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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-16

RESOLUTION NO. 10. Declaring
it necessary to improve Grand ave-
line of the right of way of the G..
line TO the right of way of the c..
C., G. & st. l.. r. r.. by grading,
setting curbs and crossings, con-
|structing the necessary drains and
retaining walls, cutters and catch
basins, determining the genera, ma
trre OF the proposed impro. ements,
the grade thereof and approving
plans, specifications and profles
therefor.
Be II resolved by the Council of
the City Of Marion, State of Ohio
three-foufths OF all the members
elected thereto concurring:
A. That 1t is hereby declared
necessary to improve Grand avenue
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-16
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Most folks know that the congress
of the United States sits two days out
of every mOnth--and at odd times be-
sides-as common council for the
District of Columbia, hut they may not
know that It is the most preposterous
legislative performance known TO this
continent. II is precisely that, never
theless. The chances are that every
man in house or senate would make n
respectable and effective city council
man IL he possessed the necessary In.
formation as 10 local affairs, which he
does not. On the contrary. he has not
the information and In the very nature
OF things cannot have. So things per-
tanning TO the District are done in
most haphazard fashion. The severest
commentary on representative govern
inent ever made Is that right under the
shadow of the capitol dwell 100000
American citizens who have absolutely
no voice whatever in the conduct of
their own affairs. 1t is a crying shame
--an anomaly which should be abated.
Everybody In the house is glad that
President Roosevelt has made an as
sistant postmaster general out of Hon.
James 4. McCleary of Minnesota. He
is a most excellent gentleman, honest.
capable. Industrious. intelligent, cour.
teous and ambitious. He Is the worst
stand patter of them all. That's his
sin, and that's what defeated him for
reelection to the house: but. barring
that, McCleary IL a tip top man. He
seems TO me evep in that to he typi-
cal Republican. In my Judgment. a
tariff revisionist has no proper place
or function In the Republican ranks.
One OF the most popular men In tho
public life of America for the last
third of century is Hon. Joseph G.
s. Blackburn of Kcntucky-Joe Black.
burn, as he Is called everywhere. He
went out of the senate March and
supposed he was going into permanent
retirement. but the president. like all
the rest of Washlngtonlans. having n
high opinion of Blackburn. made him
an lStIitHiuu tuutt NHNH
was Il graceful thing for the president
TO do. Everybody's glad Of Senator
Joc's good luck, and II the prayers Of
his friends could avail he would he
holding the position when the canal
IL finished, which at tho present rate
of progress will be I'm something Ike
thousand years.
So the Santo Domingo job has been
consummated by the senate's ratifca.
tion Of the treaty. AS matter OF fact.
1t did not appear TO make any sort OF
difference whether 1t was ratified or
not, as the president was running
things over there under the modus
vivendi which he patched up with the
bandit president of that so called re.
public, who has long since left his
country for his country's good. That
the treaty means ultimate annexation
of a million or two of mongrcls and of
perpetual trouble everybody with two
ideas above Hottentot knows.
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To Build IA Town Hall.

At Monrovia a little town of probably
800 inhabitants in the northwest corner Of
Morgan county, Indiana, is little band
of women associated in an organization
known as the Commercial club. This town
is like many other Indiana towns of its
size: IT has no place suitable for public
gatherings aside from the churches and
school houses and these energetic women
have attempted to remedy this condition.
With that purpose in view they are striv-
ing By every honorable method to raise
money with which TO build a town hall.
The name Commercial club is usually APP
piled TO a body OF men organized for the
purpose OF obtaining factories and other
public institutions for their cities and at
first blush it might seem inappropriate
when applied to a club of women. Not a
man is permitted to join.
The club now has 1923 in the bank TO its
credit and 1t hopes 10 have $500 by March
%, at which time the club proposes 10 in
corporate and sell shares. Business men
of the town have promised to add several
hundred dollars to the fund when the $500
mark Is reached and three of the business
men will be on the board OF directors.
