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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
SOCIETY NOW STUNNING
SUBJECT OF DIVORCE

summed by the majority of society
folk now. Other matters are dis
cussed at various affairs, and the
wholesome change is very noticeable.
To be sure there are some who still
talk 'scandal-in every class there are
persons who gloat over the misfor-
tunes of others, but were they to ven
ture to discuss a family row or a faith
less wife or husband openly they most
likely would suffer a "~silence| that
would cut deep. So these few are
careful to pull a congenial spirit into
a secluded corner or out into the
conservatory and there alone MUNICH
the malignant morsel of news.
1t is not unlikely that the torrent
of abuse that has been heaped upon
Abe Hummel, representative extraor-
binary Of the traffic in such things.
has had a good deal to do with this
change CT sentiment-that and the
Thaw case and the Gould case. To
some who peddled libelous stories of
marital rows the revelations recently
made Of the dangers of that occupa-
ton may have been the deterrent. But
the society man who was discussing
the subject the other day declared I'm
p~hattcally that the reason was more
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES it was because
New York society people have come to
look with more respect upon the prl-
vate affairs of their own homes and
others.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
Washington Day by. Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital

tute, and many name their wives,
daughters, or other members of their
families for this place. The depart.
ment encourages such appointments,
of, some n living in the anne house
with the carrier, because If the regu-
Tar carrier is sick or unable to serve
his route there is some one in the
same house to act as substitute and he
is not obliged to send out and notify
his substitute that he must serve tho
mails that day.
When a woman has served six
months as a substitute, that is, as a
bonded substitute, she will be eligible
should there be a vacancy the depart
ment will give her the preference for
appointment as regular carrier in the
rural service.
While the regulations of the postal
service make no specific provisions
against ONE as letter carriers in
cities, there is a provision which has
the effect of barring them from these
positions. A uniform which must be
worn by city carriers, consisting Of
coat and trousers and cap of a certain
color, is prescribed, and no woman has
been brave enough to make applica.
ton in the face of this.
The records of the department show
that the women carriers in the rural
free delivery service have made most
excellent officers. They have shown
pluck, perseverance, and ability to per-
form their duties in all sorts of wealth.
err, and some of them hold higher rec.
ords for efficiency than hundreds OF
men in the service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
SURGEON GENERAL RlXEY
A N NURSES IN NAVY
G URGEON GENERAL RIXEY is pre-

G URGEON GENERAL RIXEY is pre-
- pairing to make a strong appeal to
congress at it's next session to correct
a lamentable deficiency in the medical
branch of the naval service. The sur
geon general points out that the Amer
lean navy is without a single trained
nurse. No matter how severe the ILL
less of the officers and sailors, nor
how grave the injury or wound re-
ceived in the line of duty, the Amer
lean b%luejacket must rely for his care
In time of trouble upon a hospita1
steward and an apprentice.
In ordinary times the ships sur
geons often taxed to care properly
for the normal number of sick and in
jured aboard ship. When there is an
epidemic Of fever or measles (the lat
ter often a serious malady among
male adults, such as occurred not
long ago IN the battleship Connecticut,
it has been found impossible to give
the invalids the necessary scientific
and careful nursing required.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
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county. Va. That he may direct
his engeries toward becoming a
United. States senator from Virginia
is considered a strong possibility. He
has long held that ambition.
The retirement of Mr.. Ryan from
Wall street has been expected for
some time.
Mr.. Ryan's rise to power In the
financial world was remarkable. He
is now SIS years old. He started his
business career in a Baltimore dry
goods house in 1868. He soon tired of
that and in 1870 came to New York,
where he got a position with a Wall
street brokerage firm. 1t was not long
before he had made a successful ven
ture in the stock market. With the
money he made he started in business
for himself. In 1874 he bought a
seat on the stock exchange. From
that time he has been a power with
which Wall street has had to reckon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
The Dance as cupid's Aid.

