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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-09-22
C CORRESPONDENTS
MONTGOMERY.

:
Mrs. Anna Bowling, of Page, spent
!. last week here with Mrs. II. b. Bran
ham.
i Rev. A. l.. Henderson, Of Mucklow,
. WIS a business visitor here Wednes-
49,. Mrs. M. j. Banks, and Mr.. and
Mp. J. H. Brooks, Of Handley, were
here, Friday and Saturday.
, Mrs. Eliza Graham and daughter
M#s Alma, Of Cabin Creek, were
s gusts Of Mrs. VIM. Britton, last
week.
Mrs. Clara Powell visited friends
insfIuntington last week.
.pr., and Mrs. w. C. Lawrence Wis
1tRd, Mrs. Virginia Shelton Buster
at%The. Paint Creek Hospital Sun
dSa, .r,~I
miss. 2Corne1ia Spears, of Powell
toA, was shopping here Thursday.
airs. James Ellis, of Rush Run,
spent the week with her parents,
NJ and Mrs. Henry Brown
Miss Lena King, Of Bramwell. is
the Buestr of Miss Bertha Deans.
Mys.~ Kate Fields is reported very
sick at her home on High Street
Rev. Warner Brown has returned
from a months visit to points in Va.
Mrs. J. ]. Turner, Of Mt. Carbon.
WAS shopping here Friday
irfo
here several days last week.
MI. B.. Cross, who has been sick
several weeks, is able to be out
Mrs. Richard Johnson left Monday
to spend sometime with relatives in
Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs George Jackson and
daughter, Louise, went to Paint
Greek Hospital Thursday to see Mrs.
Virginia s. Buster.
p. c. Dean, Jr., came in Friday
from Hot Springs and left Monday
for the w. Va. Institute.
Delbert Prillerman, Of Institute,
lsahere the guest of relatives.
Mrs. +. s. White and Miss Ruth
Watson returned Friday from a stay
OF: two: weeks at points in Virginia,
they were accompanied home by Mrs
Ckammie Carrot, Of Louis, Va.
Miss Katharine Brown went to
Elk Ridge, Saturday, where she will
begin school Monday
Miss Lizzie Washington will be-
gin. school at Beckwith this week.
Misses Bertha Deans, and Julia
BfeWn, David and Bonnie Deans, Jno.
Johnson, Berkeley Brown, Edward
Shepard, and Carol Burke, left Mon
day for the West Virginia Institute
to enter school
p. W. Wright, M. D. Buster and J.
S.. Noel, have returned home from
Atlantic City, Baltimore and WASH
ington. SqRas
The Simmons Graded school, open
ed Monda, with H. H. RaiGy, prin-
cipal, and Misses Mary Noel, Eta
ID, ,,a H. n Sth'. Brown 2fd Mrs. Goldie
sE. L. Geter VT MONDAY to visit
points of interest in Virginia.
T. l.. Thompson, of the Rex
Pharmacy at Huntington, is supply
ing in Mr.. Geter's absence.
Rev. f. c. Page, principal, open
ed school at Eagle Monday.
Misses Jowilla Morgan and Nan
n1e Saunders left Tuesday for the
West Virginia Institute.
Mrs. George Hurt, of Institute.
is here the guest of Mrs. B. e..
White.
Mrs. Mayme Taylor opened school,
at Page Monday.
Mrs. f. Donnally Railey is teach
ms at Smithers this year.
Rev. d. c. Deans is teaching the
new Fayette school at Donwood.
David Turner, of Faycttcviifc. WIS
here Monday on Political business.
Miss Maudc Robinson, teacher AT
Cedar Grove, was shopping here Sat =
urday.
Miss Minnie Carr, teacher at Hare
wood, and Miss Abbie Friend, teach
er at Longacre were here Saturday.
.., f.. . KONCEVERTEG.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-09-22
ST. ALBANS.

the program rendered by Miss NJ.
II. DENLY Of Boston, assisted by
some'of best local talent was well
attended by both white and colofed,
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-09-22

Ohio Chambers, returned to Romeo
verte. Sunday: -.------------. -----.:.-
Prof. J. =. ID. Gardner and vito
are visiting relatives hore.
George Carter left for Charlottes-
Vile for a few days stay. ~.--.
Mrs. Rebecca Brown gave party
in honor Of Mrs. Fountain Thomas,
Wednesday.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-09-22
LEWISBURG.

