troublesome waste product throughout Florida, the scrub palmetto is now being developed into an asset of great possibilities. Not only has it been discovered that paper of good quality can be made from it, but the manufacture of carpets, mattings, twines, rope and burlap from the plant is already an industry of high standing in the state. Only the green leaf, or fan, is used. Claim is made that the palmetto leaves when shredded and spun are very much tougher than the grass now used for mattings. The green leaves are fed just as they are cut into the shredding and spinning machines, and in three minutes they come out in twine. This avoids the discolorations and losses occasioned in drying, storing and handling grasses commonly used for matting. Palmetto can be cut every day in the year and immediately made into twine. The skins of twine when hung up dry rapidly and uniformly. The twine is used as soon afterward as necessary.—Argonaut Creed of the Busy Man. I believe in the stuff I am handing out, in the firm I am working for and in my ability to get results. I believe that honest stuff can be passed out to honest men by honest methods. I believe in working, not weeping; in boosting, not knocking, and in the pleasure of my job. I believe a man gets what he goes after, that one deed done today is worth two deeds tomorrow, and that no man is down and out until he has lost faith in himself. I believe in today and the work I am doing, in tomorrow and the work I hope to do and in the sure reward which the future holds. I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing, somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready—right now!—Elbert Hubbard. The Sadness of a Wedding. There is something sad about a wedding. The young groom is leaving a home in which he always has had his way and is going into one in which he never will have his way. Although his parents do not go through the formality of giving him away at the altar, they know well enough that in a few minutes he will be a son-in-law to another woman, while to them he is nothing but a son. There he comes, with another son holding to his arm. It looks as if he might have made an attempt to escape and that the strong best man captured him and brought him back. He is as happy as he is nervous and so trustful that he has no fear for the future—Claude Callan in Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Why Not? Clerk—Now, see here, little girl, I can't spend the whole day showing you penny toys. Do you want the earth with a little red fence around it for 1 cent? Little Girl—Let me see it—Life. Life of a Battleship. Squabs. The Wrong Word. His Grouchy Opinion Cleaning the Teeth. A clean tooth never decays. The best way to clean the teeth is to place the bristles of the brush firmly against the teeth and with a rotary or scrubbing motion go up and down the surface of the upper and lower teeth both inside and out and up on the gums. Go also behind the teeth. After seeing that every bit of the surface of the teeth has been cleaned in this way rinse the mouth thoroughly, forcing the water between the teeth several times to loosen any food particles. Do this more than once and always spit it out. To keep the teeth as clean as they should be kept in order to preserve them and prevent decay it is necessary to wash them after each meal so as to remove all food particles. They should also be washed the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. It is well to have more than one brush on hand at a time, so that it will never be necessary to use a wet, limp brush. ```markdown ``` FREE STYLE BOOK ... HAIR ... To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing and hair every colored we man should have one. We sell lashes and winters articles. 361 Infaction guaranteed or money back. We sell lashes and winters articles. 361 Infaction guaranteed or money back. 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Prepar Physical Education Proper Physical Education The purpose of physical education is of course, not merely to build up the bodies of boys today, but to put into the lives of boys that thing, whatever it is, that will make the boy stay strong and ablebodied when he reaches manhood. Such men—lovers of fresh manhood of hiking in the wild, of sleeping out under the sky—men who can both enjoy and endure, are the men who will make up a strong nation and not a nation of weaklings.—Scouting. Casa Hernie Lighthouse Cape Horn's Lighthouse Probably the most desolate and dreary spot in the world inhabited by white men is the lighthouse that is maintained by the Argentine government at Cape Horn. This is claimed to be the southernmost lighthouse in the world. One at a Time. "Does your husband worry about the grocery bill?" "No; he says there's no sense in his himself and the grocer worrying over the same bills."—Exchange Health lies in labor, and there is an earthly royal road to it but through toll—Wendell Phillips. PROMOTING THE “44PPY FAMILY PLAN IN "AMERICAN INDUSTRY i One Corporation Works In Harmony With tis Men. jy INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY See ee ee ae aaa ila ia ‘Through Representatives Reach Head Company and Are Honestly Inves- tigated. "gor more than a year @ large and jesressive industrial corporation with fants scattered over a large territory Peereral states of the southwest has fea improving ts relations with its ployees through the medium of a so. Giled industrial representation plan— Gp industrial constitution drawn on a tosis of democracy and mutual conf- jeoce between the head of the com- pay and the workmen who number 10,000 to 12,000. yp deal with the diverse interests aisoch a vast body of men is a serious fst involving stern responsibilities. yerertheless the company, through its pgresentation plan, has not only car- fetonsocial and industrial betterment ‘york on a comprehensive scale but has peceeded in settling all grievances ‘Tibout friction and without interfer- fee from the outside. During the yet several increases in pay have jen made upon the initiative of the . tresetber the plan bas demonstrat. ditself to an important forward step fp the establishment of amicable re- futons between all the factors in in- fostry, A more widespread adoption af such schemes in plants and fac- fires is heartily recommended by the jwood-minded manufacturers of the emtry who have started the National {dustrial Conservation Movement for the purpose of getting employers and eqplosees together. ‘The supporters if the conservation movement realize that the captain of industry and the yorkingman must fight shoulder to shoulder to protect American industry sginst conditions that are sure to pevail after the War. Workers Elect Representatives. ‘The Industrial Representation plan mas adopted in its present form by tte directors of the company and by 1referendum vote of the workmen. By secret ballot the workmen in the ‘ompans’s various plants select repre- satatives who act as their authorized agents in all matters pertaining to em- ployment, living and working condi- tions, the adjustment of differences, and other matters of mutual concern and interest. On the other hand, the president keeps in direct touch with the workmen through officers known 1s presidents industrial representa. tires Employees have been made to under- sel int they are shactately free to pesnt all thelr grievances even though they involve charges against fe trenen oF saps iatene under ey Work. ‘Throus work- Ra's representatives the complaints we referred to the presidents’ industri- Urepresentatives, who in turn investi- te them carefully and report their foiings in detail to the president. In every case the grievances have hen investigated fearlessly and im- willy and adjustments have been on a strict basis of fairness, ir- Seciive of whether the awant was vor of the workman or the com- Wey official. The workman, dissatis- fei with the decision of the presi- dats’ industrial representatives, can petl to the higher officers of the com- Ray tn consecutive order up to the frident. ‘Then, if he still feels that not received full justice, he can mrz,tis case to the Joint committee gniustrial Cooperation and concilia- Se e ipany’s repre- =. at Seat (othe tate te ‘ommission, Confer on Wage Increases. ae the industrial constitution a 2 matters of wages, hours of mit tut other vital factors in the ens % ations with its employees mane ®t by a written contract. | Tn- tient Wages are worked out in mre’ etWeen company oficals ute Workmen's representatives, Shes (ters of industrial better. me ag Cunlovees’ representatives a, important part. They are as- toy {0 Julnt. committees on which servo with representatives of the wmpany. ‘The names of these com- a ee and Accidents, Sanita- apo Kn and Housing, sae watlon—give an adequa te te tno scope of the compe Test in {ts employees. re schemes tcndorsed by the | the company has spent | Wy Sort unstintingty, although © pate aa any semblance mate Snauguretion of the plan Dera bas enlarged tts previous tg tt? of providing model homes Depeng osees who live on company @ aye, THe company is fencing, free UNITY NEEDED TO HOLD TRADE AFTER THE WAR Labor Must Join In Effort to Mest New Competitive Spirit In Europe. “Employers and workers must unit to meet the conditions that the restora tion of peace in Europe will bring,” says Eugene H. Outerbridge, president of the New York Chamber of Com merce. “I think there is no single ele ment in industry before this country today of such vast importance as the matter of bringing these two constitu. ents into mutual confidence and under- standing in a real spirit of co-opera. tion. “In the world conditions now pre vailing the peoples of the belligerent nations have, under the stress of a compelling necessity, developed a de- gree of co-operation and efficiency in Production of which they never be- fore knew themselves capable and which has never been approached any- where else in the world. “The war bas produced many un- Precedented conditions. This is only one of them. After it is over there will be many we shall have to meet and many changes to which we shall have to adapt ourselves. Some cannot be foretold or foreseen, but it appears to me inevitable that the conscious- ness of the efficiency and productive power that bas been developed in the Buropean peoples will lead them not to turn to previous methods or lives of indolence and ease, but that they will turn their newly developed pow- ers to production in peaceful pursuits and that we then shall have to meet in foreign fields, and perhaps in do- mestic trade, the force of a competitive production organized on a degree of efficiency which we have never before had to combat.”—Industriat Conserva- tion, N. ¥. Don’t Rock the Industrial Boat. After the European war is over the prosperity of the country will depend ‘on the willingness of labor to co-oper- ate with capital in fighting destructive competition from abroad. This is the consensus of opinion among men of affairs who have made a close study ‘of conditions in the industrial and eco- ‘nomic world. “"During the reconstruction period that must follow the termination of the war, these men say, labor and capital will be shipmates, and if there is going to be any mutiny among the members of the crew the result will affect the wage earners’ income. In this connection George Roberts, vice- president of the National City Bank of New York, says: “[ cannot get rid of the conviction that there will have to be # period of readjustment for the general business situation soon after the war. There is only one way to maintain bigh wages, and that is by increasing the efficiency of industry. We have to convince our own people of the advan. tages of large scale, economical pro- dnetion, and we have to satisfy our wage-carners that they are interested not in restricting production, but in increasing production. ‘They must be brought to see not only that wages are dependent upon production, but that an increasing supply of all the com- forts of life for the masses of the peo- ple is dependent upon it."—Industrial Consereation, ¥, Y. WITHOUT AGITATORS INDUSTRY FLOURISHES Figures Show Big Increase In Wages and Factories In Queens. | Wherever labor agitators are few, there industry flourishes and workers are prosperous. This is the lesson to be gleaned from the remarkable indus- trial growth in the Borough of Queens, New York City, as shown by the fig- lures recently compiled by the Bureau of Census for the year 1914. be figures record a decided gain jot only in the number of new facto- ries, capital invested in manufactur- dng, and the value of manufactured ‘products, but also in the sum total of salaries and wages and the number of [salaried employes and wage earners ‘since the taking of the last census in 1909, From a percentage standpoint, lthe increase over the several items Wwas as follows: Salaried employes, 62.7 per cent; sal- ‘aries, 50.8 per cent; wages, 35 per cent; ‘wage earners, 30.7 per cent; capital in- vested, 29 per cent; number of facto- ries, 26.6 per cent; value of products, ‘88 per cent. While complete figures have not been yblished as yet for all the cities and tates, still from the figures that are ow available it is evident that the ugh of Queens for the year 1914 ceeded in the value of its manufac- products many States of the ‘Union, such as Vermont, Delaware, regon, Florida, and Wyoming; it ex- ied, also, in this respect every city New York State, with the exception Buffalo. In fact, there were not than fifteen or sixteen ¢ities in United States which produced man- tured products greater in value than those made in Queens for the ithe year 1914—Industriat Conserva- ition, N. Y- Beat Your Own Record. Don't gauge your own efforts by the etivity or output of your fellow work- Never mind how Uttle the man to you docs. That is bis own and he will be chief mourner day. Compete with yourself each day, striving to beat your record of the day before. 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CURBING INDUSTRY; OR THE FABLE OF THE BUSY LEGISLATOR A Lesson In Practical Politics, Outlining the Best Course to Pursue When the Welfare of Industry Interferes With Political Ambition, ” One dark, stormy day theré was born to otherwise happy and respectable parents an embryonic legislator. He made his debut in the midst of a thun- der-clap. This fact may or may not have been prophetic, but in after life he manifested a decided fondness for applause. With no connivance on his part, the infant Solon was named Thomas Jef. ferson Monroe Miller. His mother did the naming, while his father, a suc- cessful retail butcher, stood by in mute protest, thinking of the day when his son should learn the meat business from the bottom up. Thomas Jeffer- son Monroe, the elder Miller knew, would find the delivery baskets heavy enough without carrying any excess baggage in the way of a name. But the maternal “boss” had decided that her son was cut out for better things than constant association with steaks and chops and, in the end she had her way, thus depriving the world of an- other perfectly competent butcher. At the age of eighteen Thomas Jet- ferson Monroe Miller began to feel that his mother’s confidence in him was more than justified. The vista of his ambition included a front ele- vation of the Presidential chair. During his college course, the pro- spective statesman was so busy set- tling the affairs of the nation in ora. torical contests and debates that he had no time to spend on the problems of trigonometry. At the end of four years he had developed a magnificent rush of words to the face and, although he was somewhat puny in mathemat- ics, the faculty decided that the best way to get rid of him was to hand him his sheepskin. By this time our future legislator had grown a wonderful crop of back- hair that curled gracefully over his collar, and had acquired the habit of posing for bis photograph with a cor- rugated look about his brow and his right hand in the breast of his coat. By comparison with the most authori. tative portraits, he was every inch a statesman, so he returned to his na- tive State and offered his services to the “boss” of the Party in Power. ‘The bard-hearted political czar would have none of him, however, and ‘Thomas Jefferson came to the conclu- sion that the Party in Power was cor- rupt. Therefore, he joined the ranks of the Reform Party and lent the crushing Weight of his oratory in an effort to convince the “plain peepul” that the Predatory Pilferers in office had stolen everything but the brass hinges on the Capitol door. After several years of incessant ora- tory, the promising youth was sent to the legislature on the Reform Ticket. He won instant recognition by propos- ing a Dill to prevent employers from speaking harshly to their employees ‘That was the first of a series of spec- tacular laws which he managed to have enacted to curb the iniquitous tendencies of “Big Business.” With the naked eye the busy legis lator could not have told an invoice from a petty cash account. A high powered ear trumpet would not have enabled him to distinguish the song of the loom from the chant of the buzz saw, but his six-cylinder, self starting oratory had to have some kind of a road to run on and the avenue of in dustry was the most inviting to his hectic eye. In other words the busy legislator consecrated bis lung power to the work of helping the various leg islative bodies of the country maintain their record for enacting an aggregate of 12,000 new statutes per annum deal ing with production. distribution, em ployment and organization. Like most industrial reformers, he possessed the rare genius for managing other peo ple’s affairs. As a result of his active legislative campaign, several of the biggest man- ufacturing houses in the State were curbed into bankruptcy, but the jobless employees gathered ‘round the remains and gave “Three Cheers” for the “Friend of the Workingman.” In a few years Thomas Jefferson Monroe Miller had “Big Business” gasping on the mat and pleading for help. There was apparently nothing left to curb, but by that time he had contracted an insatiable thirst for reg- ulating things, so he turned his atten- tion to the liberties of the individual. He made it a crime for a man to put his feet on the desk while dictating to his stenographer. Next he put through a statute forcing restaurants to have on band a stock of Maxim silencers for diners whose audible fondness for soup interfered with the orchestra. Thanks to him, the proprietors in hotels must now furnish their guests with bed sheets of statutory length or run the chance of being fined or imprisoned. Meanwhile the Busy Legislator has not reduced the height of bis youthful ambitions. He has been standing around with his hat in his hand, ready to slip into the first vacant seat in the United States senate, and his constitu- ents are convinced that be will not have to stand much longer. A commit- tee of his townsmen recently visited a sculptor with a view to having thelr hero's facial facade perpetuated in the purest marble. The statue will be placed in the town square after Miller has gasped his last speech. Moral: ‘They all look good in the “Ball of Fame."—0. 