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IN WILTON THERE ESTHERNIA TWENTY-NINTH TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 29. Cardinal Lace Photo, Copyright, by Underwood & The interest throughout the course from Rome is responsible for this pictures on ecclesiastical robes. The gather in front by a brooch, but the broken lines. MODEL MADE UP IN TWEED H Photo, Copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. The interest throughout the country in the return of Cardinal Farley from Rome is responsible for this piece of neckwear, designed from decorations on ecclesiastical robes. The smallest particle of lace is caught together in front by a brooch, but the back has all the decoration in unbroken lines. MODEL MADE UP IN TWEED CURTAINS IN THE BEDROOM Soft, Fine Material Should Be Select ed for This Smart, Though Severely Simple Style. A soft fine tweed is selected for our model, which is smart and simple in style, and has the skirt cut to fit plainly round the hips; it is trimmed at foot by a deep band of plain cloth to match the check in the material; the upper part is shaped up in front and has the edge turned in and laid over the lower; a row of stitching in silk is worked at edge. The bodice has a piece of the cloth let in at center of front and back; material straps piped with the cloth FASHION are taken over shoulders at the edge of yoke, which is of face to match under-sleeves; the over-sleeves have straps piped with cloth swn on the outside. Hat of stretched satin to match cloth, swathed in a lighter colored minon and trimmed at side with a feather mount. Materials required: 3½ yards tweed 46 inches wide, 1½ yard cloth 46 inches wide, 1½ yard lace. Outlook for Fancy Jabots. Fancy jabots on the cascade order and the flat types, some suggesting bows, are expected to be in demand, says the Dry Goods Economist. These will be produced in attractive laces that will suit them for wear with simple dressy waists and dresses. These, like the side frills and flat revers, will be shown separate and attached to stock collars. THE GAZETTE Underwood, N. Y. try in the return of Cardinal Farley ce of neckwear, designed from deco- smallest particle of lace is caught to- back has all the decoration in un- CURTAINS IN THE BEDROOM Economy May Be Combined With Good Taste in the Manner Described in This Article. In making curtains for the bedroom windows you can economize in material by selecting swiss or scrim the width of the window. Now measure off the length you desire the curtains and cut the material from corner to corner on the bias. In other words, cut from the lower left-hand corner to the upper right-hand corner. To this bias edge apply a ruffle either cf the material or of coarse lace. Finish the joining seam neatly by stitching a strip of feathersitched braid or a narrow bias fold over the ruffle and seam edge. Now finish the broad straight edge at the top with a hem and narrow casing, through which is run a tape the length of the width of the window. The curtains are then shirred over the tape or small brass rods and attached to the windows. Drape them to each side of the window with ribbons or cotton cords, and you will have a pair of very good-looking curtains, made from the quantity of material generally employed in making one curtain. Among the decorative articles made of beads, and one you can make yourself as a holiday gift, none is prettier than the beaded frames. These are made on a groundwork of net. The beads are sewed on in any pretty design you may fancy, are nested with a bright-colored satin and mounted on square, oblong or oval frames. An attractive square frame is made on silver net, with a border of tiny opal beads showing a vine design running through it. A conventional fleur-de-lis in silver and bottle green beads decorate each corner. The whole is mounted over green satin. Beaded frames will remain in fashion longer than most articles decorated with beads that are finding so much favor now. Veils Match Hats. Plain hexagons of rather heavy mesh, dotted and fancy fine meshes and the familiar cobweb or shadow designs in vellings should not be overlooked by the shopper who needs a smart finish for her runabout tailored suit of serge or a smart mixture suit and a simple, nauty hat. The vell should be as nearly as possible the shade of the hat's brim and its trimmings, and in this instance not an elaborate detail of the costume. Lace vellos, on the contrary, may be made a prominent feature of the afternoon's reception costume with which they are usually worn and the wisest choice in these is a black and white chantilly. For motorizing the newest and smartest thing in vellings is chiffon, with an embroidered border done in wools of contrasting color like green on navy, brown on tan or black on purple. Cretonne Covered Frames. Cretonne covered picture frames for bedrooms are easily made. When se lecting your cretonne purchase a piece with colors that harmonize with the furnishings in your bedroom. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. MAYOR BLANK ENBURG TO AID NEGROES MAYOR BLANK ENBURG TO AID NEGROES Interested in Movement to Improve Industrial Conditions. PRESENT EVILS SET FORTH DELEGATION WAITS ON MAYOR—COLORED AND WHITE MINISTERS OF QUAKER CITY INTERESTED IN MOVEMENT. Philadelphia.—Mayor Blankenburg has become deeply interested in the movement to bring about better industrial conditions among the negroes of Philadelphia, and last Friday when a delegation of colored and white citizens waited on the city's executive he stated that he would give the visitors every aid in their efforts to improve conditions. One of the speakers was James Samuel Stemons, who told of the many avenues of employment being closed against the negro in Philadelphia. In a petition which the delegation presented to Mayor Blankenburg it was set forth that the ultimate object in view was to make it possible for negroes to obtain employment among lines other than those of beggardy paid menials, to which they are now almost wholly restricted throughout the north. The petition further sets forth that growing discrimination against negroes is a most portentous phase of the entire race situation in this country. In effect, the petition asked for summary justice being inforced for offenses committed by "a vicious element" in the negro race, but fair dealing toward the better and law abiding negro citizens. In the petition was the following declaration: "We affirm that the cumulative effects of such high-handed antagonism to social order have been unbound in augmenting popular feeling against the entire colored race, with the concomitant hardships of lynching, mob violence, segregation and exclusion from the broader fields of labor. The church is the medium through which this league is acting, and it is our purpose ultimately to enlist every colored minister and every colored congregation in every community in this movement for civic decency and political honesty." Mayor Blankenburg, in response to the petition, said that the objects of the league were most laudable and that he would be glad to give his aid toward their consummation. Certain conspicuous crimes among negroes, and particularly in the line of speak-easles, he said, were being suppressed. The delegation promised to keep the mayor informed of the league's work. Among the prime movers in the delegation for improving the condition of negroes in this city were said to be the following white and colored pastors of churches of various denominations: White members—Revs. Dr. Edwin Heyl Delk, Dr. P. Parkin, Dr. A. J. Rowland, Dr. Alpha G. Kynett, D. F. Lockerble, E. F. Randolph. Negro members—Revs. Dr. John W. Lee, Dr. P. A. Wallace, Dr. James H. Scott, Dr. C. Albert Tindley, J. Luther Martin, James Samuel Stemons, Dr. W. G. Parkes, Dr. G. W. Gaines, G. Edward Dickerson, Dr. Henry L. Phillips, Father A. C. V. Cartier, Rev. John R. Logan, Dr. William A. Credit, Dr. Reuten H. Armstrong, Dr. E. W. Moore, A. R. Jackson, Dr. R. William Flickland. NEGRO AVIATOR GETS MEDAL LUCIAN HEADIN HONORED BY AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY—HAS INVENTED EQUALIZER WHICH PREVENTS AIRSHIPS FROM TILTING WHEN FALLING—NOW TOURING SOUTH. New York.—During these days of aviation meets the negro is being represented in the field of aeronautics by Lucian Headin of New York, who was recently awarded a gold medal by one of the aeronautical societies at Mineola, L. L. Avlator Headin is also an inventor, and has attracted attention by taking out a patent on an equalizer, which prevents airships from tilting when falling, thereby preventing many accidents. The equalizer consists of a ball weighing 40 pounds which is attached to an electrical device, and if the airship is falling the aviator can press a button on the steering wheel which will put the large ball into play and cause the airship to descend without mishap. Mr. Headin was born in Raleigh, N. C., and is married. He is now touring the south with his machine, accompanied by his ex-instructor and manager. Last week he was to have given an exhibition at Norfolk, Va. under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. (white), but was compelled to cancel the engagement on account of cold weather. He is in Charleston, S. C. this week. MISSISSIPPI'S POPULATION OUT OF 1,793,114 THE NEGROES NUMBER 1,099,487 — PAPER SPEAKS OF PROGRESS RACE IS MAKING IN STATE AND THE WORK BEING DONE IN INTERFACE OF EDUCATION. Mobilia.