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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
1rs. Meyer Rouses Feminine Tempest

west or the south of the Beacon street
circle if they thought it obligatory for
them to call on one so far removed
geographically. 1t was broadly init
mated she would not be at all offended
if the lesser social lights-wives of
congressman Observation-Disclosures
her from their visiting lists.
Then Mrs. Meyer aroused tempest
in the teapot by her treatment of her
associates in the cabinet circle. She
invariably ignored her colleagues
when she was getting up such smart
entertainments as the dinner and re-
ception to the duke of the Abruzzi or
the duchess of Sutherland. She invited
only members of the diplomatic corps,
and selected principally the wives of
millionaires from the resident society.
Mrs. Meyer was, before marriage,
Miss Alice Appleton, daughter of the
well-known head of the great publish
ing company. She inherited a large
fortune.
Mrs. Meyer recently departed for
London. She will spend the season
with her two daughters, Miss Alice
and Miss Julia Meyer. These young
women have already bowed to the
three monarchs, the car, the emperor
of Austria and the king of Italy. They
will soon make their courtesy to the
ruler of Great Britain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
The Roosevelt Dam in Arizona,


The Roosevelt dam will eclipse in
magnitude of cubic contents all of the
dams at present under construction
by the reclamation service. It will
contain 100000 cubic yards of mason
~, or over six times more than the
Pathfinder, and nearly five times as
much as the Shoshone dam. Its height
will be ESQ feet from foundation,
length on top $50 feet Cor, including
splllway bridges, 1850 feet), and it's
thickness at the base 1865 feet. In
plan, although built in the form of an
arch, this structure differs from the
Shoshone and Pathfinder dams in be-
ing of the gravity type, wherein mass
alone is sufficient to secure stability.
The resulting reservoir will be the lar
gest artificially formed lake in the
world, body of water rs miles long
IN places over two miles wide. with a
storage capacity of 100000 acre-feet
and a maximum depth of over 220
feet. The dam and reservoir, writes
Henri V. Lemenager in the American
Review of Reviews, are the main fea-
lures OF the Salt river project for the
irrigation of lands in the Salt river
valley, IN the vicinity of Phoenix.
AriZ.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
The Benevolent Parasite.

The part that parasites play in
checking and preventing the ravages
OF insects which injure and destroy
shade trees, grain, fruit and other
vegetable products is now so we'll rec
ognized that it seems the matter of
getting rid of any particular sort of
pest is merely question of finding
the right kind of parasite. The fruit
growers of Australia have just had a
convincing object-lesson. A noted en-
tomologist found in India the parasite
which would do the trick, but the diff
Guilty was to overcome the difference
in seasons and climates between In
dia and Australia. The problem was
solved finally by putting the parasites
to sleep and then transporting them to
Australia, where they went to work
in the good old summer time quite as
If on their native heath. 1t seems like
a mean trick to play on the little
creatures, but doubtless this was a
case where the end justified the
means. If the pests would not come
to the parasites, the parasites, Ma
homet-like, could be made to conform
to circumstances and go to the pests.
Anyway, science scores another tri-
umph and indicates another way of
escape from the ills to which the vege-
table kingdom is heir.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03

ECONOMY is nothing but poverty in
II New York, by contrast with the alb
normal demands that living involves.
Spending SO cents for breakfast, going
without luncheon and paying one dol
lar for dinner is economy for a single
man. A breakfast that costs so cents
and a dinner at 60 cents is poverty
The boarding house life is poverty;
the lodging house life is something
worse, and the ordinary life in a fiat
is voluntary servitude.
Socio!ogists claim that the lowest
possible yearly expense for a work
ingman with wife and three children,
embCdying a normal standard of liv-
ing, is $3.50. The statement was made
recently by the New York department
Of charities that the average laborers
family in New York is existing on $500
a year. The minimum rate of rent
on the East side for the barest de-
cencies is four dollars a month. Coal
costs from 10 to Is cents pail, a fab
ulous price when estimated by the ton.
Yet between this poverty and the
ECONOMY of the small salaried en-
ploye who is compelled to adjust his
earnings to the demands of his occu-
patton there is small difference. We
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
New Theater to Educate the Children