4. Rieser, Indus- trial Conservation, W. ¥. CONSERVATION TRUTHS. Sow while you are young and you'll reap when you are old. ‘This applies to grains of industry as well as to wild oats. Never be fearful of doing more than is required of you. If you wait for more pay before you do more work the millennium will probably find you ‘on the same old job. Remember that an agitator never yet filled a pay envelope, although he bas helped to keep many a one un- filled. ‘It takes three forces to run a busl- ness or factory—labor, capital and ex- ecutive management. Men who betray thelr country are not the only traitors. There are also men who betray their employers, their families and their friends. Safety first—Industrial patriotism al- ways. Industry 1s of the people, by the peo- ple, for the people. Let us all get to- gether. The average reformer is only op- posed to capital so long as the other fellow has it. Let him get a slice of the melon he condemned and his rad- icalism will be cured for all times. Success In Industry: Of 260,000 cor- porations in the United States engaged jn manufacturing and mercantile busi- ness over 100,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission, are mere- ly existing. They do not earn a penny of profit. The 22,000 failures annually in the United States show that busi- nesses cannot run along at a loss in- definitely. Business success depends on good management; efficient loyal workers, from the head of the firm down to the messengers; and freedom from outside interference. Where Do You Stand? Someone has divided mankind into four classes—those who consistently do less than is expected of them; those who do what is expected of them but no more; those who do things without having to be told, and finally, those who have the magnetic power of inspiring others to do things. ‘All the failures in this world are recruited from the first class The second class comprises those who scrape along in some form of drudgery or hackwork. Men of the third class are always in great demand in the fac- tory and in the office, but the fourth class represents the highest rung in the ladder of success. In the world of industry the fourth class is attained by the diligent few who have caught the spirit of their task and are able to impart it to the men under them. They are the men who, without being slave drivers, are able to increase the output of an in- dustrial plant.— Industrial Conserve- tion, ¥. ¥. MANUFACTURERS = , INSURE MEN BY | THE THOUSANDS Some Policies Provide For Pay- | Ment of Old Age Pensions. GROUP PLAN FAVORED trial Betterment—Some Concerns Adopt Plan to Give Their Employees a Share In Prosperity. A striking evidence of the willingness on the part of manufacturers as a class to do something material for the bene- fit of their employees is to be found in the growing popularity of the group in- surance plan. Industrial concerns all over the country are insuring their workers against death, sickness, acci- ent and old age under the group sys- tem, and insurance companies are gar- nering in millions of dollars in pre- miums, ‘This new manifestation of the em- ployer's concern for the members of his industrial family may not be found- ed entirely on altruism. If it were it would probably revolt the self respect- ing worker. It is better than that how- ever; it is indisputable proof of the em- ployer’s willingness to go more than half the necessary distance to meet his employees on the common ground of mutual helpfulness, and thus help to wipe out any misunderstandings that may have existed between them. ‘The group plan has had a remarkable growth since its inauguration about five years ago and has recommended it- self not only to industrial concerns but to banking and mercantile establish- ments in all pats of the country. Many of these establishments adopted it in- stead of giving a bonus at Christmas time; others gave both bonuses and in- surance. Policies Total Millions. During a few weeks before Christ- mas the Traveler's Insurance Com- Pany wrote group insurance policies aggregating $6,000,000. Both the Trav- eler's and the Equitable Life Assur- ance Society did a larger business in group insurance during the year 1916 because of the willingness of manufac- turing and other concerns to grant their employees a share in thelr pros- perity. Among the manufacturing concerns insured within the past few months by the Travelers are: Bullard Machine Tool Company, Bridgeport, Conn.—$500 and upward; 750 risks; about $500,000. Raybestos Company, Bridgeport, Conn.—$500 and upward; about 300 employees, totaling $200,000 of insur- ance. James 8. Fuller, Inc, Kingston, N. ¥., shirt manufacturers.—Insurance according to length of service; 150 risks for about $100,000. Benton Harhor Malleable Foundry Co., Benton Harbor, Mich.—Insurance ‘on unmarried men, $500; married men, $1,000; total insurance of $400,000 on 450 risks. Buffalo Gasoline Motor Company, Buffalo, N. Y.—108 risks for $116,000. F. E. Byers & Brothers, pump manu- facturers, Ashland, O.—According to length of service; 650 risks for $325,- 000. Faultless Rubber Company, Ashland, 0.—According to length of service; 410 risks for $220,000. Sperry Gyroscope Company, Brook- lyn, N. ¥.—Each man insured for one year's salary; 750 risks for $700,000. Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Com- pany, Battle Creek, Mich.—According to service; 400 risks for $250,000. L, Barth & Son, hotel fixtures, New York City.—100 risks for $100,000. Neptune Meter Company, water meters, New York City.—According to salary; 400 risks for $300,000. ‘Michigan Laiclentong Commpany De troit, Mich.—275 risks for $150,000. Adams & Westlake Company, Chi- cago, Il—According to service; 450 risks for $250,000. Frank L. Hall Company, Buffalo, N. Y¥.—According to service; 100 risks for ‘$75,000. Many Other Policies Written. Among many other industrial con- cerns the Equitable insured the fol- lowing: ‘William M. Crane & Co., New York. —From $500 to $3,000, covering ap- proximately 1,000 employed. Favorita Silk Company, Paterson, N. J.—Life insurance to all employees in amounts ranging from $500 to $1,000. Garner Print Works and Bleachery— Life insurance aggregating over $1,000,- 000, covering thousands of employees at the plants at Garnerville and Wap- pinger Falls, N. ¥. Sohmer & Company, Plano Manufac- turers.—Life insurance of $500 for each employee. Other manufacturers who have adopt- ed the group system of insurance for their employees are Montgomery Ward & Company of Chicago and Kansas City; the B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio; the Standard Cloth Com- pany of New York; Robert Gair Com- ‘pany of Brooklyn; the Studebaker Cor- poration of Detroit and South Bend; Roos Brothers of San Francisco; the Union Ol! Company of California and the Simmons Company of Kenosha, Wis. PaGR FOUR Ee ———— ———S====—=—>= SCORCHING ARTICLE. By White Doctor. journal and he certainly handles with- out gloves the sins of omission and commission of his brethren. ‘The other day a southern city was investigated. This Baltimore Vice Commission should be of special inter- ‘est to us, for among its personnel were medical men from Johns Hopkins Uni- versity; Howell the professor of physi- ology; Finney, the clinical professor of surgery; and George Walker, associate in surgery—the director of the investi- gation and writer of the report. The Red-light Report tells of- well-to-do and prominent men, with wives and fam- ilies, systematically pursuing and prey- ing upon females in their offices, using every possible means, fair and far from fair, to induce these young girls to en- ter into immoral relations with them; it tells of many unprotected women who resist temptation at first, only to succumb at the end to the persistent wiles of men who are their social and intellectual superiors; it tells of a host of employers who admit they will not. employ girls who are too moral; it tells| a tale of lust and sexual deceit among the most reputable Baltimoreans—it lifts the cover from a never-ceasing cauldron of sensuality and seduction. Baltimore is a city taken in adultery. Yet there is no reason to suppose that Babylon-Baltimore is worse than other places—the 1200 pages of this report are a transcript of the white man’s sexual life anywhere; a record which should prevent him from criticising other races. But the sinless Caucasian seems to be much grieved because the Negro is immoral. Dr. James MeIntosh, in his address before the South Carolina Medieal Association, was applauded when he spoke of the utter lack of virtue and chastity so markedly char- aeteristie of the Colored race.’’ ‘The White Man's Morality. Before the Civil War, when the White man owned the black, he had an opportunity to show how deeply he believed in morality, and this is how he did it: he used the black men as bucks, and turned the, women into brood-mares. The woman who did not breed piceaninnies rapidly enough was headed for the auction block, for these masters made merchandise of maternity. The mother lay down with her babes at night, and the next morning they might be parted never to meet again, just as Fred. Douglass was separated in infancy from her who gave him birth. ‘The father might be sold to a Virginia plantation, the mother to a cotton-farm in the Carolinas, and the daughter to a rice swamp in Louisiana. A bitch taken from her puppies will pine for days, but the southerner did not consider the feelings of black slaves—though their souls were white with anguish and their tears were red with pain, Every Negro knew that his family life was temporary; it could be terminated, at the master’s whim, with- out notice. We thus see how faithfully the dominant White man taught the Colored people sexual virtue, and the sacredness of the marriage tie, and the sanctity of the family. Before the Emancipation Proclama- tion, the southern gentleman came into intimate contact with the slave woman. As a baby he nursed at the bosom of the ‘black mammy,’ and when he grew up he had intercourse with these women. It mattered not whether she was of tender years or already a wife and mother; whereever he met one of his bondwomen, in the fields or in the cabin, if he wanted her, she was forced to submit. The sexual crimes of the black race agajnst the white, are as nothing when Meorarea to the sexual crimes of the white race against the black * * * the white man has raped the Colored woman wholesale. Many children were born from these unions—the two million mulattoes are the evidence. Frequently the white father sold these children—knowingly doomed his own sons and daughters to slavery. Of course a crude northerner cannot grasp this species of morality— it takes a true southern gentleman to understand it. The Negro’s Progress. In view of these sad and incontes- table facts, the editor of the Medical Review of Reviews considers it hypo- critieal and unfair on the part of his fellow-editors and the profession to continue to point the finger of con- In view of these sad and incontes- table facts, the editor of the Medical Review of Reviews considers it hypo: critical and unfair on the part of his fellow-editors and the profession to continue to point the finger of con- demnation at the Negro. Our own hands are too spotted. Half a century ago it was a crime to teach Negroes to read and write. ‘They were bought and sold for coin or exchanged for a horse or so many bags of flour—and when the whip struck too heavily and often, and free- dom was sought in the forests, they were hunted with bloodhounds and buck- shot. But today there is a Class A medical school where practically all the students are Colored. During its brief period of quasi-free. dom, the Negro race has produced mer of eminence in various spheres of activity; a statesman like Frederick Douglass; an educator like Booker Washington, with his volumes and his Tuskegee Institute; a sociologist like DuBois, with his superb book on ‘The ‘Souls of Black Folk;’? an inventor like MeCoy, with his pioneer work in ma- chinery lubricators; an electrician like Granville Woods, with his numerous patented devices; a surgeon like Dr. Williams, who skillfully sewed up a stab wound in the heart; a speaker like William Pickens, who won the prize for oratory at Yale; an artist like Tan- ner, whose paintings hang in the world’s best galleries; a sculptress like Meta Warwick, whose work has been ‘compared to Rodin’s; a musician like Coleridge-Taylor; 2 poet like Dunbar, with his beautiful lyries of lowly life; a novelist like Chestnut, author of “The House Behind the Cedars;’? a distinguished mathematician like Kelley Miller, and an inereasing number of others. In exultation let the Negro ‘compare these men with the slaves who twanged banjos at the feet of the cot- ton kings. Let him remember with a flush of pride that wherever the spirit of fra- ternity has let down the bars of preju- dice, his race has stepped in and taken its place with those who march onward and forward. But we regret to say that American medical man has done nothing to destroy the barrier of bias. ‘The profession has not yet learned the noble words of the Fugitive Poet. ‘There is a shameful chapter in the history of American medicine, and it is headed: The Negro. GET A GARDEN. ‘The owner of every vacant lot in Chicago should be willing to donate its use during the coming Summer for growing table vegetables to anyone who will agree to cultivate it, provi ded, of course, he does not want to use it himself. ' There are within the city limits of Chieago thousands of acres of idle land. It is all, or most of it at least, land that with proper cultivation ean be made highly productive. It would be far better to devote the idle, vacant lots of Chicago to growing table vege- tables, than to allow them to remain as they are, simply waste places and depositaries for unsightly rubbish of every kind. The Philadelphia Vacant Lot Garden- ing Association, in existenee now for several years, has demonstrated be- yond any doubt the value to any com- munity of vacant lot gardening. When looked at from almost any angle, it be- comes a health proposition. An under- fed and improperly nourished people will be sickly people. People that are properly fed and nourished will be healthy. This is fundamental. : ‘There are in Chicago many thov- sands of people who would be both willing and anxious to do outdoor gardening, provided only they might be given the soil to work. It would be a fine thing to bring idle people and idle land together. Bodily health and vigor are to be gained by outdoor work such as gardening. Fresh air, sunshine and exercise tend to make people strong and well. If only the yacant lots of the City of Chicago ean be utilized along these lines, thousands of tons of table foodstuffs may be raised, and will certainly have an important bearing on reducing high prices to the consumers of Chicago. Let everyone get busy and talk va- cant lot gardening. The people of Chi- cago can raise within the city limits enough foodstuffs to materially reduce the amount that would be needed to be shipped in from outside. At all events it is an experiment worth trying. The planting season will soon be here. Now is the time to get ready for it. ‘The U. 8. Public Health Service is responsible for the statement, that in this country not less than 30,000,000 workers lose an average of nine days each year on account of sickness. Un- cle Sam’s health officials also estimate that counting medical treatment at one dollar per day, together with the atten- dant loss of wages, costs the workers of the country approximately $680,000,- 000, There is no doubt either, but much of this sickness is due to both the ignorance and carelessness of the work- ers themselves. In other words, this tremendous economic loss is largely preventable. Two things seem to be needed to better these conditions, health education and health insurance. The latter, just now, is being much dis- cussed by both economie and social workers; but without a plan of health education to help it along, health in- surance alone will be found a difficult and expensive method of relief. Alcoholism has long ceased to be & question of morals. It is now recog: nized as one of the country’s most im- portant health problems, This is why all over the country we find health officials preaching against the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants and indeed, urging total abstinence as the surest way of prolonging life and insuring bodily health and vigor. ‘ It is fair to say that our primitive ancestors, who first lived in sanitary tree tops with no floors to spit upon, and inhabited well ventilated caves untrammeled by storm windows, fur THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917. ——————— nae heat, or sweeping day, had no|ditions of contest, and the prize word in their vocabularies for catchimg| awarded by judges named by cold, for it is fair to say that they did|your Executive Committeo th not suffer from cold as do we. your Health Week Campai zesmers okarge.?? RED CROSS SEALS RAISED A MIL-| The conditions of the cont LION. gether with names of the judges — published later. Local committ ‘Three Hundred Million Penny Holiday |campaign chairmen desiring t ‘Tokens Sold in 1916 Christmas Cam-|their communities for these cups paign—Newspapers Thanked by Na-|make known their intentions to | tional Tuberculosis Association. J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Iz SOR Ra NT pane nf elt NS RR ee eR seals raised in the 1916 sale $1,000,000 ‘or the tuberculosis campaign, accord- ing to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which announced today the results of the recent holiday campaign. All re ports are not in, but carefully revised estimates of the few yet outstanding indicate that more than one hundred million seals were sold. |All the proceeds of the sale, amount- ing to a tax for health work of one cent on each person in the country except the insular possessions, are de- voted to preventive tuberculosis work in the states and communities in whieh the seals are sold. The National Association points with gratification to the fact that it realized its slogan “‘one seal for each inhabi- S in the United States.’? Seals have been sold annually at the holiday season, beginning with 1908. They have been the means of raising a total of $4,206,051 for tuberculosis work. In addition to the thousands of tubercu- losis beds which this sum has made possible, the seals have also aided in the establishment of hundreds of open- air schools, employment of thousands of tuberculosis visiting nurses, and have been an indirect cause of tremen- dous advances in the whole field of public health work. Tuberculosis committees have been organized in practically every commun- ity of any size in the country. Every state in the union now has a state so- ciety engaged in state-wide anti-tuber- eulosis work. Hundreds of thousands of open windows, letting in unwonted quantities of fresh air to sleepers, may be traced directly to the public health educational effect of the Red Cross Christmas Seals. Last fall agents sold seals in every state and territory of the United States except Guam, Tahiti and Samoa. Counting the school children, some 300,000 the total number of agents of the country approached 500,000. These included elub women, school teachers, merchants, bankers, post masters, and in fact, every kind of business man and woman. ‘The educational features of the seal campaign was developed in 1916 on a larger scale than ever before. School teachers received and read to their pu- pils one hundred and fifteen thousand story talks on tuberculosis. During Tuberculosis Week in December three hundred and fifty thousand pieces of edueational literature, containing sug- gestions for sermons on tuberculosis and recommendations for medical examination for employees were distri- buted. “Without the co-operation of the press of the country unstintedly given, as it always has been, these tremendous results from the Red Cross seal sale would have been impossible,’? said Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, Executive Secretary for the National Association, in making pub- lie the results of the sale. ‘Both di- rectly and indirectly the newspapers of the country have, through the Red Cross Christmas seal sale, contributed to the alleviation of human suffering and to the total of human happiness, to a greater degree than any other sin- gle agency.?* NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK. Important’ Announcement Covering Prizes for Best Cleaned Communities During Campaign. ‘Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Febru- ary 26.—In the first call for the Na- tional Negro Health Week which is to be observed April 21 to 27, 1917, refer- ence was made to the co-operation of the National ‘Clean Up and Paint Up”? Campaign Bureau, Kinloch Building, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to their offer. to send literature to any community where Health Week Campaigns may be ob- served they have now offered three prize cups for the best clean up effort among the Negro people. In a letter to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of the National Negro Business League, Mr. Allen W..Clark, Chairman of the Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau, says concern: ‘ing the prizes: “‘However, we have decided ypon lone thing that I hope will interest and please you, viz, to offer you three Silver Cups, suitable for First, Second land Third Prizes to the three commu: nities or local Negro Committees, ot chairmen of local campaigns among lyour people, that submit the best re- port, of the best work, done in 2 «Clean Up and Paint Up’? campaign that has for its ‘‘Opening Week,”? yout Jown ‘‘Health Week’'—such report ot campaign contest to be conducted under your auspices, and your published con: ditions of contest, and the prizes to be awarded by judges named by you or your Executive Committeo that has your Health Week Campaign in charge.’? The conditions of the contest to- gether with names of the judges will be published later. Local committees and campaign chairmen desiring to enter their communities for these cups should make known their intentions to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. He will also be very glad to send detailed plans and suggestions for conducting Health Week Campaigns. SOME MISSTATEMENTS IN CON- NECTION WITH THE HISTORY OF BETHEL CHURCH. ee ee Ax, please allow me space in the col- umns of your paper to correct some untruthful statements which appear in a so-called history of Bethel A. M. E. Chureh, Chitago, by one Mr. Richard E. Moore, who gives an account of an indignation meeting which was held in Bethel in 1892, by my permission, at which time I presided. Mr. Morgan presided at the organ and I called on him to select an appro- priate song for the opening service. He struck up, “My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee I Sing.’” I forbade him to sing said song and requested him to sing instead, ‘I am the Lily of the Valley, Christ was born across the Sea’? which was sung to the tune of John Brown, Mr. F. L. Barnett was the principal speatier. The said so-ealled history proposes to detail the rise and progress of Bethel Chureh. ‘The newcomers may not know that I had two daughters who were loyal members ‘of said church, and also the ‘Sunday school and were both married out of Bethel Church. Miss Ruth Aada Gaines after she was graduated from Wilberforce taught a class of 30 young men in the Sunday school and organ- izea the young people in my house having no place to hold meetings and raised and turned over the sum of $750.00 for the Building Fund of Bethel Church of that time done what it could for both myself and daughters I can’t mention all that was done nor recall names but Mr. C. R. Johnson furnished the carriages at a cost of $30.00 for my oldest daughter's wedding. The lady stewardess served an elegant din- ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Buch- annan Lewis at no cost to myself. Mr. ©. R. Johnson and his wife served a dinner for my youngest daughter the day after her wedding which was an elaborate affair at no cost to myself. ‘The Indignation meeting I refer to was held just after the lynehing of Colored men in Memphis, ‘Tenn. Now Mr. Moore would make people believe it was the Rev. A. L. Murray who for- bade the choir singing ‘“ America.” ‘The truth is Rev. Murray had not come to Chicago for ten years yet I was af- ter a Pastorate of 3 years, was sue- ceeded by the Rev. D. A. Graham, who remained 5 years and was followed by Rev. R. C, Ransom who remained 5 years and was succeeded by Rev. Mur- ray. My Pastorate of Bethel Church was occupied with an earnest honest effort to do all I could to make a great and useful church. ‘The pen is an instrument for writing and if it be used whether to write a letter a minute or a history to tell the truth. ik Geo. W. Gaines, Co. G. National Home, Danville, 11 Feb. 26, 1917. | SUCCESSFUL RACE FILM CoM PANY INCORPORATES. Lincoln Motion Picture Co., of Los An geles, Incorporates for $75,000. Los Angeles, Cal., Special—The Lin. coln Motion Picture Company, of this city, the largest and only suecessfu film company producing photoplays di rected and staged entirely by Colored people, has recently been incorporated in this State at a capitalization of $75,000. Headed by Mr. Noble M. Johnson, the leading sereen artist of his race, who is as well a talented photo-playwright and director, this com pany has produced and successfully re leased through their own branch offices the two leading feature plays of the day, ‘The Realization of a Negro’s Ambition,’’ a two-reel society drama and ‘The Trooper of Troop K."’ the sensational and historical three-reel re production of the Carrizal fight. A third is now being filmed apd the in creasing. demands far EestelPijnlesses made the step of incorporating“#-neces sity. The incorporators and director: are J. Thomas Smith, Noble M. John. son, Clarence A. Brooks, Dudley A Brooks and George P. Johnson, Branch offices have been established in New York, St> Louis, Chieago, Atlanta and New Orleans, with main booking of fices at Omaha, Neb. Ford 8. Black, author of Black’s “Blue Book,’? is confined to his home, 6444 St. Lawrence avenue with a sprained ankle and it will be ten days before he will be able to look after the delivery of his books to those who have already engaged them. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY.CLUB NOTES. The Social afternoon of the Phyilis ‘Wheatley Club was held under the aus pices of the Art Department, Mrs Geraldine Withers, Chairman, Wednes. day. An usually fine exhibit of needle work, pictures, hand painted china and wood craft was displayed. Mrs. Matilda Dunbar, mother of the late lamented Paul Laurence Dunbar was the guest of honor and delighted the large and appreciative audience with her witty and interesting remarks. Prof. R. T. Greener, Major John RB. Lynch and Mrs, Fannie Barrier Wil- liams spoke in glowing terms of Mrs. Dunbar and her illustrious son. It is easy to see from what source Paul Dunbar derived his wonderful gift ‘of poetry and song. | Mrs, D. Harry Hammer, Ex-President of the Arche Club, gave an interesting and educative address on ‘The Unde- feated Flag.’’ Mr. Grimes rendered patriotic selections and refreshments were served. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Pres. Irene Goins, Cor. See. THE WATTS-WILSON FASHION. ABLE WEDDING AT DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Miss Adelaid A. Watts, the highly aceomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Watts, 234 Watson street, Detroit, Mich. was on last Thursday united in marriage to Mr. Bruce L. Wilson, formerly of Washington, D. C. It was the grandest and most fashion- able wedding ever held among the Afro-Americans in that city, the bride’s parents being among the wealthiest Colored people residing in Detroit. Immediately after the wedding the newly married couple departed for their honeymoon trip for Chicago and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Kersey, 2966 Vernon avenue. Mrs. Watts, mother of the bride, being the only sister of Mr. Kersey. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are now at home to their friends in Detroit, Mich. MOB LYNCHES NEGRO WOMAN. Hammond, La. Mareh, Special — Emma Hooper, a Colored woman was lynehed by a mob early today after she had shot a policeman who had at. tempted to arrest her for wounding a ‘Negro boy. The mob rushed her cabin, six miles from Hammond, and strung her up to a tree. W. M. Webster, who has for many years conducted a barber shop on 5ist street near Federal is confined to his home’ with illness, 6352 Rhodes avenue. Judge Joseph S. La Buy, who con- tinues to make good as one of the judges of the Municipal Court, would be right at home as one of the judges of the Superior Court. Sunday afternoon, March 4th, memo- rial services will be held at the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue in honor of the memory of the late Mrs. Clara Studymire. The public are cor- dially invited to attend the services. Mr. Arnold Hill of New York City, representing the Urban League, will address the Bethel Literary which meets at Bethel church, 30th and Dear- born streets, Sunday afternoon, March 4th at 4 p.m. Don’t fail to hear him. Good music. Sandy W. Trice, Presi- dent. Miss Maude J. Roberts, the silver voiced songbird assisted by Prof. Roy Tibbs of Washington, D. C., will give a recital at the Abraham Lincoln Cen- ter, Langley avenue and Oakwood Boulevard, Wednesday evening, March 14th. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cole, 5427 S. Wabash avenue, will shortly leave on a pleasure trip for their former old home, Louisville, Ky., where many of their old friends and neighbors are ready to give them a good time. Dr. J. Norman Croker, No. 1 E. 22nd street, has had his suite of offices re- modeled and redecorated which greatly adds to their appearance and attraetive- ness and they are now thoroughly sani- tary im every respect. Charles E. Morrison, special messen- ger to his Honor, Mayor William Hale ‘Thompson, smiles and smiles all day long simply because some of the alder- men who have been fighting Mayor ‘Thompson failed to connect up on pri- mary day. Joseph R. Dunn aud George Hight, 5050 S. State street who are strong Republican political factors in the 30th Ward will work day and night from now until Tuesday, April 3rd, for the election of Michael G. Walsh to the City Council from that ward. Miss Josephine Davis, formerly of 3331 S. Wabash avenue, was on Mon- day united in marriage ty, y Wallace of Greensboro, x. ous home of the bride’s mothe pele ington, D. C. The many fea Miss Davis wish her muy. tt happiness in her new state 2” ence. fis. The Board of Directors of ty, ard University of Washington, — have honored us with an inyity ° attend the Sociological Herm) which was held in convection wars 50th Anniversary of the founding 6 the Howard University, Yar i We regret very much our inabitity © be present on that delightfuy eae | Mrs, Jennie Pangburs, 3752 § yy bash avenue, a sister of col 350 R, Marshall passed avay the fr ee of this week. Fumersi services yen hheld over her remains at 2 gay ‘Thursday afternoon from ler late ree dence. Interment at Oakwood Cog tery. Charles S. Jackson in chap The many friends of Mrs. Pangin will regret to hear of her death Mrs, David Manson, i816 8. yy. igan avenue, has for the past tin, weeks been confined to her home thrag, illness from the effects of a very seray cold causing her to miss the preLeste Charity Ball, for the benefit of thy Phyllis Wheatley Home. Her may friends hope that she will soon be abjy to be out again. MOUNTAIN TRAIL BELLS ~ TO HELP OUT TRAVELERS Located Thousands of Feet Above Sq Level In Rockies. Denver.— Travelers accustomed the sound of fog bells on the Atm, tie or Pacific coast will be amazed, pe. chance, to hear the warning ring neq summer from 10,000 to 14,000 feg ‘above the sea level in the Rocky most tains. ‘The tragic end of the Rev. Thoraty R. Sampson of Texas, who disappeared in the Rocky Mountain National jet while on a walking tour, bas resulta in plans to safeguard the precipitos and dangerous trails of the park. I. C. Way, supervisor of the Cale rado playground, has devised the pla of having fog bells scattered along the trails at intervals from a quarter tox half mile apart on Flat Top, Lox peak, Hallets glacier and Hallets peak ‘The bells will be of deep tone and vil be operated by a system similar tp weather vanes. ‘The bells will be placed on pss about seven feet high. Suspended ore the bell will be a small, light woods paddle. The slightest breeze will tik the paddle and ring the bell.. Ther probably would not be one day in th Year when the breeze would be fas ficient to ring the bell. While the mountains are not too dan ‘gerous for travel, even the most expe Flenced traveler sometimes will lo the trails in the mountains. Aboet 11,000 feet aBove sea level and abor timber line heavy clouds sometimes totally obscure the sight of the tn eler. Walking in the face of the wibl with bis head lowered, he is apt t ‘Sent ties team: Bathtubs and Bathing. — In many European countries “Be best people”—if you know what tat means—never bathe in water. Spanish matrons have express much surprise at my complaints abowt the absence of bathing facilities in th Madrid hotels. One lady, wife of ad tinguished member of the cortes, told me she “bad herself rubbed down indi once a week, but never had got intot tub of water and never would!” ~ ‘My memory of London hotels 8 back to 1875, when there was nt! single bathtub in any hotel in thatelt A tin pan and bucket of warm watt was the only “tub,” and you we lucky to get that. And in that same period in New York city the Metropolitan and St. Nichols hotels, supposed to be models of exct Jence, were totally wanting in beth rooms. Admittedly, it is as difficult to ime ine life without motorcars as withot bathtubs, but the former are less thi a twenty-year-old necessity, while th bath was an institution long before times of the Roman emperors—Julits Chambers in Brooklyn Eazle. a a Are our coal mines being exhamt by their vast production? Not at# od which need worry us or cause fet that the next generation will fret? death. Nearly ten years a: a come tent engineer analyzed the ticures soft coal production and reserve a concluded that if our output continu to increase according to the srt shown up to that time it would ra? ‘a stable maximum of 2,300,0400,000 per year about the year 219) and O# 700 years more of production at O# rate would exhaust the knows measures of the United States! Since he wrote production bas vanced at a slower rate than be ax pated and tmportant new deposits BY come to light. There should ®™ waste of our mineral fuel, but nel fs there any occasion for alarm 1 thracite, of course, is another matt But even of that there is enoush #8 for at least a century —Chicago Joo Wife—1 don't understand D0® % men can spend whole evening # club, " Hub—Then you talk an <a about something you don't unde? Boston Transcript. af ea othe “The Starvation Point. oe question, “If there were & gia wo tong 4° 00 think the sol Sop ent civilians could live after the os apes ae out?” an English muPprers: Science tells us that if pe get drinking water an ordinary poe Ee cist for thirty days without a “at the end of that time the ma- t Ftbe body Will not be spotled oa ‘he brought back to its former py careful feeding. ne 4 quarter of our body weight pst, 000 8 mostly this fat that is bat as food during the period of jerome. We can absorb and) barn oar ms jes until 60 per cent of ereicht is one. We can do the oa ih trom 20 to 40 por cent of far users and digestive organs and 20 cet of our TUNE. Our hearts can Meo er cent and our brains and gos spses Ca lose 5 per cent. will be seen that the more vital ass—prain aud heart—yield least of iG raleable suistance for the Ife of tered, while the less essential sub- bee fat, sce fiber, ete-—are eon. fed st. = Be Afraid of Work. oe he ee pecer of Becnievem steel works, has semore patience With the man who eee by the time clock than has am Bede with his fellow workmen ye dropped thelr tools at the sound te whistic. In lis book “Succeed- ee with What You Have” he writes: Brave yet to hear of one instance sere misfortune hit a man because he eyed overtime. Net long ago a man promoted i our Works. “Tow did pe bappen to advance this fellow? T Heed bls boss. “Well,” he explained, Tooticed that when the day shift yet off duty this man stayed on the jo antl be had talked Over the day's prilems With his successor. That's Br’ The wan who fails to give fair ferice during the hours for which he ype is dishonest. ‘The man who is we wiling to zive more than this is nash? —= Mie Firat Golf Play. B Chandler Egan's first golf was jyed cn a three hole course tn a jasare back of his father's house, at Fighand Park, Ill. ‘The former cham- hm and his brother laid out the links, fier invited their cousin, Walter, to mach them tle came. ‘The latter tee- sg upa ball ou the first, hit it straight tora to the broomstick which served sa fag pole. The ball bounced along foe uneven zreen and disappeared in fee bole, Turning to-his astonished pllery, he remarked: ‘There, you see, it is very simple. nut is the way you do it.” Candler Exin tried, but didn’t suc- eed, end althonzh he won the amateur tie twice, he claims he was never sve to equal the wonderful drive his made tht day.—Golfers’ Maga- Penge ee Artificial eyes of rubber are taking lie place of the old style glass optic Europe. The rubber eyes have the vantage of being unbreakable, and they are of pneumatic construction Iter maintain an elastic contact be- the eyelids and the back of the cavity. To make the new rubber product a formed of liquid plaster is made the orbitary cavity, and from this emstructed an eyeball, the face be- of vuleanite. ‘The front and back fats are made wf soft rubber, there eog a space letween the two parts is occupied by air, making ees puewmatic.—Popular Seience ly. ‘A Motorcar Race In 1895. 2 1805 a few enthusiastic “horseless " manufacturers decided that time was ripe for a race. As we beck at ft new the contest Was a ical Jost. ‘The vehicles started and then stopped lamely while drivers taade repairs, One in- followed his mechanical wonder team of horses. The winner of Tee had averaged the mad speed feren and one-half miles an hour. easive, carefully tested after the contest was over, Was found Mevelop an amazing four horsepower. Waldemar iaempffert in Harper's ne. Football and Matrimony. Wel, 1 wish him Tuck,” sald Mr, after readings nthe paper an at of the wedding of a popular of a college football team. "he addevi in a ruminating tone, ie is very much like football.” (Don't talk <> ridiculous!” snapped Jones. =ty can you compare to mariage?" M5." revtiet Jones, “it looks so fothose win haven't tried It” Shove Dissemble. So tains (sve loved and Jost.” Jer jae 00 sonnet with a perpetual {Sour cae, When you have Wt tnt lot, ference to the lady 1 vo not to appear to be Seerful a sor.