Miss ELLA Boiling left Sunday
morning for Nlarlinton to open
school
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Oddities in invention,

Moving pictures are produced, as 1t
is we'll known, by film travelling
with intermittent motion before pro-
jector or lantern which throws sue
cessive views on the screen. The
same result could be obtained If the
pictures were stationary and the au-
dience itself were in motion, so as to
view the pictures successfully. An
ingenious inventor has hit upon this
scheme to relieve the monotony of
subway travel. He proposes to mount
continuous band of pictures at each
side of the subway, and have these
pictures successfully Illuminated, by
means of lamps placed behind them.
The circuits of the lamps would be
successfully closed, by means of a
shoe upon the subway car engaging
contact plates at each side of the
Itrack,-Scientific American.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
ENLARGE HARBoR AT ADEN
British Stronghold At Rcd Sea 70
Again to Be an Important
Port.

Alden, the British stronghold that
commands the entrance to the Red
Sea, has of late years fallen behind
the times from commercial point of
view, says an exchange. Through the
poor harbor facilities the trade of
and India, has been largely trans
ferred to ports that were quite obscure
few years ago, as Berbera on the
British Somah coast, Jibuti alongside
of it on French territory and Hodeida,
the Turkish-Arabian pert on the Red
sea. Many Of the larger modern yes
sells, unable to enter the inner harbor
of Alden and unwilling to suffer the
expense of lighterage, have dropped
the call entirely by charging their
bunkers sufficiently to take enough
fuel to carry them from Suez to Co.
lombo and vice versa.
TQnremedy this state of affairs. the
Alden port trust at the beginning of
the year decided to make extensive
improvements, dredging the entire
area of the mooring basin in the inner
harbor and the entrance channel.
Work was begun in March last, and
although the contract called for COM
pletion within two years, it is now
certain that by the end of February
next the entire project will have been
carried out so that the very largest
vessels that now pass through the
Suez canal will be accommodated in
the inner harbor of Aden
This much-needed activity in Alden
harbor forms a parallel to the vast
improvements now carried on at Sing
apore, that other citadel of British i'm
perial sway. There, too, competition
had made itself keenly felt for some
years, thanks to the awakening activ-
ity of the Dutch in making the best
of their opportunities in the Malay
archipelago. OF the rivals that have
arisen to Singapore, the best known,
but not the only one, is Sabang, at the
entrance to the Straits of Malacca.
This competition, so surprising and fire.
quently alarming to British interests,
is proving needed stimulus to Brit
ish enterprise, to which a too-long-en-
joyed monopoly had been wholly un-
favorable. The magnificent works un-
dertaken both at Alden and Singapore,
together with the project for a new
naval base at Bombay, are irrefutable
evidences of Great Britain's continued
supremacy, while the fact that the
Suez canal, when fully dredged in an
other five years, will allow far larger
vessels to pass through than at pres
ent Is a guarantee for still vaster i'm
provements to be carried out by Great
Britain in the harbors of her en-
Dire.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

pers for every sort of affair goes hard
with the girl who knows perfectly
well what should be worn to be emf
nently proper, and yet lacks the plen-
tiful wealth to buy various kinds of
slippers in dozen lots.
A woman who suffered from Just
this lack of enough wealth to be able
to disregard expense recently claims
to have taken a pair Of old white slip
pers that would not clean and to have
changed them into pair of pink satin
slippers by merely covering them
with pink satin ribbon. She cut the
pink satin a trifle wider than needed
to exactly cover the old white slip
per and sewed it on. A pink beading,
she says, covered all traces of the
stitching, and on the heels was pasted
over the old heels. When the diff
Guilty and brains necessary to accom-
plish this feat are considered, it was
perhaps after all an expensive pair
of slippers without taking any &C.
count of the nervous apprehension
lest the made-over slippers come
apart or show in some way their
homemade origin.
Undoubtedly miladi's slippers are
among the most exacting necessities
Of the modern toilet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
A Great Time-Saver,

