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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
T. AREWELL to the directoire gowI
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T. AREWELL to the directoire gown.
/ Welcome the gown of the fat.
Those mystic beings who preside
over the destinies of our ladies of
fashion have decreed the death Of the
startling, skin-tight costumes that for
so many months have made women
look thinner and men longer. In it's
place is to come a voluminous, flow
ing robe well calculated to bring out
the fine points Of embonpoint and to
make the fragile, red bird woman re-
semble a Harlem clothes line on Z
windy Monday.
This decree Of the arbiters Of FASH
ion in Paris and London has Just
reached the costumers and modistes
Of New York and has occasioned a
complete reversal in the daily habits
Of fashionable women.
1t has brought happiness to the
many, for the women who can Dry
themselves into directoire gown
and look like the pictures in the maya
zines are few.
To the great majority of women the
advent Of the directoire and its sue.
ceeding variations has meant a heart.
rending system to diet. Every weight
reducing device known to the fertile
minds of the beauty doctors has had
it's legions OF fair champions foe
months past. (
The tally "Hows dye do, dearie?''
between women has been supplement.
ed by Il lost two pounds this week. :
and the general topic Of conversation
at social gatherings for months has
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
District of Columbia Seeks Lost Domain

d1gn1f1ed to work for something which
they might Justly regard as beneficial
to their municipality" it might even
be regarded as patriotic. The presi-
dent suggested that they might get
some one to introduce a bill in con-
gress to bring it about. And it will
be done. Hence congress will have
its hands full.
That the getting back Of this chival.
rous gift of land is somewhat Of hot
coal is shown by the fact that the
supreme court of the United States
evaded passing on it's constitutionaiity,
and congress, which has picked it up
twice, has dropped it in two different
ways.
For the information of those inter-
ested it might be said that this Vir-
ginia portion Of the original District
Of Columbia comprises some thirty
odd square miles, now Alexandria
county. The constitution having called
for plot ten miles square, the bal
ance of the district comprises some
sixty odd square miles. The one-third
now part Of Virginia, President Taft
thinks, ought to come back.
That President Taft was prophetic
in his suggestion the lost third should
be recovered is generally conceded. It
is felt that it will not be long before
this government will need it for vari.
Gus institutions. Already it has bought
back part of it for Arlington National
cemetery, Fort Myer and other pro-
jects. And as soon as the identifying
Of the north side of the Potomac river
is finished eyes will be cast to the
other shore with view to making it
less unsightly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Big Subway Built After Two Failures

astic, for his plan that he had started
ahead on his own resources. Using
the crude engineering devices of that
day, he tunneled as long as his money
held out No more funds being forth.
coming, he bricked up the end of his
tunnel and quit.
At that time the tubes extended
about 1000 feet from the Jersey shore
and 200 feet from the New York
shore. They soon filled with water and
remained unused until 1888. when an
English company took up the plan.
Engineering methods had been
greatly improved, but in spite of this.
lack of funds forced another halt after
1000 feet had been added to the ear
lier work.
1t was only after these attempts,
corresponding to the two attempts on
the part of the French to dig the Pan
ANA canal. that Mr.. McAdoo, a prac-
ticing lawyer, then took hold of the
matter successfully, just as the United
States has taken hold at Panama.
In these new tunnels, however,
which have brought New Jersey with
in three minutes of New York, is the
work of no less than three interests.
since the completed tubes have util-
lied all the earlier work.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

0NE Of the many activities of the
~ department Of agriculture at Wash.
ington is the conduct Of a willow
farm. The purpose Of the department
Is to encourage willowcraft, an indus
try little followed in this country, but
extensively practiced in Europe.
There. willow Is largely employed In
the making of baskets and furniture.
When the reclamation Of Potomac
Park. from the fats and shadows Of
the Potomac river at Washington had
proceeded far enough the engineering
department planted Lombardy poplars
and willows along the retaining walls.
These willows spread over many acres
of the land that had been dredged
from the river bottoms. The north
western half of this reclaimed land
has been beautified with driveways.
lawns and flower plots, but the i'm
provement of the southern part has
not been begun. The department Of
agriculture secured the use Of this
land as an experimental farm. The
growth of the willow trees probably
suggested the utility of promoting
willowcraft in the United States and
cuttings from many species Of willows
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Heiress to We'd Descendant of a King
.:oQQDo
= ~1~0~~A

