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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09

two days and three nights-in bird
land time-had spun past.
peep, peepi" DOrfy's little yellow
bill broke through the shell first;
then Willy, Davy, and the Tickle
mouse, looking odd enough in their
feathered suits-and last of all one
little regular bluebird baby.
My dearsi my darlingsr' chirped the
happy mother bird, cuddling them all
close-too close, the twins thought"
"Get off-please get Offi' cheeped the
struggling Davy-bird. 'Ouch-you stuck
your wing IN my ever chirped the Dor
iE-hird, iiutterlnC about the nest till the
mother bird was almost frantic.
What's all his racket?' sang the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
TO SAVE DISHES.

Householders who recently had their
kitchens remOdeled had the faucets
placed at the end OF the sink instead
Of in the 'ddle. They think the saving
on the dis-es from frequent knocks is
an item worth considering
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
Wedding Dress

IngUire--YoU have given ne no idea
OF the hour az which the wedding will
take place Before s O'Clock the bride
groom and his best man would wear
either formal or informal morning
Gress. according 20 the eIaborateness
Of the ceremony After ne, as well
as The other men Of the wedding party,
should appear IN evening dress
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
CLUNY LACE EDGINGS.

Edgings of fine Cluny appear fire.
quently on collars and 1abOts. and
pleated or gathered jabOts Of wide
real and imitation princess lace are
sen among swagger novelties
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
Shops Nay Buy Watch.

3 C. II C. F.-You viii find sbo7s
which deal in curios that might 80
your watch and give you more than rba
value Of the gold in IL These s1oDz
also buy old gold and silver. as do
many jewelers. buy old sold. You would
not be able TO dispose Of Il as You sug-
gest.
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their own natures. but who through this
same ignorance become the easy dupes
OF any designing man.
Women preach little bromide LlaNlms
to their daughters, but they do not tell
the girls WHY a kiss may be the very
gateway 20 perditlon; WHY a girl
should resent all familiarity from a
man; WHY a girl should never drink
liquor with men; WHY a girl should
always Secp not only In the middle
OF the road but under the biggest arc
light thar is around.
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7 UST now we are hearing a great
deal about white slaves and the
Ubiquitous traffic in young girls,
and as every new revelation is
made OF how mere children are lurcd
into dens Of vice we are filed with
shuddering horror.
Death itself. rather than dishonor, is
what we pray a merciful God to send
our own daughters. and there is Moth
iEg thast so moves the heart with a pas
sion of pity and righteous wrath as the
thought Of a young girls feet being lSd
GA 10 the downward path before ever
she is I'D enough and knows enough TO
realize whittier she is going. and where
II ends.
Yet we cannot pick up a paper with
out residing of some such tragedy.
Young girls, school girls, even mere
babes. are toled BY an automobile ride.
a plate Of ice cream, or a nickel's worth
81 candy, into the trap that has Been
set for them. Benevolent looking old
gentlemen. handsome and polite young
men, end sweet spoken gray-haired
women, who turn out to be the devils
emissaries, scrape acquaintance with
these innocents on the street OF cars,
and when they have gained their con-
idence beguiIe them into the pit.
An Endless List
OF Human Perfdies.
Here is the story OF an honest little
working girl, who answered an ad-
vertisement for a stenographer and
went 70 her doom. There is an ac-
count Of another young girl, who fell
into conversation with an elegant
looking lady on the train, and who,
when she accepted the Iady's invita-
ton to go home with. her, was taken
straight to a dive. Here is the pa
thetic story Of two little girls to
whom a woman gave a quarter to
take a small bundle to her apartment
only a few blocks away, and when
the girls reached the apartment the
door was locked behind them and
they found themselves helpless in the
hands OF brutes in human form
The list Of such atrocities IS end
less, and as we read Of them we send
up a heartfelt petition for more power
and strength 10 the grand jury and
commissions that are investigating
such crimes and the conditions that
make them possible, and we breathe
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Mothers Know
Peril of Children.