—Touisville Cou- Nounal, Ellis Island. gif pehistsvic days of the Amer. ritinent tie Indians called What wr Ellis isnt, the immigrant sta- 8 Sew York harbor, Kioshk, {2 Enciici) meant Gull island, bts thereatwout had some. strange About it, pe. =e Se eee is ye, te.” declared grandma, Be ce poe yal ome. We may get back to <—- ae treating when ronson “Length of Our Wars. The first American war, that of the Revolution, dated from April 19, 1775, to April 11, 1783, a period of eight years; the northwestern Indian wars, from Sept. 19, 1780, to Aug. 3, 1795; the war with France, from July 9, 1798, to Sept. 30, 1800; the war with Tripoli, from June 10, 1801, to June 4, 1805; the Creek Indian-war, from July 27, 1813, to Aug. 9, 1814; the war of 1812 with Great Britain, from June 18, 1812, to Feb. 17, 1815; the Seminole Indian war, from Nov. 20, 1817, to Oct. 21, 1818; the Black Hawk Indian war, from April 21, 1831, to Sept. 30, 1832; the Cherokee disturbance or removal, from 1836 to 1837; Creek Indian war or disturbance, from May 5, 1836, to Sept. 30, 1837; the Florida Indian war, from Dec. 23, 1835, to Aug. 14, 1843; Aroo- stock disturbance, 1836 to 1839; the war with Mexico, April 24, 1848, to July 4, 1848; the Apache, Navajo and Utah war, from 1849 to 1855; the Semi- nole war, from 1856 to 1858; the war between the states, from 1861 to 1865; the Spanish-American war, April 21, 1898, to Aug. 12, 1898, and the Philip- pine insurrection, from 1899 to 1900. ‘The British Manicure Lady. “In English barber shops you do not have to pay for mirrors, elaborately tiled floors and a manicure girl,” writes Homer Croy in Everybody's. “Over there a manicurist is considered the last vocable in the way of smartness. ‘The manicure girl hasn't the run of the shop there as she has here. She has a little cage down in one corner, where she is bottled up as if she were a rare liquid. When a man wants to have any light housework done on his hands he thrusts one of them through the bars, while the proprietor hurries up with a newspaper for him to read. In America we would be insulted if the owner of the shop put something into our hands to read while the mani- cure girl was working on us. In Eng- land the rt of jollying the manicurist is unknown.” Room For Thrift. ‘The American Society For Thrift is sounding a warning that should not go unheeded. The statistics it has gath- ered indicate how reckless we are with our money and how little we lay up for a rainy day. We are pre-eminently a nation of spenders who believe in liv- ing while we live. Statistics show that ninety-five of every hundred Americans who reach the age of sixty are dependent upon their daily earnings or on others for support. The total, of course, includes wives, mothers and daughters who had not tried nor expected to accumulate a competency. But after they are elim- inated the percentage of workers who have a nest egg at sixty is very small, even if that is generally considered too young for retirement. ‘Woman and Electricity. When a woman is sulky and will not speak—exciter. If she gets too excited—controller. If she talks too long—interrupter. If her way of thinking is not yours— converter. If she is willing to meet you. half- way—meter. If she will meet you all the way—re- ceiver. If she wants to go farther—condue- tor. If she would go still farther—dis- patcher. If she wants chocolate—feeder—Ex. change. Stamp Taxes. ‘Taxation through the use of stamps 4s nearly 300 years old. The states general of the Netherlands offered a reward for the invention of a new tax, and some person in 1624 suggested that stamps be required on legal documents. England first used stamp taxes in 1604, the United States in 1797—New York Sun. Getting It Right. Mrs. Quizzer—I see your friend, Mr. Singleton, is here. He was the best man at your wedding, was he not? ‘Mr. Whizzer—No; he was merely the luckiest—New York Globe. Citi meee Harker—Why do you think he is a great practical joker? Parker—Be- cause when I played a little joke on him the other day it made him fu- | rious.—Indianapolis Star, His Wish, Willis—Would you be satisfied if you had all the money you wanted? Gillis —I'd be satisfied if I had all the money | my creditors wanted.—Exchange. 900000000000000000 ° ° © PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. © ° — ° a Mincechiite ian © Symptoms of an ordinary cold © accompany the onset of bron- © chitis. A chill is rare, but there © is invariably a sense of oppres- © sion, with heaviness and lan- © guor and pains in the bones and © back. In mild cases there is © scarcely any fever. © ‘The bronchial symptoms set in © with a feeling of tightness and © rawness beneath the breastbone © and a sensation of oppression in © the chest. The cough is rough © at first and often of a ringing © character. It comes on in parox- © ysms, which rack and distress © the patient extremely. © If you get acute bronchitis and © want to play safe go to bed and © stay there until you are no long- | © er feverish. You will get well a | © great deal quicker if you stay in | © bed for a day or two a: the be- | © ginning of the attack. ° ‘ __ THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917. TIED DUCK WITH CRAVAT. | rive many tery Marenale Left Diamond Stud on It, and That May | In tts ‘older form “mreschal Cuero, Tex.— What Thomas Lovett of this county believes to be the previous history of the recent story from Chi- cago telling of a diamond stud valued at $150 found in the craw of a Thanks- giving turkey bad its inception in a duck hunt here. According to Lovett's story, while hunting two years ago he slightly wounded duck and decided to carry the bird home. He used his necktie to bind the bird's feet, neglecting to re move a diamond stud fastened therein. Placing the supposedly helpless bird in the rear of his conveyance, he started home, when a flutter a few minutes later attracted his attention. He turn- ed in time to see the duck flying off with his necktie dangling from its feet. Cuero is in the center of a large tur- key ralsing portion of Texas, and many of th® birds, which roam over a large range, find their way to the Chi- cago market. Mr. Lovett so far has entered no claim to the stud. “GLAZE,” NEW WEATHER WORD Old Fashioned “Sleet” Will Be Out of Style This Winter. | Washington.—The oldy fashioned “sleet” is going out of style this win- ter before the newer “ice storm” and “glaze,” weather bureau officials re- ported in their campaign f@r more ac- curate terminology for various kinds of frozen rain. Sleet is officially de- scribed as small globules of rain frozen before striking the earth. When rain freezes after falling and forms a glassy coating on the ground, trees and wires the condition is called a glaze, and when this is severe and accompanied by wind, it is reported as an ice storm. ‘The weather bureau hopes to elimi- nate what it considers improper use of the word “sleet,” as it has caused sub- stitution of the term “tornado” for “cyclone” when a violent storm of small diameter is meant. TATTOOS HIS DAY OLD BABE. Convicted German Military Attache Tolen Min Ghesaun. San Francisco.—His coat of arms sketched in indelible ink on the wrist of his baby daughter gives assurance to Lieutenant G. W. von Brincken, mil- itary attache of the German consulate here, that his young wife will carry away no other couple's child when she leaves the hospital where thelr first. born came into the world. 4 In a panic at the sight of numerous other infants in the hospital nursery Von Brincken, lately convicted of com- plicity in the munitions plots involving the German consulate, catechized the nurses on their methods of identifica- tion, Not satisfied with their system, he called for ink and pen. WOMAN OF 82 ELOPES. } Guardian of Her Estate. Bellefontaine, O.—Securing restora- tion of her right to manage her own property by securing the dismissal of her mother, Mrs. Harriet Fulwider, as her guardian, Cora Woodbury on the following day filed an application in the Champuign county court to be ap- pointed guardian for her mother, who owns property valued at several thou- sand dollars. It was the announcement that the mother, who is eighty-two years old, had eloped to Newport, Ky., and there married Joel Bates, sixty-two years old, that caused the daughter to peti- tion the court to appoint her a guard- fan for her mother. WOMEN’S CLOTHES IN LEAD. Head In Value All Manufactures In Sic Wie Geta Albany, N. Y.—A special report from the United States census bureau shows that the chief manufacture in New York state is the production of wo- men’s clothing, goods of that kind to the value of $345,316,000 having been turned out in 1914. Printing and pub- Ushing came next, with an output of $257,269,000. Next was men's clothing. $230,627,000. Other productions were foundry and machine shop products, $175,450,000; slaughtering and meat packing, $148, 106,000; bread and other bakery prod- ucts, $109,228,000. The total value of all manufactured products was $3,814,- 661,000, GOT $1,000 FOR EYE. ‘Young Man Then Lost Money on a Cel- ebration Trip. 3 Monessen, Pa.—Michael Kamar, aged twenty-nine, who received $1,000 com- pensation because of the loss of an eye while at work in a Pittsburgh steel mill, is now bemoaning his desire to celebrate because of his newly ac- quired wealth. When Michael got his money he tm mediately arranged for a trip to New York, with a stop at Ashtabula as a side issue. He started one day at noon. an hour after he had the compensation check cashed, and in less than a half hour was minus bis thousand. He con- tinued bis jourmey to Ashtabula, but returned home and said he would get a job. Buried Twenty Sitnutes end Liven. Lawrence, Kan.—After being com- pletely buried at the bottom of an eighteen foot ditch for twenty min- utes, Wayne Richardson, a laborer from Clay Center, who was working on the construction work in the drain- ing district of North Lawrence, was rescued alive without apparent injury one day recently. Military Marshals. . Like many other French words re lating to war and hunting, “marechal,” in its older form “mareschal,” is of purely Teutonic derivation in both its parts, and the word has bad a curious history. Some words rise in the world with the passage of the centuries and others fall. -This is one that from the very humblest of beginnings has come to great estate. ‘The marshals do not owe their name to Mars, though they are his votaries. In the olden times they were about the bumbilest men in an army—horse serv- ants, or grooms, Then they advanced to the dignity of being horseshoers, and those highly respected artisans are still “marechals” in France, though “ferrants” has to be added to make their calling clear, And, while “mare- chal de France” is a magnificent title, there are also “marechals des logis,” who are in cavalry regiments only what “sergeants” are in infantry regi- ments.—Exchange. Ques Sides See Set The viceroy of India, as representa- tive of the king-emperor, is entitled to a salute of thirty-one guns. This num- ber bad its origin in a mistake. For- merly he was entitled to twenty-one guns. When the time came, years ago, for allotting the salutes to the various native rulers of India’ the three prin- cipal of these vassal sovereigns—name- ly, those of Hyderabad, Mysore and Baroda—were each accorded twenty- one guns. It was discovered a little late in the day that the superior rank of the viceroy had been overlooked in the matter, and the necessity was pointed out of his supremacy over the vassal rulers being emphasized in the eyes of the natives. So instead of re- ducing the number of twenty-one guns that had been accorded to the three rulers in question the viceroy was giv- en ten more guns and is today the only person in the world who is entitled to that altogether exceptional number of guns.—London Spectator. How Buffalo Bill Got His Name. Many years ago, when the Union Pa- eife railroad was completed, the ques- tion arose as to how all the laboring men were to be fed on meat, as meat was thought necessary to make muscle. General W. E. Webb had the con- tract to feed the men, and in talking the matter over one day with some of his subordinates one of them suggest- ed that he call in William Cody, then a famous government scout on the plains, to help solve the problem. Co- ay suggested that he be allowed to hire men and kill buffaloes for the railroad men. ‘This plan was adopted, and Cody be- came later world famous as Buffalo Bill, In those days the buffaices were so plentiful that it 1s on record that more than one engineer had to stop his train until a herd had crossed—A. G. Hegeman in New York Sun. Ciicen ot Disk Cickiee Are Anglo-Saxons conceited about their pre-eminence in matters of ma- chinery? A book, “English and Amer. ican Tool Builders,” by Professor J. 'W. Roe of Yale, answers the question thus: “Practically all the creative work in tool building bas been done in Eng- land and America. * * * The French have shown an aptitude for refinements and ingenious novelties. * * © The Swiss are clever artisans, but have excelled in personal skill. * * © Germany has developed splen- @id mechanics, but the principal ma- chine tools had taken shape before 1870, when the empire began. The history of English and American tool building therefore covers substantially the entire history of the art.” A Daring Voyage. ‘The smallest boat to cross the Atlan- tie under her own sail was sailed by Captain Andrews. This craft was but fourteen feet long, but in it Captain Andrews crossed the ocean in 1891, landing at Palos, Spain. He traveled about Europe exhibiting his boat until the World’s fair in Chicago, when he returned to this country and placed it on view there. He had previously made two unsuccessful attempts to cross the ocean. A Gied Matta. “We've got a good motto for our pa- per,” said Kidder. “What is it?” asked bis acquaintance. “«What we bave we hold.” “Ob, I see! Referring to your circu- lation. By the way. I didn't know you were a publisher.” “We're not; we manufacture fly pa- per.”—Chicago News. Inhuman. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said the lawyer for the plaintiff, “the defendant claims that when he ran over my client his car was going but three miles an hour. Think of the agony endured by my client when being run over as slow ly as that!"—New York American. Very Thoughtful. Miss Askit—Did your husband smoke those cigars you gave bim for bis birthday? Mrs. Nuwed—He smoked one and said he would keep the rest to remind bim of my kindness. Contrariness of the Sex. “How was it your wife came to give up housekeeping?” “Just ber contrary ways. First she broke down, and then she broke up.” Baltimore American. National Forest Lande. On about 2,000,000 acres of national forest lands grazing by domestic stock is either entirely prohibited or is great ly restricted to provide range for elle. ‘There is no gate into heaven except at the end of the path of duty.—Van “Let the People Decide” The City of Chicago is making a serious attempt to solve its greatest transportation problem, and has under consideration the plan proposed by the Traction and Subway Commission— Messrs. Parsons, Ridgway and Arnold employed by the City to provide for its present needs immediately, and make ample provision for the future. If you want to be well informed about The New Transportation Plan for Chicago — watch for the advertisements under the caption “LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE” now appearing in the daily papers. ALL PHASES OF THIS VITAL QUESTION WILL BE DISCUSSED. GET THE FACTS CHICAGO SURFACE LINES HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. By Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 THE CORSET DANGER. The time of the corset is passing, be- cause women are learning better sense. ‘They have found out that it is dan- gerous to press down the abdominal contents upon the pelvie viscera, Such Pressure from above causes congestion of the pelvie contents and the results are diseases of the genito-urinary and allied systems. ‘The corset is an evil; it is not a necessary evil. It is a needless tor- ment. It is a positive menace to health and hence it is destructive to the well being of the body. Nature never in- tended to have the liver, the stomach, the spleen and intestines pressed down and crowded upon the delicate life con- serving organs that inhabit the pelvis. The foremost and bravest women have been avoiding with right good reason the use of the corset. It is too bad that some women are unable to see the dangers of the tormenting relic of more ignorance. The binding and constricting lines of the corset interfere with the circula- tion of the blood and thus predispose to disease of the delicate maternal or- Larned, Kan.—An exciting coyote chase in automobiles took place near Hanston. The party consisted of Bill Hann, John Hann, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Seaman and William Warring. They went in two cars and took three grey- hounds in each car. Mr. Warring says that auto polo is mild compared with the way those two cars chased across the prairie, ravines and bluffs after coyotes. He sa‘d that his speedometer registered forty miles one time when he dared to glance at it and he was afraid to look again. ‘They were going along between twem ty and thirty miles an hour at the tine they started up the first coyote, and when the biggest hound in Mr, War ring’s car sighted the wolf it leaped over the wind shield and hood and landed running twenty feet ahead of the car. The coyote was a big fellow, but the hounds finally brought him down, the big hound throwing bim, while the others pinned him down. While chasing the first coyote the ether auto nearly ran over another one, which leaped up almost from under the wheels of the car. The men shot at it several times, wounding it, but because of the speed of the bounding car could get but poor aim. It finally ran into a bole and was fished out with a wire. Messrs. Hann and Seaman bave killed wang copeles, PAGE FIVE ~~ ..* oO eS eae Ce sii _—_ ae 28 gans. The tightness that even the loosest corset imposes is unnatural and throws a needless burden upon the heart, the organ that should be guarded with all diligence for out of it spring all the issues of life. Constipation is one of the most com- mon complaints of women and evidence is not wanting that the corset is re- sponsible for much of it. Constipation leads the way for hysteria, neurasthe- nia, insanity and other diseases of com- mon occurrence and of fatal tendency. Beeause of the close proximity of the uterus, bladder and rectum, constipa- tion is logieally a factor in the pro- duetion of diseases of the structures mentioned. Cancer of the womb, the most malignant of all uterine ills is often preceded by constipation and suceeeded by cancer of the bladder. The last fact is better appreciated when it is remembered that the uterus lies midway between the bladder and rectum. The corset puts pressure upon all three organs and eauses slow death of function and ultimate death of the part and death of the body by heart failure. All that damnable sequence because of vanity. “Yes.” said the youug wite prow. “tather always gives something expen- sive when he makes presents.” "So I discovered when be gave you away,” rejoined the young husband. And, with a large, open faced sigh, he continued to audit the monthly bills of bis better half.—Stray Stories. In_an Emergency. Tripplets—What did your chauffeur do when your wife fainted? Abbells— He didn't do anything till some one in ‘the erowd hollered, “Give her air!" Then he got his pump.—Town Topics. | eee een Keen Sense of Smell. ‘The aborigines of Peru can in the darkest night and in the thickest woods distinguish respectively a white man, a negro and one of thelr own race by the sense of smell. Men and Women. Men ought to be mighty good to wo- men, for nature gave them the big end of the log to lft and mighty ttle strength to do it with—Lincoln. ‘Wek Trelend. “Your daughter d{d well to land that young millionaire.” “I gave her a good business educa- ton.”—Puck. PAYD OLA THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. LARGEST WIRELESS PLANT AT SAN DIEGO New $300,000 Station Is Made Ready For Work After Satisfactory Tests. San Diego, Cal.