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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
ARMY OFFICERS APPEAR
AGAINST CAPT. HAMS
Continued from First Page)

They all testified that the defendant
had suffered from manic Oppressive
insanity" since last May and exrer-
fenced a sudden attack of "impulsive
insanity" which rendered him ir-
responsible at the time ne shot An
MS. They declared Captain Hams
form Of insanity was durable, and that
ais condition had improved since last
November.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
Six Months For Mears.

John Mears colored. was before
Magistrate S. 3. Wood yesterday on
warrant charging him with disor-
DERBY conduct He was unable TO give
bond in the sum of $50 and went to
jail for six months.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
To Discuss Health Measures.

The meeting of the Elizabeth city
County Medical Society next Monday
evening will be devoted to the health
Of this community. DIR. W. A. Picker
will read paper on the Work OF
the Local Board of Health" and DIT.
George l.. Collins. quarantine officer
at Old Point. will read a paper on
the National Quarantine"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
n. W. BOOKER.

COMMISSIONS q az Rcv~auc Eiza
Js,b City County
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
$50 Athletes Eniersd

Lunch served at West End Acad-
emy. IL to !. Friday. Refreshments
on field. Tickets at Cabelfs and
Johnson's Pharmacies. Hampton; and
al Congdon's in Phoebus, and O'Neil
& Barry in Norfolk. Admission Csc
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-07
Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point
At the SAVOY Tonight.

A FIVE piece string orchestra will
render music and Mr.. James j. Lind
say will sing a selection of old time
songs. 1t
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
OF WHAT SHE SPEAKS

Is there among your acquaintances
a woman who is a most delightful en-
tertainer, who can converse on any
pleasant subject and who can talk
about every thing but people? If you
have, then put her name at the head
of your calling list, and look upon her
as a treasure among treasures. Or, 1
see you shake out your little pink ruff
files and say, "Such woman may be
so uninteresting!" Not at all, for If
others are present and you have to
leave first, you will not hesitate leav-
ing. fearing your name will be torn
to rags and tatters just as soon as you
get beyond the front door. If you want
to be a success, talk about art of every
kind, sort and description, learn lit
tie about-lets see, what would be
good? Why the Emmanuel move
ment, how to raise flowers, how to
make over old clothes to look like, new
ones, and chat-any thing and every
thing from the Bible down to the pom
derous works of science and philosophy,
but LET YOUR friends alone! Did you
ever stop to realize that many mothers
do not know their own daughters?
They may know them like layer cake,
tight shoes, blue wall paper and classic
music. but when it comes down to
knowing the innermost secrets of their
daughters hearts and souls, they may
not know them. And, this being true,
no woman should criticise the daught-
ers of other women, for she may be
tearing to tatters a pure character,
while fostering in her own heart a
feeling of love and reverence for the
daughter she does not know, Learn
to talk of affairs and events, but be
c-ref,.l of the name of woman, for
words strung on barbed wire are liable
to make deep wounds that never heal,
or else they leave an everlasting scar.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Musical

