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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

that claims to reach the common
| people,
They are dreadful he said. st
cannot understand how publishers can
foist such Nightmares upon a public
Tho I suppose the public must be will
ing or they wouldn't. There is no
end to be gained, it seems to me. They
are not good to look at, so far as art
is concerned There is seldom any
| thing really funny in them. and there
| Is nothing to remember except the
dreadful daubs Of COLOR
! Mr.. Stead is an out and out equal
suffragist. He believes in it with every
fiber of his body. Ever since he was
II years old and knocked a boy down
because of an act of discourtesy to
a girl, he has been the self-constituted
champion in general to womanhood
| in distress. 1t makes little difference
whether women know they are in dis
! tress or not. Mr.. Stead, like the knight
in the days of chivalry, roams thru
out the world, seeking those whose
circumstances he thinks ought to
make them feel oppressed. Sometimes
it is a moral crusade for women in
the heart of one of the wickedest
cities in the world. Again, he responds
to the appeal Of an Overworked news
paper woman and sends her to re-
cuperate at of his country houses
which he keeps open for just such pur-
poses. Great or little, cry for help
from woman is never disregarded.
Every question Of the hour appeals
to him. His famous Friday "at
homes at Mowbray house are partly
given to the discussion Of topics Of the
day by leading exponents and oppo-
nents In summer, these meetings are
transferred to the gardens of Cam
bridge house, his beautiful home at
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Passing View of the Famous English EdiorA Man Of Force
netism and Splendid
Truly American and Diversity.

would be disiocated, my nervous con-
stitution shattered, and that. should
be sent into mental ST. Vitus dance.
Instead. | found a very mild gentle
man, who did not seem to know any
thing. That is, 1t was not continu-
ally and painfully in evidence. His
favorite recreations are boating, cy-
cling and playing with children-and
he looks it. The man who has hob
nobbed with cardinals, reasoned with
the pope, hero-Worships the kaiser and
has struck up a sentimental friendship
with the czar, was noticeable by his
absence.
Instead, he was most palpably the
child lover who is working steadily
and -heartedly toward the goal
of better reading for English children;
the publisher of the little pink, penny
Books for BARNS" which so light
ened the gloom of the. anteroom, and
himself the writer of some very de-
llghtful Juvenile stories.
NIHEN Mr.. Stead's dream of the
w. Americanization of the world is
realized, there is one thing that
is very American that will not be in
it. He disapproves actively and most
insistently of the craze for the comic
colored supplement which is such a
feature of every American newspaper
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
rokio Correspondence London Mail

Toxic Correspondence London Mail.
To those who allow themselves to be
impressed by mere avoirdupois, the
spectacle of little Japan casting her
gage at the feet Of gigantic Russia is,
doubtless, infinitely humorous.
But unless memory fails me, many
prophets who tried to predict before
the event were firmly persuaded in
1894 that there could be but one end
ing to the China-Japan war--and that
the complete humiliation of Japan. 1
have very distinct recollection of
having interviewed at Vancouver an
intelligent British officer, who had
been detailed to accompany the Jap
anese army, and he seemed greatly
tickled when / suggested that Japan
might possibly defeat her bulky an
tagonist.
The Military Unit.
It is not necessary to enlarge upon
What actually happened. a few far
seeing men there were, on the spot,
who realized from the first that the
issue was certain. They recognized in
the Japanese army and nayy-smaII as
the latter then was-a compact and
homogeneous whole, organized in ac-
cordance with the best occidental
models, commanded by officers trained
in the best occidental schools, and an
mated by a spirit. not imported, but
indigenous to the soil-the yamato
dan1ashii. or soul of old Japan, which
is invariably in evidence when there is
fighting to be done.
The military unit, it is true. has been
drilled to the highest degree of me-
chanical accuracy, so that his response
to the word of command may almost
be termed reflex action; but. OH the
other hand, he retains in addition to
1rofr atr>ic,
ferred to, resourcefulness and intel
ligence that stamp him, to my mind,
as the superior of the Russian soldier.
He combines elan and dash with i'm
effable phlegn in critical moments. as
witness the absolute naturalness with
which the Japanese troops during the
last Chinese campaign would take adj
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THE ''TOMMY ATKINS' OF JAPAN
Soldier Superior the Russian Arti
Nails Resourcul
Eager to Fight to

