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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

Can you tell me where to have en-
animation or sample OF asbestos made;
and give address OF firm which VII
purchase? NJ. q. 5.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19

We do not publish trade addresses
in this column. The Department OF
Public Instruction, Richmond, Va, or
your bookseller can give you the In
formation.
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n,yht ~ wnv,

Right of Way.
My father granted a neighbor right
Of way through farm for life. Both
parties to the transaction are dead.
May I close the way2 r. B. Y.
II the farm in question now belongs
to you, it is almost certain that you
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Plays.

Will you give me the address Of some
firm that will send plays for schoo
entertainments subject to examlna
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Please tell me the nationality Of Sec.
retary Loeb. and whether 1t is correct
TO say IF was" and "fIitn and my
self.', II. Il.
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Various

Will The s-Dispatch publish In
book form the current Famous Words
OF Famous Mem?
Nav Hon. John Goodies sketches now
running in the paper be obtained IN n
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vnriouA.

In tho opening Of song by George
LinIey, written about 1880.
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Please tell me where to flnd THOUGH
lost to sight. to memory dear"
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sub.crlption 10 Papers.

subscribe to paper and pay. the
years amount in advance. Without
renewal OH my part the paper con-
tinues, to come. Am liable for the
price OF subscription?
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Widows Dover.

Widows DOVER.
I buy farm subject to dover right.
When right accrues. may widow claim
one third of farm where she chooses.
Including all buildings and most OF
the desirable land? a. 3.
You will never get sufficient advice
on the matter without consulting a
good lawyer, to whom all facts may
become known.
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their size. Sir deoffrey Hudson, dwarS
OF Queen Henrietta Maria, Is said 70
have beer but is inches tall.
p. 81. GA. ri.

i IS s d
r. 81. or "A. III.
the sssqs'f@n e ana e ~ s* ash
You make the matter clear fq HftS }'ss
Tho letters used arc the initials OF 4
the Latin words ante, before; post,
after, and neridiem, noon. There -
no trouble In the use except az TO
noon and midnight; IL O'clock at noon
is neither before nor after noon and - +
marked 10 NJ. Tho hour IL ut night
belongs to tito new day. The last
atom OF the old day Is passed when
IL strikes Hence 1t Is IL o'clock be-
fore noon OF the day to which 1t be-
longs and must be marked ~ a. M.
Cause OF tile Civil War.
Can you state. in q few words tll9
cause of the Civil WARP Was y
slavery alone? d. 8. j.
Many persons iiavo attempted TO
make this statement. From the slze
OF the ordinary volume on the subject
It is doubtful whether the authors
have tried to do SO "in d few words"
and certain that they have not sue.
cceded II one were bound down ts
one word In stating the cause Of the
war, he would be pretty safe with this
word Slavery But the Confaderatea
fought, not for slavery. but for stats
and personal rights.
Lee Camp Home. ;
Please tell mo whether the Rich-
rlond Soldiers Home originated with
Lee Camp, and what will become OF
! the property when 1t ceases to be used
as soldiers home. T. IN. y.
| Leo Camp No. purchased in 1885
the land now occupied by the Soldiers
| Home. In 1902 it was arranged that
4 the state should make an annual ap-
4 preparation OF $4,000 for the mainte-
1 nance OF the homo, estimating the
4 number OF inmates at EGO, and that the
land should become the property OF
the state when It's usefulness as a SOL
diers' home had ceased. The increas-
, ity OF their advancing age have, alona
with the increased cost OF living large
ly added to the expense OF maintain
/. ing the home. and though this must, Of
!, course. be met by enlarged appropria-
: ton by the Legislature, the vast en-
hancement in the value OF the property
which the State will receive Is expected
to reimburse her fully for all outlay
This result will leave Virginia IN the
pleasant condition OF having fully per-
i formed sacred duty, the cost OF which
has heen betrayed by fortunate land
( lpurchase.
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AS to the first. no.
Hon. John Goode. care Of w. =. Har-
lis. Munsey Building. Washington. D.
C.. will have to give answer to second.
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The Womnn's Magazine for October,
1907, states that there is n law In Vir..
ginin permitting intermarrlage OF
whites and negroes Is this -true7
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Please tell me what and where Hin.
dustan Is. a. -.
,rhe word means the country OF the
Hindus, and was applied by the Per.
slams to the whole OF India Europeans
apply it to chat portion OF India lying
north Of tho yindhya Mountains.
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Is 1t contrary to law to play cards
"for fun" IN a store or other public
place IN Virginia?
Is license necessary for; non resident
to hunt In Virginia? II b.
No.
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Poems Wanted.

