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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Marriage and Divorce.

Answering the query, Why so many
divorces?" Life offers six answers:
First. because of the decline OF author
ity. Everybody in the country wants
to be his own boss, and is so, as lar
as possible Nobody wants TO obey I'M
less obedience matches mcmahon
Second, because there are so many
more WAYS than there were genera
tion ago for a woman TO make living.
Third. because the price of living Is SO
high. Men abandon their wives IN
shocking numbers because the job OF
maintenance is heavy and they get
tired of it. Fourth, because women re-
auire much more and give less than
they did a generation ago. They
have been carefully endowed by law
in most States with rights and priyi-
leges proper to independence. F1ith,
because distractions have greatly IL
creased in American life in genera
ton. Sixth, church influences, for the
time being, are weaker than they used
to be, and dramatic influences are more
pervasive; church influences favor con
tinuity in marriage; dramatic lnh'l-
ences favor variety There are plenty
more reasons, but six are enough. The
wonder is that, in the face of such con-
vincing reasons as these. about nine
marriages to every ten still hold good
All things considered, marriage seems
incorrigibly proper even in this rest
less and progressive country. The UNI
ted state being difficult and expensive
to achieve, it is bad business for those
who have attained to it to relapse back
into the condition of the united.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Only a Wonan,s Why.

William and John were two broth
ers who differed very widely in tenn
permanent (see dictionary. William
was always kind and good, and had
been ever since he was born. John
was bold and bad. and would be until
he died. When William reached man.
estate (Which was the only estate be
ever did reach) he fell in love with a
beautiful maiden and married her.
John also fell in love and married,
which was the only time in his life
that he followed his brothers exam
pie.
AS time went on, William rose in the
business until he became bookkeeper
for a wholesale grocery firm at salary
TO S12 a week John found it neces-
sary to struggle along on a modest sti-
pend of $4,000 year, for he was only
q broker. William, however, couldn't
be any broker. William proved mod
ell husband, and permitted hss better
half to absorb eleven-twelfths of his
earnings, whereas John made his wife
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Md< Azc #NcIe<
Ramar~@
Lace girdles are seen.

Lace glrQleS are seen.
Coat gowns are to continue popular.
Many a summer gown will have the
skirt made up of a series of ruffies OF
varying length.
The newest black silk stockings are
embroidered up to the instep with
tiny jet beads.
Dresses of colored embroidery on
white will be found among the gowns
for summer wear.
1t is not unusual TO find four. five
and even six kinds OF lace in combina-
ton on a single gown.
LABELS of coats are faced with MORE
velvet or satin, the long separate coats
oftener than otherwise having collar
of caracul, astrakhan. mink or other
/ fur
In place of the long-used white ne;
or slace woke. one finds the self-colored
net or lace once more conspicuous and
tho lower sleeve is also of the dyed net
or lace.
/ In children's clothes black and white
checked materials are much used. Lit
tie coats of the same are worn over
these dresses.
Cbildren's styles are strongly Napo
Ieonic They, as we'll as their mothers
are wearing T. military coat without
the capes. fastened up the side with
heavy gold or braid frogs.
Frocks of batiste, Swiss and Paris
muslin. dafntily hand embroidered AM
lace trimmed, are among the most be
coming gowns for young girls where
the occasion demands them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Praises. American Women,

The women of America are wonder
full, Their versatility, acuteness.
splendid mental energy. high ideals.
firm grasp of subjects, added to their
charming manners. tasteful dress.
graceful department, are refined and
feminine to a degree. We all know
the brainy, masculine woman the world
over But the American, while she
may be masculine in brain and alert
ness, is also feminine-emotionai, II
you like-in her makeup. She is
truly charming type. The American
woman is also very practical. very IN
ventiye She develops an idea, and
she works out her idea to its utmos,
possibilities. 1t may be emily a new
sort OF neckband supporter. but she
does not belittle her hobby. She
brings her imagination into her work.
She may be utilitarian, but the sue
cessful business woman is artistic to
her finger tips.-London Express.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
THE TAFT IDEA IN LAW-MAKING.