vantage of lull in the firing to ex-
tract fan from their CATERS and fan
themselves.
Blackguards and Gentlemen.
Kipling AYERS that blackguards and
gentlemen make the best soldiers.
Such rule may apply to the hetero-
geneous communities of the occident,
but it cannot be extended to Japan,
where the two arms of the service are
composed of men the majority OF
whom are inspired by sentiments Of
which Europe can furnish no adequate
parallel.
The Little Jap.
In colloqual par1ance, the Japan
ese Tommy Atkins and Packey are
built from the ground up Their
chests. necks, and calves are fire.
quently too big for their clothes, and,
withal. the Japanese sailor and soldier
look, and have shown themselves to
be, as hard nails.
Courage and Tradition.
No more than in 1894 or in 1900
will they enter upon their next war
unprepared. For minutiae the, Jap
anese has a talent amounting to
genius, and no detail, however appar-
emily insignificant, is likely to be
overlooked.
Compare the men. compare the off,
GERS of the prospective belligerents.
On the Russian side we find the form
er dull, british, ignorant, dirty, and
Indifferent; treated like dogs, and
probably amenable to no other treat
ment; = the latter notoriously corrupt
as class. On the japanese side, we
find the men, despite strict discipline,
bright. alert, clean and neat In their
persons keenly interested in their
calling, and ready and eager to fight
to the last gasp for Dai Nippon; the
officers equipped in every branch of
military and naval science, and, for
the most part, above suspicion of dis
honest practices.
At the burial Of South London man hi. six
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sions IF ",

sions of William t. Stead as he flew
and blew into the London office Of
the Review Of Reviews one day last
summer.
The dear English public is divided
into two Well-deined classes, so far
as w. T. Stead is concerned-those
who hate him, and those who follow
him blindly. I fell among the Stead
Pharisees.
"Oh, yes, Mr.. Stead,'' they said.
You will find him at the Poly
technic." They pronounced it Paw
lyteknik." "A great work Stead is
doing there for young men,
esp [ said, inquiringly. In
America we had not heard of the
Polytechnic venture Of the Stead who
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
TT WAS Mr.. Stead himself. Unmis
1 takably the Mr. Stead whom I wa.

TT WAS Mr.. Stead himself. Unmis-
takably the Mr.. Stead whom 1 was
waiting to see, but nobody said
anything about it. After quarter
Of an hour, a meek inquiry of the
clerk as to whether or not Mr.. Stead
had arrived brought forth a crisp
No" I said l was quite sure the
man who had come in fifteen minutes
before was Mr.. Stead. The clerk
looked confused, said he would see,''
and after a preliminary survey re-
turned to take my letter of introduce
ton.
1t hardly seemed as if the man had
had time to reach anywhere, when
the big, swirly man came swooping
down like a wolf on a fold, literally
filling the room with his personality,
overwhelming even the lightsome ef-
feet of the little pink books. Fairly
sweeping me up, he rushed for an
other door, banged it open-and there
was the famous office of the Review
Of Reviews, with it's view of the
Than es.
Mr.. Stead sWirled straight for a
broad, low seat beneath a great Win
dow, overlooking the Thames, mo-
tioning me at the same time to a
rickety, wholly comfortable rocking
chair that would delight the heart
OF an Old-faShlOned New England
woman. He scuddled up in one cor
ner with a. pillow at his back, curled
one foot up under him like a school
girl, and then for the first time looked
straight at me out of a pair of gray
eyes, kindly in the main but the sort,
too, that can flash glances keen as
a Damascus blade.
1t was not the Stead who set Amer
leans agog with IF Christ Came to
Chicago'': not the Stead who in
furiated Britons with his American
ization of the World; nor yet the
Stead who dabbles in the occult.
whose enemies say he is half-humbug
and wholly Overrated. but whose
friends have set up him as little
tin god whose joints never squeak
/ expected to find a Jove deep in the
forging of his thunderbolts. 1 braced
myself to Withstand violence, explo-
sion and thunder. feared my brain
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
PLAYED PIANO
Continuously for Twenty SIX Hours ere
Hands Were a Mass of RIIsters.
Now York Sun