The Paris International Academy
of the Dance, an institution to which
dancing masters and teachers of de-
pertinent belong, opened exhaustive
inquiries into the EFFECT of 4 the
dance on matrimony" by sending out
letters to all of the best known in
structors throughout the world. They
were requested to ascertain " by dis
Greet inquiries" how and where their
pupils met their wives and fiancees.
Three thousand teachers Of dancing
sent in their replies, now published.
They consulted 100000 married or
engaged men, and Is. per cent. of
them assert that they made the &C.
q%uaintance OF. their wives or sweet
hearts at private or public balls or
dancing classes. Among the 5000
teachers themselves 90 per cent. as
sert that they first met their wives
at balls. The greatest n~umberSwho
NEITHER future wives at danceswere
in Germany. Next came France, then
Norway, and tourthlys England.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
MANI PETTlCOATS AMONG
RURAL A CARRIERS
III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from be,
" coming letter carriers by a tech.

WV ~ u WILL
~nicality in the postal regulations,
women are rapidly invading the ranks
of the rural carriers, where there are
no restrictions against them. An ex-
animation of the records of the post
office department shows that there
are PSI carriers in the rural communi-
ties who are women, and 1000 substi-
tute carriers are of the same sex. This
would not be a very significant show
ing were it not for the fact that the
advent of women in this capacity is a
comparatively recent innovation. For
several years after the service was
established it vas not contemplated
by post office officials that the posi-
ton of carrier was one which would
be sought by members of the weaker
sex. But somehow they crept in;
the department had no way of distin-
gushing them from men except by
their names as they appeared on the
applications, and this, it was found, is
no criterion.
Who was the first woman rural car
rier is something that is unknown by
the post office department. Several
have claimed that honor. Women we're
delivering mail matter in the farming
communities for Uncle Sam long be-
fore his officials who have charge of
that branch of the postal service knew
anything about it.. "
There is another way in which they
have made inroads into the service.
When a man is appointed a rural car
rier he is allowed to name his substi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
WASHING RUINS TURQUOISE.
Hot Water Injuries opa's and Acid
Will Spoil Pearls.

A man connected with one of the
largest jewelry establishments says
that many gems are spoiled by the
wearers not understanding how to
take care of them.
There is the turquoise, for. in
stance" said he. mo turquoise ought
ever to be exposed to the action of
soapy water, as when the hands are
washed. The best turquoise gems are
of a delicate tint of blue, but If a tur-
quoise ring is kept on the hand when
washing, in a few months, sometimes
In q few weeks, the blue stone
changes to a dingy; green, loses it's
luster and becomes worthless as q
gem. r.
Then, again, no gems ought to be
exposed to hot water. O0als gener-
ally lose their IRE and sometimes
crack in water even no hotter than
the hand will bear, and perhaps that
Il one reason Why the opal IL con-
Eidsred % unlucky stone
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

welt place, which extends 100 feet or
more into the bay.
The property has been on the mar
ket for some time, but has lacked a
purchaser because of the price asked
and the fact that there is little shore
front compared to the total area.
The beach property could have
been sold at three times the acreage
price asked for the full tract, but the
owners insisted that the land be sold
in n piece. 1t is understood the
price paid was around $500 an acre.
The property adjoins the Van Wyck
farm, said to have been leased to
Booker T. Washington. There are
some old buildings on the place, which
probably will be used to house work
men while the magnificent home is
being erected for Mrs. Armour.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
Survival of the FIT.