The directors named in the new in
stitution are: Samuel L. Clemens
MARK Twain), Rev. p S. Grant, Otto
H. Kahn, R. J. Collier. Miss Il. M.
Herts and Charles E. Miner
The theater is to have it's home for
teaching. etc., for the present in Mr..
Golfers residence at 20 Gramercy
park. For the coming season the
newer organization will continue to
supply entertainments of a dramatic
order for and at the Educational al
lance, but in due time it expects to
have suitable theater building of it's
own.
In addition to the directors named
there is to be an advisory board, of
which one member has been selected,
Rev. DR.. G. S. Hall, president of Clark
university of Worcester, Mass.
Briefly stated, the object of the the
alter is education on both sides of the
footlights, which is to say it aims to
familiariZe the younger generation
with some of the best plays, both
classical and modern, by permitting
young people to take part in the per-
formances and the stage management,
and in turn by SO educating a genera
ton which later on shall demand in
the greater theaters a high order Of
plays and take away from the mana
gers the excuse sometimes heard now
adays that they cannot afford to pro-
duce plays for children.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
Postage Stamp Gum as Article of Diet

from the rollers into long horizontal
f1ue with hot air. When it energies at
the other end the gum is dry.
The government makes two kinds of
postage stamp mucilage. If one could
see the packages of stamps as they
come to the post Office ready to be
sold one would find them labeled, &C.
cording to season, Summer Gum" or
Winter Cum" The former is much
the harder Of the two and was devised
some years ago to keep the stamps
from getting sticky in warm, moist
weather.
While Uncle Sam tries to make the
lot of the stamp ticker as innocuous
as possible, he does not advise making
meal off his sweet potato gum. The
whole process of gum making and ap-
plying is made as clean as possible,
but there is yet another item to be
considered
A sheet of postage stamps is han
died good many times before it even
leaves the bureau where it is made. If
you must lick any of your stamps pick
out those from the middle of the
sheet. The corner ones have gone
through the fingers of half a dozen or
more counters, not to mention the per-
forators and the separators and the
rest
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
THE New York girl is an expensive

THE New York girl is an expensive
i proposition. The other day SUI.
preme court judge increased the al
lowance of a 17-year-old bud from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year SO that she
could dress "as becomes her station"
Some comment was made at the time
that this was rather large sum for
young girl to spend for raiment, but,
according to a fashionable Fifth ave-
nue. modiste, $4,000 a year is mere
bagatelle for Miss Manhattan to spend
for frocks and frills.
In dress parade of the nations the
New York specimen of American
beauty, by right of her costly and I'M
limited wardrobe, would lead the pro-
cession, for, according to this fashion
able dressmaker, her sartorial posi-
ton is achieved by a reckless disre-.
gard of money.
Twenty thousand dollars is only
moderate outlay for a new spring out
tit. At least, so says this dressmaker,
who really ought to know, for she has
gowned many maids and matrons of
the smart set. Nowhere is money
more lavishly spent for fashionable
6nery than in this city, she says, for
every New York woman's fad seems
to be pretty clothes. Money may come
and money may go, but frocks and
frills go on forever, and there seems
to be no abatement in the costly, de-
sires Of the sex" ....
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j. r. 49, !
TALK OF NEW YORK
| Gossip of People and Events Told
| in Interesting Manner.
Identity of |'Mme. Ruiz" Is Revealed

hood that a successful prosecution OF
the divorce action may be followed by
a suit for alienation of affection
against a man as yet unnamed. Mr..
Bauchle said that the divorce action
is based upon statutory grounds. AN
unknown man. is specified in the COM
plant, but it is said that when the pa
pers are served upon Nine. Ruiz the
complaint will be so amended that the
! name of the correspondent will appear.
Mr.. Ruiz was married to Mary Az
mes O'Brien in this city August II,
1903, according to the records. Miss
O'Brien gave her birthplace as Mis-
souri, and her age as Is years.
They did not live happily, it is said,
and after a few years decided to live
apart. Since that time Nine. Ruiz has
lived at several exclusive New York
hotels and of late has had an apart
ment in Lexington avenue. Her name
was brought into the Vanderbilt case
through the disclosures that shortly
before he eloped with a young society
matron, Harry Brenchley, formerly a
trainer for Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
horses, had purchased an $11, 900 auto
mobile for Nine Ruiz.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03