New y Ork Sun.
j. NJ. Waterbury performed the feat of pla:;-
ing piano continuously for twenty six hours
in saloon on West A street. with no stop longer
than five seconds. He began playing at S O'Clock
on Saturday night aud stopped at 10 O'Clock Sun
day evening. He played ragtime, lullabes, grand
opera, topical songs, ''heart songs old-fash-
ioned music. two-steps. waltzes, pOlkas anything
but sacred music.
In this long stretch Waterbury ate one Swiss
cheese sandwich and one ham sandwich and
drank freely of whisky. He smoked cigarettes al
most without cessation. Most of the time he sat
on a piano stool. but now and then he would
stand up to rest. He could not roll or light
his own cigarettes hold his own glass of
whisky or his sandwiches. His partner waited on
him.
The feat was the outcome of a wager that
Waterbury could not play the piano continuously
for twenty-five hours When he ceased playing
shattered and his muscles that couli1
scarcely walk.
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IALL man, a man long
as to limb and bunchy as
to body; a man with a
leonine head, a thick
thatch of hair and a
p a r i a r c h a | flow of
beard; a man of mex
haustible vitality; the
sort of man whose coat
tails always swirl about
as he walks and who
flngs a door open with
a royal disregard of pos
sible banging such
were the first innres-
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SYMPATHY.

Chicago Tribune.
.'SIr. Bazzo, asked the little girl. don't you
hate to have to go away down to one of those
low notes?'
Not at ALL Kitty replied the eminent vocal
ist. 81. What put that in your head
Why. you always look as If it hurt
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

Don't part the hair in the middle
John Drew and Richard Harding Da-
Wis decreed long since that the young
American, like the young English
man, Of to-day, should have the part
ing over the left temple.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

Don't wear wlIiskers. Science and
fashion are agreed that whiskers are
ugly and unclean. Only, therefore, in
the aged and in invalids are they par
dOnable.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

Don't wear long hair. Even poets
now wear short hair, which their baI-
bers trim in such d way as to EN-
hance the heads graceful lines and
to conceal it's ugly ones.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
Don't wear made ties

Don't neglect, the first thing every
morning, to shave and take a cold
bath. That has always been fashion,
able, and it always will be.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

Don't wear an overcoat or a rain
coat that has no cuffs. These cuffs
are a protection against inclement
weather, and in a season of rain or
snow they can be turned down over
the hands.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

is such a good American, in print at
least. YES? But when is Mr.. Stead
at the office of the Review of Re-
views?"
''Oh, w. #. Stead! That Stead!"
they said, disdainfully. Il don't
know I thought you meant the other
Stead, the Stead who is doing so much
as a practical philanthropist. A
really great man that Stead is
The office of the Review Of Re-
views in Mowbray House is dingy from
start to finish. And nothing seems
to be happening.
'Mr. Stead is OUT said an anxious
looking young man. will you Wyte,
or will you call agyne?''
I said I would "wyte." This seemed
to disarrange the calculations of the
misunderstanding young man, and he
added with a gasp:
"Or, perhaps, you would be will
ing to see one Of his clarks.'
I still insisted upon waiting, and
after several attempts in all sorts of
infections to make me reconsider my
decision, he sighed and ushered me
into a dark little room adjoining. It
was furnished only with a broad
leather couch and dozens and dozens
of shelves holding hundreds and hun
dreds of little pink books, such a
DllSul, llloloteIL plllh, Iou' IolI lOl
all the world as if a fe, presto change!
had turned me into the last pink
ill-for-pale-people left rafting alone
in the box.
Suddenly, the hall door banged
open, and man dashed in in a per-
feet swirl of frock coat tails. Tn
like the average London man, he wore
a slouch hat, instead of the conven-
tional tile, and altogether, barring
his patriarchal beard, he looked the
stage senator from Texas" to the
life. In less than the wink of an
eye he whisked thru a door and then,
why, then things seemed suddenly and
unaccOuntably quiet.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