~
What will induce the well-to-do to
have more children is an increasing
sense of their own individual welfare.
The considerations which prevent such
persons from having families OF more
natural size are those of crude, ma
terial amusement or else those OF half
baked ideas of culture and develop
ment. If our well-to-do people are on
the eve of a somewhat ripper education,
as we believe they are, the size OF the
family will increase just as living in
the country, interest in beauty, free
dom from the need of hectic amuse-
ment, and other signs of choicer
standards are increasing. We have
been rather grossly ~preoccupied with
material accOutrements, says Golfers.
We have had a fierce attack of "gad-
ding" Our women have been carried
into fantastic absurdities by the novel
toys that have become accessible to
them. We prophesy that the wealthy
woman whose thought is devoted to-
chasing interesting" things to do, or
wishing she could write books or paint
pictures, will soon be as ridiculous
among educated Americans as DR..
Johnson's dancing dog. Let those
families die out which are most inter
ested in luxury or vanity or shallow
freedom from responsibility: why not?
Their place will be taken by those
which tend, like evolution, toward diff
ferentiation of the sexes, not toward a
consequences.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

Surgeon General Rixey has, there.
fore, worked out the details of a plan
for the organization of a corps of
trained nurses, such as the army has.
Afioat these nurses will necessarily
be men, but in the navy hospitals
ashore, where the more difficult, lin
gering and dangerous cases are treat
ed, women nurses will be employed.
For $4,000 Admiral Rixey feels that
he a make a respectable beginning
in the Or anization of such a corps,
and he is seeking support from the
secretary of the navy and the presi-
dent in securing the necessary an
preparations by congress.
The first official suggestion of the
employment of women in the project
ed naval nurse corps was preached
by the surgeon general in an address
delivered by him on the occasion of
the graduation of the nurses class at
the Garfield hospital in this city re-
Gently.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
O CHEW YOUR E A
SAYS H MIST WILEY

that the carnivorous animals do not
chew their food. They tear it from
the bones and swallow it in chunks.
Therefore the learned chief chemist
holds that if a man can get a chunk
of meat down into his stomach, no
matter how big it may be, he has
done all that nature requires of him.
classification is good for the devel-
opment of the muscles" says DR..
Wiley, "but chewing of meat is I'm.
necessary, if not positively harmful.
With vegetables, however, it is impos-
sible to do too much grinding. Every
body knows, or ought to know, that
all the digestion of vegetables is &C.
compiished in the mouth and small in
testines. If there Is not enough mas.
tication the work cannot be done aft.
erward.
But Fisher is a faddist; all of Us
are a bit afflicted in that way. He IL
trying to make over man so that he
will not eat. He ought to know bet
ter than that"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

That American women are giving in.
creased attention to athletics and to
outdoor exercises of all kinds, with
corresponding benefits physically, is
evident. The fact that the American
lady who o the tennis champion
ship in England last year has gone
over again, hoping to be equally sue
cessful this year, is made additionally
interesting by the further announce.
ment that a party of English women
will return with her to compete in a
number of contests here, including
that for the international tennis CUP.
That will put American players on
their mettle. Women are making rec
ords on the golf grounds, also, and in
every form of sport in which thew
choose to engage are developing ex-
pertness and getting practice which
assure the most beneficial result.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

became fast friends. One of the last official acts If Mr.: Mckinley before he
val struck down by the assassins bullet, was to arrange for DR.. Rixeys
to the position of surgeon general of the navy.
One of President Roosevelts first acts On taking Office was to carry out
the dead presidents wish. Dr. Rixey was made surgeon genera with the
of rear admiral
Man honors have come to DR.. Rixey in the course of his career, one
OF tn most priced being a decoration from King Alfonso XIII. of Spain for
his valuable services rendered to officers and men of the Santa Maria follow
ing an explosion on that vessel.
Rather tall and of courly bearing, and possessing a wholesome eenialty
that falls % make friends wherever h e goes Dr. Rixev is a general
favonte in all circles of official WASHINGTON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
FIGHT ON TRUSTS COSTS
UNCLE SAM u sum
600 a year each. Judge McReynolds
gets SIG, 900 a year.
New Bound-Proof Books.

