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A REAL GOVERNOR! Madame C. J. Walker, Noted Philanthropist, Lecturer, Traveler and Most Wonderful Negro Business Woman in the World to Give Illustrated Lecture—Subject: "The Negro Woman in Business" Tuesday Night February 26, for the Benefit of the St. Stephens Baptist Church. What can I do for the Colored Soldiers? Why send them the Sun Its better than a letter from home Bell Phone East 999 VOLUME X. NUMBER 26. Madam Madame C. J. Walker, N Lecturer, Traveler and Mo Business Woman in the illustrated Lecture—Sub Woman in Business" February 26, for the St. Stephens Bapt So remarkable has been the career of Madame C. J. Walker, famous the world over for her wonderful success, that the most conservative journals and newspapers of the country including the Literary Digest, New York Times, Kansas City Star and many others too numerous to mention, have spent columns—especially since the erection of her two hundred and fifty thousand dollar mansion on the Hudson in an attempt to do her justice. Well might she be called a financial genius—and truly did the Des Moines Leader say just this past week after she had addressed an overflow meeting in one of the city's largest auditoriums: "From the washtub to a million dollar fortune is the sort of a fairytale of which any American woman might be proud to be the heroine." The Literary Digest styles her "The Queen of Gotham's Colored 400." And Francis L. Garside in the Kansas City Star describes in detail her most interesting interview with the Madam but read the story for yourself and then as she so aptly suggests "pause while you take off your hat to her." "I found myself in a very large beauty parlor with parquet floors, with the ceiling, sidewalls and decorations of a delicate gray. A clerk told me I could not see Madam, she was asleep, but she kindly made an appointment for me, and on the second call I was taken upstairs and seated in the drawing-room to await Madam's convenience. I am not a Southerner; I waited. "When she came into the room a few minutes later I realized how adaptable my sex is to change from poverty to wealth, for Mrs. Walker, washerwoman fourteen years ago, carried her generous weight gracefully on high French heels and wore an expensive lavender silk dressing gown on a week-day morning, with a lack of selfconsciousness few of us know when we get on our Sunday clothes. She has an income of one-quarter of a million dollars a year. She made every cent of her money without aid or encouragement from any living soul. Pause while you take off your hat to her. "Mrs. Walker was born in Delta, La., of ex-slave parents. Left an orphan at seven, she was treated with such cruelty by those with whom she lived that she married at fourteen to get a home. She was left a widow at twenty with one child, and her only means of support was the washtub. "Many years ago her hair began coming out, and she prayed the Lord to save it. "He answered my prayer,' she told me, 'for one night I had a dream, and in that dream a man appeared to me and told me what to mix for my hair. Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, but I sent for it, mixed it, put it on my scalp and in a few weeks my hair was coming in. I tried it on my friends; it helped them, I made up my mind I would begin to sell it." "Mrs. Walker lived then in St. Louis. She moved to Denver where she arrived with a dollar and a half. She quickly found a place as cook and saved her money until finally she had enough to buy the ingredients she needed for her 'boon to bald-heads.' Her first laboratory was an attic. She worked two days in the week to get money enough to pay her rent, and the rest of the time she spent making up her 'hair grower.' She seems to have had an excellent business head, for says the writer: "She has always had a respect for printer's ink that places her ahead of many white folks, for as fast as she earned a little money she spent it in advertising, and she at one time owned a newspaper of her own called The Afro-American, in which she extolled editorially, telegraphically, and locally the wonders of her wares. She went on the road; she established agents in various towns; she moved to Indianapolis, where her factory is now located, and opened headquarters in Pittsburgh and New York, and always she advertised, spending more The Kansas City Sun The beautiful and palatial home of Madame C. J. Walker in New York City which is most interestingly described by Frances L. Garside in a very recent article published by the Kansas City Star. This home is one of the show places of greater New York and is complete in every detail. on printers ink in the beginning than she spent on bread and butter. She conducts a number of beauty course schools, turning out many graduates at the school in New York every six weeks. She recently held a meeting of her agents in Philadelphia, and they came from far and near, four hundred strong. She employs five domestics in her New York home, six girls work in her office; she has a force much larger in Indianapolis; and has her own lawyer. It is her intention in the coming year to enlarge her factory. One of her agents in Philadelphia was earning $5.00 a week as a servant when Madam found her; her income is $250.00 a month now. Madam Walker maintains year after year six students at Tuskegee, Ala. She lives in luxury, but is not a profligate, giving to the poor what many white folks of her income devote to riotous living. Her secretary took me through the house, and this was not the least interesting part of my visit. Every The beautiful and palatial home very recent article published by th thing was bought without regard to cost, but with considerable regard to good taste. The daughters bedroom is furnished with ivory-tinted furniture of Louis XVI style and the bedroom set cost $4,500. The hangings are in old rose, and the pictures and stairtary in the room are as costly as the furniture. Her own room is furnished in mahogany. There is one of those big $200 Victrolas in the bedroom hall, and I thought one would surely satisfy, but I saw another in the drawing room covered with gold leaf to match a gold leaf grand piano, and an immense gold leaf harp. In the main hall there is a player organ that reaches the ceiling. The dining room has the one in Wanamaker's show place—the House Palatial—beaten by a great many feet in, walnut and cut glass and the kitchen is dazzling with white tile walls and floor. From its windows I caught a glimpse of a garden with one of those things in it which we who never sat under one call a "markee." Geo. B. Vashon, Educator; says in The St. Louis Write-up of the N. A. A. C. P. "Because Mme. C, J. Walker is not only an active member of the N. A. A. C, P. alert with the fundamental spirit of the organization, but because she embodies in her personality and individual history an advancement of $ \alpha $ colored person that is marvelous to contemplate, gratifying to enthusiasm and inspiring to our race and, the rest of mankind, a commentary on this remarkable woman cannot be other than appropriate in a resume of the great conference of which she was so largely a part. A few years ago an undistinguishable one of the vast KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. army of Colored women whose daily bread is contingent upon the accomplishment of the hardest daily labor; today, affluent and compelling a world's admiration for business acumen, sagacious, widespread, undemonstrative philanthropy and courtyard kindness are the estates, separated by but twelve years, that signalize her advancement. When it is noted that this phenomenal progress was achieved by a Negro woman, inhaling the stupifying race miasma of the United States, unaided and relying on self alone and beset by domestic irritations of the kind that break the strength of the strong and chill the ambition of the most aspiring, wonder must give place to applause. But yet, loftier than her high resolves, greater than the strength through which she accomplished them, more regal than the place she has attained in human affairs, stands preeminent her intrinsic wealth of character that presents her, unspoiled by riches and the homage of men—as sympathetic, as genial, as unassuming in the lap of luxury as when walking the treadmill of toil. Mrs. C. J. Walker is more than a marvelous human success; she is an example and a sermon to mankind as truly as she is the incarnation of the advancement of Colored people." It should be a source of pleasure to the Colored people of the two Kansas Cities tohave the opportunity to hear this remarkable woman and doubtless St. Stephen's Baptist church will be crowded to its capacity to hear her story and to get inspiration for the great work which each individual member of the race must do to place of Madame C. J. Walker in New York the Kansas City Star. This home is on ourselves upon that pedestal where we can command the respect and business attention of those of the other race. Hear her. NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE. Mob Forces Murder Confession by Means of Red Hot Irons. Estill Springs, Tenn., Feb. 12.—Jim McIlherron, a Negro, who shot and instantly killed two white men last Friday, was burned at the stake here tonight after a confession had been forced from him by application of red hot irons. The man was brought here tonight by a posse which captured him after wounding him in a battle near McMinville early today. A mob estimated at upwards of 1,000 persons met the train. Leaders of the posse urged the crowd to let the law take its course, but no effort was made to prevent the lynching. A sister of one of the men McIlherron shot addressed the crowd, denouncing her brother's slayer. The prisoner then was taken out of town, chained to a tree, tortured until he confessed, implicating another Negro, and then was burned. The cause of the original killing was still unknown tonight. Pierce Rogers and Jesse Tigert were killed and at the same time Frank Tigert which took place near here on Friday probably was fatally wounded, the only explanation being that McLheiron had "run amuck." Posses immediately gave chase. Sunday night the posse was told that G. W. Lynch, a Negro preacher, had hidden McLheiron at the Negro settlement near here and the preacher was killed in an ex ROSCOE C. JAMISON. Allen Chapel again demonstrated that splendid spirit of generosity and appreciation which characterizes that congregation when on last Sunday morning after the regular services and following an appeal made by the Editor of the Sun, it gave $42.62 to be sent to Mr. Roscoe C. Jamison the brilliant young poet who is in Seguin, Texas, fighting that great enemy, Tuberculosis and who has appealed to his friends to assist him. The Editor was assisted by Mr. W. F. Neal a warm personal friend of Mr. Jamison who also sold quite a few copies of Mr. Jamison's poems in pamphlet form to the members of the Forum of Kansas City, Kansas. All Kansas City prays for the recovery of this splendid young man. k City which is most interestingly des e of the show places of greater New Y change of shots between himself and possemen, who went to his home after him. On Monday night McIlherron was located in a log house near McMinnville and the posse headed by deputies stayed around the house all night waiting for a fresh supply of ammunition. In a battle that followed the arrival of ammunition today, the Negro was wounded and captured. Shots lodged in his face, head and left arm and not until he was helpless did he give up. Officers entered the cabin and brought the Negro out, putting him on the train for Estill Springs. TO BUILD WAIF'S HOME. Quincy, II One of the most commendable incidents to happen in this city is the creation of a fund by Miss Louise Maertz known as the "Maertz Fund" for the establishment of a Home for Quincy Negro children. The proceeds are to be banked in the sTates Savings Loan and Trust Co., of this city and audited annually by a committee of three men or women members of the Vermont Street Methodist church. A joint committee of the African M. E. Church will be appointed as the governing body of the Negro Home $125.00 each year for each child up to the age of 14 will be the maximum allowed. None of this amount is used for medical attention or for the purchase of school supplies. Part of the duties of the Governing Board will be to place the children in private respectable homes wherever possible. Mrs. M. E. Daugherty, 1517 Wood land avenue, who has been ill, is much improved and is able to be up again. Address of Gov. Gardner to the Negro Industrial Commission of Missouri at the Capital, Jefferson City, Mo., February 12. Gentlemen of the Negro Industrial Commission: You have assembled on the anniversary of the birth of the great Emanclipator, Abraham Lincoln. It is appropriate for American citizens of African descent to do him deverence, for it was his influence that made you free and bestowed upon you the blessed privileges of American citizenship. This, however, though it has a peculiar significance to the members of your race, was not his greatest work. He reuited and made permanent the union of the states, and this made possible the growth and development of this, the most powerful, the most enlightened and the most humane nation of this or any other age, a nation made up of the best of all races, a nation founded upon the eternal principals of democracy, with the State of Bethlehem as its guide. It is necessary, in order that the citizens of your race may fulfill their destiny, for them to realize the full significance of being a free American citizen. To be an humble citizen of this Republic is greater than to be a king. To have a voice in its councils and an influence in its affairs is the greatest privileges that may be enjoyed by a human being. I would rather be an humble private in the American Army in France, fighting for justice, for humanity, for God and the principles of His religion, than to rank with Hindenburg among the hosts of the junkers. cribed by Frances L. Garside in a ork and is complete in every detail. The blessings and privileges of citizenship carry with them great responsibilities. The success of a Republic is measured by the intelligence, the moral stamina, the industry and the thrift of those composing it, and he serves his country best who inculcates these attriutes upon the minds of its citizens. This was the thought I had in mind when I called you together. There are many negro citizens in Missouri. Their numbers will increase. It has been scarcely more than half a century since they were slaves. They have made some progress in the development of the better traits of citizenship. Considering their disadvantaged effort to better their condition, and thereby increase their usefulness as citizens. At this, an dat future meetings held in the interest of your race, your consideration and efforts should be devoted to those movements which tend to a more general diffusion of knowledge among the members of your race. Knowledge gives you power and opportunity. An alert, active, well trained mind breaks down all barriers, overcomes all obstacles and enters its field of usefulness. It behooves you, therefore, to avail yourselves of all the educational advantages within your reach. When you have done this you will be in a position to demand more and greater advantages along this line, and it shall be my pleasure and privilege to assist you in securing them so long as I have influence to exert in public affairs. An enlightened race, a race which acquires knowledge from Christian teachers and philosophers, is a moral race. You cannot habitually read the Mary Louise works of the great English and American poets, historians, novelists and philosophers, without having distilled into your minds and hearts the moral stamina which distinguishes a good citizen from a knave. promotes good morals. So, aside from the material benefits that flow to those who find joy and contentment in working, there comes to them the thrill of achievement, the satisfaction of having done a thing well, and a feeling of aversion to sloth and laziness. Finally, the members of your race should cultivate habits of thrift. The first step in the progress of a race from barbarism to civilization is the recognition of the right of property. The strongest feeling that has lodgment in the human heart is that of ownership. The strongest tie that binds a man to his native or adopted land is the love of a home which he owns and controls, a dwelling place for his family. lish could have statement of matter. Bishop G. the Zion chieves should be sary for ever sign and be op Clinton's fish and sea structured there further the "He that abased and shall be exalted. Bishop R. the C. M. E. of the said one church Why s as Christ said by having would be less money and would be gre I beg of you, gentlemen, to cultivate the habits of thrift and economy. Become property owners and thereby better citizens. This can only be done by th exercise of rigid economy and stern self denial, but the reward is well worth the effort. I give it for my opinion that the surest way for the members of your race to overcome the prejudices that have existed against you for so many years, is for them to become a race of property holders. I have thus made these suggestions as to subjects you should consider as your meeting, and for all future time. I do not mean that what I have said as to your race would not apply with equal force to any other. I have merely endeavored to point out to you those methods whereby you may become citizens more useful, more respected and more patriotic. In doing this you will be going a long way toward overcoming the prejudices that have existed against you since you became free American citizens. That your deliveries may result in much good, is my earnest wish. BISHOP'S COUNCIL The Assembly of Colored Bishops of the A. M. E. Zion and C. M. E. churches in Louisville. February 15th, 16th discussing the federation of their churches was well attended. The meeting was at Chestnut street C. M. E. church. Friday night the 15th was the climax meeting for the discussion of the matter. Bishop I. N. Ross of the A. M. E. church opened the discussion, he referred to the prayer of Jesus why the Methodist churches should be one and not only the Methodist but all denominations should be one in Christ. Bishop Ross's statement in opening up the matter pointed to the only foundation for the whole matter reference to oneness of the churches by referring to Jesus prayer. St. John 17th Chapter, 11th, 21st and 22nd verses. No Philosopher or school ar of Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Eng HaveYouGotRooms,Houses or Flats Furnished or unfurnished For Rent? Advertise Them in the Sun y Night lish could have excelled Bishop Ross's statement on the foundation of the matter. Bishop G. W. Clinton representing the Zion church said that the churches should be one if it became necessary for every present Bishop to resign and be elected over again. Bishop Clinton's statement challenged selfish and self-ambition. (If any obstructed the path of oneness). And further the Bishop made all to think "He that exaleth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Bishop R. A. Carter representing the C. M. E. church said the members of the C. M. E. church wanted to be as one church and are asking the question. Why should they not be as one as Christ said? Bishop Carter further said by having one church the people would be less pressed by taxation of money and hence the spirituality would be greater than it is now. Bishop Carter's statement showed that filthy luce would be quenched and spirituality would come in its own by having one church. It was decided to recommend to the next General Conferences of the three churches the appointment of a Commission on organic union. As one who is deeply interested in the unity of our churches and people. By the help of God I will write a book at once from a biblical standpoint. "Why we should be one." I am temporary residing in Louisville, Ky., for the winter at the Pythian Temple, Room 302, writing on a new book. Chicago, Ill., is my headquarters of my work. The Black Man's Part in the Bible.