—The fact that Mississippi has a greater proportion of her population of the negro race has been a subject of considerable comment by some of the other states of the nation," says the Mobile Register, "but when it is known that Mississippi is putting forth a greater effort to educate her colored people than any other state in the Union, and with remarkable success, it is a subject of still more considerable comment. "The last census showed that Mississippi has a total population of 1,797,114, and that of this number 1,099,487 are negroes, besides there are more than 1,000 not classified. At first these figures are startling when it is seen that there are a great many more negroes in the state than whites, but it will be remembered that the negro of Mississippi is many degrees in intelligence and civilization ahead of his brother in Africa, and that the white citizenry of Mississippi is making an effort to raise the status of the Mississippi colored man. She has succeeded in doing this to such a great extent that now numbered among the leading farmers and business men of the state are some colored people. One negro came to Meridian eight years ago with a capital of $2, and today he is said to be worth at least $30,000 in real estate and personal property. "A fair illustration of what is being done for the negroes of Mississippi is the work being done in this county of Lauderdale and in Meridian. Few people know that there is being taught in every public school for colored people in Lauderdale county all of the branches of manual training as taught in the leading schools of the country. In the eight grades of school the colored pupils are required to take a manual training course from early childhood up and the results are wonderful, so declare the superintendents of education and others connected with the work of the colored schools. Among the branches taught are sewing, cooking, basketry, drawing, carpentry, school gardening and beautifying school grounds, laundry, preserving, fancy work, making models of farm implements, millinery, canning, wood and iron work, etc. There is a great deal of interest and pride being taken in the work by the negro children who attend the public schools. DECREASE SHOWN BY THE NEGROES Washington.—In an address delivered at the Tulane university of Louisiana in March, 1910, a prominent railway map, after pointing out that in the ten years from 1890 to 1900 the white population of the south increased by 17.2 per cent., said: "There is reason to believe that the conditions which affected the relative rates of increase of white and negro population in the south between 1890 and 1900 are still operative and that, as time goes on, the negro population of the section will constitute a decreasing proportion of the whole." This forecast is borne out by the statistics of white and negro population for 1910 just made public by the United States census office. In the states south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi there was an increase in the ten years between 1900 and 1910 of 17.5 per cent. in white population and an increase of only 8.7 per cent. in negro population. The rate of increase in negro population for the United States, as a whole, from 1900 to 1910 was 11.3 per cent., as compared with 18 per cent. for the preceding ten years. In 1900 the negroes in the southeastern states constituted 38.1 per cent. of the total population. In 1910 they constituted 37.9 per cent. of the total. In each one of these states the negro population in 1910 constituted a smaller proportion of the total than in 1900 and in two of them—Kentucky and Tennessee—the actual number of negroes was smaller in 1910 than in 1900. The decrease in the negro population in Kentucky in the ten years amounted to 23,050, or 8.1 per cent., and the decrease in Tennessee was 7,155, or 1.5 per cent. The census office states the percentage of negroes to the total population in these states in the two census years as follows: State 1900 1910 Virginia 35.7 32.6 North Carolina 33.0 31.6 South Carolina 58.4 55.2 Georgia 46.7 45.1 Florida 43.6 41.0 Kentucky 13.3 11.4 Tennessee 23.8 21.7 Alabama 45.2 42.5 Mississippi 58.5 56.2 BLANC MANGE Put into a double boiler one quart of sweet milk and let come to a boil. Beat together four eggs, four tablespoonful of cornstarch, a fourth of a cupful of milk, and add to the boiling milk. Cook for a few minutes. Dip cups in cold water, then fill with the custard. When firm turn out and serve with cream and sugar or with raspberry syrup. Raisins or candied fruit make a nice addition. NEGRO ALSO A MAN IN AMERICA NEGRO ALSO A MAN IN AMERICA The Assertion That He Only Has Standing in Eurooe Is Refuted. DE CORDOVA TALKS CONDITIONS IN WEST INDIES—NEGROES OCCUPY POSITIONS OF PROMINENCE AND TRUST—ARE GIVEN MUCH SOCIAL RECOGNITION. Taking issue with an article recently appearing in the New York Herald, in which Miss Mary W. Ovington is quoted as having said that she once heard a young negro university graduate declare that "a negro is a man only in Europe," and expressing the belief that the unfriendly attitude of some whites in this country toward the negro is based on a foolish and narrow prejudice, Attorney O'Connor de Cordova, 362 Riverside Drive, gave out the following statement to the Age: "In an article published in the magazine section of the Sunday Herald of December 10, under the heading 'Negroes' Opportunities in New York." Miss Mary White Ovington, quoting a young negro university graduate, said, 'A negro is a man only in Europe,' I wish to join issue on this statement. "Until the spring of 1907 I lived in the island of Jamaica, a British colony of the West Indies. I am a white man, a lawyer by profession, and for over eleven years, that is, from 1895 to April, 1907, I occupied an important office in the service of the government. My official appointment brought me in intimate association with all classes of the community and I wish to advise all those who think that a negro is a man only in Europe to go to the West Indies and see for themselves how very much of a man the negro is there. "Let it be understood that I use the expression 'negro' as it is accepted in this country—that is, I include in the term men of color, not black men only. In all walks of life in the West Indies we find negroes occupying positions of honor, importance, prominence and trust. "We find them prominent among the legal profession. Some have been recognized to the extent that they have occupied, and some still occupy judicial offices. Others being practitioners at the bar have been created king's counsel, an enviable position among members of the bar, and the present incumbent of the office of assistant attorney-general is himself a man of color. "His position in the medical profession is quite as creditable. There are many colored doctors in the island who number among their patients some of the most refined white women of the community, and what more intimate and delicate relations can possibly exist than those of doctor and patient? "The church has among its officials as archdeacons and rectors men of color who are revered and respected by all classes of the community. In other professions and in all walks of life we find colored men coming to the front and being accorded the recognition to which as men they are entitled. Among the justices of the peace a large number are colored men, while in some districts the Custos Rotulorum, who is the head of the magistracy, is a colored man. "The commercial community has in its ranks colored men whose integrity and merit have been recognized by all with whom they have traded. In the legislature and town councils are to be found colored men taking active part in the government of the island and even in the privy council the colored man has found his place. "Of the members of the other branch of the legal profession—for let me say the two branches of the profession exist there as in England—two have within the last twenty years occupied the office of crown solicitor, a legal office next in importance only to that of the attorney-general, while one of these gentlemen, on more than one occasion acted as attorney general during the absence from the colony of that officer. "It is a fact that in the general run of the profession there are many men of color who enjoy extensive and very lucrative practice, advising the white inhabitants of the colony on difficult and delicate questions. So much for the place of the negro in the legal profession. "Finally, the colored man and woman occupy as creditable a status socially as in other walks of life. They entertain the English and native population and are themselves in turn entertained on terms of social equality. "Having stated all these facts and being prepared to substantiate them by giving scores, aye, hundreds of names in proof of all that has been stated, I wish to ask, is it a fact that 'A negro is a man only in Europe?' The answer comes quick and direct in the negative. And what is the result of all this recognition of the colored man? He has been placed in the position to which he is by nature entitled and in such circumstances he is as creditable a citizen as his white brother of the corresponding walk of life." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SINGLE CO AFRO-AMERICA Many of our secret orders have made investments in temples, sanitariums and banks in several cities. This is all good. But there is one form of investment which would pay a bigger dividend in general usefulness than any yet made, and that is the purchase of large bodies of farm land. There is no sort of doubt that the great mass of negroes must work out their salvation in the country and on farms. In many parts of the state many negroes are beginning to feel "the east wind" because of inability to secure land by renting or otherwise. This situation is going to grow in acuteness as time passes. Now, suppose our numerous secret orders were to come together, form a great holding company, and instead of investing $200,000 or $300,000 in building sites widely scattered, should invest that much in country land. This would form a perpetual source of income by giving opportunity and employment to hundreds of negro families and be the means of creating negro towns. This is the era of big business and numbers eliminate chance. Concert of effort on the part of our secret orders points the way for the man and brother to create and operate big business and get results that help thousands. More negro farmers are borrowing money from the banks this year than ever before. Bankers living in the credit zones of the state have hereof been furnishing money to the credit merchant at a nominal rate of interest, who in turn furnish farmers with supplies at a rate of interest which would require an expert accountant to compute. The credit merchant was getting results while the banker got the cahoot! The latter, therefore, has come to himself and opened his doors wide to any negro who can raise cotton. That's fine for the banker, but for the negro farmer. Well, when the latter was being run by the credit merchant he was metaphorically speaking, in hell! And now that he is borrowing from the banker the negro has moved up into purgatory, from which, of course, there is always a favorable chance of escape. It's fine to borrow money with which to operate a farm, but it is far better not to have to borrow any, but make the farm pay its way. Many a man, of course, who is being granted this new privilege will make good while it is perfectly safe to say that some will never again be able to hear "the tap of the drum!"—Dallas Express. There are two phases of race patronage business to which sufficient prominence has not been given. The negro business man must be prepared to do business. Second, in our fervor to patronize him we ought not to change up suddenly, and quit while head over heels in debt to him. More negro business men have been wrecked in this way than in any other. Trusted friends have been extended credit, and when they got in good and strong have quit apparently by common understanding and gone back to "do white folks." Quit if you will but quit in good standing. If you are not going to do this, don't start. It cost $8,000 and 33 days of steady digging day and night of 20 men, in sight-hour shifts, to recover the body of James Hartnett, a Brooklyn negro December 7 a well he was helping to dig at 87 Clifton place, Brooklyn, caved in and buried Hartnett. When recovered the body was standing upright, in the holisting bucket, 44 feet down in the pit. There were two men in the well when the cave in began. When the signal was given the white man went up first, and then, on the second lift, the black man was caught by the falling earth and crushed. The bodies of princes have cost less than $8,000 to recover from the place they were killed in order that they might have Christian burial. The skilled statisticians who spend so much of their time on percentages have discovered that the colored people did not increase as fast as the white people did, the past ten years. Now please put your ear to the ground and hear the approach of the crowd who have found that the colored race is dying out. What we have never been able to learn is where in the dell the joy comes from in thinking of the colored race as a dying race. The negro citizens of Nashville have cause to feel proud of the progress that is being made by our energetic business men. There are signs of progress here deserving of emulation. We take special pride in referring to the new theater that is nearing completion, and the new improvements being made by the management of The Palms Creamery. Freed from chattel slavery at great cost of blood and treasure, enlightened at uncounted millions of cost to the state, it were time the colored man was learning the great lesson of self-help. It must come to him, that he who would be free himself must strike the blow. He must come to learn that God helps those alone who help themselves—Dallas Express. The negro must take more seriously to heart the fact that he is compared to the whites, not making show enough. He has the education and the money and therefore is without excuse for not doing more in the material world. Here in Dallas, he has more churches and schools than anything else. This is not true of the white man. He has more factories, stores, shops, and other bread-winning labor-using enterprises than churches and schools. He reasons that his offspring must have a means of support—a way to get what is needed for earthly comfort before going into the heaven and hell business, and we are much of the opinion that the black man might profit by his example. Let us establish a few more enterprises which offer us a means of livelihood, for if we do not live we will not need anything in this world—and blame little in the world to come. With the colored man, religion is still a reality—a pretty costly one of course—rather than a dividing recreation as it is with some other folks. isn't it rather an ominous symptom that in every town or city where the negro lives, he has five times as many churches—non-producing plants—as he has stores and other places of business? With the whites whom we so closely and often so foolishly imitate—it is just the other way. Again the bulk of negroes are more concerned about fine churches than they are about fine or comfortable homes. And in this respect we present a striking variation from the line of conduct of the man whom we imitate. The ruling passion of one is fine churches here and a good home in the sweet perhaps. With the other it is a good home first, here and now, and a fine church as an incident.—"Old Hickory." The census returns for 1900 show that there is in New York city a foreign born white population of 1,260,918. From the color of them, as we observe them in all sorts, places and conveyances, more than half of them appear to be mulattoes, and twice as numerous as the census numbers give. Where did they get their red, brown yellow and olive complexions? They are Europeans for the most part, but 4,260 years after the flood their African and Asiatic blood still being seen and reckoned with. The laws of anthropology have and do play some provoking tricks on mankind. The four colors of them who went out of the Garden of Eden, following the four rivers, appear and disappear with the revolution of the years, simply because the races refuse to remain separated in the metes and bounds of their habitation as fixed for them. State fairs, mostly of the agricultural character, have always been popular among all sorts of people in the old world and the new world. In Asia they are called bazars. The negro state fairs of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have become annual and very helpful in character. They show the white and colored white people what the black and colored black people are doing as independent factors in the citizenship. The Savannah Morning News says that President R. R. Wright has figured out the money cost of the Colored state fair at Macon, November 8 at 18 at $10,980.27, and that all the cost has been paid. The fair was a great success in point of exhibits, attendance and prominence of men who attended it.—New York Age. The Hon. Daniel Howard, the new president of Liberia, said in his inaugural address that all boundary disputes have been settled satisfactorily, and that the country now looks forward to a period of prosperity. We hope so. It has a good foundation in nationality, recognized by all European, American and Asiatic states, and it has a good and helpful friend in the United States. It has abundant resources at home, and should have abundant credit abroad, and would have by a proper development and conservation of its resources at home.—New York Age. The most dangerous negro in the community is the negro who "tattles" to white folks. Generally that type of a negro is untrustworthy and unreliable. He is a menace to society and the community in which he lives. We have discovered long ago that much of the trouble which arises at times between the races can be traced to this class of negroes.—Alexandria (Va.) Advance-Messenger. The negro must come into his enjoyment of the wealth, the culture, the freedom and the opportunities and privileges of American life, along with the white American, share and share alike, in full payment of the implied obligation assumed with his adoption into the country, or America must weaken and destroy itself with self-repression and internal revulsion.