Various methods of making sound.
proof building bricks or plates are
noticed by German authorities. The
chief constituent is calcined gypsum.
and it appears that in the simplest
process the mass is filled with fine
pores by adding a small proportion
of such substances as the bicarbon-
ates of the alkalies, the chemical &C.
ton thus set up causing a slow and
steady evolution of carbonic acid gas
as the gypsum sets and hardens.
Though the plates become somewhat
Lighter their strength is retained.
The porous texture makes the ma
terial a good nonconductor of sound.
there is no loss Of durability, and the
plates can be: fastened by mailing. The
sound d~eadening feet can be in
creased by adding sawdust, coke dust
or ashes.
The pulp-such as a mixture BIZ
weight of 20 parts of sawdust, 40 Of
gypsum, 40 of water and one Of
sodium bicarbonate-is poured into
moulds and: can be left to harden
without further attention. t.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

N THE last two months there has
i been a surprisingly large increase
in the number of convictions of Ital-
ians in New York. 1t used to be said
that it was almost impossible to get
a verdict against them, and often the
courts, low and high, had turned loose
men of, whose guilt there was not the
slightest doubt, simply because wit
neeses would not dare to testify
against the accused.
Some were deferred by the threats
Of men supposed to be connected with
the Malta, or the Black Hand; others
comforted themselves with the thought
that the friends of the injured or dead
victims would attend to the Grim.
inals after they were set at liberty.
The wedge has been entered into
the world of Italian crime, and the
police have learned that it Is easier
to punish Italian criminals than hith-
erto. The Malta is walking around
just to save funeral expenses. 1t NO
longer has any terrors for the Latin
people. And as for the Black Hand,
they laugh at mention of 1t. To the
average Italian, indeed, a Black Hand
er simply means a loafer who has
grown weary Of digging dirt and
makes a living by writing threatening
letters. . '
The reasons are not obscure. A
young crop of Italians has grown up
in this city, and they care no more
about the customs or ways Of their
parents than do the descendants OF.
the other foreign-born people car
about what their people did. As q.
consequence. when crime II com.
mitted In Italian quarters now, the.
police easily fnd young 1talian-Amer-
leans willing TO volunteer as Wit
nesseA They are not afraid Of Italian5
secret societies Of . realer mythical
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

Hundreds of thousands of range cat
tie n the west starve to death every
winter. When the snow is deem the
number increases. The fatalities
unusually large during the past
winter. The cattle run wild. and no
provision is made by their owners for
iced or shelter in the cold months.
The American Humane association is
attempting to secure such a strong
protest against the neglect of the cat
tie as to force the owners to change
their method of doing business.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
nON'T chew meat. Gulp

W. SAC" AACoI. 0uIp IL Ill
- chunks.
Mastication has no part in the d.
gestion of meat. There is some reason
for believing that chewing will make
meat indigestible. The saliva is an
alkali. Acids are needed for the con.
version of flesh into the elements that
nourish the human body.
Too much chewing may raise the
alkalinity of flesh used for food to
such an extent as to seriously ham
per the work of the stomach, which,
alone, has to do with the disposal
of animal matter.
This, in brief, Is the gospel of DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist OF
the department of agriculture. His
views we're called forth by a report
by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale on
the relative value of animal and vege.
table foods.
Aside from knowledge gained by
him as a chemist, DR.. Wiley has noted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
SURGEON GENERAL RIXEY

Presley Marion Rixey, surgeon general of the
United States navy, who attended the late Mrs.
Mckinley in Canton, O., has had official care Of
the health of the presidents of the United States
for the past nine years. He accompanied Presi-
dent Mckinley on his fatal trip to the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition and was with him when he died.
DR.. Rfxey was one of the most skillful, expert
enced and widely travelled surgeons of the navy
when William Mckinley became president. He
was made a White House physician and took
charge of Mrs. Mckinley, who had been in
precarious health for years.
The engaging manners of the Virginian and
the success which attended his care of Mrs. Nc
kinley attracted the PRESIDENT to him. The two
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
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Round About New York
Gossip Of People and Things
in the Great Metropoli.
RYAN QUITS WALL STREET
TO ENJOY HIS FORTUNE
NEW YORY.-Thomas F. Ryan has
~ ended his DAYS of activity in Wall