You are not.
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Confederate Pension.
Is an old and disabled Confederate
soldier entitled to pension IN v,r-
ginia? HH6.
Commonly. yes. Write to Auditors
office, Richmond, Va.
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A,bcs.o.,

Write to your congressman.
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-HnnrtInE,

Some are. Hon. Morton Marye, sta
Auditor. Richmond, Va. 80 ~
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One can pity the state OF an English
mistress confronted with such an argu-t
msnt. The author kept his servant an
lately that in that time he discovered
that If the tailor was. poet he was
also thief.
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Write to the Commissioners Of Asri-
0lInfntinn

culture. Richmond, Va.
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Widows OF Confederate soldicfs.
Please tell me whether widows OF
Con federate soldiers are entitled to q
pension, and whom to write to In tho
matter. w. q. =
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HOLY Catholic Church.

IUT79I---1 IIVIS 9NUtHV11N S''tshe'' 0-l----
T should be glad to know With what
.balief in '.,rhe Holy Catholic Church"
N 'Ns' G, p. p,
The adjective i"cat!,ollc" means gen.
eral, or universal, and may with pros
irrtety be applied to any organization
whose principles are considered by Its
at1herents to BIO of universal TRUTH
The designation has Grown to DO USED
Of the Church&of Rome particularly.
but the tendency Of each deyoout he-
lieyer is tc apply 1t to his own do
Illumination,
$ Heaven ana Earth.
Ia n marriage now legal N " mia
lbetWcen q ptrsOn and tho sister OF y
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I{iu,llis4au

There is not and never was such a
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General Hood.

For the satisfaction OF two old Con-
fcderates. will you state whether Hood
was ever under the command Of Lee:
whether lie commanded a brigade at
his removal from the Army OF the Ten-l
messed? z. II. HUBBARD.
He was. He did. Relief OF COM
lnand Of Army Of the Tennessee
January 30. 1ss5-terminated General
Hoods military career.
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Panama Canal.

Va.
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Betty is all the moro lovable because,
being d woman, she makes mistakes
and gets several heartaches before they
ara corrected. Being sound OF heart
and stable at core, she finally rights
herself ana finds her happiness when
she does so. She says good-by to the
friends who have followed her book
fortunes, with her lover by her side.
chards into full burgeoning, the cherry
! trees into snowy robes. and the peach
.boughs into bright pink, while "in tho
ld-fashioned garden at "The Oaks"
tho beds OF sweet ylolets hloomed lux-
urlantly, jonquils and daffodlls lifted
Their snowy heads ana lilies OF the
valley, pure and dainty, and delcately
aromatic. nestled close to their 8 talks.p
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Confederate Pcnsio,

German. Yes.
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1yo,,,,,n,s Stprnsine.

No.
Yes.
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Mirrors.
Is there more than one sort OF quick
silver? How are mirrors made? M.
The old mirrors, considered better
than the new, We're made by applying
sheet Of tlntoili covered with q,llck-
silver to plate Of glass und pressure
scores OF preparations. the base Of all
being nitrate Of silver. are now EN-
ployed. shellac is used over the solH-
ton, and then coat OF some heavier
covering Is put on. There is but one
llkind OF quicksilver
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THE GREAT EcRE,T, 8lsy u, Phil lbs
oppenheim Little. Brown s Co..,
Of Boston,, pub fishers. $3.50,
by an author who has proved his mas
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A. discussion as TO the exact usa o.
the letters p. M. and a. M. with hours
OF the day Ia referred to YOU. VIII
YOU make the matter clear for US
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law.
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DR.. Mn yl,cc.s Home.
.Dwnrf..