—Colorado Statesman. The "Japs" who replaced the negro waiters on the Great Northern dining cars "did not make good."—Seattle Searchlight. PURELY PERSONAL PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Cuyahoga Bldg. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. SAM COHEN'S, 2928 Central Ave. Open Sunday. JOHNSON'S, 3350 Central Ave. MRS. M. S. BEDFORD'S, 3410 Central Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) For Rent—Six room house with bath and gas at 2117 E. 77th. St. Address 2327 E. 90th. St. FOR RENT—Houses—If you have places to rent or if you want to rent—notify The Gazette. For Rent—Two second-floor fittings; bath, gas stoves, $12 per month each. No. 2214 E. 46th St. FOR SALE—Ten room house, both gases, bath, good cellar, furnace, barn. Lot 33 ft., by 185 ft. Apply to The Gazette. This is a bargain. NOTARY PUBLIC—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 3 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d street, near Superior avenue. For select dancing, attend Friday evening's private parties at ideal hall Miss L. E. Warren of 3927 Centra Av., has just returned from a very successful business trip. Be sure to read her advertisement published elsewhere in The Gazette. The Chaufaour club's select Valentine party at Treston's hall, Tuesday evening, was a most unique and enjoyable affair. Fairfax's orchestra furished excellent music as usual. The club is to be praised for keeping up the same high standard of its social functions. Mrs. Maude Gaines of Elriva, was the only member of the race to participate in the Cleveland Electrical League's Valentine entertainment and "smoker," held Wednesday and Thurs. FOR SALE.—Brand new, imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, finely illustrated, handy to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address, The Gazette, Blackstone Building, 1422 W 3d St. Cleveland, O. near Superior Av. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. Send your local items to The Gazette on Monday or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for all our people and is published for no favorites." Everybody is treated the same—fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so also. Mrs. Laura Washington of E. 434. St. is convalescent. Shiloh Baptist church must be crowded Sunday afternoon to voice our protests in no uncertain way. Mrs. R. W. Bagalln of Detroit, guest of Mrs. L. Roveltol, of E. 101st. St. for a week, left Wednesday for home. Mrs. Georgia Moton Johnson is critically ill (at this writing—Wednesday) at the City Hospital where she has been treated. Mrs. Rosa Johnson of 2199 E. 43d. St., gave her husband a surprise party, Feb. 5. An enjoyable time was had by all, thirty being present. Mr. Thos. Goode, a cousin of the late Mr. Chas, Goode, was here from Columbus, has week, to attend the party. Mrs. Goode, a cousin of New Vienna, a niece; Miss Linda Jones of London, a relative, and others from Oberlin. The Hiawatha club meet at Mrs. Fred Scott's, E. 86th. St., Tuesday afternoon. The parliamentary drill was conducted by Mrs. J. M. Gilmure. The parliamentary drill was conducted by Mrs. Tuesdaysafternoon, Tuesday afternoon, the 21st, at Mrs. B. M. Shook's, E. 76th. St. Three men are held in connection with the murder of Manuel Korns-welt last week Wednesday night. Gill bert Kimball, allas William Johnson, 1410 Caton-cat, confessed, implicating Henry Bybee, 2323 E. 23d-st, according to police. William Douglass is the third prisoner. Mrs. Chas Godee and family wish to thank her for sincere thanks to the pastors, the members, the friends and all the auxiliaries of the churches, for their beautiful floral offerings, kindness, and sympathy, shown us in our late bereavement, the loss of our dear husband and father. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins entertained at a six o'clock dinner, Tuesday evening, Messrs. Charles Winter Wood of Tuskegee, Ala., and Clarence Powell, local collector for the Institute. Cover were able to host and hostess is too well and favorably known, to necessitate further comment. The Lincoln Embroidery club met at Mrs. Wm. Whiting's Friday afternoon, the 9th, and elected the following officers for the year: Pres, Mrs. Jane Walker; vice, Mrs. Arthur Abbott; sec., Mrs. J. M. Gilmur; assist, Mrs. B. Whiting; treas, Mrs. C. F. Hummut; Program committee, Mrs. J. M. Gilmur; Mrs. Carroll. The club will celebrate its third anniversary at Mrs. Carroll's, E. 74th. St, Feb. 23d. Mrs. M. Ingram's S. S. class of young ladies of St. John's church, was entertained at Mrs. L. S. Jones', 2180 E. 30th St., last Wednesday evening, in honor of the 18th birthday of the latter's niece, Dorothy V. Stanley. As this is leap year, each young Miss had to bring her male escort. About thirty young people through the church themselves. Refreshments were served at 10.30 p. m. LADIESI LADIESII LADIESIII Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage us to attend the Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. For select dancing, attend Friday evening's private parties at ideal hall. Miss L. E. Warren of 3927 Central Av., has just returned from a very successful business trip. Be sure to read her advertisement published elsewhere in The Gazette to attend suffolkparty.com to select Valentine party at the Trouster hall. Tuesday evening, was a most unique and enjoyable affair. Fairfax's orchestra furnished excellent music as usual. The club is to be praised for keeping up the same high standard of its social functions. Made Gaines of Elryria, was the only member of the race to participate in the Cleveland Electrical League's Valentine entertainment and "smoker," held Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Grays Armory, putting on an act with a male voice (white), featuring the song, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." She was the star of both evenings, an executively fine hit, under the management of Daniel S. Young. The sixth People's Symphony Concert at Grays Armory, Sunday afternoon, was the most enthusiastically pleasing one given this season thus far. The entire program was pretty and most satisfactory as the audience was eager to see the calls and encores. All the orchestra has to do to pack the Armory nearly every Sunday afternoon, is to keep up the fine record it made Sunday for giving good, and yet the pleasing kind of music the patrons hunger for and as a rule get in too limited quantities at most symphony concerts. Mr. Chas, Heydler's solos and encores were gems of the master, but he added to the encore! He earned them all, too. Both of Wm. G. Votteler's compositions were roundly applauded, especially his program number. The encore selection is also very pretty. Messrs. Heydler and Votteler are local musicians. Likewise Mr. Fred. Fischer who plays first horn in the orchestra and whose zither obligato solo in "Sounds from the Vienna" by J. Straus, captivated the audience. If our people of this community really object to the misleable conditions existing up Central Av., way (where poor old man Kornsweit was murdered, last Wednesday evening week), they will show it by their presence at the mass meeting to be held at Shiloh Baptist church, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The couple of the Citizens' Rights league which has invited and urged the co-operation of our Ministers' Association and Law & Order Reform league. The speakers announced are: Rev. E. H. Smith, Rev. W. G. Webster, Dr. Chas. Bundy, Dr. H. C. Bailley, the editor of The Gazette and others. Mayor Newton D. Baker and Chief of Police Fekh. Kohler have also been called to give the city authorities to "clean-up" Central Av., and vicinity and to give better police protection in the 13th, ward, something the Baehr administration absolutely refused to do although our Ministers and the L. & O. R. league repeatedly requested it. The committee in charge of Sunday's meeting: Herbert L. Taylor, chairman; S. E. Woods, Dr. J. K. Nickens, W. H. W. Woods, Dr. J. K. Nickens, W. H. W. Woods, Rev. E. H. Smith pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, will preach on "The Conditions of Cleveland from a moral point of view." Many local ministers eulogized Abraham Lincoln, the martyr, Sunday, in honor of his birthday, the 12th. He was characterized as the man who faced the gravest problems that ever confronted an American statesman, who towered over ordinary men as the Alps look down upon the average hill, and as the man who based his greatest triumphs in his trust in God. The character in American history," said Rev. M. J. Keves, pastor of the People's Methodist church, Sunday evening. "He faced the most crucial questions of all time and rightly solved them. The emancipator of the slaves met the most powerful opponents of his time and overcome all of them. He brought to successful issue the greatest debates that involved the union and the constitution. It was Lincoln who marshaled the largest armies, bringing victory to the northern army and freedom to a southern army. In his jury, the common people; his cause was justice and righteousness. As a leader he controlled the minus of great men and directed generals on the field of battle. Back of Lincoln's achievements were his indomitable will and faith in God." St. John's church should have been packed to the doors, Monday evening, and