The announcement that the Senate
Committee on Railroads has voted to
report the Administration railroad bill
to the Senate practically as it was
drawn and revised by Attorney Cen
eral WickerSham, serves to direct at
tention to a notable change in Amer
lean law-making methods that bids fair
to be established by President Taft's
efforts.
Mr.. Taft entered Office with a very
decided belief that the President ought
not to interfere in the work of Con-
gress. He conceived it to be his duty
to point out to Congress by messages
what in his opinion ought to be done,
and then let Congress work out its
own ideas. When the completed legis-
lation was presented to him for APP
prevail or rejection, the President could
then exercise his constitutional func-
ton. Mr. Taft pursued this method
during the tariff debate until almost its
close He then found himself forced
into the controversy between the two
Houses, when the bill was in confer
ence. 1t was then too late to make the
bill thoroughly good one, redemptive
of party promises. but the President
prevented a number of serious injus-
tees.
When Congress met in regular ses-
sion, however, the President changed
his tactics Not content with sending
messages to Congress. he has had pre-
pared series of Administration bills
and secured sponsors for them in both
Houses. These bills are intended TO
redeem the promises he made to the
people If they are not passed by
Congress- the responsibility will rest
upon Congress and not on the Presi-
dent. But Mr. Taft does not pur-
pose to rely upon that fact. He has
done. and means to do, all he honor
ably can to induce Congress TO make
these bills laws.
The Taft plan brings the Cabinet
into close touch with law-making-n
quite as close as in Great Britain. but
still close enough for practical pur-
poses. It's success will foreshadow a
new provision ~ the unwritten part
of our Minneapolis Jour
nal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

President Taft's New York speech
turned brilliant illumination on facts
which partisan sentiment has sought
with persistent and malignant indus
try to distort and falsify. The eXposi-
ton of the tariff and the important re
duction made, without sacrificing
needed protection, was as clear and
sweeping as it could be. THE amount
of Misrepresentation TO which the tar
lift bill in its effect as downward re-
vision bill was subjected has never
been exceeded in this country, said
the president. ard he spoke gospe'
truth-Troy Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
The Servant Girl Disappearing.

During the last thirty years the de-
mand for servants has doubled. while
the supply has increased only by hall
lin the last decade only by D per cent.
In 1870 there was one TO every twelve;
even in the recent crisis, when the
cities were filled with unemployed. the
demand still outran the supply And
yet. during the thirty years past. the
number of self-supporting women-that
is, the actual labor market-has more
than trebled Forty years ago wom-
an thrown upon her own resources
would tend to select homework for
a living: in fact. one woman in two
did so select. Thirty years ago only
every third woman entered domestic
service. Ten years ago only one in
four raped at the kitchen door. The
other three applied-where?
Everyone knows; at the shop, the
factory, the store.-McClure's Maya
zine
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
The Tarin md Prices.

The protective tariff is not respon-
sible for the existing high prices.
More increases can be found outside
of than inside of its schedules.
The tariff has, in a great many lines
of American industry, under the slim
illus of protection, forced prices down.
Combines which force dealers of all
kinds and sizes into price-fixing agree
ments or out of business are more or
less responsible for high prices.
Whatever the causes. let us have
them. If we, as nation, are too
wasteful; If we are using up what We
produce faster than We produce it.
thus keeping the supply under the
demand; If we are paying tribute to
the greed for gold whatever we are
doing to cause hardship to any body
of our people, let us know what it is,
that the remedy may be applied
Steuben On. W Courier.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Human Life Is Better Protected No