w ASHINGTON.-Every man on the
w streets here on June 10 wore a
tag by string from his buttonhole. It
was plain cardboard tag such as the
express companies use, and it did not
add to the appearance of ones dress,
but 1t saved money and a holdup to
wear it. June 13 was tag day in
Washington. Tag day was device
to squeeze dimes and quarters out Of
every pedestrian for the benefit of a
castoff children's playground. 1t was
a pretty mean man who would not
hand out dime at least once for a
tag. 1t was an excessively heightened
or reckless one who would not wear it.
No dime, no tag. No tag, no peace
The holdup of wearers of untagged
coats occurred every rs feet. Some
thing like $1,000 was realized as a re-
suit of the "holdups" for the play
ground.
Children peddled the tags in all
parts Of the city, and no man escaped
There were store tags, house tags,
automobile tags, cab tags and personal
tags and tive-dollar tag that made
the owner immune from attack in all
quarters. The store tag cost dollar
likewise the house tag. Every woman
was held up in every store, and it cost
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03

THERE is to be new theater in
1 town, not built by Oscar Hammer
stein or by any of the managers whose
names so seldom get into the newspa-
pers, nor is it to be a theater of the
usual order, although it will be reg
ular theater," as all it's actors, patrons
and managers will testify.
The new theater filed a certificate
of incorporation at Albany. The names
of some of the directors demonstrate
that it does not lack either capital or
moral backing or the special talent
and management which go to make a
theater successful. 1t is to be called
the Educational Theater for Children
and Young People.
While it is the outgrowth of the
Children's Educational theater, which
has been in existence long enough to
demonstrate its right to live, in con-
nection with the Educational alliance
in East Broadway, the new theater
really will be a new adventure in New
York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
FULLY NOURISHED
erape'Nuts Perfectly Balanced
Food.

NO chemists analysis of Grape-N
can begin to show the real value of
the food-the practical value as shown
by personal experience.
1t is food that is perfectly ball.
anced, supplies the needed elements
OF brain and nerves in all stages of
life from the infant, through the siren
uous times Of active middle life and
Is a comfort and support in old age.
For two years I have used Crane
Nuts with milk and little cream. for
breakfast. am comfortably hungry
for my dinner at noon.
i use little meat, plenty of yeee.
tables and fruit in season. for the
noon meal. and If tired at tea time.
take Grape-Nuts alone and feel perfect
ly nourished.
nerve and brain power, and mem.
ory are much improved since using
Grape-Nuts. am over sixty and weigh
195 lbs. My son and husband seeing
now l have improved, are now using
Grape-Nuts.
my son, who is a travelling man,
eats nothing for breakfast but Crane,
NUTS and a glass Of milk. An aunt
over 70, seems fully nourished on
Grape-Nuts and cream" "Thera's a
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Wen.
vtlle,~ in pkgs. ~
Ever read the above letter. A ne,.
one appears from time to time, Thev
are genuine, true, and full Of h.,,,s.
Interest. - ~ '''''p ?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
ROUND THE CAPITAL.
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There in Washington.
Many Holdups on Tag Day in Capital

her dollar to continue her round of
shopping without further solicitation.
President Roosevelt came across
for flve-dollar tag that allowed him
to take his customary drive on horse
back without being held up at the
bridge. Attorney General Bonaparte
was tagged twice. A beautiful young
woman held him boldly in front of the
White House Friday, which was day
in advance of official time for the free
booting. He dug up round dollar
cheerfully and said it was worth it.
But he forgot the tag when he saun-
tered out Saturday, and he had to shell
out again.
Young Quentin Roosevelt made
street record. He stood in front Of his
schoolhouse and took 1920 in an hour
peddling ten-cent tags. Then he moved
down to the Mall before the White
House, where he suspected money
would come in bigger pieces, but he
was dashed to the mast there in no
time after two automobiles drove up
filled with daintily clad girls, who
piled out and worked the thoroughfare
and White House grounds to finish.
The girls then ventured into the sa-
cred precincts of the White House and
sought Mr.. Loeb, but could not find
him. Learning that he, like the pres
ident, was exempt, under the rules of
the game, they left, by virtue of the
tive-dollar tag, complimentary tags for
both just for luck.
Next the bevy of young beauty as
sailed the Riggs National bank and
held up every one from the president
down.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
Their Rude Awakenino.