doubtless would have been if "Tuskegee night" had been properly advertised, having such splendid attractions as Charles Winter Wood, formerly of Chicago, now instructor in elocation and oratory at the institute and one of the very best georgica Fields, one of our popular local sopranos; Rev. F. G. Snelson of St. James church, representing our local Ministers' Association, and Rev. Dan. F. Bradley, the popular (white) clergyman of the city—both on for addresses,—the latter's subject being, "The Tuskegee Institute as a Monument to Lincoln." Many of our people missed a rare treat simply because those in charge of the entertainment failed to advertise it properly. The Mrs. Harry T. Burleigh recital and dance at Haltnorth's hall, recently, was the first and the very same reason, did not seem to mean a thing to those in charge of Monday evening's "Tuskegee night." They will know better next time, however, we hope. REV. and Mrs. E. W. Kinchen, now of Los Angeles, Cal., formerly of Ohio, have a new boy baby. Read the editorial (on Page 2) on the "Shiloh Mass Meeting" Sunday afternoon. Tell your friends! Rev. I. A. Lawson will preach at Mt. Haven church, Sunday evening, and the pastor in the morning on "The Lost Christ". Mrs. W. J. Jones, wife of the chef of the Garfield Apartments, has been quite ill for ten days, at their home in E. 30th St. The Victor Athletic club "smoker", Wednesday evening, failed to have its advertised "contest" between a California and New York puglist. There were to be "two good preliminaries", so the advertisement read. Mrs. Cora Scott of 9116 Aetna road, entertained the Gil Edge Needle club, last Friday afternoon. All spent a very pleasant time. The club will meet at Mrs. Stella Merritt's, 2359 E. 31st St., this Friday. ACME AUTO CO, Auto Livery. All People Treated Ri 2340 East Ninth Street. 'Phones North 1231 and Central 416 THE ORIOLE THEATR Current rumor has it that after Frank Griffin received a letter notify-ing him of his re-appointment, last week, it was revoked. He was a meter reader. No Afro-American is left in the city's employ, it is said. Also, all the Afro-American "white-wings" have been "fired." Rev. Sisslele's son who was a police officer at the Afro-American employee at the Control Police Station and others, were "let out" several weeks ago. The outlook is dark, very dark indeed. IN APPRECIATION We desire to thank the pastor, choir and members of Shiloh Baptist Church; Mr. Joseph Lucas, the employees of N. O. 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NASHVILLE, TENN., LEADS SCHOOLS SUPPORT BY BOTH WHITE AND COLORED. President George W. Gates of Fisk University is greatly pleased with the progress made by his school this season. Many of the most prominent educators of America and other countries have visited the institution and praised the workings of the school in the highest. Also, philanthropists have made pilgrimages to Nashville, the "Hub of the South," and visited Fisk University and are giving the school careful consideration with a view of alding it. Its aim and object has been so well carried out that it has met the approbation of people far and near, and its enrollment extends to nearly every state in the Union. The work of founding Fisk University was begun in 1865 and the school was opened in January, 1866. Since that time it has had a most remarkable career. The charter for the incorporation of the university under the laws' of Tennessee was secured August 22, 1867. The school then became famous with the organization of Fisk Jubilee Singers. They traveled in all parts of the United States and in foreign countries and the net result of that campaign enabled the school to make valuable purchases and the establishment of one of the most beautiful sites in Nashville. Fisk has connected with it the following departments: Common English, Normal College Preparatory, College Department of Music, Theological and Industrial. From these departments, students have gone out to work in various professions, and it is said that more professional men; successful men and women, have graduated from this institution than any school of its kind in the South. In a recent interview, Dr. Gates sent out among the following: "It's never a question of color, but of competency in mind and spirit," referring to the teaching force. The school has one of the most competent facilities in the country and a large number are colored. In the city of Chicago there is a Fisk Club and statistics show that every graduate is engaged in a profession or in some legitimate line of business of honorable work. Fisk has been and is now a mighty lever for the higher education of the Negro boy and girl. PHILANDER-SMITH COLLEGE. In the city of Little Rock, Ark., is located the Philander-Smith College, of which Dr Cox is president. This is a sectarian college, supported largely by the Methodist Episcopal Conferences; yet it extends an open hand to every Negro boy and girl in the country to enter. The school's location is ideal, in close proximity to the church of that connection where the students attend in a body every Sunday. It aims for the higher development of the Negro and has course of study that equals any college in the country. Its faculty numbers among the best, being graduates from the leading eastern universities. While the students body is made up mainly from the states of Arkansas and its neighboring states, students are from twenty or more states in the Union. The writer has known the school to have an enrollment of over 700. Any visitor at this school will be favorably impressed with its power for good. STATE UNIVERSITY. We can pleasantly recall the Rev Wm. J. Sinimone, who wrote "Men of Mark." He was at one time president of this institution. Dr. C. L. Purse was one of the presidents, and also Dr. Digge. It is now headed by Dr. W. T. Amiger. State University is the oldest school in Kentucky. It is located at Louisville, and is a Bap tist institution, supported by the General Association of that state, but it too, opens its doors to those of every denomination. In speaking of State University, no one writer who knows the history of the school and its many hard struggles could afford to leave out the name of William H. Steward, editor of the American Baptist. His Journal has done great good for the school and the editor, who has been chairman of the trustee, board since its organization, deserves special mention for his work. State University was founded on the idea that the highest and best in the Negro boy be developed and ever since 1879, with Rev. E. P. Marrs, its first president, it has not wavered. It has accomplished untold results for young men and women in Kentucky and other states. The good women of Kentucky, headed by Mrs. M. E. Steward, have done a great work for this school. Dr. Amiger report that the school is in a強殖 condition and doing a noble work for higher education. The people of Louisville and Kentucky are exceedingly proud of the recent advances made by State University. WALDEN UNIVERSITY. Statistics will prove the Methodist Church contributes among the large amounts each year for the educa LARGEST ANIMALS. As far as known, the blue or sulphur bottom whale is the largest animal which has ever existed on the earth. Specimens have been found that measure nearly 90 feet and must have weighed almost as many tons. Has a mouth in which ten or twelve men could stand upright, but its throat measures but nine inches in diameter. The fin-back whale is slenderly shaped and has great speed in the water. It can travel along with tion of the Negro boy and girl. One of the most noticeable institutions that has been rewarded with such contributions is Walden University. Nashville, Tenn. Walden, like many of the Colored institutions, has had difficulties with fires, etc., but today, it stands as a monument to the race for the training of the Negro to "his finger tips." The school was founded in 1865 by Northern friends, and not a dollar given the school has ever been regretted. Among those of its early connection of great prominence were Bishop D. W. Clark, Rev. John Seys and Rev. O. K. Night. Those that know something about the early history of Walden will tell you that the first students were grandparents, grandchildren; how poorly they were clad, facilities for teaching bad, but that each showed a great interest to learn. This spirit has been manifested ever since its early days. Walden is one of the most remarkable schools in the country for turning out successful men and women that have accomplished things. Walden has prepared men and women for the advanced work in affairs of life. Dr. J. Braden and Dr. Benson Hamilton have served as presidents. The head of the institution now is Dr. J. A. Kummer, who is carrying the work on with such marked success. Together with Meharyr Medical College, of which we will write at another time, has turned out, it is said, more students than any Colored institution in the South. LANE COLLEGE At Jackson, Tenn., is located Lane College, which is the product of the C. M. E. Connection. It was named in honor of Bishop Isaac Lane. This notable prelate has done yeoman service for this school, which is one of the greatest monuments to the C. M. E. Connection. Every dollar mostly comes from the pockets of Negroes; yet white friends have been very generous to the