-Jas. M. Webb. DR. HUMBERT HONORED. Dr. Chas. R. Humbert, one of the young Colored physicians of this city was recently selected by the Hospital and Health Board to visit the Base Hospital at Fort Riley and study there the methods used for treating meningitis. Dr. Humbert is one of the most successful physicians in treating this dreaded disease and is the first Negro physician selected by the Health Department to undertake such a mission. EGGLESS GINGER PUDDING. By Millie Williams 2309 Holmes St. Take one-half cup of butter and lard mixed, stir together with one cup of sugar; then add one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful each of cloves, all spice and ginger, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one cup of sour milk. Add three and one-half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, mix all together and bake slowly. This is one of my own make up. I have tried it twice and it has turned out fine with a nice flavor. Mr. M. M. Mozee left last week for Chicago, Ill., to make it his future home. Although Kansas City regrets losing him, yet we wish him success. PRICE. 5c. From Our Foreign Correspondents Jurisdiction W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., Grand Treasurer. Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Relief Secretary. E. G. Lacey, Kansas City, G. L. 1st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER, R. A. M. Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18. T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quindaro, Kans. A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jefferson son City, Mo. J. P. Mofett, G. King, Sedalla, Mo. S. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. OFFICERS OF GRAND COMMAND- ERY, K. T. Missouri and Jurisdiction 1917-18. W. G. Mosely, R. E. G. C., Kansas City, Mo. J. W. Beard, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo. G W. Lewis, E. G. G., St. Louis, Mo. C. Brassfield, E. G., Captain General, Kansas City, Mo. W. A. Ashley, E. G. P., St. Louis, Mo. J. H. Kenner, E. G., Treasurer, Marshall, Mo. J. T. Cannon, E. G., Recorder, St. Louis, Mo. George A. Johnson, E. G. S. W. Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin F. Graves, E. G. J. W., St Joseph, Mo. Lodge Directory G MASONRY Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Emmett Spruell, W. M.; C. H. Countee, Sec'y. G Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F and A. M., Liberty, M., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. St. Stephen Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Chapter Liberty, Liberty. M. Moore first. Tuesday in each month. W. H. Robinson, H. P. W. Camps, Recorder. ```markdown ``` St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets the third Saturday night. William Capps, E. C.; W. H. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y. HOC IN UNION E. A. Walker Lodge No. 257, U. B. F., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at 1403 Michigan Ave. E. 1200 W. 1210 E. 16th St. W. W. Watkins, Sec., 1629 Virginia. E. A. Walker Lodge No. 257, U. B. F., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at 1403 Michigan Ave. E. R. Robertson, W. M. 1210 E. 16th St. W. W. Walkins Sec., 1529 Virginia. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION T. G. McCampbell, President. E. B. Thompson, Vice President. W. H. Washington, Treasurer. H. H. P. Edwards, Secretary. Board of Directors: N. W. Jordan. S. Myers, W. H. Brown. E. S. Baker, W. R. Patterson. R. V. Adkins, B. R. Francis. Richard Harris Geo Johnson, R. Fulbright. Meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Greenwood Baptist Church, 18th and Terrace. Clark Chapel M. E. Church, 1664 Madison Avenue. Gardner A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belieview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine, Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Eighland. St. James A. M. E. Zion Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland. C M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. Church of the Ascension Episcopal—Third and Stewart, Kansas City, Kans. A. M. E. Church, 8th and Ne. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and state. Gundaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose-sale, M. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee. Bethlehem M. E., 106 Kan. The Church Baptist Church, 760 Muncie Blvd. Armstrong, Kansas. Rev. D. Norfell, pastor. LINCOLN, NEB. By W. W. Mosley. A dinner was given in the basement of the A. M. E. Church last Wednesday night for the benefit of the organ fund....Mrs. B. Hawkins is still lingering with recent illness from a paralytic stroke....Mrs. Fanny Nelson is reported ill at this time....Rev. A. W. Talbott, of the newman M. E. Church, is preparing to go to annual conference in March....Mrs. J. T. Wright has been kept at home some few days with illness....The Sunday School of Mount Zion is largely attended each Sunday; the young and old seem to be quite interested in the work. HELENA, MONT. "It is not as much through a fertility of invention that we find many expedients in any one affair as through a poverty of judgment, which makes us listen to everything that imagination presents, and hinders us from discerning what is best at first." ...Rev. C. N. Douglas, presiding elder of the Puget Sound Conference, was in the city last week....George M. Lee, Jr., is home again and expects to take a position with the Studebaker Auto Co....Mrs. Edward Miller was appointed one of the clerks in the 7th ward for the coming election....Dave Harris passed through our city last week headed for South Carolina where he will enter the U. S. Army....Major Green has gone to Spokane where he has to make his home in the future....Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harrell were the lucky ones to secure the positions as custodian and maid for the new Marlow Theater. Harrell, old boy, we congratulate you....Here is a list of U. S.'s Non-Commissioned officers residing in Helena at present: 1st Serg., Charles C. Matthews; 1st Serg., Philip Chessnut; Color Serg., Jefferson Harrison; D. Major, Andrew J. Smith; Sergs., Jas. L. Miner, Samuel Stevens, Henry Williams, George Hamilton, Joseph Claggett....Mrs. Mattie McGinnis is suffering from a serious nervous breakdown brought about by her untiring attention to her husband, Arthur E. McGinnis, during his recent illness. It is the wish of her friends that her recovery will be speedy....Mrs. Edward Johnson entertained the Pleasant Hour Club the afternoon of the 13th at her residence on Warren St. The club has launched a campaign of "chain teas" for the benefit of the Red Cross. Quotations at roll call was a very pleasing feature of the meeting, as was also the paper on the life of Professor Du Bois, by Miss Carolyn Dorsey. The letter following was sent to the Montana boys at Camp Lewis: Mr. Chas. H. Johnson passed through our city the 13th, en route East on business. While in the city he was the guest of J. H. Hillard. Mr. Johnson is of Anaconda. .Rev. H. C. Parsons, after running a two weeks' meeting, had marvelous success. .Mr. C. H. Harrell entertained Miss Ruth V. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Lee, Jr., and Mr. Callender at an informal dinner the 4th. .Mrs. A. E. McGinniss is on the sick list. .Mr. Claude Polk of Anaconda has joined his wife in this city and will make his future home here. .Miss Mary Brown was on the sick list a few days. .Mrs. R. L. Houston was somewhat indisposed for a few days. .The Stars shows an Evil Omen for some this month and a general upheaval may be expected in social circles. .Madam Julia Parsons is contemplating a trip to Parsons, Kan., some time in the near future to assist in evangelistic work in that city. WEIR KANS By Mrs. A. R. Phillips By MRS. A. R. Phillips. Mrs. Fannie Davis of Radley, Kan., was in town a few days ago visiting friends and attended the morning worship last Sunday.....Mrs. A. R. Phillips and several others were in Columbus Tuesday, paying their taxes. .....Several families and a number of day laborers have moved in our town and we welcome them to our churches and our societies.....The Joplin and Pittsburg Railway Company employees have been on a strike for several days. .....The entire coal district of southeastern Kansas is crippled badly; seventeen coal mines, putting out 2,499 tons of coal per day, were totally put out of operation.....Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moore have been on the sick list for several days, but they are some better now....Mrs. Nannie Harris of Weis, Kan., was quarantined in Pittsburg last month on account of smallpox at her mother's home.....Mrs. A. R. Phillips of Weir visited Mrs. J. L. Thomas of Dunkirk last Tuesday, and spent a very pleasant day and just escaped the car strike, which occurred at 12 o'clock in the evening. BUTTE, MONT. Mrs. J. W. Morton of Minneapolis arrived in the city Sunday morning and will make her home in this city for the future, her husband, Mr. Morton, having been here several months. .....Mrs. Dell Turner is now cozily domiciled at 35 West Porch street .....The A. M. E. Church are rallying for $1,500 and we hope they will be successful. .....A patriotic program was given last night at the Bethel Baptist Church in honor of the 199th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln Jesse H. Smith was chairman. A large crowd was present and all enjoyed the program as follows: Song, "Forward," by the choir; Invocation by Rev Reed, Proclamation by Mrs. H. U Mayfield, Gettysburg address by Mas THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION says EAT MORE CORN Corn meal Corn meal Corn Starch Grits Hominy Corn Syrup ter Walter Scott, "America" sung by all, Recitation, "Lincoln," by Mrs. F. M. Shannon; Reading, "The Leadership of Lincoln," by Mrs. Jesse H. Smith; Address by Mr. B. S. Lewis, also closing address by Mr. L. C. Foreman. After singing "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again" we were dismissed by Rev. E. B. Reed.....The G. U. O. of O. F. Ne 2989 and Household of Ruth No. 715 are planning a Peter Ogden celebration in their hall for the members and friends. The committees are as follows: Brothers E. B. Reed, L. C. Foreman, B. S. Lewis, Sisters Leanna Shannon, Claudia Ware, Bessie Rivers.....Mr. Jackson of Phillipsburg was in the city a few days.....We are proud to say that we have two of our race attending the business college—Mrs. Sarah Johnson and J. B. Hammitt.....Mrs. John Palmer will give a chitling dinner at the A. M. E. Church February 14. We wish her much success on her initiatory trip.....The Sunshine Mission met with Mrs. R. B. Smith February 6. A large number was present and a delicious lunch was served.....Everybody's News Stand will have its grand opening in the near future. All the leading books, magazines and papers of the race are now in stock. OMAHA NEB Rev. W. C. Williams preached a very interesting sermon Sunday morning, "Lay Aside Every Weight of Sin THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION says EAT MORE CO Corn Oil Corn Starch Grits Hominy That May So Easily Beset You." The vivid analogues, which were made, added eloquence to his sermon—The Christian Endeavor rendered a very enjoyable program Sunday evening after which a service flag of thirty six stars was presented to the church...Mrs. Ewing is still quite ill also Mr. Hansen...The Infant Exhibition and concert was a decided success, as every available seat was taken and standing room was a premium. Twelve beautiful babies reported as follows: Lloyd Johnson ..... $ 22.65 Carmen Agee ..... 23.75 Leonard Turner ..... 23.40 Laura Deveraus ..... 17.70 Adelada Nelson ..... 17.50 Jaunetta Jones ..... 15.00 William Bennie ..... 9.85 Thomas Ross ..... 6.75 Melba Lee Robins ..... 4.35 George Sleed ..... 3.50 Cathelene Macy ..... 2.05 Orville Jones ..... 1.25 Total ..... $157.25 The first prize was won by Lloyd Johnson, receiving a $5.00 gold piece; second by Carmen Agee, baby gold ring; third by Leonard Turner, baby's gold breast pin. All the rest of the babies received gifts. This is another big drive that the M. K. & T. has made. There are only two members in this division, Mrs. Maud Scott and Rev. W. C. Williams. SAVANNAH, MO. The attendance at the A. M. E. church Sunday was good. Rev. Wm. Jackson preached two interesting sermons. Sunday school was fairly attended...Our third Quarterly Meeting will be held Sunday February 24. We hope to have a good old fashioned service. Our presiding Elder, Rev. M. S. Bryant, will be present...Mr. F. D. Ransome is ill...Mr. Arthur Nichols and Miss Emma Gray have been on the sick list...Our school has opened with Miss Margaret Carter as our teacher. She is a former student of this school, also a graduate of Bartlett school in St. Joseph. We predict for her a successful term as she is a wide-awake young lady...Miss Camille Brice, our former teacher, returned to her homep Saturday at Sedalia, Mo...Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Powell and daughter, Helen, were in the St. Joseph Wednesday shopping...Mrs. Paule Oldham, of St. Joseph, spent the day here Monday with her mother and relatives...The Charity Club was entertained Thursday, February 14th, by Miss Helen Valentine Powell. The occasion, being her eighteenth birthday, a two course luncheon was served. The house was beautifully decorated with hearts, cupids and other decorations suggestive to Valentine Day. All enjoyed themselves, departing at a late hour, declaring Miss Powell an ideal hostess. The Club met with Mrs. Sarah Wagner, February 21st...The Missionary Society met at the parsonage Friday evening. Only a few members were present, the weather being disagreeable...There was a surprise party given at the home of Mrs. Sarah Wagner Saturday. The occasion being her birthday, a num ber of friends were present. LATHROP, MO. Corn meal Corn meal Corn Syrup B. M. met at the residence of Mrs. Henry Hicks last Thursday after noon....The following program was rendered. Song Scripture reading....Mrs. Jas. Legon Prayer Song Hidden answers led by Mrs. Albert Williams and Mrs. Geo. Brooks. Short talk by Mrs. Geo. W. Tillman. Paper by Mrs. Henry Hicks, (A Cure for Tattlers.) Benediction. A delightful three course luncheon was served, consisting of Chicken a 'la king The men's favorite Coffee cake raspberry ice cream. A pleasant evening was spent by all present. ROSEDALE. KANS. Last Sunday, being "Go To Church Day," the services at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church were well attended. The pastor, Rev. J. R. Williams, delivered a soul stirring sermon at eleven o'clock, his subject was "Take Heed How Ye Hear" Luke 8:18 The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS FURNISHING GOODS & MORE SPECIAL BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT AND HAIR GOODS. Help Make Our Store, Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Special Values in Furnishings for Men, Women and Children. GIVE US A CALL. $2.50 In Goods Free. WE GIVE SURETY COUPONS. Taylor Holmes & Co. Mrs. Annie Holmes, Mngr. 2409 VINE ST., Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone East 4221J In the evening the church was filled and the pastor's subject was, "Go to Church" and his text was, "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, Let Us Go Into The House of The Lord" and a spiritual feast was enjoyed by all. The collections were very good ....Friday evening Mr. Robert Bell showed the moving pictures, "Pardon on the Gallows." A neat sum was realized. Sunday February 24th, three services will be held. In the evening covenant meeting will be held and the communion will be administered. ARGENTINE, KANS. By Mrs. Ophelia Jackson. An excellent sermon was preached at the Third Christian church on last Sunday by Mr. James A. Dabney. The subject was, "The Modern Theocracy" and he impressed the congregation very much....Revival services are in progress at the Bell Flower Baptist church in Spring Garden addition. Rev. McNeal, of the Mt. Plaesant Baptist church, preached Tuesday yand Wednesday nights....In the Junior Red Cross drive the various colored schools went over the top, having averaged a quarter for each member of the school....Mr. Kelly is still confined to his bed on account of illness....The Lewis school gave a program in memory of the birthday of George Washington. Thursday afternoon at three o'clock at the building....Mr. George Shields is serving as a Juror in the Wyandotte County tained the Needlecraft Club last Fricourt....Mrs. Stella Owens enterday afternoon. A very dainty and appetizing luncheon was served. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Callie Pinkert....St. Paul Chapel was largely attended at both services last Sunday. Rev. Everett is giving the congregation soce very practical sermons. SLANDER IS CHARGED AGAINST A WOMAN. Colored Woman Who Edits the Kansan Put Under Arrest This Morning. A suit for alleged criminal libel was brought in the county this morning by the State against Maude Mason, colored. Miss Mason is the editor of a weekly paper printed in Wichita, called the "Kansan." In one of the late issues of her paper, it is charged by Edna Schweich, the complaining witnes, that Miss Mason slandered her. Miss Schweich is a teacher in the Wichita public schools. The colored people held a mass meeting this week in which they passed resolutions to the effect that they would withdraw all support from the "Kansan" and that they would not patronize the paper's advertisers. The colored people of the city are said to be largely with the school teacher. Miss Mason was arraigned in the District Court this morning and the trial will be held later.—Wichita Beacon. You signed the pledge and became a member of the United States Food Administration, are you a loyal member of the Food Administration? SOCIAL SERVICE LECTURES. There will be given at Old City Hospital, a series of lectures on Social Service, beginning Wednesday evening, September 19, and every Thursday thereafter throughout the year. These lectures will be given by experts along their special lines, as indicated by the following program. They will also be free, and anyone wishing to take advantage of them is invited to attend. They will be given in the nurses' Study Room of the Old City Hospital, and will begin promptly at 8 o'clock p. m. Feb. 21-28: Mr. J. O. Stutsman, superintendent Municipal Farm. Subject, "Causes of Crime." March 7: Dr. E. L. Mathias, chief probation officer. Subject, "The Juvenile Court." March 14: Dr. Alberta Green, Women's Raformatory. Subject, "Girls." March 21: Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal, Lincoln High School. Subject "The School and Social Service." March 28: Mrs. E. L. Bringham, Helping Hand Association. Vaughan's Values THE UNPARALLELED HEALTH RESORT FOR THE RACE. 11,000 lots, surrounding a lake two miles long, half mile wide, in which is an island park of 8 acres, with an excellent club house. Streets and boulevards all laid out. Pere Marquette Railroad right through the town. Has a tent city. Buy your family a rest home, in a resort that is being bought up by the best people throughout the country. Many cottages already built by both men and women whom we all have heard of. Environment and social contact assured of the highest. Lots $24.50 each. $6.00 down, $4.00 per month on one or two lots. Located near Chicago. Free information by EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, General Agent. KELLEY'S FLOUR BEST HIGH PATENT Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C.U.B.A. DON'T BE A SLACKER PORO IS IN 10,000 HOMES Is It In Yours? FORMULATED 1800 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Ambrose Thuruba Mallow ST. LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, PITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABDURDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BOX ADOPTED JUNE 12, 1915 PRICE 50 CENTS 3100 Pine Street, Dept. G ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Bell Phone E. 4394R Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. THE Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty ONLY ONE ONLY ONE The history of Kansas City records but one real, legitimate, competent, established Negro jeweler, and he is J. A. Wilson at 1616 W. 9th St. Half block west of Wyoming St. Mr. Wilson sells Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: Guarantees to the public satisfactory and proper treatment. BELL PHONE MAIN 2868W Kansas' Famous Wheat makes I-H FLOUR Hard, winter, "turkey red" is the world's flour wheat supreme. Given the benefit of I-H modern milling, this fine raw product becomes a super-fine food — I-H Flour — the aristocrat of every grocery. Try it. Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. Kansas City, U. S.A. Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. TALES FROM BIG CITIES Gotham Stirred by Five Tons of Unclaimed Coal NEW YORK.