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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
A MODERN LOCHINvAR.
Drives Automobile Through Rain and
Mud to Wed Sweetheart.

A thirty mile automobile ride over the
rain-swept roads of Long Island was
made by Dr. Frederick Russell, of East
Hampton, to claim his sweetheart. With
fearful emphasis, Miss Maude E. Bur
CESS of Riverhead had told him over
the telephone that her father was pre-
pairing to send her away.
IF you go away with anyone it will
be with me-" said the doctor. Her
reply was Come and get mer'
There was but a moderate dOwnpour
when DR.. Russell sped out of East
Hampton. Great sheets of water began
falling before he proceeded very far.
Several times the wheels of his car
mired in the soaked highways, and it
looked as if the Lochinvar would have
to abandon his trip until daylight.
Undaunted by the difficulties, he how
ever, kept on. He was wet to the skin
mud splashed and weary. With almost
superhuman strength he tugged at the
wheels of the automobile and pushed it
to solid ground when it stuck. The con-
slant display of lightning served him as
a lamp. With his thoughts concentrated
on Riverhead, he forgot the swirling
water and the raging wind.
At IL o'clock he could see the lights
of Riverhead through the downpOur.
He aroused his sweetheart, who was at
the home of her aunt, Mrs Frank T..
Corwin. AS soon as Miss Burgess
dressed. they went to the home of Town
Clerk John HI. Hagen, and taking him
in the automobile secured a marriage
license.
Rev. Willard T. Harmon of the River
head Congregational church, was COM
municated with by telephone, and when
they reached his house. shortly before
midnight, he was prepared to marry
them. AS soon as the ceremony was
ended DR.. Russell and his wife entered
the automobile and began a weary thir-
ty-mile ride through the mud and the
rain to East Hampton. They reached
there at daybreak.
Mrs. Russells father objected to DR..
Russell and planned to have his daugh-
ter make a long trip with her uncle,
Robert Burgess of Westbury, l.. l., so
that she would forget her sweetheart.
Because of the disagreement the daugh-
ter had been living at her aunts home
for several months.-New York Ameri-
can.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
WIFE PART NEGRO.
A New York Plumber Makes Discovery
and Seeks Divorce

William S. Horton, plumbing con-
tractor at 2O4 West Tooth street, applied
to Justice Fitzgerald in the supreme
court for a decree annulIing his mar
riage to Edith May De V. Horton on the
ground that she did not tell him before
their marriage that she had negro blood
in her veins. His wife, Horton says,
represented herself to be of mixed
French and Spanish parentage, but he
declares he learned that she was a mulat-
to. The suit is one of great interest to
lawyers, because II raises the question
whether woman is bound to tell her
iance all about her origin and also
whether negro blood in a wife's veins
constitutes valid ground for making the
marriage void. According to Horton the
two were married in March, 1909, after
a brief courtship that followed a chance
acquaintance begun on their way home
from Coney Island. Three months after
this meeting Horton says, the woman
came to him and pleaded with him to
marry her, and he did. ''Then
learned continued the plaintiff, that
she had purchased a gravestone from a
Bridgeport Comm tombstone man for
the grave of a colored woman whom she
described as her mother or grandmoth-
er." Dispositions of several residents of
Bridgeport were introduced that Mrs.
Horizons mother was married in 1885 to
Howard Il. Williams, whose mother. ac-
cording to the makers of the dispositions,
was a negress. Mrs. Horton was not
represented in court.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
The Vital Question of Dress.

A very serious question has been
troubling M. Molard. the director of the
protocol and grand master of ceremonies
at the Elysee. The President of the re-
public has expressed a desire to go to
Chamonix and make an excursion of
Mont Blanc. The question was raised
what costume would M. Fallieres be able
to wear for that excursion. Being on an
official visit, according to the protocol he
ought to wear evening dress, even in the
morning, but all agreed that evening
dress for a trip in mountains would be
somewhat uncomfortable, if not ridicu-
-lous, and so, M. Fallieres has decided to
have a special costume made for the oc-
casion. The tailor of the Elysee had
patterns sent from London of certain ia
nous clothes worn by King Edward at
Marienbad, and M. Fallieres selected one
of them. The President intends wear
ing a white waistcoat with his English
suit
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26