James Faulkner, the dean, sage and
seer of the Ohio political writer's, went
to Europe this year, and in the course
Of his travels, explored some of the
London clubs under the guidance of
American friends who live in Lon
don.
At one of the clubs he met a lot of
English highbrows who were Quizzing
him about the United States.
II say, Mr. Faulkner, old chap"
said one, will you kindly tell me why
it is all your people, Americans, l
mean, talk through their noses?"
WELL" said Faulkner, cts this
way: You see, we are commercial
people and we are brought up to the
truth that anything that saves time
saves money. Now, we discovered
long ago that if we talk through our
noses, instead of through our tonsils
as you folks do, that we can talk
quicker, thus saving time, and, there
fore, saving money. We teach it in
the schools, you know."-Philadel-
phia Saturday Evening Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

Hot water bag covers shaped like
miniature pillow slips, with the open
end shirred finely and drawn up with
baby ribbons, are made of washable
pongee silk matching the prevailing
color Of the sleeping rooms decora-
lions. The small sized bags intended
for nursery use are covered with fine
white linen slips, hand embroidered In
pale pink or blue and drawn up with
matching satin ribbons. The same
idea may be developed in muslin en-
broidery.
Melted silk hot water bag coverings
are started from a ring adjusted to
the receptacle base, the meshes grad.
ually increasing In number az the
work progresses. A satin draw rib.
bon run through the bag about two
inches below its upper edge causes
the network to form IN attractive
lacelike frilling about the stopper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Foreigner Admits That After Much
Study He Is Unable to Under
stand Our Social Life.

THE American man works like a
horse that his wife may have three
servants to do her work and her time
for leisure" said Emil Pfruende of
Zurich, Switzerland, at the Arlington,
discussing the psychology of the
American man.
"She. in return. entertains, rides,
drives, reads, and studies, and, in
short, gets 20 much culture that she
can soon look down on her husband
and use words he never heard of.
He gives up an enjoyable fishing
trip to the lake In the woods to es-
cort his better half to Paris" said the
Swiss, who spent some time in this
country making studies and observe
lions on things American. she drags
him around to the shops for women
during the day. and tells him what
to wear evenings and how to hold his
knife and fork.
THE American father" continued
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Evacuation Day.

Evacuation day (November Is, 1889
is the day on which the British troops
evacuated New York city. It was at
one time celebrated with much en-
thusiasm, but of late years has been
almost entirely neglected. The rear
guard of the British army embarked
at the Battery, and the advance guard
of the American forces marched down
the Bowery and through Chatham.
Queen and Wall streets to the corner
of Broadway and Rector street. They
were followed by washington and his
generals. the city council and other
functionar1es. A few weeks later
Washington bid farewell to his officers
Ut Fraunceb. tavern (stdlls standfng) Ut
the corner Of Broad and Pearl streets.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
CLASP FOR The BRIDGE BAG
Frame Taken from Discarded Recep.
tacle as Good as Any That
Can Be Bought.

The frame of a decrepit silver, gold
or gun metal chain purse will make
an excellent and substantial mounting
for fancy bridge bag, which is all
the better for having a reliable clasp.
The bags of printed cretonne or Of
Powered satin have their patterns out
lined with soutache, silk floss or tin
sci thread, while those in plain mate
rails are decorated with embroidered
monograms All such bags should be
lined with chamois or soft French kid
and 80 stitched that rough edges shall
not be in evidence when the recep-
tacle is opened.
Opera bags or cretonne or pompa-
dour silk are wide and deep, SOU
tache, tinsel or floss embroidered and
finished at the top with several rows
of shirrtng, through which the ribbon
strings may be run. The brilliantly
.olored silk bags having black satin
/ Innings land draw strings are consid.
cred Immensely smart s s.S.ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Finds Americans a Puzzle

Hr. Pfruende, "loves his dauehter-
his most expensive luxury. She ia.
mands the most. He gives her tho
most. To make her happy he does
not stop short of the most extravaqant
of resorts, schools, journeys. mnsic
teachers, dressmakers, and whatevar
female foolishness and capriciousnoss
can conceive Of
HE has a son. Sons are an IN.
cumbrance in the United States Th.,
do not marry titled wives and +hore
by elevate mammals social position
Son gets no income for life. Lei hin,
work, or let him be satisfied with e5o
a month. Americans are a puzz1a ~
me and will remain So 1 have stud.
led them for nearly nine months oDd
l don't know much about them yet -"
Washington Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Time Celebrated by Moons.