NEW YORY.-Thomas F. Ryan has
~ ended his days of activity in Wall
street. His departure for Europe the
other day signalized his breaking
away from the personal management
of the gigantic corporations with
which he has been associated for the
last rs years.
The news of Mr.. Ryan's retirement
has been confirmed in Wall street by
men who know him intimately and
who have closely watched his move
ment in the stock market during the
last tradition that Mr.. Ryan's ambi-
ton, after he had become an impor-
tant factor in the financial world, was
to accumulate 500, 900, 900. This he
has accomplished. His fortune is es-
timated by those in a position to
know at considerably over that figure.
Mr.. Ryan, according to inside" in
formation, will now enjoy a retired
life on his magnificent estate in Me-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

President Hadley of Yale university
Will go to Berlin Immediately after the
meeting of the Yale university corpor-
alton in October to fill the Theodore
Roosevelt professorship of American
history and institutions at the Unfver-
sity of Berlin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

Russia is advancing in liberality.
Notwithstanding ]reactionary inhu:
ences A son of Count Tolstoi has
been acquitted of the charge of high
treason, brought against him because
he published his fathers writinps
which are under the ban of the cars
empire. The Russian edition was
burned and the plates DESTROYED. but
the young man was let of. A few
years ago it would have been Siberia
for his, II indeed he had escaped with
his life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

The chances are that railway trains
Will be run on the spinning top prin.
ciple about the time we get ready tn
put warships out of business BY the
use of anaesthetics. Meanwhile +bere
will still be need of double ra,,ad
tracks and big guns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12
R ARMOUR TO LIVE
NEAR H PRESIDENT
M RS. PHILIP D. ARMOUR, widow

IA RS. PHILIP D. ARMOUR, widow
w of the founder Of the Armour
Packing company, has decided to join
the colony of New York millionaires
who have country places near the
home Of President Roosevelt on Oy-
ster Bay. Through her attorneys in
this city Mrs. Armour has quietly
purchased seven acres of land about
three miles from Sycamore Hill. The
land is high and is two miles from
Westneck. 1t slopes down to Hunt
ington Bay and was a part of the old
Sammis farm.
The shore frontage is a sandy beach
and at the point where the property
touches the water there is a sufficient
depth even at low tide for a ~fair-sized
yacht to ride at anchor or tie up in
case q lock is built, such as the Roose-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

The Pennsylvania legislature has ex.
pended $25, 600, 900 for good roads. n
meanwhile Pennsylvania is expanding
more than that sum to keep her ron.
victs in idleness. There is obviously
something wrong here.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

sport He has explored every corner of his kingdom i'm hs 1notorca al M
a short time since, when driving through some outofthewav Mace 10 had
rather a amusing experience. Arriving It a small town. he fond a crowd
waiting, but no M recognized hin In fact, the chief point of interest at
that moment was n old woman, who had had her basket of eggs upset by
those who josned her. The king, with his usual good nature annroached
and asked what was the matter. "They say the king is coming through
here sc these idiots are waiting to SET him. One cannot wen d ones daTv
labor, with this crowd watching for a fat. law fellow win doos ~ woLk
and spends his time n eating"
The king laughed, presented her with a coin to nav for tho oooe an ~
remember the fat lazy fellow by" and a moment more the royal cr had
vanished in a whrl If dust before anyone knew it had arived-savo ono
dumbstruck peasant woman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-12

Let it be understood that it ia. m
account Of the painful lack ~ ..r.
nnents displayed in it that Ptttshyr.
objects TO the much.discussed paint.
1ng, The Bath" and not to tho hath
ITSELF o. : household institution.