school, which stands for the education of the "heart, mind and soul." Among the bishops that have been greatly interested in the school are Revs. J. A. Beebe, L. H. Holsey, R. S. Williams, Ellas Cottrell and Rev. R. T. Brown. The young men and women are given the best training for leadership and Christian civilization. Connected with the school are musical and industrial departments. The C. M. E. Church has raised a large amount for education and Lane and Payne Colleges stand out prominently in this direction. ARKANSAS BAPTIST COLLEGE Dr Joseph A. Booker, president of the Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock, Ark., has been one of the most treeless workers of the Baptist denomination who is engaged in educational work. He is what one might call the "Booker T. Washington" of Arkansas. He is not only an educator, but a race builder, lecturer and orator. He goes up and down the state raising money for the school and at the same time, delivers words of advice to the mothers and fathers of that state, and is often called to other states to deliver addresses. While the institution is strictly Baptist and supported by the General Association of the State, students of all denominations are given a welcome. It has been our good fortune to visit this school and see its workings not on a "gala" day, but during that part of the year when one could judge the actual work done by the student body. Graduates of this school are found in every nook and corner of the State making things better by their presence. The college we learn, has a healthy enrollment this year and much praise is being accredited to its president and faculty. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY Located in East Nashville, Tenn., is Roger Williams, a Baptist institution. It was founded in 1863 by Rev D. W. Phillips, who was at its head for many years. Its location is said to be among the best in the country for a college, which is high, surroundings beautiful and commands an unsurpassed view of the city. With Fisk, Mehary, Walden and Roger Williams Colleges located at Nashville, gives the city the name of the "Hub of the South." Roger Williams, like other schools, although receiving a large amount of support from a certain denomination, its doors are open to every boy and girl that aspires to learn. For years it has graduated young men and women, possessing high moral attainments and a preparation for, and best, for a life's work It has all the courses for the higher development of the mind and soul; and every pupil receives a lesson daily from the Bible. The Biblical and Theological Departments have made a high record and young men from all sections of the country have graduated and made a lasting impression for their Alma Mater. The college and musical departments have graduated students that are occupying positions of influence and usefulness. The faculty is a strong one and the president is much pleased with the work accomplished. Endowments and financial aid would be of great assistance. OR SEEMED SO TO HIM. The electric ventilating fan on the wall of the restaurant was whizzing round. A gentleman who had dined extremely well sat looking at it for some time. "Waiter," he complained at last, "that clock's fast!"—Punch. the fastest boats plying the ocean's waters at this time. The hump-back is the giant of the whale family. The fin-back has been timed in its submarine plunges and has been known to remain under the water for 27 minutes, but it is thought that it can exceed this. As much as 20 barrels of oil have been taken from the head of a sperm whale. Sweetness of soul is innate, but anyone can develop a good imitation of it by trying hard. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. CONDITIONS EXISTING AMONG THE NEGROES WHICH MUST BE REMEDIED BY NEGROES CONDITIONS EXISTING AMONG THE NEGROES WHICH MUST BE REMEDIED BY NEGROES (BY RICHARD CARROLL.) This quotation, "He who would be free must himself strike the first blow," is peculiarly adapted to what I desire to say here and now. Listen: The negro is not wholly without blame for much of the undesirable conditions which have prevailed and do now prevail against him. My observation is and has been that lawlessness is not decreasing among the race, but that crimes, in both quantity and quality, continue to grow. For instance: Whisky is being sold by negroes, not in the towns only, but in their homes, on the public highways, on railroad trains, and in many country districts, around about, and even at the very door of the church itself. In some places it has gotten to be no uncommon thing for drunken negroes to be seen on "preaching day" at the churches. The number of murders by negroes do not grow daily loss. The large class of "gentlemen of leisure" or, plainly speaking, loafers, are constantly receiving additional recruits. Gambling, too, is on the increase to an extent at once alarming. And in Columbia—and what is true of Columbia is equally true of all the cities and larger towns—and even in some country places—there are abledomen, not a few, who have no visible means of support, and who do not perform any labor from January to January in each and every . . . They get their living by their wits or the labor of some poor, misguided woman or women or by means of both. And as unreasonable as it may seem, there are negro women who seem, by their actions, to rejoice in the fact that they are chosen and counted worthy to work for and support such perversions of humanity, often miscalled men. Then, again: In our cities and towns, the houses of ill-repute in which negro women and girls are immates daily increase. Too many are yearly leaving the quiet country homes and the labor of the farms for the alluring galey of town life and seek to evade exertion of their bodies by the degradation of their souls and their bodies. Incubators for Petty Thieves and Vagrants. It is from among the above mentioned classes and conditions that the army of petty thieves and great host of vagrants are recruited. And from among these undesirable classes and out of the very midst of such conditions come they who make assaults upon and perneteate outrages on womanhood. They constitute a veritable millstone around the neck of the race and is also the chief hindrance to its progress. The negro press and the negro preacher are not wholly without blame for conditions existing. The negro press, on the whole, is cowardly and sewers of applause. The time and space which should be given to the saying of the thing needful are used most often in playing to galleries. The negro press will often howl long and loud over some negro lynched and at the same time remain perfectly dumb in regard to the crime which provoked the lawlessness of lynching. They have anathemas in plenty for the white sinners, but no word of condemnation for the act of the black sinner. And I cannot resist the temptation to believe that if our newspapers would harp more often on the cause or excuse of white lynchers for their acts and seek to make odious the whisky vender, the gambler and the loafer—the classes which furnish the victims and excuse for lynchings—I am inclined to believe. I was about to say that lynchings would soon be as they ought to be, things of the past. And the negro ministry is not as stalwart in its opposition to crime as it was twenty years ago. There are too many roving ones and too many preachers with easy and accommodating standards of morals. Were I to say that all of the negro preachers were such as I have mentioned, I would be guilty of uttering a libelous untruth and giving expression to a gross and damaging falsehood. So I do not and will not say that they all, as a class, are the guilty. For there are today some of as fine God-fearing, self-sacrificing negro preachers—and I personally know them—as of whom Christianity could boast, even in the Apostolic age. But the simple truth compels me to admit that such preachers among the negroes, are not in the majority, and their number is not increasing as rapidly as is to be desired. The majority of the negro preachers, like the majority of negro editors, can see the beam in the eye of the white race, but fall to see the steamboat in the eye of their own race. The negro preachers have used up too much time in denouncing the lawlessness of white people when there were no white people present to hear it. Progress is greatly impeded when the wrong shoe is on the wrong foot. So it has been in the above cited case. Because white preachers preach to white people and negro preachers preach to negro people they, each in his place, ought to give much attention to "the sermon on the Mount" where it says "first cast the beam out of thine own eve." The majority of the negro preachers, as a rule, are not practical enough any way. They delight to preach too often and fully about heaven, the habits of angels and the DEVILED MACARONI Take two cupfuls of botled and hopped macaroni and mix with it a white sauce made by cooking together two spoonfuls each of flour and butter, then reducing with a cupful of hot milk; 'season with salt and paprika, add three hard boiled eggs minced, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, two teaspoonfuls of onion juice and a dash of nutmeg; when well mixed, pour into scallop shells, sprinkle the top with buttered crumbs amusements of the