II possible the club will build this fall
The women will either erect a second story
TO some business room OF buy a lot and
put up a structure with a basement, so
that they can put in a dining room and
kitchen, and an auditorium 45xs5 feet, with
a piano. gasoline lighting plant and every
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Gossip About Women Folks

bakes her own bread, cookies, cakes and
pies and is famous in her neighborhood
as cook.
Mrs. Crossen does her own washing, can
do plain sewing, although she admits that
sometimes the seams are trihe crooked
and mends her own and her husband $
clothes, including socks and mittens.
When housekeeping time comes Mrs.
Crossen takes down and washes her lace
curtains, rips up the carpets and relays
them, stretching and lacking them herself.
For years she did not attempt this work,
but one time when her husband was I'M
able to help her she attempted it herself
and has since performed that duty. Dust
ing, sweeping, trimming lamps, etc, are
included in her everyday duties and her
home is as neat as a pin.
In the summer time Mrs. Crossen attends
to little garden of flowers, of which she
is passionately fond. AS she cannot enjoy
their beauties of appearance, her flowers
are nearly all those having fragrance
Mr.. and Mrs Crossen have been mar
ried thirty years, her Illness coming after
she had been married six years The cou-
pie have two grown-up sons, neither of
whom lives at home.
"A hired girl was out of the question"
she says, 80 l started to do my work my
self. 1t didn't take long before / found
that could do everything. / go about the
house as easily and quickly as if l could
see"
To demonstrate Mrs Crossen walks di-
dectly to any object on the floor or walls
named by her guest, placing her hand upon
It without the least hesitation. She never
misses by even an inch the smallest OBJ
jects about the house.
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queror," which was a failure, Is the most
ambitious piece of literary endeavor that
she has attempted She has written much
of travel and mountain climbing.
Julia Nelson, one OF the actresses to
receive the honor of election at the hands
of the London critics of beauty, is Mrs.
Fred Terry in private life, having mar
ried in 1891. Her first appearance on the
stage was in a company of amateurs play
ing THE Yellow Dwarf" under the man
agement of Lady Bancroft. Miss Nelson's
success was immediate, and for the last
fifteen years she has been playing leading
parts in many of the new London pro-
auctions. In 1895 she played Mrs. Eddsmith
with Hare in New York. Paul Kesters
version of Sweet Nell of Old Drury,"
produced at the Haymarket, London, in
1900 gave her one Of her best opportuni-
ties.
Evelyn Millard, the wife of Robert Porter
Coulter, London merchant, made her first
professional appearance on the stage in
1891. Her first years were confined to
vaudeville. In 1894 she appeared at the
Comedy theater with Cyril Maude and Win
fired Emery in Sowing the Wind, "1later
played Princess Flavia in THE Prisoner of
Zenda" and made her first great success
as Lady Ursula in THE Adventures of
Lady Ursula Glory Quayle she created
when Gaines 1.-THE Christian" was pro-
duced in 1899. Her most notable achieve
ment was in the part of Cho-Cho-San,
which she created in the first London pro-
duction of Mime. Butterfly" She tenn
porarily withdrew from the stage after her
marriage, but returned two years later,
and has been playing steadily since.
There is no immediate likelihood that
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TO the elaborate confections in lace or
silk which win add beauty to elegant
tollettes.
1t Is evident that the fanciful wraps OF
this last mentioned class are to be more
popular and more extravagantly handsome
than ever, and the advance models shown
by exclusive houses are in many cases
priced at figures calculated to make the
average woman gasp. The lace coats of
the finest grade are perhaps the most costly
of their kind. though hand embroidery
brings some OF the silk and lace trimmed
coats to the level of the lace models in
point OF price.
For that matter embroidery is combined
with the lace of some of the handsomest
lace models being introduced in elaborate
designs upon net and so mingled with the
lace that 1t is hard TO tell where the lace
ends and the embroidery begins.
Irish lace is still first favorite for these
beautiful coats; but often It is combined
with some other bold lace such as filet or
antique of darned in pattern.