in a house just being finished. and the
window hangings are charming. They
are white draperies of thin lawn. having
a band of Valenciennes lace an inch
wide heading hem two inches wide. A
four-inch ruff1e having one lace band and
lace edge, an inch wide, goes down
the edge and across the bottom. They
are draped with a "sash" of the lawn
with frilled ends. The sash is five
inches wide.
The curtains reach the sill.
Hanging straight over these draperies
are silk crepe curtains in gold color.
They have been embroidered by the own
er with designs not larger than the palr='
of the hand. All the designs are in yell
low. The furniture is white, with ey-
ceptiOn of two brown chairs, and cush-
ions and covers are yellow or white.
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The Influence of the City.
Many people have not studied the i'll
effect which takes place in the life of the
young during what is properly called
the formative period of their lives. 1t
SO be they are brought up in town or
city they become accustomed to town
and city life and their habits are formed
with reference to it. There is wide
difference between the life Of the city
home and that of the country. | have
often thought of this when [ have lived
for periods in the city. City life has its
attractions which are largely artificial.
They Ire found in the theaters. In the
public parks, skating Kinks, and in those
| various amusements which are stlmulat-
! ed ofttimes by street car companies IN
order to increase their traffic and by
amusement makers who, of course. seek
| to make revenue out of them. Inese
amusements are inviting and in meas,
! ure expensive for those who attend
! them.
| This recreation is altogether different
| from the recreation of the country home.
| The country home has its recreatlons
! but they are not expensive. Ihey are
easily and naturally formed, as for In
| come to the home by the methods OF
mali delivery from one source. The mu,,
sically inclined will also find amusement
in the cultivation of music. There Is
also the social life which centers about
| the schOolhouse, it may be, the little
church, or in those social gatherings that
are beyond censure, where the young
and often the old gather for their amuse'
ment, recreation and social life. Inls
class of recreation is normal, has no un,
i due excitement, is conducive to a stald
habit and is in happy accord with IN
dustry and thrift. Those who are
brought up under it's influence make the
very best of citizens. In recent ar
ticle | noted that this statement was
made and then ample evidence gwen
that the citizenship of this nation, that
has in it most of those steady, sterling
and reliable qualities that make for the
permanency OF our republic, is founded
in these country districts where lie
recreation is of the nature l have re
ferred TOO. c.. Gregg in North west
ern Agriculturist.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
A MOTHERS LETTER.
It Convinces the Court as to the Va
Hdity of Her Will.

A mothers letter to her two sons.
which she directed that they read after
her death, played an important part in
deciding will contest in the surr0gate's
court in Delaware county. Kew York.
Mrs. Polly L. Martin died at East
Branch, leaving sec, 900 to her two two sons,
William J: Martin of New York and
Fletcher ". Martin of East Branch,
and other relatives. The sons. tested
the will, alleging that she was not of
sound mind when she made it. After
reading the mothers letter, Surrogate
Grant decided that the deceased was
fuzzy competent to make will. The
letter was as follows:
My Dearly Beloved Son Jay: I am writ
ing you this letter, the last 1 shall write,
and you will be reading it after / am laid
away. / wish you to know of my love for
you through all the years growing stronger
as l am growing weaker with yearning to
see you and feel your hands in mine as 1
draw near to the valley of the shadow of
death / wish you and Fletcher to have
the full benefit of all my property, having
made the division as seemed best to my
self, reserving the right to will the princi-
pal at the expiration of both your lives.
/ have arranged all my affairs that
there can be no trouble between. you in
each receiving his own. God bless you and
keep you in safety. With sincere love-
YOUR MOTHER.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
Queer Taxes,