At the burial of South London man his six
dogs, draped in black, followed the cortege.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
DONT'S
GOODDRESSERS

Don't wear evening clothes of
broadcloth or Of any other smooth
and shining cloth. A distinction is
now made between the evening clothes
of servants and of other men, the
former wearing broadcloth, the latter
an unfinished worsted of a dull black,
sometimes of a gray. The black waist
coat Of evening dress should be single
breasted; the white one double
breasted. The collar of the coat
should be notched, and faced with
silk to the very edge. The tails should
come to the knee.
Don't wear an overcoat with yoke.
Those freak coats are dead. Wear a
long coat and a loose one, but let it
be cut in a plain and simple manner.
The coat with the belted-in back is
not to be worn on formal occasions.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

vantage of a lull in the firing to ex-
tract a fan from their CATERS and fan
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
RELIABLE MEDICINE
A Reporter OF The Journal Interviews
VoegeH Bros. Drug
Company.
The Interview of Interest to Every
Person In Minneapolis.

So many patent medicines and adj
verttsed cures are now offered to the
public that our readers should be glad
to know the opinion of men who have
spent years in handling them, and
profit by their advice.
Said Mr.. Voegelf, Of VoegeH Bros.
Drug company: After having sold
medicines for SO many years, natural
ly we have learned something about
them, their value, and power to cure.
There is no one medicine that will
cure everything, but this we do know
that if the people of Minneapolis only
realized the wonderful curative and
strength-creating power of Vinol, we
would. not have clerks enough in our
store to put up the orders for it."
Continued Mr.. Voegel: "You see,
Vinol Is not a patent medicine, and it
actually does contain every one of
the fifty odd medicinal curatives
taken from fresh Gods livers, with
other vitalizing ingredients. 1t con-
tains no poisonous drugs or nauseat-
ing oil, and you know just what you
are taking. Vinol has wonderful life
giving properties: it tones UP and In
vigorates every organ Of the body to
do it's work, and we know it will make
rich, red blood, build UP the depleted
system and create strength.
when I tell you that we have
never sold in our store such q. valua-
BILE remedy as Vinol for the following
ailments, and that If it fails to accom-
plish what we say it will, we will re-
fund your money. it will show our
faith In Its wonderful curative and
vitalizing powers.
cit will build up rundown, tired
debilitated people. It will make the
weak and sickly strong and well. II
will make flesh for thin people,. Il
will increase the appetite. 1t viii
cure nervousness, irritability an6
sleeplessness. It will cure stomach
troubles, dyspepsia and Indigestion. I
will make rich, red blood. 1t viii
make weak, puny, ailing children
strong and robust. It is the creates
| strengthened and body builder in the
world for old people. It is grea
1 streIgthener for weak won en-. It il
a boon to nursing mothers. It viii
positively cure chronic. coughs and
colds. It cures bronchitis. 1t make.
weak lungs strong and is OF untolt
value I'm consumption and all wasting
diseases For the convalescent it ha.
no equal as a strength maker
We cannot make a. stronger state