-The new $300,000 wireless telegraph station was recently completed and officially put in commission after suitable tests. It is the largest and most powerful radio station in the western hemisphere and is capable of carrying for 12,000 miles Messages from the British fleet cruising in the North sea, from the high powered German plant at Berlin and from American ships and from Australia have been intercepted. Three units in the globe encircling radio service of the United States navy are now completed. These are the stations at San Diego, Arlington and Darien (Panama canal zone). A fourth is under construction at Manila. The three 600 foot aerial towers form a triangle. They contain 1,000,000 pounds of fabricated steel and are the largest radio towers in the world. They are 150 feet in width at the base and eight feet at the apex. They are placed 1,100 feet apart. Huge porcelain insulators embedded in concrete form the base of each leg of the towers. The receiving room is absolutely sound proof, the walls and floors being padded with asbestos. There are four distinct and complete controlling sets installed in the receiving room, enabling any one of the four operators or all four simultaneously to send and receive messages. The aerials or antennae weigh sixteen tons and have a sag between towers of 100 feet. They are twice as large as those strung from the Eiffel tower in Paris. The helix is fourteen feet in diameter and eleven feet in height, or nine feet higher than the helix used in ordinary naval and commercial stations. WOMAN IS A MAIL CARRIER. She Braves Winter and Bad Roads in Maryland. Baltimore. — Braving snow, sleet, drifts, biting winds in the winter and blistering and scorching heat in the summer, Miss Julia M. Shafer of Knoxville, Md., for twelve years has served the United States as rural mail carrier. She is now covering the same route her father traveled fourteen years ago, when the route first was established. Miss Shafer in those days was a substitute for her father; now the father is substituting for her. In the twelve years that Miss Shafer has carried mail it is estimated that she has traveled 93,060 miles. She makes twenty-five miles six days of the week. With the exception of the regular fifteen day annual vacation, Miss Shafer has been off duty only thirty days in twelve years. LINER SAVES TWO AT SEA. Barge Crew Drifting In Ice Covered Craft—Get $40 Purse. New York.—The Ward liner Saratoga, from Havana, brought in two seamen, Jose Faria and Manual Baptista, crew of the coal barge Edward F. Clark, which, with her sister barge, the Theodora Palmer, broke away from the ocean tug Minnie in a northwestly blast. The Saratoga fell in with the Clark, covered with ice and the seas breaking over her, about 240 miles south of Sandy Hook. The two men launched a dory and rowed to the Saratoga and boarded her by a sea ladder. Captain Miller of the Saratoga also noted another barge flying distress signals with a tank standing by and preparing to take off the seamen. Passengers of the Saratoga made up a purse of $40 for the two seamen. Entrances to Important Harbors Are Quickly Protected. COAST ARTILLERY IS READY. Every Square Foot of Water Near Port of New York Made Unsafe Even For Rowboat—Rear Admiral Knight Set About Safeguarding Narragansett Bay Naval District. Washington.—When the break with Germany came two of the most elaborate and intricate mine fields that a nation ever devised for the safeguarding of a city's water gates were planned by the coast artillery and the corps of engineers to protect the entrances to the waters immediately about New York. It was a task which was completed in all save the last detail, the actual laying of the mines, and these were stored by hundreds at Fort Totten and Sandy Hook, ready for the message from the war department which would send the mine layers out with their gingerly handled burens. The aggressiveness and determination with which an attack can be delivered are a lesson of the European war which has not been lost upon the military and naval officials of this country. PETER H. BURKE REAR ADMIRAL KNIGHT. It has certainly proved of vast value to the coast artillery, which as a second and third line of defense will be intrusted with the defense of New York. The first line is the navy, the fourth is the mobile army. Newport, R. I., the seat of a torpedo factory, a mine base, fuel station, munition magazines, the naval war college and other departments of high naval importance, was formally transferred from the control of Collector of Customs Fitzsimmons to Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight. The latter immediately set about protecting the harbor and the entire Narragansett bay naval district against any emergency. Mines were collected at Forts Greble and Adams ready for distribution in the waters of the harbor approaches. Every strategic center was placed under double guard, the public was refused admission and troops refused leave of absence except in special instances. Officers received what is known as the "mobilization slate," indicating the posts which they will be called upon to fill in the event of an actual mobilization order. The naval torpedo factory was especially busy. Extra time by workers and operation in shifts have been ordered, while efforts were made to recruit 400 additional machinists. Three torpedo boat destroyers, with a full quota of torpedoes, are protecting the factory and ready at the same time to perform such other duties as the commandant may order. "IT'S REAL SPORT." This Fighting of Duels In Air, Aviator on Furlough Says. Cleveland, O.—"It's real sport," said Robert Rockwell, a member of the French aviation service, who is home on a furlough. "The Americans in the service," said Rockwell, "look upon it as sport. They forget it is war. When we come back and, laughing, tell how some enemy birdman escaped, our officers remind us we are 'at war.'" Rockwell went to France two years ago as a member of the hospital service. He joined the air squad last March. He will rejoin the service on the Somme front. His cousin, Kiffin Rockwell, was killed in an air duel. U. S. LAYS SUBMARINE NET. It Blocks Entrance to Hampton Roads and Is Two Miles Long. Norfolk, Va.—As a protection against hostile submarines a powerful steel net has been placed in Hampton Roads between Fort Wool and the government pier at Fort Monroe. The net blocks entrance to the entire channel of the roads and affords absolute protection to Fort Monroe and Old Point Comfort. The net was laid with so much secrecy that its presence was not known until masters of vessels were forbidden to pass over it without authority from the commanding officer of the navy patrol boats now on duty in the roads. The net is about two miles long. Its efficiency was proved by the capture of the steamship Madison. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917. WRIGHT MAY ORGANIZE AERIAL ARMY FOR U. S Favors Small, High Climbing Piane With but a Single Gun. Dayton, O.—Orville Wright, inventor of the aeroplane, announced that in case of war with Germany he would abandon his private affairs and offer his services to the government to help organize an aerial army. "While I could not duplicate Henry Ford's offer to manufacture war machines because I have disposed of my interests in the manufacturing end of the business," Wright asserted, "I certainly will do everything I can for the country. "We have a pitifully small number of military and licensed civilian pilots to meet an emergency, but that need not trouble us a great deal if we meet the situation promptly. "It takes but about two weeks to develop and train a good military aerial observer. It takes two weeks more to make him a competent fighting man. "As for the type of aerial defense, I would favor the small, high climbing plane, light and unarmored except for a single gun. It can jump in and do a lot of damage and get away while heavier planes are getting started. "I would be absolutely against the manufacture of Zeppelins or dirigibles except for observation purposes. As an offensive weapon in war the Zeppelin has been a flat failure." UNCLE SAM SWAMPED WITH SPY APPLICANTS Several Linguists Say They Could Make Themselves Agreeable to Foreign Diplomats. Washington.-Uncle Sam will never run short of spies. He has been fairly swamped with applications for appointments in the secret service since the diplomatic break with Germany. Judging by the number of applications coming in, every family must have at least one husky young movie fan who yearns for the exciting life of a daring, dashing, omnipresent, well dressed, swagger and handsome secret service agent, spending the winter in Florida watching foreign diplomats and spies, with nothing much to do except keep his fannel trousers well creased all the time so that he may be ready on a moment's notice to rush out from ambuscade, hop in an automobile to follow some fair foreign enchantress to a secret rendezvous, there to make the grim, stern, heartbreaking choice between enchantress and cold, gloomy duty, nobly rising to the occasion, grabbing her traveling bag and returning with the plans and specifications of an explosive doughnut to the waiting chief of the secret service in Washington. Of course all the present war fever applicants for jobs in the secret service have special qualifications. Several of them know foreign languages. Many of them are expert dancers and could make themselves agreeable to foreign diplomats and their families, particularly the diplomatic daughters, who are bound to "leak" a lot of state secrets to a first class fox trotter maybe. RIDS TOWN OF TRAMPS. "Knights of Road" Confronted With Sign of Skull and Bones. Nesquehoning, Pa. - While almost every other community throughout the state and probably throughout the entire country is being bothered with the tramp nuisance, these "knights of the road" are giving Nesquehoning a wide berth. One day a "Weary Willie" had the audacity to come into the town and attempt to eke out an existence without working. It was decided to rid the town of him and thereby discourage others from leading a free and easy life. Various ways were discussed, and it was finally decided to place him in a barrel and roll him down a hill. Before being put into the barrel he said: To Nesquehoning I bid adieu. And I'll never back again to see you. He reached the bottom of the hill more dead than alive and after extricating himself made a dash for the wilds of Broad mountain. That was the last ever seen of him. His treatment reached the ears of many other tramps, who to this day fear even to pass through the town. "SHORT SKIRTS MAKE'EM EAT" Lecturer Would Cut Living Cost by Changing Fashions. Philadelphia.—Short skirts and silk stockings made a girl eat so much she becomes bad tempered. An inch from the skirt means a pound of beefsteak inside. Highly colored dresses are very dangerous and make a girl irritable. A calico dress is better than imitation silk. A woman's first duty is to make her self as beautiful as she can. These are a few excerpts from the law of clothes laid down by Miss Jane Newcomb, a State college extension lecturer, in a talk to a group of women at the Friends' Central school. Miss Newcomb first gave warning that the less a girl wears the more she must eat to keep warm. In the day of short skirts and high living costs Miss Newcomb has in her investigation into the folly of fashions come to the conclusion that to lengthen the skirt is to shorten the grocer's bill. FUNSTON'S ESCAPE FUNSTON'S ESCAPE Narrowly Missed Being Shot by General Fitzhugh Lee. LEE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM. Captor of Aguinaldo Had Long Hair, Unkempt Beard and Gaunt Appearance and Approached Lee Cautiously, Got Aboard Steamer Next Day Without Arousing Suspicion. Washington.--There are many stories told here of Major General Fred Funston, whose death occurred recently. One of the stories has to do with General Fitzhugh Lee, now dead, who often told how near he came to shooting the intrepid captor of Aguinaldo, the Filipino chief. Just before the Maine was blown up General Lee received many threats that he would be killed and was in daily fear of his life. Soon after being warned of a plot to slay him the American consul general at Havana got one of the worst scares in his life. He was alone in his office when the door opened and one of the worst looking faces he had ever seen looked in at him. The man had long hair, unkempt beard and a gaunt appearance. His hat was full of holes, his shoes about all gone, and he had no clothing apparently but a linen duster. He approached General Lee cautiously, and the latter instinctively grasped his revolver. "If that fellow had once put his hand under his duster I am positive I would have shot him without waiting for a word," said General Lee. "I was satisfied he had been hired to come and kill me. When he approached to a speaking distance he astonished me by asking in good English if I was General Lee. I told him I was and asked him who he was. He said he belonged to the Cuban army, was General Gomez's chief of artillery and wanted to go back to the United States. "He said he was from Kansas and had enough of the Cubans. I told him he was taking his life in his hands by coming into the Spanish lines and if he was caught they would make quick work of him as a spy. "He said he didn't care. I was satisfied he was telling the truth and sent him out for a bath and hair cut. When he came back in a new suit of clothes you wouldn't have recognized him as the same man. I got him aboard a steamer the next day without arousing any suspicion. He landed safely in the United States. That man was General Funston, who captured Aguinaldo." INTERSTATE BRIDGE OPENED. $1,750,000 Structure Between Washington and Oregon In Use. Vancouver, Wash.—In a din of steamboat whistles, clanging bells and cheers from thousands of spectators the new $1,750,000 interstate bridge between Oregon and Washington was opened. The structure is one of the longest in the world, four miles, including approaches. It spans the Columbia river between Vancouver and Multnomah counties a few miles from Portland. When the great central draw was lowered into place a street car crowded with officials and noted visitors crossed slowly. That was the signal for an outburst of noise such as the old Columbia river never heard before. A procession of flag bedecked automobiles followed the car, and another long line of machines started at the same time from the Washington side. They passed in the middle. SHE BRAVES U BOATS. Undaunted by Submarine Menace, Miss Floretty Sails to Meet Lover. Philadelphia. — Believing that woman's place is in the home, after all, Miss Nelle Floretty of Liverpool has given up her job in an English munitions factory to marry a Clifton Heights shoemaker. Hereafter Miss Floretty's pretty hands will make bread instead of bullets. She became the bride of Samuel Kooyoomjian, an Armenian shoemaker, employed in a shop at Clifton Heights, thus ending—or perhaps beginning—a romance that had its origin five years ago when Kooyoomjian deserted the Turkish army and made his way to Liverpool. Undaunted by the kalser's submarine warfare, Miss Floretty, twenty-three years old, pretty and blond, left Liverpool, landing in New York on the steamer Kroonland. Bible Saves Man's Life. Philadelphia.—An old Bible tucked in his vest pocket saved the life of George Tustin, forty-four, when, according to the police, his companion and roommate, Frank Hatfield, stabbed him just below the heart. The knife penetrated his breast after passing through the Bible, inflicting a serious wound. Hatfield has been arrested. THIS MAN LEARNS TO READ WITH TONGUE Chicago.—The loss of his sight and both arms in a mine explosion in 1906 failed to cause de- spair to William McPherson of Highland Park, Ill. He has since learned to read with his tongue by means of raised letters on porcelain slabs. Now he has been fitted with artificial arms and can feed himself, for the first time in eleven years. OFFERS A CONVICT REGIMENT. Commissioner Lewis Would Recruit 1,200 From City Prisons. New York.-New York gangsters may yet rival the exploits of the apaches of Paris on the firing line, and the American gun man and the French blue devil may yet be fighting side by side. Burdette G. Lewis, commissioner of correction, announced that he had been in consultation with Major General Leonard Wood regarding the advisability of recruiting a regiment of workhouse and penitentiary inmates in the event of war between the United States and Germany. Commissioner Lewis also consulted with Major General O'Ryan, commanding the national guard. Commissioner Lewis spoke of the exploits of the apaches of Paris, the outlaws of the boulevards, who are comparable to the gun men and gangsters of New York. In the fall of 1914, when the German army was almost at the gates of Paris, a force of apaches so distinguished itself for desperate fighting that it won the sobriquet of the blue devils. The commissioner of correction believes that the same reckless individuality and excess of physical exuberance which enter into the personality of gang leaders and gang men would tend to make New York's workhouse and penitentiary population a valuable fighting force if officered by strict disciplinarians. POSTOFFICE AIDS AIR RACE. Designates Transcontinental Course as an Official Mail Route. Washington. — Delivery of United States mail by aeroplane will be a feature of the cross continental race planned for next June, as the route of the contest will be designated as an aerial mail route by the postoffice department. In accepting the Aero club's offer of co-operation the second assistant postmaster general, Otto Praeger, says in a letter read at the aeronautics exposition in the Grand Central palace, New York, by Alan R. Hawley, president of the club: "The field superintendents of the railway mail service have presented to the department thirty-seven practicable aeroplane mail routes. The postoffice department will appreciate it if you will designate a committee to co-operate with this bureau in making an investigation as to the designation of such cities in various states as aerial mail stations, where satisfactory landing places can be provided." SLATES MAY COME BACK. High Price of Paper Forces Them Into Use In New Jersey. Pennsgrove, N. J.—Slates may come into vogue again in south Jersey schools, in spite of objections to them on sanitary grounds, as a result of the shortage and increased cost of paper. County Superintendent of Schools Dixon has already issued an order to pupils of the Salem county schools to use both sides of the paper in preparing written lessons. A number of organizations and church societies throughout this end of the state are collecting and selling old paper as an effective method of raising funds for their various schemes. The most systematic paper saving campaign in this part of the state is being conducted at the new Du Pont villages, where a salvage department has been established. Old paper is regularly collected in wagons, and presses have been set up for baling it into 100 pound bundles for shipment. BEAR IN RUSSIAN ARMY. Huge Animal Fights With a Regiment on French Front. Petrograd.—Fighting with the Russian army in France is a huge bear from the Caucasian mountains, who seems to enjoy his sojourn on the French front fully as much as his masters enjoy theirs. He is the mascot of one of the Russian regiments that were transported halfway round the world from the Russian to the French front to show the solidarity of the allies. When the time comes for the bear's regiment to go to the front line trenches for its six days of duty the bear goes along. He keeps the all night vigils with the sentinels, and as there is nothing else to eat but the regular rations brought up from the rear he permits the soldiers to divide their share with him. COUGARS EATING DOGS. Live Canines as Bait Very Popular Among Mountain Beasts. Los Angeles.