Henry VIII. taxed boards, and gradu-
ated the tax according to the status of
the wearer. For example, the sheriff
of Canterbury was constrained to pay
the sum of IS. i'd. for the privilege of
sporting his venerable whiskers. Eliza
beth likewise fixed a similar tax on
every beard of over a fortnight's growth.
Elizabeth was also bent on making the
country of a religious turn of mind, and
all who stayed away from church on
Sunday rendered themselves liable to a
fine. In 1896 it was decided that the
arrival of every child into the world
should be greeted by tax. The birth
of a child to a duke cost the proud but
harassed father ESQ, whilst the advent
of a commoner's child into the world
was hailed with a tax of rs. Moreover
it was an expensive matter to die, and
bachelors and widowers also were COM
PEELED to pay for the privilege of single
blessedness. With the advent of more
constitutional days freak taxation did
not cease. 1t was due to William Pitt
that the window tax was instituted. In
the reign of George. l. it was necessary
to have a license in order to sell hats.
Then there was the tax OH watches and
clocks. In the reign of George III.
duty of Is. Sd. was imposed on bricks.
At later period in the same reign
bricks were divided, for the purposes
OF taxation, into common and dressed
bricks, and the duty on each kind of
brick was regulated according to it's
sizes.-''T. P.'s" Weekly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
Curing Camp in the Leg.

Many persons are greatly troubled with
cramp in the legs. 1t comes on sud-
denly and generally while in bed. There
is nothing easier than to make the spasm
let go its hold, and it can be accom-
plished without sending for doctor.
When | have a patient who is subject
to cramp / always advise him to provide
himself with a good strong cord. A long
garter will do if nothing else is handy
When the cramp comes on take the cord
wind it around the leg over the place
that is cramped and take an end in each
hand and give it sharp pull; instantly
the cramp will let up and the sufferer
can 60 to bed assured it will not come Oh
again that night.-Family Doctor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
The Anticipating Crusade.

Statistics of the enforcement of anti
splitting ordinances show that such. or
dinances have been enacted IN seventy
four cities in the United States, only
thirty-six of which have made arrests
for violations, the total number of such
arrests having been 3421. One in every
seven of the persons arrested was ac-
Quilted, the total number convicted be-
ing 291S.
There are those who believe that the
ordinance has been more efficiently ell
forced in cities where health officers
make the arrests than in cities where
that duty is reposed in the police de-
partment The opinion also has been
expressed that the cities where most ar
rests for violation of the ordinance have
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
ITALIAN COOKING.
The King Striving to Nationalize the
Art

The King of Italy has been striving for
some time past to nationalize Italian
cooking. At all state banquets given
at the Quirinal Italian dishes and wines
are served in preference to French. The
menu is translated into Italian and called
''List of dinner" and the names of the
different dishes are given in Italian.
Naturally some mistakes have been
made, as for instance, the French "Con-
sOmme" instead of being translated broth
has been called ''consumato,' which
means wasted or destroyed.
The mayor of Rome, who is an Eng
lishman by birth, a naturalized Italian
and not a Roman citizen, initiates the
example set by the King, and conse-
quently French cooking and nomencla-
ture have also been banished from the
capitol; but the mayor is an original
man and he even went beyond the King
in his attempt at Matchmaking cooking.
The cooking at the Quirinal is Italian,
that at the capitol is Roman.
The banquet given in honor of Col.
Roosevelt was entirely Roman. I'M
! fortunately it was badly and slowly
served and consequently only half eaten.
Although it began at 1880 o'clock the
roast had not yet been served when the
colonel left three hours later to catch his
train. Still it was essentially Roman.
The bill of fare was written in Italian
and the dishes appeared under their pop
ular Roman names.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
The War on Habit-forming Drugs.