Please inform me when and. where
Tom Thumb was born and when ne
died; also give his height and whether
he was the smallest OF the known
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no equal as a. cure forthis disease
and repairs the damage done by
medical advice tree. THE {
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
ITCHING HUMoR ON BOY
His Hands Were Solid Mass, and
Disease Spread All Over Body
Cured In 4 Days BY CutIcuna.

"One day we noticed that our little
boy was all broken out with itching
sores. We first noticed 1t on his little
hands. His hands were not as bad
then, and we didn't think anything
serious would result. But the next day
we heard Of the Cuticura Remedies
being so good for itching sores. BY
this time the disease had spread all
over his body. and his hands were
nothing but solid mass of this itch
ing disease. / purchased box of Cuti-
cura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Ointment, and that night I took the
Cuticura Soap and lukewarm water
and washed him well. Then I dried
him and took the Cuticura Ointment
and anointed him with It I did this
every evening and In four nights he
was entirely cured. Mrs. Frank Dom
ahue. 20s Fremont st.. Kokomo. Ind.
Sept. 16, 1907"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
WAS ONLY RED BLOOD.
And Three Ysar-oId Had Been Told
That u Was Blue.

Three-yearold Allan had very aris-
tocratic grandma, who prided herself
ON her own and her husbands blue
blooded ancestry. She told him heroic
deeds Of them and warned him from
ever playing with boys of low degree.
One day Allan came screaming up
stairs to his mamma and grandma,
holding his hand up covered with
blood. where he had cut his little
finger. They were both greatly
alarmed. a. he was child who rarely
cried or complained when hurt. Nam
ma washed the blood OF and. exam
lining the cut, said:
why. dear, it's not 30 very bad.
Does It hurt you so much?"
I'm not cryin' cause It hurts" he
said. but cause it's only red blood.
and grandma said had e."-Phila,
delphia Ledger.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
GARMENT CAUSES CONTROVERSY
Many Varieties and Shades of Opin-
ion Offered--Managers of Noun
tain Resorts Welcome Innovation
expert Denies There Is Psy-
chOlOgy in Dress.

New York-Mixed In with all the
other burning questions OF the hour IL
the problem. % sheathe or not to
sheathe? You can get as many diff
ferent opinions as there are people to
consult. II does not seem to affect the
seaside hotels 50 much. Az long az
there are beaches and bathing the Inn
portance Of the feminine costume with
regard to the success of the season II
small.
But with the managers Of the noun
tain resorts 1t II different To quote
one Of them:
TITS all very well to talk scenery
and sanitation. the lovely views and
the good food-that used 70 go, but
when man can take boat or an auto
and get all these In an hour or two
from Broadway he isn't going to take
q hot, dusty ride for the same result.
If we could sprinkle a few of these
sheath skirts along the mountain
verandas there is no doubt that the
extremely painful sight, SO familiar to
the managers at present, Of an Adam
less Eden without even a serpent
would pass away"
One Of them with Imagination pic
lures the scene as he has witnessed
1t and as It might be:
A Affecting Women.
did you ever watch a lot of wom-
en- trying to make out that they are
perfectly happy, sewing and playing
bridge and gossiping on the hotel bal
cony. every one mad as a halter be-
cause she has been beguiled there In
the belief either that she would have
q Irritation herself or the opportunity
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be commanded. From time imme.
mortal women have held their dresses
up from the ground apparently to pro.
tect them. in reality for other reasons.
II the same result can be attained with
half the energy. naturally the new
fashion should be recommended to
everybody" H9 NJ
Made q Sensation.
To one Of the conservative stores
downtown young woman came the
other day. quietly appareled az to color
and cut Of her dress. but with her
navy blue gown coQuettishly slit to
the knee, displaying a dark blue silk
stocking and q Louis Quinse slipper of
small proportions. She began to buy
some yelling with nonchalant ease,
and the girl behind the counter wait.
ed upon her. ignorant Of the distinc.
ton conferred.
Not for long. First q cash girl
makes the discovery and brings a
twin to see that she has not made a
mistake. The news flies about the
shop; It reaches the bargain counter
and other places.
There is . sudden stampede. and in
the midst Of 1t the patron, with a
scorching look at the crushing crowd,
which will hardly allow her to move,
makes her way to the entrance and
thence with flying leap enters taxi,
whose driver looks down open mouthed
and eyed to get her directions. Disap-
pointed faces frame the door, and one
middle aged woman says cattily.
what did she expect?"
In this same store buyer, woman
q many years experience, is in the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01