—John B. Miller, president of the Southern California Edison company, has encountered a problem which he did not consider when he built his country home in Liveoak canyon, north of Pomona, last summer. The problem is how to get rid of the mountain lions. It not only is worrying Mr. Miller but threatens to spread to the county authorities for determination of the question whether or not live dogs may be used for bait. Reports from the Miller home were that the tracks of the lion were as large as a man's hand and that the distance it covered when it leaped on the animal killed was fifteen feet. Hannibal Gets Mark Twain's Chair. Hannibal. Mo.-A a willow chair which was Mark Twain's favorite seat. has been presented to the boyhood home of the humorist in Hannibal by Albert Bigelow Palne. Accompanying it was a photograph taken by Twain seated in the chair in 1900, upon which the humorist wrote: "This is my best Mark Twain." Hundreds Joined When Break With Germany Came. RECRUIT TO FULL STRENGTH. Mrs. Low Works Energetically to Get Organizations to Take Up Training Instituted For Women by New League—English Girls Render Assis- sance In War. New York.—Hundreds of girls and young women have joined the National Girl Scouts since the outbreak with Germany, and Mrs. Juliette Low, the national president, announced from the headquarters, 527 Fifth avenue, this city, that to meet any emergency the organization will be recruited up to the strength of the Boy Scouts of America. Mrs. Low telegraphed to Elliott Washworth, vice chairman of the American Red Cross at Washington, offering the services of the girl scouts. They are to co-operate with the nearest Red Cross branch. It is Mrs. Low's ambition to make the girl scouts, already 100,000 strong, the greatest girl's organization in THE FOLK GIRL SCOUTS IN WOODS. world. Mrs. Low is prominent socially in England and Scotland as well as in this country. The Girl Scouts of America is the same as the Girl Guides of England and the continent and is adapted to fill the same need in girl life that the boy scout movement fills for lads. Mrs. Low became interested in this work for girls through her observation of the boy scout movement in England by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the almost simultaneously similar movement for girls started by his sister, Miss Agnes Baden-Powell. Sir Robert and his sister visited Mrs. Low upon her estates in Scotland and assisted her in starting the work among the Scottish lassies. They have recently come into the advisory board of the American organization. Mrs. Low is now working energetically to get the organizations in the various cities to take up the training instituted for women by the Navy league. She has arranged for classes of girls scouts to take these courses and has offered prizes in that connection. Mrs. Low saw the necessity for this work after watching the assistance rendered their country by the girls of England during the progress of the European war. She says there are innumerable things that girls can do in wartime to help their country if they are properly trained. Mrs. Low will hold meetings in the cities she visits under the auspices of the women's clubs. All women who are interested in the movement looking to the uplift of American girlhood are invited to attend these meetings. Girls from educational institutions are especially invited, as are also college sorrieties and associations of college women. Mrs. Low, a brilliant speaker, is in demand both in the west and the east to explain the work. Mrs. Low has great hopes that her visit to America at this time will be the means of arousing considerable interest in the movement among the women of the land. It is the purpose of Mrs. Low to explain the great good to be accomplished among the girls of the land through an organization of this kind and to tell something of the things that have already been accomplished in England and other European countries. WAIST LINES TIGHTER. Men to Wear Longer Coats and New Padded. Columbus, O. — Coats will be much longer, shoulders will be wider, with no padding, and coats will be high at the waist line in men's suits this coming season, according to styles set here by the fashions committee of the International Custom Cutters' association. The cutters say trousers will be wider, waistcoats will be cut low and will be tight at the waist line, and browns will be the proper shade for spider clothes. They also indicated that the Norfolk jacket will again be popular. EX-ENVOY'S LADY American Born Wife of Former German Ambassador. EXPATRIATED BY DIPLOMACY The Break In the Relations Between Germany and the United States Has Necessitated the Countess von Bernstorff Leaving the Land of Her Birth and Many Washington Friends. As far as is known, Countess von Bernstorff is the only American woman married to a German diplomat, and the fact is a strong reminder at this time of the desire of Kaiser Wilhelm in sending Count von Bernstorff to Washington in 1908 to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the United States and Germany. Before her marriage to the count on Nov. 14, 1857, Countess von Bernstorff was a Miss Jeanne Luckemeyer of 1930 Photo by American Press Association. COUNTESS VON BERNSTORFE. New York. She is a woman of gracious personality and before the war was one of the most popular hostesses in the diplomatic set in Washington. When the war broke out she was visiting in Berlin, and it was not until last fall that she was able to rejoin her husband in Washington. The countess leaves many warm friends in her social circle at the capital, who will sincerely regret her absence. MEDICINAL GARDENS. What the Commonest Vegetables Do For Your Liver. Every vegetable garden, is a medicine chest recognized by physicians as of considerable value in the treatment of diseases. Onions, for example, contain sulphur oil and are recommended for insomnia and as an aid to gastric digestion. They also help to allay rheumatic pains. Turnips and parsnips have peculiarly principles which are of value as an aperiod and diuretic. They are also claimed to be good for coughs and harseness. Carrots are useful for correcting derangements of the liver. They are excellent as a dressing for painful wounds and swellings. The tomato exercises medicinal effects not completely explained by the presence of alkaline salts. There is a principle present which, in a concentrated state, produces salivation and a free stimulation of the liver. Satin Hats. The type of satin hat that dominates in the smart shops is made of black satin, with so small a headband that it is merely a ribbon and so large a brim that it eclipses the crown. This brim convolutes around the head in a series of curves and irregular lines. If it were not made by an expert it would be utterly impossible for any woman to wear. Every line of it must be nicely calculated to the fraction of an inch, that the face beneath will appear at its best. Hardly is there a touch of trimming on turbans, but the introduction of two flaming, bright wings in front of a black satin turban gives us a new skin—wings are evidently coming back to fashion, and one goes up and one goes down. Avalanche of Pockets Pockets started to be the fashion a couple of seasons ago. No one looked, however, for the avalanche of pockets which seem to have tumbled on to dresses for all times of day. On sport coats and dresses they are so large that they are really draped on to the sides of the garment. They are mostly patch pockets, the tops adorned with a narrow fur band. In one or two models the whole pocket is of fur like the collar and cuffs. New Millinery. Among the new features for the south are suede finished felts combined with lisere, tagal straws embranded or braided with soutache, and cottones and silks printed or embranded in Paisley, East Indian and Romanian designs and colors. These quality straws and fabrics are used in connection with the plain straws, including coconut effects, lisere and hemp. NECK FIXINGS. Gay Colors and Collarless Effects the Thing. Just when it seemed that the white collar had become an obsolete feature of dresses it shows evidence of reviving, and it may be said that the broad collar of satin or of lingerie fabrics will be one of the principal attractions of incoming fashions. As things are at the present moment many women look as if they had dressed in a hurry and omitted the important item of neckwear. The French designer who brought out the collarless frock had in mind the eternally young and piquant type of girl. As this type is limited, despite all efforts to the contrary, it follows that only the favored few look well dressed in the gown sans collar. There is something rather commendable in the dress that exploits a neck finish of a gay color. It is in keeping with the trend of fashion that emphasizes everything connected with sport wear, whether the garment in question has anything to do with athletic life or otherwise. Some of the color combinations are decidedly startling. One finds green associated with purple, and yellow with old rose, and turquoise with pink. Usually the collar is of satin, and this in itself supplies a decorative note when the dress is of wool jersey, serge or similar fabric. Frequently it happens that the color of the collar is repeated in the facing of the sash. A recent model shows a collar whose front lines are extended to give a four-in-hand effect. The front of the bodice shows two slashes, and through these the ends of the cravat are passed. FOR TEN-YEAR-OLDS. Serviceable Frock That Is Also Smart Style. Flesh colored linen cut kilt skirt, wide belt, bolero and patch pockets, always a childish delight, give this 1920 AFTERNOON FINERY. good model for school gowns. It is not so simple as it looks, for hours we consumed doing the small scallops that finish all edges. The Slender Throat. Too much flesh on the neck is a fatal bar to beauty. It is far simpler to put flesh on a woman's throat than to take it off, for if the tissues are fed with a good skin food, such as cocoa butter, the neck will soon begin to round out. On the other hand, only exercise of the most vigorous sort will reduce the size of the throat. For a tendency to a double chin and to tighten the muscles which have become loosened, try this simple exercise: Throw the head back as far as it will go, drawing the muscles tight. Now turn the head slowly as far to the right as you can and then to the left. Repeat ten times, increasing as you become accustomed to the strain. Massaging the neck with a piece of ice is excellent for keeping the flesh firm. Colored Veils Worn. Colored vells are being worn to a considerable extent. Beige, gray and navy are the most popular colors. The embroidered vell continues to dominate, yet one sees a combination of colors; for example, beige colored embroidery on a navy vell is smart, again gray on navy. Black and white combinations are making their appearance in increasing number. We note white chenille embroidery on a fine black hexagon mesh. There seems to be a wane in metallic embroidered vells. Cheesecloth Bags Refrigerator bags are a comfort. They are plain and made of white cheesecloth, with white drawstrings at the top. The name of the contents of each bag is written in a running stitch across the side in a fast shade of blue. The celery bag is made long and slender, lettuce bag wide and short and parsley small and square. A set of these bags is a welcome gift to a friend just starting housekeeping. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3. 1917. FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About Kind and Unkind Trees. THE REWARD OF EVERGREENS Experience of a Lame Robin Which Could Not Fly Away With Its Companions—How the Oak and the Beech Were Punished For Their Lack of Hospitality. I am going to tell you tonight, said Uncle Ben to little Ned and Polly Ann, about THE TALKING TREES. Once upon a time as the little birds were making their long journey to the pleasant warm countries where birds spend the winter a little robin was left behind. He had a lame wing, and lame winged birds never can fly far. Little robin looked about in the strange woods where, tired out, he had to stop. He crept up to a gnarled old oak tree whose branches soared a hundred feet into the air. "Please let me stay with you all winter," the little bird pleaded. "Your leaves will shelter me from the winter winds." But the oak was proud. "Go away," he said. "I do not want tramp birds like you about my branches." The little bird sped to the beech tree, but the beech tree made believe not to hear the robin "The maple is so lovely. Perhaps she is also kind," the little bird said. And he went to the maple tree to ask her for shelter. But the maple tree was not kind. He flew to the little stream along which the white birch trees gleamed, but the birches said that they were not strong enough to take lodgers. As, tired and sorrowful, the little bird started away on his lame wing a dark, shaggy tree standing on the hill slope called to him, "Here you are welcome to shelter, wanderer." It was the tall pine tree with thick needles which could turn off the roughest winter wind. "I, too, have a home for you," called the tall, dark spruce. And the stately cedar whispered that if the little bird cared to live near the dwellings of man not to overlook its sheltering branches in the garden. "As for me," called the little juniper, "though I may not be able to offer shelter, my berries will provide you with food, to which you are welcome as long as you need them." And so the little bird stayed with these kind ones, and every morning and every evening he sang them a little song of gratitude. Old King Winter heard it one day and learned the bird's story. He said to one of his wildest winds: "Go out into the woods and strip those unkind trees of the leaves of which they are so proud, but the trees that have been kind and willing to share what they had with the unfortunate shall always wear their green leaves all winter." Happy Days of Ice and Snow. 10 Photos by American Press Association. BESTING AFTER A SPIN. Photos by American Press Association. RESTING AFTER A SPIN. Old Mrs. Northwind and sprightly Jack Frost are friends of little folks. If it were not for the activities of these two worthies there would be little joy in the land for the devotees of coasting and skating. Many people complain and rail against the ice and snow, but boys and girls are loud in their praises. The little lady in the picture was snapped while resting after a strenuous hour on her gleaming skates. Like her playmates, she revels in such sports. The Milkman. Our milkman, he comes every day, No matter if it rains and pours. He never seems to mind a bit What it is doing out of doors. And in the middle of the night I hear him coming up the stairs. He tiptoes to our door and leaves Our milk and leaves our neighbors theirs. What the Debutante Craves When She Discards Furs. THE BROADWAY THEATRE BELLE OF THE BALL. Soon as warm nights arrive this fetching substitute for velvets and furs will delight dancing maidens. A long chiffon scarf with deep borders of metal cloth is the idea, and in this case the color is old gold hemstitched on to a maize chiffon. Any becoming colors may be had. EMBROIDERY CRETONNES How to Make Attractive Spreads by the Art of Applique. Simple work for busy hands seems to be in demand just at present. Appliqued patch embroidery is simple and is made quickly. To make centerpieces, cushion tops, scarfs, tidies or chair backs, clothes bags, etc., plain linen or silk is needed, preferably linen. Circles of applique are cut from cretonne. The design should be a large single flower or small spray in order to cut three inch circles. The circles are basted to the cloth and stitched on by machine close to the edge. Chain stitch around each circle with coarse thread, then run through with a white thread in what is called the blanket stitch, or whip it straight along the last row of stitches, catching it over and over. The white rolls in with the black and is very pretty. A scroll is drawn in by cutting out a figure which looks well and then tracing it off on the cloth. In a centerpiece six medallions are used, three in a pillow, three in each end of a scarf and three in a chair back. To finish the edge outline it as the medallions were outlined. Dots, which are often placed in the center of the scrollwork, are made of black in the satin stitch. Fashion's Creed. It appears that the prevailing creed in fashion is that a woman must not think of going in her shirt sleeves any more than a man would think of doing it. She wears a wash blouse beneath the jacket for purposes of cleanliness, but not publicity. So farreaching is this creed that the medieval tunic which extends only to the hip line and is fastened to the shoulder or slips over the head is worn over a blouse with a cloth skirt even in the house. Probably the best thing to remember in buying clothes now is that the figure must be straightened out, in the medieval manner, from bust to hips. You can choose your own way of doing it, whether by a deep girdle, by the straight lines of the fabric or by a belt of suede or leather that conceals any inward curve beneath the arms toward the waist. For Stout Women. Becoming to the stout woman are tunics of plaited Georgette crape weighted at the edge with a band of velvet and drawn in loosely at the waist line with a knotted or buckled sash. The plaited Georgette hangs in graceful lines, and such a tunic is flattering to the figure, disguising embonpoint more successfully than a fitted tailored frock of cloth material. The skirt may be of velvet, cloth or silk, and the band at the tunic edge should be of similar material, the cuffs also to give continuity of the costume. Sash an Important Thing. All the French gowns are showing that the girdle or the sash will be an important feature of the spring fashions. There is no attempt to define the waist line by any kind of belt, but it is swathed in oriental fashion with soft and stiff belts, with Chinese embroidery, with Russian handwork, including threads of old silver and colored crystals and with broad pieces of satin which are cross stitched with silver and gold thread, and on these jersey blouses there are sashes in broad peppermint candy striping. A Dragon Blouse A novelty in a dress blouse shows the Chinese influence in two wild eged dragons which are embroidered at each side of the front. In back there is a pointed collar, a kind of variation of the capuchin hood. ABOUT FOOD VALUE How to Buy Nourishment Is Told by an Expert. COMPARISON OF NUTRIENTS The High Cost of Living May Be Reduced by Simple Arithmetic and a Knowledge of What the Different Foods Contain Both of Nourishment and of Waste. "How much is it a pound?" inquires the housekeeper, whether she purchases meat, flour, cheese or coffee. On the pound value she bases the cost of her housekeeping and the cost of the meals and living of her family. One would think to hear her that, if meat costs 28 cents a pound or cheese 22 cents or coffee 35 cents, just in so many cents does she get an equivalent in nourishment. But this is totally wrong. The price per pound in nowise represents the price of nourishment to the body. The housekeeper who is really trying to solve the high cost of everything