AL USIC, drama and society, OF near
N kin, but often antagonistic. for
LII the nonce joined hands in friendly
clasp last night and assisted in making
the annual ladies' night of the Gamut
club big success.
Gamut club members, attired in dress
suits and beaming smiles, opened their
cozy club home with most gracious
cordiality, and in the person OF the
president, Charles Farwell Edison,
greeted each guest at the portal with
a hearty hand clasp and the wo. is,
This is a happy surprise-so glad you
could come" 1t is needless to state that
Mr.. Edson's efforts were most adj
mirably seconded by each individual
member.
The reception rooms were thronged
with men and women whose names are
associated with the city's progress
along every line that makes for sue
cess, either financial or artistic. and
when the company moved into the coy
auditorium to listen to the program,
the room was taxed to it's capacity.
A group of selections rendered by
Gamut club orchestra, with Mrs. Lucille
Rowland Semnacher at the piano, pre-
coded the big number of the program,
Francois Coppee's one-act play, THE
Violin Maker of Cremona," presented a
few weeks ago for the first time in Los
Angeles in Temple auditorium and I'M
der the auspices of the Gam t club. The
play was such a success TT the club
asked to have it repeated for the pleas
ure of friends who perhaps did not hear
it then.
The story told in the little play is
one of human love and supreme sacri-
flee, and reveals beautiful soul taught
by pain and loneliness, grown strong
and true. despite weakness and a mis-
shapen body.
Eugene Rowland again invested the
character of Philippe, the hunchback,
with romantic appeal and pathos, his
delineatton being singularly true and
convincing, while the exquisite quality
and tone which always distinguish his
violin work held his audience SPELL
bound.
Ferrarl, the violin maker, whose man
tie hnally descends upon the poor dis
torted shoulders of the hunchback. was
/ played by Hobart Bosworth with char
acteristic skill.
The character of Giannina, daughter
of the master violin maker. and beloved
OF both his pupils, was invested with
much charm and womanly sympathy
by Clara Williams.
sherman cambridge was seen to adj
vantage in the part of Sandro, the lover
of Giannina
At the conclusion of the program Mr..
Edison made graceful Tttla speech. in
which he explained that the Gamut
club viii follow the "Violin Maker Of
Cremona' with other musical dramas,
mus aHordlng an opportunity to lovers
or these combined arts to crafty their
| taste. 'iiOii
An informal dance followed the pro-
| gram. P4'
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Summertime Goodness

porch and If a sufficiently large jardin-
iere of porcelain be too expensive, q
wooden bucket robbed of its handle and
painted a dark green will make a very
satisfactory substitute. In fact, plant
Jars of this sort are really more salts
factory for porch use, for they need not
be lifted indoors at night for fear of
piferers.
Hanging plant stands of wicker come
from Japan, where so much Importance
is attached to floral decorations of all
kinds. These stands" are really only
wicker circles depending from long
ropes, also of wicker or twisted fiber.
The plant jar sets down into the wick
err ring and swings about three feet
above the porch floor.
From Japan, also, come the queer
plant hangers in the form of tiny
animals and birds. These little affairs
are of iron and are very strong. There
are storks, frogs, monkeys and snakes
which hook one to the other by means
of crooked tails, bills or paws. AS
many as a dozen of these odd metal
links may be required to make a chain
long enough to hang plant four feet
from the floor. China cornucopias are
another pretty japanese notion for
porch decoration These cornucopias
are designed to hang against the house
wall or on the porch pillars and they
come in various sizes; some just big
enough to hold a few drops of water
and a cluster of nasturtium; others
large enough to accommodate dozen
chrysanthemums.
Window boxes are such an attractive
and cheerful addition to the summer
home that one wonders at the rows OF
hare house fronts on our streets. Eng
fish folk realize to the full the value of
window box decorations, and in May
smoky old London is abloom with gay
parterres of flowers, even the most
unpretentious dwellings showing their
posy decorations.
For a sunny window in an invalid's
room was built pretty little conserva-
tory, and great was the pleasure af-
forded by this miniature green house
The little model was in every detail
exactly like a practical green house
except that there is no glass and the
house frame could be lifted from the
base when the plants require attention
Ordinary watering was done by the in
valid herself who sprayed the plants
through the bars of the green house
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
RuFFLEs ON BED LINEN AGAIN

For those who love a dainty bed the
| linens that are being bought now could
not be but tempting. The tiniest of
sheets have rows of lace or drawn
work, between which are embroidered
polka dots. The upper one is finished
with a ruffle about nine inches wide
gonig across one end and extending
half a yard down one side. This ruff
file has a deep embroidered scalloped
edge and polka dot worked in each
scallop. The pillow cases are in the
same pattern Another set seen had
ruffle in which We're several rows
of drawnwork. Above the hem
flowers were embroidered, and still an
| other had the ruffle finished with q
narrow cluny lace and insertion if the
same lace was seen in the pillow cases.
Although the variety of lace trim
med and embroidered sheets and pillow
cases is endless, those with ruffles
have been found to dress bed and
give it daintier appearance. To be
used with those come covers of plain
linen with large monographs embroid-
cred in the center, or of silk in some
pale color. For entire bed coverings
there are some of squares of fillet lace
and English joined together in Wide
strips. To match these come small
pillows covered in the same and made
over pale color satin Innings
A charming bed cover suitable for
young girls room was made of pine
apple linen, as soft and sheer as the
finest of null. 1t was finished with a
ruffle edged with Valenciennes lace.
At the top of this was a beading
through which was passed a pale rib
bon. Following the outline of the bed
was a row of lace insertion, and nine
inches above this was another row of
beading and more ribbon, with liberal
bows at the corners A tiny pillow
trimmed in the same manner COM
pleted this set.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
SOCIAL REVOLUTION