—Pollceman O'Brien of the West Twentieth street station saw a man staggering toward him along the sidewalk the other afternoon. The man's face was ghastly pale and great drops stood upon his brow. the thumb indicated, and what he saw put sudden life into his legs. In a twinkling he was beside a massive heap of beautiful, black, shiny lumps blocking the sidewalk in front of 51 West Twenty-third street. On the edge of the heap gathered a mob that gazed at the heap with wolfish eyes. "Stand back!" cried O'Brien, who drew his club with one hand and his police whistle with the other. Soon other city guardians had joined him. O'Brien, relieved by his fellows, hastened to the police station to report to Capt. Percy Dubols. "There are five tons of it and its lying loose on the sidewalk," he said. "O'Brien," said the captain, "I am inclined to be lenient with you as this is your first offense, but I am pained and shocked that a man with your fine record should come to such a pass." Just then the telephone rang and Captain Dubols' jaw fell as he heard another of his men ask to have the reserves sent for the reason that O'Brien had outlined. Murmuring an apology to the policeman, the captain rushed himself to the scene. By this time the crowd had increased to great size, and open threats of violence were coming from the desperate. Just then a street-cleaning cart hove into sight, which was immediately commandeered by the captain. A hurried call over the telephone brought more carts, and soon the coal had been snatched away from those who were almost ready to brave death to get it. "Jimmy" Wolf, the Gideon, Has a New Line of Work PHILADELPHIA.—"Jimmy" Wolf, the Gideon, has a new job. Instead of distributing Bibles in hotels these days, he is visiting the cantonments, under the auspices of the Pocket Testament league, and handing out little commissioned officers took the little man, who is hard of hearing, for a salesman of some sort, and salesmen are not wanted in United States army camps. By good luck "Jimmy" got into the adjutant's office, where he underwent a brief examination. "You cannot sell anything in this camp," the adjutant told me. "Bless you," exclaimed "Jimmy," smiling sweetly, "I'm not allowed to sell 'em. I give 'em away. Here, will you accept this?" And he handed the adjutant one of the beautifully bound volumes which the Pocket Testament league gives to United States army officers. "Do you mean to say this is a gift?" asked the astonished adjutant. "Sure thing," replied "Jimmy." "All you have to do is to sign this card promising to read a chapter every day." "I'll sign it," said the adjutant. When this little transaction had been attended to, the adjutant offered the Bible "salesman" his hand. "You shall have the right of way in this camp, Mr. Wolf," he said. "Go where you please and give out as many Bibles as you like. And if anyone raises an objection, just mention my name and say I sent you." And when he returned to this city he carried cards containing the signatures of 1,532 privates and 132 officers in his pocket. Wrinkled Meat, Aged 130 Years, Visitor in Chicago Wrinkled Meat, Aged 130 Years, Visitor in Chicago CHICAGO.-The fountain of youth? Ask Kabenawwoywence. He knows! Kabenawwoywence? Sure! That's Chippewa for "Wrinkled Meat." He's the oldest living American, one hundred and thirty years old, and he's been occupying a room and bath at the Hotel Le Salle. on floors and things all his life and he ought to know. Beds? Bah! Even Pullman berths are bad medicine. They give one a cramp. The nice iron floors in the vestibules are best. Wrinkled Meat remembers the war of 1812, but was too old when the Civil war broke out to enlist, as many of his tribe did. He remembers when there was no Minneapolis and fought the Sioux over the ground where the city now stands. His home is at Cass Lake, Minn., where he was born. Wrinkled Meat has had nine wives but no children. He was a great believer in divorce before he became a Christian. Literally speaking, he shooed all his wives out into the cold one after another. A divorce wasn't necessary. Birmingham Really Has Become a Rich Man's Town BIRMINGHAM.—Birmingham is getting to be a rich man's town, writes Ned Brace in the Birmingham Age-Herald. I mean by rich men, those who are achieving great success and making money. Three years ago the men con- which has made a fortune by re-ginning cottonseed and selling the fiber to explosive plants. It was not many years ago that the president of a certain industrial plant in Birmingham told me that the entire property which his company owned could never earn the interest on its then outstanding bonds. Today the bond issue of this company is two and a half times what it was then and its stock is something like five times the then volume. It is today paying interest on both its bonds and stock, and is setting aside a big surplus for future development. A careful and conservative banker told me that he didn't know of a man in Birmingham, who has given the proper attention to his business, who was not succeeding finely. And he mentioned to me several score of men whose earnings were beyond anything that they could have dreamed of several years ago. "Brace up, man," said the policeman sympathetically as the totering form leaned heavily against the brass buttons, "tis ill yie are." "I'll be all right in a minute," murmured the man huskily. "It was just a shock. A bit too much for me." "What?" asked O'Brien. "Down the block," said the man, jerking his thumb behind him, "I just saw five tons of coal." Dazed and half unbelieving, the policeman gazed in the direction that the thumb indicated, and what he saw twinkling he was beside a massive heap ing the sidewalk in front of 51 West T he heap gathered a mob that gazed at the "Stand back!" cried O'Brien, who police whistle with the other. Soon ot he O'Brien, relieved by his fellows, h to Capt. Percy Dubols. "There are five tons of it and its "O'Brien," said the captain, "I am is your first offense, but I am pained a record should come to such a pass." Just then the telephone rang and another of his men ask to have the re had outlined. Murmuring an apology himself to the scene. By this time the open threats of violence were coming a cleaning cart hove into sight, which w captain. A hurried call over the telev coal had been snatched away from the death to get it. "Jimmy" Wolf, the Gideon PHILADELPHIA.—"Jimmy" Wolf, the distributing Bibles in hotels these under the auspices of the Pocket Te THIS IS TH' BEST GIFT YET commissioned officers took the little man of some sort, and salesmen are not By good luck "Jimmy" got into the a brief examination. "You cannot sell anything in this," "Bless you," exclaimed "Jimmy," sell 'em. I give 'em away. Here, will And he handed the adjutant one to the Pocket Testament league gives to "Do you mean to say this is a gift "Sure thing," replied "Jimmy." "promising to read a chapter every day." "I'll sign it," said the adjutant. When this little transaction had the Bible "salesman" his hand. "You shall have the right of way where you please and give out as ma raises an objection, just mention my n And when he returned to this city tures of 1,532 privates and 132 officers Wrinkled Meat, Aged 130 CHICAGO.—The fountain of youth? Kabenawoywence? Sure! That' the oldest living American, one hundi occupying a room and bath at the Hotel La Salle. And he took a bath! Why the exclamation point? Why the examinator power. Well, you see, it was the first bath he had had in three years. Yes, he actually took a bath, and, maybe, if he lives to be one hundred and thirty-three he'll take another. And bear this in mind. If you ever stop at the La Salle sleep on the floor. It's very comfortable. Wrinkled Meat says so, and he's slept on floors and things all his life and B Pullman berths are bad medicine. The floors in the vestibules are best. Wrinkled Meat remembers the w Civil war broke out to enlist, as many there was no Minneapolis and fought city now stands. His home is at Cass Lake, Minn., Wrinkled Meat has had nine wives liever in divorce before he became a C all his wives out into the cold one after Birmingham Really Has B BIRMINGHAM.—Birmingham is get Ned Brace in the Birmingham Age are achieving great success and making YES SAH, WE FEEL PROSPEROUS THESE DAYS which has made a fortune by re-glnn explosive plants. It was not many years ago that the in Birmingham told me that the enti could never earn the interest on its the issue of this company is two and a ha is something like five times the then both its bonds and stock, and is setti opment. A careful and conservative banker in Birmingham, who has given the prn not succeeding finely. And he menti earnings were beyond anything that the ago. COAL! IS IT POSSIBLE? w put sudden life into his legs. In a of beautiful, black, shiny lumps block- twenty-third street. On the edge of the cheap with wolfish eyes. On the edge of the drew his club with one hand and his city guardians had joined him. hastened to the police station to report lying loose on the sidewalk," he said. inclined to be lenient with you as this and shocked that a man with your fine Captain Dubois' jaw fell as he heard serves sent for the reason that O'Brien to the policeman, the captain rushed crowd had increased to great size, and from the desperate. Just then a street- was immediately commandeered by the phone brought more carts, and soon the nose who were almost ready to brave, Has a New Line of Work e Gideon, has a new job. Instead of days, he is visiting the cantonments, stament league, and handing out little Testaments to every man in khaki, officer or private, who will sign a little agreement to carry the Book with him constantly and read a chapter each day. "Jimmy" is carrying his "new line of goods" for the business men's committee of the league, of which Joseph M. Steele of this city is chairman. "Jimmy" went to Allentown, and "broke in" to the camp there. They did not give him a warm welcome. In fact, the sentry and non- man, who is hard of hearing, for a sales- tant wanted in United States army camps. adjutant's office, where he underwent a camp," the adjutant told me. smiling sweetly, "Tm not allowed to you accept this?" of the beautifully bound volumes which United States army officers. t?" asked the astonished adjutant. All you have to do is to sign this card been attended to, the adjutant offered in this camp, Mr. Wolf," he said. "Go my Bibles as you like. And if anyone name and say I sent you." he carried cards containing the signa- in his pocket. 10 Years, Visitor in Chicago Ask Kabenawwwoywence. He knows! is Chippewa for "Wrinkled Meat." He's ed and thirty years old, and he's been TH' FLOOR IS TH' BEST PLACE TO SLEEP BEDS ARE BAD MEDICINE he ought to know. Eeds? Bah! Even they give one a cramp. The nice iron ear of 1812, but was too old when the of his tribe did. He remembers when the Sioux over the ground where the where he was born. is but no children. He was a great behristian. Literally speaking, he shooed another. A divorce wasn't necessary. Become a Rich Man's Town tating to be a rich man's town, writes Herald. I mean by rich men, those who r money. Three years ago the men con- ducting machinery and foundry establishments and metal finishing plants were doing little business, and but few of them were making money. Today their plants are humming. They are overwhelmed with orders. Most of them have paid their debts, and all are making money in volumes. So it has been with many of the coal operators, and the cotton mills have made much more money than their stockholders had anticipated. There is one concern in this town ing cottonseed and selling the fiber to the president of a certain industrial plant where property which his company owned then outstanding bonds. Today the bond if times what it was then and its stock volume. It is today paying interest on long aside a big surplus for future devel- or told me that he didn't know of a man super attention to his business, who was used to me several score of men whose they could have dreamed of several years THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918 Fads And Fancies Of Fashion Sports by Berkshire & Bathworks WINNING THE DEBUTANTE'S SMILE. It is silk and cotton for summer frocks, and here are two of them designed for the young girl, that will make her more than glad that she is alive in a silk and cotton summer. All the pretty, old-time gingham patterns have been interpreted in taffetta and volle and their inventors of long ago would be delighted with their elegance and daintiness in these fine-grained fabrics. Some of the new frocks in plaid or crossbar taffetta go to the length of convey apron styles The pretty frock of corn-colored, crossbar taffeta shown at the left of the picture has the plainest and simplest of pleasant waists, made of plain corn-colored taffeta, with sleeves of georgette crepe. It has patch pockets ruffled across the top, that design to remind us of the apron pockets, and an ingenious collar made just to suit the frock. This little model is satisfied with a plain, straight and narrow skirt, that turns neither to the right nor to the left, but pursues its way undisturbed by ruffle or tuck, to the ankles of its wearers. It proclaims the straight silhouette and leaves us guessing as to just where it fastens. A pretty dress at the right is made of fine volle over a slip of silk. The skirt of volle is gathered at the waist line so that it has considerable fullness, but it is not draped. Just at the PETTICOATS CONFORM I right it is split and cut at the bottom so that the volle falls in a cascade. The bodice is draped from the shoulders and bloused at the waistline. The popular chemisette is indispensable in a waist draped in this way, and appears less in filet over taffeta lace over taffeta silk. The sleeves are full and gathered into a little frill above the elbows. There is a soft, ribbon girdle with long ends looped over at the front. It takes slender bead tassels to weigh the ends so that they will hang properly. A spray of small garden flowers is tucked into the girdle at the front, and their pretty, quaint suggestion is supple. flesh-colored crepe de chin batiste remains a favorite coat and nothing supplies tucks and fine narrow lace ming them, in the regard women. But all petticoat made to conform to the bouette; lines must be str. The reliable taffeta pet daily wear is shown in the ished with a scant, corded fimed at the bottom. Like else, it is most liked in pla mented by the extra length of the skirt which reaches almost to the instep. Now is the time to dispose of all lingerie matters, simple or otherwise; for at this season of the year merchants make a concerted effort to show and sell new undergarments and the materials for making them. Petticons and camisoles and their next of kin, princess slips, are the subjects under discussion here. Shadow lace proves the best of assets when the time comes to design camisoles. It is wide enough to make the body of the camisole and the pointed or scalloped edge provides for graceful shape. Camisoles are made of it by adding a band of ribbon, or wide beading to the straight edge for the waistline, and banding the lace with narrow ribbon stitched on. Where the lace has large points, two of them at the front and two at the back form "V"-shaped lines here and under the arms, that are graceful. Ribbons, stitched to these scallops or points are extended into shoulder straps. In princess slips the bodice is often cut in the shape described above and finished with a narrow hem. Below the hem valenciennes lace insertion is let in. Narrow skirts set onto the bodice with a narrow belt have a series of tucks edged with valce lace running about them. They are usually made of 1 WITH SLENDER LINES. flesh-colored crepe de chine. White batiste remains a favorite for petticoats and nothing supplants small tucks and fine narrow laces for trimming them, in the regard of refined women. But all petticoats must be made to conform to the slender silhouette; lines must be straight. The reliable taffeta petticoat for daily wear is shown in the picture, finished with a scant, corded flounce hemmed at the bottom. Like everything else, it is most liked in plain styles. Julia Bottomby CAPITAL artment Doing Big War Work personal direction of Mrs. Franklin K. the interior, nearly half a thousand women every spare minute sewing, knitting and Women of Interior Department Doing Big War Work WASHINGTON. Under the daily, personal direction of Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, wife of the secretary of the interior, nearly half a thousand women of the interior department are using every spare minute sewing, knitting and packing things which will comfort and cheer sick and wounded American soldiers in France. face, every ten days. The Interior Department auxiliary of the American Red Cross. It only after war with Germany was declared, social organization of the department with planning for relief work. For a time the building on Jackson place, and in the early was distributed through the American- the wives and daughters of her husband's and chiefs, manages an organized patriot-location where the Alaskan engineering commissaries precious coal deposits; into isolated reservation. Indian service are; into the arid plains survey are working; into the depths of coal experts gather; into prairie towns where work; into the green-clad irrigation areas station service are constructing canals and anyons and great forests of the big trees of the national park service climb the slopes of the bureau of education, the pension of the other branches and divisions of the are back of the women with their money. Ledged and paid and the enthusiasm in the nature that though the work is only organization. Washington's Icy Streets "y" and was coming along the street early bottle in one hand and a package in the Dat sho' was a slippery mornin'. Every- of which has gone to Neulilly, France, every ten days. The Interior Department War Work association is an auxiliary of the American Red Cross. It had its beginning almost immediately after war with Germany was declared, when the Home club, which is a social organization of the department with nearly a thousand members, began planning for relief work. For a time the association met in the Home Club building on Jackson place, and in the early days of the movement its output was distributed through the American-French clearing house. of which has gone to Neuilly, France, every tenement War Work association is an auxiliary of the had its beginning almost immediately after war when the Home club, which is a social organization nearly a thousand members, began planning for an association met in the Home Club building on Jasmin days of the movement its output was distributed French clearing house. Here Mrs. Lane, surrounded by the wives and assistants, commissioners, directors and chiefs, mism which ramifies into the far North where the mission is pushing a railroad to reach precious coal servitions where the people of the Indian service where the men of the geological survey are work shafts where the bureau of mines' experts gather the men of the general land office work; into the where the engineers of the reclamation service ditches; into the mountains and canyons and g where the rangers and fire fighters of the natural trails, and to the desks and offices of the bureau, the patent office and all the other br interior department. For the men of the service are back of the Thousands of dollars have been pledged and paid good cause has been so practical in its nature a just beyond the stake of initial organization. Tragic Little Story of Washing SHE was a large, fat "cullud lady" and was on Monday morning, with a milk bottle in one other. Evidently she was the cook. Dat sho' was where the Here Mrs. Lane, surrounded by the wives and daughters of her husband's assistants, commissioners, directors and chiefs, manages an organized patriotism which ramifies into the far North where the Alaskan engineering commission is pushing a railroad to reach precious coal deposits; into isolated reservations where the people of the Indian service are; into the arid plains where the men of the geological survey are working; into the depths of coal shafts where the bureau of mines' experts gather; into prairie towns where the men of the general land office work; into the green-clad irrigation areas where the engineers of the reclamation service are constructing canals and ditches; into the mountains and canyons and great forests of the big trees where the rangers and fire fighters of the national park service climb the trails, and to the desks and offices of the bureau of education, the pension bureau, the patent office and all the other branches and divisions of the interior department. For the men of the service are back of the women with their money. Thousands of dollars have been pledged and paid and the enthusiasm in the good cause has been so practical in its nature that though the work is only just beyond the stake of initial organization. Tragic Little Story of Washington's Icy Streets SHE was a large, fat "cullud lady" and was coming along the street early Monday morning, with a milk bottle in one hand and a package in the other. Evidently she was the cook. Dat sho' was a slippery mornin'. Every- this natu time announced," as General Crowder said in the first draft under the selective service act. Swinging the quart of milk in one hand and the package extended at the full length of her across the ice a la Eliza. She came to shore on a trail of sawdust the of an apartment house by a man whose name annals of 1918 as the Abou Ben Adhem of janito "Uh-uh," sighed the cook, happily, as she le walk." So firm were her steps that when she got the forgot that the ways of life are slippery when i time announced," as General Crowder said in his report to congress on the first draft under the selective service act. under said in his report to congress on the ice act. He one hand and balancing her lee side with length of her arm, she made her way safely of sawdust thoughtfully sprinkled in front whose name deserves to go down in the them of janitors. pilly, as she hit the sawdust. "Now I kin when she got to the end of the sawdust she rippery when it rains and then freezes. sawdust. the other foot shot to the right. he went down, and the milk bottle went sky- fashing into various pieces, the contents around. Swinging the quart of milk in one hand and balancing her lee side with the package extended at the full length of her arm, she made her way safely across the ice a la Eliza. She came to shore on a trail of sawdust thoughtfully sprinkled in front of an apartment house by a man whose name deserves to go down in the annals of 1918 as the Abou Ben Adhem of janitors. "Uh-uh," sighed the cook, happily, as she hit the sawdust. "Now I kin walk." So firm were her steps that when she got to the end of the sawdust she forgot that the ways of life are slippery when it rains and then freezes. She thought she was still on sawdust. But she wasn't. One foot went to the left and the other foot shot to the right. The hand carrying the package went down, and the milk bottle went skyward. She alighted. The milk bottle followed, crashing into various pieces, the contents splotching the landscape for yards around. One foot went to the left and the other foot shot to the right. The hand carrying the package went down, and the milk bottle went skyward. She alighted. The milk bottle followed, crashing into various pieces, the contents splotching the landscape for yards around. 