i
Mothers know the perIls their daugh-
ters must encounter. Some OF them
have csc, ped only by an eyelash, them
selves. BIT beyond the general blanket
warning t. be careful, they lift no finger
TO protect their children. They don't
hang out a single specie red lantern as
a danger signal. yet nobody can doubt
that ( they did that thousands and
thousa ads Of girls would be saved from
taking the fatal step that leads to their
destru:rson
Nor DO women take care Of their
daughters as they should be. II the
revelation Of the traffic in young girls
means anything at all, II means that
your daughter is in danger, that my
daughter is in danger, every hour OF the
her.
Yet-do you know where your daugh-
ter Is Do you know where she goes
when she takes a walk? Do YOU know
Wnom she meets2 With what kind of
girls she gOes2 What she does2 Do YOU
know that there are ice cream saloons
IN this town that are recruiting stations
Tor houses Cf infamy, and where little
girls are decoyed into the evil life BY
means OF a few plates Of sweets?
The Danger Time,
The Summer Is Here.
The summer season Is upon us now,
the season Of picnics. OF excursions. OF
moonlight strols in the parks. Of jaunts
20 beer gardens and ice cream parlors.
and general holiday making Il Is the
danger time for your daughters. moth
erS.
Watch your girls as a hen does her
chickens when a hawk is lowering over
them Don let your eager pleasure
loving, emotional. ignorant young girl
go of any where without you. or some
woman that you know and can trust.
And know where your little girls are
every hour Of the day
It's reavy burden 20 lay upon you,
but it's easier borne than the heart
break that may come to you II you don't.
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NcAIlister Not Engaged.

Jenny and MiIdred-I an Informed
upon good authority that Mr. AIcAuis-
ter IS not engaged 10 any member Of
the company Of which he is a member.
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I traitors Of such wrongs are found
Mercy Will turn aside its face and
Justice viii strike swiftly and hard.
The Duty Of Mothers
To Their Daughtess.
Eut the remedy for this terrible state
Of affairs does not lie in the hands of
the law It lies in the hands Of the
mothers. Ysu cannot set a policeman TO
guard every girl. but every girl has a
mother. and Il is that mothers duty TO
protect that daughter
Every mother is responsible for her
daughter. and when a girl goes wrong.
either through accident or design. it is
the mothers f5-llt. and the sin is to be
laid at her door This is a hard saying.
but It is a true one.
No girl who has been properly brought
up, and who. from her very cradle. has
been taught modesty and discretion Ct
behavior. and who has had high ideals
of conduct and honor held unwavering-
II before her eyes is ever going 70
narrow path.
The temptation Of the underworld TO
her Will be Just about as alluring as II
would be TO descend into a sewer In
triRIes with married men. firtatiOns
with strangers. making eyes at men on
the street and picking up chance &C
duaintances would not appeal to such a
girl as romantic They would seem
common and vulgar and ill her with
disgust.
We can no more slough of the ira
ditiOn and beliefs and habits into which
we are bred and trained IN our child
hood than we can our skin, and If a
mother does her duty by her daughter
up TO the time that that girl IS in her
teens she needn't worry about what is
going 10 becOT 9 OF The Girl. She is
started straig and she is going 10
run straight. u can bet on that.
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which has the merit OF requiring no
ironing
OF personal preference. enbroideries,
banding or lace enjoying equal fay q
with women who are fond Of danny
and simple lingerie
TIE Nay Manton pattern. No. $3.50.
required, may be had at Goldeubergs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-09
Daily Horoscope
THE stars Incline, bEt do net
compel
Friday, june 10, 1910.

ne planets move IN unaccustoued u-ays
Telling OF wOndrous things IN coming DIS
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Birth No Guarantee
OF a BlameleSs Life.

It isn't enough, however, Just 20 as
sumo that because a girl has been born
into a good family and among pious,
churCh-EOing folk that she will ac-
ouire by heredity and association the
kind Of knowledge and virtue that will
enable her TO go unscathed through the
world.
A girl needs "A better staff than that
to lean on, a better weapon than that
with which TO protect herself She needs
q knowledge Of her own SELF, her own
impulses and Il great Illuminating
knowledge. and that accounts not only
for a pitifully large per cent Of the
Young girls who have stumbled into
vrongdoiug through sheer ignorance Of
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= Dorofw Dix y WomdnS Page x Frances Carroll q
White Slaves and Their Mothers
By Dorothy Dix
Copyright 1910

a fervent hope that when the perpe-
traitors Of guch wrongs are found
Mercy viii turn aside its face and
Justice Will strike swiftly and hard.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
SEMINARY OPENS
At BUENA VISTA
Student Body Largest in History
of Southern Institution
Many Improvements.

