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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Uplift Plan Amol,1i,q, ;.

" ASHINGTON.-Ehorts to uplift the
w business women of Washington,
25, 900 Of whom earn their livelihood at
service in the government depart
ments, have received a setback.
Some time ago it occurred to a
group of well-meaning society women
In New York that it would be nice to
uplift all these working women About
the same time the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON of Women began busying itself
with the women in the Washington
departments. 1t took on the great
bureau of engraving and printing, in
which women are employed, and pro.
ceeded to look for things that needed
to be improved.
The bureau of engraving and print.
Ing Is the place where the money is
made; hundreds on hundreds of mil.
lions of dollars worth of treasury
notes and bank notes are turned out
there every year.
When the Civic Federation of Won.
en- sent a committee to do some uplift.
ing these money manufacturing WON.
en- doubted whether they really needed
any charity. They earn comfortable
livings, have their own places in so
ciety, go to the theater, and never be-
fore thought of themselves as in need
OF any uplift from the Manhattan di
rection.
The New York women, fearing that
the working women were overawed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Secretary Latta Startles Congressmen

ldent came off; but Mr.. Latta sudden
~ lost his voice and had hard time
unloading his i,npedimenta and the
proper formal speech. He managed to
get through it, and in time-by rea-
son, of course, of the constant prac-
tice during the Roosevelt administra-
tion-acquired a commendable non.
chalance about it.
But he never dreamed of appearing
in any other costume than the long
and dignified black frock coat of
craftsmanship. 1t was supposed that
garb was as necessary for him as
the flowing robes of black which add
something to the terror with which
the supreme court judges inspire a
lawyer appearing before them for the
first time. What, therefore, was the
astonishment when he appeared the
other day in natty sack suit and de-
livered his message with the ease of
telegraph boy with a message?
One explanation offered is that Mr..
Latta has to make the trip so seldom
nowadays that he can't arrange al
ways to have the long skirted coat
handy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

JAMES HAZEN HYDE, the most
y Partisan of Americans and the most
American of Parisians," as his friends
call him, is now neither Yankee nor
a Frank. A brutal French court has
sentenced him and his chauffeur, Lad
vice. to one months Imprisonment
each and fine of 500 for Hyde and
$50 for the chauffeur for running into
a public taxicab in Paris and injuring
passenger. Mr.. Hyde's chief offense
was in fleeing the scene Immediately
after the collision, fact which made
possible the prison sentence. He
found it convenient to remain out of
France while the trial was going on.
Now he is an exile.
, MIR. Hyde few years ago was one
aof the leading society figures of New
York city. When he left the United
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

NELSON w. ALDR1CH, senior sena-
~ tor from Rhode Island, has an
nounced that he will not be a candi-
date for reelection when his present
term ends. His fifth term as senator
of the United States will expire March
4, 1911, land in the meantime Mr..
Aldrich hopes to see enacted a
tariff bill which will be credit to his
leadership and a financial bill which
will completely reorganize the finances
of the nation and which will constf-
tute a monument to his service in the
upper house.
The part which Mr.. Aldrich is
taking in the tariff legislation is well
known. While the tariff bill is
under consideration, the financial leg
islation. In charge Of the national
monetary commission, is making little
apparent progress. although consider.
able work is being done by experts
employed by the commission to gather
data for its use.
Next autumn Mr.. Aldrich will
make q trip through the country,
delivering q number Of speeches, or
addresses, AZ he prefers to call them.
explaining the work of the none
tary' commission, its plans for the re-
organization Of the monetary system.
consulting with bankers and hslaipess
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

DOMESTIC life in New York is un,
II dergoing rapid changes, and the
day of the absolute reign of the cook
is passing in the metropolis as is ty.
ranny in other parts of the globe.
The revolution is a quiet one, but
proof of the uprising against the
queen of the culinary art is furnished
by John N. Bogart, commissioner of
licenses, in his annual report.
A new generation has risen to ques-
ton the power which held men and
women in submission for so long
because of the constant threat of the
three days. notice" At the present
rate of change, according to the figures,
cooks in priyGts families will soon be
novelty; and, instead of being mas
tiers over a few, they will be reduced
to serving the many.
One cook is now doing the work
formerly done by many, and the re-
suit, Mr.. Bogart states, is decrease
Of 81 per cent. in the number sup
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Would Pilot Americans Through Europe