Human Life Is Better Protected Now
than Ever Before.
The health records OF London show
q death rate for 1909 of only 1919 per
thousand. That of New York when
corrected by the census this year will
figure out close to 16.
From 1851 to 1860 the London death
rate was 1877. That of New York
cannot be so accurately stated, but
il was much higher. The fall in the
death rate in London in fifty years,
due to better sanitation and more ac-
curate knowledge of disease, means
the saving in a single year of almost
10000 lives The saving in New York
has been In like proportion. New
York has extremes of climate to con-
tend with which London never knows.
Blizzard times hasten the departure of
the old and the feeble; very hot wealth
er in summer Stays children under five
by the hundreds
In spite of later marriages and a fall
ing birth rate, the natural increase of
population in both cities Is consider
ably greater than 1t was fifty years
ago In 1860 each 100000 people in
London increased in one year to 100,-
$50: now each 100000 increase to 1O1,-
40. With the present estimated pop
ulation OF both cities the natural in
crease In London in one year is nearly
1000 and OF New York about $4,000,
with immigration greatly aiding the
newer city In the race.
What a debt humanity owes to med
zeal science, not only for prolonging
average life, but for diminishing sor.
row and suffering year by year.-New
York World
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

1t was the first time Bobby had ever
been away from home without his
mother, and he had gone with some
reluctance to visit his city cousins.
At the end of three days, instead of the
expected week, he returned to his
family, accompanied by letter which
stated that the little fellow was so
homesick they were really afraid to
keep him longer
What made you homesick. Bobby p
asked his mother at the confidential
bedtime hour
Il wasn't. 'zactly." said Bobby, but
the sun sets in the wrong place there.
mother, over in the east, by our barn,
and it scared me so | thought I'd bet
ter come home and see If everything
was right here-and 'tis,"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
WHAT'S THE USE
Sticking to . Habit When 1t Means
DfscOm fort.

Sticking TO . Habit When Ii Means
Discomfort.
Old King Coffee knocks subjects out
possible doubt of what did it. A Mich
woman gives her experience:
II used to have liver trouble nearly
all of the time and took medicine
which relieved me only for a little
while. Then every once in while
would be suddenly doubled I'D with an
awful agony in my stomach. 1t seem
ed as though every time | took a
breath | would die No one could suf-
fer any more and live.
Finally | got down so sick with
catarrh Of the stomach that I could
not turn over in bed, and my stomach
did not digest even milk. The doctor
finally told me that if did not give
up drinking coffee / would surely die,
but | felt | could not give il up.
However, Husband brought home a
package of Postum and 1t was made
strictly according to directions 1t
was the only thing that would stay on
my stomach. and | soon got so | liked
il very much.
Gradually | began to get better,
and week by week gained in strength
and health. Now / am in perfect con
dition and / am convinced that the
whole cause Of my trouble was coffee
drinking, and my getting better was
due to leaving off coffee and taking
Postum
"A short time ago / tasted some cof-
fee and found, to my establishment.
that | did not care anything about it.
| never have to take medicine any
more | hope you will use this letter
for the benefit of those suffering from
the poisonous effects of coffee
Read the little book, The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
For Old-Fa.bioned wom.n.

Josephine Dascom Bacon has taken
Tor her text in her later stories. Back
TO the Hearthstona" and is trying to
persuade women that the only thing
worth living for is to have hearth
stone and stay there. AS women never
voluntarily left the ''hearthstone," but
were forced from it by necessity, it
VIII be pretty hard to coax them back.
now that they find it not essential TO
happiness. Women simply made the
best of a bad situation. and all the
credit they deserve should be given to
them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
VIII Need All Her Tact.

Mrs. Herbert John Gladstone. whose
husband IL now Governor General OF
United South Africa, Is said to be
very fit companion for him in his DIFF
ficult task of governing this part OF
the world with satisfaction to every
one concerned She is woman OF
most gracious mien and infinite tact,
which qualities will be very necessary
to her in her new position. She is
the daughter of Sir Richard Paget and
of a family of Conservatives. but Is,
no doubt, able to adapt herself to her
husbands politics.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
A NIadern Version.

Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going TO the fair.
Said Simple Simon to the pieInan,
Let me taste your ware"
Said the pieman TO Simple Simon:
Young man. my ancestors were the
hardy spirits who first blazed 4
trail through the painless forest
and founded the pioneer settla-
ment in the region which is now
Missouri. l myself hail from
that glorious commonwealth. and
before / can be induced TO part
with one of the succulent gobs
of pastry which 1 am vending,
must be shown your penny"
Said Simple Simon to the pieman.
Indeed. I haven't any"
-Lippincott's Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

At recent fashionable luncheon the
hostess was gowned in an unusually
effective gown, made on lines suggest
ed in our sketch. 1t was ciel-blue sat
in, cut en- princesse and trimmed with
silver buttons on sleeves, around COL
lar and down front of blouse to point
where the overdress of black chiffon
velvet started. This continued to
waist line, its fullness there confined
in a plated girdle. Attached to the
bottom of girdle was a smartly shaped
tunic, whose every line was perfect
Tiny blue chiffon violets trimmed bot
tom OF tunic and top of upper bodice
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
P0IIC1| Comment.
81 NSSSS>DDoSSN~>ccooo~o
The President and Wall Street

The impossibility of segregatine
good trusts from bad trusts appears to
have led some people in Wall street
to conclude that President Taft would
call them all bad, and suddenly there
was panicky feeling on the exchange
The fact that this panicky feeling came
on month after the Presidents mes
sage, and not at the time of it's deliv-
cry to Congress, and the further fact
that the administration has made no
move tending to disturb business in
the interim. might show that the scare
where executive action was said to
be most feared.
This is not uncommon in Wall
street, which is divided into two hos
tile camps, one of which profits as
much by depressing prices as the other
does by enhancing them. That the
President of the United States. or any.
one else, could adopt human policy
that would please both of these inter.
;sts is not conceivable The President
does not make his policy for Wall
street. nor does Wall street make the
policy for the President He makes
it for the country.
All that the President has said on
the subject, he has said in his mes.
sage. That is to >the effect that IL is
his duty and purpose to direct an in
vestigation by the Department of JUS
tice into the history of all industrial
companies with regard TO which there
may be reasonable ground for sus-
picion that they have been organized
for purpose and with intent to vic
late the antitrust laws
The President in this is following
the latest decisions of the federal
courts in antitrust cases. In these
the court has held that the restraints
of trade must be direct and not inc i
dental Ii they were but incidental,
it is presumed that the company was
not organized for the purpose of VIC
lating the antitrust act. If 1t had
been organized for such a purpose the
purpose would appear more prominent
llldH Dis IL mere luClueul Vi It's DuSl-
ness.
The President did not announce a
design to inve stigate corporations that
were doing bl siness in a decent and
fair way. even if their history might
disclose technical violation of the
statute. The President might be ac-
cused of constituting the Sherman act,
but he is right in reading into it some
thing that will allow business to pro-
coed. If he did, he would be doing no
more than Justice Holmes did, when
he declared from the bench that the
statute does not mean that all business
shall cease, nor any more than another
judge who said in the tobacco case:
1T has not been held that because a
business is large it is amenable to the
statute Success is not n crime
Minneapolis Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
To Clean UphoIstered ChaIrs.

An upholstered chair can be cleaned
of a great amount of dust il an old
towel is dampened and placed over the
upholstered part and then beaten with
rattan carpet beaten AS the towel
collects the dust it should be rinsed
clean and the process repeated This
Is method of busting a chair when
there is no yard for one to take the
furniture into, and it Is done to keep
the dust from flying over the room. set
Ting on other pieces.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
To whiten stone step..

To whiten your doorstep. put half a
pound of glue size in a saucepan, add
a pint and half of water and slowly
dissolve on the stove When quite
melted add one pound of powdered
whiting. stirring it in gradually. APP
ply with stiff brush, and. If too hard,
add more water.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Postal Sayings Hanks.