recognized leader in the social world
of France.
Antoine de Charette, who will wed
Miss Henning, fought in the Boer
ranks against the English. He was
one Of a. number of young French
mobiles who engaged in the South Afri-
can campaign, more for experience
and excitement than any partisan rea.
son.. Prince Louis of Orleans was
one OF this pugnacious group of young
Frenchmen. 49,
Although the Charettes are not
rich, as princely houses and American
multi-millionaires reckon wealth, so
far as the celebrity Of the name and
social prestige not only in France, but
in every country in Europe, are con-
cerned, Susanna Henning could not
have made a better match than by
becoming the wife Of Antoine de
Charette. She will take precedence
even over the duchess of Marlborough.
the duchess Of Roxburghe and all the
other :: British-American duchesses,
countesses and princesses.
Since her girlhood Miss Henning
has been chum of Mrs. Elsie French
Vanderbilt. Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt
and other notable society leaders who
move in what is known as the younger
set. She has handsome figure, come
ly features and wealth of chestnut
hair.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
. H1LE the opening of the McAdoo
w tunnels under the Hudson river.

w H1LE the opening of the McAdoo
w tunnels under the Hudson river.
practically connecting New Jersey to
New York, has been generally noticed
throughout the country, few persons
realize that this project was begun
more than forty years ago. Like the
Panama canal, two failures preceded
it's successful completion.
The man in whose brain the plan of
the Hudson tunnels was born was
named Haskins. Away back in the
Cos he came to this city with the
purpose of building a tunnel to con-
meet New York with the great trunk
line railway terminals in New Jersey.
Haskins had only 100000, and the
Wall street interests to which he ap-
piled for backing accepted the reports
of engineers that the project was not
feasible, and refused their support.
Haskins, however, was so enthusi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
THAT the Taft official family will

THAT the Taft official family will
! begin about January to be rounded
into it's permanent form and member
ship is the opinion entertained now.
1t is strongly believed by those who
have looked into the situation of late
that there will be one change in the
cabinet about the turn of the year,
which will take out of that body the
veteran, Secretary Wilson. He has
been cabinet member longer than
any other man ever was in this coun-
try-longer. indeed, it is said, than
anybody ever was continuously in q
responsible government. With his re-
tirement Mr.. Meyer of the navy will
be the only remaining representative
of the Roosevelt cabinet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
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Employees to Found |tBunqalow Town.

QUESTION of property is in itself con-
siderable of an innovation in Wash
fngton, but by far the most novel
feature Of the proposition lies in the
building restrictions" In a majority
of the newer suburbs assurance is
given to the purchaser of each lot
that the character of the section will
always be maintained by the writing
of a covenant into his deed that each
house built in the vicinity shall cost
not less than a, stated number of
thousands Of dollars. In bungalow
Town" this proposition will be exactly
reversed, for it will be specifically.
provided that no bungalow shall cost
in excess Of 1000. This will reduce
the maximum expenditure of each
property holder to $4,000. because It
will be provided in the original subdi-
vision that each bungalow must be
surrounded by one acre of ground.
Subsequently it will be permissible to
further subdivide and build additional
bungalows, although at no time will
the projectors of the enterprise permit
a house to stand upon less than one
half acre of ground.
bungalow Town" will make it's
nearest imitation to a sociological COL
ony in its purchases of supplies of
all sorts from the outside world. In
the first place there will be co-opera-
ton in buying the land and then there
will be determined effort to save ex.
pense in building by the letting Of
contracts to build the little homes in
blocks of two or more to each con-
tract. When bungalow Town" is set
tied it is proposed that the women
folk shall join in the formation Of a
central purchasing committee so that
all forms Of food stuffs and supplies
may be secured at wholesale rates.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
FORGOT He Was a Roberts,

A very black negro was brought be
fore Judge" Scott in Central station
the other afternoon charged with
breach of the peace. Samuel Roberts
was the mans name, and this was the
first time he had ever been before the
court on any charge. He was so
scared his knees trembled.
whats your name?" asked the
magistrate.
Ma names Samuel, Jedge," he re-
piled.
whats your last name?"
II dunno, jedge. forget"
One Of the policemen explained to
the court that the man was so scared
that he had forgotten his last name,
and the court looked over the record.
There was only one Samuel, and that
was Samuel Roberts.
II guess your names Samuel Rob-
erts." said the clerk.
II guess So" said the black man:
anyhow that sounds like it.''-Phila-
delphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

There are probably few farmers
who have closely figured the average
cost OF marketing any given unit OF
their crops as manufacturer figures
upon each article he turns out, says
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. As
long as there was nothing to be done
but to plow and sow and reap and
count up the total result such calcu
lations were not called for. But thai
easy time is passing. It is the man
who makes two blades to grow where
one grew before, not two blades upon
twice the area of ground, who is on
the road to wealth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Monoplane and 9iplana.