enumerates his qualifications for tax.
ing rich Americans abroad:
Il have hit upon what believe is q
new plan, and offer myself as gentle
man cicerone through Europe. I have
the necessary qualifications, for
know the country. know the trains,
the ships, and know the best hotels.
l know the hotels where society goes
and those that are, to use an express
sive word, 'tabooed.' Then, again, my
experience tells me when to tip, how
to tip, the amount to give, and when
it is to advantage to tip in advance.
II should be able to get any Ameri-
can family into London society, and
would get them the entry into Phyllis
court during Henley week. know
Newmarket, Ascot and Goodwood, and
l can go to any place on the CONT
nent, to the seaside or the spas.
could take Americans Sightseeing or
yachting. I should be willing to place
my automobile at the disposal of any
employer, and think know the roads
over there as we'll as anybody. I have
driven through Great Britain and con-
tinental Europe"
Vandevelde said he spoke English,
German, French and Dutch, and had a
working knowledge of Italian and
Spanish. AS an evidence of his thrift
the young man came across in the
second cabin. When asked how he
got into society, Vandevelde replied:
Il, sir. was born a gentleman"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Girl Workers Fails

at the contemplation of such a won.
drous opportunity to be improved,
and struck speeches. at the thought
of having such great ladies take an
interest in them, decided that it would
be necessary to give the bureau girls
some especial opportunities to get
used to the overpowering thought. So
it was proposed that some of the
young women should be invited to visit
some of their benefactresses I'm. the
homes OF the latter and learn how it
was all done, observe the method of
eating ice cream with a fork and
taking soup out Of the side of the
spoon, and such like correct little
wrinkles.
Somehow this didn't much appeal to
the girls, either; they rather opined
that their table manners were good
enough, and didn't feel the need OF be-
ing further, impressed with the splen.
dor of being patronized by ladies who
used gold dinner services.
But the federation committee worked
away earnestly, and finally the explo.
sion came. The committee found SO
of the women in the bureau would
have to be dropped out of the service
before the moral average would be
raised to the point where contact with
the federated benefactresses could be
established at all.
That settled it. Every woman and
girl in the bureau resolved herself
into an indignation meeting. It was
what all had been expecting, they de.
clared. Those society women who
wanted to convert working women
into butterflies, of course, couldn't I'm.
derstand. Why should they be ex.
pected to? They had meant we'll
enough, but really they could hardly
be commended for tact and diplomacy
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21


seniority
ohmmed " the third brother take the throne the Ydz
insanity August 3d. 1876 Abdul succeeded
Demne
a
has
inc present sultan born November 1914 The people know
about The
Is
rule He his brother pavilion the
4ldlz Kiosk, retinue, guards
Though prisoner Rehad uarly Turkish
highn
distinctions which
titles which fill half de
He will
the cities OF Mecca Media and Jerusalem padcha of the
hundred other cities Europe,
the time extent of the the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

THE uplift has had another backset
1 in Washington, they say. 1t comes
about through the remissness of AS
sistant Secretary to the President
Latta. Mr.. Latta is the official mes
senger from the White House to the
houses OF congress. He Jugs up all
the messages of the president and SOL
EMMY presents them when the houses
are in session.
The first time Mr. Latta delivered a
message to the senate is an occasion
we'll remembered. He is about six
and half feet tall, and when he ap-
peared at the door of the chamber
with a bundle of documents from
President Roosevelt he got slightly
ratified. He was duly presented and
the formal reception by the vice-pres-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

The United States life-saving serv-
Ice Is little heard of, especially in in
land states, yet it's work, for the
amount of expense, produces wonder
1ul results. The report for 1908, just
to han1, contains some interesting
facts. t)f 1904 vessels wrecked in
American waters Sc were a total loss.
The entire property value at stake
was $13,630,225. The life.saving serv-
Ice snatched back from the waves
$l1,666,435. On board the imperiled
vessels were SIP human beings. At
the usual valuation of an average of
$4,000. the life savers, who rescued all
but 20 Of these people, preserved te,
the nation human energy worth $22,-
10000. A total of $34,426.435 return
from an expense of 1882, 5249G, the
entire outlay of the department. This
seems to be one instance at least in
which government insurance is a con-
spicuous success.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

IN the midst of the throes of the
i tariff fighting and the uprisings in
Turkey and Persia, Uncle Sans staM
and placid department of agriculture
at Washington hurled a bombshell to
the center of the worlds stage the
other day in an official bulletin on "fishy
flavor in butter Yes, there it is in
all it's fearful portent.
For four years, according to the bull
letin, Uncle Sans bureau of animal
industry sleuths have been on the
trail of the microbe which gives to
butter "a peculiar oily taste suggest
ing mackerel or salmon
But they have not caught the mi
crObe yet.
ALTHOUGH there are very few ref
erences to this subject in literature, j."
announces the bulletin, ''the trouble is
widely distributed.
1T is known to occur in various
parts of the United States, but is es-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