society is organizing a revolution
against the deadly dullness of tho
modern ball and the never ending mo-
notony of the waltz. 1t is often point-
ed out that the dance programs of To-
day show practically nothing but a enc
cession of waltzes This has become so
Inonotonous that society has rebelled.
and Is making a search for new ideas
In TINS 1t has not been eminently sue
cessIul' ana some are making strong
plea for the revival of a few of the
beautiful measures of other days.
In England and on the continent This
has crystallized into an organized
movement on the part of those who
hold that the modern waltzing ball Is
not particularly beautiful sight. The
London Daily Mail is sponsor for the
new movement, and declares that tba
dance has lost its old world flourishes
and has become deadly dull. zone can
imagine a courtier of the old school -
says the Mail, "disCreetly hiding aWav
and saying before he drifts YEARLY to
the card room, Madam, I see no sense
In men turning themselves into whtrli-
gigs"
In truth, we seem to have lost the ART
of dancing. We merely spin. Rut ar
last reform seems within sight. A GEN
eral revolt against the tyranny of the
waltz has been started. An appeal has
been made to the king to assist the
movement by commanding that one
new dance shall be included at each
state ball, and it is pointed OUT that
If his majesty would initiate the fash
ion for more stately and graceful
dances he would set a vogue for ali
the ball rooms in the kingdom. One
feels at present that almost any dance
that breaks the monotony is to be well
coined.
Those present at the fancy dress ball
at Dublin had an opportunity of see
ing the Irish reel at it's best, and many
must have wished that these fine dances
could occasionally be seen in ball
rooms.
An Irish reel performed by eight
dancers is'a delight. In the first place
the quick music sets every heart beat
ing wildly. After a succession of
waltzes it is more stimulating than
champagne 1t makes pulses tingle and
eyes sparkle. The four couples form a
square, as in the lancers. Then, two
couples who face one another lead
up to the ce0ter. return, join hands
and "swing," lead up again, still hold
ing hands, swing round again in the
center and return. Then they part
hands, and keeping reel step the la
dies move round to the left and the
gentlemen to the right until they meet
again at their original positions
The effect, especially when the dances
are in fancy dress, is charming.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
HINTS TO HousEKEEPERs

Cake pans can be more easily creased
If the pans are first heated An easy
way is to put small Jumps of butter
over the lining and stand pan on top
of stove for minute before spreading
the grease.
Always line a cake pan with paper.
The medium weight yellow paper, used
for wrapping, can be bought for ten
cents a roll. Grease the paper, not
the pan, except on the edges.
If your lamp smokes or gives poor
light it may come from clogged pipes.
Take the lamp apart, boil the burner
in. soda water and pour hot water
through connecting rods and tubes
A large pinch of salt put in the
tank of a coal oil lamp. will cause it to
give better light.
Carbolic acid is an excellent and
cheap disinfectant. A solution of it
should be poured down all sinks and
drains once every week or fortnight
during hot weather.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
THE FLEET