Especial TO The Richmond Nirg1nian)
BUENA VISTA, VA, Sept. 22,--The
Southern Seminary opened it's forty
fifth session Thursday morning end the
enrolment was the largest ever known.
The building has been put in first
class condition and several additions
have been made to the faculty. DR., f..
H. Rowe and Or. j. =. Engle, who nave
been spending the summer away from
the city. have returned and are making
the final arrangements for the open
ing The other members of the faculty
who have returned To the city are
Professor and Mrs. W. II, SanborfL
Professor and Mrs. H. B. Motley Miss
Combs. Miss Maxwell. Miss Thompson
and Miss Gilbert. Misses Grace and
Rubnette Lee, of lryington, who viii
assist In the music department, will
arrive Monday afternoon.
The students OF the public school are
determined not to he behind in having
all that goes TO make the school life
pleasant, and some time ago the teach
rrs and students determined to have
a piano, and a part of the money has
been raised The piano has been or
dered, and the students expect to pay
EN- balance by holding entertainments
this fall and winter. The first of these
entertainments will be held next Tues
day evening.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
PAULINE VISITED
BY BOVINE STORk
And That's Why President Taft
Cannot Give Cabinet Men
Cream in Coffee.

WASHINGTON, D. c. September
22,--"I am afraid that Pauline will
not be here for the cabinet house
party next week" said an attache of
the White House to-day. We have
heard several rumors about her but
we have no knowledge whatever as to
her whereabouts. Her mysterious dis
appearance is causing great concern.
Pauline" is the White House COW,
presented to President Taft by Senator
Isaac Stephenson. of Wisconsin. She
was supposed 10 have started for
Washington several weeks ago. II
had been hoped that she would be
on hand TO provide fresh cream and
milk for the mem bers of the cabinet
al the special meetings, when they
will visit the president at the White
House
When no word was heard from her
White House attaches began making
inquiries. one report was received
stating that Pauline" whose full
Wayne, had been visited by the stork
en- route and that her Journey was
delayed OH that account.
We have been unable to confirm
this stork rumor." said White House
officials to- day we are mystified
about her and have been unable to
learn whether she is actually on the
way or not, If she arrives during the
next few days she viii be most well
come and her offspring, If the rumor
Of the stork be true. will receive the
best of attention"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
LAW WILL COME BACK"
AND WE'D FIFTH WIFE
Matrimony Has No Terrors for
Chicago Qwain-Can't Remem-
her First Spouse's Name.

CHICAGO, September s2.--Ciran-
Vile II, Law, real estate broker. Is
a living refutation OF the statement
that man never comes back
Married FIVE times, divorced four. and
with the ffth divorce pending, Law
viii come back" again and marry
Charlotte jackson. New York girl.
In addition to his marital bouts
Law has been sued once for $500
Tor alleged breach oE promise nut
earned draw decision from the
courts by going into bankruptcy.
II was married. the first time in
1S-welI. quite a few years ago" said
Law to-day. and really ! forgot the
name of my first wife / will dis
prove the charges brought By. the
present Mrs. Law and after securing a
divorce on my cross complaint. viii
marry Miss Jackson. She Will be the
last
Law said Miss Jackson was n
brick and had offered To come mere
from New York and second MIN In
his court bout with his wife.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
WROTE NAME ON EGG;
THEY'RE MARRIED NOW

HARRISONBURG VA, September
s2.-From the neighborhod of Bloom.
Shenandoah county, comes a story OF
courtship and marriage Pretty MISS
Pearl Orndorff. half in earnest ana
half in Jest picked up an egg from
ba sket in the house and wrote there
on:
The man who gets this egg Wall
please send his address to me
Then the light-hearted maiden sign
ed her name. with her postoffice and
State, put the egg back in the basket
and forgot It.
But Jack Brindle, away up in Penn
sylvania, happened TO see the egg and
the brief message thereon and he be-
gan to wonder about the unknown girl
down in the Valley of Virginia.
He wrote a postcard--and got an
answer. Bushes began TO pick up
at Bloom postoffice, and one day Jack
Brindle got the train at Bloom
Mfr. and Mrs. Brindle have left for
their future home in Pennsylvania.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
WELCOME THIEVES
DON 7 KICK THEM
World Would Be Better if This
Rule Prevailed Neil
Believes.