The long coats of the sketch for exam
pie, was formed Of alternating wide bands
OF superb Irish crochet and hand-darned
antique, the bands set together and run
ming vertically In the loose half length gar
ment. The sleeves were of the type so
universally used that one wonders whether
they will not be too common TO be truly
smart by the time the season is well under
way.
The lace is so handled that coat and
sleeve seem cut in one at the shoulder
Big Irish crochet ornaments are set on the
fronts as fasteners and also appear upon
the sleeves A loose lining of chiffon is
accordion plated.
Such coat as this Is the acme Of ele-
gance for summer wear over airy frocks,
and short coat models OF similar character
are equally desirable in their way. Most
OF these are loose little paletots with quaint
long shoulder lines and sleeves often fall
ing so indefinitely into the coat folds that
the little garment looks almost like a cape.
Occasionally an embroidered collar is
used upon the lace, the embroidery done
upon velvet or silk, or in Some instances
upon cloth OF silver or OF gold; but most
often the lace is left to be it's own trim
ming and this is the wise thing,
An attractive Irish lace coat of beautiful
quality was loose paletot Of hip length.
The bottom was rounded IN shallow scoI-
Iops, one In the back, one at each side, and
two in front. Around the bottom. up the
fronts, and indeed on all the edges of the
coat, was a two-inch band Of white broad
cloth embroidered in a fine white line of
tiny flowers and foliage.
An odd unlined collar OF the white broad
cloth. iaboting slightly al either side Of the
front had embroidery matching that on the
borders, and In addition an embroidered
design OF floral sprays picked out with gold
through the center Of the collar.
Exquisitely embroidered little coats and
wraps. vague OF shape but piquant Of line
are made OF white linen or even OF fine
handkerchief linen or batiste, the material
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there will be an International beauty con-
test between Great Britain and the United
States, much as the International sports
competitions may grow in favor Probably
the chief deterrent in such scheme would
be the wholly different types Of beauty and
the clash of standards for gauging blue
ribbon material.
The English lean toward the lean and
stately, the willowy and the frail. a beauty
of Albion must be tender thing. Her
face must be purely classical, her eyes
must have a Burne-Jones detached look, a
haunting tenderness. There must not be
too much of the earthly in the English
Rosamonds face; rather should the spirit
look shyly out of cold eyes and draw to a
Junolike firmness the overred lips
PiquaLcy and dash, which have been said
by foreign critics to constitute the reign
ing charm of American beauties, are not
favored by Englshmen off the stage. The
faces of most of the prize winners in the
News pebscite show calm severity, at
least, detachment from anything approach
ing the rolicking or the INBRED. An Eng
lish beauty may be lily, but never a sun
flower.
American women who become the brides
of English noblemen are sometimes con-
sidered beautiful before they take the step.
But Invariably the American bride puts her
hair up in bang over the forehead, after
the fashion set by the present queen, and
draws the corners of her mouth down to an
aristocratic dip, expressive of a httle hau-
teur and much good breeding. Then she
may be accepted by the Englishman as
beautiful, but she could never enter team
of American beauty champions under anna
teur rules.
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nestle service. The subject is a fruitful
one for noncombatants. Like the home
strategists in war time, they think they
know how the battle could be won better
than the Nousekeeper. Their observations
and suggestions afford some diversion with
out touching the vital question of remedy.
Statisticians figure out the cause readily.
They say the population of the country
has increased 95 per cent since 1870; that
the available number of girls for domestic
service has grown only Al per cent, and
that the number of families that can af-
ford domestic help has increased at a
greater ratio. This is merely an exposi-
ton of facts and it doesn't tell us what
we are going to do about it. To the aver
age housewife perusing figures affords
mighty little consolation when she is con-
templating the cherries prospect of hav-
ing to wash the dishes.
''There isn't much mystery in the ser
want girl problem, after all" comments
the Kansas City Journal I'm the first
place, as stated by the statisticians, the
tide of prosperity has enabled thousands
of families to hire help that never could
AFFORD it before. Now this same pros
perity has struck the homes of the more
humble families from which the army of
domestic help is recruited. In hard times
the girls of the humble families find 1t
necessary to go out to service. This neces-
sity does not exist today. Thus prosperity
is responsible for the increased demand
for girls as well as for the decreased sup
ply.