This is the song of the thousand men who are
multiplied by twelve,
Serted and sfted, tested, tried. and museed
to dig and delve.
They come from the hum Of city and shop,
they come from farm and field.
And they pillow the acres of ocean now, but
tell me- what is their yield?
This is the song of the sixteen ships to buffet
the battle and gale,
And in every one we have thrown away a
Harvard or a Yale.
In them are the powers of Pittsburg, the mills
of Lowell and Lynn.
And the furnaces roar and the boilers seethe
but tell me! what do they spin?
This is the song OF the myriad miles from
Hampton to the Horn,
From the Horn away to that western bay
whence our guns proudly borne;
A royal fleet and a host of hands to carry
these rounds of shot!
And behold they have girdled the globe itself
and what is the gain they have brought ?
lenders" If you please,
Defenders against our fellows with their was
ters, even as these
For we will not learn the lesson known since
ever the years were young
That the chief defense which a nation needs is
to guard its own hand and tongue.
This is the song of our folly that we cry out
a glad acclaim
At these Strengthening ships in the shadow of
which we should bow our heads in shame
That we clap applause, that cry hurrahs
that vent our unthinking breath,
For, OH we are proud that we faunt this flesh
in the markets Of dismal death.
This is the song Of our SHINING (for the fault
is not theirs, but ours),
That we chain these slaves to our galeyships
as the symbol of our powers;
And we crown men brave, who on land and
wave fear not to die, but still,
Still first on the rolls of the worlds great
souls are the men who have feared to
kill
Edmund Vance Cooke in the Independent
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

V" HILE the hearth is the heart of
w the home in winter, the porch
holds sway in summer, says a
writer in an exchange. The wise nome
builder. therefore, sacrifices hit OIL the
back yard if necessary in o'''or TO nave
extra room for a commOdious Veranda
in front-and a veranda not too near
the street. For the porch VIII pc tne
family gathering place, and hail It's
charm will be lost If neighbors ana pass
ersby are to be included in all its con-
claves.
Plenty of comfortable chairs, low
table where books or glasses may be
within easy reach of ones elbow, plen-
ty of cushions and perhaps bright
colored fiber rug or two will answer
for the porch furnishings. Swinging
seats of light wood or of rattan are
very artistic for those who can afford
them, and take up much less room than
a hammock strung across valuable
space.
For porch decoration nothing can
equal growing vines and flowers, and
there are quick growing vines which If
trained over wire cords or lattice VIII
in short time afford a pleasant shade.
This matter of shade is very important
if the porch is to serve as an out-of-
door sitting room through the hot
weather. Awnings are of course the
ideal means of shading the porch, for
they give suggestion of space and
airiness, and while keeping out the sun
admit plenty of breeze and light.
Flowers and awnings in combination
give a most delightful 6aycty and sug-
gestion of leisure to summer cottage
of even unpretentious stvle. A little
white house may be made quite charm
ing by red striped awnings and window
and porch boxes filled with red ger
aniums. Green and white awnings with
green vines or porch plants are cool
and restful in suggestion. and the COM
Portable rattan porch furniture comes
in a particularly soft and pleasing shade
of green.
Artistic porch flower boxes holding
odd fern and foliage plants may be
set along the wide railing of the porch
and form an artistic screen, and often
trailing vines like wandering jew or
the dainty green and white vines hang
over the edge of the box and the railing.
Growing ferns of the Spreading Scott
variety are always charming on the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Baths and Bathinu

Do not take a bath when you are
exhausted. Rest a while first.
A hot bath is not a good thing to
take in the morning Unless it is fol-
lowed by a cold sponge. Otherwise one
is likely to take cold.
A hot bath just before going to bed
makes some people sleepy, but keeps
most people wide awake.
A tepid bath is the best sedative.
The best time to take a hot bath is
before dinner in the evening. The dust
of the day is removed. and one is re-
freshed for the evening.
Sea salt dissolved in the hot bath has
a splendid tonic effect. 1t is better to
dissolve it in a cup or pitcher first than
to pour it directly into the bath.
If very dusty FROM travelling, rub off
with olive oil or good cold cream
before bathing. This cleanses the pores
much more thorc lghly.
AS to cold baths, they are invigorat-
ing. Whether your s. tenn will stand
such violent invigoration is for each
person to decide.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Veranda Furniture

In writing about "Veranda Furni-
ture" in Harper's Bazaar, Martha Cut
Ter says:
"If one is fitting out veranda for
the children where they may be kept
under watchful eye a sand box should
not be forgotten. 1t may be made a
never-ending source of amusement
The boxes are raised from the ground
Just far enough to allow the children to
sit in little kindergarten chairs around
them. They are from ten to twelve
inches deep and may be found in all
sizes from 2X4 feet up.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Live in the Present