There are some who think they
have sounded the death of any move
ment when they have characterized it
as Utopian. Utopia was an ideal. OF
course, it was not realized, but we
have been striving ever since to get
nearer Utopia, and not farther from
it.
There is another class of minds. or
perhaps the same class, which i'm
AGNES that to call anything paternal
is to condemn 1t. Postal saving banks
'savor of paternalism," therefore we
should not have them. So, too, do
state savings banks. The theory is
that they are cooperative institutions
without capital stock, which are 10
gather no dividends. A postal savings
bank is but an extension of the idea.
The chief purpose of such a govern
ment undertaking is that many COM
munities not now supplied with saw
ings bank facilities may be so sup
piled.
The idea that postal savings banks
will ruin other banks already in ex-
istence, or will prove an unwarranted
intrusion upon private business, is a
mere opinion. Postal savings banks,
paying two per cent interest and linn
iting their patrons to maximum de-
posit of $500, ought not to prove a
detriment to banks paying three or
three and one-half per cent, and allow
ing their patrons a maximum deposit
of $4,000. The postal banks should,
on the contrary. prove feeders to such
already established banks.
The only possible drawback to pos
tai savings banks is the danger that
their money, being redeposited In ma
tional banks. may find its way to New
York, where the national banks send
their cash when the market is dull at
home. The savings banks lend their
money directly upon farm mortgages
in the district where the deposits orig
mate. and this is one of the greatest
helps in developing the agriculture of
the country The postal savings banks
should, in some manner, reinvest
their deposits In the same sort of Sc
curities as state savings banks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

There's good butcher in FIT Wayne.
His clothes, his aprons. his shirts are
always so clean and white that people
who buy their meats of him know the
meat must be clean and good We
don't need to name him right out, but
his wife uses Easy Task soap and
that cleans buatchers' clothes, aprons
and linen.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
HOW'S ThiS7

We oner One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure
+. ]. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned. have known r. I.
Cheney for the last 10 years. and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business trans
actions. and financially able to carry out any
obligations made By his firm
WALDISc, KISSAN & MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo o.
nails Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Testimonials sent
Iree- Price, Toe per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

Under the Dingley tariff the duty
on ham and bacon was cents a
pound, under the present law cents;
fresh meats under the old law 2 cents,
under the present one Y cents; the
duty on live stock is the same, yet
the price of az kinds of meat has
gone up several times more than the
tariff. Under the old law there was
a duty of L. per cent on raw hides;
now they are free. The duty on boots
and shoes and leather goods was ma
terially reduced. but the price of boots
and shoes and of all leather goods
has been raised % per cent. The
tariff on wood pulp was materially
reduced, yet paper is higher; you
must even pay more for a Bible. Hun
dreds of articles on the free list have
been advanced as much or more than
others. In other nations prices have
advanced the same as here. in free
trade England and protected Germany
And yet we are told that all this is
due to the "robber tariff Boulder
(Colo) News
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Her One Anxiefx-

Thrown from her luxurious motor
ear, The fair girl had lain insensible
for many hours. Now. however. the
operation was over, consciousness had
returned and she spoke family In the
darkened room.
"Yvonne?"
Yes. mademoiselle." The maid
bent over her.
'Yvonne, tell me Did /, or did I
not. have on my new silk stockings p
Judge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17
Hint for Cleaning.

Clean silver toilet articles with a
paste of alcohol and whiting. 1t will
not scratch the surface of plain sill
yer. A soft brush should be used to
get the paste into crevices. Wipe with
chamois or soft cotton and brush the
embossed or engraved parts with a
soft bristle brush. A solution of salts
of tartar will clean white bristles nice
ly, and if we'll rinsed the brushes will
look new.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

keep house on s4.75, and beat her reg
ularly every Tuesday. After a while
the world was surprised to hear that
Williams better half had run away
with male person who wore his hair
long and played the French horn with
strong German accent. Johns wife
still adores him, and rumor says that
she has requested her husband to beat
her hereafter on Fridays as well as on
Tuesdays. For such is the way of
woman.-Lippincott Magazine.