There are several interesting side lights
on the domestic service problem apart from
the main issue referred 10. There are more
women employed in stores and factories
today than at any time in history. The
great commercial establishments absorb
young women about as fast as they come
to the cities The more capable girls are
employed as stenographers, cashiers, etc.
while the great department stores and fac
tories take the rest. These girls believe
business careers are easier, more dignfed
and offer greater freedom and more leisure.
Under such circumstances IT cannot be
wondered at If the supply of domestic help
is growing less. But still the remedy
seems as far of as ever"
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blind. but an Active worker.

Totally blind for twenty-four years, Mrs.
John Crossen of Bay city, Mich, is still
able to perform all the duties embraced
in housekeeping. Mrs. Crossen is blind as
a result Of spinal meningitis
Direct rays OF the sun OF the waving Of
a lighted lamp before her eyes make no
impression upon the optic nerve, their func-
tion having been entirely destroyed by the
disease. Yet there Is nothing Mrs. Crossen
cannot do.
Her husband leaves his home at a. m.
daily for his work and Mrs. Crossen lights
the fires cares for a coal stove, prepares
his breakfast, packs his dinner pail and
sees him on every morning exactly as II
she were endowed with her sight. She
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or Feversham. Like Lady Beatrice Pole
Carew Lady Vincent has been always high
in Londons social circles.
The Princess Henry of Pless. wife of
Prince John Henry XIV of Pless, also Graf
Won Hochberg and Freiherr zu Fursten-
stein, was one of the daughters of Mrs
Cornwalis-West before her marriage in
1891 Her mother was a reigning beauty
in the drawing rooms in the early sos,
and still retains much of her charms. A
sister of the Princess, Miss Sheila Corn
wallis-West, became the bride of the duke
of Westminster a few years ego. Her
brother married the widow of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, who was Miss Jennie
Jerome of New York
Al the time when gossip had It that EN-
peror William intended to appoint the
prince of Pless ambassador at Washington
there was much talk among the legation
people there OF the revolution the princess
Of Pless would make in Washington So
ciety She was known to be smartest Of
the smart in London, Berlin and Wiesbaden,
II was whispered over legation tea tables
in our capital that the princess of Pless
would give to Washington society the
much needed tone Of European courts. But
she did not come to Washington.
The duchess OF Sutherland the fourth
noblewoman to win in the beauty contest,
is famed as much for her wisdom as her
good looks. She was Lady Millicent St.
Clair Erskine when the duke of Sutherland
took her from the school room and mar
ried her on her seventeenth birthday.
lady Millicent has never been an enter
tainer. though Stafford house, her hus-
bands London home is such honse that
Queen Victoria is said to have remarked
once when she visited it: II have come
from my house buckingham to your pal
ace" Travel and sport occupy most Of
Lady Millicents time. A play, THE Con-
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almost entirely hidden by the heavy en-
broidery which sometimes combines open
and blind embroidery and sometimes is
entirely blind.
Often these little vogue boleros are bor-
dered by fringe of tiny balls, and in many
models intricate soutache braiding is
mingled with the embroidery, adding to
the richness of the effect. These wraps
are designed for wear over sheer lingerie
frocks and are sometimes accompanied by
sunshades and even by hats en- suite
Garments of like description are modo
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Chine ribbons will be worn a great DEAL
and they are very pretty.
Many shades of tans, silver grays, blues
heiotropes and vieux rose are seen in
louisne silk.
The empire style still prevails but very
few figures can stand this without some
modification. Long streamers OF velvet or
ribbon hang from the shoulders, and
berthas and fichus soften the bodices.
A good many of the dresses show a mix
ture of color Coarse meshed nets, chiffon
and gauze are trimmed with bands of vel
vet or rich embroidery In colors In har-
mony with the gown itself.
Soft chiffon velvets and pannes in very
light colors-yelloWs, blues, msuves and
pinks-make beautiful evening dresses, with
embroidered satin berthas. White panne
and chiffon velvets are having a great
run.