'Twas a land flowing with milk and—words. Senator Smith Rouses Pity for Girls From Dixie SPURRED by a heartfelt appeal by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, for the hundreds of "lonesome" young girls who have come to Washington to help bear the nation's clerical war yoke, the Georgia society of the city in special Pity for Girls From Dixie by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, for the girls who have come to Washington to help the Georgia society of the city in special need Senator Smith Rouses Pity for Girls From Dixie Senator Smith Rouses Pity for Girls From Dixie SPURRED by a heartfelt appeal by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, for the hundreds of "lonesome" young girls who have come to Washington to help bear the nation's clerical war yoke, the Georgia society of the city in special session laid certain plans to remedy ing should like to shake her hand and talk to her is proud of girls who are reared in Georgia. brief clerk in each of the government depart- alm the names of all the Georgia girls under- ened over to Commissioner of Patents James the special committee, was to apportion listed girls. moved over the "lonesome" girl problem in a girls were coming to Washington before ment. How to Help Director McAdoo Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady, who gave of the debutante set in Washington to help of the war, is the first and only woman on the last six or twelve months. I would like to sit about her parents." The senator is proud of girl Senator Smith wrote to the chief clerk in elements asking them to prepare for him the names his direction. These names he turned over to C T. Newton, who, as chairman of the special personal sponsors for each of the listed girls. Senator Smith seemed deeply moved over the view of the fact that some Georgia girls were they had received definite appointment. Girl Gives Up Society to Help A WASHINGTON society girl, Miss Frances up parties, dances, and teas of the debuta the government during the period of the war, is the staff the last six or twelve months. I would like to shake her hand and talk to her about her parents." The senator is proud of girls who are reared in Georgia. Senator Smith wrote to the chief clerk in each of the government departments asking them to prepare for him the names of all the Georgia girls under his direction. These names he turned over to Commissioner of Patents James T. Newton, who, as chairman of the special committee, was to apportion personal sponsors for each of the listed girls. Senator Smith seemed deeply moved over the "lonesome" girl problem in view of the fact that some Georgia girls were coming to Washington before they had received definite appointment. Girl Gives Up Society to Help Director McAdoo A WASHINGTON society girl, Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady, who gave up parties, dances, and teas of the debutante set in Washington to help the government during the period of the war, is the first and only woman on Washington, Miss Brady, who is but twenty-or- difflident about telling her age, has been promising younger set. Her two grown brothers entered in the first days of the war. She offered her son was appointed a clerk in the Liberty Loan bus. Miss Brady has no time for teas or parties been working from nine in the morning to all hours will certainly not be any shorter in the r Washington, Miss Brady, who is but twenty-one, and consequently not a bit diffident about telling her age, has been prominent in all of the affairs of the younger set. Her two grown brothers entered the regular army as engineers in the first days of the war. She offered her services to the government and was appointed a clerk in the Liberty Loan bureau. but twenty-one, and consequently not a bit been prominent in all of the affairs of the hers entered the regular army as engineers offered her services to the government anderty Loan bureau. _ teas or parties now. For months she has morning to almost any hour at night. Theorter in the railroad office. Miss Brady has no time for teas or parties now. For months she has been working from nine in the morning to almost any hour at night. The hours will certainly not be any shorter in the railroad office. When the office day end they hurry from all parts of official Washington to the rooms in Secretary Lane's big building, where the Interior Department War Work association is in continuous session, to turn in finished work and get material for more sweaters, sheets, towels, pajamas, stockings, slippers and the other articles which are packed in big shipping cases, one BOMB She thought she was still on sawdust. But she wasn't. She alighted. session laid certain plans to remedy this lamentable condition which an emergency has provoked. Mothering and caring for the Georgia girls, Senator Smith pointed out, is the plan of the organization. "Pitiful letters are coming to me from parents of these girls," Senator Smith told the Georgians. "They ask me to look out for them, and I am anxious to do that. I would like to meet every Georgia girl who has come to work for the government during I'M GLAD MR. MISADOO PICKED ME FOR HIS STAFF THE BOYS IN FRANCE where the eye could see there was ice. The streets were coated with ice and the sidewalks were glazed as well. As far as the skating quality of the surfaces were concerned, the ice might just as well have been a foot thick. One's propensity to fall down is just as great on a thin coating of ice as on ice two feet deep. It is only possible to skate on the outside of ice, anyway —did you ever think of that? The large cook was well aware of this natural law, "here for the first IT WAS VERY KIND OF SENATOR SMITH - I'M SURE — the staff of Director General of Railroads McAdoo. Miss Brady was selected because of her ability and efficiency in Liberty Loan work in the treasury, and she was the second appointee of Mr. McAdoo as director general of the railroads. Miss Brady's official title has not been fixed. She is acting, however, as general assistant in the director's office. Since leaving a finishing school in (B) E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 24. JESUS TEACHES BY PARABLES— THE GROWTH OF THE KING- DOM. LESSON TEXT—Mark 4:21-34. GOLDEN TEXT—The will, shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.—Isa. 11:9. DEVOTIONAL READING—Isa. 11:1-10. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS—Matt. 13:24-50 (vv. 31, 32); Isa. 13:2, Ezek. 47:11-18; Rev. 11:18; 22-27; Greek. 12:18; Rev. 11:18. PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus telling a story about sowing. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC-The importance of small beginnings. Jesus is now revealing to his disciples the kingdom in secret which they were later to reveal in public. Nothing which he now reveals should be hid, and he is also teaching that, if we do not use that what is committed to us, we lose it. 1. Hearing (vv. 21-25). It is an obligation resting upon each of us who has the light of truth that he should so set it before men that it can be seen that men may be enlightened, cheered and served by it (Matt. 5:14-16; Phil. 1:15-16). The secret things of our lives will be brought to light some day. Ears are given with which we are to hear, and possession of hearing involves the responsibility as to what we hear. "The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Rom. 1:16), but believing comes through "hearing" (Rom. 10:17). In this there is a missionary suggestion for our teachers, but there is also a caution as to what and how we hear. "Take heed what we hear." Many today are being swept into all kinds of damning heresies because they do not follow this warning (2 Tim. 3:1-13). Not only are we to be good listeners, but we must be doers as well (Jas. 1:22). This parable of the lamp follows closely upon the parable of the sower in our last lesson. "God, who first created light, and Christ, in whom was life, and the life was the light of men," both together are ones whom we are equally obliged to see, and hear and obey. To impress the duty of this seeing, hearing and using of light upon his disciples, Jesus reminds them of some familiar things. A candle is not placed under a bushel not under a bed, but on a candle stick where it may be seen of all. If our virtues go not forth from us, it will be as though we had hidden then from the world. "To him that heareth right shall more be given," (v. 24) but for him that hath not and seeth not, from him shall be taken. He that hath not is he who neglects his opportunities, and "from him shall be taken even that which he hath." In this we see a spiritual multiplication and also a spiritual subtraction, deterioration. 11. Growing. (1) Secrecy vv. 26-29). This is a parable of faith and hope, found only in Mark. Again the good seed is referred to, but in this case unseen growth receives the emphasis, for the seed will spring and grow up, though we know not how. It is comforting to think that, if we sow the true seed, it grows while we sleep (v. 27). The best selected seed (the holy word) is essential for results. All of our seed must have this silent period for growth. It is the earth that brings forth the fruit of herself through the energies and powers with which God endows it. These powers are wonderful. We do not understand them, but there is order and symmetry in growth. First the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. Then is the harvest, the purpose of the seed having been accomplished. Mark alone gives us this parable, and it is given in close relation to the parable of the sower and of the wheat and tares. Jesus is the great harvester (v. 20), and knows the right time to reap the grain, the moment when it is "rulpe" (v. 29 R. V.). Then he put it in the sickle. (2) There is also a marvelous outward growth of the kingdom (vv. 30-32). There is the closest relation between the parable of the mustard seed and the two parables that precede. In Matthew the parable of the mustard seed is used in relation to the kingdom of heaven, which is the sphere of the Christian profession. Here it is used of the kingdom of God, which is spiritual. Why is it used of both? The explanation, according to Doctor Scofield, lies in the fact that the kingdom of God in this age and the kingdom of heaven have this in common, that from an insignificant beginning they had a rapid growth. If the abnormal growth of this common garden shrub illustrates divine increase, why is it not more glorious? There is not here anything like the greatness of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. (Ezek. 31:3-6; Dan. 4:20-22). Is the significance of the birds good or evil? Great Babylon, the figure of a professing Christian body in guilty connection with the kings of the earth, becomes "a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" (Rev. 18:2). The "mixed" condition of the kingdom of heaven has brought together diverse elements of good and bad. | Sig ese B a ; ore a it tal ea gene “27 Ny): ee oe bon a aa pee | se eee ene ORS TE i neta ee ore ROM Es aap ce ee spire , FOR SALE THIS STRICTLY MODERN 8-ROOM HOUSE Lot 100 x 285 feet, with 50 fruit-bearing trees, and several beautiful 50-foot lots. Also one new 5-room house, lot 33x 140, All improvements in, Terms to suit. Take Olathe car get off at 43d street, walk two blocks north on Adams St. W. G, PINKARD, Bell phone, 2773, Rosedale, 4022 Adams Street || ‘PUBLISHED WEEKLY ‘All, communications should be addressed Se ,tne Kitnwas city’ Sun, 108 Maat a0 Boll Phone East 999. Bell Phone East 2789 Entered as second-class master, August =" 1808, at the postoffice at Kanaas City, o,, under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C, Crews.......Bditor and Owner ‘Willa M. Glenn. ........General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: GO LOM ciscvessevesscsoneesvvessos PROD Bre Month 20000000 nao Three Months v..c.clurvtiiuessezies: 60 Canada and Foreign Gountries #i.00 ad- Aitional. ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MON’ MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Those who eat the Food Administra. tion asks them are really helping the soldier to fight. Are you a slacker? While the soldiers are fighting the Germans let us fight wastefulness and extravagence in the use of wheat, heat, fats and» sugar. Did you ever stop to think that af- ter you have carried out the requests of the United States Food Adminis tration you are not being starved and are living a little cheaper and can buy a few War Savings Stamps? We are glad to see the pleasant sunshine as it beckons up to drop the coal shovel and pick up the garden spade. If you cannot shoulder a gun, then shoulder a hoe. Our life today is just one war duty after another, and by helping a little here and a lit- te there, Victory Will Be Ours. ‘There has been issued by the Re: ligious Press Section of the United States Food Administration a bulletin for the clergy which contains food conservation information prepared for the use of all clergyman. Any clergy man who has not received this bulle tin should send for a copy. The saving of food and the use of other foods in the place of those which are so necessary for winning the war is the duty of all who must stay home and it is by carrying out the plans of your Food Administration that you ean and will be able to help win the war by this personal work. It may seem a small matter, but it is just these little things that count, and help lighten the war burdens of your Government just that much. ‘You are beginning to read in the pa pers reports of our soldier boys be ing drowned, killed or wounded. Think of what the news means to friends and relatives of those who have lost their lives that you and all of the civilized peoples shall be free from the rule of the German government. When you save wheat, meat, fats and sugar you are helping to end this ‘war and to save the lives of many of our soldiers, Now is the time to begin making plans for your garden. Get your seeds early, and avoid the rush. The little Bardens last year in the back yards or on the vacant lots—all of these lit- tle gardens—heiped to prevent a ser- ious food shortage, Fach garden was small but the amount of food produc- ed by all of the little war gardens was enormous, The thoughtful and conservative Colored men of this city refuse to be- come excited over the political cam- paign now opening or to pledge their support to any particular candidate because they realize as do all good citizens that a change in our form ot government is an absolute neces- sity if we are to have service prom- ised by corporations and public utili- ties holding “franchises in this city. All sensible men realize that politics will not settle these questions and that they can only satisfactorily be settled by electing big, competent and courageous men to fill the various offices, WANTED—Children to care for by the day or week, 1504 East Tenth street, Bell "Phone East 11473. FOR RENTING MODERN APART MENTS AND FLATS See EB. R. Robertson, agent at 121¢ B, 16th St. also at 17th and Fores Ave. Easy terms, Bell phone, Gran¢ 2870. FOR RENT—Furnished room, mod ern, prices $2 to $2.25 per week. Bel Grand 4204. i FOR RENT—Four room moderr apartment. Water bill paid, Pric $13.50, Mrs, A. H. Tucker, 2434 Wood land Ave. FOR RENT—Furnished _ rooms modern, heat furnished, 2746 Wood land, Mrs. 0. Flowers. i WANTED. To furnish space to man desiring to conduct cleaning and pressing shop and to lady for a dressmaking shop. Machine and living room furnished if desired. Business building in busi- ness district, Call Mrs, Ella Neff, Bell phone East 412W. | WANTED TO FIND. | My sister, Mrs. Josie Wilson, Her maiden name was Bucklin. Sgt. Walter R. Bucklin, Co. 50, 13 Battalion, 166 Depot Brigade, Camp Lewis, Wash. TO THE WISE MAN. 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HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home ;| phone, M58, Bell phone Main 448 .| Legal advice. Practices in al courts, iE A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney al || Law, 511 Minnesota avenue, Kansa: ;| Clty, Kas. Bell phone, West 8866. | JEWELERS, ©| J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street t| Kansas City, Mo, Bell phone, Mait 6248R. . PHOTOGRAPHERS. _|J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 Eas Al Eighteenth street. Bell phone, B. 91 */REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT */ COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT | CO, Solomon Smith, Pres., 212: ;| Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1011 ‘| Home Phone, East 4011. |, A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVEST | MENT CO., 500 Minnesota avenue | (Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bel ]| Phone, West 1743; Home phone West 221. C. W. Neloms, Mer. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty first street. Bell phone, Gran 42043. SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E Eighteenth street. Pell phone, Eas 1828. SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP J.C. Banks, Prop., 1514% East Eigl |, teenth street. Bell phone East 493: . 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And it’s been some winter honey. —That the Negro who goes to his neighbor's house every week to bor- row a Sun, ought to know that his neighbor says he is a perfect nuisance, Not guilty. —That it will only be a few days before the elections begin and ther the Colored voter will be the most im portant citizen in Kansas City, NIT —That at a recent revival the pas tor called on the various brethren an sisters to rise and tell what the Lor had done for them. In response ti this invitation they began to tell hov he had blessed them, had prospere their efforts along various lines an had opened up the way for them to b comfortable to make a living for them selves and families. 