inhabitants up yonder—things about which they know exceeding little and, for the present at least, concern them and their hearers infinitely less—while they ignore the affairs of earth, the habits of their audience and the inhabitants around who are unreached by church influences. They delight to harp on the fact that there will be no pain or cause for weeping in heaven, and then they remain silent on the sins of whisky drinking, adultery, stealing, murder, gambling and the like, which cause so much pain to be experienced and so many tears to be shed down here. More is preached about "our duty to the pastor" than preached about our duty to our fellowman. Too much is said about the immaculate whiteness of the robes we are going to wear up yonder and not enough about the need of a plentiful use of soap and water right here, and right now. Too often, more effort is used to get a donation for "our rally" from those without the church than there is to get up a moral and religious rally to get within the church those who are without. But why continue? There are preachers who will preach long and loud and much against circus-going, dancing and like amusements—because these things take money from the church, while graver wrongs are ignored if the doers of them are good financially. And too often the quality of a crime is greatly lessened if a negro be the criminal. There is too much of "my race, right or wrong, I am with my race." Too often the Emancipation day orators are pernicious wind-jammers—simply that and nothing more. The time and occasion furnish an excellent opportunity for creating a desire for civic righteousness and better citizenship. But is it always so used? No; most often the occasion is used to recount the negro's attainments—real and fancied—to tell how much land and how many mules and horses, and houses he owns and to recount the number of big men, preachers, school teachers, lawyers, doctors and the like of which the race can boast. Seldom will the speaker strike at the evils which beset the race and hinder its progress. Such a course would not be popular, consequently there is in the majority of cases a tendency to please rather than to be helpful. I do not pose as a "high priest" for my race. I am only satisfied merely to be counted one of them. But I do take the liberty to assert that it is not enough for us to curb and control our passions as individuals, but we must seek to curb and control the tendencies to crime and lawlessness among our people. To do this we must preach a doctrine which will reach the life, heart and better nature of the people. Real missionary work must be done—not merely the work of a salaried financial agent—but real missionary work. To such there must be the courage of Moses, of Joshua and of Paul. Instead of shielding or condoning crimes committed by negroes, we should and must be willing helpers in bringing them to justice. In this way, and this way only—will we lead, or rather force the white man to respect and enforce the laws of which he is the author, and at present, the only one who can administer them. I believe that the separation of the two races in the south at the present time will be harmful to the white race and none the less so to the negro. To separate them will evidently interfere with "the Divine Plan." Under the circumstances, the white people are and must be our teachers. "We should co-operate with them and seek their co-operation in all things tending or looking forward to the betterment of each or both. The best interest of the one is, in the end, the best interest of both. "We are workers together with God." With that belief and to that end, we should work. O'NEAL ON RAGE PR BLEM TELLS METHODIST CONFERENCE EQUAL PROTECTION SHOULD BE GRANTED. At the recent session of the Alabama A. M. E. conference, held in Montgomery, Gov Emmet O'Neal delivered a most timely address, in the course of which he said that he recognized the fact that the two races are bound up in mutual interest, and, while the question of social equality must not enter every consideration, the state demands the negro be given every chance to develop himself and become the best citizen possible. As governor of Alabama, he said, his activity would be bent in all these directions and he would see that as far as practical negroes should have equal rights in the courts, with every educational, industrial and economical right of way for advancement. THE BAR BROOCH. In every collection of beautiful ornaments the bar brooch finds a place. It is very long and absolutely rigid, and is ornamented in various ways. One pattern is set closely with emeralds and rubles alternating, and another is a flashing rivullet of brillants from end to end. A third has a large pearl in the center flanked by pearls of dwindling sizes, to the tiniest possible gems at the ends. Then again there is the absolutely plain gold bar brooch, which is used for various purposes, from fixing the squash hat in its place to securing the one-sided jabot. or cheese as preferred and brown in a quick oven; just before serving make a depression in the center of each scallop and fill with chill sauce. DRY TOAST. Many prefer to butter their toast at the table, thus preventing the bread from absorbing the butter. Be sure that the toast is well browned and that the interior is soft rather than dry and tasteless. Of Interest to Our Women AN EASY WAY TO LAUNDER LACE. Laundering fine laces without destroying their delicate fabrics is an art rather than a task, as any one who has attempted the restoration of these laces will tell you. It means time and patience expended lavishly, not to mention a genius for nicety of detail. Arrange the time for lace washing so that the entire process may be carried to completion without interruption. FASHION NOTES FROM PARIS. Since the gay festivities celebrating the Yuletide have been consigned to the annals of the past, Parisiennes are flocking to the Riviera. Beautiful gowns, destined to grace many delightful occasions of the pleasure-seeking, are being packed in the trunks. Smart little cloth gowns have short jackets of velvet to match. Brown broadcloth was used by Drecoll to fashion a stunning model. The best results are obtained by basting the lace to a piece of cheese cloth or a strip of old muslin, being careful that all the points are securely caught. This secures the points against curling up or being torn in washing, besides lessening the labor of ironing. Immerse the basted lace on the strip in warm, soapy water and allow to soak a half hour. Squeeze it gently between the fingers and when as much water as will yield is squeezed out immerse it in clean, soapy water. Let it soak and continue the process as often as it is necessary. Do not wring or twist even slightly or the threads will be torn. When the lace is clean rinse it twice in cold water, dissolving a little blue in the last for white lace. Care should be taken in stiffening the lace that only the slightest body is given, just enough to counteract the limp effect. A little sugar dissolved in the water of the last rinning will give the desired effect. This means extra care in ironing, as the iron easily scorches the fabric under these conditions. To iron lace place it face downward on a padded ironing board or soft blanket covered with a white cloth stretched tight so there are no wrinkles in it. Iron perfectly dry with a moderately hot iron, pressing out every scallop and point. In the case of fine laces where ironing is not desirable the face may be pulled into shape and the scallops and points pinned down to a tightly stretched cloth to dry. Take care to have all the points pulled exactly even and pin them at the extreme edge to preserve their contour. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM. Sufferers from insomnia are usually extremely sorry for themselves, yet, as a well-known physician recently remarked, there are many worse things than lying awake in a comfortable room, alone with one's thoughts. Insomnia, itself, even in this neurotic age, is rarely dangerous, but is usually a symptom of some disorder, which should be seen to at once. If you cannot sleep, night after night, the cause may be over-exertion, mental or physical, immediately before going to bed, or it may be that you go to bed too near to being hungry. A glass of hot milk and a biscuit taken quietly after getting into bed may help matters. Another method of inducing sleep is by warmth. Many women, from hygienic reasons, have only the lightest possible bed coverings. This, of course, is admirable if one sleeps well, but it is much better to be a little too warm than to lie sleepsless. A good plan is to keep an extra quilt at the bottom of the bed and to draw it up when you wake with that "won't-go-to-sleep-a-gain" feeling. The pillow is an important matter to the sleepsless woman. She may have it too low or, more probably, too high. A small pillow of hops acts as a sleep charm for some. The old method of counting sheep does not find much favor nowadays. A better way of tiring one's self out physically is to stare hard at the brightest thing you can see, but the best method of all is to make a light and read an interesting (yet not sensational) book for awhile. Even a very few moments of reading in bed help to induce calm sleep, because it drives away the worries of the