"A Woman's sphere Is to keep
house." the masculine conservative
groWls, whereat the suffragette pouts
and protests. Yet both may be right.
Much depends on the breadth of the
term. The trouble is the suffragette
and the anti-suffragette seem to imply
that housekeeping is not much of a
job. AS matter of fact, it is the big
gest In creation, when measured by
any true standard of values. It is
really the one and only universal, in
dispensable trade, as necessary in
China as in America, among the Es-
quimos as among the Europeans, in
the cave as we'll as in the palace, be-
meath the thatch no less than beneath
the tile. And it is the Oldest, beginning
as it did when Eve gave Adam his
first breakfast and the morning stars
Warbled the first song.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

The equai-suffragists may consider
New England as practically lost to
the cause, since prominent one of
their number sarcastically told the Pill
grim Mothers that from the tens of
thousands she has met in the United
States whose ancestors came over
on the Mayflower, she was led to be-
lieve that vessel the size Of the Lu-
sitania, or a whole fleet of modern
steamers. Now there is a GOODNESS in
the cause.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Fight Twenty Years to Get Millions

agreement known as the peace agree
ment," entered into between the heirs
and executors of the estate, in 1898
aften. ten years of bitter fighting
among the family. 1t is also sought
to have William T. Washburn, the
only surviving executor of the will.
removed from that position on the
ground of malfeasance. In the latter
cause Edward B. Whitney has been
appointed referee to take testimony
and report to the court.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

Of the Universe he bade eooy his readers throughout
civilized
but being followed later Life
shorter
Thus his
for 48 activity
cessation
biology 1t is certain whether this will
which whether will the whole story from its
beginnings thing
will
While the preparation
pupil Prof Ludwig Plate Berlin
of Phyletc
by Prof Haeke and handed by him the university
Systematically showing
biological collection establishing IN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

For the second time within a connie
OF weeks, the American bluejacket has
distinguished himself. A fire broke out
In Philadelphia tenement on Friday:
a man climbed the rainspout to the
second story and helped five persons
to safety. On his cap was the name
OF the battleship Kearsarge, but he re.
fused to give his own name. His mod.
esty gave the finishing touch to a
brave deed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Despised the Clean Shave.

The arrival in London Of a new
fashion in moustache which, becoming
beautifully less, tends to disappear;
reminds us of the strong opinion of
the practice of shaving "clean" held
by the late Sir Richard Burton. That
extremely masculine man declared
that men who dispensed with hair on
the face were degenerates, and that
those periods of history in which clean
shaving was the general fashion had
always been marked as periods Of ex-
IRENE luxury, effeminacy and decay.
It will be remembered that Sir Rich
ards own mustache was remarkably
vigorous and ''spiky." Chron-
icle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

There is always day of settlement
for countries where fanatical mobs or
murderous soldiers are" permitted to
run loose. China learned that lesson
when 1t met the bill for damages to
foreigners by the Boxers. Turkey and
Persia Will be on the collectors route
when the mischief wrought by bloody
minded Moslems and fierce Turcomans
has to be paid for.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
A leading mathematician of Franco

A leading mathematician of France
gives, another warning that there, is
no infallible method of doubling ones
stakes: after loss. "All one can do -
says he, rs to combine ones play so
as to have great chance of winning
a little and a little chance of losing
much, and many chances Of losing it,
tla One can arrange his play 80 as
to have. one chance .ol,winninG q, mill.
Ion francs, and % million chances OF
losing one franc" - ~zos 49,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
New Daughter Of the kaiser.


Princess Alexander of Schleswig-
Holstein, whose marriage to Prince
August Wilhelm, fourth son of the
kaiser, took place recently with all
the pomp and old-world ceremonial
that marks bridals in the royal house
of Prussia, is, says NJ. A. p, a fresh.
faced, pleasant-looking girl with a
pretty, shy manner and all sorts of
useful and ornamental accomplish
ments. She has more comeliness than
the crown princess and less elegance
than Princess Eitel Fritz, but her
place at court will probably be as
agreeable as that Of either, inasmuch
- she is a tremendous favorite~ with
her aunt, the German empress. *,%@s"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Aldrich to Quit Senate at End of Term

men and explaining his views.
Early this year Mr.. Aldrich ad-
dressed a chosen audience at the
home of Dr.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter on this subject. In the autumn
he will visit Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City and probably other financial
centers, where he will address like
audiences on the subject
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
camhodia.

Cambodia-now a French protector.
ate-is a little larger than @Pennsyl.
vania. and has about 1,S00,000 inhabi.
tants= who live contentedly on rice.
bananas and fish. and hate the very
thought of fighting. Most OF the coun-
try is q plain drained by the MekonE
river, but there are mountains and
wilderness in the north; that's where
the deer, leopards, tigers, elephants.
ETC., are found. Cambodia's only aot
ton mill lat Ksachkandal) has il zse
nix gins from New London and four
oil-seed presses from Tompkinsyille, y
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

Luncheon in the clouds, eh, away
from the warbling of the MOSQUITO
the dropping tree pests and the oh
trusfve curiosity of the ant, the garter
snake and the toad? But how about
fleeing the walters and putting the
iover-indulgent to sleep on a fleecy
cloud?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
A Cruel Vengeance.