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LIZZIE LOGAN, 800 Independence Ave. Sir; Please allow me space in your paper to say a word about” Mackey’ iment. Tusuffered with pains in my feet, less, back, stomach and. after, examinadion found the pain in my ‘back to be. Lum. bago. ‘Leafning that Mackes's Liniment Wasa cure for the same, I ordered. a Dottie at ‘once and’ after” applying the same ax divected I was restored to. my Hormal feelings. ‘This was. the fourth hottie used in our house’ the first. time for Lumbago.” Twill highly. recommend {eto anyone. disablea “with the above named symptoms and. forall” kinds” of pains, MRS. SUSIE CRAIG, 1801 Bellview. Kansas City, alo, SAVE YOUR MONEY! The W. L. Martin Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Store Will Show You How to Save Money and Time Buy Your Children’s Clothing Here. 1313 E. 18th STREET. ENGL 2 RP PARLE NE a aA UR a 1917 Season Announcement 1917 The Moses Dickson Regalia and Supplies Co, 1217 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Everything For Every Lodge. 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[Sx Pe ER RIE ional hair dressers and [eye eS Ae ra Mie) scalp specianats Lee lean ares thf bob Star BOF ON pe ; LOCATED PERMANENTLY AT 1636 EAST 18TH ST, )° BELL PHONE, EAST 3955, : Fe PSEA A IDO ABE MPL RES LE aia a CITY NEWS Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best place in town to eat? See Madam A. Moore for special rates in piano lessons. Phone, Bell East 5407. Master Frank Duncan, Jr., is spending the week end with his chum, Master Milo Gaston at Chanute, Kans. Mrs. W. M. Wooden, 1814 Woodland, who has been quite ill for the past three weeks, is improving. Miss Lottie Williams is seriously ill at the residence of her brother, 1015 Wyandotte. Mr. W. H. Davis and Mr. Bert Bond, of Los Angeles, Calif., were called to the city on account of the death of Mr. Bradford Branche. Mrs. C. J. Walker, the famous Hair Culturist, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hubbel, 2628 Highland avenue, during her stay in the city. Grand Master W. W. Fields and wife of Cameron, Mo., spent Tuesday in the city, the Grand Master at a meeting of the Relief Board and the Madam shopped. They returned home the same evening. The Inter-City Dames have cancelled their date for the Benefit Dance until after Lent. However, the coal drawing will be held on a date to be announced later. Bradford Branche, 207 W. 7th, died Thursday February 14th at his residence after a brief illness of fourteen days. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the residence Rev. W. H. Thomas officiating. He leaves a wife and brother. Mr. M. C. Buford of Pulaski, Tenn., enroute to Ft. Scott, Fulton and Iowa, Kansas, visited his brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Malone, 2120 Vine street. He was accompanied by Mrs. Malone when leaving. Mrs. J. Henderson of Parsons, Kansas, spent this week in the city purchasing her spring millinery stock and was the guest of her sisters, Mrs. J. Stokes, 1012 Euclid and Mrs. M. Willis, 1917 E: 11 street. Mrs. Henderson is the only Colored milliner inn Parsons and owns the building which she occupies. Editor Kansas City Sun. Sir: I am trying to locate a sister that I have not seen but once to remember. Therefore, I thought I would write to colored papers to see if they could locate her for me by advertising. I wish you would put an ad in your paper and have other papers to copy. I think my sister's name at present is, Mrs. Josie Wilsch. Her maiden name was Bucklin. If you can locate her please do so, and oblige. Sgt. Walter R. Bucklin, Co. "50" 13th Batallion, 166 Depot Brigade, Camp Lewis, Washington. Hon. N. C. Crews, Editor of the Kansas City Sun. Dear Sir: Allow me space in your paper to thank you and the good people of Kansas City for eagerly purchasing the poems, "Negro Soldiers," by Roscoe C. Jamison. I wish to thank you for your noble appeal and the tender sympathy so beautifully expressed in the behalf of, Roscoe C. Jamison, our western poet. I thank most gratefully Rev. Thomas, pastor of Allen Chapel, for the splendid contribution of his large congregation. The force of his unweared patience and the hearty and liberal response of his whole-souled, race-loving congregation gave significance to the very cause. Sucvh unselfish assistance marks the beginning of a new day, wherein lies our greatest hopes and some of our proudest expectations. No less gratefully do I thank our dear friends of the "Forum" on the Kansas side. Their spirit of confidence was but the proof of the growing unity in our number. Again on my own behalf and on the behalf of my friends in St. Joseph, I beg to thank you all for the consideration which you gave us and through us to our worthy cause, which is your cause—and that of the Race. Ithank you, Very sincerely yours, WILLIAM F. NEIL, South St. Joseph, Mo Mrs. Samuel Smith who is here visiting her sister Mrs. R. F. Cooper, letter from her husband who is a First Seargeant in the National Army announcing his safe arrival in France. Sgt. Smith was formerly of the Tenth Cavalry and was with the American Expeditionary Forces in Mexico. GALLATIN, MO., A. M. E. CHURCH. B. Rox, F. H. peter By Rev. F. H. Gray, pastor. As we sat by our fireside on the 12th we were surprised to hear singing at our door. Opening the door we were greeted by a large crowd laden with baskets and packages of flour, meal, fruits and vegetables. The pastor thanked the members and friends for this manifestation of their lobe. Refreshments were served by Sisters Cassie Brooks and Loleta Couns. Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal of the Lincoln High School left Sunday night to visit the High Schools of Chicago and Washington and to be in attendance of the annual meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education which was held the 22nd and 23d in Philadelphia. While away Prof. Lee will attend the Superintendent's Division of the N. E. A. which meets in Atlantic City, N. J., February 25 to March 2, Mr. Lee being a member of both of these organizations. He also expects to attend the meeting of the National Geographical Society which convenes in Washington and the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia both of which he is an executive officer. In loving memory of our mother, Miss Rebecca Ewing who departed this life one year ago February 20, 1917. Softly the stars are gleaming, Upon a quiet grave; There sleepeth without dreaming, One we loved but could not save. Through all her pain at times she smiled A smile of heavenly birth; And when the angels called her home She smiled farewell to earth. Heaven retains our treasure Earth the lonely casket keeps; And the sunbeams love to linger, Where our dear one loves to sleep. Sadly missed by her daughters, Mrs. Lillian Long, Miss Bettie Jones. CAFE DE LUXE THE NEW CAFE DE LUXURY is the last word in elegy attention and w TRY IT ONCE AND YOUR PATIENT Under the personal management headwaiter, Will AUTO SERVICE FURNISHED Bell Phone THE NEW CAFE DE LUXE AT 1512 EAST 18TH ST. is the last word in elegant service, courteous attention and wholesome food. TRY IT ONCE AND YOU BECOME A REGULAR PATRON. Under the personal management of that veteran and popular headwaiter, William McKnight. AUTO SERVICE FURNISHED ON MOMENT'S NOTICE. Bell Phone, East 1099. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday was a record recording day at Ebenezer. Everybody seemed to have the "GO TO CHURCH" spirit and the pastor, Rev. W. T. Osborne, seemed to catch up the spirit of his immense congregation and the sentiment was. He preached as he had never preached before. His morning subject, "What Will It Profit a Man to Gain the World and Lose His Soul?" was a scriptural masterpiece. Evening subject, "Saints in Wrong Places," was illustrated by many Biblical examples that instructed and enthused the massive audience. There were five additions and one hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty cents collection without an extra effort or aid from auxiliaries....The Missionary Society meets every Wednesday afternoon at the parsonage....The ladies are making aprons for a "One Night Apron Bazaar"....The Who-So-Ever-Will Club and the Art Club are rehearsing dramas to be given for the big May rally....Tuesday evening, February 26, is the first two cents a day report. All captains are expected to report twenty-eight cents each for ten members....The Missionary Society, through the President, Mrs. Osborne, has been successful in getting Mr. Clyde Leroy Glass from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, who is acknowledged as being the greatest Negro pianist upon the stage today, to appear at Ebenezer Monday evening, May 1. He will be supported by a chorus of fifty voices, who will sing Burleighs, "Let Us Cheer the Way ward Traveler, "Roll Jordan, Roll," "Did My Lord Deliver Daniel" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot." Two hundred seats will be reserved for patrons who are lovers of music and interested in the great advancement of the Negro in Art. If you desire to be one of the two hundred, call Grand 2141 and your name will be placed on the patron list. Mr. Glass is an artist; his superior has never appeared in Kansas City....Rev. W. T. Osborne was the recipient of a package of pretty useful articles from the Will --- IN MEMORIAM M. DIKE THOMAS, Late of Williams & Walker, with Broadway Beiles at Century. HANDSOME NEGRO ART. Possess Handsome Negro Paintings and sheet pictures and thereby train yourself and teach your children to admire the Negro type and color. For sale at Murdock's Photo Studio 2110 Vine Street, Phone East 1849 Bell. E AT 1512 EAST 18TH ST. great service, courteous wholesome food. JU BECOME A REGULAR ARON. ent of that veteran and popular William McKnight. ED ON MOMENT'S NOTICE. East 1099. ing Worker Club of Omaha, who remembered that his birthday was February 12th. Ebenezer Sunday School is now a permanent interesting feature. The classes have all increased with substantial members and the Superintendent, Mrs. Anna Roberts, is leaving no effort and plan overlooked to make it one of the greatest Sunday Schools in Kansas City. She is strongly supported by Rev. and Mrs. Osborne, who are lending every assistance to make the Sunday School a success....You and your friends are always welcome to all of the services at Ebenezer....Mrs. J. C. C. Owens and Mrs. Nannie Owens were among the visitors at Ebenezer Sunday, also Mesdames Jessie Novell, Drew and Braxton. McLAIN—WILSON WEDDING Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Lillian E. McLain of Camden, S. C., to Lieutenant Rosko J. Wilson at Camp Funston, Kansas, Tuesday February 12. Miss McLain is the daughter of the late Geo. W. McLain of Camden, S. C., and a sister of Mrs. Daisy McLain Bulkley, the only Colored Field Secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the M. E. Church and a cousin of Dr. Sidney E. Johnson of this city. Lieutèdant Wilson is a son of the late Dr. J. E. Wilson who for a number of years was postmaster of Florence, S. C., and at the time of his death was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C. Lieut. Wilson is a graduate of the Collegiate Department of Claflin University and a graduate of the Medical Department of Howard University of Washington, D. C. For several years he practiced his profession at his native home and entered the training camp at Fort Des Moines, Ia., last June and was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps October 5 He is now stationed with the 92nd Division at Camp Funston, aKnsas, where they will be at home after the 26th. --- THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. KANSAS CITY, KAS. By Sadie L. Rodgers. Mrs. Zenobia Nelson of 730 New Jersey, who has been seriously ill, is better at this writing. Mr. Tim Roberts, of 506 Nebraska Ave., is ill. Miss Harriett Hughes, of 849 Everett Ave., is ill with LaGrippe. The Rosebud Junior Missionary Society will meet Monday evening at Miss Willa Jefferson's. All girls from thirteen to eighteen are invited to come. The Y. W. C. A. has regained and started out with renewed energy. Mrs. E. J. Patterson was elected president. The Douglass Hospital has elected a new board and Mrs. Cora Herrenton was elected President. Rev. J. F. Griffin has returned from the south lands. While there, he attended the Bishop's council. Mrs. Lucy Herman, of 322 Troup, was very much indisposed last week. Mr. Gorman, of 904 Walker, is confined to his bed, suffering with asthma. Mrs. Rachel Peoples, of 842 Oakland, Ave., is very ill. See Madam A. Moore for special rates in piano lessons. Phone, Bell East 5407. The services at Eighth St. Baptist Church were very inspiring; they were well attended all day. There was one addition to the night services and the finance was very good. The young preachers and the Mission Circle has special services at three o'clock. A Missionary sermon was preached by Mr. L. Hayden, which was very good; there were two other good sermons preached and the Mission Circle rendered a very good program in connection. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will celebrate Dr. Du Bois's fiftieth anniversary at the Forum, Sunday. Prof. G. A. Gregg will deliver the address. Sumner Night School will furnish the music Sunday February 24th, at the Citizens Forum. Mr. Harvey, a successful farmer near Lawrence, Kas., will make the principal address Good music assured. Mrs. Anna E. Crump, 705 Georgia Avenue very pleasantly entertained twenty eight ladies including the Plesure Seekers Social Club with a George Washington Musical last eWrnesday afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00 o'clock. The color scheme was blue and white and after the regular routine of business, a dainty and delicious luncheon was served. Miss Leah Crump rendered several musical selections and was presented a beautiful pocket book by the Club. When you buy flour and are compelled at the same time to purchase an equal number of pounds of some cereal or cereals, it is a blessing in disguise, for you and for the world. Like a good American, do it willingly because you are helping to feed the hungry people of Europe and our soldiers, some of whom may be your "brother." FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE BEST LETTER. Very shortly there will appear in the Colored newspapers a series of short articles entitled "Business League Boosters." As the title suggests, the discussions will be confined to matters such as advertising, selling, business methods, and other subjects of interest to National Negro Business League members and business men generally. In order to secure the very best material for this series, I am asking the readers of this paper to write me a letter relating some interesting experience they have had in dealing with Negro merchants. If the letters are praise, all the better, but if it is necessary to criticise, do so, but be sure that the criticism is wholly confined to an experience which exhibits some principle in merchandising. If letters are critical, please avoid names as far as expedient without sacrificing clarity. All letters must be signed but names of writers will not be published without their written consent. The contest is open to everyone and there are no conditions except that the letters should not exceed 30 words and should be in my hands anytime before March 20th, 1918. For the best and most interesting letter submitted the sum of $5.00 will be sent to the writer. Address your letter to: Albon L. Holsey, Assistant Secretary, The National Negro Business League, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. When you are at the market, in the kitchen, or at the dinner table, what are you doing to help win this war? Pianos and Victrolas Easiest Place to Buy is THE JONES STORE CO 3rd Floor 12th & Main Sts. A. H. DR. LON M. TILLMAN. Dr. L. M. Tillman desires to announce to his many patrons and friends that he is now located in his own building at the northwest corner of 17th and Lydia avenue where he will be pleased to meet his patients and friends. Bell phone Grand 3843. Eyes Examined If you have discovered that you cannot see so well as you once did, or are troubled with headaches, or eye strain, come to us and we will examine your eyes and tell you whether you need Glasses or not. Broken Lenses Duplicated in Shortest Possible Time. ALCO OPTICAL CO 1103 Walnut St. Both Phones Cheap John's Furniture Co. NEW AND SECOND HAND GOODS Bought, Sold, Exchanged TERMS IF DESIRED Bell Phone East 3851 2224 Vine Street Kansas City, Mo. FOR STEAM-HEATED TAXI Call E. 4154 DAVID ALLEN, 2313 Highland Ave. THE FIRST TREATMENT OF PORO Given free for 30 days by Mrs. A. B. Holt. PORO HAIR DRESSER. Call at 934 Everett Street Kansas City, Kansas. Bell phone West 2955. A. B. HOLT, Poro Hair Dresser. MME A. MOORE Teacher of Piano and Voice Bell Phone East 5407 Alpha Apartments 22d and Paseo Service AND Satisfaction are what you get when you patronize C. A. FRANKLIN THE PRINTER 1309 East 18th St Bell Phone Grand 2988 Coal and Feed Don't wait—Order your Coal now. Full Weight—Quick Delivery. PAYNE COAL CO. 1902 Vine St. Phones, Home East 4132—Bell East 559 DIKE THOMAS STATE OF WILLIAMS & WALKER with ROADWAY BELLE Have Reserved Seats for Colored Pe E HIM JASS IT UP---SH NEED NOW VE A DARK SK When a few applications of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER will make your skin shades lighter. es it whiten dark or brown skin, but it clears s moving all blemishes and leaving the skin fa LATE OF WILLIAMS & WALKER BROADWAY BELLES We have Reserved Seats for Colored People SEE HIM JASS IT UP---SEE Not only does it whiten dark or brown skin, but it clears sallow complexions, removing all blemishes and leaving the skin fair and soft. By using Dr. Palmer's SKIN WHITENER SOAP you can keep your skin this way. DR FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER RECOMMENDED AS A SKIN BLEACH AND FOR CLEANSING THE COMPLEXION WHITENER SALLOW SKIN OR DARK SKIN DR FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER SOAP A MEDICINA SOAP WITH CLEANSING PRICE $2.00 CENTS DR FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER SOAP 15 PARTICULARLY QUARTETTED SENSITIVE DILICATE SKIN, BEING CLEANSING, SOFTMING AND HEALING. Dr.Fred Palmer's SKIN WHITENER The following letter is a sample testifying to the worth of DR. FR. Jacobs Pharmacy Co., Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen Enclosed find 50c for which I of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER SOAP, as the other and I would really hate to go wilt so much good. Before I began to use it last heads and pimples I could hard PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER, smooth as velvet. letter is a sample of the hundreds we read in the worth of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WASH Garmachy Co., Doyle, Ga., Jas lanta, Ga. Gentlemen: need find 50c for which send me by return to FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER and one BER SOAP, as the other which I ordered some time could really hate to go without a single minute, it good. began to use it last autumn, my face was so dimplems I could hardly manage it. Then I tried 'S SKIN WHITENER, and now my face is just svelt. Yours truly, ESSIE M The following letter is a sample of the hundreds we receive daily, testifying to the worth of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER. Jacobs Pharmacy Co. Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen: Enclosed find 50c for which please send me by return mail one box of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER and one box of SKIN WHITENER SOAP, as the other which I ordered some time ago is out, and I would really hate to go without it a single minute, it does my face so much good. Before I began to use it last autumn, my face was so full of black-heads and pimples I could hardly manage it. Then I tried DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER, and now my face is just as soft and smooth as velvet. Yours truly, ESSIE M. TERRY. DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS Sold by druggists or sent direct for 25clpostpaid. Write JACOBS' PHARMACY CO. Atlanta, Ga. druggists or sent direct for 25c|postpaid S' PHARMACY CO. Atlan Sold by druggists or sent direct for 25clpostpaid. Write AGENTS WANTED WRITE FOR OUR LIBERAL TERMS The Spotle (All that its 23 WEST 1 The best place in Kansa some, Sat The Spotless Kitch (All that its name implies) 3 WEST 13th STREET place in Kansas City for a Clean some, Satisfying Meal The best place in Kansas City for a Clean, Wholesome, Satisfying Meal Special Dinner and Lunch at Noon for those employed down town MRS. PEARL RILEY, Manager MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor THE DRUG ST Service and Quality WHITE-WOOD Bring Your Prescription of Absolute Accuracy OUR STOCK IS COM N. W. Corner 19th and W PHONES—HOME DRUG STORE BEAUTY service and Quality are Paramount at the TE-WOOD DRUG ST Your Prescriptions to us and be the Absolute Accuracy and Fair Treatment STOCK IS COMPLETE IN ALL Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Trans PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 6 THE DRUG STORE BEAUTIFUL WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE Bring Your Prescriptions to us and be assured of Absolute Accuracy and Fair Treatment. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE IN ALL LINES N. W. Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. LYRIC HALL FOR RENT For All Entertainments — See — Hours: to 9 a. m., 12 to 1 p. m. Hall phones, Home Main 2783, Bell Grand 3352. Residence, 2624 Euclid Ave. Res. Phone, Bell East 3429 W. RATES REASONABLE. --- Week of Feb. 24 THOMAS WILLIAMS & WALKER with WAY BELLES Seats for Colored People ASS IT UP---SEE NOW TO DARK SKIN New applications of D PALMER'S WHITENER or skin shades lighter. or brown skin, but it clears sallow com- mes and leaving the skin fair and soft. DR FRED PALMER'S Skin Whitener Soap A MEDICINAL SOAP. FOR SENSITIVE DELICATE SKIN, BEING CLEANSING, SOOTHING AND HEALING. DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER SOAP IS PARTICULARLY AMPLED FOR SENSITIVE DELICATE SKIN, BEING CLEANSING, SOOTHING AND HEALING. Dr. Fred Palmer's SKIN WHITENER SOAP AMPLE OF the hundreds we receive daily, FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER. Doyle, Ga., Jan. 28, 1918. Each please send me by return mail one box SKIN WHITENER and one box SKIN other which I ordered some time ago is out, without it a single minute, it does my face last autumn, my face was so full of black- arily manage it. Then I tried DR. FRED GR, and now my face is just as soft and Yours truly, ESSIE M. TERRY. CEPT IMITATIONS at direct for 25¢ postpaid. Write CY CO. Atlanta, Ga. less Kitchen (its name implies) 13th STREET Kansas City for a Clean, Whole- satisfying Meal MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor STORE BEAUTIFUL city are Paramount at the DRUG STORE options to us and be assured racy and Fair Treatment. COMPLETE IN ALL LINES Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) E EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. MILK MILK MILK The $16.45 Suit By VINCENT G. PERRY (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The window of the "Leading Gents' Furnishing Store" of the city presented a display that gladdened the hearts of bargain hunters. David Laird could not be classed as a bargain hunter, but just the same he stopped in front of the window and looked over the suits displayed. They were all marked down to $16.45. They looked very well on the dummies and appeared worth the price. It was for a new suit he had come downtown, and these were new suits—so that was all he cared, and he went in to purchase one. Walter Mitchell, manager of the store and a personal friend of David's, got away from the bargain hunter, who had been debating for over an hour on which suit would wear longest and which would fade soonest, and made for Dave. "I want a suit, Walt," Dave announced, after he had been welcomed by Mitchell. "Come right upstairs to our fitting department. We have some splendid new cloth in, and our tailors can have a suit made up in record time when they know it is for you. You are the best advertisement they have." Mitchell started to lead the way, but Dave put a restraining hand on his shoulder. "No, Walt; I want a ready-made suit—one of those $16.45 ones in the window," he said. "What?" Mitchell asked in surprise. "A sixteen-forty-five suit for you? You're joking!" But Dave assured him he was not. "Well, Dave, you always have had the name of being the best-dressed man at the club, and the most particular. What will Miss Forsythe say about you appearing in a cheap suit?" Mitchell was not quite convinced of Dave's sincerity. "It won't make any difference to Hester. Why should it? You didn't see me at her house last night, did you?" Dave's injured tone showed where the contention lay. "No, but I thought you were out of town. I didn't think it possible that Hester and you could, ever become as angry at one another as all that. Your little quarrels always seem to patch up quicker and easier than anyone else." "Well, there is no sign of this one patching up, and I hope it never does. Hester has gone too far this time," Dave said decidedly. "How about the suit?" Dave did not take long in choosing a suit. Almost the first one he tried on fitted him, and he ordered it sent to his apartment. After he had gone out Mitchell looked after him, perplexed. "Whatever has got into Dave Laird to wear a cheap suit, I don't know. Gad, though, even it looked good on him," he said to himself. "I'll bet this quarrel is the cause of the whole thing. I've heard of fellows going to the dogs just over a quarrel with some girl, and this is about the first step down for Dave." Dave arrived at his apartment before the suit. It was not from necessity he had bought the suit, but from force of habit. It had been his custom to buy a new suit the first of every month, and he was going to find the habit hard to break. "I'm never going to be extravagant again," he said to himself as he went through his wardrobe. "I'll send all these clothes to the Old People's home. Heavens, wouldn't some old man look great in this pinch-back; it cost $65, and doesn't look much at that!" The idea of the old man in his smart suit appealed to Dave's sense of humor and he laughed for the first time in two days. Mitchell surmised correctly when he thought Hester was the cause of Dave's cheap purchase. Dave had always had more money than he knew what to do with, and had little idea how to make himself really miserable. Changing his appearance and "going on the rocks," he thought, would be the most terrible things that could happen to him and would affect Hester most. But as he sat down and thought it over it crossed his mind that perhaps after all he wasn't reaching the desired end. "I think I'll be a hermit," he said aloud. Buster his pet Boston terrier, came over to him at the sound of his voice. "Nobody loves me now." The dog licked his hand by way of contradiction. Dave laughed a little more cheerily. A knock on the door at the foot of his stairs announced the arrival of the suit. Dave opened the parcel and took out the suit. It wasn't so bad, he decided, but it was certainly different from the class of clothes he was accustomed to wearing. What would clothes matter, anyway, when there was no one to admire them? He would give all his money to charities, and be a martyr in the true sense of the word. The more he looked at the suit the more the thought of what Hester would think of it cropped up in his mind. It didn't look bad from a distance, but a close inspection showed the poor quality of the goods, he saw when he tried it on. It wouldn't be likely that Hester would ever get close enough to him to see its defects. That was the worst of it. He could not help stopping to ad- mire his stalwart figure as it appeared in the mirror. The thought crept into his mind that it would not be so hard to find a girl to take Hester's place, but he quickly dispelled it. No, no girl could ever take Hester's place. Unconsciously his hand went into the wide pocket of the coat. His fingers touched a stiff piece of paper and he brought out an envelope. Very unconcernedly he looked at it. His name was written on it. He opened it quickly, for it was Hester's writing. He took out the short note and read it hurriedly: "Dave Denr—I am sorry. It was all my fault and I can't do without you. When I said you couldn't come to the party I didn't mean it at all, and I will be heart-broken if you don't come. With kisses. HESTER." Dave glanced at the date hurriedly. It was two days old. She had written it the day before the party. He hurried to the telephone and was talking to Hester before he had time to think twice. "Hester, will you ever forgive me? I just got your note," he said. "Just got it now, Dave—how can that be? Why, it was posted two days ago. I can't forgive you. You made me so miserable that my party was a failure. The girls all noticed your absence and whispered about it. You did it just to punish me, didn't you, Dave?" There was the same doubting tone that had been the cause of most of their quarrels, but Dave didn't notice it. "I'm coming right up," he said, and hung up the receiver before she had an opportunity to refuse him the privilege. Hester was at the door to meet him, "I know it all now," were the words she greeted him with after they got inside. "But how did you get that letter? Did Walter Mitchell find it and give it to you? I gave the note to father's new secretary to post for me. He remembered that he left it in the suit of clothes he was wearing at the time, and has since returned the suit to Mitchell's because it was a poor fit. Walter found it?" "But Walter didn't find it," laughed Dave. "I found it in the pocket of this suit—a $16.45 one. How do you like it?" "It's the one dad's secretary had!" she gasped. "What in the world are you doing in a $16.45 suit?" "Do you think I look terrible in it?" he asked with a smile. "You look nice in anything," she smiled back; "but I hope they'll take it back, for you look better in your other ones." "Well, before I do I think I had better empty the pockets. The first thing I'll take out will be this marriage license. I secured it on the way here. We had better not wait much longer. Goodness knows what our next quarrel will lead to!" She looked over the license, then looked up with a smile and said: "I'm through with quarrels." Children Not Empty. The pseudo-science of education under which most of us were brought up assumed that children were empty vessels to be filled by knowledge, observes the New Republic. Teachers and parents still feel that to cut down an arithmetic hour to 45 minutes is to deprive the child of a fourth of his education. But children are not empty vessels, nor are they wound up and set running on a track by the teacher. They are pushing wills and desires and curiosities. They are living, growing things, and they need nothing so much as a place where they tan grow. They live as wholes far more than older people do, and they cannot be made to become minds and minds alone for four or five hours a day; that is, without stultification. The school forgets that we are only accidentally intellectual, that our other impulses are far more imperious. Because a teacher can secure outward order it does not mean that she has harmonized the child's personality. She has not the least clew to riot or apathy or delusion that may be going on inside him. She may easily become a drill sergeant, but she must not think that she has thereby become an educational scientist. Japan Likes Fat Men. In this country when a man of average height takes on girth until his weight runs up to 300 pounds or so, his friends have grave doubts about his condition and advise him to diet in order to bring back a slim elegance of figure, notes a writer. In Japan the contrary is true. If a man can carry 300 pounds of flesh with any agility he is of the material from which heroes are manufactured, and if he can work up to the 400 or 475-pound notch, and becomes a wrestler, he is in the running for the championship. Wrestling is to the Japanese what boxing is to us, and more. The populace goes crazy over it, and the magnates of the big game handle great sums in the way of gate receipts. The Tokyo Wrestling association controls the flower of Japan's heavyweights, and at its head is a 350-pound veteran, T. Dewanonni, the holder of the championship for 11 years in succession—a record feat. Tempus Fugit! A trainload of newly drafted men reached their cantonment late in the afternoon. By the time they had passed through the receiving station and the hands of the doctors, it was nearly midnight. Several of them were awakened at four o'clock the following morning to assist the cooks in preparing breakfast. As one well-built, sleepy drafted man got to his feet, he stretched and yawned: "It doesn't take long to spend a night in the army."—Everybody's Magazine THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. Frank Clements, Owner of Team, Comes to Rescue of Chicago Babies During Snow Blockade International Film Service Following the announcement that thousands of Chicago mothers were bewailing the fact that they had no milk for their infants as a result of the recent blizzards which filled all Chicago streets, making many impassable, "The Reindeer Man" ably played the part of the "Good Samaritan," and delivered milk to many homes and thus provided food for the hungry tots. The reindeer got about with almost as much ease as in normal times. LAYING HENS NEED FRESH AIR The first three months of the year are the months that demand efficient poultry house ventilation if the stock is to be healthy and if egg production is to be kept at a maximum, according to the poultry authorities at the New York state college of agriculture. Proof of insufficient ventilation usually is found in damp or frosted walls, damp litter, close or impure air, flock with consequent low winter egg production. The body of the hen constantly gives off moisture, and this accumulates unless there is enough movement of the air to carry it away. Dampness fosters colds, and when a cold is contracted, the body is too weak to resist the attack of a contagious disease such as roup. It is stated further that the house should at no time be tightly closed. The exercise of judgment, and a few trials, will show how much to leave the windows open at night. Windows should be removable so that they can be taken out during the day, if it is not storming. Experience indicates that the birds will not suffer from the cold if they are not in a draft, if they are kept working, and if they are not overfed. Plenty of air, may best be had by tilting windows in at the top, as this will not let in the rain nor put drafts directly on the floor. There should be a wide board at each edge of the window to keep the rain out; a strip of wood, sash-plug, or nail on this strip will hold the window at any desired angle. Both upper and lower sash, where there are two, should be arranged in this way to get the best circulation. Origin of the Ukulele. There are 20,000 Portuguese in the Hawaiian islands, and it is charged that these people, and not the natives, are responsible for the ukulele. It has long been a matter of common knowledge that the instrument was introduced into the islands by a Portuguese, but that is not really the question of greatest moment. So long as the ukulele was confined to Hawaii it was almost as harmless as a banjo, the guitar, or the mandolin. Nobody then had a word to say against it. The point that needs to be celared up is: Where lies the responsibility for introducing it, not into Hawaii, but into the United States?—Christian Science Monitor. Things Worth Knowing. A new typewriter attachment feeds a fresh sheet of paper into the machine as the written one is removed. About 23,000,000 knives and forks and 11,000,000 spoons have been supplied to the allies in France since the commencement of the war. A new tea wagon has an electrical connection for keeping edibles as hot as may be desired. A new fire hose nozzle is capable of many adjustments by which the efficiency of the stream is greatly increased. The laws of this country offer no protection to the purchaser of materials. Therefore to protect themselves, women should know a few practical tests to determine the content and value of materials. The object in making these tests is to discover if cloth is adulterated, artificially dressed or misrepresented in any way. The following tests from Extension Circular 41, Principles of Sewing, University of Missouri college of agriculture, Columbia, may be used in any home: 1. If the water is dropped on cotton and linen goods, the moisture spreads, the moisture spreads rapidly on linen but will remain unabsorbed on the cotton for some time. This is not always a safe test as cotton and linen are often heavily sized with dressing, which prevents the water from being absorbed. 2. A much safer test may be made by dropping glycerine on cotton and linen. Linen will become transparent, but cotton will not be affected. 3. Crushing cotton and linen materials in the hands will show the difference in the materials, as linen wrinkles more than cotton. 4. Cotton and wool mixtures when moistened wrinkle more than pure wool materials. 5. Material may be tested by pulling out threads and examining the ends. Cotton fibers are short with fuzzy ends, while linen fibers are long, with uneven ends, usually pointed. Wool fibers are short, kinky and stiff; fibers of reeled silk are long, straight and lustrous, while fibers of spun silk are short and easily broken. 6. Sizing may be discovered by rubbing the material between the Lands to see if the dressing will come out. Washing will also remove dressing. 7. Each fiber has a characteristic burning test which may be easily distinguished. a. Cotton burns quickly with flame. b. Linen burns like cotton, but is not inflammable, as it has less oil in the fiber and less air in the woven cloth. c. Wool burns slowly, giving off an odor like burnt feathers and leaves a gummy residue. d. Silk burns more slowly and with less odor than wool. It leaves a crisp ash. Silk leaves more ash when weighted. Bee Farmers Declare Honey Has the Food Value of Meat A pound of honey or a pound of stirloin steak—which shall it be? That there is as much food value in one as in another has been proved at the bee farm at the University of Wisconsin. To emphasize the importance of promoting beekeeping in Wisconsin as a profitable business pursuit, the university extends its endeavors to the beekeepers of the state, in addition to the instruction given the students in agriculture in classes. Wisconsin annually produces about 1,500 tone of choice honey, but the beekeeping industry has not advanced to the point of recognition as a distinct specialized branch of agriculture, although much of the undeveloped land in Wisconsin and most of the present cultivated land is not occupied as bee pasture, a majority of it offers opportunity for excellent bee "locations." Just being happy is a fine thing to do; Looking on the bright side, rather than the blue; Sad or sunny musing is largely in the choosing And just being happy is brave work and true. Food for the Family. To save meat we must use more poultry, rabbits, fish and other sea food as our army, the armies of our allies and the women and children "over there" must have food, and there can only be food enough if America provides it. If each person in the United States saved one pound of sugar a year it would make 50 train loads of 50 cars each, each car carrying 50,000 pounds of sugar; that would help some in supplying the demand for sugar, would it not? Let us not forget that a very small bit multiplied by a hundred million is enormous in result, that it leaves us stunned with its magnitude. Baltimore Chicken. Cut up the well cleaned chicken into serving size pieces, roll in highly seasoned flour and put into a hot frying pan with two or three tablespoonfuls of olive or any sweet corn oil, brown then finish cooking slowly either on the stove or in the oven. Serve with corn fritters. Potato Soup. Cut five medium sized potatoes in cubes, slice an onion and three pieces of the outside of celery together and mash with a potato masher, put through a sleeve and add a cupful of thin white sauce, using a tablespoonful of flour and a tablespoonful of butter cooked together, then a cupful of milk and seasonings of salt and pepper. This makes enough for four servings. War Biscuits. Take five ounces each of oatmeal and white cornmeal; three ounces each of butter and sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder, and one egg. Melt the butter and work in the dry ingredients, roll as thin as possible and make into biscuits. Bake in a slow oven until a light brown. Bread Cake. Take two cupfuls of flour, a half teaspoonful of salt, two and a half tablespoonfuls of sugar, eight teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half cupful of milk, a fourth of a cupful of water, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Spread over the top, two and a half tablespoonfuls of flour, five tablespoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and four tablespoonfuls of oleomargarine or other butter substitute. Mix the ingredients and sprinkle over the top as it goes into the oven. The efficiency with which the householder operates his heating plant depends mainly upon the type of furnace and the conditions under which it is installed and operated. In the interests of fuel conservation during the present extension division, co-operating with the state council of defense, puts out the following suggestion: 1. The base of the heater must be tight and must make an air-tight connection with the floor so that no air can leak into the ash pit. 2. The chimney and all connections into it must be tight. A burning match or candle held close to all joints will indicate leaks. 