The action of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association urging upon drug
gists the ACCESSIBILITY of eliminating traf-
fic in habit-forming drugs is in line with
the suggestion of the Bureau of Chem
istry in a farmers bulletin-No. 1888
which is about ready for circulation.
This publication says that the amount
of opium per capita consumed In the
United States has doubled in forty years.
and that besides this there has grown
up an enormous consumption of prepare
tons and derivatives of the drug, as well
as of other drugs which make those who
use them slaves and undermine the moral
nature. In many instances people form
the habit Of addiction to deleterious
drugs from taking medicines which con-
tain them. When the urgency which
called for the use of the medicine has
passed away the craving for the drug
continues.
A New York druggist, interviewed one
day this week on the subject of habit
forming drugs, said to a reporter: ''If
they are properly labeled, we are al
lowed to sell them" The reporter com
mented:
SO the young mother out in Harlem car
walk to the corner drug store and for a few
cents buy some preparation to relieve the
baby's teething pains. The preparation may
cOHIdIu HOfpulu SulpHdLe, MOfpnln lyQf0
Chord, codein, heroin or even choral hyd
rate. No wonder the baby, after dose o.
that medicine sleeps soundly. The wonder
is that the baby ever awakens. But the
druggists say it is ail right, provided thai
the formula Is printed on the package q
Of course the reporter put the case
strongly. Many druggists are careful to
give warning when they think it is need
ed, and the Pharmaceutical Association
composed of druggists = has taken the
advanced stand noted above. Moreover
the laws are gradually becoming more
stringent. The new law to regulate the
sale of cocaine, which the health depart
ment in New York city is rigidly enforc.
ing, provides that the druggist shall is
sue a certificate to each customer who
purchases a prescription containing CO.
caine. Any one found with cocaine in
his possession and without a certificate
showing the date of purchase can be ar
rested. Any one found with a prescrip-
ton containing cocaine, and a certificate
showing that it was purchased more than
ten days before, may be arrested. Other
eastern cities are enforcing similar laws
Society is waking up to the Necessity
of protecting itself. against the menace
of habit-formin0 dru"s.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26

been made are those in which it is likely
to be most generally observed. Indeed
the notion has been advanced that
where there have been no arrests for
violation the ordinance is a dead letter.
This does not seem reasonable. 1t does
not give men credit for having an in
stinctive preference for decency. That
is a stronger incentive to what is right
than the incentive furnished by fear of
punishment. OF course there are some
held in order by the fear of punishment
and these are deferred from wrong
doing by knowledge OF oncial activity IN
making arrests
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
LONELY GIRLS.
Bracing Advice for Those Who Are
Downhearted.

b1aClng AQV1Ce Tor InOSe VINO Are
Downhearted.
Il am lonely" said girl in the police
court the other day.
Il am lonely, that's the reason l do
things L ought not to do. Back home
| knew every one and every one knew
me, and l never had a minute alone
Some of the girls were always running
in to see me, and / could always run in
to see some of them at any hour of the
day. Here in this strange city there IS
nothing for me to do when l come home
from work but sit alone in my room,
and [ can't stand it. People do not
respect girl who works for her living
Men don't invite her to go to places
with them like they do a girl who has a
home. What am l going to do? Sit
down and cry every EVENING"
Poor, little, lonely, country girl So
you thought that people would respect
you more if you picked up stray ac-
quaintances,, and didn't tell them that
you worked for a living. Why, you're
doing just the very thing that is going
to keep you from ever knowing any de-
cent sort of man at all. Foolish for a
girl to be lonely and to want young COM
pany? Well, then. we've all been foolish
some time in our lives.
1t is natural for you to want a sweet
UedrC anu WISH you knew some one VINO
would pay you some attention and say
nice things to you like the things the hero
says to the heroine in the play. You
wouldn't be natural girl if you didn't
long for these things. Go right on think
ing of them. And live so that when the
right sweetheart does come along you
can look straight into his eyes and tell
him everything in your life, and he will
be proud to hear the story. Why, the
very minute that you went out with
those foolish people who got you into
such bad company perhaps the right man
was OH his way to you that very instant.
Discouraged? Not a bit of it. You
haven't done anything really wrong. You
were just young and foolish like all the
rest of us. Forget it. Move into a new
neighborhood with new surroundings. Go
quietly about your work, and the first
thing you know you'll have all the
friends you will want. Sit down and
cry all the evening? Nonsense; sit down
and laugh over a good book. There's a
public library in your city. Get card
to it. Be nice to the lonesome old wom-
an upon the top floor. Say something
sweet about her baby to the tired little
mother in the basement. See if you
can't help the hobble-de-hoy boy in the
hall bedroom with his mending. Friends
Why, the worlds full of them. All
you've got to do is to keep your heart
and your eyes open to find them.-Wlnl-
fred Black in New York American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
American Women Wasteful.