Napoleon Lajoie, at an Easter ban:
Duet Of Cleveland baseball men, said
of retired umpire: 4,
: II am glad he is gone. He was too
revengeful to do good work. You know
> Of course, how he got back ct his wife
. when she eloped with that handsome
,shortstop from the west?"
i. mo; how was it, Napoleon?"' ;,
/: i''Why, he sent the shortstop let
ter saying: ri; ~
"sDear Sie: Please find under sepr}
tarats cover; one full double set of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
:. NEW TURKISH SULTAN


The real name of the new sultan Of Turkey,
who has taken the title of Mohammed ". 10
Mehemmed. which means glorious. Mohammed,
the title which has been held in the line of the
Osman four times before, is translated glorif1ed,
or the imam who is praised. There is consider
able difference between a man glorious and one
glorifed, and the new sultan of Turkey is one
descent of the house of Osman. the found
er of the Turkish empire, in 1899, and he is
the twenty-ninth to rule since Constantinople
glorifed. His partisans declare that he is q
liberal, enlightened man of great ability who
will justify this title by wise and progressive
reign.
Mohammed " is the thirty-ffth in male
70 fha Y,arlz isl,l ou a..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

For the first time in its history
China will allow newspaper repre
sentatives to witness the royal funeral
ceremonies. China is undeniably xet.
ting on to modern methods.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

1t is very we'll for the philosophers
to tell us to make: light Of things. but
the man who burns his money will
live to bitterly regret his reckless and
thoughtless action.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

Nothing has happened since March
4 to alter the conviction Of the people
that the date Of presidential inaugura-
lions should be changed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

know Nation
the dead past
have enough
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
"BLAckMAIL" AND "PlRAcY.r

When walters neglect early comSrs
to pay assiduous attention to late ass
rivals who have given them tips they
perpetrate disgraceful injustice well
worthy of punishment as a INSIDE
meanor. says the Milwaukee, Wiacon:
sin. The United States is a republic.
In republic distinctions between the
rich and poor are especially invidious.
distinctions between persons who tip
and persons who refrain from tipping
are not only invidious, but constitute a
species Of blackmail, and blackmail is
certainly misdemeanor, II indeed it
Is not a crime. The object of all good
laws Is to enforce justice. Is there any
justice In a conspiracy among walters
to neglect those of their employers
patrons who are unwilling or unable
to pay more than the established and
current price for what they order? Is
the conspiracy any less conspiracy
II the employer of the walters is q
party to 1t, as Is sometimes the case
A corporation or an individual en-
gagged in catering to the public in any
capacity who sets price on meals or
on anything else in which he deals,
and then permits his employees to ex-
act tips, and to discriminate against
those OF his customers who do not give
tips, Is not only disloyal to his patrons,
out an enemy of the public and de-
serving OF punishment. His employees
who exact tips, and give grudging
service IT the tips are not paid, are
also enemies of the public.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

But perhaps the women's waste has.
ket hats are. fair reprisal for thoss
pic plats things the men wear.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
GREAT SCIENTIST QUITS

There has just resigned from his professor
ship at the University of Jena, in Germany,
possibly the greatest living man of science.
Ernst Haeckel, expounder of the monistic theo-
ry and long the lost militant and powerful disci-
pie of Charles Darwin, retires to semiprivate
life but those who know him well are sure
that his pen still will be busy, and that he will
lay about him with the same vigor that always
has characterized his controversial style.
Although Prof Haeckel recently celebrated
his seventyfth birthday he is full of irrepres-
sible energy that he can only lay down his
work with life ITSELF Like great actors, he has
more than once threatened to leave the STAGE u
but only to return again and again for last
In in +o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
MAY SUCCEED PUTNAM
DR.. Maurice Francis Egan, who is sur

DR.. Maurice Francis Egan who is supposed
to be on President Tafts books for appoint
ment as librarian of congress when Putnam,
the present incumbent, strikes the toboggan, is
known to scholars as the most accomplished
of living sonnet writer's, almost alone in that
field since the death of George H. Boxer. To
the ordinary reader Of books and magazines he
is writer of graceful prose and verse, a maker
of really good literature. In addition to all these
Mr.. Egan is an instructor and diplomat Be-
fore he was named for his present post ais
minister to Denmark, he was professor of Eng
fish literature in the Catholic university at
Washington. Before that he held a similar
chair at Notre Dame university in Indiana,
where he succeeded the remarkably gifted and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

another of high
influence
this
editor addition
volumes
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
The Question.

Why hide your light under bushel
when q: pint measure viii answer the
purpose ?-Judge. - u " ~" -