ment and can only ask such people il
Minneapolis to try yinol on our guar
antee." VoeEel Bros. Drug com
panTs
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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Miss Keator of Rock Island, Ill, is visiting
Mrs. G. c. Weber. s;
Mr. and Mrs. S. II. Davis are in their new
home, 2312 Pillsbury avenue.
William G. Woodside sailed from New York
Saturday for Havana, Cuba.
The Union Card club will meet with Mrs.
Parks, 1910 Hawthorn avenue, tomorrow.
DR.. Mark B. Smith has returned from New
York, where he has been for the pest week.
The Redotta Cinch club met with Mrs. William
Munger Tuesday. Prizes We're won by Mrs
Ramsberg and Mrs. Rommer. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. z. #. Kelly, 1901 Second ave
nue. s.
Mrs. o. L.. Cutler and daughter. Florence. left
Friday evening to spend the winter in Texas.
| Sweet Glover hive will give a dance Friday
evening in A. o. U. w. hail. II Seventh street s.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Gill Of 623 Twenty -sixtl
| avenue N, have gone to Spokane. WASH, tx
| visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs J. sB Phelps have closed thei
lake cottage and will be at the San Angelo fol
the winter.
Bryant council, NO. 49, Loyal Mystic Legio1
of America, will give a dance i'm Richmond hal
Thursday evening. G.ssE.lt
Mrs. Eugene Paige, formerly Mrs. Fred G
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follows: Waldorf, H. q. Christian; Neither
lands T.. B. Semple; Astor. FL. Kicker; Grand
Union. T. T. McCabe; yendome, A. Il. Strong !;
Manhattan, W. S. Hunkfns; Criterion, W. D.
MacReady.
st. Rose court, No. 81, W. C. O. F., will
give a musical at the residence of the Misses
Royal 1906 Fourth street n, Tuesday. evening.
Nov. "a.
Miss Mabel Lane and Mrs Frank Nantz left
Saturday evening for an extended trip thru the
Christian. Miss. after which they will go to
Ctba and the Isle of Pines, returning to Mime
apolis about May /.
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CLUBS AND CHARITIES
Club Calendar.
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Ramblers, Public Library building, 10
a. m.
Tuesday club, Mrs. c.. F.. Bird, 200 e
Twenty-sixth street. afternoon.
Betsy Ross chapter, Daughters of the
Revolution, Mrs. Washington Yale, 212O
N1collet avenue.
Liberal Union Of Minnesota Women,
Tuttle church, 10:45 a. M
Minneapolis Improvement league, park
board rooms, courthouse, p. M
st. Anthony Study curcle, Mrs. Dickson,
800 Church street, afternoon.
Elective Study club, Public Library
building, $3.50 p. m.
Ladies' Aid society Of the First Baptist
church. church parlors, 10 a. m.
Westminster Social circle. all day.
Pathflnders club, Mrs. E. G. Larpenteur,
1921 Clinton avenue, afternoon.
Writer'S league, GIT Fifth avenue S,
evening.
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Talk on tuberculosis.

Tomorrow afternoon the Minneapolis
improvement league will meet in the park
board rooms at the courthouse and the
committee on Fairgrounds and vacation
schools will report. DR.. H. l.. Ulrich will
speak on "Tuberculosis-Its Cause and
Prevention with special emphasis on the
need Of better sanitary conditions in the
street and on the cars.
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I SS1 S !||:| (5l 1SS [ I I, $ x0
Classes at 7:20.
Orchestra at $50,