CHICAGO Sept. 22.--If the right
hand of fellowship were extended to
burglars, second-story men. crooks
and others of THO stripe. instead of a
kick and threat, the world would be
better and there would be no need of
locks and keys.
This is the belief of Henry Neil, sec
rotary of the National Probation
League, and TO snow that he is willing
to practice what he breaches Neil had
all locks and bars removed from the
windows and doors If his hcme to- day.
ANY visitor who cares to enter his
house is welcome. said Neil and the
only favor he asks is that IL they
enter at night they waken him so that
he may serve refreshments and have a
little chat.
Neil il confident that no one is a
burglar for fun and that at the bot
tom of every robbery there is a sane
and reasonable excuse. Locks and
iron bars are relics of barbarous age,
he said
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR
THE WOMAN's COLLEGE
Session to Begin Next Week With
Large Attendance and Strong
Faculty.

with every indication pointing to
successful year. the Womans College
win open on Tuesday September q.
for the session Of 19t0-19t1. The en-
rollment is unexceiled by the records
Of preceding years. and the officers
of the college have secured the most
able faculty that the institution has
ever had. Judging from the present
outlook the prospects for the college
are brighter this year in every depart
ment than ever before.
The capacity of the college will he
taxed to accommodate the boarding
pupils who will come from every see
ton of the country. Any number of
States will he represented among the
students. some of whom will come
from Pennsylvania. Maryland, Ken
lucky North and South Carolina,
Georgia. Nebraska. Tennessee, West
Virginia. Texas and Massachusetts.
The enrolment among Richmond girls
has been equally good. and the student
body win be augmented by an excep-
tionaliy large number of day pupils
of prominent families in this city
During the vacation months the build
ing has been thoroughly renovated and
practice rooms and the chapel, which
has been recently beaAtitied and en-
tirely refurnished are ,'spick and
span" ready for the opening on next
Tuesday, when they will again be
alive with robust, healthy, happy girls.
Several changes have been made
in the faculty for this year. Mrs.
Fannie c. Bivins NJ. A, of Trinity
College, and graduate of the Uni
Veraity of Cheyenne. France, viii have
the chair of modern languages. teach
ing German and French. Mr.. II. j.
Stoneburner. b. S., OF Washington and
Lee University, viii he professor of
mathematics, In the department OF
music Miss Marie c, lille. of the New
England Conservatory of Music, will
have the classes in harmony and hiss
tory Of music. and Miss Dora Gilbert.
of Syracuse University, will be among
the teachers in music
Miss Emma Whitfield who taught
for a number Of years at the Womans
College. and was instructor in art at
a university in Florida last year, will
again have charge of the art depart
ment Miss Ruth Hudson will he at
the head of the department OF ex-
preston and physical culture.
Other members of the faculty will
include DIR. Melvin A. Martin, dean;
Miss Marion e. Forbes. lady princi-
pal. Or. Frank e. Woodward, profess
sor of English and English literature;
Miss Helen Baker, who will have the
Latin and history classes; Miss M. A
Garlick, teacher OF natural science and
history while in the music depart
ment will be Professors Jacob Rein
hardt and \ F, Unkel. Miss Mary
6. Taylor. Miss Annie Louise Rein
hardt and Mrs. Melvin A. Martin
teacher Of voice
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
MAY FIND LOOTERS
OF MET COMPANY
Probable That Plunderers of
Railway Corporation viii Be
Brought to Iaw.

NEW YORK. Sept, 22.-The re-
sponsibility for the shameless looting
OF the Metropolitan Street Railway
for the benefit OF rapicious politicians
Of both parties may be placed At
terneys for the plundered stockhold-
ers who bought the securities at a
high market price only so see their
are following the developments of the
present legislative investigation with
concern and interest
Stock and bonds Of the Metropolitan
were utilized as investments for trust
funds Of widows and orphans. Many
Of these were rendered penniless when
the vast system was forced into a
receivers hands There was a per
functory investiga ton made by the
criminal authorities OF the county but
no enc was held responsible and there
was no criminal prosecution, the then
district attorney, William Travers
Jerome. claiming he was unab t.
secure evidence sufficient 10 convict
OF footing.
The legislative graft investigation
developed through III. n. Nreelanc
who was for years president of the
Metropolitan. that IL made vast con
tributions TO both political parties
and that II took up the stock hold
ings Of politicians at a figure where
they made substantial profit nc
matter what the market prices of the
stock.
w. W. Cole, a traction engineer
has admitted receiving check fol
$4,000 for the settlement of a claim
for personal injuries of person VIII,
never existed and this money wen
into the yellow dog" fund Thes,
are isolated instances Of what ia ex
pected to be revealed of the wide
spread robbery Of the stockholders o
y the company.
The attorneys are endeayoring 4
find out II they cannot force tn,
directors and officials Of the compan II,
who paid out this money fraudulent
Iy 10 turn 1t back into the Golfers o
the corporation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
MAKES FERTILIZER
FROM At M0sPHERE
". s. Lee Leaves on An lnspec-
ton Tour of Two European
Plants.
PLANT AT GREAT FALLS
Company Has Ample Funds and
Will Use Electric Power In
Manufacture.