In aviation the monoplane contin.
ues to make more rapid progress than
the biplane, and an effort is now be.
ing made by many designers to reduce
the area Of the. planes and thus to
make the machine more compact. In
a new American biplane, the Curtis.
the area Of the planes has been re-
duced 20 much that the machine has
only about half the total spread Of the
Wright biplane. The Curtis. NJ
course, has not the same CARVING
capacity ~ the Wright, but ALREADY II
has made several satisfactory 1ltshts
Higher speed will be required to Iift
these small machines, but undouh+aa.
~ az designs are improved and xra.t.
er efficiency is derived from enetne.
they will be far more serviceable '.nS
compact machines than those at nre..
ent in vogue. -.
The recent development in mono.
planes is traceable in no small deera>
to engine improvement, and IA
French are working at this point nh.
great energy. Later on. biplanes vt11
get improved engines better .adaneas
for their peculiar requirement. -
then there will be . new deyelcnm...e
n this class Of machine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

A clubwoman in discussion how to
make home happy uttered the now IA.
nous dictum, Feed the brute" A
New York magistrate has taken up
the challenge and supplemented this
dictum with the order to feed the
brute we'll. Here is field of argu.
ment in which the weaker sex signal.
~ fails, says the Baltimore American.
Eve tempted Adam with a toothsome
morsel, and her daughters have sui.
fered the penalty of tempting man
through his palate ever since.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Fat Women Win i'm Fashion Contest
been how to get rid of it,"

Deen now TO get rid OF 1t.
And now all is changed. Instead of
limiting herself to lemons. fish, green
vegetables and acknowledges pow.
ders the woman inclined to take on
weight for age now dives deep into
a patter Of the richest. most nutritious
and fattening Of foods. The thinnest
woman will have to do SO II abe wants
to prepare her frame to support the
new gown.
The produce merchants and restau-
rant keepers are the happiest of all.
For the era Of three square meals q
day has returned. ,..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

International control of the air ia tn
be advocated at the fourth Pan.Ameri.
can conference to be held in Argen-
tina, at which time aeronautics and
wireless telegraphy will be discussed.
Possibly that is all that is intended
but the casual reader might imagine
some trust was getting ready to
squeeze the breath out of us
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

Another wealthy English nobleman
is reported to have sold a Rembrandt
masterpiece for 100000. Presumably
the purchaser will be set down as
rich American, and the walls of British
wrath will be opened on his head. But
where will come in censure for the
British nobleman who wanted the
money more than he wanted to keen
the picture as a national possession?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
STRANGE Salt Farm.

One Of the strangest farms In the
world is situated in southern Call
fornia, 265 feet below the level OF the
sea. The place is known as Salton. 1t
is a salt farm of about 1000 acres.
Here the salt lies, as deposited by ma
ture, from six to Is inches In depth.
The salt farmers are busy harvesting
this crop the year round: and, though
the harvest has continued for over
20 years, during which time more than
10000 tons of salt have been har-
vested. only ten of the 1000 acres of
the farm have been worked. The salt
10 first plowed up into burrows; It 70
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

The divorce of young couples and
the romance of octogenarians rub
each other by the elbow in the davis
news. Cupid is a queer little chan.
and there is no accounting for his
freaks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

The remarkable thing about most
of these feather-brained people who
rush along city streets in automobiles
is that they have nothing to rush
about.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are now holding
a congress in London and irving tn
convince the world that the life of
dog is of more value than the life Of
q man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Species Of Poisonous Fish.

Poisonous fish are rare here, but
common in the tropics. A Japanese
fish, fugu, has deadly poisonous roe.
Roe of pike and meat of sturgeon are
poisonous when spawning. The bile
and liver Of many fish are poison. But
most fish poison is due to decay,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20


York
through Minnesota finished
David Alison Edinburgh
life classes
favorable.
In
galleries.
the arttr contain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

An automobile bill has been passed
by the legislature of New York after
a wrangle as to which of the depart
ments should have the licensing pow
er. and it is possible that more impor
tant provisions may have been over
looked in the contest. The fact that
1t places the maximum speed limit at
30 miles and retains the present road
rules Is evidence that it is not likely
to improve conditions on the road to
any great extent. A speed Of 80 miles
au hour may be extremely dangerous
on some roads where it is impossible
to see for any great distance. The
railroads find danger at curves that
are hidden by foliage, and there are
many highway crossings thus OBJ.
scured.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

then thrown into conical piles by men
with barrows, after which it is taken
to the reduction works nearby, and
put into marketable condition. The
work is done by Mexicans and Chi
nese, the intense heat being more
than Americans can endure.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Willow Farm Conducted by Uncle Sam