day and give one that sense of detachment necessary to healthy repose. Drugs should be avoided, except in the most extreme cases, but there are certain articles of food which act as mild opiates on certain constitutions. One woman will be sent to sleep by nibbling the root parts of a lettuce, another by a roasted onion. Each has to find out what food soothes her nerves. HOW TO CLEAN MARABOU Marabou feathers may be cleaned at home by washing in tepid, soapy water. Use a pure white soap devoid of alkali, so that the color will not be injured. Do not rub soap on the feathers, but handle gently, moving around in the soapy water. Rinse in clear water of like temperature and hang out in the sun and air to dry. WHITE FRUIT CAKE. Whites of seven eggs beaten stiff Cream three cupfuls of white sugar with one cupful of butter, one cupful of milk two and a half cupfuls of baking powder. Mix thoroughly and add one pound of mixed fruit and one pound of English wafnuts chopped fine, and one tablespoonful of vanilla. Bake one hour. SCRAMBLED EGGS. Break six fresh eggs in a bowl. Beat them gently with a silver fork until the yolks are broken. Put into the frying pan a lamp of butter the size of a walnut and place over the fire to melt. As soon as the butter is hot turn in the eggs and stir constantly until they are set. Be careful not to cook them too long or they will be tough. Minced parsley may be added with the seasoning just before they are set. FASHION NOTES FROM PARIS. Since the gay festivities celebrating the Yuletide have been consigned to the annals of the past, Parisiennes are flocking to the Riviera. Beautiful gowns, destined to grace many delightful occasions of the pleasure-seeking, are being packed in the trunks. Smart little cloth gowns have short jackets of velvet to match. Brown broadcloth was used by Drecoll to fashion a stunning model trimmed with chenille embroidery. The jacket was of brown velvet and had wide revers of brick-colored rattine, which gave the correct modish touch required to produce a perfect entity. Another charming dress was of dark gray chiffon broadcloth. The coat was of velvet reaching below the knees. The bodice of the gown was relieved by touches of coral mousselline de sole. Olive green is a favored color at present. A stunning dress, designed by Bechoff-David, was of olive green velours de laine. The left side of the bodice was adorned with a rever elaborately embroidered with silks, in tones of the same color, enlivened with touches of gold. Gowns of black satin combined with navy blue serge have found instantaneous favor. An attractive model of this type had a foundation of black satin. A tunic of serge was gracefully draped over this. Irresistible was a delightful model of pale rose mousseline de sole. The V-shaped neck was outlined with dull gold lace. This trimming formed the tiny sleeves. A high girdle of folded mousseline was caught at the left side by a rose of dark red velvet. Ruby-red mousselline de soie formed the foundation of a stunning creation. An overdrapery of dark purple mousselline had a broad band of ruby-red velvet brocade to finish the skirt. Algrettes are placed flat on the brim of large black velvet hats. An attractive toque noticed had a soft draped crown of cream flate lace. The brim was of ermine and a small black algrette trimmed the left side. An exceedingly smart hat was of brown brush beaver. A folded scarf of old-gold taffeta artistically adorned the crown. An afternoon frock by Worth was of scarabee-blue velvet. A capelike collar of heavy cream lace fell from the base of the throat over the shoulder. Sashes are extremely fashionable. These usually hang from the side, caught in place with a buckle of brillants or a flat bow of the same material. There are also eashes fashioned of silk cords. Four rows form the waistband and a dozen strands, held together by a bar at the bottom, are fringed at the ends. There is an obvious tendency toward a rounded waistline in the newest models. Skirts are not so tight as they have been, but the really full skirt will not be revived for a long time. Separate blouses of colored tulle, to match the skirt, are decidedly popular. These display little trimming aside from narrow pleatings of the same material. At the theaters one sees the most fantastic bead dresses. Laces, silver braid, bead and jeweled embroideries, fur, feathers and flowers are used to fashion these. At private parties there is no extravagance, although there is much variety. Ecu crush towelling is one of the latest notions used as trimming for blouses. WOMAN'S QUEST FOR BEAUTY Every woman wants to be young and a great many of them spend endless hours in a vain search for youth. The struggle is useless, for no power on earth will put back the clock one hour. If a woman of forty retains an unlined skin and a perfect bloom, she does not look eighten or even twenty-eight. The contour of her face is altered, her expression subtly different. One only shows she must be lacking in sensibility to show so few traces of the passage of time. It seems sad our souls and bodies do not age together—that youth is so short and life comparatively so long. With good luck and a sound constitution we may live thirty years between stxty and ninety, but who would not willingly resign them all for the miracle of ten, or even five more, before the first thirty. Byron was too true in saying: "Of all the barbarous middle ages, sure the most barbarous is the middle age of man," but to pretend it does not exist is worse than folly, because it is so useless. The sorrowful end of the woman who has lived for her own beauty is the consolation of her plainer sisters. In some instances she shows hatred of all younger women, and her rebellious sufferings make the fortunes of the vendors of cosmetics. Even in these advanced days scores of women devote more thought to their personal appearances than to anything else, and in their old age their appearance is no better than that of the woman who takes only a casual interest in herself and her clothes. TIMBALES OF MACARONI Cook a half pound of macaroni and drain thoroughly; beat up the yolks of five eggs and the whites of two, add a cupful of rich cream, the breast of a cold fowl and some thin slices of boiled ham, both finely minced. Three tablespoonfuls of grater Parmesan, with salt to taste and a dash of paprika or cayenne; put in thimble cups and set in a baking pan half filled with water; bake three-quarters of an hour and serve very hot. LADY'S 28 INCH LENGTH COAT. 5675 This pretty model may be developed as a separate coat or may constitute part of a complete suit. It is semi-fitting and closes in single-breasted fashion with two fancy buttons ornate brald ornaments near the neck. The turn-down collar has an insert of satin or contrasting goods, and the cuffs are similarly trimmed. Cheviot, broad-cloth or serge may be used. The pattern (5675) is cut 1 nzsizes from 32 to 42 inch bust measure. To make the coat in the medium size will require 2% yards of 44 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department, of this paper, and are to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5675. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE..... LADY'S SHIRT WAIST. 56599 This pain, mannish shirt waist has the body and upper part of the sleeves cut in one. It is made without any fullness, save that produced by the gathers at the waist line. The long sleeves are finished with a chic, mannish cuff. For wear with a tailored skirt no neater nor more stylish waist could be made. The pattern (5659) is cut in sizes from 32 to 44 inch, bust measure. To make the waist in the medium size will require 2 yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5659. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Women and War. They say you cannot make good soldiers out of women. You have never tried. There was a race at one time, I believe, that had an army of women, and its traditional repute in history stands very high. The women gave up the job; they thought it was better suited to the intellect of men. But, after all, men, of course, are better for some tasks; women are better for others equally important, said Mr. Lloyd George in a recent address. Men make the better soldiers, women make the better nurses. After all, the healing of wounds is a nobler work than inflicting them. What is more, it demands higher qualities of brain and heart. War, after all, is not a permanent institution. Heaven forbid that it should be. The duel is vanishing, and I think you will see war receding along the same dark road. And if women by their presence on the register saved us from the infamy of a single war they would have justified their vote before God and man.—New York Mail. No Telegraph Poles In Tox The use of telegraph poles has been dispensed with entirely by the officials of one Welsh town, by making an arrangement with the property owners to allow the wires to be strung from house to house. There was some hesitation on the part of quite a considerable number, but the desired permission was quite generally secured conditionally in one portion of the town, and the improved appearance was so great that there was little trouble in securing the permission of all property holders. Now the new condition is a source of great pride on the part of the residents.