,etticoats need not be worn and the
waist and hip lines should not
be destroyed by lot Of UNI
necessary material These bloom
ers fit-s closely TO the figure
and are fulled slightly above the knee
mot too much, nind--and have few
rows Of lace put on without very much
surplus, just sufficient to give the
dainty and feminine touch to gar
ment which IL not essentially attrac-
tive. y
"All the models in his place wore
these boomers at FIRST with the sheath
skirts. Now silk tights or fieshings
are worn II required, as many women
who wear the sheaths prefer them.
just az many prefer to spoil their
shape with the Intrusion Of the old
style petticoat or drop. which should
never be worn with them.
Producing the Soft Fall.
1.-THE soft fall about the feet which
IL 30 much admired By the aesthetical-
ly inclined Is produced by various de-
vices, usually small shot which are
seweA to q band Of tape. which in turn
IL fastened to the edge Of the skirt or
a few inches from the edge. AZ pre-
ferred. Paquin used q rubber band at
the knee which went around the skirt
and drew 1t in to give the required ef-
feet when walking. and some Of the
sheath skirts have two rubber loops
through which the foot passes, but
this style, although It gives the sheath
walk all right, IL very trying to an ac-
tive minded woman, as she must never
forget them, and while she may not
mind the self-consciousness she does
mind the discomfort.
of the new sheath skirt was at the
PaQuin establishment and model
one Of those lovely girls they have
there-began joking and laughing and
insisted that she could step just as
far In a sheath skirt as in other kind.
She tried 1t and tore the costume all
to pieces along the sides. After that
the sheath walk was adopted, which Is
the necessary result of the bands and
shot"
Another buyer thought there had
been unnecessary fuss over the sheath
skirt.
PurItanIcai Ideas Criticised.
"The very people who will sit on .
beach and watch the short skirted
swimmers, standing, sitting and run
ming about, displaying lines and curves
with generous abandon, are the very
people who have these Puritanical out
bursts at the mere idea of showing the
same amount of figure on the street.
Why Is tit" she asked.
The pulpit has denounced the sheath
skirt, which ought to encourage the
makers, and one Of the leading lights
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
Invention Of PaquIn.

Invention Of PaquIn.
when Paquin died." she explains,
he told his wife on his deathbed that
the sheath skirt, already known in the
trade as the Paquin skirt. would be
popular. and PsQuin made few mis-
takes. But the sheath skirt of which
he spoke did not have the latest i'm
provement--if You call It that. It was
simply sheath. not directoire
sheath. and was not slit.
The FIRST skirts made at his estab.
lishment had an unusual effect In the
front, Just slight looseness Of the
material below the waist, known to-
day az the PaQuin cut. The success
Of the sheath. then a. now. depended
ON its clinging to the figure, showing
every line and curve, ana ending at
the feet with . fad of .drapery suggest
ed by the sculptured draperies Of the
Greek statues. II you note . carefully
made sheath skirt turned out at the
Paquin establishment. or 1t any other
Of the Parisian houses. you will easily
trace the Hellenic resemblance, and In
fact, in some places the sheath ID
known - the Ionian skirt on this %.
count.
~To make the sheath Z success
great Attention nust ~ siysn 70 the
underearment1. PaQuin designed for
4 . new styls - bloomsrA % tai
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
New Problem Of watchmaksrs.