Time is calculated among the Indi-
ans by moons instead of months.
1--WE" is the Indian for month. Janu-
airy is called "We-teri," the Hard
NOON" February, the Raccoon
Moon" March, "Sore-Eye Moon"
April, ''the Moon in which geese lay
eggs" May, the Planting Moon;
June 1.-THE Moon when the strawber-
rfes are red:" July, 1.-The Moon when
choke-berries are ripe;" August. 'the
Harvest Moon" September, the
Moon when rice is laid up to dry" Oc'
tober. "the "riceGrying Moon" No.
vember, sthe Desr:KlfIing Moon. : ana
December, the Deer kooa."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
STYLE IN SLIPPERS
200 IGEAR THAT is WORTHY OF
MUCH ATTENTION.
Popular Models Are Not to Be Worn
by AiI-Those Most in Favor
Are Excessively Costly
and Fragile.

A woman's slippers are at once the
bane and blessing of her existence
just how much bane and how little
blessing depends probably more on
the manner in which she cares for
them when not using them than on
any other single circumstance.
A few extra smart women have
taken greedily to a new model of slip
per-the extra high-heeled, square,
toed slippers, such as were worn at
the court OF that grande monarch,
Louis XIV, king of France. The
slipper looks perfectly beautiful on a
small and slender foot, but the woman
with a low ankle and a great, broad
foot should shun them like the plague,
Tor such one will surely present a
lud1crous appearance in this extra
dnical style of footgear.
The newest ones are of patent
leather, but it is of a dreadfully e.
penslVe kind that Is soft and pliable
However, the women who indulge
themselves in these details of the
toilet are usually able to ignore the
matter of the expense. The toes are
squared of and the shocking heels
are almost three inches in height.
Across the front are buckles wide and
square, with square-cut tongues The
entire design is square, and they are
to be worn for any and every occa-
sion in the house, aside from the few
functions where the satin dancing
slipper is not absolutely indispens-
able. When it is remembered that the
boot and half shoe is utterly old
fashioned now with any sort of long
Skirt, the rage of the slipper must be
conceded to have reached its height.
The sales of slippers then are in
immense quantities and every con-
ceivable style. Well-dressed women
nowadays have little interest in boots
except as they must be worn in vari-
GUS sports, such as when automobile
ing, golf1ng, etc. Then certain spe-
cial boots are, of course, indispens-
able, An ornate slipper, however, is
used for the theater. wedding, lunch
con and. in fact. every social affair
that Is worth the mentioning.
OF coarse such a demand for slip.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

Americans visiting China and noting
the tremendous resources and the
great population of that country, have
been accustomed to charge American
merchants and manufacturers with
lack of enterprise in failing to build
up big trade with the Flowery king
dom. 1t appears, however, that the
establishment of a large trade with
China is no easy matter, and Amer
lean manufacturers and merchants are
not alone in this discovery. According
to Consul General Bergholz, at Can
ton, English and German tourists are
complaining Of the scant trade be-
tween their respective countries and
China, and the fact seems to be that
China is not inclined toward foreign
trade.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

The postmaster OF Washington has
conducted an investigation into the
character of the correspondence car
ried on by means of the general deliv.
cry window at his Office, and has dis
covered that of 1904 letters called for
by women in two days III bore f1cti-
tious names. In eight instances clan
destine correspondence was managed
in this way by girls under sixteen
years of age. The limiting of the use
Of the general delivery window by any
one person to 80 days is now proposed,
with view of furthering the interests
of morality.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
PREVENTING FOREST FIRES.

Forest fires spring up from innuraer-
able causes, but they are usually the
result of carelessness. Sometimes a
camping party neglects to put out its
campfire before leaving. Sometimes
a match or a cigarette or cigar starts
the blaze. Disastrous fires have been
caused by gun-wadding which fell
among dry leaves. No one in the
woods can exercise too great care in
the matter of preventing fires. The
chief damage done by them is not so
much to the matured timber as to the
young trees, to which we look for our
lumber supply in years to come. we
Insist. and in this we are supported by
all who have made study of forestry,
that only through the exercise OF wis
dom in the use and care of our forests
will it be possible to make our natural
~ matchless timberland permanently
productive There is nothing about the
practice of forestry that is difficult, or
mysterious, or in any manner beyond
the grasp of the ordinary, everyday
mind. 1t does not mean circumscrlb-
ing or abbreviatfng the use of the
land. Far from it. On the other hand,
conservative, common-sensc lumber
ing, together with the protection of
the young growth from fires, will bring
about steadily increasing output
from the forests With cultivation
and care the yield of the forest in
creases and the quality of the product
improves in exactly the same way that
the value of farm increases under
intelligent cultivation and manage
ment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