will first study nutritive values. She can do this by the aid of government bulletins and several small volumes which she can buy. She must know how much nutrition she gets out of her meat, her sugar, her cheese, her coffee, before she knows the actual cost of feeding her family. In other words, she must learn to buy not by the pound, but by the food value. Let us compare porterhouse, the rump and the flank. From actual figures we see that the food values of these pieces are not the same; neither do they contain the same amount of waste: Refuse. Water. Protein. Fat. Pct. Pct. Pct. Pct. Porterhouse ...12.7 52.4 19.1 17.9 Rump ...20.7 45.0 13.0 20.0 Flank ...10.2 54.0 17.0 19.0 The main nutrient which we buy food for, protein, is greatest in the porterhouse. But it is nearly equaled by the flank, and when we compare the refuse of the two we see that there is less refuse in the flank and more fat. But comparing the rump, which is a much cheaper piece, we see it has quite as much refuse and a third less protein value. Now, many a housekeeper with a sense of economy would purchase the rump because it sells for 6 cents or 8 cents a pound less than the porterhouse; or, again, she might purchase the porterhouse, which sells for sometimes 10 cents more than the flank. But the really true economy would be to purchase that meat which sells not for the lower price, but which has the most nutrient "on the dollar," we might say, and this would certainly be the flank. In other words, given a dollar or any number of dollars, on what can it be spent to get best value? Every food has a certain per cent of waste, and this per cent of waste must be known in order to do really economical buying. It frequently happens that the higher priced foods without waste are less expensive than the cheap food where there are bones, gristle, skin, parings, peel, etc., paid for. Marketing along this new line is being carried on in some of our high schools, where girls are given a definite sum for weekly expenditures and are asked to figure how best to nourish some imaginary family for that amount. How many older housekeepers are following this new and scientific marketing? Perhaps the new arithmetic will have such examples as these: If one pound of cheese costs 22 cents and yields a 25 per cent protein value and one pound of rib roast costs 30 cents and yields only 13 per cent of protein, how many pounds of the most protein value can you buy for a dollar? Arithmetic based on actual practical problems might do more to interest girls and to bring up a new race of scientific housekeepers. BETWEEN SEASONS. Just the Kind of Hat You Need For Spring Wear. Beige straw with a fascinating new rough weave with a draped silk crown is here mounted by an odd white wing A. NATTY DESIGN. that gives a military dash to the contour of the hat. Turbans were never so trig as this season. PAGE SEVEN OFF FOR THE SOUTH. The Newest Kind of Suit Is This Silk Model. THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE CHIC ONE. Figured tussore will be all the rage this spring. The body of this pictured is deep cream color with odd figures in terra cotta contrasted with a Chinese blue. Terra cotta velvet gives the smart rumpled collar, strapped cuffs and stringy belt. Please note the round yoke on the coat. BEAUTIFUL TEETH. A Hygiene Note For Mothers of Small Babes Good milk will make good teeth, for it makes teeth for calves. Good meat will, for it makes them for young lions and wolves. Good vegetables, nuts and fruits will, for it makes them for monkeys. Good corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and indeed everything that grows, will make good teeth if taken in their natural state, no elements being taken out, for every one of them makes good teeth for horses and cows. But starches and sugars and lard and adulterated foods will not make good teeth; therefore a wise mother will keep from very young children pastry, white bread, cakes and tea and will give them instead good milk, whole wheat bread, cereals, meat, eggs, ripe fruit, vegetables and nuts and will do well to see that these helps are given them early enough. Every mother should remember that the duty of giving her child useful and strong teeth devolves upon her. Some Wedding Ways. Goodby to the plain gold band, at least for awhile. The really smart bride now wears a band of platinum set close with diamonds or merely a plain band of chased or filigree platinum. Hoops of platinum set with one kind of gems—rubies, emeralds, sapphires, as the case may be—are surely unusual as the symbol of "the tie that binds." Green gold, the latest metal fad in jewelry, is fashioned in plain chased bands for the same dignified purpose. It is something of a change to have the bridesmaids garbed with short vellies instead of hats or bonnets. The custom is a pretty one when properly carried out. The veil may be a square of hematised chiffon, bound pointwise on the head with a circlet of pearl beads or a band of metal ribbon. Hot Water Bags A few precautions taken with a new hot water bag and continued throughout its life will greatly prolong its days of usefulness. To begin with, buy the bag from a reliable dealer. Most bags are guaranteed and are replaced with new ones if there is any defect. These guarantees, of course, are not good if you treat the bag harshly. But as soon as you get a new bag home fill it with hot water, screw in the top and look it over carefully to see that there is no leak and no other visible imperfection. If there is none and if the bag is of good quality it is your own fault if you cannot tear up the guarantee as not needed. Grape Sponge. Soften one tablespoonful of granulated gelatin in one-fourth cupful of solid water, then dissolve over boiling water. Bring one cupful of grape juice to the boiling point, add three-fourths cupful of sugar, the dissolved gelatin, the juice of one lemon and strain. Stir occasionally until beginning to thicken, then add gradually the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beat until stiff enough to hold its shape. Turn into a wet mold, place on ice until firm and serve with whipped cream or soft boiled custard. American Born Wife of Former German Ambassador. EXPATRIATED BY DIPLOMACY. The Break In the Relations Between Germany and the United States Has Necessitated the Countess von Bernstorff Leaving the Land of Her Birth and Many Washington Friends. As far as is known, Countess von Bernstorff is the only American woman married to a German diplomat, and the fact is a strong reminder at this time of the desire of Kaiser Wilhelm in sending Count von Bernstorff to Washington in 1908 to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the United States and Germany. United Before her marriage to the count on Nov. 14, 1857. Countess von Bernstoff is a Miss Jeanne Luckemeyer of 1930 Photo by American Press Association. COUNTESS VON BERNSTOFF. New York. She is a woman of gracious personality and before the war was one of the most popular hostesses in the diplomatic set in Washington. When the war broke out she was visiting Berlin, and it was not until last fall that she was able to rejoin her husband in Washington. The countess leaves many warm friends in her social circle at the capital, who will sincerely regret her absence. MEDICINAL GARDENS. What the Commonest Vegetables Do For Your Liver. Every vegetable garden, is a medicine chest recognized by physicians as of considerable value in the treatment of diseases. Onions, for example, contain sulphur oil and are recommended for insomnia and as an aid to gastric digestion. They also help to allay rheumatic pains. Turnips and parsnips have peculiar principles which are of value as a appetent and diuretic. They are also claimed to be good for coughs and burseness. Carrots are useful for correcting derangements of the liver. They are excellent as a dressing for painful wounds and swellings. The tomato exercises medicinal effects not completely explained by the presence of alkaline salts. There is a principle present which, in a concentrated state, produces salivation and a the stimulation of the liver. Satin Hats. The type of satin hat that dominates in the smart shops is made of black satin, with so small a headband that it is merely a ribbon and so large a brim that it eclipses the crown. This brim convolutes around the head in a series of curves and irregular lines. If it were not made by an expert it would be utterly impossible for any woman to wear. Every line of it must be nicely calculated to the fraction of an inch, so that the face beneath will appear at its best. Barely is there a touch of trimming on turbans, but the introduction of two daunting, bright wings in front of a black satin turban gives us a new line—wings are evidently coming back to fashion, and one goes up and one goes down. Avalanche of Pockets Pockets started to be the fashion a couple of seasons ago. No one looked, however, for the avalanche of pockets which seem to have tumbled on to dresses for all times of day. On sport coats and dresses they are so large that they are really draped on to the sides of the garment. They are mostly patch pockets, the tops adorned with a narrow fur band. In one or two modals the whole pocket is of fur like the collar and cuffs. New Millinery. beyond the new features for the south are sude finished felts combined with lisse, tagal straws embalored or braided with soutache, cottones and silks printed or embalored in Paisley, East Indian and Romanian designs and colors. These luxury straws and fabrics are used in conjunction with the plain straws, including coconut effects, lisse and hermene Gay Colors and Collarless Effects the Thing. Just when it seemed that the white collar had become an obsolete feature of dresses it shows evidence of reviving, and it may be said that the broad collar of satin or of lingerie fabrics will be one of the principal attractions of incoming fashions. As things are at the present moment many women look as if they had dressed in a hurry and omitted the important item of neckwear. The French designer who brought out the collarless frock had in mind the eternally young and plquant type of girl. As this type is limited, despite all efforts to the contrary, it follows that only the favored few look well dressed in the gown sans collar. There is something rather commendable in the dress that exploits a neck finish of a gay color. It is in keeping with the trend of fashion that emphasizes everything connected with sport wear, whether the garment in question has anything to do with athletic life or otherwise. Some of the color combinations are decidedly startling. One finds green associated with purple, and yellow with old rose, and turquoise with pink. Usually the collar is of satin, and this in itself supplies a decorative note when the dress is of wool jersey, serge or similar fabric. Frequently it happens that the color of the collar is repeated in the facing of the sash. A recent model shows a collar whose front lines are extended to give a four-in-hand effect. The front of the bodice shows two slashes, and through these the ends of the cravat are passed. FOR TEN-YEAR-OLDS Serviceable Frock That Is Also Smart Style. Flesh colored linen cut kilt skirt, wide belt, bolero and patch pockets, always a childish delight, give this 1920 AFTERNOON FINERY. good model for school gowns. It is not so simple as it looks, for hours were consumed doing the small scallops that finish all edges. The Slender Throat Too much flesh on the neck is a fatal bar to beauty. It is far simpler to put flesh on a woman's throat than to take it off, for if the tissues are fed with a good skin food, such as cocoa butter, the neck will soon begin to round out. On the other hand, only exercise of the most vigorous sort will reduce the size of the throat. For a tendency to a double chin and to tighten the muscles which have become loosened, try this simple exercise: Throw the head back as far as it will go, drawing the muscles tight. Now turn the head slowly as far to the right as you can and then to the left. Repeat ten times, increasing as you become accustomed to the strain. Massaging the neck with a piece of ice is excellent for keeping the flesh firm. Colored Vails Worn. Colored veils are being worn to a considerable extent. Beige, gray and navy are the most popular colors. The embroidered veil continues to dominate, yet one sees a combination of colors; for example, beige colored embroidery on a navy veil is smart, again gray on navy. Black and white combinations are making their appearance in increasing number. We note white chenille embroidery on a fine black hexagon mesh. There seems to be a wane in metallic embroidered veils. Cheesecloth Bags Refrigerator bags are a comfort. They are plain and made of white cheesecloth, with white drawstrings at the top. The name of the contents of each bag is written in a running stitch across the side in a fast shade of blue. The celery bag is made long and slender, lettuce bag wide and short and parsley small and square. A set of these bags is a welcome gift to a friend just starting housekeeping. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 3, 1917 FOR YOUNG FOLKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About Kind and Unkind Trees. THE REWARD OF EVERGREENS Experience of a Lame Robin Which Could Not Fly Away With Its Companions—How the Oak and the Beech Were Punished For Their Lack of Hospitality. I am going to tell you tonight, said Uncle Ben to little Ned and Polly Ann, about THE TALKING TREES Once upon a time as the little birds were making their long journey to the pleasant warm countries where birds spend the winter a little robin was left behind. He had a lame wing, and lame winged birds never can fly far. Little robin looked about in the strange woods where, tired out, he had to stop. He crept up to an gnarled old oak tree whose branches soared a hundred feet into the air. "Please let me stay with you all winter," the little bird pleaded. "Your leaves will shelter me from the winter winds." But the oak was proud. "Go away," he said. "I do not want tramp birds like you about my branches." The little bird sped to the beech tree, but the beech tree made believe not to hear the robin. "the maple is so lovely. Perhaps she is also kind," the little bird said. And he went to the maple tree to ask her for shelter. But the maple tree was not kind. He flew to the little stream along which the white birch trees gleamed, but the birches said that they were not strong enough to take lodgers. As, tired and sorrowful, the little bird started away on his lame wing a dark, shaggy tree standing on the hill slope called to him. "Here you are welcome to shelter, little wanderer." It was the all pine tree with thick needles which could turn off the roughest winter wind. "I, too, have a home for you," called the tall, dark spruce. And the stately cedar whispered that if the little bird cared to live near the dwellings of man not to overlook its sheltering branches in the garden. "As for me," called the little juniper, "though I may not be able to offer shelter, my berries will provide you with food, to which you are welcome as long as you need them." And so the little bird stayed with these kind ones, and every morning and every evening he sang them a little song of gratitude. Old King Winter heard it one day and learned the bird's story. He said to one of his wildest winds: "Go out into the woods and strip those unkind trees of the leaves of which they are so proud, but the trees that have been kind and willing to share what they had with the unfortunate shall always wear their green leaves all winter." Happy Days of Ice and Snow. 1970 Photos by American Press Association. RESTING AFTER A SPIN. Old Mrs. Northwind and sprightly Jack Frost are friends of little folks. If it were not for the activities of these two worthies there would be little joy in the land for the devotees of coasting and skating. Many people complain and rail against the ice and snow, but boys and girls are loud in their praises. The little lady in the picture was snapped while resting after a strenuous hour on her gleaming skates. Like her playmates, she revels in such sports. The Milkman. Our milkman, he comes every day, No matter if it rains and pours. He never seems to mind a bit What it is doing out of doors. And in the middle of the night I hear him coming up the stairs. He tiptoes to our door and leaves Our milk and leaves our neighbors theirs. EVENING SCARF. What the Debutante Craves When She Discards Fura. THE BROADWAY THEATRE BELLE OF THE BALL. Soon as warm nights arrive this fetching substitute for velvets and furs will delight dancing maidens. A long chiffon scarf with deep borders of metal cloth is the idea, and in this case the color is old gold hemstitched on to a maize chiffon. Any becoming colors may be had. EMBROIDERY CRETONNES How to Make Attractive Spreads by the Art of Applique. Simple work for busy hands seems to be in demand just at present. Appliqued patch embroidery is simple and is made quickly. To make centerpieces, cushion tops, scarfs, tidies or chair backs, clothes bags, etc., plain linen or silk is needed, preferably linen. Circles of applique are cut from cretoone. The design should be a large single flower or small spray in order to cut three inch circles. The circles are basted to the cloth and stitched on by machine close to the edge. Chain stitch around each circle with coarse thread, then run through with a white thread in what is called the blanket stitch, or whip it straight along the last row of stitches, catching it over and over. The white rolls in with the black and is very pretty. A scroll is drawn in by cutting out a figure which looks well and then tracing it off on the cloth. In a centerpiece six medallions are used, three in a pillow, three in each end of a scarf and three in a chair back. To finish the edge outline it as the medallions were outlined. Dots, which are often placed in the center of the scrollwork, are made of black in the satin stitch. Fashion's Creed. It appears that the prevailing creed in fashion is that a woman must not think of going'in her shirt sleeves any more than a man would think of doing it. She wears a wash blouse beneath the jacket for purposes of cleanliness, but not publicity. So farreaching is this creed that the medieval tunic which extends only to the hip line and is fastened to the shoulder or slips over the head is worn over a blouse with a cloth skirt even in the house. Probably the best thing to remember in buying clothes now is that the figure must be straightened out, in the medieval manner, from bust to hips. You can choose your own way of doing it, whether by a deep girdle, by the straight lines of the fabric or by a belt of suede or leather that conceals any inward curve beneath the arms toward the waist. For Stout Women Becoming to the stout woman are tunics of plaited Georgette crape weighted at the edge with a band of velvet and drawn in loosely at the waist line with a knotted or buckled sash. The plaited Georgette hangs in graceful lines, and such a tunic is flattering to the figure, disguising embonpoint more successfully than a fitted tailored frock of cloth material. The skirt may be of velvet, cloth or silk, and the band at the tunic edge should be of similar material, the cuffs also to give continuity of the costume. Sash an Important Thing. All the French gowns are showing that the girdle or the sash will be an important feature of the spring fashions. There is no attempt to define the waist line by any kind of belt, but it is swathed in oriental fashion with soft and stiff belts, with