For evening a great deal of satin is be-
ing worn this year by young girls. The
skirts are made perfectly plain, only they
are marveiously cut, and the satin can
hardly be soft enough. The rich makes
of satin are embroidered with gold, silver
and irdescent paillettes, SOFT rlppon EN-
broidery and chiffon flowers.
Drop fringes are asserting themselves
quite a little If one is to be guided by the
trimmings that appear on imported models,
that are decidedly attractive and are
being much used abroad 10 edge the nat
fiounces and the false folds that are used
in such profusion upon the new sklrts'
can hardly be distinguished from a full
and fussy bolero at first sight-will prove
a useful addition to the wardrobe. In
pale cloth, with a tiny waistcoat OF
braided velvet, the braid repeated on the
CAPE the whole kept TO one tone OF color,
it is pretty and youthful looking.
A becoming veil for those with pale
complexion is a very delicate shade or
pink chiffon or a light shade OF blue. The
long automobile veil which is so very
popular with the people who enjoy auto
~
only for one Of the latest novelties IN
wells for street wear is the long chiffon
veil with a pleated border,
The little sets of embroidery collars and
cuffs that are displayed in the shops argue
the speedy return of the full length sleeve
10 favor. They are most usually In either
white linen or exquisite sheerness or OF col
ored batiste equally fine. The collars are OF
the stiff band variety with soft turnover
that completely conceals the sim part be-
meath, while the cuffs are Enthusiastically OF
imagination could one picture them doing
duty upon an elbow sleeve.
A well-known and influential New York
politician has attracted no small degree OF
attention TO himself by the persistency
with which he has worked in favor Of the
plea Of the women school teachers that
for the same service they should receive
the same pay as men. A friend asked him
why do you make yourself so conspicu-
anything political by H. Why should the
women teachers receive as much as the
men, Let me tell you one thing that
Will explain the whole business was the
answer. after We were married my wife
taught me to read and write. That's why"
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are as becoming and pretty as they are
useful.
Some OF the new models have broad,
handsomely embroidered straps Of the cloth
starting from the shoulders, crossing at the
bust and drawn around to fasten In the
back. These hold the cape securely with
out It's being fastened at the throat and
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but such a coat as the pongee model OF the
cut might be useful TO any woman, pro-
vided she could AFFORD to pay the price
asked for H. Here again We find eompli-
Gated soutache braiding in self-tone and
self-tone embroidery uniting In elaborate
enrichment Of the material. in this case a
natural lined pongee Of soft heavy quality
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that there are six beautiful
women in Great Britain. These
are Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew pronounced
Poole-Carey), Lady Helen Vincent. Prin-
cess Henry Of Pless the duchess of Suth-
erland, Miss Julia Nelson and Miss Evelyn
Willard.
The choice of the London beauty judges
was made through the columns of the Even
ing News. a ha'penny paper. Lady Bea-
trice Fole-Carew won by a great lead over
the other contestants whose names are
given in the order of their popularity The
News say that there were many other
women's names voted on, but since the
crown Of beauty was limited to the six
highest contestants much Of the second rate
beauty of England is condemned to an
onymty for the present.
Aside from the four members of the no.
bility whose names were chosen by popu-
lar vote, there are two from the masses
named as beautiful. But Miss Nelson and
Miss Willard are on the stage.
The commentators on the beauty contest ;
have 1t that Lady Pole-Carew was a sure
winner and that Lady Vincent and the
Princess Henry of Pless could have been
picked beforehand for place and show
Lady Beatrice is the daughter Of the
marques of Ormonde, tweny- first earl in
his line and also twenty-seventh hereditary
chief butler of Ireland. Aside from his
titles Lady Beatrices fathers name is
James Edward William Theobald Butler
Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler was
married in 1901 to General Reginald Pole
Carew, nicknamed "Polly Carey" by his
brother officers in the Indian and South
African services
General Polly Carey was over 50 and
In command OF the Coldstream Guards