Camenbert Cheese. from France,
40 cents.
Wisconsin Cream Cheese, per lb.
18 cents.
Wisconsin Brick Cheese, per Id, 18c.
Michigan Cheese, per Id, 15c.
Pine Apples Cheese, each, 40c.
Imported Gedost Cheese, per lb SIC.
Oyster Cocktail Catsup, soc.
Bar lie Due Jelly, per jar, SIC.
New Mixed Nuts, per lib, 15c.
New Almonds, per Id, 1885,.
Table Figs, lib packages, 10c.
Cleaned Currants, per lib pack
ages, &c.
Seeded Raisins, per lib package.
12c.
81 ID boxes, 65c.
q Plum Pudding, lib cans, Csc.
ID o. G. Picked Beets, at Jars, 28o.
+ Home Made Jelly, large glasses, L SC.
Sweet Pickles, per quart. 15c.
BUTTER, VALLEY CREAMERY,
" GAL. JARS, S1.34.
shelled Pecans, per lib, 4sc.
Jordan Almonds, per lb, 45c.
Shelled Walnuts, per Id, 44c.
Crystallized Cherries, per lb, 45o.
Crystallized Ginger, per Id, 35c.
Sailed Peanuts, per Id, 13c.
FRENCH PEAS, EXTRA FINE, PER
CAN. Fl CENTS.
Asparagus Tips, per can, CSC.
Imported Orange Marmalade. per
jar, 1Sc.
Maraschino Cherries, 81 bottles,
zoe.
5-yearold Port Wine, per gal, 81.
Old Burgundy. per gal, s1.25.
Chateau Yquem, a fine Thanksgiv-
ing Wine, large bottles, 5Sc.
Manhattan Cocktails, home made
90c.
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With DR.. and Mrs. Allen, in Staples.

with DR.. and Mrs. Allen, in Staples.
Mrs. George H. Partridge will leave this
evening to spend Thanksgiving in New York
with her daughters, who are in school.
Lorraine Social club. O.. E. S., Will give a
dance in Powderhorn hail. Thirty-fourth street
and Chicago avenue. tomorrow evening.
The Ladies High Five club met last week with
Mrs. Ed Heinke 2S0S Fremont avenue n. Mines
Weinberg, Ellis and Ensign won prizes. The
hostess at the next meeting will be Mrs. G. 3.
Thorn, II w Thirty fourth street.
Minneapolis people at New York hotels are as
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A BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT.

Excelsior lodge No. 1913, Degree OF. Hon
or, will give a benefit entertainment to-
morrow evening in Maccabee hall. The
program will be by the Obrecht family
orchestra, Mrs. George D. Craig. Misses
Mary Lamb, Ktttie Stranahan, Mabel He'll
derbrand, Julia and May Obrecht Master
w. K. Hicks. William Bracket, Leonard
Obrecht, P. G. Sjoblom and the Citerman
Dramatic company. @~
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Pillsbury, has returned to the city to remain
until after the holidays.
L. f. McFadon of Emerson, Iowa. has been
the guest for few days of DR.. 0. e. McFadon
of 320S Park avenue.
Miss Sarah Rouse went to Faribault to-day to
be bridesmaid at the wedding of Miss Nora Ma
honey and Max Neahope
Philomathean hive, No. IS, L. O. II. NJ, will
give dance tomorrow evening in A. @. U. w.
hall, IL Seventh street S.
Miss BERTHE Huhnstock, Miss Georgia NJ. Nc
Donald and q. Bowman will spend Thanksgiving
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Mr.: and Mrs. Mathew Bellew were
pleasantly surprised Friday evening
at their home, 1919 Fourth streetsNE
Friday afternoons at the home of Mrs.
J. w. Griffith, 1920 Hennepin avenue.
Miss Ethel Malcolm is making the ar
rangements and the affair will be the
first of series Of monthly parties.
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$500 More Than Half Fare

$l.UU MOFe THAI Hail Fare
Via Chicago Great Western Railway
to points in Arkansas, Colorado, KAN
sas. Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico.
Oklahoma and Texas. Tickets on sale
Dec. LIST and 18th, 1908, and Jan. 9Th
and 18th, 1904. For further. particu-
lars apply to L. G.. Rains, General
Agent, corner Nicollet avenue and
Fifth street, Minneapolis.
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CLUB NOTES.

Westminster Social circle will have an all
day meeting tomorrow when the members will
work for the children's home. basket lunch
con will be served at noon.
Dr. James K. Hosmer will read a paper
Books and Reading" before the Writer'S league
tomorrow evening.