b WV TSS0tOUt W vvakStuUaNoTos
H. G. Carpenter, q representative G
q watch company Of South Bend. Ind.
held up sample watch as he stood IN
his room at the Hotel Baltimore yss-
terday.
"And now the jewelers. have q new
job-that Of inventing something that
Will make watches used in skyscrapers
keep correct time." he said. ''Don'a
suppose you know It, but the perpsn-
dicular steel construction of these
high buildings forms q magnet that
acts on the wheels of the watches, 40
celebrating or retarding the balance
wheel. That's why 80 many watches
in skyscrapers won't keep the correct
time. Now the manufacturers must
remedy that defect--if it's possibls.---
Kansas City Times.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01

drawing room, OF the auto. not Of To
business or the professional world.
IA few years ago business and pro-
fessional women saw In the adoption
OF the tailor mades, the short walking
skirt and various other utilitarian
modes e Disappearance Of the lines Of
demarcation between classes. To-day
they are looking with dismay at the
chasm that is opening.
take the sheath skirt as example.
A working woman must eliminate that
from her wardrobe. She could not ap-
pear In court, at her business desk in
1t. not only because 1t would be
physically impossible for her to do her
work so swathed, but also because II
would bring into business and profess
sional life the very feminine element
she IL trying to keep away.
THE sheath skirt woman IL opposed
body and soul to her sex's freedom.
The gowning of to-day is q challenge.
Use all the arguments you have at
your disposal. one woman says to her
sister of the other world, and we will
destroy them with the waving Of q
scarf and the curve Of a. ngure in .
clinging gown"
An expert on woman's dress who
has given 81 years of his life to It's
study poohpoohs the idea that there II
any such psychology in dress.
Nothing of the kind" he says, firm
ly. He says It as one who knows. II
do not think 1t is necessary to find
occult explanations for such obvious
facts.
Paris Needed the Money.
1.-THE truth of the matter Is that
Paris is hard up. She has suffered
severely from our little panic. Russia
too, one of her wealthy patrons, has
also fallen OF in her orders. Paris
hasn't known what to do and has put
her wits to work to evolve something
to appeal to jaded taste and above
all to the American market.
whether we will prove gullible I
cannot say. for 1t is as difficult to
prognosticate here as In the publish
ing or the theatrical world. When
The Old Homestead runs thousand
nights you are surprised when the
people suddenly demand The Soul
Kiss when the romantic drama
seems to be absorbing the literary
world and writer's are busy studying
history, the taste veers and nothing
but Dolly Dialogues will sell; when
you think women are at last cutting
out the futile and adhering more close
ly to unitarian standards they shrek
for sheath skirts with rubber bands to
hamper their walk. as Chinese wom-
ans shoes bind her feet.
zone thing we do know. Fashions
never really present anything new.
There Is only q continual turning OF
the wheel. The sheath skirt is not any
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01
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in the suffrage cause has come boldly
forward in its favor. The stage backs
and fills.
A club woman interviewed on the
subject says that she considers the
new style to have distinctly psyche
logic Significance. as all fashions have.
II consider It tremendously impor-
tant as showing the trend Of modern
thought" she says. Every epoch of
transition and change in political and
religious matters has had q CORE
spending reflection in the sartorial.
Look about the streets to-day and
in other public places and you will
notice that the tailor made girl is
conspicuous by her absence. II q
sailor hat is worn or q Panama mascu-
line in severity, like as not It IL
swathed with a chiffon veil and plumes
and wings are added. "
IAN along the line you win notice o
frantic effort on the part of the wom-
en- to show the world that they are
clinging fast to the womanly charms
Of seductive dress, to the frills ana
fancies and .fads that woman has been
taught to believe are the symbols Of
her power, and that she has little real
sympathy with the republican sim
plicity that would be- foisted upon her
BY minority Of her sex. She eschews
everything that ID severe, rigid, mae
culine, and riots IN the distinction
drawn between her gowning and that
Of women who are trying to waken
their eek to something more important
than chi5ons.
simply Swing o. Pendulum. s:
"Paris showed ~ same tendencies
right after the uin1elicity enforced By
the French revolutieN, and every c<isis
! a. history th1ro ~ ~ d sim1lax ef-
fact. The prevalent bshiens Of today
are the fashions II nv boudoir. Of the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-01

newer than a gray hair or a wrinkle.
During the Directory 1t was one of .
thousand styles. Paris was mad.
crazy at that time. License reigned in
everything, especially In dress and
manners. but even Paris did not care
for the style any longer than the three
months. and II dear old naughty Paris
drew the line It would seem that We
ought to cut Il out"