1t was a cold, dark night, but Sandy
and William were happy, because
there sat between them the most
charming young lady in Parsley. 1t
was a spirited horse they had hired,
and the trap bowled along DER the
moor and fell.
William held the reins, and as he
could dimly perceive, in spite of the
darkness, that his side of the lady's
muff was unoccupied, he slipped his
own disengaged hand into it, and
we'll, two hands were very soon ten
derby pressing each other And so
the happy moments fed, and the drive
home came almost to an end.
when you gentlemen have done
with my muff," said the young lady
presently, Il trust you will not fear
to tell me, as my own hands are be-
coming quite numb with cold"
Then dark suspicion fell upon her
two admirers, for things are not al
ways what they seem. Aud William
and Sandy are now sworn enemies
Home Chat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
The Problem of Living in New York

live in New York by the cost rather
than value of things. An apple pur
chased on Fifth avenue costs twice as
much as the same apple bought on
Fourteenth street. The dollar Bowery
shirt costs twice as much on Broad
way. This is the city where they pay
the price"
The self-indulgent man who spends
$500 a day has not saved his money
out of his wages. The woman who
could not manage her household for a
season on less than $4,000 is not the
daughter or the wife of wage Garner.
Economical beginners really have no
actual relation to the existing problem
of living in New York.
What does it cost to live in New
York? More than you can ever hope
to earn in wages; and, so far as the
chances of speculation are concerned.
that infers the necessity of pull" If
you haven't pull" social or political
or financial, your speculative chances
are slight. Obviously this state of
restless endurance is demoralizing. 1t
undermines character. Presently you
find yourself following the procession
of people who are living beyond their
means, because they seem to be enjoy
ing themselves at it,
The only way to live within your in
come in New York is to become blind
to the very extravagances and allure
ments that make this the metropolis,
and to sacrifice the pleasures of
temptation for the comforts of an hon.
Orable old age.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
American "Suckers''

THE American consul at Dunferm
i line has furnished guide to
suckers" in report warning the
American tourist what not to buy in
the way of antique and art objects.
Prefacing his remarks with the
statement that even a man with much
money cannot take a 30 day CORE
spondehce course in art and antiquity
and then tell what he is buying, he
points out these familiar deceptions
that are now being hung up abroad for
rich Americans who are thirsting for
artistic environment:
Robert Burns Chairs-Bobbie did
not keep an installment furniture
house, and what the constable did not
take, buyers long ago have.
Mary Queen of Scots Tables-The
queen was rather migratory, owing to
circumstances, and did not carry many
tables around with her.
"Sheffeld Plate-It is mostly mod.
ern, aged with processes that are new.
"Engravings and Prints-Ancient
copies are turned of the press every
day for the fish from America.
Crystal and China-The servants
broke most of the old stuff centuries
ago, and the old shapes are entirely
new.
Rare Old Furniture-This is made
with pumice stone and oil, which will
age any old chair or table in . week. !"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
The Educated Will.
VIRGINIA.