3. The chimney should be high enough. The top should be at least 2 feet above around surrounding objects. 4. The smoke pipe from the furnace to the chimney should be straight, short, and should grade up to the chimney. 5. The grates must not be warped, must move easily and should have no holes or broken places for unburned coal to drop through. 6. All basement piping, heater surfaces and smoke pipes should be covered with asbestos covering. 7. A shut-off damper should be provided in the smoke pipe to control the intensity of the chimney draft and a check draft damper is required in the smoke pipe beyond the shut-off damper. 8. There should be a lift or slide damper in the fire door and a draft damper in the ash pit door. 9. For highest efficiency, some type of automatic draft regulator such as a thermostat should be provided. 10. All doors and windows in the house should be as tight as possible. I Will Be Worthy of It. I may not reach the heights I seek, My untried strength may fall me, Or half way up the mountain peak Fierce tempests may assail me. But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain, I will be worthy of it. I may not triumph in success, Despite my earnest labor; I may not grasp results that bless The efforts of my neighbor— But though my goal I never see, This thought shall always dwell with me, I will be worthy of it. The golden glory of love's light May never fall on my way. My path may always lead through night Like some deserted byway. Though life's dearest joy I miss, There lies a nameless strength in this— I will be worthy of it. The Housewife and the War (Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) POTATOES. 42,536,000 BUSHELS-EAT THEM. POTATOES New Ways Help You Consume Your Share of This Plentiful Food—Try a Potato Pie (Left) or Potato Puffs (Right) as Described Below. EAT LIBERALLY OF POTATO CROP War Duty to Save Large Yield of Tubers by Eating Them. HOW ALL PEOPLE CAN HELP Heavy Loss of This Perishable Food May Result if Americans Do Not You may know it already, but it will bear repetition now when it is important that everybody eat liberally of the big potato crop; that potatoes are an excellent food for your body; that they are good fuel; that one medium-sized potato gives you as much starch as two slices of bread; that, like other vegetables, they give you salts which you need to build and renew all the parts of your body and keep it in order. Potatoes furnish starch which burns in your muscles to let you work, much as the gasoline burns in an automobile engine to make the car go. When you have potatoes for a meal you need less bread. Potatoes can save wheat. An old king is said to have tested each cook before hiring him by asking Use Sweet Fruits. Sugar consumption in many households can be easily lowered not only by giving preference to dishes which contain little sugar or with which sugar is not usually served, but also by the use of sweet fruits. For instance, fresh fruits or baked apples may serve instead of sweet puddings, or a salad in place of dessert. Sweet, dried fruits such as dates, raisins or figs served with breakfast cereals will reduce the sugar needs. him to boil a potato. Even the best potato can be spilled by a poor cook. To boil them so that they will be "fit for a king," drop the unpeeled potatoes into boiling salted water and cook 20 to 30 minutes. Drain the water off at once. If they are cooked too long or allowed to stand in the water they get soggy. Peeling Is Wasteful. If you peel the potatoes before cooking them you will waste time and potatoes both. You may throw away a sixth or even a quarter of the good part of the potato with the skins. Also, if the potatoes aren't covered up by the skins while cooking, some of the valuable material will soak out into the water. Even very small potatoes can be economically used, if they are boiled in their skins. For best mashed potatoes: Peel the boiled potatoes, mash and beat until very light, adding salt, butter or oleo-margarine and hot milk, a half cup of milk to six potatoes. Potato Sausages. 1 cupful mashed po- $1 \frac{1}{2}$ teaspoonfuls tatous 1 cupful ground $1 \frac{1}{2}$ teaspoonful pepp- nent, fish, or meat. pep 1 egg, well beaten. Salt bacon, or other fat. Mix the mashed potatoes and sea- sonings with the ground nuts, fish or meat. Add beaten egg. Form into little cakes of sausages, roll in flour and place in greased pan with a small piece of fat or salt pork on each sau- POTATOES 28 WAYS DO YOU KNOW OTHERS? It is said that there are more than 100 ways to cook potatoes, from the primitive (and still probably the best) methods of boiling or baking with the skins on, to the most complex and seasoned dishes. Here are some of the ways known to the United States department of agriculture. Have you tried them all, or do you know about as many more? Boiled Plain fried Chips French fried Lyonnaise Gauffre Mashed Souffle Pan browned Riced Salad In hash In chowders Biscuits Baked Saute Shoestrings Creamed Hashed brown Croquettes Mashed fried Au gratin Stuffed Soups In fish cakes In stews In light bread In meat pie crust sage. Bake in a fairly hot oven until brown. Scalloped Potatoes and Cheese. Arrange a layer of sliced raw or boiled potatoes in greased baking dish and sprinkle with grated cheese and a little flour. Repeat until dish is nearly full. Pour milk over the whole, about one-half cupful to every three potatoes. Skim milk is good. Bake in a moderate oven until done. The length of time required depends upon whether the potatoes are raw or boiled and whether the baking dish used is deep or shallow. Boiled potatoes baked in a shallow dish will take only 20 minutes. Raw potatoes in a deep dish may take as much as one and one-half hours. Potato Puffs. 1 cupful hot mashed and a dash of pap- potatoes, well sea-rika. 1 egg. leached fine. Beat yolk into the mashed potatoes and add seasonings. Beat the white of egg very stiff and fold into the potatoes. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake until a golden brown. Shepherd's Pie. Grease a baking dish; cover the bottom with mashed potatoes. Add minced meat or fish seasoned well and mixed with the thickened meat stock or with white sauce. Pile the mashed potatoes lightly over the top to cover. Bake in oven 20 to 30 minutes until a delicate brown on top. RECORD POTATO CROP MUST BE CONSUMED OR WASTED Our potato crop last year is estimated to have been 442,536,000 bushels—the largest ever produced in the United States. This crop cannot be carried over the 1918 season. It must be consumed or wasted. The food situation throughout the world demands that it be consumed effectively to relieve the existing strain on the supply of cereals. It is the one great food resource of the world upon which there is now danger of a heavy loss. The department of agriculture is of the opinion that the situation demands that farmers sell freely; that the larger dealers move their stocks rapidly; that the retailer content himself with the smallest possible margin of profit, realizing that he is now the most important factor in speeding up potato consumption; and that consumers buy and eat liberally of this plentiful food. How War; HasMade President aRecluse <a By THEODORE TILLER. (In New York Sun.) AR has made almost a rectuse ot the president. It has closed the White House to all save the really ‘mpor- vee tant visitors, increased the work of the president and his staff fully 50 per cent and imposed upon Woodrow Wilson responsibilities and tasks heavier than those resting on any crowned head. ‘The comparative {solation of the man tn the White House 1s not-an entirely new thing. War has merely accentuated the normal enforced 1so- lation of the chief executive. President Taft poke of such {solation one day in a rather plain- tive little speech before the Washington newspa- per correspondents, More than three years ago, before Europe went to war, President Wilson, addressing these same correspondents, spoke of the stately restraints of the office of president. Mr. Taft regretted that “nobody drops in” at the White House. He missed nelghborly visits, chats. Everybody comes by engagement, com- plained the jovial Mr, Taft. This story of a wartime president will reveal how few, even by engagement, come to the White House nowadays, and why President Wilson has become a near recluse because of war. Also it should show how Secretary Tumulty and his assistants, Rudolph Forster and “Tom” Brahany, are striving harder each day to keep Uttle worries from the president and to save his strength und Judgment for vital things. Practically all business with the president 1s now transacted in his study at the White House. Except on “cabinet days" he does not use the executive offices, These offices were bullt by Afrection of Theodore Roosevelt so that the White House proper might be used only for living and octal purposes. President Wilson began the steady use of the White House library and study about the time of the breach with Germany, when war seemed but ‘@ question of weeks. It was then that the pres!- dent began to tighten up on his engagements and to conserve his energy for the major problems of armed neutrality and impending war. ‘The engagement list of the president nowadays will average three to five names. Before the war, or rather before the International situation demanded so much of his time, It was not uncom- mon to find a dozen to twenty names on the en- gagement sheet that lies on his desk. Senators and representatives, public officials and citizens of prominence were able to get to the president during peace. He found time to see the newspaper correspondents occasionally, to greet the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion on their annual visit to Washington, to shake hands with delegations of schoolgirls and boys’ corn clubs and to exchange pleasantries with bashful constituents presented by members of congress. War his changed all this. The president ean now see but few senators and representatives and his visitors from Capitol Hill are almost ex- clusively men Interested {n important legislation immediately before the congress. Secretary Tumulty Is, and must be, the buffer between the President and the legislator who wants to air a pet theory or present a patronage matter. Under the stress Secretary Tumulty himself sees the president two or three times a week. ‘Time was when Mr, Tumulty saw “the Governor” —Tunmulty still calls him that—a dozen times a day, To save the thme of the president com- munication between the executive offices and Mr. Wilson's desk is today largely made by memoran- da. ‘The secretary finds that the written note presents a matter concisely, requires less of the president's attention and obviates extended con- versations, ‘These memoranda are written by Tumulty and sent direct to the president by special messen- ger. To important papers are attached red cards marked “special” or “immediate,” and the pres- ident knows upon receipt that something requires hfs prompt attention. Suppose that a senator calls and seeks to pour {nto the president's ear some complaint about patronage, ‘The president, engaged in the con- duct of a great war, cannot well give a half houp’s time to the settlement of a dispute over a collectorship.. Secretary Tumnulty gets all. the facts, dictates a memorandum and the president is soon advised about as follows: “Dear Governor: Senator Blank called and desired to see you. He wants to protest against the reported appronehing appointment of John Doe as collector of the port at —r. He re- gurds Doe as unfitted for the place and wants to give his reasons, I suggest that you write the senator saying the, appointment has not been made and you will be glad to have a letter from him advising you confidentially in the premises.” ‘This sort of a memorandum fs not infrequently followed by presidential action of the kind sug- gested, The president has been saved the trouble of Ustening to the complaint of the senator after verbal recitation of ft to Secretary Tumulty, If Secretary Tumulty had gone personally to see the president the latter would have been obliged to make a written memorandum substantially like that briefed for his consideration by the sec- retary-—for the president cannot carry everything in his head. ’ if Memoranda relating to a great varlety of sub- Jects, minor and major, pass between the desks of president and secretary daily. If there ts a sews story or an editoria! which Tumulty feelr HE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 19 Ji =e 2 een ae i a pees oy rea wy! rm yee eae, ; 24 a | a a : “ab opt Ye bs y Os if ) Aresident : : is WP le : a ie : a | ‘ . | ye oe y | o ERAS IN oe pS Sa VE £ os Ln | : & Ph ib i Ss 1 ee "oe 2 Sy ae) eS ee Pe | CA oe 2 ae decretary Jumulty at His Desk the president sholild see a memorandum ts sent Treading something like this: “The president may be interested in this edi- torial from the ——. I invite your attention particularly to the underscored paragraph.” Or a delegation may call at the executive offices seeking the president's aid in some project, such as the adjustment of a labor dispute. The story {s heard by Tumulty and briefed by him in a note for the president. Sometimes the memo- randum {s merely qne of recital;, again the sec- retary will suggest that the earnestness of the delegation and the story presented might justify a statement of the administration's attitude. ‘The memorandum system, used whenever pos- sible, {illustrates the departure from the peace- time routine of the White House, and the ex- traordinary methods used to save the president time, worry and strength. It is found absolutely essential. ‘The wartime day's work of the president 1s one of momentous performances embodied tn a program which reads like routine. Here is a sample day: Arises 7 a, m, Eats breakfast at 8 a, m. Goes horseback riding with Dr. Cary T. Gray- son, now a rear admiral by the president's ap- pointment or golfing with Mrs. Wilson or Doctor Grayson. Returns to the White House after recreation of an hour or so. Dictates to Charles Swem, his personal stenog- rapher, until Swem has a bookful. Fills an appointment or two before lunch. Takes lunch at 1 p. m, Fills other engagements and dictates again. . Goes automobiling late in the afternoon, Attends a theater once or twice a week. That might seem like an easy day to a man who plows from sunrise to sunset. But It's the in-between worries that count and cause the president to need every minute of rest he can take, For instance, there was a time recently when the president had before him all these major troubles at once; The Goethals-Denman shipping board row that was halting the construction of ships to combat the German submarine menace and to feed the allied armies on the battlefields of Europe. A reorganization of the purchasing and con- tracting system of the council of national de- fense. In this war the contracts of this govern- ment will run into billions of dollars, and the president 1s directly or indirectly responsible for the wise expenditure of enormous sums. Insurrection in congress against the food con- trol bill, which the president regarded as legis- lation absolutely essential for the successful con- auet of the war, The determination of a policy regarding the exemption of government clerks and others Arafted for service in France. Price fixing on steel, coal and other articles to be used in great quantities by the United States while at war. Appointments to fill vacancies in the interstate commerce commission, Complaints of questionable utterances of cer- tain German-American and other publications concerning the raising of an army, conscription and other governmental policies, Add to these troublesome questions of major Importance the thousand and one little things that skip across the desk of a president of the United States—patronage rows, applications for executive clemency, requests for Interviews, pro- tests against pending legislation, factional wran- gles within the party, demands for action con- cerning race riots and industrial troubles, the worries of impending railroad strikes—and one may gain some idea of why there Is no pence of mind for the chief exec- utlve. ‘One must. remember too thet In these war times congress has be- stowed upon Woodrow Wilson powers and fune- tions wider than those possessed by any mon- arch. He {5 empowered to commandeer ships and shipyards, to take over Industrial establish- ments and operate them, to construct a great mer- chant marine, to send millions of Americans to the trenches In France, to provide officers for an aviation service that is to expend $640,000,000, to administer the food supply of an entire na- tlon, and so on, There 1s little wonder then that Mr. Wilson has shut himself In and that domestic matters which might engage him in these times of peace now must be handled by as- sistants. For the first time in the country’s history ue ee es eke. ennat. ‘White House exhibits the seclusion of the: presi: dent. In the daytime a policeman stands guard at every gate. When night comes, soldiers with loaded guns and bayonets take places about fifty paces apart on the sidewalks surrounding the spa- clous White House grounds. ‘The soldiers have strict orders to make every one move on, ‘There {s no loitering whatever about the White House after sundown. - ‘A copy of the president's daily engagement Iist 4s furnished the policemen at the gates. When a person who has an engagement with the pres- ident shows up afoot or In automobile the gates swing open and he ts admitted to the grounds. The visitor 1s again “looked over” as he ap- proaches the entrance to the executive mansion, where two or more policemen are always on duty. No other persons are admitted to the grounds except at the west gate, {mmodiately adjoining the executive offices, Here visitors having busl- nesg with Secretary Tumulty. may gain entrance upon the proper showing. The gates to the White House were closed the day relations were severed with Germany. At the same time an order went forth denying tour- {sts and others the privilege of going through the lower "rooms of the executive manston, ‘Thou- sands of tourists have come to Washington ex- pecting to “go through” the White House, onls to be stopped by the officer at the gate. The police guard about the president when walking or riding has been doubled since the out break of war. Two motorcycle policemen clad in khaki pick up the president's automobile the moment {t swings out of the grounds onto the street. They follow within five feet of his ma: chine to and from the golf ‘Inks—or wherever else it may go. In a big automobile twenty to thirty feet to the rear ride half a dozen secret service men. So strict is the rude against admission to the ‘White House that the “special card” hours have been abolished. Heretofore it has been possible for a member of congress or an official of the government to obtain a ecard from Secretary Tumulty admitting a constituent or friend to the lower floors of the mansion. This 1s now abso lutely forbidden and there are no exceptions Those surrounding the president will take ne _ chances, Tn consequence of these restrictions the presl dent and his family are spending more time or the lower floor of the White House; they are no! confined so much to the bedrooms and rest rooms above. ‘The president and Mrs. Wilson attend com: paratively few soctal functions, Likewise social callers are few. War has virtually brought an ‘end to social activity at the White House. The president attended the state receptions given bs Secretary Lansing to the foreign commission: that recently visited this country, but he and his wife have about eliminated social activity. In discharging his many duties the presiden is using the telephone’ to an unprecedented ex tent. He confers a great deal by phone with th secretary of war and navy. Direct Ines, touch ing the White House switchboard only, connect the president's desk and those of the secretaries A plain telephone wire, with no_ switchboar whatsoever, connects the desks of the presiden and Secretary Lansing, Should the president be Interested In legislation pending at the capitol—and he generally is—h 1s more likely to talk to the leaders of the senat and house over the telephone than to request tha they come to the White House for a conference He has found