Are American women especially waste
full? A book which has just been pub
lished in London says, "Half of Italy
could live on what New York city throws
away" A Missouri college professor,
lecturing before home economics club,
recently asserted that twenty-five per
cent. Of our own foodstuffs are wasted
after they reach the housewife"
The Professor declared there is waste
in buying as we'll as in using. Women
buy too much over the telephone, espe-
cialy in large Cities" he said. '"They
should go out to the butcher and grocer
and become acquainted at first hand with
prices and conditions of the markets
They would find out that grocers advise
the buying of all staple groceries in
lots'' Discussing the different cuts and
qualities of meats, he advised women not
to buy meat with a dark ring in the mar
row of the bone, as this was a sign OF
the emaciated condition of the animal
before it was slaughtered. He remarked
in closing: 'The result of the pure food
legislation was to increase the cost OF
living. However, we have the satisfac-
ton of knowing now that when we buy
hamburg stake it is not adulterated with
sodium sulphate; when we buy butter II
is butter, and when can is marked
two pounds it contains two pounds"
The probability is that the largest
part of the waste perpetrated by Amerl'
can women is due to lack of knowledge
and that they will do better as soon
as they learn. Domestic science instruc'
ton in schools and colleges will go fal
to relieve the situation. Demonstration
lectures before large popular audiences
such work as Mrs. Rorer performed
at the Auditorium in this city during
the pure food show last week-will ac-
complish still more. 1t is not on ac-
count of willfulness that women are
wasteful. The average woman takes
pride in saving when she can. The aver
age woman's ideal-where false educa,,
ton has not perverted her-is an ideal
of domesticity. Think of Anna Held
putting her daughter into convent
school for the express purpose of hay
ing her taught to make her own bed
clean her own room, darn stockings
wash dishes and become well trained in
every detail of the art of home-mak-
ing.-Eyening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
Cool Summer Furnishings.

A house occupied during the summer
should have entirely different furnishings
from one used in winter, as in warm
weather rooms that are crowded seem
close and hot.
For in warm weather every one wants
light, airy appearing rooms-the exact
opposite of snug, coZy fittings, so desir-
able when the days are cold. Color, too,
has much to do with the cool effect and
a woman who is so fortunate as to pos
sess summer home should select no
heating colors, such as are reds and dark
blues. A touch of brown has the desir-
able effect of heightening the GOODNESS of
certain light colors. A brown hair, for
example, emphasizes the green shade in
which a room may be done, and with
yellow a touch of brown is desirable
But brown walls, excellent in winter
houses, are to be avoided for summer
homes, as are dark greens.
Light green and yellow, also gray, are
the three colors best suited to cool
schemes of decoration for country or
seashore homes When the house is out
of town and is to be lived in all the year,
certain combinations may be SO worked
as to be excellent at all seasons.
A living room done in a yellow gold IS
no longer expensive, and is artistic and
cool. There are yellow gold grass cloths
and plain dull gold papers, no longer ex-
pensive, though when first made the lat
ter was costly. Some Of these have a
bronze effect that is beautiful. Some self
toned designs are pretty, but nothing is
better than plain ground, the shades be-
ing dull and not bright.
This is on the walls of the living room
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
The SuIzberqer Litigation.

Frederick Joseph, formerly of the firm
of Schwartzchild & Sulzberger. has APP
piled to the supreme court, New York,
to have the new firm of Sulzberger &
60. made a party defendant to the ac-
ton he has brought against Ferdinand
Sulzberger to recover the value of 723
shares in the old firm. Joseph also wants
the new company enjoined from selling
or transferring the stock during the pen
dency Of the litigation. He has already
been awarded judgment of $157, 1874 by
the supreme court but the appellate di-
vision reversed it and sent the case back
for retrial.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-26
Rio price for Historical Documents.

At Sotheboy's, London, $43,250 was
paid at auction for collection of official
correspondence relating to the colonial
period of America. The papers are ad-
dressed chiefly to William Blathwayt,
secretary of state and commissioner of
period from 1858 to 171O. They were
purchased by a Bond street dealer.
Blathwayt died in 1717. Many of his
manuscripts have been preserved in the
British museum and elsewhere. He
drafted a new charter for Massachusetts.