Chinese embroidery, with Russian handwork, including threads of old silver and colored crystals and with broad pieces of satin which are cross stitched with silver and gold thread, and on these Jersey blouses there are sashes in broad peppermint candy striping. A Dragon Blouse. A novelty in a dress blouse shows the Chinese influence in two wild eyed dragons which are embroidered at each side of the front. In back there is a pointed collar, a kind of variation of the capuchin hood. ABOUT FOOD VALUE How to Buy Nourishment Is Told by an Expert. COMPARISON OF NUTRIENTS The High Cost of Living May Be Reduced by Simple Arithmetic and a Knowledge of What the Different Foods Contain Both of Nourishment and of Waste. "How much is it a pound?" inquires the housekeeper, whether she purchases meat, flour, cheese or coffee. On the pound value she bases the cost of her housekeeping and the cost of the meals and living of her family. One would think to hear her that, if meat costs 28 cents a pound or cheese 22 cents or coffee 35 cents, just in so many cents does she get an equivalent in nourishment. But this is totally wrong. The price per pound in nowise represents the price of nourishment to the body. The housekeeper who is really trying to solve the high cost of everything will first study nutritive values. She can do this by the aid of government bulletins and several small volumes which she can buy. She must know how much nutrition she gets out of her meat, her sugar, her cheese, her coffee, before she knows the actual cost of feeding her family. In other words, she must learn to buy not by the pound, but by the food value. Let us compare porterhouse, the rump and the flank. From actual figures we see that the food values of these pieces are not the same; neither do they contain the same amount of waste: Refuse Water Protein Fat. Pct. Pct. Pct. Rump 12.7 52.4 19.1 17.9 Porterhouse 12.7 52.4 19.1 17.9 Rump 20.7 15.0 20.0 Flank 10.2 54.0 17.0 19.0 The main nutrient which we buy food for, protein, is greatest in the porterhouse. But it is nearly equaled by the flank, and when we compare the refuse of the two we see that there is less refuse in the flank and more fat. But comparing the rump, which is a much cheaper piece, we see it has quite as much refuse and a third less protein value. Now, many a housekeeper with a sense of economy would purchase the rump because it sells for 6 cents or 8 cents a pound less than the porterhouse; or, again, she might purchase the porterhouse, which sells for sometimes 10 cents more than the flank. But the really true economy would be to purchase that meat which sells not for the lower price, but which has the most nutrient "on the dollar," we might say, and this would certainly be the flank. In other words, given a dollar or any number of dollars, on what can it be spent to get best value? Every food has a certain per cent of waste, and this per cent of waste must be known in order to do really economical buying. It frequently happens that the higher priced foods without waste are less expensive than the cheap food where there are bones, gristle, skin, parings, peel, etc., paid for. Marketing along this new line is being carried on in some of our high schools, where girls are given a definite sum for weekly expenditures and are asked to figure how best to nourish some imaginary family for that amount. How many older housekeepers are following this new and scientific marketing? Perhaps the new arithmetic will have such examples as these: If one pound of cheese costs 22 cents and yields a 25 per cent protein value and one pound of rib roast costs 30 cents and yields only 13 per cent of protein, how many pounds of the most protein value can you buy for a dollar? Arithmetic based on actual practical problems might do more to interest girls and to bring up a new race of scientific housekeepers. BETWEEN SEASONS Just the Kind of Hat You Need For Spring Wear. Beige straw in a fascinating new rough weave with a draped silk crown is here mounted by an odd white wing A. NATTY DESIGN. that gives a military dash to the contour of the hat. Turbans were never so trig as this season. PAGE SEVEN The Newest Kind of Suit Is This Silk Model. THE WORLD'S FINEST FASHION THE CHIC ONE. Figured tussore will be all the rage this spring. The body of this pictured is deep cream color with odd figures in terra cotta contrasted with a Chinese blue. Terra cotta velvet gives the smart rumpled collar, strapped cuffs and stringy belt. Please note the round yoke on the coat. BEAUTIFUL TEETH. A Hygiene Note For Mothers of Small Babes. Good milk will make good teeth, for it makes teeth for calves. Good meat will, for it makes them for young lions and wolves. Good vegetables, nuts and fruits will, for it makes them for monkeys. Good corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and indeed everything that grows, will make good teeth if taken in their natural state, no elements being taken out, for every one of them makes good teeth for horses and cows. But starches and sugars and lard and adulterated foods will not make good teeth; therefore a wise mother will keep from very young children pastry, white bread, cakes and tea and will give them instead good milk, whole wheat bread, cereals, meat, eggs, ripe fruit, vegetables and nuts and will do well to see that these helps are given them early enough. Every mother should remember that the duty of giving her child useful and strong teeth devolves upon her. Some Wedding Ways. Goodby to the plain gold band, at least for awhile. The really smart bride now wears a band of platinum set close with diamonds or merely a plain band of chased or filigree platinum. Hoops of platinum set with one kind of gems-rubies, emeralds, sapphires, as the case may be—are surely unusual as the symbol of "the tie that binds." Green gold, the latest metal fad in jewelry, is fashioned in plain chased bands for the same dignified purpose. It is something of a change to have the bridesmaids garbed with short vells instead of hats or bonnets. The custom is a pretty one when properly carried out. The veil may be a square of hestitched chiffon, bound pointwise on the head with a circlet of pearl beads or a band of metal ribbon. Hot Water Bags. A few precautions taken with a new hot water bag and continued throughout its life will greatly prolong its days of usefulness. To begin with, buy the bag from a reliable dealer. Most bags are guaranteed and are replaced with new ones if there is any defect. These guarantees, of course, are not good if you treat the bag harshly. But as soon as you get a new bag home fill it with hot water, screw in the top and look it over carefully to see that there is no leak and no other visible imperfection. If there is none and if the bag is of good quality it is your own fault if you cannot tear up the guarantee as not needed. Grape Sponge. Soften one tablespoonful of granulated gelatin in one-fourth cupful of gold water, then dissolve over bolling water. Bring one cupful of grape juice to the bolling point, add three-fourths cupful of sugar, the dissolved gelatin, the juice of one lemon and strain. Stir occasionally until beginning to thicken, then add gradually the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beat until stiff enough to hold its shape. Turn into a wet mold, place on ice until firm and serve with whipped cream or soft boiled custard. PAGE RIGHT TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES. Proprietor. Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wakeah Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. 73-658 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., 7 P.M. to 6 P.M. Sundays by Appointment PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 4188 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7090 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone Main 2017 SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 JOHN J. DUNN WOOLSALE COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS Sixth St. and L. S. & M. S. Sixth St. and Armour Ave. ONIGAO 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2214 ```markdown ``` Alike, very Different. On Seventh avenue the other evening I saw a small red headed fool of a boy throwing can. "An excitement craving, empty headed kid." I said to myself, driving by. On the next block I saw a girl with red curls, dressed in furs, rather dashing, who gave me a little provocative smile as I passed. Did I say to myself that she was an excitement craving, empty headed kid? She was, but I didn't. On the contrary, for the moment at least, I felt quite drawn toward her. Yet she and that boy might easily have been brother and sister and twin rowdles at heart. Why did one of the two so attract me and the other repel? A Little Gas Heater Given Away ```markdown ``` To every purchaser of one length—8 ft. of our metal tubing hose with screw connection,$1.95, we will present one No. 1 Eclipse Heater (Like Cut) The strange lure of sex. It was ready to blind me to the mental defects of that girl. It was ready to fix my thoughts on her cheeks or her hair if I'd sat with her. Now, isn't that odd? I should never have given a snap for her kid brother's hair or cheeks naturally. I'd have looked him well over and seen at a glance he hadn't much character and maybe less brains, but could I have seen what she lacked once I'd felt her attraction?—Clarence Day, Jr., in Metropolitan Magazine. ```markdown ``` Call up House Heating Section The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Wonders of Color A small and simple experiment can be made by any reader which will go far to convince him or her what a good thing it is we have sunlight, which enables our eyes to take advantage of the beautiful hues of nature. Make a room quite dark and then burn some carbonate of soda in the flame of a bunsen gas burner. It will burn with an orange yellow light sufficiently strong to illuminate everything in the room, but you will realize with a sudden shock that, bright though the light is, all distinctions of color have vanished. Only light and shade remain. A crimson carnation, a blue violet, a red tablecloth, a yellow blind—all look gray or black or white. The faces of those present look positively repulsive, for all natural color has disappeared. No other experiment will so well convince those who have witnessed it how great a loss would be that of our sense for color. Wabash 6000 Or visit our nearest Branch Store Harmony There. Papa (sternly)—Come here, sir! Your mother and I agree that you deserve a sound whipping. Small Boy (bitterly)—Oh, yes; that's about the only thing that you and mamma ever do agree about!—Christian Advocate. "How do you keep moths out of clothing?" asked the girl with a needle and thread. "Why," replied the girl with a story book, "I didn't know they wore any."—Washington Star. KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Exelento Red. On. Gentlemen, My picture shows you what you see. EXELENTO QUININE POMADE has done for my hair. Before I used it, my hair was short and coarse, and then it was tanned, and so soft and silky that I can do it up my wrist. CELIA GREEN. Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE POMADE does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you do it up to suit you. If Exelento don't do as we claim, we will give your money back. 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write For Particulars. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. MARCH 3. 1917. As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaign has built for me one of the largest and most magnificent establishments in the world. A visit will convince you. Consult me, I can save you Worry, Time and Money. Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. JOHN H. HARRIS Consult me, I can save you Worry, Shipping to all parts of the Country Funerals a Specialty. Central Dis Chapel. Call promptly answered day Ernest H. William KENWOOD 455 Undertake 5028 and 5030 S. State St., Signing Diplomatic Notes Signing Diplomatic Notes. No one can say exactly why our secretaries of state sign diplomatic communications with their surnames only, except that it has always been so. We copied the custom from European chancelleries, and it probably has its origin in the habit of royalty, which is to sign with one name only. Thus King George of England signs himself "George, R. I." (Rex, Imperator—King, Emperor); Sir Edward Grey signed always as "Grey;" the democratic Mr. Bryan when secretary of state affixed his signature to diplomatic notes as "Bryan." At first sight there seems to be a profound flattery implied in the custom. It assumes that the signer cannot be mistaken; that there is only one "George," and "Grey," one "Bryan." And generally there is only one in the diplomatic world where these exchanges take place—New York Sun. Automatic 32-395 Effects of Arsenic. "Arsenic, as science has long told us, is an accumulative poison," said a druggist. "When one takes it either by prescription for the upbuilding of an appetite or for the bleaching of the skin he does not feel any ill effects for several years. The effect of the drug is bracing and makes a person feel like eating. It also aids the digestion. The average user of the poison takes it in such small quantities that he does not realize how much of it will accumulate in his system in the course of four or five years. "Being an accumulative poison, it often takes that length of time to see the results of the drug. Then the user may complain of not being able to control his fingers or toes. Subsequently he loses control of his hands and arms. Paralysis, superinduced by arsenical poisoning, is the fearful result." Got There All Right. Many years ago, at the beginning of November, a missive bearing the St. Albans postmark reached St. Martin's. The envelope was addressed "lud mar lunding." Neither tall nor head could be made of this by the staff, so the envelope was opened for a clew. The letter read, "kenyoblauosfoyosho biligs." The practiced St. Martin's decipherer of puzzles promptly made the signature as "Bill Higgs." With the key this afforded the rest was delicously easy. The message was, "Can you buy a horse for your show?" and "lud mar" meant "lord mayor." So the letter, with an official translation considerably appended, was delivered to the lord mayor elect—London Mall. Many Uses For Sawdust. Sawdust is valuable. It can be used for almost anything except food. Used as an absorbent for nitroglycerin it produces dynamite. Used with clay and burned it produces a terra cotta brick full of small cavities that, owing to its lightness and its properties as a nonconductor, makes excellent fire-proof material for walls or floors. Treating it with fused caustic alkali produces oxalic acid. Treating it with sulphuric acid and fermenting it with the sugar so formed produces alcohol. Mixed with a suitable binder and compressed it can be used for making moldings and imitation carvings. If mixed with portland cement it produces a flooring material—Philadelphia Record. Ivory In Siberia. An enormous supply of ivory exists in the frozen tundras of Siberia, which it is thought, will probably suffice for the world's consumption for many years to come. This ivory consists of the tusks of the extinct species of elephants called mammoths. The tusks of these animals were of great size and are wonderfully abundant at some places in Siberia, where the frost has perfectly preserved them. Tree In a Chimney On the island of Trinidad is a lone brick chimney which once was part of a sugar mill long since gone to ruin. The chimney has remained intact, and a tree has grown up through the center and pushed its branches through the top. Leva At twenty love is a rosy dream, at thirty it is a thrilling reality, at forty it is a calm contentment, and at fifty it is a reminiscence. Robber! Tom—So you heard that Bill stole from his wife. Sam—Yep, he hooked her dress.—Michigan Gargoyle. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.—Shakespeare. Chicago, Ill. Students in the college of forestry at the University of Washington have proved by experiment that a cord of full length wood when sawn and replied in the ordinary stack shrinks on an average 24.76 per cent. As dealers buy wood in full lengths and usually measure it for delivery before sawing it, they are often accused of giving short measure. A "cord" is the standard measurement of wood, and it is defined as 128 cubic feet of wood, measured by a pile four feet high and eight feet wide of logs four feet long. The discrepancy between the cord as bought by the dealer and as delivered to the customer, according to Professor Hugo Winkenwerder, dean of the college, is not entirely explained by the sawdust. When wood is piled up in four foot lengths there are many spaces between sticks, caused by knots and curvatures. These spaces are eliminated when the wood is cut up small. Ancestry of Modern Dogs. According to Charles R. Eastman, writing in the Museum Journal, our modern dogs have a varied ancestry, some being descended from Asatlic and some from African species. The spitz in all its varieties is a domesticated jackal. The mastiff and St. Bernard and their kind are descended through the molossus of the Romans from a huge, wolflike creature that was already domesticated by the Assyro-Babylonians 3,000 years before our era. The Russian borzol and the Slcillian hound had their origin in the Cretan hound, which is still common in Crete, and it and its cousin, the Ibaza hound of the Balearic islands, came from the ancient Ethioplan hound, which was a domesticated wolf. The collie or shepherd dog seems to come down direct from a small wild dog of the paleolithic period. Here's a Tip About Hotel Guests. In the American Magazine a writer says: "Here's a funny thing, by the way, that I've noticed about hotel guests: You leave a soiled towel in a room and the guest will probably complain, but you can leave a bucket of paint and a paper hanger's scaffold in the hallway and compel the guest to crawl under a stepladder to get to his room and he will put up with it cheerfully, because he knows you are painting or papering by way of making an improvement and he is in sympathy with that. It doesn't cost much to make over a carpet so that a bare spot in front of the dresser will be eliminated, but such little details are a vast help in making a hotel prosper." The "Only Child." When parents have an "only child" it seems to get as much attention as six or eight children in a large family. Some statistics show that out of a hundred "only children" eighty-seven were nervous, the girls suffering worse than the boys. And then the statisticians say the only child lacks self reliance, is precocious, vain and unsuscible, is often extremely timid, being afraid of dark rooms and of sleeping alone.—Exchange. It's an Ill Wind. "Rejected you, did she, old man?" "Yes." "Too bad! No doubt you had planned to buy her a ring and all that?" "Yes." "Had your money all saved up, eh?" "I should say so. Had $50 all ready." "I say, old man, you—er—couldn't lend me that $50 till you find some other girl who will have you, could you?" -Boston Transcript. Worse Still. "But he sometimes makes sarcastic remarks about your staying so early in the morning." - Birmingham Age-Herald. Cause and Effect. She—So you danced with Miss Light- foot at the ball last night? He—Yes. Did she tell you? She—Oh, no. But I saw her going into a chiropodist's this morning. Mosquito Netting. Mosquito nettinggls an anclept Greek if not Egyptian invention, even if it does seem a Yankee idea. 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