The bureau of standards of the de-
partment of agriculture has before it a
duty nearly as important as that
which is being performed by the bu-
reau of chemistry in insuring purity
in foods. 1t is endeavoring to estab-
fish system under which consumers
will get packages of full size and full
weight. 1t is said that the shortage
in flour delivered in jute bags avera-
ges four pounds to the barrel, and that
purchasers of cereal products in board
cartons do not get full weight. 1t is
we'll known that bottles are smaller
than full pint and quart receptacles,
and the public has accepted the fact
as an eccentricity of trade; but the
establishment of standards may rem
edy the bottle shortage as we'll as the
shortage in weights in board cartons
holding breakfast and other foods.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

the front of skirt is a plain panel and
is joined to that of the bodice under
a shaped band of passementerie; but
tons in sets of threes trim the sides
of panel.
Tucked silk forms the yoke with re-
vers of satin turning from it; the cuffs
are also of the satin.
Materials required: Seven and one
half yards serge 48 inches wide, two
dozen buttons, IL yards passesmen-
terie. one-half yard satin, one-quarter
yard tucked silk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
First SAVINGS Bank.

Next year there will come an odd
and interesting centennial-the >hun-
dredth anniversary of the founding of
the first savings bank 1t will certain
ly be centennial worth observing,
and Presbyterians will have a right to
front seats in any celebration of the
event, for the founder of that first
savings bank was a Presbyterian viii
lage pastor. The minister of the
church at Ruthwell, Scotland, distress
ed at seeing the wastefulness of the
laboring people in his parish, offered
in the year 1910 to pay five per cent
interest to anybody who would leave
savings with him. The minister, Rev.
Henry Duncan, had the financial gen.
Jus made go of his original pro-
ject, and he was able few years later
to record in pamphlet on "A P arish
Savings Bank" very remarkable, bet
torment of economic conditions in his
Observation-Disclosures drinking and more
thrift. The pamphlet attracted wide
attention, the experiment was inflated
elsewhere, and the vast savings bank
system of the civilized world has
sprung from this root. The town of
Ruthwell felt it owed so much t.) Mr.
Duncan that in the year 1886 it erect
ed a public monument to his memory.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Sailor for Younger Women.

A new sailor which younger women
will wear with even very dressy street
suits has made it's appearance. This
is a wide-brimmed model of beaver
strip with a little curl to the brim all
around like the hats of the Brittany
peasants.
A crown of plain felt matching the
beaver brim is banded by wide
MORE scarf with smashing big bow,
or perhaps there are bands of velvet,
caught up to the edge of the brim with
steel cabochons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
Smart Winter Shoes.

On some of the smartest high shoes
for winter there are little turnovers of
a contrasting material that resemble
the turnover collars worn a few sea-
sons ago.
latent leather is used on suede, and
on a pair of patent leather boots with
cloth uppers there was even a turn
over of caracal.
Under these turnovers is run black
silk ribDcn ending in bow with tas-
sells In the center of the 'front.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25
New Hat Pins.

The arts and crafts are steadily
making their way into all channels of
decoration. All this work goes espe-
cially we'll with the Byzantine and
moyen age through which we are pass
ing.
Their newest contribution to femi-
nine apparel is the hatpin. These abe
quite popular. They are made with
squares or circles of greenieh
bronze. decorated with quaint SYM
bOls.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-25

farmer near Champaign, N. T.,
has dug up a quantity Of gold coins,
supposed to have been buried when
the British army was encamped at
that place during the Burgoyne cam
paign which ended at Saratoga in
such complete disaster and in the sur
render of the British forces to the
Americans. 1t was a lucky find, of
course, but it may be set down as a
safe rule that a farmer is much more
likely to get wealth out of the soil in
the usual way than in seeking for
hidden treasure.