All classes of thinkers, realizing that
education is the nations first problem,
have contributed to the discussion Of
the school question. The physician
has made his plea for the child 3
health, the clergyman has put in his
word for religious instruction, the en-
plOyer has asked the schools to send
him graduates trained in the rudi-
ments of business. All this interest in
education stimulates teachers and
keeps the schools abundantly equipped
and progressive. But under all the
varied questions, the fundamental pur-
pose OF education is sometimes buried
from sight. Prof. Friedrich Paulsen,
German teacher and philosopher,
has recently summoned his country
men to remember the old moral roots
OF education. His article, translated
in the Educational Review, bids us
hold fast to the principles that educa-
ton means training in obedience, ap-
plication, and the subsection of the
young will to the older disciplined will
This philosopher and teacher of ethics
knows that the civilized human being
is he who can drive controlled mind
to definite goal, and that schools and
parental discipline and churches have
as their object the making of civilized
men and women out of raw material.
So that when devotee of "child-psy-
chology' advocates study of the child
bent and adaptation of educational
methods to the young individual soul,
the old-fashioned teacher agrees, pro-
vided the teacher and not the child
is to do the adapting. When the
preacher of health and nature shows
the beautiful development of free
childhood running wild in the open
fields, the old-fashioned teacher admits
the poetry of the idea, but insists that
the child will never enjoy freedom un-
til he has learned methodically to do
as he is told, indoors and out. And
when the pedagogical expert devises
course in manual training, French
music and nature study, the same old
Fashioned teacher accepts the combi-
nation, provided the pupil be required
to do his work thoroughly in each sub
ject, whether he likes it or not.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03

VAN American society affairs be con-
~ Quoted along lines laid down by
the European nobility?
Mrs. George Won Lengerke Meyer,
wife of the postmaster general, has
been doing some experimenting the
past season.
Resenting the free and easy custom
of everybody and anybody visiting the
cabinet homes. Mrs. Meyer has at.
tempted to introduce foreign methods
as regards calling and the general pro.
gramme.
Not since Mrs. Levi P. Morton drew
such a line of distinction between &C.
cidental official position and heredi-
tary social standing has Washington
been so wrought up as over Mrs.
Meyers naughty attitude toward the
wives of cabinet officers and other
men in public life.
Mrs. Meyers treatment Of wives OF
members of congress has caused no
end Of criticism. She inaugurated the
habit of asking women from the far
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03

NEW YORK.-The identity of the
~ mysterious Nine Ruiz" whose
name was frequently mentioned in
connection with the suit of Mrs. Ellen
French Vanderbilt for divorce from AL
fred G. Vanderbilt, has just become
public through the beginning of an
other divorce suit in which Nine. Ruiz
is the defendant The plaintiff in this
case is Senior Don Antonio Ruiz y
Olivares, attache of the Cuban legation
at Washington, and the defendants
name is given as Sonora Dona Agnes
O'Brien de Ruiz. The complaint in the
suit has not yet been served upon
Nine. Ruiz, as the plaintiffs counsel,
George Young Bauchle, has not yet
succeeded in ascertaining her present
whereabouts
There is said to be a strong likeli-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
VERY time a persOn ticks a Unite,

VERY time person ticks United
Il States postage stamp he gets taste
of sweet potato. The gum with which
the stamps are backed is made from
that succulent vegetable because I'm
Gle Sans lieutenants consider it the
most harmless preparation of the sort.
All of the gum used on American
postage stamps is mixed by the gov
eminent at the bureau of engraving
and printing, where the stamps are
made. 1t is spread on the sheets after
the stamps have been printed.
The gum, in liquid form, is forced
up through pipes from the basement,
where it is made. These pipes lead to
series of machines consisting of roll
ers, between which the sheets of
stamps are fed, one at at time.
A continuous fine stream of the
liquid gum falls upon one of these
rollers. The sheet with it's wet coat
ing Of sweet potato mucilage passes
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-03
A Change for the Better.

Miss Lillian B. Hill, the advertising
expert, said at a clothiers' banquet in
Grand Rapids:
Il am glad you clothiers now adver
tise, now print pictures of mems and
boys fashions. Thus you smarter up
the country, and you help to abolish
the cutting-down of the fathers clothes
for the son.
You have educated our little boys
to dress and few of them could bear
to wear now their fathers garments
made over by their mothers awkward
hands.
1T was not always so. remember
how, in the distant past, my little
brother rushed whimpering into my
room one night.
oh, DEAR he whined, pas had his
beard shaved off, and now l guess
I've got to wear the old red thing!'"