(there are 170) were set out in
nursery form. To-day the depart
ment has willow plantation Of many
acres extent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

It would be annoying If a JUDGES
decision should unmarry 5000 or AZ
couples who were welded in eood
faith and prefer to remain wedded
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

Paris merchants would hate to con-
nive at smuggling, but they want to
sell lots of goods to American visi+o-.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

At the same time no one ia OBLIGED
to eat wheat bread. There's rye cake
and corn pone-just as good.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
WINS HONORS IN PARIS

Samuel F. OLeary, young painter, who was
born in Pittsburg, Pa. and still calls that city
his home, is winning honors in Paris. This year
he has scored double triumph. Not only was
one of his canvases accepted for exhibition in
the Salon of French Artists, but it was placed
ION the line" which means that it was given
particularly favorable position such as is accord
ed only pictures Of exceptional merit.
OLeary has been in Paris only since February
of last year, and he gained entrance to the salon
on the first effort. His work. white Roses" at
tracted many favorable notices from critics.
The painter is son Of the late John J.
O'Leary. When a small boy in the public schools
of Pittsburg he showed a bent for drawing, and
before he was grown he had done considerable
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
Poor Theatrical Season.

It is estimated that London theater
managers have lost during the season
just ended no less than 100000 in the
production Of plays that have~<beev
unsuccessful. 49,. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

Japan's government ought to be sol.
i'd with the people for some time. It
has supplied good crop prospects,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20


The running
with
Of Archbods gifts
Methodist Episcopal clergyman Ptsbug
Archbold his
excitement and
Ptburgers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

It IL dangerous every once in awhile
70 spit on the sidewalk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

published
er revised annotated and adapted American Jurisdictions
acting president Lisbon H,
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entered the University bachelor
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the
Owosso
assistant proesoshp
1884 Hutchns
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

received
having
tanned all being
school, Of which
Chicago
Young who died but continued teaching which
September,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
CLOTHES.

Mere man has been consistently and
earnestly poking fun at woman be-
cause of the vagaries which fashion
has imposed upon her: Latterly, this
has been more marked, perhaps, than
In the olden days when the funny fell
lows who write paragraphs, .flgurative-
ly, wore out the hoopskirts and the
big balloon sleeves. OF late much
merry laughter has been expended
over the woman Of the patella shape
and the peach basket headgear. 1t is
thoroughly convulsing, says the Pitts
burg Post. Woman is such queer
sight, logged out to represent an anil
mated mushroom. But what Of a
man and his attire? Is the laugh to
be on one corner Of the mouth? Does
not the shoe on the other foot pinch
little? Those strange shoes of the
emerald hue. And what of all the
other green things he dons that give
him the appearance Of a string bean
at little distance, If he chances to be
of lean and hungry build? Consider
for moment the "swell.dresser" who
swings up the avenue, his sack coat
extending to the region of the patella'
two or three buttons. the fraction Of
an inch apart, holding it together, the
trousers, turned half way to the knee,
as though reaching upward to meet
the coat, and themselves bellying like
a pair OF balloons. Consider the dag.
onal cut of the pockets and the curl
GUS bands and braids about his cuffs.
Is he not slightly figure?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has lived tn
q ripe and honored old age without
seeing the popularity of her great
song grow dim.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20

John D. Archbold the vice-president of the
Standard Oil Company, few days ago lifted a
mortgage of 100000 Syracuse university,
making the total of his gifts to that lucky nsttu
ton round million of dollars. The greatest gift
is by all odds the magnificent gymnasium build
ing, which first used by the students last
winter and spring. but which is now receiving
finishing touches which will make it the most
complete institution Of its kind in the world and
the envy of all other schools. Mr.. Archbold is
great exponent of the doctrine of sound bodies
as receptacles for sound minds and has spared
no expense to make the Syracuse gym. the finest
in existence.
The dimensions Of the building are 156x21e
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
TO TEACH CHlcAG0'S YOUNG

Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, who has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Chicago public schools
by the board of education of that city, takes her
place among the highest salaried women in the
United States. Those of her sex who have gone
beyond the $4,000 emolument Of her new posi-
ton have been few and far between.
About the biggest sum paid woman on record
was that the insurance investigations revealed
had been paid to Gage Tarbells secretary, who
was credited with receiving $4,000 H. H.
Rogers secretary has been credited with a $780,
600 salary.
Heretofore the record among Chicago women
has been held by Mrs. Jacob Baur, formerly Miss
Bertha Duppler. who until her marriage last fall