that the telephone saves him bot! face to face Waterviews and letter writing. “a 10 + oe BE 2, mK 62 K + K C3 ra BLACK. JOHN §& 00009008 By Q. UNDERWOOD. BOt UNnGerstand his idiosyncrasies, ‘Trained to “go against the bit” by the heavy-handed village blacksmith from whom Casper Carson bought him, he had a mouth like gutta percha, and Jaw muscles Iike steel ropes, Nannie Carson rode him frequently and sometimes to the discomfiture of her escort, who, mounted on a horse of ordinary speed, found it difficult to keep her in sight, It was probably admiration of Miss Carson's prowess as a horsewoman and @ desire to emulate it that induced Miss Lackland to accept Jasper Car- son's offer to teach her to ride, ‘The riding lesson was given in the early morning, in order that the cen- sorious might not see and deride Miss Lackard’s inexperience, But Jasper Carson had something in his heart to say to Miss Lack- land, and he had promised himself to say {t during one of these delightful rides, It would be so ensy, he thought, to ease his soul of its burden while riding by her side. When the morning eame he found the brave resolutions of the night before had vanished. “Mayn't I ride Black John tomor- row, Mr. Carson?” said Miss Lack- land, after her sixth lesson, “Your sister, Nannie, says he 1s perfectly safe if you are along.” “Certainly you may,” said Jasper Carson, flushing with pride. So it was that when Jasper Carson rang the bell at the Lackland home that golden morning, Black John bore a sidesaddle, “Isn't he the dearest thing?” sald Miss Lackland, as they cantered along the river road which was overhung with locust trees, “He's a good old horse,” sald Jas- per Carson, “Hold your reins a trifle lower, Miss Lackland. There, that's right.” “I'm so glad I have learned to ride,” she sald. Jasper Carson tried to say: “Won't you ride through lfe with me?” Before he could speak, a ragged urchin jumped from a tree, and shriek- ed: “Yah! Yah!” Black John's nerves were as invul- nerable as his mouth, and he merely pricked his ears in disapproval, but the mare Carson rode was sensitive, She plunged forward in a mad effor to bolt, and Miss Lackland, watching with alarm and admiration, Carson's skilled management, increased th pressure on Black John's bit. Thi horse accepted this as a signal ti change his galt, and responded witl cheerful alacrity. Jasper Carson grasped the situatior Instantly and a cold chill struck to his heart. So long as the girl retained her presence of mind there was little dan: ger of her falling off, but as she sim: ply sat still and pulled on the bit Black John would turn from the rond {nto a bridle-path that led back hom and his rider would almost certain! be swept out of the saddle by thi limb of a tree, Driving his spurs deep into the Sides of his mare, Carson gave chase, Thi mare had a strain of hunting blood {r her and a good burst of speed, but Black John was 200 yards in fron when she got her stride, and the bridle path was not more than | quarter of a mile away. ‘As Black John swept around a curv in the road, Carson lost sight of hin and his fair rider. It was only 20 | yards now to the bridle-path, and th single-footer had a lead of nearly one | fourth that distance, | Urging the mare with heel, hand an || voice, Jasper Carson dashed on, curs _|ing and praying in turn. He fancle | himself standing by Miss Lackland’ | corpse, and wondered could he live af er that. ,| When Black John turned into th , | bridle path the mare's lean brown hea was at his flank. .| “Whoa, John!” shouted Carson. .| But John felt the pull at the bi »| and hearing the clatter of the mare’ | hoofs, thought it was a race, and pu | on a little more steam. y| Miss Lackland’s wrists ached, an .| she was frightened too badly to hee .| Carson's prayers to her to drop th ) | reins. Jasper Carson cursed aloud in hi | agony when he saw, 50 feet in frot | of Binck John, the thick lmb of a tre .| barely high enough for a crouchin | horseman to pass under. If Miss Lac! land struck the limb, it meant deat .| She saw It, too, and bent low In h || saddle, As she crouched she loose . | her hold on the reins, .| “Whoa, John!" shouted Carson, pul | ing up so suddenly that his mare sl | forward on her haunches, || Black John heard the command 1 the instant the pressure on the bit we t | released, and stopped in his most a .|rupt style. His head had passed u ed SOF “4 Ragu C cweele A WY g she poser ee A ee ha ag eee PSS Palenemed SSA \\: Lib late a Rn I a ae aN ge ey tk ome ipie binks AE Mg Gy oe lc ES OPN Ty gonna ET ee es et De Be Moaahainas See fila GARD LMT, ag ae Png Bae eG re Pi ee hu ash oe A Ae Saran 0 oY garg cee Encampment of Nomad Tent Dwellers. turns south to Anglicized Hong- kong, multitudinous Canton or that vivid hybrid of East and West, Shanghai, fails even to brush the strangest and most ancient mys- tery of the dragon kingdom. ‘That mystery tes in North China, an im- memorial mystery that wraps Peking like an imperial mantle, a somber northern inscrutability that enfolds the great wall as impenetrably as the mists obscuring Its turrets, writes Olive Gilbreath in Asia, It is a mys- tery so invincible that, once in a man’s blood, there is little choice left him but to follow its lure on and on, seeking its source in that hinterland still farther to the north. From the Great Wall one can gaze far over this unknown land rushing swiftly away to the north, not days but months by caravan—the great plain of Mongolia. For the man gripped by this mystery of the northland, Kalgan, the border city between China and Inner Mon- golla—five hours to the north of Peking as the Chinese train crawls— offers a convenient point of departure into Mongolia, Kalgan, lying at the foot of the pass, marks the end of the ancient caravan route between Siberia and China, Here all the wool and skins from the North are unloaded. Here is quartered a Chinese garrison against a Mongolian uprising. Here the Russian tea trader pitches his hiue tent, From here go the Russian overland mails. Here also are reload- ed the strings of camels for their re- tum to the desert. Kalgan attempts to collect Itself between a river and the pass, but for dust it might be the desert itself, Small Chinese shops crowding the main street, worn into incredible ruts by generations of cart | wheels, complete the suffocation—that ;|ts, if the wayfarer be abroad in July } | Kalgan offers no inns and the forelgn > |er must beg friends among the scat | tering missionaries or claim the hos ) | pitality of the British-American tobac |}co “mess.” But roof-trees are wid and high in those far corners, and the {hospitality is of a heart-warming | quality, such as lingers In the memory | with a rare deliciousness, You may ride into Mongolla as a free lance on horseback if you are not a pampered child of civilization. But [if you have degenerated through the |complexities of life under a roof— unable to live on strings of oatmeal [cheese and meat, and unwilling te sleep In a Mongol tent—you must be | consigned to a caravan or a litter | Our equipages were least ploturesqu of all the cholces—a small caravan 0 |Peking carts drawn not by camels | which are among the possibilities, bu : [by horses and mules with a donkey || thrown in on the side for good meas |ure. ‘The carts, larger than the usua » | blue Peking carts and padded wit! | | sacks of grain and “rutaos" of beddin; covered with heavy mats, had bee: >| drawn up within the mnd walls of th - | compound long before the first streal ot the July dawn. 1 On the Road te Urga. 1 | We are out of the city now on tha white road which crosses the plain fo * | 80 days to Urga and for 60 days t “| Irkutsk—in dry months a bowlder strewn highway, in rainy months th * | bea of a torrent which rushes dow 1) between the bluffs, carrying men an luckless caravans before it, The as cent is gradual, almost imperceptible + | Mud villages cling limpet-wise to th 5 | bluffs, the doors leading into only bur t | rows in the hillside, It is a” of deser coloring as is the desert sun,white ho' 1 | But there fs a charm in that flickerin 1 | monotonous road, like the charm of ®| peasant melody, und the call of th trail is in the alr—“over the world an : under the world.” . >| At “tiffin” we came upon one of tho: ; | charming little “genres” to be seen 0 . | ten on Enstern roadways. In the scer ., | Were an inn, mud-walled, and a cour y | also mud-walled, the entrance shade 4 | by a wide-spreading plane tree, Fro the Jower branches of the plane tr |. | hung a bird-eage; beneath it, carte a.| and coolles and hawkers of thrushe peddlers and camel-drivers sprawl t| or lounged or squatted and smoke | the blue of Chinese garments lyit ). | exquisitely cool against the bronze ,-| Chinese skins in the chiaroscuro shadow, sharply demarked from tl a | glare of the road. It stirred a stran; ‘| motion in me; perhaps an early rac , | memory, an ancient nostalgia for th <, | first home of the human race. Bi .r | there was no water for our beasts, ar we must travel two li farthertw 1, | thirds of an English mile. ‘There, | ¢ | the shadow of a doorway, we ate o first trail tiffin surrounded by hal aR ee ae ee Cee Seer or eee the road led, striking suddenly a trail that emerged onto a small plateau. The sheer thrill of that little plateau, lke a sharp upturning Chinese mir} ror! At the foot of the ascent lay » Bethlehem village. The mellow after noon sunshine reflected In a small’ pool—the whole a study In quietude. | And beyond, rushing swiftly away to |the North, our Promised Land, the | great Mongolian plain, To the Top of the World. The ascent of the next morning was’ | delayed by the appearance of a cara- | van of two-wheeled ox-carts piled with | wool, there where the pass notched the sky. But it was worth the de- lay. Whatever else slips from me through memory’s net, it will not be. those carts, for one supreme moment! dominating the world, and then, bony all things mortal, each losing the preme moment at the crest of things! and plunging down the pass, lost im) the dust below, while we ourselves! took the uptrall to the top of the world, rf The top of the world! Beyond a vision of sky and plain, magnificent | open country rushing away gloriously, |to the horizon and beyond. That {s, the feel of Mongolia—beyond; vast,| sea beyond. Something of desert! beauty lay in {ts unbroken spaces, | peace and healing and desert inscrut- ability. It was of the desert and yet, iit was not desert. Its tawny mono-| |chrome was tinged with green, soft- ened by short, sparse grass through| which a summer wind rustled, invite ing one to pleasant wanderings, The Tent Dwellers. We were now well up in fresh, uns | trammeled land. There were no fields |no houses, no villages, only an coal '|stonal encampment of black Mongol tents with its guard of dogs. | nomad’s Iand. } | ‘The black Mongol tents are mee "| layers of felt stretched on a collay | ble wicket of wood about four fe ,| high, from which spokes of wood ex- ,| tend to meet above at the top, ,| whole corded with stout ropes. Ther ;| are no windows and the entrance coi sists of one low door. Against the| ; walls of the tent stand bright chests) ‘of clothing, brass cooking vessels,! ‘| rows of cheeses, a barrel of intoxt: | cant made from sour milk, and soa Buddhist shrine, Felt end fur "| cover the earth floor and the iow dais ,| at the back which adds a Turkish look. | On a center brazier tea simmers fromm morning till night, tea drunk copious< ‘|1y with butter and salt and a handfut -| of millet, ‘The whole is overhung with! an indescribable odor, Siberian but | more so; skins, cheese, smoke, horses, | dogs, sheep, cows, tobacco, sour milk, || incense to the gods and unwashed hu- | | manity, a combination into which the || edors ef Cairo might be carried as a ; | perfume. ‘| The Mongol mother prepares thd ‘| family meal in a pot on the brazier o1 |sews cloth shoos with a long nel In one of the tents a wedding was fi prospect—a wedding which consists of the bridegroom's dashing up. with s t group of friends on the swiftest horses r/ obtainable and carrying off the bride 0 | before dawn—and in the corner of the | tent sat a Chinese silversmith ham- e|mering out the barbarically beautifas n|headdress that forms every bride's a] dowry. One Mongol woman polnted | out to me three beads in her dowry ».| which she said cost a horse each. ‘The e|men also have an inside occupation— -| smoking and taking snuff, One tent t| suffices for a family, unless it be a rich one, and on cold nights it shelters all £| the calves and lambs, “little brothers 8 | of the field.” @] ‘The Mongol {s darker in color than d|his Chinese neighbor, high-cheeked squat, weather-beaten, almost protec | tive in coloring, Rarely, if ever, on a f| Mongol face Is seen that fine intelli: e | gence which stamps the Chinese; the t,| fact that he has produced no arts, ne d{crafts, that he is a worker in no me. m | dium, is writ large in the erudity of his e| expression, As a Buddhist, he refus rs | es to till the soil lest he take lfe—kill s, | beetle, for instance. Sheep he may .4 | kill, however, since that may be acca: J, | plished without Buddha's cognizance .g | back of the tent, Flocks have another nf | advantage, too, over fields; flocks of | may carry with him. And'the ‘Monee ne | knows no shades of a prison house re | Give a Mongol a sheep and a horw e- | and he will feed, clothe, house himsolt js|and roam the plain, Add a cow nt | he can get drunk, Life has 1d | more to offer, i a \eeebiipensecoubtaiiol Small Island's Speclalty. St. John, the smallest of the threw Danish West India islands acquired by the United States, fs only eight miles wide in its broudest part, It ig. noted especially for the bay tree, the leaves of which are used In making bay rum, If Your Business Is Not Worth Advertising, Peoples' Drug Store For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line, all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city - - promptly - - call us up. Bell East 1 PHONES (1) 1113 Clark Street. If PHONES 314 Home East 4082 A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFRS. 1113 Clark Street. Evanston, Ill. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. AMONG THE CHURCHES IN BUSINESS SINCE 1896 ST. STEPHEN BAPTIST CHURCH. "Purpose of God" was the subject of the sermon delivered by Dr. J. W. Hurse at the morning service to a large congregation....In the afternoon many were in attendance to be a witness in the covenant meeting which was a glorious one and long to be remembered....Sunday, being "Go To Church Day," many attended at night; every available seat was taken The pastor occupied the pulpit again and preached one of those interesting sermons, as Dr. Hurse can preach on "Faith."....Mrs. Chester Slim thrilled the audience with that sweet alto voice in singing "Does Jesus Care," she was at her best. There were seven additions and one for baptism. Total collection $150.00....Dr. Hurse is having a great success with his wonderful Mackeys Liniment and is praised very highly by Carrie Townsend, of 559 Clairmount this city, who has suffered for two years with rheumatism, having to use a crutch and cane but after part of the second bottle was used she has been able to lay aside her crutch and cane; this testimony was given out in public at the church on Sunday....Sister Kingsbury, who has been very sick for the past two weeks, is improving....The fourth Sunday in this month will be our baptizing in the afternoon; those members of Pilgrim Baptist church to be baptized will also be baptized at St. Stephen....One hundred and forty-six members were excluded from St. Stephen Sunday night. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday being "Go To Church Day," the attendance was greatly increased in all department of the church....At nine thirty the Sunday school held an especially interesting session....At eleven o'clock the pastor, Dr. Bacote, preached a soul stirring sermon on "Come Into Me All Ye That Labor and are Heavy Laden and I Will Give You Rest."...In the evening services Rev. Johnson preached a beautiful sermon which was enjoyed by all....During the day four- teen souls were added to the church of which three received the ordinance of baptism.....Last Sunday night a little girl, only eight years of age, broke the record as being the youngest candidate to receive baptism in this church in several years.....The Mission Circle, which met aSt the home of Mrs. Becks, 2227 Michigan Ave., is having special prayer services and giving special instructions in preparation for the revival to be held in this church soon for a great gathering of souls.....The church is also looking forward to a great spiritual up-lift and financial rally next month during Dr. Bacote's twenty-fourth anniversary as pastor of this church.....All strangers in the city are especially invited to attend our church. ALLEN CHAPEL. Out of seventy-five thousand people said to have responded to the call, "Everybody Go To Church Sunday." Allen Chapel received her quota. The church was thronged with new comers, among them many soldiers. At the morning service Dr. Wm. H. Thomas delivered a sermon filled with knowledge and inspiration, Text. St. John 4:13-14. Subject, "What Christ Came to Give to Men." Special mention should be made of the excellent singing by the soloist, Miss Etta Moten. There were three additions. Dr. Thomas chose for the subject of his evening sermon, "The Refusal of Jesus Christ.".....The Intermediate Society of Christian Endeavor resumed their regular meeting in the lecture room Sunday evening. A splendid program was rendered and interesting subjects discussed. All young people are invited, Sundays 6:30 p. m.....The Sacred Oration, "Redemption," will be repeated under the direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson. There will be a chorus of one hundred voices....Dr. Roberts will deliver a layman's sermon the second Sunday evening in March. A male quartette will sing. We cheerfully share our church home with all. Come. REV. D. NORFLEET. Rev. McManany, the pastor of the St. John Baptist church is assisting Rev. D. Norfleet in a great revival meeting at the Tabernacle Baptist church, 760 Muncie Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas. Everybody invited. The Aid Society had a good attendance and meeting with Mrs. J. T. Watkins, 2742 Woodland, Tuesday of last week. They met with Mrs. D. M. West, 1718 Euclid, Tuesday and the financial report from the "Spelling Match" Friday night was fine....The Young Women's Missionary Circle met with the Whiteside sisters in Independence Wednesday of last week. They had a very helpful meeting and arranged for the recital and musical at the church Friday night, March 8th....The Bible School had its largest attendance and offering Sunday; the same was true of the church services. Rev. J. B. White preached a good sermon. It was "Go to Church Sunday" with a few of the Non-goers. The membership is assessed to pay the last note of the church property the first of July and are making fine partial payments on their assess- OIL! "The Master Fortune Builder'" SUCCESSFUL OIL INVESTMENTS PRODUCE QUICKER AND LARGER RETURNS THAN ANY OTHER BUSINESS BUY CAPITOL PETROLEUM STOCK NOW 10 CENTS PER SHARE SEVENTEEN WELLS PRODUCING OIL And More Drilling. Send for Maps and Information, and address FRED S. BURTON 1837 ARAPAHOE ST., DENVER, COLORADO. WILLA M. GLENN, Manager ments. The services in all departments in the last weeks have taken advance steps to better things... The minister hopes to be able to speak at both services Sunday. We all determined to make every Sunday a "Go to Church Sunday." All are invited to be with us. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. All services were well attended Sunday. There were seven additions...Miss M. E. Daugherty, 1517 Woodland, has been very sick but is bette rat this writing...Miss Dorphine Cales is also able to be out after four weeks illness. We hope they will continue to improve...Mr. Thos. Glenn is better and returned to work...The funeral of Mr. Geo. McFadden was indeed sad. We extend our sympathies to the bereaved family. . . The Senior choir meets every Friday night at the A. T. Moars Chapel. All members are requested to be present. MORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH Morning Star Baptist Church Mission Circle met at the church Thursday, February 17. After the business was over, they were entertained by Mrs. Ada Reed, Mrs. Annie Thomas and Mrs. Cornelia Raynor. Mrs. Mary Grand Vice President, Mrs. M. Webb, Secy. Washington, Feb. 19.—Major Phillip Henry Sheridan, 37 years old, son of General Phillip Sheridan, died here today. He was graduated from West Point in 1902. Recently he had been serving on the general staff.