,SpeeiaI to The Richmond Eirginian.p
CHARLOTTE. n. C.. September Y.
Vice President W. $ Lee. of the
Southern Power Company. left Tues
day for New York, where he sails
fhe~ fatter part OF the week for hu-
rope, on an Inspection tour Of the
two great Norwegian and Austrian
Hydro-eiectric power plans that are
engaged in making fertilizer from the
atmosphere. 1t has been given out
that the Southern Power Company
will install large plant at Great
Falls. $. C., where there is hydro
electric power plant producing nearly
go on0 horse power. There are only
two fertilizer plants of THIS kind In
the world and MIR. Lee ie on to
Europe to inspect the Geneva and the
pauiing processes, for the extracting
of nitric acid from the air. The plant
that is to be erected at Great Fails,
:. G.. will represent an outlay of about
100000 and he 1000 horsepower
capacity, The company also mas IN
contemplation the erection OF anoth-
er plant as soon as the one at Great
Fails is finished and ia working or
power capacity without doubt,
this is one Of the greatest Industrial
ventures every undertaken in this ser
tion and perhaps the entire south.
For three years the southern Pow
err Company has had in mind the
erection Of such a plant and 1t was
on the eve OF Mr., Lees departure
that the object of his trip was made
known. The company of which he is
;. a. m
izafion of the American Tobacco Com
many Of which Messrs. J. r. and II.
X. Dule are the prime promoters.
Their capitai is commensurate with
their dream and II goes without
saying that the plant will be a sue
. cess in every way
The process whereby fertilizers are
produced from the atmosphere GEN.
ters about the forcing of air through
furnace heated a a territcily high
temperature. thus producing that gas.
n. q. 2. which with the addition of
water H2 O. In certain proportions
gives nitric acid. To this III. \. @,
:. or limestone Is treated and nitrate
Of lime is produced, which is the
form Of fertilizer to he manufac-
tIIred The Southern Power Com
panv. having developed most all of
the available water power throughout
this section has ample surplus OF
electric power to heat the furnaces,
The electric hest is Of course much
more satisfactory than any other
kind.
Many people believe that the new
process and it's possibilities In connec-
fion with the tremendous possibil-
tics Of hydro electric power through
nat this section viii do more for in
instrial and agricultural development
than anything since the invention OF
the cotton gin.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
RICHMOND ACADEMY OPENS
WITH 1876 STUDENTS PRESENT

With an enrolment of 135 boys.
Richmond Academy started another
session Wednesday, this number of
students being the largest in the his
tory OF the institution. In the alb
sence of Professor w. l.. Prince. dean
of the academy. who Is Ill with fever
in Princess Anne county, Acting Dean
Frank Y. Brown presided over the
opening exercises.
Latest reports from Princess Anne
indicate that Professor Prince is now
out Of danger.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-22
Finds Brother After q years.

SUFFOLK. VA. Sept 22.--Mayor
John r.. Norfeet has received infor-
nation OF brother, Hamlin l., Nor
feet. whorp he has not seen for forty
four years and who has been mourn
ed as dead for more than a quarter
Of a century.
The missing man. now % years OF
age. was located in Brazil. where he
has married a Portuguese OF rank.
Word came through General Joseph
Anderson. president of the Virginia
Military Institute Alumni Association,
who is collecting data of former stu
dents. Hamrn Norheet graduated
from Virginia Military Institute in
1888. After the civil War he went to
Mississippi, thence to Mexico and
South America. Mayor Norfieet has
written to his brother