"You have disagreeable duty to do
at 10 o'clock. Do not blacken 8 and 10
and II and all in between with the color
of H. Do the work of each and reap
your reward in peace. The
best preparation is the present well
seen to-the last dut. DONE"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

Sale Dates.
June / to q, IA to 10, 25 to 81, Inclusive.
June "a and 90 to ST. Paul only
July to 7, inclusive.
August to 49, inclusive.
September 7 to 10, 10 TO IS, inclusive.
Tickets to Colorado Springs, Denver and
Pueblo will be sold at these special rates only
on June 27 to July 6; August to ID.
These tickets are frst-class and will be
honored on our California Limited.
Special Events
Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine
Louisville, Ky. June to TO- 1909.
Sale Dates June 1, 2, 8, 4, 1909.
National Educational Association.
Denver Colo. July to g. 1909.
sale Dates June 81, %, 20. 80 and July
to 6, inclusive. Observation-Disclosures. .So5.UO
Extravagant Stopover Privileges.
Ask for folders.
Would be pleased to arrange your trip.
E. W. MCGEE, General Agent, 1874 South Spring.
Home Ae224 Main 73s.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
Look What's hIereI

London, Monday, May 80.
George Bernard Shaw has ust COM
pleted another play. 1t was written on
j. Forbes Robertson's invitation and
deals with the woman suffrage ques-
ton.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. that
is all We know on earth and all We need
to know.-Keats.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

"sne's very homey. but doesn't seem to
realize IT,"
Hasn't she ans womep frieud.r" -ruck.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

Two popular young people of Los
Angeles are to be united in marriage
Sunday evening, when Miss Flora
Raphael of South Union avenue will
become the bride of Joseph Hilf a
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

Mrs. C. L. Higbee will entertain with
a luncheon today at her home on West
Ninth street in compliment to Mrs. Ed
ward L. Doheny, and later the party
will occupy a box at the Orpheum
Guests asked to meet Mrs. Doheny are
Mrs. Ralph Hagan. Mrs. Robert Nor
than, Mrs. Champion, Anderson and
Mrs. Strassforth.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-01-20
BOOK DEDICATED TO A CAT
Mistress of Prize Winner Tells of Pets
Wonderful Smartness.

A 200 page book dedicated to the
memory of a dead cat has been pub
lished by Mrs. Laura w. Greene Of
Berwyn, ILL.,, prominent clubwoman
and vice president of the American
Cat FancierS' association, says Chi
cagO dispatch
The cat whose fame is thus perpetu-
ated is the late Tom Willoughby
Greene, three years old, black, orange
eyed and four times winner of the
blue ribbon at the annual cat show in
Chicago Tom Willoughby was entered
for the show to be held next January,
but contracted a severe case of pneu-
monia and passed to cat heaven.
The book is volume of stories
about cats and kittens, including sew
eral of which~T. W. Greene was hero.
Tom had his own bed with sheets,
pillow and quilts. He tucked himself
in carefully each night At the side of
his bed an alarm clock was set for 8
a. m.
When it rang Tom got up, went to
the hired girls room and aroused her.
gently tapping her face with the tip of
his tail 49,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-01-20
From a Woman's Viewpoint.


The girl who appropriates q
mans love is liable to penal ser.
vitude for life.
Fortunately the most impos-
ing family trees have their roots
well out Of sight.
A woman gives her heart but
once; magnanimous man is more
liberal.
Before marriage a man asks
but for one lite word, after
wards he gets a plenty without
asking.
The longer a man studies the
curves Of a decanter the longer
he is apt to initiate them on his
homeward journey. =
Many a faithful" dog has
died at his post after greedily
eating the burglars poisoned
meat.
The big gamble is not so much
in the jackpot, but whether wiley
will believe the story you will
bring home. .
True love will run smooth
while the track is we'll creased
with gold.
Queer! Alcohol takes the
temper. out of steel, but puts it
into man.
A woman s love is as the en-
during rock, a mans like the
wave which kisses each rock in
succession.
The true rating of many a
Wanted social position is covered
by an Interrogation point.
A man can love and love again
and forget he ever loved at all.
Many a pleasure, like mans
pipe, is a solace to him though a
nuisance to others.